Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-05-04
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
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Facts and Figures. oe a4@'s-
CHARLESTON, S. c., is luxuriatingin greer
peas. E1as5F 01'T . . ~ -
:, VERAIoNT is exporting lumber to New
Zealand.
+ CHICAGO distilleries use 1000 bushels OF
grain daily.
PEACHES ripen in Florida from June 10th
to October 30th. ero zen. -
A NEW town in Mississippi has been
named Jollifcation.
CHE Egyptian Sun" is the name of a
new paper at Cairo, Illinois.
ENGLAND pays its Judges salaries yaryine
from $4,000 to S50,0OOa year.
AN undertaken at Portland. Maine. the
other day dug out live black fox.
HE longest suspension bridge in the
world viii be that across the Delaware.
OLIVE OIL is manufactured at st. Simon's
Island, off the Georgia coast, near Bruins
wick.
A DEAD baby, wrapped in copy of Days
Dolngs, was found on street in Philadel.
phia. a.
NEW YORK CITY estimates its population
at l, 600, 900, of whom Is, 900 own all the real
estate asF
"A GIRL killed herself by dumping the
rope" two hundred times at Pittsburg re.
Gently.
THERE are over thirty cargoes of sugar
and molassas at Boston wharf waiting to be
discharged. @ 70 ~
THE Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-Eye says
the women of that State will vote for the
next President. s SKA
A LADY physician of Lafayette, Indiana,
returns an income from her profession last
year of 50, 500.
HARw1cH, Mass, gathered the past sea-
son 3,761 barrels of crapberries, which were
sold for about 100000. .
Mr.. JUL1AN's female suffrage amendment
to the Constitution is known in Boston as
''the sweet Sixteenth"
AT least $4,000 miles of railway were
represented by the general ticket agents
at their last convention.
The San Francisco customs officers re-
Gently drowned two men to recover $4,000
worth Of smuggled opium. ,.;5
LOUISIANA owes $12, 900, 900. The annual
interest on the bonds ''no ninally out-stand-
ing" is stated to be 1914, 900, 5tila
HE city of Concord raises by taxation
only $11, 500 for schools; Dover, SIS, 500.
Manchester appropriates $4,000.
A PHILADELPHIA PAPER advises ex-Presi
dent Johnson, in his forthcoming European
trid, to apply for the throne of Spain.
A COAL bed four feet thick has been open
ed one mile north of Knob View, on the
South Pacific railroad, SO miles southwest
from st. Louis. -5 .g-= -t.
THE duration of flash of lightning can
be measured and is ''less than the mill
ionth part of a second according to the
New York Express. 81
THE Louisville Commercial says the
wheat crop of lower Kentucky looks re-
markably well, and the breadth of land
planted is quite large.
In the window of London tavern ap-
pears this announcements: "On view, for q
few days only, the head of Traupmann,
preserved in spirits.
The Boston Transcript says the Massa-
chusetts estate Senate this year has not
been excelled for lack of brains since the
KnowNothing times" s @ a5La
THE Dwight manufacturing company at
Chicopee, Mass, employ lego persons, OF
whom 1856, more than fifty per cent, can
neither read nor write.
MARY E. DOYLE, aged IL years, while at
work lately in the Back Bay (Boston) WOOL
en- mill, was caught in the machinery by
her hair, and her scalp was torn off.
Two hundred RATS of ship-timber from
Logan and CabeH counties, Virginia, pass
ed down Guyandotte river last week for
Cincinnati. These RATS were valued at
$4,000. ss.# ,-sa#sa B.
EIGHT dogs in a Georgia town died sud
denly, the other day, from eating loaf OF
bread which the cook had just baked for
the family. She was arrested for her care
lessness.
Nor counting Alaska, there are 1 1,000
600, 900 of acres of underlined, undisturbed
public land in the United States, or enough
to give 10000, 900 of people farm of 100
acres apiece.
The contractor who is constructing the
railroad from Quincy to Chattahoochee
Florida, proposes to hire the labor of the
State convicts at the rate of 81 25 per day
for each laborer.
THE skeleton of walrus was discovered
in Union, Maine, while some men were
employed in digging well. The bones
were deposited in bed of blue clay, about
IL feet from the surface a q
The haunted Gloucester Mass, schooner
is being fitted at Portland for another trip
to the fishing banks with crew who don't
believe in the ghosts that have already
scared home three crews.
A FORTY MILE yelocipede race had just
taken place in France. Fifteen competi-
tors started, and the winner was Leotard,
who accomplished the journey in three
hours and forty-four minutes.
WHILE the bark Stella was in heavy
squall at sea on the Goth ult., ball of fire
struck the forecastle deck and exploded
scattering sparks in all directions, and
making noise resembling the bursting Of
a cannon. @ - t
THE Yale freshmen have accepted the
challenge of the Harvard freshmen to play
match game of base ball, next June
18th, and have asked to have Springfield
Mass, substituted for Providence, Rhode
Island. - r..
COLONEL James J. O'Fallon, of st. Louis
has sold a thirty-six hour old colt, the frs
offspring of the celebrated roadster, Pa
Malloy, out of Annie Travers, for the hand
some sum of 81 ,000. The purchaser is
wealthy Montana gentleman.
A SWORD presented to General Washing
ton by Frederick the Great of Prussia;
gold chain and seal, once worn by tht
General, and several other valuable relics
are to be added to the collection at Noun
Vernon by the wife of Col. John A. Wash
ington, of Jefferson county, Va.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., boasts of having
restaurant where one can obtain piece o
beef or fowl cooked in tin kitchen before
wood fire, bread baked in q pan covered
with hot Goals, and anything else requisit,
for substantial meal cooked in the style o
fifty and more years ago.
Two Maine boys, 13 and II years of age
saved their fathers life when tree fell ant
crushed him to the earth, by digging
trench under him. They knew that h,
could not live until they came back, shoult
they run for assistance, and the tree wa
too heavy for them to lift with levers.
The stocking OF little child who fell on
of a secord-story window, in Newport, Vt.
few days since, caught in the fastening o
the blinds and held her until she was res