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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-12
A Paper House in the Sydney Exhibition
lFrom the Papermaker's Journal.l


In the Sydney exhibition there is a
house built and furnished throughout
from paper. The structure is one story
high and it's skeleton is made of wood.
The exterior is nodded in carton-pierre,
whilst the interior is covered with the
same material, being plain on the floor,
forming splendid arabesques on the
walls, and nodded in imitation of plaster
on the ceilings. The doors, cupboards
and shelves are of the same material,
whilst the entire furniture, including the
chandeliers and a stove, in which a fire
can be lighted is made of papier mache.
The carpets and curtains are of paper,
and there is bedroom in which there
is not only large bed made of papier-
mache, but there are also blankets,
sheets, quilts, and female underclothing,
dresses, and bonnets, in the latest styles,
composed solely of carton-pate. It is
proposed to give series of banqnets in
this building, in which the plates, dishes,
knives, forks and glasses will all be Of
paper.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-12
MAKING CALLS.
BY GEORGE coopER.

There's lady of fashion, but she's very small;
On each of her neighbol's she daily must call;
The hat of her mother she puts on with care;
She stands at the mirror and fixes her hair;
Then two more shawls DER her shoulders she'll
pin,
And tie a big bow meath her wee dimpled chin,
Her toilet complete, she sweeps grandly away,
For this, you must know, is her calling day.
She goes to corner, and climbs on a chair,
With just the most stylish and elegant air;
She smiles and she asks herself, 'How do you dog"
And answers, 'sI'm quite well, and dolly is too
She then makes courtesy, bids ''Good-bye" to ALL
And in the next corner makes some other call.
Oh she's wee woman, as rght as the Mayi
Do all little girls go calling this way?
Our Little Folks
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-12
The Motion Prevailed,
Iron the Carroll Herald

"Down near Scranton, the other day. u
remarked runner in the Hovey house
Saturday night, Lawyer Barnes and a
brother shark went out to school-house
to try case. The crowd was thick. and
everybody was intensely interested. The
lawyers did little preliminary sparring
when the crowd Clipped in, and bic
fellow In the rear of the room arose and
yelled, Mr.. Jestis, move that this case
be dismissed ! Second the motion 4
bawled another, and shouts of 'Oues-
toni Question arose. And that
'iestis, after adjusting his specs and
sternly bidding Lawyer Barnes to sit
down and shut up. got up and put the
question. 1t was carried by an up
roarious majority, the 'jestis' declared
the case dismissed, and the crowd roared
themselves out of the building leaving
the legal lights to foot it home alone.''
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-12
pent and exhausted in attempts to catch us in

spent and exhausted in attempts to catch us In
some mouse-trap or other, like the bill of the
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Hostetler).
All thus arises from the inherent nature of
the collection called Democracy. 1 do not
mean to say the difference between their aver
age of intelligence and ours is SO very great,
but say that the difference is just enough to
make us take right positions on an average and
for them to take wrong ones on an average
that is ALL
With this picture or panorama thus carefully
and consld eratey drawn, Mr.. Chairman, want
to contrast in just one or two words, and then 1
have done, the action of the Republican party
of the United States. 1 belong to it, and have
always belonged to it, and 1 beg to say am
proud OF the honor. I believe in it: believe
III Its future believe in its past believe
even In its present.
when, In 1860, we came into power, sixteen
States of this Union were black with the Tester
ing curse OF African slavery, and over a vast
empire beyond the Mississippi the same por-
tentous cloud hung black and lowering to-day,
IN all this republic, there is not one man who is
big enough to buy and sell another.
we found 100000 of men slaves, and we
left them all freemen. We found war just
becoming fragrant along 1000 miles of border
That war we have brought to'a close ably, de-
clslvely, VIGOROUSLY, mercifully. If the prob
lens or reconstruction have proved too much
for anything but time, that universal solvent,
nevertheless impartial history will accord to us
that we have given to them the best of honest
effort and Of patriotic endeavor.
The finances of the country, entangled and
overwhelmed in the confusion of great war,
we have brought out of chaos up to the shining
heights of prosperity.
need say no more These and such as these
are our arms. won in wsll-fought fields. These
are our monuments, and whether the world be
sixty centuries or six thousand old, I say that
the sun in all his luminous marches from the
east has never lighted up blazonry SO honorable
or Inscriptions truer or more splendidly de-
served.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-12

The Breakwater (Del. Light has this
mention of some odd pets-a pair of wild
geese: "They were taken when young
and trained to the very highest pitch for
decoys. They can be put in a wheat
field, OF on marsh or pond which wild
geese use, and by their peculiar honk-
ing they will soon draw around them
large focks, many of which may be
killed from blinds which have been pre-
viously built. They are very tame; hav-
ing been handled as pets, they have no
disposition to fly away or to stray off. %
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-12
DE PROFUNDlS.
BY ALFRED TENNYSOE.

