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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25
Sewing Machines Defended.

AS there has been a good deal said
of the danger to health of using the
sewing machine, it is worth while to
mention that DR.. Parker recently read
a paper on the subject before the State
Medical Society of Virginia, in which
he maintained that fatigue is not dis
ease that there is no reason to con-
clude that the use of the muscles en-
ployed in machine work for reasona-
bic time is injurious that a machine
may be used by woman for four or five
hours daily, if she be in ordinary
health, without injury that the dam
age to health in the factory is due to
the hygienic conditions under which
the work is done. In conclusion, it
was affirmed that the sweing machine
is great boon to womankind, increas-
ing compensation, protecting vigor,
and lessening family labors
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25
The Soldiers Bounty Land Bill.

The following is the amended sol
diers' bounty land bill as passed by the
House on Thursday:
SECTION l. That every private soldier, musi-
clan and officer who served in the army of the
United States during the late war for ninety
days, and was honorably discharged, includ-
ing the troops mustered into the service of the
United States by virtue Of the third section of
an act entitled g an act making appropriations
for completing the defences of Washington
aud for other purposes" approved February
18th, 1862, and every seaman, marine and off,
GER and other person who served in the navy
Of the United States or II the marine corps
during the late war for ninety days and vas
was honOraby discharged, and the widow Ct
any such soldier, musician, seaman, or officer,
or1f there be no such widow, his orphan chill
dren under q years of age, shall be entitled
to enter a quantity of public lands, not mineral,
not 10 exceed $50 acres, which shall be COM
posed of continuous tracts according to legal
subdivisions, including alternate reserved Sec
tions of public lands, along the line of any rail
road or other public work, or other land SUBJ
ject to entry under the homestead law of the
United States, and receive a certificate of such
entry without the payment of any Government
fees.
Section 2. That such entry shall be made in
the name of the person enlisted as above, to
make the same in person or by agent, under
such regulations as the Secretary of the In
terror shall prescribe, and patent for the
lands so entered shall be issued only to such
soldier, musician, seaman or officer, or to his
widow or orphan children provided for in the
first section of this act but no sale of such
land or any interest therein or power of attor-
ney, authorizing such sale or other contract
or agreement IN anyWise affecting or concern
ing any such land, made, executed or entered
into prior to the issuing of the patent therefor
and actual delivery of the same to the person
to whom issued, shall be of any effect what
ever. but shall be null and void
Section 3. That the Secretary of the Treas
ury shall prescribe rules and regulations to
carry the several provisions of this act into
feet
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25
Vessel Sunk by a SwOrdfish.
From tho Manchester, Eng, Guardian.


A dispatch from Leyuka, the capital Of
the Fiji Islands, announces the total
wreck of the schooner Trent, after having
been attacked by monster swcrdfsh.
It appears that The Trent le #
Levoka on the twenty-eighth of
December last, On a " labor" cruise, and
C allied at Rewai, which she cleared on the
Both. On the 9th of February something
struck the vessel, and directly afterwards
water rushed into the cabin from large
hole in that quarter. On looking over the
side it was discovered that an immense
swordfsh ad attacked the vessel, and was
hanging by it's sword to the ships side.
The fish was caught, and on It's beng
hauled on board it was found to measure
twelve feet in length aud four and haif
feet around the body. It's sword, wnlch
was over two feet long, had been driven
through he planking up to the hsh,S
head with such force as to split the lower
Jaw. On the 2lst of March, after exper-
iencing hurricane of four days, Bo hams
Island was sighted: and on June 9Th the
Trent commenced to take in water freely
through the place where she had been
struck by the swordfsh. The vessel went
ashore on "A reef, and afterwards founder
ed, all efforts to stop the leak being fusile.
The crew escaped to the shore.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25
Loss of a Continent.

