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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27
Sheridan at Sedan.

The following vivid account is taken
from Colonel Hoffman's "reminiscences Of
two wars: CAT the battle of Sedan
Sheridan stood near Count Bismarck
Towards its close he shut up his glass,
and, turning to Bismarck, said, The
battle is WON The Count replied that
he should be glad to think so, but saw no
signs of it yet. In a minute or two more
the French gave way. Turning his glass
toward Sedan, Sheridan observed, THE
Emperor is there Bismarck answered
that it could not be; that the Emperor
would not be such fool as to place him
self in that situation. Looking again,
Sheridan said, He is there, anyhow,
He had drawn his conclusions from the
immense staff he saw and the confusion
reigning among them. Sheridan was
right. The Emperor and his staff were
prisoners of war. The Emperor had be-
haved with the greatest personal courage,
and subsequently, when discussions arose
between the French Generals as to who
was responsible for the great disaster, he
behaved with the greatest generosity
But he should not have been at Sedan.
The post of usefulness and of danger for
him was at Paris, and not with the
army."
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GREAT 0EEERfI WeWfll during these !
On YiSnO oil

a GREAT OFFER bard Vim fime sr r1i.Sdse es ae
100 PIANOS and ORGANS. new and sec
Omd-hamd Of frsf-cEass makers, including
WATERS at lower prices for cash In
sfal1menfs or to let EsEptIl paid for than
before offered. VAT Rs GRAND SQUARE
and UFREG RbT PIANOS and ORG Ans I'm
CLCDING THEIR NEW SOUVENIR AND
BOUDOIR) are the BEST MADE. 7Octave
Pianos $3.50. 1-l3 do S16O not used u year.
~ stop Organs $50. Stops S5S. Stops
SGS. stops $50. 10 Stops SSS. IL Stops
500 cash, not used a year, i'm perfect order
and warranted. Local and Travelling
AGENTS WANTED. Illustrated Catsl-
lOgues mailed. A liberal discount to Teach
ers, Ministers, Churches. etc. sheet music at
half price. HORACE WATERS ~ ~lNN.
Manufacturers. 40 East 14th St. NY
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27

PATENTEES and inventors should read
advertisement of Edison Bros. in another
co11nn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27

Mrs. SULLIVAN, of Jeffersonville, KY,
makes canoes from hickory nuts.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27
Swearing in Cromwell's Time and what
it Cost.

Laws against swearing were strictly
enforced during the time of the Com
monwealth, and with the largest possible
Interpretation against the accused. We
are reminded of the reproof that Sir
Walter Scott put into the mouth of
Cromwell-"W What can it avail thee to
practice a profanity SO horrible to the
ears of others, and which brings no
emolument to him who uses it?" Every
oath was counted. For single oaths, the
fine was IS. 3d., but the charge was re-
duced to IS. I'D. each "on taking guam
tity." Humfrey Trevett, for swearing
ten oaths, was committed till he pay 33s.
I'D. to the poor of Hartford. John
Huishe, of Cheriton, was convicted for
swearing % oaths and two curses at one
time, and four oaths and one curse at an
other time. Of course, the greater num-
Der of these cases were disposed of at
petty sessions without being sent for
trial. One justice returned the names
Of ten persons whom he had convicted of
swearing since the previous sessions. We
are not left without examples of what
was considered swearing in those days.
William Hearding, of Chittlehampton,
1of saying TWO several JlmeS IN court
" Upon my ife," was adjudged to be
within the act of swearing, for which he
paid 6s. 3d. Thomas Butland was fined
for swearing con my troth." Gilbert
Northcott had to pay 3s I'D. for saying
" Upon my life" Thomas Courts was
fined for swearing in court "God is my
witness" and II speak in the presence
Of God" Christopher Gill, being re-
proved by Mr. Nathaniel Durant, clerk,
: for having used the oath, Gods Life, in
discourse" went and informed against
the minister himself for swearing!-
Fr0ser's Magazine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27

Y EEP'S SHEEsTS-only quatity-Tf!e Hest.
IN Keeps Patent Partly made Dress Shirts.
Can be finished easy as hemmng Handkerchief
The very best, six for 100.
Keeps Custom Shirts-made measure,
The very best six for $500.
4 n elegant set of genuine Gold plate Collar anu
Sleeve buttons given with each u doz Keeps Shirss
Keeps Shirts are delivered FREE receipt Of price
In any part OF the Union express charges to pay
Samples with full directions for self-m@a suremant
Sent Free to any address. No stamp required.
Deal directly with the Manufacturer and get BoftaM
pcic L Man q
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TEXAS is running in debt million a
year.
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The Genuine vibrator Threshers
NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO.

