Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-06
Foreign EtnTNS.

The President of a Rupublican Club at
Taragona, Spain, has been assassinated.
"A new line of telegraph cable, to be
laid between Ireland and Nova Scotia il
projected.
Three young men of Brussels have
just made the trip from that city to Paris
on velocipedes r.E
Seven grounds OF divorce are allowed
in China, the fourth of which is tallzatiye-
ness III the woman. HE
There are over hundred vermicelH
factoriesin Genoa, the product of which
comes mostly to this country.
King Victor Emmanuel and the Diplo-
matte body at Florence will go to Venice
to receive the Empress of the French on
her way to the East
"A council of bishops of the Greek
Church at st. Petersburg, to be presided
over by the Emperor, is proposed in oppo-
sition to the Ecu1nenical.
In England, when railway companies
sell tickets and the cars are full, excluded
passengers hire coaches, and make the
company, by suit IN court, pay the bill.
Tie anvil chorus is to be sung at Sgd
enham Crystal Palace by eight thousand
voices, with accompaniment of anvils, can
non and bells. The idea is sneered at by
the London musical journals.
| An early burlesque by Mr.. Byron,
f"Fhe Pilgrim of Love-" has been revived
at the London Strand 4heater and is i'm
mensely successful, although the journals
speak of it as one of the author's weakest.
1t is founded on tale in Irying'5 Alham-
bra
"A defaIcation has been discovered III
the National Exchange Bank OF Proyl-
dence, r. l.. and the cashier has been ar
rested and held TO bail The amount 50
far discovered is about S25, 900. The sur
plus of the bank will cover all probable de-
ticiency.
The London Revolutionary Cores
pondence sand to be edited by Karl Blind
says in a recent article: "The Empress Eu-
genie is self-convicted abortionist -
Against any other decent woman we wouid
hesitate to prefer such name, but against
the Empress Eugene we are at liberty to
say so much. Weare IN possession of sutti-
/ cient facts to 5ubstantiate the charge.
! The German gentleman Of the period
| announces an addition to his family in this
| fashion through the newspapers: Il have
/ the honor politely to announce to my rela-
tions aud friends the happy delivery OF my
dear wife, Julia, maiden name Sattmarn,
/ OF healthy, strong boy. Cologne, Aug.
! II, 1869. Edward Fomm.
A little daughter of George Turnbull,
of the town of Troy, Ind, being sent into
the yard by her mother to gather chips on
the evening of the 4th instant, was bitten
| by rattlesnake, and died from the effects
on the following morning The snakes
are said to be more numerous this season
than for several heretofore
! "A Puget's LSound paper says that in
| Squawk Lake, ut a point some four hun
dred yards from the shore, is forest ot
large fir trees, standing upright, the tops
of which are mostly under water; but "a
few of them reach out a few feet 1t is be-
lieved that section of the country has, at
a comparatively late date, sunk at that
point, and so perfectly was the sinking ac-
complished that the trees retained their
standing position.
AN ELoPE1lENr SPOILED. An elopement
was spoiled in New York q few days ago by
a harmless aud amusing accident. The
young lady was a we'll known and lovely
blonde who had been driven to consent l"
a secret marriage by q cruel and obdufale
father All the necessary arrangements
for the escape and wedding had been made,
ond the eventful evening had arrived. The
vonno lady found the promised ladder at
Isr Chamber window, and her eager lover
al tba bottom OF it. She put her delicate
foot npon the first rung OF the ladder and
,,ranared to descend, when her crln0llne
cauoht upon the bell-handle IN the wall
+ba household was alarmed, and a maid res
cued her mistress from her uncomfortable
situation.