Out Of the Deep, my Child, out of the Deep!
Where all that was to be in all that was
WD1rled for million Bons thro' the vast,
Waste dawn of mutitudinous eddying light
Out OF the Deep, my child, out of the Deepl
Inro' all this changing world of changeless law,
And every phase of ever heightening life,
And nine long months of ante-natal gloom,
With this fast moon, this crescent-her dark orb
Iouchd with earth's ight-tbou CONTEST Darling
Boy;
Our Own, a baby in lineament and limb
Perfect, our prophet of the perfect man:
w whose lace and form are hers and mine in one,
Indissolubly married, like our love:
Live and be happy in thyse1f, and serve
Ih1s mortal race. thy kin, so well that men
May bless thee, as we bless thee o young life.
Breaking with laughter from the dark; and may
The fated channel where thy motion lives
Be prosperously shaped and sway thy course
Along the years of haste and random youth
Unshattered-then full current thro' full man:
And last, in kindly curves, with gentlest fall
BY quiet fields slowly dying power,
10 that last Deep where we and thou are still.
--Nineteenth Century.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-12

On the English bonnets but few flow
ers are used, but jet in large quantities,
and feathers. Jet is used in profusion,
many being made entirely of cut jet on a
foundation of net.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-12

The first gold mine discovered in the
United States was struck in South Caro-
lima in 1890.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03

DoN. CAMERoN's EDICT.-When we
take into account just what happened
at the recent Radical State Conven.
ton and boil it down to pulp, we
have about this as the substance
Resolrsa, Thai the ffty.eight delegates to III,
National Convention shall vote az one man.
Resolrsa, That Don. Cameron Ia that on,
man.
That is the whole story IN u nut
shell. Yet, the l5l delegates, who
were registered as freemen, and for q
lifetime have denounced slavery as q
relic of barbarism, like the historic sow
return to the wallow. 1t makes nc
difference who cracks the whip-Bot
Toombs, or Don Cameron-over the
heads Of human beings.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03

ENDoRsEMENTs.- The Belefonte
lTatclmdR, in alluding to a square
business transaction, injeets little
politics into the case in this manner
At the commemorauon Of President
Lincoln's birthday, in New York,
recently, Henry Ward Boecher took
occasion to express his preference ior
Grant for the next Presidency, Oi
course Grant couldn't help Beecher's
recommending him, considering that
he is away in Mexico, but the very
fact that q man has such friends is bad
for him. 1t is little like the story Of
very doubtful note that was present.
ed at a bank with certain indorse
ment on its back. The cashier exam,
ined the note and then looked at the
Endorsement, and returned il to the
party who presented it, with the ro
mark "The face of the note is bad
enough, and with that Endorsement il
is not worth d-n." And that is
the way with Grant. lie is at best
very bad, but with Beecher's indorse
ment he becomes utterly worthless ant
will certainly be thrown out by the
people"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03

OPPOSED TO STRONG GOVERNMENT. -
If the Grant people don't look out the
antl-thlrd. term boom within the Re.
publican party will prove to be a good
deal more formidable than the only
original boom itself. The German Re.
publicans are falling into line all over
the country and the "young scratch.
ers" promise to do some effective work.
An enthusiastic meeting of Independ.
ent Germans was held in New York
on Monday, at which vigorous opposl-
ton to Grant was expressed, and the
Ohio Germans have already declared
themselves, through their accredited
representative, to be in favor of almost
anybody to beat Grant The Germans
have had taste of strong Govern
ment and know what it means.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03
GEORGE B. GooDLASDra, Editor.
Mhxims FOR THE DAY.

