Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-01-10
GENERAL NOTES.

1924, 100000.
Mr.. JEFFERSON DAVIS left his wife and
daughter in Europe.
The Duke Alexis talks of giving
America another visit soon.
INGALLS,, Senator from Kansas, writes
articles for current periodicals.
THE Russian telegraphs are 80 badly
damaged by frost, as to be useless.
EXCEPT at great festivities, the Mika-
DO OF Japan wears the European cos
tune.
CALCUTTA makes 100000 bags q
year, half of which are sent to Cali
fornia wheat growers.
PAUL VIARDoT, son of the once ex-
quisite singer, is, although only twenty
years old, a delightful violinist.
DIR. S. WELLS WILLIAMS, the accom-
plished secretary of the American Lee
cation at Pekin, China, has resigned.
JANE GOLDSMITH, grand-niece of the
clever Oliver, has just died at the
Home for the Aged, in Halifax, n. s.
ITALY has just lost one of her best
sculptors, Luccardi, the artist who won
the gold medal for his group, "The
Deluge."
"CLINGMAN of North Carolina :" is said
to possess bonanza in the gold regions
of that state. He is trying to build
railroad there.
A LONDON newsboy found $4,000
diamond, which he carried about in
his pocket for a month without know
ing it's worth.
The Carthusian monks are erecting
the largest monastery in England, near
Horsham, Essex. The style of the
building is Norman.
PARIS is suffering under the ravages
of typhoid fever, one recent victim of
the disease being Mile. Morensi, an &C
tress known in Chicago.
HOPES are now expressed that Com
modore Vanderbilt will recover. He is
much better than he was three months
ago.
Miss ELLA SIMPSON, daughter of
Bishop Simpson methodist EpiscopaD,
has just married the Rev. G. W. Budy,
a clergyman of Philadelphia.
AUSTRALIA, not to be behind the rest
of the world, will have an exposition at
Sidney early in the coming spring. So
far America has not responded.
NINE. FLORES, wife of the former
Minister f1om Ecuador at Washington,
has died at Quito. She was beautiful
woman, the daughter of a Cuban.
PAUPERIsM is making rapid strides at
Paris as we'll as at London, the number
of INDECENT people having increased
since 1874 from 114,000 to 127 200.
IT showed lately in Constantinople,
and the superstitious Turks were filled
with dismal forbodings at a phenome-
non of such rare occurrence in their
climate.
The Hon. A. H. Stephens has moved
himself and his baggage into his COM
mittee room in the Capitol, where heis
to live. He will not 60 home during
the year.
EUROPE and Africa to be connected
by tunnel under the Straits of Glib
raltar, is the latest proposition. The
part of the tunnel would be
nine miles long.
HERE lies the body of Mary Ann
Lowder; she burst while drinking a
seidlitz powder; called from this world
to her heavenly rest, she should have
waited till it efervesced.
EDWIN FORESTS "Home" at Spring
brook, is about to receive two elderly
tagging on the stage
in the persons of Messrs. William
Tomas and George G. Spear.
Mr.. BRUCE, the colored Senator from
Mississippi, is planter and native of
Virginia. He is IS years old, stout,
and black-haired, and has pleasant
saith the Rutland Herald.
ECUADOR has revolution of consid-
cradle magnitude. After late battle
1000 dead were buried. The revolu-
tionists refuse to surrender at discre-
ton and another battle is imminent.
Ex-Governor HoRATIo SEYMOUR has
been chosen president of a new his
torical association which is to be called
'The Oneida Historical Association of
Utica" Senators Conkling and Herman
are also officers of the association.
THOMAS WELD was graduated at Ear
ward in 1871, and became the first Con-
SIOStdtlOud1 l1u1SUC1 VI Dul1SOdU10, M
H., in 1856. The Indians killed him
a few years afterward, and now Nashua
is giving him a monument of Concord
granite Of feudal gothic architecture.
LAKE THRAsYMENE, near Perugia, is
rather large sheet of water, but the
engineers say its proper drainage and
reclamation fer arabic purposes is =
mere question of money. Hannibal
conferred some notoriety On this lake,
but this has nothing to do with the pro-
ject.
SMALL wonder that civil burials are
becoming fashionable in France. The
relatives of peasant near Lille have
been compelled in court to pay the fol-
lowing for his interment to the priests:
The priests, So; tolling bell, 81 20; drap-
ing the altar, So; litter, So; cloth for
signature-table, So; female mourners,
$40; burial fee, 80 cents; coffin, 50; four
bearers, $40; tapers, 1920; hearse,
$24;; ga days work, 81; total $3.50.
A TALE told of Wade Hampton. His
father, millionaire, left to each of his
two daughters, by his will, $780, 600 the
rest of the property he bequeathed to
e. kl,o Tho