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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-02
A RIGHTEOUS VERDICT.
Interesting to Sewing Machine Agents an
Poor sewing Women.

Interesting to Sewing Machine Agents and
Poor Sewing Women.
Judge Ackert, of New York, has re-
Gently made decision which is Of great
Importance to large class Of people in
straitened circumstances. The case was
that Of poor widow named Catherine
White against one Hickox, an agent of
the Howe Sewing Machine Company.
Mrs. White had purchased sewing ma
chine of Hickox on what is known as
the installment plan, paying ten dol
lars down and agreeing to pay five
whole debt should be paid. The pay
ments were regularly made until only
five dollar remained due, and then her
husband was taken sick and died. The
expenses of his illness and funeral
prevented her from meeting the de-
mand which WIS speedily made for
the balance owing to Hickox, and the
machine was forcibly taken away from
her, without restitution of the money
she had already paid on it. The judge
decided that contracts for the sale of
property, involving the right of reclama-
ton on the part OF the seller, without
restitution of any part of the purchase
money paid, were contrary to public
policy, and injurious and oppressive to
deserving class eff people. After hav-
ing paid sixty-five dollars of the seventy
for which the machine was sold, Mrs.
White had acquired scme title of it.
She had,' besides, never signed the
printed form purporting to be a con-
tract, and had finally offered to pay the
five dollars still due, which the agent
refused to accept. Judgment was given
against Hickox. It is to be hoped that
the result will be salutary in preventing
the repetition of outrages of the charac-
ter attempted in this instance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-02
What Does the BabyThiMk :

CAR" NJ. WOODLAND.
Who can tell what baby Thinks
When it awakes from its forty winks
And rubs its face into numerous kinks,
And sares at the light that comes in at the chnks
OF its rock-a-by nest, and gaps and blinks-
Who can tell what baby thinks?
Who has courage to venture guess,
AS to what the baby may shink of its dress,
Trimmed and ruff1ed to such excess?
Or what the baby may think of the mess
For headache, and toothache, and stomach distress
And for all its ailings, more or less?
What does it think, when 1t wakes at night,
With all the pretty things out Of sight,
And nobody stirring and making light9"
Does it think it's condition is far from right,
And that big folks not at all polite,
And treat their visitors far from right,
And that drunkenness is m. ut for personal slight?
Is that the reason 1t takes dei.cNt
In screaming with all It's personal might,
And rousing the neighbors, at dead of night?
And what do you think that the baby thinks,
Looking about like mid-eyed lynx,
Watching the spoon that tinkles aud clinks,
As papa is warming its catnip drinks,
Over candle that glinlmers and blinks,
Humming and drumming out "Capt'n Jinoks,"
What do you think that the baby thinks?
Did you say that babies thinkless things,
With other light than what instinct brings
With brains as downy as butterflies wings,
And heads as empty a ball that swings
Over and under, and rings and SINGS
When muscular motion is moving the strings?
Did you say that the babies are thinkless things?
Then when does the thing begin to grow?
And when does the mind begin to show?
And when does the baby begin to know
That this is true, or that is so?
Say, when you find out, please let me know?
Now, what does it think of its auntie's strain,
Rafting along with the rafting rain,
That is tapping its founces against the pane?
Say, what does it think of this cantering strain?
Is it already weaving illogical chain,
sort of ''Webster's reply to Hayne,"
To forward back on the very next train,
BY which its auntie is sure to be slain,
And never be able to rally agan7
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-02
A Centennial Bell.

