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The Osceola times., 1876-10-14
sYSwcf6ft's Four-Mile Record
Beaten.
From tho Spirit Of the Times.

Wednesday, Sept. 27, will long be
memorable in the annals of the Amer
lean turf, as the day on which the
renowned racehorse Ten Brock achieved
his great performance Of beating Fellow
crafi's four mile record OF 7:l94, which
WA The fastest time that distance had ever
been nun in. The Louisville Jockey
club had offered a special purse of 81 900
for any horse beating that record, and
two horses, Mr.. +. b. HarPer's Ten
Bueck four years old, by imp, Phaeton,
dam Fanny Holton, and Mr.. d. J..
Crouse's Add, four year ole, by Revolver,
dam Ekylight, each carrying one hun
Ilen| and four pounds, started. How
Brock successfully accomplished
~ feat, wiping out Fellowcrsfts
g~sn. and installing in is
co own imperishable record OF
,Ss 'ay !, fully described in another
~, Twenty-one years before Mr..
TN.ptroeck had matched the world.re-
ced Lexington, for twenty thousand
ars. to beat Lecompte's four-mile
he of 7:26, and on the Metaire
ur.e at New Orleans, the great son OF
pstop inscribed 7;l9i on the record.
or period of nineteen years this time
ood ~ upequaled on the record, when
,ol,oUcraft. his own grandson, eclipsed
a. saratoga, by running four miles in
.,ol IL must have been a source of in
cnss I qualification to that veteran
o,tsman, en Mr.. Ten Brock, who years
~ @ scured 80 prominently on the Amer
Wy Wy ,nrf, mi 10 see a horse named in compli-
san ,, of himself, and sired by a stallion
,',e I" himself imported, achieve this won
|-S,I performance. Ten Brock and
os; ,;, r;der, Walker, have covered them
n,I .slve. with undyiug honor by this
1 sehs ssh;srement nor must Ten Brock
as,, :.aI and companion, Add, he forgotten,
I''songh he failed to accomplish the
~ which Ten Brock 80 successfully
performed.
The Osceola times., 1876-10-14

Too Much FOR ENDURAyCE-An
English visitor to the centennial. says fhe
New York Herald, wandered into cheap
restaurant in Shanty Town and ordered
a steak. After desperate efforts to over.
come its toughness he next called for a
napkin. The landlord came out from
the kitchen in his shirt sleeves and ad-
dressed the astonished guest in indignant
terms: "Sa-ay young feller, this amt
no centennial The next thing you'll be
wanting, suppose, is grand pianer -
The Osceola times., 1876-10-14
VIII the Washington Monument Stand
or Fall!

Members of the United States commits
sion to superintend the completion
of the Washington monument do moi
expect TO see any work done this
fall. No work by act of congress can he
proceeded with until an examination is
made of the foundation by the army
commission just appointed by the secre.
tary of war. 1t has been stated that the
stone in the base of the monument is not
strong enough to bear its weight when
finished. This, however, is not believed
by those who should know. The main
point of examination will be the quality
of dirt around and underneath the mon
ument to a depth Of eighty or ninety
feet. 1t is feared that about twenty feet
under the surface there is sort of quick
sand, the monument being but a short
distance from the river. In that case
the great weight would probably press
the quicksand out into the river and 10
sink the monument. There is another
fear that the different strata of earth in.
cline downward toward the river, and
that by the slipping out Of one Of these
layers the monument would either come
down, or on the supposition many have
that the leaning tower of Pisa was moi
built as it now stands, Washington would
have leaning monument.
The Osceola times., 1876-10-14
A Son Dives Three Times for His
Drowning Mother. and Rescues
Her.

On Thursday, the oath ultimo., Fred.
Bergman, aged twelve years, rowed his
mother, Mrs. Bergman, and two of his
sisters, both younger than himself,
across the st. Croix, in New Brunswick,
to Calais, in a small boat. When they
reached their destination, Fred. helped
one of the little girls to Chamber up the
wharf, and took her to n place of safe
ty. When he returned for the other, he
The Osceola times., 1876-10-14

al sYMPATHIzE sincerely with your
grief, said a French lady to a recently
widowed friend. "To lose such hus-
band as yours" "Ah, yes, he was very
good. And then, you see, such mis-
fortune is always great, .or one knows
what kind of husband one has lost, but
can not tell what kind of a man one will
find to succeed him."
The Osceola times., 1876-10-14

