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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
AN OLD-TIME INAUGURATION.

Mr.. Webster, writing from Washington,
says: 81 never saw such crowd here be-
fore. Persons have come 500 miles to
see Gen. Jackson" Judge Story writes:
After the cermony was over, the Presi-
dent went to the palace to receive COM
pany, and there he was visitel by i'm
mense crowds of all sorts OF people, from
the highest and most polished down to
the most vulgar and gross in the nation.
L never saw such a mixture. The reign
OF King Mob seemed triumphant. was
glad to es, ape from the scene as soon as
possible" No doubt Story was glad to
escape; he was a bitter opponent of Jack
son, and it was not to be expected that
he could enjoy these festivities. Hinc
lilac lachlymoe, "A profusion of refresh
ments," writes participant, "had been
provided. Orange punch was made by
barrels full; but as the walters opened the
doors to bring it out, rush was made,
the glasses broken, the pals of liquor up
set and the most painful confusion pre-
vailed. To such painful degree was
this carried, that wine and ice cream
could not be brought out to the ladies,
and tubs of punch were taken from the
lower story into the garoen to lead off
the crowd from the rooms. Men with
boots on heavy with mud stood on the
damask satin-covered stairs in their
eagerness to get look at the President
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19

India is often regarded as a country
plunged in the darkness of heathenism
and ignorance So it is, but not to the
extent generally supposed. There are
$4,000 schools and colleges in India
with an attendance of 100000. The
natives Prove themselves very proficient
in languages-indeed, Lord Northbrook
once said that very few European for
eigners could speak English as we'll as it
was spoken by the natives of India.
Scientific education in India chiefly con-
sists of instruction in medical science and
civil engineering, and in both these
branches great success has been attained.
The medical colleges have sent out
great number of thoroughly competent
native surgeons and physicians. There
is little technical teaching given in India.
The natives are said to have retentive
memories and expansive imaginations.
but not sufficient steadiness and maturity
of thought. They subordinate their
reason to their Imagination. Girl schools
for all classes are being established.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
NO. H..
COLOR-BINDNESS

In the last session of Congress the
Naval Committee reported bill author
izing the Government to initiate an in
ternational commission for determining
standard tests of color perception and vis-
ual power, and standard requirements of
these faculties for the naval and mer-
chant marines. The British Government
has been recently memorialized on this
subject by the Ophthalmological Section
of the British Medical Association and by
the new Opthalomogical Society of great
Britain and Ireland These memorials
have been indorsed by the Periodic Con-
gress of Opthalmology which met at Mi
Ian in September. The several maritime
nations which would take part in inter
national commission of such importance
and value are now awaiting the action of
the United States, for which Congress
must make provision before adjournment.
IF Congress should not be called together
in March, and this bill be overlooked or
pushed aside during the present session,
then our government could not act till af-
ter December next, and England can, in
the meantime, initiate the commission
and take the credit of so doing. A SINH
lar international commission for the
European railroads has been advised by a
commission appointed by the Minister of
Public Works of Belgium, g to report on
all the relations of color blindness to rail-
roads" Their thorough and very practi-
cal report concludes by urging the Bel
gian Government to initiate at once such
an international commission, referring to
the memorials aforementioned and the
proposed action of the United States.
The same general rules and regulations
and standards of vision as proposed by
the Belgian Commission are reported by
the Higher Railroad Commissioners of
France to the Minister of Public Works
in response to his circular of December
27, 1879, to the railroad corporations.
The recent report of the Surgeon General
of the United States Marine Hospital SER
vice tells us of the number of color-blin
pilots found, and the extraordinary efforts
and pressure to keep them in their places,
to the further danger OF our lives and
property. The report of the Inspector
General of Steam Vessels gives us the re-
suit of the investigation OF one collision
at least due to color blindness, by which
Ten lives were SdCTlHCou. Ino 6Xam10a-
tions carried out by the several depart
ments of our Government have not re-
suited Gin fixing the proper standards.
A comparatively low standard was recent
ly violently resisted for the railroads in
Connecticut, where officeseekers rallied
on the side of few defective employees
aud brought blindness into politics.
/! The results of an int irrational commission
! would at once settle all such questions
! and establish standards both fair and safe
Nation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
ORGAN OF "EOYCOTTING."

New YORK, January 10.-The Herald
says; 'Tn his lecture last evening James
Redpath related how the term "Boycot
ting first came to be coined and applied.
He had been breakfasting with Rev. John
O'Mally, parish priest of the Lough
Mask district st the time that Captain
Boycott and the tenants of the estate of
which he was agent were at daggers'
to Father O'Mally,' to find an apt word
by which to call this Land League, and
I can't get at it. Suppose you try your
hand at it, Father John?' why not call
it ''boycotting?" replied Father O'Mally,
promptly. That's the idea, Father Johp!
said Redpath,' you have hit the nail on
the head; so shall it be baptized. Now,
Father John, you give the cue to your
parishioners and I'll post the chiefs of
the Land League, and the thing is done.u
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19

