Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-19

| fort, Ky., inticting severe injuries.
IT is the purpose of the President to bring
every applicant for Office under the operations
OF the civil service rules. It is said that this
determination has had ver7 depressing
effect on the ofice-seeking gentlemen now at
Washington.
TIRE at New York on Monday evening de-
stroyed buildings Nos. 35 and 81 Yesy street,
occupied by the American and United States
Tea Companies, and the Office of the Christian
Leader, causing a loss of 100000.
Mrs. BETsEY WALwoRTH, of Lowell, Mass.
wassfound dead on Thursday with her head
submerged in tub of water, in which she
had been washing clothes
4 LIE New York Senate has refused to declare
Tweed's seat vacant. 10
THE number of hogs packed in Cincinnati
this season is about four thousand less than
last year.
J. P. PAGE, Pomeroy's banker, has brought
suit against York and the state officers of
Kansas, for the possession of the $1,000 which
York failed to prove to be bribe
| The following bills failed of enactment, and
died at the adjournment of Congress, on Tues
day The bills defining the rights of settlers
on public lands, the bill amendatory Of the
shipping commissioners act the bill to pro-
hibit discrimination in railroad charges.
TERRE HAUrE has little excitement over
the postmastership, and the Republicans have
been requested to decide the matter by an
election.
AN accident occurred on the Indiana Central
Railroad near Delphi, by which two cars full
of cattle and horses and five cars of grain and
merchandise were burned.
HIcKEN and Campbell punished each other
in the prize-ring at Golfers Station, ". Y,
on Monday. The fun broke up in row, and
pistols and knives were drawn.
| HoLLIs's wool-pulling establishment at
Watertown, Mass, was burned Sunday. Loss
s75, 600
THE Republicans carried the charter election
at Clinton, Iowa, on Tuesday. -i5
Y The Germans of st. Joseph, Mo-, are maxi
ing extensive preparations for the sangerfesa
| to be held there the last of May.
CHAs. F. DURANT, the fam Gus aeronaut,
| died on Sunday at his residence in Jersey City.
| CAPT. OSCAR C. PRATT, recently connected
with the Cincinnati Enquirer, Sioux City
Times, Omaha Bee and st. Joseph Herald,
suicided at Omaha On Saturday.
| The imported stallion Prince Imperial was
sold at West Chester, Pa, on Friday last, f6r
S21, 900.
MANY important changes have taken place
in the Philadelphia Custom-house. Eighteen
/ inspectors, the superintendent Of warehouses,
and other positions, have been declared va
cant. The change causes much dissatisfac-
! tiCn among the politicians.
| ABLoCK of three-story buildings in Louis
vile were destroyed by fire a few days since.
Loss s25, 600. e..z-s f.
LEE II. -GUoEG, a Chinese merchant and
court interpreter, of Sacramento, was cruelty
murdered by one of his countrymen in that
city. The murderer escaped.
Abroad.
APAR1s dispatch says the illness OF Prssi-
dent Theirs occasions some alarm.
! CARDINAL CULLEN has issued a pastoral let
| ter denouncing the Irish university bill.
THERE are strong hopes that the strike in
South Wales viii soon be completely ended.
The men have refused work in several places.
GERMANY refuses to evacuate Belfort until
the payment of the war Indemnity is COM
pleted by France. shNfks#
THE Spanish Assembly has decided to con-
slider the bill for the dissolution of that body.
II is stated that the Carlst forces in Spain
donot number more than ten or twelve thou
sand men. E-ss-.A .szEEAs4
CAPTAIN CURRY, OF the American vessel Al
gonna, carried away from Antwerp by force
seven sailors belonging to the French-s choon-
er LAfricaine s.t.ttELt#tEEkA
AT meeting of the Royal Institution of
Great Britain, Tuesday night, resolutions
were unanimously adopted congratulating
Prof. TyndaH on his success in his visit to the
United States. 3 MAMMA
The steamship City of Brussels lost her
rudder at sea, and has been towed to Liver
pool for repairs. h.s
The naturalization treaty between Germany
and the United Stotes viii probably be amend
ed so as to provide that Germans who have re-
turned from America and remained two years
at home, shall be considered to have re-
nounced their rights as naturalized American
citizens.
LONDON kilograms annouce the daath Of
YiscounT Assington, John Evelyn Denison,s
formerly Speaker Of the House of Commons,
y.
member from Tione.
The French government has thus far paid
Germany three and a half billions of francs on
account Of the war indemnity. IT
THE London police on Friday arrested wo-
man giving the name of Ellen Burnham,
known to be an accompIice and paramount of
Warren, principal in the heavy forgeries Of
the Bank of England S13, SO was found in her
apartments, which she said was not hers.
The Canada Southern Railway Company
have determined to tunnel under the Detroit
river at Trenton, and have already commenced
operations. They have sunk a shaft at Stony
Island, and working on it with all the men
that can be employed. The ndications are
limestone rock the whole distance The
shaft has already been sunk into a stratum of
such rock.
The dinner given by Minister Bancroft, in
Berlin, on Inauguration day, was d fne affair
Minister Bancroft presided. At his right sat
Prince Bismarck The Diplomatic Corps was
represented by its principal members Among
the distinguished guests were Councillor Won
Philipsborn and Herr Won Greist. Director of
the Universities. The toast to the President
of the United States was offered by Prince
Bismarck, and!N[r Bancroft gave the health of
the German Emperor.
AN authenticated rumor is afoat that the
Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise had
separated because of incompatibihty Of tenn
per, and that the Princess was in elgious
retreat near Windsor and the Marquis gone
abroad.
THEIRS has recognized the belligerent
rights of the Carlists in Spain. The impress
sion grows in London that Don Carlos will
succeed.
FRANCES arsenals are now replenished, and
all material lost during the war with Germany
has been replaced.
IT is now believed the frauds on the Bank
of England reached million dollars.
A SPECIAL correspondent writes from Madrid
that decree abolshing slavery in Porto Rico
is impending, and that one of the first acts Of
Tlna