Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-07-04


The number of acres of public lands
in Wisconsin, surveyed and yet belong
ing to the government, is over H. 1887 ,O5l
acres.
"A Chickering Concert Grand Piano
will be sent here expressly for Mr.. Sher
wood. Of course it will be magnificent
instrument.
The Milwaukee Bay Views and the
Columbus nine play game of base ball
to-day at Columbus. Diekoff will pitch
for Columbus.
AT the meeting of the vestry of st.
Paul's church Saturday evening, II. I.
Eberle was elected clerk and George
Hawkins treasurer.
The Columbus Blues defeated the
Sun Prairies by the score of IL to 3 at
Columbus Sunday. Diekoff and Keele
were the Columbus battery.
BY special request, Mr.. Sherwood
will include in his programme, Chopin g
Nocturne in G, and Grand Polonaise in
A, and perhaps the A fiat Waltz.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Judd have rented
the east McGraw house across the street
from St. Be-nard's church, where they
will be cat home" to their friends.
Boys using fire-crackers to-day should
be careful not to fire them SO as to frighten
horses or children, nor injure people. BY
carelessness with fireworks of any kird
sometimes very serious accidents occur.
A small blank book containing the
records of St. Paul's Episcopal parish has
been lost or mislaid. Any person having
it will confer favor by leaving it at
Eberle's drug store or Wisconsin Nation
al bank.
Farmers in this vicinity are now busy
securing their hay and are having favor
able weather for the work. The crop, es-
pecially tame hay and timothy, is the
heaviest in some years, giving assurance
of abundance of feed for next winter.
Within the past few days large
number of our citizens have received pcs
tai cards addressed to them from New
York city, containing the words Gone a
day." A solution of the mystery is anx-
iousIy awaited. 1t is doubtless some ad-
vertisipg plot.
-Rodicue & Turner's minstrel show,
which held forth at the Concofdia opera
house Sunday evening, was mo good
whatever; without single redeeming
feature in its performance. The audience,
although small, was larger by one hun
dred per cent. than the concern deserved
The horses attached to Yahr's bakery
wagon, while on the west side yesterday
morning started on a run to the east side,
and in the wake of the vehicle were dis
tributed buns, rolls, cookies and pies,
making acomical scattering of provisions.
Nobody was hurt and no great damage
done.
AT the commencement exercises oil
St. Johns Military academy, Dela6eld,
held last week, the first prize in geometry
and the Armitage medal for arithmetic
were won by Lieut.. George G. Lewis, and
the Bishop Kemper medal for algebrs
and one prize in spelling were taken BY
Lieut.. J. M. Taylor, both of this city
another evidence that Watertown boy!
get to the front.
The Gazette is "clear off, in its state
ment last week in regard to the disap
pointing effect the nomination of Harrison
and Morton had upon the Republicans o
this city. The fact is no nominations O
the party for some years have been re
ceiyed here with the same degree of COP
fdence bordering on certainty of success
nor with livelier demonstrations of en-
thusiasm, than those of Harrison ane
Morton. The Republicans made mor'
noise over their nominees for two day
after the convention than had been heart
from the Democrats in two weeks. In fac
| it is yet undemonstrated what the Demo
| Gratis here think of their ticket. Wher,
the disappointment came in was will
the Democrats, because of the failure t.
nominate Blaine. For weeks before the.
had ardently and fervently hoped, if no
prayed, for the nomination of Blaine ant
the final selection of Harrison knocked
our Democratic friends silly. Its effec
was as bad as an electric shock to then
given by Garland himself. We would no
call into question the intelligence of an!
man, be he Democrat or Republican, s,
much as to insinuate that he did not know
who Harrison was. He made a fine re
cord as soldier in the war of the rebel
| lion has served his state ably and dill