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EAkSS9 AND BDSg EALING
FOR SALE.

YVNHE UNDERSIGNED offers for sale farm
4 OF 300 acres over 0ue-half Of which Is now
in u high sta O of Gu ovation. There are on the
lace ten tenement houses, and six wells of
wafer. The VIII lie Is un er good fence and att
Joins Ihe city of Bryan; the extreme limits being
u small grove of timber. Il Il Of easy access To
churches, schools, Nc. Also house aud lot In
the city of Bryan. Tho house contains i've
rooms, with double Fireplace A good servants
house In the yard There is II wen Of llne water
on the premises, and number of bearing fruit
[ ee-. Terms easy; offered on account OF ILL
health of Owuer Apply to
II. \. MOORE, Bryan, Texas.
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4 OAi-On yesterday afternoon, ~ Elm
~ sirrot or vicinity, purse containing q
sum Of money Finder VAL nu r'wArdcd 10y
lrAviug thesinia nc The II rad OniNr.
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These drawings, authorized by act of the Leg
islnture ofl19, AMI sustained by all the
courts of Kentucky, o.cur regularly on
the last day of every month (-undays
excepted,) and are supervised by prominent
citizens OF the State.
The management call attention TO the grand
opportunity presented OF obtaining, for only
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Authorized by the Commonwealth ofkentnck!
and the Faifest In the World
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1 9th
THURSDAY. April aoTM. 1850.

AZ Maccauley's Theatre in the CITY OF Louis
Vile on
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
The Great BOat Race.

At Washington, d. c., on the 10Th inst, oc-
CURED the long-expected and much-talked-of
race between Edward Hanlan and Charles
Courtney, for the title of champion oarsman of
America Hanlan asserted his supremacy from
the start and gradually widened the distance
between himself and opponent until at the two
mile flag he was fully an eighth of mile ahead
of Courtney. At this point Courtney turned
his boat for home, exhibiting signs of distress,
and the race was virtually over Hanlan con-
tinued over the course and in response to the
blowing of whistles and cheers from thousands
of spectators, he quickened to forty stroke
and exhibited a splendid burst of speed to the
finish which he reached in 36 minutes and
40 $40 seconds from the time of starting. Riley,
who was to fill Courtney's place in case he
failed to show up started down the outer edge
of the course a few seconds before the word
was given, and rowed nearly the entire course
in front of Hanlan, increasing his lead to about
an eighth of mile. After the lace Hanlan de-
nounced Riley's action as ungentlemanly, and
race was arranged between him and Riley over
the same course on the Goth inst.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
The English Parliament.

Parliament assembled on the afternoon of the
Goth inst. The queens speech promised early
steps to compel Turkey to fulfill the Berlin
treaty, and assiduous efforts to establish an in
dependent government in Afghanistan; invited
especial attention to the Indian finances, and
announced that the South African colonies had
been advised to form a confederation. In re-
gard to legislation, the speech states that par
lament will not be asked to renew the peace
preservation act for Ireland it will be invited to
pass an act for the settlement of the burial
question, to renew the secret-voting act. and to
enact laws giving more effectual protection to
occupiers against injury from ground-game, for
the determination of the liability of employers
for accidents sustained by their workmen, and
for the extension of the borough franchise in
Ireland. In the debate on the queens speech,
Lord Beaconsfeld and Sir Stafford Northcote
expressed deep desire to know what the in
structions were with which Mr.. Goschen had
been dispatched to Constantinople. In reply to
the latter, Mr.. Gladstone said that he regarded
the settlement of the Greek and Mcntenegrm
questions as Of pressing Importance, and he be-
Heved it desirable to let Turkey know that Eng
land had no special and separate interest in the
maintenance of the Ottoman empire.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
MOrtUary.

