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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20

experience in California; and every one
feels perfectly safe with them in their
houses. John goes about his work meth
odically and does not like to be inter-
rupted in his routine. He not only is
tractable, but bears correction if
given by the master OF the
house, with meekness. He does
not like, however, to be hired or
bossed" by a woman, and is very much
put out if the mistress visits him in the
kitchen. / have seen a boy only four
teen years old who did all the cooking
for large family and served up excel
lent meals; his cooking, in fact, was
much superior to the average of Irish
women. Ii he knows enough of the
language to understand your wants he
needs only to be told once. He
gets up early and has chores done up
betimes, and takes to his duties as
readily as a duck to water. When first
introduced to the household he is very
silent, bare-armed, neatly clad in a white
blouse, his head clearly shaved, and his
cue neatly coiled around his crown But
he is as incomprehensible as the sphinx,
and no more amalgamates or affiliates
with white society than oil does with
water. But no one need charge him
with being " cheap" no, no, he charges
nigh for his services. Our ladies would
find it hard to pay the common wages of
house servants here. Ten dollars a week
for a cook and six dollars week for
chamber man and waiter are the ruling
prices out here for Chinese servants, and
no eastern hOusekeeper would claim that
this was cheap labor" John is much
Overrated as a WasherwOman. for he has
ruined my shirts in three months, and
could do it in less time than that if I
had not liberal supply. To-day [ tried
to open up a conversation with my
washing John, hut he avoided it, and I
was fain to give it up as hopeless task.
There is great suspicion of his Christian
profession, and even religious people
seem to leave John severely alone on this
topic, as a useless endeavor. They ex-
hibit but little curiosity, and though [
have seen Chinese children peering into
toy shop windows, yet when | tried to
open up a conversation they shrunk
away or quickly dried up" Speaking
of servants, / am reminded of the diff
Guilty on this coast of getting nurses.
Even for small girl, say twelve years
old, they pay here fifteen dollars per
month or four dollars week, and con-
slider themselves lucky to get one at that.
Very few even of the poorest Of the
Spaniards will let their children go out,
and almost the only chance is to get one
out of the Catholic Orphan Homes. It
is easy to see, therefore, that housekeep-
ing in eastern style is an expensive lux
ury out here. The old rule of twenty
per cent extra pay to officers serving out
here should not be abolished, even if
greenbacks and gold have approximated
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20
The Coins of the World.

The following is the value in round
numbers, in cents Of our currency, of tho
coins of the world:
Australia-Gold, pound, $50; sover
eign, 1885,
Austria-Gold, ducat, 22S; sovereign
675; crown, 664. Silver, old dollar, 102
old scudo, 104; old form, 81; new form
IS; new dollar, 70; Maria Theresa dol
lar, 1O2.
Belgium Gold, twenty-five francs
472. Silver five francs, 90.
Bolivia-Gold, doubloon, $50. Silver,
dollar, 70; half dollar, 80.
Ecuador-Gold, four escudos, 1855.
Brazil-Gold, twenty milreis, 1000.
Silver, double milreis, 1872
Central America-Gold, two STUDIOS,
800. Silver, dollar, 100
Chili-Gold, doubloon, 1859; ten pesos,
915. Silver, old dollar, 106; new dollar,
Denmark-Gold, ten thalers, 700.
Silver two rigsdaler, no.
England-Gold, pound or sovereign,
1856; pound or sovereign, average, 4S4.
Silver, shilling, new %; shilling, aver
age, %.
France-Gold, twenty francs, new,
3S5; twenty francs, average 1874. Silver,
five francs, SO.
Germany-Gold, ten thalers, 100;
krone, 664; ducat, 22S. Silver old thaler,
rs; new thaler, IS; form, So.
Greece-Gold, twenty drachms, 344.
Silver, five drachms, So.
Hindoostan-Gold, mohur, 7O3. Sill
yer, rupee, As.
Italy-Gold, twenty lire, 1884,
Japan-Gold, old cobang, Al; new
cobang, 357. Silver, itzebu, 81; new
itzebu, SO.
Mexico---Gold, doubloon, average, L.
552; new doubloon, 1861. Silver, dol
lar, average, l06; new dollar 10Y.
Naples-Gold, six ducati, sos. Silver,
scudo, 95.
Netherlands--Gold, ten guilders, 399.
Silver, p guilders, 1903.
New Granada--Gold, doubloon, Be-
gotta, 1861; .doubloon, Pofayan, ], 537
ten pesos, 767. Silver, dollar, 81.
Peru-Gold, doubloon, 1855. Silver,
dollar, old, 65; dollar of 1858, "a; half,
SO.
Portugal-Gold, crown, $50.
Prussia-Gold, 10 thalers, 1917; crown,
664. Silver, thaler, old, y; thaler, new,
70.
Rome-Gold, % scudi, 260. Silver,
scudo, 105.
Russia-Gold, 5 rubles, 1877. Silver,
ruble, 10.
Spain-Gold, 100 reals, 465; so reals,
1856. Silver, pistareen, 20.
Sweden-Gold, ducat, 223. Silver,
six dollar, Ill.
Tunis-Gold, rs piastres, 299. Silver,
piastres, g.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20
A Great Soldiers First, Last and Only
Love.
New York Graphic.

