Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-14

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head to put an end to her happy reign
by shooting her.
Mr., Talmage says it is no use to pur-
sue slanders or their authors, He will
therefore not Ego for' the Brooklyn
Presbytery any more.
Gray guesses that he is guilty of try
ing to shoot Edwin Booth. The pub
lie guesses that he had better be sent
down to Joliet for twenty years.
For European visits, the great ma
jority of Americans choose May and
June for their annual, occasional, or
once-in a-lifetime pilgrimage abroad.
There will soon be a visitor at Wind
sor Castle-the Empress Of Germany,
who comes over the Channel to pay her
respects 10 Queen Victoria.
A wonderful biographical collection
of MIR. Hurth, great London merchant
is t. be brought to the hammer. It is
estimated to have cost over 5000, 900.
Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon will de-
liver the oration at the celebration in
New Haven next July 4, of the Tooth
anniversary of the invasion of that
city by the British.
The people of Amsterdam have pre-
sented the New Queen of Holland
with a superb set of diamonds-bril-
iants of the first water and the set
ting Incompatible.
The Prince of Wales presented the
petition in favor of the bill legalizing
marriage with deceased wfe's sister,
and caused it to be understood that he
was in favor of the bill.
The Committee on judiciary in the
United States Senate has decided that
there can be no more promotions iu
the army until some plan of reorgani
cation is adopted. This decision, which
1t is not likely that The Senate will
sustain. affects every officer in the ar my
who is in the line of promotion.
Edward Pierrepont Dufheld has
been arrested at Ottumway, Iowa, for
robbing the mails. He is nephew
of the ex-minister to England, after
whom he was named.
The stockholders of the Lake Shore
aud Michigan Southern Railway held
their annual meeting at Cleveland,
yesterday, and re-elected the old board
of directors. with William H. Wander.
blt at its head,
1t is stated as a significant fact that
the Democratic State Ticket of Ken
tucky for the coming election, from
accident or design, is composed entire
ly of men who served in the rebel
army. Kentucky is as firmly joined
to the solid south as if it had been
foremost in the rebellion, aud Demo-
cracy reigns there supreme.
General Garfield who has returned
to Washington from Ohio, reports that
the Republicans are in excellent con
dition for the campaign, comprehend
all the issues before Congress, and are
very earnest. He thinks that Secre.
tary Sherman prefers going to the
United States Senate as MIR. Thur.
mans successor to running for Cover
nor. General Garfield does not intend
to become candidate for Governor.
James Gordon Bennett has become
jealous of the pig-hunting successes of
Colonel Fred Grant, and is preparing
to overlap all else Young American BY
going on tiger-hunt in India.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Slows son
has taken charge of an Episcopal pa
rish in Maine, and is about to initiate
the example so long ago set by his
father, and marry a young lady Of
Yankeedom
INDIANA.-At the municipal and
charter elections in Indiana, on Tues
day last, great Republican gains are
reported 10 many of the most import
ant towns. In Indianapolis, Mavor
Caven was reelected by 2,700 majori-
ty-a Republican gain of 1900 over
the election of two years ago. At
Fort Wayne the Democrats lose L.
800, as compared with last October.
In La Faystte, Columbus, Madison
Bloomington heavy Republican gains
are also reported. Messrs. Voorhees,,
Hendricks and Blue Jeans Williams
will begin to tremble in their boots.
The American Sunday-School Union
celebrated its ftty-fifth anniversary in
New York on Tuesday evening. A
very large audience was present. The
annual report showed that there had
been organized, 10 1878, l,O67 new
schools, with 1915 teachers and So
769 scholars, and their had been 8,805
Bibles and Testaments distributed, and
IA l40 families visited. Several ad-
dressed were made Rev. MIR. Noyes,
of Illinois. gave instances Of excellent
work done by the Sunday school union
in the West.
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