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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14
Getting Married.

Aside from tie entertainment of
guests at the residence of the bride,
the expenses Of the marriage are en-
tirely borne by the groom, who is I'M
derstOOd to be the winner of the prize
If the parties marrying are wealthy
and Of undoubted standing and re-
spectability In society, they can ap-
propriately celebrate the nuptial cere-
mOny in an expensive manner, the
occasion being taken by the relatives
and friends as an opportunity for the
making of every description of pres
ents to the bride and groom. If, how
ever, the parties move in the humber
walks CT life, an expensive bridal tour
and very great display at the wedding
are not advisable. 1t is much better
for the newly welded couple to COM
mence life in q manner SO plain and
modest that succeeding years cannot
fail to steadily increase their wealth
and give them better opportunities.
People always more highly respect
those persons who steadily 60 upward,
no matter how slowly, than those who
attempt a display beyond their ability
honestly to maintain. To legally
marry in the United States, only few
incidental expenses are really neces-
sary. Of these, the license costs, in
different states, from ST. to So, and the
magistrate, for performing the cere-
mony, is allowed by law to charge So.
While no law regulates the price, it is
customary to quietly present the cler-
gyman with IS or more, according to
the ability and liberality of the groom,
In giving notice of the marriage to
the newspaper, it is courtesy always to
inclose with the same a dollar BILL
HiRs Manual.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14
The Terrible Famine in India.

The famine in the Deccan is assum-
ing a very serious aspect. There is an.
entire failure of crops in one Bombay
district, namely, Sholapore. Two
others, namely, Kaladoe and Dharwar,
are nearly as,in Off A partial failure
involves severe distress in Khandish,
Nassick, Ahmednnggar, Poona, SAHARA,
and Belgium. Large relief works are,
sanctioned. About 287 900 people are
on the relief works at Bombay. The,
Government is not interfering with pri-
waite trade, which is pouring in large
supplies of grain. The total cost from
loss of revensae and from expenditure
on relief works on Bombay will pro-
badly be over s2,0OO,000 sterling. Mat
tiers are still worse in Madras. Boththe.
southwest and northeast monsoons have
failed, thus causing famine in twelve
districts. Large relief works have been
commenced which will employ over
100000 persons. Besides these, many
are receiving charitable relief. Prob
ably the cost to the State in the Madras
Presidency alone will be over "a, 0cO,-
OOO sterling, There is also consider
able distress in Mysore and IN the
southern portion of the Nizam s domin-
ions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14


the church warden to take pinch as
she dropped her contribution into the
plate. Sir Richard declares-how
truthfully who shall say?-that learn
ed lady of his acquaintance, whom he
had vainly tried TO talk out Of the evil
habit, happened one day to have q
pretty fellow hidden il her closet when
some company called. She made an
excuse to go to the closet for some
thing they were talking about; her
eager gallant snatched kiss, but, be-
ing unused to snuff, some grains from
her upper lip set him sneezing, much
to the astonishment of the visitors, who
thereby learned that profound reading
and very much intelligence could not
fill up her vacant hours SO much but
she was obliged to descend to less in
tellectual entertainment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14
Teaching Baby.

From Scribner for February.
You must take your baby just where
he is now, not much more than little
animal, and educate his physical ma
ture, so rapidly developing. For in
stance, he has just reached the climb
ing age, every chair and stool is q
worry to you, and pair of stairs is a
perpetual terror. Now show him how
to get up and down the stairs, how to
place his feet in climbing into chairs.
Let him tumble little; it will only
make him more careful. 1t is but q
foretaste of the hard schooling which
experience gives us all our lives. Better
q little fall with you close by to stop it
at the right place. than a great one
when you are off guard some day.
Remember that, too, when he is in his
teens). But, l beg of you, if you want
to see him grow up active, strong
hmbed and agile, do not keep his white
dresses too clean, nor tie his sashes
after the present uncomfortable fash
ion, SO that he isn't conscious of any
legs above his knees. Then, let him
feed himself. He'll make miserable
mess of it at first, but protect him we'll
with bib and tin tray, and he'll soon
teach his spoon the way to his mouth.
Let him burn his fingers a little some
day when the stove is not very hot; he
won't touch it when it would be dan
gerOus.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
The First Party.

