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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
A Missouri Episode.

On the night of the 9th inst, party of four
men approached the dwelling of VIM. Knox, sit
uated five miles south of New Madrid, Mo-, with
the intention Of killing Knox and half sister
against whom they possessed an old grudge. A
man named Coleman, who was walking the
floor of the house with child in his arms, was
mistaken for Knox and fired upon, both he and
the child receiving wounds. A sheriff and
posse started after the villains and overlook
them In the woods, from which they poured
yoliey into the pursuing party, killing Robert
Lafargo The sheriff's force were compelled to
retire, when the renegades rided Lafargo's
body and fed. In the evening Pat Rhodes, one
of the miscreants who had received wound in
the scrimmage, went in and gave himself up
whereupon party of vigilantes promptly hung
him. Hundreds of men are securing the coun-
try for the others, and if captured their bodies
will decorate trees in short order.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
RankruDtcVs

S. ]. B. Lincoln, canned goods broker, Bos-
ton, has failed with liabilities amounting to
$780,
w. J. Roseby, iron master and coal merchant,
Lincoln, England, has failed, with liabilities
estimated at 100000.
Arbinth Co., insurance oil and seed brokers,
and Theodore d Rawlins, tea merchants, of
London, Eng, have suspended.
b. H. Schroeder & Co., an Amsterdam firm,
failed on the 9th inst, and on the following day
the London house Of A. and B. Schroeder sue
cumbed in sympathy. The liabilities of the for
mer house are estimated at s100,00 and of the
London concern 95O0.000.
The rolling-Inill at Atlanta, Ga. has been
forced to suspend by the failure of the Citizens
bank. It's operatives, four hundred and fifty
in number, have attached all the material and
machinery to pay their wages for April.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
TURKEYS Troubles.

On account of heavy taxation and other
abuses by the authorities, the Christian popula-
ton of Koritreba, Macedonia, have revolted
against the Turks. Some fighting has taken
place and number of people killed.
The Austrian consul at Kieff reports that the
warehouses of Jewish merchants at that place
and at the other points in southern Russia have
been prey to pillage recently. The loss by the
loss by the Elizabethgrad riots on officially
stated at 1900, 900 roubles.
A telegram from Kieff. Russia, dated the 18TH
states that the Jewish quarter of the city was
burned, and that crowds of Jewish refugees are
crossing the Austrian frontier. The damage
by the fire amounted to sc, 900, 900 roubles.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
The Origin of " Shoddy."
From the Boston Commercial Bulletin.

From the Boston Commercial Bunetin.1
! All the researches which have hitherto
been made into the history of the WOOL
shoddy trade have failed to reveal the
origin of the word "shoddy.'' The
Bulletin has prepared and published
several sketches of the invention and use
of shoddy in England and the United
States, but the nearest approach which
has been made to discovery of the
derivation of the term itself was the sug-
gestion by a Bulletin writer a year ago
that it might have come from ssshode,"
mining term applied to fragment of
ore that has been torn off from lode or
vein. fsE a 40 .sf.,.- --t.,.
1t is now stated with considerable
authority, however, that "shoddy" is
merely modification of the Hebrew
word " sodjah," meaning 'smass of
tangledfibres. T" This name indicates the
Semitic origin of shoddy, its first invent
or and producer having been Hebrew.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
Suicidal.

J. r. Gaintreaux, an ex-confederate officer,
who was jailed at Toronto for stealing money,
cut his throat IN his cell on the night of the 18th
inst.
An inmate of the Elmira, N. Y, reform
school, shot himself at the police station rather
than return to the reformatory.
Major Edwin A. Kendall suicided at Hot
Springs, Ark, on the 18th inst, by taking
morphine. The major was 81 years of age and
formerly resided in Milwaukee, Wis. He was
martyr to rheumatism.
Arch n. Devoe, formerly private secretary to
Governor Robinson, of New York. killed himself
at st. Joseph Mo-, with morphine.
Louisville moulder named Jacob Smith
drowned himself in drunken frenzy on the
18th inst.
Edward Frill, a wealthy resident of West
Reading, Pa, scattered bis brains over the floor
on the 9th inst, by rigging up a shotgun on a
door-frame, pulling the weapon toward him and
letting spike strike the trigger.
Karl Mink, of Mansfield, O., hung himself to
fence with his handkerchief at Pittsburg, Pa.
on the 9th inst
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
VIM. Penn's Remains.

