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, 1879-08-16

The ARMY BILL THAT HAYES SIGsED--
Senator Bayard stated, Just before he sailed
for Europe, that there was nothing SUD-
stantiaily vetoed by Mr.. Hayes In the army
bill, as first presented, that he has not
approved in the army bill which ne signed
This shows that it was not the democrats,
but Hayes himself, who backed down
That patent backbone stiifener which the
stalwarts ngged for him failed Of effect,
after all
, 1879-08-16
REACHING THE SEA

Here NJ remained with lie, while
the others went forward. M told me
that We were close TO bunbrry, and that the
others were zone for ! boat. After half an
bour's anxious waiting We saw a light, as II
a match were struck. at half mile distant.
Tins Was repeated three times, and then We
went forward. We found Mcguire waiting
for US ON little bridge across the road.
They had the boat ready. and he led the
way We had To walk through mud up to
the knees to reach the water. In hall IN
bonr Maruire and l were In the boat Nj
remained ON the shore. Come on, wills
nered Mcguire. No, answered poor Nj,
With a trembling voice, l promised my wife
nat ,o on in the boat All right, sneered
ma of the Maguires, go home TO your wife. ;
As We pulled silently out to sea, We
.,nl3 discern NJ standing on the beach.
T. was not cowariice. He was brave man,
"a he proved afterward. and hope the time
60 came when l shall be free to mention
his name =,
nu,led cautiously till We had got out OF hear.
inr Then We bent to the oars with iuii
18th There were but few words said.
WEI the sun rose we were well out, and
Ill INST Sc. the tops of the sand hills. We
voa wsre crossing Geographic bay, on straight
Gna of about forty miles IN length. We
ms,s a1 to lie in wait for the Tigiia,t, on the
t,rtber shore, and cut her off as she passed
The northern head OF the bay We puiied
! strongly till the forenoon was closing we
La5 neither water nor isSa; ! daa know
,.1 .-I.ther the arrangements for a supply had
failed or had been wholly forgotten But l
had ID eaten nothing from noou Of the previous
Ssv a. aud / began to suffer drsadfully from
tI;rst II was almost noon when We ran the
hat through the surf and beached her In
ling 30 our clothes were drenched with sea
water. and felt instant reiief from tnirse
7 tried this afterward with good effect, e1-
cept that it made the skin SORE
AsAp DisAPPoINTNESI.
I'VE cot to the beach a. about O'CLOCK
, 1879-08-16

The Phiiadelphia Times gets off this
piece of grim humor in reference to his
irauduleney The president IS the only
responsible part OF the government lemain-
ing in Washington. He stays, not because
he likes it. but because he has stern duty
to perform. 1t Is essential to the stability
of the government that he should anu"unce
ON Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays
that he is going to begiu to enforce some
civil service reform pretty soon; on Tues
days and Fridays he feels it necessary to say
that if anybody supposes he Is weakening on
the question OF civil service reform 1t IS a
great mistake, and on Thursday he straight
ems up after breakfast and gives notice that
the country had better keep all eve on Its
noble executive, for he is about to do some
thing to show his grit. On Sunday he gives
his overworked mouth rest, as the worldly
minded would say. and peacefully settles
down TO think how he will threaten to do
something when the week fairly opens.
, 1879-08-16

No Snow IN NEVADA FOR PooK MAN.
IT is estimated that the hand OF a
printer who sets 5000 ems day VIII
travel 4s 900 feet, picking up about "a
00O letters There Is a compositor In the
cHro.icle Office, who, every time he sets
mn a long sentence, travels into the next
saIoon for a drink. He sets about 2oOo
EN-, a day, and walks about four and q
half miles after beer. HIS strong ooJec-
ton to this country is that poor men have
NO show
, 1879-08-16

GERMAN ARxY.-General, a, ,2l0; Lieu
enant-General, $3.50; Mzjor-Gensral.
g. $40 Colonel, 81 $50; Lieusenant-Col-
on.l, 81 $50; Major, Sl,125; Captain,
$3.50; First and Second Lieutenants from
S72 To 300.
, 1879-08-16

A merchant rich in stocks and eSnS
Was asked by one as poor as on.,
How il had come that ose was eIe~'
While each WAS equally expert
% you see @ Just wher. the kernel hes
"Oh. well. you know, the other SA'''
1.-The eyes l use is advertise
, 1879-08-16