Meneely & Kimberly, of this city,
have contract for bell of thirteen
thousand pounds representing thirteen
original states) to be presented to the
city of Philadelphia by Mr.. Henry
Seybert, a wealthy and patriotic resi-
dent OF that city. It is designed to
place the bell in the tower of Indipend-
ence Hall. The bell will bear the
Bible Inscriptions: Proclaim liberty
throughout the land unto all the in
halitants thereof" and "Glory to God
in the highest, and upon earth peace,
good will toward men," The gift is in
honor of the centennial anniversary.
July 4th, 1s76.-Iroy Times.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-02

A PERSON was told that three yards of
cloth, by being wet, would shrink one
quarter of yard. "Well, then" he
inquired, eff you should wet quarter
of yard, would there be any left?"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-02
How Sam Ward cooks a Ham

I soakit for Tor four days in water,
changing it four times day; then boil
it five hours in cider, with wisp of new
hay; then I haste it with brandy,
cherry, and claret, according to the
weather; and when they have tasted a
slice OF that ham, why, they will pass
any thing want in Congress.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-02
FroW the Home journal.
WHAT'S IN A NAME.

Notes Names and their Signifcance-
What the Greeks Thought of Them
Nam es are as Significant Now as In An
Client Days.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-02

No man can answer for his own valor
or courage till he has been in danger.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-02

REVENGE has ears more deaf than ad-
ders to the voice Of any true decision.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-02
AN EVENING PICNIC FRoL1c.

TUESDAY.
MY DEAR VICTORIA Emma sexpecting
you at dinner this evening. It will be a
picnic frolic for the three of US, held in
the library, around the centre table, and
graced with Franks Burgundy.
I will call for you in carriage at
your office at quarter past six o'clock.
You will stay all night at Emma's.
Do not fail to be ready Hastily,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-02

GOLDEN AGE.
VIcTcR1A-I have room temporarily
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where I shall
abide for few days, and until Franks
return.
1 will ride up with you in your car
riage this afternoon at five o'clock.
If don't call for you please call for
me. Hastily, = T. T.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22
PluckeY John Chinaman

Grass Valley (Col.) Union, Sept. o6th.
On Friday night about o'clock, a
highwayman stopped Chinaman near
the corner Of Auburn and Rice streets,
and demanded his valubles. It is not
known whether the Celestial was in bon.
anza,' but at any rate he resisted the
call, disarmed the would-bc robber and
put him to fight. Some parties in the
neighborhood heard the scuffle and an
exclamation from the Chinaman: You
hittlc mel and shortly after he came
rushing bareheaded from the scene of
conflict. Several white men gathered,
and procuring light proceeded to make
an investigation. At the point where
the struggle took place they found two
hats, one belonging to the Chinaman and
also the robbers which he had left behind
in his fight. The Chinaman was in
possession Of the robbers pistol, which
he had captured from him, while at the
same time he exhibited a wound in his
hand, which appeared to have been re-
ceived by being caught by the hammer of
the pistol in the struggle for the possess
ion Of the weapon. 1t is believed that
the owner of the hat is known, and the
officers are on his track. This is the first
instance in years, in this section, where
the party sought to be robbed has come
out ahead, and it is creditable to the
pluck of the Chinaman that he made
such successful resistance. This
instence serves in calling r. to memory a
funny resistance on the part of Chinese
miners in this vicinity number Of years
ago. A footpad entered their camp,
and perhaps counting upon their non.re'
'sistant qualities, was proceeding to relieve
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22

on the night Of the 7th inst, Mrs.
Forrest. q lady in Bay City, Mich, was
horribly dis6gurcd, blinded for life, and
possibly fatally injured by some acid be.
ing poured on her face as she lay asleep.
AT first it was supposed the cruel crime
was committed by discarded lover of a
girl who had slept with Mrs. Forrest
during the temporary absence Of her
husband. j. But now it appears that the
hend was none other than George For.
rest. the unfortunate woman's husband.
What influenced him to the crime is un.
known, but the strongest circumstantia1
evidence. shows thai he deliberately pre-
pared for the crime by inquiripg and
testing tie effect Of acids. He has beer
arrested and lodged in Jail 1t Bay City;
and all who read Of his horrid crime will
rejolcs when he. is justly punished.
v.fssEsH ,3flE& g2f45E$ 4 ~ ~ II ~ -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22

