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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14

LAST fall Jefferson county gave Sam
Tilden 1860 majority. This fall NAL
Tory carries the county by sos "What
falling off was there, my country
men % For this result Republicans
must not forget to thank George W.
Bird, who, as commander in chief of
the Democratic forces has so nearly
run his party aground. AS member
of the Fond du Lac convention, he ex-
erted considerable influence in shaping
its policy, and he has been most effect
ually sat down upon by the rank and
file of the party who did not believe in
such political trimming.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14
w hat 1t Means.

Hezekiah Finn to the Assembly by
the Democrats in this district must be
taken, we suppose, as an endorsement
OF his course last winter, and he will |
be justified in following as closely as
may be the policy he then pursued.
BY giving him a re. nomination, the
Democratic party said to Finn in so
many words "well done, good and
faithful servant; we approve of your
acts, and as token of our appreciation
will commit the affairs of this city and
district to your hands fol- another term
We commend you for having placed
our citizens in the attitude of repudiat-
ors of the city debt. We thank you
for the bungling legislation by which
you necessitated two elections last
spring, when one would have sufhced,
and we are so we'll satisfied with your
official department generally that we
are delighted to honor you with re-
election"
But it is questionable whether the
| best interests of the city have been
subserved by this arrangement. In-
deed, we feel justified in saying most
emphatically that they have not been.
Either of the two candidates running
against Finn would have conferred
greater credit upon the district. But
OF these two, Gen. Cole on the score of
fitness, and capacity for rendering most
acceptably the services required in
representative, was entitled to the pre-
ference. Much against his own inclin-
alton, as we happen to know, he be-
came candidate; and his election was
urged by many of our best citizens who
desired the city to have the benefit of
his integrity, intelligence and good
judgment which are now so much
needed in one clothed with authority
to look after our 10 cal affairs at Madi
son.
A large number Of Democrats, recog-
nizing Gen. Coles fitness, and refusing
to be bound By the action of their par
ty, supported him, and have the salts
faction of knowing that they are not
responsible for Films election. But
unfortunately they were not sufficiently
numerous, together with the Republic
ans, to counterfeit the efforts of "ma-
chine Democrats who felt bound to
stand by Finn simply because he was
the party nominee. Thus have the
interests of Watcrtown again been per-
mitted to suffer for the benefit of the
Democratic party. No one, we sup.
pose, will pretend that Gen. Cole would
not make the most useful representa-
tive at Madison. Even Films sup
porters and admirers will not dare
maintain to the contrary. But because
Finn is Democrat, while Gen. Cole
is Republican, and solely on account
of Finn being the candidate of their
party, they supported him well know
ing that his election over Gen. Cole
would be public calamity. But this
has long been the settled policy Of the
Democratic party-to put none but
Democrats on guard. So long as that
party shall continue to act upon this
principle in local matters, no one can
look hopefully to the future of Water
town. 1t is hoped that wiser counsels
may yet prevail, and that hereafter
our representatives elected to look after
our local interests may be chosen with
reference to their fitness for the work,
rather than their ability to pack eau.
cuses and do political drudgery.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14
A Difference of Opinion.

There is one thing about which
Democrats are fully agreed and that is
that they were most numerically
clicked" at the late election. But they
are not so unanimous as to the means
by which their defeat was brought
about. For instance, the Watertown
Democrat attributes their disaster to
the platform of the party. in the con-
struction of which some poor timber
had been used, particularly the fnapc-
ial plank; and it virtually admits that
the threshing they received was we'll
deserved. On the other hand, the
Fond.du Lac Journal thinks that but
tor the position taken by the conven-
ton on the money question: the party
would have been beaten still worse.
The Journal says:
The financial plank of the platform
saved the Democratic party of Wiscon-
sin from utter disruption. The inju-
dicious haste of the greenbackers to
occupy the field, in placing a state
ticket in nomination, and thus prevent
ing union of the friends of an equal
lied, honest currency, has effected the
defeat of both the Democratic and
6reenback candidates, and elected a
minority governor in the state who is
favorable to financial system obnoxi-
Gus to the majority of our people.
That is the lesson of last Tuesday S
contest.
The above is respectfully referred to
the Watertown Democrat for its con-
slderation. We do not care to grapple
with the question at issue between il
and the Journal. 1t is enough for us
to know that they were beaten. II
they wish to 60 into an investigation Of
the causes let them do so.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14

Pope Plus is soon to remove from
this mundane sphere to take up his
abode in his celestial mansion-or in
other words the old man is about dead.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14

The Board of Supervisors Of Dodge
county are now holding their regular
session at Juneau.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14
New Spring Be d.

