Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-02-15
Summary of Late News.
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~ The net amount of the French pat
riotie subscriptions received in Ney
York city is. S7,33005.
q A FIRE between two and three o'clocl
Monday morning, destroyed William
Duggan's house, on Grand ST., Brook
/ lyn. The flames spread to three ad
joining houses, destroying them all.
Loss SIS, 900.
COUNT BISMARCK has recently to ol
occasion to repeat, in ali emphatic man
mer, his declaration of July 18th, 1868
that North Germany does not intend t,
acquire any territory on this continent
or the possession of any adjacent is
lands.
The majority of the subcommittee
of the House Military Committee, which
recently visited West Point to examin
into the cause of the trouble anon,
the cadets, recommend the dismissal o
the entire first class except four, anG
the censure of the officers. s5a 51s-
A MANCHESTER special says: Las
evening two men named George Woo
and George Coleman, in the employ O
! w. Cowan, had an alteration, durine
which the former struck the latter will
cane in the temple, killing him in
stantly. Wood is sixty years old, and
has borne a good reputation hitherto
He claims that Coleman attacked hin
with sn axe, and that the blow was Civ
en- in self-defense. The deceased was
about forty years old. An inquest was
held, and Wood is in custody on charge
of murder
On Saturday the mercury fell to 40
degrees below zero on Mount Washing
ton, and continued to fall till q. m.
on Sunday, when it was So below zero
During the night the gusts of wind
must have been more than one hundred
miles per hour. It was probably the
severest weather ever experienced, as
the temperature of seventy-sixq below
zero, the lowest record, when it was
comparatively calm, would be no com
parlson to fifty nine below, accompa.
MED by a terrific wind.
In Cheatam county, Minnesota, some
| nights ago, band Of masked men took
Lewis Harra, colored, from his cabin
and whipped him; then went to the
house Of John Davis, near Kingston
Springs, and gained admittance by
promising to harm no one. Sam Fin
ley, an ex-federal soldier, John DAVIS
and his son Oscar were the main in
mates. The party of ruhians then took
| Finley out an said he had shot COM
rade Of theirs at Shiloh and must die.
They then fired at him three times
without effect, and concluded by beat
ing him severely, Davis and his son
were also badly treated. Finley has
lived many years in Cheatham. Davis
recently removed thither from Pennsyl-
vania. No arrests.
|, BETWEEN one and two o'clock P. NJ,
Saturday q messenger from the Chath-
am Bank, New York, had stolen from
his pocket a wallet containing notes
and drafts to the amount of over $685.
1000. The messenger does not know
when the theft was. committed. He
stepped into the post-ofiice to make an
inquiry, and while III the lobby, some
person passing through the throne
rushed by and jostled him, and shortly
afterward he was iostled by two Other
persons together. While passing along
Dey street, in little while afterward,
he discovered that his wallet, contain
ing the notes and drafts, was missing
Payment was Immediately stopped, 81
that the bank loses nothing and srffer
no inconvenience, except the trouble O
obtaining duplicates of the lost papers
ABBoAD.
JUAREz will be reelected Presiden
of Mexico.
The smallpox is raging in st. Johns
New Brunswick. a. r..r-..-
A LONDON dispatch says that Queer
Victoria was never SO unpopular as a
present. sT g6l a7af si2~I Ell
TBE scheme for the restoration of .tht
empire in France is said to develol
great strength in unexpected quarters.
INTENSE suffering is said to prevail il
Paris. Hundreds are dying daily O
starvation. The food received is who'll.
inadequate. 'sa' 3Las 5oT-oinssl q. abs
A BERLIN dispatch says that prepar
ations are making for continuance O
the war, in the belief that France vii
not make peace. Funds are close Il
consequence. I'd I1g V1i5 ts43 6l 29fs
OF the one hundred thousand horse
originally in Paris, $4,000 have beel
killed for food. Three thousand horse
exquisitioned by the government hsv
been given back to the omnibus com
panies. Cabs have entirely disap
peared. s2essA essoJ
IT is officially announced that an en-
gagement. took place at Naias, Sal
tGemir1o, Cuba, and seventy nine insu1
gents were killed and fifteen taken pris
oners. The Spaniards had two kihe'
and eleven wounded. Five hundre'
persons identified with the repubh
surrendered recently. 92ha5a -" ei5
! 5GAMBErTA is losing popularity i
i France: his decree disqualifying I'M
perialists from election to the constitu
/ ent assembly is generally disapprove'
of in many parts of France. A demon
stration in honor of the Bordeaux go,
ernment, of which he is the head
which took place in Bordeaux on th
9th, was tame affair. ss~f ,---t-..f r.
JoNEsBoRo is the oldest town in Ten
nessee The first newspaper pubhshe
in that State, was commenced IN Jone
boro, though soon alter removed
} Knoxville. There Andrew Jackso
} figured in his early days as q cocl
fighter and duelist. On a hill whlc
| overlooks Jonesboro the hero OF Ne
Orleans met his antagonist, to sett
J the difficulty according to the cod