Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-02-01

said to be waning. -
BosToN is to have 's Home for the
Poor, to cost 1928, 600.
Ten acres of land adjoining Denver
CITY, sold for SO, 900 last week.
The question of reviving the usury
laws is being agitated in South Caro-
lima
Rock ISLAND, ILL.,, expended 1926
900 for improvements last year.
THE cash revenue derived in Fort Scott
from the sale of coal is 5000 per day.
KENTUCKY is proposing to call con-
vention to revise its constitution.
THE leading paper in Aberdeen,
Scotland, is under the control of an
American.
THAT famous tunnel is little more
than half through the Hoosac mountain.
MASSACHUSETTS wants to raise 81, 500,
900 by taxation for State purposes this
year. a
A HEAVY tide of emigration is setting
in from Tennessee and Georgia to
Texas.
Property in Atchison county, Kan
sas. has increased 400 per cent. IN eight
years.
FIVE good men in Iowa City have sub
scribed 81, 600 each toward a new Epis
copal church.
In Chicago, man has been fined SO
for stealing baby from another man
ON the street.
The vanguard of a new colony from
Chicago has recently located near Par
kersville, Kansas.
The population of Wilmington, N.
c., has increased nearly six per cent.
since 1860.
IT is reported that the Germans have
captured Alencon.
The choir sang Come, ye disconso-
late y at recent wedding in Lafayette,
Ind. @ ts M e ,
THE Shawnee Indian lands in Kansas,
heretofore untaxable, will be placed on
the tax rolls next spring.
THE liberated Fenian prisoners are
to have rousing reception on their
arrival in New York next week.
A TIGER, said to have escaped from
menagerie, is roaming through Schuyl-
kill county, Pa.
The Board of Health of New Orleans
have ordered the vaccination of the
children attending the public schools.
Some of the Vermont families get rid
of bed bugs by putting cedar shavings
between the ticks.
A GERMAN poet declares that his
country possesses "as many songs as
bayonets rather large estimate.
CHAMPAGNE is going up in prlce, and
the fashion of serving wine at parties is
consequently going out.
AN Ohio female is in Jail for buyinga
bonnet with money collected for sol
diers' orphans.
The Oneida-C Community have receiv-
ed but one new member since 1857, and
declines all further applications for
membership.
The Cheyenne Leader states that the
carbon mines are still burning, and
that no efforts to extinguish the fire are
being made.
ALARMING systems of suffrage fever.
Little girl :: There, dolly, you must
lie still and sleep all day, cause I've dot
to do and vote
THE Greeley settlers thought they had
got out of their latitude when the mer-
curry got down to thirty-seven degrees
below Zero
A LARGE number of clerks and sales
men are said to have been thrown out
of employment in New York at the be-
ginning of the New Year.
In order to improve the food supply,
the New England papers are urging
better and more provident system OF
farming ali through the East
THE New Orleans Commercial says
that the introduction of Canadian labor
In Louisiana has begun, and creates
much interest among the planters.
A LARGE school-hou at Collinsville,
ILL.,, was totally destroyed by fire Sat
urday morning. It cost $4,000 three
years ago. Insured for SIS, 900.
GREAT is fashion. A New York city
" society paper announces the mar
riage of lawyer in that city, and says
the Young couple Will give q series OF
day receptions at their residence, but,
6 owing to the recent death of the
,groom's brother, no evening entertain
ment will be given. !"
+ WASHINGTON is to celebrate the lay
ing of new street pavement on Penn
sylvania Avenue, and also Washing
toms birthday, conformity, this year.
The ladies of Boston are about. to
hold French fair.
A NEW SCHEME is on foot in Memphis.
It is to terrace the middle bluff over
the levee and to excayate it into
mammoth warehouse for grain, pro-
| duce, etc. @
| A SILVER sHEKEL, said to- have once
lain in one of the vaults of King Solo
mons Temple, is on exhibition at Nor
wich, Conn. SEQ bA %
WHITE ties are en- reggie among young
gentlemen for all full dress occasions,
balls, parties, Germans, receptions and
dinners. ~
A FIVE or ten stamp quartz mill IS
being built near the Nevada Foundry,
Silver City, Nevada, for She reduction
| of ore from the Dayton mine,
A YOUNG colored man in Kansas,
! whose pedal extremities project from
the middle of his feet. skates as easily
backward as, forward, but II making
short turns he has an awkward habit OF
treading on his own heels, which causes
him to suddenly take seat on the
back of his head. szts;.e5 ses
|. A STURDY beggar who asked at cler-
gvman's house, in Meriden, Conn, for
coat, was given one that was slightly
threadbare and minus single button.
The applicant for charity passed ii
back, exclaiming with offended dignity,
MADAM, want a coat that 1 should
not be ashamed to wear IN daytime. ,
His would-be benefactress gazed al
him in amazement, and then retired tc
repair the garment for the use of hel
own husband. ~
J An engineer named Richardson, II
the employ of the Michigan Centra
Railroad, was Instantly killed, on Fri
: day, in the south part of Chicago
f Richardson's train was behind time OF
, reaching the point. By some blundel
t switch had been misplaced and the