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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-05-26

this month Of sewerage, ventilation, earth
closets, etc. w. H. Rideing gives US very
interesting chapter on the great Croton aque
duct. Boyesen gives a biographical sketch
ofthe Russian novelist Tourguenet; L. S
Nadal writes about Disraeli; Mrs. Uerrick
about Pond Life, and Edward Payson makes
an attempt at Socratic dialogue on the I'm
mortality of the Soul
Nicholas Mnturn is continued, there are
several sho rt stories, poetry by Mrs. MaXter
Mrs. Pratt and Others; and The Old Cabinet,
Bric,a Brac, Topics Of the Times, Home and
Society, etc, bring their accustomed enter.
tsinlng and instructive var ety.
st. Nicholas.
The June number is eminently season
abe"-in Its June sunshine brightness. For
trontispieCe we have lovely picture of a
June morning, and Professor Proctor tells us
all about the stars in JuIe Then there is u
dainty picture of little girl in gown and
sun.bonnet demurey reading her fortune
from the DAISY. leaves and another of bare
foot boy enjoying gay summer frolics with a
frlsky colt. The Green House with Cola
Naiis-so beautifully por,rayed-is one of
June's special treasures. wild Mice begin
their June-travels along their numberless lit
tie paths through the fields, peeping out at
US here and there in Mr.. Riordan's exquisite
pictures; the nests in which some of our com.
mon birds spend this glorious month are des,
cribcd by Prof. Brooks; and the June Roses
bloom in Edgar Fawcetts pretty verses
But June by no means monopolises all tie
good things Of the number. Among the four
or five serial stories Pa,tkin's House is con.
cluded with superb picture by Moran; and
the curious old-time procession of the child
Bishop of Salisbury on st. Nicholas Day is
well set forth in Mr.. Eggleston's article and
Mr. Eytinge's picture. The Peterkin's Tea
party is very amusing; Tommy's Cousins is
a very funny story,'with funnier pictures, and
Stacy's record of the Naughty little Egyptian
is touching and comical.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-05-26

ZINE ENGLISIE AND lrRI.NCII
i STATIOSAgT-plAlr I'D IN fillfe1--st
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-05-26
SUMMARY

IEave large afa complete s-ccs ot l.-1-s .ac ooi
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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-10
THE MAN WHO MAKES JOURNALISTS.
Cincinnati Commercial.

Clnclnnatl commercial.
1t has been remarked that very few who
get into journalism start out with such in.
tention. They drift in accidentally, and
are promoted as they develop capacity.
Money, wealthy parents and influence are
Of no sort of service in getting young man
place on a newspaper. There is no busi.
ness that is so entirely independent of all
those considerations as this. A wealthy
father can easily get his son location to
read law or medicine, or push him forward
In almost any walk Of life he may select
but he is utterly powerless to do anything
for him in journalistic way. To be sure,
he may buy newspaper, and set up his
hopeful in that manner. but unless there is
something in the youth called Journalistic
knack, natura! knowledge of what to
write. and how to write it, he will be 8
influence of wealthy and perhaps powerful
relatives will count for nothing.
Some fond parents educate their sons
with especial view of making journalists O
them, but 1t is rare that we hear of these
young men after few years Meantime
some scrub, born among the hills, having
nothing but a common school education
and the knowledge scraped up in country
printing Office, will advance to front rank
in the profession. He has the Journalistic
knack, and forces recognition because ht
has it. He gets place. not because he
has wealthy parents to influence the propri
etors of leading newspapers, but because ht
knows what to write and how to write il
and the editors take it because it is wha
they want. His articles 20 in because the
supply demand, while perhaps the elabo
rate ESSAYS from the pen of man educated
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-10
NAsBY REJoIcEs OVER THE NEW REFoR
MERS.

