Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-04-17
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Fifteen wagon loads Of native tobac-
co were shipped from GAINESVILLE to
New York last Saturday.
Milwaukee, by over 5000 majority
has voted aid to the Monroe and Dn-
buque Railroad.
The grading of the Green Bay and
Lake Pepin Railroad. between New
London and Northport, is completed
and ready for the iron.
Trains are now running between
Manitowoc and Dundas, on the Mill
tary Road, connecting at Dundas with
line of stages to Appleton.
Arrangements have been made to
give the burnt district full supply of
seeds, with tools to put them in with
At Appleton 500 buildings will go
up this season.
For the first time in % years, it is
impossible to get drink of liquor at
WinnecoRne.
On Saturday morning lost, the ex-
tensive brewery of Hauser &c Beckhand
at Taycheedah, was almost totally de
stroyed by fre-loss Ia, 900.
Near Fall River, last week, little
girl named Turhe died in giving birth
to child.
A colored man named William FL
Brown, was run over by freight train
at Milton junction, on Saturday last
but will survive his injuries.
Fl. S. Shintz, farmer near Edgar
tor, preserves grapes over winter as
fresh and well favored as when first
taken from the vines, by merely bury
ing them in the ground deep enough
to protect them from the frost
There are 81 church edifces in Fond
du Lac county.
Patrick Kenney, bridge watchman
on the Northwestern Railway, was run
over and had both legs cut off by a
switch engine, at GAINESVILLE, on We'd
nesday evening. He cannot recover.
The officials in charge of the Eau
Claire land office, after searching in
vestigation, have been cleared of the
accusation of illegalities preferred
against them some time ago.
The Reedsburg Free Press has been
revived by Mr.. N. V. Chandler.
A new pottery is to be established at
Menasha.
The settlement from Alabama in
Polk county is great success. It's
members claim to have found the finest
land in the State
Old-fashoned hemlock sweats are
said to be a specific for cerbro-spinal.
meningitis, or spotted fever. This
treatment was employed with great sue
cess in 1878, when the disease was
an epidemic in Wisconsin.
The Kenosha Republican says the
business of fishing is to be largely pros
ecuted from that port this season.
The ties for the new railroad are be-
ing delivered along the line, and work
will be commenced Immediately
The right of way has been mostly
secured, the money paid, and the deeds
delivered and recorded.
A widow with eight manageable
daughters is about to make Kenosha
her home. The young gentlemen OF
henosha are happy over the prospect.
Bark River Lodge, No. 205, I. O.
0. E., has been established at Merton.
Mr.. Peter Greeley, town treasurer
of Mukwonago, has been missing for
about week It is feared that he was
| drowned while duck hunting.
Mr.. Eames spent ;hree days in Ra-
cine Jail last week, the first victim of
the new Temperance act.
Messrs. Rouley & Nourse will soon
establish basket factory at GAINESVILLE.
A wholesome respect for the. new
Temperance law has already been mani
tested in GAINESVILLE.
The first school-house erected in
Wisconsin was in 1888, at Platteville,
Grant county.
The Harris works at GAINESVILLE are
manufacturing 1000 reapers for this
years demand
Last week, for the first time, in Ra-
cine, the prisoners in Jail were compell-
ed to work on the streets
Mayor jenkins, of Oshkosh, is in
augurating active measures looking to
the early building of the railroad north
to New London.
The Fond du Lac Commonwealth
thinks that more residences, barns and
fences will be built in that county in
1872 than during any former year.
The Crescent says two Appleton
churches are without pastors.
A tamarack tree was found twenty
feet below the surface in the town of
Seymour. The wood was in good
state Of preservation.
There are numerous cases of spotted
fever in Wausau, and some Of them
are proving fatal.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin says
that since the organization of the Nun
icipal Court there have been recorded
2, 1852 declarations of intentions to be-
come citizens" and there have been
issued 903 certificates Of naturaliza-
ton. The court was organized in the
spring Of 1859.
The Kilbourn City Mirror says river
men are waiting with Impotence for
the river to open that they may run
RATS and drive logs, but the oldest in
habitants is silent as to the period
when the, river shall be released from
lis icy bonds.
The Evansville Re0ie0 states that
Orville Williams, returning to his
house from that village on Tuesday
last, in a condition which indicated
that there was liquor concealed about