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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02
Amusing Paragraphs.


What the old mountaineer says of the
grizzly: 1t is fine thing to hunt the griz-
ziy; bat when he gets to hunting you it's
different
The jealous man is always hunting for
something he dosen't expect to find, and
after he has found it, he is mad because he
mas. He is always happy just in proper
lion as he is miserable
A swell, while being measured for
pair OF boots, observed: MAKE them cover
the calf. ''Impossible, returned the as
tonished bootmaker, surveying his custom
er from head TO foot, i haven't leather
enough.
Said youngster, in high glee, display
| ing his purchase to q bosom friend on the
sidewalk: Two cocoa nuts fOr ten cents
that will make me sick tomorrow, and
won't have TO go to school.
At a rayer-meeting in Augusta, Me-,
some 1rreverent urchIus woke up the sex
top, who had fallen asleep, when the start
ed functionary, snpposlng 1t was just
morning, exclaimed, ''Maria Maria! get
up time to get breakfast r. The boys had
d good laugh.
When the long handled collection dish
was passed around IN Boston church, q
Ittle girl reached out Tor some of the pop
corn. She thought the deacon had corn
pepper"
When an ill-natured fellow was trying
to pick quarrel with peaceabie man, the
atter said: ''I never had a fuss with bat
man; he was buried at four o'clock; it is
now half-past three
Ben. Pickerel (no relation to Score
ary FtshJ has been fined 81, 900 for Illicit
distilIery in Kentucky.
A lady correspondent, who has excel
lent taste, says ''that the present style of
bonnet is awful. Perched on the top of q
haystack of ha1r-the original owner Of
which nobody can imagIne-it looks like
an architectrAl ostrich trying to soar into
the empyrean, but restrained by dispropor-
toned things, tied under some pretty ones
chin"
"A drunken man. who had slipped
down, thought it singular that the water
always freezes with the slippery side up.
-''You've destroyed my peace OF mind,
said a desponding lover to truant lass.
sit can't do you much harm, John, for it
was an amazing small piece you had, any
way, was the quick reply.
likes last trick was to throw Mrs.
Partington's old gaiter in the alley, and
call the old lady down from the third
floor to see an alieygaiter.
The first day little boy went 60
school the teacher asked him if he could
}eA Eyes, SIR" 'sWeli how do YOU
spel boy ?" "0b, just as other folks do"
-"There, nowr said little bit of
thing, while rummaging drawer in bu-
reau. and turning the contents all topsy-
turvy, of course; 'there now gran pa has
gone to heaven without his spectacIes
Won't you take em with you, granma, when
you go?"
The nonarrival out of the steamer City Of
Boston, which left New York on the 25th Of
January, and Halifax on the 28th, has occa-
stoned some anxiety am5ng those who have
friends on board.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Miscellaneous Items.

New Orleans celebrated Lineoln's
birthday.
There are 602 conviets in the Massa-
chusetts State Prison.
Indian dance and pow-wow was held at
Princeton on the 18th.
"A family of garbarge- -pickers in New
York report $1,000 in bank.
What state is high in the middle and
round at both ends? Ohio.
New Orleans is said to be remarkably
deficient in lawyers of ability.
About 10000 valentines were sent
through the Chicago postofice.
Manchester, Vt, has just had ball to
raise money to adorn the cemetery.
"A Philadelphia publishing house is to
issue work exclusively for blind readers.
The average crop of potatoes in Maine
the past season was about rs bushels per
acre, one. Il ird OF which have decayed so
as to be worthless.
Omaha came near having a tragedy
the other day, when half-breed Indian at
tempted to shoot negro for alleged init
macy with his wife.
Three negroes at Knoxville, Tenn,
died the next day after riding horse,
and now no one dare mount the animal,
fearing that he is bewitched.
Hickman, KY, is in some danger of
being washed into the Mississippi. The
city fathers are making strong efforts to
prevent the bank from further falling in
but, it is feared, this relief IS only tempo
rary.
The internal revenue receipts in Cook
county, ILL.,, in January, were $577. 179. Of
this amount spirits paid 1891, 159; tobacco
$50, 1856; sales, S36, ,611; incomes, S24, ,587;
gas. S13, ,318; railroads, S21, 545; theatres,
S. ,231, etc.
Rev. Il. W. Beeeher's church has voted
that candidates for membership shall not
be required hereafter to assent to the con-
fesslon of faith. Mr.. Beecher advocated
the measure, and said that the former
rule, which excluded Universalists and
other unorthodox Christians from the
church, was unjust, and should be re
pealed.
The statuary of the Capitol now COM
prises the following portraits: Basts of all
the Chief Justices and of Benton; statues
of Hancock, Hamilton, Jefferson, Franklin
and Greene. The colossal Washington,
the equestrian Washington, the brass JACK
son, galloping over huge mugs of lager
beer, and the unfortunate Lincoln at the
top Of marble candlestick. beneficently
contemplating the mud and the darkies
around the City Hall.
"A singular case has just been tried at
Auburn, Maine, before the Supreme Ju-
dic1al Court. A suit was brought against
an executor of an estate to recover note
of 81, 900 given by certain party. The
plaintiff claimed that the endorsement of
the note was as follows: 81 back this note
holden for debt and costs; signed -"
and Mr.. witnessing the endorsement.
The defendant claimed that the endorse
ment was: 81 back this not holden for debt
and costs. " and that the letter Sc" had
been added. The verdict was for the de-
fendant.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02
The Art of Making Songs.