When Won Moltke returned to Hol-
stein, after reorganizing the Turkish
army, he found living there with his
sister-who had married Mr. Butte, an
Englishman-a young girl between ff-
teen and sixteen, a daughter of Mr.
Bute's first marriage. The pretty little
girl loved dearly, before seeing him, the
soldier who had sent from the Orient
such interesting letters to his sister.
AS for Won Moltke, he had until then
seen in woman only being constantly
interfering with the methodical life of
worker. But, when a man more than
forty years old is loved by a bewitching
girl Of sixteen, he ends by returning her
affections. From that time there was
but one woman in the world to him, as
there was but one work. He married
Miss Mary Butte, and when she died in
'6S the great Field Marshal could say
that his life as social being was also
ended. Only the soldier remained. The
Countess was buried in his beautiful
park at Silesia, and on the marble above
her is written: Love is the fulfilling
Of the law" Mary Won Moltke was
very bright, very charming, very merry,
and it is told as a pathetic truth that
the Field Marshal has not been seen to
laugh.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20
A Fiery, FLYING Serpent.
From the Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise.

"
Lately residents of the eastern por-
ton of the city were surprised, and not
a little terrified at first, by the appear
ance in the heavens, and apparently
lowering over them, of fiery, flying
serpent of immense dimensions. It's
head appeared lurid fame, white its
eyes rolled as if in search of victims.
Its motions in the air, as it beloved
here and there, were like the contortlons
of a snake. This monster was subse-
quently ascertained to be Chinese
kite. It's head was red paper, with eyes
half red and half white, rolling as the
found its way through the apertures rep
resenting the sockets. This head-lite
was followed by eighteen others, about
eighteen inches apart, made of tinted
paper, oblong in shape, through the
center of which passed slender rattans,
the tips extending some distance on
each side and trimmed with fire-red,pa
per tassels. Similar tassels along its tail
and pendant from it's head gave the
whole a flying and fiery appearance
truly startling.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20
A THOUSAND YEARS.

A THOUSAND YEARS.
NovGoEoD, Russia, September 90, 1862.
7 thousand years. Through storm and fire,
With varying fate, the work has grown,
Till Alexander crowns the spire
Where Rurik laid the cornerstone.
The chieftain's sword, that could not rust,
But bright in constant battle grew,
Reared TO the world a throne august
\ nation grander than he knew.
Nor ne alone; but those who have,
Through faith or deed, an equal part:
The subtle brain of Yaroslav,
Vladimir arm and Nikons heart:
The latter hands that built so well
The work sublime which these began,
And up from base to pinnacle
Wrought out the Empires mighty plan.
All these to-day are crowned anew,
And rule in splendor where they trod,
While Russia children throng to view
Her holy cradle, Novgorod.
From VoIga's banks; from Dwina's side;
From pine-clad Ural, dark and long;
Or where the foaming Terek's tide
Leaps down from Kasluk, bright with song;
From Altai's chain of mountain cones;
MongoGn deserts far and free;
And lands rhat bind, through changing zones,
The Eastern and the Western Sea!
To every race she gives a home,
And creeds and laws enjoy her shade,
Till, far beyond the dreams of Rome,
Her Caesars mandate is obeyed.
She blends the virtues they impart,
And holds. within her life combined,
The patient faith of Asia's heart,
The force Of Europe's restless mind.
Sha bids +I,a ,,arn,d,S ,z-o,,d or;nr oooSo.
She binds the Wild marauder fast;
Her plowshares turn the homes of peace,
The battle-helds of ages past
And nobler yet, she dares to know
Her future task, nor knows in vain,
But strikes at once the generous glow
That makes her millions men again!
So, tirm-based, her power expands,
Nor yet has seen its browning hour
Still teaching to the struggling lands
That Peace the offspring is of Power.
Build, then, the stored bronze to tell
The steps whereby this height she trod-
The thousand years that chronicle
The toll OF man, the help of God.
And may the thousand years to come
The future ages, wise and free
Still see her flag and hear her drum,
Across the world, from sea to sea!
Stiu find symbol stern and grand,
Lar ancient eagles wings unShorn:
And one 20 guard the Land of Mornl
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20

