Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1867-04-24
NEWS ITEMS.

HleuetioA bouSiaSS Is writing lie
of John Brown.
Heavy freshets are prevailing in the
Des Moines and other streams west of the
Mississippi, causing serious convenience
to railroads in Iowa, Kansas, and Ne
braska.
"A Washington dispatch to a New
York paper asserts that negotiations are
pending for the annexation of Mexico to
the United States. The story is, no
doubt, purely sensational.
dispatches state that the river is
clear Of Ice at ST. Paul, and rising
Boats started on the 10th for Mankato
ana the head OF Lake Pepin Navlga-
ton is now open through the lake.
Unusual good order is said to char
acterize New lOrlean, at present The re-
moval of Mayor Munroe and other officers
by General Sheridan created no di sturb-
ance.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe IS de-
lighted with the climate of Florida, and
has purchased place on ST. Johns Riv-
er, where she intends to reside. So says
The ,Savonnah Nesgs.
Complete returns ofthe Chicago cleo
ton show an average Republican MAORI
ty of about 4 600, Rice's majority for
Mayor being 1888, and the highest ma
jority being 4,ll9. The ma ority is
about l 500 greater than at the last Pres
idential election Of the sixteen Alder
men elected eleven are Republicans,
making the Council stand twenty three Re
pubicans to nine Democrats
"A Des Moines, Iowa, despatch says:
The city council has passed an ordi-
nance forbidding the manufacture or sale
of lager beer thin the city limits, and
de ;laring bee saloons as nusances, to be
removed by the city officials if found in
exlstance three months after the passage
Of the ordisance The temperance men
in Iowa mean business
On Monday, the 18th, at the Fort Pitt
Cannon Foundry, Pittsburgh, another
monster gun was cast, which weighs, in
the unfinished state, 10, 900 pounds s.
When finished. it VIII not fall short Of
100000 p un1s. This piece of ordi
nance IVES cast il tweuty-seven minutes,
aud the pro, ess as, In every respect,
most successful. 1t will take, with "a
constant stream Of cold water pouring in
to it, nearly two weeks to cool sufficiently
to be handled.
1T is part of the history of the con
test between the President and the Sen
ate that number of appointments were
made last June, during the first session
OF the Thirty-nin Congress, which were
confirmed by the Senate, but for which
no ommlssions have ever been issued -
Baraboo, Portage City, and Develen, in
Wisconsin. have had no legal Postmasters
for ten months, no commissions having
been sent to tie appontees. There are
a multitude Of such cases all over the
country.
j ohm Mcdonald Of Detroit, one O
Sherman's m5n, who drank from spring
in Georgia IN 1854, and 'though5 he
swallowed Something" has just been re
lieved Of a four inch lizard He coughec
up the intruder at dinner table, the otne
day. Mr.. McDonald's health had been
for some time running down, but is nov
improving.
Mr.. Tilton, of The Independent, ha
been to Auburn, and in this way he i
severe on Mr.. Seward: an cit, SHOWS O
Auburn. and unveil the great mans gar
den once again to the sun; but his pleas
ant plants, when they renew their lea
and bloom, shall only mock their masters
laurels, which shall not again be green"
Bryan Tyson, the man whom the
Post Office Department. uses tie enable
it to dodge the test oath law in the South
has lately received another lot of con.
tracts He has now obtained fifty four.
He take all the oaths himself and then
lets the contracts ont to all rebels who
will takes them at five per cent off the
contract price. Mr. Tyson draws the
money and turns over ninety five per cent
to his Southern creditors It is reported
that Postmaster General Randall holds
that the Supreme Court decision will jas
tify bis action.
Ottawa, Ill, has model Demoera-
tic Mayor. Wendell Phillips, the dis
tinguished lecturer, recently had an en-
gagement to lecture there under the aus
pieces OF a ladies ASSOCIATION In connection
with the Plymouth Church On the
evening of the lecture, this N ,del Mayor
(who reJolces in the name of Clancy
sents. City Marshal to the hall with a
note addressed to Mr.. Phillips, requiring
him to pay license fee Of ten dollars, as
required for shows, exhibitions Of slight
of hand &c and although informed that
the enterprise was an EDUCATIONAL one,
the money was exacted and paid, but af-
terward refunded by some members Of the
City Council. Only Democratic Mayor
would be equal to such feat
Last Friday afternoon, the city Of