Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-02-05
GennraI Hfenls.

The following notice was recently
j found on the gate of New York lunat-
ic asylum "Jurors supplied in any
Equantity on the shortest notice"
i /. PETER AMPLE, of Lexington, Mo-,
has killed man and two boys. The
New York papers are anxious to have
him settle there LFsv
Ten students have been expelled
from Williston Seminary, Easthamp-
ton, Mass, for taking part IN the New
Years Eve carousal.
STILL the literary landmarks vanish.
They have pulled down the house, in
| Plough Court, Lombard street, Lon
don, Ill which Pope was born.
The two additional Judges of the
Missouri Supreme Court have drawn
for terms, viz: Sherwood, ten years
Ewing, eight years.
ONE hundred and fifty men have
| been lynched In the State of Missouri
within hepast three years for horse
stealing.
FETwEEN May and December of last
year, fifty vessels III the lumber
trade were wrecked or abandoned be-
tween British and American ports.
A LARGE quantity of sugar-cane cut
tlngs from the East Indies has arrived
In Louisiana to take the place of the
| degenerate native seed.
HIGHWAY robbery, as a means of SUBJ
s1stence, is becoming popular in Eng
land, and the exploits of Dick Turpin
and Claude Duval are being repeated.
+ Mr.. GODFREY, a promising young
lawyer of Great Bend, Kansas, was SO
badly frozen, recently, that his feet
and hands will have to be amputated.
THERE are people in Lafayette, Ind,
SO poor that they are compelled to buy
coal by the market basketful, and have
their children carry it to their homes.
The Vermont Central Railroad can
not pay it's employees; cannot buy any
the state is going to sell it to the high
est bidder. "a 5sl-ea
HENRY DUMAS, one of the colored
members of the Pinchback Louisiana
Legislature, isaconservative. He rep.
resents the parish of st. John the Bap-
tist, and is worth $40, 600.
The receipts of corn at Peoria, ILL.,
for 1872, were 5,791, ,445 bushels; of
oats, 2, $50, 695 bushels; cattle, SO, 1885,
los; hogs, LII, ,767.
The English have some curious laws.
A London whisky-seller lately refused
TO sell man @ drink, and the man
went off and cut his throat. The sa.
loon keeper is now under arrest as re-
sponsible for the death.
The area of soil suitable for craps
production in California is said to ex-
ceed that OF France In the proportion
of four TO one, or, Is, 900, 900 acres in
California TO about 1000 square miles
for France
A CARELESS nurse i'll Holyoke, Mass,
administered dose of aqua ammonia
to young child III mistake for castor
oil, and the babe died in few hours,
it's throat and lungs having been burn
ed to crisp by the liquid.
The lumber business of Chicago
during the season about to close has
increased eight per cent. over that of
1871, and ten per cent. over that of
1870. Last year ], 200, 900, 900 feet of
lumber were received there, which,
with laths and shingles, constitute
business amounting to $21, 900, 900.
The vintage of the United States is
beginning to receive some attention at
the hands of Congress. A bill is now
in preparation for the protection of
wine:growers, and to prevent the man
ufacture OF imitation wines. The inter-
nal revenue bureau is taking the initia-
tive step in the matter.
| The statistics of the foreign trade
| of New York during the last calendar
year are not yet complete, but for the
eleven months ending with November,
the combined imports and exports were
S6SS, 4O1, ,624. By adding an estimate
| of one-eleventh for December we have q
total for the year of $3.50, 9S3, $50.
NoTwrHsTANDING'th the loss of her two
I.provinces' of Alsace and Lorraine,
France still has population of over
SO, 900, 600 people-a -dimlnutlon OF
! only 666, 900 since the last census. Her
population is equal to that OF all the
United States, although her territory
IS only the area Of the state OF Texas
I Boston proposes to Use portion OF
the burnt district as the site OF grand
central depot It will extend from
Summer to Franklin streets, filling the
space between Devonshire and Federal,
and is to be entered by the Boston and
Providence, Old Colony, and Boston
aud Albany railroads The project is
not yet fully 'eonsummated.
WHEN Sidney Smith had gravely
listened to the details OF. q mad dogs
! course through the streets of London
how he frightened a bishop, and was
at length dispatched with difficulty
| the clerical wit remarked that he
"should like to hear the dogs side of
the story"
IT is said that the proprietor of the
London Daily Telegraph, In imitation
of the enterprise of the New York
Herald, has given carte blanche to
George Smith, of the British Museum,
the recent discoyerer of a Chaldear ac-
count of the Deluge, to proceed to the
East to undertake further researches.
OF course, it will be grand card for
that paper. a4&
, THERE are nineteen large tanneries
in Maine, which use annually 10000
cords of bark. This bark tans 10000
to II 900 tons of leather. The average
cost of the bark is $3.50 per cord, and
aggregatiDg $715, 900 annually. The
) leather is generally tanned by the hun
! t1red or ton, for which $40 per ton is
paid, and this costs over S400, 600. The
freight on hides and leather costs $50
pei ton, and aggregates $500,000.
The value OF metalturgic skill has
recently been strikingly demonstrated
}, in Greece. Some time ago the Greek
Government parted for mere trife, to
two enterprising foreigners, their
rights over the rubbish heaps at the
/ Lauilttm mines, Which were first
worked 300 years ago. It was soon
found that the debrls, which had been
), cast aside by the ancients as worthless,
possessed great value, and the govern
ment, repenting of their bargain, have
assessed the property at $500, 900, 600
: and are demanding more money fol
their rights.