Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-11-19
inneCOnno.

luis Town contains IL pOpuiAtiou VI Hlteeu
hundred inhabitants, acti7e, intelligent and
enterprising. The saw mills and single
mills are now running eleven hours day,
shar p; trade is good. The Hotels are full
and nothing to indicate hard times, or that
dollar is worth more than 100 cents. Two
hundred and fifty million feet of logs passed
tn rough the boom this season; there is now
seventy millions in the Main Wolf River
and forty million feet in the small streams
not got out last Spring, leaving an unus-
ually large surplus to be wintered over,
that light demand for lumber, and the
stringency Of money will prevent many
from logging at all this winter. Less prepar
ton IS being made for the pinery than ia
sny previous year since logging became the
"chicf end of man" on the Wolf River.
met e. w. Enos here, brother OF Judge
Enos ofour city. He is democrat dyed in
the wool, and was jubilant over the result
Of the election Warming up eloquenty he
said Gas al evidence OF the purity of his
party that the forty there's Except Pratt
Of Waukesha) had all gone over to the Re
publicans, and asked how | accounted foe
that, told him on the principle of reforma-
ton of course, and If Pratt comes back with
the multitude of sick ones two years from
this fall we will kill the fatted calf, (of
course we are forgiving for they know
not what they do) bat [ am afraid Uncle
Sam stock will be SO run down that The
calves..wilI make poor feast.
After spending a day or two here I took
trip up the River to Pumpkin Seed Creek,
Sniders Gap and the Cannibal Islands. VIII
leave the local interest for some othe. pen
to describe, and only relate an incident
that occurred in tie family OF well-Jo do
farmer near The head waters Of The Shoe.
The family consisted of Father, Mother and
three daughters Grace, Patience and Re-
lance, ell alike, distinguished for fTugality
ana par simony, the girls having been too
stiney to burn candles enough to do the
necessary sparkling are now verging Into
old-maidism. A few weeks since the Faith
er of these interesting daughters was
brought to bis last bed of sickness ard when
heappeared to be sinking into that long
sleep that knows no waking, Grace took
from his pocket wallet con tanning twenty
dollars ; he soon realized the situation, rails
ed up in bed like boy OF Is and demand
ed the purse which was duly returned;
when Grace left the room he placed it be-
tween the ticks under him; in about half
an hour he was surely going, when Grace
again looked for the money but it was gone.
While Grace was feeling in the Old mans
pockets, Patience came in and was accused
OF taking the money; at this crisis Reliance
put in an appearance, followed by the old
lady, who learning the cause of the confus.
ion placed her back against the door, and
said nobody could leave till the money was
found. Strict search was made with no
satisfactory result, and amid the d scordant
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spirit OF the dying man took it departure
to e that undiscovered country from whose
bourn no traveller returns" but no one to
shed a tear, 20 one to close his eyes, all too
deeply absorbed in the one idea of finding
the money, each locking at the other IN
blank establishment, looking the question
what shall we do? In this painful dilemma
it was proposed to place quilt on the floor ),
roll the old man off the bed and search
abo ut the body and see the money couldn't
be found The act follwed the idea, and the
money found where he had put it. In due
time the mourning commenced and the old
man was laid away in that narrow house
to be forgotten by those he had rudely low
ed
The substance of the above was related
to our informant by the old lady, who ex-
pressed her surprise that the old man should
want to keep the money.
R