Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-10
PERSONALITIES.

the winter at charleston, 3. 9.
AMOS CLAPP was one of the founders
of the Boston Herald. He is now night
Waterman in the Boston Journal office.
1T may be great sight to see an En-
glish jockey on American soil, but Fred.
Archer mustn't be disappointed if he is
not ionized.
GLADSTONE in England, Clemenceau
in France and Boucicault in America
are declared to be the greatest tea drink
ers in their respective countries.
WALKING BEAR, the distinguished
Sank Indian chief buried at Cleveland,
Ohio, is to have monument erected by
the people of that city at g cost of $500.
The Washington gossips who have
been trying to marry the Spanish min
lister to some American beauty are dis
couraged to find he has wife and son
in Spain.
Mr.. GLADSTONE according to the New
York Post, will not seek reelection to
he new Parliament, but will accept a
peerage after the passage of the fran
chise bill.
ALFRED MITCHELL, prosecuting attor
ney of Belmont County, W. Va, has re-
signed his Office to avoid prosecuting
his brother who is in custody charged
with murder.
LAWRENCE BARRETT has just received
information from Germany that he is
grandfather. Ten months ago one of
Mr.. Barrett's daughters married dis
tinguished German.
The late poet Longfellcw's daughter,
Alice, will give up the charms of
Cambridge, Mass, for a year, to pursue
vigorous course of higher education at
Cambridge, England.
ALDERMAN NoTTAGE, lord mayor of
London, was the founder of the London
Stereoscopic and Photographic Com
pany, probably the largest concern of
the kind in the world.
AN accusation of cowardice during
the American war, lately started in
Paris against the Comte de Paris, has
aroused intense indignation among the
Orleans party of France.
Mrs. ROBERT Downing, the wife of
the actor, is relative Of Aaron Burr,
and greatly resembles the engraving of
his beautiful but Inflated daughter,
M. BARTHoLDI said to an American in
Paris, week or so ago, that with the
money already spent at Bedloe's Island
he could have built pedestal in Paris
for the Statue of Liberty.
Mr.. WIGGINs, who once kicked up
the meteorological dust in the role of
weather prophet, has joined the Saliva
ton Army at Hamilton, Ont, and is 60
ing through the country calling on peo-
pie to repent.
IsMAIL, the ex-Khedive, is not a
pauper. Between 1874 and 1879, when
he abdicated, more than $100,000,000
was paid in to his account at various
European banks, principally in Holland
and Belgium.
A COMMITTEE of merchants in Phila-
delphia want to take the old "hberty
bell" from Independence Hall and re-
move it to New Orleans during the ex-
position. They will apply to the city
council for permit.
MISS Cora, the daughter of julius
Robinson, of Detroit, a Hebrew, has
just been married to John Ell. Hill, a
GENTLE, and they have gone on we'd
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father accepts the situation.
HENRY BERG, the humanitarian,
thinks that the wonderful feat of Maud
S. at Lexington the other day ought to
have been prohibited under the law of
prevention of cruelty to animals. He
doesn't believe in horse-racing anyway.
OLD M. F. UPPER, who still is strug-
Cling with poverty and poetry, was
mildly described by the late Nathaniel
Hawthorne as gifted, upright, warm
hearted and in many ways respectable
person, turned by his Creator into
fool"
"YoU sit down here, says Miss Kate
Field to the good people of the Bay
State, "and fancy that Boston is the
hub of the universe, and that the West
can teach you nothing. It has taught
me more than half a dozen trips to
Europe
CAPT. E. d. ELLSWORTH, father of
Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth, who was shot
in Alexandria while tearing down a reb-
ell flag at the beginning of the war, still
maintains in pasture in Mechanics
vile the horse that belonged to his son,
"AIOu ~ nOH % yours O1O'
Mr.. JOHN B. JEFFERY has issued a
handsome souvenir of John McCul
Tough, in the form of the programme of
the actors last performance which oc-
Cured at McVicker's theater, Chicago.
The programme is embellished with a
handsome portrait of Mccullough, and
contains sketch of his career
PHILLIPS BROOKS is by far the biggest
man in Boston, yet the London Spec
tator says of the sermons he preached
in English churches that they are
more acute than profound, more in
genious than penetrating, not always
clear and never Deep" Beacon Hill has
suddenly dropped Anglomania and is in
raptures over Kate Fields Paris dresses.
FRANK VINCENT, Jr, the author and
traveller, has novel parchment which
is supposed to confer upon him certain
honors from the King of Cambodia.
The diploma is engrossed in red, brown
and black upon sheet of yellow parch-
ment two feet square. The decoration,