Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-08-07
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Gleanings.
IHE Canadians execute the vengeance
OF the law impartially on murderers,
regardless of sex.
SAN FRANCISCO has sent forty carooes
OF wheat to England since july. valued
at $2,951, 900. 'N'
On the 1st of July 800 new money or.
der postothces will be established. max.
ing 5000 in the country.
The towns of Inyo county, Independ
ence and Lone Pine, Cal, are to be re-
built in much better style than before
the earthquake. The new houses are
of wood.
The Houghton Gazette says that a
town site has been laid off at the north
west end of Lake Michigammi, in sec
+, ton 80, town 4S, range 80. The local
1ty is attractive, and with the growing
Importance of the railroad and iron in
terest in that section, a place of consid-
cradle size must spring up within
year or two. .ata.5eE feaE
The celebrated gas well at Newton.
Pa, IN the oil region, is not popular
institution there. The gas continues to
rush forth with noise like that of a
tornado, and the people in the vicinity
are greatly alarmed. believing the we'll
to have a direct connection with the in.
fernal regions. A school, three-uuarters
of a mile away, has been suspended,
and the cattle run about the fields,
wild with fright. sai.s .'. .'+'t 10 1o,4
| A Boston photographer has sent to
the Sandwich Islands 10000 illuminate
ed marriage certificates, !fH 81
SIR MICHAEL COSTA has received from
the hand Of the Prince of Wales a mas
sive gold ring, bearing an engraved
seal Of the Royal Albert Hall, with the
inscription inside, Presented by her
Majesty's commissioners to Sir Michael
Costa, in return for the valuable SER
vices he voluntarily gave upon the oc-
caslon of the opening of the hall, and
OF the opening of the International Ex-
hlbition in 1S71.' -.s ls.. t-f>
Mrs. CATHERINE MARSH, of Balti-
more, who murdered her four children.
and was adjudged insane, is now con-
lined III an insane asylum, and though
only 70, her hair has turned completely
white.
Two balloons in which ascensions
were to have been made at Boston, on
the Fourth, were wrecked by the storm
which prevailed there. ael ao.'
! The body of boy of sixteen, with
skate on one of the feet, was found
IN the river two miles below Newburgh,
Tuesday night - @..'. -
IMPORTANT gold discoveries have been
made IN the vicinity of Parley's Park,
) Utah. The shipments of ore from Salt
Lake City last month were 100, 600; of
bullion, $50, 000
MIRRORS laid over with gold are re-
ported to reflect sixteen times as pow
erful as ordinary quicksilver ones.
The number of beer stamps issued
from the internal Revenue Bureau dur.
ing the fiscal year just closed was 27,-
595, 600 an increase of 5000, 600 over
the issue of the year previous.
i A LUMP of p1re gold, weighing half
a pound, was recently found by a me-
gro woman on the plantation of Mr..
Hugh 9. Nlsbet in Union county,, n.
q. The woman was hoeing cotton and
knocked the lump over with her hoe.
COUNTING in Lorraine and Alsace as
taxpayers, Germany will receive ST, 44O, =
OO0,O from France. Her own ex-
penses were IN the aggregate only 500
} 5OO, 600, leaving balance on the trans
action OF 1,162, 500, 900, or about 500
per cent. interest on the capital invest
!. ed. This is the most gigantic CONNER
cial operation in the history of war.
AUSTRIA is fast developing into q re-
public. ae 1E
DIR. SToUsBERG, formerly &c the Prus-
sian railroad king and at one time
worth many millions, has fled from his
creditors TO a hiding place in England
For every six months that Alabama
convlcts work well and faithfully upon
Alabama railroads their term of i'm
prisonment is reduced one month.
MAYENCE, where the Emperor Con-
stantine is sAid to have seen hi. vision
of the Cross, IS the strongest fortress
in the German Confederation.
} PROF. AGAssz was recently rendered
public reception by the intendente of
Santiago, Chill, which, owing to the
state of his health he was obliged to
decline. The professor found two of
, his college mates of forty years ago in
the university at that city, one of whom,
DR.. Doneyki, gave to Prof. Agassiz du-
, pljcates of his entire collection of fos-
sis, by far the most complete and val
liable collection in South America,
,. which he has been thirty-fve years in
collecting, so that Prof. Agassiz's mu-
scum will have the most complete col
, lection of South American fossils ever
made.
: THE assessment of the city of San
} Francisco has Just been completed, and
the total valuations of real and per-
sonal property foot up $297, SS5, 242.
DURING one of the warmest days of
the Boston jubilee, 108 women tainted
in the coliseum.
CATALINA island, in the bay of San
Pedro, has been sold for 81, 100000