Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-05-15
General Items.

tinent was issued by Combeyer, in
Mexico, in 1914
CALICO, the well-known cotton cloth,
is named after Calicot, city in india
from whence it first came. Calico was
not known in England at all until as
late as the year 1881
On board the steamers of the North
German Lloyds the stewards are musi-
clans, and organize themselves into
band for the edification of the passen-
gers.
The Halifax steamers have been una
bic to carry freight as fast as it has ac-
cumulated at Portland, and 5000 bar
rels of -four are now collected in that
city awaiting trans-shipment
A LATE Baltimore paper states that
oHly three hundred and fifty skilled
men now find employment in the ship
yards of that c1ty, where heretofore
fifteen hundred men found work.
HARDWOOD, of London, England, has
sued the Grand Trunk Railway at
Portland for $4,000, for injuries re-
ceived by his wife in alighting from
train.
ITHEoAHAs an Epaminondas street.
oman ooJo, hopluS SIl1o, dHo UdoIlttl
people move away from it because they
can't tell where they live.
AN Indiana man has caused the az
rest of his grandmother, who attacked
him in most cowardly and outrageous
manner.
CAUSE and effect. They ere planting
cork trees with considerable success in
many parts of California. The vine
was introduced several years ago.
The alligator season has opened in
Florida, and the absorption of the pen
slve angler or confiding bather is a mat
ter of daily record.
! PAPER houses are now being made,
this being the best non conductor of
which is heavy and compact, is put on
the outside of the frame, and in turn
covered with siding.
Harry D. WINsoR, a young man of
Detroit, has been informed that mining
property in Utah, owned by him for
five years, has developed great richness,
and that its estimated value is $4,000
900.
The Maine lumber men are all out
of the woods, and their operations have
been greater during the winter than in
any previous season. The cut is esti-
mated at 700, 900, 900 feet, most of the
timber prduct being spruce.
AT Sumter, n O., they improvised a
gallows by the throwing of rope over
pole and hanging an anvil at one end
and a negro at the other They were
then obliged to help the anvil to keep its
Il to hoII 4ho, I,
until he slowly choked to death.
A PARTY of Michigan girls have just
returned from tour in Europe which
was made under very pleasant circum-
stances. They We're accompanied by
their teacher, with a gentleman as
business manager. and visited England,
Germany, Italy ana the Holy Land.
A DEMONSTRATION which took place
on Waustead Flats, near London, os-
tensibly for the purpose of t'saving
Epping Forest" appears to have ac-
tually resulted in a mere pleasure party,
after the orthodox Easter Monday fash
ion.
The steamer Kafraira is taking 49,
900 bushels of oysters off the Virginia
coast to plant in France. Charnay, the
farmer Of the enterprise, has tested the
bivaIves from Massachusetts, to Califor-
MIA, and thinks that those of the Low
er Chesapeake are best suited to his
purpose.
A CONSOLIDATED mortgage on all the
Erie property is in contemplation, to
Law a third rail on their road. The re-
quired legal notice has been given, and
ten weeks must elapse before action on
it will be taken by the directors. The
amount of the mortgage is estimated at
$40, ,000,000
A New HAVEN NJ d. has discovered
successful way of silencing the
clamors of his landlord. When that
grasping parsonage calls for the pay
ment of rent, the doctor quietly shows
him skeleton in an inner room, and
tells him, 'that man came here just
two weeks ago with bill" ("
g Rise UP, daughter and go to thy
daughter, tor thy daughters daughter
has daughter" This is what Rich
ard Vernon, Jefferson County, Ind,
aet IS, is supposed to say to her. l. g..
he was lately made great-great grand
father by the birth of daughter to his
great grand d-daughter.
AN insect. commonly known as the
buffalo gnat, has appeared in great
quantities in the vicinity of Pearl
River Mississippi, md are sowing de-
struction among horses and mules on
the plantations. Many hundred AMI
mails have died from their attacks
within a few days. The greatest NOR
tality yet reported is from Madison
county. Many planters are without a
plough animal of any description, and
the larger farmers are badly crippled
because of their sudden losses after
preparation for large crop.
EARTHQUAKES are on the steady in
crease. According to the best authori-
ties there were in the fourth century,
81 ; in the fifth, Is; in the sixth, 81 in
the seventh, TO- in the eighth, IL /; in
the ninth, 36; in the tenth, 17 in the
eleventh, 81 in the twelfth, 68; in the
tnirteenth, So in the fourteenth, So;
in the fifteenth, Al in the sixteenth,
110; in the seventeenth, $50; III the
eighteenth, $50; in the nineteenth, 92o.
The s'cheek " of the ordinary female
book agents is proverbial, but the
quality seems to have reached It's Gil
max IN woman VINO Called GHo Aaio'
tenant Governor of Rhode Island from
; his place as presiding officer durlng
debate in the Senate the other day, TO
solicit his subscription for work on
9 Personal Beauty. Upon her making
known her business, the interview ter
minated abruptly He didn't subscribe
A MAN by the name of Thompson was
hanged lately on the head waters OF
Clear Greek, in Montague county, lex
as. Various rumors are afioat as to the
origin of the deed. One is that he was
! followed by parties from Fannln coun-
ty and hanged by them, because ne
assisted in hanging man IN thaC
county some time since. Anothef
story is that he was hanged Tor steal
ing horses and cattle. ae
A CONNECTICUT man undertook to