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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-01

Congress having appropriated at the
previous session $4,000 to pay expen-
ses ,ofipvestigating the nature and cause
of the diseases prevalent among swine,
the commissioner of agriculture ap-
pointed a number of competent gentle
men in the states of Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri,
North Carolina, Virginia, and the west
ern part Of New York, who have been
engaged in prosecuting their investiga-
tions, and have nearly all submitted eX-
tended reports, which have been care
fully collated and the results embodied
in report that will shortly be present
ed to congress. From these papers it APP
pears that the identity Of the disease in
all portions of the country is pretty
thoroughly established, that the term
''hog cholera" appears to be a nlisnom-
er, and that in all cases Of the disease
the lungs appear to be affected. Among
the gentlemen engaged in the investiga-
ton are DIR. HI. j. Detmos, the veteri-
nary writer for the Chicago Tribune;
Professor Law, of the Cornell University
DR.. D. w. Voyles, of New albany, Ind. :,
and DR.. Salmon, Of North Carolina, from
whose knowledge it is supposed that
theresults of the investigation will prove
of the highest importance in throwing
light on subject which has never been
fully understood, and in checking a
disease whose ravages yearly
destroy a large portion of the revenue
Of our stock rasers and farmers. @
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-01

" Auntie, what's torpedo?" Auntie:
u" Something that blows something,up,
my love-" Archie:s "Then are you
torpedo, auntie?" Auntie: Ono, my
DEAR Why?''7 Archie:,f '*Beeause [
heard uncle telling pasyou were always
blowing him up."-Judy.
She was a lady passenger in one Of
the transfer coaches which run from
the Shoe Fly depot, and, after becoming
tired of keeping still she turned to the
driver and asked: "How much further
does this ,horrid hill run ?" John re-
piled: "Clear to the bottom, madam"
Fidgety and cantankerons old lady:
"Can you tell me, young mar, if this is
the right train for Isleworth % Young
man: "t1sleworth? No, madam; you
should have changed two or three sta
tons ago." Old lady: Well, I'm
sure, think you miaht have had the
decency to 5ell me that before and not
let me come all this way for nothing
Fun. 49, ""aah '.-.
Father, of 1adored one" Then it
comes to this sir: you have lost your
fortune, you have lost, your
appointment, you have no prospect of
another, and you come to ask for my
daughters hand-7and fortune? mo
Suppose we putt this way: I am I'M
embarrassed by wealth. am free from
the cares OF business, and my future is
irradiated by hope; therefore this is the
crisis when I can best devote myself to
your daughter, and enjoy that affluence
with which you will crown our love-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-01
The Planting Sin of Utah
Philadelphia Times.

The ladies Of Salt Lake City who
held the anti-pOlyigamy meeting early
in November have sent out copies Of
their address, accompanied by a petit
ton, which they propose shall be gen.
orally signed by American women,
asking congress for ''such legislation as
Will make effective the anti-polygamy
law of 1862" This is petition most
righteous; whether it is universally
signed or not it expresses the demand
of every pure-minded and self-respect-
ing women in the republic, and must
have the support, as we'll, Of every
man who appreciates the disgraceful
stigma fastened upon our civilization by
the polygamous system. 1t may be
difficult, and doubtless is so, to find the
precise method that will make effective
| the laws passed sixteen years ago against
it, but while yet the evil is compare
lively limited in its proportion is the
time to strike it earnestly and decisively.
The fact that the Mormon leaders have
not chosen to draw ligature around
polygamy as it existed when the law
was passed-that instead Of circum-
scribing the Infamous system and allow
ing what already existed to decay they
have deliberately and systematically
sought to spread and perpetuate it's
an insult not only to the laws and
| judicial processes ofthe country, but to
the moral sense of its whole people.
| They, regretting the severe and douot-
less unjust treatment which had been
inflicted upon the Mormons in Illinois
and Missouri. and approaching the for
titude and industry which were dis
played in the reclamation of the Salt
Lake valleys, were disposed to be toler-
ant of the ''plural marriage esq that had
already been formed, but they never
presumed for moment thai the heads
of the sc,calIed Church would continue
to haunt their infamous system in the
face alike of legal prohibition and pub
| lie condemnation. Is 'tz '1d 81 @aa
True it is, however, that polvgamy,
tolerated, though always condemned
expressly fobidden by the statutes of
congress since 1862, has been preached
openly In Utah, as a religious principle
revealed from on high. and has been
perslstently and steadily propagated
at this very time the delegate who sits
in congress from Utah is a polygamist,
whose consolidation with four or more
women is perfectly we'll known. q His
predecessor had been, though a Nor
mon, married to one wife only, and it
was apparently an increase in the au-
dacity of the Utah nuli6ers that
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-01
WOman's Wages.
New York Tribune

