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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-29
THE OLD HOME.
BY g. w. HATToN.

ere the ash tree, and the elm and the maple
used to grow,
Lies a waste of rocks and rubbish-the place
And it looks so very lonely, so very, very drear,
I'm sad to look upon it, it fills my soul with care.
rome on the ground, decaying. lies the old hickory
used to climb so often-how ear it was to me!
Naught but the trunk is standing of the nobest
tree of all 4
The large majestic elm, that grew SO straight and
tall.
I've watched it from my window, when but little
And thought it bowed to greet me, responsive to
my Joy.
1t lowered like giant so very very high
/ thought its tallest branches almost reached the
sky.
Some vandal hand hath girdled this monarch il its
the cruel blows were deadly for the grand old
tree has died.
Where the stream once kissed the hillside, in its
gentle. steady flow.
Is world of weeds and elders, as thick they
grow;
For the stream has changed it's channel, and flows
another way,
FAR off the shore fshed from on many sunny
day.
I'm surely not mistaken No; this is the maple
tree
Whose branches kissed the water, and fondly shell
tered me.
The spring looks very natural, the very of
old,
And the water, clear as crystal! How cheerful to
behold,
AS it flows with gentle ripple DER its rocky bed.
With sound sweet as ever though many
year has fed
The thorn tres the stile-I loved it most of all
Not FORTS size and beauty-'twas neither large nor
tall
But because my father loved it, and rested meath
it's shade
On seat of rustic fashion which he himself had
made.
Twas for his sake loved it, for side by side have
Sat hours and hours together, beneath that pre-
cious tree,
Talking of men and nations, of statesmen, Lords
and Kings,
And the sorrows that oppression to the human
family brings;
For he hated Kings and tyrants as the soldier only
Who has fought against oppression and for his
tive land.
This sacred spot lies vacant tree, post, nor
vine
Remains to match the picture that fingers in the
mind.
Ills the way with all we cherish, with all the heart
reveres;
Our landmarks fade and perish with the lapse of
busy years.
COLUMBIA, Mo.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-29

JOS. @. Jenkins, the Democratic candi.
Date Tor Governor, cordially supported
the nominee of that convention and the
principles Of its platform; and, be it
! further remembered, that this same
Jas. G. Jenkins presided over the Fond
du Lac convention of 1877 which nomi-
mated Mallory for Governor, and which
denounced the resumption act, and also
Insisted upon series of financial meas
ures which would have destroyed the
national banks, that furnish currency
disable from Maine to Texas, and substi.
tuted in lieu therefor the old exploded
and swindling state bank system. We
will generously suppose that Mr. Jenkins
was honest in the advocacy of these bad
measures, and, therefore, independent
voters will naturally infer that his mind
lacks comprehensiveness to fully appre-
clate the real condition CT the country,
and that he is ruled or ly by the dictates
of party, and not by the instincts Of
patriotism.
Independent voters will care not what
his utterances or pretensions NAV now
be. They will simply know that Mr..
Jenkins in '76 and III erred gravely,
badly and mischievously, and that his
pretended change of sentiment now is
either merely the result of fear or of
shallowness of conviction on the greatest
question after the civil war which ever
agltated our country, and therefore
units him to be the wise executive of q
large and powerful state, whose varied
commercial, industrial and agricultural
pursuits require clear intellect and
sound judgment ON all the business
questions Of the day.
While Jas. q. Jenkins was erring so
badly and mischievously, Independent
voters will not forget that the present
Republican nominee for governor was
advocating principles directly the oppo-
site of Mr.. Jenkins and his associates.
Gov. SMITH devoutly believed that the
interests of the working classes de-
manded that all the currency issued in
the United States should be on a par
with coin, and that it is the duty of Che
government in all it's obligations to full
fill that standard; for he religiously
held that the wild scheme of the
Democratic party for the increase of a
paper currency not redeemabIe in coin
was the "most ingenious device ever
invented by the wit of man to fertilize
the rich mans field with the sweat of
the poor mans brow"
Independent voters, can you hesitate
to choose between the representatives of
two such principles so antagonistic to
each other? The one is certainly good,
as proven by the passing events of the
year, and the other bad, and which was
sustained bY the Democracy because
they supposed that the mass of voters
had no sincere regard for honor and
Wisconsin.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-29
To the Independent Voters.

