Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-19
Miscellaneous Hens.

Miscellaneous Items.
"A new comic paper is to be started il
f New York.
? Nashville claims to have had a recherch
! dog-fght.
-Yenison is cheaper than beef in Mays
vile, Ky.
, -Hardwick, Pa, has neither a church
tavern, lawyer or preacher within its limits
Twenty thousand copies of the frs
number of Old and New have already beer
; sold
A fox squirrel thirty inches in length
was killed recently in Pickaway county,
Ohio.
I'm Cape Girardeau, on the Mississippi,
coal is selling at the levee for 25 cents pei
bushel.
The Daniel Webster farm and home
stead in Franklin, N. H., has been sold fo1
$4,000.
There are as, 900 vagabond boys-ut-
terly homeless and friendless, in the streets
of London.
"A Vermont dog chased deer for thirty
hours, and they both dropped dead at last
not ten feet apart.
-Virginia's "oyster rocks" Weld an an
nual revenue OF $40, 900, 900. They occupy
GAO, 900 acres.
: Columbus KY, claims population of
5000 souls and cannot boast of single
school house.
j. E. Schmidt, of Vienna, has COM
pleted his atlas of the moon. He has been
at 1t thirty Years.
"A German savant has discovered that
a bed-bug after having bitten 800 times,
begins to droop and fade away
1t is estimated that in three-fourths of
the public schools of Ohio the old alpha
bet plan of teaching reading is still in prac-
| tice.
The Russian Government is talking of
building railroad through Siberia to
China. It's length in Asia will be thou
sand miles.
"A composition connected with the Staats
Zeitung New York, committed suicide on
the 10th ultimo, bee ause he did not get his
pay on Saturday night.
There were SO, 4SS arrests, and IS. 994
deaths in Philadelphia in 1862 There
We're received 876, $50 bbls. -four, and
1888, 900 bushe Is of wheat
"A woman i'll Ohio had needle taken
from her foot recently which had been
there for more than eight years, shifting
from one place to another.
"A very wealthy lady in Warren county,
Pennsylvania. devotes the greater portion
OF her time to- making cream candy, which
is sold for the benefit of the poor.
Eleven thousand seven Hundred and
eighty-five- tons of pig-iron were manufac.
tured in S5cioto county, Ohio, in 1868; 20,
450 in Lawrence; %, 101 in Jackson,
"A new iron bridge has just been com
pleted over the Huron river at Ypsilanti
Mich, of 100 feet span, and costing $8,
600 to $4,000, including abutments.
Ohio has the champion hog. It is
three years old, and weighs 1900 pounds -
1t is nine feet long. SIX feet four inches
around the heart, and four feet high.
AT Port Clinton, Ohio, recently, q lad
fourteen years of age picked up piece Of
candy in the street, eat it, and died soon
after. The sweet compound was poisoned
European papers say that Presiden
Grant will soon visit the sovereigns of Eu
rope, and that he will make the AT.
lantic voyage accompanied by fleet Of
iron-clade.
The total earnings of the Illinois cen
trail railroad, for the six m onths ending
T October 81, are So 642 709 06 and the Stat
percentage is 1854, 969. Sc, which has beer
: paid into the treasury.
} "A man in Dundee, Illinois, has raised
On three-quarters of an acre of ground, thi
year. nearly four hundred bushels of tonla
toes. Most of them were sold for fit,
cents brshel.
A negro in Kentucky has had twenty
two children in thirty-one ye ars of mar
ried life and the county has remitted hi
taxes sin consideration OF distinguished
services done to the state. ."
Bangor, Me-. has slede e, durga O
cutter which was said to have come from
Lapland, the robes from Siberia and Oregon
the horses from Mares Island and the bell
from Moscow.
Mrs. Nancy W. Nixon, vene rable lad
of 80 years, died in Boston on Saturda.
last. She received q pension for her hus
bands services as ffer, when a u ere lad
in the revolutionary army His father
a brave officer, was wounded at Bunke
Hill.
"A Parrot shell, one of '4TflR, 1re'
pills. was found the other day lodged be
tween two buildings in Charlesto q, S. G. =
A fire nearly destroyed one of the buildings
but fol- tunately did not reach the unexplod
ed shell.
| n DOoGOh OOholo 1iiuo LII ~
February number it will have articles from
residents of France, Washington. Rhod
Island, Boston. Cambridge, Wisconsin
Illinois, Ohio, Florida, New Hampshire
Philadelphia, Germany and Egypt.
A reduction in the wages Of cigar-ma
kers in New York city, it is reported, vii
soon be made. A strike among the EN-
ployees, twenty in number of one firm, ha
taken place aga INST q reduction OF So pc
thousand on the best brands, and 81 on or
dinary work.
-Experimf ynts made by an Englisl
chemist, sonle years ago, show how mucl
food of diffe rent kinds it takes to make
pound of desh. According to his con
clusions il requires, of milk, % lbs; tul
nips, 1C0; potatoes, 80; carrots, so; oa
meal, 3; barley meal, ~; peas, 81; beans
81.
I'm Ohio there is an excess of 40, SO
men, in Michigan 40, OOO anil in Calforni
143, 900. In Massachusetts, O n the contra
: ry, there are Sc, 900 more WON IN than me1
in New Hampshire 6, 500, in R, node Islam
5000, and in Connecticut Z, 800. The tot
> excess i'll New England of fen 1ales oVt
males is 48, 500.
/ The Corinne, (Utah) Repor ter say
l EsNearly every train bound East tax es henc
t large number of Mormons, miss lonarlt
= they call themselves, but we shoUld ca
them mysteriousaries. Something is wro
l in Zion, sure. Never was SO many low
} to leave the realm at any one time l'etor
To be sure there are great many goln
q back to their former homes and frl ENDS
: but there Is still larger number going fo
) some other purpose. Our advice to ou
/ Eastern brethren is to keep sharp 1ooi
= out for this class of people, also for yor
wives, daughters and valuables."
, Michigan paper tells thefollowi ng: g
widow married few months ago. Upc
l eight or ten weeks trial she inforr eed h
husband he didn't suit, and Re left. unco
cernedly, as hired hand not long .er wan
ed. More lately another left upon lii
Specification from his better halt, only
l snivelled at the loss Of situation Al
3 still more recently, another said he won
l leave # his wife would raise him seve
lo1la 81 oh l,