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A TIIsToRIC Murblehead, Mas
sachusrtts, over which contlagraton
swept only II few days ago destroying
the principal portion of the town, &C
cupics II proud place for patriotism, in
the history Of the country. Snc con-
contributed regiment of one thousand
men to the revolution, at the close OF
which her widows numbered six hundred.
In the war of 1872, the American navy,
including privNte,rs, was largely re-
cruitcd from Marblchead and when
peace was declared five hundred of its
citizens were held as prisoners of war in
England. In the recent war of the re-
bellion 1t was the first town to send
troops to Boston, and furnished alto
gethcr /, ,446 men to the Federal army.
The fire swept over ten acres ofground,
leaving only ashes and ruins to mark
its course. A principal portion of the
manufacturing establishments were burn
ed, and ovcra quarter of the population
Of 5000 thrown out ot employment
The losses are estimated az 100000.
, 1877-08-04
E3AZsTEI-9sajHbS =.

We've often cullcd the flowers
IN search Of beauties rare
Brought forth by pleasant showers
To make our Earth so fair.
We've nmblcd llither--yondcr
IN search Of Flom's pride,
Each one seemed purcr-fonder,
Till in our grasp it died.
But buds we Rno would never
Thus quickly fade away
They keep their sweetness ever
Andsope some future day.
With buds We III our yaces,
Aud water we'll thelr leaves, mp
And watched the iiowcrets faces
As time each out line wcaves,
At last. bright open flowers
Burst forth to meet our gaze,
Tile work ofhiddcn powers
On buds Of other days,
Thus Death so cruel marches
In silence and in gloom,
Nhu lllOHE NalNli uuNHNHblNl NlNN
For flowers OF richest bloom
lie takes the pure and sanity,
Those nearest fit for Heaven,
While bitter tears SO family
Tell how our hearts are riven;
lie culls from poor, the sages,
From homes in splendor drest;
He seems through all earths ages
To take the purcst-best.
He's making wrenths ofgl0ry
To crown Johoyah's brow,
And has through ages hoary,
Sought buds the same as now
lie gathers flowers immortal,
Ere touched by earthly strife;
Just stepping on lif"s portal
The darlmgs OF our life.
We say, "Wy will''--and flltcr,
To Him we know can save,
As Heavens plants we water
With tears DER loved ones grave,
Then mother cease thy weeping,
Earth'Buds so pure and light,
In Heavens vace are sleeping
To ope to flowers bright.
Thy bud in Heaven completing
The life begun on earth,
The Angels now are greeting
y flower OF Priceless worth
LENNo.
Snohomish July 30, 1877.
, 1877-08-04

INSANITY AMONG Cooks. Cooks In
sanity is a peculiar phase of insanity
among French cooks. 1t is caused by
the carbonic oxide given off charcoal
stoves. The patient believes himself to
to be the victim Of persecution. The
principal symptoms are vertigo, oppres-
sion, halucnations of sight and hearing,
and syncope.
, 1877-08-04

Why He DIDN'T WANT no Go,-"Chil-
dren and fools speak the truth" An
unfortunate widower has found that this
is true. Preparing, not long since, for a
rifle with young lady and desiring to
blind the eyes OF his housekecper respect
ing his errand, he very politely informed
his little son he could go too. mo, l
guess not" answered the small man in
roundabouts. why yes, wash your face
and come along" persisted the father.
"Shan't do it, replied tile urchin. "Why
didn't you go :" questioned the lady in
charge after tho father had left "he
wished ii, / Think I 'ila't either"
retorted the boy, "he said in the bed
room he'd give me ten cents ifrd stay
at home"
, 1877-08-04

PARIS NawsPAPERs-The number of
newspapers appearing in Paris az the
close of 1875 was 1856, as against 754 at
the end Of 1875. OF these, 81 were daily
journals treating of political subjects.
There were 43 journals devoted to
science, 81 to agriculture, 40 to religion,
and 90 to education.
, 1877-08-04
EUROPEAN.

