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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24
Wedding Costumes in Brittany

The wedding was preceded by a e
QUEEN sung for the repose of the sods
Of the groom's father and mother, he b.
ing an orphan. A most mournful ah
lugubrious introduction to weddingt
seemed. The groom, who is very rio,
I hear, was sight to behold. His slee-
ed waistcoat was of no common clot,
but of rich blue velvet, curiously Ell
broidered, his sash Of blue silk and Is
hat bound with a broad silver ribba.
The unity of his costume was somewht
married by black cloth trousers anda
pair of kid boots of Partisan make. BIT
if the groom was a splendid sight, wit
shall I say Of the bride? Her dress VS.
gorgeous. She literally blazed VIII
gold and silver laces and ribbons, spa
giles of all colors, and silk embroidg.
Her apron was plum colored silk, TO-
caded with great flowers of green ad
yellow. Nor was she alone in her mg-
nifcence; many of the guests werlas
brilliant as she. Two young ladies f,m
Chateaulin, neighboring town, vre
silver grey brocade aprons, back drees
trimmed with black velvet, the oen
bodice filed in front with pink Tx,
covered in one case with roses, inthe
other with little ostrich feathers.-hil-
aaelphia Bulletin.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24

the announcement that the general
would appear on one Of the balconies
after he had had time to lay off his over
coat.
After the chorus was rendered, Gen.
Grant, In response to repeated calls,
appeared on the balcony of the fourth
floor, and bowed to the shouting crowd,
Immediately retiring. Still the enthu-
siastic populace thronged the court and
refused to leave. Finally Mayor Bryant
appeared and announced that as soon az
the general had finished his dinner he
would show himself. In few minutes
Gen. Grant appeared amid deafening
and long continued shouts. Mayor
Bryant called the crowd to order, and
the general mounting a chair which
was passed over the heads of the SUR
rounding crowd, was again greeted with
succession Of cheers. When the noise
subsidized, he addressed them IS follows:
FELLOW-CITMENs OF SAN FRANCISCO
Alter twenty-five years absence I am glad
to meet you, and assure you of my cordial
thanks for the kind greeting you have given
me. shall stay in your city long enough
to greet you more fully.
The general then withdrew, amid
prolonged cheering, and the crowd at
length reluctantly scattered
A generous programme for the weeks
entertainment has been made out, in
Guiding balls, receptions, fairs, etc.
YOKOHAMA, September 8.-Gen.
Grant returns to America after series
Of demonstrations unparalleled in JAP
an. The entire nation was reused to
enthusiasm by his presence. The citi-
zens of Toxic, the capital, expended
upwards of $4,000 in entertainments.
The government officials exhausted
every means of manifesting respect and
confidence. Gen. Grants visit will
leave marked and lasting impression
upon the destinies Of this empire. The
emperorrepeatedly visited him to consult
On public questions. Gen. Grant counsel
throughout advises firm spirit Of indie
pendence and absolute resistance to the
aggressive policy pursued by many Eu-
ropean representatives, under the lead of
Park, the British minister. During his
stay in the capital Of Japan, Gen.
Grants time was constantly held by the
native officials, and he was obliged to de-
cline all private hospitalities, the only
CACOpoAoA DC1uS bIlC dCCCPuGucC VI OH
entertainment at the residence of Mr.. E.
House, proprietor Of the Toxic Times.
The American minister gave dinner,
also the United States consul general at
Yokohama. The proposition was
once entertained of stopping the
City of Toxic at Honolulu, Gen.
Grant desiring to visit the Sandwich
Islands. This being found irnprac-
ticable, Admiral Patterson offered the
steamship Monongahela for the voyage,
but the arrangements for departure had
already been completed. During Gen.
Grants sojourn hoax was practiced by
circulating a printed memorial to the
emperor threatening death to all dis
tinguished visitors. This is known to be-
the work of foreigners, but, owing to the
want of an extradition law, the japanese
authorities cannot pursue Investigations,
and the perpetrators will probably
escape punishment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24
The Rapid telegraph COMPANY.

