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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03

Governor Tayor must be aware that
other laws beside the railroad law are
openly violated By citizens Of this state
and while his hand is in on the pro-
clamation business let US have some
emanations from the Governors ~
pen eeunseling obedience to those laws
We doa't know that the "dignity" of
he state is any more injured or impair
ed by the disobedience Of one law more
than another. The entire code are
hindlng on the people alike and he who
violates the least of them becomes a
transgressor in the eyes Of the law.
Let Governor Taylor look about
him aud see in how many places the
Sunday law, for instance, is strictly
lived up to- 1t would not be a very
troublesome task for him to discover
localities in which the Liquor Law is
violated ii nearly every section, and
its requirements treated with impunity.
We are not arguing in favor of either
ofthese laws, but the idea that we
want to get at is that they are laws
Of our state and require living up to
strictly so long as they have not been
declared unconstitutional, and are as
equally binding on US as the railroad
law But, perhaps, it occurs to some
that it does not suit the purpose of G ov-
ernor Taylor SO we'll to counsel ODE
dlenee to them as it does to Indicate to
the people by proclamations his de-
termination to see that the railroad
law is enforced.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03

CALIFORNIA HAS THE WHOLE
They've got them in California-the
whole famils Mrs. Victoria Wood
hull, Miss Tenny G. ClaAin, Mrs. C]at-
lin and Colonel Blood. They arrived
in San Francisco few days ago, very
hungry and dusty and worn, and were
interviewed while they were brushing
off the dust and washing their hands
and faces for supper at the hotel table
They were weary from travel, but pro-
missed to be as gay as larks in day. or
two and in brokers' office in Califor-
MIA street, with capital cash and Gre
dit, 500, 600. They mi eht possibly
lecture some, but that was neither here
nor there their errand to California
was business, III the gold whirl of the
golden state. They announced Off
cially that they were going to make
California their future home, and hoped
the people would like them They
were sex and tired of New York
California then has the whole family,
ana San francisco reJolces IN another
frm of stock brokers'
At Seymour Ind, on Saturday, a
woodsawyer 10 the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad yards attempted to move an
engine which was standing on a switch
leading into the machine-shop, and
after starting could not stop it. 1t
ran into the engine house at the rate
of twenty miles an hour, knocking at
other engine through the back wall
into the boiler room of the repair
shops. There was boy a. work on
the engine which was standing in the
shop and which was knocked through
the wall, but he escaped unhurt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03
,EIe Repnblirar.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1874.
4 NOTABLE CASEOF DODGING.

Hon. Carl Schurz, United States
Senator from Missouri, would fain
sake people believe that the late
r1hsrles Sumner was his bosom friend
stad that Summers ideas, thoughts and
principles were nearest his (Schurz's)
'seart. In fact that he had the conf
9snce and esteem Of the Massachusetts
2snator beyond any one else in the
runtry. Ia recognition OF this happy
-ud brotherly feeling said to exist be-
: reen the two Senators Carl Schurz
vas invited by the friends of Sumner
8deliver the Grafton in Boston on his
afe, death and services to the the na
ION. In an able manner did he per
tSarm the task, and those present little
though that ere few shortiweeks roll
a around Schurz would be four
Going back on his lamented friend
When the Civil Rights Bill, the meas
IRE nearest the heart Of Sumner, and
TOR the success of which the last years
&c his life were devoted, came up for
passage in the Senate last week, Sen
stor Schurz was among those who
lodged the question in most coward
Ev manner. Schurz was neither ''palr-
ed" nor sick, but it was a voluntary
absentation of himself, not DARN g
to- show his hand on the negro ques-
elon. Of course the reason for all this
lies in the fact that he is a candidat e
for reelection to the Senate from Mis-
,uri and be knows his only chance
tor success lies in being admitted into
Full fellowship with the democrats of
she state who are f citing to the death
the enforcement Of the recent amend
ments to the Constitution and who
have been bitterly opposed all along
to anything like the Civil Rights
Bill With all his supposed Glove for
Sumner he did not propose to have
any such manifestation of it become
stumbling block in the way of his sue
cess to the Senatorship
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03
After all the arrests that have hoo