The Pennsylvania state senate has passed a
resolution which provides for the transfer of
the remains of william Penn from their present
resting place in Buckinghamshire, England, to
Philadelphia. The resolution also provides for
securing the cooperation of Peter Penn-Gas-
kill, of Cork, Ireland, and William Stewart of
England, the representatives-at-law of the
1lustrious founder of Philadelphia; also, the
cooperation of President Garfield should such
cooperation be deemed necessary.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
Minor Mishaps.

AInie Martyle, young miss, of Racine. died
from. the effects of skipping rope over one
hundred times consecutively.
Andrew Jackson was fatally Frustrated at
Cleveland, on the 18th, by the SUMS heat. Six
deaths are reported In New York city from the
same cause
While cleaning a vault at Cincinnati, O.. on
the 18th, Benjamin AIthoff was suffocated by
foul air @ f
An explosion of sulphur in the Palmer Vein
colhery, at Pottsville, Pa, John o. Horn and
Daniel Dougherty, miners, were killed.
Beware of soda water. JAS. r. Turner, q
druggist of Nashville, Tenn, was killed by the
explosion of fountain which he was charging.
on the 18th.
Swede died from sunstroke at Cleveland, on
the 18th inst. He had only been in this country
ten days. ets.r.a 80 80. -vl.s :.
A magazine containing explosives on Iron
Hill, near Leadville, Col, took fire on the 18th
INST, and terrific explosion occurred. Three
men were badly injured and others slightly
buildings In Leadvlle received q thorough shak-
ing up. o - IL
Rochester, Mimi, aged and years respective
~, were drowned In mill race on the 18th inst
-Four negro laborers on the Alabama and
Great Southern road were covered by land
slide and killed. (ss-., 8. I.
On the morning of the 10th inst, two men,
named Browscombe and Spindler, while repair
ing an old well at Kincardine, Ont, were as
phyxiated by foul air.
An unknown man was run over by the cars
and killed near Erie, Pa, on the 10th inst. In
his pocket was handkerchief marked g Fred.
B. Dodge" ~ll}9 Dl94 las l3sagElllI So ~
Lizzie Yelton, q Swear old child, became
entangied IN swing at her home in Lincoln,
Ill, on the 9Th inst. and was stranguIated.
The first case Of sunstroke for 1881 occurred
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
RurglariOuSs

An organized band of burglars and safe blow
ers has been operating through Arkansas the
past six months. Safes at Princeton. DanviIe,
GAINESVILLE, Benton and Toledo have been
cracked at different times. Several parties are
under arrest. charged with being implicated in
the robberies
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18

A FELLOW fished rich old gentleman
out of a mill pond and refused the offer
of twenty five cents from the rescued
miser. ooh! that's too muchI" ex-
claimed he; " faint worth til" and he
handed back twenty cents saying
calmly, as he pocketed four cents:
"That's about right. "a2a0t oS 2IIE .oh
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
StOnewau jackson.

The ceremony of unwilling statue of Stone
wall Jackson occurred IN Metairie cemetery,
New Orleans, on the 10th inst, in the presence
of vast assemblage, among whom were the
widow and daughter of the illustrous soldier.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee delivered the address.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
A RObber Detected.

tonal bank. named Henry White, has been ar
rested for the theft of a box containing $14,-
600 worth of bonds which were missed about a
month ago. Prof. White, father of the young
man, was for q long time president of the col
lege of arts of Kentucky university The
young man has hitherto stood above reproach.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
ROVaI NupfiaIS.

The marriage of Crown Prince Rudolph of
Austria with Princess Stephanie of Belgium,
was most imposingly solemnized at the church
of st. Augustine Vienna, on the 10th inst. At
the moment the rings were exchanged peals
broke forth from the bells of the city and salvos
of artillery were fired.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18

at Erie. Pa. on the 9th inst, when Mrs. Culhare
received fatal inj uries.
Mr.. John Hopkins, an old and respected bust
ness man of Chicago, was suffocated by lllu-
minating gas. He was found dead in LIS bed
room on the morning Of the 9th.
Mrs. Emeline Gould, a widow of Eaton Rap
ids, Mich, living alone, was recently found in
her bed after having been dead week.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
CommendabIe Economy.

thus far Postmaster General James has cut
off sufficient useless star route service to save
the government $196, 600 per annum, and other
routes will be discontinued as their contracts
expire. This has been done without affecting
the efficiency of the service
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
The Yorktown Celebration.