None but Cinnamon could heretofore
make gongs to perfection. 1t used to be
supposed that they possessed the secret of
mixing the allov of which the clamorous
lDsurunl9ii.s Iefmed, or else some means
of tempering the metal to allow of its being
beaten into shape, and afterward hardened
to q sonorous density. For a genuine gong
is brittle; it will crack if struck with hard
substance; and yet it bears hammer marks
all over it. We do not know whether
English musical instrument makers have
not supplied gopgs because there is no
demand for them, or because they could
not make them. But if the latter,
there need no longer be a scarcity
in the market; for a French metaIurgist
has been experimenting upon gong
and cvmbal metals, and has revealed the
Chinese secret, if secret it has been. The
nature of the alloy has long been known;
it consists of eighty parts of copper to
twenty of tin. But the shaping; attempt
to heat this compound into dish-form,
and it flies like porcelain. The trick lies
in first heating it, and hammering it while
at dull red heat; it is then malleable as
soft iron; allow it to cool and il relapses
into friability. The making of q gong
must be tedious work, though, for the thin
metal will soon cool, and there must be
incessant reheatings. A barbarian's pa
tience must be required jor the task. Per-
haps it is the labor thus spent upon gongs
that renders them so expensive.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02

last s'orlng was severe blow to him, and
no doubt accelerated his death. Weakness
and pain confined him to his house during
nearly the whole of the winter; soon after
Christmas an attack Of his disease so weak
ened him that he was forced to remain in
his room. 1t will please his friends at
distance, who may read this, to know that
he was unchanged to the last, retaining
his cheerful temper, and the quiet humor
which distinguished him to the end. He
took an affectionate farewell, not only of
his family, but of the old servants of the
publishing house, many of whom had been
his friends from his own younger days. He
fondly recalled in these last days many of
the incidents of his early life, and it seem
ed to be peculiar source of happiness to
him, that he ad secured the attachment
of SO many of those who had been in his
employ. He passed away thus, calmly, re-
signedly, cheerfdlly, being in his death, as
in his life, Christian gentleman N. Y.
Post, 14th
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02
WINTER Returns to the Depar

WINTER RWHBAT.-Returns to the Depart
ment of Agriculture during january lnd1-
cate a decrease in the acreage OF winter
wheat in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New
York and New England. The decrease IN
Illinois is SIX per cent. in Michigan seven
per cent, IN Indiana and New York five
per cent. The area in California is nearly
the same as last year, and little dlHerence
is reported from Ohio. Wisconsin, MINNIE
sofa and Missouri. Kansas has increased
her acreage very largely, and Arkansas,
Kentucky and West Virginia have also
made a material increase. The acreage OF
other winter grains is reduced slightly.
The reports of the condition OF winter
wheat are not generally favorable. In the
Ohio Valley. the reduction below an aver
age appearance at this period OF the year
ranges from six to twenty per cent. In
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas. Texas and
California, an average condition is lndl-
Gated. In most of the remaining states the
appearance of the plant is comparatively
unpromising. The probabilities at present
are opposed to the prospect OF another
year of marked pEoductlveness. An IN
creased acreage of barley is reported from
Kentucky, Missouri. Wisconsin and Kan
sas. It's condition is little better than that
of wheat throughout the Ohio Valley ano
the Northwest. The reduction is repre-
sented to be: thirt cen per cent. III Missouri
nine in Indiana, eight in Illinois, seven III
Ohio, and five in Michigan.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02

RED as a RosE Is SHE. BY the author of
"Gometh Up as q Flower, 1 vol, vo.,
paper cover. Price 60c. The author of
'Cometn Up as a Flower" rapidly won
popularity which places her IN the front rank
of modern novelists. We are assured by a
lady friend that the story is so absorbing that
she was obliged to finish it at one sitting.
Her characters are all Iife-hke portraits, and
you seem to see before you just such men
and women as we arc in the habit of seeing
from day to day. Nothing so fresh and
charming has come before us for may day.
D. Appleton & Co., New York, publishers.
Sent free by mail to any address on receipt OF
the price
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02
Lake st. Clair in a HeaYing Way.

