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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-12-06

A jolly young fellow, named COrcOr-
an, when he arrived in this country,
some years since, propounded puzzle
to gruff old clerk in the New York
City Hall, which he believed to have
shortened that officials days. Corcor-
an went up to the office for his " first
papers. The deputy was serious old
chap, who, without ever looking up,
proceeded to put the formal interrog-
atories.
whats your p" he demanded
John Corcoran."
"Your age"
81 Twenty-one. 3"
"What nativity ?"
Weli-that's what bothers me-rll
tell you, and may be you can make it
out. My father was Irish, my mother
English, and [ was born on board of a
Dutch brig, under the French flag, i'll
Flemish waters. Now how is th4t?"
The old clerk looked up aghast, SHOW
ed his speetacles on his brow, and slow
~ made answer: "Young man, your
nativity and that Of your Saviour are
the only ones which ever puzzled me"
The HOUSES WE LIVE Mn other
words, our bodies-are held on repair
ing leases. We must prop and sustain
them when they exhibit signs of weak
ness and decay, or they will inevitably
break down. In DIR. WALKERS CALL
FoRNIA VINEGAR BTTTERs, matchless
compound of newly discovered medi-
cinal herbs, peculiar to the Pacific re-
gion, the debilitated, the bilious, the
rheumatic, the consumptive, will find
the most genial tonic and restorative
ever offered to the suffering invalid
1t contains no alcohol, and consequent.
ly leaves no sting behind.
In Paris you must return the first
call of a new acquaintance within three
days, OF be guilty of great rudeness.
Royalty Is even more eXacting as a
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-12-06

An Iowa gentleman, who was involved
in domestic troubles, met with a genu-
inc "Job's comforter the other morn
ing. Meeting an old friend, who was a
widower, he related his troubles to
him, and told him he expected to be
broken up, as his wife had commenced
suit against him for the sum of three
or four thousand dollars alimony.
a" Well, says the widower, "Ill wait
aud see how she comes out, and if she
succeeds I'll GO for her
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-12-06

UNRIvAnED YET Blood will tell ~
say the horse fanoiers, in estimating the en-
durance of fine animal and the motto is a
good one outside of the sporting world. a
pure article-intrinsically good-must distance
all competition, eventually. The success of
Udolpho Wolfe's Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps
has induced the manufacture of an hundred
limitations: but 10 the unrivaled sale of his
manufacture, while others have achieved, if at
all, but scanty success-may be found the
public appreciation of pure and wholesome
how
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-12-06

A YEAR-old boy-baby, beginning to
walk, is by no means a good euchre-
player because he insists upon "going
it alone"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-12-06
BARBARISM IN CUBA.
Garrotng of Perfecte Lopez-Butchery
ofan Entire Town CounciI-Deport-
alton eff the People.

Garrotns of Perfecte Lopez-Butchery
ofa Entire Town CounciI-Deport-
alton eff the People.
Havana Correspondence of the New York Sun.
Perfecte Lopez, patriot, captured
by the Spanish volunteers, was tried by
court martial on the Goth ult,, and gar
roted on the morning of the 9th, at
the Castle of Principe He sa1uted the
brutal crowd, showing the shackles
which pinioned him, when at the foot
of the steps leading to the platform,
al d the officers in charge of him-vol-
unteers, of course-fearing that he
might address the people, hurried him
up the steps, wounded as he was.
When he sat down on toe bench, 1t was
found to be too low to allow his neck
to come mp to the fatal IRON collar.
The second time he sat 1t was too low.
At last, after the fifth attempt, the gar
rote was adjusted round the throat.
The brutal instrument, retained solely
by modern Spain, was so badly arrang-
ed that it broke on the first twist given
to the screw by the executioner, and
then the victim had to be lifted up,
while, with his head hanging in the
collar, the garTote was repaired. When
Lopez sat down the seventh time he
seemed to strain his nerves for one SUI
preme effort, and lifting his hands to
heaven, yelled forth, in voice heard by
the whole assembled crowd, death to
Spain !" What followed is conceivable
only of cannibals. Two volunteer off
GERS assembled to the platform, and, to
prove to the hloodthirsty volunteers
that their victim was really dead, they
lifted him from the bench several times;
they made the executioner give several
more twists to the screw, and took the
face of the corpse-which was an un
distinguishable mass of bloody flesh,
with the eyes protruding from the
sockets-in their hands, turning 1t to-
ward the people. A brutal yell in fay
or of the honor of Spain put an end to
the terrible scene.
The report of the horrible massacre
of the whole Town Council of Jaguani
committed by Canizales, by direct or
der received from Colonel Canizales,
by direct order received from Colonel
Valmaseda, has been confirmed, Col
onel Canizales, as soon as he took pos
session of his new command in that
town, had all the members of the Mum
icipal Council brought before him and
told them to prepare to die, for they
would be all shot within two hours !;
and, without any accusation being
brought against them, or even the farce
of trial, they were all taken out and
shot.
From Manzanillo some three hundred
persons have been sent in exile to ia
maica. They were mostly old women
from so to 80 years of age, and young
children. The majority have been
brought in from the town of Bavamo,
and the sole crime imputed to them,
was suspected sympathy with the pat
riots. Apart from the dread which such
barbarous measures prove is entertain
ed by the Spaniards of the vitality of
the revolution, this wholesale deporta-
ton of people looked upon as Grimm
ais by the Spaniards is likely to breed
trouble. Jamaica has already loudly
protested against being made a penal
colony for the government of the vol
nj
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-12-06

