Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-02-08
Personal Notes.

| Ii Is very rare GO DQu III 1uSDOu tu
one who has ever heard of Camoens
the greatest of Portuguese poets. Sucl
is fame.
OF Webster's Speller, more than 80,
600, 900 copies have been sold. The
present rate of production Is 1000, 00t
annually. DIR, Webster received ont
cent upon every copy.
A THIEF recently went through the
house of Governor Yarmouth, ofLouis
lana, and among other booty, captured
q portion of the Governors message tc
the Legislature, in consequence ol
which it was not delivered upon the as
sembling of that body.
MAYOR AaUILAR, of Los Angeles,
Cal, is Spen1ard, and does not speak
or write the English language He
sends his messages to the Common
Council in Spanish, and has them read
by an interpreter.
MINISTER BANCROFT, at Berlin, has
written to gentleman in Pittsburg,
Pa, that the delay in the completion
of the bust of Humboldt, ordered for
the public park in that city, has been
caused by accidents, which had twice
occurred, in attempts to make the
bronze casting.
LYON COUNTY, Iowa, had not single
white inhabitant until the summer of
1867, when Daniel McLaren, a hunter
and trapper, settled on the Sioux river.
Now the county bids fair to become
one of the most populous in the north
western portion of the State.
DIR. LANCASTER, a London magistrate,
has given notice that, in case any per-
son shall come by his death through
slipping on pavement from which the
snow has not been removed, he will
direct the jury to return verdict of
granddaughter against the person
through whose neglect the accident
may have happened.
DEWEY, the man who was hung up
for while last fall by vigilance COM
mittee at Charlton, Iowa, has been
prosecuting his hangers, and finally has
succeeded in obtaining Judgment for
$3, 600 damages against three of them.
AN affecting illustration of dogs
devotion to kind master was given in
the case of DIR. Roberts, who was shot
and killed at Bedford, Virginia, last
week. After he had been laid out his
little pet jumped upon his dead body,
fondled his face, whined and moaned,
and would not permit anyone to touch
his body.
THE executors of the British million
aire, George Baird, of Stitchell, report
the value of his movable estate in
England and Scotland at 81, 592, OCC
Ee owned beside landed estates and
funds, amounting to large sum, in
this country. He left $4,000 per an.
mum to his wife, in addition to her
iointure, 80 long as she remains un-
married. The value of the stamp on
5he inventory of his estate was $4,000
Our western exchanges are filled with
accounts of the detention Of trains on
he Union and Kansas Pacific r. r. by
NOW. Trains from Denver were ten
lays in reaching st. Louis.
UNDER new law in London, the pen
.lty of 95 can be enforced against any
person keeping dog for single day
Ifter the LIST of January without IL
ense. The licenses expire on the 31st
# December
THE Maine House of Representatives
s composed of 151 members. There
re 40 farmers, 20 lawyers, % merchants,
doctors, 2 clergymen, and one editor.
politically the house is divided as fol
ows Republicans, 112; Democrats,
8; Independent 1.
CALIFORNIA papers complain of a
lanifest increase in the number of
hooting affrays throughout the state,
nd one of them ascribes it TO the re-
cal of the law prohibiting the carry
1g of concealed weapons.
The Chinese begin another cycle of
thousand years in their calendar,
arly in February, and those of the race
4 California will devote two weeks to
estivity in celebration of the passage
.om the cid cycle to the new.
A MrsER worth S2O,000 died at Knox
llle, ILL.,, recently from unintentional
He drew bank check of
500 instead of IS, to present to
ephew, and when he found what he
ad done, he cried, "I am ruined
lan," and died from the effects of the
nock
In any business never wade into wa
n where you cannot see the bottom.
ut no dependence upon the label of
bag, and count money before you
eceipt for it. See the sack opened be-
pre- you buy what is IL It, for he
tho trades in the dark asks to be
heated.
THE San Francisco people are tired
supporting self-elected vagrants in
idleness, and are making
forts to have such gentry sentenced to
abor on public works. There are
lany idle persons in that region who
hoose to winter in Jail as vagrants in
reference to doing any kind of honest
tbor