Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-09-06
TOra:pn News.
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1T is expected that the Queens sta
tue in Montreal will be unveiled by
the Marquis of Lorne and wife on their
arrival there in September.
THERE is an inn at Rheims, in
France, where Joan Of Arcs parents
were guests in 1120. Tt is still kept
that remote y-L'Hostelleri de Pane
Rave.
MADAME REGINA DAN CIN, famous
feminine surgeon of Austria, perform
ed $50 successful operations at the city
hospital in Trieste, and was rewarded
by the municipal authorities with a let
ter of thanks and purse of gold.
The Salute Public, Of Lyons, France,
states that during the late great heat
clouds of locusts have appeared in the
neighborhood of that city. They have
bright red wings with gold markings,
and produce q most dazzling effect as
/ they pass in the sunshine.
ACCORDING to tie census taken at the
close of 1870, the principal cities OF
Sweden contained the following popu-
lation, Wis. Stockholm, 133, 597 inhab-
itants Gothenburg, 57,362; Malmo,
25, CTS; Norroking, %, 692; Carlscrons,
II, ,775; Gefe, Is, ,034; Upsala, II 49,;
Jonkoping, II, 065 Lund, 10, 588.
The Count de Paris, it is said, show
ed President Thiers letter on current
topics, which he was about to publish,
and asked for his opinion. The veteran
statesman replied " Remember the
proverb, Speech is silver, but silence
is gold.'" The Count promptly sup
pressed the letter.
The old traditions about the Car Of
Juggernant are apparently about to be
extinguished. An eye witness OF the
ceremonial says that the old stories are
grossly exaggerated, that no victims are
crushed, and that there isno more orgy
than may be witnessed at an English
country fair.
A LETTER from Berlin says "The
entire material of the German army IS
to be renewed with all speed-perhaps
in two years. The mitrailleuse is to be
introduced, though no model has yet
been chosen, and the needle-gun, being
too heavy, is to be superseded by
lighter weapon with longer range
Fortifcations, too, are TO be establish
ed around the coast.
FRANCE is officially going out of
mourning. The brass band OF the Re
publican guard played (from four to
six, J for the first time, in Les Quincon-
ees des Maronnlers, in the Versailles
gardens. There is now to be music
every day, the band of the engineers
alternating with the Republican guard.
At the same time we hear that bands
play in the Tuileries gardens in Par1s
The Moscow Gazette publishes the
following return respecting the spread
of cholera, in Russia On the IIth OF
July, 100 persons were attacked With
cholera in Wilma, and 40 died on the
18th So were attacked, and 30 died on
the 10Th the cases of illness rose to
281. At Biga, hospitals are already es-
tabiisbed for the exclusive use Of chol-
era patients, and physicians are kept on
duty day and night.
AN extraordinary tragedy has Just
taken place at Tournus, Saone ct Loire,
France. A bailiff had gone to effected
} seizure at the residence of a man named
|. Gratien, when the latter barricaded
himself inside, and, firing from d win
dow, killed the officer and a gerdo1mae
who had accompanied him. The na-
tional guard was called out to arrest
him, and had to lay siege regularly to
the house. Gratien, at length, finding
: further resistance hopeless, blew out
his brains, but not before he had NOR
tally wounded one of the besiegefs.