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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29
COUNTY NEWS.
JEFFERSON.

JEFFERSON.
w. FL. Holmes of Tecumseh, Neb., ar
rived in this city last Monday to spend
few days visiting friends and relatives.
Tom Wadon, while working in the
gravel pit on the east side, dug up a
chunk of copper weighing about five
pounds. SEQ
Martin Meyer, brother to J. F. w.
Meyer, an old and respected citizen of
this city, died very suddenly, at his resi-
dence, at 1890 Thursday noon, June
23rd, of inflammation of the bowels, after
two days sickness. He was sixty two
y ears old.-Mdependent
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29

CHANGE IN RUNNING TIME.-Ihe
Chicago & Northwestern and the Chica-
90. Milwaukee & st. Paul Railways have
both changed their time tables this week.
The passenger train on the Northwestern
going south which formerly left the juno
ton at II O. clock noon now leaves at TO-
so A. M. The afternoon train coming
north arrives at the same hour as hereto
fore. On the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
the passenger train which formerly went
east at 1870 A. NJ. now departs at 9.23
A. NJ. The train from Madison to con-
meet with this now reaches here at 9.15
A. M. instead of1O.1O A. NJ as before.
The morning passenger train from Mil
waukee now arrives at 9 O'Clock instead
of 8. 40 o'clock, its former time. The
night express trains going east and west
now pass here at 1 .48 A. M. The 9.23
train going east stops only at Oconomo-
woo. between here and Milwaukee.
Our railroad directory in another col
umn contains all the changes in the rum
ming of trains.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29
The Comet.

With the other communities
of the world who are vouchsafed
sight at the comet now visible in the
heavens with its elongated appendage,
we are more or less excited over the as
Economical event During the past few
evenings the clear sky has given favor
able opportunity for viewing it with dis
tinctness and all have looked upon it
with wonder, amazement and pleasure.
1t appears that this comet has confused
the astromers as we'll as the cOmmoner
folks. Professor Skinner, of Washing
ton, believes that the new comet IS lden-
teal with the one recently observed by
Dr. Gould in Buenos Ayres, and describes
it as a brighter comet than any since that
of I843. Professor Draper, of New York,
saws the comet now visible cannot be the
same as seen by DR.. Gould, because a
comet visible. in the northern celestial
hemisphere could not be seen at Buenos
Ayres. Professor Newcomb inclines to
the opinion that the COMETS the same
as that seen by DR.. Gould and by the
astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope.
Professors Draper, Newcomb, and Stone
agree that this comet is probably the
same that appeared in 1907, although
this puts all the astronomers Of that day
at fault, as their observations indicated
that the comet of 1907 would not return
until the year 3,210. Other astronomers
count the comet new one.
1t seems little singular that as
tronomers should differ on the question
as to the direction the comet is travelling.
Professor Draper reports thas the comet
is moving from the sun, while Professor
Swift, of Rochester, reports that all indi-
cations favor the view that it is going
towards the sun. Some astronomers
still cling to the opinion that the new
conner is the comet of 1911, or, if it is
not, that the comet of that year will socn
put in an appearance The comet
best remembered by the people of the
United States appeared in June, 1858,
and was called Denati's This remained
visible for some weeks, its long tail
streaming across the Northwestern sky
in the evening, and, when at its best,
across the Northeastern sky early in the
morning. So far no observer has claim
ed that the new comet will exceed that
in b1illiancy, Notwithstanding we are
| now promised brilliant display. Pro-
fessor Boss, of Albany, claims for the
present comet more brilliancy than any
comet since 1858. TIE tail spreads out
fan-like towards the north star, and
through the telescope presents triple
appearance.
The greater number of observers re-
port that the comet is moving northward,
or away from the sun. If this is the
case it will grow fainter until it becomes
invisible. It will be remembered that
the comet of 1853 presentedI the most
splendid appearance to the naked eye
when it was so near the sun that the
nucleus was not visible.
In few days the observations as to
the new comet will be of more satisfac-
tory character, and if it should disap-
point the people at large by a
disappearance before its status has
been fixed they may console them
selves with the reflection that another,
the comet of 1811-12, is promised for
this year.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29
DIED..

