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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15
REBELLIoUs LIQUoR-DEALERs..-

REBELLIoUs LIQUeR-DEALERs.-
About 1000 of the Iquor-dealers of
the city-that is, above one-half the
whole number engaged in the retail
trafic-are in open revolt against the
Excise laws. A large and rich lobby
in this interest vainly urged the last
Legislature to reduce their license fees
and have taken the present step as a
last effort to nulIify the Excise law
The Excise Board in response have
not sued the dealers, as they expected,
but have quietly scared the indict-
ment of sixty of the nost active lead
ers in the revolt If convicting OF
violating the Excise laws the guilty
dealers may be foed $3.50 and sent
to Blackwelps Island for one year.
The summary trial and punishment
of a few of those indicted will doubt
less bring the others to their senses.
We hope the District Attorney will
pursue the matter promptly. There
are few outside of the 5000 liquor
dealers in the city who will not agree
with us in saying that the fees for Ii
cense are already too low, and the Ex-
else law and police regulations con-
cernine dram-shops too lax.-Ne.o
York Tribune
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15

FAILURE OF THE PEACH CROP
Private advices from the peach orchards
Of Deleware and Maryland not only
confirm the forbodings expressed by
the growers convention, Which met at
Dover recently, but they go so far as
to give assurance of almost utter fail
ure Of the crop. Middleton, DEL, the
largest shipping station on the PENN
sular Road, which usually sends half
million bas kets to market, will not
have $4,000 aud even these will con-
sist mainly Of the earliest variety.
The usual line Of boats out of the
Sassafras river, which draius the Mary
lara peach counties, will be discon-
tinued, and similar reports from all the
orchards show that hardly a tenth of
crop will be slipped. This is the
second disastrous years to these farm
ers, and many of them are beginning
to feel, by bitter experience, the i'm
policy OF putting all their hopes upon
single venture. The peach, as ripen.
ed in this favored section, is Of so fine
a flavor and CONES to so great a per-
fection, that when there is fair yield
the profits are very large. But the
Peninsular husoandman has of late
years been tempted by the glittering
promises which the possession of large
orchards extends. and has set his corn
and wheat field, in peach trees. The
wisdom of having diversity of crops
in an agricultural countsy, cannot be
too strongly impressed upon the tillers
of the soil, and if the hard experiences
which the Pennsular farmers sre now
going through result in deterring others
from planting more orchards, and in
causing partial return to the raising
Of the great staple cereals, the misfor-
tune will not be wholly without virtue.
Philadelphia Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15
Hostile Sioux.

A Fort Garry special says that two
half-breed families at St. Joe, Dakota,
were attacked on Sunday by band
of about 100 mounted Sioux Indians.
0. W. De Corme and Baptiste De
Corme were killed and their houses
and wigwams burned. Two women
escaped, namely: Mrs. Emmerling
and Miss Mayer. A company of
United States infantry is en- route for
st. Joe.
Another special from Bisnark an
nounces that on the same day thirty
Sioux appeared two miles south of
Fort Lincoln, and ran off thirty five
head Of stock from the farm Of Fred.
Guard, one of the Indian Interpreters.
There being 40 cavalry at the Fort
their raid was successful.
Intelligence from Camp Brown, Wy
oming, states that on the I'd of July,
company B, Second Cavalry. command
ed by Capt Bates, Is Indian scouts un-
de rLieut Young and $50 Shoshonese
under Washikie we're, by command of
Gems. Sheridan and Ord, who were
at that post, sent out in pursuit of a
band of Sioux, who had, a few days
previous, killed two white women in
the vicinity of Camp Brown and CON-
mitted other outrages. On the NOR
ming of the Fourth of July, about day.
break, the Sioux were surprised in
their camp. and after a short but san
culinary fight they were completely
routed, with loss of about so killed
and wounded, 200 horses and large
number Of prisoners. The troops lost
two soldiers killed and four wounded,
including Lieut.. Young.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15