The Chatham Planet of recent date re-
cords q most extraordinary and sudden rise
of the waters of Lake st. Clair, particularly
observable in the vicinity of the mouth Of
the river Thames and along the south
shore of the lake to and beyond the river
Ruscom. Parties resident on the lake
shore say that at first two loud reports We're
heard, resembling the reports from cannons
fired at distance, after which was exper-
fenced sensation as from gentle sway
ing to and fro, as though an earthquake
had been awakened from a century's re-
pose. Upon visiting the water line it was
discovered that the ice had been suddenly
showed upon the shores and piled up sew
eral feet in height, carrying with it trunks
of trees and logs, which had for quarter
of century lain imbedded in the sand OF
the beach. At the mouth of the river
Thames and vicinity, the Ice was thrown to
the height Of two or three feet, while at the
river Ruscom it was raised at least four
feet above its ordinary level. So sudden
was the action of the water in the lake,
that the ice and trees and logs We're abso-
lutely piled in q jumbled mass several feet
in height along the shore for distance OF
several miles, but it was most observable
in the south and southeast quarter.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02

A CAPITAL CHANCE for young men 10 enter
upon a permanent and profitable employ
ment is offered by Mr.. McKindley in tbs
adjoining ard The Globe is one of the
standard Life Companies of the country,
and is too wen and widely known to need
comment.
The GLOBE MUTUAL LIFE Insurance
CoMPANT OF New York, wish to engage men
of integrity and business ability to solicit
applications for Life Insurance in Michigan,
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and
Minnesota, on liberal terms. Address, with
references, j. G. McKincIey, Monager
Northwestern Department, 124 La Sale St,
Chicago, Ill.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02
The Base Ball Campaign.


The Red Stockings of Cincinnati have
reorganized for the campaign of 1870, and
are SO strong that they anticipate as re-
markable a career as during 1869 Tt was
stated some time since that Chicago was
oroar izipg club, and the work has been
ACCOMPLISHED, the nine to take the field as
early as the weather will permit They
will nlav with all the clubs before trying
the Red Stockings. The following is the
Chicago nine:-
Pitcher-Atwater, of the Niagaras.
Catcher-Meyerle, of the Athletics.
First Base-McAtee, of the Haymakers.
Second Base Wood, of the Eckfords.
Third Base-Flynn, of the Haymakers.
Short Stop-Hades, Of the Haymakers.
Right Field -Cnthbert, o. the Athletics.
Centre Field-N1art King, of the Hay
makers.
Left FieId-Treacy. of the Eckfords.
From this it will be seen that their in
field is very weak, Hades being the only
real star player in it, while their out-feld
is magnificent, probably the best ia the
country, they having succeeded in obtain
ing the crack out-felder from each of the
three fine clubs-Athletics, Haymakers, and
Eckfords.
Our own clubs are not idle, and we un-
derstand that they will consolidate their
make good report.
We clip the following from an exchange:
It would appear from the remarks of the
Cincinnati Gazette that some Of the eastern
clubs are becoming anxious in relation to
the coming base ball season, and fearful
that the palm of victory may not be wrest-
ed from the hands of the stalwart ''Red
Stockings, - at present the champion ballists
among the clubs of the country. AS the
winter season is passing away, visions of
green turf, and exciting contests on the
field arise, and lovers of the manly sport
are girding up their loins in preparation.
According to the Gazette the emissaries of
the New York .'Mutuals" have been in Cln-
cinnati recently, with the avowed purpose
of breaking up the first nine of the Cincin-
natl club. The offers which they made were
very liberal. A large increase III salaries,
the support of the Mutual Club in any
trouble which the officers of the Cincinnati
Club might be disposed to make, and the
payment of all Indebtedness which the
members of the nine whom they approach
ed might have incurred in that city, were
the tempting propositions which they
made But the bond of brotherhood-for
such it must be in a great degree with men
who have achieved so remarkable a sue
cess in their caling-was too strongly knit
to admit of severance, with even such
inviting offer as above mentioned. The
season for playing in Cincinnati commen-
ces so early, in comparison with that in the
cities further north, that the Red Stock
ings' will soon be practicing, and getting
themselves i'll most excellent trim. The
nine will have as substitute, one of the
best pitchers in the country, who is also
frst-class general player. We hope the
Cincinnati nine will pay our city a visit
during the summer
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02