So MECH has been said about the great
good to be done by the revival labors df
Messrs. Moody. sankey, Whittle, Bliss
and others, that inquiry has been made
of the result Of the meetings in England.
1t seems to be the impression of those
who have investigated, that, while the in.
terest was general and ran high, conver.
sions were few, and that much the great.
estimpression was made upon the method
Of the clergy in all denominations. The
gain is in the introduction in the pulpit Of
more direct appeals to the hearts and
consciences Of men.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22
Se1ffshncss and No Sentiment There
Galveston (Tex.) News.1

A gentleman living up the bay says
that negro man with his wife and four
children were forced to take tree to
save themselvs during the late storm.
The tree swayed to and fro with the
violence of the wind, and threatened to
fall with its heav y burden. The old couple
concluded that SEINE one must be sacri.
feed to save the rest. After consultation
the old woman said she was not prepared
to die, and urged the old man to drop
himself into eternity. But he, too, wasn't
ready, and the matter was compromised
by launching the two youngest children
into the surging waters. A few hours
after they were rescued, the old negro
told the story himself to those who
saved him.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22
Casualties,

It is said large number Of horses at Daven-
port, Iowa, are disabled by the new epizootic,
and two fatal cases haveoccurred. At Louis
vile, Ky., the disease prevails in milder form.
Frank H. Powell, ticket agent and tele-
graph operator at White Plains, N. Y, was to
have been married on the 18th, but instead
was taken with On apoplectic fit. After several
hours, pulse and respiration ceasing, he was
pronounced dead by the doctors. Several
hours later, however, it was decided he was
still alive and his recovery was possible.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22
Commercial Matters.

ST. PAUL, OctO ef ~.
Wheat remains at s1.05 for No. l, and 81 0(
for No. 2. Receipts yesterday at the uppe,
elevator 2, ,206 bushels and shipments ! ,73C
bushels. At the lower elevator 1900 bushels
were received and 500 shipped to Duluth.
Corn is not in active demand at 6o@66c or
track; zoe from store.
Oats are more lively. Several large sale;
were made yesterday at 3sc on track quota
tions at 42@45c in store.
Eggs very scarce and prizes firm at 22@23c
for strictly fresh in cases.
Butter continues in active demand for the
local trade, and firm at l6@20c for good lots o.
dairy packed shipping grades l3@l4c.
Cheese quiet and in limited demand at l1@
12c.
New potatoes nominally s0@40c, with little
doing.
Lemons, new fruit, Sl4.
Apples-A lively business doing at s4.50@t
for choice winter fruit.
M1LwAuxEE, October 90.
1915 p. M.--Barley No. 2 $1.13 cash and Oc.
tober; $I.06 bid tor November.
P. Wheat unsettled; No. ], Sl.20K;
No. $l.12X; October $l.12A; November
$l.e9X; the year $l.08x; hard $l.27.
CHICAGO, October 20.
10A. H.--Wheat opened at sl.1o for Novem'
Der; now irregular at sl.G9@l .09H for Novem.
Der and $l.09@l.09X the year; noainally
lO9x tor December; and offered at 9l.12 fo1
October.
100 P. M.--Wheat easier at $r.lOx for Oc.
tober and $l.O8X for November. Corn suie,
at 53Xc for October; 6OXc for November
and 47c the year. Oats quiet at saH for Ocro.
Der. 32c for November and 81 Xc the year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22

A MAN down in Connecticut should be
privileged to enjoy widespread rcputa-
tion Of being the meancst thief in America.
Ho visited a relative and after being we'll
entertained for two days, stole child S
bank containing five dollars and abscond.
ed. 1t is some satisfaction to know that
he will have two years time at a shoe.
makers bench to plan his next act of nm.
surpassable meanness.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22

