Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-04
Personal.

JOSEPH ARCH has been invited to visit
New Zealand. s
HE Due d'Aumale's ,rOspects are
Frightening little.
CYRUS W. FIELD has gone on q two
months trip to Europe.
Gov. HARTRANFT only sent in eighty
vetoes when the Legislature assembled.
SENATOR Booth is mentioned as a
candidate for President in 1876.
BEEoHER will probably give the stu
dents of Yale College another course of
lectures.
JEEF DAVIS has still another sister
Mrs. Amanda Bradford, now visiting at
Vicksburg.
MICHIGAN has another woman editor
Mrs. G. P. Sanford, of the Lansing
Journal.
MRS. SHoREY has served on the
School Committee of Lynn, Mass, for
number of years.
THE Archbishop of Santiago declares
that female voices in the choir are
dangerous to true piety and devotion.
Miss BATES, of Indianapolis, recently
deceased, has bequeathed $780, 200 to
the city poor.
BONNER is said to be sick because
Dexter's time has been beaten, and he
wants tie sell the faded equine.
A PORTRAIT of Chief Justice Wood. of
New Hampshire, now dead. has been
promised for the State Library.
VIscoUNT TARBAT, who is visiting
Washington, is the second son of the
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, and
is the heir to his mothers title and es-
tate.
The Lake Champlain Steamboat
Company will ask Congress to change
the name Of the ''Oakes Ames" to the
Cham plain"
BISHOP DUBOIS, of Galveston, Texas,
is about to leave France, where he has
resided for some time past, and return
to his diocese.
The Protestants of Madrid express
deep regrets for their pastor, Don An,
tonic Carrasco, who was lost in the
Vile du Havre.
The marriage of Mr.. Henry Clews,
the New York banker, to Miss Lucy
Worthington, will be solemnized in a
few days at KeoEuk, Iowa.
DEAK, the Hungarian patriot, wants
to retire from public life, on account
of his health, but his party won't let
him.
The letter of Caleb Gushing to Jeff.
Davis was found among the rebel
archives for which S75, 900 was paid by
the government nearl y two years ago,
to one Pickett, who had them in Can
ada in safe keeping, pending the last
election.
REvERpY JOHNSON has been retained
by Atty. Gen. Williams as special as
sistant to the Attorney General in con-
troversies between the government and
the various telegraph companies. The
Baltimore Sun announces that he took
the oath required by law of district at
torneys on Thursday last.
Mrs. HENRY KEEP, widow of the late
Henry Keep, President Of the New York
Central Railroad, was married in New
York to Judge Shelley, of Georgia.
The Judge is man of high standing
and ample fortune.
MRS. PHOEBE STRICKLAND, of New
London, Ct; attained to her Tooth
year Monday, the 10Th. She received
many calls from the young and old.
She has four children living, the young
est of whom is 70.
GEN. JAMES W. Hustled, Speaker of
the New York Legislature, received at
his residence in Peekskill package
which he suspected was an Internal
machine, and which was therefore an
chored over night in the cistern. It
was a box of cigars.
GOVERNOR BOOTH, of California, Will
not resign his Office in consequence of
his election to the United States Sen
ate, as he will not take his seat at
Washington until 1874, and he is
thought necessary to thwart anticipated
railroad schemes in the Legislature.
Ex-Gov. HENRY 81. WELLS of Vir-
ginia, now a resident of Washington
City, has instituted suit in the Circuit
Court at Richmond against Rush Bur-
CESS, ESQ.,, Collector of Internal Rev
enue, for 81, 900 damages, sustained by
him in having to pay the United States
of the State. This is understood to
be test case, and consequently in
wolves very large amount of money.
The late James Fisk, jr, was sup
ping one night at table in the st.
James Hotel in Boston, when Miss
Elise Holt, the English coincidence,
came in with her husband. Miss Holt,
extending the castors to the gallant
colonel, inquired, "What will you ave
with your am, Mr.. Fisk?" s'Thank
you" replied the gallant colonel, "Ill
take an h, if you please" Then he
gave her an engagement, which con-
soled her.
AMONG the prominent survivors of
Mr.. Cushing's class at Harvard may be
named George B. Emerson, Stephen
Salisbury, Alva Woods, Charles II.
Warren. Samuel E. Sewall, J. D. Green,
David Lee Child, Stephen A. Tying,
and George Bancroft-quite strong