BOLD SpEEcH.-In the French Corps
Legislatif on the 21st, Mr.. jules Favre
moved his Interpolation of the Ministry on
their domestic policy, and supported his
motion with vigorous speech. He allud-
ed to the action of the government in the
recent popular troubles, and severely de
nounced the arrest of Rocnefort and the
attempt to mislead the public mind by
pretending the existence Of conspiracy.
He demanded dissolution Of the Cham
bers The majority here wes not of the
nations but the projects making. IF the
Ministry intended to be truly liberal he
would support them, though not with i'm
plicit confidence; but if they continued to
be the instrument of personal power, he
would inexorably oppose then. He accus-
ed the present majority of having voted
the Mexican expedition and squandered
the finances of Paris.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02
The ANCIENT DRAMA REVIVED

The ANCIENT DRAMA REVIVED. corres-
pondent of the Santa Fe New-Mexican,
writing from Albuquerque in the same Ter
ritory, describes a theatrical performance
OF kind that seems like leaf from medi-
eval annals. It is difficult to realize that
the old Miracle Play, the parent of the
modern drama, is yet in existence and in
the United States. He says: 1.-The past
week we had a grand fiesta at Duranes,
with a theatrical performance by an anna
teur company of actors. The play was the
great moral drama Of the Fall of Man in
which were personated, God. Adam, Eve
Mercy, Gabriel, the Devil, Appetite, &c
God was represented by a we'll known
butcher of this place. The play went off
TO the satisfaction of all present, and the
crowd was immense. We had horse-racing,
dancing, and various other sports of the
least"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02

DEATHS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. .-Ihe
death of Rev. Chas. Townsend, one of the
last members of the literary circle which
met at Holland House il the early part Of
the present century, is announced. He
died at the ripe age af 80years, after suffer-
ing during the last three years from par
alysis. He was a personal friend of Lord
Byron, Samuel Rogers, Horace and JaIses
Smith, (the authors of the Rejected Adj
dresses, VIM. Stuart Rose, Wordsworth,
the historian, Hallam and Mr.. J. G. Lock
hart.
The Duke de Cadore has just died from
a cancer in the mouth. This Dukedom
was created by Napoleon L in 1909, and in
favor of his Minister, M. De Champigny.
The late Duke, who was the eldest son OF
the first, was created peer Of France by
Louis Philippe in 1885. The Champigny
family has been thoroughly loyal to the
Second Empire, and his loyalty has been
abundantly recognized. OF three brothers
of the Duke just deceased one IS Cnan-
berlain and another Government Deputy
the third, Count Frantz de ChampignY, a
member of the Institute, is the author OF q
History of the Caesars.
The decease of NJ Gunner, the publish
er and bookseller, who commenced in 1883
the publication of q series of illustrated
works. which may be cited as perfect mar
vels of Typography, engraving and cbrom-
olithography, aud that OF N. Gustave Gaz-
avan. editor of the Journal du Havre, are
also record ed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02

HooFLANDs GERMAN BITTERs We intended
to have called attention to Hoofandis German
Bitters, advertised in our columns. This
Bitters, as perhaps everybody is aware is
as much a staple article with the drug stores
as flour is with the grlst mills, and call for it
where you viii, you cannot go amiss. There
is no better medicine before the public, it con-
tains no alcoholic ingredient, and commends
itself to temperance people, who seek TO avoid
whatever intoxlcates or leads to lntemper-
ance. Most people resort to tonics in the
spring OF the year, Hoofand's stands at the
head Of them all. and is potent at any time of
the year. Those who would come out in the
-prIng with ciesused aud iDvlgorated sys-
TEN, should begin i. s use now. The above is
the unsolicited statement of the Editor of the
PATRIOT. Waukegan, III.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02
AZ UNEXPECTED FORTUNE.
4 Poor EevVar7E German Woman be-
comes a Wealthy II etress by the Mur
der OF her Mother and Uncle.

