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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-12-04

Mr.. Corcoran, the Washington
banker, has given historical paint
ing of the battle of New Orleans to
the State of Louisiana. 1t is the
work of French artist, and cost S20,-
900.
The British Ministry is not in as
complete accord as it might be. The
Earl of Beaconsfeld. the Premier,
opposed the oonvocation of Parlia-
ment in extra session, but his col.
leagues out-voted him, and no extra
session has been determined upon for
next month. BeaconsfeId's objection
is probably based upon an apprehen-
sion that Parliament might interfere
with his Afganistan war policy.
Once before British troops invaded
Afganistan, but with most disastrous
result. In 1911 they crossed the
frontier, and moved on towards Cabul
10 great confidence of reaching that
city. But when they reached the
mountain region, every rock and crag
and tree had armed Afghans behind
it. and the heights bristled with ar
tillery The fire was terrific aad
deadly, and the defenseless invaders
were driven back pell-mell with great
loss. The repulse was complete,
and the undertaking was ingloriously
abandoned. 1t remains to be seen
whether the result Of the present
invasion viii be repetition Of history.
Under the decision of Attorney Gen
eral Devens, that the United States is
bound to furnish troops on constitu-
tional call of the Governor Of State
and that this must be done at the ex-
pense Of the general Government, and
not of the State or citizens whose pro-
perty is threatened with destruction,
the Government has has to pay S74,-
600 for the transportation of troops on
those railroads which called for pro.
lection during the strike Of the Sum-
mer of 1877.
A serious revolt of $4,000 troops
has occurred in the province of Kwan-
gsi, China There are fears of its ex-
tension. Bad pay and rations are com
planned of throughout the army There
are reports of disasters to the Chinese
forces occupying the conquered West
ern territory. Complications with the
Russian authorities are also feared.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-12-04
No. 6
State Items.

Green Bay is to have a deaf and
dumb school.
Harris Brothers, dealers in groceries,
at Ripon, have failed, Liabilities S.
500
Justice Kies, of Green Bay, has
married l72 couples since be commenc-
ed.
The steamer Benton has been tied
up at Fond du Lac under an attach
ment for $3.50.
The Chippewa Falls and Mort beast
ern Railroad has not applied for the
$4,000 of Tylor county bonds.
Waupaca has boy II years old
who weighs 10 pounds; also gnl
I years Of age who tips the beam at an
even 100 pounds,
Fond du Lac and Green Bay are
suffering greatly from incendiaries.
The JonesviEe Picking Company
have done rushing business during
the past year.
Not loug since the Post Office at
Shetek was entered as the night time
and registered letter and large
number Of stamps taken.
Willie Wright, a boy about 13
years Of age, and son of l. S. Wright,
Of Fountain Prairie, accidentally shot
himself with gun which be was load
ing He died.
The clothing store of E. B Birch
ard, at OconomOwoc, was entered the
other night by thieves. Several huns
dred dollars worth Of clothing was
taken. The establishment was over
hauled from top to bottom.
The new Universalist Church. of
MukwoDago, is receiving the finishing
touches. 1t is an imposing structure.
La the basement, this Winter, there
will ba series Of club dances.
William Lahey, young man living
near the tanuery of the Wisconsin
Leather Comyany, north Of Two
Rivers, was accidentally shot while
cleaning his gun, the wound causing
his death
Deacon B. n. Benedict, one of the
Oldest residents and first settlers Of
Palmyra, who has been engaged in the
retail drug business over thirty years,
has sold the goodwill and interest of
his business to young Milwaukee
druggist.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-12-04

