Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-24
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dry. and blacksmith shop of the Van
Brunt Seeder Works, at Horizon, was
consumed by fire. The loss was severe
The Second Annual Reunion of the
First Wis Init. Vol.-three months
and three years organizations, will take
place Madison, Thursday, February
22nd, 1872.
Rev W A. Chamberln, of B ards
town, ILL.,, took charge of. the First
Congregational Church of Oshkosh
some time since, and was duly install
ed as pastor on Sunday last
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says I'VE
understand that several of our medical
men intend innocuating cow for the
purpose of obtaining the pure virus for
vaccination against small pox."
Because there is no one at Menasha
to take good pictures, the Press says
that no better locality can be found III
the state for the opening of first class
daguerrean gallery.
The Beloit Free Press says pickerel
was brought into that city last Friday
that weighed 81 pounds which was
speared through the ice on Sugar river.
The Green Bay Gazette states thai
a great deal of sickness prevails in that
city. There is no particular disease
prevailing, but maladies of all kinds
are havinga fall swing. Three new
engines have arrived for the Green Bay
and Lake Pepin Railroad.
General Capron, now in the service
the japanese Government, has entered
into negotiations with several extensive
farmers in Waukesha county for sup
ply of seed grains. An installment of
corn, oats and wheat have already gone
forward
TheGovernor pardoned out of the:.State
Prison, Dec. 9th, 1871, Patrick and
Humphrey Moynihan who were senten-
ced to three years. Imprisonment for
manslaughter, at the May term of the
Pierce county Circuit Court.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette reports the
capture of a large gray eagle, measur
ing seven and one half feet from tip to
tip. 1t was captured near Albany by
Albert Holmes.
A Father Matthew Temperance So
ciety has been started in Madison.
S. s. Roswell & Co., of Beaver Dam
were again victorious in the e. s. Dis
friet Court, in the suit as to the right
of patent of the celebrated slip tooth
and that all similar seeders manutac-
tured by other parties are an infringe
nent cf their right
The case of Schnidt, the Berlin wife
beaten, was brought up on Friday morn
ing His counsel asked for change
of venue to Winnebago county, which
was granted. He will be tried in
April, and till that time will lie In Jail
A Post Office has recently been es-
tablished at Ashland, Ashland county.
This town is about thirty miles south
west of Bayfield,, at the foot of Che
quamegon Bay, and at the mouth of
Fish River This Is to be the terminus
of the Central Wisconsin Railroad.
The mail brings news of a fiendish
outrage, near Poysippi, Winnebago
county, on the 9TH. A little girl ten
years old. daughter of Mr.. Hanson,
while returning from a neighbours was
overtaken by young man, eigh-
teen years old, thrown down upon the
snow and brutality ravished. re threat
ened her with death if she screamed
The brute has been arrested
The Madison Journal of the 18th says:
There was a very large attendance,
closely filing the Presbyterian Church,
last evening, at union missionary meet
ing, the particular occasion of which
was. the approaching departure this eve
ming, Of Mrs. Julia Carrothers, daughter
of Rev. j. V. Dodge, of this city, to rec
join her husband in their field Of mis-
sionary labor at Yeddo, Japan, where
she spent nearly two years.
A grand celebration took place at
Green Bay on the 18th inst in the
honor of the opening of the Green Bay
& Lake Pepin Railroad, and the Chica-
90 and Northwestern extension. Ex-
cursion trains over these roads brought
in about 700 invited guests from the
towns along the roads. Chicago. NJ l.
waukee. Madison, and other cities were
also represented. After being shown
about town by the Reception Commit
tee of Green Bay and Fort Howard,
they sat down to an elegant supper,
spread in Klaus Hall, which was ele-
gantly decorated with flags and en-
blems. About 600 sat down to the
feast.
The Milwaukee Sentinel SAYS: it
. not often that the service of in.