Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-07-28
General News Items.


The mines of Colorado were never in
more prosperous and hopeful condition
than 1f0w.
The exodus of beef cattle from West
ern Texas this spring is estimated at not
less than quarter of a million head
"A Western man advertises his wife,
who has left his bed and board with
gentleman named Decker"
The flax factory at Dixon, ILL.,, turns
out an average of q thousand yards of cot
ton bailing per day.
"A United States detective was tried in
st. Louis few days ago for stealing a dog.
He was acquitted.
The New York Evening Mail favors
the removal OF the national capital to st.
Louis.
1.-THE Day we used to Celebrate" is the
heading of the Charleston Couriers leader
on the 5th.
San Francisco talks of big hotel, COW
erlng two blocks, connected at each story
by a covered bridge.
The Alaska Times claims to furnish
the news to territory Of greater size than
any other paper in the world.
n ooA cOuIdlnIHB 9OU,UUU III INDIANA
state and Washington money-long since
worthless-was found in the woods at Dan
vile, Ill.
The South Pacific Works at Franklin,
Mo, We're destroyed by fire on Wednes-
day OF last week, involving a loss OF $780,
600.
"A rattlesnake crawled up the trowsers'
leg OF boy at playin Marshalltown, Iowa,
the other day. and bit him twice. Whisky
and ammonia saved him.
Just five hundred pounds is the weight
OF a man and wife who keep q lager beer
saloon IN Chicago, the man weighing 900
and the wife $50 pounds.
Chicago has been under the weather
so long that the papers are glad to be able
to state that ''it hasn't rained for a quar-
ter Of an hour
The contract for the construction of q
lock and dam on the Illinois river, at Hen
ry, has been let for 1858, 121, to Milford
johnson, of New York.
Not long ago a young married lady in
limos was found dead in her bed, and a
Coroner's jury rendered a verdict of ''died
OF commissions aided by tight-lacing."
"A young lady goes into eestacies over
her new bonnet: "Oh, the lovely little pan
| cake-the charming little mat It makes
my head so level, and SO very, very fiat p'
The contract with Cambell 81 Co., for q
telegraph line between Mexico and Lotu-
ca has been signed. Work on the railroad
from Puebla to Mexico has been COM
menced.
Wells, Fargo & Co. s coach going south.
from Virginia City, was robbed at Moren's
Station, thirty miles from Virginia CITY.
The treasure box, containing 81, 200 in gold,
was stolen.
Pine apples are being cultivated in the
peninsula Of Florida with the greatest sue
cess. They are larger than those grown in
the West Indies, and fully equal to them
III sweetness and flavor.
The strawberry growers of Delaware
shipped the present season from Brenford
Station, the principal one on the Delaware
IL. r., 81, 600 quarts to New York and 2, 74O
to Philadelphia.
"A citizen of Belfast, Maine, who had
not seen his son for eight years, and sup
| posed him dead, recognized him as one of
| the acrobats in q circus which exhibited in
that city recently.
"A verdict of So, 600 has been obtained
in Cincinnati against q telegraph company
for a rejection of a message desired to be
sent for trading purposes in competition
with the company itself.
The value of skilled labor is aptly IL
lustrated in the balance spring of a watch.
The finest watch springs are so light as to
number 1000 to the ounce, and that ounce
is valued at $4,000 in gold.
The United States have capacity of
cotton production of 142, 121, ,814 bales,
which, at existing prices in currency, would
be worth $14, 4,212, ,000,0 000-a a sum which
staggers the imagination.
The Peoria Transcript says: During
a rainstorm last week, five horses were
struck by lightning and killed while stand
ing under tree in Ranstead's hollow Hal
| lock township. A few days before COW
was killed by lightning in the same hollow.
There is on exhibition at Macon, Ga.,a
stalk OF Persian clover, eight feet high and
half an inch thick at its base. 1t grew at
the rate of four inches day. The seed
was brought from the Paris Exposition in
| 1867 When dry it is as fragrant as the
Vanilla bean. 1t is perennial
"A Boston paper says: 1.-The sea serpent
has again appeared in our waters, if ac-
| counts from below are correct. 1t was seen
on the 4th inst. in the bay, sailing about,
with head erect. After displaying itself
for some time, it moved round in a circle
and disappeared. It's head was apparently,
about the size of a barrel with a series of
rings around it. From the description
given we should think it was the serpent
of the still"