Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-06-16
BreUitie8.
Miscellaneous Items.

Eof his works in Germany.
| Two murderers were sentenced f., I,a
shot at Salt Lake, June 2Gth.
/ A man was caught in a circular saw of
lSt. 10, Saturday, and sawed in two.
| Among the letter carriers of Chicaon
tare four graduates of Yale College
/ "A colony of Poles propose to settle ON
La tract of $4,000 acres in North Corolina.
The hay crop of California il is report
ed will be light this year on account Of the
drouth.
Two Omaha roughs, Tom Russell and
IODonnel, stabbed each other Friday, and
both will die.
| -Twenty-one police stations in New
York sheltered 1T males and 13l women .
and girls on Saturday night.
| Gen. Forests well-knowns orderly
Jack Forrest, was killed in Jackson. Tenn,
a few days since, in a drunken row.
The English sparrows imported to take
care of the worms that infest the trees of
Cincinnati parks, are said to be doing well.
= At the commencement of the Ohio Fee
male College, this week, thirteen young la
dies will graduate and take the BaccalaU-
reate degree.
Robert Boyd, chargedwith embez2lihg
letters from the post-office in New York
has been sentenced to ten years implisou-
ment.
x Over sixty-five thousand dollars worth
of tickets for the Boston Peace Jubilee
have already been sold, and the demand is
still lively.
"A British soldier who fought against
the ''rebels'' III our revolutionary war is
now living in England, at the age of 106
years
The telegraph wires across the Mis-
souri, at Lexington were burnt off by light
ming during the late storm. They have
been replaced.
An Irishman i'll New York named
Michael Barnes, threw his wife from the
second story of his house few days ago,
from the effects of which she died.
- An excursion train from Omaha to Chi
cago made the distance, 49S miles in thir-
teen hours and twenty minutes, stopages
excluded, or an average of thirty-seyen
miles per hour.
The foundations Of the Boston post
office will be commenced next week When
will New York see the foundations OF her
Dcst-of1ice laid? Secretary Boutwell, will
De kind enough to reply.
The Butchers monopoly of New Or
leans is much ineensed at the organization
ofa Slaughter House Company. The citi-
zens, however, are glad to get relief from
he extortions of the Butchers Association.
The signboard of tavern near Stras-
OouTg, France, bears he following inscrip-
ion: Strong beer and wine of the first
quality. Customers drinking more than
welve glasses will be sent home in q cab,
rec of charge, i'll case they are eunable to
walk"
"A volcano in active eruption has been
lbcarva6 in oDa of tba -ylaar, tl,- 4
covered in the Pacific Ocean, and known rs
Smiths Island. The roaring of the inter
lal fires is said to be fearful, and a dense
mass of smoke and steam is continually as
ending from the island.
1T is q rule that when Austrian army
,fficers below a certain rank marry they
hall deposit a certain sum of money with
he Finance Minister as security Up to
$50, thirty million forins had thus been
deposited. A recent investigation shows
hat the whole amount has been embezzled.
Brigham Young openly announced in
recent sermon, that he intended to crush
'ut all the small retail traders, and compel
ii the mercantile business to be done
through his great monopoly, the ''Whole-
ale Cooperative store, in order to drive
he others into the various productive in
lustres.
The San Francisco Herald tells of one
'unch of Australian wheat, grown in Cali
ornia this year, from one seed which had
wenty-nine head, each from four to six
nches in length; one bunch of club wheat
# 81 heads contained by actual count 3, 036
,rains.
An illustration of English ignorancein
egard to America is seen in the answer
'ent by the Cambridge University crew to
1arvard's challenge. 1t was directed to
Ha1,, C11xo OIL.
md actually lay for some days in the quiet
oost-ofice of the little inland town of Har-
ard
Vast ruins have been discovered in the
Zulu country, in South Ahica-obeIisks
With colossal carvings, terraces, and halls
,t hewn stone, or cut out of the solid rock.
The natives regard them with mysteriOus
1--WE, and keep strangers from them for
ear that If they are approached no rain
Will fail for three years Who'll tell us of
heir builders
"A bright-eyed little fellow in one Of 5.
he private schools in Brooklyn, admins
cred sharp rebuke to his teacher the
ther day. Having spelled a word. his in
tructor said s'Are YOU willing 10 bet von
re right, Bennie?" The little boy looked
Up with surprise, and replied Il know
IS right Miss v, but I never bet
The Rev. John Mckenzie. for several
ears missionary at the Cape of Good
Hope returning to England, reports that
sold IN quantities sufficient to paw for
Working will befound in the country north
II his late station, and that had the diopers
Who recently arrived at Natal been assured
u their personal safety they would have
proceeded to the reported gold country
The Pennsylvania Historical Society
has received a gift of manuscript folio Of
line hundred pages, containing a complete
registration OF the Quaker population OF
chester county since the year 100. All
he births, marriages and deaths in the so
'lety for hundred and seventy wears. are lI
'ecorded. A similar volume of Delaware
jounty Quaker statistics viii probably be
compiled
The exports from the port of New Or
cans for the month Of May were as follows:
g 11e A7o
lotion, 63,610 bales, weighing IS 936, $50
pounds ............-....... sg5 ze1
Hides. ~ 60
~ cake .....-...-..-.... 81 ,6S4
,roNisions -......... ..--............. 52.Gf4
Tobacco, leaf and stems, 6, $685. 81 lbs 439 0f8
slaves, Shingles and Lumber ........... AZ 4g6
'uh haries .-'...... ..-.--....-........... 19,461
Total. ,.....,.................... $8,268,258
The governments of Europe, it is said,
ire gradually coming to the conclusion
hat repeating rifles are q failure The
SWISS have given them up as too compli-
'ated tor use in the field, and the French
laye put an end to their trial of Vetterli's
system. Almost all the armies of Europe
ire OF opinion that the new weapon has
0een too hastily adopted, and are about 10
feeommence their experiments with other