A MAN arrived in Buffalo last Satur-
day with his mother for the purpose of
putting her in an insane asylum. After
doing SO his own conduct excited sus-
picion. He said his anxiety about his
mother had made him nervous, and that
he had not had his regular sleep for sew
eral nights. He was kept at the hotel
over night, and the next morning was a
raving maniac.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20

WHEN you stand at the gate with
pretty girl and the moon is shining too
brightly for kissing, ask her to fix your
necktie, which will require you to stoop
and her to stand on tiptoes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20

low fever. begged him to accept my
services.
"Never! You shall not poison me,
too"
Days passed, and the captain grew
worse; he babbled in his delirium of
poison, Of stolen jewels; and night and
day [ watched at his bedside, jealously
excluding everybody who might per-
chance overhear his rawlings and raise up
IN Judgment against me.
One day the crisis came A few hours
would determine all IF he died | was
once more free man, free from the i'm
putation of a foul crime, free to carry
out my honest intention of fulfilling the
dead mans wishes, but also free from the
dread of exposure which to me would be
worse, as bare suspicion, than death
itself.
1t the captain could but sleep, his life
would be saved. How easy to make that
sleep bis last-the evil one was at my ell
bow, the laudanum bottle in my hand.
But my sorest need the strength to resist
was not given to me. Ipoured out the prop
er dose, and advanced toward the cot in
which the captain lay. A strange light
was in his eyes. Rising suddenly. and
throwing the bedclothes off his tall, lean.
sinewy form, he half leaped from the
bed and selling the box of diamonds
which he had throughout isillness kept
beneath his pillow, he shrieked:
"Never, never! VIII you allow me to
be poisoned like dog? Help! some of
you"
The effort was too much; clasping the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20
RUSSIA.

The subjoined poem, written in 1862, by Bayard
Tavlor N honor of the thousandth anniversary
of the Russian empire, will be read with fresh in
tereSt II The present time:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20
A Mystery of Thirteen Years ago Elk.
blamed.

4 few days ago farmer near WellsvilIc,
Allegheny county, Pa, had occasion To
visit deep unfrequented woodland ra-
vine near his residence, and was startled
to find there the well preserved skeleton
Of a large-sized man. Among those who
visited and viewed the remains was a
gentleman who remembered that in 1864
Joseph Kirshner, lawyer of Evansville,
Livingston county, mysteriously disap-
peared, and was last seen in Wellsville.
Since that time nothing has been heard
or known of him by his family and
friends. The skeleton now discovered
might have been that of man of Kirsh-
ner's size. With it were found several
brass buttons. Some hair of the color of
the missing mans was also found.
Henery A. Kirshner, brother, is posi-
tive the skeleton is that of his brother
A popularity in the filling of the teeth
helps him to the conclusion. Of course,
there is nothing but conjecture on which
to determine the cause and manner of
death. 1t is certainly remarkable that
after thirteen years of exposure there
should be enough signs about the re-
mains to enable them to be identified.
But perhaps this is no more remarkable
than that the body should lie thirteen
years undiscovered in the near neighbor-
hood of Wellsville.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20
A Fiery Ordeal.


