Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-26
NO. IL.
Miscellaneous Items.
,nrr, Vincent is in ChicepO

Men can vote at q and women at Il
in Wyoming.
Only four deaths from small pox occur
red in Boston last year.
Less than one-third of Chicago po
Hcemen are Americans.
The National Bricklayers Convention
is IN session in Chicago.
-Emigrants can now go from New Yorl
to San Francisco for $40.
In 1869, New York city yielded $40,
900, 700 in internal revenue.
There are 991, ,373 900 feet oflumber or
hand in the yards of Chicago.
The streets of Huntsville, Ala, are
being illuminated with gasoline.
Seven of Thayers' circus horses will be
sold at auction, in Cincinnati, on the 22d
New York Typographical Union gave
the striking te1egraphers $500 on Tuesday
night.
The Seth Thomas Clock Company
(Litchfeld., Conn., made 124, 900 clocks
last year.
LII Liverpool, England, over s, 900 wo-
men were punished last year for drunken
ness.
There is a professorship of the Irish
language in the University of Notre Dame,
Ind.
"A boy Is years of age, in Tuscola
county Mich, recently shot an elk which
weighed $50 pounds.
Seven gentlemen were killed and q
hundred and two We're severely wounded in
duels last year at Paris.
"A movement is brewing in Mississippi
to remove the capital of that state from
jackson to Vicksburg.
"A. L. Stewards establishments in New
York employ more than eighteen hundred
persons, male and female.
The English House Of Commons num-
bers 658 members. The French legislative
body numbers 292 mem bers.
Petitions are pouring into the Ohio
Legislature for the enactment of law to
prevent cruelty to animals.
In England, in 1915, the price of a
lays labor was only one penny, but butter
was only farthing pound.
"A pet anaconda at the Lehigh Penn. J
University has died from the bite of a rat
which was thrown to it for food.
"A sailor fell from the mast of vessel
in San Francisco, a distance Of 100 feet.
lie was alive at last accounts.
The birth statistics in New York
show, for the year, II, 3S9 whites to LA
colored g. 464 males to 6,068 females.
The editorial staff of the Independent
is composed of half and half, men and wo-
men, and SO with the compositors.
"A firm of Pittsburg distillers manufac-
tured GOA, 1877 gallons of rye whisky in 1869,
and paid tax amounting to 1852, $685. 81.
The New York State prisons were con-
Quoted at loss of 5000, 600 last year. The
Massachusetts State prison made $2S, $50.
In a short time, all revenue stamps
will be Cancelled by new arrangement
which the Government is now perfecting.
In fifty libel suits instigated against
newspapers in the last ten years, the gross
amount of money collected was only S.,
900.
The Bishops in attendance at the Coun.
Gil IN Rome receive daily allowance o
eight francs from the Pope and are lodged
gratis.
There is woman in Manchaug, Mass
40 years of age, who was married at 12, il
the mother of 16 children and weighs 20(
pounds.
On the 4th inst, snow an inch deer
covered the streets of Charleston, s. C.-tht
heaviest fall that has been known there fol
fifteen years.
The population of Germany now is So
302, 600, of which the North Confederation
numbers % 594, ATS, and the Southern
States s, 807, 52S.
1t is estimated in London that the
tetes at the opening of the Sueza Canal have
cost the Vlceroy the enormous figure o.
Sc, 600, 900 gold.
Two of Hartford's Com oldest and
prominent merchants have died recently
Ellery Ellis, Esq, aged 70 years, and Ezra
Clark, Esq, aged 81 years.
There are thirteen editors and report
ers employed on the San Francisco Bulletin
whose weekly salaries amount in the aegre
gate to $500 in gold.
There have been 319, 900 hogs packed
in Cincinnati this season, up to January s
1870. Up to the same time in 1869, tht
figures were 1926, 1000.
The planters of Mississippi are can
| vassing the feasibility of esta blishing cot
ton factories on the cooperative principle
IN all the principal towns Of the state.
Five negroes four women and on
man, while attempting to cross the Ala
bama river just below Bridgeport, on Sun
day last, were accidentally drowned.
/ In 1874 there were 20, Gil lunatics il
England and Wales, or one in 802 of th
population. In 1868 this number had risel
to OILS, or one in 402 of the population
The Chicago Post sagaciously says: 81
there is one commodity more than anoth
er which should be under the shadow o
a repressive tax, it is animated dog flesh.
The debt of South Carolina is Sc, 9SS,
434, ,23, of which So 173, 571.27 has accruet
since the close of the war. The State vii
henceforth pay the interest Of the debt il
gold.
Owing to the unusually mild winter,
heavier grape crop is anticipated for mex
season in California than has ever befor
been known. More vines will be plante
this season than in any previous three year
combined.
Pope Plus TX. distinguishes the Spar
ish Bishops beyond all others, by the mos
marked attentions. He treats the Frenc
and German prelates, with the exceptio
Of the few Ultramontanesa among them, wit
marked coldness.
Constant Mayer is engaged upon pit
ture illustrating these lines from Whittier
poem. ''The Witch's Daughter:
The school-boys ieered her as they passed
And, when she sought the house of prayer,
Fer mothers curse pursued her there"
The salary of the Treasurer of Penn
sylvania is only $1,000, yet the GoVernc
says 'fhere are but few men who hav
held the Office, however poor they ma
have been when they took charge of i
who have not become rich"
There is in the town of Warren, Me
wooden mandatory corporation that Ell
ploys only people who resides IN the tow
No outsiders are hired unless it is imposs
BILE to procure help in Warren.
1t is said the vessels of the whalir
fleet from Boston, Provincetown, Salen
Beverly and Newburyport, whose cruisin
: ground is in the Atlantic Ocean, have mao
a net loss to their owners the past year
$780, 600.
, During the year 1869 there vera 16
} 438, 800 bushels of coal shipped from Pitt
burg to Cincinnati. The total amour
/ shipped from Pittsburg to the river citi
below Cincinnati. during the same perio
: amounted to AZ, 672, 500 bushels.
A. tobacco chewer in Missouri,
taking a chew of tobacco. felt somefhi,