line First PARTY
BY JOSEPHINE POLLARD.
Miss Annabel McCarty
Was invited to party,
" Your company from four to ten, the invitation
said;
And the maiden was delighted
To think she was invited
To sit up till the hour when the big folks went to
bed.
The crazy little midget
Ran and told the news to Bridget
Who clapped her hands, and danced jig, to
Annabel's delight,
And said with accents hearty
go Twill be the swatest party,
If ye're there yerself me darlint! | wish it was
tonight"
The greatest display of frilling
Was positively killing!
And, oh, the little bootiesl and the lovely sash
so widel -
And the gloves so very cunning!
She was altogether " stunning"
And the whole McCarty family regarded her
with pride.
They gave minute directions,
With copiOus Intersections
OF Sit up straight" and Don't do this, or
that!-'twould be absurd!"
But, what with their caressing,
And the agony of dressing,
Miss Annabel McCarty didn't hear single
word.
There was music, there was dancing,
And the signt was most enhancing,
AS If fairy-land, and floral band, were holding
jubilee;
There was laughing, there was pouting;
There was singing, there was shouting;
And old and young together made carnival of
glee.
Miss Annabel McCarty
Was the youngest at the party,
And every one remarked that she was beautifully
drest;
Like doll she sat demurely
On the sofa, thinking surely
1t would never do for her to run and frolic with
the rest.
The noise kept growing louder:
The naughty boys would crowd her:
" l think you're very rude indeedl" the little
lady said;
And then, without warming
Her home instructions scorning,
She screamed: Il aUdnt my supper!-dnd aUGn,
to go to bed"
Now, big folks, who are older,
Need not laugh at her, nor scold her,
For doubtless If the truth WIRE known, we've
often felt inclined
To leave the ball, party,
AS did Annabel McCarty,
But we hadn't half her courage, and we C euldn't
speak our mind!
st. Nicholas
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14
Snuf-Taking Ladies.
From ALI the Year Round.

It IS not until we come to the reign of
Queen Anne shat we find positive proof
of masculine noses no longer enjoying
a monopoly of the piquant powder:
The feminine admirers Of Sacheverell
commended as ardently for a pinch OF bis
ssorangery" as second-handed beaux
had once struggled to dip their fingers
In Dryden's box, and carried their idols
portrait in the lids of their boxes. A
LADY, writing in l712, describes herself
as an insignificant creature, who dress
ed not, took no snuff, and did no fash
ionable things Lady Betty Modlsh,
who would accept no gift from her
lover save snutf-box, asserts, "sln-
cerity in love ia as much out OF fashion
as sweet snuff, nobody takes 1t now;
which may account for the feminine
dissatisfaction expressed in the lines:
aProrn agate box the newest made,
Her snuff Miss Bid takes in shell;
A thousand times to me she's vowed
lis faint, tits languid, has no SMELL"
Gteels inveighed loudly against the
impertinent custom the women had
fallen into; which, whether performed
coouettishly or with sedate, mascu.
line air, Was IN Ills eyes equaHy uS'
greeable.
He describes Mrs. Saunter taking
snuff as often as salt with her meals
with such wonderful negligence that an
upper lip covered with snuff and sauce
was presented TO all who had the honor
Of dining with her; while her pretty
niece made up for not offending the
eve TO the same degree by startling the
ear with nauseous rattle, as she stop
ned her nostrils with her fingers. He
f.lu,ld bear with beauties who manipu
lated the snuff box for the sake of dis
,,lavina q pretty hand; but thought
Fjayille went little too far in pulling
ont her box ia the middle of the ser
,nop end offering it 10 the men and wo
rnen sitting near her: al well as inviting
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14
BY PROF. R. A. PROCTOR.

A GOOD story lis told OF d well-known
Baoad street broker, who, on his way
home from the club the other evening,
managed to occupy considerable mere
than two-thirds of the Madison avenue
sidewalk. In this predieament he was
met by two seeuy individuals, who FIRST
relieved him Of his watch, and then
tumbled him over into the snow. As
he lay there shouting for help two
other individuals caf2se :.loDg and ~
ouired. "What's the snatter?" 'Why,
said the broker, s.hese rve-hie-been
they take your money!" asked the
strangers. Don't know" said the
broker, feeling in his breast-pocket for
lis wallet. 'sNo, here 'tis-hic-
moneys all right" well, we'll take
that, then" said the strangers, as they
seized the wallet and disappeared
around the first corner.-N. Y. COM
nasscsa!.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14
Two smugglars adopted the inpeni

