Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-04
State News.

will be very heavy.
Excursion parties visit the State
Prison at Waupun.
Annie Louisa Cary will sing in
Racine next month.
Mary Shellaberger, of Prairie du
Sac, has been missing since May /.
Very early in September the cram
berry-pickers will commence work.
A bee conference is to be held at
Depere on the Sd and 4th of Sep
tember.
The saw mill at Cgema, which was
burned short time ago, is to be re-
built.
Appleton is to have some races on
September 4th, when $500 is to be
given in purses.
The Times says there is talk of
building a Summer hotel at Miller's
Point, Oshkosh.
There are thirty.six saw-mills be-
tween Stevens Point and Phillips, on
the Wisconsin Central.
A pack of wolves, numbering five,
was seen in a farmers field in Modena,
Buffalo county, last week.
The crop of blackberries in Polk
county is estimated as worth $1,000,
there being over 10000 quarts
Jack Merton, of the Oshkosh police
force, was seriousy y bitten in the arm
by man who he had arrested.
There is a movement on foot among
the Masons in Hudson to organize q
Commandery of Knight, ,iTemplar.
Hon. A. g. Cook, of Columbus. in
tends to reside at Madison, and has
purchased handsome residence there.
The stock Of ice is so nearly used
up in Waupun that the manufacture
Of ice cream has been stopped By
some dealers.
John Rayon, Of Whitewater, COM
mitted an assault upon John Faulkner,
of Waukesha, for testifying against
him, and is now in Jail at Elkhorn.
The Book River Paper Company,
of Beloit, has started up the MANILA
department of their mills, which SUI
fered from fire about two weeks ago.
Michael Dooley, an old resident Of
Oconomowoc, died lately. He is sup
posed to have poisoned himself by tak-
ing medicine out Of the wrong bottle.
Colonel MeClellen, Chief Engineer,
of the Hudson and River Falls Rail-
road, says he will have the cars run
ming on the road next month without
fail
The Seventh-Day Adventists will
hold their second camp-meeting this
season at Grand Rapids, September
lily. The fair grounds have been
obtained for the purpose.
Three Chippewa Falls men went
down into Eau Claire county and shot
eighteen prairie chickens before the
expiration Of the close season. They
were captured and enriched the coun-
ty to the extent of $50 for their
sport.
C. R. Read of Reads Landing, has
taken $4,000 contract Of the Gov
ernment to furnish brush, rock and
other material for the extensive dams
to be built below the mouth of the
Chippewa river. A large number of
men are already at work.
The wheat crop in the Trempeleau
valley is turning out better than was
expected.
THE NEXT FRENCH PRESIDENT
The Paris correspondent of the Ey-
aning Post writes: "The clever con-
servatives are pushing General Chanzy
forward as a candidate for the Presi-
dency in 1880. The General is man
of mark, and is a republican and
soldier at once, but is profoundly at
attached to many principles which the
mass Of Republicans in this county
would not accept. The anything to
beat Gambetta' people would vastly
like to see him elected. But Gam
BETA will be the man unless all the
tokens fail. Just now he is taking his
Summer vacation, and the fruits of his
leisure will be an Autumn campaign
which will bring him more conspicu-
ously than ever before the public. By
certain remarks dropped in the speech.
es OF Jules Simon and others at the
dedication of the monument to the
memory of Paul Louis Conner at Vier-
etz the other day, it is easy to see that
prominent Republicans feel confident
of the results of the next Senatorial
elections. IF those are decided in
favor of the Republic, the las. hope Of
the monarchial factions will vanish,
and being Prince will be but an idle,
vocation, and by no means profitable
one.
President Hayes left Washington and