Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-02-23
Miscellaneous Items,

-1neFo Is only one MethOQlSG minister
in Montana.
-Diphtheria is prevailing at Sacramento
to an alarming extent.
The Boston Roman Catholic cathedral
will cost over SIS, coo, 600.
The Athol forest in Scotland Las 30
O00 deer IN tue 80, 600 acres.
The wheat crops in all parts of Ten
nessee are looking fine. -t
The insurance on the Great Eastern
and her cargo of cable is So, 100000.
--Iuka, Mississippi, has obtained $50, 600
to establish cotton factory at that place.
-Four hundred cords of white beech
wood are annually cut up into shoe pegs at
Wilton, Me.
There are 25 divorce cases pending at
the present term of the Rutland county
Vermont supreme court
Detroit has imported this winter from
kentucky and Tennessee, several hundred
possums for eolored epicures.
New York papers speak of the storm
OF the 9Th as the first great snow storm OF
the season along the Atlantic coast.
Young ladies should be careful not to
get chaps on the lips They have been
known to lead to an affection of the heart
Rich deposits of iron ore have been
found on the line of the Knoxville and
Kentucky railroad, some ten miles from
Knoxville.
The Kennebec (Maine) Journal says
that all but five Of the 100 paupers N that
city own their present position directly to
the use Of intoxicating liquors.
Accounts from Long Island say that
the cherry trees are in blossom, the farmers
have been making maple sugar, and the
sportsmen whipping the brooks for trout
"A Paris musician enjoyed the unusual
pleasure of playing his own funeral march
by taking a slow but comfortable poison
and awaiting it's action at the piano-forte
"A woman recently fell out OF q fifth
story window in Paris upon the head ofaI
foot passenger. They both had roll in
the mud, but neither was badly injured.
Mr.. Edward Rippey and wife, who
lived about fifteen miles west of Weather
ford, Texas, were killed and scalped by a
party of Indians, about ten in number,
about ten days since.
During the year 1859, 400 cannon of
improved construction have been distri-
buted to the Russian fortresses, and by
April next the army will have been all sup
piled with new rifles.
The village of Sweet Home, in Nod
away county, Missouri, was almost totally
destroyed by fire recently. Only one house
was left standing. Before the fire there
were two.
Among the contributions to the Jubilee
Fund of religious society in England was
one, of Ell, given Gas thank offering TO,
an excellent wife in Heaven, and an excel
lent wife on earth.a
"A party of Indians made a raid into
Parker Co., Texas, on the 18th nit MIR
dering family consisting OF SIX persons,
and then visited Deeatur, stealing iouI
horses from that town.
"A man in Hampshire county, Mass,
recently subscribed one dollar for the sup
port of his minister, but, finding that his
wife at a donation party had squandereC
twenty cents III the same object, he refused
to pay but eighty cents.
| Friday night week vigilance commit
| tee caught a couple of horse thieves foul
miles west of Westport, in johnson coun
! ty, Kansas, one OF whom they hung from
| the limbs of tree and death resulted. Tht
other fellow was shot.
"A prize of silver watch was offered,
in Birmingham, Pa, one night last week
to the individual bringing the largest mum
Der ofladies to ball. There were geVera
aspirants. One brought 36, another SO
another 54, and another 81. The last on,
was awarded the watch.
"A correspondent of the New York Oh
server, resident in Rome, writes that pape
that an American, who has been suspecte,
of reading the Bible and having worshi,
in his family, has been visited fecentl
three times by the police, and this Will
the Ecumenical Councils in session in tbs
city.
= The South Carolina legislature has jus
passed bill which provides that no res
OF personal property held by woman a
the time OF hes marriage shall be subject
levy or sale for husbands debts, but sha
be her separate property, and that she ma
manage and dispose of the same IN all re
ispects as though she were man.