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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-23
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-23
DBRICK" POMEROY BROKE,,AGAIN.

IL is stated from source considered
reliable that Brick Pcmeroy, who came
here nearly two years ago, and started
the publication of weekly paper, is vir-
tually stranded and broke Is is also
stated that he is virtually out of the own
ership of the paper which he started hero.
1t is furthermore stated that the cause of
Pomeroys failure has been extravaganza.
Some tir,7sga Pomeroy began the erec-
ton of a magnificent mansion. Work on
it is repGted suspended, as also that he
owes 500, 900 OH the mansion, borrowed
money for building purposes. Potneroy,
since his advent to Colorado has been
identified with numerous mining and 9TH
er enterprises. He is now the head and
front of the so-called Atlantic and Pacific
Tunnel Company. This company is en-
tireiy solvent and the work will proceed.
This tunnel is situated sixteen miles north
west of Georgetown, and is destined to be
about five miles long. One thousand
feet are completed, and has opened up
several mineral veins. 1t is also stated
that the Union Pacific Rrilroad officials
are negotiating to secure the tunnel as a
part of their railroad system through the
Rocky Mountains. The tunnel, if com
pleted, is calculated to save about 400
miles distance to San Francisc Pomer-
oy's success for the past few years has en-
abled him to receive from the sales Of
stock of this tunnel company and other
mining operations nearly or quite $780,,
900. But inasmuch as none of these are
paying mines, the money which he has
drawn out of the mines and expended in
his extravaganza has stranded him; but
the paper established by Pomeroy is now
in good hands, free from debt, aud will
soon be made an evening daily. Pomer
oy came here with less than 81, and in
less than one year thereafter he had as
income on the sales of mining stocks Of
fully $4,000 daily. Frequently his daily
mail brought him from $4,000 $40, 900.
All Of this money has gone into the
mines, except that which be has drawn
in his extravagant operations. The prob
abilities are the Atlantic and Pacific tun-
mel enterprise will, IN another year, place
him on his feet again. 1t is well known
that Pomeroy has no bad habits, neither
drinks nors gambles.-Denuer (Col)
Special to the st. Louis Globe Demo-
cr0f
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-23

lam Baptist Minister and long before even
thought Of beng clergyman / graduated in
medicine, but left lucrative practice for my
present profession 40 years ago. l was for many
years sufferer from quinSy; Thomas Eclec1rlc
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the end ofthe spoon i'll one nostril and draw the
Oil out of the spoon into the head by shifting as
hard as they can until the Oil falls over into the
throat, and practice that twice week, | don't
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clean it out and cure their catarrh For deaf
ness and earache it has done wonders to my GER
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my right limb, and nothing relieves me like
DR.. E. F. CRANE;
Cory, Pa.
Mich writes: a bad cold settled on my side
and back, kidney trouble liver and rheumatism
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local doctors, but received no relief, and, a
forlorn hope, tried your Thomas Eclectic Oil,
have only used half fifty-cent bottle, and feel
as well as l ever did in my lite."
e Balch, Elgin, Ill, writes; ''That after try
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A letter from P. o. Sharpless, druggist, Marion,
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standing with one bottle" We have number
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when other remedies have failed. We consider
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Mr.. Albert Anderson, York Street, Buffalo, fell
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applications of DR.. Thomas Eclectric Oil entire
ly cured him.
My son had a badly swe!led neck. and a sore
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W G.. SPALDING

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DANIEL II ALL. " D.
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tIAMLIN h FORD,

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r1GUST WIGGENHORN,

Jeweler has recently opened JeWefyt Ell tEaets SETS
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PRIcE 81 PEE BOTTLE; sAMpLE SIZE 10 ems.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

