Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-09-23
NEW YORK MILLIoNAIREs.

a new oFR COTFSS pOii0Ch'5 u u"
Rochester IN. Y. Democrat, writing 0
business successes in that city, gives thu
following concerning certain ones wh(
have succeeded: "a thousand cases 0
failure occur here to one of success, ant
yet that one is sufficient to attract th'
multitude Stewart was a sehool-master
and Astor German ennigrant. Ihls /:
an old story, but we shall find itreourring
continually in a less striking manner
The Harpers began as journeymcn prin
ters. Greeley, too, was type setter
and Raymond was reporter, But thai
also is an old story; and We may look tol
more recent examples. Hers th6R is De
mas Barnes, the great wholesale dealer IL
patent medicines, who has within a few
years made million of dollars at his
trade. He is the owner Of large num-
Der Of popular remedies, one of which is
brakes Plantation Bitters, which alone
has been fortune Here. toO, ls Pike,
the liquor dealer and distiller, whom we
knew some years ago as very small ar.
| fair, but Who has suddenly become mil
ionaire He IS said to have made SO,
600 day for long time dnrlDg the
war, on-the advance in liquors, and be
has erected a splendid Opera House,
which is to perpetuate his name here
are the Turner Brothers, who made for
tune in ginger wine, and have just com
peted marble block which rents for
/ $4,000 per aunum, We may tura from
merchandise to other professions and ind
similar cases. Here is Sumner 5. Ely,
formerly Of Albany, who is practiclng
law. He is somewhat deaf, aud is very
near sighted, and yet, being possessed ot
| remarkable abilities, he Is making large
fortune. He was employed to make the
searches IN behalf Of cemetery whose
! size involved large number OF titles, and
for this task, which occupied nearly a
year. he received $40, 900. His business
is now about $4,000 year. Here Is
Rufus D. Case, who failed in business
| some years. agOin Syracuse, and who has
become rich in the tea business on Front
street And here is the American Tea
Company, which has made its protector
and owner (Wm. G. Giiman) one of the
WeaIthlest merchants Of the city. Ibus
one may see that the golden chances con
tinue, and for every ten thousand huH-
gry adventurers who come hlther there
IS glitteIing prize held out. Here Is
W, the petroleum operator, who has
shaved the public Out Of half million
by means Of bogus companies We know
one man who sold his dwelling for
SIS, ,U00 and invested it, losing every dol
lar. Ano. .ncr successful man. 5 Knox,
the halter He is Of Irish birth, and.
commenced life as a poor errand boy.
He learned the hating trade aud served
rs foreman In two establishments. lie
then started for himself and n0W has two
fashionable stores and owns enough real
estate TO make him rich. Ireland has
sent US two prominent names. HaIplne
aud Bonner the lat er being transformed
by the hand Of fortune from a journey
nun printer into III ! ioaaire publisher.
THE FIRST PRINTINa IN THE UNITED
STATEs.-Rev Jessie Glover may be con
sidered the father Of American printers
Among other things be devised for the
prosperity of the Massachusetts, colony, he
raised by foreign contributions and his
own liber lity sufficient means for the
purchase Of al! the apparatus necessary
for print ug Office. Ia 1888 he shippei
this to New England, and employed a
practical printer named Stephen Daye to
accompany it, who began business in Jan
nary, 1889, in Cambridge, where the
family Of tr Glover settled on their ar
rival Mr. Glover sailed in the same yes
sell bat died on the passage. The first
thing issued from this press was the
FREEDMAN's OATH the second an alma
nae; and the third the Psalms in metre.
Samual Green, the successor of Daye, was
10 Cambridge eight years before the latter
left England, and probably learned the
art of printing from him, as he was not
known as a printer until l649 Air
Green was much esteemed for his virtues,
and died in Cambridge in 1702, aged
eighty-seven years. He left nineteen
children, and for long period his de-
soendants fourished as printers,
THE Spor IN THE SUN.-The exis-
tence Of large spot in the disk of the
sun was mentioned in the Evenjng Post
about ten days ago, AID Mr.. W s. Gil
man. Jr.. sends US this morning a litho-
graphic sketch of the appearance Of this
spot and says that he made the sketch at
New Haven with a nine-inch glass, hav-
inc a magnifying power Of two hundred
and ninety Mr.. Gilman adds thag this
WAS the most remarkable sun spot he ev-
er saw.
The length of the spot was $500
miles, The bI ok portion extending for
"a 600 miles or, to give more familiar
idea of It's magnitude, two planets, each
as large as our earth, could have b IN en-
oulfed within this chasm without sqneez-
ing. Tie periphery Of the central spot
was notified with black and gray dots.
The Iithograph has a very curious ap-
pearance, somewhat resembling a capital
o. or a comet with a curled ia surroun-
ded by an infinite number OF small Specks
of grayish tint.
The greater diameter Of this sun-spot
extended nearly due east and west, that
portion spoken Of above as the tail curv-
ING around to the north. Atoz ether it
presented a remarkable and unusual ap-
pcarance.
One Of Governor Seymour's friends"
approached Republican who worked on
the Portsmouth Navy Yard and was a
poor man with eight children, and init