After all the arrests that have been
nude of persons supposed to belong to
the Bender family, who committed
so man y murders in Kansas, all of tue
family are still at large. The person
arrested in Utah recently as the elder
Bender, and who, it was reported, bad
been satisfactory Unidentified, proves to
be demented old man of the name of
kosh. The couaty attorney for La
oet;e couoty: Kansas, publishes a de-
scrlpton OF the senior Bender, la which
the criminal is described as men
having an intelligent countenance and
resembling in no way the Migrants so
frequently taken for members of the
Bender family. He adds that all of
the Blenders. Notwithstanding their
fendlsh nature, appear agreeable and
pleasant in their manners, and. as tfey
aae supplied with money, it is not like
ly that they will be found acting the
part of fools or Migrants.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03

4'CALL 1oU THIS BACKING Your
FRIENDS ?'-The La Crosse De,1ocrot
has the following:
we reprint as a matter Of news, 10
another column, the esseatial portions
OF Governor Taylor's address on the
railroad controversy. The positions
taken in it are sound and we'll fortified.
Ihe proprIety or necessity of it's publ
cation, however, is another ma tier. con-
corning which, perhaps, it is not neces-
sarg to express an opinion Only we
hope the Governor is not modelling his
conduct after that Of those newspaper
EDITORS who fear that their loyalty and
souadness will be suspected if tney
tau to discharge two column editorial
at tie railroads every day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03
State News.

La crosse tor girdlng shade trees.
Served him right.
The national debt was reduced in
the amount of S4.456.S3S during the
month of May.
The well-known troting horse Nc
Mann broke his leg at Delavan, last
Saturday, and had to be shot.
a Boston man is in EIkhorn max
ing preparations with the farmers of
Walworth County to hold wool fair
and festival on the fair grounds with
In few weeks.
Winnecoune has lady 10 years
old. She was married at the age Of
Is, and lived with her husband forty.
two years, and has been widow nearly
fifty years..
The Waukesha Frccnean understands
that Hon. VIM. E. Cramer, of the
Wisconsin, has Drought half interes,
10 the Mineral Rock" Spring, OF Mr..
Ollu, lOi ET, OOO.
Five boys from the Industrial School
at Waukesha escaped Wednesday fore
noon. We have not heard of the re-
capture of any of them.
The beach of NJ iwaukee bayis fairly
alive with pota bugs. They ride the
waves as gracefully as the turtle, aud
do not appear fatigued by their trip
from the east shore.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says Mrs.
Talmadge and her daughter (Mrs.
L'ndman) J, while out driving near their
farm, in Waukesha county, on Tues
day, were thrown from the buggy and
seriously, but not dangerously, injured.
A Evansville maid gets up early on
Sabbath morning and scrubs the bug
sy, so that she car have good-lo
ing conveyance in which to ride to
church. She deserves good looking
husband by her side.
A lady from Canada claimed a Mr..
Julian, of Oshkosh, as her husband, and
took him with her back to the Old
Dominion. Julian has been resident
Of Oshkosh for six years, and had
married another woman, whom he left
for No. /.
Governor Taylor recently came on
the cars to the junction Of the Wis
consin Valley road with the West Wis
consin road, and refused to pay the
conductor more than three cents a
mile. He paid his fare at that rate to
Elroy, and from there to Madison over
the Northwestern, and insisted on
riding home at the same rate.
Governor Taylor has parloned
Adam Ehlhardt, Of Milwaukee, who
was serving term Of seven years at
Waupun, for numbering and inoffen.
slve old milkman, named Matthias
Becker. The homicide occurred be-
tween the hours Of and 2, on the
morning OF the 18th of September,
1870.
A sad accident occurred at Fremont
village, on Wolf river, on Thursday.
Two young ladies, named Miss Collin
aud Miss Lahore, were boating on the
river, when the boat capsized. A bow
On the shore saved Miss Collin, but
Miss Lahore Was drowned. Mrs Col
lin, the girls MOTHER Clearing her cries
for help, became frantic beyond con-
troll, rushed into the river and was al
SO drowned.
Mrs. Henry Williams and daughter
residing near Mount Pleasant, were
returning home from town. AS they
reached home their dog rushed out to
meet them. which SO frightened their
horse that he ran away. upsettins the
buggy and throwing the occupants out
Mrs Williams struck upon her head
producing injuries from which she will
probably never recover. The daughter
had an ankle sprained aad finger
| broken.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03

