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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

When citizen of Jefferson County has Probate Notices.
Sales other legal aderng which haste done according law
the County Judge or Sheriff to publish in the WATER
TOWN and at half price you Jndge
Sheriff. through political influence your papers
OF the same political faith themselves and you
legal rates. with all the extras added Understand Notices.
ohsrf Sales &C. can be published paper printed
aa ounhe paper as well as anoherand by simply making the
spoken
have notices published left the matter entire
ly in the hands of the Judge Sheriff
Call the attention of you Attorney to this Notice.
who this offer. /. .gl f. d
J. H. KEYEs, Prop'r Republican.
9TH
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

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IS. street opposite Watertown House
~. W. EVANS West Side Shoeino
q. - onop, opposite Woodland Ston.'e
Steam Bakery. o'ohe
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

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LINE us.
The Chicago l. Northwestern Railway
embraces under one management the Great
Trunk Railway Lines of the WEST and
NORTHW EST, and, with its numerous
Branches aud connections, forms the short.
est and quickest route between Chicago aud
all points in Illinois, Wisconsin,, Northern
Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska CAL
ifornia and the Western Territories. Its
Omaha and California Line.
Is the shortest and best route between Chi
cago ami all points in the Northern Illinois
Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Col
orado, Utah, Nevada, California. Oregon,
China, Japan and Australia. It's
Chicago, st Paul and Minneapolis
Line is the short line between Chicago aud
all points IN Northern Wisconsin and Min
neso,a, and for Madison, St. Paul, Minueap-
oils, Duluth, and oil points in the Great
Northwest. Its
La Crosse, Winona and St. Peter
Line is the best route between Chicago and
LA Crosse, Winona, Rochester, Ovation Nh,
Manksto st. Peter, New Uim and all points
in southern aud central Minnesota. It's
Green Bay and Marquette
Line is the only line between Chicago aud
Janesville WATERFOWL, Fond du Lac, Osh-
kosh, Appleton, Green Bay, Escanaba, Ne
gaunee, Marquette, Hough,on, Hancock aud
the Lake Superior couu,ry. Its
Freeport and Dubuque
Line is the only route between Chicago ard
Eigin, Rockford, Freeport, and ali points
via Freepert. Its
Chicago and Milwa ukee
Line is the old Lake Shore Route, and is
the only one passing between Chicago and
Evanston, Lake Forest Highland Park,
Wauhegan, Racine, keuosha and Milwaukee
Pullman Palace Drawing Room Cars
are run on all through trains of this 70. d.
This is the only line running these GERS
bet seen Chicago and st. Paul, Minneapolis
Milwaukee, Winona and Green Bay.
Close connections are made at Chicago
with the Lake Shore l. Michigan Southern,
Michigan Central, Baltimore l. Ohio, Pitts
burg, Ft Wayne 4 Chicago, Ksnkakee Line
aud Pan Handle routes, for all points east
and sonh east. and with the Chicago and
Alton and Illinois Central for points south.
Close connections are also made with the
Union Pacific R. z. at Omaha for all far
West points.
Close connections made at Junction points
with trains of all cross points
Tickets, over this route are sold by all
coupon ticket in the United States and
Canadas.
Remember you ask for your tickets via
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, and
take none o.her. =
New York Office No. Ais Broadway; Bos-
ton office No. State street; Omaha office
245 Farnharn street; San Francisco office
III n1gomery Streets Chicago ticket Of
fees 62 Cialk street, under Sherman House,
rs Canal, corner Madison street; Kinze
street depot corner W. Kinzie and Canal
streets; Wells street depot, corner W ellis and
k;nZie streets.
For rates or Information not attainable
from your home ticket agents, apply to
MARVIN HUGHITT,
Gent Mang'r, Chicago.
W. II. STENNETT,
Gen, Pass. Ag't, Chicago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07
Save Your M0neV