"Sror growing" That is the advice
Of Kew, r.. De Witt Talmage, who holds
that the present depression in business
would be relieved apprcciably if for one
week only all the people Of the United
States would talk cheerfully. Brother
Talmage, is about right. There is en-.
tirely too much despondent talk and
dismal prophesying in tie country-so
much that it must have its effect-in
limiting investments and discouraging
enterprise.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22

go In Springfield, Mass, there is mes.
chant who occasionally hangs out sort
Of bulletin. with funny cartoon to at.
tract attention. A few days ago he had
out full length picture of Tilton, and
over it: "This man had suit that cost
him 5000, and lasted him not over six
months. We will sell one for $3.50 that
will last twelve months" Mr.. Tilton saw
it and pronounced it very funny.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22

In Rhode Island, the other day, a ne n.
ly married man returned to the minister
and gave him an additional fee, saying he
had found the wife to be much better
than he euexpected. That is the general
verdict when the man does not prove
worse than is expected.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22

The great Palace Hotel of San Francis.
co is now open to the public. Mrs. Rails.
ton, widow Of the dead banker, occupies
magnificent apartments in the great car
ayarsary, and her country residence, Bel.
mont, is to be used as rustic branch oi
the hotel. AS it has over one hundred
rooms, and is splendidly furni he'd, visit
ors who wish change Of air will find il
4 Delightful retreat.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22
The Grain Crops Of Europe.

TIE Mark Lane Erpress of the 11th
in its weekly review of the European
markets, says: ''The weather has been
much broken, having been hail in some
places, but the interruption to field labor
has only been partial. The dampness has
interfered with threshing, and the condi-
ton of the samples is generally bad. The
upward tendency in prices is continued,
though business is restricted. The aver
ages as compared with 1874 are two pence
lower, while in France they. arc slightly
higher. There is less doing at Odessa,
but rates are maintained. Dantzic is
rather dearer. The receipts of wheat
from India are unprecedented. The quail
ity is low, however, but. if shipments pay
it places = vast acreage at the service OF
England"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22

Mr.. Albeit Grant formerly or Milwaukee,
has formally applied to have Jere r. Wilson's
name struck from the list Of attorneys allowed
to practice in the District OF Columbia. Mr.
Grant accuses Wilson Of accepting employment
as his attorney and then appearing gagainst him
and making up his argument from the pa: ers
The lroquois Indians, residing in the
province Of Quebec, Canada, to the number oi
,450, have, by delegation at Washington,
asked permission to purchase lands from and
settle with the Cherokee Nation in the Indian
Territory. According to Cherokee traditions
the 1roquois are wanderers from their nation
These OF Quebec are civilized.
The "Peace Union {" at New York on
the evening of the 18th wss addressed by Com
missioner Meachum, Judge AWestbrook, John
W. Browning and Others. saa adopted reso.
luton demanding congressional investigation
Of Indian troubles. A mass meeting is to be
held on the subject at an early day.
Ice an eighth OF an inch in thickness formed
on Fresh Pond in Queens county, New York,
the night OF the 18th inst.
The Palace hotel of San Francisco, Cal., one
OF tue great undertakings of the late money
king Of the Pacific slope, Ralston, was opened
on the 10th.
The half-breed interpreter at the Cheyenne
Agency is in danger, it is said, the Indians OF
Two Kettles and other bands having threaten
ed his life.
very valuable coal mine has been discov-
cred and opened in Wintah county, Wyom-
ing. There are 16 veins aggregatng four hun
dred feet in depth for four and half miles.
1t was discovered by an Indian, who sold his
knowledge OF it for $40. 1t is considered by
Prof. Pontez to be the finest deposit of coal in
Western America.
Major Dreussy has captured eight gold
hunters whom he found on the Sioux reserva-
ton on their way to the Black Hills, and has
returned with them to the Brnle Agency. The
capture probably saved the mems .ives, for the
Indians are on the watch for trespassers, deter
mined to kill every white man they catch il,
the Sioux territory.
The director-general of the centennial
has suggested to the secretary Of the interio,
the propr;ety of providing for the representa-
tion at the exhibition of those organizations
tormeoAduring the late war for the purpose o1
mitigating the suffering Of the sick and
wounded on battle fields.
The friends (but perhaps they were MOI
exactly lriends) Of MIR. J. C. Robh, trader al
the Cheyenne Agency, bribed the Omaha Re
publican to perpetrate ''good joke'' on Mr.
Robb by publishing that he was married to 6
negro woman. Mr.. Robb doesn't take it as
joke but proposes to sue the Republican fol
libel.
In the new Slate constitution of Alabama
there is provision that all banks organized il
that State must have a specie basis, and all
their notes must be redeemed in silver o.
gold. Suspension of specie payments is for.
hidden, and bank charters are granted only
for twenty years. The loaning OF the State OF
municipal credit to individuals or corporations
is prohibited.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22