The centennial commission have purchased a
tract of 500 acres for the site of the Yorktown
memorial shaft. The selection of the ground is
which the shaft will be erected commands a
view of the river for several miles, and other
parts of the ground viii afford ample accommo-
dation for encampments. committee is now
devising ways and means for landing the
nations guests and others who come bv water
who are to participate in the celebration. The
cornerstone of the monument will be laid on
the 18th of October by the Masons of Virginia.
Gov. Halliday will deliver the inaugural address
the same day, and the president will make the
speech of acceptance on the part of the nation
on the following day. The house in which
CORVALLIS signed the capitulation viii be fitted
up for the headquarters of the president. Every
thing points to this celebration being complete
success.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18

Fifty-three prisoners escaped from Jail in the
Caucasus on the 18th. They were pursued by
officers who killed seventeen of the fugitives
and re-captured three. The others made good
their escape
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18

Blithe, United States marshal for South Caro-
lima; Samuel w. Wilton, United States attorney
for South Carolina, P. II. Emerson, associate
justice of the Supreme Court of Utah.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
Marine Disasters.

The schooner Trinidad, owned by the Shaw
Bros, of Chicago, H., foundered off Annapee,
Wis, on the 18th. The vessel and cargo were
valued at $16,5OO. The crew escaped in small
boat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
Horrible.

Letters from Algeria state that the French
Sahara expedition, driven into a cave, became
SO reduced in provisions that they devoured fiji
teen of their number.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
WEDNESDAY, MAY Is, 1881.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Railway MiS1saD.

Twelve cars were demolished by being de
rallied on the Cincinnati Southern railroad on
the 9th inst.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
Nominations and Combinations.

On the 18th inst. the senate confirmed STAN
ley Matthews as associate justice of the Su-
preme Court. by vote of ~ to II. Several
senators were absent. ... ~
The senate confirmed the following appoint
ments on the 18th: M. J. Kramer, of Kentucky,
now charge d'affairs at Denmark, to be charge
d'affairs to Switzerland, vice Nicholas Fish,
resigned; Geo. P. Pomeroy of New Jersey, to
be secretary of the United States legation at
Paris; Thomas A. M. Morris of Colorado, to be
member of the Ute commission, vice John B.
Bowman. resigned: Geo. w. Atkinson. United
States marshal. of West Virginia: John B.
stickney, United States attorney for the north
ern district of Florida ~ X. 6sEIafE
The following porninations were confirmed by
United States marshal for Georgia; Absalom
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-12-15

That was the dead mans wife. There
was asecond photograph that OF babe
about year old, and the Judge read
in trembling voice
Our Harry died April 4th, 1857"
This was not all. On card were locks
OF their hair. There was q gold ring
once worn by the wife, faded ribbon,
which her fingers had touched, and a
bit Of plaid like the dress the Eaby wore
when photographed. Relics Of what !?
Of years agone-of a fond wife and
beautiful child-of joy and happiness
of husbands love and fathers griefi
And we were looking down upon
things and feeling our hearts swelling
up and our eyes growing misty when
up comes our good-for-nothing half
witted cook with the bag of dust in his
hand In repairing the fireplace he
had moved the bag, and in the excite
ment over its supposed loss what little
wit he he'd was frightened away for the
moment. The hole under the stone-had
been made by some small animal in
search Of food, and in our haste we had
accused and murdered an innocent
man.
It came to us in full force as we stood
there, and men sighed and wiped their
eyes. and walked away with trembling
steps. The Judge felt he was most to
blame. He was looked upon as hard,
wicked man, but those relics of thedead
broke him up. He sat there and wept
like child, and in voice hardly audi
BILE for his great emotion, he moaned !:
Heaven forgive me for this awful
deed r.
With sorrow-with tenderness with
hearts like children, we dug a grave and
put the poor body into it, and with his
own hands the Judge planted the head
board and engraved thereon
"Here lies man as was wronged !"
-Detr0st Free Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-12-15
Lake Ontario Drying Up.

