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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-24
The Norway Birds Christmas Carol.


They have sweet music in Norway
Norway, that far-off country, with
the steel blue sky and frozen sea. 1t is
song in the air. The simple peasants
make the bin DIS that inhabit those rude
coasts and ice valleys SO very happy on
this one day of the year that they sing
to their own accord glad carol on
Christmas morning, and all the people
come out of their homes and rejoice to
hear it. On Christmas eve, after the
birds have shelter from the North wind,
and the still night is bright with stars,
the good people bring from their store
houses sheaves of corn and wheat, and,
tying them to slender poles, raise them
from every spire, barn, gate post, and
gable. Then when, after the long
night, the Christmas sun arises, crown
ing the mountain with splendor, every
spire and gable bursts into sudden
song. The children run out to hear
the old church spire singing; the older
people follow; the air is filed with a
futter of wings and alive with carols
of gladness. The song of the birds fills
every village with happiness, and to
this living, grateful anthem the people
respond in their hearts, s'Glory to God
in the highest; on earth good will to
man. From st. Nicholas.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-24
Home Hints,

A lady writing in the Maine Farmer
offers some sensible suggestions, which
our readers will take as valuable:
Why can't housekeepers and home
keepers keep diary? A few moments
after the dairy duties are performed,
spent with pen and ink, lift thought
from the monotonous routine of work
into different channel, that would re-
fresh. In marvelously brief time
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-24
Guiding Horse.

The habit of ''quidding," or drop
ping the food after chewing it, is due
to several reasons. The horse may
suffer from sore throat or difficulty of
swallowing from other causes; some of
the teeth may be carious Or diseased, or
they may be worn sharp upon their
edges and cut the mouth. It will be
necessary to examine sthe mouth and
throat as far as possible, both by sight
and by pressure. If there is hollow
or diseased tooth, it should be extract
ed; If any are sharp upon their
edges, they should be filed down with a
fiat file; if the throat is sore, or any
part of the mouth, a wash of chlorate Of
potash should be used with sponge
fastened to piece of whalebone or rat
tan; or embrocations of mustard should
be applied 80 the throat outwardly. It
might be well to cut the feed fine and
scald it, feeding it when only slightly
warm.-Nes0 York Tribune.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-24

spent the. night, taking the train for
Denver this morning, was an easy Jour
ney. The distance traversed by the en-
tire Journey was over 100 miles.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-24

BE ready to hear, careful to contrive,
and slow to advise.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20
The Oldest Woman in the United States.

Seldom is 10 that genuine centenarian
is found, and but n few are the times,
when one is found, that his or her state
ments are believed Therefore, when
we saw that in Pottsville, to-day, col
ored woman celebrates her 10th birth
day, we do not anticipate that there will
not be those among the readers OF Ore
Journal who will scout the idea, and de-
clare that it is fabrication; neverthe-
less, il is true. On Minersville street,
nearly opposite the new school-house,
lives to- day, feeble and blind with great
age, the oldest living person III Schuyl-
kill county. We refer TO Mrs. Jane Ann
Buhler. or, as she is known more famil-
iarly, "Aunt Jane" Probably she is
unknown to many of Pottsville's present
inhabitants, and has escaped the recol-
lection of others who were intimate with
her years ago, by reason OF her retired
life. More than ten years ago she with
drew from public sight, during much OF
that time being confined to her bed.
She was compelled to lie Ill bed contin-
ually for the last two years UP to within
few weeks past She now sits up, and
is as light hearted as ever, telling to her
few visitors the stories of her childhood
over and over. She is never tired in
telling the trials she has passed through,
the triumphs she has earned, the victo-
ries won and their results.
But the particular day in which Aunt
Jane takes pleasure is to-day, her birth
day. She requested her daughter yes
terday to write while she dictated, and
the following is the result
"AuGUsr 8, 1875. Friends and citizens !
have lived to see the years OF lis up TO tue 4th
day of August.
Il hope the friends and citizens won't forget
me on my birthday"
We, too, hope that she may not be
forgotten. That the citizens will take
an active part not only in assisting her
to celebrate her natal day, but in making
her remaining days on earth as pleasant
as possible. Miners Jour
nal, Aug. 4.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20
How and When Silver will be SUBSTITUTE
ed for Currency

