Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-08-10
STATE ITEMS.

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The Prairie du Chen Union thinks j
Allen BARRIERS chances for the Congressioal
candidacy, in the Sd district, are better than
Hazleton's.
A Commandery of Knights Templar is to
be instituted in Oshkosh on the 9Th.
The State Fair offers prizes for skill in
base ball games. The entrance fee is IS.
Capt E. B. Wood -contemplates the cree
ton of Bessemer steel works in connection
with the iron works at Bay View early next
season.
Mr.. Carl Knortz, of the Oshkosh High
School, has been created an honorary men,
Der of the Pathological Association of New
York.
The lumber merchants of Milwaukee have
had to form an association to protect them
selves against carpenters who order lumber
and do not pay for it.
dredge is at work between Mon ello
and Lake Puckaway cleaning out the sand
bars and otherwise fitting the channel for
better navigation.
The Whitewater Register says that at
present they have not a single resident min
lister in town. Their pulpits are supplied
with tolerable regularity by neighboring or
travelling preachers.
The Sheboygan He1o1 has the following
can honest, hard working boy of this city
attended the wizard show the other night,
and was so much taken with the speciols
despf drawing $40, that he invested So in
tickets the next night He drew thirty
blanks, a SKINNER and a currycomb."
On the farm of R. G. Stevens, near Beaver
Dam, an Excelsior reaper cut 1000 acres
OF grain in II days. an average of 30 acres
a day.
We learn from the Wisconsin that 489
immigrants arrived in Milwaukee last week.
The Appleton Crescent says more barns
have been struck by lightning within o "a
dius Of twenty miles Of Appleton during
the present month than during the previous
seven years.
A vein of coal has been discovered in
Trempeleau County
The editor of the Weyauwega Times has
a potatoe bug which has been confined in a
glass vial ever since the 18th day of May
1t has had nothing to eat during this time
but is as frisky as a young colt, and seems
to be polishing its teeth that it may be able
to demolish potatoe vine st sight
Some little boys in Eau Carrie have
been learning to smoke. They succeeded
beyond their expectations, for their efforts
resulted in the destruction of two barns and
a house. Total loss SO, 900.
The West Bend Democrat says: "The
Sharpshooters Of this village are making
great preparati ons for the coming annual
Schuetzentest which viii take place in
Milwaukee on the 18th of August next.
One thousand dollars in prizes will be dis
trioutei 10 the best sho is.
The Sparta Herald says: It appears now
that there IS a new Ine projected for the
railway from Madison to the Northwest
through the southern part of Ricbland and
Vernon counties, in the vicinity Of me riv-
er to La Crosse, thence up the river on the
cast side, or cutoff line TO Winona and ST..
Paul.
Tie Portage Register says Alex. McDon-
aid, OF that city, has taken :the contract to
furnish Il, 900 ties for the Madison and Por-
tage railroad, end has gone up north to make
arrangement IS for their immediate delivery
The ties which he will furnish will be run
down the Wisconsin river.
The Neenah dam which was torn away by
a freshet last spring is nearly repaired
The Waupun Times says a Waupun lassie
has lips so sweet that she uses no sugar in
her tea.
Over 100000 have been contracted in
New Yo-k and New England towns for the
endowment Of Ripon College.
A nugget of copper, weighing about
twelve pounds, has been picked up on the
farm of Mr.. Jacob PANE, town of Lamar
tine, by that gen tleman, and exhibited in
Fond du Lac.
The Germans of La Crosse held a mass
meeting and adopted patriotic resolutions
encouraging their friends in the fatherland
to unite against the usurper Bonaparte. So
says the Republican.
A rich German from the "third city, y
Oshkosh, went down to the "second city,
Fond du Lac, and married servant girl al
the Peters House on ten minutes acquaiat-
ance and the landlady' 8 recommendation
The Sparta Eagle claims that there ars
fewer young men in Sparta that drink in
toxicaOing liquors than in any other place
of Tissue in the State.
The Green Bay Advocate says that Capt
Bourne, Indian Agent, has returned from
taking the census on the Keshena Reserva
ton. There are 1907 Menominees and 1Gs
Stockbridges. He is now tax ing the censu!
Of the 0neidas'
The Racine Adoocate tells of an unfotu-
nate far one who found herself unmanagea
bic during a recent storm in that city. "Hel
head-gear, with all the rigging that encum
bered it was carried away by gale, bu
she was blown into place of safety.
The late rise of Black river has had tn,
effect to run about so, 900 more feet Of log
into the boom near Oonalaska, which ar
being RATED for the market below. This i
good luck to the lumbermen, and will bring
many more thousands of dollars into tina
section,