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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27
Gen. Grant Dressing on ShipbOard.

The trip of the Indiana has been writ
ten up and especially Gen. Grants part
in it. The General wasn't sea sick, nor
was his wife nor son. The General gives
the following account Of his efforts to
get into his clothes one morning: "The
ship was laboring from side to side very
heavily" said General Grant, "and
tried to pull on my pants. Just as I had
succeeded in inserting one leg about half
way and was gracefully balancing my
self, fowl-like, on the other, the deck of
the Indiana stood up on end and found
myself chased about the floor of the state
room by six or seven valises, hair brushes
and parcels. In vain I tried to regain
my feet or to catch hold of the side of
the sleeping berth. Again and again the
ship plunged about until I found myself
clinging to the wash-stand in a corner of
the room. | held on to this for dear
life, and then the first thing / did was
to look up to see if Jesse was awake, for
he is good caricaturist, and would have
had me down on paper and up in the
smoking room before had even time to
dress myself. But, as it happened, Jesse
was still fast asleep, and then surveyed
the scene calmly until I found good
way to raise myself up, Jesse is very
quick with his pencil, an j does not hest
tate to expose his fathers peculiarities. !"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27
Vesuvius Firing Up.
From the Philadelphia Press.

Vesuvius has every appearance of
firing up for another eruption. Smoke
is constantly issuing from the crater, and
occasionally in immense volumes, that
overspread the atmosphere like sable
pail. The other day dense black cloud
that had gathered about the crater was
suddenly driven over Pompeii. Ashes
and cinders fell in a thick shower, and
for a time it looked as if the midday
darkness that attended the eruption
which overwhelmed Pompeii and Her
culaneum was to be renewed, and the
partly disentombed city was to be buried
up again. l thought of the fate of
Diomed's family, smothered to death in
the wine cellar, where they sought refuge
When the cloud drifted over, the pave
ments Of Pompeii were covered with a
thin layer of hot volcanic ashes and min
ute scoria. | asked the director of the
excavations if Pompeii might not be
covered up again. That depends on
the duration of an eruption of Vesuvius,"
he said, "and its character. Should it
break forth on the eastern side of the
mountain, eject masses of scoria, volcanic
ashes and showers of boiling water, the
effect would be as disastrous as in the
10Th year of the Christian era, when
Herculaneum was covered by strata of
volcanic matter sixty feet deep, and
Pompeii and Stabia and other cities were
entombed beneath heaps of mud and
volcanic deposits" Vesuvius is the most
uncertain Of volcanoes. Prior to A. d.
70, it had slumbered for centuries.
Since then it has been more or less active,
with spasmodic intervals Of tremendous
fury and desolation. Pompeii is more
than one-half excavated, but much re-
mains to be done before this old Greek
city will again be entirely laid open to
view within its walled circuit.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27
A Man with the Heart on the Right
Side.

The Chicago Inter- Ocean prints this in
a recent issue:
There is man in attendance on the
Central Homeopathic Dispensary, cor
ner of Van Buren, street and Michigan
avenue, who presents a singular anomaly
Of a displacement of the heart from it's
normal position on the left side to the
opposite or right side. This displace-
ment was not congenital but was
brought about by the consequences of
an injury. From DIR. E. M. Hale, of
this city, we get the following facts:
The patient, at the age Of II years, re-
ceived a violent blow from butt of
falling tree. He received the full force
Of the blow upon the upper portion of
the right chest. It crushed it in, frac-
turing the ribs, and probably bruising
the lungs themselves. From the effects
of this injury the boy was i'll long
time, and from his statements it is sup
posed he suffered from inflammation of
the lungs, pleura and heart. He had no
immediate hemorrhage, but several
months after he bled profusely at the
lungs. 1t was not until several years
after the abnormal position of the heart
was discovered. The patient is disabled
from active exercise, and has had rather
a hard time of it in his efforts to gain a
living. Owing to an injury to the
valves Of the heart his breathing is CD
pressed-he cannot exercise actively,
and is annoyed by troublesome cough.
The case comes under the head of econ
centric displacement" when the heart
is displaced toward the injured side.
DIR. Hale supposes the injury resulted in
pneumonia, followed by condensation of
lung-tissue, and adhesion of the walls of
the pleura. The anterior upper wall of
the chest is depressed, showing this col
lapse of the lung. The manner in
which the heart became displaced affords
an interesting study. Best of authori-
ties explain it in this way: The con-
tracted lung created a cavity on the
right side allowing a pressure of the left
lung to force the heart into the vacuum
left by the retreating lung. The heart,
in such case, did not move horizontally
to the heart, but diagonally upward,
and to the right.
Owing to diseased condition of the
heart it can be seen to beat forcibly
against the walls Of the chest, the apex
or lower point throbbing distinctly OPP
posite and nearly ten inches from the
place where it is usually observed.
The patient seems to be very worthy,
intelligent and pleasant man, and is re-
ceiving all assistance the physicians of
the Central Dispensary can afford him,
but he needs some assistance-some light
outdoor occupation affording him some
support.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27
SUM M Err,

