Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-05-25
CURSENg PARAGRAPHS.
miscellaneous Items.

miscellaneous items.
HE estimates for Chlcago's police ex-
Penses for the current year are $616, 40. rs,
| The journal of that city says the seventy
i've cents are for too h-picks.
Mr.. DEIANo is said to be wrestling with
| an internal revenue decision, which will
settle the question whether weiss beer is OF
is not fermented liquor.
Mrs. E. CADY STANTON writes from an
Iowa town that, failing to catch a train, she
went back to the hotel Gin good state OF
mind to say damn it p
DEATHS from eating wild parsnips have
been unusually common at the West this
! year
IHE postal carriers of Detroit delivered
10000 letters in April.
In a game OF base ball in New Orleans,
the Chicago Nine defeated the Atlantics by
81 to 0.
BARNEY WILLIAMS has daughter worth
S250,O00
A BUFFALO hunting excursion party will
leave Cincinnati for the plains May 18th,
taking i've palace cars, q dining car, a
circus tent and band of music.
THERE are IL 1000 negroes in Lexington,
and over half are members OF the church.
FRANK LEE as he was going home from
church on Sugar Greek, near ST. Joseph,
Mo, on Sunday, was shot and killed by
some person who was concealed behind q
tree. e
A LETTER from Bucharest says that the
prosecutions of Jews are such that many OF
them are leaving the country and will come
to the United States.
In New York the prima donna of the
burnt cork opera dresses as richly as many
OF the leading actresses.
ALE BURNETT writes from Salt Lake City
that Brigham Young paid him $40 for
''family tickets" ~
| II is said that the reason American girls
| fade so early and have such poor complex
ions naturally, is because they eat late dim
ners and suppers. a.aa
ALL but one of the persons engaged in
| the robbery of the Lime Rock Bank, in
Rockland, Me-, have been. secured, and
most of the stolen money recovered.
THE daily wages in Kansas are, of print
ers from 81 to SO; carpenters, So to SO. So;
plumbers, so to 81; @brickIayers and
! stone-masons, 81 to $3.50, and stone-cut-
ters, 81 SO to SIS.
NOTES falling due on Sunday can now be
paid on the succeeding Monday. SO q new
law of the general assembly OF Louisiana
has provided.
In New Orleans a policeman named Bibb
has been dismissed from the force for hav-
ing woman in uniform doing duty for him
while he slept.
In Saltwater Mimi, on the I'd. some
scoundrel poisoned to death two valuable
horses belonging to Mr. j. G. Nay.
SOME commotion was caused in q street
Car i'll San Francisco, the other day, by o
brawny sailor entering, with the word
| Oneida" emblazoned on his cap. He was
the gunner OF the unfortunate ship.
IT is not fashionable for gentlemen to
! send large baskets of flowers TO their lady
loves, bot very small wicker baskets with
delicate handles, filed with the choicest
kcut flowers, are considered the correct
| thing.
THERE is said to be great deal of ex-
aggeration in the rumors of Indian hCstili-
| ties.
MCLAUGHLIN won the 81, 600 wrestling
match ut Titusvlle, Pa, on the 3d, throw
| ing DeHiIb easily
THE G. A. r. department commander OF
! Illinois has ordered the Both inst. kept as
! Decoration Day.
| IMMEDIATELY after the burning of the
| Richmond Theatre, in 1871, the council of
! that city passed an order forbidding any
| public show, assembly or dancing for the
/ period of four months
| A CHICAGO man was so insane when he
saw his wife wearing pair OF sleeve but
tons which q gambler had given her, that
he shot her and recovered his reason.
THE largest income return in Detroit is
that of Capt E. B. Ward $185, 600.
The parents of T. d. Jermain, late of the
Milwaukee Sentinel celebrated their gold
en- wedding on the Both, at Adrian, Michl-
gan.
CAPT. E. IS. WARD will Immediately COM
mence the erection of fifty or sixty tenant
buildings at Ludington, Mason county, de-
signed especially for the use of his en-
| ployes at that place.
SOME 210 pairs of twins were born in
Michigan, i'll six months of 1863. A good
place fOr womans rights.
A BELGIAN peddler was recently murder
ed in Bruges, and, as recompense to his
wife, the government has granted her q
permit to beg.
AN anchor that belonged TO Americus
Vespucius, aud bears his name, is now one
of the sights at Brussels.
The people who want the Capital remov
ed to st. Louis are not all dead. A meet
ing on the subject was held IN that city OF
Wednesday, and national convention IL
!. Cincinnati in October is talked of.
THERE was a minor accident at the large
fire on Canton street, Boston, recently.
, colored individual. passing along Fuent
street, where the houses had taken fire IL
the rear, was just in time to receive upol
9 his devoted head certain household arti
: cles thrown out of an upper window, al
t the custom is at fires. Chairs, tin kettles
, cooking utensils, crockerv, a mirror, and ;
l., mattress are enumerated. 1t is said tn
4 veil that was evoked thereby rose clea
above the din of the fire; but the skull
o was not among the sundries that wer
S fractured.
!, IL In q recent excavation of cellars, Bos
tonian has dug up quite anumber of tomt
stones bearing record of the early settlers
Among the most interesting is one of "Joh
Alden. Senior, aged rs. deceased March l.
Il l7O1," It is believed that this was the so
: Of the John Alden and Priscilla, immorta
. lied iii the 'fCourtshlp OF Miles StandIsh.
; These tombstones will be carefully preser'
;, = ed undefaced, and placed among the otht
. stones of the building that is to be erected
. Thus antiquarian reverence and praetlei
. usefulness will both be subseryed.
ii AN INTERESTING correspondence publish
" ed in the London Telegraph of the got
h ult., mentions that fires have been seen o
" the cliffs of the Auckland Islands, but th;
n the vessel from whose deck they We're pc
J. ceived was unable to effect near approac
It on account of stormy wea her. 1t is su
5, missed that the fires may have been lghte
q bv the survivors Of the passengers an
n crew of the ship Matoaka, which sale
If with 90 persons on board on the 18th
j. May, 1869, from New Zealand port, al
N has not since been heard from. vess
ID has been ordered by the Admiralty to pr
r, ceed to those islands, III the hope OF resc
of ing castaways who are supposed for near
S. year to have been separated from the re