Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-11-13
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Rosa -BoNHEUR is coming


Rosa BoNHEUR is coming.
Mr.. LINEN is lecturing in New York on
the Minstrcls ofScotland.D He is Scotch,
not Irish linen,
MEssRs. A. AND w. SPRAGuE, of Provi-
dence, R l., have recently purchased 49,
900 acres OF timber land in Maine, paying
therefor 81 100000.
The Emperors of Germany and Austria
and the King of Bavaria are going to
Dresden to attend the golden wedding of
the King of Saxony,
THE remains of Fanny Fern have
been deposited in Mount Auburn, in brick
catacomb by the side of the remains of her
first husband
In the long course of bis legal practice,
Mr. Seward was never known to act for q
man against a woman.
EX-SECRETARY JOHN P. USHER is finish
ing a $4,000 residence at Lawrence,
Kan.
Miss RosINE SLIpELL, daughter of ex-
rebel Commissioner Slidell, is In Paris,
and about to be married to the Viscount
de Saint Romans.
PERE HYACINTHE advises all men to
marry. One who has long served in the
harnsss remarks He has only been mar
ried three months
RENAN is coming to this country early
In January. His "Life of Christ" and
| other works have made for him many ad-
mirers on this side OF the water.
| IT is stated that the ex-Emperor Napo-
leon will leave England for Madeira, in
the spring, in the royal yacht Victoria and
| Albert
The Rev. Daniel Ladd for many years
q missionary in Asia Minor In the employ
of the American Board, died at Middle
bury, Vt, on the 18th inst.
SOME one says that the popularity of an
American young lady is that everywhere
and always she appears to be mistress of
thu situation. ..
MAINE has an inmate in her insane asy-
lum, Mrs. Betsy Croker, 90 years old. She
was born in the camp of the Revolutionary
army in l776.
COLONEL ALvAH CROKER, NJ. c., of
Fitchburg, Mass ,. is 20 years old, and
worth $2,00O,00O. He is President OF two
banks, and is ono of the greatest manufac-
turcrs of paper in the country.
CHARLES READE has written a letter to
the New York Tribune, thanking its editors
for their enterprise In procuring details
OF the alleged mismanagemento of lunatic
asylum near New York.
G. 3. DELANEY, clerk IN the navel ser
vice, at Kittery, Me, lately dead, had no
bands, but wrote rapidly, holding the pen
between his wrists
Mrs. CLARA HAPGooD DASH has Just
been admitted to the lar at Machias, the
first New England woman to gain a full
legal standing.
The fees of Mayor Blackmore, of Pitts
burg, are now at the rate Of $4,000 per
annum, and will be at the rate of $4,000
when the south side Of that city, few
months hence, comes into the municipality,
Mrs SHERMAN, wife of General Sher-
man, owing to the death Of her father, the
late Judge Ewing, OF Ohio, vii not go into
society at Washington this winter.
Mr.. w. II. SIMMONS, one of tho Harvard
four who rowed against the Ozfords, has
returned to this country, having completed
a three years course of study abroad and
taken the degree of NJ. D.
COLONEL. HENRY B. BEECHER, son of the
Brooklyn divine, and lumber merchant
in Albany, has been elected Captain of the
Albany Burgesses Corps. He served and
earned his title in the late war,
EDMUND winston HENRY, the younger
and last of the sons Of Patrick Henry, died
on the 18th inst, at his late residence in
the County of Charlotte, Va, in the seven
ty-ninth year of his age. 1t has not been
long since we were called upon to record
| the demise of several of his contempora.
rles in the same county-Paul and Henry
Darlington, John Marshall, and his broth
er, John Henry.
Rich mems daughters, who marry
coachmeD, are not of necessity unhappy
The story of Miss Boxer, of New York
daughter of the millionaire who made
" Boxers Bitters," is again revived Shs
convulscd the fasllionables by marrying
John Dean, her fathers coachman, and st
dissolving her old family and social rela
lions. But John, 1t appears, turned out {;
successful business man, and the two live
comfortably and happily.
THE Geneva On. Y Gazette relates thu
story OF young man named George Wat
ers, who, it is stated, WAS assisted by tht
late William H. Seward and Theodore M
Pomcroy, of Auburn, to get his college
bonors to Hobart College, q few years
since. lie went to California, made ant
lost two fortunes, and finally located {
mining claim at Shclbourne, New. Nhel
it was decided to him, he conveyed 10(
feet to each of his former benefactors Sow
ard and Pomeroy, in remembrance of then
early kindness. The story goes that tn,
lucky miner has sold his part of the mine
for S400,00o, while $4,000 has been pIac
ed to the credit of Mossrs Seward ant
Pomeroy.