In Paris you must return the first
call of a new acquaintance within three
days, OF be guilty of great rudeness.
Royalty is even more exactlng, as a
visit from one sovereign to another
must be returned within few hours.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-12-06

For family use, the Halford Table Sauce.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-07
From Woods Household Magazine for Oct.
Fdrming and .V0HhOOd.
ny HORACE GREELEY.

Reading Gail Hamilton's article on
=" Rustic Simplicity" impels me to ask
wheathcr our loving Father and Friend
has SO ordered His CREATION that obcdi-
enco to His commands makes us " carly
wrinklcd, bent, bald, rheumatic" gives
us the hard, shrunk, shrivclcd look"
and DEGREES us to "bequath to our chill.
dren diminished stature and cnfccblcd
frames" Gail Hamilton says such is
the fate of the actual, Woodworking
farmer" which most men are and must
be. Ny father was one of this class, as
my only brother is; 50 were both my
grandfathers, and their ancestors, 50 far
as 1 can trace them. My paternal
grandfather raised nine sons and four
daughters, and never was worth s.! 600
in any one of his 81 years. My father
was an unusually hard worker, always
a farmer, never worth $4,000, generally
worth from . up to $500; he died Sc
years old, and five of his seven children
survive, from 60 to 40 years old. {Thc
two earliest died in infancy. My uncle
John, born two years after my father,
has been farmer all his life; he is
now 81 years old, but erect and vigor-
Gus; his eye bright, and his voice as
full and ringing as most mems at 60
He is the last of tho thirteen children
of my grandfather; one only died of
consumption at thirty-thrco years of
age, leaving six children, of whom five
are still with us tho rest of my fathers
brothers and sisters lived TO be from 20
to 50 years old except ono who died at
90; and he was not n habitual worker.
All the rest were farmers or farmers
wives-none of them over rich most
Of them quite poor; yet not one of them
all was prematurely " wrinkled, bent or
bald )" not one of them bcqucathed to
his children land all of them hal child
REM diminished stature" or cnlecblod
frames" Here is a large family of
poor, and generally Woodworking farm
ers, the defendants of race of just
such, who have lived by tilling the hard,
rocky soil Of New Hampshire since the
year 1910. submit the facts in OPP.
position to Calls naked assertion. |
happen to be tho only one of the crowd
who might be called Z" bald" | was
more bent at 40 than my father or
his father at 70; and / am the only
one who earned his liyelih God otherwise
than by farming.
But is farming hard work ?
To some, | think it is. The very
poor have to take in this, as in other
pursuits, the toughest and hardest tasks.
To clear land of heavy timber, or
stones, or stumps, is hard work and in
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-07
tsDDtGH's Op0Ortuuity.

The Chicago Which lies PROSTATE is
the same Chicago from which came
forth, during the War of Rebellion,
that magnificent series of Sanitary
Commission efforts which astontshcd
the nation, and caused Il thrill of graft
tudc wherever our soldiers were found.
Many cities had done rightcously, but
Chicago exccllcd them all. And in
Chicago as elsewhere these same efforts
were peculiarly inspired and guided by
women. Robert Collycr quotes the
Secretary of the /" Sanitary Commits.
SION as saying, that after trying men
rs agents for u year or two and failing,
they then had recourse to women, and
succeeded.
After the war there was peculiar
opportunity for women, as for the negro.
The recent services of both, and the re-
construction of our government, gave
both vantage ground The negro's
claim, III the order of necessity, came
first aud was conceded the claim for
woman was discussed more slowly and
Is not yet won. The memories of the
war have faded and already, the part
performed by women is so far forgotten,
that i'll the plans for the Lincoln monu-
ment at Washington it is gravel pro-
posed to depict the =" Sanitary Commits
sion in tho figure of man The in
stitution whose browning interest to the
soldiers lay not in it's jollics and its
bandagcs, but in that it spoke to them
Of their absent wives, sisters and moth
ers, is to be symbolized for future ages
i'll the person of the very worthy gentle.
man who filed the Office of President.
Had the monument been built duridg
the war, it would not have been so.
Chicago's extremity is again woman's
opportunity. In the great uprising of
sympathy, which nothing since the war
has equalled woman's work is every
where called for, in collecting and pre-.
pairing tho ncedful aid. In Chicago itself,
whatever be the extent of the calamity
for men, it falls with peculiar force on
women, for it strikes their homes. AL
ready we begin to hear new anecdotes
of their sclf-devo ton, their courage and
their PATIENCE in the instance of
the old German woman who boro her
husband from the flames on her should.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-07
EXTRA EDITION.
From tho Lansing Republican, Nov. 3. I'll.
An Extra Session.

