Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-04-06
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Items in General.

he salary of policemen IN Albany has
been raised to 5000.
IHREE young Cinnamon, it is said. are
soon to enter Harvard University.
CHICAGO has been visited by five hundred
aud eighty fires since April l. 1869.
SIX DOLLARS in silver were found in q
Buffalo contribution-box last SUNDAY.
GEORGE francis TRAIN owns nm to baine,
the smartest man in the United States.
THERE have been over 200 0GO tons of
ice cut on the Hudson river the past win
ter.
KANSAS College has among its students
eight Indians. They are already well read
men.
In Liverpool, boy of IL earns living
by delivering curbstone chronological lee
lures
THE Washington landlords generally re-
| duce rents fifteen per cent after this
month.
ONLY hundred and sixtieth part of the
inhabitants of the United States pay an in
come tax
The chief of police of New Haven has
received the following: ''Yew hev got Jest
10 days to liv."
HARpER's FERRY is to be converted into
watering place, and mammoth hotel is
to be built there.
Miss SMITH, a colored woman recently
graduated from the New York Woman's
Medical College.
In France l. 200 Roman Catholic piests
earn their livelihood by sweeping the
streets, or as cabman.
IN New Hampshire, judges cannot serve
after attaining the age of 70; but they can
go to the Legislature.
Gems. LoR1NG, Mott, and Sibley have ar
rived IN Cairo, and reported to the Khecliye
of Egypt for duty
CLINT THOMAS, 'the last Of Washington's
held hands, died at st. Louis on the 18th
inst, aged los years.
EDUCATION Is compulsory in the Russian
army. The Instructions is carried on bvtbe
officers of the regiment.
AN Ohio murderer, who escaped eonvic-
ton on the plea of insanity, now refuses to
pay his lawyers for the same reason
SOME one suggests that the spring hats
are SO large that, when worn out, they can
be sold to branch railroads for depots,
BATH, Maine, has five churches which
are within a circle Of 66 rods diameter, and8
within a concentlic circle of that radius.
The Omaha Republican says: sIn no
case has the snow and the fierce wind had
any effect upon the Union Pacific railroad.
A MORTGAGE for SO, 600, 900 upon the
Passaic Valley and Peapack railroad has
been filed i'll the Registers Office ut New
ark, N j. Eerr
THERE are s, ,000, coo horses owned in the 3.
United States and their estimated value
amounts to something more than the ma
ionai debt 4
A CTEcINNATI paper says hog appeared
at the Brighton stock yards o couple of
days ago with horn upon his snout 81
inches long.
CHICAGO is receiving California qnail,
salmon, asparagus, caulifowers, green peas
and mountain trout, by express from the
Pacific coast.
AN American, writing from London,
says that John Stuart Mill is an average
London Englishman raised to the thou
sandth power"
The minister of a Glasgow church re-
Gently referred to the Mordaunt case in his
prayer, and requested divine sympathy in
'Her Majesty's afiiction!"
The Directors OF the Howe Sewing Ma
chine Company propose to establish q
branch for the manufacture of their ma
chimes at Logansport, Ind.
A DENTIST in Jersey City extracted twen-
ty-seven teeth IN two minutes and three
quarters, while the patient was under the
influence OF 'laughing gas"
A SQUIRE in indianapolis married cou-
pie last week, adapting the service to
modern times by pronouncing them man
and wife until separated by law"
Tue value of property in Lowell Mass,
belonging to churches, charitable and be-
nevolept institutions, etc., which is exempt
from taxation, is estimated at $474, $50.
De. 4. r. lIi;chell, Sheriff of. Hsmp.-
stead county, Ark, committed suicide on
the 6th, by shooting himself through the
head. An alleged dedication is supposed
to be the cause.
The astonishing statement is made
that there are several persons vet confined
IN the Kentucky P 2nitentiary for the crime
of running off slaves, some of them having
ten years to serve. a
The Boston Advertiser has the following
local item: ''Eightv-six cases Of drunken
ness before the police court to-day show
that the prohibitory law cannot cope with
St. Patrick's Day"
A BEAVER measuring four feet six inches
from tip to tip, and weighing fifty pounds,
was shot recently by negro, two miles
from Memphis When shot his beavership
was engaged In catching ducks.
Mr. WILLIAM MCDOWELL, who lives near
Evansville, had his right ear entirely cut
off by telegraph wire (Which was permit
ted to hang below its proper heigbt), while
riding quietly along the road
At grand banquet OF the English vol
unteer forces, after the Mofdaunt trial the
health of the Prince of Wales was proposed,
but was met with such storm of Kisses
that it was quietly dropped.
OBsERyANT Frenchmen, skilled in medi-
cal science, report, as the result of much
investigation and observations, that since
women have loosened their cSrsets, the an
nual mortality has decreased 163 per cent.
TIE South Carolina press are again
urging the planters to put IN more corn
and less cotton. Although the planting
season has just begun, two-thirds of the
people are buying corn from the North and
West at pretty high figures.
A New York policeman lost his nose on
Thursday night last, while attempting to
quell a riot among gang of roughs. The
fellow who bit it off boasts that it is the
fifth proboscis he has served in the same
manner.
WHEN Maine entered the Union fifty years
ago, her population was 298 8S5. In that
time it has much more than doubled being
now aDOub fUU,UOO, hDu SHe mas Sent 10
other states more than 100 Of her
people.
VIRGINIA CRY, Nevada, was the scene of Z
another raid on the Chinese, few days ago.
a mob of armed whites driving one hundred
and fifty of them from work on the Mexican
mill ditch. The mob also destroyed several
tenement houses.
a co1oRED girl surprised negro manon
Saturday night last engaged in piling rails
across the track of the Virginia and Ten
nessee Railroad at Liberty depot The
negro fled and the girl removed the rails
before the train appeared
AN attempt was made to blow up the
house of the Belgian Consul at San Fran