Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-09-28
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS
Miscellaneous Items.

MISCELLANEOUS ItemS.
The mosquito as b public singer draw
| wcll but never gives satisfaction.
MARYLAND estimates its colored vote o
35, 900.
CALIFORNIA still suffers from earth
quakes.
Ice is selling for six cents pound q
Selma, Ala.
ST.. Louis is guilty of the extravaganza O
an $500, 600 Jail.
New ORLEANS has about twenty-five
thousand voters.
BRIDAL presents in Chicago consist most
ly of divorce blanks.
ONO wishes to be recorded as having s
ninety year old goose.
''HoRsE.THIEF protective societies" arr
organizing in Minnesota.
MEMPHIS has two military companies
composed of ex-Confederates.
The population of Pittsburgh proper is
reported at Sc, 254-a gain of 30, l56 since
1860.
AN Alderman of Springfield, Mass, en-
tertalns his friends at a fruit feast once a
year.
SEVERAL mills OF Fall River are daily in
creasing the numb4r of their mules and
looms.
TEN THOUSAND New York worlingmen
went out on d picnic the other day, en-
n7dsse.
! SEVERAL hundred skeletons have been
| found under the City Hall Park, in New
York.
| A POLICEMAN has been dismissed the SER
vice for shooting and wounding woman
in New Orleans.
ACCORDING to the Unita Cattolica the de.
sertions from the Papal army are assuming
large proportions.
FIVE churches permanently closed
doesn't speak very loudly for the morality
OF Sonora, California.
MEMPHIS Councilmen are now agitated
over new union depot to connect al rail-
roads entering that city.
THREE thousand cubic feet of water per
minute go careering through the sewers Of
Buffalo and purify the same.
MosT of the salt used in California is
average price of 50 per ton.
The famous trotting mare Lucy has been
sold by her owner, Norris Halcomb, Of
Hartford, Conn, for SIC, 900.
Now that MacMahon has moved toward
Belgium, it would seem to devolve upon
Bazaine to second the motion.
FROM suspicious apprehensions, the
freedmen continue to dodge the census
takers in some counties in Texas.
SAN FRANCISCO mourns the continued re-
luctance of traders and shopmen to recog-
nize any smaller change than dime.
THIRTEEN thousand dollars have been
contributed by the Germans of Baltimore
for the relief of the Prussian wounded.
ALL the shoe shops in North Brookfeld,
Mass, are running TO their full capacity,
and every available person is employed.
The cotton mill at East Rochester, N.
H., has been purchased by certain par
ties, who propose to set it in operation.
BAPTIST associations are now being held
in Georgia. The first of the season COM
menced last week in Clayton county of that
state.
THE st. Charles Hotel, OF New Orleans,
IS now for lease, and, it is thought, the
Jackson railroad company will procure it
for its Offices.
THREE hundred and twenty-four thou
sand eight hundred and forty letters were
delivered by the letter carriers in Balti-
moro during last month.
AT the Turn Verein celebration at Sess
dalia, Mo, recently, flag, procured by the
ladies OF that city, at cost of $3.50, was
presented to the society.
The Indiana ug-master-general is de-
lighted at the receipt OF bug of the scar
atareas titqMs species. Any bug that will
"tie-to-us, is Objectionable.
A WEALTHY citizen of Lowell, Mass, be-
came insane, last week. in consequence of
the death of his wife, and hacked his
throat in ashocking way with razor.
On the 28th of August, some burglars
entered a store in Waco, Texas, and assas-
sinated a young man sleeping in it, but
were run off without getting anything.
JUDGE DWIGHT, of Rochester, is called
upon to decide whether an Orphan Asy-
lum can legally retain the custody OF
child against the wishes of the mother.
A New ORLEANS man heard hiswife make
statement which he deemed erroneous,
and he corrected her with tureen full
of boiling soup. His argument was heat
ed one.
IT is quite superfuous for dictator,
directory or the chamber to shout Mac
beth's cry, ''Hang out Jour banner, when
the Parisians say they are going to ''stlek
it OUT anyhow.
A DISPUTE about the European war be-
tween two Baltimoreans led to an exchange
of shots. Neither of the combatants was
injured, but small child was instantly de-
prived of existence.
FEMALE telegraphers are said to be in
fnitely superior to those Of the male per-
suasion, because there is so much light
ming in them that the use of batteries is
rendered needless.
THE Marion Is. O.) Crescent says mag
nifecnt eagle was killed few days since
by a son CT Mr.. Samuel Watson, on Cat
fish. He measured nearly seven feet from
tip to tip Of the wings.
The mysterious woman in black" was
recently arrested in New Orleans and fined
ten dollars. When her features were re-
vealed to the magistrate he discovered her
to be an old acquaintance.
The people of Harrison county, Ind,
were excited few days since by the discov-
cry of a vein of gold, by laborers, who
were engaged in sinking a well. The ex-
cavations will be continued.
CHICAGO desires to take back everything
that she has ever said derogatory TO the
White Stockings, anu with tears of peni-
tence promises not to revile them any
more-until thev are beaten again.
CINCINNATI people have splendid times
at the singing society pienics. Upon q re-
cent occasion the regular exercises were
interspered by the shooting OF one man
and the pounding of three policemen.
AS sshowing the sleepless energy with
which the Prussian war has been carried
on, it may be stated that King William die
not take his first Nap until after the capt.
Ulation of the French army.
The Count d'Eu is reported by cable al
| having arrived on SUNDAY at Lisbon whenct