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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
A Warming to Walters.
From the New York Sun.

In a popular downtown restaurant
there was waiter who had an un-
pleasant habit of saying Zone mo-
ment" Otherwise he was good
natured, affable man, who did his work
well, but he was unable to break him
self of his one failing If, while he was
wiping a knife Or a spoon, a customer
asked him for the salt he would say
Zone moment" finish the knife, and
then hand the salt.
If he was polishing glass and
gentlemen who had a cup of coffee
beside him asked for the sugar, the
waiter would not set the glass down,
serve the guest, and then resume his
labor, but Zone moment" and the
sugar afterward. If the customer
failed to see it in that light and repeat
ed his request, the waiter would give
his napkin a deprecatory flourish, and
inpart to his reply a slight accent of
reproach, "O-one moment, sir"
Last week the waiter went over to
Jersey to visit some friends, and after a
day of innocent hilarity he returned to
the railroad station from which he was
to embark for home. While waiting
for the train he strolled out on the
track and stood looking down the long
perspective Of the road. He did not
observe an express train that was
booming down from the opposite direc-
ton, but he heard the warning voice
of a man on the platform shouting:
"Get offthe track Get offthe track"
Gone moment, sir p was the invol-
untary reply, and he tarried for an in
slant to straighten a kink in his watch
chain; but the express train was in a
hurry, and In one moment he had gone
where moments are as years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
Pecu1iarities of Henry Clay.

In his day it was the habit of thu
polite world of the capital, dressed il
their gayest, to repair to the Senate
chamber to listen to him whenever he
spoke. He was everybody's pet. No
man has ever had such adulation since.
No man has ever got habitually such
splendid and brilliant audiences as he.
Those were days of grand debate, when
the press had not gained so much pres
tige-before oratory had given way in
Congress to the reporters. There were
no holes in the sky then, and you could
not prick an orator, like a pretty bauble,
with a witty sarcasm. Clay never dis
appointed-he would not have dared.
But he dared things that no other man
now or then would dare. Atthe end of
a brilliant passage he would pause de-
liberately, and walk six steps across the
aisle to Robert J. Walkers snuff-box,
and taking pinch gracefully between
his finger and thumb, return to his
desk and but it with such ineffable dis
tinction to his nostrils that the whole
audience was ready to burst with ap-
plause. With any other. man this
would have been ridiculous. CLAY
made, it sublime. It was the great
King going to. bed in the presence o.
his admiring courtiers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Women

EEZaDeIn CaQy STANTON on w OMEN.
A short time since a writer well
known to many readers, had a CONVEX,
sation with Mrs. Elizabeth Cady STAR
ton, in which interview the lady is re-
ported to have expressed herself in the
following characteristic manner:
Theodore Tilton need not have shirk-
ed an acknowledgment of his associa-
ton with Mrs Woodruff Victoria
Woodhull's acquaintance would be re-
filming to any man. In her own char
acter and person there is never any
thing but refinement in word or move
ment. She has beautiful face THE
ideal Of spirituality. Victoria Wood
hull has done work for woman that
none of us could have done. She has
faced and dared men to call her the
names that make women shudder,
while she chucked principle, like med
icine, down their Threats. She has
risked and realized the sort of ignominy
that would have paralyzed any of us
who have longer been called strong
minded. Leaping into the brambleI
that were too high for us to see owe.
them, she broke path into their clos
and thorny interstices, with a steadfas
faith that glorious principles would tri
umph at last over conspicuous igno
miny, although her life might be sac
rifced. And when with meteors
dash, she sank into dismal swamp,
we could not lift her out of the mire or
buoy her through the deadly waters,
She will be as famous as she has been
infamous, made SO by benighted 81
cowardly men and women. Theodore
Tilton was ashamed to acknowledge
Victoria Woodruff; but in the annals
Of emancipation the name of which ht
was ashamed will have its own higl
place as a deliverer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
An Electric Stock indicator