How GENERAL FORREST LIKED
TO BE SHAVED. The Civil Rights
bill may enable the colored gentlemen
to enjoy the privileges of soda water
fountains, ice cream saloons and bill
lard rooms--but we would like to see
him subject his visage to the manipula--
ton of white barber. He would find
himself in as dangerous position as
General Forrest. 1t is said that For
rest went into barber shop on Broad
way to be shaved The colored
gentleman who oficiated was voluble.
Forrest was in good humor and dis
posed to be talkative. At last it came
out that the gentleman who was bs-
ing shaved was called General For
rest, whereupon the colored gentleman
wanted to know if he was having the
honor to shave General Forrest of tho
late Confederate cavalry. General
Forrest mildly assented. Whereupsn
the barber remarked that he was glad
to make the Generals acquaintance, a.
his brother was soldier in the Federal
army. 'Where is your brother 2" ask
ed the General. HE was killed at
Fort Pillow p answered the barber.
Silently and gently as the fail of. the
snow-fake-but accurately and with
out hesitation-the General slid from
beneath the razor of that barber, gain
ed his feet, and with face bare as to i.
one side, and lathered as to the other,
remarked: "You can't shave me this
morning" A friend who met him me-
ment later remarked the singular ap-
pearance of his face. The General
merely observed : II like to have half
Of my face shaved at time "-IioLaze
Register.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15

A FALSE REPoRT.-A tew weeks
ago the Chicago Zines published what
purported to be an interview between
lis reporter ane the new Bishop Of
Wisconsin, Rev. E. r. Welles. In
regard to that report, in letter to
Rev. R. N. Parke, of Oshkosh, Mr..
Wellcs writes
The reported interview is very
largely imaginative, and in some re-
spects entirely false. The fact of a
reporter calling on me is the only un-
colored fact. The whole thing-my
conversation with him in the presence
Of the Rev. P. B. Lightner, of St.
Paul--was very brief and very general
in it's nature. No extract of any kind
whatever was read from DR.. DeKoven' s
pamphlet or speech, or in any way re-
ferred to by US. The answers which
he attributes to me were made up by
him, from reports Of anniversary ser.
mons, Lenten Pastorals, etc., obtained
from the argus printing Office in this
city, after he had left my house.
made no mention Of the Rev. DR..
Adams, DR.. Dekoven, or any Of the
clergy Of the Diocese, and the only in.
formation gave him (but small por.
ton of which appears in his report,
regarded this parish, its schools, m,s
sions etc.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15

General G.. P. T. Beauregard has
received the appointment Of Chief En-
gineer ofthe Argentine Republic, with
salary ef $4,000 in the gold per
annum, and he will sail for South
America within a few days. He will
have chaige of the defensive works,
and he will also superintend the ex-
plorati0ns of the Platte River.
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Copying Rooms and Studios
326 State ST., Chicago.

Foreclosure Sale.
Circuit Court-Jeferson County.
Cernelia Hamlin and Elisha P. Parish, as
Executors of the last will and testament
of Augustus G. Hamlin, deceased, plalA-
tiffs,
against
Eliza A. Goodenow, Charles W. GoodsHow
and George Goodeaow, by his Guardian,
cd Item, e. B. Skinner, Defendants
nURSU ANT TO A JUDGMENT Of fore
closure in this action, dated juno oath,
1874, I, the undersigned, Sheriff of said
county, will sell at public auction to the
highest bidder, 1T the law Office of Daniel
Hall, in the 4th ward Of the city Of Water.
town, in said county, on the fourteenth,
(l4th) day Of August, 1874, at the hour Of
eleven o'clock in the forenoon of thet day,
"all that eertaia piece Or parcel of land
situate lying and being in the city of Wa
tertown in the county Of Jefferson and s,ste
Of Wisconsin described - follows, to-wit !:
Lot nunbsr fcur a. in block number fosr
az, according to Cole, Bailey b Co.'S re-
corded plat Of the village, (now Gty) Of
W s4e rtewn aforesaid" or 30 mach thereof
as will pay the judgment ssd costs q thds
action.
Dated, ne Goth, 1874.
JOSEPH GILES,
Acting Sheriff jefferson County, Wis,
D. HALL, Plff's Atty.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15

1t is reported in New York that
Government Dix has decided to remove
Havemeyer from the Office of Mayor
Of that city. There is a State law
giving the governor authority to sus
pend or remove the Mayor of city
for cause, and there is apparently abun-
dant cause in this instance.
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Notice..

