Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-05-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK. ss{ ia III
Miscellaneous.

Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
He says he would not accept the place
if rendered to him. sEa :. = s,
Tis unoficially announced by several
Senators that the President will con
vene the Senate in executive session
about the 18th of May, by which time,
it is now supposed, the joint High
Commission will have concluded their
labors.
THE anticipated change in the man
agement of the Atlantic Monthly is au.
thentically announced James Tichnor
Fields retires from the editorship of
the magazine on the 1st of July, and
will be succeeded by W. S. Howells,
the present assistant editor.
THE General Republican Committee
of the District of Columbia have re-
commended the appointment of Freder-
lex Douglass as secretary of the new
government, if vacancy occurs by the
election of General Chapman as dele
gate to Congress.
Hon. JAMES AsHBURY, having been re-
elected Commodore of the Royal Har-
wich Yacht Club, announces a number
of prizes for general competition, in
Guiding the ocean cup, for which races,
he says, Americans are bound to send
their champion vessel, and not fleet.
A CURIOUS and imposing ceremony
took place in Lexington, KY, few
days since. During the funeral SER
vices of a lady of that city, her infant,
only a few weeks old, was brought to
the chancel of the church, and there,
In the presence of it's dead mother, was
solemnly dedicated in baptism to the
God whom she had served.
A CONVENTION of delegates from COL
lege boat clubs was held in Springfield,
Mass, on the 18th, and National
Rowing Association of American Col
leges was formed @. O. Luther, of !
Brown University, was chosen Presi.
dent; E. p Mitchell, of Bowdoin Col
lege, Secretary and A. B. Morney, of
Amhurst College, Treasurer. ma
tional college regatta will be rowed in
July.
SoDUs, N. Y, was visited by fire ON
the night of the 18th, which destroyed
property valued at $40, 600.
A FIRE in the factory of the patent
Elastic Belt Company, Brooklyn, caus
ed damages of $50, 600 or $4,000. se
THE saw-mill of Parker 4 Anderson,
in st. Louis, was burned. on the 18TH
Loss from $40, 900 to $12, 900; partially
insured fs:< Il
THE Female Seminary at North
Granville, N. Y, was entirely destroyed
by fire on the 14th Loss $50, O00Lin-
sured for $4,000. -. 81 qge
The roof of Orpheus Hall, In Cincin-
natl, was burned on the 18th. The re-
mainder of the building was not
much injured save by water. ss6
The coal works of Gray & HILL on
the line of the Little Saw-miI railroad,
near Pittsburg, were destroyed by fire
on the 17th. Loss about $5, ,000.z The
fire was the work of an incendiary.
Rev. JAMES BRADLEY, of Saginaw
City, Mich, fell dead in New York city
on the 18th. Sometime since Bradley
was appointed by the Methodists of his
own state as their missionary agent to
the Chippewa Indians. He was on his
way to Washington to have the ppoint-
ment confirmed >
A New YORK telegram of the 18th,
announces the partial destruction by
fire of building No. % Cliff street, oc
cupied in part by Perryman & Wright,
of cutlery. Damage, $780,
900; insured for $4,000. Geo. W.
Marry, silent partner of the firm, has
been arrested on suspicion of arson.
At Lafayette, Ind, on the 18th,
fire broke out in second story room of
a building occupied by Ruger & Rogers,
steam bakery and wholesale and retail :
confectioners, resulting in loss of
about $25, A fire also destroyed
building No. 81 Main street, occupied
as dry-goods store by D. H. Smith. !.
Loss on stock $4,000 insured for
$15, 900. s ~
Crimes and CasuaItIee. - zsaal
OLIVER VALIANT and Ernest Copp
we're killed in Chicago on the 18th by
falling from roofs of buildings. @
VIM CoRDMGLY, of Peoria, was
in the streets of Jacksonville,
ILL.,, on the night of the 17th, and fatally
injured. a ss9o1
The Memphis police on the 18th ar
rested Levi Harrington, alias John
Hastings, who killed Jones in Oregon
county, O., last October, and shortly
murdered man in Shelby
vile, Tenn, and few days since an
other in Jacksonport, Ark.
VIM. H. GRAY, of the firm of Gray &
Painter, merchants on the corner of
Seventh and Poplar streets, st. Louis,
got into an alteration with drayman
named John Tracy, at the Pacific Rail-
road depot, when the latter struck him
with an iron dray pin, crushing in the
back part of his head, and causing his
death in few hours. sA
AT Greencastle, Ind, on the 10Th, 1
young man named Durham Bowman, ,
son of President Bowman, Of the As
bury University, was shot in saloon
Bowman threw tumbler at a. man
upon which Frank drew a pistol, and
shot him twice in the abdomen. Bow
man has since died.
Foreign.
IT has been decided not to demoIsh
the column in the Place Vendome, but
to displace the statue on its apex.
The Tribune's special correspondents
at Paris telegraphs Saturday night:
&C A powerful barricade has been begun
in the Place VendOme. A 12-pounder
is already mounted. The barricadesin
the Rue C4stigloine have been strength
ened.n e
THE price of fresh meat has been
doubled in Paris, and preserved meat
is difficult to obtain. Ss<
A wELL-KNowN American banker has
offered to purchase the column in the
Place Vendome, and to transport it to
Central Park. -
LATE Paris advices show that Mac
Mahon remains on the defensive to
await the arrival from Germany of more
French soldiers on whom he can safely
depend. ,s.. .5F ID
No date has yet been fixed for the
triumphal entry of the German army
into Berlin, but it is generally believed
that the long looked for event will oc-
cur during the month of May or June
GEN. DoMgRoWSKI reports to the