Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-25
Personal.

Personal.
SERGEANT BATES declines to go South.
MARYLAND has chosen a Groome for
Governor.
JEFF DAVIS says he could kill Foote
at the first fire but will he do it
MARSHAL BAzAINE is treated with
severity, and no one is allowed to visit
him.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
are to remain in st. Petersburg
throughout February.
IT is affirmed that Whitelaw Reid
will soon lead Miss Ida Greeley to the
hymeneal altar.
A HISTORY of Scottish philosophy, by
the Rev. DR.. McCosh, is announced for
publication in the autumn. 49,
NELLIE GRANT acknowledges her en-
gagement, and Will be married early in
the spring.
A YOUNG German Prince longs to
play. Benedict to Beatrice, the young
est daughter~of Queen Victoria.
LONDON papers state that Patti has
signed papers to sing in the United
States during the winter of 1876.
MARK TWAIN is credited with having,
pocketed $22, 900 out of his "Innocents
Abroad" which has sold $50, 600 copies.
A COUSIN of President James Madison,
eighty-fours years old, is now in the
Nashville CTenn.) poorhouse.
MoLIERE, Beranger, Gautier and
Taine are among the great writer's in
France who sought in vain for admis-
sion into the French Academy.
CARLYLE is described as looking
and being as wonderful in conversation
as ever.
ONE of PATHS recent presents in
Russia was canary bird of solid gold,
with pearl bill and diamond eyes. It
was life size.
SIR SAMUEL BAKER says that fire can
not advance through grass, even when
it is blowing gale, faster than six
miles an hour.
MISS BETTY BECK, daughter of Cor
gresham Beck, of Kentucky, is one of
the most admired bellies this season in
Washington.
GEN THos. A RossER is out with an
argument for towing canalboats with
locomotives, narrow gauge track to
be built on the towpath.
MARK TwA1N's last trip to England
was almost solely to take out an English
copyright for the Gilded Age. He is
all extraordinary joker.
IMAY safely say, and I am proud to
be able to say, that [ am the most
strongly and the best hated man in
Europe Bismarck to Pra1ssic,o Diet.
SPOTTED TAIL hiss fallen before the
march of civilization and occupied
box In the theatre at Cheyenne, Wy
oming, recently.
CUSHING will be given discretion to
recognize any government he wants
to, when he gets to Madrid. He thinks
seriously of trying on Don Carlos for
while.
HANGMAN FooTE has been engaged in
three affairs Of honor, and has never
been hurt yet. Perhaps it will be we'll
enough to state, also, that he has never
hurt anybody else.
A Mr.. JOHN LINDSAY, of Griffin, Ca,
takes Confederate currency at par
proceeding only to be accounted for On
the hypothesis that he contemplates
committing suicide and advancing the
plea of insanity.
COUNT DE MoNTMELAT, celebrated
French traveller, who explored Thibet
and China, died recently at Paris at
the age of II, leaving considerable
wealth. and curiOsitles Of priceless
value.
AN old grave-stone, unearthed re-
Gently on the Ohio river bank, and
bearing the inscription, Fanny W.,
$780," is exciting the curiosity of the
quid nuncs of Carrollton, Kentucky.
els MISS BLINKING at home? ?" asked
Mr.. Sanders of the Irish girl who
answered the ring at the door. eyes,
[ b'lave she is, SIR SIS she en-.
gaged2" can is it engaged you say?
Faith, an I can't tell ye, Sir but she
kissed Mr.. Vincent last evening as If
she had not seen the like Nv him, an
it's engaged b'lave they are, Sir
A CLIENT called on Mr.. Webster to
employ him to argue cause Of import
ance Mr.. Webster asked who was en-
gagged on the other side, and the client
answered, C A sleepy-looking lawyer,
named Wood F" Well" Mr.. Webster
replied, q" If George Wood is employed
against you and IS asleep, be very care
full not to wake him up"
SENATOR SUMNER has in his posses
sion gold watch which was presented
by Washington to Lafayette, after the
battle of Yorktown. Upon it is this
inscription G. Washington to Gill
bert Motier de Lafayette, in commem-
Grafton of the capitulation of Lord
CORVALLIS at Yorktown, October IL,
1791."
NELLIE WEEMAN has killed herself in
Springfield, Mass, at the age of seven
teen, because she believed that she
could not become a Christian. She
had attended revival meetings in the
Methodist Church, and the dread of
eternal punishment there aroused had
affected her mind. She was bright,
intellectual girl, but very sensitive and