"AVING BEEN APPOINTED Special
IL Treasury Agent in the State of WIS.,
consin, am authorized and ready to re-
ceive applications and dues tor state Llcen-
ses for Hawkers, Peddlers, Puollc Show
men, &C., &c.
Office at my Dwelling, Schmutzler .
Block, 9Th ward.
TIFF CHARLES BECKMAN.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15

Two of the American Bishops Of
the Roman Catholic Church have died
recently Bishop O'Gornan, Of
Omaha, died suddenly at that place
on the 9th, and Bishop WAelan, Of
Wheeling, West Virginia, died Al
Baltimore on the Sth.
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Take Notice.

4 S I AN ABOUT To ERECT A NEW
II brick building this spring, have re-
moved my DRUG STORE to Chappel's
Block formerly Sprague's Drug Store) one
door west of Henry Meyers Shoe store
where | will be pleased to welcome my old
customers and the public in general.
Respectfully
K. SCHUBERT.
Apothecary and Druggit.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15
AUGUST WIGGENHORN,

TEWELER, has recently opened Jew
y elry Store in Johnson's block, corner
Main and lst street, where he wilt keep
constantly on hand large stock OF
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver and Pla-
ted Ware, &c. Particular attention paid
TO repairing Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
SC, and warranted to give satisfaction.
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w. G.. SPALDING,

nHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, and Ex-
amining Surgeon for Pensions. Office
Johnson's Block, corner of Main and lst
streets.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15

xYTATERTOWN Lumber Yard. Lumber
w of every description /; Lath and
Shingles constantly on hand and for sale at
The Lowest Market Price, at the Milwaukee
Depot, Watertown, Wis.
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business Direcforp
DANIEL HALL,

4 TTORNEY and Counsellor at Law and
n Solicitor in Chancery. Ofhce-Over
Wisconsin National Bank, at the former
Office of Enos & Hall.
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A. GRITZNER.

QUESTIONABLE Barber and Hair Dres-
Il ser. Shop under Post Office, Brooks
Block, Watertown, Wis. The best of Hair
Dive used. warranted to kold color for eight
weeks.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15
G.. B. SKINNER,

A TTORNEY and Counselor at Law
n Has a complete abstract OF the rec
ords of all titles and incumbrances on
real estate in Jefferson county. Once over
Bank of Watertown. Wis.
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J. HEYM ANN,

J. HEYMANN,
IMPORTER and dealer in Foreign and
i Domestic Wines and Liquors, and also
manufacturers of choice Cigars.
The purest California Wines and Bran
dies constantly on hand.
Watertown, Feb. s, 1872.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15
BANK OF WATERFOWL.
Organized in 1854.
Under and Act of the Legiszn-
tare of the State of Wisconsin.

A. L. PRITCHARD ........ -. President
L. r. DY......,.............. Vice President
w. II. CLARK. K.........................C Cashier
AMOS BAU M............. Cashier.
This Bank will continue, as for the past
twenty years, to transact general banking
business under its State Charter of Loan ing
Money, Receiving Deposits, Buying and
selling Exchange, Coin, Bonds and other
securities.
Drafts Of sloo and under. sold at the same
price charged for Money Orders at the Post
Office, and fol- amounts over 500 sold at q
ess rate. Il
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-05

opposite direction; he thought he had
plenty of time to cross in front of it,
and did cross except by one single inch;
the wheel struck the heel Of his boot,
wheeled him round under the cars and
all was over; one minute longer and he
could have crossed with the locomotive
behind him.
"Limbs are broken, lives are lost every
year in any large city by attempting to
cross in front ofsmoving horses or We.
hicles. And all this foolhardy daring
that few moments of time may be
saved!"
Almost equally culpable is the habit of
jumping from the cars before the train
stops. It is but little more than year
ago since bright boy from Dedham,
who attended school daily in Boston,
leaped off in this way when entering the
city depot and slipped between the plat
form and the still moving train. He was
taken up quivering heap of suffering,
and after lingering painfully for ten days
in the hospital closed his eyes forever
And yet some Boston school-boys from
the country are guilty Of the same sui
cidal carelessness. Better wait a minute
and live than jump and youths
Companion.
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called wet sailing. For home consump-
ton we should much prefer the picking
process previously given, since the meat
may safely lie in the brine until it may be
smoked in the spring; and the brine,
thoroughly scalded and skinned, with
that taken from the corncd beef and
strengthened by the addition of one
pound more of salt to each gallon, may
be returned to the beef, which will re-
main sweet until July at least Western
RuraZ
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TINE TRANSIT OF VENUS.
nv PAMELA T. SMILEY.

