Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-02
State News.

Appleton is forming a military com
pany.
Hudson Is proposing to have ;
Scandinavian college.
The SANDER suit of Maxwell agains
Kennedy, in Waupun, is to have 6
new trail.
Maril|a Paine, wife of the late Gem
eral James h. Paine, has died in Mil
waukee.
The Kewaunee Enterprise says that
Nenasha parties are intending to build
grist mill at Ahnayee.
Madison is to have genuine Sum
mer resort, on the soc'h bank of Lax e
Monona. A hotel will be erected, t
be run in connection with the Park
| Hotel.
At Janesville, Enoch Taylor, : a
colored man, met with an accident al
the Doty works. His right hand, il
| some way. came in contact with the
saw. and IN an instant his ioreGnger
was completely severed close to the
| hand
The Cincinnati Gaze1fe says: Gen
eral Garfield has written to proul-
uent member of the Ohio House that
he cannot consent to be the Republ
can candidate for Governor. lie may
possibly hear voice from the Cincin
nati convention that will bid nin re-
consider.
II Samuel J. Tiden has made fromS2.
100000 t. $4,000 900 out to the New
York Elevated Railway, as reported. it
will insure bis nomination by the Demo-
cratic National Convention and enliveu
the next Presidential canvas ia the bar
rooms OF the land.
Master Harry J Koch is the marvel
of Buffalo. He is 7 years of age, and
able to add figures away up in the
thousands with marvellous rapidity aud
correctness. What adds to the marvel
is the fact that the boy has never at
tended school, and has no knowledge
of the ordinary methods of compufa-
ton.
Professor j. Il, Siddons, grandson
of the famed Sarah Siddons, has sixty
or seventy pupils studying elocutlon
under tutelage in Washington. Among
them are the NJ isses Evarts and Schur,z;
and two of Washington's most favored
bellies, Miss Beale, daughter OF General
Beale, ex- Minister to Austria, and Miss
Bayard, daughter Of Senator BayaJd.
THE Reliable articles
like DR.. Prices Special Fiavoring Ex-
tracts, Vanilla, Lemon, Orange, Gin
ger, etc.. that have stood the test of
the best judges in the country. are the
cheapest in the long run, if health is
to be considered
The directors of the Chicago, Mi :
waukee & St. Paul railway have Just
declared dividend for the second half
OF the year 1873 on the company's pre-
terred stock of 81 per cent, payable
April Is. The gross earnings for 1878,
as shown by report just submitted to
the stock holders, were So .45l 1926;
the gross expenses (including taxes)
ST 1872 3l3 O4, and the net earnings.
$3,669 1924 Deducting from the
net earnings the interest paid on the
mortgage debt in 1878, $2,l32 1906
less interest and exchange received,
$l3 4l0.67 leaves 81 ,436, l54.35. Out
of this was paid 81 per cent. dividend
last Oct'ber, and the one just declared
will leave balance OF $S77,590.55 of
undivided profits for the year 1878.
The new Army bill prepared for
Cong,e ess by General Burnside forbids
the future manufacture of ordnance and
ordnance stores by the Government.
This includes ali cannon and artillery
carriage equipments. all apparatus and
machines for the service aud pan@uer
Of artillery, all small arms, accouter-
neuts and horse equipments, all am-
munition, aud all tools, machinery and
material for ordnance service, horse
medicine, materials for shocing, and all
horse equipments and harness for artil-
lery. This provision is unmistakable
in the interest Of private manufactur-
ers of these goods. The billalso makes
the General of the Army outrank the
President and Secretary Of War in mil
itary matters.
40. U. W.-NAsHvILLE, March
25.-The Supreme Lodge of the An
Glen, Order of United Workmen has
approved of the proposition to give