Not long since the papers contained
an account Of dash through fire made
by railroad train in France. This is
now distanced by the narrow escape of
an express train on one of the East In
dia lines. A train was approaching a
bridge on a curve. When the bridge
came within sight, at distance of 800
to 400 yards, the engineer was horror
stricken to discover that it was COM
pletely in flames. Finding his brake
power totally useless in the emergency,
he jumped of, as did the fireman, just as
the train entered upon the burning bridge,
and over it rushed, fortunately with una
bated speed, through continuous fame,
that rose furiously above the height of
the railroad cars. The wooden sleepers
were on fire, and part of the rails were
red hot. The whole train, composed of
a number Of cars, passed safely over,
and not passenger was injured.
New-York tribune., 1877-07-09
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Louisiana Democrats should indlct Eliza
PiDkston too.
What has become of the silver movement
Did the Iowa platform discourage ltf
II may comfort Gov. Chamberlain to know
that all the Democratic newspapers printing his
speech.
Nulett SAYS if cold Grant, were President
now everything would be lovely OF course it would
for Mullctt.
The third term party is bracing up little
under the hope of coalition with the opposition party
II will I've large enough 10 hold caucus If the Pennsyl
vania otlcehoiders aIe " bounced"
The President is said to have unshaken faith
in the ultimate triumph of his Southern Policy, and to
be confident Of the party carrying several Southern
states besides Carolina the next election. lie
South with Republican labels under tnelr coats.
Senator Blaine always acts like a galvanic
battery on war-horse Of the SOUTH causing him to
snort and prance and talk very large after the
of this paragraph in The Richmond Dispatch: Blaine
may howl but cannot stay the wheels of the chariot
,t time The past is gone the future Is before The
south and the West will rule this fair andnot forever
so far az we know, but for many years British America
will not be annexed. The Texas Pacific road lciH be
built A slice of Mexico may be taken of for
luence IN the councils OF the Nation Blow. Blaine, aud
crack your checks the South laughs a! your calamity
and mocks now that your fear cometh'
Gov. Chamberlain does not receive much
II IL
Nearly the entire party press condemns him, and even
the lugubrious Patterson turns "A cold shoulder He
inds one in this State. however. in the per-
sstcnty unhappy editor Of The Rochester Democrat
saws the speech: " II is arsenal full OF weapons for
the Republican. IL IA the most scathng review Of the
Southern Policy that has yet been made Let Republi-
| lcans who have faltered and wayered between two
| opinions study We believe true Republicans cannot
rise from its perusal without becoming strengthened
their allegiance To the OF human rights and TO
| the yindcation of law" Perhaps the editor will be
calm enough few days TO tell what law the President
| has failed IN indicating.
The editorial brethren, in Cincinnati are no.
ted for their exceeding love for each other. OF
them. Mr.. Richard Smith OF The Gazette made speech
the ohorday the silver question. In speaking Of It, the
Editor OF The Commercial remarked that the orator,
having been whooped right up to the FORUM" proceed
ed the most unntelgibe manner to distinguish him
self" The Editor of The Enquirer Informs Mr. Smith tha
he got "squarey upon the Democratic platform" What
Mr. Smith did to advocate the reconciliation Of sill
YER making IL an unlimited legal tender for all debts
public and private. and TO demand the repeal the Re
sumption Act because II sis hanging over the country
like pal" and because Mr.. Bristow say it Is I'm
New-York tribune., 1877-07-09
c0Pp0RArE ~VAN1GEnENE

Nothing is more important to the people
of this country than Il reform in corporate
management. The men who consider it "a
matter of consequence only to spectators and
occasional investors are blind as moles. The
number of stock and bond holders in this
country is very large; but the number of per-
sons who are directly interested, through in
stitutions in which their savings have been
placed for safe keeping or invested, is very
much larger For ex mple, the 10000 per-
sons who have insured their lives, the 200,-
600 persons who hold shares in national
banks, the 100000 persons who own
deposits in savings banks, as well as
the unc0untcd millions who own stock
in railway, bridge, telegraph, canal, and
other corporations, are interested not only
in the affairs of the corporations in which they
have placed their funds, but i'll all the COM
panies whose stocks or bonds those corpora
tons have selected, or may select, as an in
yestment of the funds of depositorS. Thus it
may fairly be said that all American citizens
who are fOrchanded, and have savings invested
anywhere, or IN any form, are directly inter
ested in the management of all corporations
which offer stocks or bonds for sale in market.
And this is not all SO large proportion of
the earnings of the people in this country has
been thus invested, and the supply of means
for all legitimate trading or manufacturing en-
terprises is so dependent upon the wise or
wasteful handling of these savings, that the
prosperity of every industry, the wages of
every class of iabOrcrS, depend upon the
stability of corporations which seek and all
sorb so large a share of our available capital.
Every fault i'll corporate management has be-
come a crime against the public welfare Re-
form in corporate management has become the
graveSt and most pressing necessity of the
times, to all classes of people, rich and poor.
Public opinion has made great progress on
this subject. But il has not advanced far
enough. 1t is understood, at last, that CON
cealment in the transactions of II corporation
opens the door for fraud, and must be inter
preted as a deliberate and intentional prcpara-
ton for fraud But the truth goes even
further. Refusal to make reports not only
prepares for fraud, but it is a fraud. 1t cheats
somebody necessarily, and is intended to cheat
somebody, whenever the corporation which
conceals the facts has stocks or bonds offered
upon the market. Somebody is robbed if, by
concealment, he is prevented from making a
wise investment. Far more frequently men
| arc robbed because the corporations in which
they invest, or whose stocks or bonds may be
taken by institutions in which they have placed
their savings, refuse the information necessary
for correct understanding of their condition.
We shall never reach the necessary reform
New-York tribune., 1877-07-09

