Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-12-08
Personal Items.

Personal Items.
|. Mrs. Scott-Siddons is in Buffalo
-Thos. Carlyle has earned over $3.50, 900
by his pen.
Col zzdoc Pratt, aged 70, has taken
third WIFE
-Hepworth Dixon has gone to Russia to
study theology.
Blackstone, the London comedian is to
visit America.
Judge Embry, of Kentucky, declined
the mission to Ecuador.
The late Gen. Wool bequeathed So, 900
to Williams College.
-Cruikshank is illustrating Coughs
book for the English market
Pierce Egan is coming to America with
a series oflectures on London life.
-Wyllys Warner, the Secretary of Yale
College died suddenly at Chicago on
Thursday last4
Capt W. G. Hackstaff of the navy,
died at his Middleton, Conn, home, Tues
day, aged seventy-fve.
The negro lawyer, Bradley, who was
expelled from the Georgia Legislature, is
lecturing in New York.
1t is said Commodore Vanderbilt hada
hearty laugh over the burlesque unvailing
of his statute on the Stock Exchange.
The widow of the late Hon. r J.
Walker was grand daughter of Benjamin
Franklin, with the maiden name of Buche.
John G. Langhorne, who abandoned
the United States Navy for that of the Con-
federates, died of lockiaw in Portsln outh,
Va, on Tuesday.
President Grant has offered his farm of
800 acres, eleven miles from st. Louis. to
the county for pauper farm, the price
asked being S75, 600.
Amos Kendall left S25, 900 to each of
his grandchildren, with the exception of
one, to whom Re gave but SO, 900, because
he was in the Confederate army.
The late Otis Tufts, of Boston, was the
inventor of hotel elevators and filled or
ders for $4, 900, 600 worth of these terrifying
contrivances before his death.
Miss Angelina Honeysuckle Thistle
down is one of the bellies of Providence, K,
l. She is said to be beautiful, and as to the
selection of her name she is not the guilty
party.
"A girl in Lafayette Indiana, 16 years
old, being approached by man with IN
decent proposals, instead of screaming or
attempting to run away, seized brick and
threw it with such force as to drop the fell
low senseless upon the pavement.
-Reverdy Johnson celebrated his ''gold-
en- wedding" at Baltimore the other day.
He is in his seventy-fourth year, and his
wife has passed through sixty-seven sum-
mers. She is q daughter of the late Robert
Bowie, who was Governor of Maryland in
1912. Mr.. and Mrs johnson have twelve
children living, forty-eight grand children,
and four great grandchildren.
The second daughter of the late Gen.
Green Clay, and her husband, Col William
Rodes, celebrated their golden wedding at
their residence. near Richmond, Ky. a few
days ago. Rev. Joseph Collins, who mar
ried them, was present, aged ninety-two,
and when presented to two granddaughters
of Mrs. Rodes remarked that though love-
ly, they were not so pretty as Pauline was
fifty years ago.
When Mr. Peabody was about to sail
for Europe, in August gentleman met
him on board the steamer, and remarked:
ST suppose you have forgotten me, Mr..
Peabody" "Oh, no." said he quickly,
''you are BIr. ; we boarded at the
same house in Devonshire street, London,
thirty-one years ago" and instantly he
named several other gentlemen who were
inmates of the same household.
The following hymn was chanted in the
New York Gold Room on the occasion of
unveiling the mock statue of Vanderbilt:
Come all We jolly brokers, a story I'll relate
About a famous Commodore who lives in
New York State;
Consolidated railroads are a thing he never
hates.
Chorus-As he goes driving on.
His watering machinery as yet has never
failed,
And to show our gratitude to hin this statues
unveiled.
Before Jim Fisk, Jay Gould & Company his
courage never failed,
Chorus-As he goes driving on.
This statue we set up for him, and may it last
until
The Gerry poor old Commodore his breeches'
pockets fill.
And when he dies we'll surely find, that with
an earnest viii
ChOrus-He must go driving on.
SALES OF BOOKS AT THE WEsT.-The en-
tire book trade OF Chicago, including that
small portion of the stationery trade which
is done by the book houses, nearly reaches
So, 00C, 600 per year. OF the unabridged
dictionaries, Gfiggs & Co. sell annually,
1000 copies of Webster, and about 25 of
Worcester, Chicago Post, Oct. 19, 1869.