From the Toledo Blade.
Ccnover and Patterson hev come over to
us. Conover and Patterson hev cast in their
lots with us, and hentzforth and forever will
be found battlin for purity and reform, in
the dimecratic ranks. Patterson is threat
ened, it is troo, with the Penitenshary, but
what Nv that? Whenever . arepublikia puts
himself in danger Nv the Penitenshary, he
jist begins to be fit for the dimocrisy. A
republicans be in danger Nv the Peniten.
shary shows that he hez bin contemplatin
change in his politikle affiliashens and hez
bin preparin for it. Welcom, Patterson and
Conover! Welcom! last recroots to the army
Nv reform. see the end. The house i.
ours the sent is ours, and the yooserper
stands alone. He hez in his yooserpin
hands the symbol Nv power, but it ez harm.
less ez a sword Nv lath. We hev him and
the party which forced him onto us. E
the dimocrisy hev any sence, the postofiset
is ours in 1880.
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11
play Of Hamlet with Hamlet omitted,

play Of Hamlet with Hamlet omitted,
and the same did not appear to US as
an inviting entertainment. Other
Republicans, however, thought they
would enjoy feast of that kind, and
their coupsels prevailed, resulting in
there being placed in the field mon
grel ticket with a Democratic candidate
FOX Mayor, and also fair proportion of
Democrats for the minor Offices. The
grand finale shows that the advocates
of "straight" Republican ticket were
right; and no one can now reasonably
claim that a great mistake was not
made in running any other than a
Simon pure Republican ticket. BY
that means the Republican forces,
though small comparatively, would
have been kept intact, and they would
have escaped ridicule for being cajoled
into playing subordinate parts in what
has proven to be one of the greatest
political farces ever enacted in Water
town, But the lesson will not be
without It's good results. 1t has dem
onStrated the fact that hereafter the
interests of the city are to be subordi-
mated to those of the Democratic Union
League party, and that whenever they
come In conflict the latter will be
maintained at all hazards. What the
effect is to be upon Watertown remains
to be seen. The Republican party,
being in great minority, cannot con-
troll affairs, but it can at least be true
to it's principles, and, learning wisdom
from the past, can act more prudently
in the future, and no longer be de-
ceived by the hypocritical professions
of the opposite party.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11
This Thresher Is Easy On Men and
Horses. Saves Grain, Saves Money, Is
Durable, and Cannot be Beat.
can Supply You With Steam Engine
and Thresher, or Horse Power ard
Thresher. Send for Circular to
j. e. BENNETT,
Watertown, Wis.

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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11

The REPUBLICAN has all along
maintained that the Democratic organ.
iaation in this city has passed into the
hands of the Union League, and that
for all practical purposes the two par
ties should be considered as one and
the same. With this understanding
of the matter, our idea was from the
6rst that In the election for municipal
officers this spring, Republicans had
but one course to pursue, and that was
to treat the opposition as a common
enemy. To that end we advocated the
nomination of straight Republican
tickets. Of course, we knew that this
plan carried with it defeat, for no Re-
publican, running as such, stood a
ghost of chance for an election
against a Democrat, though the latter
was in every way the more unfit of the
two. 1t has been demonstrated here
many times :that the most ignorant,
unprlncipled and unworthy nominee
upon Democratic ticket can be elect
ed over Republican whose superior
fitness in all respects is generally con-
ceded. The fact that he is Repub.
Gcan condemns him, and Democrats
walk up to the polls in solid phalanx
and vote him down, throwing their
ballots in favor of the Democratic car-
didate, no matter how disreputable he
may be. All they want to know is
that he is their caucus nominee. Such
is Watertown Democracy.
As already stated, We were opposed
to any attempted fusion with Demo
Gratis, because we knew that the num-
Der of malcontents in that organization
was SO limited as to amount to nothing
In a canvass. A fusion of Democrats
and Republicans, without any Demo-
Gratis in the movement, was like the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11
CHANRERT,ATN arrived at Columbia

CHAMBERLAIN arrived at Columbia,
the capital of South Carolina, on Sat
urday, and insists that the State Leg
isature must meet, if at all, under his
proclamation, and either rccanvass The
vote of the former election, order a
new one, or take such other measures
as the complexion Of the case requires.
The claim that Chamberlain makes is
based on the ground that if neither he
nor Hampton is properly inaugurated
then he holds under clause in the
constitution of South Carolina which
provides that all officers shall continue
to discharge the duties Of their Office
until their successors are elected and
qualified. Wright, the third Judge Of
the Supreme Court, holds this doctrine.
In the meantime, Wade Hampton
rejoices in Federal non intervention
There is some danger Of internecine
war In that State, in which case the
negroes would be the sufferers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11

AN oaken chair. with carved back
and angular arms was lately sold in
London for 1925. The CHAIR owes it's
particular value to the fact of its
having once belonged to Shakespeare.
Tradition declares that in this seat the
poet wrote most of his plays. A long
inscription at the back relates to the
history of the chair since it left the
possession OF Paul White head, the Poe
Laureate in the time of Garrick.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11
Gle RepnbHra',*
APRIL Ii, 1877.
Films Biundering.