New SECRETARY OF THE TREAS.
URY.--Hon. B. H. Bristow, of Ken
lucky, formerly Solicitor of the Tn tied
States Department OF Justice, and a
mAn OF fac practical and executive
ability has been appointed by the
President Secretary Of the Treasury
vice Richardson, of Massachusetts,, who
was at the same time nominated as =
member of the United States Court of
Claims.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03

Ex-United States Senator J. r,
Doolittle, will deliver the address be.
fare the Madison State Unigersitv Law
class Moaday, June l5, and Ex- Vice
President Schuyler Colfax will deliver
he addresses before the Literary So
c'etles of the University, Wednesday
evening, June 18th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03
Feather Renovation,

"ateItown, WIS. May 30, 1874.
~ Il believe K. J. Pelzer's process of
~ working feathers by steam to be dur
aote, lie done work for us July 1873,
ana oy what we can see the feathers look
as good as they did when he first renovated
them. A. E. MANNEGOLD
MRS. NJ. FORBES.
II. BELLACK.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03

Pr si3ent Grant has ISSUED procla-
nation extending to Newfoundland tn
provisions of TIE treaty Of Washington.
The products of the fisheries will be
admitted into the United States, duty
free. on and after June /, 1874.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03

fHE Observation-Disclosures Monday
the House Of Representatives passed
a Dill declaring international the ma
tlonal centennial celebration at phila-
delphia, July 4th, 1876, but making
no appropriation from the National
Treasury for the same.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03
Notice.

VI decease OF my late partner, Mr. J. 7
Il Enos, and the administration Of his
estate makes it essential that all accounts
of the firm of Enos & Hall sbould ha
promptly settled " ilh the UNDERSIGNED
DANIEL HALL.
April goth, 1874. o5wh
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03
Los r,

DY the undersigned, Between the Junction
- and the LiEdoE HoHse. on the after
noon of Thursday, May 2lst, pocket book
containing twenty dollars and note Of
fifteen dollars. The finder will be amply
rewarded by leaving the pocket book and
contents with the owner at the Lindon
House. ALVIRA CLARK.
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IN Office.

II AVING BEEN APPOINTED Snec;a,
IL Treasury Agent in the State of WIS.
cohsin' | am authorized and ready 10 re-
celse applications and dues for State Lcen-
ses Tor Hawkers, PeddlerS, Public Show
men, &C., &c.
>, otlce at my Dwelling, Schmutzler,s
Block, 9th ward. '0i
2H1 CHARLES BGCKMAN
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Information Wanted.

or my son, Martin Fl. Curley, aged IL
" years, who left home, May Gath, and
has not been heard of since. Any inform.
alton regarding his whereabouts will be
thankfully recei red by his father.
MARTIN Ii. CURLEY
Watertown, June lst
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-03

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Notes, Checks, Programmes,
and in fact Job Printing of every descrip-
ton furnished, promptly and neatly. at
very Low Prices.
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Middletown transcript., 1874-04-25
cult and Sun,or,
Mary's Little Lamb.
From Deacon Richard smith. Cincinnati ,:..cs...