No little concern is felt by persons
interested in the harbor accommo da-
tions Of Lake Ontario by reason of the
assured fact that the level of the lake
has fallen steadily, and in marked
degree, for many years. The records
have been accurately kept, and leave
no room for doubt. Many wharfs in many
ports were formerly accessible to yes
sells which cannot now come near them.
The entrance to the harbor Of Toronto
has been kept open only by means Of
thorough dredging, and now, when rock
bottom has been reached, there is
scarcely enough water to float the
largest Of the vessels which seek to pass.
Various explanations for the subsidence
of the water have been offered, but none
of them seem to be adequate.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-12-15
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CUR GUS.
Rice barrels are now made Of paper.
Yeddo, Japan, averages eighty earth
ouakes a wear.

Rice barrels are now made Of paper.
Yeddo, Japan, averages eighty earth
quakes year.
Asia and Africa furnish hundreds of
tons of elephants tusks yearly.
A cubic foot of cast iron weighs 45O3,
and of wrought iron 1921 pounds.
Bufaloes are common in Ceylon.
white ones being sometimes found.
Queen Elizabeth left three thousand d
changes Of dress in the royal wardrobe.
The original Bluebeard was Giles de
Lavel, made marshal Of France in
1929.
The Emperor Augustus in his letter
writing dated even the divisions of the
hours.
Coleridge and Goldsmith wrote "The
House that Jack Built" and "Goody-
two-shoes."
In life Of sixty-fve years one must
have eaten about thirty tons Of solids
and liquids.
| Eels have been known to climb trees
in England when meeting distractions
in their upward swim in the spring Of
the year.
The last court dwarf in England was
a German, named Copperheim, retained
by the Princess Of Wales, the mother
of George III.
Flints are found in the tombs of the
Northern nations, they having been
supposed to be eficacious in confning
the dead of their habitations.
Froissart mentions a person who,
having his chin cut off in riot, re-
placed it by one of silver, which he tied
by a silken cord around his head.
In representations of funeral ceremo-
MES upon Grecian monuments horses
heads are found in one corner, intend
ing to represent death as journey.
Coffee was first sold in London in
1852 by Greek, whose handbill read
"The virtue of the coffee drink first
pubiquely made and sold in England
by Pasqua Rosee, in st. Michael's Alley,
Cornhill, at the sign Of his own head" !"
A Swiss matchmaker has invented q
process by which watches can be made
to run for several years without wind
ing up. A box containing two watches,
sealed up and placed with municipal
authorities on January 10, 1871, has just
been opened, and the watches have
haen fnnnd running.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-12-15
The Maoris.

The principal food of the Maoris is
pork, mussels, eels, dried shark and a
variety of other fish. Of vegetables,
they have potatoes, the kumera or yam,
the taro Ia vegetable with large leaf
something ikean arum lily, though not
SO large; the root is something like that
Of the artichoke, but it is intensely hot
and leaves burning sensation like an
overdose Of pepper would maize, and
the kernels of the koraka. These two
latter when gathered are put in kits
and stepped in water until the begin
ming Of spring, which time, as one may
suppose, they are putrid. They are
then taken out and eaten with much
gusto by the Maoris. The stencil pro-
ceeding from these kits when taken out
Of the water is indescribably horrible.
Sometimes potatoes undergo the same
process. Potatoes cooked in a kopa
pronounced copper is perhaps the best
method known. A large hole is first
dug, into which large number of red
hot stones are put. The potatoes, which
have been washed, and are quite wet,
are put on top, and then securely COW
cred up with mats and earth put on top.
In this way they are left perhaps ten
minutes or quarter of an hour, after
which the covering is removed, and
there the potatoes are, done to a nicety.
The chief native industries are mats
and kits Of various kinds, which are
made from the fibre of fax. Some of
the latter are most handsomely worked
and dyed in q variety Of colors. They
go in largely for the cultivation Of
tobecco, the Virginian sort,) which
thrives remarkably we'll; il is prepared
by the sweating process. and is made
into large rolls and taken to the towns
and sold /; il is usually called raurau,
but it is not equal to that Of European
manufacture - The London Field.
T."
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-12-15