- New York is weary Of the reputation
Of being the wickedcst city in the United
States and has inaugurated religious re.
vival, hoping to become the best. It is
feared that the good results in London
will not be duplicated this side of the At
lantic, because here VIC are ''to the man
ncr 'born," while there revi;als are un-
known and never ATTEMPTED,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22

TIE new style postal card is being man.
ufactured- at the rate Of 100000 day
but, there are still some of the old left.
Within a%month the new ones will be in
general circulation, They are much i'm.
proved in texture and design.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22

Some folks think tho result of the No.
venbcr elections will determine the Cen.
tennial Presidential election. A down.
east newspaper chap says it is not safe to
enumerate your germinal pullets previous
10 the ipcubating process. -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22
From Abroad.

A late London telegram Of the 18th says
that duel was fought with swords At Vesinat,
near Paris, Sunday, between two young
Americans named Riggs and Paine. The cause
was an old family vendetta which was renew
ed last Thursday night in tho Renaissance
theatre, when blows were exchanged" The
result Of the duel was that Paine was wounded
slightly in the arm. ii =.
The Hon. A. Mackenzie, Premier of Canada,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22

TIE Smithsonian Institute has secured
the bones Of a representative of an ex.
tinct race Of pigmies from its grave in
Tennessee. 1t is the skeleton of a man
twenty.six inches in hcight-fully devel.
oped teeth showing it to have reached
maturity. Many other graves were dis.
covered in the same vicinity, made for
bodies equally small.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22

The famous diamonds belonging to Mrs.
Fitcq, daughter Of Gen. Sherman, are in
the New York custom house still, and
will there remain until they arc forgotten
by professional burglars, whose fingers
are itching, for them.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22
.euRRENTl' TOPICS.

The United States Supreme Court will
probably at Ethe' present term pass upon
the railroad cases, involving the powers
Of legislative con ntrol, which have been
appealed from illinois, Wisconsin and Min.
ncsota. !,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22
Murder or Suicide

The body of an unknown man was
found on the 10th inst, in the woods near
White Bear Lake, NJ nm, 1T was discover
ed by some boys who were hunting birds
The appearances indicated that the body
had lain where found for month or more.
the flesh having nearly all fallen away
from the bones and most of the hair
dropped from the head. The scent Of
the decaylng body had before been Oh.
served by people who passed that way,
and the thicket in which it was found
has been doubtless passed through many
times by boys and men since the murder
was committed. The body lay, indeed,
so short distance from residence that
tbs occupants mus; nave suffered from
the stencil when the wind has blown over
it towards their house.
The wound is just such one as SELF.
murderer could have inflicted, and if it
was given by another person, that person
must have stood on the right side and
close to his victim and little in I'D.
vance. That the two men were walking
side by side is very improbable and quite
impossible, unless the deceased slightly
turned his head at the moment the shot
was fired toward his assailant. There is
nothing, up to the present time, to show
positively that murder has been com.
mitted. The surrounding circumstances
can as easily be explained on the the the
ory of self destruction as that Of murder,
The pistol NAV have been picked up and
the pocket which was turned out searched
by some one who came scross the body
and, to prevent trouble to himself, said
nothing about it. If tho body had beer
carried to the place where it was fount
by murderer the feet, in all probability
would have been lying toward the roat
and the head in the direction the fee
wore found to be-, and more secluded
spot-the hollow close by, for instance
would have teen found for concealment
! The coroner's inquest developed fact.