To- lazy Summer, swarthy, in the sun
Lies painting, with bare breasts upon the hills,
Swathing her limbs in hazes warm and dun,
Where splendors into duskv spendors run,
And sulry glory all the heaven o'erfills.
Not white dmpe stirs amid the corn,
Not low ripple ShiverS through the leaves:
Since, wrapped in gold and crimson CLEANS I'M
sh0rn;
Came, flashing through.the east, the regal morn;
No throated twitterings gurgle round the caves
Flooded in sunny silence sleep the kline;
In ianguid lnurmurs brooklets float and flow;
The quaint farm gables in the rich light shine,
And round them jasmined honeysuckles Irvine,
And close beside them sun-howers burn and blow
Arad the growing heat lie me down,
And into visions Swarms the NOTED air;
CLEANS uI1 before me many famous town.
Pillared and crested with regal crown
Outshimmering in an orient purple glare.
To- lowly Tadmore burning in its sands
B9albeck and Babylon; see slow streams
Sliding by mosque and minaret-see CLEANS
eG seas in sJnset-slips of strands,
And drowsy Bagdad buried deep in dreams;
See swarthy monarchs flushed in purple rings
Of silken eourtiers: through half-open doors
Catch the spice odors, and cool of Springs
Leaving forever IN q maze of wings;
See light forms dancing over pearly floors;
Sleeping seraglios spire and tremulous dome
Winking IN drowsy splendor all the day.
See forest 1aunJS where timex the hons roam,
See thirsty panthers splashed in bloody foam,
Leap terrible 2s iightnings on their prey;
Or stand with Cortez on a mountain peak
Above the Aztec city-see unrolled
Genl-threaded shores of Montezuma weak,
See the white temples swarming thick and sleek
And sunny streets stretched up by towers OF gold
See silken sails float by, ambrosial,
Laden with Spices up Persian glen.
Or stand on Lebanon, mid the cedars TALL
On hear the soft and silver fall
OF water down a iut of Darien.
But To- waking shiver in the trees,
Aud voices mid the hay-cocks in the glen;
The is setting; and the crimson
Are shaken into splendor by the breeze,
And al the busy world is up again!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27
A Plague in China.

The ancient cities of Yunnan-fu and
Tali-fu in China have, since the Tal-ping
rebellion, been cursed with an epidemic
disease resembling the plague. 1t is
called the symptom disease, in conse-
quence of the critical enlargement of the
Emphatic glands at the armpits. Some
times it attacks one side only of a street.
It first kills animals, and then the pop-
ulation, il they have not profted by
that warning The treatment consists il,
supplying the patient with a iugful of
water to drink, and leaving him quiet in
his state of stupor, only rousing him
once day by poking him with long
pole through the window. But. not
withstanding the " treatment the people
say that this and other similar novel dis
eases have caused as great loss of life
as the rebellion itself
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27
Some Curious Cases of Sleep Walking
From a Western Exchange