The tower Of Marye's electric stock
reporter is completed, but the dial has
not yet been put in place. The tower,
which is constructed principally of
iron, stands on his new four-storv brick
building, and is visible from all the
central parts Of the city. The list of
stocks will be painted around the cir
conference of the dial. A hand like
that Of the larger hand of clock will
point to the name of the stock, when
the proper figures will appear in an
opening opposite the name. Just as the
hand on the dial is moved in San Fran
cisco, and just as the disc containing
the figures is turned, so will be moved
and turned the hand and disk of the
dial In the tower here. The wires in
use between this city and San Francisco
may be used; it will only be necessary
to connect with them at the two ends.
The dial is to be of glass, and will be
lighted up of nights by small electrical
lights of novel construction, the inven-
ton of an amateur electrician of this
city. The electricity for use in making
the light is obtained from the atmos-
phere at no expense but for the first
cost Of the apparatus, which is very
simple. The apparatus to be used in
producing the light consists of an insu-
lated steel rod projecting about five
feet above the roof Of the tower. From
the top of this rod branch outward and
upward thirty-six small, steel wires Or
rods arranged like the ribs of an
umbrella when the umbrella is half
closed and reversed. At the upper end
of each Of these steel ribs is fastened a
small cord Of silk, each cord holding
suspended in the air at the height of
some 500 feet an india-rubber balloon
about four inches in diameter. Thus
is the electricity collected in the atmos-
phere and brought down to the central
rod: A ground wire is brought up till
almost in contact with the atmospheric
rod, and betewen the two are placed
the carbon points that produce the
lights Virginia Ctv (Neu0. EnterDyise.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
A Singular PrOgnOsticatOr.
Commercial says

The Louisville Commercial says:
The goose bone predictions are
perhaps more closely watched in Ken
lucky than, anywhere else, and it may
be called the Kentucky weather
prophet. In many parts Of the state
the farmers consult it, and prepare for
their crops in accordance
with its predictions. It is said that
there is family in Woodford county
that have fifty Of these little prophets
carefully. laid away, and declare that
not one of them made a mistake in
their predictions. Let us turn to this
years prophecy. We must take the
breast bone of last springs goose, no
other will do, for the prophecy does not
extend beyond the year in which the
goose is Matched. Thanks to friend,
we have such bone It must be di-
vided into three different parts, which
represent the three divisions of winter.
The breast bone of a goose is translu-
cent, but at places has cloud-like blots
upon it. These blots denote cold
weather.
Looking at the bone before us, we
find little cold weather about the first
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
A Pauner,S PrOnhecy.

Nearly half a century ago a woman
by the name of Loomis, living in the
town of Pawlet, Vt, was compelled to
ask relief from the town which was re-
fused. She finally became a charge
upon the town, and she then made a
VOW that the town of Pawlet should
not be without pauper for fifty years
She will be one hundred years old in
October, 1876, and the fifty years will
expire some time next winter. She
has had offers of marriage during her
dependence, but her answer always
was, !" would not swap the town of
Pawlet for the best man living" The
town house, where she now resides, is
over a mile from Pawlet village. Last
fall she made her annual visit to the
village on foot.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
An Indian School.

Snow this morning AS the house is
very open, not banked up, and we have
no stove for the dining-room, and only
small shedt-iron tent-stove for the
school-room, it is impossible to keep
comfortable, especially our half-clad
scholars-there being but three boys
who have pantaloons; the thighs Of the
others are naked. besides being other
wise thinly clad. Of course they must
suffer in such weather. Snow enough
fell to mark out fox and geese upon
this morning, and some pains were tax
en- to show the children how to play
this game. I have found that to awak-
en- an interest in some civilized sports,
different from their customary games,
is one step toward awakening an inter-
est in the school and it's lessons. In this
they resemble our own children; re-
move outside sports and theplaygromd
from our common schools, and we
should find their interest in them mate
rally weakened. | have accordingly
taken part with them in their sports
endeavoring ia introduce suitable ones
for the playground. In the middle of
the afternoon flock of wild turkeys
passed near the schoolhouse, upon
which the wild instincts of our schol-
airs were manifested by general stam-
pede; and an exciting foot-race, bows
and arrows in hand, was at once en-
tored upon, in which, as might be ex-
pected, the turkeys were the winners.
The scene was somewhat entertaining
and enlivening' and could not decide
which were the greater curiosity-the
wild turkeys running and skulking
among the brush, or the wild boys and
girls who were chasing them. But ]
was abundantly more successful in col
lecting these untamed children into
school again than they were in catch
ing the turkeys. These boys are quite
expert in the use of the bow and ar
rows, being furnished with them nearly
as soon as they can run alone. Boys
six or eight years of age will not only
kill bird no larger than my thumb, at
the distance Of several yards, but, as |
have seen, actually cut off its head with
the arrow-BaHey-A Quaker Amoag
the Indians.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
Personal.

