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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-05
Capture Of a Wonderful SeYen-feet Bird
in Lincoln County.

From the Stanford (Ky.,) Dispatch.
Mr.. JAS. Peoples, living two and a hall
miles from Stanford, on the Dudderar's
Mill Road, is surrounded by party oil
neighboring boys, who are fond Of the
sport of night hunting. Over week ago
these boys were engaged in their fayorite
pastime, and while absorbed IL the excite
ment of fox chase were suddenly startled
by what they called an unearthly scream
from some of the tree tops. Some declared
it was panther, some catamount, and
others believed the voice that of female
in distress. They agreed to approach as
near the spot whence the screams came as
possible, and took up the line of march
toward the place. At each step the
screams We're repeated to the amazenent
of the boys, and if the truth must
be told there was a perceptible
terror in each ones voice, and daylight
would have exhibited very pale faces.
| Guided still nearer by, the strange noise
| they directly heard the cIank of chains
| iron and padlocks. This was too much fol
| youthful temerity to endure They were
brave boys, but demoniac yells from the
| tree tops, accompanied by this rafting
music of the devil at the dreaTy hour O.
midnight, when ghosts, hobgoblins ano
blue devils stalk abroad, were fraught witt
too much danger to be relished even by
stoughter hearts and stronger nerves. They
retreated like the 'sboys in blue" from the
battle of Bull Run, in good order, and re
ported to the neighborhood the strange anC
wonderful sounds which had greeted theil
ears.
Mr.. Peoples laughed at the alarm of the
boys, but was still on the lookout fol
strange sights. On last Saturday his cur
iosity was somewhat relieved by seeing {
monster bird, something like the condor O
Sinbad the sailor, aEght on his barn. L
gave a few of the screams which had 81
disturbed the boys, and Mr.. P. was salts
| fed he bad found the ghost, He tool
down his rife, and without precaution L
put in silver bullet, drew a bead ou TIT
bird, and it fell. On approaching it h
| found that only one wing had been broken
which he amputat d. Now comes thu
secret of the chains. One foot haC
| hanging to it a steel trap weighing abOu
| four pounds which has been evidently Sc
for varmints. 1t had been there for SOM
time as the flesh had rotted of, the tTaI
only hanging by leader. On measure
ment the bird proved to be seven feet from
! tip to tip. 1t was of q black color, ant
with similar and dissimilar in many res
poets to an eagle. Its feet and the feather
of it's legs, which hung about Elk inches il
length, were those of AN eagle, but the un
form Jet black color indicated anothe
species. At last accounts it was doing wei
and eating raw flesh with a voracious ap
|
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-05
ExhumatiOn in Ohio of the Remains Of
Megatherium.
From the Columbus State Journal, Dec. 8.

From the Columbus State Journal, Deo 6.
There is now on exhibition at the rooms
of the State Board of Agriculture, or Head
quarters Of the Geological Corps, a section
of the femur or thigh bone of an animal Of
the MastodOn species, the fossilized re-
mains of which were recently discovered
in Union County. These remains were
found in drift formation about three feet
below the surface, and are similar to the
remains of the Megatherium found in
other parts of the State. Arrangements
were made by Mr.. Klippart, of the Geolo,
gical Corps, to have the skeleton or the
parts thereof removed with care. Before
excavations had proceeded far bad
weather set in, and work has been
abandoned. The section of the femur,
upper part with socket bali, is about twen-
ty inches in length, Of about half the length
of the thigh bone. This would make the
aggregate length of the bones Of the leg
about ten feet The ball is twenty-five in
ches in circumference, and the bone lower
down of course much larger. From the
part of the skeleton secured, it is estimated
that the height OF the animal was twelve
and half feet and the length twenty feet,
and the skeleton entire much larger than
the specimen now in the British Museum.
AS tnlS particular species, OF reulalDs tAere-
OF, have been found only in Ohio, this
specimen has been named the Megdtherium
0hioenSis. The animals lived, it is sup
posed, in the period Immediately preced-
ing the human period, and were after the
elephant type.
Exhuming Operations will be resumed
in the Spring, and if the skeleton is remov-
ed in good shape or good state of preser
vation, it will be set up in the Echo Room
at the Capitol, where the fossils collected
by the Geological Corps are now being ar
ranged and stored.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-05