I AM MANUFACTURING the Browns
Il patent Bed spring, and am selling them
on trial. If after one or two weeks trial
you are not satisfied with them you can re-
turn them to me aud your money will be
refunded. These springs have many adyan
tages over other springs, one of which is
each spring is seperate and independent of
the other, and they require no Stats or net
ting on the top OF the springs. They can
be put In any bed without any extra frame
other than the Stats that are in the bedstead.
trial Will satisfy you more of their merits
than can be said here Give them a trial.
Price $500.
refer you to the following parties who
have them in WatertoWn.
y. D. Skinner G. B. Lewis,
gosepn GILES, JAS Fornecrook,
Thos. Soan, G. L. Wheeler
Thos. G. Jones, J. FL. Keves
American House, w. l.. Norris
w" "ercial Hottie and many others.
S. NJ. EATON
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14

HASH PAID FOR HAIR at F. Trzcinski's
~ For particulars see another column.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14

Statements from Physicians and Patients certificates
ofactual cures, &c &C., given in the circular around
each BOTTLE or copies will be sent Free applicants
PULMON A may be ordered through any dealer in
medicines or direct from Oscar G. Moses Proprietor
Is COrtlandt St., New York. 81 per bottle, OF 6
bottles for SIS.
The daily gazette., 1877-03-14
MERIT RECOGNIZED.

Benson's CapcIne Porous Plasters receiv
ed the highest and only award of merit a
the philadelphia Exposition, over all arti-
cles OF like character, proving by the high
est medical authority in the world, that
they are greatly superior to ordinary porous
plasters, and not q patent medicine-as no
nostrums were allowed to be exhibited
there. Benson's Capcine Porous Plaster Is
positively the best external remedy ever
devised. They relieve pain at once, and
cure where other porous plasters only re-
lieve alter long use. Over three thousand
now recommend their use and
they are sold by druggists everywhere
Price % cents.
TO EVERY HOUSEHOLD
Improvement" is the watchword of the
hour Its development and re-development
Is the ambition Of every true American
Porous plasters were invented in 1845. For
thirty years their composition remained un-
improved, until Benson's Capcine Porous
Plasters were invented. They differ from
all others in their greater medical activity.
They tOU cure disease In q (e,U hours that other
porous plasters, liniments or compounds
require days and weeks of continuous wear
and use to simply relieve. They are supe-
rior to electricity and more powerful. II is
not nostrum. They are endorsed by over
three Thousand physicians and druggists as
meeting great want q remedy for exter-
nal diseases which relieves instantly and
cures quicker than any known medicine.
Try them and you will not be deceived
Purely vegetable. Price 25 cents.
novl6eodGv
The daily gazette., 1877-03-14
For he Gazette.
FOLDED HANDS.
ny HARRY s. BROWN.


Folded hands. Old objects seem to hover
Around the new-before the longing eyes
Old perfumes wander back from fields of
clover,
To bind new beauties to the lost surmise.
Folded hands in silent resignation;
The old love calling back the scenes of
yore,
Till grief should grow a summer medita-
ton
A sorrow with the sadness gone before.
Folded hands. in DEATHS unconscious fash
ion;
The striving ended and the sad hope gone
To rest beside the slowly dying passion,
With nothing left to build that hope upon,
All gone, save the sad sweetness of the
yearning,
Which fingers softly, and which will not
go;
But stays to teach that task we're ever
learning
That love is but martyrdom below.
How oft, when upland down life's path we
wander
We have to stop just where we should
begin
And filled with sadness, mourn and weep
and ponder
Der what is not, but (ah me y might have
been!
The daily gazette., 1877-03-14
WATERTNG HORSES.

In regard to watering hores immedi-
ately after full feed of grain, writer,
in the Stock Journal says: 1.-THE first ef-
feet of this is to largely distend the stom-
ach; and the result may be as serious as
if the material were masticated grain and
saliva. But should this danger be avoid
ed, matters are not necessarily left in a
better state. The sudden and excessive
influx of the water is likely to wash on
much of the contents of the stomach in
to the intestines before the nitrogenous
principles have been digested, and fer
mentation, extrication of gases. over-dis-
tensions, colics and infammations result.
Even this is not all. The application of
an excess of cold water on the mucous
membranes of the stomach and intestines
causes vascular congestions and violent
muscular contractions, so that all tend to
digestive disorder of dangerous nature" !"
Here you have the result in nutshell,
and to avoid foundering horse he
should never be watered, beyond a few
quarts. when heated. In fact, it is not
safe to give horse any water when
much heated.
The daily gazette., 1877-03-14

have now IN stock
Canton mattings by
lowest prices.
WD,. B. SHARP,
fourth and Market
The daily gazette., 1877-03-14

