Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-05-01
State N ews.

this winter. More thar one half TIE
bees in Outagamie county have died
on account of the prolonged season of
cold weather.
The Milwaukee Sentinel reports
the internal revenue receipts for the
month of March at SIT ,32I,70.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says girl
three years old, was scalded to death
in the fifth ward, last week, by spilling
a kettle Of hot tea on her breast.
The Fond du Lac Commonwealth
says twenty-three years ago there were
three distilleries in that county and no
breweries. Now there are many brew
cries and no distilleries.
There is fair prospect of Waupaca
county having two cheese fatories
within short time-one in the town
of Lind, and the other near Waupaca.
The Racine Journal hints at the
murder of Dane who has been mis-
sing ever since the occurrence of
street row in that city week ago last
Sunday night.
Between La Crosse and Brownsville
there are hundreds of cormorants-a
kind of bird nearly as large as a
goose, with neck and head like tur-
key.
Rev. Geo. Gibson, of Green Bay,
has accepted call from Plymouth,
and is now rector of the st. PauPs
parish in that town.
Sickness is prevailing in and around
Peshtigo and vicinity, to a consider
able extent. Many cases of cerebo
spinal meningitis, have occurred lately.
The Door county ADVOCATE reports
that throughout the burnt district the
falling of trees across the roads threat
ems to be serious annoyance. They
are almost all burnt out at the roots,
and every squall of wind will tip some
of them over.
Mark Twain's celebrated dumping
Frog of Calaveras" is eclipsed by
Wisconsin specimen of the geuus Rama,
which can turn double back somer-
| sault and catch brick in his teeth at
ten PAGES. But so far as the double
back somerssult feat is concerned,
FL. G. can beat either of them.
The Press says almost every nation
on the globe is represented by the
population in Polk county.
The smallpox is said to be raging to
a fearful extent in the town of Blu
chanan, Oatagamie County.
The Boscobel post Office was enter
ed by burglars, recently and the mail
matter thoroughly overhauled.
Wright & Hunt are building at
Green Bay a 100000 tannery, to
have 16S vats.
The Racine wire cloth factory has
proved success.
Winter wheat looks we'll throughout
the northern and northwestern portions
of the state.
After an absence of seven years,
Professor David Parsons, formerly
Superintendent of schools in Grant
county, and for several years Principal
of Tafton Collegiate Seminary, return
ed, and on the evening of April 8,
large number of his students gave him
brilliant reception at Lancaster.
The maple sugar season has been
the poorest ever known in Calumet
county.
The city of Milwaukee packed, last
gear ITO ,000,00 pounds of pork, near
Iy two pounds for every inhabitant of
| the United States.
The Racine chess club won the Sec
ond game with the Milwaukee club.
| The score is now even, each having
won game.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin reports
that 200 Norwegian immigrants arriv
ed by the Grand Haven steamer Tues
day enroute for the far west.
A hog was killed at Broadhead, re-
Gently, whose live weight was 1000
pounds, and dead weight 9lS.
The Green county Republican
learns that but little wheat will be
sown in that county, on account of
the lateness of the season and the an
ticpated ravages of the chinch bug.
The Northern Wisconsin Agricul-
tural Associatinn have resolved that
all gambling and games of chance of
whatever name, shall hereafter be en-
tirely excluded from their grounds.
The new chief of police of La Crosse
has arrested number of "female wo-
men" for keeping houses of i'll fame.
Several we're fined 500 each. The
Leader styles this as Chief Peck's
'smaiden effort"
A few days since the remains of
Daniel McGregor, conductor of the
Peshtigo Railroad, who lost his life in
the fire last October, were discovered
in the river. They were identified by
means of keys in his pocket.
There are 1888 school houses in
Wisconsin. Among the best are the
following Oshkosh, valued at SIS, 900;
James vile, at $50, 900 Milwaukee and
Beloit, each $4,000; Baraboo, 1884,
600; Sparta, $4,000 Berlin. $50
600; RaciLs, 500, 900; Geneva. S2O,-
900.
The iron beds Of Superior, just now,
are telling story for Green Bay and
Depere. To illustrate !: The two blast
furnaces at Depere consume sixty
thousand cords of wood per annum, at
a labor cost of two dollars and fifty
cents per cord thus you see, one hum
dred and fifty thousand dollars is year
ly paid out for this one small item
alone.
Rev. John Allison of the Olivet
Congregational Church, Milwaukee,