Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
WlNNOMINGS,

In Gold Hill, New, houses and lots
which few years ago were valued at
from So, 900 to $4,000 each are being
ratified off.
A LADY who died recently in Newber-
Typort, Mass, IN her 91st year, was at
tended by physician for the first time
In her life in her fatal illness.
LARGE numbers of deer and other
ruminant wild animals have been drowned
In the overflow of streams in Mississippi
County, Arkansas.
Col. TERRY, of Georgia. is now mar
keting cotton baled in 1860. He has
been holding on to see if the price
wouldn't go mp to fifty cents per pound.
A HUNTER near Mason, Tenn, fired
into supposed covey of birds his dog
| had set, and on going to get his game
discovered that he had killed three big
rattlesnakes.
THE officers of the Lutheran Church
at Columbia, Ind, locked out the pas
tor. He took an axe from neighbor-
ing woodpile, chopped down the door
and held services as usual.
| MARBLE HILL, Mo-, has for years
| been using court house liable to fall at
any minute, but never dreamed of such
O thing until an architect came along the
other day and looked the building over.
IT is stated that the Episcopal Clergy
mems Insurance League IN the last 10
years has paid 1915, 200 to the widows
and orphans of deceased clergymen, and
of this sum $15, $50 was paid during the
past year.
Mrs. HAYES is gratifedg to learn that
her So, 900 dinner set was used at re-
cent state dinner In the White House,
but she may be shocked when she finds
that seven wine glasses served as tend
ers to each plate.
AN effort to purchase the United
States arsenal in Augusta, Ga, as site
for a hotel, has failed, as the federal
authorities were unwilling to sell, the
arsenal being the only one left in the en-
tire south east of the Mississippi.
A BALTIMoREAN wishes to sell to the
federal government, for $1,000. Gen.
Washington's sword knot. It is we'll
preserved, is of silk and silver tinsel
bullion, with a tinsel rosette, and it's
genuineness is said to be we'll attested.
A YOUNG man in De Witt County, IL
hnols, made wager, as alleged, that he
could eat two pounds of candy, two
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water, and eat lot of other stuff all of
which he did, and was taken violently
sick and died
SOME time ago Mr. Samuel A. Glover,
cashier of the First National bank,
Richmond, Va, cut corn on his foot
and caught cold in it. Gangrene ensu-
ing, his leg was amputated with the hope
of saving his life, but Mr.. Glover is in
greatly enfeebled condition and the re-
suit is In doubt.
A CoUNTRYMAN was pulled from the
track In front of a moving train at Chat
tanooga, and narrowly escaped with his
life. A basket of eggs he carried on his
arm was broken during the excitement,
and he was much incensed over the mat
ter, SO much SO that he tried to swear
out a warrant against his deliverer.
TWENTY minutes was all that was need
ed by bachelor at Belleville, Ont, to
scrape an acquaintance with strange
woman he met and make her his wife.
when he went after his license, he had to
return to her house to get her name,
which ne had neglected to ascertain, be-
fore the ceremony could be performed.
The smallest steam fire engine in the
world has just been completed at Read
ing. Its weight when fully equipped
for duty is 2, 700 pounds. A preliminary
trial showed that in Il minutes 20
pounds of steam was raised and 218 feet
of solid stream and al feet of spray
were thrown through an inch-and-an-
eighth nozzle.
Two factory girls had been sentenced
to four months imprisonment for drunk.
eness in Lowell, Mass. They were young,
and their case excited sympathy in court.
AS they were being taken out the officers
saw their mother slip bottle of whisky
into the pocket of each. There was no
longer any establishment that they be-
come drunkards SO young.
In London East, Canada, Peter Lap
pan was accidentally shot through the
body, and the case pronounced hopeless,
as it was thought the ball must have
pierced his stomach. But he recovered.
He had tasted for thirty-six hours, and
his digestive organs had shrunken out of
| their usual place. If he had eaten break
fast he would have been dead man.
STY1vAN1A (Ga.) Telephone: We are
informed that a certain young man IL
this county, who has not been married
over a month, became tired of his wife,
and, few days since, actually sold her
to another party for fifty cents. believing
that he had the legal right to make
the sale, and yet it is still insisted that
missionaries be sent to the heather Chi
nese.
AN epitaph is a curious place in which
to look for wit, but there are two cpl
taphs which, while they excite smile,
do not interfere with more serious
thoughts. When the actor Burbadge
died, his friends pondered over a suitable
inscription, and at last happily hit upon
this, which is simple enough and yet tells
hewhole story, exit Burbadge." When
Charles Knight died Jerrold suggested
that this equally simple inscription
should be put on his tomb, "Good
Knight"
AMONG the presents received by Alex
ander H. Stephens, on his SEVENTEEN
birthday was an autograph album con-