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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-22
The w eekly Sun.

1T76. NEW YORK. 1876.
Eighteen hundred and seventy six is the
Centennial year 1t is also the year in
which an Opposition House Of Representa-
sives, the first since the war, will be il,
power at Washington; and the year of the
twenty-third election of President OF The
United States All these events are sure 10
be OF great interest and Importance, espec-
tally tie two latter; and all of them anti
everything connected with them will b.
fully and freshly reported and expoundea
in The Smn.
The Opposition House OF Representatives
taking up the line of inquiry opened year
ago by The Sun, will sternly aud diligently
Investigate the corruptions and misdeeds OF
Grants administration; and will, it is TO he
hoped, lay the ftu dation for new and
better period in our national history. o.
all this The Sun will contain complete and
accurate accounts, furnishing its reaters
with early and trustworthy Information
upon these absorbing topics.
The twenty third Presidential election
with the preparations for il, will be memor-
able as deciding upon Grants aspirations
for third term of power and plumber, and
still more as deciding who shall be the CAM
date of the party of Reform, and as elect
ing that candidate Concerning all these
subjects, those who read The Sun will have
. the constant means of being thoroughly
we'll informed.
The Weealy Sun, witch has attained
circulation of over eighty thousand copies,
already has its readers in every State and
Territory, and we trust that the year 1876
heir hnrd Iod
tinue to be thorough newspaper. All the
general news OF the day will be found in it
condensed when unimportant at full length
when of moment; and always, we truss,
treated in clear, interesting AID instruc
tive manner.
1t is our aim to make the Weekly San
-tha bee. family NEWSPAPER in the world. and
we shall continue to give in It's columns
large amount OF miscellaneous reading,
such as stories, tales, Poems, scientific in
telligence and agricultural information, for
which we are not able to MAKE room in our
daily edition. The agricultural department
especially is one of its prominent features.
The fashions are also regularly reported in
its columns; and so are the markets OF every
kind
The Weekly San. eight pages with fifty
six broad columns is only 81 20 year,
postage prepaid. As this price barely re-
pays the cost of the paper; no discount can
be made frsm this rate to clubs, agents,
postmasters, or anyone.
TIE Daily San. a large four page news
paper of twenty eight columns. gives all the
news for two cents copy Subscription,
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year Sunday edition extra, $l.l0 per
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address, THE SUN, New York City.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-22
BRICK! BRICK! /!

r HAVE now on hand the best Brick in
i every respect, ever manufactured in this
market. My brick are manufactured out of
the best material, superintendent personally
by myself and guarantee them the best made
west of Milwaukee All persons wishing
to build, will consult their own interest by
listening to none Of the idle stories Of
this or that mans brick are the best, but
come and see for yourselves. | charge
nothing to show my brick, and am at all
times we'll pleased to have persons visit my
yard. D. S. CHADWICK.
Watertown, July 9th, 1875. 39m2
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-22


The State of Wisconsin to the above named
Defendants:
VOU are hereby summoned and required
i to answer the complaint of Theodore
Prentiss, the plaintiff in this action, agains
you, of which copy is herewith served up
on you, and you are required to serve copy
OF your answer to said complaint, on the
subscriber, at his Office, in the City of Wat
ertown, Wisconsin, within twenty days at
ter the service Of :his summons on you, ex-
elusive of the day of such service. and if
you fail to answer the said complaint with
in the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in. this
action will apply to the Court for the relief
dema nded in the said complaint
Witness, the Hon. 81. S. Conger. Judge of
said Court ut Jefferson IN said- county,
on this 25,h day of September, in the
year 1875
THEODORE PRENTISS,
Plaintiff in Person.
The complaint in the above action is
fled in the Office Of tie Clerk Of the Circuit
Court Of said county. of Jefferson, in the
village Of Jefferson, in said county.
Dated, October 18th, 1875.
THEODORE PRENTISS, Plaintiff.
5lw7
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-22
BANK OF WATERFOWL.

