Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-07-26

England, by q mandate excluding
female singers.
a GRANITE MONUMENT, 90 feet high,
surmounted by figure of Hone ten
teet high, marks the grave of Cen
Daniel Delevan, in Tarrytown, N. Y.
SPEAKER BLAINE's BROTHER. r q
takes in salary of 50, 240, as a snbor,
dinate in Office of the clerk of the House
of Representatives
A oNE-IEGGED man amused the crowd
in Lancaster, Mass, the other day. bv
hopping q mile In six and quarter
minutes.
NINE. LAGRANGE, the eminent French
singer, has lost her voice almost COM
pletely, and retires from the lyric stage
permanently.
PRESIDENT WooLsEY, of Yale College,
will retire at the close of the present
collegiate year, after having been con-
nected with the institution for forty
years past.
A DOWN East farmer sprinkles his
currant bushes with whisky the worms
get drunk, drop off, and either break
their neeks or cripple themselves so
that life is burden.
THE German ithographic printers
are making preparations to celebrate
the approaching centenary of Avis
Sennefelder, the inventor of the art of
lithographing.
EMMA ADAMS, pretty female, and
widow of the notorious prize fighter,
Tom Hyer, was up before Judge Bed
ford, in New York, few days ago, for
| theft. She was released.
GEN HOWARD, fighting his first bat
| tie at Manassas, in 1861, and delivering
a Fourth of July Grafton on the same
spot in 1871, shows some of the changes
ten years have wrought.
NINE SEEBAoH is safely installed in
Dresden, where she has placed her son
at one of the best schools, and will for
the present, be regularly domiciled.
Louis BLANC, hopeless of gaining
the ear of Theirs, or the dominant party
in the Assembly, and despairing of
the Republic in France, is going to set
tie permanently in London.
JOHN BULL begins to find fault with
Lord Napier of Magdala, for his pro-
fuse expenditures in India, and the
Colonial papers are waging bitter war
fare for and against the Abyssinian
hero.
MAJOR GEN. WALKER of the British
Army, who accompanied, as military
attache, the Grown Princes army during
part of the war, was refused permission
to be present at the grand celebration
of it's triumphs in Berlin.
Mr.. A. Fl. STEPHENS is already expe-
riencing some of the minor woes of
journalism. In the latest copy of his
paper, he seys prominently, for beau
t1fully, in our last, read fearfully."
A. BIERsTADT, the artist, leaves New
York for California in few days, to
complete his studies Of the scenery in
the vicinity of the Yosemite Valley
and Lower California.
MAJOR GENERAL WALKER of the Brit
ish army, who accompanied, as mill
tary attache, the Grown Princes army
during part of the war, was refused
permission to be present at the grand
celebration of it's triumphs in Berlin.
JUDGE D. DAVIS is to undertake the
examination of the papers of President
Lincoln He will devote the summer,
at his home in Springfield, to this
task, and also to their revision for pub
lication
HoUDIN, the famous French magician,
has played his last trick. He was as
sisted in it by an undertaken and q
priest, and the only mechanical 'sac-
cessories" used were a coffin and
hearse.
SPEAKER BLAINE has been for fifteen
years member of the orthodox Con-
gregational church, of Augusta, Me-,
and yet it would take Vice Presi-
Dental nomination to make him entire
~ happy.
SISTER MONICA, a lay sister at the
Convent of the Visitation In Washing
ton, died on Saturday evening, at the
advanted age of so years. She was in
the Convent for more than half CEN
tury, and was the oldest sister in the
institution.
A DUEL recently took place at Venice
between captain stationed in regi-
ment there, and the editor of red
newspaper called the Cronica Turchino,
an ex-major of Garibaldi's Army of the
Vosges. The major was severely
wounded.
Rev. Mr.. KENDRICK, a red-hot tenn
perance lecturer and incandescent re-
7ivalist in Brooklyn, n Y, is on trial
before his association for drunkenness
Sunday School Superintendent and
half dozen leading members of his
congregation.
WE learn from a Frankfort despatch,
through the Lombard agency, that
the associated German railways have
resolved to present Prince Bismarck, as
token of gratitude, private railway
carriage for his special use, luxuriously
fitted with all comforts The carriage
is adapted for use on all German rail-
way lines.
A SET of exquisite porcelain, a pres
ent from Champion, the great Bristol
manufacturer, to the wife of Edmund
Burke, in ia, has just been sold at auc-
ton. The teapot sold for 81 $50, the
cream-iug for $575, the slop-bowl for
$3.50, and the cups and saucers for
from 5000 to $3.50 each.
A STORY is told of father in
church, who, when the marriage ser
vice came to the point where the cler-
gyman asks, "Who giveth this woman
to be married to this man?" replied,
" Well. Sir, [ am called to do it, al
though it do go agin the grain.
wanted her to marry Bill Plowser, who
is worth twice the money O. that ere
man. The answer was not considered
regular.
The mode in which stock-raising is
managed in England is shown by the
following extract from a private letter
from near London: "Last week /
went to sale of pedigree stock, and
saw some splendid cattle, as well as
some splendid prices paid for them.
One COW, only two years old, sold for
over $4,250; calf, six months old, for
81, $50; and sucking calves for $125
and $3.50 each; while so, 900 was offer
red and refused for bull The owner
is very wealthy, his income being some
$500, 900 or $3.50, coo a year.
Two San Francisco merchants made
a sort of double bet about the probable