From Deacon Richard Smiths Cincinnati Easctts.
Mary possessed diniinutive sheep, 80
Whose external covering was rs devoid OF color
as the congealed aureous fluid which occasi0n~
ally presents insurmountaLle barriers 10 rails
road travel on the Sierraa;
And everywhere that Nary peregrinatcd
The juvenile Southdown was certain 10 art up
and get right after her.
L tagged her to the alphabet dispcpsapy one day,
Which was in contrasention Of established usags;
u caused The other yauthfql students to cashin-
nate aad skyfungle
TO perceive an adolescent mutton in an edi6ce
devoted TO the dissemination of knowledge
And so the preceptor elected him from the ipie-
rior. siK
And he continued to roam in The immediate VIZ
cin,y,
And remained in the ncigbborhood until Mary
Once more became visible.
"Whai causes the Juvenile sIIeep to hapker after
Mary so2'
Qneried tho inquisitive children Of their tutor.
why, Mary bestows much affection upon the
little animal 10 which the wind is tempered
when shorn, yon must be aware, Ss
The preceptor with alacrity responded.
Middletown transcript., 1874-04-25
9oritultural
The Cultivation Of Corn.

A corresp spondent Of The journal of III
Farm says The cultivation Of the young
cern plants varies according as to the sea-
son and soil, as we'll as the skill and utcn-
sils used by the farmer. Some use moth
ing but the plow, and plow the ground
both ways frem two to four times. others
use the cultiyator alone, and cultivate it
from three to Eve tunes, and others will
as soon as the corn is up, run harrow
over the corn rows to mellow the ground
and break up the clods before going over
it with the plow and cultivator.
think the whole art Of raising fine
crops of corn is in getting the ground in
good order before planting. Give your
land plenty of good stable manure or port
able fertilizers. if you wish it to give you
good crops. After it is properly prepared
and manured. and tho crop gets to a
height of five or six inches, it should be
kept free from weeds and the ground kept
mellow around its roots by cultivating
plo wing and hoeing freely as the moisture
of the season aud surface of the ground
may require. But in going through with
those operations the greatest of care should
be takeu not to tear up or disturb the roots
of the corn. Corn should never be work
ed when the ground is wet, as ground
worked when it is wet will dry into hard
cake or crust, and thereby injure your
corn. 1t shsuld be freely worked when
the ground is dry, as it will then loosen
up and be enabled to absorb the dew OF
night and moisture Of the air.
Corn requires more labor and attention
than any other crop on the farm, and can
be cultivated at times when but little other
work is pressing upon the farmer 1t is a
good plan to plant pumpkins in the row,
and thereby raise a crop of them without
extra labor or expense, The corn does
not sustain any injury from it, but is great
ly benefited in dry weather, as the vines
keep the ground moist around the roots
Pumpkins can be kept long time il
stored in good dry cellar.
Middletown transcript., 1874-04-25

A very curious little story, all about a
flock of geese. comes to US from Butler
county, California. On the 2Sth of last
month thunder storm passed over this
district, accompanied by hail and snow
and very vivid forked lightning
As the hail began to fall and the light
ming flashed, thousands of wild geese,
which were in the ponds of shallow water
which exist 10 that locality during very
wet winters, suddenly rose up in grca,
lutter, as if many hunters had discharged
volley among them. They went up and
up, apparently to rise above the fearful
cloud. 1t was nearly dark, and those who
saw them rise thought no more Of it until
morning, when they began to find dead
geese and hear of hundreds being picked
up by the neighbors. Some seven hun
dred had been found. One man picked uI
on his farm all two horses could haul fol
their feathers. Their beads were badly
torn and their bills split into fragmenta
Many of them had the feathers of thcil
backs crisp and burnt and their bodies
burst open. The portion of the country
thus affected was about a mile and hal
wide and reached several miles into Butler
county. The terrific lightning in thi.
cloud was witnessed by people on the Hon.
cut in Yuba county and in the centra
portion of this county The thunder was
heard twenty miles distant.
Middletown transcript., 1874-04-25
Selett Aoetrp.
''OLD TIMES"

