Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-12-14

Miss Amelia Watts, of the late Bid
die Theatrical Troupe, has accepted the
/ position of Leading Lady at DeBar s
| Opera House, St. Louis.
10 making the survey of the North
western rail road, through Sank county,
valuable repositories of iron ore were
discovered.
A steamboat will be put upon the
broad bosom of Green Lake next sum-
mer, and it is now building al
hartford. @
New beadbords are to be placed over
the graves Of the reble dead at Madi-
son, and the place of inserment is to be
enclosed by fence.
Berlin is getting to be notorious for
| home entertainments. AS often as
once fortnight something to amuse is
brought out by home actors. So says
the journal.
The rafters of the east wing of the
new Milwaukee Court House are being
put on, and it will soon be under roof and
it is expected that the interior Will be
completed by next spring.
The Dodge County Democrat says
Mr.. c. G. Deits, living near Juneau,
killed on Friday last three pure Suf-
folk pigs, 2l0 days old, which weigh
ed us pounds. The largest weighed
800.
Recent surveys have demonstrated
the fact that iron deposits exist in at
least five distinct localities of the State,
viz: Dodge, Sank, Jackson and Iowa
counties, and the neighborhood of
Lake Superior.
Neenah has dog which will take
money to the market and bring home
meat, as satisfactorily as man could
do. Recently this canine could get no
money, and, being hungry, he stole a
sash, carried it to the market, and
pawned it for meat.
A Door County man recently went
down to the bay to commit suicide,
pulled off his boots, tried the water,
and, finding it too cool to end his days
in pleasantly, walked off, concluding to
wait for warm spell.
The Madison Journal says: "Mar-
tin Peterson was sentenced at the last
term of thu Circuit Court to the Peni-
Tertiary for one year, for robbing man
on the highway for thirty-fye cents.
The punishment, the least the law al
lows for the offense, would seem severe.
If 1t We're not known that the man was
addicted to petty tbieving.".
The annual catalogue of Beloit Col
lege for 1870-71, has been issued.
There ale LAT students in the prepare
tory department, 5 in the select course.
and 81 in the regular collegiate course,
making 1877 in attendance. Among
the alumni of the college are numbered
several prominent and rising young
men.
The complete census returns show
the population of Wisconsin to be L.
055, $50. The returns also show 1888.
l43 dwelling houses in the State, and
200, SOS families. White males $685.
S34 colored people of both sexes, q
$50; blind, 20s; ). deaf and dumb,
81; insane, 69l, idiots, 255.
A swindler by the name of Hamil-
ton went to Fond du Lac, few DAYS
since, and opened writing school.
After collecting half terms tuition
from twenty scholars, he sloped on
Tuesday mornings train. Some of the
boys learned his intentions and seized
his baggage before be left.
A Norwegian girl whose family name
is Kewa, has recently disappeared from
GAINESVILLE under very mysterious cir
cumstances. She was engaged as ser
want, and had made. arrangements to 90
to Madison to be gone few days. She
said that she would get another girl to
do her work while she was gone, and
left the house with a promise to return
with her friend, siice which time she
has not been seen nor l.eard from.
The State Journal gives very in
re ting sketch from the report Of che
Superintendent Of the Orphans Home.
at Madison, from which we learn that
there we're 252 children at the Home
in September, when the report was rem
dered. The Home has been improv ed
considerably, a library and piano have
been purchased. and shoe shop estab-
llshed during the past year. q
A Swede, who worked on the farm
of Mr. Harvey, about ten miles south
west of Bsloit, committsd suicide by
hanging, one day last week
The Portage Register reports that
on Tuesday last DR.. Meacher, of that
city, removed a Butyrick tumor from
the LETT breast of Mrs. VIM, of Poy-
nette. The tumor was of several wars