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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-30
Circuit Court Commission

The commission appointed last year
by Governor Ludlngton to prepare a
plan for redistrcting the State for
judicial purposes, equalizing the labors
Of the Judges, and determining their
salaries, have flushed their work and
made their report to the Legislature.
1t recommends an amendment to the
constitution removing from Office, on
June 81, 1880, all Circuit Judges of
the State; also, authorizing the Legis-
lature to redistrict the State into ten
judicial circuits, and providing an
election of Judges in such changed
circuits at the Spring election in the
year 1880. They also recommend
that the salaries of she new Judges be
s. 500. Their plan detaches the coun-
and attaches it to the Second; detaches
Clark, Jackson, Monroe, La Crosse
and Vernon counties from the Sixth
Circuit and attaches them to the Thir-
teenth, which is to be known as the
Sixth Circuit; Getaches Buffalo and
Eau Claire counties from the Thir-
teenth Circuit and attaches them to
the Eight; detaches Kewaunee county
from the Fourth Circuit and attaches
it to the Tenth; Outagamie county is
detached from che Tenth Circuit and
is added to the Seventh.
THE passage of the silver bill by
Congress has had the effect of advanc-
ing the premium on gold, which yester-
day Was one per cent. higher than on
Saturday.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-30
SERGFG

p pcs. all wool plain a
striped for 375c; same gu,
ties sold every W here for s;
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DOW TY co zTEKE PRICES
Wheeler, White & Van Pelt's
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-30
New Advertisements.
w ElE:zlK!s!Ly WISCONSIN
CLUE list.

The WEEKLY WISCONSIN, together
with either of the following publications,
will DO sent one year, post-free, at the price
Lamed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-30
New Advertisements.
A Great Offer : Holidays

We will during these HARD TIM ES and
the Holidays dispose of 100 n f w PIANOS
and ORGANS, of first-cass makers at lower
prices for cash. Tnstalments than ever before
fered. WATER S' PIANOS and ORGANS
are the Best Made, warranted for 5 years, III.
Catalogue Mailed. Great inducements to the trade
Pianos, 7-octave, $40. Z 1-2octave, $3.50; Organs
2stops S4S; stops S53: stops, $685. s stops, $40;
10 stops $780, II stops $780, in perfect order rot used
a year. Sheet music at half price. HORA e
WATERS g. SONS. Manufs and Dealers, 40
East 18th Street, New York.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-30

Camel Hair Merino.
so pcs. superb quality fol
62ac, usually sold for 81.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-30
F. TRZCINSkI,
North Side Of Main, between
st and I'd Streets,
Dealer in
Human Hair Goods,

Manufacturer Of Wigs, Toupees,
Al and all KINDS of Hair Jewelry.
- Curls warranted naturally cur
M1 ~ in large variety, from rs cts
"a upward. Gray hair a specially
~ Halr taken in exchange. Comb
- lngs made up in the most APP
~ proved manner and warranted
= 10 give satisfaction. The new
% Invisible Front for young and
e old ladies improves the looks
"a r. of ever one. BY using the Sa-
ratoga Front ladies will save
w. their front hair from being
burned and ruined, and always
be able to dress their hair
IA on short notice in the latest
~ style and in one fourth the US
p ual time. Faded Switches
zA d7ed and cleansed to look ds
H good As new.
@BCall and examining my
Goods.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-30

Z
THE Democratic committee on Priv
iIeoes and Elections In the House Of
Representatives, have reported in favor
of the right of Wiggenton (Dem.) to
the seat from the fourth gresslonal
district of California Pacheco, {Rep.)
was fairly elected by a majority of one
vote, as was decided by Democratic
Board of Canvassers, aud by the Su-
preme Court of the State. On the
principle that might makes light, how
ever, the probability now is that Wig
genton will be seated.
MCCLELLAN is now in training for
the presidential race in 1880, and this
leads US to suggest that it would be a
good thing to take Dan. Voorhees, as a
tail to the electoral kite. While Nc
Clellan was teaching hard money at
Trenton, VOORHEES, was teaching soft
money at Washington, and as there is
no middle ground for the party to take,
it might straddIe the chasm with Me
Cleilan and Voorhees, All sides of
the cash question could swear by that
ticket. The Watertown Democrat
would swallow it whole without win
cling, and why not? 1t has performed
macy antics in politics more peculiar
than this would be.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-30
SIMMONS & DECKLNSON

Managers Office, y Third st, Louisville, Ky.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-30

NONSU MPTlON be cured! Try pull
UMONA. Ask yonr druggist for it,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12
Source of Personal Beauty.