until we understand that 1t is not matter be-
tween managers and their stockholders, but
betveen tbc corporatiOns and the entire puD-
lie. All public interests are more or less in
yolved in the faithful and judici0us manage
ment of every company which has DohuS Oh
stocks offered for sale in the market, ana thts
draws support from the general accumulation
of capital. The issue must he made sharply
and clearly between the nation and all such
corporations. They seek public support, ana
if they get il, exhaust to that extent the ma
tional reservoir of savings. Therefore they
are hound not to swndle the public by con-
cealmcnt of facts. That they may swindle IN
divduals is an incident. The vital TACT Is that
every unwise investment effected because OF
conccalment of facts is robbery of the whole
people.
The corporation which refuses to state It's
condition and operations is pubic enemy
We make war upon such corporations, not III
the interest of the few individuals who may
be Immediately deirauded, but in the name OF
the people of these United States, who have
no earnings to spare for the support of fraud
ulently or ruinously managed institutions
who need to conserve their surplus capital,
devoting it only to the support of healthy ana
rcmunerative enterprises, and whose pros
pcrity and commercial honor are alike assailed
by the systematic cOncealment which implies
fraud causes fraud, and is fraud No re-
ouirement can be too strict or severe which Is
needed to prevent the wholesale wasting OF
the nations capital in disastrous undertakings.
But the onlR requirement needed Is that there
shall be absolute publicity of the condition,
debts, earnings, expenses, and transactions OF
every corporation which seeks public support
bv allowing its stocks or bonds to be offered
for public SALE Every such corporation is the
creature of law; it is protected and endowed
with special privileges by law; and 1t ought
to be compelled by law to make such state
mcnts that the public cannot be robbed by
means of it.
New-York tribune., 1877-07-09

openly facing it, because they do not dare 10
sound direct challenge to the Administration
on this issue.
Considerations like those ought to fufnSn
the Administration with an invigOrating mo-
tive for immediate and positive action. IL Is
well enough TO think of "the people" AS dis'
tlnct from the politicians, but the pol
iticians are always alert, and so long as
the people have nothing tangible to ap-
prove or oppose, the politicians will be adrolt
to keep their control and strengthen their hold
upon the party machinery, so that every day
of temporizing is day worse than lost. Ihe
Presidents treatment of the Southern question
was as prompt and decisive as it was wise and
lust A large majority of all par
ties now endorse his action. Does
anyone believe that this settlement would have
been so satisfactory if he had waited until to-day
before Withdrawing the troops? And will the
Inauguration cf a complete and orderly system
of Civil Service Reform be easier next month
than il is to-day 7 1t has been demonstrated that
the machine men will oppose any reform, and
before the people break out INTO hal!eluJahs
over it they want to see what sort OF a
thing il is. They have not lost faith i'll the
good intentions of the President, but Clvll Ser
vice Reform on the Baltimore plan is hardly
what they hoped for-they are growing impa-
tent. "Thorough, radical and complete" was
the inspiring promise of the President, and the
sooner some samples of this quality are offered,
for the country to pass judgment upon, the
sooner it will he known whether the gathering
discomfort outside of the political class is
caused by hostility to genuine Civil Ser
vice Reform, or by disgust with the hol-
low pretense of Civil Service Reform.
An Administration which does not fully re-
deem its pledges must be set down, in any
event, and beyond all cavil, as pitiable Tall
ure. An Administration which takes its stand
on that side of capital question which Is
demonstrably just and couragcously appeals to
the people can, by no chance, meet harder
fate than honorable failure