Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-24
Miscellaneous Items.
Rev. Isaac B. Smith is acquitted.


John Bell.
First stone of the New York Postofice
laid on the 18th.
Jack Lois Touring mill in Cleveland
burned Loss $4,000
Eight horses were burned to death in
livery stable in Louisville on the 14th.
Mrs Alice Lister, of Chicago, afflicted
with toothache, committed suicide by taking
arsenic.
S. Hinckley & Broq Tannery at Cor
ham, Me, was destroyed by fire Loss
$40, 900.
Edward B. Ketchum discharged from
Sing Sing on the 18th, by expiration of his
term of sentence.
The Match factory of Fenning & Bau-
book at Hudson, n. Y, seized for using
counterfeit stamps
At the medical lecture in Pennsylvania
Hospital class of SO ladies were present
with 40 male students.
The British sixty-four-gun frigate Au-
gusta, sunk in the Delaware below Fort
Miff1in IN 1777, has just been raised, in a
good state of preservation.
-Mutilated currency and bank notes de-
stroyed during the week, S309, ,452: bank
currency issued for bills destroyed S153,-
070; balance due for mutilated notes, $780,
426.
Amos Cutter has brought suit against
Samuel L.. NJ. Barlow of New York, for
sixty thousand dollars, claimed as his share
in the real estate recovered from other par
ties some time ago.
"A fire at Marquette, Michigan, on Fri
day night, totally destroyed the stores of
InyCN T11l II
Vile, Enright, and Spencer, and badly
damaged that of Rothschild & Relding.
Loss, $50, 900; insurance, S23, 900.
The Postmaster General will soon issue
an order prohibiting the carriage through
mails OF circulars gotten up by swindling
firms for the purpose of defrauding the
public. Some twenty of these firms are on
the black list of the government detectives.
Col Alexander, formerly quartermas-
ter under Gen. Butler, who was arrested in
New Orleans recently as bogus treasury
agent has escaped, leaving big number
Of letters from prominent parties relating
to custom house and warehouse bus . ess.
They will be sent to Washington.
% Rabbi Lilienthal, of Cincinnati, in Sat-
urday's services. spoke against religious in
struction in public schools, as incompati-
BILE with the genius of American institu-
tions, and quoted decisions of the Ohio,
Pennsylvania and New York courts declar-
ing America not a Christian country.
Louis G. Jones, of Chicago, a young
gentleman of large wealth, who died in St.
Paul on the 18th, of consumption, among
other bequests made the following: To Jos.
f. Bonfield and II. T. Thomas, his class
mates in college S75, 900; to q young lady
of Waukegan, $4,000; to W. W. Corbett,
!. IL r. n n n
P. Hawkins st. Paul, 5000; to his SER
wants, Patrick and Mary Murphy, 81, 900
each The balance of his estate he left to
his brothers and their children.
EARLY last spring Levi j. Norths' circus
with the poorest lot of horses ever attached
to travelling show, left the United States
and began exhibiting in Canada. The
managers there purchased a fine lot of
horses, sold the old hacks, and in due time
returned to the United States, telling the
custom officers the horses were the same,
and thus evading the duty on their pur-
chases. The matter has since been inves-
tigated, the horses taken possession of at
Chicago, and some six or eight persons,
connected with the management arrested.
On the cast bank of the North Biver,
IN Hampshire county, West Virginia, is an
ice mountain from 400 to 500 feet high.
The western side of this mountain is COW
cred with loose stone, OF light color, from
base to summit By removing the stone,
pure, solid crystal ice can be found in the
warmest days Of summer, and it has been
found there as late as the middle of Sep
tember. It may exist throughout the en-
tire year if the rocks were removed to a
sufficient depth. What seems strange is,
that the side of the mountain where the
ice is found IS exposed to the sun through
out the day. and it is said the sun does not
have as much effect in melting the ice as
continuous rains. .