Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-04-03
No. 23.

Daniel Webster's old Office chair; also
chair which belonged to Bishop
White, and was used in the first Con-
tinental congress; also, an old deed
signed by Peter Stuyvesant, and the
sword of George Clinton, first governor
of New York State.
Queen Victoria lives in nine houses
at once, namely: ST. James and Buck
ipgham Palaces, London; Windsor
Castle, Berks; Kensingtoa Palace and
Hampton Court, Middlesex; Osborne,
House, Isle of Wight; Holyrood
House. Edinburg; BalmoraI, Aber deem
and Dublin Castle.
The United States Senate has passed
bill for National Commission Of
Inquiry concerning the traffic 10 al
choholic liquor. The National Tenn
perance Society meeting at New York
yesterday, passed resolutions Of thanks
therefor, and earnestly requested the
House to concur In the measure.
The LOUISIANA PERsEcUTIoNs.-
New ORLEANS. La March 2l.-Judge
Whitaker to-day rendered decision
quashing the information which was
filed by Attorney General Ogden
against cx-Assstant Attorney General
Dibble last June, The accused was on
bail and is now discharged. He was
accused with having refused TO pay
over $4,000 collected by him while
acting Attorney General under the
Kellog government. He claimed that
the settlement should be made On
State warrents, which be rendered
together with instructions from the
State Auditor to receive them,
MYSTERIOUS, TO SAY THE LEAST
The latest wonder of the magician
Heller and his sister is thus described:
Upon blank card Miss Heller wrote
single word. The card was then
sealed in an envelope and given to a
person in the audience to hold. A dict
ionarywas next placed in the hands of
another person in the audience, three
dice were gived to another, and num-
ber of small cards, containing each q
single figure. to still another. The one
to whom the dice had been given threw
them. Miss Heller, who sat upon the
platform, Immediately said: 1.-The
figures upon the tops Of the dice make
322," which was correct. A numbered
card was then selected by one of the
audience from the person who held the
cards "You have drawn No. 6,'' said
Miss Heller, which was the case.
Now" said Mr. Heller to the maa
who had the dictionary" open the
book to page 322 and tell US what is
the sixth word from the top Of the
page" :" Cabalistic," answered the
man, and the envelope being then
opened, 'cabalistic" was found to be
the word which Miss Heller had
written. Of unintelligible, inappre-
hensible, inconceivable, inexplicabIe,
inscrutable, perplexing mysteries, this
new wonder is the most m ystical.
T1LDEN's TAx.-NEw YORK, March
26.-Judge Blatchford, in the United
States District. Court, gave decision
to-day In the suit of the United States
against Ex-Governor Samuel j. Tilden
to recover some $3.50. 900 income tax,
alleged to be due the Government BY
the defendant. The suit, it will be
remembered, was brought in the
United States District Court, when Mr..
Tilden was Democratic candidate for
President, and, it ..as alleged, was only
brought for political purpose. The
counsel for Mr.. Tilden set up demur-
rer and the case was argued at great
length. Judge Blatchford's decision
is quite lengthy and cites innumerable
authorities, the principal of which are
the United States Supreme Courts
decision in the Dollar Savings Bank
case, and the Rhode Island case,
lately decided by the Supreme Court.
He sustain's the defendants demurrer
to the first count in the complaint, on
the grouud that in the year covered by
this count, Mr.. Tilden had made a
return of his income, and paid the tax
on such return.
On the other eleven counts in the
complaint he sustains the,plaintiffs (the
United States) in their demurrer to
the answer of the defence, holding vir-
tualy that the Government was not
bound by the action of the United
States Assessor, as its agent, and that
Mr. Tilden was required to make. him.
self, the return of his income, which he
had not done. The case is now to
proceed to trial by the jury on the
question Of the amount of income, of
Mr.. Tilden during the years in which
he made no return himself. For three
years Mr.. Tilden allowed the United
States Assessor to makea return and
paid the tax on such return, together
with the penalty of 5 per cent, but
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