Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-22
NO. 81.
NE VS. ITEMS.


The Treasury Department purchased
yesterday $4,000 ounces of fine silver 6or
delivery at the Philadelphia Mint.
The Central Association of Congrega-
tional ministers is in session at Normal,
ILL.,, the ministers being guests of the
church in that place. About thirty minis
ters are present.
The Chicago, St. Paul and Minneape-
lis Railroad Company proposes to build q
new bridge at Eau Claire across the Chip
piwa, to be composed nearly exclusively
Of iron, with solid stone piers.
A general order was promulgated from
the department headquarters at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, yesterday, relieving
General Rufus Saxton from duty as Quar-
termaster General of the department Of
Missouri, and placing Colonel G. G.. H.
Hoyt temporarily in command. General
Saxton goes to San Francisco
The capitol at Washington is being put
in condition for resembling of Congress.
Large windows and passage-ways have
been cut in the south wall of the House
of Representative to improve the ventila-
increased in number and size, so that
more air can be forced up from below.
The Pail Mall eng, Gazette mentions
| as evidence Of the eagerness Of the Amer
lean demand for iron that one Of the prin
cipal British railways has sold, for Amer
lean account, 10000 tons of old iron rails
at "a per ton, or about the price that
new iron rails commanded two months
ago. .c.
The school census Of Muskegon, Mich,
shows that there are 1926 children of
school age in the city, and using the
usual basis of computation for population,
this would give very nearly 10000 inhab-
itants. The increase In the number of
school children is 500, correspondingly to
an increase of about ], 800 in population
during the year. So says The Chronicle,
of that city.
Every State election, except that of
Kentucky, that has thus far been held
this year. has gone Republican, namely:
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine,
California Colorado, Ohio and Iowa.
Next month Massachusetts,, New York,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Nebraska (the only Northern States still
to hold State elections this Fall) will fol-
low suit. The boom for 1880 has certain
ly begun. l..f....
Helen Hunt, now Mrs Jackson, and
resident of Colorado Springs, is described
by correspondent as bright, CHEEKY,
charming as her writings with rosy, sum
ny face and blue eyes, framed in a halo
of prematurely silvered hair. She is of
medium height and size, and was draped
in soft gray flannel, and wore dropping
broad-rimmed hat trimmed with spray
of wild flowers Her husband who ac-
companied her was as delightful as her
self.
| A CENTENARIAN AND HER SoN.-An
event of pleasant interest occurred IN
Topsheld yesterday in the private celebra-
ton of the centennial birthday of an es-
timable lady resident, Mrs Kimball, the
grandmother Of Harriet McEwen Kim
ball, the poetess. The occasion brought
to the town Dr. David Kimball "a respect
ed citizen of Portsmouth, n. H., a son of
tht former lady and father of the latter
DR.. Kimball is 80 years Of age. The pres
of his mother was so rare an occurrence
that the fact is worthy of publicity
Boston Journal, October 3.
THF TEMPERANCE ALLTANCE.-kAC ACINE,
Oct, 16.-This afternoon the Woman,s
Temperance Alliance, which has been in
session in this city for the past two days,
at the Presby tartan church, adjourned.
The meeting has been a very successful
and enthusiastic one, and the ladies are
much encouraged at the progress they
have made in their good work. The fol
lowing officers were elected for the ensn-
inc wear: Rev. Mrs Hinkley, Racine,
president; Mrs. A. c.. Hilyer, Waupun,
vice president; Mrs. VIM. sDrake, Mil
waukee, second vice presidents; Mrs ID
A. Beale, Geneva Lake, corresponding
secretary; Miss L. Goodell, GAINESVILLE re-
cording secretary; Mrs. Kate Hooker,
Waupun, treasurer.
So far, twenty Of the leaders Of the law
defying conspiracies and assassinations in
the PENNSYLVANIA coal regions, known as
the "Molly Maguires," have been hang
ed. One more is under sentence OF death
and there, are also four or five suspected
| persons VINO are Stlll UelnS H.IiC0o ioA
with the persistency which has kept up
the pursuit for more than five years, and
brought it's fugitive victims from Canada
and California to pay the penalty OF their
crimes There is no instance in the his
tory of the country where an industrial
conspiracy extended so widely and flour
ished so long, or executed its murderous
DEGREES with such severity and with ap-
parent impunity. For nearly seven years
j under the name of Buck-shots and Molly
Maguires, it terrorized over the whole OF
the anthracite coal regions Of Pennsyl-
vania, and defed the law by the strength
of it's organization, the clannish fidelity OF
its members, the perjuries Of witnesses,
and the fears of Constables and lurles-
Law and Justice have proved superior to
murderoas audaeity, and there is not like
ly to be revival of Molly Magulrelsm
for one generation at least.
No DoUBTs.-Judging from the unlver-
sal satisfaction that Dr.. Prices Unique