Col. Thomas Hardee, chief engineer for the
state of Louisiana, is dead.
Hon. o. S. Williams, of Clinton, Oneida
county, N. Y, died en- the 21st instant, aged g.
He had for 35 years been treasurer of Hamilton
college, and was also president of the Utica
city railroad and the Utica and Binghamton rail-
road.
Judge Cooper K. Watson died at his home in
Sanduslly, O., on the Goth inst, aged 70 years.
He was member of congress in 1856.
Peters, director of the astronomical observa-
tory at Kiel, Prussia, died on the 9Th inst.
The Cardinal Bishop of Poitiers is dead.
Henry Ashworth. well-known manufacturer
of Manchester, England, and a prominent Cob
denite politician, died at Florence, Italy, on the
18th inst, of Roman fever.
Ex-Gov. Foote, superintendent of the United
States mint at New Orleans, died at his home,
five miles from Nashville, Tenn, on the 10Th.
Bishop VIM. Santey, of the NJ. E. church,
died at his home in Westerville, O., on the 18th.
He was one of the founders of Oberin uni
versity and father of the author of "Nellie
Gray"
Joseph Adrian Gastambide, an eminent
French jurist counsel, is dead, aged 70 years.
Col. Charles Fl. Lewis, ex-United States min
lister to Portugal, died at Harrisonburg, Va, on
the 18th inst,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26

The New York Bulletin complies from its files
a list of more than eighty fires from April 1 to
May Is, by each of which loss of $4,000 or
upwards was inflicted. Putting the loss of the
burning of Milton, Pa, at 81, 800, 900, and that
of the forest fires of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey at 81 900, the aggregate loss by fire
in forty-fve days has been about ss,0OG,9 600.
1t estimates thasaoss in that time by fires whose
damage was below $4,000 in each case at
50, 100000 and adding 81, 900 for the aggre-
gate of unrecorded fires, has total loss of
$4,000, 600 in a month and half, or more
than 100000 week. Insurance to the
amount of $780, 900 is recorded against the
$8,000,000 loss, first accounted. This record,
though unofficial is probably near to the truth,
and is really startling. 1t should impress COM
munities With the worse than folly of setting
outdoor fires in extremely dry weather, and
with the need of providing ample fire extin-
gushing apparatus, and of the greatest care in
handling fire in houses and business places.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
Those Dreadful SparroWs.

Dreadful little sparrows! exclaims
Mary Clemner. What mischief you
make! What work and disappointment
yeu entail You are not feeble folk, but
the most persistent, the most prosperous
of mischievious little people. You have
picked all the grass seed out of my lawn.
You have soiled the. wall of my house
from top to bottom. You have trick
ed it's face with straws, till it looks
like a gaunt Ophelia. You scold Like
parrots and fight like tigers, doing all
this to my constant discomfort. Youyet
dare, in the open wiz dow, to stare in my
face, with blinking defiance and beaks
full of straw Thus I arraign you as
nightly multiplied nuisance, with the
wish that every one of you were back In
England, where you belong. Not thus
out of the South comes the bluebird,
with its high, sweet carol; not that lonely
messenger from heaven, the hermit
Thrush
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
Work of the Flames.

About l o'clock on the morning of the 22d
inst, the steamer Algona, loaded with hay for
Ogdensbuog, was burned to the waters edge at
Pine Tree Point, three miles below Irouuois,
Ont. Cause, spark from the pipe. Crew all
saved.
The steamer Maine of the Northern Transit
line, burned to the waters edge on the 22d inst,
at her dock in Port Huron. She was cut loose
and drifted to the Canada shore. The loss is
estimated at 100000 ON the boat and freight
The passengers and crew escaped. Capt. w. H.
Weaver Jumped overheard and swan ashore.
The rake factory of G. e. Seymour, at Find
lay, o., burned on the Dist inst. Loss, $40, 0C0;
insured in the Western Mutual company.
The beautiful Poem house, on Peacock island
POtsdam Germany, has been destroyed by fire.
together with the whole of it's valuable and rare
contents.
Michael SchalPs car shops, at York, Pa, were
partially burned on the 21st instant Damages
1926, 900.
Thomas Nixon's paper bag mandatory at
Dayton, O., was destroyed by fire on the Goth.
Loss $4,000.
Blake & Lacy's planning mill and lumber yard,
at Pittsburg, Pa, was destroyed by fire on the
18th inst. Loss 800, 900; insured for one-half
At Kingston, N. Y, on the 18th inst, Polins'
sash and blind factory and two dwellings, were
consumed by fire. Loss $4,000.
On the 18th inst, fire broke out in an oil
warehouse at Countersport, Penn, and before it
could be checked every dwelling, store and place
of business in the town, except Bakers hotel,
Mann's insurance hotel and the Journal print
ing Office, were hid in ashes-about 40 buildings
in all. Loss probably $2OO,OOO; insurance
$4,000.
A block in the business portion of Salvisa.
Mercer county, KY, was destroyed by fire on
the 18th. Loss $4,000.
The steamer Ruby, an excursion boat, while
lying off the north pier, at Chicago, burned Oh
the 18th inst, the captain and one seaman hay
ing narrow escape. Loss $4,000; insured.
Gardner Co.'S Centennial brewery, at
Philadelphia, Pa, was damaged by fire to the
extent of between $4,000 and $780, 900 on the
18th inst insurance S13O,OnO.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
BRET HARTE said at the ROYAL Academy din

