Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-29
General Items

Guy about the crop of fruit.
LIE third session of the national ag
,lculCural congress will be held in Al
lanta' da., on the 18th of May.
BOSTON pays $142, 900 per year for
chu1cll music, when congregations stand
ready 10 sing without charging cent.
a ST. LOUIS doctor wants a divorce
from his wife because she calls him
names IN the presence of his patients.
A CINCINNATI paper says cit is
needless to COMMENT" and then COM
ments to the extent of q column.
SHAD are SO plentiful in the ST. John
river, Fla, that the farmers are buvino
them for manure.
| ROYALTY finds favor in Vermont An
editor says "Victoria makes fair kind
of speech.
ADVERTISEMENTS printed in Chinese
characters, such as are seen on the tesa
chests, are beginning to appear in the
California papers.
A GENTLEMAN in Pottsville, Pa, has
named his dog "Penny," because it
was one sent to him and has had ten
mills with the cat.
THE silk works at Seymour, Connec-
t1cut, have been purchased by Phila-
deiphla capitalists for the manufacture
OF alpaca goods.
A coLoRED man was found dead in
Arkansas county, Ark, lately, with
three dead wolves lying near him-one
Of them still in his grip.
AN Erie, Pa, man, hauled up for be-
ing drunk, escaped from being locked
up by explaining that he had been TO
his mother-in-law's wake and took fif-
teen or twenty drinks.
| HsN oRTHERN Texas is said to be adj
mirably adapted for wheat raising, and
the opening of railr Dads in that direc-
t1On Will soon make that business prof
table.
IT was in Ohio. These were his
words: 81 won't give you cent to-
ward buying new dress" A lapse of
one hour-she was found hanging in the
barn.
HE swiftest divorce on record is that
of the woman in Georgia, who last
week threw brick at dog, and killed
her husband who was standing twenty
PAGES behind her.
A STRANGER who threw a ten dollar
bill into the contribution box of a
Savannah church, got trusted for five
hundred dollars worth of goods next
day on the strenth of it.
The jewels which the Duchess of
Edinburgh brought with her to Eng
land are said to be worth So, 100000,
and include as many as one hundred
bracelets.
INDIANA having no law against cock
fighting, the roughs of Chicago invade
it's territory to carry on their sport.
The people are calling for some means
to repel the invaders.
The Ohio legislature has reconsider
ed It's action and passed the bill author
izing the cities of Toledo and Cleye-
land to issue bonds amounting to $780,
900, to pay their floating debt
The works of the California silk
manufacturing company, near San
Francisco, are to be opened this week.
The capital invested is 800, 900, and
the raw silk is to imported from Japan.
The Syracuse Courier asks: sWhere
was Mr.. DUEL when the important
votes on the currency were taken on
Thursday and Friday? We do not see
his name among his fellow imitation
lists"
JUDGE PARKER, Of the Indiana su-
preme court, has decided that colored
children are entitled to the privileges
Of the public schools, notwithstanding
me denial of that right by the state
constitution
The negro exodus from Alabama and
Georgia continues. The Montgomery
Advertiser learns that fifteen thousand
tickets for negro emigrants have been
taken up on the roads leading south
ward and westward from that city.
VERMONT sheep are noted all over the
country, and large focks are constant
ly shipped to the western states. A
few days ago a flock was sent from
Pittsford to Washington Territory, a
distance of nearly four thousand miles.
A GEORGIA paper says, 'Every vii
lage md borough in the state is pro-
jecting the erection of factories of vari-
Gus kinds. We never knew a period in
the history of Georgia when so much
money was put into manufacturing
business as at present. %
IEXARKANA, IeXas, is ABOUT seventy
five days old, built in a dense forest.
1t now numbers over two thousand in
habitants, and there are two hundred
buildings going up. It contains gen
eral ticket Office, two railroads, two ex-
press companies, two telegraph lines
and forty saloons. It is called the
Enchanted Village of the Lone Star
state.
The Toronto, Ontario, Globe is in
formed that the board of directors of
the Great Western Railway Company of
Canada, have resigned. The board re-
Gently announced half-yearly dividend
of three and three-quarters per cent,
which they afterwards reduced to two
and half per cent, and the irritation
among the stockholders resulting from
the change led to the resignation.