Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-05-31
Personal.

Snllllng callcO suit.
Gov. LESLIE, of Kentucky. was ;
wood-chopper in 1888.
Mrs. LAURA D. FAIR made $40, 900 out
of the man she shot.
Mrs. LYDIA SEXTON is Chaplain il
the Kansas State Prison
/ A NEW romance may be looked fo1
from the author of Kaloolah
i OFFENBAcH has written another opera
bouffe, called the Butterflies.
i Mrs. DEAN RICHMOND has just erect
ee $25, 900 monument to the memory
of her late husband
LUCILLE WESTERN retires to East
Lynne farm, Topsfeld, for the summer
after this month.
THE Nova Scotia giantess, the Ken
lucky giant, and the double-headed girl
have gone to Europe.
NILssoN's agent has gone to San
Francisco to arrange for her appear
ance there.
AT recent art sale in New York
Rosa Boneur's C Highland Sheep sold
for S., 500.
Miss Rye is preparing to bring out
another shipload of girls to this coun-
/ try.
CHILDREN under fifteen years of age
make up one-half the population of
Utah.
THE works of the Pittsburg Forge
and Iron Company occupy thirteen and
a half acres.
i VICTOR EMANUEL manages to get
along in Italy on So, 400, 600 year, or
81, 849 per day.
WILD BILL, once famous in maga-
zine literature, has just been appointed
Marshal of the town of Abeline, Kan
saS.
The death is announced of Prof.
Ruckert, of Jena, well known for his
/ labors in the exegesis of the New testa-
ment.
The fashionable physician of Cairo,
Egypt, is Thomas Monroe, who ran
away from his proprietor in Charleston,
S. c., twelve years ago.
MRS. BELLA BARRows, M. D., has
been appointed to a professorship in
the medical department of Howard
University
The rates of the Mutual Life of Chi
cago are as low as those of other good
companies, yet it gives its members the
advantages of western rates of interest
DAN MACE has given up the public
training of trotting horses and will
confine himself exclusively to training
and driving Lady Thorn for her en-
gagements this season.
GEN. d. FL. HILL, a prominent com
mander in the rebel army under Lee, is
now editing small weekly paper in
South Carolina, entitled the Southern
Home.
/ MINNIE HAUoK, who is the youngest
prima donna in the world, is a New
York girl, of German parentage, but
she looks Like Spanish senorita.
MISS KREBs, the distinguished plan
ist, is singer as well as player. She
sang recently in church in New York,
and is advertised to appear at the
Academy as vocalist on the 9th inst
! The Secretary of the Treasury has
ordered the payment of S243, 167 to the
state of Pennsylvania, being an install
ment of the war indemnity claim OF
that state on account of raising troops
for the war;
EUGENE WEBB, in Agricultural Park,
Sacramento, on Sunday, rode 100 miles
on horseback in four hours and thirty
four minutes. He agreed to perform
the feat in four hours and forty min
utes for purse of 81, ,000
AGNES LEWIS, the girl, 16 years old,
who has this year plowed one hundred
acres of land on her fathers rancho,
near Antioch, California, is cousin ot
Ida Lewis, the Grace Darling of New
England "Blood will tell. /"
Mr.. HENRY AsToR (the youngest son
of William B. Astor), man about 40
years of age, recently married Miss
Dynehart, whose parents reside near
Rhinebeck. Her father is in humble
circumstances, working a small farm
near Rhinebeck on shares.
J. Fl. H1GeINsoN, wealthy Brooklyn
publisher, was stricken with appoplexy
In an insurance office, on Tuesday, and
taken to the hospital, where he died,
surrounded by his family, who had
been summoned.
BARON GERoLT has taken passage on
the steamer of the 25th inst. He is In
receipt of letters from all parts of the
country from distinguished gentlemen
expressive of their regret on his leaving
the country, and of their hopes for a
safe voyage and continued good health.
Mrs. N. NJ. HENRY is a popular cler-
gywoman in Missouri, where she acts
as rector, does the singing for the con-
gregation, breaches three times week,
looks after the morals of the church
members, and takes care of SIX little
children.
BISMARCK and M. Ponyer-Quertier
arrived in Frankfort on Saturday, for
the purpose of obtaining ratifications
4 of the treaty of peace. All the pubic
buildings, and great number OF pr1-
vate residences are decorated III honor
of the occasion.
PAUL B. DU CHALLU, who is known
throughout the world for his discover
les and wonderful adventures in Equa-
torial Africa, particularly for his dis
covery of the gorilla and other animals
unknown before, is about to visit Lap
land. Sweden, and Norway and the
more northern parts of Europe, to
make other explorations.
IT has been discovered that the author
; of the ''Goody Two Shoes renowned
in the juvenile literature OF the last cen,
tury, was Mr. Giles Jones, resident
secretary of the York Building Water
Company, London, and not Oliver
Goldsmith, TO whom it had been gen
orally attributed.
IF A LIFE-RENEwINe FOUNTAIN, like
that sought for by De Soto, shoule
: burst from the earth at every mans
door, thousands would turn their backs
on the healing-springs within arms
reach, to run after pretended remedies
The observant, everywhere, accept DIR
WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs as the great
est medicinal blessing of modern times
but ou the other hand multitudes dos
themselves with poisons, while TIN
well-spring of health is accessible to all
It purifes the animal fluids, regulate
every function of the body, calms tn
| nerves, invigorates the vital organs, AM
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