The fourth day of November, which
may be called the decisive day of the
current year, is fast approaching. Then
the people of Wisconsin will be called
upon, in casting their ballots, to ex-
press their preference between the
Republican and the Democratic party for
ruler of the state, and, ultimately, the
nation; for, if our commonwealth should,
by any manner of means, elect jas. q.
Jenkins Governor, it would be a forecast
of the result in the presidential battle of
1880. Therefore, all citizens can fully
appreciate the Importance of the i'm
pending November contest. The issue
is simple one to the independent voters
of all parties. No question can be
greater or more deeply concern every
household than that whether or not the
policy of resumption and the mainten-
ance of specie payments shall continue
the fixed policy of our country. AL
most every one is now aware of the full
advantages which resumption has
brought and will bring upon all the
industrial interests of the nation.
There can be no doubt that there is a
greater exhibit of prosperity at the
present time than at any period during
the past six years, and this very result
was predicted by a Republican President,
and by Republican secretary of the
treasury, and by Republican leaders
generally throughout the United States.
Yet the independent voters should
bear in mind that, in the presidential
canvass of 1876, the national Democracy
in convention assembled denounced the
grand resumption act, which has con-
ferred so many blessings upon oul
coutry; and be it remembered that
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-29
A Rat.Skin Suit.

An ingenious individual of Lisk-
card, Cornwall, has, for some
time past, been exhibiting himself
in dress composed from top to toe of
rat skins, which he had been collecting
for three years and half. The dress
was made entirely by himself; it con-
sists of hat, neckerchief, waistcoat,
trousers, tippet, CATERS and shoes. The
number of rats required to complete
this suit was 670; and the individual,
when thus dressed, appears exactly like
one of the Esquimaux described in the
travels of Parry and Ross. The tippet
or boa is composed of the pieces of skin
Immediately round the tails of the rats,
and is very curious part of the dress,
containing 600 tails.-E1aglish paper.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-29

The other day flock of sheep num-
bering upward of 200 head belonging
to Edward and James Mcconnell, near
Chatham, broke out of their pasture
and ran on the railroad track just as a
train was passing. Upward of 100 OF
them were killed and MANNED ere the
train could be stopped.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-29

Ing IN q snake country, ana happening
TO remember that she really did have a
mortal fear Of them. she was thoughtful
enough and Conscientious enough to
own up.
The occurrence of really great and
popular camp-meeting always consti-
tuted "good time" especially, and in
more ways than one, for hardl y-worked
and self-denying class who. as 1 have
already shown, were not infrequently
doomed to unpleasant associations and
poor ra lions.
One of these, stationed in one of the
harde Il and most remote of outlying
distri IT'S on the head-waters of the Big
Sandy, complained dolefully on one oc-
casion to his little congregation that :" of
the $40 salary allowed him for clothing,
and shoes for his horse for the breth-
rem were expected to feed the two gra-
tbs, of course, on their rounds--"he had
so far received for that year but 500 !;
and, brethren" he continued, plaintive-
ly, $40 of that was counterfeit!"
It was possible, indeed, that his audi
ences did not all appreciate his theo-
logical or literary accomplishments,
since on one occasion he gave out a
wen-known hymn, after version not
found exactly in the books, thus:
| Turn, sinners, turn; oh, why will ye die?
The Lord, your Maker, ''axes you why.
And yet he meant well, no doubt,
and belonged to that little and brave
and self denying phalanx who have done
so much for the West especially; men
who, having few fine churches, preach
when and how they can, having some
times "swum rivers and preached in
their wet clothes" rather than disap-
point waiting congregations. who had
come far over the hills and through the
valleys to meet them.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
Rom. Shield. onlrer and Arrows.

