Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-03-01
Miscellaneous Items.
CANTON, Ohio, has six banks.

law IOT the pTOtoct1On OF nSn-
AGRICULTURE, welded to manufac
lures, gives birth to commerce.
A BosToN bank was recently defraud-
ed of $50, 900 by an adroit forger
THE Spottswood Hotel, in Richmond,
is to be replaced in Virginia granite.
The lake at Cleveland is frozen over
as far as one can see.
The colored men of Des Moines,
Iowa, are about to establish paper.
PEORIA Gll) gold mines have sus-
pended operation for the present
The average wages of school teachers
Ill Ohio is $33 per month
| The Society of Friends have estab-
lished college at Indianola, Iowa.
MUsouAKA INDIANS have a winter
comp near Colma, Tama county, Iowa.
AN Iowa family named Dodd have
crop of sixteen children in ten years
VIENNA, Illinois, has lately built the
finest courthouse in Southern Illinois.
BLoUNT county, Tennessee, has q
bear, panther and dogs with the hy-
drophobia.
ONE of Chicago's clergymen owns
and drives one of the fastest horses in
the city.
CHICAGO calls her foundling hospital
a "refuge for anonymous humanity"
THREE tons of coal are said to repre-
sent the labor power of man for his
life time.
The Soldiers Gazette, at Marysville,
Tennessee, has stood picket for the last
time.
THE Catholic institutions of Memphis
are worth nearly three hundred thou
sand dollars.
PANTHERs have made their appear
ance in the country around Fish Lake,
Michigan.
The new Soldiers Home at Evans
ton, Indiana, will be formally opened
on the 22d inst.
A LITTLE Nimrod fired into flock of
wild turkeys in Virginia, the other day,
and killed large gray eagle
TIE Florida Legislature has refused
to change the capital from Tallahassee
to Jacksonville.
A LADY residing i'll Riply county,
Ind, has been frightened into insanity
by the receipt of anonymous letters.
ALL of the vessels in Michigan City
Gnd. harbor broke loose from their
moorings during the late thaw
THERE were four hogs raised in Mon
roe county, Ind, this season, that
weighed over seven hundred pound
each.
The Missouri agricultural lands will
be ready for sale or lease by the 1st of
March. There are in all 240, 600 acres.
A BUILDING Loan Fund and Saving
Association has been organized at Terre
Haute, with capital stock of 500, 900.
The banks of Indianapolis, Ind,
have formed clearing house associa-
ton, and it went into operation on the
1st inst.
AN exchange is authority for saying
that man from Sullivan county went
to Terre Haute, Ind, few days ago,
to buy Jug full of gas.
YoUNa ladies must MT expect their
bearrx to take them out much just at
present. January is the month for
talors' bills
BAsoUEs with postillion backs are
dies, and as consequence sashes and
belts are for the most part lain aside.
A JOINT stock company has been form
ed at Forsythe, Georgia, for the pur-
pose of erecting and putting in opera
ton large manufacturing establish
ment
The last great snow-storm was very
heavy in Hancock county, Illinois. On
level ground, where the snow did not
drift, it measured twenty-five inches in
depth.
A MASSACHUSETTS railway in 1884 gave
notice that Passengers are not sent
by the company, but seats are provided
for all who apply at the ticket office" !"
The bills of fare at large dinner
party in New York, recently, were of
different colored satin, painted in va
rious beautiful designs and framed in
mouse -colored velvet.
ONE HUNDRED and twenty-eight con-
victs will be released from the Indiana
Southern State Prison during the com
ing year, by reason of the expiration
of their terms of imprisonment.
THE Missouri Legislature has just
passed, without dissenting vote, the
bill making it a misdemeanor for
juror or commissioner to take rail-
road pass when the railroad is a party.
OLIVE LOGAN in her lecture on "The
Bright Side which is vastly inferior
both in quality and manner of delivery
to any of her previous lectures-closes,
always, with very fine piece Of path
etic acting, wherein she refers to her
own personal experiences of the dark
side It is in her favor that it is acting,
for to drag ones griefs or wrongs be-
fore the public, with view to make an
audience use its pocket handkerchief,
is as unheroic as it is s'bad form" Pos
sibly one may be forgiven for pouring
his sorrows into the patient ear of the
Friend of his soul; but larger audience
hardly merits such high confidence.
In recent publication, says an Eng
Ish correspondent, the origin OF that
most successful book, "Tom Browns
School Days." is thus accounted for.
It was favorite idea with the late Mr..
Barham to produce sort of jointstock
novel for Bentley's Miscellany. 1t was
to be called "The Modern Rake's Pro-
gress. Mr.. Barham was to furnish
the opening chapters. Mr.. Hughes,
father of Tom Hughes, was to describe
life at public school; Lord William
Lennox was to describe life in the
Guards at Crockford The scheme fell
through, but it is limited that the
sketches written by young Hughes,
then lad at Rugby, were uncommonly
well done, and that in them there was
the germ of the history OF 'Iom
Brown
Rev. ROBERT CoLLYER, of Chicago
said in q recent sermon: "I5 IS hually
a settled thing now with thousands OF