Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-07-14
BreuitieB.
Miscellaneous Items.

Eight conductors of street cars were
arrested in st. Louis the other day, Oh
charge of fraud.
Tom. Allen, the pugilist, receives a
benefit at the National Theatre at ST. Louis
on Saturday evening next.
"A writer in the Atlantic Monthly saws
that if we would abolish the inebriate we
must begin with his grandmother.
New Albany, Ind, will soon have plate
glass works, which have heretofore existed
in this country only at Lenox, Mass
The silver wedding of Bishop Morris
(the senior Bishop Of the Methodist Epis-
copaL Church of America), was celebrated
at Springfield, Ohio, June 25.
"A drunken man in a fit of delirium
tremens, jumped from the Suspension
bridge at Cincinnati, the other day, and was
drowned.
Fifth avenue houses in New York have
Cashmere door mats now, and it is suppos-
ed that the next novelty will be canePs hair
dish clouts.
The agents of the Cuban Junta have
bought an estate of 10 acres in Bergen
county, N. j., to be laid out in villas Tor
Cuban exiles.
The Confederate dead are being re-
moved from the Chickamauga battlefield
and re-inte1red in the Confederate ceme-
terry at Marietta, Ga.
"A travelling southerner lately offered to
present to the American Club at Breslau a
bust of ex-President johnson, but the club
unanimously voted to decline the gift.
The Red Stockings on their return to
Cincinnati were presented with cham
plon bat, 27a feet long and weighing 1,6OO
pounds, upon which were engraved the
names of all the members of the club.
"A Kentucky distiller having noticed
that VIII isky is improved by sea voyage,
has put up treadmill in his warehouse,
and uses a horse power to keep the whisky
in perpetual motion.
The rumor is current at Memphis that
the counsel for Yerger, who killed Colonel
Crane at jackson, Miss, will apply to
CLief Justice Chase for writ of habeas
corpus. @
Among the finest residences at New
port are those of Chas. j. Peterson, are the
Philadelphia publisher, and Mrs. George
Francis Train-the latter built since last
year.
The Barkentine Western Bill sailed
from Humbolt for San Francisco in Janu-
ary, 1868, and has never been heard from
until recently, when aportion of her hull
with the name painted ON it was discover
ed on the northwestern coast of California
near Cape Perhoties.
Mrs. Kolb, who recently died in Madi-
son, Georgia, left an estate valued at near
$100, 600, almost all of which is bequeath-
ad to the Ordinary of the county, in trust,
for the purpose Of educating the poor or
phan children of the county.
Near Cheyenne has been discovered
an immense tract of land covered with edi-
BILE mushrooms of extraordinary size and
delicious flavor. One is spoken of which
was seven inches in diameter with a stem
two inches thick, and which weighed a
pound.
Notice has been served by the United
States officers on the owners of whisky
burned in the warehouse of Gaines, Berry
u Co., in Frankfort, Ky, some time ago.
for the payment of the tax on SAID WHISKY.
The amount of taxes demanded is about
S100,O0 An extensive lawsuit will result.
The New York postofice always sends
to Europe much greater number of letters
than it receives from that part of the world.
For the month of May it sent away l20, $50
letters, and received 391, ,062. The rule,
however, is broken in q single instance
The Italians sent home but 4, $50 letters
for 1888 brought over to them
The malignity of the London Times
toward Senator Chandler is painfully ex-
hibited in the fact of its utterly ignoring
his arrival on British soil in a gorgeous
turnout. Even the Court Journal main
tains provoking silence on the Michigan
Senator's presence in England.
An old negro, applying for coffin, at
Evansville, Ind, lately, to bury his child,
aged three months said that he was one
hundred and six years old, and his wife
twenty. He claimed to have known nearly
all the Revolutionary Generals, and to have
been at the battle of New Orleans.
On Sabbath evening, June 9th, Christ
Church, New Orleans, was filled with a
congregation of Cubans and Spaniards in
attendance upon the ceremonies of the
Episcopal Church, which were performed
in the Spanish language. With the excep-
tion of the singing by the choir, the service
and sermon were given in Spanish.
"A physician of Platin, Mo-, one DR.. A.
Hill, reports that the notorious desperate
and outlaw Sam Hildebrand, for whose
head o reward of S10,0 900 has been offered
is dead. He declares that the fellow dice
from the effects of wound in his thigh
and that he attended him at the request O.
some person to himself unknown.
There is a peony plant In Wellfeet
Mass, which was brought eighty years age
from Plymouth Ponds to that place by the
lo.i,1 rf +ai, al az,
to of her old home and beautifier of tht
new. Since then it has each year flourish
ed, and in the four score years has beer
tended by mother and daughter.
The Hon. W. H. Wadsworth, of Ken
lucky; Senator Morton, of Indiana; Judge
Bingham, of Ohio, and Col Rumsey Wing
the Republican candidate for State Treasu
rer, are to speak in various parts of Ken
lucky, at the invitation of the Republican
State Central Committee.
"A few nights ago the inmates of the
jail at jackson, Cape Girardeau county
Mo. o.,-eleyen in number-broke out an6
made their escape. Some Of the despera-
does removed the iron bars of the cell in
which they were confined, with file, and,
having chloroformed the jailor, liberated
the rest of their fellow prisoners Two o.
the fugitives were IN for murder.
"A noted Ohio horse-thief, known a,
Bill Wheeler, who had served fifteen years
ir the Kentucky Penitentiary, and was @
very desperate character, was shot and
killed by party of men, in the vicinity Of
Quincy, KY, few days ago, who had
chased him from over the line in Ohio. He
had been ordered to halt, but refused to dc
so, and fired ON his pursuers. Hence his
death.
"A fortnight ago, at Napoleon, Ohio,
two boys named Cameron, aged nine and
fourteen, were sent to bed suppsrless and
threatened with thrashing in the morn
ing. In the night they got up, walked five
miles to railroad station went to Chicago
thence to Baltimore, and since leaving the
latter place the persons employed by Mr
Cameron to find the boys met with no sue
cess. They can be heard of at differen
points, but can not be caught. They seen
to have no definite object in view, but whel
a,train of cars drives up they get on ant
travel to the end of the line.
The Omaha Republican reports the ar
rival in that CITY, one day last week O