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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
THE BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE.

The committee appointed by the Ma
tional Grange to confer with DR.. Loring.
commissioner of agriculture, in relation
to elevating his department to a higher
rank, and to convey the protest of the
National Grange against includin in
that department other industries beyond
the legitim ate one which it represen s.
agriculture discharged that duty.
Commissioner Loring, in reply, said he
had advocated the enlargement of his
department so as to include those inter-
ests which were Intimately, and to a
great extent, inseparably allied to agri-
culture. A bureau of manufacture ought
to be established, where producers could
find such information as would be for
their best interests in the production of
cotton, wool, etc. There should be a
mining bureau. President Garfield, q
short time before he received his death
wound, said he thought the land office
ought to be connected with new depart
ment of industries. AS to railroads, be
thought that something might be done
by which the whole country might be
benefited in the way of equalization of
fares and transportation. He thought it
would be benefit to have tabulated
rate of freights and fares, showing the
working of the railroad systems of differ
ent states in connection with the agricul-
tural interests. Transportation by land
and water was closely allied to agricul-
ture. The commissioner could not urge
any action looking towards making his a
cabinet Office. This he left to the country
and allegations which the agricultural
interests may demand.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
The Man Monkey.

GFrom the Cincinnati Enouirer]
The gorillas are the terror of Africa.
In the gorilla country no lion will live.
They are man haters and kill them for
the love of it, leaving the body, never
eating them. When they spy a negro
they come down from tree, hit him on
the head with club, which they WELD
with their hind claw, or carry them up
into the tree, there to murder him. Their
strength is so great that they will bend
the barrel of rife. Only one live one
was ever brought to England, and that
soon died. Several have been shot, but
they are tough customers, and the
natives dread them more than any ami
NAL of the African forests.
'The gorilla makes bed like ham,
mock and swings in the trees. The
gorilla is the sworn enemy of the
elephant because each derives it's sub
sistence from the same source. When
he sees an elephant pulling down and
wrenching off the branches of favorite
tree the gorilla steals along the bough,
strikes the sensitive proboscis of the
elephant q violent blow with his
club and drives off the clumsy and
startled giant shrilly trumpeting his
pain and rage through the jungles of
the forest"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
A German Soldiers Burden.

Soldering in the German infantry
service is not exactly boys play, for the
private, when fully equipped, has to
carry about with him weight of sixty
four pounds. This includes his cloth
ing, accoutrements, arms and ammuni-
ton, the aforementioned, with other per-
sonal articles, weighing twelve pounds.
the knapsack and contents eighteen, and
the remaining articles thirty-four. This
is all officially regulated for the man in
full marching order, even to the small
est detail. Thus the clothing weighs
three pounds, the boots, with double
soles, three pounds and ten ounces, and
the helmet one pound and eight ounces.
The knapsack alone weighs four pounds
nine ounces, and contains a shirt, stock
ings, shoes, drill trousers, hymn book
and pay book, with some other things
Jumped together at three pounds six
ounces; ratiOns one pound two ounces;
two packs of ammunition, containing
forty rounds of ball cartridges, and
weighing four and one-half pounds;
besides a screw-driver, box of grease,
etc. Then there are belt, a bsyonet
of two pounds weight; cart1idge-case
containing forty ball-cartridges, weight
five and one-half pounds; cooking uten-
sils, two pounds; overcoat five pounds
three ounces; haversack with ration of
bread, two and one-haf pounds; drink
ing-fask, knife and spoon, two pounds
and three ounces; spade, with its Gov
er, three pounds; pair of cloth gloves,
and ten-pound rifle. The regulations
laying down the law thus precisely and
heavily have been promulgated this
a11t11mn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 80, 1881.
RECKLESS RAILROAD BUILDING.