VERY much has been said and written
during the last two years about the tran
sit of Venus, which is to occur Dec .,
1874. The interest which is SO generally
felt in regard to it has doubtless reached
many of the readers of this magazine
and they very naturally begin to ask,
"What is transit of Venus, and why is
it of so much importance?' This is what
/ will try to explain.
You perhaps all know that Venus, the
brightest of the planets, is not as Tar
from the sun as the earth, and that it re-
wolves around the sun in an orbit similar
to the carth's orbit. In each revolution,
therefore, Venus passes between the
earth and sun and is then said to
be in inferior conjunction. When
it is on the opposite side of the sun
from the earth it is in superior
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as seen from two different stations. In
Fig. let the circleA f represent sec
ton of the earth. Two persons, one
stationed at and another at Il, are
looking at the sun, s. The heavenly
bodies, though at different distances
from the earth, appear to us as if they
were all situated in the same vaulted
surface, represented by the curved line
Q. The person at A sees the sun as
II 1t were at G, while the person at sees
II at D. Now, in making tables which
Shall give the position of the heavenly
oodlcs, it is obvious that their places, as
seen from any one station upon the
earth, cannot be taken, for this would
not he correct for any other station. The
pace gwen them, therefore, is that which
.ney would appear to occupy if seen
from the center of the earth. for this al.
ways remains the same. The trne nI.oa
OF the sun, S, then, is at F, and ito amor.
lar displacement, measured bv tho &C.,
B $ G, or the arc, D, is its parallax !,
the station b; the angle A c, or va ~
parallax at the station A.
The distance of the body affects it's
parallax; for it is plain that If the sun
were at the more distant point n it's
parallax, F n, as seen from A, is much
less than il the sun is ut the point s.
Hence, when the suns true parallax is
obtained, it gives an accurate means of
calculating the suns distance.
Now Venus Is the planet nearest the
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-05
Rashness Near the Cars.

\ GENTLEMAN who recently saved 1
lady friend from amad leap upon moving
train feels impelled to speak some sensi
bic words against this reckless and fal
too common practice. He says:
= think most people will agree with
me in thinking that it is better to lose
twenty minutes, or even half an hour
than to risk a life; yet we everywhere
read of people who run those fearful
risks, too often unsuccessfully.
Very recently distinguished gradu-
ate Of a Virginia university wanted to de-
post letter in the postoffice on the
other side Of the railroad track. A loco
motive was approaching; he thought he
could cross before the ponderous engine
could come along. He miscalculated the
speed In another moment he was a
shapeless mass. Had he waited two min.
utes-half minute-the train would
have passed along, and he could have
deposited his letter.
young lady wished to show her
friends how easily she could cross in
front ola locomotive; she did cross; but
her streaming dress caught in the passing
wheels, drawing her back under its
crushing weight.
One day young wife looked from
her chamber window and saw her hus-
band leave the cars, which daily passed
her horie. She ran downstairs to greet
nm at the door, but when she reached
y ne was not there. She thought he was
playing her e little trick; she called for
ann playfuily, but there was NO answer.
Sne saw crowd Of men approach the
gave, open It, come up the path with her
dead husband.
ne did alight from the cars and safe-
y step upon the platform before the sta.
Won. There vas train coming Ia an
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Jewish Manner of Preparing Food.