A beautiful person is the natural form of a
beautiful soul. The mind builds its own
house. The soul takes precedence of the body
and shapes the body to its own likeness. A
vacant mind takes all the meaning out of the
fairest face. A sensual disposition deforms
the handsomest features. A cold, selfish
heart shriVels and distorts the best looks A
mean, groveling spirit takes all the dignity
out Of the figure, and all the character out of
the couGtenance. A cherished hatred trans
forms the most beautiful lineaments into an
image of ugliness. 1t is as impossible to
preserve good looks with brood of bad
passions feeding on the blood, set of low
loves tramping through the heart, and a self
ish, disdainful spirit enthroned in the will, as
to preserve the beauty of an elegant mansion
with litter of swine in the basement, tribe
of gypsies in the parlor, and owls and vultures
in the upper part.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12
u ew SerieS-VOl. 1S-No 81

long ages shall stand in unchanging
beauty in the majesty of Peace, JUS
tice, Union, and Freedom. Let US live
then, my countrymen,i in the fullIbless-
ing of our great citizenship, mindful
ever of our duty to an ancestral legacy
of Freedom, whose glorious lineage
runs back not only beyond the revolu-
ton, beyond the MaytlOWer, beyond
Magma Charta, beyond the remember
ance and memory OF man and gathers
around it the granaeur and the majesty
of the dim and far off centuries; and
over all in loving and perpetual graf
itude, let US bear it not only in our
memories, but in our hearts, that
-Four hundred, thousand men,
The brave, the good, the true,
In tangled wood, in mountain glen,
In battle-p plain, in prison pen,
Have died for me and you.
"Four hundred thousand of the brave
Have made this ransomed land their grave,
For me and you.
Good friends for me and you.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12

with them and tell their story. The
condition of the Treasury, so favorable
for resumption, is the result of wise
management, and of the handsome
showing on our side of the balance OF
trade. The resumption of specie pay
ments IS almost an accomplished facG.
Its entire consummation means an
honest dollar for all classes-for en-
ployee and capitalist, for bondholder
and workingman; it means the vitali.
zation of all the currents OF business
and industry, and it means also the
discontinue of the shriekers for unIim-
tied and deprecated paper money, and
1t wards of the disasters that would
follow in the train of the experiments
they are so anxious to have tried
Bait. American.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12
Thurman,s Last Speech.

! Mr.. Thurman's speech at Athens-his Sec
ond in the canvass-is an ingenious and
plausible argument for a currency composed
exclusively of greenbacks, but it lodges two
questions of paramount importance: Shall
the greenbacks be redeemable in coin on de-
mand? and How shall that volume be regula-
ted by the wants of trade? The Senator more
man once speaks of greenbacks and coin
circulating together, and even refers to the
possibility of the Government maintaining
specie payments as early as the banks could
do so, but he carefully avoids saying that the
Government ought to keep its promise and
resum on the first day of January next. Nor
does he anywhere in his speech assert the
principle that paper currency, whether issued
by the banks or by the Treasury, to be honest
and sound should be convertible into gold or
silver. The important question of tlexibility
Mr. Thurman is not able to meet, and dis
misses it with joke and an unfair allusion to
the unsoundness of the old bank system, as if
it were the power to expand and contract the
currency to meet the greater or less require
ments of business that caused that unsound-
ness Mr.. Thurman knows that the trouble
with the old State banks was that their circu-
lation was not fully secured, and that they
were not under strict Government supervisors
and he knows, too, that the safeguards thrown
around the National banks make the holders
OF their notes absolutely safe against loss.
The element of lexibility in currency is too
important to be passed over in such way by
man protesting some knowledge of financial
matters. Under a sound banking system the
volume of the circulating medium is largely
regulated by the activity of business, as
shown in the demand for loans. MIR. Thur
mans scheme of an exclusively Government
currency lacks this feature of elasticity, as all
such schemes must, and he gains nothing by
saying that a coin currency is not flexible.
That is merely dodging the issue. The fact
that coin currency lacks this element has
led the whole civilized world to use paper.
Furthermore, the fact that no system has
been devised whereby paper currency put
out directly by the Government can be made
self-regulating in volume, has caused all CIV
iEzed nations to refrain from issuing such a
currency except as a forced loan in time of
war-CEeUeLand Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12

