Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-23
STATE ITEMS.

iS"iu "a Su0u d lHlHo AhA Jct thlH
fall the sap is running, the trees are
budding, and the Meuominees are out
in the woods making sugar
4 meeting of Wisconsin bee-keep
ers has been called to meet at Madison
on the l4th of December next, to or
game state association.
The $4,000 appropriated by the
general government for the improve
ment Of tie Kenosha harbor is being
expended.
An Oshkosh lady says that the only
lectures which will b. sustained there
this Hinte: are curtain lectures.
There have been shipped from Green
Bay the past season, by raj! and water,
312. 000,o00 Of shingles. which have
been distributed over the country from
tue Atlantic to the. Pacific.
The Appleton Crescent reports the
marriage. in that city, on the 7th inst
of Generals James Andrew jackson to
Mrs Jane jacobs The General is "a
years old.
We copy the following from the Be
lott Journal: We understand that Mr..
Il &. Ohnsta, one of our leading far
ners in the town Of Vienna, in this
county, has asplendid quality of spring
wheat, called the ''Austrlia Gold
Berry lie raised % bushels to the
acre III 1870, to an average, and has
about 100 bushels to sell for seed.
The first cciored juror in court of
record in Dane county made his appear
ance to-day, in the Circuit Court on
the trial of the case Of Brown vs. Van
Norstrand. Solomon Freeman, ne
gro Of the fullest perfection of co or,
aud rcsiden, Of the town of Middle,
ton has the honor of being the pioneer
OF his race in the exercise of this
newly acquired privilege.
Tue Winona cat-oE railroad is COM
pleted to Trempealeau, and the first To-
connective arrived In that village last
week. 1t will reach Wiaona in shor,
time
Official returns from the First Dis
trlct at the Secretary of States office
show that Alexander Mitcheli's major
| lty Tor Congress -30S; Hazletou's
in the Second, 1899 Further returns
show that the Assembly will stanl 90
Republicans and As Democrats.
The La Crosse Lsader under lands
that the farmers III the vicinity of La
Crescent have completed joint stock
organization for the purpose of storing
and selling their wLeat. They propose
constructing a ware house on the river
near the lime kiln in such name,
that the grain can be emptied into the
bins near the roof, or upper floor, anc
then spouied into barges.
4 Racine man on election day work
ed from early morn till dewy eve hunt
ing up voters and taking them to The
polls. In the evenl. as he Wasrestine
from his l.,bors, and congratul ati g
himself on the amount Of good be
had done, be suddenly remembered
that in his anxiety to make other people
do their duty he had fogotten to vote
himself. The AdUocate says there was
ian evaporation of oaths' soon after
the unpleasant remembrance.
The Darlington Democrat reports
that on Monday night the people o.
that village were startled by experience
ing shock having every Indication o.
an earthquake. Houses we're said to
have shaken. doors and windows rat
tied dc Almost every one felt it,
The next morning if was the general
subject Of conversation. When the
Platte, lille train came in, however, til
mystery was explained the powder
mill at that place bad exploded. It is
said the shock at Belmont was quite
severe. The mill is some q miles
from Darlington, aud, as said, the shock
was felt there very plainly.
The Madison Democrat says: Some
of these days it will probably pay the
owners Of submerged lands adjoining
Lake Mendoza to purchase the Yalsara
Canal water power. BY reducing the
level Of the lake two feet we presume
| that several hundred acres of land
would be reclaimed, in the neighbor-
hood Of Westport and Pheasant Branch
creeks. In addition, the marshes in
the second and third wards would he
less likely to be overAowed, particularly
If the Catfish creek, leading from Lake
Monona, should be cleared Of the sur
! plus weeds which now obstruct the
proper flow of It's waters.
The Register says that boy named
VIM. Finley, aged about twelve years,
vas accidentally shot in the town OF
Whitewater, Oh the 9th inst, while out
hunting About three o'clock 10 the
afternoon the family heard the reporr