Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-29


gland the assertion is made that Osma.
Pasha, the victor in the Plevna battle
is no other than ex-Marshal Bazaine, o5
France, who was in command at tn.
Gravelotte battle in the Franco-G Germas
| war.
GOLD at noon Saturday, in New
York, reached 104. On the 1st 4o1
March last it declined to l04s, the iow.
est point that it had then touched sinct
Juue IL, 1862, and a no time withi,
fifteen years has it been quoted lower.
We saw a mosquito work about'ten
minutes yesterday, trying to get bis bid
through the skin of a man who owes H.
two years subscriptions. How We
laughed at that demoralized little insec'
as, witha look of disgust, he folded
up his little bill, placed it in his pock-
eft, and went for another victim
Whitehall Times.
For the first time since the war oi
the Rebellion, the "American Associa-
ton for the advancement of Science"
Will lhold It's annual meeting in the south.
Nashville is the place of meeting, ane
the time for it is near at hand. The
people of that city are preparing to en-.
terrain the delegates from various paris
ct the country with hospitality. Les
US hope that at this meeting not onl,
science but national good fellowship
will be advanced.
James II. Lee, formerly resident
of Baldwinsville, died at his residence
in Oswego, N. Y, recently, of brain
fever. Early in the late war Mr.. Lee
enlisted in the navy. He had just re-
turned from a three years cruise in tIgs
Pacific Ocean. Reporting in Boston he
was selected as one Of the picked crew
of the United States steamer Kearsarse
when just to enter upon its memorable
cruise which resulted in the encounter
with and sinking of the rebel war steam
er Alabama off the coast of France.
ITALY is making preparations for
worlds fair at Rome this year, about
the same time or little later than the
Paris Exposition. For this reason
Italy has declined to lend any of her
art treasures for the Paris display
The particulars Of the plans for the
Italian Exposition have not yet been
made public, but it is supposed that
display of the creations of art in all
ages and stages will constitute its
chief feature.
AS the people seldom or never see
gold coin nowadays, it may not be par
ticuiarly interest them to know that
the officials of the Treasury Depart
ment have recently discovered two
counterfeit eagles. One, upon being
melted at the mint, yielded s72O OF
gold, while the other proved to be
made OF type metal, with thin wash
OF gold, and worth almost nothing The
people should begin to brush up their
knowledge of gold coin, for if the Re-
publican party can have its way such
coin will, at no distant day, be IN cir
culation again.
EASTERN people used to be satisfied liz
tracing resemblances to the human face
or form 10 mis- shapen masses of rock
to be seen IN various mountain resorts
but out west they so further, and tine
that natures scuIpturing represents tle.
l1kenesses OF certain personages of note.
On the road leading from the Whitman
mine to the old town of Como, New.
there is rock the profile of which has
SO singular resemblance to the profile
OF Washington that, from a certain
point of view, the most ca reless ob.
server cannot fail to note the likeness