Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-09

by the theft of account books in tho
courtroom, will be resumed at Mar
quette, Mich, next Monday. The
United States officials in New York
are unable to find the stolen documents,
and say that attorney Harland S trunks,
in which they are supposed to be con
cealed, have not arrived in their city.
The trial of Harland, the lawyer and
conspirator in Tilden's employ, will
take place shortly at Detroit. He is
now under bonds. .
The advance guard of the Howgate
Artic Expedition. which started north
ward from New London, Conn. last
August, has given up the work an ac-
count of the failure to receive an ap.
preparation from Congress. The COM
man!er of the Paloris, the ship sent
out, is Captain Tyson, who reports
his proposed immediate return to New
York from St. Johns, ewfoundland.
The boat brings back load Of turs,
Esquimaux relics, etc.
SHIFTLEss FARMERs.-I have
known farmers whose reapers were
never housed, whose tools were left
where last used, whose yards wore car
peted with manure that had rotted for
years; whose cattle were sheltered from
the .wintery blasts only by gnawing
holes in straw stacks; whose front
yards were orhamented. not with lawn
and shade trees, but with pig troughs
and cobs. Perhaps these sturdy sons
of the soil attributed their bad luck to
tariff; to some bloated monopoly; or
lhe contraction of currency; or to high
rates Of interest; never dreaming that
the same waste and carelessness mani
tested by them would bring poverty to
the men engaged in other business
Hon. E. " Keyes, Madison Wis. .
HORSE THIEVES. Palmyra, Oct.
"A barn belonging to Mr.. j. Thay-
er, farmer living on the Whitewater
road, three miles west, was robbed Of
a span of horses and carriage, Satur-
day night The thieves left a notice
ccnspicuously posted, signed j Thayer,
the name of Mr.. Thayer's son, living
mile distant, saying he had taken the
the horses and would return them that
: -n~e-ino, ehus gaining nearly twenty
four hours start, the truth Of the no.
tice remaining unquestioned until Sun
day afternoon. A rewatd of $50 is Of
fered for any information that will
lead to the restoration of the property.
Madison, Oct. "A span of hor-
ses and open buggy were stolen from
Joshua Thayer Of Palmyra, on the 2Sth
of September, by a farm hand named
Orville Mitchell The team was
brought to this city to Andrew Kentz-
ler's stable and offered for sale at low
figures. Mr.. K, interviewed tie fel-
low, and became suspicious. He called
on deputy sheriff Mcdonnell, who this
morning arrested the thief who owned
up to having stolen the team. His ex
cuse was that Harvey had treated him
meanly, and he proposed to get even
with him and took the team Mitch
ell is hard looking but stupid sort of
citizen, who will be sentenced to the
full exteut of the law. aa4.ss s.
STAND BY THE NATIoN's PLEDGE.
The Boston Advertiser, of the 18th
Instant, says: 1.-The promise made in
1875 that on and after the lst of Janu
ary, 1879, the Secretary of the Treas
ury should redeem such of the legal
tender notes then outstanding as should
be presented for redemption at the New
York Treasury, was made by Repub-
lican Congress and approved by Re
| publican President. The Democrats
made the repeal of that promise, spe-
c;hc as to act, as to mode, and as to the
time Of its execution, one of the issu-
es in the canvass of 1876 They have
failed to carry their point. The pro-
mise stands. 1t cannot be retracted |
without national dishonor. The Re
publican party cannot assent to its be-
leg withdrawn or broken without for
feiting its claim to the confidence of
the people, without absolving every
man who has adhered to it's fortunes
as the party Of national honor and good
faith from his allegiance to it. If
Greenbackers can find any points of
union between themselves and the Re-
publican party, we'll and good; their
votes will be welcomed. But from
the moment they control it and make
it speak the word of broken faith, of
perpetual irredeemability Of the Gov
ernment notes, the Republican party
loses its claim to respect as party of
principle. 1t sinks itself to the level
of all time-servers, whose career is dis
grace and whose end is disaster"
In some Of the Congressional districts
of the country politics are very badly
mixed this Fall. In number of in.
stances, especially in cities, no less than
FIVE candidates are in nomonation for
Congress in the same districts--Re