The American Rapid" Telegraph
was organized into q company in New
York last February, and its whole CAPT.
tai of $3,000,000 was all subscribed DUR
ing the following month. A simple an
nouncement of its organization in the
New York journals, with the Hon.
Edwin Reed, Of Bath Me-, a wealthy
shipping merchant, as president, the
Hon. Thomas Wallace, of Ansonia,
Conn.,, one of the largest manufacturers
of the state, as vice president, and a
small board of trustees, of equal wealth
and responsibility, is all that the public
has been permitted to know of it's bust
ness purposes. And even now, six
months after this public announce ment
of the organization of the company,
nothing is publicly known of it except
that it's own machine shop in New York,
aided by Colts extensive machine works
at Hartford, Conn.,, are actively occu-
pied in turning out large number Of
novel machines, which are intended to
accomplish 10000, $4,000, and even 90,
900 words per hour-say from 40 to 100
times more than can be telegraphed over
q 800 mile circuit by the Morse system
now in general use. By the employ
ment of engineering skill, with the use
of Canadian red cedar posts and electro
plated steel wires, the Rapid COM
pany claim that they can build tele.
graph lines that will rarely, if ever, be
out of order, and never from storms,
sleet, winds Or other atmospheric dis
turbances. Taking all these advantages
into consideration-machinery as against
hand work and the saving in mainten-
ance-the American Rapid" company
do not hesitate to state the fact that
when the Washington and Boston line i
opened to the public it will be possible
for them to do profitable business st
the rate Of 10 cents per 100 words, am
so on at the same rate, without regah
to distance, as the line extends through
out the United States. Indeed, it is
confidently expected by them within tie
next three years to be able to telegram
ordinary business letters to and fromll1
POINTS in the country for 10 cents eah.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24

Docs commonly accompany their mas
tiers to the Winnipeg theater, and re-
Gently, in the midst of the most fearful
scene in "Lady Audley's Secret" two
of the brutes get into fight close to the
stage. The audience transferred it's at
tention to the interpolated show, and
the play was suspended for ten minutes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24

A VIRG1NIAN has a pet allistor
trained to perform tricks.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24


tice and our own equality in the Government,
before cowardly peace and craven submission.
We acknowledge the sovereignty of the people
within the rule Of the constitution. The war
of the rebellion was fought in vain If it failed
to establish the doctrine that the will of the
majority, fairly expressed, shall be the SUI
preme law CT the land. The majority have
successfully asserted their fidelity to the Union
upon countless battle fields, and at every fair
trial by an honest ballot, and, despite the mach
nations and revolutionary aggressions OF
the Democratic party, will again maintain their
rights to govern, under the constitution, their
own Union, rescued by war from the tolls Of
treason, in their own way AS Winter Davis
said ct the close of the war: I'VE
who have laid down our 100000 men under
the soil have right to say
who shall triumph above it. The
question is DO longer the equality of the freed
men in the Government, but that of our own
equality. We will no longer be deluded by
fluent promises and iPunic professions. We,
too, make our demands, and will exhaust all
constitutional and legal methods to enforce
them. We will have the equality IN the Coy
eminent to which we are entitled under the
constitution, and will not submit to the ex-
cessive power usurped by the South in the sub
version of law and citizenship. We assert the
right of the Government to control national
elections, so that every man entitled to suffrage
may cast in peace and security, one free vote
and no more We demand one law-justly en-
acted-equally binding upon every citizen OF
the land, to be respected and obeyed alike by
all, and, when all other means fail, to be en-
forced by the strong arm which subdued the
rebellion We make no secret of our partially
for the regulated bayonet in the hands of men
wearing the blue of the Government as against
the shotgun in the hands of the red-shirted
mobocracy of the South We demand that this
land
She that Lifts up the manhood of the poor,
She of the open soul and open door,
With room about her hearth for all mankind
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and the bold outlines of the Golden
Gate rose sharply against the sky, while
the bay itself, with the island shores of
Alameda and Contra Costa, were bathed
in sunlight. From every flagstaff in the
city flags were flying, and the shipping
along the city front was brilliantly
decked with ensigns, festooned with
flags and streamers. The impatient
crowds that covered the hill tops stood
straining their eyes to catch the first
glimpse of the Toxic. A hundred times
the cry was raised, "There she comes"
as chance arrivals came in view between
the heads. It was half-past 5 o'clock
when puff of white smoke from the sea-
ward earth works back of and above
Fort Point and booming of a heavy gun
announced that the steamer was near at
hand. Another and another followed in
close succession. Fort Point next Joined
in cannonade, firing with both casemate
and barbet guns, and the battery at Lime
Point added its thunders to the voice Of
welcome. In few moments the
entrance to the harbor was yelled in
wreaths of smoke, and, as the batteries of
Angel Island, Black Point and Alca-
traz opened fire in succession,
the whole channel was soon
shrouded in clouds from their
rapid discharges. For some time the
position of the approaching ships could
not be discerned, but shortly before 6
O'Clock outlines of the huge hull of the
City of Toxic doomed through the OBJ
security of the smoke and the rapidly ap-
preaching shades of evening were Lit up
by flashes of guns, and in few moments
she glided into full view, surrounded by
feet of steamersI and tugs gay with
flags and crowded with guests, while the
yacht squadron brought up the rear
festooned from deck to truck with bril-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-26
Great Esriinin.

