Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-08
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 1874.
ALI Sorts of Notes.
DRAWING paper-The dentists bill.


Miss ANNIE LOUISE CAREY will spend
the summer in Durham, Nh, with her
sister, Mrs. j. G. Merrill.
JOSEPH S. WILSON, ex-commissioner
of the General Land Office, is dead,
aged sixty-eight years.
LONDON now has a journal called the
Lantern, which, however, resembles
Rochefort's paper only in name.
Mr.. BIERsTADT will spend the sum-
mer sketching in the White Mountain
region. He is just putting the finish
ing touches on several pictures, one
"View of Lake Tahoe"
The fashionables are commencing to
assemble at Saratoga in crowds. The
town looks pretty and gay, and the
number Of equlpages on the road to
Moons appear to increase every day.
Miss ANNE WHITNEY has finished. in
the clay, the statue of Samuel Adams,
which Massachusetts will add to the
national gallery of distinguished men.
1t is said to be noble work, the fit
commemoration of true patriot.
ALL my own experience in life teaches
me the contempt of cunning, not the
fear. The phrase profound cunning"
has always seemed to mea contradiction
In terms. never new cunning mind
which was not either shallow, or, on
some points diseased. Jameson.
WAGNER, who is now in his sixtv-first
year, has been much gratifed to hear
of the growing popularity of his music
in America. He is living this summer
in his new villa at Biareuth. He has
two new operas fully sketched out-one
entitled "Percival," stherefore another
Grail subject, and "The Victory a
Buddhistic theme.
NEWPORT begins, as country people
say, ito look something like The
majority of the habitues known as
cottagers have arrived and the stately
Ocean House opens on Saturday. The
open-air concert and the open-air fir
tations have commenced The turnouts
are numerous and quite as imposing
as ever.
IT was lately reported in Berlin that
the Grown Prince had met with an
accident while driving across the rail
way. The only ground for the report
seems to have been the simple fact that
a gate through which the Prince had
to pass was closed when the train came
III sight and, had 1t not been opened
III time, the casualty might have
happened.
TIE famous, and at the time popular,
hotel, the Danforth House, Pithole
City, Pa. which cost $4,000, was sold
few days ago for $40 note and the
furniture, which cost s., 1000, brought
less than 800. Six months after the
city was founded it had seventy-four
hotels and boarding houses, and fifteen
thousand inhabitants. Now only nine
families remain.
1t is announced that man who last
season had 5000 worth of trunks des-
troyed by the "baggage smashers'' has
had five new ones made to order and
supplied with compartments containing
five pounds each of nitro-glycerine.
He proposes to travel from Maine to
Texas, covering all the watering places
andwills have acoroner along to holdin-,
quests on the victims.
AS Congress is now fairly out of the
way, the SINNER excursions of the cabi-
net officers are in order. The Sec
rotary of War and family go to New
London for the summer; the Secretary
of the Navy and family 60 to Rye Beach;
the Secretary of the Interior and family
go to Mount Vernon; the Attorney
General and the Secretary Of the
Treasury will remain at their posts all
summer.
Miss FANNIE MACTIER SMITH, daugh-
ter of the late General Charles +.
Smith, of the United States army, was
married, on the 18th June, to Mr..
Marshall Oliver, of England. The we'd
ding was celebrated III ST. James,
Church, Philadelphia, Rev. DR., Morton,
assisted by Hon. and Rev.. Wentworth
Leigh, of England, being the officiating
clergymen. There was select assem-
blage present at the ceremony, and the
wedding was identified with considera-
BILE elegance and brilliancy. Mr.. and
Mrs. Oliver, sail for Europe next
week.
IT'S only love in cottage for poor
Nellie Grant, after all her White House
magnifcence. The president and Mrs.
Grant have received several letters
from Mrs. Sartoris. Mr.. Sartoris' only
sister, married lady, met him and his
bride at Liverpool and accompanied
bueu W hOnuOn, where, NILS. iodfGOTlS
writes, she enjoyed herself very much.
Her stay, however, was brief in Lon
don, her husband and herself going al
most Immediately to the Sartoris'
country seat, where the bride and
groom have been given a cottage on
the estate. So they are finally settled
in their own house, albeit small one,
called cottage, and Mrs. Sartoris
writes that it is covered with roses,
Our champion mean man lives in
Montgomery county. He has been
married four times. When his second
wife died, he split his first wife's tomb
stone and laid the two bodies side by
side, each with half slab. When his
last two wives departed, he placed them
in graves head to head with the first
two, SO that the split stone would do
for all four. He will not marry again