Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-02
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

AN effort is being made to organize
Loan and Building Association in Eau
Claire
NEARLY half of thhe Rock county
farmers are buying their four.-Ja,aes-
ville Gazette.
N. BOWERS, of West Depere, contem-
plates removing his saw mill to the
northern portion of Outagamie county.
The farmers say that clover has come
through the winter in splendid condi-
ton.
HE Seniors, of Beloit College, have
engaged Miss Julia Rive and Bach's Or
chestra, of this city, for their concert.
BASE BALL has broke out in Durand
in violent form and promises to be-
come evidemic.
THREE hundred citizens of Eau Claire
spent several days IN searching the
woods for Miss Compton, who disappear
ed so suddenly.
THE water in the Wolf River is re-
markedly low for this season Of the year,
and much difficulty will be experienced
in driving logs.
GRADING on the Fond du Lac, Peoria
q AmbOy narrow gauge road has been
commenced. James Flynn has already
been secured as locomotive engineer.
Two GAINESVILLE brothers-in-law, John
Graham and Paul Meagher, got into a
quarrel, and it cost $47 80 to settle the
difficulty. Graham had to give bonds to
the amount of 5000 to keep the peace.
THE citizens of Green Bay are desir-
Gus of having the Wisconsin Central run
their morning passenger from Green Bay
to Milwaukee in three hours, so that
they needn't get up before 7 A. M.
UPWARDS of two hundred stuffed birds
of different varieties, prepared by Prof.
Kumlein, of Busseyville, have lately been
added to the cabinet of the State Normal
School at Platteville.
A LITTLE daughter of Peter Girnau,
Eau Claire, was severely burned Friday,
her clothing having caught fire while
playing with other, children near brush
fires.
ACCORDING to a law passed last winter,
the sheriff receives for selling real estate,
under any decree of court, where the
amount does not exceed 81 900, SO, ex--
ceeding s., 1000, $15.
in Fort Atkinson one day last week,
having assembled to see Grant and Sher-
idan, who were rel orted to be on their
way to Black Hawk Island to shoot
ducks. ..-s.
THE Geneva Lake Herald thinks that
on account of the action of the Board
in deciding to grant no licenses, the tip
lers will have to take many trips on the
lake boats to secure taste of their ia
vorite beverages at more Incorporate
places. 1851 sEgdssH
DURING the past year $4,000 has
been expended in Improvements in
Waukesha. From quiet, "dead-and-
alive place of 1900 inhabitants, it has
grown in the past seven years to place
of 1900 to 5000 inhabitants. Business
of all kinds has increased greatly, and it
is as lively a rural village as can be
found in the state,
The Ahnapee Record says: The far
mer matrons of Kewaunee county help
their husbands do the logging, blowing,
planting harvesting, and cut cordwood
and ties in the winter, and haul it to
town with oxen! When such energy as
this is shown by the females, can it be
wondered at that we have one of the
most thrifty of farm communities?
The steamer Lyon, Captain II. G.
Wilcox, plying between Wabasha, Beef
Slough, and Alma, struck snag on the
up trip at II A. M on Wednesday last,
near the mouth to the cut off to Beef
Slough. She was run to the shore and
sunk with about two feet Of water over
the lower deck on the larboard side. She
was struck under the boiler, and hole
five or six feet opened. No one injured.
The steamer Clyde, with barges, ETC.,
went down and raised her and took her to
the boatyard at Wabasha for repairs.
The Waukesha Plaindeazer was sent
over six years to ]. Knapp, Sullivan, JEFF
ferson county, An attempt was made
lately to collect the subscri ption, $3.50,
when the following answer was received:
In HEAVEN, April 9, 1877.
GENTLEMEN AS | have been dead now
over four years, you will have to look to
some one else for the above amount.
Yours with respect.
A GENUINE five dollar gold piece was
taken at the post Office by one of the
clerks last Saturday in payment for
stamps, the person paying it out sup
posing it to be a cent, as did the clerk
also until he had given it more care
full inspection and discovered it's real
value. On Monday the old gentleman
of whom it was received told Of what he
had done and he said that he had not
such piece of money for years, and if
he had paid it out he taken it in at that
valuation. And now the question is,
how long has that cent been going around
Whitewater as copper cent White
aOater Register.
In the summer of 1878, Henry G..
Woodwork, law student, "mysteri-
ously disappeared" from Oshkosh, for
getting to settle a number of accounts,
including large board bill, and leaving
young wife in an interesting condition,
and in the midst of strangers. Suisse
quently, his wife joined him in Philadel-
phia. A few days ago she wrote to par
ties in the city who had aided her that
her husband has been furnished quarters
in the penitentiary for two years, for
stealing.