A case is related of an English clergy
man who used to get up in the night,
light his candle, write sermons, correct
them with interlineations and retire to
bed again; being all the time asleep.
The Archbishop of Bordeaux mentions a
similar case of student who got up to
compose a sermon while asleep, wrote it
correctly, read it over from one end to
the other, or at least appeared to read it,
made corrections in it, scratched out
lines, and substituted others, put in its
place word which had been omitted,
composed music, wrote it accurately
down, and performed other things equally
surprising. DIR. Gall notices a miller,
who was in the habit of getting up every
night, and attending to his avocations
at the mill, then returning to bed; on
awakening in the morning he recollected
nothing of what passed during the night.
Martinez speaks of saddler who
was accustomed to rise in his
sleep and work at his trade;
and DIR. Pricard of farmer who got out
of bed, dressed himself, saddled his horse,
and rode to the market, being all the
while asleep. DR.. Blackjack, on one oc-
casion, rose frcm bed, to which he had
retired at an early hour, came into the
room where his family were assembled,
conversed with them, and afterwards en-
tertained them with a pleasant song
without any of them suspecting he was
asleep, and without his retaining, after
he awoke, the least recollection OF what
he had done. 1t is sigular yet well au-
thenticated fact, that in the disastrous
retreat OF Sir John Moore, many of the
soldiers fell asleep, yet continued to
march along with their comrades.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27

sea, in that time visiting almost every
part of the civilized globe, and Drawing
dangers both on sea and on land to find
at last a watery grave.
, 1877-01-20
Gable News.

LONDON, Jan. IA telegram from
Constantinople, date Thursday evening,
says; II is stated that, at to-day's sit.
ting of the conference, Baron Won Wer.
ther declared, in the name of Germany,
that no further concession could be made.
The Turkish delegates did not present
their new project to-day for al under.
standing. The next sitting is fixed for
Monday 1t is generally believed here
that the European plenipotentiaries will
not then present an uItim0tum, but will
make fresh communication to the
Porte finally summing up the intentions
Of the powers, declaring tins communi
cation to be the last, and demanding
that categorical reply be given at the
sitting following its presentation. It an
understanding is then found to be i'm.
possible, the plenipotentiaries would
quit Constantinople.
A Paris correspondent of the Times
says the statement is confirmed that ut
the beginning OF the week Bismarck sent
Baron Won Werther very curt dispatch,
criticising the extreme slowness of the
conference, declaring that the plcnipo-
tcntiaries had gone too far in their sue.
ccssive concessions to the Porte, and re-
GREETING that Werther had joined in the
concessions. Bismarck at the same time
sent to his minister note directing him
10 communicate the dispatch to Lord
Derby.
Business at Stock Exchange is stag
nant, pending news from the conference
at Constantinoplc. The prevailing opin-
ion is there will be no war. Consols are
strong owing to the cheapness OF money
and the growing opinion that England
will not take part in any trouble that
may occur between Turkey and Russia.
The Turks have battle-hymn which
they sing when they go into battle. 1t
Is said that the soldiers of the enemy put
t''eir fingers in their ears and rush mad.
, 1877-01-20

A SUBLIME FLIGHT. The reporter of
an interior Michigan town paper ought
10 he on hand when the world is burned
up. Who knows What he might not
then accomplish in description. Hear
him: "And now appeared one of the
most terrible and magnificent spectacles
1t was ever our lot to witness. The
whole broad and high front Of the Inter
national Hotel was wrapped, as in its
winding sheet, IN one lurid mass of fame
which, seemingly MS in mockery of the
puBy powers of man and his appliances
to stay it's course, st, oped toward the
earth in the eddy of the wind with a
hurtling sound as of demOniac laughter,
and then swerving and veering, as if iu
disdain, tossing its head, it arose tower
ing almost to the very clouds, and--ah,
it needed no feryid Dantean imagination
then to discover within the fringes Of
that gilt.edged hell the glaring eyeballs,
yea, the very flaws and bloody hair of
the demon of the flames--with one fell
swoop it hurled itself across the broad
street over upon and wound itself around,
fastened its fearful clutches 10, took pos
session of and invested the whole i'm
mense building known as the Harris
block"
, 1877-01-20
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
Eastern states.

