Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-05
FrOStS in Florida.

of oranges. At FernaDdnia there Was
a genuine snow-storm week ago, and
at St. Augustine there was rain that
was turned into sleet in the early hours
of the morning. At jacksonville the
mercury was below the freezing point
tor several days; at Green Cove Springs
the thermometer registered 2So; at
Polatka there were the frosts on sew
eral successive mornings; aud on the
Ocklawaha there were 10 alligators
stirring out of their holes below Silver
Springs, although there were hundreds
of them OF enormous size summing them
selves further up the river. Week be-
fore last was the coldest that has been
known on the St johns for many gears
but it is not thought that either the
fruit or the young trees in the orange
groves have been injured by the frosts.
The crop of oranges this season is quite
large, but there is considerable rusty
fruit. Although the Florida Spring
has not opened, roses are blooming iu
every garden. and in quaint, beautiful
St Augustine especially, the air is laden
with perfume. The sportsmen have
not appeared on the river in force, but
there are ducks and birds everyW here,
with now and then an eagle for po'
shot, while south Of Enterprise there
are turkeys in abundance, and on the
upper Ocklawaha dozens of alligators,
fifteen feet long, that.a too stupid and
chilled to turn over. And now, after
the coldest fortnight which has been
experienced in Florida since the year
when all the young orange trees we're
killed, there a'e rumbllngs OF earth
auakes in Jacksonville and ST. Angus
tine.-Reading Times.
SpEcIMENOLIvS BKANCH.-OIve,
leader of the Nebraska gang which
burned Mitchell add Ketchum at the
stake on the pretext that they were
cattle thieves. is said te be the wealthiest
man ever arrested 10 the United States
for deliberate murder. He owns over
10000 head of cattle and vast trac's
of land, ard evidently considered him
self above the reach of the law. Olive
aimed to revenge the killing of his
brother by Mitchell and Ketchum, who
acted in self defense. They we're ar
rested in an adjoining county, and Olive
gave the sheriff $1,000 to bring them
where they would be in his power.
While in-route be captured the prison
ers, and, tying them to the stakes,
smeared them with kerosene and then
lighted it. Next day their charred
to lies were found, and subsequently
Olive was arrested and placed il the
Kearney Junction Jail, from which he
has been removed to Lincoln to defeat
the intention of his friends to set him
at liberty.
SWEET ODORs-Almost every
flower that possesses desirable odor
is used in the Unique Perfumes made
by DR.. Price 1t is from these rich
blossoms that DR.. Prices Perfumes
obtain their peculiar sweetness and
floral character. His Floral Riches,
Pet Rose, Hycinth and Allsta Bouquet
are fashionable odors.
Foolish STRlKE ERs -CINCINNATI,
Jan. 29.--The lockout at the Ashland.
KY, Iron Works and the Furniss
mines still continues A large body
of miners are on guard at the iron
works to prevent those who wish to
resume work from doing so Over
one thousand employees are thus thrown
out of work, causing great distress
among them, many families being in
need of the necessities of life, husbands
n fathers having been out of work
through the last strike which existed
during the past TX months.