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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13
A Preachers Stratagem.

It is said that at cne time, when Lorenzo
Dow preached under a large spruce pine in
South Carolina, he announced another APP
pointment for preaching in the same place,
on that day twelve months. The year
passed, and as Lorenzo was entering the
neighborhood, the evening preceding his
appointment, he overlook colored boy
who was blowing long tin horn, and could
send out q blast with RISE and swell. and
cadence, which walked the echoes Of the
distant hills.
Calling aside the blower, Dow said to
him as
:.What is your name, sir!''
''My name? Gabriel, sir?" replied the
brother in ebony.
'Well, Gabriel, have you ever been to
Church Hill?"
eyes, massit, Use been dar many time u
'sDo you remember a big spruce pine on
that hill ?"
''Oh yes, massa, know dat pine" .
''Did you know that Lorenzo Dow had
an appointment to preach under that tree
tomorrow ?"
so yes, massa everybody knows dat.
"Well, Gabriel, | am Lorenzo Dow, and
! if you'll take your horn and go tomorrow
morning and climb into that pine tree, and
begin to gather, and wait there till [ call
your name, and then blow such blast with
your horn as l heard you blow a minute
ago, I'll give you dollar. Will you do it,
Gabriel?''
eyes. massa, I takes dat dollar
Gabriel like Zaccheus, was hid away in
the tree-top in fine time. An immense
concourse, Of all sizes and colors assem-
bled at the appointed hour, and Dow
preached on the Judgment of the last day.
BY Lis power OF description he wrought the
multitude up to the opening scenes of the
resurrection, of the grand assize, at the
call of the trumpet peals which were to
awake the nations. "Then," said he s'sup
pose, my friends, that we should hear at
this moment the sound of Gabriels trum-
pet ?" Sure enough, at that moment the
trumpet of Gabriel sounded The
women shrieked, and many tainted; the
men sprang up and looked aghast; some
ran; others fell and called for mercy, and
all felt for time that the Judgment was set
and the books were opened. Dow stood
and watched the driving storm till the fright
abated; and some one discovered the col
Ored angel who had caused the alarm quietly
perched on limb of the old spruce, and
wanted to get him down and whip him, and
then resumed his theme, saying, 81 forbid
all persons touching that boy up there If
colored boy with tin horn can frighten
you almost out Of your wits, what will you
do when We shall hear the trumpet of the
archangel? How will ye be able to stand
in the great day of the wrath of God 2"
He made very effective application -
Independence Democrat
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

HOMEOPATHY The sixth edition Of
! Hahneman's Organon, containing the priu-
ciples of this science, has just appeared i'll
Germany, edited by the distinguished DIR.
Lutte of Cuethen, who enjoys the highest
and most lucrative practice of any Home
opathic physician IN Europe. Its appear
ance has created q profound sensation IN
the school, because DIR. Lutte has restored
two paragraphs which he claims were sup
pressed III the publication OF the last edi-
ton of the Organon in 1893. These para
graphs authorize the combination of two
or more medicines IN a single prescription
and show the procedure to have been known
and sanctioned by Hahneman. Hence, Ho-
meopathic societies, and colleges, and edi-
tors, both in Europe and Ameria, are VIE
ing with each III endeayorlng to suppress
this medicinal heresy there.
Fifteen years ago, Dr. Humphreys of
New York, then professor of the first Ho-
meopathic Medical College in America, an
nounced the same discovery here, and pro
ceeded to form his system ofHomeopathic
| Specifies uron it, and to give the advant-
ages Of them to the country. The announce
ment provoked the same opposition here.
/ DR.. Humphreys became a hereto then, just
as Dr. Lutte is SO pronounced now. Mean
time the truth prevails. The sun shines
! though men close their eyes and swear 1t Is
darkness.
DIR Humphreysand DR.. Lutte enjoy their
practice and the proud satisfaction of see
ling their patients recover, while thousands
daily use DIR. Humphreys Homeopathic
! specifics and are restored thereby, however
theterodox they may be considered by 9th
ers. Northern l,,3epent2d, Nopelnber 23d'
1865, auburn, N. 4.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

