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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-01

Entirely re written by the ablest writer's on
every subject. Printed from New type
and illustrated with several thousand en-
cravings and maps.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-01
Cash Assets over 100000.

JTINSURES AGAINST Loss BY DEATH
l. and Weekly idemnity for lost time,
caused by arcldents. The Company have
paid an average Of 500 a day for Six Years
for Death and eekly indemnity claims.
Three Death losses and about 30 Indemnity
claims have been paid during the last
years at their Wxtertown Agency.
$500 or $3.50 pays for an Insurance OF
81 900 and S. 90 per week for One Year
which provides against want or embarrass
,aent by weekly compensa ton in case O.
a disabling accident, and secures to bis faml-
~ sum which will partially recompens st
for loss of income, Lost to the Family by
the death of one Of its supporters.
Policies issued and losses promptly PAID
by .he,- agents FULLER j. LlGHTBODy
Office in Monks block, I'd st.
Watertown, Wis. Dec. 4, 1871.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-07-28
A pfahoILOnI Ooniriranoe.

On the 10 iEst, information was sent TO
the detective force that Mrs. Charles @.
Herring, wife of a carpet dealer on Second
street below South, Philadelphia, received
an internal machine containing three pounds
of powder. A note accompanied the box.
stating it oontained some newly-patented
articles.
The circumstances being suspicious, the
box was carefully opened. 1t was one foot
long and eight inches wide, was filed with
powder on top Of which, run through holes
in a strip, we're about fifty matches with
the heads arranged to almost touch slid
ing lid.
Suspicion fell on a son-in-law, named Ed
ward Wagner aged 25, residing at sos
South Fifth street, aud he was arrested
Monday afternoon by Detective Mears
and locked up at the Central Station. The
handwriting of the note was said to be
similar TO his.
he'accused had a hearing and was held
in $4,000 10 answer.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-07-28

UANTED.-Agents for CHARLES SUM-
w NER, by Gen. N, p. Banks, Bishop Gilbert
Haven, and WIN. M. Cornell, LII. D., with eulo-
gies Of Carl SchurZ, Geo w. Curtis, and others.
Exclusive territory. No competition. Address,
j. II. Earle, Publisher, Boston. 29d4w
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-07-28
A Jump Of One Hundred Feet on Wager

A Jump Of One Hundred Feet on Wager.
The Cincinnati Commercial, of recent
date, says About three o'clock the other
day boy named John Leisser, eighteen or
nineteen years old, worker in machine
shop on West Front street, jumped from
the Cincinnati and 'Covington bridge, on
wager of $40, and the performance was
carefully prepared for, skiffs having been
provided and manned to save the foolish
youth from drowning. There were only
few spectators, as the performance was
private, but Leasser climbed on one of the
rails, six feet above the floor of the bridge,
buttoned his coat and jumped He struck
the water with his feet disappeared for
few seconds, and came to the surface all
right. He was picked up by one of the
skiffs and conveyed to the steamer Pat
Rodgers. The distance from the rail to
the surface Of the water, perpendicularly,
is 103 feet. The wonder is that death did
not ensue from the conclusion or shock to
the system, produced by the sudden con-
tact with the water from such a vast
height.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-07-28
THE GREAT PRIZES
OF THE
Fourth Gift Concert
OF THE
KENTUCKY PUBLIC LIBRARY
WERE DRAWN AS FOLLOWS:

WLItL UItAWN Nd fOII1JNo:
The first prize Of SlS7, 500, the capital prize. by
clubs in Memphis, Tenn.
The second gift, $4,000, was paid to State Bank
Madison, Mo-, j. II. Wakefield and A. L. Sims OF
Trenton, KY, II. IL. Bollnger, Pembroke, KY, p.
w. DOoner, Los Angeles Cal, w. G. Byerly, Ports
mouth, o., Flint 4 Chamberlin, Waco, Tex, and
Others the tickets having been sold In coupons
The Farmers National Bank OF Richmond Ky
drew the half OF the third prize s37, 800. WIN. f.
lin, KY, Armstrong & Sawyer, GraRsburg, Ind,
each One-tenth. The remainder was held in clubs
The FIRST prize Of the third drawing was all in
one ticket and owned by L. II. Keith, Esq, Kings.
ton, Mass, to whom was paid 500 900 In cash.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-07-28
True Snake Story.

