Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-04-26
3 tate News.


The Lodi Journal say. the new
wheat in Columbia county. is up two
or three inches high.
The Turn erein, of Fond du Lac,
celebrated its sixteenth anniversary on
the 18th inst
The Catholic Cathedral being erected
at Sheboygan, is one Of the "a gest and
finest in the state.
The Appleton Crescent says winter
wheat is fine. and the prospect for a
large crop is good
The Milwaukee Sentinel says the
breweries of Philip Best & Co., re-
quire daily supply of two thousand
barrels of water.
The Adoocate says travel has open
81 up lively at Green Bay this spring,
and that business is unusually active
there
Rev. Fayette Durlin has resigned
the pastorate Of Trinity Church, James
vile owing to continued i'll health.
The pork packing business in Mil
waukee has increased remarkably of
late, $4,000 more hogs having been
packed during the past year than in
the previous one.
The Milwaukee Neus says more
houses are offered for rent this. spring
than usual, and rents have declined
since last year.
The Fond du Lac Daily says it is
estimated that not less than 10000
fruit trees will be planted in that coun-
ty this spring.
The Brandon Times says: "The
young man. who put himself outside of
twenty-nine eggs, last Sunday, and
then ate two more and good sized
meal besides for dinner, still survives.
The Racine 4rgus says the Young
mems Library association, of ST.
Patrick's Church, have secured the
first installment of their Library, con-
sisting of $50 volumes
Geo Newbury, father Of Mr- L. II.
Newbury, of the foundry in Sparta,
was drowned in Black River, at North !.
Bend, few days since; while endeay-
ring to save floating crib Of lum-
Der.
The Oshkosh Times says ground has
been broken for FIVE of the wings of
the new Insane Asylum, and that the
excavation for three of them is nearly
The ground is still I'M
broken for the main building.
The Columbus Democrat says that,
in cemetery in the little village of
in Columbia County, there
is rather terse. epitaph. 1t is as fol
lows: Seventeen years maiden one
year wife; two months mother, and
that took her life"
The Berlin Journal says night fish
ing has been all the rage since the
opening Of the river. Some fishermen
have been lucky, securing hundreds in
one evenings campaign with torch and
spear-A man, living near there, re-
Gently killed 50 pigeons at one shot.
They were at roost at the time.
The Oshkosh Times says young
man, in that city, who was but recently
created quite a sensation, on
Monday last, by attempting to take his
life 1t seems that he lives unhappily
with his wife, and for some reason be-
came jealous, and resolved to end bis
earthly career by gounding his head
with beer glass, but the skull proved
too thick, for the glass broke, and his
skull still remained whole.
Four ranges of hills, each twenty
niles long, running parallel with the
nonominee river, have been found to
contain immense quantities Of almost
olid iron, and are estimated to contain
en- times more Of that metal than all |
he Lake Superior ranges combined.
f this estimate is correct, Wisconsin's
mineral interests, already immense, will |
eceiye new impetus.
The Richland Republican states that
sow belonging to NJ, T. S. Reed, liv 7
ng a mile or two south of the village,
gently gaze birth tofyo pigs; among
hem was a pig or pigs having one
'ody, two heads~-one at the right side
f the head proper-three eyes, two
mouths, and two tongues, de-, and an
'pening at the top of the natural head
through which it seemed to breathe
The monster was dispatched, on dis
'overy, by a neighbor.
The Beloit Free Press is responsible
or the following hog story j: ga far
nsr living near the city, whose YER
city is unquestionable. tells us that he
gently found hog in one of his
traw stacks, which had been under the
sraw four months, but which, never
heless, was alive when found. At the
ime it disappeared the animal was
luitc fat, but its four months sojourn
lnder the stack had reduced it almost