Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-10
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Miscellaneous items.

Tennessee owes S39. 264, 24f 55, AMI
has only S29. 200 in its treasury
Slippery Sam" is the not very dignifed
title given to the Bishop of Oxford
1t is computed that the ENGLISH
langusue is understood by 100, OOo. 600 peo-
pie.
"A new Illuminating mixture consists cf
two parts rape-seed oil and one ofpetroleuln
oil.
The result of the great fire in the Dr.
nal Swamp is a lake from three to ten feet
deep. -.---.-
A late fire in New Hampshire caused
neighboring row of apple trees to bud and
blossom.
DIR. Cooley, of Kansas City, recently
performed the operation of removing the
entire collar bone.
AT the Boston Mechanics Fair, ATS
700 pounds of humanity were Weighed
The average was 1873 pounds.
The recent census of Atlanta, Georgia,
shows the population of the city proper to
be % 166. of whom 13 1S4 are colored.
One hundred head of horses were sto-
len by Indians from the ranches and sta
tons along Canon creek, Montana, in three
days.
-Four women were elected members of
the School Committee in the town of East
ford, Windham county, Conn.,, at the re-
cent election.
"A sleeping car on the Oswego andSyra-
cuse Railroad ran off an embankment on
the 30th ult. Several were slightly, but
none fatally, injured.
An enthusiastic Free Trade meeting
was held at Detroit on Friday evening last
at which Prof. Perry made telling speech.
Free Trade League was organized.
"A paper at Ellzo on the Pacific Rail-
road, speaks of the apathy of the highway
robbers, no outrage having been perpe-
trated by them in the last three days.
Deputy Sheriff Major James Fitzwil-
Hams, of Evansville, Ind, was shot thro'
The heart In a saloon, by one of the police
men of the city. The murder caused great
excitement.
An alligator was captured in the river
at Alton, H., last week. It was Il feet
long, and weighed It's pounds 1t was
covered with thick laminated scales. and
was very repulsive and formidable looking.
The castor bean. from which the oil is
made, is becoming an important industry
in Perry county, Cal One prominent deal
ST received at his warehouse l, 900 bushels
in one day. paying So Is per bushel 1t
yields more bushels to the acre than wheat
In 1910 only eleven newspapers were
published in ~ H, one of them being the
New Hampshire Patriot. Five are still in
existence and f1ourishing. The number
now published is thirty-six, or reckoning
daiiies apart from the weeklies in connec-
ton with which they are issued, forty three. "
-Pittsburg, n. H, is much excited over
the nrosnect of finding oold in it's bOrders
The town has been regarded as in the gold
bearing stratum, and the assistant geologist
of the state survey encourages the belief IN
the existence of the precious metal IN the
tract mentioned. odfs5sn
"A furiously written epistle was found
posted on the window of the San Francisco
Bank of California few mornings since
1t stated that the writer was at th head Of
700 men sworn to ''masicree every China
man and Chinawoman in the city of San
frisco & 10 miles Round bout" if they
didn't leave within fifty days. ~ ..
"A lecturer in New York said Tyran-
ny of capital was the cause of Ireland's
wrongs, Of the Revolutionary war, of our
late rebellion, and was also the cause of
the Generalization of society. To remedy
these evils the speaker advised the work
ingmen to unite for mutual protection, and
elect none to Office but those who labor
either with the head or the hand. ''
After the recent food in Hartford, CT,
a large pumpkin field In that city presented
singular appearance. The freshet cover
ed the field with six feet OF water and tho
pumpkins anchored by their STEMS Were
bobb1ng up and down The surface oftwo
| acres of water was completely covered with
| them.