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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-21
Agricultural Report.

HE following is summary of the con-
dition Of the winter wheat Just issued
from the Agricultural Department.:
On the first week Of April, considera-
bic portion of the northern belt of the win
ter wheat area was covered with snow
The condition of that visible gave prom
Use of general exemption from winter in
jury, leaving the crop subject to the mete-
geological vicissitudes of April. In the
Middle States great improvement upon
the showing of last spring is everywhere
conceded, especially in New jersey and
pennsylvania. The prospects in the
States south of Maryland are less favorable
than last year, and there are indications of
diminishing area in the cotton States,
although the acreage is not intended to be
given in this report. Michigan, the only
State of the northern border in which win
ter wheat is mainly grown, presents a
green and vigorous growth, wherever
snow has disappeared to reveal it, and
Ohio makes far more favorable returns
than last year. In Kentucky more
checkered showing is made, giving the
present appearance decidedly unfavora-
BILE cast, with indications of future i'm
provement as the weather becomes settled.
In Indiana and Illinois, the unfavorable
returns outnum bered the rOse-colored. The
dry autumn retarded seeding and germina-
tlon and lett the plants too weak and shall
loW-rooted to endure well the effects of
the winters changes of temperature. Sim
liar causes affect the condition of wheat
IN Missouri, but a great improvement over
last year is reported, and still more 1av-
Orable condition exists in Kansas. In
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebras-
ka, as is known, very little winter wheat
is produced, but full reports are given of
such experiments. The indications from
California all point to another year of
great abundance, scarcely a county report
ing an unfavorable condition. AS whole,
the wheat prospect at the close of the win
ter is more favorable than at the same date
in 1872.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-21
DINNA GROWL.

ANNA LINDEN.
Dinna growL
Fret scowl,
If the work goes wrong:
Work the harder wi the hands
And use the less tongue
Or, We see, that will be-
w nat q waste o. tmel
Whlle song will help along
With Its merry chime.
Ye can see
The ant and
Gathering in their store;
Greater needs have you and me,
E. + And we should work the
Or, ye see, that will be
Wasting precious time;
While a song will help along
WI its merry chime
If we've health
Ye have wealth
Money buy;
If we've neathng else besides.
we've need TO
For, that will be
just waste O. time.
While song will help along
WI It's merry chime.
"a Health should be
Thankfully
Used for every good;
A little wi O. brains
Makes it understood.
Or, ye see, that will be
Waste o. life and time,
That will drift We far away
From the better cline
Keep the soul
True and whole,
Wi honest heart.
And where duty calls the roll,
Bravery do your part
Or, that will be
Wasting precious time.
That viii drift We far away
From the better cline.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-21
no CORES psyDEy1,z,

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eompanied by the name of the author not necess;t
rily for Publication, but as an evidence of good faith
the part the writer. Write only on one side
PAPER. BE particularly careful in giving names and
dates to have the letters and figures plain and distinct
Proper names are often difficult to decipher because
II the careless manner IN which they are writes
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-21

What goes most against farmers
grain? His reaping machine.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
The CONSTRUCTION Of Cisterns.

In 1866 was euilding house for my own
occupancy, and was anxious to learn how 10
filter rain-water, as / determined to have
plenty of this element, our well-water being
very hard, asked questions, searched books,
and all the satisfaction / could get was the
advice to use porous earthenware. MY next
inquiry was, where to get it? After cores
ponding some time, gave up the attempt
and started on my ow plan. As did not
see the necessity OF placing it at distance
from the house, decided to save steps and
labor, and so made it under the kitchen. IL
was IA feet long, IA feet deep, aud feet
wide. then arched il over under the floor,
then cemented it well. At the bottom, in
the centre, was dug reservoir that would
hold about one barrel of sand and charcoal.
Over this and in the middle of the cistein 1
made partition, convex on receiving side
and concave on supply side, leaving an OPEN
ing in the reservoir beneath for water to pass
through. then filed this reservoir with
charcoal, sand and gravel. l found
pressure and force of water coming in the
receiving side during heavy rain forced the
filtering material out of its place, notwiih-
standing there was a thick coating Of gravel
on top of it. The true idea OF iitering is to
through fast, in anything like a current, it
does not filter On the receiving side of the
cistern / turn an arched four inch wall,
joints laid in cement over the iliering reser-
voir. This compelled the water to pass
through four inches of brick before its reach
ed the sand ard charcoal. Now have pure
water. My partner thought he could i'm
prove on my experience, and he simply bTilt
for hiiaself four inch convex to receiving
side wall, cementing the cistern all but parti-
ton. He tells me tn the water took por-
tlon OF the cement from the outside walls, and
deposited so much on the partition chat it
was rendered water-tight after a years use. He
says this would not have occurred had the
outside walls been eemented and filled with
water before putting in The filte ring partition.
The reason tie partition Is made convex to
receiving side is to prevent the pressure Of.
the water pushing it in or down. My own
inion is to make good c tern one should
build it and cement it well; then let the wa
ter stand IN it long enough to take up all
the GENE, it will; then put in q four inch
Partition; lay the brick in cement joints so
the water must pass thrcu h the brick, and
good, clean. soft water can be had--more
than enough to supply any family in an ordi
nary house.-Cor N Y. Tribune
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
Jealousy and Kerosene.

