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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03
Effects OF Etashisit.

writer In the last number ofAppletons'
journal says of hashish:
I have often taken the drug, rather for
curiosity to discover what its attractions
might be than for aught of pleasurable ex-
citement [ ever experienced. The taste of
the potion is exactly what a mixture of
milk, sugar, pounded black pepper and
few spices would produce. The first result
is contraction of the nerves of the throat,
which is anything but agreeable. Presently
the brain becomes effected; you feel an ex-
traordinary lghtness of 2ad as it were:
your sight settles upon one OBJECT, obstinate
ly refusing to abandonit; your other senses
become unusually acute -uncomfortably
sensible-and you feel tingling, which
shoots like an electric shock down your
limbs till it voids itself trough the extremi-
ties. YOu may stand i'll the burning sun
shine without being conscious of heat. and
every sharp pain is instantly dulled. Your
cautiousness and your reflective organs are
painfully stimulated: you fear everything
and everybody, even the man who shared
the cup with you, and the servant who pre-
pared it: you suspect treachery everywhere,
and in the simplest action detect objects the
most complexedly villainous. Your thoughts
become wild and incoherent, your fancy
runs frantic. If you happen to exceed a
little, the confusion of your ideas and the
disorder of your imagination will become
intense.
[ recollect on one occasion being per-
suaded that my leg was revolving upon its
knee as an axis, and could distinctly feel as
well as hear it strike against and pass
through the shoulder during each revolu-
ton. Any one may make you suffer agony
by simply remarking that particular limb
must be in great pain, and yOu catch at
every hint thrown out to you, nurse it and
cherish it with morbid eagerness that
savors strongly of insanity. This state is
! a very dangerous one, especially toanOvice
madness and catelepsy being by DO means
unGommon Examinations to it. If an as
sembly are under the influence of the
drug and a single individual happen to
cough or to laugh, the rest, no matter how
many, are sure to follow his example. The
generally used restoratives are a Wineglass-
ful of pure lemonade juice, half a dozen
cucumbers eaten raw, and few puffs of
the hookah; You may conceive the state of
your unhappy stomach after the reception
of thes6 remedies. Even without them
yon generally su4fer from severe indiges-
| ton; for, during the intoxicQtio4, the nat
ural hunger which the hashish produces
/ excites you to eat 2 supper sufficient for
two DAYS with ordinary circumstances.
A curious suit is about to be tried be-
fore Memphis justice OF the peace. A
white man has g yopng bull pup. The pup
bit barefooted negro in the heel as he
was passing. The negro jumped, and two
of the pups teeth Were thereby extracted.
The negro sues the white man for allowing
the vicious dog to run at large. The white
man files cross-cut saw bill, and sues the
negro tor having a heel tough enough to
draw dogs teeth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03
Personal Items.

Gen. Magruderis lecturing on Maxi
milan in B oston
1t is proposed to erect statue to the
late Hon. William Pitt Fessenden, in Port
land.
-The wOrkingmen's nominee for Gov
ernor IN Massachusetts is a Boston Hotel
Keeper.
The wife of mail clerk in the Louis
vile Courier-Journal office has fallen heir
to $500, 600.
Mr.. Bergh is down on pigeon-shooting,
and will not consent to a match coming off
within his jurisdiction
Two of Gen. Buffers children have
sailed from New York for Europe, and will
be educated in Germany.
Mrs. E Golden, of New Orleans. be-
fore the war one Of its weaithiest bellies, is
in the st Louis poorhouse.
John Hayward author of ''The New
England Gazetteer" died at Boston, last
week, at the advanced age of SO years and
nine months
Mr.. Eliot is the seventh President
Harvard University has had in twenty-five
years. -Four of them-Quincy, Everett,
Sparks and FELTON, are dead.
Ex-Governor Aiken, of South Carolina,
was fined $50 by the Mayor of Charleston.
on Monday, for neglecting to pay taxes on
two horses and two carriages.
Mr. Francis Hill, of Exeter, Maine,
who IS now between so and 80 years old,
purchased tract of land for farming pur-
poses about sixty years ago. He lives on
the same farm to-day and in that time he
has never bought pound of -four or meal
OF any kind, kernel of corn or grain, a
potato or apple, a pound of cheese or but
ter, of pork, beef, or mutton, or any other
namable thing which farmers in Maine or
dinarily produce from their farms. He has
one of the best farms in hi5 town, and
works it yet himself.
Miss Nellie B, rosy checked,
bright-eyed, dashing farmers daughter,
living in Independence, Oakland county
Mo-, has not soured her temper III signing
over fancied wrongs, nor does she bewail
her sad estate because, having been born
woman, she cannot act the part Of man
When her fathers 80 acres of grain, how
ever, was spelling TO be cut, and there We're
men to bind it, but no one to drive the
team, she tied her Newport hat down under
her chin, donned her garden gloves, mount
ed the seat and drove and worked the reap
er over the whole thirty acres. She comes
OF good stock, her mother having helped
to make the first grain stack in the county,
nearly 80 years ago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03