LONDON, july 2S- The Times cores
pondent at Tircnova at the junction of
the Jamboli, Phillipplis and Andrianap-
oils railroads, writes under date of July
10Th, as follows: There has been hor.
rihle massacre of Bulgarans by the Bns
hi bnzouks at Vein Snghar. Not sin.
gle soul would have escaped but for the
arrival of Turkish troops. The Bashi
Bnzouks, Circassians and rregulars, treat
all the villages they pass through the
same way, burning, ravishing and pillag.
ing.
OF $50 Bulgarian prisoners recently
brought to Constnntinople, 10 were i'm
mediatGly shot.
RoME, July ga cabinet council on
Thursday approved the Eastern rolicy OF
the government hitherto pursued and
subject to the arrival Of present men-
hers of the cabinet who have been sum
moncd TO come to consider the question.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, July 30.--yTurkish
official reports claim that the Russian
cavalry attacks on Yeni Saghari in the
direction Vt Osman Baxard has been re-
pulsed,
VIENNA, July 30.-The Hungarian
premier and minister of finance have
been summoned to take part in the cab
met council, at which the question will
he considered whether the moment has
not arrived for Austria and Hungary to
depart from the passive attitude they
have heretofore observed by at least par
TALLY mobilizing her army.
LONDON, July 30.--Frank Koelller was
arrested on the affidavit of S. $. Gellert,
on charge OF wife murder in New Jer.
sey.
Ex.King Amadeus is probably fatally
injured by being thrown from his car
riage in Turin.
Gladstones magazine article character.
ICES the reinforcement of the Mediterane-
an garrisons as II perfect example of the
art Of disquieting and annoying one side
without conlering the smallest advantage
on the other. The fourth Roumanian
Division crossed the Danube to-day, and
occupied Metropolis.
George Ward Hunt, first Lord of the
Admiralty, died at Hamburg to day.
The court of justice of Epirnay, de-
clared it has no jurisdiction to try ac-
tions brought against the Prefcct Of Ep-
irnay by journals for prohibiting street
sales.
Several soldiers were killed yesterday
by the explosion OF a shell in Fort Vale
khan.
1t is said the Turks lost eight thou
sand killed and wounded at Karabunnn.
1t is-now positively settled that when
the Russians reach Adranoplc, the Sui e.
tan and his government will go to
Broussa, ON the Asatic side or the Bos.
phorus. An official report from Osman
PaSha says, the Russians having occupi.
4 LOvat2, q Lody Of Turks from P'evnl
, 1877-08-04

COMMON copper rivets, such as are
used in fastening betting together, ii put
through rOosters bills, and securely
headed down, will prevent them from
growing too early in the morning.
, 1877-08-04

Hawks can fly ut the rate Of ljO
miles an hour.
Ducks can tIy ut the rate of 90 miles
an hour.
The crow can ly at the rate of %
miles an hour.
The sparrow eau liy at the rate OF
02 miles An hour
The falcon can hy at the rate Of -
miles an hour.
Frogs live nom Il to Il yeOrs--f
not eaten.
, 1877-08-04

DEFoRNITY.-Some savages follow the
custom OF tlattering the head in infancy,
thus producing detormity that lasts
life time. Pitiful Us is the custom, it is
no more so than one followed in civilized
communities, that OF filling the minds of
children with myths, traditions, super
stitions and mere beliefs, without facts
or demonstrable truths for foundation :;
causing mental deformity they seldom
get rid of this life. 1t makes biz, de.
formed, helpless children out of the ma.
terial that would have made splendid
men and women. 1t causes them to he
come dependent instead of self reliant,
cowardly instead of bold, narrow minded,
pevish, trettul and selfish instead of
charitable, dreamers instead of reasoners
and reieCtors instead of thinkers. They
are mental non producers and consume
only one kind of intellectual food, con.
sequently, few of their faculties are de-
veloped and they are shut out from most
et the real pleasures OF life. Their igno,
rance makes them intOllerant and their
bigotry contemplate. The world would
he better without them.
, 1877-08-04

The following dispatch was received
by Col. Wheat, from Gov. Ferry "Lcw.
iston, July 2jlh inst. Walla Walla'
Come to ColInN ut the earliest moment.
Gen. Howard has called upon me for two
hundred volunteers to accompany column
to SpoGane country. Courier.
, 1877-08-04