LONDON, August 21.-Rains in
England continue. There is a renewal
Of the overflow of rivers in Somerset
shire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Lei
cestershire and Stafordshire
Sir Rowland Hill, founder of the
penny postage system, is dying, aged
eighty-fve.
John Baldwin Blackstone, comedian
and dramatic author, is on his death
bed and in destitute circumstances.
Joseph Octave de Lepierre, Belgian
historian and antiquary, is dead, aged
seventy-six.
The last communication through
the cable from the steamer Faraday
laying the new French cable, was re-
ceived on the 18th of August. The
Faraday was then Experiencing heavy
weather. The cable is supposed cut
and it is hoped buoyed. The steamer
Weser spoke the Faraday on the 18th
in latitude iorty-nine degrees nineteen
minutes north, longitude fourteen de-
BlCOo OHllly uiuulcS WtbJ, DuU LlC
oaly words Of the signals decipherable
were, lifted 1900 cable"
The traffic of the Suez canal, inter
rupted yesterday by the grounding OF
a steamer, is resumed.
In the vale Of Clwyd, Wales, thou
sands of acres Of crops are still sub
merged, and hundreds of cattle and
sheep drowned.
LONDON, August 22.-The Times
in its leader this morning announces
that the authorities decide that the
evidence before the court martial in
Africa does not justify the conviction
of Lieutenant Carey, The findings Of
the court are accordingly duashed.
Carey retains his rank. He is re-
leased from arrest to- day. The SEN
tence Of the court was dismissal from
the service.
Sir John George Shaw Lefeyre,
vice chancellor of the University OF
London, is dead.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-26

It was rumored soon after that Mr..
Sprague had heard of the night scene
at the senate, and had declared his in
tention to bring the affair to an issue.
Apparently this rumor did not reach
COnkling for he remained in Wash
ington for some time after the ad-
vent and spent the larger portion of
it at EdgeWood. 1t was a common
thing for frequenters of the road to
meet them driving after the senator's
fine team, and about the time of Mrs.
Sprague,s arrival at Long Branch the
telegraph gave notice Of Mr.. Conk-
lings presence there. lie seems,
however, to have gone too far. when
he followed her to her husbands S
residence, near Providence. The
matter it is now believed will 20 to
the courts, and notwithstanding the
efforts Of the agent of the Associated
Press to cover up the affair at Nara
gansett Pier, the whole truth concern
ing it is likely to be made public. The
Post, our readers will be able to tes
tify has given no publicity to the
many rumOrs that have been in circu-
tion for the past twelve months, and
will endeayor. at all times, to keep
within the limits prescribed by fair
presentation of the actual facts.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-26
TENNESSEE
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
Nashville, Tenn, August Is, 1879.
RULES
For the Government of Memphis
and Other Infected Districts.

