Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1867-05-15
NEWS ITEMS.

other trip to NV YORK, as the former
one did not pay.
Two thousand emigrants arrived at
j ew York on the 10th.
Gov. Fenton has signed Ithe eight
hour bill passed at the last session of the
New York legislature.
Senator Doolittle is about leaving
for Russia upon special diplomatic mis-
sion, growing out of the Russian-Ameri-
can treaty.
Seventy thousand Germans, it is
said: have engaged passage by steam to
the United states. The Prussian con-
scription laws are driving many from the
country.
The immigration commissioners ap
pointed und r the law of last winter will
we hope, endeavor to secure for Wiscon-
sin portion of these hardy and indus
trious Germans.
-Menomone, an Indian chief, 80 years
old, who fought with Tecumseh and at
the seige Of Fort Mackinaw in 1911, is
catching muskrats for living at Wind
sor, C. W.
1t is said that a barrel of -four can
be purchased in Paris and sent to
Liverpool, thence by sailing vessel to
Boston, and sold at less price than it
can now be purchased at in that city.
Thomas Mast, who draws those re
markabie categorical and illustrative de-
| signs which appear in Harper's Weekly,
is only twenty-se zen years of age He is
a native of Bavaria, but came to this coun-
| try when he was six years old.
William Jordan, for thirty years
editor of the London Literary Gazette,
says Hoods famous poem, the Song of
the Shirt" originally had the title, Tale
of the Shirt" Before the poem was pub
lished its author saw something ludicruus
in bis title, and so changed it to its pres
ent form.
The La Crosse Republican says Gen
G. c. Washburn, Member of Congress
from the 9th District, designs going to
Europe shortly. He proposes to attend
tie Paris Exposition, and make quite an
extensive tour over the European contin.
ent, and will be gone three or four months
"A Democratic paper forcibly illus
trates the change which has recently
come over the Democratic party as fol-
lows: Before the war the Id niggel
was a slave; after the war the ignorant
negro was free; at the present time on,
intelligent colored fellow citizen is vot
err"
Resolutions were offered at the Equal
Rights Association in New Yo k, ap
plauding the action of the legisai lures Of
Wisconsin and Kansas on the subject O
female suffrage. Lucy Stone sent then
a dispatch from Atchison, stating that the
measure would carry Kansas by IN over
whelming majority. At the session o
the Equal RI hts Association, Henry
Ward Beecher was among the speakers.
The Chicago Times calls Gen. Sheri
dan an extraordinarily active reconstruc.
tionists" The point is we'll taken -
Gen Sheridan proved himself an extra
ordinarily active reconstructionist" wher
he was chasing Early out Of the VALLEY
of the Shenandoah, and he has been the
reverse of a "passivist" ever since.
Hence the hatred Of rebels and Copper
heads which he enjoys in such rich meas
| ire.
Alta recent Strawberry Festival O.
the lst Baptist Church in Memphis, an
editors secretary and chair was to be pre-
scented to the most popular editor in the
city, he fact Of popularity being decided
by vote of the ladies' The result was
that "Admirap' Raphael Semmes, ex
pirate and editor of the Mem his BuUe
tin, received the majority vote The fac
OF bis having been most prominent as al
enemy of the Union was without doub
the real occasion Of his popularity
We understand that theatrical com
pany, under the management of Fl. For
rest, jr., collected from the Mobile and
New Orleans theatres, end consisting OF
twenty-five or thirty people, will com.
mence short season in Milwaukee, al
the Music Hall, on the evening of the
9th of May. The renowned tragedian,
Edwin Forrest, supported by Miss Lilly
and Mr.. G. Barton Hill, opens with them
IN an engagement of week, during
which Hamlet, Othello, and other CLASH
cal plays will be rendered
-Rives POLAND, who was forbidden By
Colonel Wilcox, commanding at Lynch
burg, to deliver his lecture on ':Southern
Chivalry," has issued card, in which he
says: Il shall appeal to General Scho-
field, and in case Of his prohibition I shall
appeal directly to the President of the
United States, who, [ am sure, (noble