The New York Mail utters this warn
ing: "The old Athenian oracle spoke
wisdom for all time and projects when it
said, Be bold, be bold, be bold, bit
be not too bold We are in the MIDST
of an era of unprecedented prosperity,
the result of repeated magnificent crops
for which there was an immense foreign
demand, and of other favorable con-
ditions that may not last another year.
But speculation and speculative railroad
buildings have gone to lengths not justi-
fed by our prosperity. IF our tremen-
dous growth is not arrested by great
panic, it will be because our capitalists
are wise in time" It justifes the warn
ing by pointing out that the number of
miles of railroad in this country, already
undertaken or for which the money is
provided, and to be built during the
period from October LIST, 1881, to Oc-
tober LIST, 1882, is 1886; the new rail
road enterprises are coming into the
market continually; that at an average
estimate of $40, 900 mile the cost of the
roads that are In the list would be
$685., 440, 000-or more than David A.
Wells estimates the total annual value
of the productive industries of the
country, to be sunk for considerable
period In enterprise that will enrich the
next generation at the expense of the
present; that this takes no account of the
large investments in New Mexico; and
that from the statistics in Poor's Manual
it appears that the aggregate mileage of
our railroad construction in the two
years that Immediately preceded the
panic of 1873-1e71 and 1S72-was only
Is, 257 miles.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
Minor MiShaDS.

During the excitement incident to a fire alarm
at Philadelphia, Pa, on the evening of the 9th,
the horses attached to steam fire engine be-
came unmanageable and dashed into street
car, killing two young men who were standing
on the platform. Several other passengers
were slightly injured.
General John w. Reid, and old man and
wealthy citizen of Kansas City, was killed near
Lees Summit, Mo-, on the 23d, by falling from
caboose on the Missouri Pacific road.
break in the door of foundry cupola at
Harrisburg, Pa, on the Oath inst, caused q
flood of molten metal to escape. Three men
G. B. Amer, Fred w. York, and Isaac Conrad
were terribly burned.
locomotive ran into hand-car at Piqua,
o., on the 22d inst, killing Henry Brokerad
and Joe Blase. A. Beheart was seriously in
jured
Two employees of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company named David Cronan and Will
liam Dogan, were instantly killed, near Vincen-
mes, Ind, on the 21st. They were running a
hand car on the Evansville and Terre Haute
road, and were struck by the south bound pas
senger train.
At Detroit Mich, on the goth, the house of
John Hayes, a laborer, took fire from the up
setting of a kerosene lamp. In the confusion
of the moment Mrs. Hayes was smothered to
death. The house was saved in a badly dam
aged condition.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
work of the Flames.

The standard Oil Companys paraffne works
at Cleveland, o., were partly destroyed by fire
on the 9th. Loss estimated at $500
fire broke out in the Dockyard Church,
Sbeerness, Eng, on the 9th. consuming the
structure. Nine persons were injured.
Achille Emord's stables of fine breeding
stock, near Quebec, burned on the 9th. Five
horses, twenty-five cattle and forty-fve sheep
were cremated.
Dart & Brothers extensive planning mill at
Buffalo, n Y, together with large quantity
of valuable lumber, was consumed by fire on
the 25th. Loss $4,000. At one time the de-
structon of the entire Ohio Basin lumber dis
trict was threatened
The extensive tannery of Kiefer, Steifel &
Co., on Spring Garden Avenue, Allegheny City.
Pa, caught fire in the finishing department on
the 25th, and before the flames could be sub
dued, the entire tannery was in ruins. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, on which was an
insurance of $75, 900.
By the burning of sixteen houses at AYR,
Scotland, on the 22d inst, thirty families were
rendered homeless.
A building occupied by several stores on Com
mercial Wharf, Boston, was damaged by fire to
the extent of 100000 on the 21st inst
A fire at Eglington, Canada, on the Dist inst,
destroyed the Prospect House and town hall
Loss $25,000
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
dead babes were three months and five years Of

dead babes were three months and five years of
age respectively.
The wife and two-year-od daughter of Mr..
Clewis were murdered near brownsville, Ca,
Thanksgiving Day, and the house robbed, DUR
ing the absence of Mr.. Clewis, who is a well-to-
do farmer.
Adam Seigler, a negro, assaulted the little
daughter of Robert Maxwell, prominent far
mer, residing near Cairo, Ca, whereupon Max
well killed the lusty brute.
On Thanksgiving day a terrible tragedy
shocked the neighborhood of Perrysburg, O.,
farmer named Louis Raab, shot his wife
dead and then suicided. Nine children are be-
reft of their protectors by the awful visitation.
A fight between two factions of countrymen
at Fishers Station, O., two men were fatally
injured and thirty-two are known to be wound
ed, some fatally. The fight lasted two days and
nights. pistols, rocks, Footballs and knives be-
ing used.
William Hesler. O Miaritown, O., saloon
keeper was murdered and his terribly mutilated
body thrown on the road shout seven miles
from the city where it was found.
A ynehing party at Athens, O., on the night
of the Goth inst took Charles Davis, a colored
hbertine, from the Jail and hung him.
James Slaughter killed Marshal Cooper at
Covington, KY, on the 10Th.
A negro barber named Jones fatally shot his
wife during domestic quarrel, at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, on the night of the 18th inst. Jones
was arrested.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
Sister PauIine's Basket,

