Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-02-14
State N 6wS.
Scarlet fever prevails at Ripon.

/ consln early IN March.
The spotted fever is prevalent at
Prairie du CHEN.
Eight divorces were granted at the
last term of the Sank county Circuit
Court
The Senate of this state has leased
its hall to DIR. Frank, to talk about spe-
tacles.
An intermission of ten minutes af-
ter each hour is allowed to the pupils
in the Waupaca schools.
Peshtigo is continually improving
The company's store is now nearly com
plcted.
Among the infatuated in Racine the
| most touching instance Of true love is
to borrow scab from her and be vac
cinated with it.
Times says the leading men of Ap-
pleton are agitating the subject of bull
ding a cotton-milli in that city Capital
to the amount ofsl0O,O00 stands ready
for investment.
The Green Bay Adoocate says: The
fact is becoming every year more appar
ent that the pine timber, that we have
so long regarded as one of our greatest
resources of wealth in Brown county,
is being rapidly exhausted.
Two thousand bushels is the estima-
ted bullhead crop harvested at Beaver
Dam. The supply is inexhaustible.
J. [. Case & Co, of Racine, have
received an order direct from Mr..
Jesus, resident of Mexico, for horse
power and thesher combined.
Judge G. NJ. Baker, of Geneva, has
been stricken down with apoplexy, and
is dead. The Judge was generally
known and his decease will be widely
lamented.
Some of the Kenosha ministers re
cen tly visited various liquor soloons in
the city and extemporized prayer meet
ipgs on small scale.
Gen. r. A. Cameron, connected
with colony now located in Colorado,
has been lecturing to the people of
Winneconne on the advantages of that
region.
Captain D. A. Ward, late of Fond
du Lac, has lately been appointed
Sergeant Of the Louisiana
House Of Representatives.
The Legislature has ordered printed
5000 copies of the report of the sur
of the Lead region of this State. by
John Murrish. Esq,
Park Pierce, Esq, of Walworth, has
lost three valuable horses recently.
Little Frank, which was valued at ST.
900; also Rowen, valued at $4,000, and
colt valued at $500.
|
Gen. G. L. Harris, lately, resident il
Brown county. has become heir t.
quite a large fortune by the death of a
grandfather in New Jersey. He is
now at the last settling up his estate
A suit for $500 has been brought
against the village of Sparta, by Mr..
D. NJ Dolson, for damages received dy
him in a fall on one Of Sparta's poor
sidewalks last May.
The Journal makes confession that
"there is not place of FIVE hundred
inhabitants in the state but has more
wheat brought to market daily than
Oshkosh.
On Wednesday evening meeting
was held at La Crosse, at which res.
olutions were passed condemmatery OF
liquor repressiVe law in every shape
and form.
A petition for the pardon of J
Lynch, who was sent to the peitentiary
for three years a twelve month ago fol
an attempt to kill, is in lcourse of sig.
nature at La Crosse.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette hears from
rural village of the case of a woman
who gave birth to triplcts, just after re-
covering from the smallpox Ali the
women in that neighborhood. an ex.
change says, are getting saccinated
again.
The Gazette says at a family gather.
ing held at the residence of Rev. Moses
Rowley, in GAINESVILLE. the members Of
the party were Mr.. R. and wifs, his
sister-in. law, and two brothers and two
of their friends. The youngest was
sixty four and the eldest seventy-eight
years of age. Their combined ages
were five hundred and two years.
The Racine Journal says, for the
first time within the memory of the
oldest inhabitaut, Lake Michigan is
frozen over as far as the eye can reach
the ice being from four to eight inches
| in thickness. 1t is true that there have
been times when there would be a thin
coating of ice, but it was usually broken