FoR throat distemper, crate fine small
green wild turnip, or, if dry, give heap
ing spoonful, mixed with bran or oats
Never fails. Good for cough also.
, 1879-08-16

A SOLUTION of common salt given i'm
mediasely is said to be successful rem
edy for strychnia poisoning
, 1879-08-16

THOROUGHLY wetting the hair once or
twice q week with weak solution of s.
water will prevent it from falling out
, 1879-08-16

SaIr is an excellent den.riice. 1t
sweatens tas breath as well as cleans tho
teeth.
, 1879-08-16

FRESH fish should be fried in the grease
obtained by frying sweet salt pork
, 1879-08-16

VEGETABLES should not be wazhed until
lust before cooking
, 1879-08-16
Yakima Letter,

4 -stsI-I-t UT O'lI fVt0.
EDITOR STATESMAN This city is -four
ishins like green bay tree. Houses are
rising as if 10y magic. There is great
call for lumber the loc;! mills cannot
begin to supply the demand. Teams are
hauling from the Wenas, distant some 80
miles the hauling would be much more
rapid than it is if lumber could be had ;
it sells for Sl2 and SO per thousand
There is q
, 1879-08-16

Ayxw drops of carbolic acid viii keep
paste from scuring.
, 1879-08-16

There is no circus tent, hover much watched
and tended,
But needs some greater care;
There is no hole, however well defended,
But has q small boy there.
, 1879-08-16

lame. Monohan i the vide-svake p7o-
nr;ator Of the Coafax and Colville stage hue.
, 1879-08-16

A FRESH tomato leaf is sovereign cure
for bee sting.
, 1879-08-16
JORDAN 4 HARD ROAD
CHALK NINE.

There is a good chalk mine, an immense
bed Of it, on the Yakima river. some 3 or
4 miles above the mouth of the Wenas
creek. 1t is near the waters edge, and at
the base of very high mountain. 1t
marks well, but is light compared With the
French chalk, and resembles macnesia IN
lishtness and color. FELIX
, 1879-08-16

ALL kids Of job Printing done at this Office
, 1879-08-16
GOOD OPENING Foa A SAW MILL.

There is good mill sit, and plenty Of
timber convenient to be had for the taking
Of it. Could you not send some enter
prisins citizen over here to build mill
There is great demand for lumber and the
people have the money to pay for it. A
newspaper is about to be established here
by Mr. Chad. He has gone to the Sound
to procure the press, type, etc 1t Will
DE "a experiment which wril haze to be
well husbanded to make it a success- The
SURVEY for the North Pacific railroad
passes some one or two miles above this
place. Ia examination has been made
of the S1uaw creek suIcli, through which
to locate the road What has been the
result of it | have not learned. There Is
one thing certain they found
JORDAN \ HARD ROAD
To travel in that direction. There IS a
high divide to cross between Priest rapids
and Squaw creek, and from the mouth of
Squaw creek the Yakima river makes a
terrible cut in the mountains through
which it passes.
, 1879-08-16

cu,111E MORTGAGES at this Office tor sa'''
, 1879-08-16
E5ge, Ell kshHFeAT,

lB.JTSfHER ARTZT.J
hrFIyE OVER WELLS, FARGO &
'-'- L.r.-s r.i:cn. Consultations in
GERMAN. ENGLISH. FRENCH, ITAL-
IAN AMI S'ANI H. Diploma and Certiti
.....ui IL .-..'rulnl rtl H. sen ~ the Office.
W."t %a'a, July i. 1873. 23-3n
, 1879-08-16

I'VE got to the beach at about . O'CLOCK
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05
In q BOYS Ear.