Plato sent down to posterity a tradition
of his day that a great continent which
occupied the place now covered by the
Atlantic Ocean suddenly sunk down out
of sight. He further says it was an island
called Atlantis. On it were kingdoms and
organized governments, wealth, arts and
civilization, instantly lost to human sight
1t is now the opinion of the leading ge.
gists-those most advanced in science
that the American continent appeared
when the Atlantic waters rushed into the
enormous cavity or depression on the
earlh's surface now filled by salt water.
The Rocky Mountains were then the rough
bottom Ofan ocean which rose with marine
plants, shells, and other products of an
aquatic origin, that are found abundantly
strewn there, and, in fact, all over North
and South America. Remnants of Atlantis,
the submerged continent, are believed by
scme scientists to be recognized in the
Adirondacks, the White Mountains of
Maine, and a few other outcroppings be.
longing to the outer boundaries of that
deluged and forever lost country. There
Is 10 knowing what astounding discoveries
may yet be made in coming ages corro-
5oratiye Of Plato's narration.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25
GREELEY'S WILLS.

Two Wills Offered for Frobate-The
vne Made Just Before Death to be
Contested.
A New York dispatch, dated Nevem-
Der 10th, says:
At White Plains, yesterday, the
daughters of the late Mr.. Greeley,
accompanied by counsel, appeared
before the Surrogate to offer for pro-
bate the will OF their father. This will
was executed on November 29th, 1872.
1t had been written by Mr.. Greeley
some time ago, but was only presented
to him for execution a few hours be-
fore his death. It gave all the prop
erty equally to his two daughters. This
instrument had been placed among his
private papers by Mr.. Greeley, and was
only taken from among them at the
time of his last attack, and at the first
lucid interval thereafter offered to him
for acknowledgement.
At the same time counsel appeared
before the Surrogate to contest this
will, and offering in it's stead one dated
January, 1871. The contestants are
Samuel Sinclair, Richard III. Manning,
and Charles FL. Storrs, the two latter
being named as executors. The coun-
sci for the contestant then said that he
hoped the proponents of the will would
acquiesce in the will of 1871. He
thought the will executed by Greeley
before his death did great injustice, in
asmuch as it gave all of his property to
Miss Ida, with the qualification that
that one-half of it was to be used by
her at her own discretion, in the sup
port and education of her sister Ga
brielle. That some relations would be
deprived OF property intended for them.
The counsel for the daughters thought
these remarks uncalled for, and an
nounced that Miss Ida had offered to
assign to he1 sister one-half of the
property, and also grant suitable an
nuities to relatives. The Misses Gree
ley then declined to consider any pro-
posals for compromise. and regular
proceedings for the contest will ensue,
on the ground of the incapacity of the
testator to execute the will of 1872.
The first witness was Miss Sampson,
who testified that she became witness
to will on the day Mr. Greeley died.
Mr.. Greeley was then a few hours be-
fore his death, conscious and rational.
After some further examination of the
witness all adjournment followed.
The will of 1871 gives the property
to his daughters, but in addition gives
bequests to his relatives, and legacy
equal to the value of a share of the
Tribune, to the Children's Aid Society
of New York
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25
Heavy Suits Against the Ohio and Mis-
SissIppI Railroad.
From the Louisville Ledger.

Some days ago "a terrible accident oc-
CURED on the Ohio and Mississippi Rail-
road at Deputy, Ind, in which five per-
sons wero badly injured. The train was
on It's way from Cincinnati to this city,
and stopped at Water tank to take water,
when delayed freight train ran into tn e
rear of the passenger train, crushing the
cars and injuripg Miss McQuade, of Ten
nessee; Mrs. Eviline Edwards and her in
fant daughter, and Mrs S. K. Foote and
infant son, of this city. Everything possi-
BILE was done by the officers of the road
for the wounded, who were brought to
this city. 1t seems, however, that they
propose to make the railroad company
pay for mashing them up, and yesterday
tho following suits were filed LIN the Court
ut Common Pleas: Eviline Edwards, for
$25,00O; S. K. Foota and Malina, his wife
for $4,000; John Foote, by his father, S.
T. Foote, for $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25
Cleansing Fires.

RY ADELAIDE PROCTOR.
Let thy gold be cast in the furnace
Thy red gold, precious and bright;
DO not fear for the hungry fire,
With its caverns of burning light,
And the gold shall return more precious
Free from every spot and stain;
For gold must be tried by fire,
AS heart must be tried by pain
In the cruel fire of sorrow,
Cast thy heart, do not faint or wall:
Let thy hand be firm and steady,
Do not let thy spirit quail,
But wait till the trial is over,
And take thy heart again;
For, as gold is tried by fire,
SO heart must be tried by pain!
1 shall know by the gleam and the glitter
Of the golden chain you wear,
By your hearts calm strength in loving,
Of the fire you have had to bear
But on, true heart, forever!
Shine, bright, strong, golden chain,
And bless the cleansing fire,
And the furnace of living pain
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25
An Intruder.

