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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04
CASUALTIES.

A CHICAGO Tribune dispatch of the
Goth says the Oriental Powder Co.'S
magazine, near Brighton, H., contain
ing $4,000 kegs of powder. was struck
by lightning this morning and entirely
consumed.
Boston advices under date of May
2Sth state that the family of the
late William Lloyd Garrison yielded to
the urgent solicitation of prominent
gentlemen, who expressed desire to
honor the memory Of the deceased by
a public funeral, and consented to hold
the obsequies in Roxbury, on the 2Sth
Eulogies are to be pronounced by
Wendell Phillips, Rev. Samuel May,
Lucy Stone and Theodore D. Wells.
A LAKE ST. CHARLES, La, dispatch of
the 26th says on yesterday, in the Cal
casin river, a little below Lake Charles,
during thunderstorm whirlwind
struck the small mail propeller Damos,
capsizing it and sinking it instantly in
about 80 feet of water. There were on
board besides the captain and engineer,
six passengers named L. Domaine, Of
Galveston, J. O. Bird, of Cameron Par
ish. two little sisters named Cora and
Medorea Barton. aged 10 and II years,
of Calcasin Parish, and a colored
woman named Josephine HaWkers and
her child aged two years. None Of the
passengers could swim. The captain
and engineer swan ashore, but all the
passengers were drowned. All the
bodies were recovered except that of
Josephine Hawkers, and buried to-day
A VINCENNEs, Ind, special under date
of May 2Sth says that place was visited
on the evening of the 9th by terrific
thunder storm, accompanied by de-
luge Of water and heavy fall of hail.
Reports to-day from farmers show the
storm to have been phenomenal
One farmer had two horses killed.
Another reports one of his chill
dren killed. Another was Grip
pied by the unmerciful hailstones,
many of which, upon measurement,
proved nine inches in circumference.
A short distance from the city, on the
public road, about two-dozen fish we're
found. having fallen with the rain.
They were alive when found, part cat
fish and part sunfsh, the former about
six inches long and the latter two.
Strangely enough, no damage was done
to growing crops.
A HAGERsrowN, Md, press dispatch
under date of May 3Oth saws at
o'clock this morning, fire was dis
covered in the lower floor of the Wash
ington House, in this place. Before an
alarm could be given the fire had
gained such Roadway that the flames
rushed up the stairways, completely
cutting off all escape. There were up
wards of 60 persons on the register, be-
sizes the regular boarders, nearly
all Of whom were compelled
to escape by climbing down
the porch pillars. Several of those
who made their escape in this way sus-
tanned serious injuries by falling. One
made a rope of his bed clothing, and at
tempted to escape in that way from the
fourth floor; the rope broke as he reach
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04
CABLEGRAMS.

