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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
The Situation In Maine.

The deadlock situation in the Maine Leg
1slature was broken on the 10th, by the
ousting of Rev. DR.. Nathaniel Butler, Re-
publican, from his seat in the house, and
the sealing of William Murray, Fusionist,
in his place, thus securing a quorum for
that branch of the legislature. The next
action was to send the names of Alonzo
Garcelon and J. L. Smith to the senate, and
that body elected Smith according to the
requirements of the constitution. A commit
tee was appointed to wait upon the governor,
and forthwith Smith appeared accompanied
by the heads of departments, the outgo.
ing council and the acknowledgement. The
oath was administered by acting president
Ellis, of the senate. Proclamation was
made by the secretary of state, and Cover
nor Smith then delivered his message. The
other officers chosen are as follows: A. w.
Sawyer, secretary of state; Chas. White,
treasurer; W. 81. Mcclellan, attorney gener.
al; M. NJ. Folsom, adjutant general.
Gov. Smith Immediately issued an order
deposing Gen. Chamberlain from his posi-
ton as governor ad interim and ordering all
militia to cease to recognize him as COM
mander-in-chief. Chamberlin ignores the
order, and thus matters become more and
more complicated.
The several questions propounded to the
Supreme Court have been answered at
length. The answers are in effect that the
Fusion legislature is illegal, and the Re.
publicans are favored on every point.
The Republican legislature will meet as
usual and proceed with legislative work.
On the 18th instant the Republican legis-
lature assembled and elected Daniel F.
Davis governor. Immediately on taking
the oath Gov. Davis issued an order to Gen.
Chamberlain to surrender his powers as
governor ad interim, accompanying the
order with copy of the Supreme Court
decision. Chamberlain acknowledged the
order and gracefully "stepped down and
out" The Fusionists show an inclination
to accept the situation and abide by the
Supreme Court decision.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21

Rep rted by CRANDLRR, BROWN d Co., Commits
sion Merchants, Milwaukee and Chicago.



NEW YORK, January 1850 P. NJ
Cotton-Quiet at 12Ac for middling up.
lands. Flour-Quiet; receipts $4,000 bbls !;
sales 5000 bbls al $5.40@5.90 for common
to mixed western; hoop unchanged; rye
flour dull. Wheat-Spring 1@1Tc better !:
winter without decided change; receipts
Il 900 bus; sales 10000 bus; No. white
seller February at $l.47. Rye Dull at 92H
@93c. Corn-Dull; receipts $4,000 bus
sales $4,000 bus at 56@6111c for western
mixed. Barley Quiet aud unchanged Cat
Quiet; receipts $4,000 bus sales &c. 900 bus
at 46@471ac for mixed western ;46H@49Hc
for white. Pork-Firm at S1276. Beef
Steady. Lsrd-Sfronger at So 90. Butter
Unchanged. Cheese AT 10@14Ac. Wits
ky-At $l.15. Sugar-Unchange Eggs
At 10000. Petroleum-Crude 1886; re-
fued at SC. Tallow- q unchanged. Coal
Firm and very quiet. Leather-In buyers
favor: trade only moderate at 27@30. Wool
Quite firm; little better demand at 43@
5Sc,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
The Grain Clint.

Over one million bushels of grain (al-
most exclusively corn) is now afoat in the
halb Dor at Chicago for shipment to Buffalo
in the spring. Elevator room has thus been
made SO that the storage capacity is now in
the aggregate about eighteen millions
bushels, including the new grain store
houses, which has relieved the glut which
had begun to alarm shippers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
Life Ina Chicago.