Full forty or more years ago, when MIR.
Chambers M'Kibben NOW of Chambers
burg) lived on what is now known by old
residents here as the old Pierce farm,
snake incident occurred which has gone the
rounds of the press from Maine to Los An
gelos, and yet few know where it happened
or who were the parties contained in it. In
those days Mr.. MIX. was a farmer, happy
and contented, and we believe, at that time
had one child, little daughter. 1t was
the custom of this little girl at various times
to steal away from the table at meal with
part of her food to a secluded place, just
outside picket fence, which divided the
yard from the field. Her mother, for rea-
sons not definitely stated, thought fit to
follow up and look after her child on one
of these occasions. Upon arriving at the
fence she heard the voice of her child saying
in childish way "quit, quit" as if gently
repelling something. On looking over the
fence her eyes met sight which Mortified
her. The child was sitting among the
grass and upon her lap had crawled large
blacksnake which was lying coiled up and
playfully contending for piece of cake
which the child held in her hand. In those
days Mrs. M'Kibben was young and active,
and we might add here up to the time of
her death, which occurred a few years
since, proved herself capable of most any
thing that was good and noble. Following
the instincts of mothers love, with one
bound she cleared the fence and seizing the
child by the shoulders dragged her from
under the reptile and fled.
The above is from the Newville Star, of
last week. In order to ascertain its relia-
bility We interviewed Mr.. MIX, who kind
ly told us that the facts contained therein
are correct in the main, and the little child
who fignres SO conspicuously in the nara
tive, is now living in Pittsburg, married
and happy. -ChGm6erSburg Public Opinion.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-07-28
A Fathers LOve-A Queer Way to Show 1t.

A Fathers LOye-A Queer Way to Show II.
The Maysville, (Kye) Bulletin tells the
following singular incident " While we
were in Ripley, few days ago, we learned
circumstance which in these days of
practical matters, struck us as little odd.
Some two weeks ago, gentleman in COM
Portable circumstances and apparently q
man of education and refinement, arrived
at that place with his family on small
trading-boat. Being in i'll health, he con-
cluded to rent house and make Ripley for
time his home. In his intercourse with
the people he informed them that he had
been on the river for over twenty years, and
followed trading rather for pleasure than
profit. While his effects were being re-
moved from the boat to his residence, a
laborer was earring peculiar shaped box,
when one of the children told him to handle
it carefully, asit contained the bones of his
two little brothers. An inquiry into the
matter developed the facts that twelve
years ago the gentleman lost two children,
to whom hewas passionately attached, by
death, and having a restless disposition,
which impelled him to be on the move con-
stantly,h could not reconcile himself to
leave the remains of his two little ones
among strangers. He chose rather to take
them with him'on his travels, which he has
done ever since. They are contained in a
neat iron casket, which he never allows out
of his sight"
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-07-28
ALL DAD s /.
PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
Monday, June 18th, 1874.


TRAINS LEAVE HARRISBURG AS SFOLJOWS;
For New York at 5.25, $40 a. m. and 200 p. m,
For Philadelphia, at 5.25, $40, 9.45 a. M, 200
For Reading, at 5,25, s1O 9.45 a. m. 200, $50
and 7.40p m. ' Wv
For Pottsviile, at 525, s,1Oa m. and $50 m.
and via Schuylklll and Susquehanna Branch at
240 y. m.
For Allentown, at 5.25, $40 a. m. 200 and $50
and T40 p. m.
The 5.25, $40 a. m. 200 p. m. and #7.4O D. m.
The 5.25, $40 a. m. and 200 p. m. trains have
through cars for Philadelphia.
SUNDAYS
For New York, at 525 am.
For Allentown and Way Stations at 5.25 a. m.
1.45p m.
TRAINS FOR HARRISBURG, LEAVE AS FOL.
LOWS
- Leave New York, at 300 a. m. 124O, $50 and
Leave Philadelphia, at 9.l5 a. m. $40 and 715
p. m.
IL Leave " u Reading at 4sO 7S5 112Oa a. m. 15O, 61O
Leave PottsYle, at 555 900 a. m. and 4sO D. m.
and via Schuylkill and Susquehanna Branch at
Leave Allentown at 2SO, $50, $50 a. M, 1925,
The 23O a. M. train from Allentown and the
days.
SUNDAYS
Leave New York at $50 D. M
Leave Philadelphia, at 7.15 p. m.
Leave Reading at 4.3O, 1885 a. M. and 1920 D. m.
Leave Allentown, 2.30 a. m. and 1851 m.
JE. WOOTTEN,
General Superintendent
NVia Morris and Essex Rail Road
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22
. LOVE- HATCH AT rHE WHITE HOUSE