A PARIS dispatch dated May 2Sth says
it appears almost certain that the Pan
ama-AspinWall route will be the one Sc
| lected by the Darien Canal congress.
CALCUTTA advices of the Goth state
that the British India Steam Naviga-
ton COmpany's steamer Ava was sunk
in collision with another vessel, and Sc
Of the crew and four passengers were
drowned. The Ava was an iron-screw
steamer, of $500 tons, and built in 1873.
PARIS advices Of May 9th state
that the subcommittee of the
Darien canal congress to-day pre-
sented report, admitting the possibili-
ty of the Nicaragua route with locks,
while stating that the level canal course
proposed by 1t. Wyse and M. Reclus is
best subject to certain notifications.
The Nicaragua route would, it is esti-
mated, cost G2S4,OOO,0OO. The cost of
the Wyse-Reclus route is estimated to
cost G42 100000.
A LONDON dispatch Of may 28th says
the figures and comparative cost of the
several routes for the Darien ship canal
to unite the Atlantic & Pacific are
given. The Tehuantepec project
would cost 94O, 100000, without includ-
ing the cost of terminal ports; the
Nicaragua, EOS, 100000; the Panama,
f43, 100000 exclusive of indemnity to
the railway company; the San Bias,
652, OO0,00O; and the Atrato-Nipipi
route, 944,0OO,O0O.
A BERLIN telegram of May 29th says
the tobacco committee of the reichstag
has rejected, by "a votes against 2, the
rates on tobacco proposed by the gov
eminent of 12O marks per 100 kilo-
grammes for foreign tobacco and 50
marks for the home product, and have
adopted, by vote of II to 9, the rates
proposed by a member of the centre
party in the reichstag of sixty marks on
foreign and rs marks On home tobacco,
respectively.
PANAMA advices of the Goth announc e
tn at the bombardment of Pisagua and
Mollindo were not the acts of vandal-
ism, as the Peruvian governme nt
charges; that the agents sent from
CHILEAN ships were ordered to advise the
authorities to consider their port under
blockade and to remove or if necessary
destroy all launches in the port When
the boats were within hundred yards
or so from land hot fire was poured
into them, killing and wounding
several, which compelled the CHILEAN
force to retire. One body of sol
diers fired from an eminence i'm
mediately in the rear of the consul
tate and over the building upon which
the consular flag was flying and in OPP
position to the circumstances of the
English consul, who represented that
the building was occupied by many.wo-
men and children whohad taken refuge
there. The Pensacola, flying in the
pennant Of Admiral Hodgers, arrived
IN Calico from Iouique and Humals,
bringing several American families who
are seeking safety from the CHILEAN ag-
gressions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04
GENERAL NOTES.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS advices of May
29th report a much better prospect for
fruit crop since the late rains.
DISPATCHES of the 10Th and Goth from
numerous points in Iowa, Illinois, Min
nesota, and Wisconsin report copious
rains.
A WATERFOWL, N. Y, dispatch OF
May 2Sth says Miss Della Wheeler,
aged IS, only sister of Vice-President
Wheeler. died suddenly at the home of
the vice-president at Malone this even
ing.
PARIS advices of May 2Sth states that
the committee on ways and means of
the Darien canal congress proposes a
transit duty of Is francs per ton, at
which rate it estimates the gross re-
ceipts of the canal will reach three
million six hundred thousand pounds
per annun.
Bismarck advices under date of May
9th, state that a company of eighty
five mounted police, under Col. Mac
Leod, left to-day for Canadian posts On
Sitting Bulls side OF the line. Gen.
Miles left yesterday for Fort Keogh.
One of Miles scouts from the hostile
camps reports to the General that Sit
ting Bull and five lodges recently moved
north on his way to Saskatchewan, and
that Long Dog, the head warrior of the
next campaign, promises to come south
and give the whites a tussle.
A DIES MONIES dispatch dated May
9th says Judge Dillon, it is
rot
ed the position to which he has
been elected in Columbia college. His
resignation. as before stated, will take
effect September LIST. This will not pre-
vent the president, if he sees fit, from
nominating and the senate from con-
firming his successor. Unless the sue
cessor is confirmed before congress adj
journs this circuit will be without cir
cult judge after September till proba-
bly, January or February.
New YORK Tribune advices Of May
26th state that the Italian government
now demands permission to coin within
the next five years 65,O0c 900 fve-franc
silver pieces. Italy is one of the pow
ers pledged by the monetary conven-
ton to abstain from the coinage of
such pieces for six years. The Italian
Premier intends to reopen negotiations
for revision Of the convention Of the
Latin Union.
AIvICEs from Milwaukee under date
of May Goth, state that the Chicago.
Milwaukee and St. Paul railway COM
pany has obtained control of the South
ern Minnesota railway company, which
commences at La Crescent, Mimi, and
is completed 100 miles west, with a
spur from Wells northWard to Mankato.
The intention, in time, is to extend the
main line west to the Missouri river,
thus giving the Milwaukee & St. Paul
company two parallel lines of road
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04

