Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-01-11
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murderer of Mr. Nathan has been dis
, covered.
Women.
AN obscure Alabama paper wants to
. know if Susan B. Anthony is the wife OF
Mark Anthony.
THE Chinese in California recently
burned one of their women caught steal
ing.
THIRTY-THREE bachelors of Storm
Lake, Iowa, have formed cooperative
union with matrimonial Intentions
In Jasper county, Ind, an ancient
matron of IS desires to be released from
her husband aged 78 years.
DIAMONDS in the London market have
fallen in value thirty per cent, owing
to the great quantity offered by refugees
from France.
! CINCINNATI brings forward woman
who raises four feet of hair on her head
every three years, She has gathered
forty eight feet of the article since she
came into the market.
AN Ohio widow was requested by the
aristocratic relatives of the deceased to
give a false name when she went out
washing, so as not to disgrace the fam
lily. Such thoughtfulness is, touching
A LADY was urged by her friends to
marry widower, and as an argument
they spoke of his two beautiful chill
dren. Children" replied the lady,"
are like toothpicks-a person wants her
own"
SPEAKING offemale lecturers, the New
York Globe calls Kate Field the {. Rose
of the Rostrum - Olive Logan the
Chilly of the Lyceum ;" and Lillian
Edgerton the ''Pearl of the Platform. y
WOMEN writer's have multiplied in
Russia during the last five years in a
ratio equalled by no other country, and
there are now 800 in the realm, whom
Prince Galitzin thinks worthy place
in the second edition of his EEList of
Russian Authoressess.
THE eastern press is earnestly prot
estint against the draggle-ta1 idiocy
which is becoming too apparent on the
promenades. Berlin is charged with
the crime of reintroducing the trailing
skirt, with it's inevitable denominations,
and some fashionable American imbe-
Giles have been in haste to adopt it,
AT Efingham, Illinois, on the 18th of
November, Judge Dean licensed to
practice in his court Mrs Ada Ell. Kep-
ley, who graduated at the Chicago law
school last winter In making the Or
der in favor of Mrs. Kepley, the learn
ed judge said that he did it because
& he thought it was proper and in ac-
cord with the spirit of the age"
WEDDING presents are coming to be
counted as capital upon which the bu-
siness of married life is to be carried on
Not long since, at the wedding of a
daughter of ex-Collector Smythe, in
New York city, the presents were es-
timated to represent $50, 1000. More re-
Gently another wedding among the cou-
poned fortunates took place, at which
the presents were valued at 5000, 900.
A MAN was married; he lost his wife,
and had a stone erected over her grave
He married second wife, and when
she died he had the gravestone split,
and it thus served for the two depart
ed. He proposed to the third, and the
lady quantity remarked; "I do not
believe the stone will split again p"
DowNHAM HALL, Norfolk, England
the residence of the Duchess Dowager,
of Cleveland, was lately sold at auc-
tion. The estste comprises about 5, 200
acres, with excellent residence The
bidding commenced at e40, 900, and was
rapidly advanced, till after most spi-
rited competition the estate was sold to
Mr.. Edward Mackenzie, of Henley-on-
Thames, for the sum of e81, 800,
A DEPUTATIoN of Paris fsh-wives re-
) Gently waited on M. Rochefort. They
did not, however, as is their custom,
ask to kiss him. In 104S, when the
danes de la Hafle desired to salute La
MARITIME, "Mes amies," said the poor
poet, cit is women only who kiss, but
you are man by your patriotism !; like
men [ shall treat you've shall shak
hands. "
A PAIR of unsophisticated twin sisters
in st. Joseph, Mo-, played game OF
old sledge &C for the hand of neigh
boring farmer the other day. At cri-
; tical point in the proceeding one of the
artless young creatures ''turned up Jack
from his hiding place in her sleeve, won
: the stakes, and married him in week.
The loser cherishes prejudice against
"keerds" and all other tricks that are
vain now, and has set her cap for a Sab
bath-school exhorter of the vicinage.
A PROVIDENCE girl of sixteen, who re
Gently graduated with the highest hon
: ors from the high school, immediately
went into factory and earned there
: $100. On Monday she started alone,
armed with only her small fund, fiat
tering testimonial from the Superin-
, tendent of Schools and her determined
, spirit, for Oberlin, Ohio, to enter Ober-
lin College, where she can complete hel
education in full collegiate course.
The eastward bound night express
train on the Missouri and Pacific Rail
road ran off the track Thursday, at Ru.
ger Station, seventy five miles west Of
st. Louis. and completely wrecked the
express and baggage car. VIM. Helm,
of Atchison, Kansas, express messen
ger, was seriously and the baggage
master slightly hurt. The accident was
caused by the sinking of the sill OF
which the switch rests, and although
the indicator properly placed the
switch, the rail did not connect with
Gn0 rail- on Uno nnaln Gfack, anu There
was about fifteen inches fange. One
of the locomotive wheels was torn of
the engine, and ran seme three hun
dred yards over the frozen
ground. The express car ran into a
, freight train on side track, badly in
juring its engine and leaving hardly q
vestige of itself, while the baggage cal
was hurled down an embankment. But
for the breaking of the couplings ter
rible loss of life would have resulted,
as the train was running at high rate
of speed and had some 200 passengers
on board. Damage to the train, $40,
900 to 100000.
THE reason of the strange disappear
ance of Samuel Houston, il the early
part of his life, when he left lovely
| bride and the pOyernOrshiD Of TenneS-