Twenty years ago Mr.. Joseph Reisch
left his fatherland for California, where.
alter years of toll and labor in the mines,
he accumulated 8 large fortune, which,
under pIovident management, increased
until the round sum Of 500, 900 was his
Tiring of the Pacific slope he came East,
and having no friends or relatives in this
country, he wrote for his niece, Francisco
Plug now Mrs. John M. Niber, residing in
Germany TO come and make her home with
him and share his fortune.
Again and again he wrote for her. and
finally about year ago he visited his ma
tive country to urge the niece and her
mother, his sister, to return with MIN.
When he arrived in Bremen he learned
that his niece had married and gone to
America but short time before He at
once placed in bank at Stuttgardt $50 600
for her as a dowry. Several of his family
becoming jealous of his fondness for Fran
cisca, quarrelled with him, and ne and his
sister, Francisca's mother, were fatally
stabbed, the assassins escaping to this
country.
Meant Francisco and her husband
not being able to find her uncle, who had
returned to Germany, came to Newark,
and are now residing on Springfield avenue,
in that city, where they earn their daily
bread by their daily toll.
About a fortnight ago German woman,
dying at the hospital on Wards Island.
confessed that she and her brother had
murdered Mr.. Reisch and his sister, and
made such disclos re that her brother
was arrested at Castle Garden, and has
since been taken back to Germany, where
he is to be tried. At first the dying wo-
man was 10th 10 tell who she was, but final
ly confessed that she was Franciscas sister,
and with the aid of her brother had muir
dered her mother and uncle Several No
taries Public youch for the truthfulness of
the story of her unexpected large fortune,
and one of them will accompany her and
her husband to Germany, and they viii sail
on Saturday. Before the assassination,
the uncle had bequeathed his property
to his sister and favOrite niece, making her
the heiress to over $100, ,000.-N 7. Saaa.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02
Western Patents.

i us iOliOWlDg western patents were issued
from the United States Patent Office for the
week ending Feb. Is, 1870, as reporte ed by
Farwell, Ellsworth & Co., Patent Solicitors
and Oounselors in Patent Causes, 162 Lake
street, Chicago:
ILLINOIS.
Safety valve Gushing q anderson, Chicago
House trimmings-J R Webber, Morris
Fare boxes for street csrs-W. II. Young, Chicago
Car coupBng-w. W Bell, Chicago.
Hoe-Lester l. Bond Chicago
apparatus for refIigera ring--A. lthrie, Chicago
Railway car axle box-J. T. Hagerty, Camp Point
Pump-MorRan P Hall, Gayville.
Machine for cutting wax for artificial flowers
Mary Jane NcCou, Chicago.
Hedge trimmer-David Oliver, Galesburg.
INDIANA
bay drag--D. & A. Eddeman, Madison.
Washing machJne--F. L. Bailey, Freeport
SttrTup and spur Tor ladies-Henry Fellows.
Bloomington.
Oil can--Patrick Scanlan, Indianapolis.
Selt-Torking corn planter--John Simonton, Tay-
lorSvilIe.
Drive we'll tube-Delos A. Danforth, Elkhart
Clod and corn-staIk fender-Geo II Jackson
College Corner.
Machine for smoothing spokes--Horatio Keyss
Terre Hauje.
Hot air furnace-Wm Smith, Cicero.
WISCONSIN.
Grain separator-HIram Burdick Monroe.
Spring brace for carriages--Wm. Evans, Eureka.
Seeding machine-W. A. Van Bruut Horizon.
IOWA.
Winamtll-H. NJ. Wheeler, Woodbine.
MINNESOTA.
Grain harvester and binder-Lyman B. sulson.
is
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02

WONDERFUL SUooEss.-That wide.awake9
and entirely unequalled paper, ''The Span gled
an immense circulation by giving to each
subscriber superb steel engraving, l5x2
feet in size. It's subject is ''Evangeiine."
and it is worth 81 to any lover OF the beautlc
ful. The Banner and this superb work OF
art can be had for only rs cents. See adver-
tisement in this paper.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02

Nothing can be done well that is done
in hurry" oracularly declared a certain
pompous passenger in a carriage one morn
ing lately. ''How about catching Q train p
asked wag at his elbow. The oracle was
silsnced,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-03-02

was floating on the surface of the Rhine,
the guilty man having, in Aft of despair,
thrown himself from the rocks. 1t will per-
hans be needless to say that FRANKIE and
Odella were married: and for many years
afterwards. it was asserted that the form OF
theold Baron was to be seen, after night
f,u bovarino around st. Jerome's Cross.