New York, Jan. ll.-The Times
New Orleans special says Peace is kept
in the city, but really there is no govern.
mcnt for neutrals. The quietness is as
the cessation of hostilities between two
armies. Persons on the streets look
suspIciousIy at each other; places of
amusement ARE deserted and there is no
heart tor business, To day, McEnery
>broke open the doors of the office in the
presence ofabout 200 armed men on the
streets. and installed himself as recorder
OF mortgages for the parish of New Or.
leans. A New York hackman can not
he more solicitous for passengers than
are the Democratic scrgeants alarms If
Nichols Legislature, 80 rlMt Republican
members dare not venture out for tear of
being arrested and used as IA quorum.
Panama oates to the 4th inst. are re-
ceived. A bloody battle wins fought a,
!Galtr, Ecuador on the 4tb ult., between
the constitutional army, $500 strong,
and the revolutionary forces, which last
ed about three hours, and ended in
complete rout Of the former and capture
of their commander.in-chiei, Gen Ap.
arico The total number killed on both
sides was ahout 400, and II much larger
number wounded. When the news
reached Quito, President Barrcro left the
place and took refuge al the Columbian
legation. The white citizens have pro.
nounced in favor Ol the revolutiOnists.
The revolutionary forces will probably
enter Quito on the 95th ult., which event,
IL was expected, would put an end t''
the war in. that Republic. -u>
NEw ORLEANS, Jan. l1.-No change
in the situation this morning. Orders
by Gen. Augur forbidding aggressive
movements by either party will doubt.
less prevent Il collision. All eyes are on
Washington City waiting events.
, 1877-01-20
Iea Drinking.

II IS on women that the evils of tea
drinking fall with the greatest weight.
How many who think they cannot get
along single day without tea, owe to
it their cold feet and hands, their liabili-
ties to frequent colds, their peculiar Diff
ficu!tes. more especially their weaken.
ing ones, and their habitual loss of ap
petite, rendering them a prey to dinner
pills" or the absurlities known as
Strengthening medicines" so long in
vogue. No wonder that tea drinkers are
50 frequently small eaters, when their
tea has gradually destroyed their appe-
tite. But perhaps the worst habit is
tine practice of drinking Copiously OF
strong tea. 1t is alike injurious to the
mother and her offspring; and it may
originate the hereditary diseases of sue.
cessivc generations-far beyond the third
and fourth. According TO DIR. William
Alcott. the cause OF scrotulous consttu-
tion. by inheritance, is to be found in the
use of tea by ancestors, and he reasons
out the matter on sound physiological
principals, observing that whatever
weakens the nerves especially those OF
the stomach-in mother, is always
sure to entail tendency to disease on
her offspring, will not untEequenIly
prove to he scrotula, or that dismal and
universal Observation-Disclosures consump'
ton. There is also reason to infer that
much of our modern eye disease and ear
disease is caused by the tea.drinkhg
habit of our population. The hearing is
affected, at least indirectly, by colds--so
much more common than among our
torefathers, before the introduction of
tea. This is an absolute necessity 1t
cannot be explained by and changed in
the climate for the worse ; anyhow the
fact is certain, and it is equally as GER,
tain that the sudden heating produced
by tea, as rapidly by refrigeration, or
chill, cannot tail to b. u perpetual cause
of the affection in question-so often the
precursor Of consumption. --f0O' re-
Former.
, 1877-01-20
Old Maids.