1882 New York Tribune. Il - /.
+ Women complain, and very Justly, Of
the discrimination made against them
in the matter of wages, They receive
generally, as is we'll known, much less
than men, even when doing the same
work that men do, the fact of their sex
being thus. most nngallantly and I'M
righteousIy counted against them.
Perhaps the highest price paid in the
country proper to any woman is in Bos
ton, where, as school teachers, they get
1889 week the year round, including
ten weeks vacation. Statistics Of the
relative wages of the sexes have been
made up in anumber Of states for 1875.
In Massachusetts the average earning
per month for men was $08 81; for
women, $685.. In Maine, men, $37 !;
women, $18. In Pennsylvania, men,
S41 OF; women, $34O0. In Ohio, men,
$50; women, 81. In Michigan. men,
$51 20; women, $3.50. In some states,
however, in Iowa, for example, the GUS
tom of allowing the same salary to men
and women for the same kind of work,
is growing general. In st. Louis no
distinction Of sex is made in respect to
teachers pay. When women do mems
work they receive equal wages The
California legislature determined years
since that female teachers in the
public schools should have the same
pay as male teachers. for like services.
Some Of the Southern states and Arlzo-
ma, Idaho and Nevada, pay men and
women equally, SO that justice is likely
to be done ere long to all, women ,oblig-
ed to earn their own livelihood. Teach
ers of both sexes in the schools, all pri-
mary, OF Arizona, earn from 500 to
$125 a month, but one should be paid
handsomely for merely living in Ari-
IONA. e.- 7i 70 iyso
49, Z a.. ..#-4 .l .r..5 ~
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-01
GEN. SHERMAN SATISFIED.
His Opinions on the New Army Bill.
Washington Post


Representative of the Post called or
Gen. Sherman at his rooms IN the Ebbit
House last night for the purpose of OBJ
tanning his views ON the pending bill
for the reorganization of the army
Though courteous, as usual, Gen. Sher-
man preferred not to commit himself
to any detailed expression Of opinion
on the new army Till, because it. affected
the Interests Of SO many of his old fell
low-officers, but he felt certain that the
committee had acted in spirit of fair
ness to the army at large. r ID sa,a-..i
Have you examined the bill, gen
eral % said the Post. .....-'.
"That is just what I am doing now
said the general pointing to a huge
document lying on the table before
him. 81 fnG," continued he. " that
the first part of the bill provides for the
organization on u basis of $4,000 men
and thirty regiments in lieu of the
present forty. It affects the staff de-
partment and bureaus more than it
does the line of the army. This part
Of the bill is comparatively short and
condensed, ana Is all embraced in the
first seventeen pages. The whole OF
the remainder. of the bill, which has
264 pages of printed matter, enacts a
law substantially madeup heretofore Of
regulations, embracing the articles of
war. On the whole, | am pleased with
the bill, because it makes clear and
distinct many things which heretofore
have been uncertain or dependent on
usage or CUSTOM" H--..s....1 ..f
q OBSERVE" said the Post, that one
Of the newspapers this morning charges
that the bill legislates Gen. Drum out OF
office to make way for a relative oil
yOurs?" .-t.-. II .J--.a.y.,
$50 [ have been told" REPLIED the gen
eral, 2" and have only to say that the writ.
er displayed both his ignorance and bis
malice in the publication Of such stuff
Gen. Drum will not be legislated out Of
office. He isrnotr affected by it at all.
If the bill becomes a law. Adjutant.
General Townsend will be mustered
out. Gen Drum is assistant adjutant.
general and by reason Of seniority will
be promoted, unless the president by
his own volition selects some one else.'
"IWhat relative Of yours is alluded
to in that article?" u
az don't know; [ haven't a relative
in the army. Gen. Miles is NO relative
of mine, but connection by reason Of
having married my niece" r -.sto.
g Has Gen. Miles been mentioned fol
the place. .... 1870.
He has been mentioned by the news.
papers, [ believe, in connection with
the office; bit have never mentioned
his name, nor have [ heard the pres
ldent Or secretary of war mention it in
that connection Gen. Miles is, how
ever, an officer of high merit. and has
been in active service on the frontier
ever since the civil war; tabaoG 80
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-01
Seating the Supreme Court.