The WATERFOWL REPUBLICAN would inform all those in
terested that it after this date
Publish Probate Notices, Sheriff Sales
And all other Legal Advertising THE LEGAL RATES
follows Ia sa .4# as+ aIa5aa #a. 3a##g
80 cts per Folio for st insertion and ~
cts. per folio for each Subsequent one.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

Now is the time to make un your list ot
papers for the. coming year. All orders
promptly filled and satisfaction guaranteed
in every instance. J. T.MOAK.
Watertown, Dec. 10th, 1875.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

1t is the only Northwestern Line connec-
ting in same depot in Chicago, with any of
the great EASTERN or Sou thern Lines and
is the most conveniently located with re-
ference to reaching any Depot, Hotei, or
Place OF Business In that city.
CHICAGO DsPoT--t'ornor Canal and West
Madison streets; Hor~e cars and Stage iues
for all parts Of the city constantly passing.
CHICAGO Cry OyF,cE:-6l and % Clark
street.
MILwAuKEE DEPOT: Corner Reed and
bus lines running regularly therefron to the
principal parts of The City.
Cry TICKET OFFICE: East Water
Street, corner Wisconsin Street
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-26
Using the Wrong Word.

People often use the wrong word in
Ignorance; an example is the use of de-
pot for station. The latter is not only
the proper English word, it is also the
worlds word. So, at one time, they
said saloon, supposing this word to de-
scribe something more sumptuous than
parlor. Happily the word saloon went
to the bad. In other cases there is a
fairly good reason for using the wrong
word People generally know that a
cent is not penny; and yet the euphony
reason for saying penny when cent is
meant fairly iustities common usage;
cent is abrupt and unpleasant in sound
We say Indians, meaning Americans,
and knowing that our predecessors on
this continent are not Indians at all, and
that calling them the American Indians
only makes the matter worse. Our
reason is that we wish to be considered
Americans ourselves. So, also, the peo-
pie of the United States are called
Americans abroad, though they have no
exclusive right to the title-but what
can they call us in one word? The pro-
noun we helps us out partly, but we are
still i'll want of name.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-26
Two Stories.

A Massachusetts, gentleman, Just re-
turned from over the Canadian border,
tells us these stories: He was in the
hotel general accommodation room when
two veterans of the (hoteD bar, laying
schemes for a drink, began to tell stories
to each other for his benefit. "These
are awful hard times" said one. "I
never saw such times before, except
when was in Ohio, an then 1 was hard
put to t to git along. Nothin' to do. 1
had yoke of steers, but they want
earnin' nothin'. But 1 lived right on
the road the Wesfern immigrants went
over every day. SO L dug hole in that
road at the foot O the hill, near my
house, turned livin' spring O. water
into t. and made q good mud hole.
Well. when the immigrants came along,
every day there would be one or more
teams git stuck in my mud hole, an they
would see my steers standin' out doin'
nothin', an they would send up an git
me to come an help 'em out; an alwuz
charged as much as $5 lift. Well, 1
KEEP that mud hole right up in good re-
pair till I made $4,000 out ont, an
then 1 sold it out for SO, 900, an moved
up here" Story number two was the
other Munchausen's companion piece
for the yoke of steers. "When I was a.
choppin'-I could chop some, you know
AN folks used to ask me how much
could do in day. Have you ever tried
it says they. No, never says I;
never but once, an that wan really
try You see, jest to show 'em what I
could do, got up one winter mornin'
afore light an ground up my AK sharp,
oh, jest as sharp, an went into the
woods. An I chopped like sixty till
about three o'clock in the afternoon,
when thought it was as much as 1 could
pile afore sundown, an went to pilin'.
Well, when I had it all piled up it
measured twenty-seven cord. An then
1 knew somethin' was wrong, for I knew
at the rate I had been chopin it
oughter be more. So went back an
begun lookin' round to see what the
trouble was. An there, right at the fust
tree cut in the mornin' was my Ak
head. You see, the thing was loose an
slipped off, an had been chopin all
day with the bare helve."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-26
High Heels and Crooked Shins.

