Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-25
A BIG TELEPHONE SCHEME.-It is re.

dL'l COiHpOtoSu vi NcW OTk, 1OSlOIl,
Providence and Hartford capitalists, has
been formed for the purpose of connecting
all the larger cities in the East with New
York city by telephone. This company
has secured from the American Bell Tele-
phone Company and exclusive use of its
apparatus between Boston and New York
for term OF seven years from the 1st of
July last, and its proposed scheme will
soon be in operation. Boston and Provi-
dence will be the first put in communi-
cation with each other, and after that
line is In good working order, two lines
willsb extended from Providence, one to
New York by way of New London, New
Haven and Bridgeport. A spur line will
run from Providence to Hartford, Water
bury and other towns in the Naugatuck
valley to Bridgeport. Lines from Spring
field, Worcester and other cities will be
constructed tapping and acting as feeders
to the main line. The company also
have the right to construct lines from
New York to Washington by way of
Philadelphia and Baltimore. When the
lines are completed subscribers to the
local telephone can, it is said, for small
fee in addition to their local rates, talk
with people in any of the cities which
have the telephone system.
The Vicksburgh Herald is more sensi-
than most of its southern contemporaries
and does not take stock in the centraliza-
ton bug bear, with which Doolittle has
been trying to frighten the Indianians
; 1t says:
Improvements are going on in the va
ZOO, the Sunfower, Tallahatchie, Cold
Water, Pearl and Noxubee rivers in this
state. These improvements are carried
on as general rule by the residents of
the state, and are paid for by the United
States. This sort of violation of state
rights will be endured by our people, if
it causes Bourbonism to collapse a fue
We have heretofore occasionally remarked
that the people, on the same principle,
wanted the National quarantine, and we
are glad to be able to say evidences exist
that the intense fear of Uncle Sam swal-
lowing his own component parts is lessen
ing somewhat. Even the sweat on the
brows of the more sensible Bourbon is
drying in, as the years roll by and
the smaller states escape being swallowed.
Sensible people see that we are beginning
to reap some advantages from the Ma
, tlonal Government, and the opinion grows
that there can be no good ground of dis
trust between the states and the National
Government
THE KIND OF CHANGE THEY WANT.
Only II per cent of the internal rev.
enue which the United States pays
| ha Al.
IL per cent. consists Of taxes on spirits
and tobacco. To collect this 50 per cent.
the Government has to fight persistently
not only against the illicit distillers, but
against the united public sentiment of the
South. A revenue agent who tries to col
lect the taxes takes his life in his hand,
and the killing of him is considered no
murder. Southern Congressman are pro-
missing their constituents that if Hancock
is elected these taxes will be removed.
This is one item of the Change asked
for. To grant it will be to cut down the
internal revenue from the South to less
than l per cent. of the whole amout paid.
leaving the North to pay over SO per
cent. How does the North like that kind
of a Change?
Shot HIS WIFE.-CINCINNATI, Aug.
19.-John c. Schnell, member of a whole
sale liquor house of this city, fired two
shots at his wife this afternoon at the foot
of Prices Hill, an inclined plane, as she
was leaving street car Men interfered
and prevented him from shooting a third
time. One ball took effect, inficting a
slight wound on her shoulder. Schnell
says he knew she was going to meet some
man at Prices Hill; while Mrs. Shnell
says the cause of their trouble is his ef-
fort to obtain possession of her property
OBTTUARY--RICHMoND Aug. TO-
Hon. James Alexander Sedden died at
his residence in Gooshland county this
morning, aged IS years. He represented
this district, the twentieth, in the thirty
third Congress defeating John Minor
Bolts. He was member of the Peace
Commission in 1861, was elected to the
Confederate Congress the same year, and
was made Confederate secretary of war
in 1862. Mr. Sedden was descendant
of William Alexander, Of Menstrick, Scot
land, first Earl of Sterling
Did you ask how the Union war vet
Grams will vote in November? 1t is an
absurd question to ask. Among the vet
erans at Columbus, O., recently there
were 1928 who had suffered the torture
of rebel prisons. Of these 1922 are for
Garfield and Arthur and l for Hancock
and English. The boys that wore the
blue are opposed to the principles that
r. E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson fought
for.
The Secretary of War has suspended
action on the findings of court of inquiry
in the case of Cadet Whitaker, the color
ed lad who was accused of mutilating
himself at West Point, and also upon the
finding of Academic Board, which declar-
ed Whitaker deficient in his studies, and
has granted the accused an indefinite
furlough, in order that he might be tried
by court-martial, if one should be order
ed by the President.