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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

The telegraph announces the intelll
eence of the death of William Cullen
BRYANT which sad event occurred IN
New York on the morning Of June 18th,
at5:35 Deceased was born Nov. 3rd,
1894 at Cummington, Hampshire coun-
ty. Massachusetts. His father Peter
Bryant, was a physician, and great
scholar in his time. Young Bryant
entered Williams college at the age OF
16 where he remained two years; he
then studied law at Worthington, Mass
achusetts, and was admitted to the bar
in 1915. He prac ticed law first at
Plainfeld and afterwards at Darlington
until 1925, becoming thoroughly versed
in the law. During 1925 Bryant re-
moved to New York where in the next
wear 1926, he became connected with
the New York Euening Post with which
journal he remained connected at the
time of his death Bryant was vol
luminous writer, but is more widely
known as poet; he began writing be-
fore he was ten years old, and at the
age of fourteen wrote "The Embargo"
and the Spanish Revolution" At the
age of nineteen while in college he
wrote "Thanatopsis" which made him
known both in this country and in
Europe. His complete poetical writings
were revised and corrected as late as
1876, by himself, and published, beau
tifully illustrated by D. Appleton d Co.,
of New York; this edition being the
9TH revision. Bryant translated Homer,
the Had appearing in 1870, and the
Odyssey in 1871. AS TRANSACTIONS
these rank high, and nothing but Bry-
ants wonderful industry and perse-
verance could have accomplished such
task. The great poets death, occur
ring as it did from sun stroke, calls to
mind his tender verses upon the death
of the flowers:
oThe wind flower and the violet they persisted long
ago,
And the brer-rose and the Orchis died amid the
mer glow;
But on the hill the godenrod and the aster in the
wood.
And the yellow sunGower by the brook in Autumn
beauty stood,
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven falls
the plague men,
And the brightness of their smile gone from up
land, glade and glen
In his Thanatopsis," written when
but nineteen years old, Bryant penned
the lines most fitting to be applied to
him now:
Yet not to thine eternal resting place
Shalt thou retire alone, nor could'st thou wish
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down
With patriarchs of the infant world-with kings
The powerful of earth--the wise the good
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, .
All in one mi ghty Sc ulchre.' .s-t
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

A ROME dispatch says that the re-
ports sent out from that place to the
effect that Pope Leo is in failing health,
are untrue the health of the pope is
excellent, and he has no thought OF alb
dicating
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

ONE newspaper Says Stanley Mat
thews talks too much, another says he
writes too much, another says he
"sloshes" over. Possibly Stanley Is
like the Chinaman's lawyer, ia having
too muchee dance chin chin
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

A PROMINENT politician of Kansas has
been sent to the insane asylum, on the
ground of having declined being gov
ernor. The people decided that such q
thing was conclusive evidence Of in
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

THE riot at Quebec has been quelled
by the military after two rioters We're
killed and several others wounded by
the fire of the military
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19
GENERAL NEWS.

The Empress of Russia is very Ill,
with little hope of recovery.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

EMPEROR WILLIAM is fast recovering
from the wounds received at the hands
of the assassin MODELLING.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

A NORWEGIAN living near Freeborn
lake, Mimi, shot seven pelicans at one
shot one day last week. The largest
one measured nine feet from tip to tip
of the wings. ..
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

The proceedings of the congress OF
powers to be held at Berlin, will be kept
secret.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

SCOTLAND has just been treated to a
heavy fall of snow.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

WHEN stranger asked a Detroit girl
whom he met at party, if she was
married, she promptly replied "Not
quite but I've sued three or four chaps
for breach Of promise" hs
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19
Miscellaneous News
BRYANT's FUNERAL.