MIR. MOODY, has arrived in Jackson
vile, Fla, accompanied by his family.
The archives of Yale College contain
a letter written to the q Principal" some
years ago, asking him to send a speci-
men of his penmanship, the writer de-
Slrlng to take q course in some CONNER
cial college.
A GENTLEMAN of Castleton has in his
possession the dinner bell which used to
call Horace Greeley to his meals when
ne was learning the printers trade at
Poultney, Vt. 1t will be placed among
the relics at the Centennial.
JUDGE SKINNER, who was appointed
postmaster of Union Square, Oswego
county, in 1924 by President John
Quincy Adams, has held that position
up to the present time. He is now in
his 8Oth year and has served four terms
in the State Legislature, two in the AS
sembly, and two in the Senate.
The President of the Virginia State
Agricultural Society has sent a commu-.
nication to the Legislature of that
state, asking an appropriation of $4,000
to be added to like sum from the Ag-
ricultural Society, for the purpose of
holding a state fair at Richmond, as a
partial compensation for Virginia's lack
of representatives at the Centennial.
The production of pig iron in the
United States in 1875 isreported official
ly at about 100000 net tons as COM
pared with the production of 1874. The
consumption of pig iron in 1875 was
less than in any year since 1871.
GENERAL JOHN J. KNOX, who died at
his home in Knoxboro, Oneida county,
New York, Jan. %, was born at Cana
johafie in 1871. He had lived in Onei-
ola county since 1911. In 1913 he mar
ried Sarah Ann Curtis, who died about
year ago. Their three sons are the
Rev. DIR. William E. Knox, of Elmira;
John }. Knox, the Comptroller of the
Currency, and the Rev. Charles E.
Knox, of the Newark Theological Sem
mary. Three daughters are also living.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
Miscellaneous Items.

IHE emigration returns issued at
Liverpool for 1875 show decrease in
the year of 1903 persons.
The school children of America
annually pay $503OO,OOO for school
books, of which it is said the publish
ers pocket $33, 100000.
A BARREL of sauer-kraut," in which
there had accumulated large quantity
of gas, exploded in cellar at Liberty,
Steuben county, N. Y, few days ago
with loud report, badly damaging
several articles which stood near it.
A LAD at Midway, Fulton county, Ill,
while wiping himself with ragged
towel few days ago, inserted his head
through hole in the cloth. While in
this situation he was suddenly taken
with a fit and fell, and the towel closing
around his throat he was strangled to
death
INSIDE of the lantern containing the
" headlight OF the locomotive that
draws the fast mail train westward to
Rochester, n. Y, was found a. few days
ago dove, which must have flown
against the glass between Rochester and
Syracuse. The bird had a broken leg,
but was otherwise uninjured.
A BROOKLYN gas consumer was guilty
Of disbelieving a gas meter. He first
got an injunction forbidding the gas
company from removing his meter and
then he had it tested. It proved to re-
cord six per cent. more gas than passed
through it. The gas company refund
ed the money.
A BOY in Foxcroft named Bartlett set
a small trap for rabbits. The next
morning it was gone. He set a larger
ene,. and, visiting tthe next day, found
IN the trap a large owl firmly secured,
and having attached to him the missing
trap. The owl measured five feet from
tip to tip.
SOME nav salt, that it is not the BUS
mess Of private men to NEEDLE with
the governments bold and dishonest
saying, which is fit to come from no
mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave.
To say that private men have nothing
to do with government is to say that
private men have nothing to do with
their own happiness or misery; that
people ought not to concern themselves
whether they be naked or clothed, fed
or starved, deceived or instructed, pro-.
-tected or destroyed
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
Marshal MacMah0n.
London Times Paris Correspondence.

