Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-24
Personal.

PROFESSOR TRoWBRIDGE, Of Hartford
IS building steam yacht.
Mr.. MULLET has been at Atlanta, Ga,
to select a site for custom house.
DE-. BRowN-SEQUARD will not lecture
next season.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is announced to be
engaged upon new work on a subject
connected with Homer's works.
TEE library Of the late Senator Sumner
is ~ process of arrangement at Har-
ward
HE odds are said to be against Mr..
Emerson's election as Rector Of Glas-
gow University.
PRESIDENT GRANT has accepted an
invitation to dinner and balloon as
censlon at Rhinebeck, Fourth of July
Mrs. COLLINS, youngest daughter of
Charles Dickens and widow of Charles
Collins, is abont to be married to Mr..
Perugini.
MIR. GOODWIN SMITH, whom the Lon
don press denominate an ''active. phil
osophical RADICAL" is studying in the
Bodleian library at Oxford, but will re-
turn to Canada next month.
HERR KRUPP, the German gun maker.
has arranged to deliver 100 cannons per
week Until the German artillery shall
be thoroughly rearmed.
orIMsoN, Of the class of '72 in the
Yale Art School, has taken the highest
prize, $500, at the Academy of Fine
Arts, Paris.
WAGNER is attempting to restore Bee
thoven's choral symphony, and the
London critics are handling him with
out gloves.
! EX-SENATOR PoMERoY's trial is again
the subject Of conversation in Kansas.
1t is said now that it will begin some
time in June, but general impression
prevails that it will never begin at all.
Mrs. BREAD, of Sullivan county, Il
lnois, has verified the Scriptural in
junction, "Cast your bread upon the
waters etc. She cast her husband
| (Bread) into mill-pond, but he came
back unsubdued and crusty.
SENATOR SCHURz declined an offer Of
$500 to deliver his eulogy on Charles
Sumner in Loekland, Me-, on the even
ing after it's delivery in Boston, because
he ''could not accept money for Ia
Dor OF love and veneration."
ROBERT NORRIS, who died in Phila-
| delphia recently, was for over twenty
years a manufacturer of locomotives in
that city. He was rendered bankrupt
by the failing Of a bank, but on re-
Stunning business was very successful, and
acquired property valued at 81 ,3OO,0 900.
Ben. A. HILL concludes his latest re-
Joinder to Alex. II. Stephens thus
Surely this man defined himself when
he said statesman was a real dena-
| gogue. He is no sham demagogue,
and he seems to love to crafty his rul-
ing passion in the practice Of his favor
tie calling"
| TIE COUNTESS GUIcCIo11 is described
by the late Mr.. Chorley, who met her
IL 1885, as sweet, artless, earnest, IN,
tidy, very guileless Of mind, with
pear y white complexion, huge foot,
and profuse hair, the color Of a pale
! ripe nut-with all the gesticulation and
abandon OF an Italian woman, and some
thing high-bred IL spite of ALL
! In the will Of the late Countess Of
Louoloun, just proved, her ladyship, af-
ter desiring that her funeral be as quiet
as possible, goes on to say: "F'urther,
wish my right hand cut off and
buried in the park at Castle Donington
at the bend of the hill to the Trent, and
small cross Of stone over it, with the
motto, I hyde my tyne"
| The Liverpool Mercury gives a long
account Of an interview with Prince An
san, King Cofee's nephew, who is at
present in Liverpool, and who is des-
cr1bed as a very intelligent young man.
1t IS the opinion of the Prince tina the
| almost entire destruction of trade is
traceable to the irritating spirit of the
Fantees, who, under the protectorate of
the British Government, do all in their
pow er to provoke the other tribes.
JAS. E. BAGLEE, a well known bridge
builder, recently died at Rutland, Vt.
Probably his most important work was
the construction of the celebrated
Havre de Grace bridge, 5000 feet long,
across the Chesapeake Bay, between
the town of Havre de Grace and Perry
vile, Nd; he also built the longest
bridge across the Mississippi river, at
Quincy, Ill, erected two bridges on
the Air Line Railway, in Connecticut,
and put up the lower bridge across the
Hudson, at Albany.
PAUL HAYNE recently visited the
grave Of Edgar Allan Poe, IN the Pres
byterian church-yard in Baltimore, and
draws sad picture of its desolation.
The burial ground is quite uncared for,
and the grave is only marked by q little
wooden foot-board. The maidstone rep
resented in all the biographies, with it's
Latin epitaph, has never marked Poes
resting place. Soon after it was finished,
and awaiting removal from the stone-ma-
sons yard, a freight train precipitated
from track nearby, rushed through the
yard and ground the stone to powder.
VERY few persons, says the Baltimore
Gazette, know that the father of an i'm
mense anthracite trade is still living.
David Thomas, the inventor Of the
blast furnace, is the Oldest citizen of
Catasauque, on the Lehigh river. Be-
fore his time no one thought Of smelling
iron anywhere but in large cities. Mr..
Thomas began experimenting, but with
out success, until he found the merits
! of the hot blast This was II, Wales