In the gossip which followed the Az
nouncement that Gen. Sherman's sou
had left for Europe 10 become Catho-
lie priest, a story was told of the rO-
mantle circumstances attending the CD
reer of one OF Gen. Winfield Scott's
daughters, rho died in the convent of
the Visitation at Georgetown. This
story was TO the effect that Miss Scott
fell deeply in love with an attache of q
foreign legation, who loved sincerely
in return. The match was opposed by
Gen. Scott, and through his instru-
mentality broken off. Sne went broken
hearted to convent, and he prepared
himself and was admitted 10 the priest
hoOG. In course of time he was order
ed to Georgetown college, and a pOr-
ton of his duties eonsiSIe1 in hearing
the confessions Of the nuns at the col
lege. On one of these occasions Miss
Scott knelt in the confessional to her
former lover. Each recognized the
other. She tainted, went into rapid
decline, and soon died. He left the
country.
The truestory Of the affair as related
by friend of the family OF Gen. Scott
is much less romantic than the tale Of
the gossips. Nearly forty years ago
Mrs. Cen. Scott was living in Paris
with her family, the youngest daugh-
tiers being pupils in the convent of the
Sacred Heart. She moved 10 the
highest circles of Parisian society, and
her eldest daughter was known be-
cause of her exceeding beauty and
culture ss LA belle Americaine." A
Frenchman of excellent family and
wealth fell in love with
Miss Scott. His affection was reciprO-
Gated, and with the consent of Mrs.
Scott an engagement of marriage was
made. In visiting the convent OF the
Sacred Heart, where her younger sis
ters were at school, Miss Scott became
deeply impressed with the holy life OF
the sisters. In a comparatively short
time she was converted, and deterlnin-
ed to devote her life to the church. She
sought and obtained release from her
What became of her
lover is not known, beyond the fact
that he never lett Europe. He WAS
to have joined a religious or
der in Rome. Miss Scott returned to
the United States with her mother
shortly afterward, and was admitted
to the convent of the Visitation at
She was in delicate
health when, on the 2d of October,
1914, she received the habit OF the
novice, and on the 26th of August,
1915, she died OF consumption.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12
The Best Fodder Corn.

The best fodder corn is that grown thickly
in hills-so thickly that no ears are developed.
Let the ground be rich; let the cultivation be
thorough; cut up when the tassels are drop
ping their pollen; let it wilt on the ground,
tie in small bundles and set up in small shocks,
binding firmly at the top and also half way
down. Then let it stand as late as possible
before carrying to the barn. If the crop is
planted early, it may be cut up so early as to
get perfectly dry if it has no ears. Then we
have no mouldy fodder, and our opinion of
sowed corn improves until at least we may
say that it is worth as much as the best hay.
Rural NeU Yorker.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12
A Texas ROY.

The boy who feels "sort of lonesome.
like in the world" lives in Dallas,
Texas. As general thing boy of
eighteen has about all he can do to take
care of himself, and most of the time
he doesn't do that. In fact, he rather
prefers that other people should do it
for him. The Dallas boy is different.
Quinine, snake bites and whisky have
changed the order of things down that
way, and from the time he gets out of
the cradle he isn't happy unless he has
somebody or other to look out for.
This is just what has been troubling
Joseph Carey for some time past. He
has been all alone in the world and he
didn't like it. He has had no one to
care for, no one to love, until he could
stand it no longer. The other day he
put an end to this sort of thing by sp,
pearing before a justice and the knot
was tied. He is eighteen, she over
forty. Now he Is happy. He is no
longer haunted by loneliness, but has
plenty to care for-nearly two hundred
pounds of it. Texas is big State. IT
it is filed with just such people as the
Dallas boy, 1t must be a nice place for
ladies OF unquestiOnable age
to emigrate to.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12
SOLDIERS S!
Read What the Organ of the De.
mOcracy Of Ohio Has 10 Say
About the War and Your
Wives and Daughters.