LILIES IdI1S SpOuQo0Co.
Like every man who has led an out
door life, the Marshal is frank, not
knowing how to dissemble either his
hkings or his antipathies. He has a
horror Of long speeches and long din
ners, thinking that in both cases it is a
waste Of time When speeches are
prepared for him-he does not COM
pose them himself-they have to be
short, and express the chief idea in one
concise phrase. It was thus that he
willingly said If the White Flag
comes [ do not answer for order in the
streets. I summon to me the moderate
men of long prepared phrases and of
speeches with three heads" When he
takes a journey and listens to the Off
cial harangues, there is slightly ironi-
cal smile about his lips which would
cut the orator short if he did not keep
his eyes fixed upon. his manuscript.
After his visit to the south during the
inlndations, I heard some one con-
graduate him on the trip. The Marshal
stopped him, with his good humored
knocking smile, "Take care, you are
going to make me a little Speech
Then, to neutralize his sarcasm, he
added: "No, have not had success,
but | have simply shown the people
they were not forgotten, and that has
given me pleasure Like all men who
have had to carry en- a war of strategy
in Africa, the Marshal is distrustful
without ill-Will, for he only distrusts
those represented to him as his enc
mics, and toward them he shows. sus-
ceptibility. It would, however, be a
mistake to think he obeys domestic in
fiuence. The general opinion asserts
the contrary, and he has puzzled every
body as concerns this opinion. He has
no preference for any party. The Boz
napartists reckon on him because of his
"reminiscences, the legitimists because
of his ministers All are mistaken.
For the empire he has only preserved
recollection, not gratitude, for it owed
more to him than he to the empire.
For legitimacy'he has preserved only
respect, for he could not be devoted to
q principle which denies the flag of the
Malakoff and Magenta.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16, 1876.
LOVE SONG.
BY T. B. ALDRICH.

BY T. B. ALDRICH.
Good night have to say good night
To such host Of peerless things
Good night unto that fragile. hand,
All queenly with it's weight of rings;
Good night to fond, uplifted eyes,
Good night to braids of chestnut hair;
Good night unto that perfect mouth,
And all the sweetness nestled there.
That snowy hand detains ne. Then
I'll have to say good night again.
But there will come time, my love,
When, if I read our star Alright,
/ shall not linger on this porch
With my adieus. Till then, good night.
You wish that time were now? And I.
You do not blush to wish it sc {?
You would have blushed yourself to deatl
To own as much year ago.
What, both these snowy hands? All ! the1
I'll have to say good night again.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
TlrifeS.

The world is made up of trifes. The
grand movements of great events, and
the changes of Empires, are founded in
causes, very generally, which would be
pronounced trifes by the world. Yes,
trifes light as air have led to some
of the most important discoveries we
have. The fall of an apple gave New
ton the clue to gravitation; the rising
up of the lid of a tea-kettle gave us our
railroads, steamboats,, ocean steamers,
and thousand other things, not to
speak of the press-that, combined, put
the world centuries ahead in the mys-
teries of the universe and the purposes
of God To the observation of flower
dimly pictured on stone, we owe the
philosophical researches in chemistry
and light which ultimately gave us the
daguerreotype.
KENTUCKY judges and legislators can
not receive free passes on railroads.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16

and il her prayers she never forgets to
say:
:" My God, I thank Thee that he who
was nigh unto everlasting destruction
is, by Thy mercy, restored, and he who
was lost is found"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16

The saucy Detroit Free Press man
Says: China has bell thirteen feet
across its mouth. Beats the Chicago
BELLE"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16

KENTUCKY judges and legislators can
not receive free passes on railroads.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
THE RECLAIMED.

Sweeter than the songs of thrushes,
When the winds are low
Brighter than the tulips bushes,
Reddening out of snow,
Were the form and face so fair,
Of the little child at prayer.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-07-26
CALL AND SETTLE.

A IL R1LLa-uAND. ACCQpNTH DIE q TO
"A mo A4Ms be psid t bnd<S JlAxaI1
2lth. l8SB, uthsfNiss they W1ffSbe pfltsd III tHt
Immediately ftertBstdStsS CAoJL
Phoebe, January 21st. 1875.
taso-d ~ s-~ ~ yQHAs- ,GOED1cKE- 4
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TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
i United States for the District Of Nevada,

