Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-04-03
State N aws.

GAINESVILLE hired girls threaten to
quit unless the kitchens are furnishel
with rocking chairs
Two sacriligious boys recently broke
into Milwaukee church and stole two
violins and FIVE dollars in money.
The Ripon Free Press notes the fact
of lao days sleighing enjoyed by the
Ripon people this winter.
A Fond du Lac marble shop is max
ing tombstone for man who lately
died in Washington County at the age
of liz.
The Goodrich line of steamers will
run regularly between Depsre, Green
Bay and Chicago, on the opening OF
navigation.
The Milwaukee papers arc complain
ing of the authorities for allowing
droves of worthless and dangerous ours
to infest the city.
The seventy ninth anniversary of
the birthday of John Mcintosh, one of
the few surviving soldiers of the war
of 1872, was celebrated in Middl eton,
Dane county, a few days since.
A benevolent society called the Scan
dinavian Sick and relief Association,
has been organized at Neenah with
Carl J. Crabby, President, and A, q.
Nilsson, Secretary.
An old settler of Madison says that
in 1865 Lake Mendoza was closed by
ice on the 18th of May, and yet they
had fair crops that season. He also
says that on the 10th of April, 1852,
the thermometer was 10 degrees below
zero and the snow one foot deep.
A man in Sparta had 1900 stolen
from him on Sunday last.
Fevers of dangerous type are pre-.
valent among the children Of Milvau-
kee, just now.
The contraction of the proposed
Evansville railroad will greatly increase
the milling business of GAINESVILLE.
Wheat can then be shipped direct
from Minnesota.
Oshko sh talks of establishing saw
ings bank
A little Sheboygan girl has coined
an eleventh commandment "Thou
shalt not slap
The Oshkosh Journal says that a
basket containing a week old boy baby
was found on the door steps of Robert
McMilen's reside nee, last Monday
evening
The Wood County Reporter says
that the winter logging is unusually
heavy, fully 100, 100000 feet of logs
being put in that county alone.
Lieutenant Gov. Petit, and lady
celebrated their silver wedding last
Monday evening, March 25th
Orrin Smith, the missing City Clerk
of La Crosse, has NOT been heard from
in any manner 1t is believed that he
has been foully dealt with.
They have comprehensive idea o.
the dignity of J Justice in Fond du Lac
Judge Bissell was trying case the
other day when one of the spectators
interrupted him by loud talking. The
Judge ordered him to shut up, but he
would not. so the Judge descended
from the bench, took the irreverend
speaker by the collar anG attempted tc
put him out. < scutfie ensued sin
which they both rolled on the feor to-
gether and were finally separated by
| friends.
A Pewaukee cores pondent tells of {
novel donation party which took place
at that village last week. in which the
funds were raised by selling tickets tt
a gift dance at one dollar each. the
prizes being an old buggy and single
harness. The purchasers danced til
daylight the next morning, and all par
ties we're satisfied with the entertain
ment.
The Green Bay AdUocatc says: [
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swept over this region last October
had become SO deeply seated in the
soil, that they nsver can be extin
guished Smoke may still be seen is.
suing from the ground where the snow
has melted off, in many places, and es
pecialIy in the low ground near thu
Ba7 shore at lower Red River. It is
where the ground is swampy, and the
soil is filled with small roots, that these
fires hold with such pertinacity-fa.
vored by the long and severe dreuth.
The Appleton Times says: "Ovel
$50 men are at work on the railroad
between Kaukauna and the end of the
track, which is now nearly to the Mill.
tary roa d. J."
The Grant County H-raH says
''The prospects are that the narrow
gauge railroad from Galena to Nuscods
will be constructed without fail, and
that work thereon will begin at no dis
tant day. One man has already sub
mitted a reasonable proposition to build
some forty miles of the road"
Fort Howard, by a vote of SO against
27, defeated the bill for annexation
with Green Bay.
Bishop Armitage administered the
rite of confirmation to thirteen candi-
dates in the Episcopal Church of Ke-
nosha OH Monday evening.
The summit of the Sinsinawa Mound
is [, 100 feet above the level Of the sea
the Platte Mounds, near plattevllle,
have an altitude of | ,2S1 feet.
A seriou. stabbing affray occurred
at Wausau, in which Wm. Evads, of
Berlin, an innofensive party was severe
Iy, if not fatally wounded.
In hen fruit, Sparta thinks she carries
the palm, thus far in the season, be-
cause chicken of that burg accom-
plished an egg measuring 81 inches
in circumference one way by Il inches
the other