viii towards his judges. The Prince for
gives his father. The confessor exhorts
him to forgive also his judges, leading him
slowly to the room where the execution Is
to take place. The Prince says: II for
give all"
They enter a room where large arm
chair is placed, surrounded by great
quantity of saw-dUst. The executioner
stands near it with his knife The Prince
is not frightened by that sight. He is seat
ed on the chair. The executioner begs his
pardon, and the Prince in gracious man
ner gives him his hand to kiss. The exc
cUtioner ties Els legs and arms with 'antas'
RI do know that word, says Bergenroth] Of
Cologne to the legs andarms of the chair;
ties a bandage of black silk round his eyes;
and places himself with the knife in his
hand behind The Prince. The
Prince says to the confessor, ''Pray for my
soul" The confessor says the Credo, and
the Prince responds in a clear and firm
voice. When he pronounced the words
',unico fjo"-only son-the uEoner
put his knife to his throat, and a stream
Of blood rushes down on the sawdust. The
Prince struggles little; the knife being
very sharp, had cut we'll The exc
cutioner takes the bandage from the
ey es, which ars closed. The face is
pale, ike that cf a corpse, but has preserv-
ed its natural expression. The executioner
unties the corpse, wraps it in a
black baize cloth, and puts it in a corner
of the room. That done, Antonio Perez
flies all at once at the executioner, accusing
him OF having stolen the diamonds of the
Prince. The execationer denies is search
ed. Perez finds, in one of the folds of his
dress, the diamonds. The executioner
grows pale. and declares that this is
witchery. Escovedo is sent to the King,
and soon returns with two arquebusiers.
The King, he says. has ordered that the ex
ecutioner IS to die on on the spot for the
heinous crime Of having robbed the corpse
of Prince of the blood royal The exc
cutioner confesses, protests his innocence,
is led out by two of the soldiers into the
courtyard, and two detonations of argue
busies are heard.
That was on the night of the 23d of Feb
rT1arv 156S
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-05
TERRIBLE MINE ACCIDENT
Block of Houses and Two Families
E.EaIInHYel I'm In an Old Mime.


AT Stockton, two miles from Hazelton,
Pa, about five o'clock on the morning of
the 18th, the earth over mine which had
not been worked for fifteen years, gave
way. One block of houses was swallowed
up so qu clzly that two families living in
them had not time to escape, except one
girl who had fed from a house, but not far
enough to escape from falling. She fell on
the top of the houses and was rescued.
Three families living in an adjoining
block had Just escaped when the whole
block went down. There were ten per-
sons swallowed up with the houses. Geo
Suank, his wife and four children, and Mr.
Reich, his wife child and mother were
the unfortunates. They are still in
the mine, and must certainly all be dead.
The Hazeltcn steam hre-eng1ne has been
throwing a continual stream on the ruins
since daylight, and the firemen are doing
all in their power A rope has been ex-
tended around the hole and all persons ex-
cluded from the immediate vicinity
Trains are running from Hazelton every
hour to the scene of the disaster, and will
do so until all the bodies are recovered,
which viii be some time yet, as IL is still
dangerous to enter on the work of rescue.
The earth is still continuing to fall IN and
charging the cavity continually. The ex-
citement is very great and is increasing
Families in the vicinity are moving out of
the houses, fearing theirs will go next. 1t
IS the general opinion that the other houses
will fall in There is also danger of the
mine taking fire.
The cause of the accident was working
the breast in the colliery too near the sur
face under the houses, there being only
about two hundred feet of space where
they caved in Only two days before g
couple of persons in truck were pitched
into a similar hole where a portion of the
railroad had given way over some workin IS
that approached too near the surface.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-05
The Value Of a Kiss.