At his residence in Cold Spring, ofrheumatism
of the heart, on the 18th inst MR. THOMAS REDa
MoND, aged IS years.
On Monday morning, June 9th, at Tarrytown,
N. Y, MRS MARY c. PITcHARD, wife of Albert
Pritchard, and sister of W. H. Clark, of this city,
Burial services at New Berlin N. Y, on We'd
nesday, June 29th, at 40 P N.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29

MORE VENNoR PREDICTIoNs.-The
Ottowa (Canada) Citizen of June 25th,
publishes letter from VeDnor in which
he says:
81 believe that the present summer is
one of triad of similar summers proba-
bly, the middle one. 1t is likely to resem-
bic in it's chief features that of 1880, and
to differ in some of its minor details.
The approaching month of July will give
q great deal of rain, as in 1880, over a
large portion of the United States and
Canada, while in Great Britain the
weather will in all probability be like
wise stormy and wet. The storms of
wind and thunder and lightning are
likely to be severe and frequent. The
heaviest rains for New York and vicinity
would locate after the goth, and probably
on the Dist. and 22d dates. Between the
10th and 10th days an exceedingly hot
term is likely to:be experienced in both the
United States and Canada Within few
DAYS from the close of the month, proba-
bly, about the 9th or 2Sth, a cool wave
will occur, carrying frosts in Canada and
cold weather generally, with storms of
wind and rain throughout the United
States. Where storms have been severely
felt in the Western and Southwestern
states during June, there also will the
severest storms of July be experienced.
Notwithstanding these frequent and Sc
we're storms during the month, frequent
alterations of fine hot weather will coun-
teract to a great extent the damage done
to crops in general in the West. The
entrance of July in Canada, and also to
considerable extent in the United States,
will be cool and showery, and the present
lookout for the Fourth is not a very prom
Using one
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29

Little Ella Brown received by ex-
press last week beautiful fawn about a
month old, present from her brother
Lansing at Darwin, Minnesota.
We are appraised through the medi-
UNI of large poster received, of a grand
celebration of the coming fourth of July
at Pierre, Dakota, which will doubtless
be enjoyed by the Watertown people at
that place.
This is worth trying: "take half a
teaspoonful of black pepper in powder,
one teaspoonful of brown sugar, and one
teaspoonful of cream. Mix them we'll
together and place them in a room
where flies are troublesome and they
will very soon disappear"
Pure Castor, Lard, Sperm and other
Lubricating Oils, cheap at the Drug
Store of J. FL. Schulz, near the Post Of
fee. 50
John Scheberle, of this city, was or
dained priest in Milwaukee Sunday.
Father Scheberle celebrated his first mass
at St. Henris German Catholic Church
Yesterday morning before large congre-
cation.
Under the U. S. Statute it is Grim
inal offence to bore hole into or through
any coin, or otherwise mutilate it. A
large per cent. of our coins are'more or
less mutilated.
Preaching next Sunday morning i'll
the M. E. Church. A discourse upon
Bible Revision will be given by the pas
tor.
Joseph Terbrueggen has received the
sad news of the death of his brother at
Cincinnati Monday.
Edward Holden, the Oshkosh car
riage man, is in town.
The thermometer stood "a degrees
in the shade yesterday. A good corn
day and no mistake.
T. S.lClark has removed to his new
quarters in the east store of Cambrlan
block.
The Congregational Tea Party will
meet at the residence of Mrs. John Ford
on Thursday evening.
The Fourth will be observed on
on Concordia Island by a grand celebra-
ton under the auspices of the Concordla
Society. Music, games, dancing q fire
works constitute the programme for the
day. .....
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29

Go to K. Schubert K son tor Mrs.
Feeman's New National Dyes. 10,
brightness and durability of color are
unequaled. Color from tC s pounds
Price15 cents. 43yl
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29

The JUBILEE SNGERs.-The concert
of the Jubilee Singers at Turner Hall,
Thursday, evening was largely attended
and no entertainment here ever gave
better or more general satisfaction. The
singers were all in fine voice, rendering
the programme with that beautiful, soft
harmony and naturalness for which the
Jubilee Singers have become so noted
and facinating as vocalists. The Jubilees
well merit the splendid reputation they
have acquired, and it is the de. -e of all
who heard them last Thursday evening
to have an opportunity of listening to
them again. Messrs Skinner & Eaton
are deserving of considerable credit for
the pains they took and the enterprise
they eyinced to make the concert sue
cess and it is pleasant to know that their
laudable efforts were rewarded by full
house.
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Personal.