No man worthy the Office Of President should
he willing to hold It II counted In, or placed there
by any fraud. U, B. GRANT.
1 could never have been reconoied to the ele-
walton by the smallest aid Of mine Of person,
however respectable 10 private life, who must
forever carry upon his brow the stamp OF fraud
first triumphant In American history. No sub
sequent action, however meritorlous, can wash
away the letters Of that record.
CHARLES FRAScis ADAMS.
/ would rather have the endorsement Of quar-
ter Of million Of the American people than that
Of the Louisiana Returning Board, or Of the Com
mission which excluded the facts and decided
the question on a tschnieality.
THos. A. HENbRIoKs,
Under the forms of law, Rutherford II. Hayes
has been declared President Of the United States.
His title rests upon disfranchisement Of lawful
voters, the false certificates Of the returning OIL
GERS acting c0rruptly, and the decision Of a COM
mission which has refused to hear evidence Of al
legged fraud. For the hrst tim are the American
people confronted with the fact Of fraudulently-
elected President. Let Il not be understood that
the fraud will be silently aoquiesced In by the
country. Let no hour pass in which The usurpa-
tion Is forgotten.
ADDRESS oP DENocRArio NJ. C.'s.
One hundred years Of human deprayity accu-
mulAted and concentrated into q climax Of crime.
Never again in FIVE hundred years shall they have
An opportunity to repeat the wrong.
DASiEL W. VOORHEES,,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03

PARTISAN GLoRY.-Mr Blaine is
waging a vigorous war against Grant
on paper The New York Tribune has
already succeeded in proving to its
own satisfaction, at least, that Penn.
sylvania is for Blaine, Notwithstanding
the fact that the delegation was in
structed Tor Grant. The Tribme'S eff.
forts are supplemented by a broadside
just issued containing extracts from
Pennsylvania newspapers which in.
dOrse Mr.. Blaine and smite his enemies
hip and thigh, Meanwhile General
Grants friends can afford TO smile
good.humoredly at Mr.. Blaines frantic
efforts to fight over again battle that
has already been won for them. They
have the votes and will probably be
content TO let Mr. Blaine have all the
glory TO be got out of vigorous crow,
ing.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03

TEARING THEIR HAIR.-A large
meeting of Crawford county Republi.
cans was held at Meadville on the 18th
ult. They declared that niue.tenths
Of the Republicans of that Congress.
sional district favor Blaine for Presi.
dent, and condemned the unit rule.
adopted by the Harrisburg Convention.
A Committee was appointed to confer
with the Republicans Of other counties,
with q view to have their choice ex.
pressed at the National Convention,
Mr.. Artemus Ward would remark, Il
alive "ol you damphools, dry upp'
Cameron hasa these fellows where the
hair is short, and he knows IL. Hence,
this Radical yell don't scare him.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03
CORREOT.

Gen, Davis, editor OF the boy lestown
Democrat, who went through the Mex.
lean war, and the late Rebellion and
was riddled with shells and bullets, paid
u visit to Washington the other day
and took o general look ~ everything,
and, among other things, remarks;
wallace has the reputation of being
one OF the ablest men in the Senate and
abler than any other this State has
sent to the Upper House in quarter
of century. Speaker Randall is ac'
knowledged one OF the best presiding
officers the House ever had and all
parties admit his thorough honesty.
The modest, domestic life he leads
amid the gaieties of Washington is
much 10 his credit. While at the War
Department we paid our respects to
Secretary Ramsey, whom we found the
genial, warm. hearted man of twenty
years ago, when he had not climbed
so high up the ladder of fame, His
success should encourage every toiler
for where there is Il will there is
always way, to climb from the car.
penter's bench TO the Senate and Cab.
met, as be has done. 1t will be recol.
lccted that his wife is a daughter oil
the late Judge jerks, of Newtown. Al
the Postofiice Department we were
shown the three or four small books in
which Franklin, when Postmaster Gen
eral, kept the accounts Of the Depart
ment for three years, including 17i6
Now fily.two large ledgers are filled
each year, There we met our old
friend Mr., Mari, now one OF the Assist
ant p. NJ. G.'s, who will have been in
office fifty years in June, 1881, when
his golden wedding" will be cele
brated, He told us that when he came
into the Department a small pouch
held all the letters and one bag the
papers of the great Southern mail, but
that now ten tons day 60 over the
route. The Superintendent of Foreign
Mails, Mr.. Blackfan, was born in
Doylestown, and entered the Depart
ment twenty-eight years ago. The
Third Assistant P. NJ. General, Mr.
Hazen, is native OF Northampton
county, We are under obligations to
both of these gentlemen for courtesies
We found Postmaster General Keys
an exceedingly pleasant, genial, man
and he could not well be anything else
when we consider his avoirdupois. We
are astonished that more Americans dc
not visit Washington instead Of spend
ing their money visiting fashionable
resorts-for there is much to be seen
and learned there
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03