In another column will be found an
able article from the Grand Rapids
Eagle, in relation to an extra session,
indorsiug fully the ground taken in the
Republican two weeks since, in favor OF
providing relief for the sufferers by fire
in Michigan at such session, which it
was argued would be necessary for the
reapportionmcnt of Members of Con.
gress after the new apportionment bill
should be adopted at Washington.
The Detroit iost authoritively states
that no extra session for the special pur.
pose of relief will be called, and that
tho probabilities are that the session in
relation to apportionmcnt will not be
called before February or March, DO.
lieving that the law of Congress will
not be passed in season for session
before that date. This may be regard.
ed as the authoritative expression of
Governor Baldwin against session for
the purpose of relief. But the Post
goes further, and declares that it wouls
be unconstitutional to afford relief for
such purpose, and that all the moneys
in the State Treasury are already ap.
propriated by special laws.
This matter of loaniDg the surplus
funds is not alluded TO in the Constitu-
ton in any way. These funds arc loan
cd by special law, enacted for that pur-
pose bv the Legislature. If the Legis-
Iature has the power to give the State
Treasurer the right to loan surplus
funds where he chooses, he unquestion-
ably would have the right taking his
own risk-to loan to these counties
without an enabling act by the Legisla-
turb although we do not think it would
be wise policy for him to do so.
As to there being no surplus money
in the Treasury, that will do to tell to
the Marines but those who are posted
know better. There has been no time
in the last six or eight years that the
cash balance at the end Of each finan-
cial year has not exceeded $500, OOO.-
At the close of the present financial
year III CACCcutu COof,oOO' Dy WV
lst of next January the amount may be
reduced 100000 but during the
months of January aud February of
1872, between 100000 and 100000
III specific taxes from railroad and in
surance companies and other sources
will be paid into the Treasury. And 10
is no risk of reputation to say that, not
outstanding all the appropriations that
have been made, the balance in the
State Treasury cannot be reduced be-
low 100000 on the LIST Of September,
1872 80 that argument is worthless.
We agree with the Grand Rapids
Edglc that it would be better for the
great and wealthy State of Michigan to
provide for her own sufferers, rather
than to get down on her knees as beg
gar for the cast off clothes of New
England, Now York, and Ohio. But
as these surplus funds are mostly kept
in Detroit banks, as they have been for
the last twenty years, it might disturb
the business Of Detroit if they were dis
tributed elsewhere instead of being de-
posted there to be loaned to wealthy
business men, thus enabling them to
meet their paper without protest.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-07
From tho Grand Rapids Eagle.
IL. Extra Session.

We arc free to confess that upon gen.
eral principles of State policy we believe
there ought to DO annual sessions Of the
Legislature. Independent of all present
emergencies, leaving out of view all tho
stirring events of the past two weeks,
there are reasons why the Legislature Of
Michigan should convene. A new
State, so to speak, with new towns and
counties fast coming forward, with new
railroads rapidly penetrating the undo
velopcd parts of tho State, with thous-
and new interests springing into existence,
it is vain to suppose that these can walk
alone without the fostering hand of leg
slaton to guide and support them. A
State, with it's numberless agents, is the
creature of law, subject to law, and by
law is governed. Human legislation is
by no means perfect. 1t requires fire.
queut amendments, frequent additions,
and constant corrections. Too much
legislation is an evil, but there is a me.
dunn which wise men will seek, and that
medium will be found in short annual
sessions of the Legislature. 1t mus: be
recolleoted that the progress and devel.
opement of the State is unprecedented.
Everything indicates steady onward
march of Improvement. The State is
not yet finished, fenced i'll, and white.
washed.
But if there are no general reasons
for an extra session there are plenty Of
special ones. The redistricting of the
State, under new apportionment which
Congress will undoubtedly enact at an
early day, is one of the special reasons.
There certainly is no reason or proprie.
~ for electing one, and perhaps two, ad.
ditional Congressman in this State upon
a general ticket. Already we hear that
an enabling act will be necessary in GER
tain of the unfortunate counties to per-
feet land titles which have been destroyed
by fire. But of this We do not speak
with certainty, only from rumor. In
this city, it is claimed by very many of
the best and most intelligent citizens
that additional legislation is importively
demanded in order to furnish proper
system of Water-Works, to protect tho
city from destructive CONGREGATIONS.
Other growing cities of tho State no
doubt need legislation. Lot Governor
Baldwin say that there will be an extra
session in January or February, and his
proclamation will be we'll filled with APP
propriate and pressing subjects for legis-
lation. Any other state of facts would
indicate O decline and deafness which
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-07