Organized in 1854.
Under and 4ct of the LegisIG-
tu7e of the Safe Of Wisconsin,.
A. L. PRITCHARD ......... -. Pesideat.
L. r. ADY.......................K Vice President
w. n. CLARK. .................... Cashier,
AMOS BAU .Assistant Cashier.
This Bank'will continue, as for the past
twenty years, to transact general banking
Business under its State Charter of Loaning
Money, Receiving Deposits, Buying and
selling Exchange, Coin, Bonds and other
securities.
Drafts of$lo0 and under, sold at the same
price charged for Money Orders at the Post
ofiee, and 70, amounts over $loo. sold at a
less rate. IL
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-04
A Legend About Lawyers
How One Came to be
in Heaven.

il journal lately announced that pc.
tition had been presented TO the minister
of justice requesting that the Office of ius.
tice of the peace should be accessible &c
retired sherifis, and not pertain to law,
yers exclusively. was talking with q
sheriff about this request recently. and he
said, with great heat
why not? We are az good as the
lawyers. Perhaps we are better. o.
what are they SO proud? Is it true. a,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-04
The German Breakfast Table

There is no family breakfast-table as
with US. where sons and daughters gather
round the board, letters are received and
read, newspapers scanned, and the great
affairs Of the world as made known by
the telegram impaired and commented up
on We look in vain for the damask ia.
BILE cloth, the steaming urn, the symmetrl-
cal arrangement of plate and china, that
welcome us in the middle class English
household. No trim girls in bright cot
ton or well cut homespun gowns; nc
young men, whose fresh faces tell Of tub;
and Turkish towels, are here to greet US
There may be linen cloth upon the table
Though even this detail is far from gen.
eral, and there will be a coffee pot, and
milk jug, and sugar basin, set anyhow
anywhere basket, either Of wicker oil
Japan, piled up with fresh Semmelem
perhaps stray plate or two; disorder.
ly group of cups of different colors and
designs ; no butter; no knives and forks
possibly plate with few milk rolls, oi
somewhat finer -four than the ordinary
and the breakfast equipagc is complete
The first conner (ifa lady, in dressing
gown and cap; if a man, in dressing gowr
and slippers) will help her or himself T.
coffee and rolls, probably eating and
drinking like peripatetic philosophers, fol
there is no inducement to "sit down ant
make yourself comfortable If it be
winter time, the coffee rot and milk-jue
will be placed on the stove instead Of or
the table, and the next conner will &C
through the same formula ofsoltary feed
ing. departing, as the case may be, for th'
enjoyment of the post st.prapdial cigar, ol
~ suPPivrnvu, the nvrnowi'as Tva"'iiy .vP
resented "mysterics of the toilet" The
last conner will enjoy the dregs Of thu
coffee pot and the drains Of the milk jug
on an oil cloth cover or crumpled table
cloth, stopped with the surplusage of sue.
cessive coffee cups, and besprinkled with
the crumbs of consumed rolls.-Frazer''
Mqqaeiue.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-04
Centennial Progress.

From report made at meeting OF
the Centennial Board of Finance in Phil
adelphia on Thursday we get some facts
of interest. Thrty.one foreign Govern
ments have accepted the invitations to
participate in the Exposition The main
Exhibition Building, 1880 feet long, AGA
in breadth, and covering more than TWEEN.
ty acres, has all the foundations laid,
while the manufacture Of its iron frame
work and glass work is in an advanced
condition. There is no doubt that it will
be completed at the stipulated time, Jan.
l, 1876. The Art Gallery, begun last
4th of July, is also in a forward state.
The Machinery Hall, the Horticultural
Building and the Agricultural Building
will all be ready according to contracts.
The grounds about the buildings will be
inclosed by three mile fence. and will
have walks and roads Of u total length o.
seven miles. A system Of thorough
drainage has been devised. and there will
be an abundant supply of water for all
the purposes Of the exhibition. The
facilities for transportation, in the opinion
of one who has had experience with all
the European exhibitions, will be more
perfect than any afforded by the latter
On the subject Of finances the committee
are greatly encouraged by the increased
interest in the centennial affairs apparent
of late throughout the country. Within
month 100000 have been added tc
the subscription list, and this is regarded
as the precursor Of larger amounts to
follow regularly. For the benefit oi
those who may subscribe for the stock
the committee state, with a full and
liberal allowance for all the cost and ex,
penses incurred and to be incurred, that
if the number of paying admissions to the
exhibition. at fifty cents each, shall reach
10000, ,000-a number but little exceed
ing the admissions to the Paris Exposition
of lS67-they will be able to return
every dollar to the stockholders
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-04

