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Waupaca Republican

February 7, 1878

Alderman BROWN refused, “tis said, to do as the King of the Cannibal Islands is said to have done – work upon the brakes of the fire engine, and the Mayor didn’t have him arrested the next day because he couldn’t find him.

The City Council fellows say the reason they didn’t give WOODNORTH the clerkship last spring is because JOE had no room to furnish them to meet in. Just as if JOE couldn’t have made arrangements with CHAMBERLAIN or PERKINS, or HOLE, if CHURCHILL wouldn’t let him have his!

CASH. THOMAS found a bee tree on his farm – the old CASS place – last Sunday, and did it by noticing the bees out and flying around. If any country in this latitude can beat this true story, we will try and tell another one. But this is a fact and a remarkable one. Sunday, remember, was the 3d day of February.

Mr. MINORS, of Staffordshire, England, brother-in-law of Mr. RICHARD LEA, accompanied by Mr. COLEY, representative in this country for certain Wolverhampton iron works, are spending a short time in this place, having come in on Monday.