RULE l. No person shall be permitted to
enter town or place which is dangerously
infected with yellow fever, unless such per-
son has already had the yellow fever, and
then only after obtaining permission of the
Superintendent of Quarantine.
RULE 2. The Superintendent of Qu.ran-
tine at each place dangerously infected"
shall have charge and control, with the couu-
sci and advise ofthis Board, Of the disinfec-
ton Of houses, privies, cellars, clothing, bed
ding, and all other textile fabrics, baggage,
mails, cars, depots, sewers, drains, public
and private yards and such other places and
things as it may be at any time considered
necessary to disiniect
RULE 3. Local Boards Of Health are ex-
pected to have charge of, and to enforce gen
eral sanitation within the limits of their re-
speetive jurisdictions, and to give aid aud
support to Superintendents of Quarantine
during the epidemics in the carrying out Of
such rules and regulations as the State Board
have adopted, and may from time to time
adopt
RULE 4. A house infected with yellow fe-
yer shall be designated by Yellow Flag.
Rule 5. No opcrson shall be permitted to
enter house infected with yellow fever ex-
cept physicians, clergymen, and such nurses
and attendants as are necessary to the care
of the sick
RULE 6. No persons, except physicians
and clersymen, shall be permitted to leave
an infected house without the permission. in
writing, Of the Superintedent of Quarantine.
they having first complied with such methods
oil dislnfeetion as may be prescribed by him.
RULE7. Physicians and clergymen nav
come and retire from the apartments of the
sick Of yellow fever at all hours; nroyided.
however, that they shall not enter non.
infected house, carriage, car or other publie
place Of resort until their persons and {.
palel have been thoroughly disiniecteS "'
RULES 5. Public assemblies OF .ul,-,
prohibited In any place :. dangoronsIv in
S ieotSd y with VI yellow fovor and tho superin.
n' y - "'arantine is charged with the
rislu enforcement of this rule.
RULE9. From the hours of n m 70 ,bo
nour oi am. each day, al persons not
engaged I'm the care of the sick. or I'm
the execution of their duties ne oC.
heers of the law, shall remain Mt their
MONIES or on their respective premises. unless
they be granted permission to leave them bv
'he superintendent Of Quarantine.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-26
THE ZULU WAR.

King Cetywayo is about to be at
tackled by 10000 Swazies, from the
direction of Lunenberg, and he is
expected to be captured or driven
toward Colonel Clarke, or the col
umn moving from the southward,
There have been farther submissions
of the Zulus. A successful Zulu raid
has been reported from Utrecht.
Hostilities are thought to be inevita-
bic in Popdoland, and Sir Garnet
Wolseley is convinced that campaign
against Chief Leeoconeui, 10 the north
must be vigorously renewed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-26
sEvEREsT sUMMER EYER KNOWN.

Violent rain and heavy thunder
storms have prevailed throughout
England and great damage has been
done to property and crops. For the
forty-eight hours ending at o'clock
on the 18th the rainfall over the vi
cinity of Nottingham, Warwickshire.
Liecestershire and Stafordshire was
six and thirty.six one hundredth
inches, which is more than has ever
fallen in the entire month of August
in former years. In many places the
crops have been utterly ruined. Crops
not harvested have rotted as they
stood, immense quantities of hay have
been carried off and live stock de-
streyed At Bath the river had over
flowed the city, causing much incon-
venience to the lower part of the city
AT Dover nearly all easements were
flooded; at Burton on Trent fears
were entertained; the lowlands were
all inundated, rendering footpaths
and turnpikes impossible, and the
summer has been the severest ever
known in the British islands.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-26

forty to hundred feet. 1t is made
Of stone and brick and, considering
that twenty centuries have been test
ing ITS workmanship, the work was
we'll done.
As a mere wall, there is nothing
imposing about the Great Wall Of
China. There are a hundred thous-
sand walls, the world over. better
built and more useful. What i'm
impressed US was the infinite patience
which could have compassed SO vast a
labor. Wonderful are the pyramids
and wonderful as a dream the ruins of
Thebes. There you see mechanical
results which you cannot follow or
solve, engineering achievements we
could not evennow repeat. The Great
Wall Is a. marvel of patience. | had
been reading the late Mr.. Stewards
calculation that the labor which had
builded the Great Wall would have
built the Pacific railways. General
Grant thought that Mr.. Seward had
underrated its extent. Il believe"
he said, that the labor expended on
this wall could have built every rail-
road in the United States, every canal
and highway and most if not all of
our cities" The story is that millions
were employed on the wall that the
work lasted for ten years. | have
ceased to wonder at a story like this.
In the ancient days-the days which
our good people are always lamenting
and return to which is the PRAYER of
so many virtuous and pious souls-in
the ancient days when an emperor had
a wall or pyramid to build he sent
out to the fields and hills and gather
ed in the people and made them build
on peril Of their heads. 1t required
an emperor to build the Freat Wall.
No people would ever have done such
a thing. When you see the expires
sion Of a peoples power it is in the
achievements Of the Roman, the
Greek and the Englishman-in the
achievements Of Cinnamon when they
have been allowed their own way.
The Great Wall is a monument of the
patience of a people and the misap-
piled prerogative of a king. 1t never
could have been of much use in the
most primitive days, and now it is
only curiosity. We walked about
on the top and studied It's simple,
massive workmanship, and looked
upon the plains of Mongolia, over
which the dreaded Tartar came. On
one side Of the wall was China. on
the other Mongolia. We were at the
furthest end of our journey, and
every step now would be toward home.
There was something like a farewell
in the feeling with which we looked
upon the cold land of mystery which
swept on toward the north-cold and
barren even under the warm sun
shine. There was something like a
welcome in the waves as we again
greeted them and knew that the sea
upon which we are again venturinc
with the confidence that comes from
long and friendly association would
carry US home to America, and tighten
even that journey with a glimpse of
the land of the rising sun.
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3peoiaI % tho Oourier.JournaI.l }

