Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-30
Personal.

HcTSOUAls
REV. DIR. J. P. NEWMAN, of w ash
gton, and lady, are in London.
Mrs. HAMILTON, of Boston, has paint
ed portrait of Professor Agassiz, which
is highly esteemed.
The daughter of the late President
Juarez, of Mexico, is to marry an
American.
SIR WILLIAM JARD1NE, the distin-
guished naturalist, died recently IN
Scotland. w.
The estate of the late Ezra Cornell, it
is thought, will exceed in the aggregate
81, 100000.
POWERS, the sculptor, has nearly COM
pleted his bust of Whittier, and will
send it to Boston from Rome in Jan
uary.
HE 'Porter to the Great Seal''-
the functionary who operates the great
seal of England-uses four hundred
weight of wax per month.
Rev. w. H. H. MURRAY, proposes to
go west on lecturing tour. About
800, 900 have already been pledged to-
ward his new church scheme.
A YOUNG jockey in California, who
has ridden horses in several races dur
ing the past two years proves to be a
girl.
MRS. FITZGERALD, of San Antonio,
Tex, has set an example to her sex by
taking contract to grade nineteen
miles of railroad
CHURCH and State are united at Mont
gomery, Ala, where a Mr.. Cardinal has
been appointed janitor of the State
House. ...r. ...p-#
AN increase in the number of divorces
in England is attributed to higher
wages for people could not previously
save enoug h money to pay lawyers. 81
A LATE New Orleans paper tells us
that '' the family of the late Captain
Fry, OF Virgi'ajats fame, is reported in
a pitiable condition and in danger. of
starving. The mother and seven chill
dren are destitute.
FRANK LESLIE has just bought 100
acres of land located at the foot of Sar
atoga Lake, and contemplates improv-
ing it this winter, in addition to beauti-
flying his other valuable property sit
uated at this famous summer resort
Mr.. RICHARD ROGERS, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, residing in
Phenixville, Penn, is now ninety-fve
years of age, and is still active and Wig
orous. He has been a minister of the
Gospel for more than half century.
The Oldest living Yale graduate is
Rev. Thomas Williams, of Providence,
r. l., who graduated in the class Of
1900, and is now pastor of the COngre
gational church at Foxboro, Mass, and
for eleven years has been the only sur
vivor of his class.
WILLIAM KUPP, who died at Douglas
vile, Pa, recently, was probably the
heaviest man in the United States,
weighing $50 pounds, and measuring
twenty nine inches around the calf of
the leg. He was five feet eight inches
in height, twenty-one years old and
very handsome. rr a. .--.--r.~
IT is understood that NJ. Welt will be
asked to renounce his claim for the
honor of President of the Swiss Con-
federation for 1875, in order that he
may continue the work of military Or
ganization commenced under his super
intendence.
Mrs. ELIZABETH JENKINS, mother of
the late Mrs. Surratt, and aunt Of Capt.
Webster, of the police force of Alexan-
.dria, lady upward of eighty years of
age, met with an accident at her home,
near Surrattsville, last week, by which
she had an arm broken and received
other serious injuries. avian
Two Davenport girls attempted the
other day to discover what men find SO
attractive in cigars and whisky. Retir-
ing to their bedroom they prepared
themselves for the spree, but brought
the experiment to final by trying the
cigars first. .. ...,. .,...-..4.r-
Mrs. POLLY BICKFORD died at North
Wakefield, Me-, recently, wanting only
one day of being los years of age. She
had retained her mental powers in re-
markable degree until within few
weeks, and, though finally obliged to
wear spectacles, has been able to leave
them off for ten years past.
PROF. Ho1MER B. SPRAGUE, who,
upon the opening of Cornell University,
occupied the chair of Elocution and
English Literature, which he resigned
at the end of the second year to accept
the principalship of the Adelphi Acad-
envy, Brooklyn, has now received and
accepted an appointment to the Profess
sorship of English Literature and Bellies
Lettres in Princeton College.
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