Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-09-08
PnrsnnaI EfrlliS.
Minister Nelson is said TO be very pop
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Personal Items.
! Minister Nelson is said to be very pop
ular among Tie Mexicans.
The author of Tom Brown at Oxford
vas the referee in the great boat race.
Tho Madrid Imperial calls Siclles one
of the 'fmpToyised heroes of tho Poto
mac"
Samuel johnson, a prominent Boston
merchant, died few days ago. He had
| been resident of that city over so years.
| Fletcher, whom Dickens heralded IN
the Atlantic, demand $500 per night in gold.
Hoe jefferson GETS $500 pef nioIt in aToer-
backs Mt Booths.
John r. Allen. OF Nashville. has in
making n | ,000 pounds balloon, intended
to take up ten persons al Che forthcoming
Tennessee State Fair.
| -Salazar a member Of Maximilian's
| Cabinet, whose estates We're oonEseated by
Juarez, is insane at Washington, and his
wife is destitute at Georgetown.
| Mr.. William Henry Hurlbut, the ao-
complishod collaboration ef the Hon. Manton
Marble III the World, has gone to Boston to
| take leave Of his friends there on occasion
| of his approaching departure TO attend the
| Ecumenical Council, in Rome and the
opening of the Suez Canal in Egypt.
| "A prominent minister, who went 10
| Greenwich, Conn, lately, to make pulpit
| exchange with brother minister, was,sby
some blundor. arrested at the station, under
suspicion of being implicated in the rob
berry Of grocery store some ten miles dis
| tant.
Emile Girardin, the ablest iournalis;
in Fran 3e, receives salary OF SO, COO francs
a year, as managing editor of La Li5eie.
~ hat To n
| ioyed ty Mr.. Bigelow, and AIr. Curtis for
| similar work, each of whom is reported TO
receive 10, 900 u year III greenbacl1s.
| Prince Arthur is described IS tall and
slender, with fine and taultlessly combed
head Of brown hair, and his youthful face
ornamented with an English pattern OF
whislzers and moustache, highly creditable
| to thefphysical development of a young
man of nineteen When he landed at
Halifax be !, ore black dress coat closely
buttoned, pants of light drab hue, = ''cho-
ker" collar Of enormous size. and o black
silk tile -"
Foreign Items. tsi
Rome, by new census, has go, 532
inhabitants; 74S0 Of them are priests,
monks and nuns. aa .afeeEs.
There are in France at least fifty ac-
gitimate children of the great Rachel
"A subordinate clerk iu q banking es-
tablishment drew the Srand prize in the
Russian lottery a month ago. II amounted
to $40, 900. .f
1t is estimated that OF Interpolation
of France II ,000, 900 persons are living IN
the cities, and about 2S, 500, 600 in the couu-
Try,
The laying of submarine cable in
the Black Sea, as part OF the Indo Euro
pean telegraph, was finished on tho llth
of July,
"A woman has been arrested in the in
terror of Hungary, for having procured IN
the last fifteen years the abortion Of somo
three hundred infants.
Among the agricultural implements
now manufactured i'll Great Britain are
largo numbers of lephant plows, which are
forwarded by way of the Mediterranean,
the Isthmus of Suez, and the Red Sea and
Indian Ocean, to Hindostan.
According to the Spanish journals III
Cuba, the following insurgenb commanders
have been killed and come to life again
several times: Quesada, twice; Figueredo,
Agintela, Feralto, Cisneross each once;
Marmol, twice; and LOrda three times
= DR.. Poggioi says there arc $4,000
chance to straighten 'em out with electrici
ty There arc numerous GreeiaIl E,ends ia
this country. 4 Cincinnati Chap has
patent for str9mghtening them out. lie d
gives the victim one under the eat.r
"A young and beautiful woman appear
ed not long since before the Roman SEN
ate and announced herseif as the last de-
scendant Of the Emperors of the East liv-
ing unknown in Il valley in Piedmont
After an investigation, she was recognized
as the Princess iIasearjs1ealcOlogus and
the Senate ordered her mamie to bo inscrih-
ed III the Book OF Gold at the Capitol.
Then she went TO Florence and founded q
Masonic lodge for women
An English correspondent Of the Rev
olution says Of Mrs. Harriet Martiueau
owe were grieved to learn that q severe at g.
tack of her nalady IN January last had
| brought Mrs Martjneau very l0w and that
she ll5e scarcely yet recCyed from the effects
Eof it, She had not tins summer been able,
as yet, to go out on the sunny terrace in
front Of her house, but had occasionally
sat in the porch to enjoy tho fragrant air,
and ali tbe bird and insect life around IA
WearineSs and restiessness, rather than
actual pain, are the characteristics CT her
complaint. asa az v of sa la
Algerian Farming OD Il Large Scale
All interesting account OF I1iiuAi8 on =
large scale has appeared in the Algerian
newspapers. a young and enterprising
colonist, son of NJ. Aries Dutour, the we'll
known French capitalist, has recently pur-
chased two farms in the Metidia, and turn
ed all his attention TO developing the rich
resources of that vast district. One OF
these farms consisting of I, 400 acres, has
$50 acres of cornland; hay, root, flax and
luee1n are grown III considerable quantities
the vine is also cultivated, and the large
pasturagos feed over and above 009
head of cattle. Water is distributed by
means of dams throughout the farm, and
machinery representing an expenditure Of
G3, 600 (Iiansome and Sins's steam ploughs
among The rest) has been advantageously
called intorequisition The farm buildings
are such as would satisfy Mr. Mechl. The
house is o handsome chalet, built Of carved
cedar wood, a project of the Atlas. There
can be little doubt that, as a commercial
speculation, this experiment viii succeed,
while Algerians may well hail the preco.
dent set by NJ. Aries Dufour with satisfac-
ton. A few capitalists Of the same liberal
views would oIye quite different aSDect to .