THE DYsPEPTIC. The trials and suffer
ngs Of the dyspeptic can only be realized
by those so unfortunate as to bo afflicted
by this disease, and yet how many of them
suffer, and continue to suffer? Why they
do this so patiently it is impossible to tell.
1t may be from ignorance Of any certain
remedy, or it may be from prejudice against
the use of a.patent medicine Hooiand's
German Bitters has cured thousands Of the
worst cases of dyspepsia, and each day
adds new names &c. the record of it's useful
ness. Give the Bitters a trial. HooHand's
Bitters contains no liquor III any form
Hoohands German Tonic is q combination
of all the ingredients of the Bitters, with
pure Santa Cruz Rum, an Sc, orange, &c.
making preparation of rare medica
value. The Tonic is used for the same
| diseases as the Bitters, in cases where some
alcoholic stimulus is necessary.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

ONLY MAKING BELIEVE. .-Thare was some
thing unexpectedly sarcastic in the recent
reply of a criminal when asked by the
Court if he were guilty OF larceny?
F'No, sir-are you?"
prisoner" said the ruffied magistrate,
'tdon't put on any airs with me or I'll send
you down for contempt of court. I ask
you again, are you guilty p
''And tell you no?"
''But this man says he detected you in
the very act of larceny"
eyes sir; but [ was fooling hin.
''Fooling him How do you make that
out ?"
"Just making believe, as yon do some
times"
''Sir, what do you mean"
''Why the other night, T-y, when
you were staggering on the street, some
folks thought You weie tight, but [ knew
You were only making believe"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

Love LITTLE FLIES. A little girl was re-
buked by her mother for her fondness for
killing flies. The little one had acquired
great dexterity in this employment, and
was so much occupied in it that the parent
found that she was growing into a state of
cruelty. Calling the child to her side one
day, she said III sad tone, ''Marv, dear,
don't vou know that God loves the little
flies" Mary seemed to hear the words as
though they suggested great many new
ideas. She stood by her mothers side for
some time i'll thoughtful sadness, and at
length walked slowly up to tie window
where bewildered fly was humming and
buzZing about on the pane. She watched
it lovingly for some time, and then, almost
too full of grief to speak plainly, she began
to utter caressing words. ''Doz ce tie know
dad bod loves 90? Doz 90 love D0d?"
Here she extended her hand fondly toward
the insect as if to stroke away the terror
that she felt she had inspired. 'tDoz 90
want to see bod well" IN n tone of in
tense love and pity, at the same time put
ting her finger on the fly and softly crush
ing it against the glass, ''well, 90 SHALL "
AGRARIANIsM still prevails in Ireland.
According to the London Times Especial
Commissioner" who was sent out to ex-
anime the Irish question, outTages are fre-
quent. 'From the summit of one Of the
low hills that mark the boundary of West
meath and Meath" he says, zone of the
most experienced lawyers IN Ireland point
ed out to me the actual spots OF fourteen OF
these crimes which have escaped the
aVenging hand of justice. Within the last
few months two agrarlan murders OF an
atrocious character have been committed
but there is nothing very peculiar in them,
save that, as usual they show traces oI
system, and were done under more or less
provocation."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13
Another Eccentric Englishman OIL His
Travels

Some time ago (says the London Daily
News) we heard of an Englishman who
made bet that he would walk all the way
to India, and who asked some Consul on
the shores of the Black Sea for instructions
rs to the best road to take A few DAYS
afterwards the Consul was beset by another
Engllshman bent on the Same errand and
eager for similar information. This was
the man who took the first travellers wager,
and who was now on the track OF
his adversary to see that he strictly fulfilled
the terms Of his engagement. Now, we
have the story of an ''original English
man" who has just traversed the Grand
Duehy of HesEe-Darmstad on his road to
Egypt to witness the Inauguration of the
Suez Canal. He had made bet that he
would go from England to Egypt in his
yacht without touching earth. He accord
ingly sailed across the Channel and ND the
Rhine to Mayence. Here he meant to turn
up the Main till he cached the Main and
Danube Canal; but the water of the river
was not deep enough for his adventurous
craft. Nothing daunted, however, our
cOmpatriOt is said to have caused three
wagons to be lashed together, and his Yacht
to be placed on the top Of them, taking
care the while never to leave the deck SO as
to avoid touching land
In this manner the Main and Rhine
Railway transported yacht and traveller to
the town of Bamberg, much to the stupe-
faction of the peasants. At Bamberg the
yacht was launched into the canal, which
will bear it to the Danube; thence it will
proceed to the Black Sea- to the Sea of
Marmora, to the Archipelago, to the Medi-
teranean, to Suez, and, let US hope,
through the canal to the Red Sea. The
story is more likely to be true than that of
the two Englishmen walking, one in the
footsteps of the other, all the way to India;
but true or not, our Continental friends
think it ought to be true. The whim and
the wager are supposed to be very charac-
teristic of Englishmen. AS Frenchmen
bring all disputes to the test of duel,
Englishmen, it is perfectly well known, re-
duce all disputes to the test of wager.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