PASSED DowN.-Capt Bancroft, who
was wounded in the battle with the In
dlans on the 18th and reported as hay
ing died OF his wounds, went down to
Port Townsend on Sunday evening by
the North P"ciiic. lie will be welcomed
by his tamily as one who had arisen
from the grave--Iatelligenter.
, 1877-08-04

HEN houses should all be provided
with sofas. Farmers daughters can then
entertain their beaux there and prevent
chicken stealing. Such an arrangement
will be found to work more satisfactorily
without the expense OF light, thus saw
ing oil and carpets.
, 1877-08-04

assaulted and rccaptured it on July 26
The capture OF Shumla was effected
after six hours
, 1877-08-04

Those who manufacture cologne
from onions should never peel them be-
fore submitting them to chemical pro-
cess, as much Of the delicacy Of the per-
fnme is thus lost.
, 1877-08-04

10 prevent cockroachcs from running
TOO much the vines should br cIipped
nst before they bosson.
, 1877-08-04

Hints To FARMERS. Hons. rakcs run
much eosier and last much longer if the
horse is driven straight ahead All at
tempts TO run them Sidcwise or on end
have resulted in vsXatiOus failures.
, 1877-08-04

snohomish July 30, 1877.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21
A Retired Butcher.
All the Year Round.

A story is related of worthy trades
man in the butchering line of business,
who, having amassed a considerable
fortune by means of a snug family trade
IN Shoreditch, disposed of his shop and
retired with his family to villa resi-
dence at Chaplain. But somehow the
luxury of idleness did not agree with
him neither did the brisk air of Chaplain
common agree with his health as did
the more substantial atmosphere of the
back end of Bishopsgate. He grew so
dull and mopish that his friends were
alarmed, and a temporary migration to
Margate was resolved on. It was at the
height of the season, and the select
watering place in question was crowded
withsa mixed company Of visitors, in
Guiding butchers, both retired and still
in active service, and, for a time, Mr..
Shortribs quite recovered his spirits.
But on returning to Clapham his spirits
sank again so rapidly that it seemed
not improbable that he would terminate
his career in melancholy madness. At
last one day he amazed his wife by an
nouncing his determination to return to
Margate for few weeks alone. He
felt sure, he said, that although it was
now the depth of winter, the sea breezes
would revive him; and he promised to
return to Clapham at the end OF
each week and pass Sunday with his
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21

who had it shipped from home, house
and furniture complete a double two
story frame house, which, when in
place, was said to have cost ninety
thousand dollars. At this price, with
the absence Of timber and the absence
Of labor, it will be seen that it was
difficult to have any other shelter than a
tent. The bride for whose reception this
house was intended arrived just before
me, but lived only few weeks; the
sudden and great changes of climate
from our northern Northern weather
into the tropics, and from the tropics
again into the raw harsh winds of that
season at San Francisco, were too much
for her, even with all the comforts of
her own beautiful home. At a party
given to welcome her the whole force
of San Francisco society came out, the
ladies sixteen in number.
Visits in the daytime were held as a
marked attention. | was told that
" time was worth fifty dollars minute
and that must hold as great compli-
ment the brief visits which were made
to me constantly through the day by
busy men.
There was not only gold to be had at
the mines, but golden shower was
falling for whoever had wit to catch it.
| heard many marvellous strokes of
fortune, which caused elevated eye
brows when | repeated them on my re-
turn.-JEssIE BENTON FREMONT, in HaY-
per's Magazine for December.
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family. He went, and 10! the very first
week saw a change in him that was al
most miraculous. His eye was brighter
his flesh firmer; there were even indi-
cations of a return of that roseate hue
to which his cheeks had long been a
stranger. Another week he returned
fresher than ever Still another, and he
was the Shortribs of old, with a jovial
laugh, a ready joke and an appetite he
seemed to have lost irrecoverably when
he quilted Shoreditch. Still he ex-
pressed no desire to settle down once
more at Chaplain. He pleaded for an
other week, and yet one more, until his
wife, with q fond woman's foolish mis-
givings, began to suspect that possibly
there might be something more in it
than appeared on the surface. The
next time that her husband, gay and
cheerful, set out with his bag on Mon
day morning, she-well, there is no use
in mincing the matter-she caused him
to be watched. And with a most aston
ishing result. 1t was all asubterfuge as
to Shortribs going to Margate. He had
never, during the whole time since his
health and spirits began to improve so
astonishingly, been further down than
Camdentown There, at the shop of
trustworthy brother butcher, sworn to
secrecy, he had passed the pleasant
time, busy with knife and steel from
Monday morning until Saturday night.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21
Important Milk Discovery.

