Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-09
FISH-BAIT.

balloon.
JOHN MCGREADY, a cousin of O'Don-
nell, the late avenger, lives at Lonacon-
ing, Md.
EIGHTY or ninety thousand tons of ice
will be gathered In the Truckee basin
this season.
NINE wild geese, the first ever seen IN
that region, we're recently killed near
Albany, Ga.
JUMPING a clearinghouse between
two days is called ga administration
IN Cheyenne.
LACK of food has driven mountain
lions down into the plains OF Kern
County, California.
AGo1D nugget of $3.50 value was recent
ly picked up by Mr.. Zimmerman on his
farm in Edgeheld County, South Caro-
lima.
A FARMER of Kingston, Tex, is vic
tim of 8 severe case of blood poisoning
from the laceration Of his hand by barbed
wire.
A HARTFORD, Conn, girl has caught
twenty-nine mice with her own hands.
and her friends think her more heroic
than Joan OF Arc.
SORGHUM is attracting the attention of
North Carolina farmers as a paying
crop, and more care is taken to produce
good molasses than formerly.
A DEER which had got into the gar
den of A. Matthews, at Saline City,
Gals the other morning, broke its neck
while trying to jump the fence.
IT is understood that most of the al
ditional supreme court judges of New
York elected in November have decided
that they can not assume office till next
June.
THREE men are under arrest IN Texar
kama, Tex, for selling whisky to boy
u years old, until he became so drunk
that he almost became victim to mania
a pOte4.
LABoRING men of northern Arizona
upon ranches receive from $50 to $40
per month, transfers about $50, and the
regular pay for good miners is about 81
per day.
DURING the past year Texas had 49,
435 indictments for felonies and misde-
meanors. OF 1854 of these that came
to trial, 4,231 were convicted and 2,238
acquitted.
A COUPLE in Springfield, Mass, made
an economical bridal trip. They babe
adieu to their friends on one side of the
train and stepped off the other side and
into Springfield hotel.
ELEVEN of the eighteen original men,
bers of the class of 80 of Colby Univer-
sity, Maine, are still living, and if is pro-
posed that they shall have reunion at
the next commencement.
THE Mormon church has at last con-
Guided the purchase of the Phoebe and
Meadow Valley Railroad, running from
Phoebe to Bullionville. The object Of
the purchase is entirely unknown.
OF three eminent English poets, lit
erary authority recently home from a
visit TO Great Britain says Swinburne
has turned priest; Morris, Fenian and
Socialist; and Browning, Methodist.
In southern Arkansas there are many
farm houses that have not yet had a
cooking-stove, and there are farmers
who oppose railroads on the ground that
locomotives would scare game out of the
country.
A WATERLOO, n. Y, girl was married
to young man who fell in love with
her photograph, and the counting was
done through the medium of CORES
pondence. The couple met for the first
time at their wedding.
The intention of building chemical
laboratory for the state university of
Texas this season has been abandoned
for the present. instead one entire
story of the university building will be
used for the chemical apparatus and in
struction rooms.
THERE has not been time in many
years when there were SO many ships In
San Francisco harbor as there are now.
Excluding whalers and coasters and
those engaged IN the Pacific islands and
Mexico trade, there were at a recent
date 156 ships and barks in port.
JOHN DUNAaEY, Of Peabody, carried a
cartridge in his pocket for several days.
Inquisitiveness got the better of him
and he picked the ball out with a piece
of old hoopskirt. He has one finger left
on his right and two on his left hand,
but will recover the sight of both eyes.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY contains &C.
cording to the latest and pest census, q
population of 92,5O8 This requires
1854 persons for cash member of the
house and 7,708 for the council. Ac-
cording to the proposed new apportion-
AAOAA t44O tCAI1LO1AdA AONlSO WILL OOnclOb Vi
twenty-tbree members and the council
of twelve.
GEORGE w. POTTER, a Fair Haven,
Conn, oysterman, while off the old light
house in his sharpe, attempted to fasten
his boat TO the oyster steamer. The tide
whirled the sharpe under the steamers
bow. The sharpe was run down. She
sank with sixty bushels of oysters. Mr..
Potter was saved after desperate strug-
gle IN the water.
THERE has been found a new species
Of native clover in Florida, that grows
IN the fiat woods in detached stems and
punches throughout the timberland.
The department of agriculture at Wash
ington says that if it could be grown in
quantities so as to get seed, etc., it