Statesman Finn published letter
in the Democrat last week, in which
he attempted to shirk all responsibility
for his blunder in putting the city to
the expense of an extra election. He
said:
II was wiring the bill when Mr..
VIM, NJ. Dennis came to my desk. |
asked him to examine the bill to see If
it was all right. He said he would
write it over again, and. if there were
any mistakes he would correct them.
Now, sir, [ will say here positively
that the time fixed in my manuscript
was the first and not the second Tues
day In April [ handed mir. Dennis
the papers, and the laws Of 1878. He
then re wrote the bill, corrected some
wards and said he was pleased with
the bill.
I then called ON Mr.. J. 7. Moak,
and asked him to examine the bill
He read it and said he did not discover
anything wrong, and that he could not
think of any change to improve 1t.
Mr.. Daniel Hall was subsequently in
vited to examine it and see if any
change could be made to make it more
perfect. He stated that as long as
the other gentlemen had examined the
bill, he presumed it was all right.
IF the city had sent man to the
Legislature with sense enough to draft
his own bills this trouble would have
been avoided. According to States
man Finn he first wrote the bill and
then handed it to Mr.. Dennis to cor
rect. "Mr. Dennis re-wrote the bill,
corrected some words, inserted few
words" and then pronounced it all
right. Finn says that Mr.. Moak
afterwards examined the bill and dis
covered nothing wrong. Mr.. Moak
denies having seen, read, examined or
passed upon the bill in any way except
to hear it's general provisions which
were stated to him by Mr.. Finn. He
talked with Finn upon the subject
only upon one occasion, and then the
draft of the bill had not been COM
pleted. We make this statement upon
Mr.. Moak's authority and believe it to
be true. Mr.. Daniel Hall also pro-
nounces false the essential portion of
Films allegations as to him Fur
thermore, the original bill spoken of,
as introduced by Finn, is on file in the
Secretary of States Office, and as an
Flinn's oocn handwriting, thus dispos-
ing of his insinuation against Mr.. Den
mis-, and fastening upon Finn all res
possibility for the mistake.
On the whole, Films position is
not to be envied. He has shown him
self, by his own admissions, to be a
laundering ignoramus, incompetent t6
draw a simple bill without committing
errors which he was compelled to ask
another to correct, and is proven by
Gessrs. Hall and Moak and the record;
in the Secretary of States Office, to be
an unmitigated liar besides. That il
oil that the public will care to know
shout Statesman Finn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11
A Democratic Endorsement.


That the Democratic party is proud
of Mr.. Finn, its representative at
Madison last winter, is shown by the
fact that it endorsed him by nominal
ing, voting for and electiDg him as
Alderman from the Sd ward. After
having shown his incapacity for lesis-
lation, as displayed in the passage of
the bill providing unnecessarily for a
second election here, it would seem
that be should have been sent to the
rear and told, what is the fact, that as
a legislator he is not success. The
blunder he made In framing the bill
spoken of was simply Inaccessible.
His attempt to shuttle the responsible
ity off upon Mr.. Dennis, Mr.. Moak and
Mr.. Hall, or either of them, will not
do. It was his business. as the chosen
representative Of the city, to see and
know that his bill was properly drawn,
and he had ample time after it's intro
duction and before its passage to have
detected any errors it contained, if he
had been as careful, observing and
.watchful as the people had right to
expect, and as members usually are.
The fact is that he has no tact or
capacity for such position, and that
he has proven a most lamentable fail
ure surprises no one. The only won
der is that he made 50 few mistakes as
he did, and if it shall not hereafter be
found that the interests of the city
have suffered in other ways through
his imbecility and inattention, we shall
be greatly disappointed, and the public
will have cause for congratulation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11

"Ts your dog q. Spitz?" asked he
gently of the young lady. "Oh.-ah.
-oohw exclaimed she "W-hat is
it," asked he, excitedly. ooh, my y
replied she, Il would never speak OF
my dog that way" "Yor wou!dn't2''
"No. no." answered the delicate crea-
ture; "lt his breed must be spoken Of
it would be more genteeI, / Should
think, to call him a Saliva dog!" The
young man began his retreat from that
moment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11

