Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-18

No more CLERKS are to be appointed
to the Interval Revenue Bureau, but
the force is to be gradually reduced.
The same steamer brought to New
York the father of Chas O'Connor
and the Taternal relative of Francis
Herman.
Bonner may retire from the New
York ledger and it is contemplated
to offer the vacant chair to Mr. Greeley.
It is published in Washington thar
Senator Sumner has applied for di
vorce from his wife on the ground Of
desertion.
Abby Sage Richardton has prepar
ed lecture for the commiug winter on
Sir Walter Raleigh and his American
voyages.
A cable dispatch announces the
death of the Archduke Albert, Com
mander-in-chIef Of the Austrian army
He became soldier at an early age,
and though his military talents attained
the responsible posit on he held at the
time Of his death At one time he was
Governor General Of Hungary 1t was
Just after the battle Of SadoWa that be
became C0mmander-iu chic He was
born in 1917.
Pauline Lucca is oi JEWS paren t5ge
and was born at Vienna ia 1871 She
has acquired large fortune by her
singing, but has lost it all through he
extravaganza of Der husband who Is
ali officer 10 the Prussian Life Guards.
Father Ton, Burke's sickness is be-
morrhage Of the lungs and cholera
morbus. 1t is believed now hat be
will get better He has been 80 days
in this country. and has delivered l42
lectures and 40 sermons, besides get
ting a book out.
Laura Fair, who shot Crittenden, is
undergoing second trial at San Fran
cisco. One of the jurors has announ-
ced to the court that a bride of one
thousand dollars had been offered him
in the interest Of the prisoner. The
exposure is likely to damage Der case
The severest penalty of tie law should
be melted out to the tempter in this
and every similar attempt 20 corrupt
a juryman.
A Journey through the six New
England States and portion of New
York reveals the fact that the apple
crop is equally abundant in all quarters,
the trees everywhere being loaded with
this staple fruit. Along the Hudson.
from Troy to Poughkeepsie, it is nearly
the same as in Connecticut; the apple
trees are loaCed. Golden sweets" sell
to dealers for one dollar barrel, and
purchasers are scarce even at that rate.
Many far,uers are feeding them out to
their stock. In Maine it is the same. A
large dealer refused last week to take
Rhode Island greetings, deliverable n
October, at any price above 81 a barrel.
1t is a great year for apples, and there is
IAN " III tuulIuS plOSpSCl VI du
abundant product of cider the coming
fall
PERsIA's CALAMITIEs The famili-
ar saying that Mans inhumanity to
man makes countless thousands mourn"
has been wildly illustrated by tie cal
antilles of Persia. The late terrible
dearth in that country was in great part
caused by unjust laws md grasping
taxation, while the sluggishness of the
authorities to succor the famine strick-
en- at the outset aggravated the evil.
A Teheran letter, 10 Greek paper, says
that "more than 100, 900 men, women
and children have persisted in the
Persian capital from famine and plague,
aud the number of victims throughout
the country is not less than three mill
ions" These terrible calamities may
not have been entirely svoidabIe but,
by wise legislation, they might have
been escaped in great part.