In an account of the quaint and
curious ways of the Ephrata (Pa.) COM
munity, in the Century for December,
appears this paragraph:
"We now crossed the meadow ground
to take look at the other large build
ing, and on our way passed two dilapi-
dated little dwellings,, one of which
probably is the one occupied for long
time by Conrad Beissel, the founder of
the Ephrata cloister. The second con-
vent we now came to, designated as
'Saron, or the Sisters house, is in its
external appearance very much like its
mate, Bethania-huge, oppressive and
gloomy, sheathed in black shingles, and
dotted with little square windows. The
rooms and passages, however, are quite
differently plotted, and seem to have
been altered to suit the uses of more re-
cent times. In one of the cells we no.
ticed huge hamper; it's size, in fact,
compared with the dimensions of the
door, was suggestive of the Chinese
puzzle, the imprisoned ivory ball, much
too large for the apertures of the in
casing cell. How was this overgrown
basket ever squeezed through so narrow
an opening? 1t never was. An indus
trious nun, bent upon doing some good
and useful work for the monastery, piled
in her cell, for many days and weeks, her
busy hands, to weave for domestic needs
that extraordinary piece of wicker-work.
She did not discover, until she had fin
ished, that it was mucn too large to pass
through the door of her cell. And so it
remains there, in 2oerpetat0ne rel memo
7TQ22."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
The First Mormon MARRIAGE,
from the San Francisco Chronicle


The first celestial marriage" oc-
CURED by stealth on the banks of the
Mississippi River, near Nauvoo, Ill.
Joseph Smith sealed" to James Noble
a second wife. Mobiles first wife died
soon of broken heart, and the second
wife went insane, and also died. When
Smith married Noble the latter also
married Smith to second wife The
first Mrs. Smith chung to the prophet
until mob killed him, and then mar
ried a Gentle, and at last accounts was
still living at Nauvoo. In defense OF
polygamy the examples of Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, David and
Solomon are cited. In corroboration of
the book Of Mormon we are pointed to
the buried cities of Palenvue and Uxmal
In Central America; to the mounds in
the Mississippi Valley, and to other
wel-known vestlges of prehistoric
race. When a good Mormon dies who
has lived up to his religion" and has
had a dozen or two wives and fifty or
sixty children, he does not become a
mere angel, like an ordinary Christian;
he becomes a god, with a world of his
own to reign over. A Mormon wife who
opposes polygamous marriage of her
husband goes to hell, and is "de-
stroyed." A Mormon who obeys the
mandates of the church in most respects.
but neglects to go into polygamy, be-
comes mere angel, who must be kind
of celestial servant to the gods or other
angels. His wife must share in the
same humiliating fate. The doctrine of
blood atonement is simply this:
That, if an apostate's throat is cut, the
spilling of his blood upon the ground
will save his soul. If he is left to die a
natural death his soul will go to hell. A
great many apostate souls have been
saved in Utah. This, in substance, is
the Mormon religion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
WASHINGTON Gossip.

Assistant United States Treasurer Hillhouse
has resigned.
William Jones, the person who is charged
with having attempted to kill Guiteau, was in
dicted on the 23d by Washington grand jury
It is believed that no jury can be found in
Washington to convict him. Popular sympathy
is entirely Oh his side. Several hundred dollars
have been subscribed for his defense.
President Arthur has decided to appoint E.
j. Phillips private secretary as soon as Brown
retres from the position. Phillips has been
President Arthur's private secretary for num-
Der of years.
The President has appointed j. Samuel Fra
zier, of Ohio, as interpreter to the legation of
the United States in Japan.
According to the annual report of the post
master general, the whole number of letters
mailed in this country during the year was
1,O46, 107, 348; of these one of 315 reached the
dead letter Office. In the letters and packages
opened in that Office, money was found amount
ing to $40, $3.50. and drafts, money orders
notes, ETC., to the face value of 81, 899, O62. 81
The amount of this money for which no claim
ant could be found was $6,584.4O, which was
deposited in the treasury.
Commissioner Of Patents Edgar M Marble.
resigned on the 21st to accept the position of
land commissioner for the Northern Pacific
Railroad.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
GENEROUS SALARIES.