President Boieker, with view to ar
rive at certain results, has analysed the
milk OF healthy COW at different
periods of the day. The professor found
that the solids of the evenings milk
Is per cent? exceeded those of the
mornings milk 40 per cent? while the
water contained in the fluid was dimin-
ished from SO per cent. to Sc per cent
The fatty matter gradually increases as
the day progresses. In the morning ii
amounts to Ii per cent, at noon to 81
per cent, and in the evening to 81 per
cent. The practical importance of this
discovery is at once apparent; it devel
ops the fact that, while 16 ounces OF
mornings milk will yield but half an
ounce of butter, about double the guam
tity can be obtained from the evenings
milk from 2I to q per cent, but the al
bumen is diminished from 044 per cent
to OBJ per cent. Sugar is least apund
ant at midnight al per cent? The per
centage of the salt undergoes scarcely
any change at any time of the day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21
Swiss Colonies in the South.

A Swiss colony settled on Cum
berland Mountain, Tennessee, in 1873.
This colony, which consists Of one hum
dred and fifteen families, making a COM
pany of about seven hundred people,
purchased ten thousand acres of noun
tain land at one dollar per acre, and
now, although only four years have
elapsed, each head Of family has a
comfortable home, surrounded by an
orchard and ga, den, and decorated with
a profusion of mountain flowers. There
is large store that is managed for the
colony, members Of which get goods
from it at wholesale cost; the colony has
its own school, church, doctors, etc..
and the members their own candidate
to govern the districts in which they
live. The colonists already have
diaries and cheese factories in success
full operation, and all their products
find ready sale and command fancy
prices. They have splendid herds Of
cattle and their barns are built as care
fully as their houses. There is also a
colony of Swiss near Greenville, S. c.:
about as large as the Tennessee colony,
and it is prospecting finely.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21
The Newspaper Editor.

By one of those broad concentrations
with which the world is apt to content
itself, many people, in thinking Of a
great newspaper, place at its head a
miscellaneous sort of person who does
every thing in connection with it, writ
ing every thing, reading every thing,
and listening to every body. When they
can fix upon his name, they address all
communications to him personally, and
the writer has seen envelopes at the
Tribune office containing notices Of births,
marriages, deaths, and other such trifles
-trifles as matters of news-carefully
and secretly inscribed to Mr.. Greeley
But the metropolitan newspaper is a
machine with too many ramifcations
for the control of one man, and the vast
mass of details involved in it's produc-
ton is classified and distributed among
the several members of large staff of
sub-editors, the editor-in-chief holding
his subordinates responsible.
The one who resembles the fanciful
creation of the public mind most is the
day editor in charge. He receives and
opens the mail, distributing the various
matters which it brings among the sew
eral departments, putting foreign cor
respondence in the hands of foreign
editor, news relating to art in the hands
of the art editor. local news in the hands
Of the city editor, political news in the
hands of the political editor, scientific
news in the hands of the scientific edi-
tor and agricultural news in the hands
of an agricultural editor. Each of these
editors has a special branch of the pa
per to look after; and in addition to
them there is q dramatic editor, who
attends exclusively TO theatrical matters
a financial editor, who reviews the mon
ey market; an exchange" editor, whose
duty it is to read the hundreds of papers
sent in from outside towns; and liter.
airy editor, who is devoted to book re
viewing and literary news. Master Of
all is the editor-in- chief, who directs the
policy OF the paper, writes occasional
leading articles on momentOus ques
tons, and supervises the whole intel
lectual establishm ent-W. III. RIDEING
in Haaper's Magazine for November.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21
The Montreal Earthquake.
Montreal Gazette.