There's beautiful song on the slumberous air
That drifts through the valley OF dreams;
It came frem cline where the roses were,
And hopeful heart and bright brown hair
That waved in the morning beams:
Seft eyes of azure and eyes of brown,
And suow-white foreheads are there:
A gimmering Gross aud a glittering Crown,
A thorny bed and couch of down,
Lost hopes and leaflets of prayer.
A breath of Spring in the breezy woods,
Sweet watts from the quivering pines
Blue violets' eyes beneath green hoods,
A bubble Of brooklets, a scent of buds,
Bird-warble and clambering vines. ar
A rosy wreath aud dimpled hand,
ring and a slighted vow
Three golden links Of broken band
A tiny track on the snow-white sand,
A tear and sipless brow.
There's a tincture of grief in the beautiful song
That sobs on the slumberous air,
And Loneliness felt in the festive tbrong,
Sinks down on the soul as it tremblcs along
From cline where the roses were.
We heard it first at the dawn of day,
And it mingled with matin chimes
But years have distanced the beautiful lay,
And its melody floweth from far away,
And we call it now Old Times.
Middletown transcript., 1874-04-25

Many fruit men cannot understand why
such famous apples as the Northern Spy
and Spitzenburg are not more popular at
the South In the Southern vocabulary,
"hardiness" means the power of resisting
the long hot summers, aud not the cold of
winter, SO that no matter how well the
Baldwin and other Northern varieties sue
ceed elsewhere, they are not worth ground
room at the South Now the Winesap,
the still older Grindstone, Tewksbury
Winter Blush, Domino, Hall, Albemarle
Pippin, Queen, and Lady do succeed in
Virginia, and these are precisely what
Virginians should plant, and no others
save for experiment.
Middletown transcript., 1874-04-25
Lookout Mountain.

Most persons in this country or in
Europe who have heard Of Lookout Mount
ain since 1.-THE war" have also .een told
of the "battle above the clouds" II was
my fortune to scale the remarkable pail
sade at the time when the broad plateau
which runs along its summit was literally
enshrouded in formidable mists. The rain
was falling in torrents as. with two COM
panlons, | galloped through the little town
at the foot of the mountain; but, ere we
had scaled the winding road, the shower
was over, and brisk wind began to stir
the mists. We could see little but the
lodges along whose sides the route ran, but
as We arr led nearly at the summit, the
mist curtain was lifted for an instant, and
revealed to US delicious expanse of val
ley with sunlight smiles here and there
chasing away the rains tears. Then we
were shrouded in again, and our horses, an
parently inspired by the gloomy grandeur
of the occasion, ratified furiously along the
hard roads, oyer which the boughs hung
uncomfortably near our heads The red
sandy clay nourishes enormous pines,
whose roots have here and there been dis
turbcd by the sandstone bouldcrs. and
stretched out their fbers in a desperate
grasp; along the pathways great blocks Of
stone, carved by the storms and polished
by the winds, are scattered. We galloped
nearly to the massive perpendicular wall
which arises directly out of the valley.
and dlsdaintully frowos down upon the
Tennessee, spurned from its base four
teen hundred feet below: and lettering
our horses, approached to the very edge.
There we seemed shut off from all the
world Now and then hum from the
valley-the faint growl of locomotive or
the rolling of wheels--eame family up;
we heard the cow-bells and the bleating of
the sheep on the hillsides behind us; and
just as we were trying to imagine how
"the battle" must have been, the wind
came sweeping away the mist curtain. aud
we beheld the whole p Ed,cayd Kinq ::
"Southern Mountain RamJles :" Serb
ner's for Muy.
Middletown transcript., 1874-04-25

TIE SEVEN SLEEpERs .-"It would a.
waken the seven sleepers" is common
saying but we venture to say that halt
who use it do not know its origin. The
legend runs that seven noble youths Of
Ephesus, during the persecution of the
Christians by Decius, Roman Emperor
of the third century, fled and took refuge
in cavern, and having been pursued and
discovered were walled in, and thus left
to perish. They are said to have fallen
asleep. and in that state were miracalously
preserved for nearly two centuries, when
their bodies having been found in the cav
ern, were taken out and exposed to the
veneration of the faithful Then it was
said these holy martyrs were not dead
that tley had been hid in the cavern where
they had fallen asleep, and that they at
last awoke, to the astonishmeut of the
spectators. The spot is still shown at
Ephesus where the pretended miracle took
place, and the Persians celebrate annually
the feast of the Seven Sleepers.