BRET HARTE said at the Royal Academy din
ner that he presumed he was selected to reply
to the toast Of Literature" as native of a
country which reads more English books and
pays less for them than any other nation. 81
recognize" he added, "your appreciation of
what is said to be distinctive American literature
"a literature which laughs with the American
skies, and is by turns as surprising and as ex-
ravagant as the American weather. Indeed, I
am not certain that these cyclones of American
humor that cross the Atlantic are not as proyi-
dental as the American storms that mitigate
the austere monotony of the English climate.
For it has been settled by your reviewers that
American literature is American humor, and
that this American humoris kind of laughable
impropnety, more or less scantily clothed in
words. 1t has been settled that you are sober
people, and that nobody in America takes life
seriously-not even a highwayman-and that
our literature is a reflex of our life. But
think that majority of this Academy are kind
enough to recognize some principles of art I'M
DERIVING this characteristic"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
RiOt0us strikers.

At Barcelona, Spain, thousand cotton-spin-
ners wrecked and set fire to mill from which
some of them had been discharged. The flames
were extinguished by the soldiers and police,
and the ringleaders of the mob were arrested.
The Governor Of Nebraska is in consultation
with leaders of the strike at Omaha, and de-
mands q pledge that no more interference shall
take place with the laborers who may come from
abroad. The militia is still under arms await
ing orders, and the colored men brought from
Kansas City have not yet been sent home, the
strikers failing SO far to furnish transportation
back, as agreed. A plan of action has been
arranged between the managers of the smelling
works and the state authorities, and it is hoped
that the worst is over.
Some thirty thousand worlimen created a riot
in Christiana, Norway, on the 23d inst. A
charge by the soldiery resulted in the womding
of several.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
An Old Church.

The stone corbels which support the
ribs of the beautiful old oak roof of the
parish church at Priddy, Somersetshire,
have been whitewashed and the saints
heads which they represent have been
embellished with black moustaches and
whiskers and very red lips, giving them
the look of clowns. The lectern now
boasts q new foot, but short time since
it was propped up with rocks. Even
now, when it rains, the clergyman has to
keep careful balance between the two
streams of water which pour down from
the roof. The pulpit has been manu-
featured out of the staircase leading to
the old rood loft (Which has disappeared)
and thereby hangs an authentic story
The staple product of Priddy is geese,
and some years ago a goose laid her eggs
in the pulpit and Matched them out. The
clergyman was about to ascend to the
pulpit when the clerk jumped up and
cried: "Doan't go up thur, measter,
she be sitting hard" upon which the
clergyman gave notice that there would
be no sermon
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26

ye, but consider the assessments. 81
shall do nothing of the kind. Your po-
sition here enables you to buy the
stocks, but it does not compel you to
pay the assessments. Be reasonable, re-
turn to the kitchen; and when stocks be-
come expensive again [ will add So a
month to your wages, and we will re-
sumo generally the style of living to
which you have been accustomed" Head
of the house (sotto voce)-" Smart
woman, that! only she doesn't happen
to know that I am short on the whole
list, and boom in the market would be
rattlesnakes and blue lightning!''
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS.
Hey Had Lively Time of It, but tt,e Grant Mato
Came off victorious-.-The MACE.

