Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-04
General Items.

ing an opera house for st. Joseph.
JOURNALS are being started III Paris
at the rate of seven month.
THE Windsor Castle, 1850 tons reg
lister, recently passed through the Suez
Canal in nineteen hours. lasa goF.
4 A PUMPKIN followed out was used as
o ballot box vt recent Kansas cleo
ton. sawed
The San Francisco Bulletin calls
Chinese servants {" a. crowning domes-
tic disappointment. -
"TEMPUs FUGIT" in England this
year. Her clock export amounts to
about 5000, 900 more than last season. :,
THE lions and tigers in the New York
Central Park collection have had the
horse disease, though the zebras and
Shetland ponies escaped. q
A WOMAN in Rutherfordton, Il. c.,
has been fined by the Mayor of that
city, for the dreadful offence of calling
the marshal 'Old pewter buttons"
AT recent wedding in Muskegon,
Mich, the bride was adorned with dia-
monds to the amount of $50, 900. The
groom sported two solitaires on his
shirt front valued at $4,000 each.
THE Alaska Seal Company has paid
into the United States Treasury So, ,281
as their tax on the catch of 1872 They
are limited to 100, 900 seals, and the
catch this year was within 1000 of tie
maximum.
! In digging well in Pike county, ON
| Saturday last, some parties exhumed a
large pair of elk horns at the depth of
| 30 feet from the surface, which were
apparently in good state of preser"a-
tion.
AS TWO women in Philadelphia were
returning from the spectacle of General
Meade's obsequies, they were attacked
by a rufffan; whereupon .one of them
knocked him down with an umbrella.
TIE Lake Superior Powder Company,
located at Marquette, Michigan, have
made nearly Is, 900 kegs of powder dur s
ing the last five months. They are
about to close their mill for the winter
IRON ore in considerable quantities
has been discovered in Tuscola county,
Michigan. This county is situated on
the Lower Peninsula, the northern
boundary of the county lying on Sagi-
nav Bay.
THE Chicago Times puts the solemn
conundrum Chow can we escape
fire 2" The Gospel offers you every
encouragement, butperhaps your best
hold y is to get out of Chicago.
York Commercial AdUertiser.
THE old Livinston House in Pough-
keepsie, n. z, is being demolished,
preparatory to the erection of the
buildings of the Hudson River Iron
Company of that city. The house is
one of the Oldest in the state, having
been erected in the eighteenth century
ssTHE Star of South Africa" I" the first
and only fine stone of any size which
has been sent home from the South
African mines, has been set as the CEN
tral stone in coronet for the Countess
of, Dudley. Its present weight is fortv-
six and half carats, and it is of the
purest water and brilliancy. i' y 4'
| AN Irishman passing through vii
lage near Chester, Pa, saw crowd ap-
preaching, which made him inquire
what was the matter. He was answer
ed: ga man is going to be buried. "
'Oh," replied he, 'tI'll stop to see
that. for we carry them i'll the old coun-
try" gu .eae3 asa efsi@ z
! A YOUTHFUL novice in smoking turned
deadly pale and threw his cigar away.
ooh, dear" he said, " there's
som'in' in that cigar that's maxim me
sick" #
"I know what it is" said his COM
panion, pulling away.
| "What 2" s afFF5i
"Tobaeker.o
BALTIMORE is in trouble about her
scanty supply of water, and the author
tiles now have under consideration a
plan by which a permanent water sup
! ply can be secured at cost of So, 5OO,-
900, and two plans for TEMPORARY sup
plies until the completion of the per-
manent work, at the respective costs of
$7O0, 900 and $3SO,O00.
| The East Greenwich Or. L. Semi
nary, once prosperous institution un-
der the patronage OF the Providence
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, is said to be in deep water
Not only has the typhoid fever scatter
ed it's inmates but, according to New
port paper, it lies under so heavy load
of debt that it's reopening is very doubt
full
A MULLAro girl in attempting to cross
the track of the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad, recently, was struck by
4 the cow-catcher and thrown back upon
the pilot. She was found to be un-
hurt, and remained there quietly en-
joying the ride until the next station
was reached, when she jumped OF and
exclaimed: Dis is just de place |
wanted to come to-"
THERE are $4,000 square miles OF
} coal fields in which Pittsburg is inter-
ested, and SIS, 900, 900 of Pittsburg
capita1 is invested therein. Probably
S25. OOO. 900 more is invested IN tran.
: snortation. and the total of all interests
i d4nendent upon these coal fields cannot
fall short of the enormous sum OF 81,
900, 900, 0OO.
No EXPLANATION is yet received of
the causes of the reported failure of
Rowles Bros, of Paris and London,
: the announcement of which has been
l received IN this country with consider,
1 able surprise and no little regret. If
r the house should finally be obliged to
: close up, American tourists will feel
} that an important and familiar land.
, mark has been swept away.
The following is said to be an au-
thentic copy of a circular issued by d
commercial firm In Bombay: ssGentle-.
men, we have the pleasure to inform.
you our respected father departed this
life on the = inst. His business will
be continued by his beloved sons,
whose names are stated below. The
opium market is quiet, and Malwad
, 500 rs. per chest. "Oh, grave where
is thy sting Oh, death where is thy
grave3 We are yours truly, ---,''