The Farmers Alliance recently estab-
lished in this country will soon occupy a
position analogous to that of the Irish
Land League, if the advice of one of its
members, Mr.. Balton, of Sussex, be fol-
lowed. This gentleman, at the annual
meeting of the Alliance On Wednesday,
considered that their programme was not
sufficiently definite. He thought the far
mers of this country should organize for
something like fxity of tenure, compen-
sation for unexhausted improvements,
and free sale of goodwill He also
thought that the tenant farmers should be
assisted by the Government to become
Il owners Of their farms. Although the
land laws of England may require re-
form, it is to be hoped that the farmers in
their organization to attain this end will
act more in accordance with the law of
the land than the Irish agitators are do
ing, and will not lend themselves to any
movement of seditious nature. AS to
appealing to the government for aid, that
is useless effort just yet; the govern
ment will have more than enough on
their hands when they come to deal with
the Irish land question.-Live4pooz,
(Eng.) Courier, Dec. II, 1880.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
WHO STRUCK BILLY PATTERSON.

Many persons have heard the question,
"WhG str tt'k Billy Patterson?' without
know ng the origin oft. William Patter-
son VS. 4 very wealthy tradesman or
merchant of baltimore in the state of
Maryland. In the early days of Frank
lin county he bought up great tract of
land in the county, and spent good
portion of his time in looking after his
interests there. He was said 70 be as
strong as bear and as brave as lion,
but like all brave men he was lover of
peace, and, indeed, a good pious man.
Nevertheless his wrath could be excited
to fighting pitch. On one occasion, he
attended Il public gathering in the lower
part OF Franklin county, at some district
court ground. During the day the two
opposing bullies and their friends raised
a row and general fight was the conse-
quence. At the b4ginn ng 0. the afray,
and before the fight began, Billy Patter-
son ran int the crowd to persuade them
not to fight, but to make peace and be
friends. But his efforts for peace were
unavailing,, and while making them
some of the crowd in the general melee
struck Billy Patterson a severe blow from
behind. Billy at once became fighting
ma and cried out at the top of his
voice, "Who struck Billy Patterson?"
No one could or would tell him who was
the guilty party. He then proposed to
give any man a hundred dollars who
would tell him ''Who struck Billy Patter-
SON." From 800 he rose to ST 900; but
not 81, 900 would induce any man to tell
him "Who struck Billy Patterson" And
years afterward, in his will, he related
the above facts and bequeathed 81 900 to
be paid by his executors to the man who
would tell 'Who struck Billy Patter-
son. His will is recorded in the ordin-
ary's office at GAINESVILLE, Franklin
county, Ga, and any one curious about
the matter can there find it and verify
the preceding statements:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
ANECDOTES OF SUMNER.

Hon. E. L. Pierce, in his "reminiscences
of Sumner, given before the Massachu-
sets Club, the other evening, said that
the great Senator chad no real enmities
toward men. In 1872 Mast made car
toon in which Sumner was represented at
the grave of Bully Brooks, trying to spell
out the inscription. Summers attention
was called to it, but all he said was:
What have I to do with Brooks? 1t was
not Brooks-it was slavery. George
William Curtis was walking with Sum
ner one day in the Congressional Gene
terry, when he happened to see the name
of Brooks, and drew the Senator's eye to
it. Sumner looked a moment and turn
ell away with the simple remark: Poor
fellow Poor fellow!'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
NUMBERING THE HAIRS

The Rappel states that member of
the Societe de Statisque de Paris has ex-
ceeded the patience that the Bible de-
manded of Abraham. Count the stars
of the sky" said Jehovah to the father
of Isaac. "I am going to count the
hairs of your heads" said the monoman-
ical statistician to three young girls of
angelic patience who delivered their flow
ing tresses to the indefatigable observer.
And here are the results of observations
made for three girlish heads of the same
age, but not the same color: Blondes
have 100000 hairs, brunettes 100000,
and red-headed girls $4,000. If you
don't believe it, count for yourself!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
A BLIZZARD.

GA blizzard, says a Dakota man" is
the Northwestern name for a gale of
wind filled with snow and icy particles,
as fine as rice powder, with a tempera-
ture ten or twenty degrees below zero.
A genuine blizzard is so fierce and dense
that you can neither face it or distinguish
objects ten feet away from you. In
Dakota and Minnesota during the pre-
valence of the blizzard farmers only ven
ture out of their houses with guiding
ropes around their person to enable them
to find their way back
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19

The favorite wife Of the Sultan of
Morocco died at Fee in November. She
was thirty-four years of age, and had
been the queen of the harem for twenty
years. She was removed from her apart
ments to kiosh in the palace garden,
but the change did not benefit her, and
the Sultan ordered that she be buried in
the Kiosh where she died. Eight court
iers dug her grave. The Sultan was
wrapped in costly shawl, and all her
clothing was laid in her grave, so that
no living person might wear any of it.
Her jewels were broken at the grave, and
the fragments given to the poor. And
after the interment the furniture in her
apartments was demolished and the rooms
were all locked.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19