The marriage of Miss Nellie Grant at
Washington yesterday occupies a large
space in the Geographic columns of the
newspapers and for the time much pub
lie attention. 1t is an unusual eventior
a Presidents daughter to be married at
The White House-the first of the kind
in the history fthe country. The young
bride has been prominent in fashionable
society for two or three seasons, although
she will not be nineteen until the 4th OF
July. Since the romantic engagement
became known few months ago 1t has
been all the talk in the society in which
she moved and the subject Of much Cos
sip and comment through the press.
The happy groom is knewn as Algernon
Sartoris, son Of Mr.. Edward Sartoris, an
Englishman aud an ex-member OF
Parliament. he is only twenty
three years old. The family came
originally from Sardinia, whence they
were bsnished for their religion, being
Huguenots. The young couple met and
fell in love on steamer as Miss Grant
was returning from Europe something
over a year ago. General Grant OBJ
;ected to the match at FIRST, on the
ground that neither one of them had
fortune, and the young man p'ned away
in Michigan, or somewhere out West
until the death of his brother by an &C.
cident made him heir to the estate. be
then renewed his suit, and was accepted
by the parents as well as the daughter.
The wedding, it must be said, was con-
Quoted very quietly, and with much less
ostentation than many Of the fashiona'
BILE weddings of the day, as for instance
one recently at the residence OF a
wealthy Senator who lives at Washing
ton. Those who pry into the domestic
affairs of the President and cater to
vulgar curiosity by criticising every
thing from the kitchen all the way
M to the dressing rooms and most
private apartments, will have less
cause to find fault than they fondly i'm
agined. While the members Of the Presi-
dents family have no hereditary rights,
privileges or rank not common to all
American citizens, a social event OF
this nature at the Executive Mansion
cannot fail to excite lively interest in
the minds Of the people. And there are
few perhaps who do not wish the favored
young couple safe voyage to the shores
of Merry Old England" and happy
voyage down the stream of time.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22

ingness to sell at old prices. Since then
no fresh outbreaks have occurred
This evening Mr.. and Mrs. sartoris.
President U s Mrs. Grant and wedding
party in general will dine with Alex T.
Stewart at his residence on Fifth Ave
.pue. A number of curious people gath
cred in the corridor of the Fifth Avenue
hotel this morning ANTIQUE to catch a
glimpse of the bride and groom, but they
were disappointed The President, Mrs
Grant and large number Of intimate
friends will accompany tho newly we'd
ded couple in revenue cutter as far as
Sandy Hook on their departure for Eng
land To morrow Colonel Fred ID, Grant
will sail for England in about six weeks.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22
FOREIGN.

LONDON, May PA special dispatch
from Paris states that in the duel be-
tween Prince Metternich and Count De
Montebello it was the former who was
slightly wounded
Dispatches from Paris on the ministe-
rial crisis are confused and contradic.
tory. The Times dispatch says the cab
met intends to give the Assembly the
option of acceptance of its programme
or dissolution.
A dispatch from Bayonne says that
engagements take place daily between
Carlists and Republicans for the posses
sion of the nights commanding Bilboa.
1t is claimed that the Carlists gained
some success.
The names Of the American students
recently drowned in Lake Geneva are
given as William Woodbury., John Crane
and James Crane,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22
River kilograms.

CAIRO, May p. IL m.-Arrived-St.
Genevieve, St. Louis, 1886; Grand Tow
err, St Louis, 10 m; Falls Pilot, Mem
phis, IL am; Simpson Horner, New
Orleans, IL am; Ed Hobbs, Pittsburg,
3 am; Fearless, Cincinnati, lO a m.
Departed-St. Genevieve, Vicksburg, IL
D M; Grand Tower, Memphis, 2 am. /;
Ed Hobbs, St. Louis, am; Fails Pilot
and Simpson Horner, Ohio river, 10
am. The weather is clear and pleasant.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22
NERVOUS DEBILITY.

