Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-06
FRESHEST GLEANINGS.

IT has been decided not to rebuild the
Southern Hotel in ST. Louis.
A SCOTTISH paper mentions that bot
tie of whisky 142 years old has been sold
at dinburgh for G40.
The Baltimore Sun is forty years old,
and has always been under one manage
ment.
A WOMAN dressed in fantastic male at
tire sells papers in the Central Park Of
New York.
A RUSSIAN colonel gets $400 year;
about as much as section man on rail-
ad.
A. GRAHAM BELL, inventor of the
speaking telephone, is a Scotchman by
birth.
GEN. WooD, now living in New Or
leans, is said to have made made 100000
by the rise in state bonds of Louisiana
In vetoing the Hoosac Tunnel bill
Gov Rice says that the tunnel has al
ready cost Massachusetts $18,000,O0O.
MANY f1our-mills have been built in
Alabama during the past twelve months,
and the wheat crop this year promises to
be very good.
Two new forts at Cologne, on the left
bank of the Rhine, are to be completed
by next autumn. The new Notifications
on the right bank will then at once be
taken in hand
A LADY's maid (enumerating her
qualifications for the place.: ~ may
likewise add, mem, that [ Railways man
age to marry my young ladies most sat-
isfactory. "-Punch.
WITH the exception of Governors
Hunt and King, all the governors of
New York elected since the adoption of
the present constitution, nearly 80 years
ago, are now living.
"BENEATH THE LOWEST DEEP
Swell: "Ah, port-ar, is this twain-ah
composed entirely Of second class
cawwaiges" Glasgow porter: Ma,
IA, mon, there's wheen third class anes
further forrit, there."-Puoch.
THERE are no less than 100000 pear
trees of the Bartlett, Duchess, Sheldon
and Vicar Of Wakefield varieties now in
vigorous growth around and about Ham
monitor, n. J.
Two Pi Utes in Newark Valley, Ne
vada, on the 9th ult., hacked each other
to pieces over a game of poker. They
fought with knives for half an hour,
surrounded by ring of Indians none Of
whom dared to interfere. The only re-
mark of the survivor, who shortly after
ward died, was: " Heap cut; heap deadp'
The first fly Of the season dropped in
to see us last night. He dropped in by
way Of the lamp chimney. Having neg
lected to ring the door bell, the first hint
we had of his presence was when he
screamed bloody murder and began gal
Looping around ON the inside of the CHM
ney, yelling for fire escape. He had a
warm recepticn.-OI City Derrick.
The printers of Portsmouth having
conceived the project of erecting a mon
ument to Charles Dickens in his native
town, applied to the queen for her pat
ronge; and her majesty has felt compelled
to decline, stating that she has never as
sisted in paying such mark Of honor to
any person-with, of course, one illustri-
Gus exception.
A REMARKABLE suicide has just been
committee at Kintbury, Berks. A young
woman named Emma Fisher being dis
appointed in love, epoisoned herself
with salts of lemon, and was discovered
laid out on her bed, having on a clean
night dress and her chin tied up with
handkerchief. Her hands were also
crossed over her breast.
THE old king of Gaboon, in Africa, is
dead, at the age of nearly one hundred.
His eldest son, Adaude, at once, on sue
ceeding him, cashiered the hundred
women CT his fathers haren, iberating
fifty slaves, and abolishing the sacrifice
of human beings at religious rites.
Admiral Ribaut and staff, of the French
squadron in the gulf of Guinea, assisted
at deterioration ceremonies. The adj
miral gave the king cow and a bull by
way of starting herd of cattle for his
majesty.
WHILE bartenders are closing up their
drinking saloons in the East, they are
encouraging the tipplers to further &C
tivity in the West. A Santa Barbara
(Cal.) saloon keeper offers to every one
takes drink numbered ticket. Every
time a drink is taken new number is
given. At the end of the month the
numbers are put into a lottery wheel,
i and the lucky number draws $25. Of
course the topper who has the largest
number of tickets is supposed to have
: the best chance tor go.
A BoY Of seventeen and a girl Of fif-
teen went from Kentucky, where the
law requires parental consent for the
marriage Of minors, across the river to
Cincinnati, where they were able to get
a license and have the ceremony per-
formed. They had been married about
an hour, when the BRIDES father arrived;
bu+ being unable to detain the couple,
!, he had the boy arrested ON a charge OF
larceny in stealing the girls clothing.
Then the groom's father came, and be-
came the young peoples friend in need
by giving bail.