A correspondent of the New York 1rib-
une with the insuegent Cuban army, writes
as follows:
We are leading the most delightful and
agreeable lives to be imagined Our stores
are not perhaps SO protuse as we could
sometimes desire, and our rations may nos
be always such as would tempt an epicu-
rean appetite; but for trivial deprivations
of these kinds we care little. It does not
even occur to us to look upon them as
hardships. We have excellent health and
high hopes. Mere existence is a perpetual
enjoyment i'll this lovely country, the eli
mate of which, even in the middle of sum
mer, is ineypressibly mild and fresh. Ali
our apprehensiOns of danger from the
/ burning heats were without foundation.
cannot say how it may be III other parts Of
the island, but here, in the mountain
regions, we find the atmosphere so
clear and invigorating as to make US forget
we are in the tropics. The occupants of
the surrounding plantations are all heartily
and openly with u.s. and it may be men
toned as q circumstance of peculiar inter
est for the future, if not for the present,
that have not met a single native Cuban
IN this district who is not an ardent and
even a vehement advocate of annexation to
The United States. And this desire ap-
pears to proceed not solely from the hope
of securing such aid as may enable them to
free themselves more rapidly from Spanish
thraldom, but also, and principally, from a
conviction that by this means alone the
prompt development of their immense la
tent resources, their rapid material advance
ment, and their ultimate prosperity can be
assured.
MORE MONEY Than THEY Could COUNT.
The Russian peasants have an exceed
ingly comfortable and convenient habit of
saving money. A correspondent of the
Evening Post says that a shabbily-dressed
and illiterate peasant came into the Treas
ury at PoltaVa and expressed desire to
change some old paper money for the new
issue. When asked how much he had he
said he did not know; that he and his wife
were unable to ascertain the amount al
though hey had counted two whole days.
An officer was sent to the peasants house
and several bundles of notes taken from a
hole in the floor were found to contain Sc,
0U0 roubles and there were D. 600 or G, 900
more in coin. Suspicious were of course
entertained that he had come by his money
dishonesty; but the whole family had borne
good character, and on inquiry there was
no reason for OBTAINING him, and his mon
ey was changed for him into new notes.
This large sum represented the savings OF
three generations, and similar cases are
said to be very common ssmong the lower
classes in Russia.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

BUSINESS EDUCATION. In whatever pur-
suit person may engage, a business edu-
cation is Invaluable as an aid to success.
The Spencerian Business College, located
at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is justly regarded
as the most perfect business training school
in this country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

DEATH OF \ FAMOUS RACE III oRSE.-Th
famous race-horse Herzog died at the Buck
eye Trotting Park, near Cincinnati, on
Tuesday He was q great favorite at the
west, and had one of the best pedigFees in
the world He was only three years old,
and had run single mile in l 43I-the
best time on record in this country He
was 81 kindly dispositioned horse, and
evinced d strong attachment for his attend
ants. lie ran a week before his death, and
made excellent though not remarkable
time. After the race was over and while
hewas being 'scraped," he showed signs
of distress. The remedies which were APP
piled seemed to relieve him at first but his
disease gradually developed into typhoid
pneumonia, and slowly sapped the noble
animals life. He fought death at every
step, refusing TO lie down until within two
hours of the final moment AS soon rs his
death was announced dispatch was sent
to one of his owners, who replied, "Burv
HerzOg in a good place Following these
instructions, a grave was dug in the track
enclosure at the Buckeye Park on a line
with the threo-quarter mile pole. A tight
ly-sealed champagne bottle, containing q
brief resume OF his exploits an account Of
his last race, and some other papers, was
put into the grave with him. He was a
dark bay in color fifteen hands high, un-
marked save by a few white hairs on his
| forehead; his only defect consisted in the
shortness Of his ears, the tips of which
were lost by being frozen.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