On Tuesday night an alarm was sounded
at Sarnia, and the report was soon spread
that lamp had exploded in the apartments
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Smith, at
Mrs. Fishers house. At first, and in fact for
several hours afterward, it was supposed that
a lamp explosion only was the cause Of the
excitement. 1t has since transpired, how
ever, tina the lamp was thrown Violently at
Mrs. Smith by Ter husband, injuring her
head severely and burr ing her horribly, so
that from the combined injuries she has since
died.
Mrs. Smith, whose maiden name vas Les
ter OF Leicester, was a highly educated and
refined young lady well known in Sarna and
in this city, and universally admired wherev-
er known, moving in the best circles of So
ciety. Smith is spoken of as gentlemanly
person, whose o herwise good character was
spoiled by being of jealous disposition, hot
tempered aud addicted to drink There are
always two sides to story, and his friends
assert that he was driven to evaporation by
the conduct OF his wife, who, it is claimed,
was notoriously fiirt, keeping co pany with
young unmarried men, and conducting her
self in such manner as to bring down upon
her good name the arkest kind of a cloud
of reproach and scandal. B that as it NAV.
for that or some other reason he was very
jealous OF his attractive wife, and freuuent
storms of abuse and anger fell upon her head.
At times he has abused her shameful ly, it is
asserted, and she has often been heard to say
that her life was in danger, ''for Arthur will
surely kill me sometime"
The particulars of the horrible tragedy on
Tuesday night perhaps will never be known,
bat it ended in the young and handsome
woman's death and the arrest of the guilty
man, who is now confined in the Lambt
County Jail in Sarnia. Mrs. Smith was
heard TO cry out for help, and help was i'm
mediately summoned, bat ON arriving at the
scene the room was full of smoke, t car
pets were burned, and Mrs. Smith lay burned
and bruised upon the floor. Smith had evi-
IDENTIFY endeavored to put out the fire ano was
also burned considerably. His story at first
was that the lamp exploded in his wife's face,
but circumstantial evidence was tound that
went far to prove that he had thrown tie
lamp at her, crushing her head and setting
her clothes on fire. Since his arrest he has
either gone stark mad or else feigns madness
very closely. The most intense excitement
prevails in Sarnia. The action of the Coro-
ner's jury is awaited W th tie greatest anxiets
and pubic opinion ainst the prisoner h:
been wrought up to the highest pitch--Pory
Huron Times.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

Wilbur F. Story, Of the Chicago Times, is
opposed to the sale of liquors on Sunday.
He puts a head on report thus: "Whisky
Wins-The Legions of King Alcohol Cap
ture majority of the Common Council
Adoption of the Personal Liberty Leagues
Infamous compromised Decided Triumph
for the Interests of the Guzzling Element" !"
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
THE HEATHEN CnINEE.-Dr. Hitchcock

The HEATHEN CnINEE.-Dr. Hitchcock,
now on visit to China, writes to the Am
herst Student an account of the Chinese
fashion of conducting competitive examine
tions for literary degrees. The trial occurs
once in three years, and is held in an i'm
cells, each of them about six feet by four
Into one Of these brick cells, with whatever
food or fght he may choose to furnish, each
candidate takes himself to write his ESSAY:
going on one evening and staying til the
second morning, at which time the ESSAY
must be finished During these thirtysix
hours he remains entirely by himself
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

The average boy at birth weighs little
more, the average gir little less. than six
and half pounds. For the first twelve
years the sexes weigh about the same, but
after that period the average m ale gets at cad
of the average female, or would. if he didn't
chew tobacco.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
HERE'S another romantic story gone up.

