Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-22
General Items.

| CASTELAR, has written aSpanish novel.
A WEEK conclusion Saturday night.
| SWISS landlords talk of raising their
prices this year. lead % =
| THE tariff on patent medicines-A
" specific duty. ~, 's.a ......w
CHANFRAU has bought q new drama of
A SEAL ring.-The American Fur
Company.-C Com. Adv.
q JEFF DAVIS is in England. His health
and reputation are poor. ,..-r
IHE Canadian militia cost over twelve
hundred thousand dollars last year.
BISHOP CoLENso says he has no faith
whatever IN the revelations of spirit
ualism.
If we were President Grant we would
0 x1Ou8 initiation, but would give a V to
stop it.
Gle PRINCE INVASION "" is the
latest Partisan title for the son of Eu-
genie.
MoTTo of the whisky crusaders
"!The horn of the ungodly shall be put (
down r.m .a - -rff.... -
A "LADIEs' Solitaire Diamond Ring
Gift Matinee" has been exciting New
Orleans. " '""o'
PHILADELPHIA has thirteen Aldermen
who have never been accused of corrup-
zion.
Our remaining Senator is much bet
term fact "Bout-well" This is a
Graphic account.
The anti-slavery party having ac-
complished its purpose, would it not be
well to form an anti-slavery party?
The Governor of California has dis
approved the bill cutting off Vallejo and
Robson snavy yard from Solano county.
BREWER, a cloth manufacturer of Ho-
linfrith, England, had to pay $500 for
forgetting his promise to marry bar
maid. aa .#.. -
PRESIDENT ELLIOT of Harvard Univer-
sity has been made much of in England
He has spent most of his time at Oxford
and Cambridge. ~" #A
The Bald Mountain is said to have
been gotten up by Illicit distillers to
Illustrate raid by the revenue depart
ment. They succeeded.
The Rhode Island House of Repre-
sentatives passed bills providing for
woman suffrage and prohibition, and
the Senate rejected both measures.
The surgeon in charge of Port Blair,
a penal settlement of british India, says
that the oil of a tree called gurjum has
edevery case of leprosy under his care
PRESIDENT GRANTS cottage at Long
Branch is being enlarged and renovat-
ed, and will be occupied by the Presi-
dent and his family about the middle of
June. q. s...-....e .r
i, SHAD. are so plentiful on the St.
Johns, Fla, that they can be had at
five cents each, or one dollar per bar
rel Farmers are buying them for
manure.
AT a recent trial at Paw Paw (1Iich.)
little boy swore that his father gave
him ten dollars to swear falsely, that
he might escape the punishment for his
crime.
We see it stated that it will take at
least twenty years more to build the
spires Of Cologne Cathedral to the
required altitude of 600 feet This is
the first time our suspicious have been
aroused that Mullet had anything to do
with the spires of the Cologne Cathe-
dral. Brooklyn Aryus. 2. ....
WILD coffee bushes are plentiful in
Amador and other counties Of Califor-
MIA. The berries are known to the
settlers as 8" cat berries" but are in
every respect similar to the coffee of
commerce. A Colombian consul, who
is intimately acquainted with the cult
walton of coffee in South America, is
confident that the shrub is the genuine
coffee plant, and capable of producing
under cultivation superior quality of
coffee -" 70 ~
A SINGULAR tragedy of the late war
has been brought to light by the return
of Thomas Clark to his family in John
sonville, Rensselaer, county. Clark was
a doctor, and deserted his family about
the opening of the rebellion. He enter
ed the army and was reported to have
been shot for desertion. His tomb,
marked by pine board, had been seen
near Union Mills, Va, by johnson
vile man. After fourteen years of ab-
sence Clark has reappeared in his native
town. He is surgeon of a Liverpool
steamer He says that the night before
the execution he changed clothes with
comrade and escaped. The comrade,
less lucky, was shot in Clark's place.
The way the money goes is shown in
the case of the late Legrand Lockwood's
marble palace and forty ACRES of finely
ornamented grounds, in Norwalk, Con-
necticut, now offered for sale for less
than $50, 900, the cost of which was be-
tween So, 100000 and 100000 There
are doors which cost So, 900 each, a bill
liard-room that cost $4,000, 40 rooms
gorgeously decorated with polished
marble, lnlaid woodwork, frescoes, &C.,
and no two rooms alike and then there
are the conseryotories, stables, porter's
lodge and other buildings, all on the
same extravagant scale.
The richest man in Australia, Mr..
William John Turner Clark, died at his
residence, Rosemeath, Essendon, o.
Jan. Ii, in the 73d year of his age. Nj