Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03
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-Ihere are sixty whaling ships at pres
ent in the Arctic seas.
Toledo will ship over 3, ,0OO, 600 slaves
to Philadelphia this year.
-Flogging has been abolished in The
Iowa penitentiary.
Father Hyacinthe attended a Jewish
Synagogue on Sunday.
The Omaha Republican says thereis 80
| law for Furnishing adultery III that place.
The New Jersey cranberry crop this
year is valued al two and half millions.
'-Sixty-two years ago, Oct. 8. the first
steamer was launched in the United
States.
| 1t is said that one hundred and twenty
one vessels were sunk or beached on the
coast of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
by the recent tidal wave.
"A New Bedford woman drew the dead
body OF her Infant i'll its little carriage to
an undertaken, the other day, TO have it
measured for coffin.
AT recent fair in Boston SO, 600 per-
sons were weighed, and their average
weight was l33 pounds. The heaviest man
balanced the scales at 3703 pounds.
Over nine thousand males recently an
piled, i'll one week, to the New York Free
Labor Bureau for employment. For these
there were but 428 situations.
A New York ieweler gives his opinion
that nine out of ten of the so-caled sets of
diamonds worn by fashioDables are mere
paste, not worth a shilling peck.
"A young boy at Richmond bet stwo
ba 10, IL
bed and let the train pass over him, and the
train did, though the boy was minus his
head and cash by the operation
The assessed value of Chicago is S2G5
600, 600, and to meet current expenses will
reqaire, according to the estimate of the
Common Council, tax of Is mills on the
dollar.
J. W. Moore, who ATTEMPTED to ravisb
and afterwards murdered Mrs Jessie Mac
Adams, at Greenyille, H., on the 5th Of
July last was executed at that place on the
22d inst.
The plan for the Slate Department,
which was submitted some time ago to the
Commission having that under taking in
charge. has been approved by the Presi-
dent, Secretary Fish and the other mem
bers.
Prof. Hayden, who is prose cutting a
geological survey of New Mexico, is pleased
with the Spanish girls. He says that their
eyes are brighter than diamonds, their
voices sweeter than the sound of phono-
1.-the, and they can make pumpkin pies al
most, If not quite, as good as the New Eng
land girls.
Arkansas objects to the introduction
Of Chinese laborers, but declares it's wish
to be for intelligent, Independent farmers
and mechanics, who will ''promote the
Christian arts of science, support and
schools, churches, and become
landowners, householders and taxpayers"
There is horse in Marshall, Missouri.
which has an unpleasant habit Of goinp
crazy at intervals. It's insanity takes the
form Of desire to visit the abodes of men
md smash their furniture. Its last freak
was to enter bed room and repose for q
night on immaculate sheets.
One of those curious cases of present.
nenJ OF which we SO often hear has Just
in Atlanta, Georgia workman
IN the railroad shops there persistently said
le had had revelation that he should die
1t twelve o'clock on Tuesday, the 18th inst,
md at his request fellow-W workman prom
sed to toll the bell of the works at that
lour. Ihe day and the hour came The
nan dressed himself in his best, and lay
Down upon his bed to await the speedy
coming of that dread messenger The
solemn note of the bell was sounded, but
he man--did not die.
"A few nights since, as the night ex-
press on the New York Central road was
near Amsterdam, baby, who was looking
put of an open window, gave spring, and
in an instant fell from its mothers arms to
the ground. The affrighted mother, with
out thought of the DANGER rushed to the
door, and leaped from the train AS soon
rs possible the cars were stopped, and
backed to the spot where every one expect
ed to learn Of the fatal injury Of both moth
Rr and child. But, strange to say, neither
was hurt, except that the baby had d slight
bruise on the side of the head The moth
er stated that, as she saw the child go out
Of the window, her only thought was that
she ''wanted the baby"