Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-09
GENERAL NEWS.

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hundredth anniversary of the formation
at Wandsworth, On the Thames, Eng
larp, of the First English Presbytery,
by public exercises in Philadelphia.
We understand call has been issued
to all parts Of the United States, and
general response is hoped for, and the
assurance of large attendance.
One of the best-known clergymen of
New York, the Rev Francis Vinton,
D. d., died on Saturday last aged 70.
He was educated for the army, but
after few years service drifted into
civil life and took up the study of
theology. He occupied during his
life many important positions in the
Protestant Episcopal Church, and OBJ
tanned wide reputation as a pulpit
orator.
DR.. FRANCIS LIEBER.-Dr, Fran
els Lieber, the publicist and scholar,
died in New York City on Wednesday,
October 2. His life was long and
eventful one. He was born in Berlin
in March, 1900, entered the Prussian
Army at the early age of 10, as vol
unteer. He fought in the contests of
l4igny and Waterloo, and was severely
wounded at the assault of Namur.
He returned to Berlin in 1916, AMI
with the ardor of Youthful reformer
took part in the democratic movements
of the German universities, for which
he was condemned to four years impri-
sonment and mporarily excluded from
the schools of Prussia, though in 1929
he succeeded in obtaining his degrees
from the University of Jena. Having
been threatened by the government, he
made his way to England, where he
supported himself for year or two as
a teacher and writer, and in 1927 en-
barked for the United States, of which
country he has since been most valua-
bic citizen. During his life he was
ever industrious, and he leaves behind
him number of works to attest his
learning and ability as an author, among
which are journal of Ny Residence
in Greece" volume of poems under
the nom de plume of Franz Arnold,
1.-The Stranger in America" GA man
ual of Political Ethics" "Remini-
SCIENCES of Niebuler,' - Laws of Prop
erty," Essays on Property and La
bor," CIVIL Liberty and Self-Govern-
ment, J." and numerous essays and adj
dresses on various topics. The "Ency-
clopedia Americana" is of itself
sufficient monument of the industry
of an ordinary lifetime.
IRELAND'S DECAY The official re-
turns just made by the Registrar Gen
eral Of ireland, covering the past twelve
months, show steady decline of in
dustry and production in that country
There is a decrease of 1895 acres of
wheat as compared with 1871, 1903
acres Of oats, 20,306 acres of barley,
| 4 "A, 804 tons of potatoes, l2,024 acres
of turnips, and 1921 acres of flax
TIE production of cereals has declined
until it is third less than it was
twenty years ago; the fax and linen
trade shows falling off, and. what is
worst of all, the population itself has
decreased Is per cent. since 1851.
Emigration has carried off so large
proportion of the able-bodied male pop
ulation that there is scarcity of labor
in some parts of the island, and in the
late harvest In the southeastern coun-
ties, the English farmers were obliged
to ask the government to allow the
soldiers IN the garrison to assist them in
saving their grain.
DECLINE IN THE GOLD YIELD OF
CAMFoRNIA,-The yield of this State
in precious metals is decreasing slowly
but steadily. Numerous claims that
have been worked by sluicing and the
hydraulic process are exhausted every
year, and very few are opened. The
productive aurlferous quartz mines are
not increasing in number and import
ance, perhaps because many of the most
intelligent and enterprising miners and
mining engineers find a large profit in
the Nevada silver mines, which more
that compensate by their rising I'M
portance for the decline in the yield of
California. At present the Ely District
is the favorite of both miners and specu-
lators, and the wonderful productive
ness of a few mines and the richness of
the ores found in a number of others
contribute, with the rapid increase of
the yield for the last two years, to ex-
cuse, if not fully justify, the expecta-
ton thai Phoebe will in 1873 export
more silver than Virginia CITY.
GOLDSMITH MAID AND LUCY.-SAN
Francisco, Oct.5-The race of Gold
smith Maid and Lucy, over Agriculture
al Park, half mile course, mile heats
for a purse of ST 500, this afternoon,
was won by the Maid in three straight
heats 2::25, 2:1S, 2:22. Five thousand
people attended Two dollars was
charged for admission to the track.
Little money changed hands. 1t was
accepted as an exhibition of speed
People were confident that Lucy could
have won the race, # driven for that
purpose.
A large party Of San Franciscans
have returned from an unsuccessful
expedition to the Arizona diamond
fields, and denounce the excitement as
a fraud.
A dispatch has been received from
Governor Mccormick, of Arizona Terri
tory saying that the attack of Colonel
Mason on the Apache Mohaves is the
most important blow ever dealt to hos
tile Indians in the Territory. It is
now known that most of the murders
and robberies are to be charged to them.
and that at least two of the killed par
ticipated in the massacre of the Loring
party, near Wyckburg, in November.