LoTs OF CHARACTER FOR "OUR MEN
BER"-The Centre Hall Reporter com
piles the following Congressional rec
ord for the benefit OF Hon Seth H
Yocum
Iocum is wanted to vote in the Don
elly.Washburn contested election case
Yocum is wanted by the Greenback
ers to vote for Donely.
Yocum is wanted by the Republican:
to vote in favor Of Washburn.
Yocum lodges off from Washington
to hum behind "sick" baby.
Yccum's baby, however, is found
not to be sick and too young to play
the dodge Of being sick.
Yocum's dodge shows that he il
much sicker than the baby.
Yocum's vote for Donelly will make
the Republicans kick him over and
if he votes for Washburn the Green.
hackers will kick him out.
Iocnm then lodges but oh, if only
baby had the Group, measles Or mumps
what n godsend ii would be for Seth
in his dodge.
locum accordingly is sent for tC
face the music.
Yocum's dodge didn't dodge worth Q
nickle.
The sick baby we think, is Seth
himself
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03

THAT New BIBLE.-We see il an.
nounced that the revision Of the En-.
glish Bible undertaken by the Convo.
cation Of Canterbury, England, in 1870,
says the New York Sun, has now SO
far proceeded that the revised New
Testament will be copyrighted this
Autumn. In two or three years more
the Old Testament will be completed,
and few years later the Apocrypha
will be ready for the press. The 10.
vision is in the hands of a commission
of clergymen and scholars, represent.
ing different Protestant denominations,
and this English board submits its
work as it progresses to a similar
commission in the United States for
criticism and suggestion.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03

A premium ON IGNORANCE. The
enormous increase in the price of pa
per is freak of damnable features oi
tariff for revenue, to support the Gov
ernment, instead of assessing tax
honestly for that purpose. The Wash
ington Post, in alluding to this matter
remarks:
No people can afford to tax intelligence. II
increase the cost Of school books and newspaper
is one Of tho most Objectionable methods Of rails
ing revenue. II is simply Offering specisl in
ducemenis for ignorance.
Then, why not advocate the repeal
Of the tariff on type and paper and
allow us TO buy both where we car
get il the cheapest
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03

HE'S NO DEMoCRAT.-Wo learn that
number of Radical editors announce
that Ben. Butler has turned Demo
crat. This is not the fact General
Butler has recently been asserting
como Democratic truths with relation
to fraud perpetrated in his own beloved
Massachusetts, by the voters of that
loyal Commonwealth. He makes the
bold point against the admission Of the
present strength Of Massachusetts, in
the electoral college which, il made
against any Southern State, we are
very sure would be regarded as quite
formidable by our political opponents.
According to Butler the reading and
writing statutory qualification Of vo-
tors in that State excludes 100000
men from the polls who are otherwise
qualified voters; and therefore under
the late amendments to the Federal
Constitution its representation in Con-
gress and in the electoral college must
be cut down about three votes. Ii
South Carolina or Georgia or Alabama
had such statute, tens Of thousands
of negro voters would be disiranchised
and there would be an eager clamor
for an according reduction of their rep.
reseniation. The power of Massachu.
sets in electing a President must be
graduated 10 her voting population,
and she has no right to count anybody
in getting Congressman whom she
does not count on election day but it
will surprise a great many people to
hear General Buffers statement that
Massachusetts, has 100000 male adults
who cannot read and write.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03

liz FEELS GUILTY.-Senator Conk.
ling argues probably from guilty
conscience when he charges the Dem
ocrats with contemplating revolution
ary" measures in the approaching con,
test for the Presidency. The prompt
and patient submission of the Demo.
Gratis to the Electoral Fraud ought to
convince even so skeptical an individ.
ual as Mr. Conkling that revolution"
is about the last thing OF which they
are capable. The true "revolutonists'
are Mr., Conkling and the other third.
term leaders who deliberately propose
to violate hallowed precedent of the
Kepublic in order to seat Grant once
more in the White House.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03