A Washington dispatch says The
actual amount OF 5 per cent. bonds sold
on account of the Specie Resumption act
is 80, 100000. The silver bullion fund
foots up S15,000,000, with which the
bars and coined silver on hand last Janu-
airy amounts to nearly $20,000,000. In
beginning the redemption of fractional
currency it is understood to be the in
tention of Secretary Bristow to call in all
the denominations under 80 cents, which
includes 3, 5, Is and 25-cent notes issued
since 1862, and which it is estimated will
require 100000 of 3, 10, and 25-cent
subsidiary coin to provide for the tenn
porary boarding and the actual demands
of business. The 50-cent notes will then
be called in. The actual amount of frac-
tional currency to be replaced is in round
numbers but $50, 000,G 600, more than one
fourth of the amount now reported in
circulation having been destroyed, the
evidence of this being that of the first
three series, long since called in, and
aggregating over 100000, not
800, 100000 was received during
the last fiscal year. Already the
Mint has shipped to the Sub
Treasures and designated repositories
large sums of the new coins, and through
them the issue will be made and the
currency received. The Treasurer says
that million of dollars of the hard mon
ey can be issued in New York in short
time, at a cost not exceeding 500.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20
A Joke Oh +" ANDY"

The Louisville C0mier-JOu7aal re-
lates the following:
Andrew Johnson and Meredith p.
Gentry, in 1856, were the opposing can
didates for Governor of Tennessee. The
leading organ of the Democratic part of
the State, the Nashville Union, at that
time, was edited by E. G.. Eastman, who
possessed the happy faculty of stirring
up the bile of political opponents. We
make this statement in order that what
follows may be thoroughly understood.
The contest between these parties was a
fierce one; bat Johnson triumphed.
Gentry bowed gracefully TO the will of
the people and retired to his farm in
Bedford county. His enthusiastic
friends, Col. Matt Martin and the Rev.
William q. Brownlow, soon paid him
visit. The latter is not wholly unknown
TO fame. They tarried several days;
and when they were about to depart,
Gentry, taking down Bible and
hymn-book, said: 81 never permit
distinguished divine to visit my house
and leave without saying prayers for the
family and the neighborhood. Brown
low, you must pray" The invitation
was accepted, and, after chapter in the
Bible was read and hymn sung, they
all got down upon their knees. Among
the petitions that Brownlow offered up
was this one: "May the Lord send a
beam of grace upon the heart of Andrew
Johnson and his man Eastman" Gen
try at once sprang to his feet and ex-
claimed in a loud voice, "Stop, Brown
low, STOP If that petition is answered,
the plan Of salvation will be exhausted,
and the balance of us will be damned :"
No Tennesseean who was intimately ac-
quainted with Col. Gentry Will doubt
the truth of this story.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20
A RetOrt.

Coming up Union street Saturday
morning last our attention was called to
little boy and girl who were having a
very animated war of words. The girl
said to the boy, "Your father hasn't got
so much money as my pa" The boy at
once stuck his hands in his pockets and
moved the sides of his trowsers outward
about foot on each side, turned his
feet in, moved big chunk" of pitch to
the port side of his mouth, and replied
in very scornful manner, You hadn't
better talk, your dress amt buttoned be-
hind-ah ha I" With that he waltzed
away as if perfectly satisf ed that he had
annihilated the girl, blasted the pros
poets of her parents, and made himself
hero. Hudson (M " Star.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20
FINANCE AND TRADE.
Weekly Review of the Chicago Market.
FINANCIAL.