[san Antonio CTex.) Herald.I
y At Mr.. Narciso Leafs Office, one door
from the Herald building, may be seen
accoutrements of an IndiaE warrior, con-
sisting of the articles named in the head
of this article The red former owner
whooped his last howl on the 9Th OF
January, 1876, when, with eight other
Indians, one a squaw, he met five OF
Capt. Dan. Roberts rangers on the Sa-
line. in Menard County. There was a
short fight of Winchester rifles against
wooden arrows, of belted rangers against
blanket-swaddled Lipans, and the i've
rangers dismounted to claim the spolls OF
war. The dead saYages were left to ind
sepuIture in the maws Of the coyotes, all
but the squaw, to whom the rangers gave
a shallow grave, on which they heaped
pile of hOneycombed rocks, which re-
j main the only monument of the tight.
In November, 1877, this writer passed the
spot where the fight took place, saw
| skull stuck on a mesquit limb, grlnning
one. perpetual CHASTITY, chapless smile at
| passers-by. Afterwards a lawyer on his
| wav to junction City took down the
! skull. as he stated, for the purpose of
making drinking cup of it. Jim. Gil
| let, Of Lampasas Springs, who took one
of the scalps, covered his revolver holster
with it, but afterwards, in bending ever
frying pan at breakfast, he trailed the
long hair into the hush puppy gravy,
! whereupon Lieutenant n. 0. Reynolds
/ applied a torch to the greasy locks, and
in an instant nothing was left but the
bald skin. Wahi'' said a woody ranger
as he shifted the burnt hair, you have
spoilt my appetite"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
MARIE, THE PAUPER.
RY ?. DUPONT,

During the "Reign of Terror" in
France there we're many deeds of daring
performed, even by women, and many
noble examples of affection exhibited.
The very streets of Paris were deluged
with human blood, but near the guillo-
tine it ran in gushing torrents.
One dark morning an unusual number
of the aristocracy had been marched
forth, and countless heads rolled from
A gaping multitude stood by, and
with shouts rent the air as the aristoc-
racy were thus butchered.
Among the assembletl multitude that
dreary morning, were two females. One
of them was plainly clad, while a cloak
was thrown around her, with which she
kept her features nearly concealed.
But a close observation would betray
the fact that the woman had been weep
ing.
Her eyes were infamed and red, and
she gazed eagerly upon the platform,
while shudder passed over her frame
as each shock of the glittering knife
severed the head from the body of some
one who had been unfortunate enough
TO fall under the ban of the leaders.
The face of the woman was very beau
tiful, and she was young certainly not
more than sixteen or eighteen years oi
age.
The other female was quite different
In character Her face was fair, but
there was brazen expression about it
She was clad in rags, and as each heaC
fell she would dance, and in various
ways express her delight, and then ex
claim:
"There falls another aristocrat, wh'
refused me charity when l humbly SUED
to him?"
Each expression OF the kind would
create laugh from those who heard her
But any thoughtful person must wonde
how one SO young could have become 81
deprayed.
The flrst female watched this creature
for few moments, and then, pressing
her way to her side, she laid her hans
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
AIaska,s BIC River.

baltimore SUMS San Francisco Letter.l
Alaska explorers report one of the
largest rivers in the world, the Yukon,
as navigable for steamers, and at 500
miles from its mouth it receives a very
large navigable tributary. The basis
formed by the confluence is as large as
our Mississippi. Indians are everywhere,
and the war between the tribes is fixed
institution. There is snow for six
months, and without roads, dog-sledges
find good travelling Game abOunds, and
Indians have an easy life. From seven to
nine dogs make team, the odd one be-
ING the leader. The driver has to watch
this dog. If it gets on the scent OF
game it is of, and the whole team is de-
moralized. OFF they skamper through
the woods and thickets, upsetting the
load, smashing the sled, tearing the har-
ness and giving the boss days Of hunting
to restore the status quo. So vast coun-
try, traversed by navigable waters, will
soon tempt restless and speculative adj
venturers to explore it. Yankee wit
will not fail to find profitable sources Of
commerce.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
A King in Defeat.

