Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-04-16
General EteHlSs

4 THE Upper Tennessee tfof1nefi5 Aso'-
ston) kiver is swarniug with aliigators
| THE Indiana, the third vessel OF the
/ American steamship line, waslaunched
from the ward OF the Messrs. Cramp &
Co, at Philadelphia,
A1ADY in New Haven who has been
| dumb for two months past, was fright
ened into distinct utterances, Satuf-
dav. lov sudden and short approach
of a member Of her family wh1le she
was ransacking the attic OF her house.
A MAN in North Carolina built a fire
in his house on his wedding day,
TWENTY-FIVE years ago. and has kept 1T
burning night and day ever since, ana
declares his intention never to permit
it to die out while he lives.
AN Alabama paper describing re-
cent execution says: lie apos-
trophized the sun and the trees bid
ding them farewell, and turning to the
Sheriff as the cap was being draw over
his head, and said: Mr.. Sheriff, do
your duty"
A. PROVIDENCE girl, on repairing to
her room late on Monday evening" was
astonished to see a pair of feet, without
boots, protruding from under her bed.
| She did not scream, but she went down
stairs quietly and informed her father,
and the burglar was then nicely caught
and handed over to the police.
IT is stated that well-known citizen
of Boston recently seat a check for a
hundred thousand dollars to the trus,
| tees of the Episcopal Theological
School at Cambridge, for the endow-
ment Of that institution, but It's accep-
tance was declined on account OF the
Objectionable condition accompanying
the gift.
Tue Ithica Democrat man copies an
item about the deep snow III 1886, and
saws: HNow we remember the cir
cumstances. We were born in March
of that wear, ana recollect well the fun
we had sliding down hill on the roof OF
fathers barn. Yes, that was bully
winter.
ANOTHER man has graduated at the
Yale .School of Journalism He
has been rather more successful tkan
anv of his predecessors. When he
found that he could get no more than
IS week on any Western journal, he
went right away and got a position as
clerk in an oyster saloon, where his
weekly stipend is SO.
The local editor on Wilmington,
n. c., paper went away, and bis sub
stitute almost went mad trying TO hunt
up news. He was happy at last, when
this suggested itself to him: just
nineteen hundred and seventeen years
to-day since Brutus gave his friend
Julius Caesar poke under the fifth rib.
OLIVE LOGAN tells of nice young
man who waltzed superbly. All the
girls went for him. Nobody else could
catch their pace as we'll as he. When
asked how he managed it SO handsome
lv. he replied he never thought about
It. he never tried hard-all he did was
to hold his partner In his arms and let
her kick.
TIE Ventura (Cal.) Signal says:
e Cur town is crimson, pink and white
with peach, almond, and the blossoms
of other fruit trees; yet, looking up
the DIAL Canyon, far over the serrated
hills, rising dreamily higher and high
er, the snow capped peaks of the dis
tant mountains are clearly mapped
against the sky.
STRIKES are being projected III Eng
land and Scotland, as well as in New
York. At meeting of Elgin (Scot-'
land) bakers, fews days SINCE, an en-
thusiast for good remuneration OF that
hard worked class of individuals wour0
up an address with the following:
6 Nav the cock of Scotland never crow, st
e Nav The rose OF England never blow,
Nav the harp of Ireland never play, sl
Til we poor bakers get better pay"
A SON of Andrew Branstratter, who
lives in Huntington county, Ind, be-
came enraged at his sister few days
ago and struck her on the temple with
a stick of wood. A splinter projecting
from the wood entered her eye to
considerable depth, from the effects OF
which she died last week. She was
buried Wednesday. The boy is about
fourteen years of age, and the young
lady was past twenty.
The exports OF wheat direct from
Portland, Oregon, for the United hlng-
dom, from August 1 to February z,
amounted to 900, 900 centals. The
-four shipments for the same time
euualled 175, 600 wheat centals, max
ing a total of ], ,004, Geo centals OF wheat
and -four as wheat! The value of the
wheat was about $400, 600 aud the -four
$500, 900, making total value OF $1O0,-
900. There was still o large surplus IN
the hands of producers in the country.
AT an auction sale Of house in
Taunton, n. r., a few days ago, says
the Gazette, the building was bid off
to an unknown man, who seemed de-
termined to purchase it above all 9th
ers. After the sale he called a young
man to his side and told him that he
would give him the house. 1t was sup
posed to be joke by the young man,
who was just married, but his young
wife being summoned, the old gentle
| man explained that he was the young
| brides uncle from the West, and that
| the house was a present to her VI
course, after so happy denouement,
good time took place III the house.
A WEALTHY farmer of Stratton, Eng,
successfully pleaded his own illegiti-
macy as exempting him from liability
to support his aged mother, then in
the workhouse. The attention of the
treasury was directed to that part of
the paragraph IN which it was limited
that the defendant, William May, in
herited his uncle's property, paying
legacy duty as a nephew and not a
stranger in blood, which he would be
if not legitimate. The treasury's in
quiry has resulted in demand being
made on May for the difference be-
tween the three per cent. he paid as
nephew and ten per cent. he ought to
have paid as q 3trtoger; and they de-
mand also con uund interest Oh the
arrears from Is IS, when the uncle died,