Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-05-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
miscellaneous.

United States Marshal, for S48, 900. She
cost $500, 600 three years ago. w H
Thormegan was her purchaser.
The internal revenue bureau has no
titled the defaultlng revenue collector,
Orner, in Springfield, Mo, that by
rendering his resignation both himself
and the department would feel greatly
relieved.
IT is reported that James Gordon
Bennett has formally made over the
Herald to his son, valuing the entire
property and good will at 50, 900, ,000
: He has taken no part In editing the
paper for some time, and has not been
in the Office for nearly twelve months.
He is now in his 18th year, quite
feeble and steadily sinking.
! THE Superintendent of the census has
just returned to Washington from
tour of the western States, where he
has been for the purpose of arranging
for more complete returns of the man
ufacturing capacity of the different
western cities. He reports that he
succeeded beyond expectation, and will
soon have fnll reports, as desired
The East.
A BILL to allow married women to
sue and be sued, in actions for damages
for personal injuries, paased the Mas
sachusetts Legislature Friday
THREE seamen, named Barney O'Don-
ohue, James Doyle, and Ryan, are un-
der arrest in New York, charged with
mutiny on the ship VIM Foster.
A COLLEGE for the preparation of stu
dents for the priesthood is to be erect
ed on the old United States arsenal
property in Jersey City, which was sold
at auction last week for ST, ,000
GOVERNOR GEARY delivered an address
to meeting of workingmen at Harris
burg, Saturday. The gist of the adj
dress was denunciation of the rail
road companies for raising the tolls on
coal, and praising the miners for the
stand they had taken.
The President will this week nomi
nate to the Senate some 40 appoint
ments, including II which failed to be
acted on at the last session. Among
these will be chief supervising inspec-
tor Of steam vessels, recorder of the
general land Office, and others of equal
Importance
THE body of an unknown man was
found floating in the river at Minneap-
oils on Saturday.
AT ST. Louis, on Saturday, Weston
completed his task of walking two hun
dred miles in forty one hours, two miles
being backward.
WORK on the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad will be commenced
June 1st, and completed to Topeka in
October of next year.
A LETTER from Fort Arbuckle, in the
Indian Territory, states that the tribes
in that vicinity, including the Chey-
ennes, Camanches and Kiowas, are dis
posed to be very quiet, and that set
tiers are pursuing their daily avoca-
tions with no apprehensions of trouble.
THE people of st. Clair county
Mich, having voted to remove the
COUNT. seat from st. Clair to Port
Huron, and the Board of Supervisors
having passed the necessary resolutions
for the removal of all the archives and
property of the county, injunctions
have been issued restraing the county
officers from carrying out the resolu
tions, and an animated squabble is ex-
pected.
The Sea4h,
ARRANGEMENTS are being made in St.
Louis to celebrate the decennial ami
vereary of the capture Of Camp Jack
son, on the 10th inst.
The graves of Confederate soldiers
were decorated at Memphis on Satur-
day The occasion caused q pretty
general suspension of business
p. NOLAN, convicted in Covington Of
playing ehuckaluck, was sentenced to
pay fine of $500 and be forever infa-
nous and deprived Of the right of suf-
frage in Kentucky.
The Republicans carried the magis
trates election at Lexington, KY, on
Saturday, by 1862 majority, being
Republican gain of 700 since the Con-
gressional election last November.
that all the Federal officers of that city
are to be subjected to thorough over
hauling, and all employees that vote the
Democratic tickets discharged. The
movement is said to be the result OF
certain statements made to the Presl-
dent during his late visit there.
Grimes and Casualties,
A BOY named VIM Stolls and Thos.
A. Morris, painter, met with fatal &C
cidents in Cincinnati on Saturday.
A YOUNG woman who passed by the
name of Katie White, and was about to
become mother, died at Indianapolis,
from the effects of an overdose of NOR
phine, taken Intentionally. Her real
name was Mollie Tilley.
A YOUNG man named Hale shot and
killed another named Johnson, last
Sunday, in Washington county, Arkan-
sas. On Monday, some relatives of the
murdered man captured and started
with him for Fayetteville, but never ar
rived with him; and it is supposed they
murdered him on the way.
On last Saturday, a young mar named
Lafayette Shepherd attacked his moth
er. who was an old woman, and his
Young sister. with an axe, and killed
them both, at their home, near Newton,
Jasper county, Ill. He Immediately
fed, but was arrested in the evening at
Olney, and is now in jail at Marshall,
Clark county.
The nam portion of the town of
Folsom, California, has been burned.
Loss $25, 1000.
The machine and agricultural works
Of Blymer, Norton & Co., in Cincinnati,
were burned Friday night. Loss
$4,000.
A FIRE at Liberty, Adams county.
ILL.,, on Friday, destroyed the Touring
mill of Horace Griffin. Loss, 10,O00;
no insurance.
THE steamer Carrie, with 800 bales
of cotton, was burned twenty-three
miles below Augusta, Georgia, on Sat
urdav. The cotton was fully insured
Obituary.
The mother of Speaker Blaine died
in st. Paul on Friday
WIN. F. BARNES, prominent citizen
of Rutland. Vt. and a pioneer IN the