As E. B. Wells, paymaster of the South
Side Gaslight and Coke company, Chicago,
was riding along Deering street, in that
city. on the afternoon of the 10th instant,
three masked men assaulted him, knocked
him senseless with slung shot and secured
$4,000 in gold and silver. The thugs escaped
in buggy taken from in front of grocery
store, In which its owner was trading.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21

& correspondent reports the distress in
Ireland as increasing. Five hundred in.
habitants of Skule bog district, county Linn.
erick, are on the brink of starvation. On
the 18th inst. they proceeded in body to
Groom and obtained four cart loads OF
bread by urgent representation of their
extremity. The streets of Cork are patrolled
by mounted police and the magistrate OF
that city passed resolutions urging create,
activity in suppressing demonstrations par
taxing of the nature of bread riots, and ask
ing for the appointment of additional police
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
SlngUGar ExuIOsiOn,

AS some 'lopgshoremen were opening the
hatchways on the steamer Grace, at Hobo.
ken, N. j., on the 18th, an accumulation of
gas from the coal below exploded, killing
two and burning several others.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21

A boiler in saw mill at Fremont, n.
H., exploded on the night of the 18th inst.
The mill was blown to atoms, one of the
workmen, Clarence Perkins, instantly
killed and another, Joseph Quimby. fatally
injured
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21

A Pesth dispatch reports that duel has
been fought between Baron Maytheni and
Herr Verhovay, member of parliament and
editor of Huns arian political paper, in
which the latter was MORALLY wounded by
pistol bail,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
EXPENSIVE Collision.

A freight Car of the Boston, Hoosac Tun-
mel ard Western road, ran off the track at
Blackinton, N. Y, on the night OF the 14th,
compelling the Troy and Boston freight
from behind to stop when wild cat -
freight from Williamstown came in coils
ion with the Troy and Boston drain, wreck.
ing new locomotive and several freight
cars Dam ages about $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
Chicago.

Unsettled and generally lowsr; closed dull
at S1.24 for cash; S1.24H for seller Febru.
airy $1.25H for seller March. Corn-Dull
and easy at 39Lc for cash; 39L4c bid for sell
Ter February; 44c for seller May. Oats
Steady at 34c for cash; 34Lc for seller
February: 3SAc bid for seller May. Rye
and Barley = Unchanged. Provisions
Quiet and firm. Pork-At $12 SO for cash;
$l312H for seller March. Lard-At ST. 55
for cash; $685. for seller February !;
81 TN for seller March. Whisky-At $1.G9.
Hogs-Rsceipts $4,000 head; fairly active
and firm and 5@1Oc higher; light at 81 300
4.40; mixed packing at 81 1904 60; ship
ping at 81 60@4 rs. Cattle-Receipts LOCO
head; quiet, tame and generally unchanged;
shipping at SIS 60@5.0O; butchers slow at
81 00@4 90; stockers and feeders at $4,000
$40.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
Drowned.

Samuel Ellis and his son John, were
drowned in the st. Lawrence, at Morristown,
N. Y, on the 18th. The boy had on skates
and was pushing his father before him on a
sled, when suddenly both disappeared in an
air hole
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
AT SUN SET.

Oil there golden moments in mems lives,
Sudden, unlocked for, as the little clouds
Al gold which suddenly illume the gates
OF the lost sun.
Oh pray for theml They bring
No increase like the gain of sun ana showers
Only moments brightness to the earth,
Only moments CLEAN il common life,
Yet who would change them for the wealth of
worlds.
- The Spectator
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
sinRuIar Co1nctdence.

John Friend, proprietor of the Musical
and Dramatic Times, New York, has disap'
peared. The sum of $4,000 has also disap'
peared.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21

J. 81. Rochrer, for many years cashier of
the savings bank at Louisville, KY, is de-
faulter to the extent of $67 900. The bank
is to be closed and the the affairs wound up,
but it is stated that depositors will not lose
ANYTHING,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
milwaukee,.

MILWAUKEE, January 17-3: 80 P. M
Flour-Dull and unchanged; standard
spring extras at $52O@5.40; common at
$475@5,00.. Wheat-Steadier; No. cash
sold at $1.241a; No. at $i.22A@1 23Z;
No. 8 at $1.081a@1.OS5s; No. A al Sl.O01@
1.01 No. seller February at $1.2254@1 "a ;
new at $3.50: No 2 at 1910. Oats-No. 2
at 34Ac. Rye-Dull at 75c. Barley-Quiet
At 73c cash. No. seller March at 74c; No.
at 49c. Pork-Steady at Biz, 90 cash. Lard
AT 80 cash. Hogs-Dun at $4.25@46O
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
A Large Sale.

