Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-09-13
Personal.

MISS Spaulding, NJ. D., of Sandus-
key, amputated mans leg few days
ago.
anna DICKINSON and Olive Logan are
their own agents in the lecture business
this year.
THE Philadelphia Scotchmen are
going to erect a statue of Sir Walter
Scott in Fairmount Park
GEN. SHERMAN is planning for a
grand buffalo hunt for the Grand Duke
Alexis and his suite.
PETER GIrsEY, the tobacconist, and
owner of the Gipsey House, at New
York is worth S3,000,000
The New York Sun dubs Justice
| Downing the Dexter of the Bench he
disposed of 43 cases in 95 minutes,
few days since,
The Louisville Courier heads an ar
ticle on Henry Clay Deans new depart
ure with the quotation: Zone by one
| the roses fall. :"
Mr.. ERAsTUs DICKINSON, brother of
the late Daniel S. Dickinson, died sud
denly at Dewitt, Iowa, recently, at the
age of 50 years.
JOSH Billings says that, having spent
six weeks at Long Branch frolicking in
the water, he has gone to Saratoga to
let the water frolic in him.
PROFESSOR HITCHCOCK and his explor-
ing party have discovered hitherto
unknown lake in the White Mountains,
3,707 feet above the sea level.
Mrs. MARY JANE OWEN, wife of Rob
ert Dale Owen, died on the 18th inst,
at New Harmony, Ind, after a brief i'll
uess.
AT last Hiram Powers has written to
New Orleans that his marble statue of
Franklin, contracted for over 80 years
ago, is ready for shipment.
EDGAR GoiSSovnB, General sickles'
Secretary of LegationS at Madrid,
Spain, has just married a beautiful
German Aeiress.
A SAN FRANcIsco doctor advertised
for 6 good Office cat. Hehas already
received 24S felines, with the southern
counties yet to hear from. :.
A New YORK. lady-Kate Miles-is
one of the most highly, favored singers
abroad. She won great honor at the
'Theater La 'Sacald, in Milan, Italy
The first pair of India rubber shoes
ever. seen in the United States was in
1920. They were gilt, and pointed
like the slippers of the Chinese man
DARN. AA ss!ea 81
IT is said that Ellis II. Roberts, dei-
tor of the Utica Herald. lately received
and declined an offer of salary of
$40, 600 year to take editorial charge
of the New York Times. s ssi..,.rc.
GEORGE M. PULLMAN, of sleeping and
.palace-car fame, owns small island
and cottage among the Thousand Is
lands of the st. Lawrence, not far from
Alexandria.Bay
. Mrs. MARCUS MORTON, Massachu-
setts, widow of the Governor, and now
81 years Of age, is enjoying remarkable
mental and physical yigor, and insist,
when her sons visit her, on cooking a
dinner. sSs hsn a
The eldest son Of the Laird who
built the confederate steamer Alabama
is about to marry a young Welch lady
named Pritchard who lives at Llwy- :.
diarth Esgab, in Llanerchymed, North
Wales. fe2a Q
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has been
for the winters campaign by
studying new operas. She is forming
a company for q concert tour during
the month of September, when she will
introduce TO the public her protege,
Miss Emma Abbott. ss
SIR Walter Scott's wife expressed
herself with regard to her husbands
indiscriminate hospitality, by remark
ing that she saw no difference between
and large hotel, except
that at the former nobody paid.
D.-H. CRAIG, the inventor 81 tile new
system of photographic telegraphy, has
sold out his residence at Peezskill, and
to New York, where he viii
engage III the management OF the news /,
business in connection with his new
system.
Louis XIII, speaking to Bassomz
pierre, his ambassador to the court of :.
Spain, remarked: FsYou cannot inn
agine how laughed when / heard that
YOU entered Madrid on mule-iust to 4,
jackass on donley!n 8 Very
rue, sir, but you must rememberI rep
tesented you at that timet" har +.
s'CLAREHURsr y is the name of Clara
Louise Kellogg's country seat near Cold
Spring on the Hudson. The estate en-
braces twenty-five acres, half of it rum
ming up the side of mountain, at the
base of which the house stands. The
building is of Swiss architecture, and
from its piazzas and numerous balco-
nies commands a fine view of West Point
and various places of intesest on the
river.
Ii one of the moulds of the Miami
Valley, Ohio, a-patient antiquarian has
come upon evidence of buried civili-
cation, In the shape of the image of q
ram aboEt four inches long, of blue
stone. It bears petrife ripple, sug-
gestiye of a fleece, and is believed to
be The same little lamb which Mary had
on one occasion, when she was endeav-
oringte obtain the. rudiments Of her
The Emperor Alexander is the hero
of the following anecdote: He was
present at collection in Paris for one
Of the hospitals. The plate was held
out to hifn,by an extremely pretty girl,
rs he gave his louis dor he whispered,
g ILademoiselle, this is for your bright
eyes" The girl curtsied and present
ed the plate again. What" said
5he Emperor "more ?' eyes, sir" said
she, {" now want something for the
poor"
THE oldest tree on record, inEurope,
is asserted to be the cypress of Somma,
in Lombardy, Italy. This tree is be-
lieved to have been in existence at the
time of julius Caesar, forty-two years
before Christ, and is therefore 1,911
years old. It is 106 feet in height, and
twenty feet in circumference at one foot
from the ground. Napoleon, when lay
ing down his plan for the great road e
over the Simplon, diverged from a
line to avoid injuring this tree.
A RICHMOND letter tells this of Gov
ernor Wise: "On one occasion since
the war he seized a colored newsboy
on the street, gently laid him down on
the pavement, put his foot upon the
neck of the PROSTATE boy, and then
shouted Sac serapers tgronaisi But