Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-08-28

so, tie attempt always causing evident
pain. The animal is frisky, and no
defect can ,oe seen in its form, though
a veterinary surgeon, who has examin
ed it, claims to have found peculiar
formation of the ligatures of the hind
legs, and is certain that is the cause of
the animals inability to lie down.-H
Louis Post.
A minute of the English Post Office
Department. orders that hereafter tele-
graph clerks of both sexes shall be
known as "telegraphists."
The North Carolina correspondent of
the Philadelphia Press, in summing up
the situation as to Congressman, class
es two districts as doubtful, gives two
districts to the Democrats, and four
to the opposition, or the Republicans
and Independents.
What is wanted at New Orleans,
Memphis and other suffering points
South, are standing commissary de-
partments with military surgeons at
command. takes long time for a
Southern State to learn the benefits of
kind and paternal Government.
ARCTIC PERILs.-SAN FRANCISCO,
August 20.-The schooner San Diego,
recently reported lost IN Behring's Sea,
returned here to day. The vessel was
blown ashore and much damaged. The
crew dug out a dock, wintered there,
repaired the schooner; and returned
with but three men on board-Chief
Mate, Robertson, one white man and
one Indian. Captain Bishop,s Second
Mate Carr and five of the crew, Indians,
were drowned by the capsizing of a
boat.
The most recent developments in
regard to the mismanagement Of State
Treasurer Gates, of Missouri, leave no
doubt of the hopeless insolvency of the
State Treasury. Whatever became of
the missing funds, it now appears that
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about 81 900, 900, cannot be met.
GRAND LODGE OF ODD FELLOWS.
-BENN1NGToN, VT, Aug. 22.-Ow-
ing to the prevalence of yellow fever
John w. Stokes, NJ w. Grand Sire,
issues an order that the approaching
session of the Grand Lodge of the
United States, l. o of Q. F., will be
held in Baltimore, Nd, on the third
Monday proximo, instead of Austin,
Texas, as expected.
By the abolition of slavery and the
enfranchisement of the freedmen, the
South gained thirty members of Con-
gress by the increase of her voting
population. And yet the Democrats
of that section are now virtually dis
franchising the colored voters. This
is like the ungrateful fellow we once
read about, who, after his father had
generously made over to him all his
property, kicked the old man out-of.
doors.
Observation-Disclosures CITY, Ind i.
August 2O.-Two boys and two girls
aged respectively 10, IL, Il and Is
years one boy and one girl children of
Jacob Stieffe, and the other of Fred
Schwark of this city while bathing in
Lake Michigan, some six miles west of
of this place we're drowned this after
noon. The news was brought to the
city by a little boy, some 7 years old
One of the bodies was found; the others
were yet in the water. The children had
been out picking huckleberries.
A letter received at Oneida, Idaho,
the terminus Of the Idaho Northren
Railroad says the Indians attacked
Shelton Caleb and party of freighters,
numbering fourteen men on the 10th,
near Salmo City Idaho and killed Nc
Caleb. From Saturday Morning until
Monday noon indians numbering about
thirty kept up firing. The freighters
used -four as breastwork, and fought
them off. Lieutenant Wilson, with
twenty-five men, reached the freight
ers Tuesday evening and will escort
the train to Round Valley.
If old Abe be really dead, wha will
become of Wisconsin?-Mew York
Times.
Wisconsin will remain on of the
truest states in the Union. If ever
the necessity arises, she will again, as
in the past, buckle knapsacks to the
backs of as true set of men as ever
marched at the call of duty. But
"Old Abe" is not dead. That ques.
ton has been set at rest by the best of
evidence. When "Old Abe" dies he
will have a funeral such as no bird
ever before received; the old fellow
has history which will attract atten-
tion when his time is up.-lnter Ocean