PENETRATING central and southern Dakota
to, and possibly beyond the Missouri
river.
AT Newark, VT, on the 28th party
OF nine children drank water from a
brook, the waters of which had been
polluted by the carcasses of horse and
several sheep, and were poisoned, from
the effects of which seven died soon
after, their bodies becoming putrid and
dem anding immediate burial. Others
cannot survive. A Mrs. Morse lost
two. Mrs. Carpenter lost three and
two more are the ones referred to as
dying, taking her entire family. Mrs.
Aldrich lost two. There is great excite
ment in the community about the mat
ter.
AT the Saratoga, N. Y, National Pres
byterian Convention, on May 9th, the
following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That in view of the increas-
ed attendance of church members at
theatres and opera, this assembly bears
earnest and solemn testimony against
this practice as inconsistent with Chris
tan duty, since it not only gives coun-
tenance and support to an institution
justly described by former assembly
as ga school of immortality" but is in
itself spiritually hurtful and tends to OBJ
l1terate the tone which should always
be plainly visible between the followers
of Christ and the world.
In response to a letter of inquiry,
says Springfield, ILL.,, special of MAY
2Sth, Internal Revenue Commissioner
Raum makes the following statemen
which will be of interest to cigar manu-
facturers: "In reply to yours of the
10th, inquiring if it is lawful to use
rubber stamps for making cancellation
lines on cigar stamps, instead Of cop
per or brass stencilplates, as prescribed
by the regulations, page rs, Sec. 7, No.
8, will say that this Office will allow
the use Of rubber stamps or stencil
plates, provided that the six waved
lines shall be put upon the box and
across the stamp continuously, and in
as effectual manner by such instru-
ment as would be done by means of a
stencil-plate."
A New YORK dispatch of May 9th
says a private meeting Of the Bishops
who attended the Cathedral dedication
was held at Cardinal McCloskey's resi-
dence, for the purpose of devising
measures looking to the liquidation of
the debts Of the Archbishop Of Cincin-
natl. The Cardinal presided, and near
him sat the venerable Archbishop Pur-
cell. There were some thirty Bishops
present, among them Bishop Ryan, of
st. Louis; Corrigan, Of New York
Gross, OF Savannah; Loughlin, OF
Brooklyn; Lynch, of Charleston;
McNierney, of Albany; O'Reilly, OF
Springfield; Healy, Of Portland; Nc
Mahon, of Hartford; McCloskey. of
Louisville; and others. The proceed
ings were entirely harmonious, and the
whole circumstances OF the financial
EN- barrassm ent Of Archbishop Purcell
were freely discussed. It was decided
to draw up an address to the clergy, to
be signed by al! the bishops, setting
forth the facts, and calling for their CO.
operation to liquidate the liabilities of
the archbishop.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04

SOME interesting statistics about
drunkenness in Great Britain have re-
Gently been collected, which indicate
that the vice is still growing. The
amount spent on intoxicating liquors in
creased from $S4, 222,1S1 in 1900 to
s147 ,2SS,759 in 1876, which is far in ex-
cess of the growth of population. One
of the most startling things developed
is the growth of drunkenness among
women in the large cities, seven thou
sand of the sex being arrested for this
offense in London during 1875, while
IN Edinburg the number of drunken
women increased 43 per cent. during 81
period in which the population grew
only 6 per cent.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04

IT is stated that the most of the ma
tional banks in New England have re-
solved not to buy per cent. bonds at
the present price, and will either re-
place their called bonds, now deposited
with the comptroller of the currency,
with IS or 6s of 1881, or allow their CIR
culation to be withdrawn. Their man
ayers are confident that within two years
higher rates of interest for money will
prevail, and that, in consequence, the
4 per cents will be purchasable at less
than par before the 1881 bonds mature.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04

ed the third floor, and he is now lying
in very critical condition. A child of
the agent of the Cumberland Valley
Railway, while climbing down the
porch from the fourth floor, fell, and
IS supposed to be fatally injured. Two
bodies have been found in the ruins,
burned to a crisp; one of them is L..
Troxel, of Cumberland, and the other
one is unknown. There are six per-
sons missing, supposed to be burned
and in the ruins. Fifteen persons are
injured seriously, from falling, and
about 20 slightly injured.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04

IT is said that the directors OF the
Minneapolis and Northern narrow
gauge) railroad company, will accept a
proposition from Messrs. S. Phelps Il
Co. to build 43 miles of road from
Minneapolis. Mimi, to Hutchinson for
SIS, 800 per mile equipped, $500 of
which is to be paid in bonds at pa-; the
work to be completed November 1.
The equipment is to consist of three
frst-class locomotives, four passenger
coaches. and fifty freight cars.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04

GENERAL MILES, who left Bismark,
D. T., Sunday for Fort, Keogh. was ad-
vised by one of his scouts directly from
a tour through the hostile camps that
Sitting Bull himself had passed north
with five lodges, and that Long Dog,
the coming warrior of the bad element,
mad determined upon war this sum-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04

The death is announced Of General
Sir Francis Warde, K. c. B., al. old
Peninsula and Waterloo officer, and one
of the oldest artillery officers in the
British service. He entered the army
in 1909, and was present at the defense
of Cadiz and at the battle of Waterloo.
He attained the rank of major general
in 1860, acknowledgement in 1866, and
general in 1867. He was appointed a
colonelcommandant of the royal ar
tillery in 1866, and was placed on the
retired list in 1871. He was appointed
K. G. B. in 1873. Sir Francis Warde
was IS years Of age.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04
Wicked for CIergymen.

II believe it to be all wrong and even
wicked for clergymen or other public
men to be led into giving testimonials
to quack doctors or vile stuffs called
medicines, but when q really merlto-
rious article is made up of common
valuable remedies known to all, and
that all physicians use and trust IN daily,
we should freely recommend 1t. l
therefore cheerfully and heartily COM
mend Hop Bitters for the good they
have done me and my friends, firmly
believing that they have no equal for
family use. I will not be without
them" Rev. Washington, D. G.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04
TT Won have to labor for a living. !

IF you have to labor for living, re-
member that one hour in the morning
is better than two at night. If you en-
ploy others, be on hand to see that they
attend 10 their duties, and to direct
with regularity, promptness and liber-
atty. Do not NEEDLE with any business
you know nothing of. Never buy a
thing you do not want because the man
who sells it will take it out in trade.
Trade is money. Time is money.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04

A NEW form of disease has become
apparent in the heart of a very crowd
ed portion of London. 1t is a new
form of Cyprus fever. and diagonis of
recent malignant case shows the pa
tent to be suffering from Authorizations
and lowered vitality. The Faculty as
cribe the disease to impure water, and
have given it the name of detephobia,
and though it is seldom fatal, the suf-
ferer remains but a shadow Of his
former self.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04

TRUSTWORTHY advces from the silver
mining region in Montgomery county,
near Hot Springs, Ark, are to the eff
feet that rich ore, near the surface, has
been discovered in many places, cover
ing an area of several miles.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04

A WONDERFUL table-cloth was lately
shown at New York church fair. The
body is blue, with a white border en-
broidered with flowers. The lady who
made it first painted the flowers from
nature, and then made an exact copy of
the painting in needle-wOrk.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04

INoxen the stomach weighs 81 ounces
for every 100 pounds of live weight; in
sheep it weighs Sc ounces, in pigs IA
ounces, while in man only 6 ounces.
These facts are important, as showing
the greater necessity for concentrated
food in some cases than in others. The
human race require a mixed diet Of
meat and vegetables.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04

THE Chicago & Northwestern rail
way company has awarded the con-
tract for building its extension from
lacy, Mimi, toward the Black Hills,
to D. L. Wells & Co., of Milwaukee.
Work will be begun Immediately.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04
PARAGRAPHIC.

THE Pennsylvania railroad is carry
ing on an average fifteen hundred emil
grants day.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-26

Democratic Congress TO complain
ing Californians. The Thurman
bill compels the officials of the
United States to go for and secure
the long deferred debts which the
transcontinenta railways owe the
government. At all times and
everywhere the Democratic party,
in It's national manifestations at
least, shows itself loyal to the old
fashioned ideas of the accountable
ity to the people and to the govern
ment of persons who have received
national favors. The trick Of our
present politics is to divide up the
elements that are opposed to the
Republican style of managing
things; and, by division, to insure
defeat. And the apostles of this
patent method of making political
fiasco inevitable call themselves Re :
formers and patriots OF an order too
pure to stand the contamination OF
straight forward politics. In the
name of the prophet, figs!
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-26
Four More Incendiary Fires,
Elton Boys.