The Glass, Pendar and Rough and Ready
No. 2 mines, the richest deposits developed
in the Black Hills region, were bought on
the 18th inst. by western capitalists, headed
by Col. d. P. Dyer, of st. Louis, for five
million dollars. This is the largest sale Of
mining property yet made in Leadville.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
Fatal Lana Slide.

The village of Alcada del Jucar, in the
province of Albacete, Spain, was destroyed
by land slide. Several persons were
killed and fifty families rendered homeless.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21

diana......At the expiration of the morning
hour the house went into committee of the
whole on the private calendar, and when the
committee rose, adjourned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
Wednesday, January 81, 1880.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Dismal Swamp canal was sold at pub
lie auction on the 18th inst. for S275, 900, and
was purchased by the bondholders.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21

In the absence of her husband, Mrs. Ma
ria L. Crew, living on Libby Farm, Groten
Ridges, Mass, was outraged and murdered
on the 18th. No clew to the perpetrator of
the foul act.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
Business Failures.

Abner J. Barnaby, clothing merchant,
Providence, r. l., made an assignment on
the 18th. Liabilities about $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21

Joseph Halfauer, in Jail at Andalusia,
Pa, charged with the murder of Jacob
Gerber, suicided on the night of the 18th
inst, by cutting his throat from ear to ear.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
MOrtuary.

Mrs. Margaret Tuny, 20 years of age,
died at her home in Cincinnati, o., on the
18th. She had subsisted month without
food, having been the victim of q hsllucina-
ton that she had no stomach.
Charles W@chter, the German lawyer and
legal writer, is dead.
The Duke Antoine de Gramont, French
diplomast, is dead.
Richard Sullivan, well-known writer
and journalist, and brother of the present
editor of the Dublin Nation, died in San
Francisco on the 18th inst.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
FcreiGn.

LONDON, January 17-12:30 P. M.-Liver
pool wheat market frmer for white grade
but dull; floating cargoes steady; on pas
sage quiet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
Suicidal.

Constable Augustus K. Hall, of Justice
Summerfeld's court, Chicago, shot and
killed himself on the 18th inst. Financial
and legal troubles caused the rash act
Vincent B. Bell, former deputy collector
of Detroit, Mich, suicided by shooting on
the night of the 10th.
Henry Burguns, prominent Cincin-
NATHAN, suicided on the morning of the 18th
inst.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21

hot Springs reservation In Arkansas, was
reported back from committee and passed
......A petition from the general assembly
of the Presbyterian church on the subject
of the liquor traffic was REFEREED. After q
session in committee of the whole on the
report of the committee ON rules, bill au-
thorizing the refunding of the national debt,
reducing the annual interest thereon and
improving the public credit, was introduced
and observation-disclosures.
WEDNESDAY, Januaryl1 4.-The bill
for free Importation of classical antiquities
was passed; also the bill for the free impor-
tation of articles intended for exhibition at
the Millers' international exhibition to be
held al Cincinnati, in 1S80......A bill appro-
priating 100000 for the erection of suitable
posts for the protection of the Rio Grande
frontier was referred to the committee of
the whole......A bill requiring reserves of
national banks to be Kept in gold coin was
postponed until tomorrow After q ses-
sion in committee of the whole on the report
of the committee on rules the house ad-
,journed.
THURSDAY, January 15.-After some
miscellaneous business consideration was
resumed of the bill requiring one.half of
the reserves of national banks to be kept in
gold and silver, and Price spoke in advo-
cancy of the:.measure. At the conclusion of
short speech by Lewis in favor of the bill,
the morning hour expired, and the bill
went over without action..... Whitthorne,
chairman of the committee on naval affairs,
reported bill, which was printed and re-
committed, authorizing the equipment of an
expedition to the Arctic sea......A After ses-
sion in committee of the whole on the re.
port of the committee on rules the house
adjourned.
FRIDAY, January 16.-A bill was
passed donating condemned bronze cannon
to the Morton Monument association, In
The Republican journal., 1880-11-18
An Insane Asylum Burned.