A comparison of the salaries paid Off
Gals by foreign governments with those
allowed serving patriots by the govern
ment of the United States cannot but be
gratifying to those who lean toward re-
publican simplicity. While the amounts
paid United States officials are by no
means niggardly, they shrink to
pittances beside the government
pay-rolls abroad. The Chicago Times
prints some of the figures, and in
comment says: Lord O'Hagan has just
retired from the lord CHARACTERISTIC of
Ireland and will take the otistno cuas dig.
on pension of SIS, 400. He is succeed
ed by Hugh Law, who is thus advanced
from the modest income of $12, 800 to the
very comfortable salary of $40, 900. He,
in turn, is succeeded by the solicitor
general, VIM. M. johnson, who is adj
vanced from the beggarly pittance of
$3.50 to the salary that the new lord
chancellor has been drawing. Sixty
five of the highest judges get an average
salary of about $23, 900 each, and they
retire on pensions of two-thirds of that,
or more. The county court judges get
81, 500 each. Four members of the cabi-
net get $25, 900 each, three get $22, 500
each and there are a few petty allowances
of $4,000 each. But Mr.. Gladstone
gets $25, 900 as first lord of the treasury
and half of that in addition as chancellor
of the exchequer. Lord Selborne draws
$4,000 in the former and $40, 900 in the
latter capacity. The two salaries give
him the same salary that President
Arthur draws, and the Presidents is the
only salary paid by the government of
the United States that can be called
princely. Even this salary seems small
in comparison with that which Earl
Cowper gets for being lord-lieutenant of
Ireland-$100, 900, besides $35, 900 more
for the salaries of his personal staff.
The salary of the President of the
United States sinks into insignifcance
beside the allowance of the Marquis of
Ripon, who must find some compensa-
ton for the disagreement of the Calcutta
climate with him in the fact that as
viceroy of India his salary is $125, 900,
and the allowance for his travelling ex-
penses, entertainments, etc., raises the
amount to nearly 100000. The gov
ernor of one of the Australian colonies
gets the same salary as the President and
the governor of another gets nearly
three-fourths as much. The governor
general of Canada gets as much as the
President. 1t must be pleasant to spend
few years in Bermuda with guberna-
torial salary of $13, 73O, and still pleas
anter to rule the Barbados for $40, 900
a year. But the son-in-law of David
Field earns $35, OOOby administering the
affairs of Jamaica. The governor of the
Indian provinces gets from $40, 900, paid
to the happy official who inhales Ceylon's
spicy breezes, to $4,000, which the
governor of Madras gets. The British
minister at Washington gets $35, 900, at
Vienna and Constantinople $4O,O and
lucky Lord Lyon has both Paris and
$4,000. The highest diplomatic salary
paid by the United States is $3.50
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
PeriIS of the Deep

