Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-06-08
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| THE demand for agricultural machines ut
| the west is unprecedented this spring.
The executioner Of Paris has drawn up a
memorial recommending to the Emperor
Napoleon the Third, that criminals in
France, sentenced to death, be hencefOrth
executed by having their skulls crushed
with en- iron club.
/ SOME Newport school ma'ams have been
invited to go to Montana to teach. The
News warns them if they go they must ex-
pect to go to housekeeping at the end OF
three months. It's the custom of the
country.
| GEN. BoYNToN, of Augusta, Me-, had a
bullet extracted from his hip, recently,
| which he received in the battle of Dfury's
Bluff. The ball had moved seven inches
from the point of entrance, and was deep
seated 1t had produced great suffering
for six years.
| A CHICAGO man, rumor says, has invented
process by which a dead body can be
petrified in an hour as hard as a stone
A wag suggests that he ought to accompany
our troops on the frontier where he could
drive a lively business at petrifying INDIANS
and selling them for tabacco signs.
| A CHINESE suicide in San Francisco left
as his dying confession a letter reading:
! 'Chinese young man, Hemul Hake Foo,
! tWenty-nine years old. Have sick. Would
live. From Canton, 2 ward Name Sun
Word, Farmer. China Saelep Company
[ have soul. Had boot on my bad. | dead
now. Can't lixe.
AN EXCHANGE crowds whole lecture on
political economy into the following spicy
paragraph: Sunday being a ba1my day,
all the styles were brought out. The most
richly dressed lady we saw is the wife of a
man who has owed this office thirteen dol
lars for nearly three years, he says he
can not raise the money, and We believe
! him."
| Dr. THOMAS SMITH, of Charleston, S. c.,
was deprived of the power of speech about
| three months ago by paraiytic stroke;
| but; with characteristic energy and de-
termination, he commenced Immediately TO
train his vocal organs as if he were child
| learning for the first time to speak, and,
by dint of persevering effort, he is now
able to express himself intelligibly in pri-
vate.
a BRAVE GIRL The Oxford Me. Demo
crat tells US that a plucky girl i'll Weld, named
Dorcas White, was met IN the road by q
wildcat, which was being pursued by her
| brother, who had been hunting it with a
gun. With presence of mind and cour-
age amounting to heroism, she took her
shawl from her shoulders, threw it over the
vicious brute and held him till her brother
came up and dispatched him.
J. THE Montreal Witness learns from part
les conversant with the condition OF that
| city, that there are between two and three
| thousand dwellings standing vacant, repre-
sentlng diminution OF population 10 the
extent offrom ten to fifteen thousand per-
sons. This shows that the emigration to
the United States is still continued. 1t is
not unusual for 200 French Canadians to go
off in a single day from the Bonayenture
Station.
A MAN with four wives was brought be-
fore Hans Swarthart, a Mohawk justice, for
commitment on charge of bigamy. -Four
wives - exclaimed the astonished Hans,
four wives? dat vas most hinocious
crime Discharch him at yOnst. ''Why? ?"
protested the prosecutor; ''Why discharge
him when the proof is positive ?' Win
the court explain ?" ''Yhs, l eckshplains
Of he IFS NIT four wives he got punishment
Rnough. [ If NIT von and get too much
punishment already" 4.
ttWHY, said Miss Anna Dickinson, on
one OCCASION, stepping forward to the
footlights, and commencing lecture with
lofty flight of eloquenee "Why was l
born She passed, and q thrill ran
through the audience. Again the rich
tones of the winsome woma relied the
question: "Why WAS [ born?" And
again she paused, that the due impression
might be made upon her hearers, before
she answered her own question ssWhy
was [ born?" she asked once more, in
touching and almost painful accents, when
wicked boy in, the gallery shouted: 81
give it upP' $3.50 @
TWENTY years ago all the slate-pencils in
America came from Germany. In 1850 a
young man i'll West Rutland, Vermont,
eighteen years of age, discovered5a supply
OF stone from which he could make as good
| slate pencils rs were sold IN the stores. He
| began by whiting them out, and selling
the rough articles to school-children. He
| bought the quarry for one hundred dollars,
and commenced operation on a limited
scale III saving out pencils. The business
| grew on his hands: machinery was invent
ed to facilitate the process, and to day up.
ward of hundred men manufacture daily
so, 900 pencils. The mills are valued at
$500, 0g0.
IN BOSTON, on Sunday, while a Jewish
girl, named Sarah Damn, eight years of
age, was playing III company with girl
named Sarah Bennett, and some other chill
dren, about the yard of the house of Daniel
d Egan No. % Nashua STREET an n Roy
succeeded in shutting up the first two girls
in the woodhouse, where he kept them
confined while he brought two large and
savage dogs, which he set upon the de-
fenceless children. Some OF tht. children
heard him say that he would like to see
Jewish girls killed; and before they were
rescued from the teeth of the brutes they
were terribly bitten.
a SANDWICH Isl4AD-, J gErfa 81 reports, as a
street scene in Honolulu, a wife driving y
SHINING husband home. She WIS evidently
beating the man in severe terms, and with
out stint of voice. for having LET her bed
and board, and stayed away all night. He,
with a hang-dog look, walked quietly along,
and answered never word IS las wife 5
TRADE of abuse This silence she appar-
emily construed into giving consent to the
truth of her accusations, and it in couse-
quence added fuel to the flame. So from
words she came to blows. Picking up here
and there on the streets q stone
as big as ones fist, she followed