Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-03
General Items.


THE weekly shipment of ore from
Colorado is estimated at $50, 900. Dur
ing the month of May, the Snow-drift
yield was 46, $40 pounds. The Pelican
shipped $40, 900 to Wales, and has 800
tons of second-class ore at Stewards
mill and at the dump of the mine.
THOMAS SIsK, a sensitive New York
youth, 16 years of age, recently blew
out his brains with a musket. He was
a cripple, and the taunts of his com
panioas so preyed upon his mind as to
render life uncomfortable to him. He
was a persistent reader, and intelligent
and gifted to q remarkable degree for
one of his years.
. A POWERFULLY built, repulsive look
ing man inhabits the woods near Frank
lip, Conn, dressed in nothing but an
old quilt wrapped about him. He is
positive terror to the women and child
rem. and the men are afraid TO leave
their families alone for fear of visit
from him.
SYDNEY SMITH HALDIMAN DICKENS
fifth son of the late eminent novelist,
and Lieutenant III the English army.
which he entered as sub-lieutenant in
1867. died on board the Peninsular and
Oriental steamship Malta, on the ID of
MAY, while on his way home from Bonn
bay.
FULLY resolved to have cold-water
Governor, the prohibitonists of Mich
igan have nominated Henry Fish for
that office.
THE impression is gaining ground
that Alaska is not to prove SO bad a
bargain as was supposed. In addition
to it's furs and fisheries, it seems prob
able that it's mineral resources may be
valuable. Gold and silver quartz has
been discovered, and amber has
also been found. Experienced geolo-
gists express their belief that the coun-
try is rich III aur1ferous deposits
Tim Mobile Register publishes the
following personal: A young lady who
has been greatly annoyed by lot Of
young simpletons who stop under i.er
window at night to sing eff ever /
cease to love-" wishes to say, if they
will cease their foolishness, come in
and talk "business," they will confer
a favor.
IT is thought that the wheat crop of
Northern and Central Texas will reach
one million bushels, three times the
amount ever before raised III one sea.
| son.
EARTHQUAKES occurred in Iceland 81
simultaneously with the recent eruption
of Mt Vesuvius.
TWELVE Dubuque damsels have been
arrested for stealing candy from an old
apple woman.
a Los ANGELES horse pulled the
! plug out of the btnghole of a water
| barrelaand slaled his thirst.
CATERPnLARs have suddenly acquired
an appetite for Georgia rice, and the
planters are in dismay.
THE Sultan of Turkey has raised his
architect TO a position rarely reached
| by Christian functionaries.
| CIPEIANA, the unfortunate Florentine
who swallowed q fork, still lives, but
suffers greatly from his indigestible
| lunch.
JUDGE ASHER B. BATES, having be-
come totally blind, has been relieved
of duty as Register in Bankruptcy at
San Francisco. He is native of
Michigan, and was for many years At
| torney General of the Sandwich Is
| lands.
The Commissioner of Patents has ex
tended the patent of Abial c. Heron,
OF New York, for sewing machines !;
also the patent of William johnson, of
New Jersey, for adjustable rangers for
shaftlng, and of Eli w Blake, of New
Haven, for stone-crushing machines
The Commissioner refused the apDIca-
ton for extension of the patents of
John Marston, of New York, for door
locks, and of John O. Baker, of PhiIa-
delphia, for machines for. cutting gla.
ziers panes.
FLORIDA is sometimes called the Italy
OF America, but we are not sure that
the phrase is a compliment to Victor
EmanuePs country. A Jacksonville
paper says "Duvall county, with a
population of less than ten thousand
persons, has, during the last forty two
months, had fifty-two homicides and
suicidal deaths and forty-two acct
dental deaths. Only one murderer
hung"
The Jamestown Journal saws that
NARROW, the murderer, now awaiting
the conclusion of the brewery tragedy,
wants TO make bets, even, that he will
not be hung. He says it's too near
election times to hang people, and be-
sides that he is Greeley man, and il
Horace would bail Jeff. Davis,
wouldn't he bail me 2" He hasn't lost
any of his former braggadocio, and an
nounces that =" the man is not yet born
that will see him hung"