A SEA SERPENT.-A California paper
says that an infant sea-scrpent has been
picked up near cape Flattery and taken
to fort Townsend, Oregon, whence il
will be sent TO the centennial. 1t ID
seven feet long, and its lead is twenty
two inches in circumference. 1t has q
pair of formidable looking jaws, thickly
set with powerful teeth, and has prom
inent fin, above and below, running the
entire length Of the body.
The Osceola times., 1876-10-14

THE problem of feeding the young and
poor physiologically is not easy, but is
simple If considered from the scientific
point of view. That the bulk of the
food of the poorer classes must ALWAYS
Pc bre:d is unquestionable. Peas, beans
and other like leguminous plants, how.
ever rich in albumen, can never be ex-
pected to successfully compete with
bread; first, because they require steep
ing in water and boiling for hours--next,
they become hard so easily, and then are
indigestible, while at all times they are
not so easy to be digested as bread. But
bread is not so good food as meat-and
here chemistry comes in, and shows that
bread soaked in broth made from extract
OF meat Is as good food as the best meat
diet Indeed, the most eminent chem.
lists and psychologists are now agreed in
the opinion that, when people will use
more of such simple vitalizing extract,
and little less tea, for their strength
and health, they will be willing to dis
pense with the present arti6ces of cook
cry a. numberless as they are useless.
The Osceola times., 1876-10-14

COMMUNAL BLIss-A henpecked hus-
band declared that the longer he lived
with his wife the more he was smitten by
hr.
The Osceola times., 1876-10-14

The centennial exhibition will, judg-
y from present indications, prove to be
be most successful Of any International
Shibition. Last Saturday was the one
and fifteenth day. At that
'l3 paying visitors had been
20 Vienna exhibition was
one hundred and eightysix days
,nd the totnl number of paying visitors
My reached 8, ,492, ,622. The Vienna pro-
teeds at the gate were 1894, ,O25.2j while
at Philadelphia on Saturday, 1884 ,534
had already been received-a sum nearly
Y double the Vienna income. The nom
paying visitors at the centennial exhibi-
tion down to Friday last numbered
l,S6S,509, making total attendance of
5,4S9,s2 in the one hundred and fifteen
days At London in 1856 there were
6,039, 1875 visitors in one hundred and
forty-one days; in 1862, 6,2ll, lOS in one
hundred and seventy.one days, and at
Paris in 1867, s,S05,O69 in two hundred
and seventeen days. The receipts at
Paris were 50, 2,2OS,675. The receipts at
GPhiladelphia already approximate this
Fum, and there still remains thilty-one
shibiton days.-N. y. Tribune.
The Osceola times., 1876-10-14
TIMELY TOPICS.

IHE Choetaw and Chicksgaw Indians
VA! not allow negro children to attend
their schools.
The Osceola times., 1876-10-14

lHE excess of unmarried women should
y diminished, if philanthropy and
opend political economy are capable of
sPpling with the evil There ale two
Hays OF solving the difficulty. One is
= equalization of the sexes by means of
sided emigration of surplus women
new settlements Gov. SHADES down
49, schoolmistresses married so rapidly
eseef going west that their successors
were put under two thousand dollar
bonds to remain single for three years.
In many cases this proved no obstacle to
impetuous wooers, who paid the pecu.
mary forfeit that they might be united
to the object Of their affection. The
same thing is going on every day in New
Zealand.
The Osceola times., 1876-10-14

CoLE YOUNGER, one of the ruffians
Of the bank robbing gang who recently
me TO grief in Minnesota, has written
: 'ester' IN which he says: clam proud
70 ~ we were raised by religious pa.
senn and attendedSunday school regular
N our boyhood, and, too, had charge Of
: oible'class while in Texas. at Sevne,
la.as county. / have ever respected
eexistianty. have known the right
eno indorse it. ! condemn the wrong
~ yet the wrong pursued me-"
The Osceola times., 1876-10-14

A &c -tsin bird 10 certain vood,
Feeling the spring-time warm and good,
sang 10 1t, in melodious mood
ON other neighboring branches stood
Other birds who heard his song;
Loudly he sang, and clear and strong;
sweetiy he sang, and II stirred the1r gall
There should be voice muhcal.
They said TO themselves, We must stop that tsFd
He's the sweetest voice vss ever heard.
That rich, deep chest-note, cyystal-clear,
Il mortify ing thing to hear.
We have sharp beaks and harder wings,
Yet We hut croak this fellow sinRsl"
so they planned and planned and killed the hiri
With the sweetest voice ever heard.
| Passing bis grave one happy May,
| | brought this English da'sy away.
| Tkomes Bailey ALirich is Afissfic.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-27
THAT INCOME.
An Old Partner OF Tilden Speaks Out in
Meeting,