PACKARD is preparing to hold the
State Il ouso at New Orleans, at all
hazards. News from there says that,
in anticipation Of the removal Of the
Federal troops, he is arming humber
of special policemen and guards.
Thus far the Administration COM
mission has not developed any partic-
ular action worth noting.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11

SENATOR BLAINE, who has a good
deal of felicity in political Illustrations,
told the following story day or two
ago to describe his feelings toward the
new Cabinet: "Once upon time a
party of gentlemen in Maine started
out upon hunting expedition. On
the way they elected one of their
number to the responsible position of
cook, with the understanding that the
first one who growled or objected to
the cooking should take the cook S
place. and that this rule should contin-
ue throughout the trip. On the first
morning out, while at breakfast, one of
the party took up biscuit, put it to
his mouth, bit out piece and imme-
diately exclaimed: "1Vhew, how
salty but [ like it!'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11
NOTICE.

The Revised Statutes of the United States
Sections 1892, 1897, 1898 and 1899, require
every person engaged in business, avocation
or employment which renders him liable to
a SPECIAL TAX, TO PROCURE AND PLACE
CONSCIOUSLY IN HIS ESTBLISH-
MENT OR PLACE OF BUSINESS STAMP
denotng the payment of said SPECIAL TAX
for the Special-Tax Year beginning May / !,
1877, before commencing or continuing
business after April 80, 1877.
A return, as prescribed on Form IL, is
also required by law of every person liable
to Special Tax, as above.
The taxes embraced within the provisions
of the law above quoted are following, viz
Rectihers. ..............S2OO 90
Dealers, retail liquor. Is 90
Dealers, wholesale liquor. 100 90
Dealers in malt liquors, Wholesale. SO 90
Dealers IN malt liquors, retail....... 20 90
| Dealers in leaf tobacco. ................ % 90
Retail dealers in leaf tobacco. 80. 500 90
| And on sales of over 81 900, fifty
cents for every dollar in excess
of 1000.
Dealers in manufactured tobacco. 90
| Manufacturers Of stils.................. so 90
And for each still manufactured. 20 90
And for each worm manufactured 20 90
Manufacturers OF tobacco........ 49,. &c 90
Manufacturers of cigars. 10 90
| Peddlers of tobacco, first class (more
than two horses or other animas) so 90
| Peddlers of tobacco, second class
1.-TWO horses or other anlmals)..... Is 90
Peddlers of tobacco, third class Zone
| horse or other animal .............. Is 90
| PeddlerS of tobacco fourth class ION
foot OF public conveyance) ........ 10 90
Brewers of less than 500 barrels..... SO 90
Brewers of 500 barrels or more. 100 90
Any person so liable who shall fail to
comply with the foregoing requirements
will be subject to severe penalties.
Persons or firms liable to pay any of the
Special Taxes named above must apply to
HENRY HARNDEN, Collector of Internal Rev.
enue, at Madison, Wis, or to CALVIN
CHENEY, Deputy Collector, at WATERFOWL,
Wis.,, and pay for and procure the Special
Tax Stamp or Stamps they need, prior to
May l, 1877, and WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE.
Special-Tax Stamps will be transmitted
by mail only on receipt from the person or
firm ordering the same ofspeciic directions
SO to do, together with the necessary post
age stamps Or the amount required to pay
the postage. TIE postage on one stamp is
three cents and on two stamps six cents. If
II is desired that they be transmitted by
registered mail ten cents additional should
accompany the applica tion
GREEN B. RAUA
Com. Internal Revenue.
OFFICE OF INTERNAL REVENUE,
washington, u. o., Jan. %, 1877.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11

The Oshkosh Northeastern says that
the next fair of the Northern Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Society will be
located in Oshkosh, provided the citi
zens will raise $500 to paw for the
rent of the grounds.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11
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A GOOD STAND for Grocery, Eating
"A House, ETC., near the Milwaukee Il St.
Paul Depot. Enquire of
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Watertown, Wis.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11

1t was formerly known as the Union
League, but now that it has swallowed
the Democracy, shook and line, bob
and sinker," it should be called the
Democratic Union League party. The
Democratic party, pnre and simple, as
distinct organization in WATERFOWL,
is played out and thing of the past.
Peace to its ashes!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-11

IT is stated that the only difficulty
now in the way of Tweed's release is
his unwillingness to divulge The names
Of legislators and others who received
brides from him in connection with
city charter bills.