throughout the entire summer. The Fish
Commission have young fish that spawned
from May to September. They are very pro-
life, yielding from 100000 to 100000 eggs,
according to size. The eggs adhere tenacious,
ly to whatever they touch, and for that rea.
son it is very important that new pond
should be provided with floating weeds for
such attachment. The eggs hatch out in a
few days, and the young grow very rapidly.
They feed voraciously upon the so.called frog
spittle, the green alga scum so common in
frog ponds. Consequently, such waters are
especially adapted to carp. "
Whenever the water becomes chilled down
to perhaps 400, and especially when frozen
over at the top, the fish bury themselves in
the mud, aggregating in lots of from fifty to
one hundred, frequently with their tails pro-
iecting, and constituting what is called in
Germany, kettles or roses. 1t is very impor-
tant that they should not be disturbed under
such circumstances. Of course, while hiber-
mating in this way they are not feeding, al
thoug they are said not to lose appreciably
in weight In the more southern regions,
where the waters do not freeze, they will
probably feed throughoufthe year, and make
more rapid growth.
So far Prof Baird says, no waters have
proved too warm for carp indeed, they are
said to thrive especially we'll in reservoirs re-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09
MORE CORRUPTION AT WASHINGTON.

The investigation of the accounts and con.
duct of O. L. Pitney custodian of the Treas
ury Department, to which allusion has been
made by our Washington correspondent, is
developing ugly facts and involving persons
who have held high places. Pitney's busi-
ness is to buy everything needed in the Treas
ury, including furniture, carpets, soap, etc.
1t is ascertained that he has, for six years,
violated the law requiring him to- purchase
by contract from the lowest bidders. He has
bought from friends and favorites without
making any contracts, paying them what
ever they charged. No system of books or
vouchers has been kept. Everything has
been run loosely and without any sort Of
business rules. Outrageously y exorbitant prices
have been charged, ranging from thirty to
fifty per cent. higher than. the ruling market
prices, and the difference between the market
prices and those paid had been allowed Pit
ney by the partnership purchased from him
in the way of goods for his own use. One
cabinet maker named Frazer, who is regular
ly employed under Pitney, testi6es that
nearly all of his time, for several years, has
been consumed in doing work for outside par
ties, instead of working for the government;
that he spent one month in working on new
house owned by high government official
that he frequently went from one house to
another of persons in government employ,
some holding important places, doing what
ever they wanted, and the money paid for
his services was charged round to the differ
ent government bureaus. He swears that
he made fifteen fac SMILES Of the des used
by Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration
Of Independence, and which was presented to
the government year or so ago; that each
of these imitation desks cost $50, the material
for which was paid for out of government
money, and charged among the materials
needed for government uses. These fifteen
desks were given out as presents by the au-
thorities in the treasury to friends. The
furniture belonging to the treasury has been
loaned out on occasions of receptions at Ger.
tain residences. The facts 60 to show that
regular ring, consisting Of subordinate off,
cials of the treasury, some of them holding
responsible positions, existed and got benefits
from the loose and reckless management.
Beside Pitney and his bookkeeper and
storekeeper and hostler, who has charge OF
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09
Fig. 1.-Plan of natural pond.

In establishing carp IN natural ponds, it is
necessary to ascertain the following points :
1st. Is there sufficient water for all pur-
poses all the year round?
End. Are the ground, soil, aquatic plants
and water favorable for culture?
3rd. 1t is important to examine the soil NIL
nutely in order to ascertain the vegetable and
mineral qualities.
If points l and 2 have been satisfactorily
settled, the ground must be examined as to
whether it will allow the collected water to
penetrate, and whether the ground is sandy
or loamy. Above all, measure the depth OF
the stratum and he assured that it is suffi.
ciently impermeable to withstand the pres
sure of the water and to hinder its oozing
through and so prevent the drying up of the
pond.
A rocky, gravelly ground is not appropriate
for carp culture. Sandy ground, with con.
siderable mixture of loan, clay, and humus,
is of small use. speak here of large ponds
of considerable extent. Small ponds, with a
sandy bottom, may be improved by supplant.
ing them with loan. Loan is a mixture of a
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