They or any of their regular authorized Dealers
furnish illustrated Pamphlets and Price Lists, an
full particulars, free, on application.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27

away from home night. You can give your Whole
time to the work, or only your spare moments. We
have agents who making over $40 PEI day at the
business. All who engage at once maae money
fast At the present time money cannot be Elada So
nothing to try the business Ter sand So outfit free
Address at once. H HALIETT & Co. Portland. Maine
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-08
Keeping Vegetables in Winter.

There are a few general rules which
should be well understood, and which,
if understandingly applied will enable
those who raise their own vegetables to
keep them in good condition in nearly
all instances, much longer than is often
done. These rules are
/. To keep them cool without freez-
ing, and without alternating changes of
temperature.
2. If they dry up and shrivel Gas beets
and parsnips), apply by external means
a certain amount of moisture.
3. Ii they do not shrivel but rot (as
potatoes and squashes), let the air which
surrounds them be dry and cool.
These rules may be easily and readily
applied in various cases. Potatoes, for
example, dry very slowly, but are liable
to rot, and they may therefore be SUBJ
jected to moderate currents of air, in a
cool place. Light should be kept out
to prevent their becoming green and
bitter. If rot attacks them, it may be
checked by repeatedly dashing on cold
water, which makes them clean and by
evaporation cools them. If on lattice
bottom, both drainage and the admis-
sion of air will be effected.
Turnips, beets and parsnips, unlik G
potatoes, dry up soon if exposed to air.
When intended for kitchen use, and not
for stock, they may be packed in fine
moss or damp sawdust, which will keep
them in good condition for many
months. If sawdust is used, it should
be in moderate sized boxes, to prevent
heating.
Pumpkins and squashes may be kept
long time in dry chaff, with tenn
perature as cold as practicable without
actual freezing. If the mass of chaff is
thick, they will not freeze in barn.
Country Gentleman.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-08

ton, they are given pieces of raw goats
meat. Horses are very cheap there,
ranging from $15 to $40 each-the ma
tives even cheaper, 81 being thought an
extravagant price per man for the trip.
Milking goats are worth 81 each, and
others about so cents. The journey
usually occupies from 80 to 40 days, and
all travelling is done between and IL
O'Clock in the morning and and IL in
the evening. During midday the suns
rays are so fiercely hot as TO make labor
or travelling hazardous, and none is at
tempted. The route home is much the
same as that taken going out, and in
due time the beasts are landed, usually
with very little loss, on the great stock
wild animal farm of Charles Reiche e.
Brother, in Alfeldt, Hanover. There
they remain until needed to fill orders
of showmen in either Europe or Ameri-
ca, while their hardy captors take three
months of rest and recreation before
starting on another trip.
The Reiche Brothers have nearly
S250,000 invested in this enterprise,
which they have successfully conducted
for many years. The extravaganza of
the prices paid for some of the beasts is
little known. AS high as $4,000 has
been paid for a single hippopotamus in
good condition. To-day $780, GOO would
hardly buy a specimen, as there is not
one in the country that is known to be
for sale. A rhinoceros is worth from
$4,000 to $1,000, according to demand
and excellence. Giraffes sell for 81 900
to $4,000. Lions from $500 to $2,5O0,
leopards from 5000 to $400, hyenas
about the same, and ostriches from $500
to $500 Elephants vary in price, for,
while some have sold for as low as ST.
900, as high as $4,000 has been paid
without grumbling for fine, big, intel
ligent one.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-08
TITIAN'S LAND.


rrneyed to Titian's torn land last year,
make me companions of peaks AS of old.
gray peaks lifted their granite brows
fsgrren and cold rs virgins vows.
n and was silent. Unutterable thought
|, mfpe, and Il boyhood's memory rolled
kpsst: and gave 10 the past IL tear.
ked dead days that were best forgot.
kened for bird, for beast. Lot a gloom
EImantled the land like a mournful cloud,
81 Law likesthe solitude guarding Il tomb.
[aake and made sign; but they answered
/ me not.
htedrny hands and called aloud.
kn echoes went rolling from cliff to cloud,
q peasants came, cautious, strange clad
and tall, ..s ..-
hoes and peasants-and that was all.
b peasants that cling to the cliffs, and
| reap,
|sas short broad scythes, the adventurous
| grain: ..1f -
m peasants that dwell by the timbered
steep,
|aossy eaverns or in leafy low tents,
kiiell the tall forest and plant again
faorderly wood like to regiments;
Efashon the Beam and hew the wood,
4 aguide the raft through the foamy flood.
-Joaqtdn Miller, in the Independent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-08
Stock Raising.