vary from 1000 20 5000 feet. AT one
point, and one only, this forest is accessi /.
Bile by a wagon road, and this is at
Thomas Mil, forty.eight miles from
Visalia. Unlike the groves further
north, this forest consists mainly. and in
some places almost exclusively, of the big
trees, and there are also a multitude of
small ones in all the ages of growth, some
just sprouting, and other saplings only
two or three feet through. The largest
standing tree as yet measured is forty feet
in diameter; charred stump-the tree
itself having disappeared - measures
forty-fou. feet ocross. A tree twenty
four feet in diameter four feet above the
ground, is precisely the same thickness
sixty feet higher. A fallen trunk is hol-
low throughout, and the hole is large
enough to drive horse and buggy soven-
ty.two feet in it as in tunnel.
The forest is SO extensive, the timber is
so abundant and excellent in quality, and
the demand for it so great in the bare
valley at the foot Of the mountain, that
it cannot be withheld from the axe and
sawmill. The wood is similar in general
character to the coast sequoia, or common
redwood, straight in grain, splitting free
ly, even enough in grain for furniture,
and far superior to oak in its keeping
qualities in positions exposed to altera-
tons OF moisture.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-04
Giant Trees in California.

1t has been supposed that the Sierra
sequoias, or big trees OF California. were
confined to few small and isolated groves
like those known to tourists by the name
of Calaveras. Tuolumne, Merced aud
Muriposa. scattered at considerable ip.
tervals along the western slope Of the
mountains for distance of sixty miles.
1t was known that collection of big
trees, larger than any of those in the
Mariposa and Calaveras regions exists in
Fresno county, where Thomas's Mill has
for several years been saving this red
wood of the Sierra to supply the market
Of Visalia, but it was discovered last
Summer that this body of big.tree timber
is not properly a grove, but forest ex
tending for not less than seventy miles in
a northwest and southeastward direction,
with width in some places of ten miles,
and interrupted only by the deep oanons
which cut across the general course of the
forest, and reduced the level to an eleva-
tion below that at which tho tree is found
in wild condition, although when cult,
waited it thrives 10 all our valleys.
Different persons have traced the forest
from the basin Of the Tule river, in lati-
tude 36 deg, 20 min, across those of the
kaweah and Kings to that Of the San
Joauin. The elevation has not been
carefully measured, but is supposed to
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-04
European Bone Caves.

The osscous remains of European bone
caves are chiefly those of bears and
hyenas, intermingled with the bones of
wolves, foxes, gluttons, horses, oxen,
stays, mammoths, and other extinct or
still living mammals. From the great
preponderanco Of the bones of carnvores,
it has been suggested that the caves
served formerly to those animals of prey
as dens, into which they introduced their
victims, torn or entire, to feed their
young; and there is ample evidence that
this was the case to some extent. Hyenas
evidently have inhabited certain caves
and reared their young in them. Bears
likewise retire TO caves, chiefly during
Information, but according to Vogt, are
not in the habit Of introducing bones.
Yet such occupations of the caves by
bears and hyenas, even through many
generations, can not account for the
astonishing number of bones found in
some OF them. In the cave Of Gailenreuth,
in Bavaria, we're discovered within ninety
years the remains Of at least eight hun
dred cave-bears and from the amount Of
bone earth in another Bavarian cave DR..
Buckland has calculated that five thou
sand five hundred animals of the same
species were there entombed. Large
collections Of bones, moreover, are found
In caves with entrances so high that no
living animals could have had access to
them. The rolled stones, finally, which
as we have mentioned, often underle the
bone earth or are mingled with it,certainly
were not brought to their places by wild
beasts, 1t must be assumed, therefore,
that the bone caves owe their deposits in
a great measure to the agency OF water.
The surface of Europe, as we have shown,
was subject to great changes at those re.
mote periods when the now lost animals
were still in existence, and we have
alluded 20 the causes by which floods,
more or less extensive, were produced.
When the then higher levels of the water.
courses aud their increased swiftness are
taken into consideration, it would seem
to require no great stretch of fancy for
imagining in what manner pebbles, mud
shells and bones, fresh as well as decayed,
we're introduced iuto the caves, even into
such as are now found high above the
bottoms Of valleys. In some caves con.
tanning no pebbles the mud may have
been gradually deposited by the melting
OF snow. Caves. doubtless, were the first
dwelling-places of primitive mau. They
afforded him protection against the in
clemency Of the weather, agains, the
attacks Of wild beasts and Of enemies Of
his own race Occasionally he also
deposited there his dead. Hence the
human remains found in bone caves may
be, i'll number of eases at least, relics
left by the former occupants. Some
however, believe that human bones aud
tools were mostly washed into tho caves
like the animal remains and other
materials there deposited. d.-From "Th,
Stone Ago in Europe" by CHARLES RAu
in Harper's Magasin to' May.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-04
The Human Frame.