They Had Lively Time of 1t, but ft,s Grant man
Game OH Victorious---The n ,ominatons.
The Illinois Republican convention at
Springfield adjourned on the 2Ist inst.
a1ter stormy Session of over three DAYS
.al eveht unprecedented in the history
OF s1ate Conventions. The Blaine and
drant parties contested every inch and
resCrted to every expedient to consume.
Tune, but gradually the convention
reached the questions at issue and de-
cided them one after another, at
all times by large majorities in
favor of the Grant faction. The Cook
county Quarrel was settled by admitting
81 anti Grant delegates and &c Grant,
men. The test question is in the shape
OF resolution that Gen. Grant is the
first choice of the state for the Office of
president of the United States, was met
by one from the Blaine Washburne CO.
alition declaring the latteras the favorite
son, but after an animated discussion the
substitute was lost and the orig
1nal resolution carried by 70 ma
jority-386 to 307. A committee ap-
pointed to select the 38 district delegates
then reported the list, whereupon reso--
luton was put and carried declaring u.
5. Grant as the choice of the state of Ill.
inois and instructing the delegation
In number-to vote as q unit for him. A
protest was read from the delegates of
the Seventeenth congressional district
against the appointment or selection by
the convention of any delegates other
than those selected by them at the dis
trict convention held at Springfield Nav
18th, when the Sd, 4th, 9th, 18th, 10th,
9th, End and 9Th districts, by their dele
gates, united in the protest. A resolu-
ton declaring that the Republicans of
Illinois in convention assembled resolve
to support the nominees of the conven-
ton for state officers and the nominees
Of the Chicago convention, was adopted
as the platform
The following are the nominations for
state officers
For GoUernor-S. NJ. Cullom of Sangamon.
For Lieutenant G0UeynOr-John M. Hamil-
ton, of Mclean.
For Secretary Of State-Henry s. Dement,, of
Lee.
For auditor of Public Accounts Charles P.
Swigart.
For attorney General-Charles Mccartney,
of Wayne.
The several congressional districts
which joined in the protest denying the
right of the state convention to throw
out the anti-Grant delegates, will carry
their grievances before the national gath
ering at Chicago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26

In his examination in the case of Gen. War
rem, who is charged with not bringing up his
troops at the proper time at the battle of Five
Forks, Gen. Sheridan said: st never wanted a
commanding officer to take personal risks ex-
cept when his troops were in confusion which
might result in their defeat. There were several
instances during the war when corps COM
manders failed to attempt to rally broken troops
when l thought they should have done So"
This is doubtless the true military view of this
subject. AT the battle of Waterloo the Duke of
Wellington, although commander-in-chief
thought it absolutely necessary during period
in that battle to personally expose himself
under fra The Hanoverian and Belgian troops
were thrown into confusion by the charge
of the French cavalry. The duke at
once went down and rallied all of the fugitives
that he could. He afterwards said that if they
had been British troops he would not have done
SO, but that the Hanoveran and Belgian troops
had mortal dread of the name of Napoleon.
Consequently, he considered his presence among
them absolutely necessary to restore order, and
perhaps save the entire line of battle. His
conduct on this occasion more than bears out
the views of Gen. Sheridan in the Warren case.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
Suicidal

Gum, the Bridgewater (Conn. murderer, cut
his throat with razor which he obtained from
an inmate of the house of correction on the 22d
inst. Gum murdered his father, killing him in
bed with Ratchet fer the purpose of obtaining
$4,000 worth CT property which the old man
possessed. He was only % years old.
Ambrose AHses, resident of GAINESVILLE, Wis,
suicided in Lincoln Park Chicago, on the 23d
inst. Alleged cause, domestic trouble.
Susan Scott, 80 years of age, ended her life at
Terre Haute, Ind, on the 22d inst. by taking
arsenic. Domestic difficulties
George Mishe lski, sergeant of company H,
Sixteenth U. S. infantry, shot himself with a
Springfield rifle through the breast at Fort
Riley, Kansas, on the 18th instant, in fit of
dependency. He died within two hours. He
was serving his third enlistment.
On the evening of the 18th instant, at the
Jewish cemetery situated few miles beyond
Louisville, KY, DR.. Gabriel Kaiser shot himself
through the heart at the grave of his wife, who
died about six weeks ago.
The remains of Max O. Platt, New York
stock broker, who had been missing several
weeks, were found in the river under circum-
stances that clearly indicate suicide Three
years ago he married the daughter of q prosper
GUS broker. There was grand time at the
wedding. Platt was getting a salary of 500, 600
a year from the well-known house of L. Won
Hoffman & Co., whom herepresented in the old
gold-room. He was one of the smartest men
in che street, and he got it into his head that he
could make a million and retire. He threw up
his $780, 900 q year salary and plunged INTO spec
ulation wildly, and soon had made 5000. 0OO
every cent off which he had lost in an ATTEMPT
to double it. Off and on he has been flush and
broke. His father-in-law blew out his brains
when he lost all he had, and Platt, after series
of reverses, seems to have drowned himself
On the 18th instant, his household goods were
being sold under the hammer, while his BODY
was lying near by, in an undertakers shop.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26

