Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-05-17

Two and q half miles of sidewalk
are to be laid down in La Crosse this
season.
A bear. Weighing one hundred and
seventy pounds was recently killed near
Muscoda.
A pig weighing e52 pounds was
slaughtered in Z ortonia, Outagamie
county, last week.
The Prairie du Chen Courier re-
ports that five cases of smallpox have
occurred near Prairie du Chen, lately.
Large numbers of immigrants from
Belgium are arriving at Green Bay, to
settle in Brown county.
1t is said that not less than LOGO
school houses viii be erected in Wis
consin the present season, including
many frat-class structures.
A young man ia Oshkosh threatens
to sue his barber for cutting off his
moustache. The barber puts in the
plea that he didn't see it.
The Newhall House in Milwaukee
has changed hands, Mr. s. n Small
having become proprietor, and Messrs.
Groonu1un & jackson the uIauageIs
thereof.
The Mineral Point Democrat says
winter wheat never looked better, and
the weather thus far has proved highly
favorable to spring wheat. In all pro-
liability there will be more wheat this
year than ever before.
Mr.. WEIGH has handed the editor of
the Madison Journal several stalks Of
rye taken from a thrifty field near that
city, which measured two feet ten
inches in height.
Advices from the northwestern por-
ton of the state report heavy frost
Tuesday night, which, it is feared has
injured the blossoms Of the plum and
cherry trees.
In Racine, the other day, a love
lorn youth attempted to assassinate
young lady who had rejected his suit.
He succeeded onl y in inficting Sc
we're cut across the back of enc Of her
hands.
Bayview, near Milwaukee. is sur.
rounded by smoke, pig iron, iron ore,
10000 tons of coal. $50 hard work.
ing men, and an invested capital OF
three and a half million dollars. The
amount paid for labor at the iron works
monthly is s38 900.
The Coroner's jury in the Ulrich
poisoning case, at Milwaukee, has fl
nally rendered verdict that Ulrich
came to his death by poison admins
tered by John Schroeder, Sophia
Schroeder being accessory.
The Fox and Wisconsin river in :
provement has ovsrfowed valuable
lands along the Eek river. between
Packwaukee and Portage, and meet
ing Of citizens interested has been
called to apply to the government for
redress.
Judge Spooner. Assistant Attorney
General, has gone to St. Paul, on be-
half of Wisconsin, to assist United
States Attorney Davis in prosecuting
the application for an INDUCTION against
tie completion of canal across Min
nesota Point to form a new mouth for
the ST Louis river.
There never was a more profitable
season for log-driying in Wisconsin
than the present has been. The water
has been just high enough to give the
log product an easy transit to market,
without allowing any to drift upon the
low lands.
The FOOD County Exporter says:
Farmers are complaining bitterly of
the damage being done by the millions
of pigeons which have made head
quarters at or near Friendship, and
make maraudiog expeditions every
morning with tie regularity and GER
tainty of Sherman hummer. Fields
of wheat are being completely spoiled,
and all grain sowed is as good as lost to
the husbandman.
Railroad enterprises are now quite
numerous in the northern part of the
state. The Green Bay and Lake Pep
in railroad and the Doty Island and
stevens Point (Wisconsin Central)
railroad, are already in process of
rapid construction. Besides these, the
Sheboygan and Fond du Lac railroad