A year or two ago L dined in San Fran
cisco with the family of a pioneer, and talk
ed with his daughter, young lady whose
first experience in San Francisco, was an
adventure, though she herself did not re-
member it, as she was only two or three
years old, at the time. Her father said
that, after landing from the ship, they
were walking up the street, servant lead
ing the party, with the little girl in her
arms. And presently a huge miner,
bearded, belted, and bristling with deadly
weapons, just down from long mining cam
paign in the mountains-eyidently barred
the way, stopped the servant, and stood
gazing with face all alive with gratifca-
ton and astonishment. Then he said, rev,
erently, ''Weu, if it amt childt' And
then he snatched little leather sack out
of his pocket, and said to the servant,
There's hundred and fifty dollars in dust
there, and I'll give it to you to let me kiss
the child p But see how things change
Sitting at that dinner-table, listening to
that anecdote, if 1 had ofared double the
money for kissing the same child would
have been refused. Seventeen added years
had far more than doubled the price.
Mark Iieoin.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-05
Weather Predictions.

As the weather is subject of interest we
append the following representations.
They are based upon phenomena to be OBJ
served during the month of December:
If December's bright and clear,
1t portendeth good year.
Should December be cold with snow,
On every height fair crops will grow.
In December frosts alternating with
thaws indicate moderate winter.
December weather, changeable and mild
Shows the whole winter tickle as child
A dry December-a dry spring and sum-
mer.
December thunder oft brings fer it's train,
In the succeeding summer, wind and rain.
So much for observations on the appear
ance of the weather during the whole
course of the month. What follows relates
to particular days:
l. When it happens upon the first of the
month, that wide around severe winter
weather sets in, it (the winter will last
four months.
Path Follow highly blessed year,
Should this night BE bright and clear.
Should it snow on the night of tbs oath,
it betolens good hop harvest.
As many are interested in grape culture,
the following prediction, though somewhat
uncouth, POLITICALLY considered, is given
with the hope that it may prove auspicieus:
When Christmas eve clear you lind,
Without rain and without wind,
And fair the mornings sun did shine,
The next year viii produce much wine.
Christmas bare and green,
Easter with snow is seen.
'Tis fair sign OF propitious year,
When the bright sun on Christina day shines
clear.
These weather proverbs are the folklore
of other days. Their value may be easily
tested. Many agricultural operations are
regulated by the supposed future state Of
the weather. Let farmers note these pre-
dictions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-05
A MATRIMONIAL DISASTER.
A m alden Loves one Man ard Marries
AHother-She deserts her Husband
and wants to be Divorced
dAkSA w NJ Is 10 UC DEVOFCtu.
From the New York World

From the New York World
thrilling sensation has taken posses
sion Of the people of Sing Sing. AS usual
in the majority of latter day sensations, a
woman is at the bottom of it. The facts
connected with this matter of soc al turbu-
lence are as follows
1t appears that good looking and fas.
cinating damsel who had been "bound
out" to Mr.. Deloit, resident of the musi-
cally named suburb, to remain in his fami-
ly until she should become eighteen years
old, formed the acquaintance of one
William Mullen, and also that of
young man whose name has IA
vored one but he seems to have been in
different as regards the charms of the fair
Annie Deloit, as she was called He dis
regarded the preference shown him, and
sought the society of other maidens. An
ME was stung to the quick, became desper-
ate, and intimated to William Mullen that
if he wanted her for his future partner in
life then was his chance, for she was ready
to be led to the altar. The offer was ac-
cepted, and they were soon united in the
bonds of wedlock. Soon after the nup ial
ceremonies were performed the young
bride mysteriously disappeared. The de-
serted and distracted husband, suspect
ing that Mr.. Deloit, the guardian of
his wife before her marriage, Lad
either enticed or forced her back to
his employ, at once caused Mr..
Deloit to be arrested On o charge of kid
mapping the fair Annie. During the pro-
gress of the investigation before Justice
Howe, a letter was placed in the hands of
Mullen from his vile, assigning her reason
for leaving him and generating Mr.. Deloit
from any completely in the matter, and the
latter was discharged; but he was almost
Immediately re-arrested,a a civil suit having
bean commenced against him to recover
damages for having seduced and enticed
Mrs. Mullen to desert her husband, when
Mrs. Mullen again made her appearance,
with a view of relieving Mr.. Deloit from
the charge of enticing her away, and to
commence proceedings against her
husband for divorce. Mr.. Deloit, under
the circumstances, tried to persuade Mrs.
Mullen to return to her husband and live
with him, but she resolutely refused to do
50, and averred that Mullen was her hus-
band only nominally, for the marriage had
never been consummated. Mullen then
caused the arrest of his wife on charge of
having stolen eighteen dollars which he
had given her to defray her expenses in
visiting her friends after the wedding, and
when she disappeared. It is stated that
all the parties concerned have worked
themselves up to the highest pitch of ner-
vous excitement, and declare vengeance
against each other, making a sort of trian-
gular fight that each, including the young
bride, goes armed with revolver, ready
for any emergency, so that another tragedy
is daily looked for.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-05