A young lad of this village had an
unpleasant experience with one of his
ears. While in the country on Wednes-
day night an insect of some kind en-
tered his ear, and, after buzzing there
moment, came out again. He thought
no more of it until toward evening,
when his ear began to pain him. The
pain grew more intense, and he was
compelled to walk the floor all night.
In the morning he went to DR.. Pills
bury, who examined the ear and found
it full of maggots. The insect, while
in the ear, had deposited it's eggs, which
had Matched within twenty-four hours
At the end of thirty six hours they had
grown to the length of an eighth of an
inch. The doctor tried to kill the Larvae
and wash them out by injecting carbolic
acid with syringe, but he failed utter
~, and had to use an instrument to re-
move them. He extracted from twenty
five to thirty of the crawling little
things, which had lodged against the
drum of the ear. The lad experienced
great feeling of relief when the job
was finished, but not all were removed
then, and another operation will be nee
essary.-MiddletoaU7a IN. Y. Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05
Fools and Their Money.

The American Rothschilds that handle
money as ii it were as cheap as wooden
toothpicks are On the increase. A lady
on the New York Central railroad drops
satchel containing $4,000 which is
picked up on the track by
the conductor of the next freight
train. A man from LeadvilIe comes
down to Denver with gold brick and a
sack of dust valued at Sc, 900, misses it
at his hotel and it is found seon alter
under his bed, wrapped in white paper,
where it had been mislaid or put by the
thief on learning that the police had
heard of the affair. A buggy washer at
a livery stable in Colorado Springs finds
$1,000 in pocket book under the seat of
carriage last driven by w. 81. Painter,
Of Washington, who thought that his
pocket had been picked ON the train. If
some people are 80 careless it's lucky
others are SO honest. pa pos
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05
The Ienoble Government.

He wasn't member of the Lime Kiln
club, but he had q whole wheelbarrow
full of philosophy and logic under his
ancient looking plug hat as he entered
the postoffice and said he would like to
rentsa box. The chief clerk was ready
to accommodate him, when the applicant
said:
Ode terms am cash, pspose?
Yes, sir"
"Is dar any trust?
No, sir; you must pay quarterly in
advance"
"Jess so. Make out deed of dis yere
box an your quarter am ready"
"The price is twenty shillings per
quarter or three MONTHS" explained the
clerk.
The colored gentleman fell back at the
rate of mile minute, but slowly adj
vanced after recovering from his shock
of surprise snd repeated:
"Twenty shillings cherry free months,
an no trust?"
The same"
The man took from his coat tail pock-
ct a broken two-foot rule and measured
the dimensions of the box. Then shut
ting up the rule he sweIled out and ex-
claimed:
"Does dis pos'ofus take me fur fool,
sab? Does els ignoble guv' ment imagine
dat Pee gone crazy, sah?'
"I guess not"
Den why, sab, does dis ignoble guv'-
ment try to rob me, sab? Lock at de
ideah / kin rent hull boss barn on
Indiana street for 50 month, sab, an
yit dis ignoble guv'ment axes me to pay
twenty shillins quarter fur pos offus
box not half as big as one eand of a
manager! wasn't bon in de woods, sab
mo, sah-an' you kin keep dat box,
sab, and dis ignoble guv'ment kin pass
my letters frew de winder, sab !'-Detroit
Free Press - 2.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05
Novel Treatment of Group.

According to Les Mo7ades, DIR.
Durodie has successfully treated case
of Group, in a child 7 years old, by
scraping the larynx. The method is to
introduce rapidly the left index finger
into the pharynx, SO as more surely to
reach the upper laryngeal opening;
then, with the right hand, piece of
curved whalebone is introduced, having
small piece of sponge fixed at the end,
soaked in tepid water. After three or
four movements up and dawn, the in
strument was quickly withdrawn, this
being done three different times at each
seance. The sponge was covered each
time with debris of false membranes.
The instrument has reflex as well as
a mechanical action, causing spasmodic
movements, which proyokes the ejec-
ton of the false membranes. The child
rapidly recovered.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05

on our Cuisines +" hook. This is pre-
cisely what the Ameracam means. It is
precisely what the wild Kentucky
Scotchman means when he talks about
strict attention to business The plan is
to divert the attention of the people
from the real purpose of those who, like
Ben Hill and the Charlestown Courier,
still assert that "the southern people
never have admitted, and never will
admit, that the cause for which they
fought was reasonable and wrong"
Perhaps this 'possum policy will win,
and perhaps not.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05
Electric Executions.

