Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-05-31

In the agricultural department OF the
Centennial? The mines are we'll rep
resented in the appropriate department,
but the great staple line seems "sick, :"
if one is to form his opinion from the
exhibit-Milacauhee Wisconsin,.
WISCONSIN CENTRAL RAILROAD
PUSHING THE WoRK.-A dispatch re-
ceived in this city on yesterday by the
Phillips & Colby construction company,
and sent from Boston by G. l.. Colby,
member of tie company, informs
US that needful funds have been raised,
and that the work Of building the road
of the Wisconsin Central from Wor-
cester to Ashland, distance of Sc
miles, will be entered upon at once
and pushed with all possible rapidity,
and it is hoped that sufficient force can
be worked to cover the gap, and furn-
ish through route to Lake Superior
before the close of the present season
From other information received it
is learned that work has also been in
augurated on the line of the road be-
tween Portage and Stevens Point, a
telegram received yesterday stating
that track-laying from Hancock station
south was begun yesterday, and will be
crowded as rapidly as possible until the
work of this division is complete. It
was purpose of the company, which
would doubtless have been realized
had the weather thus far during the
season been favorable, to have this
branch of the work completed by July
4th. That, however, is not now posi-
BILE, owing to the hindrances which
occurred, but it is announced as GER
tainty that August lst will see the
work completed MIwaukee Ne,os
In regard to the emigration to the
Black Hills, the President said, in an
interview with Gen. Sherman, that
the people who had gone to the Black
Hills, of Dakota, inside the Sioux Re-
seryation: or who may, hereafter, go
there, are there wrongfullv, and that
they should he notified of that fact,
but that the government is e ngaged in
certain measures that will probably re-
suit in opening up the country to oc-
cupation and settlement. In the
meantime the Indians should not be
allowed to scalp and kill anybody.
The President authorized Con. Sher-
man to afferd ample protection to all
persons who are coming away, or who
are conveying food or stores for those
who are already there.
MINISTER ScHENcK's CAsE.-The
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
on the Emma Mine business, the
points of which are given elsewhere,
severely censures General ScHENcK
for the impropriety of his course and
its inconsistency with his official posi-.
ton, but declares the belief of the
committee that he was not guilty of
fraud or fraudulent intentions. In or
der to make the report unanimous, the
Democratic members agreed to strike
out everything of a partisan character,
and the part censuring Secretary Fish
and the President for not removing
Schenck is omitted. The report co.,
cludes with resolution condemning
Schenck's course.
The New York World has recently
changed hands, and is now owned by
S. L. NJ. Barlow, brother-in-l law of
Senator Bayard, of Delaware. Wm.
H. Hurlbut has been placed in charge
of the paper. All of which is bad for
Tilden, The World now being strong
advocate ..of Bayard's nomination at
ST. Louis.
The Centennial log was sawed on
Thursday, the 18th inst, at the Cutler
y Savidge Lumber Company's Mill,
Spring Lake, Michigan. A block
three feet long ank Sc inches in diam
eter, was taken from one end, and a
plank IL feet in length and 4 feet
wide and 4 inches thick from the side
OF the log, perfectly clear. These two
specimens were forwarded ito Phila-
delphla for exhibition.