Two smugglars adopted the Ingenious
plan of building what is termed Zine
store" at Trout river, on the Canada
line. One door opened into Canada
and the other In New York state,
Through this domicile it is charged tn at
they broughs large quantities of shoe
serge, and, it ID supposed, many other
ARTICLES, for which offense they are
now, however, on trial.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14
A CONNECTICUT beau sent u telegram

A CONNECTICUT beau sent u telegram
to his girl, who was in New York, wish
ing her q Merry Christmas, but
omitted to pay the charge. 1t cost her
twenty five cents to find that she was
remembered, and in ner gratitude sac
expressed him package containing
several coal chunks, which cost hlm
fifty-fve cents to get. He is carrying
his confectionery to new place now.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14
HE FAIR SEX.
Cupid Schooled.

When she was as gay as q linnet,
Aud | was as fresh as a lark,
Never q day but some minute
We met betwixt dawning aud dark,
Katie, and when shall we marry"
q Marry" she said with sigh,-
"That's cake and ribbons on Monday,
And sorrow ere Saturdays by.
You are as lean As a lizard,
am az poor IS a mouse;
Nothing per annum paid quarterly,
Hardly finds rent for house.
Love and crust in cottage
Capital! just for a pair:
What if the hut should grow populous?
How would the pOpulace fareT
s'Oh, ayl the uncle you reckon OH
equity, and rich, and unwed,-
Dick they wait i'll, says the a1age, who
Wait for the shoes of the dead.
VI.
"Ah! if loved you, I'd risk iti'
That's what you're thinking. guess
WHY, I would risk it tomorrow,
Dick, If | cared for you lessl
"Love's apt to fly out at window
When Poverty looks in at door;
Rather I q die tnan help bapiSh him,
Dick, just by keeping you poor.
Kiss mel you'll look in on Sunday
Won't my new bonnet be brave?
June at its longest and leahest-
Ny! what g. ramble We'll nave!
sBy e-byel There's grandmother waiting
Patient at home for her tea;
Dick if YOU wouldn't wed both of us,
You must be patient for mel
Showers, if they ruffle its foliage.
Freshen the green of the grove:
True lovers tiffs, said old Terence, are
Only fresh fuel to Love.
If flung off in q passion
If she crept in for cry
Sunday came smiling and settled it,
Katie was wiser than [.
All.
Loves but baby that, passionate,
Cries to be mated at BIRTH
Time isn't lost if it teaches you
What good woman is worth.
What if the waiting was wearisome?
What if the work-days were drear?
Time, the old thief, couldn't rob us of
Fifty-tWO Sundays a-year.
XIV.
How long was Liberty coming!
Long enough-ever her way;
Lustrum, or Decade, Or Century
What does it matter to-dayf
Nu1ky died single at sixty,
Granny at eighty or so;
Well, if we didn't weep long for EN-
'TWasn't in nature, you know.
Graanies and uncles are liable
All to di some day, that's clear:
Sorrow finds wonderful comfort in
Five or six hundred a-year.
XVII.
And lovers may marry at forty,
Ay, and live happy to boot,
Though Phillis be grey as badger,
And Corydon bald as coot.
AJdaaary Bldckle0od
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14

COLORADO hotels are hilng up wi h
eastern invalids. ~
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14

When she was as gay as linnet,
Aud [ was as fresh as q lark,
Never day but some minute
We met betwixt dawning aud dark
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14
III

You are as lean As a lizard,
[ am az poor SIS a mouse;
Nothing per annum paid quarterly,
Hardly finds rent for house.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-27
MERIT RECOGNIZED.

Benson's Capcine,Porous1Plast receiv
ed The highest and only award of merit a
tne Philadelphia Exposition, over all arti-
cies OF like character, proving by the high
est medical authority in the world that
tney are greatly superior to ordinary porous
piasters, and not a patent medicine--as no
nostrums were allowed to be exhibited
tnere. 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 after long use. Over three thousand
physicians now recommend their Use and
they are sold by druggists everywhere
Price 26 cents. IVA
IMPORTANT TO EVERY HOUSEHOLD
"Improvement" is the watchword of the
nour IT'S development and re-deyelopment
is the ambition OF every true American
Porous plasters were invented In 1915. For
thirty years their com position remained un-
improved, until Benson's Capcine Porous
Plasters were invented.' They differ from
all others in their greater medical activity.
1hey UW cure disedse IN a JeW hours that other
porous plasters, liniments or compounds
require days and weeks Of Continuous wear
and use 10 simply relieve. They are supe-
rfor 70 electricity and more powerful. III IL
not q nostrum. They are endorsed by over
three thousand Physicians and druggists as
meeting great want a 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.
nov16eod&v'
The daily gazette., 1877-01-27

