Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-02-14
General Items,


The only negro in an insane asylum
in the country is in Virginia
THE st. Louis Times has about
S100, 600 worth of libel suits pending
against it.
a PARTY of twelve have left Quebec
overland for the coast of Labrador to
hunt seals.
WOMEN are getting their rights in
Canada. Toronto is to have new
prison " exclusively for ladies"
The Roman Catholic liturgy is to re-
place the Gallican in the French Ro-
man churches. ,roa
A NORTH CAROLINA man of seventy
nine has been married to Isabella Nor
ton, aged eighteen.
! VIRGINIA banks that issued shinplas-
ters during the war are held, liable to
redeem them.
| UNDER an old building in Kansas
was found box containing large as
sortment of valuable jewelry. go
The Earl of Kenmare, who recently
died in London, was one of the forlorn
hope at the siege of Badaioz. 'ss1
NATURAL gas from the Bloomfield
well has been conveyed to the pipes in
Rochester, N. Y. -siaic 1'liA3
SOME worthless dogs, at Leavenworth,
have killed DR.. Hudson's full -blooded
Cashmere goat, valued at 81, 500
The harvest tool factory of the
Fletcher brothers in Lowell, Michigan,
was burned on Friday last
The engine of Whitaker & Co. IS fork
handle factory in Bronson, Michigan,
exploded on Friday, terribly scalding
| D. Ell. Whitaker and A. J. Trigg, it is
thought fatally.
MISS ADDIE D. BAIBoU, disciple of
Victoria Woodhull, has brought suit
against the Terre Haute Gazette for
S10,0 ZOO damages. She ought toproeure
"a Wyoming jury. o. Isd OF znil.Ke
The Methodists are complaining that
there is but one of their denomination
on the Committee of Biblical Revisers,
which numbers twenty-one names.
They do not like this method of doing
the work -" s72iaeO
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatchlof Saturday
says: "Heavy frosts in different parts
of the State the ice a quarter of an
inch in thickness formed at Stockton,
and Los Angeles, Thursday night,
somewhat injuring young orange trees
in the latter locality. 71s 7y''A
Mrs. P. W. PArTEN, who was burned
to death day or two ago in New York
city, was the daughter of the, famous
musician Zoller, who organized many
singular societies in Germany and re-
ceived for his compositions a medal
from the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.
In Hornellsville, on Friday evening,
during an auction of millinery goods,
the floor gave way and fell to the cellar.
Several persons were severely injured,
among whom were Mrs. Benjamin Ben
net, Mrs. Miles Hawley, Mrs. Hathaway,
Mrs T. M. Cronkeyle, Mrs. Haffer, and
others. ~
The sum of $5, 236has been subscribed
for the erection of sritaple memorial
at the Virginia Military Institution, in
honor of Lieutenant General g Stone
WALL Jackson, who for nearly fourteen
years held the chair of natural and ex-
perimental philosophy and artillery
tactics in the institution.
THE graduating seniors of Harvard
university will struggle over The de-
struction of Chicago" this year, that
being she subject announced for the
annpa prize poem. They will all re-
menlbe: that Macaulay composed his
g Destruction of Pompeii''i on pre-
cisely similar occasion, and will do
their best.
ANOTHER Enoch a case has arisen
in England. George 1Bryom left his
wife and child at Oldham, and went to
America to seek a livelihood. Core
spondence, at first irregular, soon stop
ped altogether, and after a while the
wife married again. Byron atyilength
returned, laden with presents for his
family. a.x.,,og
The night editor of a Detroit paper
under took to grapple with aodispatch
from ST. Louis, the other nights relat-
ing to the proceedings of the B'nai
Birth. He is evidently not much of
Hebrew scholar, for, after wrestling
with the thing for a long time, he
headed it a "The B.. n. T.. Brethren
in Full Blastl' and rushed On.
WHILE hotels on the European plan
are becoming very popular In America,
it is singular to note that hotels on the
American plan are growing in favor
along the main lines of travel over seas.
Even the g Grand Hotel, y Prais, has IN
part adopted the American system,
and you can now go there and obtain
lodging, meals, and service at q fixed
price.
A CITIZEN of North Stonington, Conn.,,
buried his first wife, and inscribed upon
her tomb, can Angel on Ea1th--A
Saint in Heaven, (which was all right.
But, when he buried his second, along
side his first, the marble dealer in
/ scrided on her tomb, "Another Angel
on Ea1th-Another Saint iniHeayen;"
and the neighbors want to, know how
long this thing is going to last2 o''
WHILE vender of greens in Boston
was endeavoring to dispose of his stock
in trade his poor old nag halted and re-
fused to bulge an inch. The driver
finally comm meneed belaboring the AMI
NAL with stick, when an old lady
thrust her head out Of a window and
exclaimed: "Have yeus no mercy Z"
"No ma'am," replied the Pedlar;
"nothin' but green's"
A DAY or. two since, "a man not over
and above familiar, with the dark ways
4 OF telegraphing, went into one OF the OF
! fees in this city with a adispatch, which
he insisted upon having sent OH 1mme-
diately. The operator accommodated
him, and then hung the despatch on a
hook The man hung around some
time. evidently unsatisfed. At last his
patience was exhausted, and he belched
ont. Amt you going to send that
despatch 2" The operator politely IN
fornaed him that he had sent it. =" No
YER amt, replied the indignant man,
5sthere it is now on the hook
THE Sacramento Union of the 4th in
slant says: ga number of sheep on
Pattons ranch, north of the American,
were not sheared last fall, and hence
their fleece is very long. During the
fall it got very dirty, and probably
grass and other seeds fell into it. At all
events, since rain commenced to fall,
grass, with blades say two inches long,
is growing luxuriantly out of the wool,
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