Hon. George ". McCrary, of [ owa.
now Secretary Of War in Pres ident
Hayes Cabinet, has very clear views
on the subject Of Southern reconcila-
ton, and does not hesitate to express
them. In an ''interview" published
in the Washington Post, be is repre-
sented as giving utterance to the fol-
lowing words:
Senator Allison, of Iowa, who has
arrived in Washington, states that he
apprehands no attempt by the Demo-
Gratis in the next Congress, orthe Clerk
Of the House, to exclude the members
who we're elected from that State in
October.
In his annual report Secretary
Schurz. of the Interior Department,
strongly defends the action of the de-
partmeat in promptly suppressing the
depredations of timber thieves on Gov
ernment lands, and recommends such
legislation by Congress SIS as will preserve
and enlarge the timber bearing lands OF
the country.
1t is stated ostensibly on the anthor-
rity of Postmaster General Key, that
within the next three months, unless
Congress comes promptly to the rescue
with a sufficient appropriation, the
railway postal service will be so far
crippled as to require the withdrawal
of most of the postal cars from the
present routes. He is credited with
saying that he will not overdraw the
current appropriation single dollar,
and will throw the responsibility to-
the consequences on Congress, if the
railway service should be suspended.
EDWIN BOOTH IN RHEUMATIsM.-
Edwin Booth suffers terribly some,
times from rheumatism, and if he were
not one of the most amiable of mortals
would, doubtless, indulge in vigorous
Anglo-Saxon. expletives. He takes
refuge, however, in well.smoked corn
cob pipe when the attack is on him,
using no other medical treatment than
a preparation originally tested by his
brother-in law, J. H. Magonigie. This
affords him almost instant relief, and
in place of indulging in profanity when
the rheumatism nips him, be calls for
Giles Liniment Iodide Ammonia,
which be buys by the gallon.
Sold by K. Schubert & Son. Send
for pamphlet. DR.. Giles,
l2O West Broadway, N. Y.
Trial size rs cents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-12-04
HANl,LN & FORD,
4, GRITZNER.
AUGUST WIGGENHORN,

vEWELER, has recently opened Jew
u elry Store il Johnson's block. corner
Main and lst street, where he wilt keep
: constantly on hand large stock OF
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver and Pla-
ed Ware, &C. Particular attention palo
repairing Watches, Clocks, JeWeiry'
&c. and warranted to give satisfaction.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-12-04

MARRIAGES and Deaths inserted gratis
Professional and business Cards s2,o" " va limo
Ensinass notices in local column 10 cents per hne
or frst insertion. and Eve cents for Subsequent
n sertions. -;+b directions .
..ntod tiI1 forbid and charged for accord
Wgiv
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09
The Approach OF Death

As life approaches extinction, insensi-
bility supervenes-a numbness and dis
position to repose which does not admit
Of the idea of suffering. Even in those
cases where activity Of mind remains to
the last, and where nervous sensibility
would seem to continue, it is surprising
how often there has been observed a
happy state of feeling on the approach
of death. "If had sufficient strength
to hold pen, would write how easy it
is to de-" were the last words of the
celebrated William Hunter during his
last moments. Montaigne, in one of his
essays, described and incident which
left him SO senseless he was taken up for
dead. On being restored, however, he
says, "Methought my life hung only up
on my lips, and shut my eyes to help
thrust it out, and took pleasure in lam
gushing and letting it 60" A gentle
man who had been rescued from drown
ing declared that he had not experienced
the slightest feeling of suffocatlon. The
stream was transparent, the day brilliant,
and as he stood upright he could see the
sun shining through the water, with a
dreamy consciousness that hiseyes were
being closed for ever. Yet he neither
feared his fate nor wished to avert it. A
sleepy sensation, which soothed and graf
fled him, made luxurious bed of a
watery grave.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09
A Sjckly Prince.

The true story of the mysterious i'll
ness of Prince Leopold, youngest son of
Queen Victoria, has now become public.
An English paper says; "The young
prince, whose amiability has long since
endeared him to all who knew him, suf-
fers from strange and dreadful disease,
which can be best described as state of
existence in which there is peculiar
liability to the occurrence of profuse and
more or less uncomfortable hemorrhage
or bleeding, both from the surface OF
the skin, and within the interstitial
tissues of the body. Life under these
conditions is in ceaseless peril. Ex-
amples are not uncommon where the loss
of blood, excited by the mere extrac-
ton of loose tooth or by the accidental
scratch or prick of finger, has proved
utterly uncomfortable and in the end
fatal. Besides these terrible risks the
disease entails periods of pain which
are often excruciating, and these Prince
Leopold is said to bear with a serenity
and patience thata are the admiration Of
all about him.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