That species of solemn fantaticism
for which the Germans are famous has
reached about its climax in letter of q
pastor in Prussian village to one of
the leading Berlin papers. The epistle
reads as if the ghosts of Hoffman and
Hauff had been galvanized from their
graves especially to write it.
Its author commences by deploring
the fact that our modern punishment
for murder simply makes the execution
er guilty of the same crime as his VIC
tim that we can only avenge one assass
nation by another. A second source
of regret to him is that an execution
has virtually become species of brutal
and degrading show. In view of these
facts, he suggests the following i'm
provements in capital punishment:
The scene of an execution shall be
the courtroom in which sentence was
pronounced upon the murderer. The
walls of the room shall be draped in
black, and the windows somberly cur
tanned, in order to exclude all light.
The only articles of furniture in the
apartment shall be the Judges desk and
an arm chair. In the middle of the
room shall be an iron figure of Justice,
with her scales and sword. This efigy
shall have in place of bowels as power
full an electric battery as may be neces-
sary. The battery shall be connected
with the armchair, and governed by a
mechanism in connection with the
scales. The scene shall be lighted by a
single torch, burning on the Judges
desk.
The only persons admitted to the exc
cution shall be the Judge, jury and
other officials concerned in the con-
demnation of the victim. That person
shall be brought in and seated in the
chair, to which he shall be manacled
immovably. Then the Judge shall read
the story of his crime to him end reiter
ate his sentence. This performed, he
shall break rod of Office and toss it
into Justices balance.
The scales will be weighed down by
this, and the electric current thus set
in circulation. AS the balance descends
the Judge shall extinguish the torch,
signifying that he thus puts out the
victims life.
So, in utter darkness, the subtle cur
rent of the great battery will do it's
work. Unseen by mortal eyes the con-
pemned man will expiate his crime, and
justice will literally avenge itself.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05
A CALIFORNIA LOG SLIDE,
A Scene that Startles the Beholder
Near Lake Tahoe.


Near Lake Tahoe.
-. Good Company Number Two.
Around the foot of a steep slope, where
spur OF the mountain thrusts its
shoulder into the water, the road runs
It's winding way. Following this the
traveller comes at last to peaceful spot
whose quiet weuld throw the most
timorous soul into reyerie. Death turks
in ambush here, however, and where
there should be black flags, yellow flags,
red lanterns, skulls and crOss-bones i'm
abundance, there is no omen of his dis
tinguished and pallid presence other
than mild warning, marked on strip
OF board and tackled to stump, which
is hidden SO deep in the evergreens that
none but the most vigilant Of observers
would notice it. 1t is the premonitory
signal: Look out for logs!" Reading
this indefinite hint, the traveller might
feel laDguid curiosity as to what it
meant, but he woulG hardly construe it
as significant of peril. Perchance by
day he would look around for logs
beautiful with ichen, or by night for
logs beaming with fox fire" but as for
apprehension of danger, that were ab-
surd; for OF all inanimate objects, the
log, emblem of all that is inert and
stupid, has always been considered most
free from inimical designs upon man.
A hundred feet farther, however, and
the full force of this caution comes home
to him. A hundred feet farther and the
road is cut by line from which his in
telligent horse shrinks as he would from
a serpent across his path. It is a tram
way or chute of heavy timbers, sunk in
the ground, reaching from the crest of
the hill to the edge of the water. 1t is
hollow, like trough, and in places its
concave surface is pushed with strips of
iron shining with a polish which could
only come from the most violent friction.
1t is log slide," down which the trunk
OF a large tree, peeled of its bark to
make it slippery, is coming with all the
force of ship from the stocks. Such
battering-ram would send into dust the
strongest wall that was ever made, and
would bring utter humiliation to the
passing traveller 30 unlucky as to be
astride of the track at this critical mo-
ment. A cloud of splinters, smoke and
dust marks the wake of its meteoric
flight, which lasts but the length of a
suspended breath, from the launch at the
summit to It's final leap from the high
trestle-work to the water beneath, where
it strikes with sharp clap and dashes
the white spray into a cloud which
washes the highest tree tops Then,
tardy as the thunder after the lightning's
fash, there comes yell of warning from
the men assembled at the head of the
slide, who are responsible for all of this
tumult and terror. To the jocular na-
lures Of the men of Lake Tahoe every
log launched and every wayfarer scared
are but items of their entertainment,
for which, however, under the name of
work, they receive liberal wages.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05