An Old Partner OF TiIden Speaks Out In
Meeting,
~. Globe Democrat, Sept H.
The other day a reporter of the
Globe Democrat dropped in at the ST..
Louis Transfer Office to see Mr.. VIM,
d. Griswold, President of the ST. Louis:
Alton & Terre Haute Railroad, and
that during his incumbency Mr.. Sam
uel j. Tilden acted as the attorney of
that corporation. How Slippery Sam
surreptiously got away with vast
quantity OF the company's bonds with
out accounting therefor has already
been narrated by Mr.. Griswold through
the columns of this paper. The report
or suspected that Mr.. G. might be in
possession of other evidences of crook
edness on the part of the Democratic
Presidential nominee, and therefore the
object of the visit. ''About this
INCOME TAX"
said Mr.. Griswold, ''there can be no
doubt the Old rascal did make false re-
turns, and that he committed perjury in
swearing to them. lam personally ia
milar with facts and circumstances
which show that he was guilty of DELHI
crate Justification. I have just written
a letter to the New York Times, naming
certain party in that city who will tes-
tify to an item of $50, 900 in the income
of Mr.. Tilden which he criminally omit
ted for the purpose of evading the pay
ment of his tax. I suppose the Times
will interview the gentleman I desig-
mated, as his statement will be conclu-
s'9e of Tilden's guilt. Oh, the blink
eyed devil would rob his grandmother
if the consid eration was sufficient, and
he would
COMMIT PERJURY
as quick as burglar would break into
house. I am a Democrat myself,
but l will be continentally id, ram
med, and jammed before vote for a
bond thief and tax swindler. There are
thousands of good Democrats who feel
as l do on this subject, and who will
keep away from the polls rather than
vote for the bogus reformer."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-27
Cultivated PigmIes.

The African pigmies who were cap
tured and taken to Italy three years
ago, are now receiving experimental
instruction at the hands of royal edu-
Gators, although the English Geograph-
ical Society asserted that they were in
capable Of instruction. These wild
dwarfs have proved otherwise. They
are now intelligent, afectionate and
grateful. They speak Italian with
elegance and clearness of enunciation,
and read and write with facility. Their
handwriting is good, and their thoughts
are expressed in their written compost
tons with clearness and simplicity and
with wonderful originality. They also
read Latin with comprehension and
intelligence. The eldest, Tho Tukuba,
studies arithmetic, and adds, substracts
and multiplies mentally. He also has
a passionate love for music, and, from
hearing the lessons on the piano given
to others, is able to repeat them by ear.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-27

| hands on high and swear that when the Demo
cratic party uttered these words they lied
[Applause.l
we then grew magnanimous and let Dodge
out of Fort Lafayette. Where do you suppose
Dodge is now? He is in Wisconsin What do
you suppose he is doing? Making speeches.
Who for and what for? Tilden. Hendricks,
honesty, and reform. Laughter This same
JacSp thompson whom the Democratic party
shlelded-thl same man hired men to
burn down the city of New York. Right in
TINS great and splendid city of New York, that
slts so ike queen on the Atlantic, men rose
up in mobs to burn down asylums. simply be-
cause their walls sheltered the offspring of
another race. Every one who raised his hand
against these institutions should have had his
brains crushed to atoms. It WAS disgraca to
humanity itself. Applause Every man
that WAS in that mob lis tonight for honesty
and reform. [Applsusel
Recoliect, my friends, that it WAS the Demo
cratic party that did these devilish things when
the great heart of the North was filed with
agony and grief. Recolleet that they did these
things when the future of your country and
mine was trembling in the balance of war.
recollect that they did these things when the
question was liberty. or slavery and perish.
recollect that they did these things when your
brothers and husbands and dear ones were
bleeding or dying on the battlefields of the
South, lying there alone at night, the blood
slowly oozing through the wounds of death:
when your brothers. husbands and sons were
ylng N the hospitals dreaming Of home-pic-
lures they loved Recollect that the Democra-
,y did these things when those dear to Won
were in the pison pens, with no covering bv
night except the sky, with no food but what
,heSwOrms refused, with no friends except in
sanity and death. Applause iHAE
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-27