1t is worthy of note that while q ma
ignant hatred of Chinese individually is
fomented under cover of hostility to their
immigration, our females have fallen in
love with Chinese costumes and customs,
in some respects, and accepted them as
models The pictures of Chinese ladies
to which one has been accustomed for
many years bear a close resemblance to
the American belle of the present day.
The repulsive hump, the crippled feet,
and the mincing gait of our women, if
they do not fortify the Darwinian theory
of the origin of the species from monkeys,
at least give the appearance of retrogra-
ding monkeyward. The dress, uncouth
and deformed as it is, would not of itself
deserve notice; but the high heels, Grip
pling the feet and distorting the limbs,
are an outrage on grace, on anatomy, ON
humanity, emitting the authors, could
they be detected, to criminal RESPONSE
bility. A convention of corn doctors
in the interest of their trade could not
devise better scheme for good times.
Women whose pedals are solidifed may
escape with only corns, of which we hope
and pray they may have full and tender
crop. But that a whole generation of
little girls should have their toes iammed
into the toes of their boots, to do the
work of heels, and that their legs should
be thrown out of their natural balance
and the plant bones bent into semi cir
cles, is sacrifice to fashion which would
disgrace a nation of Hottentots. Pacific
Medical Journal.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-26
To DO Up Point Lace.

Fill goblet, OF any other glass dish,
with cold soapsuds made of the best
quality of washing soap; put in your
lace and place i'll a strong sunlight for
several hours, often squeezing the lace,
and changing the water if it seems
necessary; when bleached, rinse gently
in three or four waters, and, if you wish
it ecru or yellowish white, dip it into n
weak solution of clear cold coffee liquid;
if you desire to stiffen it slightly, dip it
into very thin starch; provide yourself
with paper of fine needles, recall the
form and looks of the collar when first
purchased; take a good pin-cushion,
arrange your collar in the right form,
and gently pick into place, and secure
with the needles every point and figure
in the lace as it was when first purchased; !;
leave it to dry, and press either between
the leaves of a heavy book or lay between
two pieces of flannel and pass heated
iron over it, Applique lace can be nicely
washed by first sewing it carefully, right
side down, to piece of wooden flannel;
wash, stiffen slightly, and press before
removing from the flannel.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-26
Precautions Against Fire.

If great fires or small are frequently
due to simple causes it is also true that
all such confagrations can be prevented
by equally simple precautions. We
have only to observe how fires generally
originate in order to take the proper
measures for guarding against them
Woodwork unprotected enters too large
ly into the construction of our public
and private buildings. 1t furnishes
ready food for the flames. Then wood
work should not be used SO much and
should be guarded by masonry or some
non-conductor of flame. Wooden
staircases become mere.deeth traps DUR
ing fires. From their structure they
burn and carry the flames rapidly from
the basement to the top of building
Then we must modify our stair building
and use iron more extensively. Eleva-
tors and dumb walters become fire iues
of the most dangerous kind. They
should be fitted with sliding or folding
horizontal doors on each floor, so as to
cut off the draught at the first alarm of
fire. Large buildings, such as hotels,
should have coils of knotted rope long
enough to reach to the ground ready at
each window that does not open on a
regular fire escape ladder. These can
be used very quickly by the inmates who
are cut off from any other means of
egress. All large buildings, such as
theaters, hotels, factories and ware
houses, where many people assemble
OF are engaged, should be divided into
sections by fireproof walls fitted with iron
doors. BY these means the fire can be
confined to the section in which it breaks
out and the general danger lessened.
No storage of infammable materials
should be permitted in any but vaulted
easements with iron doors. Matches
that ignite by friction on ordinary sur
faces should not be used. Thus, looking
over the long list. of causes of fire, we
find that they suggest preventives,
which, if we only adopt them, will re-
duce the chances of danger from the
probable to the possible.-Ne,o York
HerQld.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-26
Thoughts for Saturday Nigllt.