they have given up the absolute certainty
OF the legal declaration that Governor
Tilden Is to be President. OF this there
can be no doubt.
Now, what has the Senate surrender
ed? Morton, Sherman and Blaine Lave
been beaten out of the baseless claim that
the President of the Senate can count.
The Senate, however bas never asserted,
and probably neve T will assert, that claim,
and therefore the Senate has acquired
rights and powers 1t has never had or ex-
ercised d,-certainly now since 1866 for,
running through the new arrangement,
there is not only drawing to itself by
the Senate of co-equal powers with the
House, but an exclusion of the House
from power conceded to it by the joint
rule. and also by Morton's plan.
IL Is, nevertheless, useless to deny that
In exercising this power the House, in
the present condition of parties and OF
votes, might, unless most circumspect in
rs !; conduct, be open to the charge of par
tisanship and of non-judicial action IT
Is conceded on all hands that the House
must investigate and decide judicially,
when 1t undertakes to decide at all, be-
tween two conflicting returns. No judi
c1al body can or would undertake to say
what its decision will be until possessed
OF all the facts and all the questions of
law requiring judgment; it can only say
that there shall be a just decision. But
under the new arrangement the exclusive
power of controlling this just decision
passes out of the hands of the House into
the hands of another tribunal, the fair
ness and fitness of which, however, as
we have said, cannot be justly called in
question. In the present posture of af-
fairs, therefore, we hope, as we believe
all good citizens hope, that the Senate
measure will promptly pass the House
and become law. We are dealing not
with things as they might could or should
have been, but with things as they
are!
The daily gazette., 1877-01-27
THE COLORED TROOPS FROM
LOUISIANA.

WASHINGTON, January 26.-Cassanave
and Kenner, gambler and undertaken,
mulatto members of the Louisiana Re.
turning Board, arrived to-day in charge
of two Sergeant-at-Arms. They were
carried at once to the Capitol, and by
special orders of Sergeant-at-Arms
Thompson were locked up in the COM
mittee room formerly occupied by Tele-
graph Manager Barnes. Wells and An
derson are at Wizards. The idea is to
keep the two worthy "duets" apart and
put the colored ones on the witness.stand
tomorrow and see if their stories do not
differ materially from that of Wells, who
is the master-spirit of the gang. The
colored troops did not fight bravely fer
they are, as the boys say "skeered" to
death.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-27
General News.

Ex-Governor Kellogg and U. S. Mar
shal Pitkin had an interview with the
President yesterday relative to affairs in
Louisiana.
The Z. S. Senate yesterday confirmed
Alexander Sharpe as Paymaster in the
army.
The President yesterday nominated
Hon. Thomas Settle, of North Carolina,
to be U. s. District Judge for Florida, and
Benjamin F. Landers to be Assistant
Treasurer Of New Orleans.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina,
yesterday dismissed the quo acdrrdnto pro
ceedings against the Hayes Electors of
that State, on the ground that their pre-
sentation on the part of the State, instead
of the United States, was illegal.
The Electoral Count bill will be sign
ed by President pro tempore Ferry and
Speaker Randall, and presented to the
President to day. If signed by the Presi-
dent, as expected, the Joint Convention
of the Senate and House will meet in the
Hall of Representatives on Thursday next
for the purpose of counting the Electoral
vote. ,.....
Cazenave and Kenner, the colored
members of the Louisiana Returning
Board, arrived in Washington yesterday.
They will be examined by the House
Committee to day.
Hon. RIB. Carpenter, Judge of Cir
cult Court in South Carolina, has been in
Washington for several days, writing a
decision on certain questions before him
involving the legality of the Chamberlain
and Hampton Governments, and, in case
neither is legal, the right of Chamberlain
to hold the Executive Office until his sue
cessor is duly chosen and qualified.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-27