UNIMPREGNATED EGGs.-There seems to
be sufficient evidence that eggs from hens
that do not have the cock, keep much
longer N fresh condition than impregna-
tea eggs. Geyelin, in Flint edition Of
Poultry Breeding" says:
The shell OF the egg being porus to ad
mt air to the chicken during the process
OF incubation, allows also part of the liquid
to eVaporate, and the air to pefmeate when
they are not nsed soon after being laid, and
the air acting on the animal matter pro
duees early decomposition and putrefac-
faction, particularly SO III fecundated egg,
IN which the germ is first decomposed
Clear eggs, the produce of hens who have
not been with a cock, keep fresh much
longer. This can easily be exempted by
putting an old tecundated egg and an old
clear egg under a hen whilst sitting, when
it will be found that after the twenty-tirsF
day the fundated egg is putrid, and the
clear egg fit for use.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03
Care for HydrOnb0bia,

franklin Dyre, q highly respectable and
intelligent farmer Of Galena, Kent county,
Md, gives the following as sure cure for
the bite of a mad dog As will be seen, he
has tested 1t, with the most gratifying re-
suits:
Elecampane is plant well known to most
persons, and is to be found in many OF
our gardens Immediately after being
bitten take one and a half ounces of the
root of the plant the green root is perhaps
preferable, but the dried will answer, and
may be found in our drug stores, and was
used By me-siice or bruise, and put into
a pint of fresh milk, boil down to half
pint, strain, and when cold drink it,
fasting at least six hours afterward The
next morning repeat the dose fasting, using
two ounces of the root. On the third morn
ing take another dose, prepared as the last,
and this will be sufficient. 1t is recon-
mended that after each dose nothing be
eaten for six hours.
| have son who was bitten by a mad
dog eighteen years ago, and four other
children IN the neighborhood were also
bitten; they took the above dose, and are
alive and well to this day. And have
and applied the same remedy
1t is supposed that the root contains a
principle, which being taken up by the
blood in its CIRCULATION, counteracts or neu-
tralizes the deadly effects of the virus of
hydrophobia.
[ feel SO much confidence in this simple
remedy that an willing you should give
my name in connection with this statement.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03

ANOTHER LANDMARK GONE. There Is
great lamentation in Roxbury, Mass, over
the cutting down OF an old elm ON tho
Warren estate. It is supposed to be the
tree on which General Warren
hung his scythe when he left the bayfield,
for the battle field. But the tree was de-
cayed unsafe, and might tumble down any
day. and hence the removal of the Warren
elm, though lamentable, was warrantable.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03
The Harvest in Europe.