The sweetest pleasure is in imparting it.
Most pleasures, like flowers, when
gathered, die.
Amid the roses fierce repentance rears
her snaky crest.
Pleasures are like poppies shed-you
can seize the flower, it's bloom is shed.
The shadow of our pleasures is the
pain that seems so sulely to follow them.
There are occasions when the general
belief of the people, even though it be
groundless, works its effect as sure as
truth itself.
Good breeding is benevolence in trifes,
OF the preference of others to ourselves
in the little daily occurrences of lie.
The pride of the heart is the attribute
of honest men; pride of manners that of
fools; the pride of birth and rank is often
the pride of dupes.
The preiudices of ignorance are more
easily removed than the preiudices of in
terest; the first are all blindly adopted,
the second willfully preferred.
If we would amend the world, we
should amend ourselves, and teach our
children not to be what we are ourselves,
but what they SHOULD be.
None are too wise to be mistaken, but
few are so wisely just as to acknowledge
and correct their mistakes, and especially
the mistake of prejudice.
I should entertain a mean opinion of
myself if all men, OF the most part,
praised and admired me; it would prove
me to be somewhat like them.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-26
The Transfers of '5S.

Mr. George Lowery, of Haverhill,
Mass, is one of the few survivors of the
body of teamsters for the murder of
whom, while under the Mormon escort,
Brigham Young is alleged to have issued
an order on the nineteenth of April, 1858.
Mr.. Lowery is very positive that the
order had reference to the party of which
he was one and not to the party so bru-
tally murdered at Mountain Meadow the
September previous. The survivor states
that he was teamster in General John
sons expedition against Utah in 1857.
He and eight other teamsters separated
from that command and started for Cali
fornia. They got lost in the mountains,
wandered about for month, finally COM
ing out into Molada valley, where they
were captured by a Mormon sergeant
and taken to Box Elder City. From
thence they were taken to Salt Lake City.
At that point a party of forty-two team
sters were gathered, who wanted to go
to California, and Colonel Lee, then i'll
command there, gave permission for their
departure, turning them over to Captain
Smith, with an escort of seventy-two
men, proposing to accompany them to
Castle Rocks, distance of $50 miles.
Before starting they accidentally heard
of the order from Brigham Young for
their massacre at point 100 miles away,
but concluded to arm themselves and
take the risk. They purchased guns and
ammunition of apostate Mormons, the
guns being taken apart and secreted with
their ammunition in sacks of flour, con-
stituting part of their supplies. The
party of forty-two were only allowed to
take one double barreled gun and re-
volver. The teamsters and their escorts
had separate camps, and at the end of the
first days march, on entering the camp
for the night, the teamsters prepared
their guns and were really by morning to
give 121 shots without reloading. In the
morning the Mormons were astonished
to find an armed party i'll charge, but
moved on in another days march, which
took them fifty miles away. On the
morning of the third day the Mormons
announced their determination to leave
the party there, instead of accompanying
them to Castle Rocks, and did so, return
ing to Salt Lake City. Had the team
sters been rmarmed they would doubtless
have been slaughtered in obedience to
Brigham Young's order. They proceeded
i'll safety, reaching California in June, 1858.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-26
A Desperate Situation.

The company belonging to Montgom-
cry Queens circus passed through the
public streets of San Francisco. The
last wagon in the caravan consisted of
cage containing a lion and lioness, and
tiger and their keeper. The tiger
crouched stealthily in one corner of the
cage, the lioness in another, and between
them sat the keeper. During the entire
parade the lion manifested good deal
of uneasiness at the presence of the
tiger in the cage, and made several at
tempts to approach it, but was prevented
from doing so by the keeper. When op-
posite the Nevada block, on Montgomery
street, however, the two animals man
aged to rush upon one another Then
followed one of the most exciting scenes
imaginable. The keeper rushed in be-
tween the infatuated animals for the pur-
pose of separating them, and the curious
and horror-stricken crowd rushed in
stinctively toward the cage to render
assistance, were it possible. While en-
gagged in separating the beasts, the lion
seized the keepers thigh and drove his
teeth deep into the flesh. The excited
crowd on the outside then began to raise
their voices in alarm, but the man whose
life was thus placed in jeopardy coolly
told them to be quiet, and seizing an
iron bar he struck the lion on the head
several times, finally compelling him to
release his hold and return to his corner.
Blood flowed freely from his wounds.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-26
More Farmers Needed.