1t was not long after noon, aud
saw in a field an Elton game of
foot ball. 1t was played with spir-
il, but with less dash thau I had
been led to expect. AT another
time, however, there may have
been more. Apart from their uni
forms, the players could not have
been distinguished from the same
number of Yankee boys, of like
condition in life, engaged in the
same sport. Ialso met Il party Of
"old boys" as they came up, in
their uniforms, from cricket
match. A lather lot of young fell
lows | never saw. Not that they
were either weak looking or un-
healthy; but they We're not at all
what the writings If English crit.
les had led me to expect. Not one
WAS robust; only one had color, and
there Was not a Gu! ling auburn
head among them. saw Elton
boys by scores, and found them
neither ruddy nor plump, but, like
most other boys between twelve
aud twenty, rather pale and slen-
der.
Ine full dress Eton costume is a
ridiculous one. 1t is Il short jacket
or roundabout, with a very broad
turn over shirt collar and chin
ney-pot hat. The combination is
grotesque, and it is made more so
by the solemnity of most of the
young chaps when they have it on.
Hunger drove me and my young
companion into restaurant, and |
shall never forget the looks Of u
little Elton sprlg who entered as we
were sitting, and took a plaza over
against US. He kept on his prepos-
ferrous hat, gave his order as If it
were for his own capital execution,
and ate his cakes and drank his
chocolate as If that event were to
take place at the conclusion of his
rpast.-Richard Grant White in
October atlantic.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-26

OUR esteemed contemporary, the
Morning Journal, sets great store
by a discovery which it records as
result of the lsbored synthesis of
the logical faculty of its editor. 1t
accumulates arguments to show
that the HERALD has admitted an
occasional instance of violence in
the South. Now, in view of the
fact that, in explicit language, the
HERALD stated that an inevitable
result of the insoleuce of long con-
tinued and Inscriptions Republic
can domination in the South was
such occasional violence, the dis
covery made by our contemporary
does not seem to US to be of capital
importance. In fact, it assumes
something like the aspects of the
discovery of a mares nest. 1t is
worthy of remark, in considering
this subject of violence in the
South, that its prevalence is in in
verse ratio to the delay in the
withdrawal of carpet-bag rule. Ten
nessee, Georgia, Arkansas, Texas
and North Carolina were the first
of the unfortunate Southern States
which were released from remorse-
less Republican carpet-bag DONNA
ton. Who ever hears of cases of
violence reported from those States
now? Their own people recovered
absolutely and at once the control
of their local governments and mat
ters long ago settled down to the
water line of law and order. Ge0r-
gia to day is as prosperous as New
York and even Texas and Arkan-
sas, once famed for their turbu-
leuce, are as quiet as the Quaker
com mon wealth-in fact, good
deal more so, for there are no Molly
Mcguire episodes to disturb the or
binary tenor of things, as in Penn
sylvania. If Republican domina-
ton is kept away from Mississippi
for two or three years longer we
have no doubt that such episodes
as the Chisholm and Yazoo trag-
edies will be relegated to the limbo
of things lost on earth.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-26
In Governor Stanford,s r,

In Governor Stanford's report to
the stockholders of the Central Pa
cific Railway there Is one great
overshadowing grievance = the
Thurman bill. There are lot of
amiable gentlemen in California
who have been dancing around,
like lot Of bowling dervishes, get
ting up reform movements largely
based upon opposition to the Cen
trail Pacific Railway and to the
Chinaman. There is not recorded
instance in which they have told
their followers that the anti-Chi-
nese bill and the Thurman bill are
largely compliments paid by q
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-26
FOR ETC N.


LONDON, Sept. 25th.-The work
men at Consett, Jarrow, Stockton
and Hartlepool have struck, rejects
ing the award of the arbitrator in
the great dispute in the North oil
England and Cleveland iron trade.
Great Fire.
LONDON, Sept. 25th. A fire in
Belfast has destroyed the places oil
business of the following named
firms: Devlin g. Co., druggists and
grOcers; Mortimer & Son. umbrel la
manufacturers; McGonigal & Mack
and Young & Anderson, wholesale
warehousemen. The aggregate loss
is estimated at 100000.
Buittea Withdrawn.
LONDON, Sept. 25:h.-The bullion
withdrawn from the Bank of Eng
land to-day was 100000.
Em~ncipatius their SLAVES.
MADRID, Sept 25th.-A telegram
from Havana states that three
shareholders have emancipated
six thousand of their slaves, and
contracted with them for their SER
vice for five years. Other slave
holders intend following their ex-
ample. The Spanish government
has decided to send five hundred
soldiers to Cuba forth with. Several
Deputies have resolved to move in
the Cortes for the inn ediate aboli-
ton of slavery in Cuba without sn
indemnity to slave-owners.
Four More Incendiary Fires,
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 9th.
During the past ten days four fires
have occurred at Astrakan. One
steamer with twelve bsrges loaded
with naptha was burned on the
Volga, and the naptha train was
burned yesterday.