Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-22
THE WORLDS WORK.
MISCELLANEOUS.

failed for $3.50, 900.
PARIS, ILL.,, has just completed its wa
terworks and feels happy.
The Kansas legislature met Jan. 18th.
s also did that of Texas.
M. ANTOINE AUGUSTINE PREAULT,
sculptor, is dead.
YELLOW fever has -reappeared at Rio
Janeiro with great viruience.
COMMODORE JOHN GUEST, command
ant or the Portsmouth navy yard, died
Jan. 18th.
THE Governor of Michigan is about
to nominate from l ZOO to | 500 persons
of both sexes for nOtaries public.
THE New Jersey legislature met Jan.
A. and organized by electing republican
officials in both houses.
JOHN II. JONES, was reelected U. S.
senator by the Nevada legislature Jan.
14th. A'
A CHANGE is reported soon to be made
in the Office of United States Collector
and marshal at New Orleans.
INDIAN Commissioner Hayt has made
a lengthy reply to the items Of COM
paint in General Sheridan's report.
THE Cumberland and Ohio rivers have
been unusually nigh, and a great
amount of property was destroyed.
GEN. SIGEL fell upon the ice and broke
his leg recently, when near his home at
Morrisania, New York.
SHERIEF WALLACE, of Hamilton coun-
ty, Ohio, is short $23, 900 of public
funds.
JOHN BACK, postmaster of French
burg, KY, has been arrested for ritling
valuable letters.
Mrs. COBB, the Norwich, Conn. hus-
band poisoner, has been found guilty of
murder in the second degree.
Hon. GEO. G. VEST was nominated for
the long senatorial term from Missouri
by the democratic legislature caucus,
Jan. 10th.
SITTING BULL has sent twelve runners
to the United States to propose a settle
ment of existing troubles, and a return
of his band. -.
THE military court of inquiry into the
responsibility of Maj. Reno for the Gus
ter massacre, convened in Omaha Jan.
18th.
Gov. VANCE was nominated by the
North Carolina democratic legislative
caucus for United States senator, by &C
clamation.
A VIOLENT shock of earthquake was
first event of the kind ever known in
that state.
IT is feared the steamer Homer. bound
from Boston to Liverpool, is lost. She
has not been heard from since she
sailed Dec. 18th:
The Minnesota legislature is getting
on swimmingly. Wheat inspection and
drive wells are receiving a due amount
Of attention.
W. P. HILL was elected United States
senator by the Colorado legislature Jan.
IA. He is president Of the Boston and
Colorado Smelling company.
THE Tennesse river has been on a
regular spree. 1t rose thirty-eight feet
above high water mark and destroyed
a large amount of property.
THE City of Memphis funded $780,
900 of her bonds under the compromise
act at the rate of fifty cents on the dol
Jar last week.
In the contributions to the Memphis
Howard Association, Illinois stands sec
end in the list of states. New York
contributed $56,SO4, and Illinois
$50, 3O7.
GEN. JAMES SHIELDS was nominated
by the democrats of the Missouri legis-
lature for the senatorial short term,
over David H. Armstrong, by vote of
IS to 81, Jan. 10Th.
MRS MACK, the GAINESVILLE, Wis. m ur-
deress, was granted stay of proceed
ings npon the eve of going to the peni.
Tertiary. Argument for rev trial
will be made the first Monday in March.
PRESCOTT, Arizona, dispatches says
the territorial legislature adopted a
memorial asking congress to appropri-
ate money for a geological and min
eralogical survey of Arizona. ..L
CABLEGRAMs of Jan 18th report the
total loss of the barque Gunhitda, of
New Glasgow, with all hands on the
Bordeaux Bar. She was on a voyage
from Baltimore grain laden.
The libarary of the Birmingham and
Midland Institute, containing $4,000
volumes, burned on the 18th inst.
This library contains the largest Shakes
pearian collection in the world.
CHARLES ETHERIDGE, the st. Paul
bank absconding official, who fled with
$44 800 from the Merchants National
bank, has disgorged about 60 per cent.
OF that amount from his present quar-
tiers in Canada.
MADAME ANDERSON, who began the
task of walking 1900 quarter miles in
2,7OO quarter hours about the middle
of December in New York city, finished
the great contest on January 18th, hav-
ing faithfully performed what she set
out to do.
Mrs. MACK, convicted of the murder
of her husband near GAINESVILLE last
July, was refused a new trial, and was
sentenced to Imprisonment in the state
penitentiary for life, with one day in
each year (the anniversary of the muir
der) to be spent in solitary confinement.
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