Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-24
No. 80.

Oh TO the Ufeat Lakes tor the Dur-
pose of taking measures to make the
service more efficient the coming sea-
son, and with especial reference to the
selection of several new stations on
Lake Michigan, for witch appropria.
tions have been made. One will be at
Bay]ey's Harbor, and another at Sleep.
ing Bear Point Life. boat stations are
to be established at Manistee, Ludipg-
ton, Muskegon, and Kenosha. The
station at Chicago is to be changed
from life-boat station to a complete
life.saving station. There are also to
be established during the present year
one life coast station on the coast of
Lake Superior, near the mouth of
Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship
Caoal, on Middle Island, and life.
boat station near Sand Beach Harbor
Of Refuge.
HE Ely FAMILY. Wisconsin peo-
pie who are named Ely will be pleased
to hear that their family have been
having an extended, blowout at Old
Lyme, Conn. Among descendents of
the family, or connected by marriage
with it, are iefjustice Waite; Nathan
c. Ely, Chairman of the American in
stitute; Smith Ely, Jr.; Mayor Of New
York; Governor Colquitt, Of Georgia;
Moses S. Beach. son Of Moses G.
Beach; Judge George Ely, Of New
York State, and others Of more or less
distinction, Fifty representatives Of
the family have graduated at Yale.
Invitations to attend the reunion were
extended to over 600 families retain
ing the Ely name, and to many others.
Not less than seven hundred people
sat down to dinner. There were
shown several interesting relics, and
an old volume of canons were received
from the Bishop Of Ely, Euglan nd. A
geneaology of the family is soon to be
published. .
MINNESOTA CROPS DAMAGED
, Dispatches received at La Crosse yes
terday. from various points along the
line of the Southern Midnesota Rail-
road, show that the severe rain and
wind storms, with the intense heat of
the past week, have reduced the pros
poets Of the wheat and oat crop about
one-third by rust, lodging and shrink
age. Reports from Houston, Fillmore
Mower, Fairbault, Freeborn and Blue
Earth are unfavorable. If the show
ers and te't continue, much wheat will
be Of inferior quality, The points
heard from are Houston, Wyckof. Pc
terson, Whalen, Dexter, Spring Valley
Ramsey, Grand Meadow, Hayward.
Albert Lee, Easton, Wells and Good
Thunder, covering distance Of two
hundred miles west of the Mississippi.
In his recent article in the Atlantic
Monthly on English railroad travelling,
Mr.. Grant White mentions that the
drivers of English locomotives do not
think it necessary to evoke from their
engines those detestable screeches
which make life burden to so many
Of US here who have the misfortune of
living within ear shot of railroad.
| On some of the numerous lines to Co.
ney Island this nuisance has reached
so serious a point that It is not unlike
ly to affect the value Of property on
the route. This noise begins as early
as 81, and does not end until midnight.
At Elizabeth the authorities, apprecia-
ting the injury such nuisance might
do the town, made so serious a repre-.
sentation to the railroad people that the
noise is reduced to minimum.-N 2
Exchange.
Messrs. Dun, Barlow & Co., tho
mercantile agency men, reports that
the failures in the United States for
the first six months of the present
year are 5,S25, as against 4,749 in
1877, an increase of over 1000 in
number, and equal to nearly 25 per
cent. The liabilities for the first half.
of 1873 are sl3O,O0O,000, as against
800 100000 for the same period of
last year. percentage of increase still
greater. Never before in the history
of the country, they say, have business
misfortunes been so numerous, or ag-
gregating an amount of loss by bad
debts so great. PHI lo-aa
The translator Of Auerbach's works
for publication in this country is a
young Nebraska girl, about 2l yeais Of
age-a Miss Annie B. Ilish-who. in
ambition to these labors end linguistic
studies, spends eight hours day in
department work as secretary for Sec
retary Scburz. so
Bouck was willing to endorse the
Greenback platform, but did not dare
to do it in public; and the Greenback-
ers did not dare to trust his private
promises-hence the nomination OF
Grifiths, whose $4,000 was under
stood to have been secured in advance.
Confidence in Bouck would have been
bad investment.
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