A.G. Cook. of Columbus, was visitor
in town Monday
Mrs. George L. Field and daughter
Amy, of Ripon, have been visiting rela-
tiyes and friends in the city.
J. A. Watrous, of Milwaukee, was
elected Grand Templar at the Grand
Lodge of the Temple of Honor recently
held at Madison.
DIR. Frank Moulding, of Wilmington,
Illinois, visited in the city Monday.
Mrs. w. P. Green and Miss Leila
Green are visiting relatives and friends
at Winona.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29
Wanted

Two good men, to sell the Genuine
Singer Sewing Machine; ,liberal salary
and Commission paid to good men.
Address The SINGER MFG. Co.
32y1 WATERTOWN, Wis.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29

Brushes of all kinds, cheap, at the
Drug Store of J. Ell. Schulz, near Post
Office. 33
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29

UNIVERSAL AUTOMATICALLY the
community at large has been given to
Burdock Blood Bitters. No instance is
known where dissatisfaction has been
manifested by their use, or where aught
but benefit followed their administration.
Price $1.OO, trial size 10 cents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29

MACHINE OILs.-All kinds at the low
est market price at
37w2 STRAW & MURPHY.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-05
Robbie's Ride After His Father.

RoBBIE's father was going to the
city, and going on horseback, too.
Robbie wanted to go very much, but il
was long way. Robbie was very lit
tie, so he must stay at home with moth
er. He watched his father ride away,
and he did not cry, as everybody ex-
pected he would. o no. for fine plan
had crept into his small head.
After his father was out of sight,
Robbie looked around until he found
his stick horse. He didn't look for his
hat, for he didn't like to wear it. He
only kept it on because mother said, if
he did not, he must wear a bonnet.
So. in his red dress, Robbie went
trotting off through the front gate. No
body was on the watch Just then, and
master Rob got we'll out of sight before
any one missed him.
He had made up his mind that he
would 60 with father, and expected ev-
cry moment to catch up with him.
The stick-hOrse trotted bravely along
the muddy road. Fathers horse had
gone through the mud. Robbie could
see the tracks of the hoofs; so he
would not turn aside either, but
splashed along through every mud
hole.
At last the stick-horse did not trot so
merrily. He fell into a walk, for
Robbie's shoes were so heavy with mud
he could scarcely drag them out of each
mlry place. His hands were very red
and cold, too. Surely he would soon
find father, so he trudged along the
muddy road. AT last he did see man,
and on horseback, too. But he was
coming towards Robbie. When at last
he came up to the stick-horse and it's
tired rider, hestopped.
where are you goingg' he asked of
Robbie.
''I'm going after father, and he's
gone to Richmond" said Robbie.
"Well, wouldn't go any farther to-
day." said the man. ''You get up here
in front of me and we'll have fine ride
home"
At first Robbie did not want to turn
back. 1.-THE kind neighbor persuaded
him. and took him, muddy shoes. stick
horse, and all, safely home.
Whether mother had missed Robbie
before he got back, l don't know. But
do know she was glad the stick-horse
had not carried its little rider on any
longer journeys.
Robbie was washed and kissed and
petted, but he never rode after father
again. - Our Little Ones.
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like charm. He believed them. lie
was telling how he could fix anything,
when the clock began to strike. 1t
ought to have struck three, but it struck
more. 1t struck ten, twenty, thirty,
forty, fifty, and after that they could not
count the strokes. The hands went
around and around, and the crowd be-
came frightened. The young man
stared at the clock, but the striking con-
tinued.
1t must have struck 250 times. One
thought that the clock was bewitched.
1t stopped suddenly. There came a
final rattle of wheels, a crash, . roar,
and after that oblivion for ten minutes.
When the people recovered, they found
that the clock was scattered all about
the room. There was a wheel here and
a wheel there. The minute and hour
hands were sticking in the young man s
hair, and the face had sailed through a
mirror. 1t seemed as if boiler had ex-
ploded in that room, and it will take two
days to pick up the debris. The young
man is minus clock, and it will take
him two weeks to recuperate. This is
the most wonderful thing that has hap
pened in st. Louis for long time. 1t
beats Grandfather's Clock'' "all hol-
low"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-05
Husband and Wife in Law.