Weekly Review OF the Chicago Market.
FINANCIAL.
The money market remains in the same con-
dtion AZ noted for some time past. The out
look for the fall trade is very good. Money in
ample supply and interest rates easy at ia
10. iper cent, according to time and the
character OF the securities offered. Govern
ment bonds firm and moderate demand WAS
reported.
BIEADsIUFPs
The past week has witnessed decided weak
ness in the grain markets, and rapid and quite
severe decline in values. The markets have
really been weather markets, and the weak
ness and the subsequent decline were due mainly
TO the more settled and finer weather The re-
ports received from different sections OF the
country indicated more favorable harvests than
had been expected, and the country speculative
element were ON the selling side, while
but few buying orders were received.
The Eastern markets were OF less favorable
tenor and shippers were not disposed to trade
with any freedom, while the stocks in store
are large and rather heavier than usual at this
season of the year. The receipts were rnoder-
ately large. Values have steadily declined
from the opening until the close. As will be
seen by the annexed table the most severe de-
cline has been on cash oats, which closed about
tic per bu lower. Wheat and corn were con-
siderably lower.
The following table shows the prices current
at the opening and close of the past week;
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20
CROP PROSPECTS.
The Reports of Damage by the Floods
Greatly Exaggerated.
(From the Chicago Times, l4th.l


We PRINT this morning dispatches from
all parts of the district covered by the
recent heavy rains and disastrous floods
in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio
and Kentucky. Especial attention is
given to the Wabash and Ohio valleys,
where the damage done was supposed to
be the greatest. 1t will be observed that
in but few localities is the injury done
to the harvested and growing crops as
great as was at first reported. The sub
sidence of the rivers and the week of
fine weather that has ensued, have re-
vived the growing grain and dried the
shocks already harvested in such man.
ner as to leave it in very fair condition.
In Southwestern Ohio there will prob
ably be two-thirds of an average yield; in
Southern Indiana there will be nearly
three-fourths of the usual crop of grain;
along the Wabash there will be little
more than half crop, while in Southern
Illinois the damage done is little more
than nominal. In Kentucky everything
indicates full crop of all the principal
products.
1t is shown that the Times was right
in predicting that the first reports OF
almost complete ruin to the crops were
very much exaggerated. The farmers,
although they will not realize their ex-
pectations earlier in the season, ar5 far
from the verge of bankruptcy, for they
will not only have plenty of grain for
home consumption, but will be able to
export nearly the usual amount to the
East and Europe. This is gratifying
SO in view of the unprece-
dentedly rainy season we have expe-
rienced.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20
Agricultural Exports.

The following table represents the
value of the principal articles of our ag-
ricultural exports for each decade from
1920 to 1870. The figures represent the
surplus wealth of the country. The rap
id increase in the agricultural exports
warrants the presumption that the sur
plus for the decade ending 1880 will
equal that of the 80 years preceding.
This table has been prepared by the
Bureau of Statistics at Washington, and
can be relied upon for accuracy:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20
Washington.

United States war vessels have been ordered
to Panama and Aspinwall, owing to the politi-
cal disturbances IN the United States of Co
lombia-
The Postmaster-General has arranged with
the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Com
pany for monthly mail between San Francisco,
Japan and China, at the sea postage rates as
full compensation FOR the service, which will
amount to not over $500 per month.
Gen. Babcock, Superintendent Of Public
Buildings, asks 3773,OOO as his estimated ex-
penses for next year.
Washington is almost deserted, and all bust
hess Of importance is at a standstill. During
several days of last week there was not Cabi-
net officer in the city.
The Secretary of the Treasury has just is
sued the twenty. fourth call for bonds. The
amount called for is 80, 900, 600 of the issue of
5-20s of 1864.
Postmaster General jewell has removed a
large number of Postmasters for seeking to in
crease their salaries by forced sale of stamps.
Secretary Bristow and Treasurer New are on
the best of terms, all reports to the contrary
notwithstanding.
The following is an official statement from
the Treasury Department of the government
receipts and expenditures, by warrants for the
year ending June 80, 1915:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20
The South.

