Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
PERSONAL.

"JIM" KEENE's fine property at New
port, Il. l., is for SALE
UPPER, of ''Proverbial Philosophy.
is looming up again as poet.
FRANCIS MURPHY receives $25 per
day for his services in the temperance
field.
| PRINCE LEoPoLD's widow will have to
struggle along on an annual income of
$40, 900.
| THE vacant presidency of Bowdoin
| College has been offered to Prof, @. p.
German, of Amherst.
IRVING gave 1872 performances during
ms American tour, and his gross re-
ceipts were $405, $50.
MIR. TILDEN has just bought a house
on Thirty-eighth Street, New York, for
S42, 900, which he will present to one
OF his nieces.
u. L. GLOVER, prosecuting attorney
OF the common pleas court at Lancaster,
o., has been deposed from Office for
drunkenness.
HERR Won BULow has been deprived
OF the title of court pianist at Berlin
Tor insulting Hui sen, director of the
Royal Theater.
CHARLES HEE SING, wealthy Chi
nese merchant in New York, who mar
RED buxom English girl in London, has
sued for divorce.
QUEEN VICTORIA recently permitted
German photographer to take group
OF herself and three generations of de-
scendants in the female line.
cit is only necessary to grow DID,"
says Goethe, the great poet, "to become
more indulgent. I see no fault COM
mitted that have not committed N.Y.
SELF"
CHARLES ELDREDGE, of Boston, and
Green B. Raum, of Illinois, have formed
a copartnership in the business of pros
ecuting tobacco rebate claims in Wash
ington.
Mrs. DUBUYs, of Pass Christian,
daughter of Gen. G. T. Sherman, is the
owner of one of the loveliest rose gar
dens in Mississippi. She has $50 varie-
ties of roses in it.
PROF. GOODWIN SMITH, who was re-
Gently in Washington, is described as s'a
tall, thin man, with wrinkled face,
tall, bald forehead, gray hair, and close
gray side whiskers."
The Parepa-Rosa scholarship of the
Royal Academy of Music, London, was
competed for on April 81, and it was
awarded to Fanny Eliza Rowe. There
were fity-seven candidates.
SPIRITUAL ADVISER HICKS, who
dropped out of sight after he got
through trading in Guiteau's osseous
outfit, has been discovered in Florida,
where he has an orange grove and very
bad health.
The family of Hon. H. G. Burchard.
the director of the United States mint,
will spend the summer at their home
in Freeport, Ill. Mr.. Burchard, who
has been visiting Freeport lately, is now
back in Washington.
THE Wheatlands, President Buchan-
ans old home, near Lancaster, Pa, is
offered for sale. Before Buchanan
bought it, it was owned and occupied
by VIM. M. Meredith, President Tay-
lor's secretary of the treasury.
JAMES PARTON has never for a length
of time employed an amanuensis. He
considers writing by that method ''like
working with a pair of tongs." He
writes with great regularity, and though
no rapid composer, turns out good
deal of work. His handwriting is home
~ but legible.
EARL D. HATHAWAY, boy years
| old, in Oriskany Falls Oneida County,
is of the fifth living generation of his
family, his mother being "a years old,
his grandmother At, his great-grand-
mother r., and his great-great-grand-
mother "a years old. So writes his IA
ther, H. 81. Hathaway.
CARDINAL HOWARD, who is about to
be advanced to bishopric in the Car
dinal College, WAC once an officer in the
British army, and the new Church of
England Bishop Ryle, of Liverpool, and
Bishop Maclagan, of Litchfeld, wore
the red coat before they put on the sur
plice preliminary to their promotion to
| the lawn.
TEE Bishop of Rochester (England)
will again visit America this year, sail
ing from Liverpool on board the Sar-
DINA, on July 81. He will visit several
Western States, including Michigan,
Minnesota, Iowa, Colorado and Utah
Territory, lecturing in the principal
towns and cities in behalf of the Church
Temperance Society.
BELvA A. LOCKWOOD, the Washing
ton attorney, is said by correspondent
to be bright woman. ''You may see
her any day riding down F street on
tricycle., and showing her red stockings
at every turn of the wheels. Belva has
something of law practice, and she is
not always hanging around the Capitol
or the departments asking for office.
WESTON, the pedestrian, has COM
pleted walk of 5000 miles in 100 days
IL England. He performed the feat on
total abstinence principals, though he
rubbed the soles of his feet with whisky
now and then. There is a Lesson in this.
A great many persons would get through
the world better if they were to keep
whisky under their feet.-Norristow
Herald.
ELDER GONZALES TREJo, Spanish
convert to the church of Latter Day
Saints, fancies that he has found new
and promising Mormon missionary field
| in Mexico He has translated the Book