Washington Letter to the Plttsburg Post
Precisely at II they cross from the
roblng room into the court room. A
few minutes before they come out four
men come from the court room to the
doors and station themselves across the
aisle as a guard, when the signal is
given for their entrance. At loud rap
on the inside Of the robing room the
doors on each side of the hall fly open
and a clerk or attendant springs across
to the robing room and grasps the ex-
tended hand of the chief justice of the
sup eme court of the United States,
Morrison R. Waite. He turns and
conducts him across the hall, and the
doors bang behind them. In the mean
time the crier-or he seems to be one
of the clerks of the court in the room
has announced the approach of " the
judges of the supreme court of the
United States" Lawyers and audience
all arise and remain standing. Soon.
through the pillars are seen the black
gowns coming. Four of them file past
the opening immediately in front OF
the center doors, and in through the
entry archWay comes the chief justice.
They all face up close in a row, look
along the line and ali sit down at a
time. ssfass az Ill ss4EEsav41tU
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-01

The story that Stonewall Jackson was
shot by his own men is received by
General Jubal A, Early, who, in con-
tribution to the southern historical
papers. says: Instead Of riding to the
front to reconnoiter the enemy and
then imprudently galloping back
toward his own line, General Jackson
was slowly riding to the front, while
making every effort I'd hurry forward
to the troops when he was fired on
by portion of his own men
on the right (south) of the road
and obliquely from the rear, and then
the horses of his party that We're not
shot down wheeled to the left, and he
galloped into the woods on the left to
escape the fire, when he was fired upon
by another body of troops on the north
side of the road. 1t was by this last
fire that Gen. Jackson was wounded.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-01
THIS MORNINGS SUNRISE.

BY w. A. eRoFFUT. =
g'he sun-ship sailed this morning
s From the tathomlesS gulf Of dawn
T The flash of ita sails adjoining 3, e. s
The field of lilac and faWn.
4 flag of fire at it's mizzen -
To the startled earth unfurled,
And an ancher from Vulcan s-prison-
The forge of the neither world.
It's pearly Prov came cleaning
s 81 Through the searletswaters riven.
ssAnd it $ lwend erfalswake was Streaming
- With the anil ne b ues of Heaven.
So the sun-ship. stanch aud hoarv,
Sailed up through the sea of gold, =
And the pillows of molten glory
E@s Afar to the zeni tn oiled. =
aWSo Neptune, grim, zdiscloses
His realm to you and me,
For it's sh OudS were hung with roses :
From the gardens under the sea.
- s-Neec YORK GrapGjt
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-01

"A JacksonyilletOr.) paper says: "A
flock Of geese flying rather low over
Gin Lin's claip9 the other day, the man
in charge ofthe hydraulic pipe turned
it On them and succeeded in bringing
down two of the birds. one Of which
was secured" -. a..e.o,u- s aa1 g,Ite.
Ia .ssN }ea3n,1-.agol bsssslb 10!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-01

ri A CAT at Morrlsyille, Mass, is endeav-
oring to corner the mouse-killing mar
ket and establish monopoly by stealing
aud taking home all the traps she can
find She already has five.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23
Gladstone and Benoonshsld.

Gladstone and Bcacons6s1d-
OF any two men in the world, the ex
and present English premier are least
alike. History never brought into
nearer or stronger juxtaposition two
eminent men so absolutely opposed to
each other in ways of thought and man
ner of speech. Mr.. Gladstone is in
tense. earnest, thorough. Lord Bea-
consfield is Indifferent, polite, superb
cial. Gladstone when chancellor of
the exchequer, would as readily have
placed a penny on the income tax as
made a joke. Beaconsfeld does either
as chance befalls, and with an equally
light heart. While you hear that Glad
stone has made a ''great ?" speech, you
never hear that adjective in connection
with Disraeli's addresses. His speeches
are "clever," " great. Perhaps
the adjectives describe the men-the
one great with the force of high moral
character and a ponderous intellect; the
other clever only in the sense that
cleverness is isuperlative. -INew York
Sun.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23
oNE MEEK M WALL STREET.

October It'll, 1873, Western Union
Telegraph stock sold at the New York
Stock Exchange for 96.1-S per share;
October 14tb, 1878, 1t sold at 96. "a, a
fiuctuation Of 9.3-S per cent. in seven
days; $500 shares sold on a margin Of
n per cent. required an actual capital
Of S12, 500. The same stock delivered
at 1884 gave a profit of 9.3-S per cent.
on livestock or s937. 50per100shares. On
the whole 12,500 the actual profit was
S117, 1s7. so or 9.3S times the capital
used, In one week. This is a single
case taken from the official record of
the Stock Exchange, and shows how
money is made SO rapidly In stocks.
Few people, however, have the neces-
sary cash to put up in order to realize
such immense profits as these, but cap
ital in any amount from $40 to $50, 900
can be used with equal success by the
new combination system Of operating
in stocks which Messrs. Lawrence &
Co., Bankers, N. Y. have established.
BY this method Of pooling thousands of
orders in various sums and operating
them as one immense capital, share
holders realize large profits divided pro
rata monthly. New circular contains
two unerring rules for success, and full
information, SO that any one can oper-
ate proftably. Stocks and Bonds want
ed Government Bonds supplied. Apply
to Lawrence s. Co., Bankers. 81 Ex-
change Place, N. Y. City.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23

Oliver Dalrymple, the wheat king,
lives at Fargo, Dakota. He may be
seen anywhere and everywhere on his
mammoth estates throughout the day.
Afoot, ON horseback, or in carriage, he
is always on hand to look after his
own and his partners interests, and
every detail of the great business ap-
pears to him familiar. He is a tall,
thin, pleasant-looking gentleman of
about forty-fve years Of age, and
though he would not be picked out in
an assemblage as a great man, any one
who visits the Dalrymple farms, in the
Red river valley, and sees the monarch
of the American wheat fields at home,
cannot but come away enthusiastic in
praise of an executive ability which
may well be compared to that of the
manager of q great military campaign.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23
Georeia.s

There is a very bad state of affairs in
Georgia, which seems to the distant OBJ
server. if correctly reported, to be main
ly the result of one-sided politics. The
democrats, having everything their own
way, don't appear to have been as care
full as they should have been in the adj
ministration of the state government,
and an exciting quarrel is in progress
between democrats on n side and
democrats on the other. The intima-
ton is that the whole state administra-
ton will be shown inefficient and cor
rupt, and that all the state officers, with
two exceptions, will be impeached.
The republicans are watching the situa-
ton with unbounded satisfaction and
taking no part in the disturbance
lPhila. Times.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23

1.-THE true relations of men and wo-
men" Is the theme Of the best portion
Of Anna Dickinson's lecture, "Platform
and Stage" The same subject has
doubtless been troubling ex-senator
Sprague for some time. But then we
produce a paragraph from Anna, who
says:
People don't care to mce the truth OF
the true relations OF mon and women.
They don't dare to come face TO face with the
tides that are deeper and stronger than NIL
seas. They try to shut It up. and lock 1t up,
and puts mnsk on It. They say, 80 things
should be. and so they are and they walk
with quivering lips over the crater OF the vol
cauo, with every breath they speak, and they
knnxv a.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23

The present is d~eservedly called the
age of invention, and in the exercise of
the inventive faculty, the United States
not only leads but surpasses all other
nations combined. The number of pat
ents in the country as shown by the
records at Washington is 21S,000. This
is AZ, 600 more than in England, France
German and Belgium, those ranking
next to us in invention. England has
s0, loco. France $4,000, Germany and
Belgium 10000. The rapid increase
has taken place in the last thirty years.
In 1S4s there were 10000 English and
only 5000 American patents.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23