An ordinary stock ranch in Califor-
MIA requires thousands of dollars to
maintain it. A superior one involves
an outlay of tens of thousands of dol
lars. And yet in the face of this inn
mense expense, stock ranches are year.
ly increasing in number, and stock rails
ing coming into more importance every
year. A large number of capitalists are
engaged in stock raising, some actuated
by taste and fancy, others to make
money. The soil and climate Of Cali
fornia are remarkably adapted for the
breeding and raising of all kinds Of
stock. Animals of the best pedigree and
of the best bloods are to be found in the
State. Stock breeders vie with each
other. Already California has pro-
duced some wonderful trotters. There
are gentlemen in this city whose stables
are filled with horses that can trot low
down, and worth thousands of dollars
each. Some of the finest stations in the
country are in California. Not only
horses, but the best strains of horned
cattle, sheep, goats and swine are bred,
and which yield large revenue to their
owners. There seems to be a laudable
ambition among stock breeders, and es-
pecially the wealthy ones, to reach the
highest improvement in stock, and to
make California as remarkable for her
horses, cattle, sheep and swine as for
her other Incompatible wonders.-San
francisco Cor. Boston Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-08
.rTEUN IN THE WOODS.


srsry hollow full of ferns,
Zinc W. 70, yellow In their turns;
lali lssSrling brambles fierce and wild,
,M.aiSinp berries to the child;
liI,Ii nlithaIis tambiing from the tree,
,ssSh g,seh. nrfts dropping silently.
g,sts of leaves come down to DIE,
lssrjug hsr openings to the sky;
ssnsbeIls, foxgloves, gone to seed, .
s~sry s,ss thing to death decreed;
sSoo,bine lefb of tiowers or buds:
IN i Autumn in the woods.
/ I'D an is there an Autumn known
= al tbe heart. 1t feels alone,
vsaring its best days are past
.sss .ss the fltup eyercast; s&@
gond acquaintance broken through.
trends departed, friends untrue;
Haman flowers cold and dead,
iroypred BY grassy bed;
uones like blossoms putting out,
githeripg soon, and flung about
prruel winds dread doubts and fears
finding vent in Sudden tears;
yss fllere is an Autumn known
II some hearts thus left alone.
5e. there's this thought after all
Ferns m may. .htde aud leaves may fall,
hearts rt rafv thhfige or prove untrue,
N NAV look Us these woods do
Thongh sad Autumn here is given,
snring. time awaits the just in heaven.
-ChamberS'S Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-08
HuNTING BEASTSzIN AFRICA.

Dangerous Business of Stocking the
Heaageries-How Elephants, Lions, Hip
ppotamuses, and Other. Wild Animals
as Caasht t+AsNarrative by a Member of
Aany Expeditions.
fiFronf the New York SUM-
Whoever even thought of the lives
haze been lost, the suffering en-
red, the great sums Of money ex-
aded, and the perfect system direct
the workings of men and savages
beyond the limits of civilization,
eking collections of wild animals for
menagelies? Indeed, the business
been 50 almost exclusively done by
severy quiet gentlemen, whose agen-
cover nearly half the globe, that be-
md the proprietors and managers of
'dens and Shows only a very limited
anOer have any conception of the ex-
" Of their operations, or of SO much
ktAer existence.
The head of the firm, and directing
sait OF its workings, is Mr.. Charles
aaehe, considerably this side of so,
hthe comfortable bonhomnaie man.
prot aan educated, travelled gentle
Pm His New York establishment, at
Ethatham Street, is passed by unno-
ea BY hundreds daily; yet, from it,
aeR are supplied from almost every
sseilng show in the United States,
@ the geological Garden in London,
others IN Russia, Austria, and else
as'e His Large supply depot for this
aasy is IN Hsboken. Henry Reiche,
brother and partner, lives in Ger
" where they have Il general sup
iarm for all the world, with accom-
aallons and appliances for the keep
y almost every bird, beast, and
pale from any country or cline in
81 part OF the world which has been
saofsds ~ sIheY are, ready at any time
aa an Aorder for any thing from a
sle canary through singing birds,
epay birds, or trick birds, up to a
sA otessaehes, or,ffein ;saieltt mouse
N elephant.
ailiea, the home of the greater num-
y !sfxa, wosacious animals, is their
" Y extensive field of operations. In
~ nave many stations, with sheiks
.il'ols m their employ, and standing
sUements offered to natives for choice
se'mens of rare birds or beasts. Dur
alee months of every year they have
oanda Of Experienced white African
a.eis travelling from station to station,
'.seelng and directing the workings
lug natives, and catching elephants,
"a, ~ ieopards, tigers, and such other
sss ~ .ss ~ uey may be instructed to OBJ
Inc company, usually composed
En- .ouf or six, and never more than
sa sas, under the command of Charles
~ sase, veteran hunter and trapper,
-, noia Germany about the 1st OF
|ssls sSl,saioer, and return from Africa
d. June. During the remaining
Isas all9snths 5ls Of the year, which they
/ = : = = 1iie rainy season" )" the climate
|ss,b eFere that It is almost certain
IS . ioF white man to remain in AT
ssn AaeW-AaEe tried it, but most OF
ssss aied, and those who survived suf.
. - : 'seiably from fever, and were una.
'eomplish any thing. The med
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
The only Through Line Between
Minneapolis. St.PauI, Milwaukee
AND CHICAGO.