Cetewayo, the Zulu chief, who so long
withstood the British army, was every
inch king" in his downfall.
Major Marter put the native troops in
advance, as they were able to move more
rapidly. These men dashed out Of the
bush, and surrounded the kraal, where
the King was concealed, saying, "The
white man is coming; you are caught." "
Major NIarter then rode and dis
mounted, entered the kraal and coming
straight to the hut in which the King
was, called on him to come forth and
surrender.
The King feared and said, No, you
come unto me-" but Marter was infex-
ible, and the King, creeping out, stood
up among the dragons with stately
cOmposure.
A dragoon sought to lay his hands
upon him, but he waved the man back
disdainfully, saying, White soldier let
me be"
He then asked to be shot. The Kings
bearing on the march between the lines
of the Sixtieth Regiment into his camp
at Ulundi was dignifed and calm.
Wearing a red blanket upon his breast
in the manner of a Roman toga, he
stepped slowly, looking round with head
thrown back and naughty gaze at the
| soldiers around him. When captured he
asked the rank of the officer who had
taken him. He treated the Native Con
fingent contemptuously.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24

THE eminent journalist, Emile de Gil
rardin, speaking in the name Of three
millions of illegitimates that exist in
France, and TO the number of which
he does not conceal the fact that he be-
longs" argues that illegitimacy is an er-
ror of the law and not disgrace of the
person He depicts the family Of the
future thus: First, the mother, a dow
ager, and administering her own fortune
in virtue of the regime of the separation
of goods, which is to become the legal
regime of France; second, equality of
the children before the mother and be-
fore the law. In order to approach this
ideal he thinks the institution of divorce
must be introduced, but only as q pro
visional means.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24

THE country need not be alarmed at
the great influx Of bills in Congress.
Nearly all of them will go quietly to
their long sleep in the pigeon holes Of
the committee rooms. Almost every
congressman has a number of constitu-
ents who think they have a call to take a
Eand in national legislation. As the OBJ
stinate and unappreciatiye people viii
not send these amateur lawmakers to
congress, they have no resource but to
prepare bills embodyiLg their erudite
conceptions and send them to "our mem
ber," with a request that he present
them. The obliging member complies,
but has no further interest in the matter
This is why so many unwise measures
are offered. It is a sort of ventilation
that does no g,eat harm, while it makes
many persons happy.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
The Rain Tree.

Some travellers in Colombia, South
America, in traversing an arid and
desolate tract of country, were struck
with a strange contrast. On one side
there was a barren desert, on the other
a rich and luxuriant vegetation. The
French Consul at Loreto, Mexico, says
that this remarkable contrast is due to
the presence of the 7'amai cdspi, or
the rain tree. This tree, which grows to
a height of sixty feet, with a diameter
of three feet at its base, possesses the
power of strongly attracting, absorbing
and condensing the humidity of the
atmosphere. Water is always to be seen
dropping from its trunk in such quantity
as to convert the surrounding soil into
yeritable marsh. 1t is in summer
especially, when the rivers are nearly
dried up, that the tree is most active.
If this admirable quality of the rain tree
was utilized in the arid regions near the
equator, the people there living in misery
on account of the unproductiye son
would derive great advantages from its
introduction, as well as the people OF
more favored countries where the climate
is dry and droughts are frequent.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24
Startling Decrease of the Fine-FlayOred
Wines,
Geneva (switzerland) Continent.l