Adepressed, irritable state Of mind; veal,
nervous, exhausted feeling; no energy or anl-
nation. confnsed head, weak memory. often
with facilitating, involuntary discnareess.
The conseql ence Of excuses. mental oyer OH
or indiscretions This Nervous peollity i.hls
a Sovereign cure in Humphrey Homeopathic
gpecife. No ~ II tones up the system. ar,
rests discharges, dispels the mental Eioom and
dependency, and reiuvenates the entlre u
TEN. Il is perfectly harm les and aiMe1s IN.
and a are Al vial Of powder, which - impor.
tApt In Old. serious cases; or 81 per single Dol.
Sold 81 All Drurgists, or sent By mail on re-
ceipt Of price. Address hghPHfkf = f p.
TsT. nj. xVi&-tukf-xViii-3
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22

That item about General Forrest
venture in the fire wood business has
gone about far enough. 1t has Travelled
round and round until its father would
not know it. Every paper has to give it
a new touch, until now we see the great
cavalry leader with buckskin breeches'
broad-brimmed hat, long hair hign
boots, black snake whip and a revolver
in his belt. Thus armed and equipped
and astride of mule he comes IN town
with his load of wood every morning,
crying out, cord wood ""cOrd woodF
F." cheap cord wood" etc. No doubt he
could sell cord wood if necessary, and
cut it, too, but he does not look like he
had tried in twenty years.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22

Hseatimx of the DemOcrRtic State
fxee"tiVe Committee = The COn-
VentiOn.
NASHVILLE, May 2l.-The Democratic
Executive Committee of Tennessee met
this morning at the Office of Colonel
John C. Burch, Chairman, with closed
doors. The exact date of the conven-
ton is not yet fixed, but will be on the
18th or 10Th of August. One of the
committee states that their great object
will be to harmonic all elements against
the Republican party. Adjourned to
meet to.morroE at ten o'clock
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22

A Chinese legend gives a quaint de-
seription of the origin of fans, which
useful toys are as old as China itself At
the first Feast OF Lanterns the beautiful
daughter Of one of the mandarins found
the mask which celestial etiquette re-
ouires to be worn in public by ladies
very oppressive, as the evening was
warm. Her feminine ingenuity was
equal to the occasion. She united her
mask and moved it so rapidly back
and forth before her face that it was
impossible to distinguish her features,
while her beauty was enhanced in the
eyes of all the beholders by the
tantalizing glimpses afforded by this
coouettish maneuver In q moment q
thousand fair Celestials, appreciating
her courage and coquetry, initiated her
example, and a thousand masks we're put
in motion before a thousand pretty faces
by thousand pretty hands. The lnge
Nous Chinese caught the idea, and by
the next Feast of Lanterns fans we're
substituted for masks. American aud
English womeR use the fan only to cool
the air around them; that accomplished,
its usefulness is ended; but by the Jap
anese aud Chinese the fan is used not
only as means of comfort, but for vsri
Gus useful and symbolic purposes. Wis
itors received their chow chow refresh
ments on their fans. Beggars accept
aims on them, and when a high-born
criminal is hari karied, the presentation
of fan gives the signal for execution.
The Japanese use it as a protector from
both rain and sun; the soldier carries
sword and a fan, the salutstions are made
with fans the same as with hats IN Euro
pean countries.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22
A Negro Get a Fat omce.

From the Nashville Union and American. le.l
Colonel Isaac Stewart, United States
Revenue Agent, has been removed, ana
J. c. Napier (colored) son of W. Z.
Napier Of this city. been appointed 70
the place. The position is worth S5OOO
per annum, and this is the first time
colored man, or a Southern man, has
received tie appointment Napier, who
is resident Of Washington, received
the Endorsement Of the entire Repu6n-
can delegation from Tennessee; also
that of the prominent colored men Oh
Washington.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22
ANNoUNcE MENT.


