Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-05


DEATH.-We have no sympathy with
fatalism, and get we are free to say
that Mr.. Greeley's destiny was on him
and he could not escape it. There
were inward causes that guawed their
way outward to this effect He had
premonitions of it not only few weeks
but many months ago. During some
idle, hours in Brooklyn early in the
campaign, he said to us with voice
Of sudden sadness and tone of won't
ed pathos : Il have but one great am
bition, and that is not the Presidency
but death /" Later 10 the summer Cor
perhaps early in the falD when some
friends were talking with him at
merry supper table, aud when Que of US
gaily asked chow he liked being prais-
ed by one political party and damn d
by the other he simply answered that
nothing would crafty him So much
as to receive from some celestial mes
senger an authoritative assure ce that
he must die the next morning" About
the middle of October, in "a Sunday
evening conversation with him, the
same premonitory meditations on death
and immortality broke forth from his
lips.
These inward cravings for rest, or,
as he styled it, this ambition for death,
set him at war against himself; though
he was extremely anxious for political
success, and strove with might and
main to achieve, and communicated to
the general phalanx of his supporters
the contagion of his enthusiasm aud
fair hopes, yet to some of his more
confidential comrades he invariabe
touched in the still hours the same
minor and Eolian chord that murmer-
ed of life as failure and of death as
a desire Golden Age.
TREE PLANTING IN MINNESOTA
4 call is made in Minnesota upon
the Legislature Of that state not to ad.
journ without taking some act on in
the matter of appropriating sum of
money for the purchase of seeds and
and trees, to be distributed to each
town throughout the State 1t is es-
pecially urged that trees be planted on
the prairies Of the State, for the bene-
fit Of the farmers who fill up the broad
stretch of land between the railroads
and rivers, so that they may thus fence
their roads and farms with forest trees.
Already has this been done to some
extent. The system has been adopted
on all the lines of the St. Paul and
Pacific Railroad, and already have
many miles of trees been planted. The
same course has been pursued by far
mers in the neighborhood of Hutchin-
son, who have set out from 900 to
10000 trees each
Records kept at Muscatine Iowa,
show that during the past thirty-eight
years the average length of time for
which the Mississippi at that point
has been closed with ice is sixty seven
days. 1t has already been closed since
the fifth of December this year, max
ing seventy eight days, so that if the
Father Of Waters has any regard for
the law of general averages it will be
compelled to deprive the people of the
use of free bridge very soon. To al
the period for which records have been
kept, there were but three winters dur
ing which it has been closed over
eighty-five days'-MJ. Sentinel FEB.
%.
The newly discovered tin mine on
the north shore of Lake Superior is at
tracing no little attention. 1t IS locat
ed in the vicinity of Otierhead, be-
tween Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder
bay. The vein is said to extend alon
the coast for a distance of fifteen miles.
running back about eight miles, and is
very rich in yield.
The death of the Emperor has not
put an end to the plans of the Bona
partists. The remarkably well-inform-
ed Paris correspondent of the London
Times states that on the 10th of March
the young Prince Imperial attains his
seventeenth birthday. On the goth of
the month it is proposed to "emanci-
pate him from his minority. BY an
old law this can be done in case the
heirs to the crown when they are l6
years old. Perhaps the young man
will find plenty willing to rally by his
side, but the prospect is not encourag-
ing. 1t is claimed, however, that the
Emperor's death has wea kened Theirs
influence in behalf of a Republic, mas
much as he cannot play now upon the
fears of some of the factions on the
Right by predicting the reappearance
of Napoleon.
The largest orange grove in Florida
is on the Eastern coast, and is known
as Dummit's grove, from the name of
its proprietor 1t contains some thir.