Geneva (switzerIand) Continent.l
Many a connoisseur of claret who sits
contentedly slipping his Chateau Lailte,
his Margaux, or Larose is unconscious
that the vineyards yielding these fne
wines are threatened with the destruc-
ton which has already overtaken less
celebrated vineyards. The fresh, fuII-
favored, raspberry-scented Hermitage,
and the spirituous limpid Cote ROtie, may
almost be placed among wines otthe past;
while the Beauiolais and Maconnals
growths decrease in quantity at each sue
ceedino vintage. The famous Burgun-
dian " Golden Slope" yielding Romance
Contfand Chambertih, Mohtrachet ana
CIUs-Vougeot, is also assailed; and 1t
really seems that a day may come when
not a single puacheon of fine champagne
cognac win be distilled in the DEPART
ment of the Chafe11te, the vineyards or
which are being rapidly devastated. Not
only from France, but from Germany
and Switzerland from Italy and Austria-
Hungary, from sunny slopes around
Malaga and the terraced heights Of the
Alto DOuro, from Madeira, and even
from remote Australia, the same cry IS
heard,
Up to the close of last year the raw
ages of phyIloXera Vastatrlx IN the VINE
yards of France, had extended over
more than 100000 acres, the vines IN
700,0 600 of which had been totally de-
stroyed. The appearance of the insect
is now reported from the center CT the
most famous Of all the viticultural dis
tricts of France, namely, the Medoc.
in certain communes, including those OF
st. Estephe and Pauillac, more than IOO
acres of vines have been attacked. The
presence of the insect has been noticed
in the vineyards Of Chateau SaI9nde
and Colon-Segur; and, according to the
last advices, there is reason to beueYe
that it exists in a latent state at Cos
d Estournel, and at Chateau Latite-that
| famous Chateau Latte which, with Its
| 1870 acres of vineland, was sold about ten
! wears ago to Baron james ROthschlld tOI
| 9IG5, ,000. The aggregate value OF the
| Medoc vineyards, the whole OF which
| are comprised in a narrow strip OF land
some twenty miles in length, amounts to
! many millions sterling; and at the rate
| at which the phyllOXefa travels, 1t Il
quite possible for the whole district tC
| be infested before the end of next year
| The French Government and the French
vine-growers are equally alive to the i'm
! portance of ayerting this calamity, anc
they are taking energetic measues be
times. SuIphuret of carbon, according
to the method recommended by NJ
Dumas, the learned permanent Secretar!
of the Paris Academy of Sciences, ap
pears to be the remedy most in favor
although a more simple, less costly, ant
jually efficacious method of treatmen
mas been discovered by an EnglishmaD
DIr. Leacock, a well-known wine-growe
of Madeira, who, by combining dec
trenching and manuring with the appH
cation to the root OF the attacked vim
Of a mixture Of turpcntine and powdered
resin, has achieved highly successful re
! sultS
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24

OFFICIAL whippings are continued
regularly at Newcastle, Delaware, and
are regarded as a matter of course by the
residents, though strangers are sometimes
shocked by the sight, On the last whip
ping day five convicted thieves were
punished. The first was a German,
who was not severely lashed, and he
walked away smiling. The next was 9
miserable tramp, who bore the ordeal
without finching. Two negroes who
came next, writhed and muttered under
pain Of severe blows. The fifth was 9
boy of fifteen. He was so frightened
that it was necessary to force him to the
post, and at the first blow he desperately
freed himself by pulling his hands out ot
the staples A handkerchief was used tC
fasten him, but he got loose again before
the prescribed twenty blows were com
pleted and pathetically begged the sheriff
not to strike so hard.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24

The chains were instantly removed,
and Antonio de Nantes walked down
from the scafold, followed by his sister,
while the shouts of those around rent the
air, for they supposed it was a commoner
who had thus been saved.
The young man worked his way
through the crowd as rapidly as possi-
BILE, leading Marie.
They had scarcely escaped it. before
the poor girl, tainted, from the intensity
of her feelings
The brother scarcely knew what to do
but hand was laid on his arm, and a
voice said:
Bring her to my room again. She
will be safe there"
The brother conveyed her to the apart
ment of the pauper, and asked of her:
FHave you seen the female beforeW
eyes, l know all about It," returned
the pauper. She borrowed my clothes
to save her lover. She has done it and
am glad"
Before the noble sister returned to
consciousness, the brother had learned
all.
When she did SO they both sought Sc
cure quarters, after rewarding the beg
gar-girl as had been promised.
Do you think Robespierre was really
decided?" asked Marie de Nantes.
81 think not" returned the brother.
"Then why he did he order your re-
leaseP
He saw your plan. He admired
your courage. Could fend have done
less?
Perhaps this was the case But if so
it was deed OF mercy, and the only one
that man ever did"
g You are right"
Antonio de Nantes was not again ar
rested, and lived happily with that Sis
ter, who had SO nobly periled her own
life to save him by representing the
"pauper of Paris"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-24

THE night before thanksgiving an old
couplein Mercury, Massachusetts,, were
visited by a stranger, whom the mother
at last recognized as herson. More than
fifteen years before he was with Gushing
in the exploit against the ram Albemare,
and never being heard of afterward, was
supposed to have been killed. He was
struck by a piece of a torpedo, and was
taken ashore in the Confederate boats.
After his wound was healed he was set
at liberty, knowing nothing of his name
or home. Finally he took employment
with an ex-confederate surgeon, who
opened the wound and lifted or trepanned
the skull, His condition so improved al
the end of a year that his memory re
turned and he went home to hi
thanksgiving dinner as though nothing
had happened.