Yellow fever of malignant type has broken
out at Pascagoula, Miss.
Friday Aug. -, was busy day for hangmen
in the South. In East Tennessee alone there
we're three executions, viz: John G. Webb, at
Knoxville, for murder, robbery, and rape
W. H. Berry, at Rogersville, for the murder Of
his wife aud Ananias Honeycutt, at T1ewell,
for the murder Of his foster-father. All three
of the hangings were conducted in the old
fashioned way Of mounting the criminal on
wagon and then driving the vehicle from under
him. At least 80, ZOO people witnessed the three
executions. All of the culprits protested their
innocence, but the evidence against them was
conclusive. Thomas Withers, negro boy, wac
hung at Lynchburg on the same day for the
murder Of white girl. The criminal died
hard. He succeeded three times in raising his
feet to the edge Of the trap, and drew himself
up, but as often did the Sheriff push them or
The railroads running between Nashville and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20

THERE are over 800 colleges" in this
country, and scarcely $50 of them are
entitled to the name of academy or semi
nary.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20

A MAN who received many unreceipted
bills said he never paid any attention to
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20

The Postoffice Department will ask the next
Congress to devise a law fixing some other
standard for Postmasters' salaries.
Postal cards to the number of 1925, 600
were issued during the month Of July.
The bursted Freedman's Bank will pay 90 per
cent. in few months.
The Treasury Department is hurrying for
ward the preparations necessary TO the resump-
ton of specie payment 1t is estimated that
the amount needed will increase the bonded
debt to $3.50, 0O0, 900.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-09
ANDREWS BAZAAR.
The Cheapest and Most Popular Hlu,.
trated Publication of the Day.

The Cheapest and Most Popular Illus.
trated Publication of the Day.
@-Now is the time to subscribe in order
to receive the benefit of the following ex-
t~raordinary offer, to wit:
To all persons sending US fifty cents dur,
ing the month of December we will mail
(post paid) one copy of the Bazaar for one
year. The Bazaar is a beautifully Illus
trated sixteen page Paper, devoted to Fash
ions, Society Notes, Music, Art, Home Gull
ture, Science and General Literature-in fact
is a journal brim full of sparkling reading
matter of the choicest and most select char
acter, which cannot fail to prove entertain
ing to the old and young of both sexes.
The subscription price on and after Jan
uary LIST, 1876, will be advanced to One Dol
lar per Annum, and at that price "The
BAZAR'' will rank as the Cheapest Illus.
trated Family or Fashion journal published
in the World. Therefore it will be seen that
all who subscribe before the period men,
toned will receive, for fifty cents per annum,
a journal that will be considered extraordi-
narily cheap at one dollar. We make this
very liberal offer in order to encourage SUBJ
scriptions during the present month, to the
end that we may be enabled to quadruple
our circulation before the commencement of
the Centennial Year."
@-Holiday number, beautifully illus
trated, now out, and for sale at all News
Stands in Cincinnati, or at our counters.
Price ten cents per copy. Address,
ANDREWS BAZAAR,
rs & rs w. Fourth St., Cincinnati, o.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-09
rs & rs w. Fourth St., Cincinnati
A Famous Medical Institution.
LErnm Ehicann Tirnns

The name of DR.. r. V. Pierce, of Buffalo,
n. Y, has become as familiar to the people
all over the country as Household words"
His wonderful remedies, his pamphlets and
books, and his large medical experience,
have brought him into prominence and given
him a solid reputation. The Times, in the
present issue, presents a whole-page COM
munication from DIR. Pierce, and our readers
may gain from it some idea of the vast pro-
portions of his business and the merits of his
medicines. He has at Buffalo a mammoth
establishment, appropriately named "The
Worlds D~ispensary," where patients are
treated, and the remedies compounded.
Here nearly a hundred persons are employed
in the several departments, and a corps of
able and skilled physicians stand ready to
alleviate the sufferings of humanity by the
most approved methods. These physicians
are in frequent consultation with DIR. Pierce,
and their combined experience is brought to
bear on the successful treatment of obstinate
cases. The Doctor is a man of alarge medi-
cal experience, and his extensive knowledge
of materia medica has been acknowledged
by presentations of degrees from two OF the
first Medical Colleges in the land.
If you would patronize Medicines, scien-
tiically prepared by askilled Physician and
Chemist, use DR.. Pierce's Family Medicines.
Golden Medical Discovery is nutritious,
tonic, Alternative and blood-cIeansing, and an
unequaled Cough Remedy; Pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets, scarcely larger than mustard
seeds, constitute an agreeable and reliable
physic Favorite Prescription, a remedy for
debilitated females; Extract of Smart Weed,
a magical remedy for Pain, Bowel Com.
plants, and an unequaled Liniment for both
human and horse.iesh; while his DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy is known the world over as
the greatest specific for Catarrh and " Cold
in the Head" ever given to the public. They
are sold by Druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-09