For the slaughter of fish there are no
directions. They may be eaten though
they die naturally on being taken out of
their element and in this respect their
case is different from that of quadrupeds
and fowls The general rule is that an
animal must be put to death according
to certain formulas. If it die naturally
or by accident or disease; if it be torn by
beast of prey, speared by an Indian, or
brought down By the bullet of a sports
man; if it be drowned like the ducks
that are caught in nets in Great SHINE
cock Bay, or robbed of its breath by the
air-pump Of an experimentalist-nay,
even though it be deprived of life in the
most humane and scientific way, accord
ing to the latest French theory, to the
orthodox Israelite it is nevertheless in
the list of the forbidden. To be proper
food for him, the animals throat must
be cut clean to such depth that the wind
pipe and gullet are severed and it must
then bleed to death The wound must
be inflicted by person known as shochet,
who has studied the art and is familiar
with all the regulations relating to it and
whom the rabbinical authorities have
properly authorized to discharge this
duty He must use knife which has
been sharpened 10 its highest capacity,
and which has perfect edge. 1t is also
his duty after the animals death to ex-
anime the carcass and to see that it was
in sound health: any indications of a
disease render it unfit for food Erup-
tons are fatal and SO are foreign sub
stances in the vitals which may have
engcndered disease. The lungs are eX
amined with especial minu;eness, and
almost any malformation or unsoundness
there will cause the whole body to be re-
jected. Such inspection is made only
With reference to quadrupeds. With
fowls it is deemed comparatively unnec-
essarv, although even in their case the
same general rules apply as to the effect
Of foreign matter and of symptoms of |
unsoundncss. But they must be slaugh- |
tered precisely as the larger animals are,
and, as | have said, a partridge that is |
shot on he wing may tempt but it can
not seduce the orthodox Israelite Flesh |
cut from living animal, as the Abyssin- /
ians were once said to have cut their |
steaks, is likewise prohibited.--Galary |
for Nopsmber.
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DESTRUCTION IN DISGUISE

DESTRUCTION IN DIsGUIsE.-It is fact
that mixtures of bad liquors and acid as
tringents are often given for medicines.
They are potent to Destroy! and may be
safely warranted to ruin morally and
physically any human being that sticks
to them long enough. More drunkards
have been made by these villainous con
coctions labeled medicines than by the
liquors of Commerce Alcoholic poisons,
advertised as remedies, are more mis-
chievous than tavern drains. For inter
mittent and remittent fevers, as well as
for all other diseases which these fiery
frauds are falsely certified to relieve,
DR. WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs, the ne
plus ultra of vegetable medicines, is a
positive cure. But this is not all the
great Temperance Elixir is a sovereign
specific for the depraved appetite for
stimulants created by the false tonics and
bogus iestordtipes of MISSIONARIES Of Tntem-
perance. Within the present year many
wellknown citizens have certified that a
course of VINEGAR BTTERs invariably
obliterates the desire for spirituous eX-
citants.
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earth, hence its parallax is larger than
any OTHER and can be more easily meas
ured. Moreover. Venus is much nearer
the earth than the sun, and its parallax,
of course, much greater. Because OF
this difference between the displacement
Of the two bodies observers at different
stations upon the earth will refer the
planet to different points upon the suns
disc. Thus, in Fig. 8, let f, v and 8 repre-
sent the earth, Venus and the sun at the
time of the transit. An observer at
would see the planet cross the sun in the
line G, while an observer on the other
side of the earth, at b, would see it cross
the sun in the line F G. These two lines
are Of unequal length, and the transit to
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" Blazer" Finds a Paradise.

WE have in this town genius known
rs +" Blazer" who is "ncver at peace OK
ccpt when at war" He would leave his
dinner any day if he thought he could
find a fight. When he is unable to find
muss he is perfectly wretched Awcek
without battle and he begins to think
there is nothing in this world worth living
for. Although he seldom wins more
than one fight in ten, it is all the same
to him. He rather enjoys good pun
melting. A night or two since some
friends of his who happened to be pass
ing through the Barbary Coast" region
OF the town had their attention attracted
to shebang near at hand by tremen-
dous uproar. There was smashing of
glass, a crashing of chairs, bottles and
tumblers; fierce yells, bitter curses, and,
in short, a fearful commotion. Thinking
one OF the voices within had familiar
sound, the gentlemen looked in at the
door of the T" gin-mill," and there beheld
Blazer surrounded by about half a dozen
Coast rangers" who were giving it to
him " straight from the shoulder" on all
sides. Blazers nose was flattened; one
eye boosted watchfob; his upper lip
was laid open by blow from tumbler,
and his clothes were nearly torn from
his back. A clip under the eye sent him
Ito grass, when those nearest him be-
gan jumping upon him and kicking him
in the ribs. His friends at once rushed
to his rescue. The breath was com
pletely Knocked and kicked out Of poor
Blazer, and he lay stretched senseless
upon the floor. Some water dashed in
his face revived him. Recognizing his
friends, he smiled as amiably as was
possible with his bloated and distorted
upper lip, and huskily whispered:
boys, it's gorgeous! I've stumbled
into regular Paradiser- Virginia Ner.)
Enterprise.