A New York dispatch of the 14th
says that the funeral service over the
remains of VIM. Cullen Bryant took
place to-day, in All Souls church,
which was crowded with distinguished
citizens, members of the several arts
aid professions. The services lasted
about one hour and half, and were
conducted by Rev. Henry w. Bellows,
who also delivered the address, in
which he said, "The whole country is
bending with us, their favored repre-
sentatives, over the bier that holds the
dust of Bryant" At the conclusion of
the services, an opportunity was given
to view the face of the honored dead,
and at half-past one o'clock the body of
Mr.. Bryant was removed to Resign,
Long Island, and placed by the side of
his wife, as he had wished.
MEXICAN MUDDLEs.
New Orleans dispatches of June 14th,
states that advices just in from Fort
Clark, report that Gen. Nuncio COM
manding Mexican government troops,
was killed by Escobedo's soldiers near
that place Saturday. Gen. Mackenzie
and Col. Shafter, with strong force,
crossed into Mexico in pursuit Of the
raiders about forty miles north of Eagle
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

THE OHIO REPUBLICANS.
At the Ohio republican state con-
vention held at Cincinnati June 18th,
Hon. VIM. Lawrence was chosen per-
manent chairman, Judge VIM. White
was nominated for judge of the
supreme court, Milton Barnes for Sec
retary of state, both by reclamation.
George Paul was nominated for
the board of public works. The
platform adopted was a lengthy
affair. 1t includes the following points:
No further present agitation of the IL
pancial question; demanding the re-
peal of the state act which restricts the
further expansion of the soldiers or
phans' home; extending greeting to the
southern members of congress who op-
posed the Potter resolution, and favor
ing reconciliation between the north
and south; tariff for revenue
and q incidental protection to
home industries; sufficient appropri-
atoms to carry on the public works; I'M
qualified condemnation of the investi-
CATION into electoral frauds: President
Hayes title settled by congress cannot
be disturbed or questioned: expressions
National Republican., 1878-05-08

"IT seems strange, but II Is true, that tho
least demand for the standard silver dollars is
In those very sections Of tho country where
the people literally howled for them. Nothing
would satisfy them but the silver bill."-Epen-
i,ig Star.
1t is little unfortunate for our cotem-
porary that, except occasionally, and then
under great disadvantages, it gives but very
little attention to questions of general con-
cernment. 1t confines itself chiefly TO mat
ters of local interest, and hence the mistake
It makes relating to the object Of the silver
bill. 1t had two objects, and both have
been accomplished. In the first place. its
passage was urged that gold speculation
and appreciation might be superseded, and
this has been accomplished. In the second
place, it was urged for the reason that 1t
would swell the volume of coin and aid
materially in the work of resumption, and
this end has been substantially reached. No
National Republican., 1878-05-08
TEA AND sJIGAR

The culture of tea and the manufacture
of sugar from sorghum and corn in this
country, where the climate is favorable, are
subjects which have impressed themselves
with much weight upon the mind Of the
Commissioner Of Agriculture. He Is fully
convinced that we have no more need,
under proper development of our own re-
sources, to import tea and sugar than we
have to import our wheat and corn from
the old world. Indeed this fact is clearly
demonstrated in the experiments already
tried in this country. Tea grows readily
and In fine perfection in South Carolina,
and can be successfully cultivated as far
North as the District Of Columbia, but not
with as little hazard as in the more South
ern States. Indeed II has been already
demonstrated that no finer tea is grown in
China or Japan than, with proper culture
can be produced in South Carolina and soutll
of that, and even in higher latitudes soutl,
OF this point II Ia easily cultivated, and
with Yankee ingenuity to provide the
proper machinery for its curing, u few years
will find the American people enjoying ten
grown upon American soil Of "a fine quality
as the average Of the imported article.
So also Of sugar. We need not, If we de.
velop our own resources, import q pound 70,
American consumption; and yet for his ad'
vanced ideas on these subjects General IL
DuC is made the butt of ribald Jest and
hateful sneen on the part of preiudiccd and
ignorant people, who are ever ready to de
nounce and whistle down the wind any ad
vanced idea which they have not the indus
try to investigate or the measure of intellcc
to understand. So we 90. FULTON wa
jccred for his insanity, and yet the worlt
has been forced TO honor his memory. /
may be 50 in the case of American tea and
sugar and their warm advocates.
National Republican., 1878-05-08