HTATTINGS.-We
wi white and check
he iece. made at tt
The daily gazette., 1877-03-14

Ex-senator Logan, it is stated by the
Chicago Times, contemplates emigrating
to Colorado, and will contest for seat in
the United States Senate from that State.
Mr.. Logan has spent portions Of one or
two summers in the Territory.
BUTLER understood it. When the
cabinet nominations were before the Sc
nate, he waited upon a New England
Senator and besought him to vote against
Judge Devens, saying: "Why, If he is
confirmed, there viii he majority
against Us in the cabinet"
The daily gazette., 1877-03-14
John L. NJ Il,
PLAIN & ORNAMENTAL
MARBLE WORKS

DELAWARE AVENUE 4 MADISON
SITS, WILMINGTON, DEL.
Constantly on hand an assortment or the
best marble of the different kinds which he
is prepared to work up into Monuments;
House Work in general. Having long ex-
nerience in the business he datters himsel
hat he can give entire satisfaction to all
who may favor him with their patronage.
The nubItc are invited To call and inspect
his work and learn his prices. novT-76-iy
The daily gazette., 1877-03-14

sensation that Mr..
Hayes is producing among all parties
on the mere suspicion that he is an honest
man is something remarkable. There is
great reluctance in both parties to credit
a phenomenon so unusual in politics of
late years.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-12-06
who Taught Them.

In the autumn time we cannot walk
along our garden paths without brush
ing through the webs which spiders
have spun across, but perhaps we
never think of the beautiful little speci-
men of weaving we have damaged so
greatly.
When the spider begins her web she
makes her foundation of one or two
threads doubled and redoubled, then
she draws threads in every direction
and crosses them again with others un-
til the work is completed. Then she
makes her den-a little apartment lined
with the same silky stuff which she
spins into her web, and from here she
darts out to secure any luckless little
fly who is caught.
Il is not easy to get the small body
Of the captive away without tearing the
web, but the spider manages SO as to
injure il as little as possible. For this
purpose she cuts her web Just round
where the poor fly is caught, and after
wards It is beautifully mended.
Delicate, indeed, Is the cordage Of
this web; what, then, 4re the instru-
m1nts used IN producing It! These are
only the claws Of the spider feet; with
these it guides and arranges the glutin-
GUS threads as they are drawn from the
spinner6.
The number Of fibers of which . sim
gle thread IL formed contributes greatly
s. Its strength. Rope making reserh-
bles this process; and. the end Of q
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-12-06

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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-12-06
Singing.Mice.

Two observations upon singing-mice
have been lately noted in France, and
reported in Nature. The first was re-
corded in La Nature; and the second
was presented to the French Societe
discrimination, by M. Brierre, who
testified to having heard mice sing in
1S51-1S55. The singing proceeded from
an old cupboard, and generally began
at sunset. The joints and wood of the
cupboard were soaped so that 1t could
be opened suddenly, and, this being
done one evening", a mouse was sur
prised in the midst Of It's roundelay.
For about the space of q mifitite the
mouse was under notice, and the
movements of its throat plainly visible.
1t held its nose up in the air like dog
iii howling, and the song il emitted
was like that of q wren. The mouse
was seized; but eohtrited TO escape.
Its singing was resumed the same night
and on others following. -
A recent number of Forest and Stream
also contains an observation upon these
interesting musical quadrupeds. The
conservatory in gentleman's residence
near New York City opened with fold
ing-doors into the library. and sus-
pended from It's ceiling were several
cages Of caiiafies, which were secured
by cords funnirig through pulleys and
fastened near otie Of the plant-shelves.
One evening, a few yeats ago, the gen.
tleman of the house was sitting alone
in the library, when his attention was
attracted to a low warbling,, like that
of young canary, which proceeded
from the conservatory. He presently
saw that the notes were emitted by q
mouse running about at the .bgttem Of
one of the cages, while the bifd was 4il
its perch above asleep. Subsequently
he Several times saw two or three Of
the little four-footed warblers at a time,
in the plant-shelves or in the cages.
Once he crept under cage into which
one had run, and, showing himself,
placed his hand upon the cord over
which 1t must pass to escape. Mousey
seetned bewildered by the movement,
stopped, warb1ed; and held to It's re.
treat in the cage. These siRgins=inict
were very fearless, yet would not allow
themselves to be caught. The observ'
er supposes they learned their song
which was q low, sweet warble, of the
canaries; but M. Brierre states express
lv that no caIafies had eyer been kept
by the owners of the old cupboard h
which he observed the siDging-mice.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-12-06