LOSS or LIFE AND HEARTRENDING SCENES.
The Minnesota Insane ASYLUM at st Peters was
burned Monday night Fifty Of the inmates
persisted in the flames, and nearly 100 insane per
turned into the streets special SAYS
the scenes at the fire were heartrending SO ap-
palling sight has rarely been witnessed. The pa
tents IN the annex wing We're males MANY OF
them refused to leave the building at all and ran
up and down the halls, screaming and crying
Those who could neither be coaxed nor forced out
OF the building were those who were suffocated or
suffered a horrible death in the flames The others
were saved some by ladders and some by leaping
from the windows Some nearly nude, some
shOeess and hatless and all exposed to exceeding
cold. These to be seen in all directions,
flying IN wild fright from those who attempted to
save them. The air was bitter cold and the poor
Wretches, with half naked bodies and bleeding
feet, were flying about and hiding in alleys and
dark corners. There about 600 patients in
the building and every inch Of the space was util-
lied. What will be done with those saved, with
their malady increased by the excitement Of the
occasion, is now a serious question.
The Superintendent Of the Asylum says there
are not more than twelve lives lost, and probably
many more hurt Many people are believed to
be injured and dying from exposure to the wealth
er, than from the fire. 1t is otherwise stated that
20 people have either persisted IN the flames or died
of cold So many patients disappeared that it
cannot be told who Is killed The suffering has
been terrible Hundreds of the patients are as
helpless as children and almost as insensble.
Gov. Pillsbury says he can make arrangement
for the accommodation of most of the insane in hos
pital building is S200000 The ruins are being
overhauled in search of bodies The officers are
making every effort to discover the whereabouts
OF the missing.
The Republican journal., 1880-11-18

Gen. Hancock denies having written a
letter in which he is reported to have said,
in effect, that he would not accept the
Presidency if obtained by such dshonora-
BILE means as John Kelly proposes to en-
ploy The disclaimer does him no credit,
for it carries with it a disclaimer of the
sentiments as we'll as the letter.
The Republican journal., 1880-11-18

Southern politicians are indignant over
dispatches attributing to that section the
pressure to contest the electoral vote of
New York for the purpose Of counting
out Garfield The South is getting pretty
thoroughly disguised with the Northern
Democracy, which is not at all to be
wondered at.
The Republican journal., 1880-11-18

The "Ioung Democrats" Of New York
declare that the recent Democratic de-
feat was caused by
First-The utilization of the Democrats in Maine
with the Greenbackers of that State which al
though giving US in September temporary local
advantage, cast suspicion on the Democratic party
as to the sincerity of the pledge contained in its
national platform TO adhere to the principles OF
hard money, thus startling capital and shaking
the confidence of the people i'll the financial policy
OF the party
Second-'rhe neglect of the party to enrghten
the people on the injustice wrought by the exist
ing Republican tariff and the advantages to both
labor and capital Of its reform
Third-The absence Of well-detned and con.
sistent line Of policy on the part of the party dur
ing the last four years and especially in the con
duct of the Presidential campaign OF 1880
The New York Herald thinks that they
might have put it more briefly; they
might have said that the Democratic
party was defeated because it was not a
Democratic party at all
The Republican journal., 1880-11-18

Secretary Sherman has announced him
self as a candidate for the Senatorship
Cen Garfield is shortly to resign. 1t is
pity he cannot remain in his present
position as Secretary Of the Treasury. 1t
certainly is the wish Of the country that
he should do so. His financial admins
tration has been a Respondent success,
and the Treasury Department could not
be in better hands.
The Republican journal., 1880-11-18

The Republican gains in New York,
which the Democrats claim to be proof
presumptiye Of frauds, are easily account
ed for. The independent voters Of New
York, who are thoroughly organized, are
estimated to number 10000 IN 1870
they either voted the Democratic ticket
or did not vote at all, but this year they
voted for Garfield. Then a correspondent
of the New York World testties that he
knows that the Tammany distributors Of
votes at two polling places were giving
out tickets bearing the names of the Gar
field candidates for electors probably,
though he does not say 50, with the name
Of Grace for Mayor. This manuuyre
would 90 far to account for the Republi-
can gain,
The Republican journal., 1880-11-18

