Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-31


winter
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway are preparing to establish al
station half way between Sun Prairie
and Madison.
&C. S. and Paul Cartwright, of Sui
Ivan, report the manufacture of cane
syrup rather light this season. They
made in all 1888 gallons.
-Kunert Brothers are getting along
brisklv with the work of rebuilding their
Machine Shop recently destroyed by fire.
They will be soon ready for business
Burr Robbins Circus will not winter
in GAINESVILLE, but will remain at Paw
Paw, Michigan, where they closed the
season on the 18th inst.
Now is the time to put the double
rubber weather strips around doors and
windows to keep cut the cold and save
wood and coal. Sold at Straw & Muir
phys. 2
Every one wishing to save money
should send to James Morgan, Milwau-
kee, for his catalogue of Dry Goods, Mil
linery, Shoes, &c. He has splendid
stock of goods in the various depart.
ments.
IS. M. Eaton, Parker Brothers, of
Marshall, Smith Hoyt, of Milford, Nate
Bullock, of the Creek, and other Nimrods
from these parts, are decimating the
focks of deer in the woods near camp
Four in the vicinity of Menominee juno
ton
William Pitt Lynde, of Milwaukee,
was in Washington last week, and, in an
interview, said that Gen. Bragg is only
temporarily defeated and will be nomin-
ated and elected to Congress next year.
Let the Delaneyites "put this in their
pipes and smoke it,
The stationery and printing house of
Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co., of Chicago,
one of the oldest in the city, closed its
doors Monday morning, and in answer to
a reporters in quiries stated that the bus
mess had been closed out to John Morris.
Liabilities, 100000; assets, $325,OO0.
There have been 38,162 new
names added to the pension rolls during
the past fiscal year, together with 795
pames whose pensions had been dropped
previously-an addition of 38,958 pen
sions for the year and an excess of TO-
645 over the preceding year. On the
3Oth of June, 1883, there were 303,65S
pensioners enrolled.
Congressman Winans has deferred
the appointment of a cadet for the naval
academy until next May, at which time
an examination will be held when the
one with the best record will get the
place. Young men disposed to a sea-
faring life living within Mr.. Winans'
district should now begin to prepare
themselves for examination.
The transfers of real estate in Jeffer-
son county for the year ending August
81, 1888, are as follows: Acres, $4,000.
Consideration in deed $3.50. S978S. City
and village lots 800. Consideration in
deed $197, O91.00. In Dodge county,
Acres, 25.636; consideration in deed,
$50, 60C.54 Village and city lots, 526;
consideration in deed, $162,036.7O.
The amount of food reported as
consumed at the Waupun prison during
the month of September is as follows:
Beets, s bushels; fresh beef, 6915 lbs. +;
butter, 534 pounds; beans, 1917 bushels;
bacon, 1880 pounds; cabbage, 242 heads
green corn, Is bushels; coffee, 173 lbs;
-four, 6719 barrels; mutton, $50 pounds
onions, So bushels; mess pork, 583
pounds; potatues, 136 bushels; pepper,
Is pounds; salt, l barrel; syrup, SO gal
Ions; sugar, "a pounds; tea, 65 pounds;
vinegar, 81 gallon.
The wife of John Russell Young,
United States minister to China, whose
death occurred recently in Paris, was a
daughter of John B. Cleveland, of our
neighboring town of Columbus. She was
married about two years ago, and jour
neyed to China with her husband. She
was taken i'll, and was on the continent
for her health. She was alone in Paris,
having no one with her but her babe
but few weeks old, and her nurse and
maid.
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the reach of all, the proprietors of the
Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph have de-
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