Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-08-16
General Items.

OsCEoLA COUNTY, Iowa, is said to, be
entirely destitute of trees.
CohoRED brides in Cairo go blushing
to the altar in mosquito bar wells.
The draft riot of 1868 cost New York
81, 848,00O.
" COUGHING Hoss " is the Indian
name for locomotive
SINGLE house lots sell at Newport
for $50, 000 and $4O,0 each.
A g CURLING R1NK'' is talked of by
the ha1r dressers of Boston.
POLITICAL BlGoTRY-entertain your
own opinion.
A LEBANON, Tenn, man drinks two
dozen bottles of ale daily.
CALAIS, Maine, expects to export
800, 900, 900 feet of lumber this wear.
The colored vote of South Carolina
Is estimated at about 2, 800
No wonder all lawyers are so much
alike. They pass their lives IN ''fol,
lowing suit. -
AN Ohio Judge has decided that the
words common scold are not action
able
A BED of green-mottled granite has
been discovered in the Adirondac re-
gion of New York.
BARON RoTHsCHILD, OF london, has
presented his jockey, Tom French, who
won the late Derby races for him, the
sum of Fl, 900, and besides allow him
an annuity of e., 90.
LORD Butte, already one of the rich
est men i'll the world, is shortly to mar
ry Miss Tox-a niece Of Lady Holland
"a Catholic lady Of rare beauty and
accomplishments, and of wealth that
is described as princely.
Rev. PETER CARTWRIGHT, the veteran
pioneer preacher, is confined to his
room at Pleasant Plains, near Spring
field, Ill His health is rapidly falling.
and it is feared he cannot live many
months.
A SOMEWHAT remarkable work has Just
appeared i'll Constantinople, in the form
of Photographic reproduction of very
beautiful Koran, copied in the year
1894 of the Hegira, by q celebrated
Mussulman, Hatiz Osman, from the
manuscript Of one Of the lights Of the
ecclesiastical lore OF Islam Alb Al Kari.
The Paris Figaro has propounded a
novel and interesting theory concerning
the war. 1t claims that, nOtwithstand-
ing appearances, France was really the
victor. The Emperor went to war TIC
prevent Hohenzollern Prince from
sitting on the throne of Spain, and il
point of fact, France achieved the task
thus set before 1t.
CHOLERA is showing itself badly in
many countries at present. 1t has
been severe in st. Petersburg, is now
raging in Moscow, and extending south
ward; at Teheran, in Persia, it is car
rying off ninety lives q day, and it il
reported to have broken out virulently
in Madagascar and at the French col
ony of Morse.
THREE dead men are walking abou
the streets of London. That is, there
are three men there whose names ap
pear on the list of leaders OF the Paris
/ ian Commune who were shot by the
Versaillists, and whose dead bodies
were duly identified after their execu
ton.
JAMES STEVENS, the Fenian leader
has been taken into partnership by
Monsieur Carvallo, of Bordeaux, on,
of the most extensive wine merchant
of France, and hereafter business vii
be conducted under the firm name o
Carvallo & Stevens. The latter is com
ing to New York to establish a brancl
there.
CoNsTANTIxoPLE is to be connected
with the opposite Asiatic coast by
railroad tunnel, consisting OF sheet
iron double tubes, under the water o
the Bosphorus The tunnel is to be
come about 200 feet long, 10 feet il
diameter, IN the clear, and to be placed
36 feet below the level of the water, il
order not to obstruct navigation.
A LOWELL man, who had taken out {
marriage certificate one day last week
was so disconsolate at finding the bride
to be dead drunk when he called at he
house, that he at once proposed tx
another woman, ten years younger, wa.
accepted, got a new certificate and was
married, all on the same day