A terrible tempest swept the coast of Great
Britain on the 22d of November and ragged for
nearly week, during which time great loss of
life and property was entailed. An iron ship,
the Culzean, while being towed down the River
Clyde, Scotland, was wrecked and twenty-one
persons drowned. Eight fishing boats were de-
stroyed at StornOway, and the Ardigour Hotel,
at Fort Williams, was flooded by the sea, three
or four feet of gravel being left in the rooms.
At Blackpool the sea swept through the streets,
one thoroughfare being under six feet of wa
ter. At Dublin the storm was the severest
known for many years, and at Spiddal, County
Galway, it was the worst experienced for half a
century. Shipping on the coast suffered terri
bly,. The ship T. Harris foundered and all on
board were drowned. The bark Barbara, from
Rangoon for Liverpool was totally wrecked in
West Bay, Pembrokeshire. All hands were
saved except the captain. A brgantine was
seen about mile outside of Ardrossa battling
with the gale on the 3d. but she foundered,
and her crew, seven or eight in number, were
lost. Her majesty's ship, Spiegele, put into
crew of the bark Adept, abandoned at sea, were
drowned. The Spanish steamer Jasetlands,
from Liverpool, foundered on entering the har-
Dor at San Sebastian. 1t is feared that many
disasters occurred in the Bay of Biscay during
the storm. The steamer Brooklyn. at Liver
pool, from Montreal and Quebec, lost 581 sheep
and lit head of cattle and had her cargo
shifted.
Thirty-two persons were drowned by the
laundering of the steamer Albion off Burbacoas.
Eight were saved. The vessel and cargo was
valued at 100000.
The first mate and four seamen of the bark
France, which was wrecked in a hurricane.
October "a, were picked up by passing vessel
and taken to Charleston, S. G. Two other
boats were lost. The survivors recount fear
full tale of suffering.
During a recent gale on Lake Erie, the
schooner E. P. Dorr, laden with oak and black
walnut, became waterlogged and went to pieces
off Port Colburne, Ont, seven men were lost.
The wife of the captain, an invalid, residing at
Buffalo, died soon after receiving the news of
the disaster.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
GLUCOSE.

In recent number of the Popular
Science Monthly was an article by Pro-
lessor Wiley on the manufacture of glu-
cose and grape sugar. The latter is only
an extension of the process for making
the former-a process by which bushel
of corn at 80 cents may be converted
into a dollars worth of glucose (manu-
facturers' price, at an expense leaving a
clear gain Of 35 to so per cent. The
professor shows that there has been great
progress in this new industry. There
ale twenty immense glucose factories
either built or in process of construc-
ton. Already capital of over So, OOO,-
600 is invested In the business. The
daily consumption of corn for the manu-
facture of glucose is about $1,000
bushels, and the annual amount about
100000. All these factories have
sprung upin the last twelve years. They
are run day and night, Sundays included,
to meet the demand, and still fail to sup
ply it. Glucose is sweet syrup made
from corn starch, resembling in appear
ance the molasses of cane sugar and by
reason of its greater cheapness, largely
affecting the consumption of the cane
product. Grape sugar is made to resem-
BILE finely powdered sugar, and is used
extensively to adulterate the sugar of
commerce. Glucose is used chiefly for
the manufacture of table syrups, but
also in candies, and food Cor bees, by
brewers both in this country and in
England, and for making artificial honey,
the combs being nodded out of parafine.
Grape sugar is also applied to some of
the same purposes, but principally for
the adulteration of other sugars. The
professor estimates that not less than
100000 bushels of corn will be con-
yerted into glucose and grape sugar dur
ing the present year, and says "that
every indication leads to the belief that
the amount will be doubled IN 1882. :"
One of the three glucose factories of
Buffalo moved west because it would not
pay $40, 900 a year for water supply. 1t
went to Des Moines, Iowa, where it gets
water for nothing and is made free of all
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
A Camei's Kick.
Ny Journey to Medinab. Kean

The camels kick is a study. AS it
stands demurely chewing the cud, and
gazing abstractedly at some totally differ
ent far-away object, up goes a hind leg,
drawn close into the body, with the foot
pointing out; short pause, and out it
flies with an action like the piston and
connecting-rod of steam-engine, show
ing judgment of distance and direction
that would lead you to suppose the leg
gifted with perceptions of it's own, indie
pendent OF the animals proper senses.
L have seen heavy man fired several
yards into dense crowd by the kick Of
camel, and picked up insensible.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
MOrfHaFV.

John Fl. Stephens, chief surgeon to ''Stone-
wall'' Jackson during the war, was found dead
in his Office at Dallas, Texas.
Charles W. Hill, an old and prominent resi-
dent of Toledo, o., died on the Oath. He held
a command under Mcclellan during the early
part of the war, and after the war served as
adjutant general of Ohio under Gov. Ford.
The death is announced of Wilhelm Busch,
surgeon general of the German army from
1866 to 1870.
Robert Gordon, prominent Massachusetts
lawyer, who died at South birmingham, was
forty years ago a teacher in the Sandwich
Islands. Thence he went to California, where
he assisted in laying out the city of San Fran
cisco, published the first newspaper, and was a
partner of George Suffer in mining on the
American fork