The almost total cessation of immigra-
tion which is reported by those who know
can be partially explained by the stagna-
tion of business; but an important fea-
ture of it can be traced to the neglect of
States and the nation to devise induce.
ments for foreign agriculturists. At the
present time, when life and property
promise to be of uncertain value in
Europe, America should be receiving
ship loads of small farmers. The indus
try, economy and thrift of these people
are sorely needed, as additional wealth
and income would result to the State
itself by the occupancy of lands which
at present yield only prairie and forest
fires, ague and rattlesnakes. It is not
enough that such desirable persons
should be offered homesteads that are too
far from markets to be available or too
poor to have been attractive to profess
sional land-grabbers. The experience
OF the general land. Office is that even
native Americans are slow to avail thern-
selves OF the Homestead law. What.
then, can be expected of foreigners E? 1t
would be to the interest of every State
to make special reservations of land for
would-be settlers from abroad, decreasing
the quantity if necessary to make up for
the special value and advantages of the
land. Further inducements might with
profit be extended but this much. at
least, is practicable everywhere, and
would not be only Inexpensive. but
profitable. --NeW York Herald.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-26
What Will Be Done,

The well and entirely satisfactorily
tried experiment of young women as
clerks at railway stations in England,
the Rochester Union says, will be adopt
ed by the Erie railway. 1t seems that
MIR. Jewett, while in England recently,
made a thorough examination of the
system, and was SO pleased with its
workings that he intends, with the con-
sent of the bondholders and officers of
the line to adopt it. We can imagine
what might possibly, probably would
occur, should he carry the innovation
into effect. Railroad wars would at once
ensue. The Erie would hardly announce
that on and after April l the Erie bag
gage would be checked and the Erie
tickets be sold by a corps of lovely
blondes, before the New York Central
would bill the city with brunette paper,
announcing that on the first of May a
troupe of beautiful brunettes, secured in
Europe at an enormous expense, would
smash the baggage, money purses, and
hearts of passengers via the New York
Central. Then the Michigan Southern
would put ON the road-not only ticket
sellers, but conductresses, brakesmisses
and sleeping car porteresses, with special
instructions to look after the comfort of
passengers. Then the Baltimore and
Ohio would surge out with splendid lot
of Circassian sopranos to sing in their
parlor cars, and to otherwise relieve the
tedium of long journey. And in fact
there is no telling where this progress
would end. Mr.. Jewett had better think
of this before he decides.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-26
An Earnest Shepherd.

A young man who lives on farm
near Bochara, Australia, lately went to
sleep on a sofa after hard days work,
and had been lying there sometime when
he got up and went outside. His COM
panions observed that lie walked with
staggering gait, but little notice was
taken of the matter, as they expected
him to rejoin them Immediately. The
somnambulist, for such he was, passed
through three or four gates, uutying and
relying the fastenings, which are made
of rope, and made his way to the wool
shed. There he hung his coat upon a
nail, took down pair of shears he had
been using in the daytime, and proceed
ed to sharpen them. He next caught a
sheep, and had just finished shearing it,
when he was wakened by the sudden
arrival of his friends, who had come with
lantern to search for him. The shock
of awakening caused him to tremble
like leaf, but he soon regained his
equanimity. The sheep was shorn as
well as if the work had been performed
in broad daylight and the night was by
no means clear one.