In the matter Of Prime r. '"'''.' '''" 81
Coleman, surviving partner of
late firm Of Coleman Fuen. III bankruptcy.
zlida, bankrupt. u "firi3&I -- ".,"
This 10 to give notice that on tbs seventh day
OF July. A. D. 1876, Warrant in Bankruptcy
was issued against the estate of Prime T. Cole.
man, surviving partner of the late firm of Cole.
man Fuenzlida Of Phoebe. in the County Of
Lincoln and State Of Nevada. who has been ad-
judged bankrupt on his own petition; that the
payment of any debts aud delivery Of any prop
erty belonging to such bankrupt, to him, or for
bis use. and the transfer Of any property by
him are forbidden by law; that meeting OF the
creditors OF said bankrupt to prove their debts
and TO choose one or more assgnees Of his
estate, will be held at Court of Bankruptcy to
De holden at Virginia City, Storey County, Ne.
vada before E. Strother, Register on the NTH
day OF August. A. d. 1876. at eleven O'Clock .. NJ
500" AUGUSTUS ASH,
o. 3. Marshal and Messenger in Bankruptcy
for said District.
sa.. .,.,zs .,ss BY J. r. HoAs. ~
Deputy Marshal.
July -, 1876. ST b EsH'8 81. : jyls-2w
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N Office

rs HEREBY GIVEN THAT APPLICATION
J. for Patients for Town Lois in the
North East Quarter and the south East Quarter
snd the East half Of the South West Quarter Of
Section Twenty-Five, in Township One, North Of
Range sixty-seven East, Mount DiAblo Meridi-
an. containing 400 acres, and being the Town.
site OF Phoebe, in Lincoln County, State Of Ne
vsda, must be made to the undersigned on or
before the 10th day Of September, A. u.
ls72, or be forever barred, See com.
piled lsws Of the State Of Nevada. D. 4ls, vol. 2,
sec. 1850. Act approved February 10th, 1869.
Applications must be filed with J.. C. Foster,
Esq, at the Land Once, Phoebe, or with ME st
my once on my return.sa EbsgaE eLl 10
auls-sod go {; Trustee Of Tovnsits Of Phoebe. ),
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-07-26
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
+ THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF

THE NATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
l. Margaret Pascoe, deceased, I..,t +avsy46 !
Notice Is hereby given BY the undersigned
administrator of the estate Of Margaret Pascoe.,
deceased. to the creditors Of, and all persons
nnving claims INST the said .decessed,' to eI'
Ten months sitter the nrst publication Of this
notice, to the said Administrator. at the Office
OK Bishop sabin, Attorneys ct Law, 1t Phoebe,
IN the county Of Lincoln. ~ " F'tH"'
i Dated at Phoebe, May 18th, 1875, saz, gs817l'
"yA-td Z. D. TURNER, Adninistrstof.s o
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DBLIEOUEN SALES,
Woods & Freeborn, trus-

And in accordance with law, and an or,ie, =,
the Board of Trustees, made on the tyert
sixth day of April, 1876. SO many shares OF esch
parcel Of such stock as may be necessary viii
De SOLD at public auction, at the Office Of tEe
sursnce Company. No. 4ls California strsa.
San Francisco, California, on THURSDAY. IT,
twenty ninth (29 day of June. 1876 at tie he,,o
Of one o'clock P. NJ, of said day to pay ssid
delinquent assessment thereon, together u;,b
costs of advertising ard expenses OF the sale
T. W. COLBURN, Secretary
0fnce-Rooms over the office of the Union In
surance Company, No. 415 California street san
Francisco, California. ielltd
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-07-26

And in accordance with law and order Of the
Board of Directors, made on the sixteenth l6thl
day of May, 1876, so II any shares Of each parcel
Of tuch stock as may be neeess ary, will be sold
at public auction at the auc,ion-house Of John
Middleton + Son, No. $40 Montgomery street
San Francisco California. on Tuesday, the
eleventh llth) day OF July, 1876, at the
hour of one O'Clock p. m, of such day, to Day
delinquen. assessment thereon, together with
costs of advertising and expenses Of the sale.
Al VIM, WILL LIS. Seer. tary.
Office, Room No. 90, Nevada Block No. 500
Montgomery street San Francisco, California
io.25td
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DELINQUENT SALES.

Newark silver Mining Com pany.-
Location Of principal place Of business, san
Francisco, California: location Of works, Fly
District, Lincoln County, Nevada. Notice
There are delinquent upon the following de
seribed stock, on account Of assessment No, III
levied On the sixteenth 16thl day Of May, 1875
the several amounts set opposte the nance
Of the respective shAreho ders. a. follows: