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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-30

The Appecl says that Memphis was
never better governed than she is now;
she was never i'll a better sanitary con-
dition, never had better outlook, and
never saw the day when her people
should be more cheerful as to the fu-
fllro
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-30

THE average date of the opening of
navigation at the head of Lake Superior
for the sixteen years ending 1871, was
May 1; tue average date at Buffalo for
sixty-one wears is April o.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-30
WOrkingmen.

Before you begin your heavy spring
work after winter ofrelaxation, your
system needs cleansing and strengthen
log to prevent an attack of Ague, Bill
lousness or Spring Fever, or some other
spring sickness that will unfit you for
seasons work. You will save time,
much sickness and great expense if you
will use one bottle Of Hop Bitters In
your family this month. Don't wait.
e'Other column. Itfl lE 88G
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-30

THE citizens of Toledo have petition
ed congress for aid in the construction
of a canal down the Wabash Valley to
the head of the Wabash river.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-30

FISH COMMISSIONER WELSH, at Madi-
son, Wis, has just receive from Mil
waukee 100000 white fish just Matched.
to be distributed in Lakes Mendoza and
Monona. Notwithstanding the fish law,
large numbers of immense pickerel and
other fish are being speared nightly in
those lakes .U= -:' f.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-30

THE daily consumption of milk in
New York city approaches 100000
quarts, and ct least $25 ,O0O,O is in
vested by farmers in this industry.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-30

THE governor of Michigan is to have
power to marry people. The business
has become too poor for justices of the
OeaCe
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-30

A Boston operator telegraphed to
Springfield for accommodations for
twenty persons, but the dispatch was
delivered reading twenty prisoners"
and in consequence a dramatic COM
spany was met on arrival by. a squad of
Deputy Sherifs prepared to stake them
in"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-30
CURRENT COMMENTS.

THE local indebtedness of Illinois is
$51 100000, an increase of S14,OOO,COO
In the last eight years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-30

peace.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-07-01

WASHINGTON, June 17.-Captain Eads, of
Mississippi jetty celebrity, having expressed
the conviction that a canal can be construct
ed across the Isthmus at half the cost of Les
sep's scheme and in much less time, and hsy-
ing also suggested the route of the Panama
Railroad as the most practicable, he is re-
minded bS the Bulletin, hat the Panama
Railroad charter from Colombia provides
that no canal shall eyer be conssructed
across the Isthmus without the consent of the
railroad company. Lesseps and adherents
are probably assured that the company
would ask more for the surrender of their
exclusive privileges than they were really
worth, and that on the whole it would be
better to choose a route with fewer advan-
tages as regards cost and engineering diff
culties, than to submit to extortion, TEN.
pered possibly with costly and embarrassing
legal and diplomatic complications. Upon
this theory the little attention paid in the
Paris Congress to the railroad level route. is
Ineligible enough. Notwithstanding the
announcement from Paris that Lesseps has
secured subscriptions Of two million francs TO
his scheuie, no enthusiasm exists apparently
on the part of capitalists here.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-07-01

ST. PAUL, Mimi, June IA special dis
patch to the Pioneer-P ress announces the dis
covery of a remarkable cave on the farm Of
David samuels, ten miles from La Crosse.
The cave is thirty feet long, thirteen feet wide
and eight feet high. Above the quarry-sand,
which has evidently drifted in and covered
the floor to the depth of three to six feet, upon
the walls, are very rude carvings, representing
men, animals, arms, and implements, and
some appear to be heiroglyphics. One picture
represents men, with bows and arrows, shoot
ing animals, three bufEaloes and one rabbit.
Another represents three animals, which if
large, must have been like the hippopotamus;
another appears to represent a mastadon; on
another picture, a moose is quite plainly de-
Inflated. There are eight representations that
are canoes, much carved, or hammocks, which
they more resemble. One sketch of a man is
very plain, the figure wears a kind of chaplet
or crown, and was probably chief of his tribe
or clan. There are many fragments Of pic
lures, where the rock had decomposed. The
rock is a coarse, soft, white sandstone. Or
one side of the cave is a space about two feet
high and two and a half in length, made into
the wall. Above are the upper fragments of
pictures, and below are lower fragments,
showing that they were made when the rock
was entire. From the depth to which decom-
position reached in this dry and dark cavern,
the inscription must be quite ancient. If the
carving mentioned really represents the mas
todon, the work must have been done by
mound-builders.
The accumulated sand needs to be removed
to get a full view, and possibly human re-
mains may be found. The entrance to the
cave had evidently been covered by a land
slide, there beidg left open only a small hole,
where traps have long been set for coons.
The large number of these animals that were
caught led to the belief that the space inhabi-
ted by them MIST be large, and investigation
led to the discovery of the cave. Over the
entrance, since the landslide, a poplar tree,
eighteen inches in diameter, has grown, which
shows conclusively that the cave has not been
occupied by human beings for more than a
century. e
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-07-01

WEsTMINsTER, Nd, June 0.-For several
days the gossips Of this place have been alive
to q fich episode occurring in the lower part
Of town. In connection with the Western
MARYLAND College, the facts Of which are given
as follows: One Of the scientific chairs It the
college is occupied BY Prof. Brockett, who has
a very pretty and interesting daughter, Miss
Emma Brockett, who has for some years had
an attentive admirer in q young clerk in the
upper end Of town. Among Others Of the
college class during the past year was Mr..
Dixie sherwood, Of Poolesville, Montgomery
county, Md who was also an admirer, IL
though the fact was not so well known. Last
Monday night, the clerk having an engage
ment with her, proceeded to fulfill it. He was
disappointed, however, as the lady was not at
home. Returning at a later hour and looking
in the parloT window, he discovered his col
lege rival and his sweetheart engaged in q
lover-like converse that greatly excited his jeal-
ousy. Later in the evening, when the rivals
met in the street, something like . hand-to-
hand scufle ensued, in which at least one of
the -combatants was knocked down, when
friends interfered and separated them. The
student was led toward the college, but town
constable arriving, arrested him, and he spent
the night in durance, while the other belliger-
ent took a room at the Montour House. Next
morning, through the Intervention af the col
iege President, the student was released. he
was, however, expelled, and was sent TO his
home in Montgomery county, the same day.
About four miles from their destination the
constable and his charge were halted by an
accident to their vehicle, which necessitated
repairs. The student told the constable that
he was only a few miles from home, and
would not trouble him further but would
walk thither. The constable assented, and
the pair separated, but when the officer
reached Westminster on his return be found
his charge not only there, but that there had
been a quiet wedding. At l O'Clock, Tuesday,
the Rev. Mr.. Kuhn, pastor of the Lutheran
Church, was called to the lady's house, and
tied the knot, uniting Mr.. Dixie Isherwood
and Miss Emma E.. Brockett. The same night
there was a reception, and everything is going
on Observation-Disclosures American. ,s'l3
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-07-01

To Edwin Booth-Accept my congratula.
tions. know how it is mysslf.-The Gar.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-07-01

Enough that we live.
Question not why;
Ask not of death,
Why is't we die?
The worlds a cradles
The worlds q tomb;
Let's gather its sunshine
And scatter Its gloom.
Time shall every grief remove
With life, with memory and with love.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-19

Gen. A. M. West of Holly Spring, ap-
pears to be favoring the organization of
Greenback Clubs in the north part of the
State; and from a letter of his published
it would appear that he is with that organi-
zation.-Hinds County Gazette.
We believe General West is sound on
the financial issue of the county-that
he has given it thought and arrived at
correct conclusions-but we are afraid
that he is upon the verge of lending
his great influence to a disorganizing
element which, if it is ever able to do
anything at all, will thwart the designs
of the real friend of financial reform.
The people believe that General
West is abundanty able to give rea-
sons for the faith that is in him. They
also believe il his sagacity and homes
ty. II Genl West can see anything
in the so-called Greenback party in
Mississippi that promises relief, that is
not promised or attaipable in the Dem
ocratic party, his friends would be glad
to have him point it out to them. AS
one of his friends, we stand ready to
give him fair hearing in our columns :.
Will he show the people of Mississippi
who have great faith in him a solid
reason for q Greenback party in this
State, outside of the Democracy? If
the success of the Greenback principle
is the thing sought will he show us how
a mythical and conglomerate organiza-
ton with a doubtful and heterogeneous
following, such as Butler, Kerney,
Musgrove, etc., can accomplish it be-
ter than an organization already ac-
knowled to be in the ascendant? Will
he give us a good reason for disrupting
the Democratic party and joining a
concern of moonshine in order to fur
ther the Greenback couse.
We are open to conviction, and let
us hear from Gen'l West.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-19
A Call for Keller,


The following paper is being circulated
among the members of the House; "Ihe
peoplo of the United States, burdened with
enormous debt, and oppressed by system
of taxation and finance which has prostrat-
ed all industries, and is rapidly confisoating
the property of the masses and tending to
general bankruptcy, have with view to
their relief, placed the power OF Federai
legislation, for the first time III tweny years,
in the hands of the Democratic party. Ihat
some efficient measures of relief may be
speedily inaugurated, the undersigned ask
our colleagues in the Senate and House OF
Representatives to unite with us in respond
ING to the demands of our constituents by
appropriate legislation at the present ses-
sion of Congress. Let us show to the OPP
nressed producers, wage men, business
men. tax payers aud debtors, that we are
alive to their grievances, and prompt to re-
lieye them. BY fortunate circumstance
we have it in our power nine months earlier
than we expected, to show the people that
thew made no mistake in placing their trust
in the hands of the grand old party which
was organized by Jefferson as the friend OF
equal rights and the foe of all forms OF
monopoly, favoritsm and oppression. The
public credit must be kept inviolate, but II
can be best maintained by strict adher-
ence to public contracts, by system OF
currency which will promote instead of de>
stroy the industries of the people and by
methods of revenue which will as far as
practical, make all who enjoy the blessings
of the Government bear, according to their
means, an equal share of its burdens.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-19

A well known merchant of San Francisco
started out the other morning for the pur>
pose of attending the wicked and sacri-
legious passion Play" In vain his good
wife endeavored to dissuade him from his
purpose, and solemnly warned him that if
he persisted the judgmentof Heaven would
certainly overtake him. With rude reply
the scoifer fastened away, and soon was
numbered among the giddy, needless throng
at the play house. When the irreyerent
scene was at an end he joined some equally
hardened friends, and went to one of those
gilded palaces of sin called billiard hall.
Thus it is that one false step leads to
another. The next morning the mer-
chant was found in semi-paralyzed CON
dition upon his front steps, his hat crushed,
his clothes muddied and murmuring half
Ineligible words, n condition from which
he recovered only after hours of narrowing
anxiety had been passed by his agonized
family. The merchant himself could not
account for his condition, and agreed with
the rest it must have been the result of
some terrible visitation of an outraged prov
idence. This is a warning the young can
not lay to heart too deeply.-San Francisco
Call
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-19

CAPT, W. M. BRAME, Sheriff of Jasper
county, dropped in upon The COMET last
Saturday, and swelled its list of subscrib
ers to moderate extent. He had just
come from the Auditors Office, where, We
are informed, he made full, complete and
creditable official record for himself. Al
the last term of the Circuit Court of JAS
per county, Capt. Brame was arraigned be-
fore His Majesty, the law, Judge Mayors
presiding upon terrific charge of embez
zling the sum of fifty cents in the collec-
ton of fine. His accuser, when the day
for trial came, felt ashamed of himself,
and there was an effort to postpone the
trial, But Brame could not see any use
in living if a Judgment for fifty cents i'm
pended over him, and he admitted every
thing his prosecutor proposed to prove and
went to trial He was triumphantly acquit-
ed of all criminality OF blame, or liability
for the enormous amount involved-ffty
he is still able to make contracts
without the fear of having his means swept
away by judgment like that standing over
him.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-19

Hon, T. L. COOPER, of Leake county,
is a prominent candidate for the State
Senate from the district composed OF
the counties of Kosciusko and Leake,
with strong probability of being
elected. He belongs to that class of
live and matured men who can give the
State substantial service in the Legis-
laturc. With much experience in Of
fetal life, having been Sheriff of Leake
county for many years and also a mem
Der of the Lower House of the State Leg
islature, he would bring to the Senate a
practical knowledge of the needs of
the people and a skill in devising meas
ures for just and economic govern
ment. We hope to see the Senate and
House both filed with men like Cooper.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-19

RADICAL journals are seriously talk
ing about raising millions of money for
the purpose of importing colored vo-
tiers into Democratic Northern States
to carry them for their candidate in
the next Presidential election. The
programme is to import $4,000 to New
York, 10000 to Indiana, Is, 900 to New
Jersey, 10000 to Connecticut, and
5000 to Ohio, and put them on public
or great corporation jobs, and thus Sc
cure all these States for the Republican
nominee. We have no doubt but the
desperate Reprobates would be willing
to encounter this enormous eXpendi-
ture to carry the next election. But
would the plan succeed? We think
not The result of it would be the re-
verse of that intended. There are
difficulties in the programme. When
the army of white men in the North
who have never known anything else
than to vote the Republican ticket saw
themselves supplanted by the colored
brothers in their situations for liveli-
hood they would be likely to turn
against the authors of it. And when
Anglo Saxon pride was brought to
confront the naked fact that ignorant
negroes held the balance of power in
the government it would revolt against
the unnatural order. For every vote
imported from the South there would
probably spring up two or three to
smother it out. Besides, there is no tell
ing which party would vote the negro
in the North if they had him there.
The scheme is wild and Utopean, and
if put into execution would prove sui
cidal to the party employing it. 1t
could only spring from mind distorted
with the luncaY of desperation.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-19

The Greenback party OF Kinds eoun-
ty attempted the organization OF club
at Union Church the other dry, but
when they met for the purpose 1t
turned out that they didn't have quite
a quorum present. A man to preside
was needed, and man to be Secretary
also man to make motions and start
the machinery of the club. They
found enough for these places, there
were just three--but they broke down
on the Committee to draft resolutions
It is a ridiculous formula any how to
have to organize new party upon
a new set of resolutions, bat. this seems
to be the regular way, and our Union
Church reformers saw no way to get
around the difficulty, and the meeting
dissolved without an organization, ana
the country is still in peril,
The Union Church organizers ought
to have taken lesson from the Green
back party in Adams county Perhaps
they don't know, however, that the
tidal wave has penetrated Adams, but
it has. They have Greenback party
there, too, and the Natchez Democrat,
a Conservative journal, holds out the
right hand of fellowship and is anx-
ious to conciliate the party. 1t says:
"The Greenbackers at Washington, IN
this county, are entitled to consideration IN
the distribution of offices, and as we know
of only one out-and-outer there, we sug-
pest that, in order to have the party recog-
nized, it would be well for that one to Call
q meeting and pass resolutions. In the
absence of another Greenbacker to act
as Secretary, he might act in that Ca
pacity himself. In the absence OF ma
terial to make a committee of, he can
draw up a set of resolutions himself,
and in the absence of any other pros
nounced Greenbacker, in the county,
should he run for Office, he can vote for
himself"
And thus carry the whole party
unanimously.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-19

We would call the attention of the
legal profession land more especially
of ShcriGs) to the opinion Of The Su-
preme court, in the case OF 4. 0. Car
Sheriff, rs. r. J. Ross. AaB1r., deliver
cd last Monday, and reported in The
COMET to-day.
Il shows how severe The law is on
Sheriff holding executions and failing
to return them within tie time direct
ed. 1t admits no excuse, except per-
haps physical impossibility, the act of
God, OF the like cause for such failures
of duty, and holds them liable TO the
full amount OF the execution with dam
ages. Sheriffs, take warming.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-19
TO MY FRIENDS.

I nm now connected with the JACK
son COMET and solicit the subscription
to tho COMET of all my friends IN the
State. guaranteeing them perfect salts
faction. and the Invest and newsiest
Democratic paper in the State, L
also solicit job printing of every de-
scription from the county officers and
business men generally - pledging
them first class work at greatly reduced
rates, Respectfully,
b. Z. CARROLL,
COMET Office,
jackson Miss.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-19
PrOce edtngs of the DemacratIc-COn-
serVative Executive Committee of
Hin6S County.
toTFTcIAL]

loTFICIAL
Pursuant to call, the Kinds county Dem.
ocratic-C Conservative Executive Committee
met at the Courthouse in Raymond, OF
Monday, April II, 1879 with the following
members present, viz: w L Ratliff, A
Fl Bradley, Jacob Hewes, Thos 7 Hart, ]
w Peyton, N B Smith, d M Potter, Glen
DAVIS, i Matthews, j b Ross, Richard
Charlton, W L Nugent,
This being the first meeting of the com.
mittee since its appointment, proceeded to
organize by electing officers.
The former chairman declined to serve
further in that capacity, on motion, J. w.
Peyton was elected Chairman, and N. b.
SIN III re elected Secretary.
On motion of Col. Nugent, the following
resolutions were adopted:
ReS0loed, Thai County Convention be,
and the same is hereby called to assemble
at Raymond, on the 4th day of July next,
for the nomination of candidates for county
Offices and the Legislature, as well as the
appointment of delegates to the District
Convention for the nomination of a candi-
date for the Senate, and the Office of Dis,
trict Attorney.
Rcs1lood, That an election be held in
delegates to the said County Convention ON
Saturday preceding the 4th of July, or
sooner, if the people so desire, and that the
representation from each voting precinct
be the same as that adopted by the County
Convention held in 1877.
feesotoed, That the Chairman publish no.
lice of this call in all the newspapers of the
county, and urge upon the people the ne
cessity of selecting persons for delegates TO
the Convention who are fully acquainted with
the wishes OF their constituents in respect
TO the industrial interests of the county.
and that in such notice be state the number
Of delegates to which each precinct is enti>
tied.
On motion the committee adjourned to
meet upon call Of the chairman.
J. W. PEYTON, Chin.
Attest: n. Il. SMITH, Secy.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-19

A despatch to the Galveston News, from
Griffin, says:
On the night of the Goth ult., nine dis
g11ised and we'll armed men took possession
of Hamburg's store, on Teppee Greek,
near the Staked Plain, covering the clerks
and others with pistols until they robbed
the store of all the money, arms and am
munition. They then attacked a camp
party en- route to Leadville, taking them by
surprise, shooting Mr.. Anderson, who ats
tempted resistance. They took about $500
and all the live stock of the party. Leav-
ing they went to Blanco Canon and robb ID
the store of Conrad & Rath of 81 800
worth of provisions, arms, etc. They are
believed to be the notorious Reeves gang,
from Lincoln county, New Mexico. The
rangers will pursue them.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-04-19
brother Haskelln is the title of an evan

''Brother Hasl1elln is the title of an evan
gelist who is stirring up the sinners of Hi
nois nightly, He uses quaint language,
and takes great care not to get above the
comprehension CT his hearers. Crowds
flock to hear him. How he can keep up
the strain he does cannot be conceived, for
he breaches three times day, and seems to
expend enough vital aud nervous force to
exhaust him. sHe says such things as these:
"BlosG God! feel as if a quarter section
of heaven had caved in, and all the stars
were tumbling down on me-
You christians are like young pigs. 1 have
to pull your ears off to get you to go up to
the gospel trough, and after you get taste
of the glorious, nearly pull your tails of
to get you away" He must adapt his
phrase to the intelligence: of his rural hear
ers. The Chicago newspapers call brother
Haskell the Talmadge of Suckerdom.