THE wife has been much advanced by
the general tenor of legislation of late
years in respect to her own property.
She has acquired pretty independent
position as to title, control and DISPOSE
ton, but this relates to her property, not
to his. The law has not yet raised her
to the station of superintendent of her
husbands contracts, and probably never
will. He is bound to support her and
the children which she bears to him, and
in order to fulfil this obligation he ought
to have as much freedom in the man
agement of his business affairs of the
world as unmarried men are allowed to
exercise. In taking wife a man does
not put himself under an overseer. He
is not subordinate in his own family,
but the head of it. The law assigns
him this position, not for his own ad-
vantage alone, but as much for the real
good of his wife and children, and some-
what for the general interest of society.
A husband left free to lead and govern
in his own family is the most useful hus-
band to all who may be concerned in the
results of his conduct. That exceptions
to this rule may be pointed out is no OBJ.
lection to or disproof of the rule itself.
Human institutions are all more or less
imperfect, and their complete efficiency
in practical working can not be ex-
pected in every instance. 1t is enough
If they produce beneficence to the great
mass and in the great majority of
cases. A subjugated husband is a less
pleasing and less energetic member of
society than one who keeps his true
place yet knows how to temper author
ity with affection. The law does not
discourage conjugal consultations or free
and voluntary cooperation in all trans
actions which affect or may affect the
welfare of the family. But the
law does not undertake to secure this
delightful harmony by coercion, but
leaves it to issue spontaneously from the
holy relations of matrimony.- Georoio
Supreme Court.
-
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sis anything the matter, Mrs. Col

"Is anything the matter, Mrs. Col
lins?'
"Oh, don't know where my chill
dren are! left them while ] ran into
Mrs. Browns minute, and the kitch-
ems all upset, and Pm afraid"
"Why, we just now met Ebert with
the baby. kiting along like the wind,
over there by Webster & Green's.
Leastways we supposed it was the baby,
from the way he carried it. And he
never"
"Merciful man! he's taken her to
SCHOOL,"
About ten minutes later, a flustered
little woman raped at the door of the
First Primary Room, and inquired for
baby. 1t was handed to her, along
with an empty milk bottle, and wrap
ping them both in a red cloak which
she carried. she thanked the smiling
teacher, and walked quickly home.
At first she had felt very angry to-
ward Ebert; but when she looked at
the clock, and remembered his horror
of being late, she softened toward him
considerably. ald by the time she had
got the baby home, and found her none
the worse for her little run away, she
had her laugh also; and being a fair
minded woman, she told Ebert when
he came home to dinner that it was
very thoughtless in her to have sta;d so
long at Mrs. Browns. And Ebert
gave her hug, and said he was "glad
he didn't LeGUe the baby, cause she
might have been burned up, you know!"
-Harper'S Young People.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-05
An Amateur Clock Repairer.

