Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01
One of the extraordinary and unac.


countable panics which every now and
then break out in different parts of India
appears to be how prevailing in Madras
City. A rumor has got abroad, and is
firmly believed in by the lower classes OF
the natives, that the Government is about
to sacrifice number of human beings in
order to insure the safety of the new har-
Dor works, and has ordered the police
seize victims In the streets. So thorough
ly is the idea implanted that the people
are afraid to venture out after nightfall.
There was a similar scare in Calcutta
some seven or eight years ago, when the
Hooghly bridge was being constructed.
The natives then got hold of the idea that
Mother Ganges, indignant at being
bridged, had to last consented to submit
to the insult on the condition that each
pier of the structure was founded on a
layer of childrn's heads.
Section No 1914, pages 416 and All of
the Revised Statutes, provides that "every
person along or through whose land any
highway may pass, may plant and culti-
vate on both sides thereof, where he shall
own land, trees of such varieties as COM
monty grow at least 30 feet in height, set
two rods or less apart, in one row, with
in eight feet of the outer line of the high
way, and another similar row upon this
land, near the highway; and when such
trees shall reach II feet in height the
overseer of highways, shall on request, if
the trees be in good condition, accept
them, though heir fruit and care shall
be the owners, and the owner shall be al
lowed an annual bounty of five cents for
each rod of highway, if one side be plant
ed, and ten cents per rod, if both sides
are planted with trees This is probab-
ly new to good many readers.
ROBERT TOONfBs TO A FRIEND IN WASH
INGTON.-"1 am as positive that Hancock
will be elected as | am that there is
God in the heavens. You say that he is
a Yankee Well, / know that; and
know, too, that his sword has pierced the
breast of many gallant man in gray.
But what are we to do? We cannot put
in one of our own men this time, and
have to take a 'Yank.' That being the
case, let US take one who is less 'blue-bel-
lied than the most of them. You may
depend upon it, sir, that, 'Yank' or no
'Yank, if elected, the old boys of the
South will see that Hancock does the
fair thing by Them In other words they
will run the machine themselves. They
are not going to be played with any
longer. If you hear any man say that
Hancock cannot carry all of the South,
you may put him down as a id fool"
CARL SCHURz's RUMORED MARRIAGE.
1t is rmored that the marriage of
Secretary Schurz and Miss Irish, clerk
in the Interior Department, will take
place this fall. 1t will be rather pri-
vate affair. Miss Irish has been in the
Interior Department for several years.
Others of her family are scattered about
in the other departments. Her father
holds the fine position of Chief of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the
Treasury Department. The Irish family
draws between $1,000 and $4,000 as
salaries from the Government annually.
Miss Irish is spoken of as a very fine per-
former on the piano, which instrument
Mr.. Schurz is master of also The same
rumor obtained circulation last Fall, but
was then denied, at least as far as the
time was concerned. This time it is put
down for certain.