ceiving the condensed waters of low'pressure
steam engines, in Germany, of over loO'
temperature
As regards the best plants for carp pond,
Prof Baird mentions the ordinary pond
weeds (Pontederia and Sagataria), splatter
dock, or pond lily. and, indeed, any of the
kinds that grow in the water, with leaves
floating upon the surface, duckweed among
the number. Those. which produce seed, like
the wild rice, are especially desirable, as the
fish feed voraciously upon them.
The great merit of the carp for cultivation,
next to its excellent table quality, lies in its
, adaptation to shallow and warm ponds insult.
ed for ordinary fish. The country is full of
such waters, now useless, which might be
made exceedingly productive; and there are
thousands of swamps in every State, which
might easily be foated and stocked at small
cost in money or trouble. In Germany many
villages maintain, at common cost, for the
public benefit, carp ponds of hundred acres.
Mr.. Rudolph Hessel, the curator of the gov.
ernment carp ponds at Baltimore, gives the
following Instructions:
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

small per cent of sand and larger quantity OF
clay. If such ground contains some mar, or,
better, some element Of humus, it is of the
greatest advantage.
Too much humus or dissolved peat is in.
furious. Water which runs through bog
meadows, or oak woods, is not of much use,
because it contains too much humic acid and
tannin, which impart mouldy flavor to the
fish, The most favorable water is that which
comes from rivers and brooks.
Rain water, particularly during the winter,
when frozen over, takes mouldy taste, which
is communicated to the fish, as does the water
from bogs also. Spring water, direct from
the ground, ought to be conducted for at
least few hundred yards through wide shall
low bitches, in order to obtain more nourishng
components from air as well as earth, and
above all to be warmed by the action of the
sun.
Ponds must not be too deep, as the water
will be too cold, and will harbor fewer in
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

fishes, but this is probably not absolutely
necessary. The refuse Of malt from brewer
les makes excellent food for them.
The Washington ponds are. arranged so
that they can be drawn off at will, leaving all
the fish collected in small basin near the
outlet. This is for convenience in asserting
the fish, and for selecting such as are needed
for other purposes.
1t is prime necessity that there be no
predaceous fish in the same pond with carp.
Of course, the larger fish will be measuraby
secure against the attacks Of carnivorous spe.
cies of about the same size, but the eggs and
young will become prey to the rapacity
of such associates. As general rule the
fish will thrive best when they are the sole
occupants of particular waters, although the
association of suckers and chubs would be
less Objectionable than that Of sunfsh, perch,
or black bass.
The carp spawn in the spring, in May and
June, and, indeed, under some circumstances,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

worms, Larvae, etc., live on the succulent roots
and leaves of aquatic plants, seeds as they
fall into the water, and other similar substan-
ces, and may be fed very readily upon corn,
grain, bread, root crops, raw or boiled, and,
indeed, any vegetable refuse.
Their rate Of growth, too, is something
marvellous, and as observed so far in the spec
linens introduced in the United States, is even
more remarkable here than in Europe.
Among. the original fish imported by the
Fish Commission from Europe, and which
are now only about three and half years old,
are some from twenty-five to thirty inches in
length, weighing from four to eight or nine
pounds.
The carp thrives best in artificial or natu-
al ponds with muddy bottoms, and such as
abound in vegetation. In large ponds it may
not be necessary to furnish any special food,
but in restricted Enclosures, as, for instance,
those of a fraction of an acre, they may be
fed with the refuse of the kitchen garden,
leaves of cabbage, lettuce, leeks, etc., hom.
iny, or other substances. Grain Of any kind
is generally boiled before being fed to the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

ten years it will constitute very prominent
portion of the animal food of the country.
Although scarcely known in the United
States, and but little more as an article of ex-
tended application in England and France,
the carp is in Germany and Austria cultiva-
ted to the highest degree, so as to constitute
notable article of the market supply.
The fish itselfis probably Of Asiatic origin,
and has been domesticated in China for thou
sands of years. 1t has, however, been so ex-
tensively distributed in Europe as to have be-
come, in a measure, native fish, occurring
in public waters as we'll as in private enclo-
sures. 1t is, Prof Baird remarks, emphatic
ally farmers fish; and may safely be
claimed to be, among fishes, what chickens
are among birds, and pigs and ruminants are
among animals Its special merits lie in its
sluggishness and the ease with which it is kept
in very limited enclosures, it being vegeta-
BILE feeder, and its general inoffensiveness.
Trout and black bass require abundant water
and supply of animal food for their susie
nance and growth; the carp thrives in shall
low ponds, and while not disdaining flies,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09
fi5h Gnltmre.
From the illustrated Scientific News for January 1884,
THE CARP AND IT'S CULTURE.