We are gravely informed by competent
and cotemporary Democratic authority that
a great many pulpits of the NJ. f. Church
North resounded last Sunday with morals
pointed and tales adorned by the career
of the late JOHN MoRRIssEY"-meaning
thereby that the "verdict of the NJ. E.
Church North seems TO be that such Ca
reers as that Of JOHN MoRRIssEY exer-
else u cOrrupting influence upon the
morals of the rising generation" By the
same token, ii is to be inferred that the NJ.
f. Church South takes q directly opposite
view of the career of this deceased Demo-
cratic statesman-i. e. that his career is ap-
proved by the NJ. E. Church South as er-
emplary of statesmanship and patriotism.
1t Is true that MoRRIssEY had many good
points of character, and that his career was
occasionally illustrated with evidences OF
manly and independent virtue; but the
least said of him, in regard of his political
record and attachments, the better for his
surviving fellow-partisans.
National Republican., 1878-05-08
Personal.

A. G. ENoARp, U. s. N, Is at the Imperial.
J. L. HASTINGS, Of New Orleans, is at the
Ebbitt.
LIEUTENANT II. Fl. LUDLOW, Third Artil-
lcry, U. s. A., is at the Imperial.
COMMISSIONER HoYT, Of tho Indian Bureau,
returned from Patterson, N. j., yesterday.
SENATOR wITHERs' eyesight has improved
so much that he Is able to leave his darkened
room.
REPRESENTATIVES, DWIGHT and Jorgensen
were among the callers at tho White House
yesterday.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY HAwLEY repre-
scnted the Treasury Department at the Cabi-
net meeting yesterday.
JOHN STRAIToN, of the great tobacco
house Of Straiton 4 Co., New York city, ar
rived In town yesterday, and Is located at
Willard's
SENATORS CoNKLISa, Gordon, and ex-Sena-
tor Matt. Carpenter held a short but apparently
cordial lovc-feast OH the floor Of the Senate
yesterday.
Ex-RErREsENTATIvE CoBuRN, of Indiana,
Of the Hot Springs Commission, who has been
In the city for a week past, left for his home
last night
MAJOR ]. ID. TERRELL, chief of the Indian
Division Of the Second Comptrollcr's Office. Is
absent on official business, and Mr. "A. J. Whit
aker Is acting In that capacity.
A SUBTLE effort to mslcad the youth Of the
times Is being made through the circulation Of
the story that William Cullen Bryant, now In
his eighty.fourth year, practices an hour every
day with dumb-bells.
Hon. GEoRoE p. KANE, mayor Of Balti.
more, Is thought to bc IN dying condition.
He will always be held in honor by old Con.
| fcderatos for his sufferings in our cause-Au.
gEsi1 (Gd.) Chronicle
SECRETARY ard Mrs. Sherman, General
Sherman and his daughter. Miss Ella Sher.
man, Ms. Audenrcid and General Van Vliet
have all gone Ia Cleveland to attend the CAM
eron-Sherman wedding
| MRs. EMMA d. f. ". SoUTHwonrn Is m odcst
aud unassulninp, has q wide, full brow and
clear blue eyes, talks very WELL and is gen.
orally esteemed by her acquaintance, though
she is the author Of seventy. eight novels.
PREsIDEST HAYES received letter on Mon.
day last from an individual in Vermont. who
wrote: Desiring to see Washington to the
best advantage, write to ask you If | Gan
make my headquarters with you at the Exccu
tive Mansion, W. / have prejudice against
stopping at hotels, and the private boarding.
houses are not quite up to my standard OF
living"
National Republican., 1878-05-08
The Laboring Mems Friends.