ONE of the evidences Of the superior
civilization Of our age, is the fact that
societies exist for the purpose of furn-
ishing men who go to the ~penitentiary
for several years in consideration of a
few thousand dollars. They become
scapegoats for pay. Then murders can
be arranged for at the low price of 50
in New Orleans, s1Ooin New York, and
$500 in Chicago. This numbering q
man by proxy is one of the distinguish
ing traits Of our culture and progress.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23
When the Bowels are Disordered

No time should be lost In resorting to a suit
able remedy. Hostetter's m Bitters Is
the most reliable and widely esteemed medi-
cine OF its class. 1t removes the causes of
constipation, or of undue relaxation of the
intestlnes which are usually indigestion or
O misdirection ofthe bile. When t sets as a
evacuate, but produces gradual and natural
effects, very unlike those offs drastic purg-
alive; and Its power OF assisting digestion
nulliies those Irritating conditions OF the
mucous membrane OF the stomach and In
testinal canal which prod ce f1rst dtarrhpa,
moreover, an agreeable one, and emlnently
pure and wholesome Appetite and tranquil
nightly slumber are both promoted by 1t.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23

ALL of the snide papers in tho coun-
try are showing their ignorance by
manifesting their pleasure in not hay
ing had editorials OF the death Of Nellie
Grant. 1t should be explained that the
aforesaid newspapers cannot write and
never have original editorials. Hence
they rail at all Of the leading papers
that had good articles on the subject.
The cable mans mistake called forth
many an obituary notice and made
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris one of the
few who live to read the worlds post
norton opinion Of them. Nellie win
have some good reading matter for her
scrap book.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23

WONDER how long the English
speaking people would tolerate a GEN.
sorship Of the press? The beauties of
the system are nicely demonstrated in
the experience of the Don Gazette, a
daily paper published in Novocherkask,
Russia The censor lives in st. Peters
burg, 200 miles distant, and must give
his consent to every line before it is
published. As a consequence, local
and all other news is from four to sew
en- days behind hand. Oh give us a
censorship.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23

When we reflect that a power of en-
durance can be impaired to the brain,
and that weak minds have been been
restored to strength by Fellows Com
pound Syrup of Hypophospites, we can
not but conclude that the subtitle power
is really ponderable matter. Persons
who study hard should preserve their
balance of power by using Syrup.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23
al Baxard rnylor Joke.

A good story is told of Bayard Tay-
lor at dinner with several gentlemen,
one of whom bored the company with
long pathological dissertations. At
length MI. Taylor said: "Do you re-
call the derivation Of the word restaur-
ant? "Oh, yes! It is from the Latin
srestaurare,' to jnvigorate.' Mot at
all" replied Mr.. Taylor; sit is from
res a thing, taurus bull-a bully
thing" The philologist subsidized.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23

Or course George Francis Train
must have his say and he says it in his
paper, the Repudiator His theme is
the Jews and his remarks as follows:
They (the Jews) are the capitalists. the rul-
ers and the brains of the world. They are
more aristocratic in race. culture and good
manners than we Gentiles are. Now let the
10000 Jews in New York break parties
and vote their own men Into power
Make Seligman governor, Simon Stern mayor
and Belmont NJ. G. Nobody but Israel on
gunrdi
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23

CINCINNATI consumes 10000, 900
gallons of water per day, and 30,000,-
900 gallons of beer during the same
time. Wonder why that city wants to
waste SO much water?
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23

TALMAGE has asked for an extension
of his leave of absence TO October first.
He is making both money and fame,
and then it is rather enjoyable you
know to have your lame on every
body's lips. OF course the leave will
he extended.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23

IT IS sad to think that at all OF the
fashionable watering places in the east
the ladies outnumber the gentlemen
about twenty to three. Strange to say,
all Of the ladies are matrimonially in
clined. But then eastern gentlemen
have learned by the experience of others
that the best of wives are not always to
be found at the sea shore.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23

DANA, Of the New York Sun, is do
Ing good work in writing European
correspondence for his paper. This is
better than sweltering in a heated edi-
torial room with feet in an ice tub and
and cold cloths swaddled about the
head to keep down the fever incident to
grinding out red hot fraud" editor
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-23

ARIZONA is the only territory that
cries aloud for manageable women.
But then the women are not going to
rush there frantically ven for hus-
bands. The weather is always 30 hot
that even the sun has to keep his
feet In ice water.