THERE stood ON the corner of Twen-
6eth and Carr Streets yesterday after
noon, says the st. Louis Republican, a
young man with big scratch on his
nose and lump under one eye. He is
young man of the class known to the
gamins of st. Louis as "very toney.n
The young gentleman was mournful, for
his hopes had been blasted. He had
thought himself great machinist. The
way in which he received his wounds
was rather curious. He got up pretty
late yesterday morning and he looked at
the clock in his room. 1t was $50. He
dressed himself in q hurry and then
looked at the clock again. The hour
hand had evidently gone backward, for
the clock now said that it was only Z 80.
He went downstairs and got his break
fast. 1t was 9 O'Clock by the clock
down there. Then he returned to his
room and found that his clock was still
running the wrong way. First the
young man thought that the clock was
obeying the command of the poet who
unused:
backward! turn backward, Time, In your
fight
Poetical reflections did not console the
young man, and he vowed that he would
tx the clock. He went down into the
cellar and poked around in the dark for
awhile. When he emerged an enormous
oobweb spread over his immaculate
shirt front, and in his arms he carried a
hammer, pair of pincers, a screw
driver, file, gimlet, three hatchets, a
ball of Irvine and various other articles
absolutely necessary for the mending of
that clock. With his burden, the young
man climbed the stairs and entered his
room. He took the clock from the
mantel, laid it on table, drew near q
chair and began work, an admiring
group of friends gathering around to
watch his operations. He started to
take the clock apart. He did it in five
minutes and discovered what had been
the matter with it. Then he went to
work to put the thing together again.
Till noon he toiled, and still he had a
mouthful of screws and a pocket full OF
wheels and springs, which he knew
had come out of the clock. He
couldn't see where they should be placed
The sweat stood out on his brow. Ii
was l O'Clock and the job was not done,
but he would not give up. BY this time
the admiring group had left him. At last
he shouted Eureka, !" and invited them
all up to see how nicely the thing wa:
fixed. 1t did really look very nice-just
like mule before he kicks. You could
almost see awicked grin in the face o.
the clock. Every one said it was done
finely. He was told to wind it up ant
see how it worked. He wound anC
wound and wound. The pendulum be
gan to swing, the wheels began to run
the hands began to move around a
usual, and the young man smiled con
tentedly. The friends said it worked
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Our Young Folks.
WINTER AND SUMNER.

On, wish the winter would CO.
And wish the summer would come.
Then the big brown farmer will hoe,
The little brown bee will hum.
Ho, huml
Then the robin his fife wiz trill
And the woodpecker beat his drum,
And out of their tents in the hill
The little green troops will come.
Ho, hum!
Now the blossoms are sick in bed,
And the dear little birds are dumb,
The brook has a cold in her head,
On, summer takes long to come.
Ho, huml
When in bonny blue fields of sky,
And IN bOnny green fields below,
The cloud-hocks fly and the lamb-fiocks lie,
Then summer will come, know
Ho, hol
Then around and over the trees,
With a fiutter and tiirt will go
A rollicking, frolcking breeze,
And away with a whisk, no, no.
Ho, hol
Oh, the blossoms take long to come,
And the icicles long to go;
But the summer will come, and the bees vii
hum,
And the bright little brook will flow,
know. Ho, hol
H. U. KnOlC'ton, in st. Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-05
Glacial Americans.

In such winter as this it is peculiar
ly gratifying to learn that there have
been Americans who have seen the val
leys OF this continent filled with gla-
ciers, and even the mountain tops buried
in them. The Natural History Society
last night. discussing recent discoveries
in the Trenton grave beds, seems to
have about agreed, from the Clipped
stone implements found at the depth OF
sixteen feet below the surface, that a
race of men lived in America at the
same age that the most ancient dwell
ers in Europe laid down their stone shov-
els and hoes for future reference. We
have been in the habit of considering
America the land of big things, but it
has most wonderfully dwindled. peaked
and pinned since those days when the
Delaware river flowed mighty stream,
about fifty feet higher than its present
level, and mastodons were among the
game in the New Jersey forests, where
men now hunt deer and such small
game. These continued revelations of
the prehistoric population that occu-
pied America before the red Indians,
who begin to look like quite a lot of i'm
migrants, reveal also the gap between
those races and that which we call the
"aborigines." This gap is porten-
tous fact in American history, and
proves that the human race has not so
good a chance on this side of the planet
as on the other, where the continuity of
the race was never so completely lost.
Starting even as the two hemispheres
did, in the palaolithic or neolithic age,
to Judge from these discoveries of the
crude arts OF the epoch, the American
world "petered OUT completely per-
haps at the very time when Egypt and
India were in their glory. With ice
1900 feet thick in the Delaware Valley,
then containing 5000 square miles Gas
Rey. Mr.. Wright, of Andover, opined
last EVENING", and other glaciers where
other rivers are now drying up, man
was still able to exist here as in Europe.
But something worse befell the West
erl' than the eastern world, and
crushed out human life here, or at least
shook off its grip upon the earth for
ages. = Boston Transcript