HERE'S another romantic story gone up.
Gen. Jubal Early writes:
"The sensational story that has lately gone
the round OF the papers, from the We sen
sational book of Gen. Revere, will be seen
at once to have no foundation in tact oy any
who ever heard Gen. Jackson converse, a,di anu
entail language put into his mouth sy t5a the s"1 aI-
thor; and that the dramatic story % o. Chsnce- sh
itarA horseman in dark enmlcfs elo,nss a. no @ donb
,orsv'e' ~ ss ame straggers tale to an army cor
70 nj at, sa,m Jackson was no moonstruck,
resPoa ltsPoeazing pabbIer, and have been panied e
st 81 soe circulation given to the absurd story py
some Of the Virginia pafers.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

Ac ergyman at a recent Baptist Sunday
school convention said tn t he was called to
the bedside of an old lady who exprsssed her
dislike to he minister who had beei visiting
her, because" she said, ''he only bent one
knee when he prayed, and the Bible says 'eu-
ery' knee shall bow" ,-
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
The NATIONAL traders Rank.

FUtHE Shareholders of The National Traders Bank
OF Portland, ire hereby notitfel that their annu-
al meeting will be held at their Banking Kcom on
TUESDAY, the 14th, day of January next, at 3
O'Clock NJ choose five Directors for the ensuing
year, and to act on any other business that may
legally come before them.
EDWARD GOULD, Cashier.
Portland, Dec 18th 1872 limo
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
ANNUAL MEETINGS.
Portland Il WaidObOrO Steam.
hAnf fyn

FTNHE Annual meeting of the Stockholders of the
y Portland & Waldoboro Steamboat Co., Tor the
OF Directors. and tor the TRANSACTION of such
M ned at the Office Of Ross s. Sturdivant 179 Com.
Janu.St St, Portland. on Tuesday the seventh day of
deaa 1873, ats o'clock PM.
-' WILLIAM ROCS rlar,,
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
The Canal National Rank.

FINHE annual meeting of the Stockholders of The
Il Canal National Bank, of Po tland, for The cleo
ton OF seven Directors and for the transaction Of
such other business thst may legally como before
theu will be held at their Banking House, ON Tues
A. M
del3dtd B. C. SOMERBY, Cashier.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

are hrebb0lers herebS Of Franklin wharf Company
said Company will he ha,a that he annual meeting Of
1878 at O'Clock P NJ, their aes on NJ jam ry
dec30dtd ohdE G. FOBES,
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
CascO National Bank.

THNHE Annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Il Casco National Bank of Portland f,r the choice
OF Directors and the transact ion of such other bus
ness as may legally befnre them will be held az
their Banking House on TUESDAY, the fourteenth
day Of January, 1873, al 10 o'clock m.
WIN. A. WINSHIP, Cashier.
Portland, Dec. 13, 1872 ci4dtd
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
Eagle Sugar Refinery.

TTNHE stockholders of this Com-any are hereby no.
Il titled that the annual meeting for choice of Di-
reetors and the transaction Of any other business
legally brought before them will be held at the Re-
tinery Office on tuesday,, the 18th day of Januat "
1878, at o'clock P. M.
JOS. P. THOMPSON, Clerk,
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
The Cumberland National Bank
Of Portland.

FINHE Stockholders of this bank hereby notified
that their Annual Meeting for the election of Di
any other busiress that may then come before tbem
will be held at their banking room n TUESDAY,
the 14th day OF January, 1873, at o'clock p. m.
SAMUEL SMALL, Cashier.
Portland, Dee. 18th, 1872 decl4dtd
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

A Connecticut town boasts Of a young man
50 timid that he can not look a needle in the
eye. Many young ladies are :ronbled with
similar fears whenever they can get any one
else to do their sewing.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

1t Is a little too trying to human flesh to be
conscious of expressing ones self, better than
others and never to have it noticed, and la
the general dearh of admiration for the right
thing, even chance bray of applause falling
exactly in time is rather fortifying.
MiddLemarch.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

The man who is able to work and does not
is to be pitied as well as despised, He knows
nothing Of sweet sleep and pleasant dreams
He is a miserable drone, and eats substance
he does not earn.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
Peaks Island steamho,, g.

