Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-03-27
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Calumet county.
Mr. j. NJ. Buttons new cheese lac
tory, at Melrose, Jack son county. is
ready for business.
George Thrall, the Monroe counter
feiter, has been sentenced to five years
Imprisonment in the State prison
Navigation opened last year at Prairie
du CHEN on the 18th of March.
There are 2l0 students at the St,
Johns College in Prairie du CHEN.
The Indians at Wausau propbesy
good season for sugar-making.
Outagamii has a -four ishing Bee
Keepers County Association.
The Appleton Post has seen some
specimens of wood that were taken out
of a well, that is being dug, 70 feet be-
low the surface of the earth.
The Princeton Republic notes das-
tardly but vain attempt to fire that vii
lage.
A Waukesha minister has been de-
posed for intemperance.
GAINESVILLE is to have basket fac
tory.
The Methodist Society of White
water contemplate building church
edifce which will cost between $40
900 and S25, 900.
Two or three cases of spotted fever
have occurred In Oshkosh, and consid-
cradle sickness is reported by the ply
sicians-
The Pierce county farmers feel
good over the late fall of snow; they
think it will resuscitate the winter
wheat, if it is susceptible of resuscita-
ton.
Prairie du CHEN has been settled
about 200 years, and has just become
an incorporated city. There will be
considerable strife over the first Mayor.
A Fond du Lac dealer has shipped
butter for which he was only offered
2Ocents at home, to New York, and
sold it for SO cents The freight was
2 cents a pound
There were 155 deaths in Milwau-
kee during the month of February, SO
of which were from small pox. There
has been more cases of small pox in
this State during the winter than be-
fore for many years.
Ole Bull is again charming the peo-
pie Of this state by sweet strains from
his charmed violin He is the best
violinist in the world, and draws large
crowds wherever he goes. He will
be in La Crosse on the Both inst.
. La Crosse will build a two thousand
dollar fence about her court House
block
The seducer of La Crosse girl was
brought from the pinery 10 marry his
victim in open court, the other day.
Mr. Henry Nieneyer, of Columbus
last year grew about 1000 pounds of
good Connecticut seed tobacco from an
area of little more than an acre.
The Columbus Democrat says that
a great many sheep have been killed
in that vicinity this winter for their
pelts, their carcasses have been left tc
rot.
An interesting Agricultural Conven-
ton was held at Appleton on the 18th,
when papers were were read b. DR..
Mason, e. G.. Morrow, ofthe Western
Farmer, Prof. W. W. Daniels of the
State University. Eli Stilson, of this
city, A. H. Hart, of Appleton: and
others.
In the evening, at Bertschy Hall,
Mrs. b. Huntley read beautiful APP
peal for the cultivation Of flowers around
country homes.
A general and interesting Sunday
School Teachers Institute, under the
direction of the Wisconsin Baptis
Sunday School Com mission, has just
been concluded 10 Waukesha.
The Green lay Gazette tells of two
men who were found in a freight cal
at Fort Howard, with both feet frozen
and turned black, and almost dead from
cold. and starvation, having stolen g
ride all the way from Chicago,
Mark Harrison. the.Fond du Lac ar
fist, is working on several new pieces
this winter.
The Stevens Point Journal says tina t
hundreds of Homesteads are now
being taken along the line Of the Wis.
consin Central, yet the rush" is not
what it should be if we consider the
great advantages offered.
Mineral Point has two surviv ing
soldiers of the war of 1872.
The Grant County Herald says :''It
is not generally known that Mrs. Emma
D. E. N. Southworth, the famous au-
thoress ef'ths day, was once resident
of Potosi-the wife of poor but hon
est tinsmith
The Fond du Lac Daily says awe
are reliably informed that negotiations
are pending for the establishment of an
extensive manufa Glory of thrsshing
in this city"
Berlin has gained an enviable reputa-
ton through her cranberry interest,
being the largest shipping point in the
State, excepting Oshkosh, Fond du Lac
and Green Bay. They shipped 49,
$40 barrels, of::these delicious berries the
past season, and the prospects for
arge yield the coming season, are
good
DIR. E. G.. Marshall, the first A ssis-
ant Superintendent of the Insane Asy-
UNI, Madison died Wednesday evening
asst at the hospital. About two weeks
ince, in making post-mortem axamina-
ion, poison was introduced into his sys-
EN- through hang-nail. of which he