In the accompanying engraving we repro
duce a careful drawing Of the mirror carp
(Copr;nus carpio specularis,) so called on ac'
count of the large scales which run along the
sides of the body. This is one of the three
races of carp recently introduced into this
country, the other two being the scale carp
and the leather carp the one entirely covered
with scales, the other having few or none.
Three years ago the national carp ponds
we're established at Washington, in the old
swamp and canal near the monument, and
many thousand young fish have since been
distributed for stocking suitable waters in
Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia,
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas. Tennessee, Ken
lucky and New York. Persons desiring them
for such purpose can be supplied on applica-
ton to Prof. S. F. Baird, US. Fish Commis-
sioner, Washington, D. G.
In recent communication. Professor Baird
expresses great faith in the future of this new
fish. He is qsite we'll satisfied that within
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

A QUEER WAY OF BUILDING HOUSES
There are in the world many queer ways
of making houses, and one of the queerest is
found in the city Of Palembang, in Sumatra.
The town extends for three or four miles on
both sides of rather wide river, and both
shores are lined with houses First comes a
row built upon piles, which are driven into
the bottom of the river, and outside of that
another row resting on great bamboo RATS,
which are held by cables of rattan to the piles
of the next houses. Of course these RATS rise
and fall with the tide, and the doors open
upon the water, so that they are reached by
boats. The thresholds are more than foot
above water, and one steps directly from a
boat into a house. One can buy anything
there is for sale in this town without getting
-est Of his boat. people are Malays, and
it is said that they never build a house on
dry land if they can find water to set it in,
and never 60 anywhere on foot if they can
reach the place in boat
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

sss~ The Peoples Temperance Reform Con-
veution, recently in session at Columbus,
Ohio, adopted resolutions favoring the amend
ment of the State Constitution so as to prohib.
it the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors, and declaring that if the great politi'
cal parties of the State fail to nominate can.
didates favoring temperance, convention
will be called to nominate State temperance
ticket
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

s9r North Carolina's outlaw chief, Henry
Berry Lowery, man of many romances, re.
Gently was reported dead. The Robesonian,
published in that State, now says that Lowery
is alive that he left the mountains and North
Carolina about the time of his reported death,
being carried in tool,chest through Charlotte
and across the border. He went West, enlist
ed and is now leading the quiet life of SER
geant in the United States army.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

baT The age of giants has returned. Within
six months seven giants, over eight feet in
height, have appeared in New York City,,
The latest addition was Henrik B sted,
Norwegian, who arrived Monday: He is
eight feet tall and weighs 400 pounds.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

p@ It is related of Col. Thomas Scott that
once, about ten years ago, when making one
of the swift trips which he was in the habit Of
making over the lines under his control, his
train was stopped by the wreck of freight
train. There were dozen heavily loaded
box cars piled up on the road, and it would
take long time to get succor from the near
est accessible point and probably hours more
to pet the track cleared by mere force of labor.
He surveyed the difficulty, made a rough cal:
culation of the cost of total destruction of
the freight and promptly made up his mind
to burn the road clear. By the time the re.
lief train came, the flames had done their
work and nothing remained but to patch up a
few injuries done to the track so as to enable
him to pursue his way. ...-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

Bg- A Virginian mailed postal card to
Senator Vance, with the request, "Please
send me your speech on that id dog, Ma.
hone," and Malone had the man arrested
for sending "scrurrilous matter through the
mails" The New York World thinks the
poor fellow only suffered with his pen.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

sa- The Illinois House Of Representatives
has passed bill prohibiting all railroads in
that State from changing their rates of freight
without FIRST giving sixty days notice of the
change, by posting the change a&very sta
ton along the line, under heavy penalties.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09

aar A political orator, speaking of a certain
General whom he admired, said he was al.
ways on the field Of battle where the bullets
were thickest. "Where was thati" "In the
ammunition wagon"