We must be wunst agin made theil
guardians, and protectors and guides.
| They must wllnst more labor for us, and
under our direckshun. We shood never
ask that they be absolutely re-enslayed,
but they must be made our wards ez it
We're. They must not be elevated TO
the rites Nv citizenship till they are Fit
Tor it. They must shut up their skcoI-
houses and their churches, and resoom
their normal condishun till SIGH time ez
they hev progressed fur enuff to be
safely intrusted with the rite Nv free.
men.
Ibis is wat we want, and this is wat
we must hev to hev peece Eff the Mig
ger will consent to this Their will be
peece-otherwise not. Wecan't endoor
the present condishun Nv things no
longer.
This fall will decide the matter. Eff
I1lden is elected, all will be we'll. With
a Dlmocratic President and Dimoerat-
&c Congress, with the Southern claims
all allowed, with capital, and the means
to compel niger labor, the South will
enter upon new career of prosperity.
and he almost as well off ez it wood hey
bin he'd we succeeded in conkerin the
NV the Goriller, Linkin, and
establishin government NV our own.
Dimocrats Nv the North to your posts
PETROLEUM Y. Massey,
Reformer.
P. SIN the interests Nv reform I |
hev arranged for four hundred Kentuc-
Ky Dlmocrats to go over into Injeany in
October, provided the money for their
is forthcomin. We are waitin
anxiOusly.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-27
He Had to Go it Alone.

CT want to be shown through the
Treasury Department" said six-foot
Centennial visitor, with buster and
carpet-bag attached, stepping up to
wellknown official in the Department.,
the other day. "I am afraid, sir, that
you will have to trust to your own
ingenuity in your wanderings, as there
is none to accompany YOU" politely
replied the official. "Well, what in
thunder are all these young men doing
here?" The courteous official couldn't
or wouldn't tell the truth, that the
young men were hard at work watch
ing the young ladies taking their daily
noon exercise, but simply said, "They
are not paid to act as guides" ooh,
well, dog-gone it, I'll pay 'em if that's
all" But when convinced that it would
hurt their feelings if such 3 proposal
were made, he concluded he would have
to go it alone Washington Star.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-27
Tilden's Fearful War Record.

From the day when Tilden was nomi-
mated for the Presidency by the Demo.
cratic party developments of his anti
patriotic war record commence, land there
is scarcely week since in which there is
not something more damaging revealed.
It is we'll known to those who have
strong memories of the events
of the rebellion that Mcclellan,
while commander of the Army
of the Potomac, was so dissatisfied
with the administration of Abraham
Lincoln and the Republican Congress
that he was inclined to march upon
Washington rather than upon the Con-
federate army, and by force overturn
the party in power. A Washington
correspondent of the New York Times
relates memorable "Reminiscences of s.
j. Tilden in connection with this wicked
and anti-patriotic scheme:
In 1864, just after the battles of the Wilder
ness, party of gentlemen were assembled in
q room at Wizards, and in the course Of an
animated conversation, one of them used the
following language: Gentlemen, the mis-
take we made was that we did not turn Nc
Clellan with his fine army on Washington and
clean out the whole thing meaning the Ad-
rninistration of Mr.. Lincoln. He who gave ut
terance to this patriotic remark was SAMUEL
J. TILDEN.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-27
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
Cheering News from Different Parts of the
COnntry-Tflden's Edict that Indiana NIus
be Carried at All Hazards.