The Prog. Age says that two years
hence 'the paramount issue will be upon
the policy touching the national banks"
But the Democratic party is by no means
unit against the national banking sys-
TEN. Indeed Senator Bayard and other
leading Democrats are among its sup
porters, and it is generally conceded that
since the laws were amended to permit Of
free banking, the system is one of the
best that could be had. The Age will
find it difficult. matter to organize a
party on its paramount issue"
The Republican journal., 1880-11-18

The New York Herald publishes stats
tics which show that ten millions have
been added to our population by mmigra-
ton, and that it is constantly increasing
1t is estimated that these Immigrants
brought with them 81 ,0OO, 00O, 600 in cash,
but the bone and muscle that comes with
the gold and silver has been worth more
than that great sum to the industry and
progress Of the great Republic.
Wonder if Tilden didn't smile when he
heard the news?
The Republican journal., 1880-11-18
News of Belfast and Vicinity,


The body of Mrs. James c. Lewis, formerly of |
this city, who recently died in Massachusetts was
brought here saturday for burial.
Philo Chase Esq. of New York is having made in |
this city fine granite enclosure for his lot in the
cemetery, where his son Edward is buried
The overseers of the poor of this city say that
during the past eight months there have been fewer
demands for charity than for a number of years
The seectmen of Brooks ana Monroe have been |
engaged the past week in locating the line between
the two towns. The last survey made in 1853
The marriage market opens well in this vicinity |
One day recently four would be happy graoms called
on the city clerk aud recorded thcirmarriage intern
tons.
Nmelts have been in our hurbor for about three |
weeks, and small quantities have been taken with |
the hook daily, Smclt fishing will be light until the
river is frozen over
Tt'rrc is not pound Of ice To- he had in Belfast
The markets entirely ont ana unless Jack Frost
comes to the rescue. our mtrkctmen win have to
send away for supply.
me first snow Of the season in this Vicinity fen
~ Monday last. Enough r;tnc down to Written the |
ground. The first real storm of Hast year took
place Nov. 18TH when -iN inches fell bringing
''' 7" 'N'iH htAt 't'N.
The Oak IIil Granite 90 has completed 4 granite
base for monument to AdjutAnt General Towns. |
end, Of Ohio, It is ten feet square w two feet
thick. The order came from Quincy, Mass where
the stone will he shipped.
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The Republican journal., 1880-11-18

1t is reported that General Grant has become
silent partner in a New York business house
Grant never was much Of a talker, but
he means business all the time
The Republican journal., 1880-11-18
The Morey Letter.

The Democratic party is in a bad way.
The defeat of its standard bearer, Gen.
Hancock, is as nothing compared to the
disclosures regarding the conduct of its
national committee, and which should
condemn them utterly in the estimation
of all honorable persons everywhere
The evidence in the matter of the M0rev
letter shows that if the Democratic com
mittee did not procure the forgery, it at
least accepted it without question, Dol
stored it up with perjury and scattered it
broadcast over the country 1t was APP
parcntly the last stake Of desperate and
interruptions men. Had they delayed its
publication a few days longer it might
have been impossible to counterfeit its in
thence for evil. As it was it defeated
the Garfield electors in California. No
doubt chairman Barnum and his assoc-
ates thought that after the election, let it
result as it might, the matter would he
that hcplosccution of Philip for criminal
libel on Gen. Garfield was intended solely
for political effect In this. we are glad
to SAY, they reckoued without their host.
The prosecution has been vigorously
pressed, resulting in the Indictment OF
two OF Blrnum's witnesses for perjury.
both of whom have confessed their guilt,
and in the binding over Of Philip in $1,000
for trial. Mr. Hewitt Of tile National
Democratic Committee, and others, in
GLIDING chairman BUnumand several ont
side Democrats Of prominence. are likely
to be indicted as parties to this libel.
In fact tie evidence is considered rs con
elusive against some of them. and points
strongly To the guilty compljrity of others.
4 special despatch from New York slys
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