VI OuIIcdl OdZtItC.
Lights suddenly appeared in all di-
rections as frightened people sprang
from their beds and sought light as to
the cause ofthe shaking, while not a
few found the front door, startling the
already half-dozed policeman with their
white face and whittier wrapper. These
cases were few, however as one had
scarcely time to mark the effect of the
shock or gather his frightened wits be-
fore all was again quiet, and he fell
asleep wondering wha. had disturbed
his slumbers The night-clerk of the
Ottawa Hotel was looking at the clock,
when he suddenly felt the hotel COM
mence to sway and then settle down to
tremulous movement The St. Law
renee Hall employees also experienced
some unpleasant sensations, and bells
rang, while one or two carriers horses
started like maddened Arabs up St.
James street, carrying with them their
still more frightened drivers. The
Queens statue in Victoria square sway
ed her sceptre for once, and seemed to
the astonished policeman on duty there
beckoning the Bonaventure block to fall
upon him and wipe him out Of exis-
tence. He reached the centre of the
Victoria square and surveyed the statue
from seat on the curb of the fountain
In the vicinity of Beaver Hall in many
residences bells were rung, and doors
closed fast were thrown open with a
swing, while the church-steeples seemed
nodding to the stars good morning.
Nelson's monument swayed, and the
astonished carriers on the stand located
at each side of its base stood from under,
fearing that the aged hero was bent up
on interviewing them. A volunteer Of
ficer who keeps the Sabre de mon pere sus-
pended over his couch, found that the
earthquake had turned the sword upside
down. The sun Of Mars would have
slept on, however, had not the sward
blade been shaken from the scabbard,
and, falling across his nose, dinted the
bridge thereof as cleverly as if it had
been done to ort.cr. In several cases
sleepy servants answered door-bells-
too drowsy to feel the vibration, and
fancying that the milkman had come
rather early in the morning One
gentleman, a resident Of St. Urban
street, was awakened by the maneuvres
of the house cat, which jumped on the
bed and left her trail upon his chin and
| forehead. Startled at this occurrence,
he had scarcely time to lift boot when
| the earthquake commenced.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21
Sad Story Of a Sisters Love.

In the town and suburbs Of Bombay
there is class of hereditary Ministries,
called Cahruns, who possess a. certain
talent for provisation, and earn a
precarious livelihood by chanting their
verses from house to house. To this
class belonged a brother and sister, re-
spectively named Dada Jeeva and
Baeeba, who appear to have been ten
derby attached to each other The for
mer, though wrongfully accused, was
convicted Of robbery and sentenced to
penal servitude for life. His sister,
however, refused to believe the evidence
and chung to her faith in his innocence.
Determined to discover the truth, she
wandered about the country fct ten
years, disguised as female ascetic,
everywhere making inquiries. After
many a disappointment, she at last
alighted upon clew that put her upon
the right track: and then the proofs ac-
cumulated rapidly. Armed with these,
she laid the case before member Of
the council, who SO far interested him
self on her behalf that he was one day
able to present her with an order for
her brothers release. The news, how
ever, was disclosed too hastily to the
prisoner. The sudden revulsion Of feel
ing was too much for him and he was
removed from the Jail to the lunatic
asylum at Colaba, hopelessly insane.
The faithful Baeeba, with saddened
heart, still pursues an art which de-
mands happier inspiration, but many
now give to her misfortunes what they
would have withheld from her improvi-
SatiOnS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21
The Gentleman.

The gentleman is by no means com
mon, even among the better classes
The character belongs to individuals
not to grades, orders or professions. Il
does not depend on circumstances
training, or fortune, not necessarily or
education, for education makes not, il
merely develops, the man. Men who
are ignorant, who have had no advant
age whatever, are sometimes the supe
riors of those of nice culture, good birth
and favorable surroundings. The
gentleman comes from within, not from
without; he is such by reasons of his
convictions, sympathies and aspirations
He demands something of himself in
cessantly, and sees that the demand is
met without diminution or shrinking
He walks by the light ofideals; he en-
beavers, so far as in him lies, to make
the world better rather than worse; he
respects himself too much to be capable
of meanness; he reyerences the feelings
OF others; he will not Willingly dc
wrong; in word, he is thoroughly hui
man and strictly honorable.