To the Editor Of he National Republican:
SIR; Who are the friends of the laborlng men
II there Is a lingering doubt In the minds Of the
people as to the fasity Of the claims Of the Demo
cratic party as the friends of the laboring class
that doubt cannot longer remain in the light OF re
cent legislation. In the legislative APPROXIMATION
House OF Representatives, II Is proposed 10 save
few thousand dollars To the Government by max
$40 per year In the salary OF the lowest grade o.
Government employees-the watchmen and labor
ers in the executive Department. Who but tn,
meanness Us that Of beginning retrenchment with
the elaboriug cias2 The present pay Of watchmcr
and laborers Is but $50 per month. II the loves
grade OF clerks cannot live on less than 500 pei
month. how eau the men getting but $50 per montl
live and support their families on SO per month
LABORER
National Republican., 1878-05-08

AN influx Of Democratic election manip-
ulators in Washington just now, led by
Messrs SALsToNsTALL, of Boston, and
ZAcHARIE, Of New Orleans, both of whom
declare they come on nom partisan business,
cannot fhil to attract suspicion and provoke
surmise. The presence of 100000 unarmed
lambs wagging their tails behind them,
with Boo PEEP WATTERsoN in the dim dis
tance, Is all that is required to make the his
cory of March 4, 1877, repeat itself
National Republican., 1878-05-08

Now Virginia has invaded North Caro-
bna with IN armed force. The Weldon
municipal election riots in tn. latter State
were quelled-or aided, by the maltreatment
OF few more niggersf-by company Of
Virginia militia When the United States
troops are sent, or go down, South for sim
liar and more pacific purposes, there is a
howl about States rights We listen in
vain for howl now. 1t makes some differ.
ence, to be sure, whose poll-list is gored-i
O., whose voters are killed.
National Republican., 1878-05-08
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National Republican., 1878-05-08

SAM RANDALL spent the Sabbath quietly
in the bosom of the rantankerous gin-mill
keepers Of the Third Pennsylvania District.
These demure Quakers always observe First
Day in Philadelphia as season Of rest and
devotion to the study Of the science Of bal
lot-box stufiing. Mr.. RANDALL returned
to his duties rs Speaker assured that his po-
litical prospects remain undisturbed. His
back pay and devious tariff record and his
subserviency to the Confederate Democracy
have in no way dimmed the lustre of his
reputation among his Bourbon drinking and
selling constituents. FLORENCE O'FLAHER,
TY, who fought for the Stars and Stripes
and who would like to be door-banger in
the House if some ex-Confederate would re.
sign to make room for him, was not present
at this Sunday symposium, it is true, for he
was engaged in reading the "lambasting'
some one got in the recent passage between
RANDALL and Mr. WILLIAMS, Of Wiscon.
uin
National Republican., 1878-05-08

THE promotion, for it is nothing more no
less, of General LUCIus FAIRCHILDs from
consul-general at Liverpool to be consul
general at Paris is deserved recognition of
the services Of competent, painstaking
officer, who is also one-armed soldier OF
enviable record, won by honorable partici-
patton in nearly all the great battles of the
late civil war. 1t is at the same time rare
example of conscientious adherence to the
true theory Of civil-service reform. Gen.
eral ToRDETT's removal remains to be ex.
planned. None Of his official acts as consul.
general at Paris have been disapproved by
the State Department that we are aware Of
National Republican., 1878-05-08

As usual, The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
was ahead of its energetic" cotemporary
yesterday in furnishing the public with cur
rent political information. 1t probably
astonished the Democratic manipulators
themselves by its exposure of the TILDEN
plan to use the BIsBEE-FiNLEY Florida con-
tested seat case rs n question of privilege by
means Of which to indirectly reopen the
electoral count. The newspaper readers
and advertisers Of Washington and vicinity
will do we'll to make note of these con-
stantly-recurring illustrations of the supc-
riority of our news columns over all our
local competitors.
National Republican., 1878-05-08
IE NATIONAL REPUBIICAN. WEDNESDAY s1s7s

body called for the passage of the bill be-
cause they prefsned coin as o circulating
medium, for any one prefers the sreenbsck
dollar to the silver dollar in the Transaction
Of business. But the great ends desired
have been attained. Gold has ceased to be
commodity of trade and speculation, and
resumption is rendered certain without haz-
ard Of interruption.
National Republican., 1878-05-08