1.-THE stockholders of this company are 49,,
Il titled that the annual meeting for cboic. " No. No.
rectors and the transaction of such business as @ M
legally be brought before them will be holden at ths
old school house, Peaks Island on MONDAY, Jan
13, at o'clock D. IN.
jan6dtd J.W. BRACKETT. Clerk.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
Merchants National Bank of P0rt-
land Mn

FIlHE Stockholders of this Bank, are hereby notf-
4 ed that their annual meeting for the choice of
Directors and the transac ion of such business as
may legally be brought before them. will be holden
at the Bank on Tuesday, JAM 14th 1873 at 10 O'Clock
CHAS. PAYSON, Cashier.
Dec 18th, 1872. de14d2tawtd
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
Portland, Bangor and Machias
AA Steamboat COmDany.

VVHE annual meeting of the Stockholders of the
Il above named Company for the choice of Di-
rectors and f5r the ans,cion of such other busi
ness as may legally come before them will be held
at the Office Of Ross s. Sturdivant 179 Commercial
St. Portland Tuesday, the fourteenth day of Jan.
1878, at II O'Clock A. M. r6e
WILLIAM ROSS, Clerk.
January 1st, 1873. jan2td
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

The special merits of SMoLANDER's BUcHU,
are that it thoroughly invigorates an enervated
| system, and that it is a perfect and truthful
specific for kidney, bladder and glandular dis
eases, mental abd physical debility, diabetes,
! gravel, all complaints of the urino-genital or
gans SO frequent in the female sex, whether
married or single, aud the fact Of its being pre-
scribed by family physicians, should be enough
to endorse its superiority. jan7-eod1w
CHAPPED HANDS, face rough skin. pimpLe-.
ringworm. salt-rheum and other cutaneop, at
fections cured, and the skin made soT and
smooth, by using the JUMPER TAs soAp, mace
by Caswel Hazard Il Co.. New York. Ee
sure to get the Juniper Tar SIR as there are
many worthless limitations made with common
tar. hoVl1-l-w
THE PUREsr AN, SWEETEST Con LIVER OIL
is Hazards and Csswells made on the sea-
shore from fresh selected livers, hy CAswELL,
HAzApn g, o., New York. 1t is absolutely
n,,ro and sseet Patients who have once taken
II ,r.fer il tc all Others Physicians have de
cided it superior TO any of the other oils in
uarket. nOVl4-A-"
ADVERTISERS naturally seek the means of
reaching the largest number OF readers anu
those of the best quality. The Daily Press
fills the bill IN both particulars better than any
other daily Journal in Maine
How TO MAKE s5C0-Euy for a song,
stvl,sb broken down horse, one that is pro-
no,nced PLAYED out from lameness;-eu him
With bottle or two of Centaur Liniment, and
nocl,et the difference. The Liniment is simply
oe tho xvonflers of the world. Dumb BEASTS
neigh ont their gladnass, and the sore maimed
and crippled of the human family hobble in
and go on their way rejoicing. Yes, it is Won
derful.
CHILDREN cRy-for Pitchers Castoria. II
regulates the stomach, cures wind collie and
causes uatural sleep. 1t is substitute for
castor oil. jal2eodlwSSwIt
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

Thomas Mast is engaged in making illus
trations of Harper's "Household Edition OF
Dickens" and no artist could be better sue.
cessor to Cruikshank.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

Joaquin Miller has reached London, where
he is again being lionized. His last poem is
not success, and he has novel at his pub
lisher's, awaiting his orders to issue.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

The city of Louisville will distribute 10000
tons of coal among its poor this winter.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

Boston has now first class floating fire
engine, capable of doing great service in case
Of fire on the city wharves or among the ship
ping. nIz.I
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