"A man at Cape May, who received fifty
cents from gentlemen he had saved from
drowning handed back forty-nine cents be-
cause he didn't want to take any more than
the mans life was worth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

pArTTcrrT,AR attention is directed to the adj
ycItl-,.f,tenl Of Book for the Milhon-MAR.
IuAaGGlIDE in another column. ut should
be read by all,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13
poetru.
POGE Their.

1USE1 Il Ii FIR
Sweet hand that, held in mine,
Seems the one thing cannot live without
The sonl.s one anchorage in this storm and doubt
take thee as the sign
OF sweeter days in store
For life, and more than life, when life is DOME
Ana thy soft pressure leads me gently on
To Heavens own Eyermore.
have not much to say,
Nor any words that at such fond request,
Let my blood speak to thine, and bear the rest
Some silent heartward way.
Thrice blest the faithful hand
Which saves cen while it besses; hold me fast;
Let me not go beneath the floods at last,
SO near thebetter land.
Sweet hand that, tIIus in mine,
Seems the one thing cannot 1--we without
NV heart's one anchor IN life's storm and doubt,
Take this, and make me thine.
~ Frdzes s Magazine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

WTNE-MAKING IN CALIFORNIA. - Wine
making has just begun in the warmer dis
tricts of California. The yield this year is
expected to be only half as large as that of
last season, but the wine will be Of better
quality. The Buena Vista estate, in Sono-
IA county, said to be the largest vineyard
IN the world, contains 5000 acres, four
hundred and fifty acres being covered with
vines which grow so luxuriantly that they
have to be planted in ridges eight feet
apart, while in Europe from three to four
feet is generally sufficient. The vineyard
contains grapes of all varieties, but t. ose
chiefly grown are the Riesling, Muscatel
and Mission, the latter being the native
grape The labor employed is almost
wholly Chinese. but few Frenchmen and
Germans from European wine districts at
tend to the cellars and superintend the
wine-making. The Buena Vista cham
pagne is becoming widely and favorably
known. 1t Is made in the same manner us
the best French champagne, and some
choice vintages are scarcely to be distin-
guished from the European varieties.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

A CHIGNoN STORY. A Paris letter-writer
gosslps thus: ga great noise was heard
this morning in one Of the most elegant
houses Of the Rue de Rivoli, and soon after
the people thus attracted before the door
way saw well-dressed man rushing down
stairs with an indefnable bundle of things
i'll one hand and bottle in the other lie
threw down the bundle in the middle OF
the courtyard, and poured upon it the con
tents OF the bottle, to which he set fire,
causing the whole to blaze fumously. Sew
eral women were then heard crying and
sobbing mp stairs in the most pitiful man
ner. 1t turned out afterwards that the
gentleman has wife and three daughters,
who eyince an inexhaustible and immoder-
ate love COR false chignons. They possess
ed alrea !y twenty of these artificial orna-
ments, and were going to purchase -four
more-larger and thicker, III accordance
with tho very last fashion-when the angry
husband and father, tired of being continu-
ally called upon to satisfy such an eXtraor-
dinary taste for chignons seized the whole
stock, got a litre Of petroleum; and set the
false hair blazing in the court to the great
amusement of all present.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

- In the case OF George Snyder VS.. The
proprietors of the Baltimore American, Ior
$4,000 damages for alleged libel. the jury
has rendered a verdict for plaintiff, award
ing $3.50 damages.
GrIIETr's BAKING PowDER.- Ask your gro
Ger for it, All who have used 1t once, tnd 1t
nnre healthy and economical. 1t Is warrant,
od 10 please.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

