Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-07-07
Miscellaneous Items.
An lnehoate city in California is named

-EaI"eii l19Li, CnlcaSo, has q fan weigh
ing two and a half tons. 1t makes 500
revolutions per minute.
! The Omaha Republican says a beauti
full elk calf was brought through from the
mountains on the 25th inst.
The Methodist Church of Tecumseh.
Mich, have expelled member for betting
on the Presidential election.
= Indiana has decided in court that a
man having more white than negro blood
in LIS veins is entitled to vote in that
State.
| One Cincinnati brewer paid $50, 900 a
year Tor the ice used III his business. This
speaks badly for the temperance of Porko-
politans.
The New York Sun refers to Andrew
Johnson as "The Wandering jew" He
has been interviewed and does not believe
in Grant.
Nine papers have suspended publica-
ton in Missouri within short time. There
seems to be an epidemic among the Mis-
souri, press.
The New York Democrat recentiy..con-
tanned an article entitled "a Revolution in
Cas-" The Albany Journal thinks it al
luded to the late editorial change in its Of
! fee.
| 1t is reported that at the recent prize
tight, which took place on the 22d instant,
at Springfield, Mass, about one hundred
women attended and witnessed the brutal
exhibition.
The bowels of the earth have been
heard, from, not by way of a volcano,
| but by letter. A correspondent writes to
an Eastern paper from 81, $50 feet below
daylight, Payable mines, Lake Superior -
Judge Whitney, in the United States
Circuit Court at Detroit, has decided that,
under the liquor law of Michigan con-
tract for liquor is void, and a note given in
pursuance of such contract is not bona
jtde.
The operatives in the Montmoreney
(Canada) saw-mill have struck because a
Yankee has introduced an instrument for
setting the saws, which allows too much
work to be DONE
Mr. st. John, the manager OF the Bos-
ton baby show, will offer premiums for col
cred babies in few days, and the exhib1-
ton will take place at horticultural Hail.
probably on Independence Day.
"A chap, who replied to an advertise
ment offering an article of great use to
those contemplating marriage ''price so
cents, or four for ST." received for his 8
dimes, a pocket handkerchief of the coars-
est material worth about six cents.
The Union Pacific Railway gives to
the Baptist Home Mission Society lands
on the line of their road for the location of
missions. A delegation of the officers of
the society are now on the route selecting
lots.
The Louisville Courier journal makes
this unkinl fling at the hub: 1.-Two rich
men have recently died in Boston and left
no legacies to Harvard University It is
supposed Harvard will try to break the
wills.
The redwood forests in California are
gradually disappearing, and will be gone
entirely in few years. Meantime no
second growth is coming up, and econ
omists predict an era of drowth unless
trees are planted to attract clouds and
moisture.
The Cincinnati Times publishes a copy
Of the first mortgage put on record in Ham
ilton County, Ohio It bears date 1895,
and was given to secure the payment of
s;aty dollars for parcel of $50 acres of
land in the tooo1l OF Cincinnati.
"A ST. Louis paper announces that a
leading editor Of that city is going to Paris
to marry widow worth $500, 900; and that
two New Jersey women have recently
swlndled the St. Louis shopkeepers out of
$4,000 by hiding silks under THEN petit
coats.
The number Of men organized in the
trade unions Of New York city alone
amounts to 66, 099, and they have a bank
account Of &58, 1876 &c. The average in
crease of wages since 1860 for all trades
represented In the unions, Is seventy per
ia 11aT haj7
the greatest 81.
Booths Theatre returns the largest
receipts Of any New York amusement
house for May, S33, 917, closely followed
however by by Wallack's, S31 ,657 The
burlesque shops returned as follows: Olym-
pic, S28, 818; Niblo's, $23, 096; Woods,
S14, 283; Waverley, $13.064.
"A young woman in West Granville.
Mass, arose in her sleep few nights since,
and, after dressing her hair with the ut
most care and precision, walked five miles
to her home in Tolland, in her night dress,
never awakening until just before her ar
rival, when she naturally caused quite
sensation.
A week or two ago a young lady of
Iowa, while on her way to her wedding,
was offered SIS by ''another feller'' if she
would marry him, and consented The
disappointed lover was not to be wholly
cheated out of his matrimony, and there
fore proposed, was accepted by, and mar
r1ed the sister of the jilter on the same
day.
The attaches of the New York Demo-
crat had magnificent dejeuper on Wednee-
day evening" at the Metropolitan Hotel,
Mr.. G. p. Sykes, the publisher being tie
host on the occasion. There were 'red-hot'
times all round, and wine and wit flashed
forth indiscriminately.
AT an election in Boston, on Wednes-
day last, Lizzie Harrison offered to vote.
Being told that she could not as she was
not on the list, she declared that she had a
right to vote, all regulations 10 the con-
trary Notwithstanding deposited her ballot
on the box and sailed out.
The following appointments have re-
Gently been made for the internal revenue
district of Chicago: Gaugers A.
Schultz, A. T. Hinckley, freeman Connor,
IL. '. Hall, Ransom Kennicott f. M.
Lamper. Storekeepers- -Barnhard Miller.
Charles Vergho.
During late hurricane at Shipman,
H., two men were blown over one hundred
yards and lodged in apple trees, without
sustaining any material damage A calf
eight months old was likewise transported
into a large locust tree, several hundred
feet from where it was quietly and peacea-
bly, grazing.
Estimates of the passengers carried
luto Boston on the several railroads during
the Jubilee week are as follows: Eastern.
81, 500; Boston & Albany, Sc, 900; Boston
u Maine, 1880; Boston q Providence,
62 600; Boston u Lowell, 46, 225; Fitchburg,
$4,000; Hartford q Erie, $4,000; Old Colo
ny, 5000.
"A freight train loaded with grain ran
off the track of the Northwestern about 80
miles west of Chicago on Saturday. The
Omaha mail train was delayed nine hours,
bpt little damage was done to the grain.
The cause OF the accident was the under