FACTS and figures regarding intimidation
Of voters in the Southern States in 1876
and before that year, can be obtained to
show the methods used "to decrease the
Republican vote" with very little diff
Guilty. The charges against the Democracy
based upon these facts and figures are neither
nebulous nor incoherent as the Democratic
organ declares them to be. When com.
pared with the evasive and fraudulent So
called confessions of purchased McLIN and
drunken SELKIRK, they will show on which
side the specifications have been left out
National Republican., 1878-05-08

ANOTHER Confederate brigadier looms NJ
in the distance for an Office, and must be
accommodated. II is said that Colonel d
G. Cox, Union soldier, is to be superseded
in the pension agency of this city by Gen
eral WIrCHER, of West Virginia, who
served the Lost Cause" during the late
anpleasantness. This Is Cancellation. Next
National Republican., 1878-05-08

THE howl has begun over Governor PACK
ARDS nomination to Liverpool. The Oppo-
sition insists that he is to be sent abroad
because he is witness" against the Adj
ministration. But the Governor has not
accepted the Office yet. Besides, he is not
of the purchasable or vengeful McLIS
stripe. He Is a gentleman, which is NOR,
than can be said of some OF his assailants.
National Republican., 1878-05-08

We understand that it is the custom OF
Democratic investigators in examining wit.
nesses to so shape their questions that, in
making answer yes, or no, it is not possible
10 tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth" This is u device
Of these modern investigators, who do not
seek the truth unless it can be made useful
in blackening some Republican official
And this they call justice and right Out
upon ii.
National Republican., 1878-05-08

THE evidence Of McLIN, SELKIRK, and
the entire gang Of Florida e1pIosionists is
z porte. The testimony the Republicans
nrc prepared to offer regarding corruption,
intimidation, and assassination in Florida
and elsewhere is the result Of solemn con-
gressional investigation, in which both par
ties were heard aud both sides of the case
Riyen under cross-examinatiop,
National Republican., 1878-05-08

THE Weldon IN. C.) municipal election
not resulted in the wounding-one fatally-
Of two colored voters. Peace was then re-
stored, and during the quiet which followed
the Republicans carried the day. This final
result plainly shows the motives which
prompted the riot There Is chance that
another North Carolina ''nigger-killer' may
be subjected to the expense Of a mock. trial
He failed to frighten the Republicans away
from the polls, but he did his level best, and
is therefore entitled to Democratic sympathy
pending persecution for his crime.
National Republican., 1878-05-08

@THE unconciliated Radicals" whoever
they may be- have not busted themselves
with "heaving dornicks s"-unculchawed,
wild, wild West for political criticism: eide
the Washington Democratic organ-at
JEFF DAVIS The fact is JEFFERsoN's
occasional yswps"-ibid for "the grand
~est letter ever penned by mortal
~hand"-are sometimes used rs argumenta-
tve bowldsrs, as 1t were, with which to
National Republican., 1878-05-08

IT Is proposed by the Opposition to yoke
WENDELL PHILLIPS and JEFF DAVIS to-
gcther, as exhibits Of the two extremes Of
American politics. Why select DAVIS for
this display? ALLEN G. THURMAN is in
theory as much Of States rights secession
ist as DAVIS ever was in practice, and has
never, that we are aware Of, disgraced or
disowned his sex. If PHILLIPS is to be
yoked to any one for the purpose Of such an
exhibition let THURMAN be his yoke-fel-
low by all means, for he has never merited
companionship with such misanthropic,
hermaphrodite rs sour President"