Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1867-10-16
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
Gen. Sheridan had an enthusiastic re-
ception in Lowell, Mass, on the 8th.
The full detective corps of the Treasu
ry Department Is at work tracing the
counterfeit seven tkirties, but as yet moth
ing of Importance has come to light.
Leading Republicans in Washington
declare their unalterable determination to
carry out the reconstruction policy of
Congress. sE
General Grant has ordered another
battery of hight artillery to Baltimore.
He means to be prepared for the worst.
While in Ohio the Republicans have
lost the next Legislature by small ma
jor;ty, sufficient returns have been re-
ceived from Pennsylvania that they will
have fifteen majority On joint ballot ia the
Legislature of that state. aT -
General Grant urges the appointment
of Major General Rawlins, his Chief Of
Staff, as Secretary of War, and it is be-
lieved he will be appointed; but We fear.
this would be too good and wise thing
FIR President johnson to do.
"You may run General Grant for
President next year, said an enthusiast
tic Copperbead, to Republican, the 9TH
er day, "and we will run Vallandigham
and beat him" The candidates suggest
ed would be fair representative men Of
the two parties.
AT the lakes on the northern part of
Maine, the snow fell to the depth Of ten
inches on Monday the 7th inst. AT Rum
ford, Oxford county, there were four
inches, which remained on the ground
and roofs of buildings all day, an occur
renee never known before in the month
Of October. 81. >-,..-..f- .
Dispatches from Paris state that affairs
IN Italy are very grave, There is general
expectation that the whole Italian nation
will follow Garibaldi in his effort to re-
store Rome to Italy, and that Victor
Emanuel will soon pass the Roman from
tier and proclaim Rome as part of the
Kingdom. .,...., Ill +.
Vallandingham, the traitor, made a
speech at a copperhead jollifcation meet
in Ohio, on Saturday evening The
crowd nominated him for United Sta ties
Senator, and he accepted. He defended
the Democratic party Of the North from
| the assaults of the reconstructionists Of the
South, and expressed his confidence that
the next President would be Democrat
This detestable traitor, it appears, is now
the chief spokesman Of the Northern
Democracy" .. .-..s.....
4 Ia he, AL ~,
Russia, at Kineschma, government dis
tlict of lKostrowan. About hundred
persons of both sexes and all ages were
returning joyously from the fair it
the village just named, and they entered
/ a ferry boat to cross the Volga. The ves-
sci was unusually crowded, and when
nearing the opposite shore, the ferryman
demanded payment of the fares. The
crowd Of passengers was in consequence
thrown into state of motion, and the
boat capsized - Not fewer than sixty
three persons were drowned The.:aspect
of the dead bodies the following. day, as
they were recovered from the river and
placed on the bank, all in holiday attire,
is described as heartrending.
A young man named Karl Ruff, form
erly Adjutant of the Forty fifth Regiment,
a graduate of the State University last
summer, and very promising young
man, was killed at Madison on the 10th
inst, during game. of base ball, by fall
ing on fence while leaping it. A picket
crushed Adams Apple in his throat
causing death in a few minutes. u
Ta The Republicans of Madison have nom
mated for Senator the popular and well
known German merchant of that city,
Samuel Klauber. Though the district IS
naturally Democratic, the. Republicans
mean to elect him by a good majority
The Democrats have nominated Carl
Habich as his opponent. re;.aH adj ~a1
The census returns havenow been com.
pleted in Iowa, with the exception of four
} counties. The population is so far found
} to be 898, 1914, an increase Of AS 600 in
two years, or very nearly ten per cent
}, per annum. 1t is remarked by the Des
NJ ONES Register that :. this is the largest
gain, both absolute and proportionate, that
the State has yet known in the same per.
lod of time, except under the influence Of
the great migration mania of 1854 and
:. 1855, in which period the increase was
100000 on a population of $4,000, or
about 80 yer cent. per annum. 81
MRS. LINCOLN'S WARDROBE ar
AUCTION.
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