Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-08
General Items.


of Strawberries in three weeks.
A Belvidere, Vt, girl, Is years old,
carried on sugar orchard, all alone,
last Spring.
ONE Coolidgein Boston has beenfned
$40 for selling ten barrels of decayed
green peas.
The ladies of Providence, r. l., (God
bless them), are about to establish q
Home for Aged Men.
A GIRL on trial at Boston for ste aling
an apple, the other day, was so weak
from lack of food that she tainted in
the courtroom.
A HAPPY mali is Adelbert Harrington,
Of Sherburne, n. Y, for he has heifer
only two years old and daily yielding
29g pounds Of milk.
A BosToN millionaire lately offered a
man who had stopped his runaway
horse and saved his daughters life the
handsome sum of 50. so.
Work has been inaugurated on the
is the terminus of the Northern Pacific
railroad, and-need it be added-the
"Chicago Of the Pacifc.'
A NEW clothes-line was contributed to
the Mill river relief fund by Boston
lady, and it was labeled: "To be used
in hanging the contractors who built
the reservoir"
ARTICLES presented to Mrs. Fife
Ellsler, a favorite actress, in Cleveland:
One pair of diamond ear-drops, one
beautifully bound prayer-book, one
bronze group Of Romeo and Juliet.
A BLAcKBIRD with three legs has been
caught in Belvidere and presented to
the seminary. He died soon after his
capture, so that, notwithstanding his
three legs, he didn't make any remark
able time after all.
The secretary of the Kansas Board Of
Agriculture Indignantly denies in print
that chinch bugs are there doing any
damage worthy of note, constitutional
grumblers and item gatherers to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
ALFRED MARTIN, of Cambridge, Me-,
was in his barn the other day when the
edifice was taken up by gentle whirl-
wind into the air distance of 100 feet,
and then waited two miles into swamp.
Mr.. Martin was uninjured by this aerial
voyage.
The Hartford people think Mark
Twain is embodying a good deal of
his humor in the house he is building
on Pennington avenue, in that city. It
is OF brick, and is curiousiy broken up
by varandas, balconies, etc. It will
cost, unfurnished, over 100000.
The Indians have vanquished the
whites again in Oregon. A Pendleton
paper says: "a foot-race between an
Indian and white man came off re-
Gently on the race-track east of town.
The noble red man of the forest beat
the Caucasian several yards, whereat
the red skins in attendance were highly
elated, and manifested their Joy by
whooping and yelling, and hearty each
nations.
A CoLoRED man has graduated at the
Yale theological school, this year, and
full blooded African took his degree
in the academic department. About 40
years ago, colored man asked the fac
ulty if they would receive him as a
student, and they said they would con-
slider his case and give him reply, but
he has never heard from them on the
subject. His son, however, graduated
from the medical department in 1857.
SILVER IsLEr, in Lake Superior, con-
tlnues to "pan out P" remarkably rich.
Within short time new discoveries
have been made Of silver on the fifth
and sixth level, the latter being the
present bottom of the mine. The oreis
said to be yielding $1,000 to the ton.
These recent discoveries have greatly
increased the excitement in reference
to this mine. The company owns the
shore to the extent of five miles, run
ming back to a distance of two miles.
which is all of the island that is valu-
able.
ONE Of the most pleasing results of
the pacitcatlon Of Mexico is the devel-
opment of the cotton-producing indus
try III that country. A letter from Aca-
pulco says: "Several new cotton-mills
have been started in the states of Mic
hoacan, Jalisco, Sinaloa, and Sonora,
the demand for cotton has increased,
and all our stock has been shipped in
that direction, giving occupation to
most Of the Mexican coasters, the num-
Der OF which has been largely increased.
In former years foreign craft partici-
pated good deal in this trade, by
special permit of the respective custom
houses"
The wheat crop of California is now
nearly all harvested. The San Joaquin
Valley Argus, published in the heart of
the wheat-growing region says: $50
far, we have heard of no wheat being
put upon the market at this place, the
fo1,,
on for better prices than are nowohered
Tor the new crop. In San Francisco.
new wheat is quoted nominally at $l.65
to $l.7O, and old wheat for milling at
81. 81. The crop this year will far e1-
coed that of any past year, and as the
farmers are in better fix for holding ON
to their grain, good prices will be real
lied as soon as the shipping season
fairly commences.