"Pay me-" cried this worthy. "You,
missus, that drives the machine, pay
me. Here's gent hires me to carry
off his gal, and, when they falls out and
parts, loses my fare. Pay mep
But Miss Minerva, recognizing her
scholar, darted forward, rescued her,
slammed the door in the mans face, Or
dered the servants to guard it, and
asked for explanations.
The explanation ended in a swoon
on the part of Miss Minerva. and hys-
terics on that of Helen White.
The next morning Charles stood be-
fore his sister with q peculiar ex-
preston on his face.
In her lap she held packet of letters
which she had perused.
"Can it be that my daughter would
write and receive such things as these ?"
she said.
"My dear sister" said Charles, call is
as I have STAGED, and it is well that, on
the part of the gentleman, it was all a
piece of acting. Helen was in earnest.
from her uncle" ...
"That he, in a mustache and cloak,
eloped with her, and wound up the af-
fair by robbing her; or that the driver
was his old friend Wenter, who had
daughters of his own, and who promised
to wind up the affair in the most dread
full manner possible.
"You must, however, promise to send
for Helen tomorrow, and to keep the
truth of this affair a secret so that il
may be lifelong lesson to her."
Mrs. White listened.
She was angry, but she had sense
enough to do as her brother desired.
And it was not until Helen was mar
ried that she learned that her love af-
fair, elopement and desertion were all
carried out by her Uncle Charles, who
knew what the result of a boarding
school Irritation might be, and cured his
niece by giving her bitter lesson of all
disposition to imprudent conduct in
foolish sentimentality.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05

The British lieutenant who rode furi-
ously away and left the Prince Imperial
to fight a gang of Zulus single handed
has become such hero with his intel
ligent eountrymen that when Mr.. Arch
ibald Forbes lectured on his experiences
in the Zulu war in the Free Trade Hall,
Manchester, on the night of October 9th,
a letter was received by him before he
be gan, warning him that if he cast any
aspersions upon Lieutenant Carey he
would be pelted off thu platform.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05
"A SINGLE GLASS OF RUM
BY W. II. CoFIELD.

~Just one glass of rum
What can the danger bes
just one glass of rum
Oh never fear for me.
"a single glass of rum
Oh, yes, I'm coming now:
A single glass of rum
must be gone, trow.
"A second glass of rum
Ones not enough for me;
A second glass of rum
1t helps my nerves, you sec.
"sOne more glass of rum
Why, man, it's only three;
One more glass of rum,
1t makes me feel SO free.
another glass of rum
My nerves have grown steady
Another glass of rum,
And then I'll be ready"
A glass of boiling rum
From out the seething pot;
A glass of boiling rum
To satisfy the sot.
'"Just one glass of rum"
The maniac's raving cry
Just one glass of rum,
Oh give it or die.n
A single glass of rum
Has done its mission well;
A single glass of rum
Has sent a soul to hell.
BELLE RIVE, Ill.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05

WILL the coming man walk? If he
will, he is likely to be murdered in cold
blood on the first lap, amid the cheers of
the entire country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05

A NEW arrangement of "Pinafore,"
has been put upon the stage, with the
hardly ever" left out. It will draw
ke plaster.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03
The 10th Senatorial District.

Hon. w. 8. Anderson, Senator elect
from the 29th District has published
a manly card which will be found in
another column. 1t is elected by the
statement embraced in his card that
Mr.. j. d. Webster, his late competitor,
intends to contest the seat to which he
was chosen. He says that his oppo-
nent having raised the issue, he will
demand an investigation, even if the
intention to contest is abandoned. This
is high ground, but we will venture to
suggest that the Senate would scarcely
think it worth while to waste time
upon an investigation after the implied
admission of the opposite side that
there was no cause upon which to base
a contest. Two facts are clearly estab-
lished in the card of Mr. Anderson.
One Is that he was willing to submit his
candidacy to Democratic COnve ntion
If one had been held; and the other is
that he could not have been an indie
pendent, for the reason there was no
regular Democratic nominee. And
still another thing is clear. 1t is the
bottom fact of the whole business, and
must settle the question in his favor,
viz: The returns in the Secretary of
States office show that he was elected
by convincing majority of four hun
dred and seVenty-two votes.