Through Palace Sleeping Cars and Day Coaches
With all the best modern improvements for
safety and comfort, with Steel Rail Track
heavy gravel ballast and free from dust
A v. Fl. CARPENTER,
Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agent
S. S MERRILL, JNO. G. GAULT.
Gen. Manager. Asst Gen. Manager
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03

POSTAGE STAMP FRAUDS. Wash
ington, d. q, September 23-The
latest case OF frauds in the sale of post
age stamps ct.ne to Third Assistant
Postmaster General II azen, being in the
form Of circular from Cincinnati
firm, In which they offered to sell to
Postmas for $40 their stem-wind-
ing Swiss watch, retailing at SIS, re
celvln, stamps in payment. This en-
ables ,n'ah Postmaster to buy these
watches ,r 81 net, aud the firm send
them nat ou promise from the Post
master that If aot satisfied he will re-
turn the watcn in a registered package
instead Of the S amps The firm
makes u. part Of its circular with
certificates i Postmasters who have
purchased heir watches. These Cir
culurs will BE considered by the De-
partment "a prma tacle evldeuce
againsr the certifying Postmasers, and,
unless some explanation can be made.
the first applicant respectfully indorsed
will be appointed Postmaster at the
following places: Cairo and Howard,
in | rdiana; Hunting Rock, Glenville
Damkin's Mills, Independence, Strongs-
vile aud Euclid, in Ohio; and Cross
Junction, iii Virginia. The repeal Of
this law, known in the department as
the Marshall l,w--it having originated
with Hon j. w. Marshall. then First
Assistant Postmaster eneral-wili be
strongly recommended in Postmaster
General Keys forthcoming report.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
CHICAGO, NEW YORK,
NEW ENGLAND,
THE C1NAD1S,
AND ALL
Eastern & Southern Points.

1t is the only Northwestern Line connec-
ting In same depot ia Chicago, with any Of
the great Eastern or Sou thern Lines, and
is the most conveniently located with re-
ference to reaching any Depot, Hotel or
Place OF Business in that city.
CHICAGO DEPoT--Cornor Canal and West
Madison streets. Horse cars and stage lines
for all parts OF the city constantly passing
CHICAGO Cry OFFlCE:-6l and % Clark
street.
MILWAUKEE DEPOT: Corner Reed and
South Water Streets Horse cars and omni
bus lines running regularly therefron to the
principal parts of the City.
CRY TICKET OFFICE:-4O0 East Water
Street, corner Wisconsin Street
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
Freeport and Dubunua

Lane is the only route between Chicago and
Elg!n' Rockford, Freepors, and afi points
via lFreepert. Its
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
BRICK! BRICK! !!

Y HAVE now on hand the best Brick in
a every respect, ever manufactured in this
market. My brick are manufactured out of
the best material, superntended personally
by myself, and guarantee them the best made
west of Milwaukee. All persons wishing
to build, will consult their own interest by
listening to none OF the idle stories of
this or that mans brick are the best, but
come and see for yourselves. l charge
nothing to show my brick, and am at all
times well pleased to have persons visit my
yard. D. S. CHADWICK.
Watertown, July 9th, 1875. 39m2
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The Chicago & Northwestern Railway
EN- braces under one management the Great
lrunk railway Lines of the WEST and
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Canadas.
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III Montgomery street; Chicago ticket of
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For rates or Information not attainable
from your home ticket agents, apply to
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