BY mail from Europe we have the follow
ing resume ofthe harvest prospects prevail
ing at the great food supply centres on the
1st of October, as reported in Paris:
The accounts of the harvest in Germany
are very unequal, varying in different dis
tricts from good to far below the average
yield. On the whole, the grain harvest of
middle Germany was below the average;
that of the Southern States was far better
From Austria we hear that the yield of corn
is considerably smaller than in the last two
years; the same is true of Roumania. The
Russian harvest is stated to have been good
and the crops have no where failed SO COM
pletely as in some places last year. The
fodder is everywhere poor, with the eycep-
ton Of a few mountainous districts. There
has been very little clover, and both the hay
and surrogate have been much injured by
the unfavorable weather On the other
hand there has been a good deal OF straw.
Both potatoes and beets have suffered from
the heat and drought of July and the rains
of August. The disease has also appeared
with more or less virulence in some parts.
The hopes entertained for the potato har-
vest are not, therefore, high; but it is said
that the beet is improving. The hops are
said TO be in very poor condition, partly
on account of the weather and partly from
the insects and the disease, which have ap-
peared in many gardens. Scarcely quar-
ter of the usual yield is expected. But lit
tie fruit has been gathered, and even what
was is poor in quality. This is particular
ly the case with apples and plums. Nor
will 1869 be numbered among the select
vintages, as the quantity OF grapes Is small
and their quality interior.
THE Boy OF THE PERIOD. Why boys will
work in wholesale store for three or four
years for $50, 500 and $3.50 per annum,
when it is possible for them to learn trades
in which they may begin on the last-men-
toned sum, is question none but hoys
can answer There are always hundreds
| of lads to be had at $50 year--ln fact the
market is glutted with them, and the
great attraction to them must be the looks
/ of the fashily-dressed clerks who have
! been in the service four Or five Years on
more and who look like S5. OOO-a-yea1
! blcods, but who real y vegetate on less
| than tenth OF that sum, making both ends
meet in manner known only to a higher
power than their washerwoman. It is 3
nobler ambition which makes good trade
and not tape-measuring, the foundation o.
future prosperity.
"A Scotch Clergyman, in the recen-
drought, one Sunday offered a PRAYER fol
rain, and, sure enough, it came lust as tho
service closed. One old lady, who had nc
umbrella with her, commenced to gather
up the skirts of her gown over head be
fore quitting the church vestibule, at the
same time remarking to neighbor, "Eh
wumman, isn't too bad of the doctor? He
might hae lotten us hame first.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03
Western Girls in n Horse Race.


Twelve ladies appeared to contest the
prizes for equestrianism at the Decatur I'LL J
Horse Fair last week, one of whom, Sallie
Wilkinson, of Nyantic, had her saddle re-
moved, and mounted bareback, Just before
the horses were sent off for scrub race.
The word was given, and in an instant ev-
cry horse was in full run, the ladies were
applying the whip, and the air was filled
with hats, ribbons, laces, and ''ixins which
have no place on race track. The maid
of Nyantie gave her black horse the whip,
and soon passed the rear horse, and then
the middle group, and was in the act of
taking the lead when her horse stumbled
and fell upon the grass at the side OF the
track. She was up before him, however.
and had hold of his bride, when four or
FIVE l4en sprang over the guard and held
him while she mounted from the ground
As the horses were nearing the grand
stand, the lady riders cut the air with such
swiftness that their long skirts floated oyer
the backs of the horses. For some dis
tance now no change had taken place, each
doing her level best, except with the Ny
antic maid on the bare back steed, who
quickly took advantage of the clear space
on the pole side, and rapidly passing one
after another, came under the string neck
and-neck with the third horse, and only a
length of the lead. The young men cheer
ed and yelled the young ladies app auded
with their fans and kerchiefs, while the
tears ran down their pretty cheeks; the old
people Ill Il4GAy cases embraced each other
in their Joy, whiis the thick tongues in
choking throats murmured III brQken syl-
tables '.Nyantic !" As she rode back Oh
her foRming steed, all covered with dirt by
his fall, and clothes torn almost in shreds,
the grand stand resouud2a with the cheers
OF thirty thousand voices, ana tta sur
rounding groves prolonged the echo.
DECOMPOSITION AFFEeFEp BY LIGHT - It
has been generally accepted that gqnllght
was necessary to enable plants to dee6m
nose carbonie acid, but NJ. Pnlleux has
found that such artiacial flames as contain
chemical rays-the electric light, and that
fr nm burning magnesium, for example
are sufficient to enable plants to carry on
such action, though at a slower rate. A
branch of potdmO geton, for instance, IN
water, and exposed to sunlight, gave tSen-
tv bubbles of oxygen in certain time,
While exposed to the electric light but
eleven bubbles were evolved III the same
time. Even under gaslight an exceeding
slow decomposition was noted by our au-
| thor
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03