ST. PAUL's Cathedral, London, has,
strange to say, never had a chime. Four
years ago the omission was brought to
the public notice, and now the city
companies, in association with Lady
Burdett Coutts, have undertaken to sup
ply this want, and noble peal of twelve
bells will be supplied. The bells will
together cost about five thousand
pounds, exclusive of the cage which is
to hold them, and each one will bear the
name, arms, and motto of the donor.
The entire peal will weigh not less than
eleven tons. 1t must not be supposed
that these will in any way interfere
with the great bell of st. Paul's, which
hangs alone in the clock tower, and
weighs by itself five tons and quarter.
1t is tolled only for the royal family,
the Bishop of London, the Lord Mayor,
SHOULD he die in office, the Dean of
st. Paups, and by special order for a
very famous parsonage, such as the late
Duke of Wellington. Sometimes it does
not work for years.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

A WRITER in Nature says that by
combining the telephone with the kinese-
graph he can produce talking picture
which will move and gesticulate as a
man does when he is earnestly engaged
in speaking. This he proposes to do by
taking instantaneously photographs of
the speaker at intervals of a quarter or
half second, and these, after fixing, are
to be placed one below another on strip
or ribbon of paper wound from one
cylinder to another. AS each picture
passes before the eye it is to be lighted
up by an electric spark, and the man
will thus be presented to usat successive
moments, while the recording phono-
graph speaks the words which the man
uttered. 1t may be years before produc-
ing the form, motion and natural voice
of the original. Who dare say now that
the time will not come when whole
dramas will be reproduced ad hbitum
from actual performances, with such
fidelity that they cannot be distinguished
from the original.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

SEVENTY million people are reported
to be starving in Northern China.
The numbers are so greatly beyond all
hope of general relief, as well as beyond
the grasp of ones mind, that the an
nouncement apparently lacks the i'm
pressiveness of much more limited
disaster. When Lisbon was destroyed
by the earthq uake in 1855, though fewer
thousands lost their lives than the mill
ions now said to be perishing from lack
of food, all Europe was excited to the last
degree. To come nearer home, and to
our own day, the burning of Chicago,
where few if any persons died, or the
Ashtabula railroad catastrophe, appalled,
the public heart far more than the woes
of people nearly twice as numerous as
the population of the United States.
This is natural, for distance abates our
conceptions of misery, and our chief
sympathies center on our own near
kindred. Yet when all this is said, there
remains the fact that defniteness is lost
where tens of millions are involved.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09
A Cremation Drama.

The popular feeling against the Gre
majors (says the New York Sun) cul-
minated some time since in the prodTc-
ing of burlesqe on the De Palm obse-
quies, entitled " The Roasted Baron, or
the Washington Cremators." The play
was produced at Capnonsburg, near
Washington, Pa, under the Superin-
tendence of James Wolfe, the man who
fed the fires on the occasion of the
burning of the Baron's body. Wolfe is
an original genius, and his play gave
evidence of decided dramatic talent.
The first act represented the Theosophic
ceremonies in New York, Hierophant
Olcott in the capacity of Grand Panjan-
drum. The second pictured midnight
in the crematory. TIVE newspaper
correspondents were Offering the devoted
fireman one hundred dollars to shove
the corpse in twelve hours beforehand,
and thus give beat, " to their respec.
tive papers The offer was spurned
with contempt, after which the fireman,
who is something of ventriloquist,
amused his audience by making the
corpse call for more fire. and " n glass
of water" The third act represented
the interior of the crematory on the day
of the burning. Hierophant Olcott, in
the mystic garb, was in the act of glanc-
ing through the peep hole, and announce
ing from time TO time, One eye out
One leg gonep etc. Suddenly the
bogus rotort cracked, and the " dummy"
corpse exploded with terrific noise,
filling the room with smoke and scatter
ing the assembled Theosophs in all di-
rections. In the fourth act public
meeting in the town hall at Washington,
in which the Presidents Of various col
leges, scientific men, ETC., participated,
was numerically ridiculed. The
actors in the play and greater portion
of the audience was from Washington,
and the performance we're received with
unstinted laughter and applause. So
great was the success of the Roasted
Baron" that it had run of several
nights.
The rapidity with which Mrs. Pitman
was burned is attributed to the fact that
her body was embalmed with arsenide of
soda. The period consumed in the in
cineration was twenty minutes less than
in the case of Baron de Palm, the gain in
time being ascribed to the superior
freshness OF the body MS compared with
the tough and dried up carcass of the
Baron
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