A RUNoR ABOUT VANDERBILT The
World of the LIST inst. says: ''The state
ment was freely made yesterday that Com
modore Vanderbilt had borrowed SIC, 0O0,-
600 from Barring Brothers, giving them as
collateral Hudson River at par; and that
with one hall of this he had purchased
seventy thousand shares Of Lake Shore.
If this is true the transaction is a heavy
one III more respects than one Hudson
River sold yesterday at l45 The Commo-
dore, therefore sacrificed $3.50, 600 If he
bought Lake Shore he paid from SO to Sc.
Some people are inclined to disbelieve the
statement"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

GERMAN AND AMERICAN BENEvoLENCE.- -
A note to the editor of the World, from an
American clergyman in Dresden, Saxony,
directs the attention of Americans to the
benevolence of German citizens, who have
contributed more than $120, coo for the re-
lief Of the surviving relatives Of the two
hundred and seventy-six sufferers at the
recent catastrophe in the Saxon mines.
About the time that this note reaches us,
the board Of trustees of the Avondale re-
lief fund announced that over 500: 600
have already been contributed to that fund,
and express the belief that the total will
swell to more than double that sum. The
dead of Avondale numbered one hundred
and eight-not half so many as the dead
of Plouen. Thus it appears that in less
time than the people of Germany have
taken to raise by concerts and other enter
tainments the sum named in Mr.. Aulletell's
note, the people Of the United States will
have raised twice the amount, mostly by
voluntary subscription, in response TO a
necessity of less magnitude.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

The worms are committing great havoc
IN some parts of Michigan. They are strip
ping the trees completely of leaves Six
miles north of Niles, trees covering thous-
ands of acres have been entirely stripped
of their leaves. The destroyer is long
woolly, black worm, that first made their
appearance last year, but in small numbers
comparatively. This year they are plenty,
and are doing their work only too com
pletely.
A hog at the California State Fair
weighs l, 100 pounds,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-13

is working close and becoming scarce owing
in part to large grain receipts and small ship
mants, eastern dealers being unable to pay
an advance for large consignments, owing to
arrangements in financial matters. AS a
consequence, produce rules lower. b.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-11-15

KANSAS CONNECTIONS or THE g., X. /. u
p. RAlLRoAp.-A late number Of the
Leavenworth (Kansas) Bulletin contains
the following announcement concerning the
extension of the Muscstine and Washington
branch of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
ci6c Railroad
We are in possession of news today, the
details Of which we are not allowed to lay
in full before our readers, but the substance
will convince the most Respondent citizens
of Leavenwor'h that the Chicago and South
western or Cameron Railroad Company has
at length the ready money sufficient to meet
all expenses for iron, for grading and fin
lshing up the entire line from this city to q
point in Iowa, where it intersects the Chi
cago, Rock Island Il Pacific Railroad the
great through and direct route from Chi
csgo to the initial point of the Union Pa
ci6c Railway.
The Bulletin says il is confidently claim
ed by those who have facilities for knowing
the resources of the company, and the in.
terest which sustRins it, that through trains
will be running from Leavenwor,h to Chi
csgo, via. Chicago aud Southwestern Rail
way, in less than one year.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-11-15

STOCKHOLDERS MEETINo.--At meeting
of the stockholders of the Lamar Fire II.
s'rance Company, Of Chicago, resident in
this city, Capt. T. J. Robinson was called to
the chair, and H. G. Cleavelsnd appointe
secretary.
DR., NJ. G.. Sherman being called upon BY
the chairman to explain the principles of
the organization, proceeded in q very lucid
manner 10 show the peculiar features BY
which this and similar companies are gov.
erned ; the need of such companies in tie
Vest to prevent the unwsrrsuted drain of
millions of dollars yearly to the East for
insurance, which we as people were capa
bic OF doing, and retaining that money in
the West; the reason why Western comps.
MES had heretofore in great measure
proved failure, aud showing conelusively
that this was the only plan BY which West
ern companies could be organized to success.
fully compete with Eastern companies that,
vampire like, are fattening on our life blood
We have no doubt that the Lamar will
assist IN filling the want so long felt by
Western business men, aud that its career
will be as successful as its inception is con.
sentative.
For election of officers, &C., see sdver
hsemert in TO days issue.