BY HIRAM RICH.
Baby has been here, it seems
Baby Annie on the wing
In my little library,
PIandering and reveling.
Annie dear, the darling witch
See how innocent she looks
But she has world Of wiles
When she gets among my books.
Half the time, 1 own, she seems
Less a being than a star
Then again cry, My books
Annie, what rogue you are!"
"No, no papa cries in vain,
Down the dainty volumes come;
Papa, here you are no king,
I am queen in baby-dom.
Stately Johnson lies in grief
Under laughing Rabelais.
Emerson is fat for once;
Heine's thumbing Thackeray.
Whittier, poet rarei
Thou hast many pages less;
But if all were gone but one,
That would hold and charm or bless.
Baby with the double crown,
And the langhter-haunted eyes,
Papa's sai,ct@ne, volume-strewn,
Is to thee Paradise.
[ forgive thee when T feel
Breath and lips upon me pressed,
Sweet as any alien air,
Blown from harbors of the blest.
FsPapa, - something whispers me,
F'Better every laden shelf
Emptied by her baby hands,
Than the house all to thyself."
-Scribner'S
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25

AT length it is proved that man
has more vanity than a woman. This
is the way that it came to pass A curl
Gus investigator watched while thou
sand men passed looking-glass used
as sign on the sidewalk in Broadway
The result of his observation showed
that nine hundred and ninety-nine men
glanced complacently at their image as
they passed. The other man was blind
-Four hundred and fifty-two women
passed during the same hour and a
half, and none of them looked in the
mirror-all Of them being engaged in
tently examining each others appear
ance and dress.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25
SMiSSheim ON Architecture.

Mrs Swisshelm presents her ideas
about architecture briefly in words to
this effect: ''Your crook spined,
hump-shouldered house, with a wen
on one side, and wart on the other, a
factery chimney on the door, and a
pilot house on the roof, may make an
interesting feature in landscape but
for house to live in, commend me to
the generous old square mansion, gsuch
as most abound III the rural districts
of the Keystone State. The wide CEN
ter halls, rooms on each side, and l.
kitchen, for homestead architecture,
never has been and never can be
equaled.'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25

The largest 1ce-boat ever built on the
hudson has just been commenced at
Poughkeepsie. It is named the Icicle.
The BOAT is 81 feet long, and has a
mast ~ feet long, with boom 40 feet,
and bowsprit 25 feet. The spread of
canvas will be very extensive, and as
the whole boat will weigh more than Il
ton, it is expected to maintain an i'm
mense rate of speed, owing in part to
It's momentum. It is double the size
of any other boat in the Poughkeepsie
association. The trial trip will be
made as soon as the ice is six inches
hick,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25

GOAL was discovered IN England in
1884, and first dug under a charter
granted the town of Newcastle by Hen
ry III. 1t was first used about 1880.
Dyers, brewers, ETC., began to consume
it extensively in 1850. In consequence
of an application from the nobility and
gentry, Edward l., in 1898, published
a proclamation against it as q public
nuisance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25

THE product of three iron furnaces in
Boyd County, KY, yielded more profit
to the owners last year than all the to-
bacco raised in Daviess County, where
that staple is largely raised, to all the
producers of that weed combined,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25

IF we work upon marble 1t Will per-
ish; or work upon brass, time will eff
face it if we raise temples they will
crumble into dust; but if we work upon
immortal minds. if we imbue them with
the just fear of God and our fellow
men, we engrave on those tablets some
thing that will brighten all eternity.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-12-25

Two Wills Offered for FrObate-The
xrne Made Just Before Death to be
Contested.
The Portland daily press., 1872-06-28