The following Is Uel'6dtlna report OF
conversation between two young ladies
who have just finished their education at
classical school: "Where you at the pic
nic % Yes, and we had high old time
of it" Il wanted to go so bad, but mother
was so hard pushed [ couldn't get off. 81
was rugged, but couldn't csrner you any,
where in the woods. We had bully time;
and you know 1 promised my gallant that
he should have a sight at you" Well,
I'm sorry; but you bet I'll put in my big
licks at the fair.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03

HOPEFUL CONVERT. During a late re-
vival in Kansas, notorious old sinner
Jim Z, was hopefully converted, and
got up in a class meeting to give his exper
ience He commenced soto v00e, and in a
measured tone: 'I-dreamed "a dream.
dreamed-that I died-and went to hell. ;"
A brother here arose and remarked: ''Wil
the brother please speak little louder +?
We can't hear him in this quarter" jim
repeated, alto UOce: II dreamed that [
died, etc., when another brother rose in
another quarter and renewed the request.
jim resumed, qHisaano; 81 dreamed l
died, etc. Hereupon a "cullud pussan" in
the gallery rose and cried out: ''Will the
brudder speak little louder? Jim resumed
U0ciferously: L dreamed-that died and
went to hell There can you hear that, you
ID Niger r. lg E -g
It may be added that the faith of the
audience in Jim's conversion was slightly
shaken by this little episode. .. .....',.--
CoAL ON THE CASPIAN CoAsr.-One of
the predictions of Won Humboldt has re-
Gently been fulfilled in the finding of coal
on the eastern shore of the Caspian sea.
By this fortunate discovery steamships will
no longer be required to obtain wood fuel
at great expense, from the Ural Noun
tains. Forty years ago Humboldt con-
cluded, from the existence Of coal oil
springs which abound in that section, that
coal existed there, but until a few months
ago none has never been mined,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03

PRIVATE medical aid. Read DR.. Whittier's
advertisement,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03

are running their usual course, at McVick-
ers. The Parepa Rosa Opera troupe begin
their season at the Opera House next Mon
day.
Manager Aiken has introduced the new
feature of Monday afternoon matinee at
ba MT1co
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03
GRAIN RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS.

The receipts of wheat just now are onite
liberal, being double the shipments and
double the receipts of this time last year
when the shipments trebled the receipts.
And this accounts, in part, f,r the low price
OF wheat, No, 2yesterday falling to 96 cents.
The low price viii stimulate shipments. but
VIII diminish receipts. In the mean time,
collections in the country are BETTER and the
banks extend all needed accommodations to
the hnainhaa cnnnnn11nitr
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03
TO GEN. GEO. H. THOMAS.

complimentary dinner was given at the
fremont House, last night, to Major General
some of the officers of his old staff and com
mand, at which Gen. Sheridan and staff and
a large number of military officers of more
or less note were present. It was complete
surprise to Gen. Thomas. A goodly number
OF speeches were made, and the affair passed
off very pleasantly.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-03

Night before last some three hundred Nor
mon Immigrants from Europe passed through
Chicago, en- route for Salt Lake. The mer-
chants OF this city have an extensive trade
With the Latter day Saints and d. B. Fisk &
Co, whose sales of millinery goods last week
exceeded by S14 900 the sales Of the cor
responding week last year, fit out the upper
story OF brigham Young's wives, and other
Leading Salntesses, on the democratic princi
pie that one Woman's money is just as good
as another's.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1869-12-11
For the Register.
LEErowN, December 7th. 1869.