The Oi10 Statesman, published at the city
of ColuRbu is the Crgan of the Democratic
party of the State of Ohio, and has been its
organ for at least forty years. During the
war it was celebrated for its reasonable utter
ances, but since the close of the war its poll
cy has been to keep comparatively quiet for
the purpose of deceiving the loyal men of the
State as to the true character of the leaders of
its party. Now, however, il has become so
much elated at the mere prospect of a Solid
South, with its Northern sympathizers, get
ting full possession of tae Government, that
it is again giving utterance to the true senti-
ments of the Democratic leaders. In al issue
Of this Democratic organ, of August, 1878,
the editor says:
'The war Of the rebellion was worse than
useless war, and it was prolonged to three
times is necessary length"
"Good and true men, in the patriotic en-
thusiasm of the movement, entered the ranks
to fight the rebellion only to find that they
had volunteered into slavery that was more
CALLING than that Of a PLANTATION NE
GRO. They were treated like dogs-made to
submit to indignities that would produce a
rebellion in State prison.
And all this while they knew that their fami
lies at home were suffering for the common
necessaries of life. AND WERE BEING
DEBAUCHED BY THE STAY AT HOME
THIEVES, WHO MADE THE LOUDEST
PROFESSIONS OF LOYALTY"
In the Statesman of the 31st of August,
1873 ,'the editor makes an argument in justi-
fcation of the above outrageous and SANDER
Gus declarations, in the course of which he
uses the following language:
"During such times as '62>3 and the
generous and self-sacrifcing will be found at
the front, while the cool, calculating, self.
indulgent will be found at home unscrupu-
lously taking advantage of the situation. And
to increase their opportunities, these men are
uniformly the loudest in their professions of
loyalty. THE WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
OF THE GENEROUS MEN WHO GO TO
TIE FRONT ARE LIKE THE WIVES
AND DAUGHTERS OF OTHER MEN.
KEEN NECESSITY AND CONSUMATE
SCOUNDRELISM MAY WORK THEIR
RUIN, JUST THE SAME AS IT HAS THE
RUIN OF OTHERS"
In reply to the Columbus Dispatch, the
editor says that the Saxon epithets that he
had made use of were intended to apply to
''the men who, during the war, remained at
home to speculate in bonds and bouuties, and
to TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE NECES-
SITES OF WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
TO INSULT OR DEBAUCH THEM, while
their natural protectors were in the field"
These are the sentiments of that same old
Copperhead party that is now asking your
support, veterans, and endeavoring to deceive
you by the hypocritical cry of REFORM!
They say the war is dead issue, and yet they
SANDER and villify those who were engaged in
it, and haseIy insult the wives and daughters
of the brave men who saved the nation from
the fratricidal hands of their Southern breth-
ren. See that you give these infamous SLAM
derers the grand bounce on the second
Tuesday of October.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12

The Moffett register still runs its remorse-
less career in Virginia 1t shows that the
good people of the Old Dominion's capital
know full well how to crook the pregnant
hinges of the elbow, for in the eleven months
ending July 31st last, the register shows the
consumption of !, 1,443, 945 alcoholic drinks and
1867, 100 malt drinks, netting the handsome
total tax of S43, ,937.O6. The bar-keepers,
however, are beginning to get the hang of the
instrument, and it isn't as deadly as it was.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12


Rev. ANNA OLIVER, the ''girl preacher" as
she is sometimes called, is beginning to attract
much attention in the East. Two Sundays
ago she delivered An open air sermon to an
immense audience, in Lefferts Park, Brook
Inn. Her manner is full of earnestness, her
voice clear and distinct. She is the first
woman who ever graduated at a Methodist
Theological School. She graduated as a
reverend in Boston in 1876, after three
years course of study, dnring which she sup
ported herself by working in vacations. She
has now under consideration several calls
from churches, but has as yet decided on
none. Besides being able 10 preach, she can
shoot, and went to the Adirondacks this
summer with some lady friends. She intends
to apply to the Methodist General Conference
to be regularly ordained this fall. 1t may be
expected that something of hornets nest
will thereby be stirred up among the reverend
brethren, who are at all times intimately ac-
quainted with the Intentions of the Almighty
concerning woman. The larger the hornets
nest the more fun it will be for sinful out
siders. Miss Oliver is an Ohio woman. She
is from Cincinnati.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12