AUGUSTA June 26, 1877.
MR. EDrroR.-You have lately heard good
deal about the celebrated Quaker preacher,
Sarah Smiley, whose gifts have caused SO
much excitem ent in New York, and whose
ministrations in Dr. Cuyler's Presbyterian
church occasioned the arraignment of that
clergyman before council of his denomina-
ton. Recently the telegraph has carried to
all parts of the country the news that Miss
Smiley has renowned the faith of her fathers
and been baptized into the Universal-not
the Universalst-church in Brooklyn. You
know of course all about her being native of
Vassalboro in this State, but since she has
become so famous it may interest you to
know more of her and her family. Her ia
. ther is still living on the old homestead in
Vassalboro, an extremely stout and ruddy
old "Friend" of about seventy-iye, whose
blooming face, drab coat and broad
brimmed hat are Familiarity known
far and wide throughout Kennebec.
He is ever in his seat in the modest Quaker
Meeting House near Oak Grove Seminary ON
first and ''fourth" days, and his cider is
famous everywhere. So much for the pater-
nal Smiley. His family is somewhat distin-
guished. Sarah gave evidence of uncommon
genius at an early age, and it was thought in
the family even during her girlhood that
more than a common career awaited her. At
sixteen she began to write poetry, but wheth-
er it was good or bad am unable to say.
Shortly after, she was sent to the famous
Friends school at Providence, r. l., where
she greatly distinguished herself by her re-
markabfe proficiency as scholar. Shortly
after graduating she began to preach, and
went to Philadelphia where she established a
select school for young ladies, the Friends not
making profession of the ministry. She
gradually attracted attention by her ability
as preacher, and has within few years Wis
tied Europe on missionary tour. She is
now about forty years old, of comely personal
appearance and quiet demeanor She rarely
visits her.friends in Maine, who are immense
ly chagrined at her recent abandonment of
the Society of Friends. They are wholly I'M
able to account for the sudden change, since
she has always been Quaker of ''the strict
est Sect" .t lIraI -i'a q
Miss Smiley has several brothers who are
deserving of mention. One of them is the
principal of the 1Ourishing school at Provi-
dence, where all the young Quakers whose
families have sufficient means, are finished
off, and another is also successful teacher.
A third, Joseph Smiley, is Vassalboro
farmer, who several years ago had the sagaci-
ty to plant young orchard and to devote all
his time to its care. The result is perhaps
the best orchard i Maine, and the phenom-
email spectacle of Maine farmer who is grow
ing rich. BRoADBRIM, JR.
The Portland daily press., 1872-06-28
Horace White on Horace Greeley.

As Horace White, of the Chicago Tribune,
is now one of the principal supporters of Mr..
Greeley for President, it may be interesting to
recall Mr.. Whites opinion of his friend, as
published in 1866:
"Horace Greeley is not now, and never has
been, a man who ought to be trusted with an
official position requiring practical wisdom, or
binary craftsmanship, or firm consistent action.
For twenty-five years he has been marplot in
council, an unreliable commander in action, a
misanthrope in victory, and a riotous disorgan-
izer in defeat He has always been fanatical
in his demands for the EXTREMIST measures,
and when the party has reached the eve of tri-
umph, invariably thrusts himself forward as
negotiator of terms of surrender to the enemy.
His course during the war was but a repetition
of his course in politics. In 1861 he was an
open defender of secession; he changed to a
vigorous champion of the war, and thereafter
was forever recklessly making proposals for
peace and as recklessly withdrawing them
making war in spite of Mars, and negotiating
in spite of Minerva.
For twenty years he has been an uncompro-
missing advocate for square fight with the
pro-slavery party, and when that kind of a
fight was forced upon the Republicans, in 1860,
he was here in Chicago voting not for Lincoln
nor for Chase, but for old Edward Bates, of
Missouri, one of the fossils of the slave party
He was then the associate and co-laborer of
that other impracticable and unreliable squad
the Blair family. The country at tnls Time
wants no inspired harlequinS in the national
councils Still less does it want men with
craftsmanship so microscopic that they can see
nothing in public business but the mileage and
per diem of their fellow-member. If Mr. Gree
ley is not satisfied with his position as a jour
nalist-a position which ought to be equal in
point of influence, power and dignity to that of
six average Senator'S if the Republicans of
New York want to do do something for him,
let them make him State Prison Inspector or
even Governors; anything that will not make
the outside of the State responsible for his fol-
liac
The Portland daily press., 1872-06-28
News anu Uther Items.

