Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-09
THE WORLDS WORK.
MISCELLANEOUS.

A SEVERE tornado passed over Brown
Summit, n. c., on the 3rd inst
The walking matches in the eastern
cities have ceased to attract attention.
SOME of the young women Of Dixon,
Ill.,, have formed boat club.
AT Lebanon, KY, March 31st, sixteen
houses were destroyed by fire entailing
a loss of $4,000.
THH wife of Jacob Morris, of Philo,
H., attacked her husband with bread
knife April LIST, inficting fatal wound
THE centennial celebration at Licking
ton, KY, on the End inst, was a grand
affair.
The trial of the assassin, Buford, who
shot Judge Elliot at Frankfort KY, has
been set for Monday, April %, at a
special term Of court.
ANOTHER fierce storm prevailed off
the Massachusetts coast April LIST, and
it is feared that many lives were lost at
sea.
Gov. MONKS, of Tennessee, has signed
the bill providing for the settlement of
luS otdlt oSOU DIV LII CClloo ou viz NOl-
lar and four per cent interest.
The United States pension agency at
Milwaukee, Wis, paid $3.50, 0S1. 3S army
pension during March, and $1,19137
navy pension-a total of $259,-272.75.
REPORTS from many points in south.
ern Illinois, Ohio, Kentuckey and Ten
nessee indicate that the peach crop is
going to be seriously injured by frosts.
A PANIC, caused by an alarm Of fire,
occurred in New York city grammer
school on the 23rd inst. Owing to the
intervention OF the police the excite
ment was quelled before any one was
hurt
A BOSTON special states that "the
coming twelve months will probably see
more done to advance the business in
terests of Boston than any similar peri
Cd for long term of years.
The Northern Pacific contractors on
the extension to the Yellowstone have
entered into a contract with st. Louis
man to furnish 500 southern negroes at
$120 per day as graders. This was
worked up by the friends of Senator
w
A DISPATCH says the following is the
amount of hard wood that has been put
into the streams tributary to Oshkosh,
Wis, during the past winter: Embarass,
100000 feet; Main Wolf, 100000
feet; Little Wolf, 1,0O0,OO feet; oak
ties, 50,0O0; cedar posts, 10000; hub
timber, 10000.
A Minneapolis special of the 31st
states that the city Touring mills of that
city, owned by the first national bank,
were entirely destroyed by fire Sunday
morning. Loss about $4,000; small
insurance. The fire caught from the
smoke stack of the mill.
A FIRE at Madison, Wisconsin on the
Goth destroyed the large stone block
belonging to the Fairchild estate infiict-
ing a loss on building and stock Of al
most $40 900. During the fire two ex-
plosions occurred injuring somewhat
citizens,
WALTER WATSON was hung at New
eort. Indiana, April 3rd, for
the murder of Ezra Compton, in
January last. The prisoner was accom-
panied to the scafold by his young wife,
who took her leave of him there, weep
ing bitterly. Watson was calm and self
controlled. He had experienced relig-
ion a few days before. His neck was
broken in the fall, and in nine minutes
his pulse ceased to beat.
A TORONTO, Ont, dispatch of April
Sd says, the largest party of emigrants
for Manitoba that ever left Ontario
started this morning from Windsor. 1t
consisted of two special trains. contain
ing forty-eight cars. The capital at
their disposal amounts to over quar-
ter Of million. A large number of
farmers left Pictou, n. S., yesterday for
Manitoba. Another party. numbering
100, leave to-day.
SOME interest is excited in the New
York iron trade by the fact that Mr..
Vanderbilt has bought, in England,
10000 ions of steel rails at price which
equals $50 per ton landed here, while
the price for the best American would
be $40 delivered. The rails are guaran-
teed for fifteen years, but the trade are
reluctant to regard this as the reason
tor paying $40 ton advance upon the
home prices, and wonder what the
other motives may be-.
DISCOVERIES of rich silver mines were
recently made twenty miles south of
Santa Fe. They are true assures, car
rying galena and carbonates, assaying
80 to 200 ounces. The silver is near
the surface, and the quantity of the ore
is inexhaustible. The district is four by
six miles in extent, embracing several
old Spanish mines. Anthracite coal,
iron and fire clay are abundant in the
district.
FORTY failures were reported in New
York city during March, in which the
total liabilities amounted to $3.50, AS,
and the assets to $211,755. Compared
with the preceding months March
shows a decrease in number of eight
failures, and $4,000 in the amount of
liabilities. During the month of March,
1878, eighty-five failures were reported,