Cheering News from Different Parts of the
Conntry-Tflden's Edict that Indiana Must
be Carried ut All Hazards.
WASHINGTON, September 15.-Secre-
tary Chandler returned here yesterday,
and is very jubilant over the political
outlook, and says that the reports re-
ceived by the National Committee frola
Ohio and Indiana are such as to
leave no doubt in his mind that
both States will be carried in
October by the Republicans. From
now until the day of election the Ma
tional Committee propose to make the
campaign red hot for the Democrats.
Within ten days both States will be
filled with able speakers-men like In
gersoll, Blaine, Hale, Frye, Kasson,
Woodford, and General Banks. The
Secretary expects that New York will be
carried for Hayes, and that even New
Jersey will cast its electoral vote for
the Republicans. From California it is
learned that the disaffection over the
Chinese question has been overcome,
and it is probable that both California
and Oregon will vote for Hayes and
Wheeler. OF the Southern States,
Chandler relies on North Carolina,
South Carolina and Florida to give Re-
publican maJorities. In abiding to the
Democratic "roorback" that Schurz
lad been withdrawn from
the canvass, and that he
was dissatisfied with the
speeches, Mr.. Chandler said it was all
"bosh;" that the relations between him.
self and MIR. Schurz were most cordial,
and nothing had occurred to interrupt
them. After the October elections, the
National Committee has arranged to send
a Union brigage, consisting of twelve
strong speakers, all ex-Major Generals
in the Union army, into the South
ern States, to speak until the Presiden-
tial election. Mr.. Chandler believes
that with an effective canvass six South
ern States can be carried for Hayes and
Wheeler, and such canvass will be
made. Generals Banks and Stewart L.
Woodford will be among the twelve
who have agreed to go.
INDIANA MUST BE CARRIED.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, September IL
There is great excitement among Dem
ocrats here from some reason which is
yet unexplained, and there appears to
be great fear among them that Blue
Jeans Williams is to be badly scooped.
The members of tho State Central
Committee were in " strictly
private conference last night,
and to a late hour this morn
ing. "Phocion Howard occupied
seat in the caucus as the proxy of some
member. Toe trouble among them
seems to be based on the difficulty of
raising funds to aid the Indiana Dem
ocrats in colonizing Kentucky voters
in the southern counties, There is no
doubt the session was held last night in
obedience to an edict from Tilden that
Indiana must be carried at all hazards,
no matter at what cost, OR in what way.
Arrangements are being made for an
extensive shipment of Democratic re-
peaters from the Illinois side of the
Wabash to Indiana, and it behooves
Republicans and their committees to be
on constant guard for these unlawful
| proceedings.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-27
Detected by its Smell.

The Bulletin of the French Anti
Tobacco Society, in relation to recent
case of poisoning in Paris, recalls an
episode of another celebrated case
that of Count Bocarme, in Belgium,
accused Of poisoning many years ago.
While DR.. Stas, Professor Of Chemistry
in the Brussels Ecole Polytechnique,
was engaged in examining the intesti-
ness of the victim, he called out to
those present to cease smoking, as he
could not endure the smell of tobacco.
1t turned out that no one was smoking,
but ray of light was shed upon the
hitherto obscure case, and the appro-
pirate tests being applied, nicotine, the
instrument of the crime was discover
ed. Had Prof. Stas, been a smoker,
this detection would never have taken
place, and the culprit who was executed
would have escaped.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-27

ANOTHER prominent Liberal Repub-
lican has returned to the old fold, and
will vote for Hayes and Wheeler. It
is William Everett, of Cambridge, son
of the renowned Edward Everett. He
has written letter in which he gives
some very strong reasons for his course.
The large majority of men of his Glass
have pursued the same policy this year.
They recognize the fact that restora-
ton of the Democratic party to power
is restoration of the same element that
controlled the government prior to the
war, end therefore reaction toward
the principles that found their express
ion in the institution of slavery. Hon
est, patriotic men are not ready for
such a reaction; and until the Demo-
cratic party can get rid of every sus-
picion of reaction of this kind, it
cannot come into power.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-27
The Star in the East.

Maine has always been known as one
of the guiding political stars in our
national politics. When she votes in
September she gives direction for
other states. Her vote indicates the IT,
dial wave of the year. And therefore
sagacious politicians always look to the
result there with profound interest.
Maine voted on the 18th for Governor
and members of Congress, and the re-
suit is one of the grandest Republican
trlumphs ever recorded in the history
of her politics. The vote polled was
the largest ever cast in that state. It
will be over 1906 The largest vote pre-
viously cast was in 1872, for Governor,
when l26, 6l8 votes were polled. The
majority in 1875, on Governor, was
1872. It is now at least 16, 900; a gain
of about 800 per cent. The RepubG-
cans have elected all the Members of
Congress, and a majority four to one
in each branch of the Legis Iature,
The tidal wave is certainly changing,
and the flow of the current is now with
the Republican party. The overwhelm-
ing victory in Maine is the more
remarkable because that state has been
afflicted with the very intensity of hard
times. Her shipping interest has suf-
fered fearfully. Her cotton and WOODEN
manufactures have stopped entirely, OF
are working on half time, thus tens OF
thousands of persons have been thrown
out of employment. And, notwith-
standing the persuasive cry of Tilden,
reform, and better times, the people
have voted down the Democrats with
an emphatic condemnation, which will
be heard from the st. Lawrence to the
Rio Grande.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-27

LADY-"Too bad, too bad, Baily. On
~ your second morning here, and you
are quite intoxicated |" Gardener
"Nosh a bit Look agin, my ladish; itsh
because Pm new Minesh a face YOU
mustn't get ushed to, and then you'll find
I amt half SO drunksh as I might
sheen to stranger p