speciaI to the Courier-Journal.l
New York, August 21.-The fnaI
preparations were made to-day for the
war upon the tea dealers who give
away crockery and glassware as pre-
mlums to customers by the crockery
and glassware dealers, who have
determined to sell the best qualities
OF tea and coffee to their customers at
cost. There was a meeting of the
Crockery and Glassware dealers Pro
tectiye Association, at No. 56 Murray
street, and the committee appointed
to supply the crockery dealers with
teas at cost reported that they had
made arrangements with a big tea
house to have the trade supplied, so
that on September ] the fight would
begin in earnest. The reduction in
the price of teas to consumers from
that purchased at the gift stores will
be about 100 per cent. The tea
dealers are frightened by the bold
front Of the opposition tradesmen. and
already number of them have given
up the crockery feature Of their bust
ness. Others express a willingness To
give it up if the crockery men will
take their stock Of crockery off their
hands, but this the crockery dealers
will not do. '
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RUSSIA.

Fresh disturbances are observed
among the Russian peasantry. Three
of FIVE male Nihilists were to be hung
on the 22d. A woman sentenced to
exile in Siberia was only fifteen years
old. AT Warsaw a court martial
condemned two peasants to four years
hard labor in the Siberian mines for
opposing demarkatiOu of their plats Of
land, and six others to various terms
of exile for the same ofense. A great
fire occurred at Batoum on the Black
Sea on the 9th, and fires in July alone
destroyed property in Russia valued
at 8,0O3, 1886 roubLes,
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Cnt nnd Rnt.
b tConn.) Bulletin

Norwich Conn., Bulletin
A Preston farmer, finding that rats
were making sad havoc with the prov
ender in his cellar, purchased a cat
that was recommended as a mouser.
For while after not a rat was to be
seen, and their depredations ceased
entirely. This apparent success made
the old man boast that Tab was
moren a ordinary cat, and the ami
NAL soon had the full confidence of
the whole family. Two months had
not passed, however, before the ser.
want girls old familiar cry was heard
about MONDAY upon the cellar stairs
Rushing to the door, the farmer in
quired: What is the matter, Bridg-
et?" " Bless me sowl," replied
Bridget, as | was getting pertatoes |
saw the cat eating on one side of her
plate and an ould rat eating on the
other side. and she just purred and
pUrred, while the dirty sharp-nosed
baste was eating very PEACEFULLY loike.
and winkin' wild his eye as much as to
say, do ye moind, Wen both live at
the expinse of this house. Then per-
saving me, and dart'n for me face, the
baste, he druy me screaming to the
shtairs. That cat niver shtirred any
more nor though she has been charmed
by shnake." The farmer could not
believe the tale, so the next day he
took it upon himself to watch the cat
when she was taking her meals, and
sure enough out came an old rat,
exhibiting a familiar air and perfect
delight in the presence of Tabby. at
whose dish he refreshed himself with
out the least exciting the ire of the
cat. The novel relationship was CON
tinued, but the servant girl could not
be restrained from screeching and
dropping the crockery every time she
saw the animal This made the thing
so expensive that the farmer concluded
to kill the rat. He was good marks
man, but the interest that had excited
sympathy for the animal in his heart
uunerved him for the deed, and his
aim was inaccurate, and he missed the
rodent, only to see Tabby, who had Sc
long allowed the rat to eat at her
plate, pounce upon it, take it by the
neck, and with two shakes put it to
death. Now he is inquiring what
power kept the cat from killing it
before.