Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-02-26
General Items.

LID you ever stop 10 tIllnk tnaG bnere
are fifteen distinct varieties Of feas
San Francisco mechanics and manu-
facturers are sending out articles for
exhibition at the fair in Hioga, Japan,
! in March
: A RESIDENT of Putnam Valley On.
: Y }, who. brought suit tor a small cleo
e tion bet, before a jury, recovered the
L whole amoTnt, with costs.
; THE Quincy copper mine has declar-
: ed dividend of five dollars per share,
5 or 800, 0O0 from the earnings Of the
$ mine for 1872.
/ THE Big Sandy Herald says that the
e cliffs in The rear of Vanceburg, KY,
: five hundred feet above the Ohio river,
are impregnated with alum.
} The New York Herald diIates upon
what it calls the insecurity of English
built steamers, especially those of
lean, long, lank models,
AMONG those who propose to leave
Germany this year for the United
States are 10000 tobacco growers and
f II, 900 wine growers.
THE fusion which passes into the
sewers of the forty three cities of this
country is estimated to have an annual
cash value of over S14, 900, 600.
GAR1BA1DI is said to be writing
; novel entitled EThe Hyena of Paris y
, the title to which, report speaks, as
referring ungallantly to the Empress
of the French.
GEORGIA proposes to buy Stone
} mountain and build penitentiary, at
the same time selling enough granite
to New Orleans-$2, 900, 900 worth-to
pay the cost.
Two YOUNG men of Dover, n. H.,
, went ceiling last week and caught, in
one day, 700 pounds of snakes"
which readily commanded twelve cents
per pound.
: A DRUNKEN fool made a sandwich of
a five dollar bill and a piece of bread
in Kansas City a day or two since, and
ate it amid the plaudits Of the specta-
tors, who thought A. L. Stewart was in
town.
The United Presbyterian Church of
Edinburg, Scotland, communicated
a member and an elder who entertain
ed conscientious scruples against par
taking Of Intoxicating wine at the COM
munion table.
THERE is Bible nearly 100 years
old in the railroad depot at Salem,
Mass. Il is two feet square, and was
the gift of an old gentleman who wish
ed it to be "placed where it would do
the most good
NUMBERS of cattle and sheep are re-
ported dying in Susquehanna county,
Pa, from what is believed to be hydro
phobia and some persons are thought
to have also endangered their lives by
treating the diseased animals without
suspecting the malady.
The newspaper press of free Ger
manyis forbidden TO publish the Pope's
unfavorable comments on the Teutonic
Government under pain of immediate
suppression.
AN elopement extraordinary occurred
at Newton, Miss, last week Cynthia
Waltmann, white servant girl, ran
away with Elias Chapman, black
forty fve-year-old negro. They were
married in the lower part OF Newton
county.
At the cold Horse sale'' Of Wells,
Fargo & Co., in San Francisco, recent
ly, a woman purchased q package for
one dollar, which on being opened wa S
found TO contain an elegant. black silk
dress in the pocket Of which was a So
lid gold brooch and large pearl ring.
NoTaING makes o Minnesota husband
so mad as to fill his boots with buck
wheat cakes in the raw, and then laugh
at him when he pulls them on. Mrs.
Smith, of Winona, Will indorse this
statement SIS soon as the swelling in her
nose subsidies sufficiently to enable her
to read.
THE administrator of the estate of
Howard Crittenden, who was shot by
Mrs. Fair at San Francisco has
brought suit against the Phoenix Mu.
tual Life Insurance Company of Hart
ford to recover $40, 600 on life policy.
The plaintiff alleges in his complaint
that the policy of insurance is concealed
from his observation, so that he is un-
able to state the date of the policy or
the amount of the premium.
A CURIOUS SCENE was presented in
Montreal, last Wednesday night, when
five snow-shoe clubs mustered their
full force and formed torchlight pro-
cession over the &C Mountain !" in honor
of Lord and Lady Dufferin There
were hundreds of loyal and strong
limbed Canadians In the lines, and the
torchlights, reflected by the snow,
made very brilliant spectacle. Ar
rived at their destination, the snow
shoers were welcomed with rockets, an
illumination, supper, and speeches.
THERE is o new romance connected
with Sir Roger Tichborne, confirmed
by the Australian journals, to the effect
that the said Sir Roger, under assumed
names, was twice married while living
in Australia, and is buried in Windsor,
beside his first wife. 4 woman now
! living claims to be his widow. She
has q photograph of him, and also
of members of his family The only
way in which Mr. Tichborne can now
be used by the paragraphist is in
changing him nurse.
| LONDON has murder sensation
which is in some respects parallel to
| that Of Helen Jewett, which SO excited,
! New York many years ago. The VIC
| tim was an actress IN music hall, and
her name was Clara Burton. She oe-
cupied apartments at Great Cornet
street, Russell square, and was found
in her bed, On Christmas day, with her
! throat cut. A German who had been
visiting her was the last person known
to have been with her, but there is no
report OF his arrest.
A SIXTH Atlantic cable is being can
yassed for among capitalists in Eng
land to be laid from Liverpool to New
York direct, 5000 miles, at cost of
$4,000, 900. A new French cable, for
which the money has already been
subscribed, is to be 500 miles shorter,
and is to possess a carrying capacity of
twentv-seven words per minute, which
is said TO be double that which can
possibly be obtained by single direct
line of $500 miles, the ascertained
fact being that after the first LOCO
miles the resistance of the cable is i'm
meDsely increased.
The london Times has q half column