LEETOwN, december I'm, looS'
Winter has fairly se, in. for several
days we have had rough. bols'erous
winds, with couple Of snowy days. ou'
not enough Of The latter 10 call ior'h me
merry jingle OF sleigh bells. %
Business is very dull in This region, the
general dullness being relieved by an oc-
casional squesl, as come fat porkers ca
reer is cut short by the relentless knife. .
O Most Of the corn has been housed. and
the Weld was generally better than The
farmers anticipated. -.
Prof w. b. Besmer, Of Roanoke
county, Virginia. addressed meeting a!
Mt. Zion church, on Friday night lasl,on
the i'm por,snce of cultiva'ing "coBgrega-
lional singing.
The evening was rather Indictment, and
The audience was not large, bot the speak
er was entertaining The antiquity. and
importance Of singing as part of Chris
lisn worship, were ably and pleasantly
sci forth; as was also The additional pleas.
ures TO lie family and social circle, TO be
gained by The cultivation Of vocal music.
Surely we ought to endeayor 10 make
home attractive 10 our young men. Es'
pecially We Of the rural districts ought 10
try to make the family circle such plea
SAINT place, lhal the boys would rather
spend lhri. evenings a, home, than a, The
village tavern or store. But | am d.
crossing. Prof. Beamer is organizing a
class in vocal music, and judging from bis
manner Of illustrating music, We think ne
is a master of his profession.
Prof Hopewell is organizing singing
school in our village. With present
pros pecls, some Of US will certainly learn
to sing.
On Sabbath morning, November 2SIh,
Rev. Mr. Penick baptized four persons at
the usual place Of baptism, near Mt. Zion
Church, One was convert OF The late
revival at that Church, the other three
were converts O? late revival at Zoar.
The mornIng was quite cold.
Arrangements are being made for the
organization OF lodge OF the Independent
Order Of Good Temol IN our village,
on Friday evening. next. Upwards Of
twenty persons have given their names 10
become members Of The Order.
\ temperance Society is needed in our
community to gave our young men from
the dangers Of in,emperance.
Yours, &c, TIE MPLAR.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1869-12-11

hACouRT PRocEBDINGs CONTINUED -
Can't has continued in session during the
past week, the fifth Of its session, Judge
Hoke presiding, A
The case of Eugle vs.. Kdviler, on
charge OF burning stacks Of wbeai,Ieport-
ed las, week as peoding, was terminated
by consent Of parties, 10y a majority veT-
diet which was in favor Of the defendant,
the jury standing, after hanging for cou-
pie days, seven for defendant and five tor
plaintiff. The verdict was entered by
Court as for defendant. Motion was
made by plaintiff 10 set aside verdict
which wss over.ruled by Courl, 10 which
exception was taken. Van Swearingen,
Blackburn aud Faulkner for plaintiff: In
giles, Bel,2hoover and Stanton for de!sn-
dant.
John B. Hendricks vs.. James A. Fur
ley. De;inue for recovery of horse
claimed to have been taken during the
war. Verdict for plaintiff, lngles and
Blackburn for plaintiff; Mathews and
BeliZhoover Tor defendant.
E. |. Lee vs.. John r, Ray. Action
on lease. for damages and failure 10 ac-
count. Verde, for defendant. Van Swear
ingeu, Trapnell and Betzhooyer Tor
plaintiff; Ingles, Blackburn end Stanton
for defendant.
The injunction sued oul BY Two CHI,
zens OF Charlesiown restraining Samuel
Ridenour as agent Of Board of SuperVi.
sors for selling the old jail 10! and the re-
mains OF The buildings on the county
property in Charlestown. was dissolved
by The court and the sale permitted 10
proceed. The cause was argued by
Kennedy for compliments and Faulkner
for Board of Supervisors.
On motion ]. S. BTsgonier and Harry
Van Swearingep were admitted to the
Bar.
Cour. adjourned on Thursday until TO-
day when it will likely adjourn for The
term.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1869-12-11
IsrrRKsrIse DECrIos.-The case of

INTERESTING DEcIsIoE.-Ihe case OF
Charles ]. Faulkner Us. Philip Z. Fen
dIe,on's administrator was decided lew
d,vs ago by Judge ChapIine. This was
= sui, involving considerable amount Of
monev. and has attracted large share OF
attention in our court. 1t grew out Of
heavy advances of money mace by me
plaintiff, Mr.. Faulkner. 10 the defendant 5
lesiaror, Philip C. Pendlelon' oh me
ioin, purchase, cultivation and improve
men, Of the Glengsry estate, in the coun,
~ Of Frederick. The defendant pleaded
the &C, Of limitations. To This the PLAIN
ii(T replied, that before the act OF I'm"a'
tions attached, the defendants tesiaior' 10
induce him not to sue, had executed ms
covenant in writing, under SEAL PledgIns
himself not to plead The act OF limitations
Judge Chapllne decided thai the covenant
was binding upon the administrators and
heirs, and that they we're estoPPed by II
from pleading the scI OF limitations. Ii Is
said ii hat the case will be lsken 10 the
Court Of Appeals.-Martins6urg Star