Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-03-01
State u ews.

ton at Madison.
Mrs. Van Colt is now preaching at
the revival meetings a. Oshkosh
A business block in Sparta wa
burned last Tuesday night. Loss about
$4,000.
Monroe has turned out eight sheep
weighing 1,400 pounds. Who can
beat it?
Door county exported 5 100000 ever
green's last year.
The Legislature celebrated Wash
ington's birthday.
In 1870, Brown county made 1858
barrels of beer, valued at $35, ST..
One ice house in La Crosse has
slowed away 5000 tons of GOODNESS
Old settlers sRe-unions are being
held in different portions of the state.
Hooley's Opera House in Madison,
was opened last week.
Over 100000 pounds of pork
have been shipped from Bescobel this
season.
The Amateur Dramatic Club of Ber-
lin, have made decided hit in Uncle
Toms Cabin.
It is said that the st. Paul Railway
company is to extend its line from Ber-
lin to Waupaca instead of Stevens
Point.
The La Crosse Republican reports
several cases OF scarlet fever in La
Crosse, and a number of children have
died with that disease during the past
winter.
Mr.. Meyer, the greatest manufacturer
in the northern part of this State,
worked for $3.50 a month twenty-five
years ago, on a farm near Syracuse,
New York where he had to work
twelve and fifteen hours a day.
Prof Allen, late principal of the
State Normal School at Platteville,
who has been spending the fall and
winter on the Pacific slope for his
health, will soon return to Wisconsin
A dispatch says James Sinclair, of
Chippewa Falls. jumped out of the
second story of boarding house there
on Tuesday.evening, and, striking upon
his head, was killed instantly. He
was in delirium, caused by drink.
I've learn from an Appleton Pos
extra, that John Hesse, a german, wbo
has resided in.Neenah tor sixteen years
and who escaped from Jail at Oshkosh
on Friday last, murdered his wife on
Saturday night and then killed him
self.
Over fifty thousand railroad ties
have been delivered and paid for il
Mauston within the last three or foul
weeks. The prices paid for them have
averaged thirty cents each, making the
amount paid for them not less thar
SIS, 900.
There is great activity in the log
ging camps of the Upper Wolf. The
lack of snow in the ear. y part of The
season was not without its advantage:
for, when sleighing did come, every
thing was prepared for it, and the Logs
are now pouring down into the lakes
and rivers with unprecedented speed.
At the recent meeting Of the Wis
consin Academy Of Science, Art ano
letters three new departments were or
ganized, that of letters with DR.. A. L
Chaplin, president ; arts, With Nelson
Dewey, president I; and social science,
with Bishop Arulitage, president.
The average wheat crop of Wiscon
SIN last year was thirteen bushels tt
the acre, and the average price PEI
bushel not far from ninety cents
Thus, from each acre sown to whea
the farmer realized the sum of S1l.70
The corn crop averaged thirty -eigh
bushels to the acre, and was sold fo
fifty-two cents per bushel, an average
in dollars per acre of sl9.76.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette published
notice Of the death, at Cresco, Iowa, o
a son of Mr. NJ. NJ. Moon, formerly o
GAINESVILLE. The cause of his deatl
was a cancer Oh his face, which hac
previously involved the loss of one eye
and portion of one side Of the face
The cancer was produced by a blow
from hard ball, such as is used il
playing the game of base ball in which
our professionals delight. The disease
bafled the skill of the best physicians
of the country, who had repeatedly
operated on the cancer.
A dispatch from GAINESVILLE reports
that serious shooting affair occurred on
Monday evening Feb. 20 at the house Of
Mordecai Kelly, about four miles west
of Monroe. A couple were married al
Kelly's house on that evening, and af
ter they had retired party Of young
sters, mostly relatives of the bS.de
assembled to ChariUort them. Mr.