1t is made for health and happiness,
and when we look upon a countenance
blooming with beauty, and observe its
expressions Of quiet enjoyment, we feel
that the being who formed it is a God of
love. But We must not forget, that
within the very blooming cheek there is
eontrived an apparatus capable of produ.
cling something very different from enjoy.
ment A fibrous network spreads over
it, coming out of the trunk from the
brain, extending everywhere its slender
ramitications, and sending little thread
to every point upon the surface. What
is this mechanism for? Its uses arc
many, but among its other properties.
there is in it slumbering power, which
may indeed never be called into action.
but which always exists, and is always
ready, whenever God shall call it forth,
to be the instrument Of irremediable aud
unutteraDle suffering We admit that in
almost every case it remains harmless
and imperative still n is there, always
there, and always ready ; and it ia called
into action whenever God thinks best.
And it it is not only in the cheek, but
throughout every part of the frame that
the apparatus OF suffering is concealed
and it is an apparatus that is seldom out
of order Sickness deranges and weakens
the other powers, but it seldom interferes
with this; it remains always at its post,
in the eye, the ear, the brain, the hand
in every organ, and every limb, and
always ready to do Gods bidding.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-04
Flower Thoughts and Fancies.

Somebody says that flowers are the
"lugitive poetry Of nature - and to wild
flowers most eminently belongs the re.
mark, Our cultivated flowers cannot be
called fugitive poetry we do not find
them scattered along the roadsides, smil.
ing to the brooks, podding on hills to ev.
cry breeze. Not they They are col.
iected and placed in our houses and con.
servatores, labeled, and surrounded by the
costly accessories which belong to all vol
umes Of collected poetry.
But with wild flowers it is different
We come upon them, indeed, as upon
scraps Of poetry tucked into the corner
Of some newspaper OF every day life. and
in the one case, as in the other, excaim
III sort of patronizing surprise why
how pretty that is ~
One can not, however, be very vel
acquainted with the woodlands, without
quickly losing any feeling of patronage
he may once have had. There are SC
many dainty wild blossoms to harmonic
with any mood in which they may be ap
preached, beheld, or gathered.
We find all sorts Of poetry speaking
from them; palest of blue hare.b bells
which suggest a dainty poem, full of ten.
derncss without strong passion, which
indeed, they, as well as people, are better
without. Then there are violets, blue
and white and yellow, like little ballads,
tales of unconscious heroines gill.over.
the. ground, Immediately reminding one OF
scores OF verses he has seen in the neg.
ected corner Of some country paper with
blue bits of prettiness scattered here and
there, but so small that one doesn't care
for the trouble of hunting them out /; and
besides like those scraps of verse, there
is SO much Of it that it can be had at al y
time.
But flowers, also, tell us other things !;
they are vivid reminders of people we
have known, of faces W. have seen, hearts
we have learned to love and trust
Who can ever sec valley-iily, with.
out feeling of tender greeting, or Ito 60
from the pretty to the absurd) who can
look at one of those saucy Jack-in.the-
pulpits, ,peeping up out of its green sheath,
and not expect it to speak, and in an or.
alton as long as country minister's, tell
of its relationship to the regal Gala I
Poor relations, truly How indignant
the calla would be
Then there are the lovely blossoms ol
the spring beauty, at which one feels as
much surprise as at finding Perdita il
shepard's cottage.
The flowers of the mullen are like fam.
lilies in tenement house, pretty enough
individually, but collectively-well, they d
be rather unpleasant guests, to say the
least Of it.
Autumn flowers are like stories of the
tropics. Their very names are suggestive
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-04
The American Observations OF
the Transit of Venus.