Congressman Ortb, who is said to be
proud of his German ancestors and of
his knowledge of the German tongue, is
described by merry friends as addressing
the Austrian Emperor at Vienna in this
beloved language. The Emperor, it is
related, afterward mentioned Mr.. Orth to
another American in complimentary
terms, and then added: "what was the
dialect in which Mr.. Orth delivered his
address? know, of course, that it was
not English. and thought that / de-
tected some faint traces of the Teutonic
tongue in some of the words"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19

VERY DANGEROUSLY. Burrows, of
the firm of Burrows & Winstanley, Sar-
MIA and Wilkesport, writes that he was
cured of very dangerous case of in
fammation of the lungs solely by the use
of five bottles of Electric Oil. Feels
great pleasure in recommending it to the
public, as he had proved it, for many of
the diseases it mentions to cure, through
his friends, and in nearly every instance
it was efectual. For sale by K. Schu-
bert & Son.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
COMPLIMENTS EXCHANGED.

Says The Cleveland Herald: "They
tell of very cultured divine in Boston,
who, instead of saying The collection
will now be taken up impressively re-
marks The accumulation of money will
now ensue.' Perhaps there is such man
here, but he is poor creature compared
with the Cleveland shepherd of souls
who says The Deacons will now sail
around, and the congregation will enthuse
and pass in its chips.-Boston Tran
sc9.iDt
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19

Ex-Gov. Seymour has been confined
to his house by illness for nearly two
months, and is obliged to have his letters
written by the hands of others. He says
that his physicians have prohibited all
mental and physical efforts. He finds
some amusement in his nephew's gift of
a set of wheather apparatus by means of
which he can ascertain the state Of the
weather and coming changes without
leaving his chair.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19

ExPERIENTIA DocET.-We must tell
some men great deal to teach them lit
tie, but the knowledge of the curative
properties of Spring Blossom in cases of
sick headache, indigestion, and Bilious
ness is bought by experience. For sale
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trial bottles 10 cents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19

NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING per-
sons so fully appreciate the value of
newspaper advertising as those suffering
from Biliousness or liver complaint, when
they read the advertisement Of Spring
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bottles 10 cents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
AUGUST WIGGENHORN

Jeweler, has recently opened Jewelry store
in Johnson's block, corner Main and 1st streets,
where he will keep constantly on hand a large
stock of Watches Clocks, Jewelry, Silver and
Plated Ware, &C. Particular attention paid to
repairing Watches, Clocks Jewelry, &C., and
warranted to give satisfaction.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
business Goros.
W. G.. SPALDING

Physician and Surgeon and Examing Surgeon
for Pensions. Office over Bank of Watertown
building, up stairs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19

STRAW X MURPHY.
Painters and dealers in Wall Paper, Window
Shades, Paints, Oils, Varnish, Glass, Putty.
Brushes, &c. One door west of Wisconsin Ma
tional Bank, Watertown.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
Eugene GOeldner
9 DENTIST,

Second Door East Of Post Offer, Watertown;
Wis. Teeth extracted without pain. Artlhclai
teeth inserted on gold silver and rubber plates
Teeth filled with gold and silver, and all Work
warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
IANi,fN A.. FORD

Watertown Lumber Yard. Lumber of every
description, Lath and shingles constantly on
hand and for sale at the lowest Market Price, at
the Milwaukee Depot, Watertown. MIS-.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
A. t1RITZNFR

fashionable Barber and Hair Dresser, shop in
salick's basement, on the Bridge, WatertoWn,
Wis. The best of Hair Dye used, warranted to
hold color for eight weeks.
The Osceola times., 1881-01-29
The Rage for Plush.
y. Y. Times.

Plush is still to be used for all pur-
poses, such a. furniture, frames, essels,
small fancy articles, purses, bags and
boxes. The most elegant cloaks are
lined with this article, and even plush
fans are now TO be seen. There is no suit,
whether for indoor or street wear, which
is not combined with this fabric. Light
plush toilets have satin cuirasses. As
this material is clumsy, waists have only
plush collars, cuffs and pockets. White
plush will be in vogue for bridal toilets; it
will form the scarfs, train and trimmings
combined with white satin. dress in
this style is only suitable for a tall,
slight person. Very small panlers are
on the dresses. Plush trains can not be
much draped, they are in Louis NV.
style, and hang full. Different shades of
green are in vogue. Among the other
colors used are garnet, ruby, apricot and
salmon colors, shading from very pale
pink to decided flesh and tea colors. All
the old gold tints are also in favor
Evening toilets are to be trimmed with
white Jet combined with silver threads.
Collars and small capes are of different
colored plush, such as white, blue and
pink, trimmed with lace. They are
made in different shapes. The mazarine
and Chevreuse collars ase suitable for
slight figures, as they broaden the shoul-
ders. As pockets can no longer be
placed in the skirts. ammonieres are gen.
orally employed. They are particularly
favored for indoor dresses, and are in
the shades of the toilet, but the material
of which they are made is either satin,
plush or velvet. The trimmings are
passementeries, and they are either en-
broidered with chenille or beads Of the
same color. Gloves worn with evening
dresses are long and without buttons,
reaching TO the elbow and sometimes
higher. They are of white or light un-
dressed kid, embroidered with small
earlands Of Pompadour flowers worked
in colored silk.