Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-05-25
STATE ITEMS.
The paper mills of Beloit employ seventy

| Bishop Melcher, the Catholic bishop Of
Grs en- Bay, returned from Rome last week
Ex-Gov Horatio Seymour, of New York.
is visiting Sank County in this State.
Tie Portage Register says considerable
lead is found at otsegO, in that county.
The Chicago Baseball Club plays tie
Nutuals of GAINESVILLE, on Friday, the 9th
| inst.
A rowing match between the Monona
Club, of Madison, and the Oshkosh Rowing
Club. is in prospect
A Milwaukeean proposes to carry Con-
federate flag from Milwaukee to Washing
ton on foot, provided the citizens viii put
up stake.
Mr.. Dawson, the parloned convict, is
about engaging himself to Der in firm as
engineer IN a large saw mill
Active preparations are being made at
Portage City and other towns, for the eele
bration Of the anniversary of our Indepen-
dence.
Lutte Taylor, of the La Crosse leader
says that any one wearing the garb of man,
who would sell liquor to small boy, de-
| served to be run through a threshing ma
chine and winnowed on red hot grid-iron
Many of the roses are in full bloom in
different parts of The State, being nearly a
month earlier than usual
The Prison City Leader says last Sunday
couple of medical students attempted to
remove large wen from dogs neck, but
through too liberal use of chloroform
killed the dog.
The Citizen reports . sheep killed and l6
badly mutilated by do s, belonging to W.
NJ. Brown, of the town of Beaver Dam,
few days since.
The Mirror reports that travelling agents
say that there has been more improvements
in. kilbourn City for the past three years
than at any other place or the Railway be-
tween Milwaukee and La Crosse.
Mitchell Rewahna an insane Menomonee
Indian, has been forwarded to the q. S. In.
sane Hospital at Washington. He has been
for some time confined in the ShaYano
county jail.
Three bodies have thus far been recovered
from the wreck OF the War Eagle, at La
Crosse. The hull of he steamer is to be
raised, when other bodies will possibly be
found
Hon l. c. Sloan, of Evansville, has been
appointed by the President, one of the
Board of Visitors to West Point for the
year 1870.
Neenah and Menasha propose to raise
$4,000 each 10 aid in building the Wau
paca railroad
The Adams County Press says the soil in |
that section is filled with myriads of the
gray cut worm, and they are doing great
damage to garden and field crops.
The West Bend Post says, should the sea-
son prove favorable, Washington county
will show an enormous wheat crop and a
good crop Of barley.
The Milwaukee Sentinel SAYS, Marshal
Hamilton and his assistants are busiiy en-
gagged in mailing census blanks to the va
rious assistant Marshals appointed to take
the ceasus.
On Sunday evening, 18th inst, Judge
Orion, of Madison, delivered a temperance
lecture in the First Presbyterian Church, at
Racine, before large audience.
The Oshkosh Northwestern says George
liver, of the Times, is preparing series of
articles on the legendary history of the
Chippewa Indians for the Western .Nonthlv |
Chicago. Few Wisconsin men are better
acquainted with the early history and char
acteristics of Wisconsin and the abor-
iginees.
The Berlin Wooden Mill is in fall blast
This mill has all the improved machinery
now used in the manufacture of first-class
Wooden Goods, and under the superinten-
dency of E. O. Paddock
The amount of rain in Milwaukee from
January to May, in 1860, was &c, 1858 inches
and this year for the same time, $500
inches-a decrease this year of 4, 588 inches.
The La Crosse Aeader reports that on
Monday evening, Hogah, a little son of
Henry Hall, aged about three years, fell
head foremost into barrel containing about
five inches of water, and was drowned
The Calumet County Reflector gives an
account of the suicide OF Mr.. Carnot Ham
lin, of Stoekbrdge, by cutting his throat
from ear to ear with a razor, then lying
face downward in a little brook near his
house. He was a religious menomaniac
The Rev. Thomas B. Van Horn, Of Mil
waukee, is writing history of the Army
of the Cumberland, aud to that General
Thomas was looking for fair statement of
his Nashville campaign, in:his latter days of
life.
The Governor has appointed NJ. J.. n. |
Rogers Judge Of the Municipal Court of the |
city and town of Berlin, an Office created |
by ar act Of the last Legislature, the city |
having failed'to elect Judge last spring
owing to misapprehenSion of the law.
We learn from the Green Bay Gazette that
the Indian Commissioner at Washington
has prohibited the cutting of am timber by
any person, upon the Stockbridge, Menom-
once and Oneida reservations. The Indians.
however, are allowed to fell such timber as |
they may need for their own use Emil
nenhy sound.
The Republican saws among the /