Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-12-01
Personal Items.
-hesseps is a cousin of Eugene

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: --Reverdy Johnson celebrates his golde,
wedding next week.
-F'Sut Lovengood, southern humor
lst, has married.
Wilkes Collins is to spend the winter il
Paris
Duke Ernst, of Saxe-Coburc-Gotha. i.
coming to the United States next spring
DE CordoYa has been offered $5, 900 tc
deliver SIX lectures at San Francisco.
Sam. HildebraDd has named his young
est son George Washington.
Laura Keene has taken Walls Opers
House, in Washington, for the winter
Father Hyacinthe attended a spiritual
ist meeting in New York, the other evening.
-Hscjee Thackersey and Toolsidas
!eottjee, Two Hindoo merchants, are il
Chicago
Mrs. General Custar goes with her hus.
band on Indian campaigns, and is good
shot with the rifle.
-Cassius M. Clay has returned from
Europe and will establish himself in busi-
ness in New York
There is a 57-yeaI oI1-farmer in New
Hampshire who owns q large orchard, but
has never tasted raw apple.
Col Sam Hatch, of ST Louis, has con-
tracted with Louisiana to build 1000 miles
of Levee along the Mississippi river.
-Nelaton, the famous French physician,
lately charged the Mayor Of Paris $500 for a
single visit.
Mr.. S. A. Hitchcock, of Broomfeld,
Mass, has given $40, 600 to endow Heb
rev Professorship at Andover
John Swanson, a Swede, has bought
twelve thousand acres OF land in Missouri,
intending to founda a cotton raising colony.
CHARLES Reade, novelist and dramatist.
contemplates building theatre on mis- own
land, III Sloane street, Belgrayia.
The Spanish General Prim, it is affirm
ed, sleeps in a different place every night,
to avoid the possibility of assassination.
The New York Mail says: ssA real, live,
two-legged, ten-fngered Duke is residing
at an uptown hotel Matchmaking NAM
mas will regret to learn that he is mar
ried.
a Norfolk man has presented Gen Lee
with cane made of piece of the Merri-
mac, and inscribed: '"Io Robert e. Lee
from profound admirer of his character.
October, 1869"
"A Paris paper announces the arrival of
Madame Ristori at Nice, where she is to
give some representations with Signor
Rossi Madame Ristori was last reported
at Buenos Ayres.
king George, of Greece, is devoted to
the velocipede, and spends more time on it
than IN attending to the affairs of his ma
ton. Imagine an ancient Greek dashing
around the Acropolis on a bicycle
The Prince Imperial of France is to re-
ceive the title of Duke of Corsica, accord.
ing to the precedent established by the first
Napoleon, who called his son King of
Rome.
Young Iturbide of the Montezuma dy-
nasty lives in Georgetown, d. c., with his
wife, nee Green and with the child that
was for some time adopted by the late Max
imilian.
Mark Twain says-'It is a darling
country to live in that Hayti. Board two
hundred and eleven thousand dollars q
month in the best hotels, and ice cream
three hundred dollars saucer
Andrew Miller died in Knoxville, Adair
county, Mo-, on the 18th ult., at the ad-
vanced age of SO years and five months
He had been blind for nearly 25 years, but
just before he died he exclaimed: 81 shall
soon see I shall soon see p For 65 years
he had been a member of the Methodist
Church.
When General Wool was seized with
illness he remarked that this would be his
last sickness. "Oh, no, General" ex-
claimed one of his attendants, ssyou will
recover and be with us many years vet. -
''No," said the General, 'sthis is the last
fiickering of lamp that has long been
burning"
"A New York paper publishes bio
graphy OF Jim Fisk, in which, among other
things, it is said that when, years ago, the
inchoate Prince of Erie hired his father at
salary of $4,000, he said to him, 81 want
you to distinctly understand that you are
my clerk, and | don't want you to put on
any of your id airs, and that the afore-
said father is now in an insane asylum.
The hand of one of the richest Amer
lean heiresses in Paris, whose wealth is
valued at ten million francs, has been ask
ed bya Spanish Count, on condition of her
dlsposing of her property in excess of his
own, which amounts to 1,500, 900 francs, in
favor of the poor; but at last accounts the
American beauty declined to see the mat
ter in that light.