Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1867-05-08
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tion.
The public schools of Chicago will
cost S+31 ,4Q584 this year. Mr.. J. L.
Pickard was elected Superintendent on
Tuesday.
The total amount of State tax to be
raised by the cities and towns in Massa-
chusetts :his year is $1,000 100.
Mrs. JEFF. Davis lett Fortress Mon
roe on Thursday evening for Washington
10 confer with the President in relation
to Jef's release.
The Attorney eneral's opinion re-
lative to the registration clause Of the
Military bill is very liberal, and will en-
able all persons who were prohibited from
registering by Gen. Sheridan to becom
voters.
The cholera is prevailing as an cpl
dmic in Central America at the present
time. There are many deaths in Mica
raugua
DR.. Hyatt Smith found the name of
Jenny Lind cut into the hard stone on
the top of the great Pyramid OF Cheops
He afterward learned that the Inscription
was the work of the songstress' own hand
Samuel L. Clemens, (:'Mark Iwain,'')
upon whom rather the largest patch of
Artemus Wards mantle seems 10 have
fallen, is a San Francisco journalist of
some ten years standing, and first adopt
ed the name by which he is so we'll known
while writing legislative correspondence
from Carson city.
Late reliable advices from the
Hon es1ead settlers III the southwestern
| counties tf Minnesota, reiterate the form
er statements of the extreme restitution
and sutferings Of many of them. They
have no grain for bread or seed, and.
worse than all, it is now too late asst
hem, so that crop may be raised this
fail. Their condition is pitiful.
The Heroid s..M onteomery special of
May lst says: "A large gathering of
reedmen, mainly women, assembled to-
iay at the national cemetery, and decora-
Ell the graves of the Union soldiers -
This was intended as an ovation to the
nation, and As an offset to the decoration
# the graves Of the rebels by tue south
ern ladies'. The procession wss large aud
'rderly,''
A sta ement forwarded by the Comp
roller of the Currency at Washington.
hows that the total resources If the Ma
ional Banks of the state, April LIST. were
Sll :23o, 1872; circulation, s. 500 Z65.
| which is secured by United States bonds
o the amount OF $2,e99 200.
The aboring men of St. Louis had
~ eight hour demonstration on the Is
| mt. Resolutions were adopted recon-
mending a compromise with emp !oyers
who would meet them halfway aud estab-
| fishing rules to regulate strikes III Gaze
hey become ne essarY
The future name of the Arctic ter
ritory recently purchased from Russia
remains in abeyance. W. have heard Of
parents too poor TO give their children fit
names, but never before of bantlings too
sorry to receive such names. The New
| York Tribune therefore ventures to sug-
gest, at once in recognition of the most
valued inhabitants of this western Green
land, and a. compliment to the great
nation which does US the honor to pocket
our money, that Gov. Stewards hard bar
gain be known as " alIussia.
The eight-hour law went into opera
ton in Illinois on the LIST. In Chicago
the occasion was celebrated by a grand
demonstration of the workingmen. The
Tribune of the I'd inst, says: The de-
monstration yesterday Of tie workingmen
and Trades Unions, in honor of the in
auguration of the new Eight Hour law,
was one of the most imposing affairs ever
witnessed in this city. The procession
numb ered over five thousand laboring
men, and required an hours time to pass
given point. After marching through
the principal streets Of the city the grand
pageant halted Oh the lake shore, where
Mayor Rice, Hon. A. j. Knykendall,
Hon FL N. Shepard, and others. address
ed the multitude The proceedings
throughout were conducted in an orderly
and peaceful manner, rejecting great
circuit upon al VINO parClclpaCeu Ghereln.
The Indian war in the West seems
to be now fairly inaugurated. A dispatch
from Fort Laramie, Ct the 28th. says that
the Indians hal surrounded Horse Shoe
Station, and that fighting was going on.
A telegraph supply train was al attack
ed and driven off, and their provisions
destroyed on the 2lst, sevtnty miles west
of Laramie Telegraphic communication
with the Pacific will now be very pre-
carious, if not wholly interrupted, as it
vii. be difficult to repair the inc. El~v-
en- thousand Indians are reported to be
encamped lie weeu Forts Kearney aud
Smith, aud it Was expected that Gen
Augur would shortly move against them
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