Every spendthrift to passion is debtor to
thought.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
'THE PR ESS
TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. I, 1873.
Gossip and Gieanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
would not creep along the coast but steer
Out IN mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.
-Middtemarch.
Boots blacked inside'' is not good in
scription for sign.
Blue-black kid gloves is tn latest importa-
tion from Paris
The city of Louisville will distribute 10000
tons of coal among its poor this winter.
Every spendthrift to passion is a debtor to
thought.
lhat cont oiled self-consciousness of man.
plicity. eApensi'e soDs.iSuee 1SsJJieseh ~. 5,li
MISS alker' new feminine lecturer, is
teiiins the lowans all about amep women
and politics."
odd Table Talk" is what Mark Twain
calls George Francis Train, who is now tho
happy occupant of a cell in the Tombs.
Josh Billings will soon celebrate his fiftv-
fifth birthday. As A. Ward said of Chaucer,
"He has talent, but he can't spell.'
The law Is like flimsy SPIDERS net
That holds the little flies that in it get;
But when a jolly, pethoric old blue
Bottle gets in he easily breaks through.
Joaquin Miller has reached London, where
he is again being lionized. His last poem is
not success, and he has novel at his pub
lisher's, awaiting his orders to issue.
The lemon groves of Corsica are suffering
from curious disease. The Fl ut dries up
and becomes as dusty as the ''smoke-balr' in
OR country pastures.
Boston has now a first class floating fire
engine, capable of doing great service in case
OF fire on the city wharves or among the ship
ping. nE1l
Thomas Mast is engaged in making illus
trations of Harper's Household Edition oil
Dickens" and no artist could be better sue.
cessor to Cruikshank.
Connecti ut towr hoasts rf n ,,o,,,,,, ,,,o,,
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

The lemon groves of Corsica are suffering
from curious disease. The Fl uit dries up
and becomes as dusty as the ''smoke-balp' in
OR country pastures.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

CHILDREN oRy-for Pitchers Castoria 1t
regulates the stomach, cures wind collie and
causes natural sleep. 1t is substitute for
castor oil, jau2-eud1wSEwlt
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

l would not creep along the coast but steer
Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the Stars
-MiddienaaTch.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

Blue-black kid gloves is tn latest importa-
ton from Paris =
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

~ nnat M controlled selfconsciousness of man.
plicity. 'Apensi'e s''Ds,Iea 1s;dJios..h ~. I'nn
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

Boots blacked inside" is not a good in
scription for a sign.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

'' "lher' new feminine lecturer, is
'e'nns Tue iowans all about "men, women
and politics.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

Josh Billings will soon celebrate his fifty-
fifth birthday. As A. Ward said of Chaucer,
"He has talent, but he can't speIl.'
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

The law is like fiimsy SPIDERS net
That holds the little flies that in it get;
But when jolly, plethoric old blue
Bottle gets in he easily breaks through.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

''Old Table Talk is what NIL, IT,.
calls George Francis Train, who is now the
happy occupant of a cell in the Tombs.
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07

ADVERTISERS naturally seek the means of
reaching the largest number OF readers ana
those of the best quality. The Daily PRESS
fills the bill IN both particulars better than any
other daily Journal in Maine
The Portland daily press., 1873-01-07
BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Agency for Sewing Machines.
w. =. DXER, No. 352 vEidd,. ..
kinds of Machines for sale ana - Al
Repairing. Aet.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-03-14
Suspected the Lawyer.

The law provides defender for every
arraigned criminal, no matter how well
known his crime, but it will not do Tor n
bad mans coulsellor to try to make his
crime joke, and ridicule it out of court.
Such a course fairly leaves the LAWYER
himself open to distrust.
Counsellor Higgins, Of the State Of -,
was exceedingly adroit in defending o
prisoner, and would sometimes laugh do wn
an indictment for small oifense. A tel-
low Zone Smith) being on trial for steal
ing turkey, the counsellor attempted to
give good, human turn to the affair.
"Why, gentlemen of the jury" said he,
"this is really very small affair. won
der any one could bring such complaint
into court. If We are going on at this
rate, we shall have business enough on our
hands,
Higgins then alluded to the "foraging
expedition" of his college days and the
boys then thought il no harm to take poul-
try now and then here and there when
they wanted sly supply. But notwith-
standing this appeal, the jury con icted
the prisoner
After the court arose, one of the jury, a
plain old farmer, meeting the counsellor,
complimented him on his ingenuity.
land now, squire, said he fixing a
rather knswing look upon him, ~ shou ld
like to ask you one question: "Whicn road
do you take in going hOme-the upper or
lower one?'
"fhe lower" said the counsellor.
"Well then it's no matter. | only want.
ed to observe you were going my way,
| would just go on before you and loo up
my hen house."