Mrs. Mary A. Livermore in recent ad.
dress takes occasion to defend old maids
in somewhat glowing terms, While her
remarks are good, yet she overlooks two
important points. The first is that sin
gle life is not the natural life of any hu-
man being, and the second is that almost
every young lady can marry well at some
time in her life, it she don't over esti-
mate herself, or fail to estimate true, un-
vanished worth in the opposite sex.
Mrs. l.. says:
"All through the land, in homes and
outside OF them, | lind these women, un-
welded in the vulgar parlance of every
day speech, called old maids, with a
shrug Of the shoulder, and slight dash
of scorn, in the finer language of socio.
l0gists and cssayists deuominated ns su-
pertluous women. They have been brave
enough to elect to walk through life
alone, when some man has asked them
in marriage, whom they could not love.
With white lips they have said No.
when their hearts have said Yes be-
cause duty demanded OF them the sacrl
fees of their own happiness. Their
lives have been stepping-stones Tor the
advancement Of their younger sisters
they have earned the money to carry
brothers through college into professions
like the Caryatidcs of architecture, they
stand in their places and uphold roof
over a dependent household; they nvert
the order of nature, and become mothers
to the aged. childish parents, fathers and
mothers, whose failing feet they guide
gently down the hill of life, and whose
wlthered hands they by-and-by told be-
meath the daisies; they carry words OF
cheer and world OF comfort to house
holds invaded by trouble, sickness or
death. The dusty years s reich far be-
bind them beauty and comelipess drop
away from them, and they grow faded
or careworn they become nobodies to
the hurying, rushing, bustling world,
and by-and by they will slip out into the
gloom --the shadows will vail them for
ever from earthly sight-the great sur
prise OF joyful greeting will welcome
them, and they will thrill to the embrace
Of the heavenly bridegroom
, 1877-01-20
Our Order Of Nobility.

The patent Of nobility
Dates further back than history,
Or any parchment scroll,
Or coats OF arms Of ancient lords,
Or mystic signs, or delphic words
'Tis written in the soul.
Good blood is that which never pales
When errors sword the right asrails;
1t flashes like a flame,
When innocence Is tr0duen down;
II ultens not before the crown
OF laurel worn by fame.
Royal is the blood, when hearts are true |;
To prove the pulsing current blue,
By name, and date, and birth,
viii not suffice when left alone;
He Is the King upon the throne
Who has true moral worth.
No gilded coat OF arms he needs
Whose title springs from noble deeds;
SelfpOised, starcrOWned and tall,
lie stands, like some high tower that filings
A shadow on the petit, kings,
Like the anointed Saul.
A crown may be vacal.t show
A scarf Of stars, a binding glow,
Cold the embroidered zone;
A title, not title deed,
The scepter but u broken reed,
A ounces block the throne.
At home, in school, let youth be taught
10 win nobility Of thought;
Thoughts are the fruitful seeds,
SOwn broadcast III our daily walk,
They bud and blossom on the stalk
OF daily life IN deeds.
, 1877-01-20

A GREAT MORAL LEssoN.--A long
chap, with piping voice, entered sa-
loon, and gaining the attention Of the
half dozen loatcrs therein congregated,
he said:
"Gcntlemen, how many OF you will
drink at my expense ~
II will ~ was repeated by the six in
chorus.
This proves to you, gentlemen con.
tinued the vagrant, putting down q
nickel for his own beer, show little can
be depended on first impressions You
love me now, filed with the anticipation
of IL good square drink. Your anticipa.
tions will be blasted, and then you will
hate ME. Let this be great moral les
son to you"
They put him out in hurry. but the
great moral lesson was there just the
same.
, 1877-01-20

WoMAN's SUFFRAGE IN WYOMING
The San Francisco alta tells this story ::
"a Cheyenne young lady had expressed
a desire to vote. Her young man was
more than willing she should he graft.
fed, and sent fol buggy to take her 10
the polls. While ON the way he asked
to see her ticket. 1t was shown him,
While she was looking in another drec
tion, he put her ticket, which was for
Corlett. in his pocket, and gave her one
in its place for Stelle. The saddcst part
is yet to be told. She never knew how
she had voted for days afterward. He
was III the habit Of taking candy to her
every Friday night. Last Friday he
failed. But when he told her so, she
could not believe him. So she deter.
mined to search his pocket. Horrors !
The first thing she discovered was her
ticket written in her own hand. When
the young man awoke to a proper reali'
zat,on of his situation, he was lying
doubled up on the floor, while tufts Of
his auburn locks were scattered in rich
profusion about the room. As he opened
his eyes vase filed with water and an
ornamental sea.shell came crashing into
his lace, followed by invectives Of any
thing but loving nature from her whom
he had 80 cruelty deceived. He scram-
hled to his feet, made hasty exit
through a window, and has since studi-
Ously avoided the house. lie secured u
vote for his tavorite candidate, but lost
his girl