father, as you say; but will you do the
other thing? If you only would, I'll tell
you what you'd get besides. Why, good
boots, good hat, watch in your pocket,
clothes for the youngsters, good food and
plenty of it, comfortable happy home
and wife, health of body, and clear and
peaceful mind"
"Surely, surely p chimed in Mrs Har-
ford, in half sad, half-hopeful tone.
''And only one thing robs you of all that,
father. You know what it is, and how to
conquer it, too; our minister told it all so
beautifully This morning. God gives VIC
tory over ali evil, through our Lord Jesus
Christ Only we must not be still, and
leave the fighting to our Captain; we must
strive and struggle hard to o-evercone, rely
ing on His help. You remember that he
said all that, father?"
eyes, | minded it well. It seemed all
for me. thought then, if I could only
begin striving might overcome. Others
hundreds and thousands of others have
fought against this cursed habit of drink
ing, and overcome it"
80 may you, said Mrs. Hartford. ''Why,
you've begun already James Think, you
haven't had drop to-day Ali you've got
to do is to just go on as you've begun, that's
ALL"
''That will be enough, [ guess, as the
days go on. Still, folks say as the first step
is the hardest, and I've taken the first, you
say?"
Eyes, yes
'sAh, and feelit too. Fred, my boy, il
we all live till next Christmas, we'll have q
dinner of our own buying, please God, and
not of yours; and if you come to see us,
I'll have as respectable a great-coat on as
you"
''And I too" said Ned standing up very
straight to give emphasis to his. words.
''No more O nay tin shall 60 into the pub
lies, not if I know it. I knows a trick o
getting the value of it now, as I didn't
thing of afore 1 saw Freds great coat F."
So, to make long story short, it came
to pass that Fred's great-coat was an in
strument chosen to work quite revolution
in Hartford's home. Did you ever know a
man give in who commenced climbing up
ward and onward, with a strong determin-
alton, and relying upon God for strength
and assistance? Never.
No, he did not give in; and the happy
Christmas day which he spent on the oeca-
sion of Fred's memorable visit was the
first of long series of happy ones. The
sunshine he brought did not fade away
1t frightened and frightened into perpet-
ual glow of comfort and peace.
Fred did come home again on the fol-
lowing Christmas, and walked to chapel
with his parents and brothers and sisters;
but he was not the only one that went out
of the house with q great coat on his back
that day; there were two others that had
got them the same way as he had got his.
He wore the same one that he had ap-
-, ,c.E III
looks almost as good as new" he said,
has I baen s tbe keep Means Of @ dome aS 90 s ob
good that have sort of strong affection
for my first great-coat which I could never
have for any other !"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-05
EUGENIE's VISIT TO THE SUI TAN
England and France Sustaining the
most Debased Living NIonarchs-
shaii CIVILIZATION Look on and
Nati0n Impoverished by Iiber-
tines Harem


