Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11


Fire Commissioner Van Colt. There are
intimations that General Hancock may
accompany him in his journey to the
Yellowstone Park, but the fact cannot be
stated positively as yet"
ONE WAY TO REACH DEATH-A
French lady of rank, young and remark
ably handsome, entered the lions cage
in Brussels menagerie last spring. She
was the Marquise d. Hauteteuille, and had
borne a leading part in the tragic circum-
stance that led to the premature end of
the great statesman at Vile d'Avray
Struck by despair she went to Ostend and
lived with a relative at the Vile Rhenane,
where she endeavored to poison herself
slowly by injections of morphine. One
day she read in a paper that a tanner had
been dovoured by a wild beast some part
of Italy, and straight she went to Brus
sells and requested Bdel to allow her to o
with him into the lions cage. 1t was a
great advertisement for him, as he was
authorized to announce her name, and
people crowded to see her. The beasts,
however, did no harm to the Marquise,
and she was supposed to have gone back
to solitude at Ostend. The news now is
that she had died of consumption.
The trial and conviction of Madeline
Gardello, the Italian beggar, for exhibit
ing deformed child in New York, dis
closes a painful and wicked practice. The
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children has ascertained that the deform-
e Girl is not the child of the woman, but
was taken by her from the alms-house in
Genoa, Italy, six years ago and brought
to this country. Mrs. Gardello carried
with her a tin card on which was printed
a statement that she was widow and
the mother of five children, one of whom
was the detormed little Maria. Her hus
band and these children, it was discov-
ered were living comfortably on the pro-
ceeds OF Mrs. Gardello's begging tours
1t is said that they have a considerable
sum of money saved, and that the entire
family has been to Italy twice since their
first arrival in this country 1t is also said
that the authorities at Genoa have been
paying Mrs. Gardella So month to take
care of the child.
Mrs. AUSTIN BLAIR's HORsEs.-The
pair of black horsas presented to Mrs.
Austin Blair in 1862 by the officers of the
Twentieth Michigan Infantry, which reg
iment rendezvoused here previous to 60
ing South, are still alive and driven
daily by Mrs. Blair or other members of
the Governors family. They are twen-
ty-fve years old, and but for the excellent
care they receive and the direction OF
IL. l. IL -
much labor. On Wednesday Mrs. Blair
drove them out to the regatta at Michigan
Center, and when reaching the entrance
of the grounds was informed that no
teams were allowed An old gentleman
near by, who recognized the veterans,
said the horses ought to have free access
everywhere, aud about this time Frank
Lewis, proprietor of the grounds, and who
is veteran soldier, apperred on the scene
and gave orders for the admission OF the
team, With Mrs Blair and friends, and
could not be prevailed upon to accept an
admission fee-Jackson, Mich., Citizen.
/ A WELL OF. ICE-WATER.-W have
most of us seen sugar bushes and heard
of the milk tree; but E. w. Murray can
brag of one curiosity that surpassed either
one-a well Of simon-pure genuine ice
water. The thing should be sent to the
Milwaukee exposition and put OH top for
the benefit of an incredulous public.
There is no hoax about it. On Friday
last, the 22d Of June, A. D. 1883, when
the thermometer sauntered in the vicinity
of 800 in the shade, we visited this in
imitable example of GOODNESS under diff
culties, and there, within sixteen feet Of
fragrant white clover and the drone and
glare and culver of midsummer, one
could plainly see great cakes of ice that
bobbed serenely up and down as the
dripping buckets rose and fell among
them. We fshed fragment from its
liquid home and with it cooled a glass of
lemonade, and we know it was ice. The
well is curbed with wood, and open to all
weathers except perpendicular.we
rain and sunshine, and things that come
down, you understand. 1t supplies the