We are now in possession of accurate
information from all the American par.
ties for the observation Of the transit OF
Venus. At Pekin Professor Watson and
Professor Young observed through a
cloudy sky the first and second contacts,
and made forty.iour photographs during
the first part of the transit Operations
were then interrupted by clouds until
about an hour before the end, when the
Photographic work was resumed, aud fifty
more pictures taken. The third and
fourth contacts we're also observed. and
measures Of cusps taken with the double
image micrometer.
The first contact was sixty-eight see.
onds later and the second contact was
seventy.five seconds later than the CON-
puted times, while the third and fourth
contacts w,re forty.three aud sixty.five
seconds earlier than the predictions. This
indicates for the solar diameter u smaller
value than the one used in the predc.
tions, and agrees nearly with that deduced
by Leyerrier from previous transits.
1t was pointed out by Mr.. Hill. of the
American Nautical Almanac Office, in
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-04

But for long time his search was vain
Everybody was happy and joyous. No.
body was thinking Of lawsuits. lie was
dismayed-furious. All at once he cspi.
ed a young woman clad in long mourning
robes, who with eyes downcast, and mel.
ancholy brow, walked slowly along lead.
ing child by the hand.
Victory" cried our man, making a
joyous gambol. Behold the cause BE.
hold the widow and the orphan !"
With turn of his hand he adjusted
his band, draped his robe elegantly, and
presented himself to the widow. making
one of his most amiable bows. MADAME
is plaintiff" said he in houied voice.
"Oh you may have, Madame, all conf
dence in my ability. For the rest, | have
the ear Of the tribunal. Have you the
papers AS for jus"
The lady raised her eyes and uttered a
cry of terror. "Mon Dleu !" said she,
"but this man is Mons. Parlecreuq." AT
the cry raised by the widow, a great
crowd gathered. They surrounded her,
they questioned her, they understood the
truth. Immediately general clamor re.
sounded under the whole celestial vault.
"a lawyer there is lawyer in Para.
disc But what is st. Peter thinking of?''
st. Peter soon arrived on the spot. lie
perceived his error and commanded the
intruder to leave instantly dwelling that
was forbidden him. The lawyer, intimi.
dated for an instant, soon RECEIVERS his as.
surance. He mounts small elevation,
turns up his coat.sleeves, blows his nose,
coughs, then extending his hands toward
his auditory, he cries:
"What ? Why Wherefore ? In
what manner2 When ?"
You tire me-" bluntly says the guar
dian Of heaven. "Go hence. | have al
ready said it; | repeat it to you
81 consent to it if only the thing is done
legally. ] demand permission to put a
question to the tribunal
"Put it quickly, then"
"Gentlemen, if there is in the universe
a place where the law ought to be respect.
ed it is here, in the sanctuary of eternal
justice. Well then, according to the law,
a lodger cannot be expelled except by le-
gal summons, served by the sheriff l
await my summons. and till then re.
serve my defence"
st. Peter was moved by this reasoning.
$50 be it. Let sheriff be called to serve
this summons" Several officers immedi.
ately started in quest of sheriff. But
they all came back without him. "Well,"
said St. Peter, "where is the sheriff ?"
"Sure enough" said ST. Peter, had
forgotten it, but there was never one OF
them admitted here. What shall we do
not to violate the law o. The lawyer
nearly swooned with delight at St. Peters
embarrassment. He said "The sheriff
who shall bring my summons is not yet
born."
Ct. Peter was nightly set back.
One of his advisers whispered, to let
sheriff enter Paradise for short time,
just long enough to turn the lawyer out.
"That'll never do" said he. "You do
not know l~uyurs. This -r-..iI ...H
at the legality Of the summons. lie would
plunge us into the muddy waters of the
law, and he would not leave us after all,
And then, you see, | should have law
yer and sheriff, both on my hands. Ex-
cuse me, but the first is enough
And this is how there came to be one
lawyer in heaven, and no more.