The advocates of the silver dollars cannot
complain that Secretary Sherman is neglect
ing any means to push the new coin into Cir
culation. They may be exchanged for cur
rency deposits in sums of not less than one
thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars,
and he will also redeem the national bank
notes with them. If the rountry is really as
anxious to have the big, round dollar as it was
said to be when the reconciliation bill was
under discussion, there can be no further
difficulty about getting it. But if it has re-
mained out of circulation simply because the
people do not want it, then nothing the Treas
ury can do will suffice to send it on the
rounds. We think that the only way in
which it can be floated is to call in all the
greenbacks of less than So denomination, and
thus the use of the silver dollar would be-
come compulsory. Congress, however, has
forbidden any further contraction of the cur
rency, and therefore the method is not prac-
ticable le-BGltimOre AmerieGn
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12

General Butler is to stump Indiana
under the auspices OF the National
Greenback party. He will speak at
Indianapolis on the Goth and Terre
Haute on the 2lst of September.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12
TIE following printed circular has just been
sent out to parties interested:
0. S. AND S. 0. HOWE.


XENIA, ONO, August so, 1S7Sj
The Board of Trustees has decided that all
children previously admitted will be furnished
with transportation to return to the "Home"
before the opening of the school on the ninth
day of September. And, furthermore, no
pension money will be required of any per
son. BY order of the Board.
GEORGE KEIFKR, Superintendent.
This a forced acknowledgment of the
damnable character of the Democratic law for
defeating the objects of the Soldiers and Sail
ors Orphans Home. Under pressure of a
righteous public indignation, and through
fear of the effect of the legislative action on
the elction in October, the Trustees have over
ridden plain law; or rather they have sus-
pended its operation until after the time when
the people will have had an opportunity to
express their will at the ballot box. In other
words, the Democratic Legislature passed a
law tbat their agents do not feel safe in exc
cutting. But the law stands as a menace to
soldiers and Union men generally, and its
authors will have to take the responsibility at
the ballot box. The circular above quoted is
issued as a.campaign document, but it is
document that will only freshen in the minds
of the. people the iniquity of oConnor's Leg
islature. 20. s. Journal, 4th.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12
PAN HANDLE ROUTE.
rFN;, ToIIo EoSf and Wasf

Trains leaving Columbus at 4O m ana
. N, run daily.
Through Chicago Express leaves Columbus
daily except Sunday at 40 p m, with sleeps
Ing cars attached and arrives in Chicago at
q 50 next morning.
The Pan Handle Route is the shortest,
quickest and most comfortable Route to all
points In Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas,
Colorado and the Western States and Territo>
ries.
This is the Route by which you make the
fewest changes of cars. obtain the lowest rates
on Household Goods, Live Stock, &c, and 2OO
pounds Of Baggage Free, on Every Colonist
Ticket.
ANY information about time of trains, con-
nections, Lands in the West, price OF Single
Round Trip or Colonist's Tickets, &C, cheer
fully furnished by calling uTon or addressing
JOS. N. BELLVILLE, Ticket and Emigration
Agent, Wheeling, w Va, or W. l.. ObRIEN,
General Passenger Agent, 2l9 North High st,
Columbus, y.
Rates always as low as the lowest.
ID W CALDWELL, WLUBRIEN,
GenI Manager. Gen Pass & Tkt Agt,
COLUMBUS, OHIO.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12

Commander Caperon, Of the British
navy, after visiting Cyprus, will cross
to Asia Minor to survey route for the
Persian Gulf. The survey will occupy
nearly q year.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12
BELM0NTCH RGkCLE
ST, CLAIRSVILLE OHIO.
THURSDAY. SEPT. IL, 1878.

LABOR is capital, and there is no law to
compel laboriDg man to work for another
without pay; nor is there any law to compel
an employer to put his money in circulation if
he believes it to be unsafe or improbable to
do So
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12

Hester ClyHer, the Democratic
member Of Congress from the Eighth
Pennsylvania district, has been re-
nominated for the fourth term.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-12

When a tooth begins 10 feel as IL
there was chicken scratching at its
root, it's time to pullet