The POCKET NERvE.-An exchange
remarks "rhe rise in the price Of
white paper is hard upon the newspa.
per men, but it may eventually be Of
service to the people, in that it will di.
rect attention to the iniquities of a
high protective tariff. Tho moot bla
tant of protectionists among the news.
papers are demanding a repeal of the
tariff upon the material that is used in
the manufacture of paper There Is
nothing like touching ones pockets To
make him understand"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03

PURrTANIsM.-An exchange says :
when any poor man in Massachu-
setts, from loss of employment, from
sickness, domestic afiliction or any
other cause, is obliged to accept TEN.
porary rehei from the public purse, he
is disfranchiscd for two years, like a
convict No matter how long or to
what extent he may have paid taxes,
if he has dollar of the money thus
paid returned to him ia time OF trouble
he is degraded by disfranchisement
This is Republican respect for the
working classes The Bay State has
three representatives in Congress to
which she is not lawfully entitled, be.
cause her 1885, 900 disfranchisod citizens
are counted in fixing her basis Of rep.
resentation This condition will not
continue. Her disfranchsed citizens
will be counted OUT ~
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03
CURTIN AND YOCUM-ANOL
CASE

In the Philadelphia Times of the
25th of February, We lind the follow
ing
The Election Committee OF the
House made three reports yesterday
in the Curtin Yocum contested election
case Messrs. Springer, Sawyer and
Colerick, Democrats, the majority Of
the subcommittee TO which the case
was referred, made report to the gen.
eral committee in favor ofyacating the
seat and sending the issue back to the
people. Mr.. Calkins, Republican, re-
ported in favor of Yocum's right to the
place and Mr.. Weaver, Greenback,
copcOrred with him. The general
committee adopted the majority report,
presented it to the House and fixed
Tuesday next for its consideration.
Messrs. Field, Overton and Camp, Re.
publcans of the general committee,
made second minority report, dis
senting from the law asserted by
Messrs. Calkins and Weaver, but Of.
fering no resolution to the House.
They refuse to decide the issue with
any degree Of positiveness, but closed by
saying that if the case must be decided
on the facts now before the committee,
they think that Yocum should be al.
lowed TO retain the seat. 1t is mani
fest from the whole letter and spirit of
the report, that Messrs, Field, Overton
and Camp regard Yocum's right to the
seat as more than questionable but il
they must choose, they think it safe to
go with what would seem to be the near.
est party landing they can find, and
their selfrespect compels them to
apologize for doing so.
1t is reasonably certain that the
majority report declaring the seat
vacant, will be adopted by the House.
Prominent Republicans both in the
Pennsylvania delegation and from other
States regard the solution Of the con
test by the committee as ominently
Just, and they will not invite the Dem.
ocrats to solid party votes against Orth
and Washburn by solid Republican
vote in favor Of Yocum in the face Of
both the law and the testimony. Mr..
Yocum has evidently weakened his
party claims upon the Republicans by
the fact that the Groenback members,
of whom he is one, have decided to
support Yocum in his contest, and to
vote solid for the expulsion Of Wash
burn and the admission OF Donnelly.
The fact that Iocum and his friends
are ethus under contract unseat Wash
burn, has aroused much Republican
Indignation against him, and he seems
likely to lose the favor Of both sides by
attempting to support or cheat both
sides As the Curtin. Yocum case will
be the first contested election 10 be
disposed of by the House, the Repub,
Icans do not mean to give solid vote
against both law and Justice, and they
hope thus to strengthen themselves to
prevent the unscating Of Orth and
Washburn.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-03

DEMOCRATIC SENsE.-The New York
World, in alluding to the approaching
Presidential contest, remarks "The
problem for the Democratic party to.
day is, therefore, simple one. 1t is
to select candidate who really repre-.
sents the Southern and Western forces
of the party, and who will, at the same
time, appeal most strongly as against
General Grant to the neutral voters
who exist in much larger numbers in
the Eastern States than anywhere else
Who is that man ?n