Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-11
No. 46
State News.

opponent, Charles Parker, to a series OF
public discussions through the district,
on the issues of the campai On, but
Parker declined to accept the challenge
Secretary Evarts' youngest daughter,
Miss Louisa Evarts, is said to be an
expert oarswoman, and can handle a
boat with the skill and frmness of a
masculine hand.
The most important marriage, in a
social view, that has occurred in Mil
waukee in long time was celebrated
Thursday morning at Plymouth
Church, and was that of Mr.. Charles
Martin, heir to the vast estate of the late
J. B. Martin, Esq, to Miss Effie Hand,
both of Milwaukee. Dir. Fulton, of
St. Paul's church, and Rev. Henry
7. Rose, Of Plymouth church, ,officiat-
ed. The church was beautifully de-
corated, and the attendance OF society
people was very large.
Mr.. Isaac Oclaire, a well.known
/ CltlZGu III LHC GUWu VI lGUCh1 uSdi
Janesville, was found Friday upon the
road under his wagon-5ox and in an
insensible condition. His shoulder
was badly broken. His team had ran
away with him. He viii probably re-
cover
Judge Poland, Of Vermont, who
still affects the old style blue.dress-
coat and brass buttons, was in Saratoga
the other day, and gentle man mis-
took him for policeman and came up
and addressed him as "officer."
The Paris Exposition awards will be
made on the 18th Of this month.
There are $4,000 exhibitors in all, and
$4,000 of these will receive either
medals or honorable mentions. The
Paris correspondent of the New York
Times boldly asserts that 1.-The Exhibi-
ton of 1878 is the greatest financial
failure of tie nineteeth century" He
probs bly, exaggerates little.
When the rebel General Joseph e.
Johnston was nominated for Congress
by the Democrats in Virginia. the
other day, he "pointed with PRIDE to
his services in the cause Of the South
during the War of the Rebellion The
question comes up right here whether
mans "services' as an armed traitor
to his country's Government should be
, regarded as a qualification fo; seat in
the national councils.
Only four months more and then re-
sumption of specie payments. The
country will then have a sound, nom
fuctualing mixed currency Of coin, ma
tional bank notes, and greenbacks, in
nearly equal parts, and convertible at
per, paper into coin or coin into papert
and all guaranteed by the national Gov
ernment. No country can then claim
to possess superior monetary system
to that of our own country.
The Fox girls, who, in lS40, caused
much excitement with their "Roches-
ter kuockings'' are still alive and out
of the insane asy lum. One lives In
London, and is in the seance business
another is married to a Frenchman,
and is with him in Paris, and the
third is a resident of New York city.
A fine ola Irish gentleman, named
Haley, who was witness before the
Potter Investigation Committee, has
fallen dead in love with Mrs. Agnes
jerks, according to the story Of q
Washington correspondent, and acts as
foolishly as any one in a similar pre-
dicament is likely to do.
! A little cloud Of cesession looms up in
the far Northwest, in no less a pro-
vince Of England than British Colum-
bia. Iu 1874 the Canadian Dominion
entered into q negotiation with the peo-
pie Of British Columbia to make GER
tain railway and other improvements,
etc., in that province. Tired of delays
in carrying out these proposed pro-
jects, the Legislature of the province
has passed an address to the Queen, to
the effect that, in the event of the Do
minion Government failing to carry
into effect the bargain with British
Columbia, made in 1874, on or before
the first day Of May next, Her Majesty
will be pleased to direct that British
Columbia shall thereafter have the
right to exclusively collect her customs
and excise duties, and to withdraw
from the union, and shall also, in any
event, be entitled to be compe nsated
by the Dominion for losses sustained by
reason of past delays and the failure
of the Dominion Government to carry
out their railway and other obligations
to the Province.
ORvILLE GRANT CAGED.-ELIzA.
BETH, N. j., Sept. 4,-Orville Grant,
the ex-President's brother, was this
morning sent to the insane asylum at
Morristown. His mind runs on i'm.