should create the livclicst apprchcnsions.
In regard to the propricty of granting
State aid to the sufferers, there is occa-
sion for elaboration. We understand
that at late session of the General Ex-
ecutivo Committee of Relief, of this city,
composed, as is well known, of leading
citizens Of the State, this subject was pro.
posed for their consideration. At first
sight they agreed that it was best to keep
Relief away from tho State Treasury,
and apart from all moneys belonging to
the State. In other words, that private
agencies and private means were suili
cicnt to do this work. The opinion Of
such men will and ought to have pre-
ponderating influence. At tho same
time, it must be confessed that there arc
many strong arguments to be urged for
State Aid and Relief. Michigan is
powerful, rich and growing. She ought
to be able to take care of her own suf-
ferers. She ought, with mothers hand,
to reach out aud feed and clothe her own
children. She is full of plenty and her
treasury is overlooking. To-day, it
would be noble spectacle to see the
State step forward and say, Let Mich
igan take care of Michigan's sufferers"
The people of the State, we believe,
would respond to such a policy The
burden would scarcely be felt. The
light load would fall upon the property
of the State, and the richest men, who
now turn deaf ear to the cry of the
needy, would then pay their proportion.
As it is now, the poorest people, with a
few noble exceptions, arc doing the most.
The Lansing Republican, i'll an able
article which we have mislaid, refers to
the surplus now i'll the Sinking Fund
and says that this, amounting to over
half million of dollars, is loaned to the
Banks at low rate of interest. Why
not loan it TO the sufferers at low rate
of interest, On long time, secured by first
mortgage upon improved real estate?
Surprising that the State should forth
with authorize loan Of 100000 to
the Holland farmers who have lost their
dwellings,, their barns, their mills, and
their crops, what would be the effect ?
The effect would be to very suddenly
settle the question of Relief. Such a
policy would set every bone and muscle
and nerve in Holland ut work. People
should have employment. Industry
would feed the hungry and clothc the
naked. This kind of relief would give
character to the State, and bring capital
and people to her borders. But, we
say, this needs dcliberation. 1t is not
urged with tho expectation that it will
be forthwith adopted. 1t is, perhaps,
better that we haggle over this qucs-
tion Of Relief: better that we get box
Of clothing from this and that State a
pair Of old boots there and an old cook.
ing-stove here wornout and cast off
clothing from Ohio, and secondhand
garments for children from New York.
Perhaps it is not best to take hold of
this question of Relief in brave, deter
mined spirit of State pride, and let the
world know that 50 far as Michigan is
concerned it is settled. Illinois, through
her Legislature, responded to the relief
of Chicago in fortycight hours.
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ers-- Il greater deed than that which has
given Enoas, through all ages, the
opltlet of "pious." But such single
episodes arc trihcs amid the general
strain and test which this great calamity
will bring to bear on the woman Of
Chicago. The men will go away to the
| daily work that will soon be provided
and will almost forget that the city has
been burned in the vast and eager toll
of rebuilding it. But every rich woman
in the city, in the constant calls for
household benciiccncc-and much more
each poor woman, in the killing effort
to make her home habitablo and her
children comfortable amid privation
and manifold Inconvenience above all,
in the attendance on the sick and dis
abicd, which always becomes woman's
work-this will be the lot of the Chi
cago wives and daughters. In a new
country, the severest priyations always
fall upon them. Shelter and the ma
tcrials for food, these the mon provide |
but to make food hcalthful and homo
comfortable, to bring order out Of chaos
and decency out of the accommodations
afforded by tent or Il cabin-this is
the work of a pioneer woman. There !
must be thirty thousand such in Chica
go who arc suddenly thrown back from !
civilization into the pioneer condition |
we shall SEQ how they will bear it, The |
sudden loss of all clothing alone is q
most formidable addition to these trials
mems clothing can be bought in any |
quantity, grant but the money Who |
but woman arc to clothc the women and
children ?
So far from womcn's being made
superhuous by war, it is rather true, as
somebody once said, that We need
war occasionally, to show what women
are made off, a calamity like that of
Chicago shows it as wildly aud the
woman who arc thus sustaining their
share of the sorrow, and doing their
portion of the work of redemption, will
have just right after the city shall be
restored. to more substantial gratitude
than that which has followed the women
OF the Sanitary Commission. 1t was
once the practice to give great civic
bcnefactors the freedom of the city in
gold box" These women should
have it in ballot box.
TuoS. w. IIlGGlNSoN.