For Sheriff
II HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF A CAN
L dldate for the Office of Sheriff of Shelby
county, subject to the action of the Conven'
ton to be called by the Executive Committee
under the Bartlett Resolutions.
62-ttc Q Il. ANDERSON.
Clerk of the Criminal con {.
Mt G. PERKINS is A CANDIDATE.F0 FOR
IN. Clerk of the Criminal Court Of Shelby
county, 81 beet to the action Of the Conyen-
ton to be assembled under the Bartlett reso-
buttons. IU-tc
M NEALIS rs A CANDIDATE FOR
wi. Clerk Of the Criminal Court of Shelby
county At the ensuing August election, subject
to the action of the invention. when con-
vened by the Executive Committee. este
MEMPHIS. April %. 1874.
EpIroR LEDGER-I announce myself as a
candidate for Clerk Of the Criminal Court ef
Memphis. Election in August, 1874.
As te 7. s. AYRES.
CI. rk of the First Circuit Court.
ID +. COLEMAN PRESENT INCUM-
d, bent), is a candidate tor Clerk of the
First Circuit Court of Shelby county, at the
ensuing August election. subject TO the action
of the Convention when convened by the
Bartlett Executive Committee. b7-tc
clerk of she Bartlett Circuit Court.
ToHN MoIROOKs is A CANDIDATE FOR
81 reelection, subject to the approval Of the
Convention 10 be called by the Bartlett Exec
utive Committee. oI-td
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22
TENNESSEE ORAToRY AT WASHING
TON

Another Tennessee Congressman has
come to the front in a speech. 1t is the
Hon. David A. Num- this time; subject,
condition Of the currency. The proba'
bilities are now that nearly all Of them
will say piece before adjournment.
Mr.. Mum goes for secession in general
and VIM. L. Yancey, Henry A. Wise,
Isham G. Harris, and others who plot
ted t.r-r-r-e-e-a-son in particular.
Just exactly what this had to do with
the proposition before the House on the
It'll Of May-a day made ever memora-
bic by his speedway not be as clear
as the beam in the eye of back salary
Congressman, butt is truly loyal, and will
FIRE the hearts Of David's constituents
We forget the number of Colonel Nuns
regiment, which he led SO CALAMITY, but
it does seem as il he fights his battles
over now almost as we'll as he did during
the war. We fail to discover from the
speech whether the honorable gentle
man is in favor OF contraction or in
latiou, having only had time to read il
twice. bat that is of little consequence
since his constituents can constru,
il TO suit themselves 1t is enough t,
know that he is opposed to secession
now, whether he was in 1860 or not, an,
that he is Likewise opposed to the preseu
Democratic administration Of Tennessee
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22
PrOhnbiIifles.

WASHINGTON, May 22.-For Tennessee
and the Ohio valley clear and cool
weather, except in the Western portion
of Tennessee, and Kentucky light varia-
BILE winds and stationary and falling ba-
rometer. The Mississippi and lower
Ohio rivers will fall slowly during the
day
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22

CoxeREss will adjourn early. This is
to enable members to come home and
take russell in county apd State cleo
tions.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22

TIE Knoxville Press and Herald very
pertiuently states the case in these
words:
The negroiEed States of the far South
must be preserved to the party by the
passage Of the Civil Rights bill. The
Northern States, wherein the negroes
are few and far between, Will not be
affected to any appreclable extent by
the infamous legislation The border
States, like Tennessee, will be sacrificed,
and as their electoral votes are Demo
cratic. the white Republicans will be left
A shift for themselves That is why the
segroes assume 10 be the Republican
marty in Tennessee
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22

taken of every opportunity to remove
any remaining luminosity occasioned by
the war.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22
OFFICIAL.
Last Notice to Tax Payers.

ON THE FIRST DAY OF JUNE, 49, a
" penalty Of twelve per cent will be adde9
10 all unpaid State and County railroad ano
Special Taxes for 1873. uron real estate, Duiiu-
inRs and improvements m Shelby county.
GEO. r powell.
State and County Tax Collector.
o. n. ALSUP.
Railroad Tax Collector;
May Is. 1874. SIS
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22

There is good fishing and hunting few
miles from the Springs. and no mosquitoes;
The Company have secured hne band OF
music for the sea,on, and have made many
improvements since last summer, including
hne fath rooms.
month; July and August. S45 per month.
children over four and under thirteen years
old, and servants. half price
Children under four years old, $R per
B-ard per week, si4; board per day, 81 50.
JOS G. LAPRADB, Sup't.
". GUY PATrEEsON, Cashier.
May %, 1874. vt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22

A WasHIsoI ON special says that Pres
idept Grant approves Of decorating the
graves Of Union and Confederate dead
alike He belieEes that the time has
come when every feeling Of fraternity
should be encouraged, and advantage
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22
PIANOS.

DIsNOS AND ORGANS--TUNED, RE-
paired and exchanged. Work done by
experienced, first class workmen. and war
ranted. Leave orders for city or country at
IL. q. H0LLENBERG'S,
R-t Clark's Marble Block.