Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13
Miscellaneous items,

" 't'ISI-SiNoo u etI dutItote loI iobdccp.
pest.
Milk sells at cents per quart ia Boa-
ton
The assessed value Of propertyin Iowa
! is 1921, 532, 900.
"A new and dangerous counterfeit SO
bill has appeared at Cincinnati.
The Oldest man has had his run. Now
let US hear from the oldest woman.
The educated hog attracted a cood
deal Of attention at the Fair grounds in
indianapolis.
Chicago has S6 post office carriers, who
delivered 10000 letters in September, and
collected G6S, 600
The strike Of Boston tailors has ey
tended to the piece-makers, says the Ad-
yertiser. Peace-makers should not be
strikers.
There were seventy iy-five fire alarms in
! Chicago during September, of which fifteen
were false. Loss S193, go; insurance
S159, zoo.
The contract is signed by which NJ.
Strakosch binds himself TO give Madame
Patti 100, 100000 francs for one hundred
representations in America.
To Josh Billings we are indebted for
one sentence of wisdom, ut least, 10 this
effect: eff you are right you can't be too
radical and If wrong, too conservative
| The Nation says, in commenting on
the Wall street fight: s'New York speculal-
ors have now q rope round the neck of ev-
cry business man in the United States"
1t is estimated that about $500. 900 of
THE new issue of ten and fifteen cent frac-
/ tlonal currency is kept out of circulation,
/ by people keeping one of each for samples.
One Professor Taber has constructed
/ speaking machine, which is said 'to articu-
late various words, and even to answer
! questions by simple sentences with wonder
| ful distinctntss.'
"A negro man and woman were fonnd
dead, locked in each others arms, near a
! Charleston, 5. c.. camp meeting, a few DAYS
! ago. They were stung to death by a rat
tlesnake.
Tho real and personal property of the
city and county of New York for 1869, is
officially estimated at $964, 100, 597, against
| $908, 1856 327, for the year 1868, being an
increase of $55, G64, 270. oy#
The wealthiest wife in America is de.
Won't Methodist. Commodore Vanderbilt
says that his spouse has more real religion
than D. Drew, and that on the whole there
is more piety in the Central than the Erie
stock.
in 1852, the est church in West New
bury, Mass, was compelled to deal with
Richard Bartlett, who refused communion
because his pastor, Rev Mr. Hale, wore a
wig, which he declared to be very anti
Christian.
A colored woman found the pocket
book of ex-Mayor James, at HanesviIle O.,
on Monday last, which contained nearly
So, 900 III notes and Government bonds, for
which piece Of honesty she was rewarded
with present Of $500.
A vinegar vat, containing 500 barrels,
burst at Buffalo the other day. It pro-
dueed a shock like an earthquake and when
the brown liquid began to course down the
cutters people imagined it the fiery fluid
from the neither regions.
A German society in New York has
taken up the case of Jacob Burkel, the en-
igrant, who was dubbed to death by police
man Buddington, and have instituted a suit
against the latter for $50, 600 damages. The
defendant has been arrested and held TO
bail in 800 900.
In Erie, Pa, minister of the gospel
has recently been on trial on the following
counts: l. Cheating in a COW trade; 3.
Grossly defining young lady; 3. Inmor-
al conduct. Verdict: First count, prored;
second count, prOued; third count, not es-
tablished. a
The Niagara Falls Gazette says that on
the return of Prince Arthur and party from
Buffalo on Monday last, he and his gentle
men comrades ''seorned the sidewalks and
travelled in the muddy street Such novel
proceeding attracted the attention of peo-
pie, and led to many remarks not generally
complimentary.
"A telegraphie correspondent Of the N.
Y. Herald in Washington was once asked
how he found matter enough to send to
his paper, every day, from two to three
columns of special dispatches "Easy
enough. One day tell lie; next day [
deny it; on the third day some one wants
to explain; and so, said he, 81 get three
items out Of nothing. "
"A colored preacher in louisville, The
other night denounced two sisters of his
congregation, mother and daughter, hold,
ing them up as horrible examples. The
afflicted pair waited for him on the side
walk, after services, and then and there
gave him a severe beating with horse
whips They were arrested and fined five
dollars,
The Cleveland Herald says: eve saw
in street car in this city. few days since,
an expensiyely dressed woman not only
tell a stranger to give up his seat but, upon
his doing SO, tender him five cents and
loudly insist on his taking it. She said
she was rich enough to pay for everything
she had, and didn't ask no favors from no
body without paying for il. ;"
DEATH OF FAMOUS RACE FL oRsE.-Ih
famous race-horse Herzog died at the Buck
eye Trotting Park, near Cincinnati, on