The House met at 73O P. M, with Mr.
Hooker (Miss.) in the chair. The first
speech was made by Mr.. CaldtreU Tenn
who advocated the bill. He declared
himself ready by his vote to commit the
cause in which he believed 10 the tribu-
nal provided for in the ill,nssured that
through it the country would find peace
and prosperity He was followed BY Mr..
Stevenson (Ill.) and Caulfeld (nl.) also in
support of the bill. .iu .-e 2 +
Mr.. Springer (In.) also advocated the
bill, declaring that the inevitable result
of the failure to pass it would be that
Mr.. Iilden would be proclaimed Presi-
dent at one end of the Capitol and Mr..
Hayes at the other. There was no del
egation OF the powers OF tho houses. 1t
was simply reference to the commission
to report as TO which was the true re-
(Continued on fourth page.l
The daily gazette., 1877-01-27
MORMON LEES EXECUTION
STAYED.

SALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. 25.-The case
of Bishop John d. Lee, convicted of
in the Mountain Medow massa-
ere of 1857, was appealed to the Supreme
Court of the Territory, which has grant
ed stay of execution. II the case is
there decided against him it will probab-
ly be appealed to the Supreme Court of
the United States. Lee feels jubilant as
to his prospects of getting new trial,
and his counsel is also sanguine.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-27
California will have no difficulty in ex--

California will have no difficulty in ex-
porting every pound of her surplus pro-
ductions this year, at the cheapest sort of
rates for freight. There are now in the
port at San Francisco "a disengaged ships
with tonnage of 41,000, and fleet hay
ing tonnage of 100000 is loading for that
port or already on the way, one third of
this being at New York, and one-eighth
at Liverpool. The Californians are puz-
zled to know what to give them for re-
turn freight.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-27
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Governor Hayes says He will BE
Content " ith the Action OF Con
0ress,

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 26.-In referring
to the passage of the bill in counting the
electoral vote, Governor Hayes said to a
friend several days ago, but who makes
the statement public this morning :-"I
want it distinctly understood that L do
not desire to influence the action of Con-
gress, one way or the other, in the mat
ter of the Electoral bill: or any other
matter relating to the Presidential
election. The whole thing is in the
hands of Congress, and shall be content
with its action"
The daily gazette., 1877-01-27
4 Protest BY the Pope.

ROME, January 26,-The Congregation
of Cardinals which was ordered by the
Pope to examine the clerical abuses bill
has unanimously declared that it violates
the liberty of the clergy. tits stated that
the Pope will publicly protest. Audien-
ces at the Vatican were suspended to-day
because of the Pope's indisposition.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-27
Forget It H'asssaSfEas saEs!s aasEa

is worth all the Burglar Alarms ever IN
vented. Agents wanted everywhere. Sill
yer plated sample postpaid on receipt O
Is cents. Address A. IL. Singers, 4'S Wa
nj St FAjIadeJPhia. IA, mar2weom ~
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-18

Two shoe firms had dispute in regard to
a quantity of goods purchased, and many
sharp letters passed between them. The
complainant sent the letters to the Shoe and
Leather Reporter for publication. The Re
porter declines to publish them, and sets
forth very clearly in reply the functions of
the press in such matters. 1t says of the
complainant: If he had been a subscriber
and reader of the paper he would have known
that there were no circumstances under
which matter of that kind could be admitted
into our columns, except as an advertise
ment. 1t happened that he was not; neither
was the firm with whom his dispute was be-
ing maintained. But he has written us a
second time inquiring, with a surprise which
does not seem to be at all affected, the rea-
sons Of our refusal to make room for his COM
munication. He shall have them: In the first
place, such disputes possess no interest for the
general reader; their Importance is confined
mainly to the individuals engaged in them.
In the second place, they are not conducive to
the spirit of good-fellowhsip and friendness
which it is alike our duty and our pleasure to
inculcate; and, in the third place, it does not
comport with the digulty nor with the cir
cumspection which should characterize the
conduct of newspaper, to make its columns
The means of perpetuating and aggravating
private quarrels.
The Portland daily press., 1877-12-18
ENTERTAINMENTS
CHRISTMAS SALE.

The Ladies of the First Baptist Society will
hold their Annual Christmas Sale and Festival in
their Vestry Corner Wilmot and Congress eets, on
Wednesday and Thursday afferno0ns and
evenings Dec. 18th and 2OtI. Useful and
Fancy Articles suitable for Christmas Gifts; table
for the Children; nice Christmas Candies and
Flowers will be for sale. oysters. Ice Cream, Coffee
and Refr eshments of all kinds for sale during the
evening. decl7d3t*