After the Jubilee-What?-B Traveller.
Disappointment. i
During the last two years Fall River has out
stripped Lowell, Lawrence and Manchester in
its productions, and become the chief seat of
the cotton manufacture of America. g
Bony Nash, the Cincinnati gambler, who
died recently, was congratulated short time
before the event upon looking in better health
than usual, when he replied: ct bet you TWEEN
ty dollars don't live week" He won.
DIR. q. Rogers appeared alta woman's suffrage
convention in San Francisco, recently, with one
half of his face shaved clean, and the other side
covered with full beard. He explained his
singular appearance by saying that it was in
recognition of the fact that man was half man
and half woman.
1t is alleged that Rev. Dr. Thompson OF
jamestown, N. Y, has filed an affidavit in the
office of the clerk of Chautauqua county, set
ting forth that his relations with a certain mar
ried woman of that vicinity have been such as to
form sufficient ground for her husband to
demand and receive divorce. John Allen
was the wickedest man, and the Rev. DR..
Thompson is the meanest.
st. Adams had dull butter market on Tues
day, and prices ranged from Is to 25 cents.
Next to Rothschild, the wealthiest banker in
Vienna is a man who, in his YOUTH started as
an errand boy at a salary of one form week.
A Pittsburg man is accused of claiming his
wife to heavy weight and of burning her
mouth with hot poker to break up her habit
of drinking ana trrr-r t.srr
A Terre Hautentot went to California four
teen years ago, leaving behind a lady love. All
these years this faithful pair have each written
and received two letters per week, until within
the last week or two, when the man returned
to Indiana, and a marriage is being arranged.
Wonder if the parties now have those two thou
sand nine hundred and twelve letters.
The last census of Germany, taken in Decem-
Der, 1871, shows population of Al ,0S5,6
There is an excess of 752, 347 females over the
males.
The Portland daily press., 1872-06-28
STATE NEWS.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY,

.
Work has been commenced upon the mill of
the Little Androscoggin Water Power Co.
A. W. Jackson of Turner, an alumnus of
Colby University, graduated from the Theolog-
ical department of Harvard College on Wednes-
day.
Senator Howe and wife of Wisconsin were
in Lewiston, as the guests of John Reed ESQ.
The shipments of shoes for the past week
from Auburn have been 430 cases to 498 cases
for the previous week. The shoe business is
very dull at the present time, and will continue
so until after the fourth of July, when manu-
facture for the fall trade will begin. eyt
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The rate of taxation in Ellsworth is % mills
on the dollar, and the heaviest taxpayer is
George n. Black, whose tax is Ss2O7O,12
Capt. Ivory Grant of Buckport, pays special
attention to horse raising, and has several fine
animals in his stable.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Sunday Schools of Litchfield Plains and
Cobbessee Pond district will hold their annual
picnic at Maple Grove on the farm of Mrs Blu
ker on the Pond Road, July 4th.
The schooner Chas. III. Lawrence, now load
ing ice at Gardiner, and capable of carrying a
thousand tons of ice, is the largest schooner
ever in the river at that point.
Several young men of Hallowen have organ
lied a boat club.
Winthrop Morrill, of Waterville makes fifteen
hundred barrels of soap annually, using five
thousand bushels of ashes.
Rev. A. L. Park of the Congregationalist
Church of Gardiner, leaves Boston Tuesday
July second, on the Cnnard steamer Olympus
for England. AH A
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
A young man was arrested in Bangor
wednesday evening in the act of robbing the
boxes in the post office. G25f&
sAGADAHOC COUNTY.
Inc Times gathers from the report of the Su-
perlntendent of the Bath schools that the
whole number of the children reported last
May, as belonging in the city between the ages
OF and Il was $3.50; the number registered in
schools, 1,79O; the average number in atten-
dance, 400.
SOMERSET COUNTY
Mr.. Loren. Ames of Fairfield, while at worl.
finishing house for Albert Shepard on Fri.
day last, fell from the staging to the ground
breaking rib, and sustaining, it is feared, Sc
rious internal injuries
There are six post offices in the town of Fair
field. The office heretofore called called Ken
dalPs Mills is now changed to Fairfield; the