tom to carry a meerschaum pipe in q
particular pocket in my coat. One day
I left my coat within reach Of his trunk
and in less time than it takes me to tell
it, he had found the pipe, crushed it,
and swallowed it case, stem,
and all. During the few years
I was with Conqueror reckon he
must have eaten several hundred pounds
Of tobacco. The truth Of the matter is,
gentlemen, an elephant, like an intelli-
gent person, will eat only what suits
his taste, and never harbors any dis
like for those people who give him dis
agreeable food"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-12-15
Bits Of Things.
The little spring
Is a tiny thing.

Bits OF Things.
The little spring
Is tiny thing,
But it's flowing waves give life to the wiltins
earth;
The grass grows greener along its way,
The flowers are brighter and bless the day
That gave the sweet spring its birth
The seed is small
That the child lets fall.
Yet the mother earth holds it to her bosom
dear;
The sunbeam glistens over its bed,
And soon to the day it lifts its head
The future oak tree is here.
One little word,
If in kindness heard
Has power far more than ever the spring can
bear;
1t lifts the sorrow that weighs the heart
1t takes from the bitter thought the smart
And gladdens the home of care.
One act Of love
May an angel prove,
And smother the flame that malice would
kindle again;
1t takes the venom from anger's dart,
And brings together those long apart
To thee, is the lesson plain?
Gilbert Nash.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-12-15
Natures Undertakers.

How often do we hear the query,
ssWhat becomes of all the dead birds r.
The secret of their mysterious disar,
pearance was but just now half told b
the buzz of those brown wings, and
the other half is welcome to any one
who will take the trouble to follow their
lead. This beetle is one of mans in
calculable benefacto,s It is his mis-
sion to keep fresh and pure the air we
breathe. He is the sexton that takes
beneath the mold not only the fallen
sparrow, but the mice, the squirrels.
and even much larger creatures that die
in our woods and fields.
Beneath that cIump Of yarrow I found
just what I had expected-a small dead
bird--and the grave diggers were in the
midst of their work. Already the ram
part of fresh earth was raised around
the body, and the cavity was growing
deeper with every moment, as the busy
diggers excavated the turf beneath.
Now and then one would emerge on
tour of inspection, even rummaging
among the feathers Of that silent throat,
and climbing upon the plumY breast to
press down the little body into the
deepening grave.
These nature-burials are by no means
rare. and where the listless eye fails to
discover them the nostril will often in
dictate the way, and to any one desirous
Of witnessing the operation, without
the trouble of search, it is only neces-
sary to place in some convenient spot of
loose earth the carcass of some small
animal. The most casual observer
could not fail soon to be attracted by
the orange-spotted beetles. Entomol-
ogists assert that these insects are at
tracted by the odor of decay; but from
my own humble Investigations I have
never been able to fully reconcile my
self to this theory.
If it were the question of odor alone
in this dead bird, for instance, it would
be difficult to explain the bee line fight
of these humming beetles, two of which
came swiftly toward me even from the
direction of the wind, and dropped
quickly upon these feathers hidden from
sight among the grass. Perhaps in
such an instance we might imagine that
they had been there before, and knew
the way that they had noted this clulnp
of yarrow, may be; but I have observed
the fact before when there was every
reason to believe that no such previous
visit had been made.
I am always glad of the opportunity
to watch the progress of these meadow
burials. And had you accompanied me
on that morning walk, you would have
looked with interest at those little un-
dertakers-seen that feathery body toss
and heaye with strange mockery of life
as the busy sections worked beneath it,
digging with their spiked thighs, shov-
cling out the loose earth with their
broad heads, and pulling down the
body into the deepened cavitv.-Har-
per's Magazine.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-12-15

Postal cards have had the most won
derful growth Of any new idea, perhaps,
that this generation has seen. DR..
Stephens, German official, originated
it. Austria was the first to adopt it, in
October, 1869, and in the first three
months mailed 2.93o,o0o cf them.
Then Germany took hold and used 49,
468 the very first day. In the year 1879
Germany mailed 122, ,747. 600. This
year all Europe viii use $50, 000. 600.
The United States will use $50, ,o00, 600.
They are used il seventy three different