Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-02-13
Dodge County Items.

The following are among the list Of Petit
Jurors for the coming term of the Dodge
ounty Circuit Court:
W D. Stack, Emmett.
Patrick Burke, aud Adam Snder, Shields
Henry Linderman and James Moran, ely
man.
Andrew Corey, Lowell.
August Wagner, Hustsford.
1t is reported that Mr.. B. s. Hart. Of
Hustisford, claims $1,000 damages from
James Webster, Of Eliza, Dodge county, al
leging that sheep-rot was communicated to
his flock FROM three sheep purchased of the
latter two years ago last October. The case
is to be tried by arbitra ton in Lowell on
the 9th inst
ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES AT NEosHo.-On
Tuesday evening the 9Th inst. the Lodge
OF Good Templars in this village celebrated
its Eighteenth Anniversary, by a public
meeting in the NJ. E. Church, addressed by
/. D, Kanouse, of Watertown, and the read
ing of historical sketch OF the Lodge
Since the institution OF the Lodge, there
have been six hundred aud eighty members
OF this number who have taken the "Iron
Clad total Abstinence vow of this society,
only eleven have been known to violate
their pledge. What society can show greater
bers? Among the membership there have
been, and still are, many of the hes. citizens
Of Neosbo and vicinity. The esteem in which
the society is held by the people of our
neighboring village, may be judged by the
fact that the church was filled to its utmost
capacity with attentive and enthusiastic au-
ditors. An oyster supper at the society
hail. was the finale to a very pleasant an
niversary exercise.
NOBLE RELIC OF ''YE OLDEN TIMES -
Between the villages of Hustisford, and
Neosho, in Dodge Co., about one and a half
miles from the latter village, is the pleas
ant and hospitable home of one of natures
noblemen
William Lehman, nutive of Germany,
who has attained the age of seven.y-sx
years, and whose intellect is as active and
acute, as though but forty summers had
brought him birds and flowers. Mr.. Leh-
man was one of the earliest German pat
riots who formed secret societies, the object
of which was to accomplish United Ger
IN, hot
among others, Mr.. Lehman, was arrested
tried and convicted of constructive high
treason" and sentenced to sixteen years i'm
prisoEment, A. d. 1924, at "Fortress Zul-
ieurs," (razed about four years since) which
was accounted q secure place for the con-
fiaemcnt OF these state prisoners. However,
the spirit of the fathers "was never kept
long chained up" In 1926, Mr.. Lehman,
who had been employed as instructor to the
prison keeper, and whose pupil, in the alb
sence of his father, exhibited TO his precep-
tor the plans of the Fortress, and its sur
roundings. Upon returning to his quarters,
made a sketch Of these plans from memory,
and by the aid of this map, planned and
executed successfully his escape from prison
in The. year 1925, having served but two of his
sixteen years of sentence. Upon escaping,
Mr.. Lehman made haste to bid his Father
land good bye, ard by lavorng gales and a
good ship, was soon landed upon the shores
OF country more friendly to the lovers of
freedom. Upon arriving in America, Mr..
Lehman soon found employment as teacher
of languages in "Berk shire High School,"
located at Pittsfeld, Mass. He was permitted
to occupy this position but two years, when
he was called to the chair of ancient and
modern languages in Georgia College, situa-
ted at Athens. During Mr.. Lehman's pro-
fessorship at this College, he numbered
among his pupils Messrs. Alex. H. Stephens,
William L. Yancey, Russell Cobb. Gen.
Barteau, of Savannah, and several others
equally well-known and notorious chvalric
gentlemen. Mr.. Lehman we'll remembers
reviewing and correcting the latin valedic-
wy VI ni. OtopucuS, " ~ uOW MOVES ABOUT
the Chambers of our National Congress- in
an invalid carriage, while Gt may be
pleasure to the Congressman TO know hi
old preceptor, can walk with the elasticity
eat with a relish, converse with the viva.
city, and draw the harmony of the old
masters from his cabinet organ, with all the
lire OF man in the prime of life.
Mr.. Lehman's family consists of his wife,
a.well preserved lady whose years sit as
lightly upon her, as upon him with whom
she has so long journeyed; daughter, intel
ligent and beautiful, bearing patiently sad
affiicton, the entailment of disease: a son
and wife, who lovingly cater to the necessi-
ties Of father, mother, and invalid sister,
(whie not engaged in sTrotting 10 Boston,
little Lehman) and you may search the
world over to find happier family circle,
with more music and sunshine in it, and
search in vain If the best preserved eneci