Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-06
Breuitifs.
miscellaneous Items,

Corn is twenty-five cents bushel in
Texas.
Seward sails from San Francisco for
Mexico on the Both.
Immense beds of gypsum have been
discovered in Union Co., I'll.
An Iowa parsoness on wedding occa-
sions doesn't kiss the bride, but the other
one.
Boston can now boast of ten daily pa
pers, two of them publishing distinct morn
ing and evening editions.
"A mass'meeting Of those who are OPP
posed to excluding the Bible from schools
is to be held in Cincinnati soon.
An organ-grinder was killed on the
Erie road the other day. So organ-grinders
are not immortal, as some supposed.
ALI the girls of the Dominion are fall
ing in love with Prince Arthur. SO they
would with a jackass if he wore sprig OF
royalty.
Thee is said to be man In Kentucky
who has no ears and no aural apertures
lie can hear distinctly through his mouth,
however.
The late tornado in Boston made such
serious work with the churches that Zion'e
Herald thinks it must have been free re-
| ligion wind.
The Italians of Chicago propose to cell
ebrate the next anniversary of the discov-
cry of America by Columbus, on the 18th
of October.
A child six years old was recently run
over in Boston Don't whip me, father,
I'll never do so again. were his last
words.
"A steam shovel capable of doing the
work OF one hundred men, has just been
put in use on one of the Illinois railroads,
for the purpose of loading cars with gravel.
The new National Intelligencer has ap-
peared. It is published on the co-opera-
tive plan. in the belief that multitude OF
owners will secure a like number of read
ers.
"A Boston chemist adyertises thus: The
gentleman who left his stomach for analy-
sis, will please call and get it together with
the results.
The product of q single grapevine OF
the Scuppernong variety, in Jacksonville,
Florida, has been sold for one hundred and
ninety two dollars.
An cold citizen of South Bend, Ind,
says the swallows are flying unusually
high, which is q sure sign that the winter
will set in early.
Benton Harbor, Mich, on Lake Mich
igan, one of the largest fruit shipping
points in the valley of the Mississippi, had
no existence six years ago.
"A little girl twelve years of age, named
Mary Ann Wall, passed through Buffalo
en- route for Marshall, having travelled all
the way from Kilkenny, Ireland, alone.
A horse on a Chicago street cac fell,
while drawing car at rapid rate, and
il,a 4
q few moments.
The good must suffer for the evils OF
the wicked-sixty churches damaged by
the New England storm, and not even a
single saloon unroofed.
1t is thought that Hildebrand the Mis-
souri, outlaw, has made good his escape
from that state, as nothing has been seen
or heard of him for some time.
Some of the best men in England are
studying the inebriate asylums in America
with much interest Such institutions are
scarcely known in Great Britain.
There is boy in the Missouri Insane
Asylum upon whom they can keep neither
/ clothes nor shoes. He eats them alI-leav-
ing the buttons and tacks on his plate, prob
ably like fish bones.
/
! ILL.,, have indicted Allen, Gallagher and Nc
Qoole for prize fighting, and there are
strong hopes that the accused will get a
term in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Stowe got no more for her Byron
slander article than for her ordinary contri-
buttons to the Atlantic Monthly. That is
no more money, though she received
great many more curses
The Scientific American reports cure
of lockjaw in the army, during the war, by
applying moist tobacco to the pit Of the
mans stomach Every muscle was relaxed
by the consequent sickness.
A Chicago paper says: 'Ioadyism
reached its depth in Chicago yesterday.
California laughs in her sleeve and with
one thumb upon the point of her nose,
gently gyrates her digitals and moves on.
The famous glen at Watkins, N. Y,
near the head of Seneca Lake, has been
purchased for twenty-five thousand dollars,
by E. B. Parsons, of Bradford county, Pa,
who proposes to improve it as popular
summer resort.
A former Auditor of Dearborn county,
Ind, named Crosby, has just entered the
State Penitentiary for forgery. 1t seems
that he was tried and sentenced on his own
confession, the act having been the result
of intemperance.
In Granville county, North Carolina
the oldest inhabitant has never seen SO
gloomy a chance for corn-not fourth OF a
crop will be made One OF two showers OF
late have improved the tobacco. Wheat
was good. Oats an average crop.
A knife-swallowing Snowman, near the
State Fair grounds, at Toledo, ONO, on
Thursday evening" while attempting to
conceal a long knife in his throat and
mouth, was so severely injured internally
that it was feared he would die
| "A letter was picked up IN Omaha the
other day, from Cheyenne, closing with the
! following words: ''Ihere Is nothing doing
here, and man is likely to starve at any
time. The Grand Jury is III session, and
everybody expects to be indicted"
"A wealthy and beautiful young lady IN
Erie Pa, recentlymaTied an uncouth and
crippled shoemaker who was already mar.
ried and possessed OF family OF children,
on the supposition that he was wealthy
and an agent Of A. II. Stewart.
! THE rice crop of South Carolina is be-
ilg rapidly harvested and generally prom
ises well. Planters over much Of the State
expect 10 plttnt llooil VI ''iAl'ii 6iuaii' III VI
der to lessen the injury arising from the
partial failure of the corn crop.
An sold miner" at Avondale proposes
that hereafter all the miners give one days
pay every year toward the fund for the
benefit of the widows and orphans. By
this means he says they can raise SO, 900,
and for himself, he counts the first days
work done since the catastrophe sacred for
this purpose.
"A gentleman in Macon, Ca, predicts
that cotton will go down TO fifteen cents
during the winter, and then rise to thirty
five in the spring, but the Telegraph, OF
that city, tells him that the crop Is too short
and the demand too eager for such tiuctua-
tiOns.
"A Mr.. Bowl, of Potosi, Missouri, q few
days ago, took from the same limb of a
seeding apricot tree III his garden, perfect
of hoth tha