New YORK, May 22-3:OO P. M.-FIour-
Dull and without decided change; receipts
1O,32O bbls; round hoop Ohio at @s4.90@5.25;
choice do at S3.75@4. 60; common to good extra
do at S4.25@4.S0; choice do at $4.85@7.OO;
choice white wheat do at $4.7505OO Wheat
Spring quiet and nominal; winter shade stronger
and quiet; sales $4,000 bus No. 2 red seller
June at $1.26; 5000 bus do seller July at
SLICE; No. 1 white seller May, S1.26s4 bid:
S1.27119 asked; seller june $1.23$4 bid; $1.2414
asked. Corn Without important change;
mixed western spot at 53@55c; do futures at
5134@5314c. Oats-Dnll; western at 4315G45c.
Beef-Steady; new plain mess at S9.5O@1O. 90.
new extra do at $10.00@10.50. Pork-Dull and
heavy; new mess at $11.15. Lard-Heavy and
lower; steam rendered at $3.50. Butter
Unchanged and dull; Ohio at 9@17c Cheese
Firm at 9@1215c for poor to choice. Whisky
Nominal; western at 41.13@1.15. Sugar-Fnm
and quiet. Molasses-Unchanged demand mod
crate. Petroleum-Quiet and very firm. Rice
Firm; fair inquiry. Coffee-Quiet, but firmly
held. Freights-Dul. Spirits of Turpentine-
Heavy at 26719@27c. Rosin-Firm at 1870
1929. Tallow-Quiet at CSC for western.
Eggs Unchanged at 1O1s@111(c for fair to
choice,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26

DR.. LJUNGMAN, famous Swedish ichthyelo-
gist, has been pursuing Investigations in regard
to the herring fisheries of that country, Stats
tics of which are contained in the state archives
from the beginning of the fourteenth century,
and thinks he has discovered that the yield is
determined by the occurrence Of sun spots, the
herring coming and going with them. The
learned doctor thinks that the sun spots, occa-
sioning welLknown magnetic changes in terres-
trial phenomena, causes change in the cur
rents of the sea also, by which the food on
which the herring feeds, is carried now to this
place and now to that.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
Storm i'm Georgia.

heavy rain, lasting from A. NJ. on the 21st
inst, to 5 o'clock A. NJ. on the 22d inst, fell
throughout Georgia, the rivers in many cases
rising at the rate of five feet per hour. The fall
Is estimated at 800 inches. All trains were
stopped, as the bridges over the rivers and
creeks have in many instances been swept away
by the flood. The engineer, fireman, and two
wood-cItters on a freight train going from
Macon to Montgomery were killed, the railroad
bridge over one of the creeks having been swept
away. The crops have been greatly damaged,
and in some places the cotton crop will have to
be replanted
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
A Case of Nerves.
[From the New York SUM-

William and Frederick Reed went to
work in the coal mines near Pottsville,
Pa, on their arrival from Germany.
Some practical jokers disguised them
selves as Molly Maguires and surround
ed the Reeds in the night. With pistols
loaded with blank cartridges, they began
an indiscriminate firing about the heads
of the young Germans, shrieking at the
top of their voices, and so badly soaring
the foreigners that they ran in fear of
their lives. Tremblin9ly, they took
train for Reading. They went in the
forward car, and their strange actions at
tracted attention, but they were so scared
that they refused to give any account Of
themselves. They were under the i'm
preston that the Mollies had followed
them to Reading, and policeman found
them creeping along back street. They
were given work on the city public
works, but it was soon discovered that
their fright had left the saddest results.
Frederick several times made threats to
take his life, and it is believed that they
concluded to commit suicide on the same
day, but they would not do it together.
They separated. Frederick was follow
ed secretly, and was discovered in the
woods kneeling on the ground, praying
loudly and fervently, swaying his Body
and weeping. In his right hand he car
ried huge knife. He was just about
plunging it in his breast, when his fol-
lowers came up quietly behind him,
caught his arms, and led him back to his
clearinghouse. Then it became known
that his brother William was missing.
Search was made for him, and he was
found weeping at a milI-dam. He had
thrown his poeket-book away, and was
preparing to jump in.