ton than itever has been at any time since
the commencement of your administration.
1t is not very strong in numbers, nor in the
classes of its ships, but what there are of
them are in as good condition as it is prac-
ticable to keep such materials of war, under
the various and trying conditions to which
they are in the nature of their service con-
stantly exposed. A far larger proportion
than usual of our wooden ships are ready for
service. Our iron-clad feet is efficient, our
store-houses are fairly stocked with ord
nance, equipments and supplies, and we
have on hand a fair supply Of the best ma
terial for the building and repair Of ships:
The service has been placed in this state of
efficiency, compared with what existed a
few years ago, by utilizing, except in the
case of eight sloops built under a special ap-
preparation, what could be spared from cur
rent appropriations, and from appropria-
tons made during the Cuban emergency,
and applying these means practically and
steadily toward pnttiDg what was worth saw
ing of the navy, as it existed, in as perma-
nent, good condition as the state of the ships
and means at command permitted: The
wisdom of this policy is, I think, illustrated
by the strength of our position to-day. 1t
would also be well, l think, if Congress
would afford means to finish at once all the
repairs to the five double turreted monitors,
since, when they are finished according to
present design, our iron-clad fleet will be
much more powerful, and they are, while
undergoing repairs, useless for any present
purpose, and the process of repairing them
out of what can be spared from current ap-
preparations, not only cripples the depart.
ment in all its other operations, but is, OF
course, very slow. With these added to il
our iron-clad force would, for purposes OF
defense, present a very substantial barrier
to anything which would cross the seas and
attempt to enter our ports.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-09
BuRNErrs COCAINE. See Aduertisem,
SCuENcK's MANDRAKE PILLS

Will be found to possess those qualities necessary to
the total eradication of all bilious attacks, prompt
to start the secretions of the liver, and give q healthy
tone to the entire system. Indeed, it is no ordinary
discovery in medical science to have invented a
remedy for these stubborn complaints, which develop
all the results produced by a heretofore free use OF
calomel. a mineral justly dreaded by mankind, and
acknowledged to be destructive in the extreme to the
human system. That the properties of certain vege-
tables comprise all the virtues of calomel without
its injurious tendencies, is now an admitted fact,
rendered indisputable by scientific researches; and
those who use the Mandrake Pills will be fully salts
fed that the best medicines are those provided by
nature in the common herbs and roots of the fields.
These pills open the bowels and correct all bilious
arrangements without salvation or any other Of the
injurious effects of calomel or other poisons. The
secretion of the bile is promoted by these pills, as
will be seen by the altered color of the stools, and
disappearing of the sallow complexion and cleansing
of the tongue.
Ample directions for use accompany each box Of
pills.
Prepared only by ]. II. Schenck & Son, at theii
principal office, corner Sixth and Arch Streets
Philadelphia, and for sale by all druggists and
dealers. Price, IS cents per box.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-09
The Navy Report.

Secretary Robeson's report of naval service
for the year shows that the number of yes.
sells of every class and description now borne
on the navy register is 147, carrying 1876
guns, and 152,492 tons measurement Some
of these are sailing vessels, of little or nc
value as a part of the efficient force fol-
either cruising or fighting purposes of the
present day. Steam vessels, as distinguished
from ironclads or torpedo ships, number %,
OF which rs are tugs; of the remainder, IS
are ready for use when required. Our iron.
clad fleet consists of &c vessels, q of the
Monitor type, 2 torpedo ships, and 3 never
launched. Details are given of the opera.
tons Of the fleet on each of the six stations.
The Secretary has the following to say
upon the condition of the Navy:
1t is gratifying to be able to say the Navy
is now stronger an / in more efficient condi.