Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-05-26
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Miscellaneous News ItemS

The 53d anniversary of the New York
Sunday School Union was celebrated Tres
day evening in thirty-two churches.
George Eyck, the New Yorr actor
charged with obtaining payment on forced
bounty checks, has been held for tiiar
The State Department has not, within
the last week, received any official advices
from Havana relative to the insurecti0n.
Gen Siclles is expected IN WASHINGTON
in few days to receive his commission as
Minister to Spain, as the President has sign
ed 1t.
"A dispatch Just received from New Or
leans orders the release of a large portion
of the coffee seized at st. Louis by the GUS
toms officers.
The Postmaster General Tuesday direct
ed that mails be sent by the Bremen steam
e.s fortnighuy from Baltimore direct to
| Bremen.
Minister Motley's instructions are com
pleted. Assistant Secretary Of Legation
Badeau will accompany him to England on
the 10Th inst.
The Acting Commissioner of Internal
| Revenue has denied the request of Clarke,
! Dodge Il Co. for a reeXamination of the tax
ass essed on brokers' sales.
A number of citizens Of New York, rep
resenting California and Nevada, passed res
! olutons congratulatory of the successful is
sue of the Pacific Railroad scheme.
Governor Yarmouth. of louisiana has
! just issued a proclamation insyituting ten
| days in quarantine against Nicaraguan and
! Central American ports and Vera Cruz.
The President has appointed Albert
I SIgel, Or Missouri, Recorder of Land Titles
! for Missouri, and Gustaye Janecke as Unltod
States Consul at Altoona
The Pacific Railroad Company has re-
/ ceived tWenty-six new locomotives, and nine
teen more and three hundred freight cars are
to arrive in few days.
A boat, containing five mon was
tapsized near Port Norris, New Jqsey, on
Sunday. Three of the men sWanP ashore, and
the other two were drowned
"A man named Wilson cloped, by boat,
from st. PAU wsth a 1feighbor's wife last
week, but hIs wIc taking the cars, reached
st. Lou Grst, and had him arrested.
-- has been concluded to appoint Cyrus
A. Eastman, of San Francisco, Assistant
| Treasurer Of the United States and Treasur-
er of the Branch Mint at that city.
Information has been received in Mon
treal to the effect that the Priyy Council of
England is considering the advisabity of
relinquishing all her colonies except India.
-Four men engaged in freeing lam of
| logs in st. Francis River, near nrummond-.
vile, were carried over the rapids, a fall of 10
or 20 feet. Their boat was upset, and all We're
drowned. $50
Mr. Casanova, who was imprisoned and
had property coniscated in Cuba has ar
rived at Washington and asks Secretary Fish
to demand the restoration of the property
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
mines, at Hyde Park, the Pennsylyania Coal
Companys miners at 0hphant, numbering
altogether more than 5000, are steadily at
work. .- .t-
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
decides that velocipede rinks are liable for
the special tax on exhibitions and on the
gross receipts from such exhibitions, the
same as theatres. .f
George Gibson, Of Cedar Creek, CAL,
| died suddenly at hotel in New York Tues
| day. His effects, consisting of thirty thor-
sand dollars, have been taken possession Of
by Coroner Flynn. rf-
| Preparations are being made bv the ap-
| pointment clerk Of the Treasury Department
/ and his assistants towards reducing the force
| in the Secreuary's Office. About fifty dis
miasals viii probably take place.
| John Clark was arrested for rioting in
| Brooklyn, Monday night, in assaulting an Of
! ticer The latter shot Clark and threatened
others with his revolver, thus dispensing
them, and taking Clark to the hospital. e1l
The coal-train from Albany, Tuesday
morning, collided near Chester, Mass, with a
| delayed freight train. Geo F. Portner, of
/ Charestown, and Mrs. E. L. Hedstrom, of
Buffalo, We're the only persons seriously in
/ jured.
a meeting of the several presidents Of
the Grand army OF the Republic was held in
! New York, Tuesday evening when a1i,anyn
ments were made for decorating the graves
Isof Union soldiers in that vicinity on the 31st
instant
1t is not true that numbers of the new
consuls have resigned. One of them who.
offered his resignation recalled it Monday
Inc COMMISSIONS ef.l ,, OF all, with perhaps two
exceptions, have been delivered L#
/ The jury in the case of Cvrns Fl. KrcCor-
mick VS.. the Pennsylvania Railroad Gonna
ny to recover the value of baggage lost in,
| 1862, returned verdict, Monday. of SO $50
to which the court added an extra allowance
of $500.
The President has directed q board of
! olhcefs TO assemble IN New York on the 18Th .
INST, Tor the examination of Brevet Briga-
! der General Adam Bedeau First Jieutan-
ant IN the United States army, for retire.
ment
The WORK on the Yilliere crevasse, in St
barnard parish, Louisiana, has been aban-
doned as hopeless. The break is now several s
/ hundfed ieet wide, and of great depth The
| water IS sweeping uninterrupted BY, back to
! the lakes. - -
;, "A Richmond dispatch says that.owing to
/ tlie extensive safes or land in small portions
to white emlgrants, negro laborers are going
further south for employment. Over three &
hundred leftrecently, and hundreds are pre-
pairing to follow. iGa.
/ The Paschall House lottery is again in
tne courts, & On civil suit to divide the pro-
ceeds The books of the association Weras
before the st, Louis courts, Friday. and are
said to show that $l6,798 more tickets than
| advertised IN the scheme were sold.
FOREIGN
"A majority Of the Spanish Cortes faaTinp
that civil war is imminent are ready 10 aC,,
! cept proposition for a regency z.
The Swiss government has prohibited
| Mazzinl from taking up his residence in anv
or the cantons bordering on France or ItaIy.
/ The Spanish Cortes has agreed upon ar
|
| that the sovereignty is essentially in the nao
ton, from which all power emanatea. and
requiring that the King shall be a native of
Spain. u
Later advices from Rio Taneiro arc ra-
celVed. Nothing had been he ard there of the
arrival of General Mcmahon, u. 8. Minister
at Ascunslon. On the contrary it was rt
ported that President Lopez retained him in
the interior by force.
j Important Intelligence is expected from
CUBA during the coming ten DAYS. Govern
/ ment detectives report, from all along the
coast the movements of small stlsplcIous--r
looking crafts, and there is no doubtfhaI av-
petitions are being fitted out, and that arms. .
ammunition and munitions of war are still
being transported from the United States. t0
the Cubans, and to the Spaniards also
The Liverpool Standard, Tuesday. in an
article On the Alabama claims treaty. saws
the idea of awaiting further expression from
| Parliament and Congress commits the busi-
! ness 10 lnQehnlte pOstponement. England's
sentiments have been clearly pronounced -
| She Is still prepared to submit to a proper
tribunal the question of wrongs and DANA
/ Ses, but any attempt to reopen the contIo-
t,eY 1ersY on Preposterous grounds, whatever
| From this position En- gland cannot recede,I
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and Scientific Press, the Temescal tin
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