Most Debased Living Monarehs-
shail civilization Look and see
Nat10n Impoverished by Liber-
tines Harem
W. Evening Mail.
PUBIC attention just at this time is at
tracted to the Sultan of Turkey. and many
very ''pretty stories" are told of his inter-
views with the Empress Eugene. Amorg
other things we have description of an
interview between Eugene and the mother
of the Sultan, This latter-named venera-
bic dame, we are told, lives with her son
in his palace, "where is the imperial har-
EN- of some eight hundred beauties. "
Now the facts regarding the family ante
cedents OF the present Sultan are moro
than usually Infamous. He is the son of
a Circassian slave, of q very low order Of
intelligence, to whom his father was never
married save under the loose code of Moham
edan law. He is consequently the son OF
an 'ickbal, or ''faverite, and is therefore
illegltlmate as an inheritor of titled estates
according to Turkish law. The mother of
the present Sultan is now living, and is
ailuded to above as having been introduced
to Eugene. She, the slave mother of the
Sultan, sustained her influence over Sultan
Mahmoud, the father of the present Sui
tan, by pandering to the basest passions of
probably to-day the most debased creature
that ever sat on an Oriental throne, and
has been made so by his infamous mother
The woman encouraged her son from his
earliest childhood to exclusive association
with female slaves, and she has impover-
ished the treasury of Turkey by her
squanderings upon the harem of her son.
the present Sultan. Under this woman S
influence the present Sultan has not even
made the pretence of having wife, and it
is a boast of those about the Sultan's Court
that he has new favorite every month.
The Turkish ambassadors all over the con-
tinent of Europe and Asia are nothing else
than agents they should be called by an
infamous name-to bargain for and pur-
chase young girls to send to Constantine
Pile; and now, by the visit of the Empress
Eugene, we learn that the Sultan has
eight hundred of these unfortunates i'm
prisoned in his palace.
And this is the man, and this is the gov
eminent that France and England sustain
intact, lest the Dardanells should fall into
the possession of Christian Russia. Ma
tional jealousy keeps the miserable Turk
III ''encampment in Europe" because it
suits Christian powers who give their treas
ure and their blood to sustain the Cres-
cent over the Cross. The Sultan of Tur-
key is a miserable bankrupt, and most of
the money he has to spend is taken from
the industry of the working people of
France and England under the head of
Turkish loans And now that the Viceroy
of Egypt has shown an enterprise worthy
Of the nineteenth century, in opening the
Suez Canal, this miserable Sultan of Tur-
key promises to degrade him from his ex-
allied position of regenerator of Egypt.
When will the Turkish empire cease to be a
blot on the civilization of the nineteenth
Century
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-05

The little catalogue of Constant Meyers
paintings, just published by the auction
eers who are to dispose of these works of
art is literary curiosity of very novel
and interesting sort Each painting is en-
tered in the catalogue with the prefix of a
poetical epigraph attributed to some emf
nent author. It will occur to very few who
run over the list of the pictures that these
little gems Of poetry are all imitation, that
is to say, that they were never produced by
the poets to whom they are imputed. Gems
they are, nevertheless, and not paste, and
their close resemblance in rhythm and
style to their supposltious authors consti-
tutes their excellence. How very like Brown
ing is this:
"When you go out in garden te walk,
Sweet darlngs land talk,
Be sure before you go under tree
There is no one to see.
The nymph in the fountain may keep up elatter,
But he don't matter;
But the spruce little gentleman hidden near
Dc you want him to hear?'
Sir Walter Scott is said to have remarked
Of the imitation of his octo-syllabics in the
Rejected Addresses" that he had con-
fused recollection of having written it him
self; and we can very well fancy Emerson
hunting through his published poems for
this passage, which is signed with his name: !:
'1gith eyes upturned she reads the skies,
All heaven is in her raptured eyes.
The Fatal Sisters with their shears
She sees, Untearing; and she hears
The planets at their D@dal hymn;
Also the voice of Cherubim.
Who is this goddess that brings news
Of Chaos and old Time renews2
Who but the dear, Immortal Muse
And the following is so exactly il the
vsin Of 'sThe May Queen" that any Ten.
nysonian might be deceived by it:
"Isn't our Alice fair, mother9 Look at her, she
stands,
With Iaures in her hair, mother and lilies in her
hands,
Pure as the pearls on her neck and beautiful the
day,
She shall ne Queen of the May, mother, she shall
be Queen of the May
Il is abundantly evident from these frag-
ments (and there are many others quite as
clever, that Messrs. Leavitt, Strebeigh &
Co. ':keep poet" of d high order. With
such q catalogue for the pictures, there
should be great master Of oratory or elo-
cution for the crier, and each work ought
to be knocked down to the music of Phil
harmonic symphony.-N 7. Post.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-01-05
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