Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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The ferries of Boston have been pur-
chased by the city.
The Illinois State Prison now contains
thirteen hundred prisoners. sa.s
The Boston Coliseum building will be
disposed of by lottery on Saturday next
Bonner, few days since, trotted Dex-
ter one half mile IN one inmate and four sec
onds, the fastest time ever made by horse.
The New York female doctors only
charge half the regular fee for attendance,
and they are beginning to monopolize the
business. sos H#
The Ritchie coal oil distillery, on the
Washington turnpike, few miles from
Baltimore, was destroyed by fire on the
18th. Loss, SIS, 000-s.ss aas
The Atlanta (Ga.9 Constitution learns
that northern capitalists propose to invest
500, 900 in cotton factory there, provided
another 100000 can be raised in the city.
A dog in New Orleans found pocket
book on the street, and taki1 G it in his
mouth Immediately proceeded to the police
station and delivered his prize to the
keeper.s g-eFl lf
The Meadville Republican. speaking
station at Sagerstown, says it is robbed
quarterly as regular as landlord collects
his rent.
-Enemles are as necessary to the proper
development of the full-grown man as
friends. When lived that man that amoun-
ted to anything but could count his enemies
by the scores -
The presiding elder of a Michigan
camp-meeting snatched pipe from the
mouth of one of his audience with such
violence that he has now to answer in suit
r assault and battery.
An exchange. to show the depreciation
IN the value of velocipedes, says that ''a
tirst-class wheelbarrow would bring better
price IN junk shop than bicycle once
bestridden by Napoleon.
Between August Is and September IA
there were shipped from Muskegon Mich
igan. over 46, 600, 900 feet of lumber, over
5000, 900 feet Of lath and large quantity
of other articles in the lumber line. -
The Boston authorities propose to
close the public schools on stormy days
A certain number Of strokes ON the fire
alarm bell will announce to all school
children that they can stay at home and
play. es e
There is disease called inland yellow
fever, or addison fever, - prevailing in the
vicinity of Columbus Miss, that is quite
fatal 1t has all, or nearly all, the charac-
teristics of the Gulf yellow fever, terminal
ing with black vomit.
A party of twelve men under Nelson
Buck set out in June last to survey II por-
ton of the public lands in western Nebras-
ka, and since the middle of July have not
been heard from, and it is thought they
have been killed by the Indians
"A gentleman Of Kalamazoo, while en-
gagged in cleaning his garden recently, was
bitten by spider on the hand. His hand
and arm began to swell badly, and for ten
days he suffered great pain, though using
the most powerful remedies. The poison
was nearly as powerful as the bite of SER
peht.
A jealous woman in Chicago tried to
commit suicide by taking laudanum. After
swallowing the fatal dose she wrote the fol-
lowing: ''DEAR HUSBAND. You have wrong
ed me deeply. Goodbye. In my cold
corpse you behold the victim of your cold
conduct and of cold poizen." But the DIR.
prevented his beholding the s'victim."
The Book of Mormon, entire, has been
translated by Elder Orson Pratt, into pho
SC,HQ
the Salt Lake Evening News predicts that
sit will do more towards spreading cor
rect style of speaking English among the
polyglottian people of this Territory than
anything else ever attempted"
The Concord Statesman gives list of
eighty five women and fifty one men who
died in New Hampshire hundred years
old and upwards. Six were colored per-
nd 0Ylu 4 tba h11r, ,1r.aH
and thirty six had double names. One wo-
man who died at one hundred and one
years of age, had daughter who died at
one hundred and two.
"A Canadian paper reports that since
Prince Alfred landed at Halifax. he has re-
ceived and replied to 159 addresses, attend
ed 105 public dinners, and SO balls, danced
with $40 partners, received l, 700 bouquets,
shaken Is, 600 hands, shot $50 head of game
given SO presents, travelled 4, 500 miles,
been elected an Indian chief, and has heard
100000 'God bless him." H @
The Tribune learns by private advices
from Madrid that the Capt. Gen. of Cuba
sent an urgent demand to the Madrid Gov
ernment for 50, 600, 900, but he was inform
! ed in reply that the Spanish treasury was
empty, and that hereafter he must raise in
Cuba itself the money he required for mill
tary and political purposes. Spain will
furnish troops, but Cuba must supply the
cash.
| During the recent flood in New Eng
land, an engineer discovered COW swim
ming in the Hartford Meadows, near the
railroad track. He fastened rope to her
horns making the other end fast to his To-
comOtive, and towed the beast ashore. She
proved to be valuable COW, which had
come down stream from the up-country
somewhere, nobody knew from what State.
"A sacrilegious thief recently entered
the Church of the Holy Trinity, in New
Orleans, under pretext of worshipping
and, when alone in the building, he lost no
timein breaking open the saeristy, and
helping himself to the sacred vessels. He
succeeded in carrying off three chalices,
valued respectively at $100, $40, and $40, a
large silver dish valued at 500, and three
altar cloths.
Personal Items.
Horace Greeley addressed a congrega-
ton of Sunday school children on Sunday
last
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