Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-17
General Items.

General Items.
ALL western trains, except George
Francis, are stopped by the weather.
MORE than two thirds of the con-
victs In the Tennessee penitentiary are
negroes.
YORK, England, is to have the larg-
est railway station in that kingdom, it's
cost being $1,00O,00
The new steamboat act before Con-
gross abolishes low water gauges and
lock safety valves.
THERE are said to be more handsome
women in Brooklyn than in any other
city of It's size in the Union.
! Two sons of Robert Jones, aged re-
spectively ten and fourteen years, were
frozen to death near Virginia City,
New, on Thursday.
YANKEE sharpness is satisfied. The
| Boston Traveller announces that the
! dinner given to Alexis cost $35 a plate,
and that given by Alexis $50 a plate
A clear gain of SIS in favor Of Boston
EDWARD CoUGHERTY of Albany was
killed, and John Little and David DIES
Morier were severely injured by the
fall of scaffold at the Globe Wooden
Mills, in Utica, on Tuesday
In future no white horses are to be
employed in the French army. they
having been found such an excellent
guide to the Prussians there to direct
their fire. A blow to the French Wou-
vermens.
Two young ladies recently walked
into hotel III Jacksonville, Florida.
armed with cowhides and administered
an unmerciful castigation to young
man who had wronged them in some
way.
A DEED was recently prepared by a
law firm in Illinois, which was thirty
feet long. It transferred two thousand
pieces of land in Iowa, all owned by
one man.
The newest style of mirrors are
framed with wide frames of FURNISHED
steel, and the chandeliers are to match
of glass and steel, with glass pendants.
By gaslight the effect is perfectly daz-
zling, and many Of the new houses be-
ing furnished up town have adopted
this style.
BELLS have been known and used in
China for 1000 years, but the Celes-
trials have not during all the time,
shown any appreciation of American
manufacture. The first installment
from this country was recent ship
n1ent of three large sized bells to
Shanghai by a Troy On. V firm.
AT Aurora, H., on Thursday, Mr..
Martin B. Miller, an old citizen of that
place, had his left arm crushed between
two immense rollers in the silver plating
factory. The arm was amputated near
the elbow. Thursday afternoon, at the
same place, J. T. Curtis, one of the
proprietors of the City Mill, had his
coat caught III the gearing and stripped
from his back, tearing the flesh from
his side in frightful manner
SOME few silks have been imported
with large chiniz patterns on a white
OF buff ground. Though very elegant
for ball costumes, they are not always
becoming. We hear on the best au-
thoritv that the muslins, percales and
lawns for this year are all to be of this
style of pattern, and viii, no doubt,
''take well'' among a certain set
The arrival of quantity of arms
provided with the angular bayonet
at the arsenal in Galveston, leads the
News to remark quantity that eli we
are to be free people, perhaps it
would be well for our physicians to
study the character of its puncture,
and the best means of stopping the
three-cornered hole that it Makes
A CLEVER thief was captured in Col
umbus, Georgia, recently On being
carried to the station-house the officers
went through him and found the stolen
money on his person. 1t was laid on a
bench while he put on his clothes. He
stole the money again while several off,
GERS were around, and destroyed it
how, no one knows
a CoLoRED man at Canton, Miss.
lately wished to kill a sheep, but not
understanding the process to nicely,
held the animal upon the railroad track
for the locomotive to slaughter. The
sheep escaped with broken leg, but
the dead body that was picked up i'm
mediately after had on black wool and
wasn't good mutton either.
The sentence of Jim Coppedge, the
last OF the gang who murdered Redfern,
dt w 11ul1uStOu. IN. VI, was recently
committed from hanging to imprison-
ment for life, after the scaffold was
erected for his execution. He is only
sixteen years of age, and, as the intelli-
gence was brought to him, he said, "I
had just as soon be hanged as to stay
that long time in the penitentiary
W1rH the burning of the Dardmstadt
theatre has disappeared the great
mechanical ship invented by Herr
Brandt, and used with such immsnse
success three years ago at Geneo IN the
" Africaino," The vessel, mounted by
more than two hundred performers,
was SO constructed that it was made to
roll and toss, manmuvred by a simple
screw, worked by single man below
the stage.
"GREEN CORN T" sounds curious at
this season, but here is what the Palat-
ka (Florida) Herald says: s'The
steamer Ocklawahu arrived here on
Monday, the 18th inst, from Salt Lake.
She brought nine passengers. What
is noteworthy for the season, she had
for market one thousand ears of green
corn from Turkey Greek, Indian river.
This steamer made the trip from Salt
Lake to this place in twenty-four
hours.