A SINGLE firm in New Haven, Conn,
imported last year, nearly six hundred
thousand pounds of cochineal, valued at
nearly four hundred thousand dollars,
from the Canary Islands. The cochineal
insect is a native of South America, and
was for long time confined to Mexico,
where it feeds on the nopal. At first
sight it resembles seed or berry. The
collection of these insects is very tedious
work, and the number above referred to
represented vast amount of labor. The
best insects have purplish gray color,
the darker varieties being less valuable.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09
Associate Justices.

The Pittsburg Dispatch remarks that
"the rule is that associate justices (of
the United States Supreme Court shall
be portly, ponderous, round, red-faced
solemnities, wise-looking as owls. Dur
ing the day they sit up in a row, four on
each side of the chief ustices, motion
less as penguins, which they 80 much
resemble that one might well expect to
see some Arctic explorer, in sealskin
suit from head to foot, walk in and rap
them on the head with club for not
having sense to fly away. What gives
them q particularly serious look is that
the curtains, and general upholstery of
the room, are of deep crimson and when
you see everything crimson, except a
row of round heads and pink faces stick
ing up behind the paneling Of the bench,
the effect is peculiarly oppressive"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

A PARTISAN gentleman, one Mr.. Du-
val, has set an example which we think
will not find many imitators in this
country. Mr.. Duval had a wife who
proved unsuited to his tastes, and
accordingly he rubbed her all over
with petroleum and then deliberately
touched her off"-in short, he set her
on fire. He then rushed into neigh
boris to inform them how his wife had
burned herself; but, unfortunately for
him, when the neighbors came in to
view the scene of this attempt to discard
a disagreeable spouse, the woman was
still able to speak and charge her hus-
band with his crime.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09
The Backward Habit Of the japanese.

The japanese habit of reversing every
thing, if we may regard our way of doing
as the proper way, is very curious, and
in some of its details, very interesting
Mr.. Griffiths, in his work on japanese,
discusses it thus: Another man is plan
ing. He pulls the plane towards him. l
notice blacksmith at work. He pulls
the bellows with his feet, while he is
holding and hammering with both
hands. He has several irons in the fire,
and keeps his dinner pot boiling with
the waste flame. His whole family, like
the generation before him, seem to get
their living in the hardware line. The
cooper holds his tubs with his toes. All
of them sit down while they work. Per-
haps that is an important difference be-
tween European and an Asiatic. One
sits down to his work, the other stands
up to it. Why is it that we do things
contrariwise to the japanese? Are we
upside down, or they? The japanese
say that we are reversed. They call all
our penmanship "crab writing" be-
cause, say they, cit goes backward"
The lines in our books cross the page
like a crawfsh, instead of going down
ward properly. In a Japanese stable we
find the horses flank where we look for
his head. japanese screws screw the
other way. Their locks thrust to the
left, ours to the right The baby toys
of the Aryan race squeak when squeezed;
the Turnonian gimcracks emit noise
when pulled apart. A Caucasian, to in
jure his enemy, kills him; Japanese
kills himself to spite his foe. Which
race is left-handed? Which has the
negative? Which the positive of truth ?
What is truth? What is down? What
is up?
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

The waste of wire-working establish
ments is utilized by charging the diluted
acid used in cleaning the wire with iron
and heated by steam in lead lined tanks.
The liquid sulphate of iron thus pro-
duced, is evaporated and the solid
crystals of copperas separated for com
mercial uses. Three tons of copperas is
obtained from twelve tons of waste acid,
which, until recently, was thrown away
as useless. The oxide of iron which set
ties in the boiling tanks, when properly
treated, forms pigment equal to inn
ported Venetian red. ~. -,..r,t-.r
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09
F,EA TURES OF THE PARIS EXPO
SITION

