Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-09-08
NO. A.
8rauitles.
Miscellaneous Items.

miscellaneous Items.
Boston has two haunted houses.
Cincinnati papers speak of Chicago as
the ''hand New York. :"
Receipts from Internal Revenue on the
30th were 1897, 600.
The manufacture of trowsor buttons
has enabled wife to appear at Saratoga
with So, 600 diamond.
The Boston and New York ladies at
Lake George are not on good terms, and
verbal fights are frequent.
Lucille Western draws well in New
York, and Fisk calls her ''Erie preferred "
Has lie put" on her?
&. In Cincinnati peaches are selling at
IS cents per bushel; tomatoes 25 cents,
apples 40 cents; pears 80 cents, &c How
will that do for low ?
"A loaf OF Indian bread has been found
in Indiana, buried in the ealth, and geolo-
gists are trying to ascertain its age. A thick
bark had grown over it.
New York city has made the liberal offer
of S10 900 for the Century plant Over lG,- :
900 people went to see this plant while it
was on exhibition at Rochester.
Bishops of the Established Church in
England are during the next two years, to
be allowed to retire upon e2, 900 year, or
one-third of their present revenues.
Daniel S. Curtis, a lawyer of Boston,
has been sentenced to two months i'll jail
for twealzing the nose of Joseph M. Chur-
chill a banker in the same eminent city.
The cars on the White Mountain Rail-
road were delayed by snow on the 7th of
August, and $50 people were compelled to
spend night on Mount Washington.
"A letter from San Francisco says there
are few old Californians to be found who
have not been rich and poor again, at least
half dozen times, and most of them are
poor now,
Cornelius Kailiher, an Invalid in New
! York, following the advice of an old wom-
an, stepped ten cent paper of tobacco in
a pint Of ale, and drank the fluid. It kill
ed him within three hours.
One OF the Georgia editors objects to
the proposed editorial convention III that
state. He says that the affair will only be o
big dunk, and ''we can get drunk at home,
on whisky that we are usened to-"
James Bessom, a pedestrian, is to at
tempt the feat of walking backward from
Portland to Boston, adistance of 10 miles,
IN eight days, on q wager of 81, 900. He
"A Chicago paper says: The number
of deaths in this city for August will reach
about 800, as we learn from an official
| source. There is much sickness, and an
unusual number of deaths are occurring.
When in 1914, the Rev Dr. Tefft, in
an address at the Indiana University, pre-
dicted railroad across the continent, his
hearers, including the potent grave and
reverend seniors laughed him to scorn.
Preliminary steps for founding u col
ored commercial or business college in
Washington have been taken, with pros
poets of final success. 1t is proposed even
tually to extend the movement all over the
country.
The total receipts from theatres IN
| Chicago during July were as follows:
Woods Museum $6,271; MeVicker & My
ers $8. 1919, rs; Dearborn Theatre 50, $50 As.
Al of these places were ope en- only part
of the month.
Twenty years ago Pennsylvania was
the largest wheat-producing state in the
Union. Now it is about twelfth on the
list. The people have turned their atten-
tion to the development of that which is
hidden in the earth oil, coal and iron.
A convict in the Maryland Penitentiary,
who has three Years to serve, as q cattle
thief, has fallen heir to $50. 900 by the
death ola relative in Ohio, and some very
dislnterested persons are endeayoring to
procure his pardon.
The question whether Barbara Fret
! chic was a myth real woman IS to be
| finally set ut rest by the presentation to
I Mr.. Whittier of q cane made from q beam
of the house she lived in, by the citizens
of Fredericksburg. .. ...-.
IS. J. Caven railroad agent at Green
| River, Wyoming was shot and killed, q few
days ago, by E. Smith. He was arrested.
The men were understood TO be competi-
tors for the affections ola married lady who
! belonged to neither. 4d sa
Mr.. l.. Provost died at San Jose, Cal,
on the 10th. Mr.. Provost had been en-
gagged for the last thirteen or fourteen
i years III the business of silk culture, and,
in fact, may be regarded as the founder of
that important and promising branch of in
dustry in California.
The Perry Monument Association pro-
poses grand meeting at Put-in-Bay, on
the 10th Of September the anniversary OF
The battle OF Lake Erie, the primary object
of which is to raise additional funds for
the monument One of the survivors Of
the battle will deliver an Grafton.
Considerable excitement has been
caused among the people of Chicago by
the discovery that the walls of the new
east wing of the court house III course OF
erection. are in danger of tumbling down
from the careless and understandable man
ner in which the work has been done.
Not less than 107 clergymen have
cIerrymen's cards from the st. Paul and
Pacific Railroad Company, emitting them
to ride on the road at half fare. They give
these cards to only those who live on the
line of the road. 1t appears that the towns
on this road are well supplied with preach
9rs.
The papers are calling to mind the al
Logged prediction of tho famous sleeping
girl" of kentucky that, after the eclipse,
the sun would never again shine SO hotly.
But as the girl did not die as related, and
predicted neither the eclipse nor the per-
manent weakness Of the suns rays, it is
hardly worth while to discuss it.
"A man who owes a bill IN London can
now pay it in four hours by simply going to
Wall street and purchasing document
known as n 'scable transfer, device born
of the great Atlantic telegraph enterprise,
, whereby the equivalent OF the money which
he gives in New York will be Immediately
delivered to his creditor in London.
There is an old gentleman named Bar
rows living near Rockland Me-, who has cut
hay from one farm with his own hands for
sixty-six years, save one. He has lived IN
three towns Two counties and two States,
and has never moved from the farm on
which he was born. There are now living
in the house with him four generations.
The Albany Journal says: "We are
pleased to see that the attendance OF Gen
, erals at the Gettysburg reunion is small,
and for the most part embraces names
least known. If all now living who took
: part in the battle, were present, the alb
sentees would be still more eonspicnous-