wings wherewith To. hy; tisr lie bowel
Of darling, like sorn6 othef insects, q
considerable distance, this little creature
is enabled to form a sballoon, with which
it can rise to 3 great height. In this
aerial navigation, the little creature
floats, with It's back downward and its
legs folded; and thus reposing at it's
ease, up-borne by strcamers Of silken
threads, il commits itself to the upper
air. One NATURALIST states that when
he ascended = high tower he ssw these
insects above him! 'slssi gas9. ~
Some species show greatskill II build
ing: They hollow otit cells; they, bore
galleries; they make Vaults; they build,
as it were; bridges; they construct ems
frances to their habitatioiis. They even
adapt doors to thesE entraiices which
work beautifully on hinge. On looks
ing within, we find extreme neatness:
The soil in which these dwellings are
found may be humid. but no water can
enter them. The walls are nicely COW
cred with tapestry of silk, having the
luster of satin and Of dazzling white
ness. sra eiqe q sa. s 8 q ~
another spider chooses kind OF red
earth shout three inches deep. The
wall of the tube 10 covered with kind
of smooth mortar. This coat Is very
thin and soft to the touch; but before
the spider makes it she covers the
earthly plaster work with q coarse web,
on which she Clues her silken tapestry
Who taught these despised insects
how to build for themselves such won-
derful homes and to spread such beau
tiful nets over the ground and stretch
them from tree to tree? Naturalists
say that it is instinct, but this came
from God, and in their works we see
the hand of woodworking God.
Well did the Psalmist exclaim, 20
Lord! how wonderful are Thy works!
in wisdom hast Thou made them all;
the earth is full Of Thy riches. !" M r
Observer.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-12-06
The Rich Mans Son.

= In the City of Glasgow once lived a
worthy merchant, whose children |
knew. AS God had blessed him in his
buying and selling, he became rich
man. And having a great love for
country life, he took his riches and
bought some fields on which he had
PLAYED and gathered flowers when q
child, and also the mansion III which
the Old Laird Of the place was wont to
live. There was just one thing he for
got 10 do: he forgot to make his
will, and say to whom the mansion
and the fields should go when he died.
So by-and-by, when he died, no will
could he found. Now, he left behind
his wife, four daughters and an only son.
But as no will. had been made, the
mansion, and the fields. and great
part of all his riches, came to this only
son. He was in London when the news
came that his father had died, and that
he was now q rich tfiafl. Just at that
moment money would have been very
useful to him, for he was q voting mef-
chant beginning life, and no one wotild
have blamed him if he had said aTh!s
money is welcome, and with it l shall
push my he# business Cn:'' But God
had giSeR HIN 4 gentle heaft. He lift
London as soon after he got the news as
he could get train. And although it
was late in the day when he arrived at
his native city, the first thing he did
was to go to the house of a friend who
draws out deeds. And, at his request,
\ - ~ Al.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-12-06
Lost Dogs in Londen.

As every one knows, dogs are often
lost in large towns, and roam about
miserably in search of their master or
mistress. A sight of them in such cir
cumstances is exceedingly pitiable. In
the Metropolis a humane plan for stic-
coring lost dogs has been established.
Some years ago, a benevolent lady, MIS-.
Tealby, was enabled, by the aid Of public
subscriptions, TO set on foot a temporary
Home for Lost and Starving Dogs which
has existed since 1860. It is situated at
Battersea Park road. ANY dog, when
found and brought to the Home. is taken
in and succored under certain necessary
conditions. If a dog. after being housed
and succored, is applied for BY the own
er with satisfactory proof of owner
ship), the animal Is given up on pAyz
ment of the expenses Of its keep. II no
owner comes forward, every unclaimed
dog is sold for the benefit Of the institn-
ton, or otherwise disposed of according
to circupstances The Home Is grow
ing in usefulness. In one year recently
more than three Thousand three hundred
dogs were restored to their former own.
ers or sent to new homes. Many owners
who recover their fatofites through the
agency of this institution, not only re-
fund the expenses incurred but assist
the funds by subscriptions in the name
of their recovered pets - for-i Instance;
& In memory 81 Pup, ~ For little Eido.' =
= In the name Of darling Charlie, = !. The
mite from an old dQe<l and - TIN
doaorvSvSr md ,ro1i =, .afSk,.ks.,,r
is well worth visiting, Only, the visitor
must Be prepared to zee peinfpI demon.
strations from some Of the unhappy IN.
,mates. On the approach If tbe, yisitQl
each saih66l llea& &sil5 hedfed y 80 4 b
be his dear master. And when sniA
sss 81 s'sass sss ass ss sss!ss a.
something like tear steals froW ~
poor do3&1gS SyS: Tho kaprlueae
shown when one of the animals dS1a hil
lost master 80 ely o. ! !! g "a
C15Gnsbery' y5tlT5sdl. s+s'l y
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