The Universal Exhibition of 1878
will possess three features of marked
interest, organized with the loving at
tention to detail which characterizes the
Latin race. The first, which has already
been prepared ON II gigantic scale, is a
department in which the most re-
markable and curious methods of manu-
facture of articles of luxury and prac-
tical use will be shown to the public.
This was attempted to some extent at
our Philadelphia fair. and proved a
lasting attraction. Most of the impor
tant continental nations have arranged
for this display, and it is to be hoped
that America will not prove to be the
only exception. The second interesting
department will be an historical exhibi-
ton of ancient art and the ethnography
of peoples foreign to Europe. For this
collectors have been at work in many
countries fer more than three years,
and the world has yielded a very rich
harvest. The arts and industrial pro-
cesses of Egypt from remotest times, of
Occidental Asia, of the extreme Orient,
will be represented in these galleries.
The third novelty will be the special
exhibition of anthropological sciences,
organized by the Paris Archaeological
Society. A large number of museums
have promised to send their collections.
Russia, Spain, Sweden, Belgium,
Canada, Italy, Portugal, Hungary,
Austria and Norway have sent very
striking contributions; and if all are as
fine as those shown by Russia at Phila-
delphia the happy visitor TO the
Trocadero galleries will enter one of the
finest museums that the world has ever
seen. 1t is evident that the chances for
special study here will be greater than at
any previous exhibition. The products
of the stone age, in Tunis, in Egypt, in
Palestine, IN Asia Minor, will be fully
represented, and Mexico will contribute
great numbers of her antique typical
statues.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

MRS. JOHN G. DEsHLER, of Colum-
bus, Ohio, widow of the late wealthy
banker, died on February IL, and has
left several very liberal public requests
in her will. She gives $25, 900 to the
Columbus Female Benevolent Society,
to be known as the John G. Deshler
Fund. Next she gives $4,000 to the
Orphans Home at Hamilton. She gives
her elegant residence on Broad-street,
opposite the Capitol, and SAC, 900, to be
known as the Louise Deshler Fund to
go toward establishing an Art Gallery
at Columbus. She gives 100000, for
the building and support of law
library, and to provide law lectures for
those who may wish to attend this insti-
tuition, to be known as the John G..
Deshler Law Institute, in honor of her
husband.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

THIRTY millions of good, honest,
honest old Uncle Sans dollars are voted
year after year for the pension list.
Many of the crippled pensioners have
died and gone to glory since the original
bill was passed, the sick have become
convalescent or followed the departed
cripples, the children have grown old
enough to take care Of themselves; and
still the thirty million goes out some
where. Where? The country demands
something more substantial than an
echo for answer. Who gets the money
The conundrum can be solved, and it
must be, or there will be further de-
mand for investigation.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

MISS R. M. J. Cook, young school
teacher in Holden, Mo-, has commenced
suit in the Circuit Court of johnson
County against the School Board of
Holden, asking the sum of $1,000 dam
ages for being summarily dismissed
from their service as teacher in one Of
the public schools The odense which
caused her dismissal was delivering
physiological lectures to girls, in which
she discoursed on the evils of tight lac
ing as affecting anatomical structure,
and the hygienic rules best calculated to
promote health, and fit them for duties
of maternity, Some of the parents of
the pupils were horror-stricken at this
innovation upon the established curri-
culum, and having decided that Miss
Cook was "no better than she should
be-" procured her discharge.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

lectual, and Pho Mono has the most be-
nevolent expression of face. Adrian ",
or Nicholas Brakspeare, the only En-
glishman elected Pope, has the most
determined countenance. He looks like
a man that couldn't be trifed with He
it was, you remember, who obliged
Frederick | to PROSTATE himself before
him, kiss his foot, hold his stirrup, and
lead the white palfrey on which he rode.
We will never more have such Pope
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-09

A SCOTCH paper says: Dogs and cats
sometimes find their way home from
long distances in a very surprising man
ner. Mountain sheep have also remark
able "homing" faculties. The follow
ing instances are reported as having
taken place lately in the North. A
Cheviot eve, which had been driven in
flock from Northumberland to Souther-
Lancashire, was found one day on her old
pasture, followed by her lamb, having
traced her way back hundreds of miles
Another eve Of the same breed found her
way back from Caithness-shire to Rox-
burgshire. What time the animals
took to accomplish their respective feats
is not stated, and by what route they re-
turned to their native hills is not known.