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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02
THE LAST FRENCH HORROR.

At the asszes of. Gers a case has Just
been tried which is of singular barbarity.
At Mirande there lived farmer named
Balthazard, with his wife and only son,
the latter young man of brutal manner
and debauched habits. The great wish
of the parents, who were miserly in the
extreme, was to see their hopeful son
married to girl with money, and they
were exceedingly pleased when they
were told that he was engaged to an heir
ess, named Marie Toulouse, with por
ticn of 10000 francs AS matter of
fact, however, she had only 600 francs,
and the anger of the old people was ex-
cessive when the son confessed that he
had lied on the subject and that he was
already married to the girl. From the
very first she led dogs life in the ami
able household she had just entered, re-
proaches, threats, and blows being her
daily portion, until at last her husband got
tired of her and left her with the old
Balthazards. Shortly afterwards, she
went back to her friends and the son re-
turned home. Unfortunately for her,
she heard of his return and came again
to Mirande to claim support from him.
Shortly afterwards some young men
boating on the Baise River perceived the
poor creature floating down the stream
and rescued her, Balthazard the younger
watching the whole proceeding from the
banks with his arms folded. Even then
she refused to accuse her wretched hus-
band, declaring that it was by accident
that she fell into the water. Within a
weeks time her body was found in a
wood adjoining the farm. A post NOR
TEN examination revealed the fact that
she had been suffocated 1t is satisfac-
tory to record that no suggestion of ex-
tenuating circumstances was brought
forward, and that the father, mother, and
son were all sentenced to perpetual
trauaur .torceS.-London Times, Feb.
4th
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02
ACAT STORY.

A man now living in Kingston emf
grated to the west many years ago, ano
bought a house which had stood unoccu
pied for considerable time. The first
night he heard sounds which convinced
him that there were rats in the cellar
and on. Investigation he found that hun.
dreds of the creatures were disporting
themselves there. Having eaten quar-.
ter of beef down to the bone, they were
playing tag among the shelves and boxes
He offered to introduce the family cat
but she declined to be presented. The
next day she was missing, until the fami.
ly thought they had lost her; but on the
fourth day familiar "meow'' was heard
and there was tabby at the head of col
umn of three dozen cats in light march
ing order, their backs up and their tails
rampant. The front door was opened
and the detachment moved down the eel
lar stairs in good order. The next morn
ing a -four barrel full of dead rats was
buried behind the house, and the cats re-
turned to their homes.-Neao York Iri-
6une.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02
NO. 20
WHY HANCOCK WILL GO.

New YORK, Feb. 14-Gen. Hancock
was subjected to an interview to-day re-
| garding his intended visit to Washington
the 4th of March.
fWhy have you decided to attend Pres
ident Garfeld's inauguration"
81 do not think it would be proper for
me to express my political views regard
ing Garfield or the Republican party at
this time, as do not wish to be drawn
into discussion or controversy of any
kind; but [ will say I have received a
polite and formal invitation to be present
at the Inauguration ceremonies, and I
have acted in accordance with my sense
OF what is proper in accepting the invita-
ton, and in promising to be present on
the occasion.
"W1ll you be a guest of those in charge
of the inaugural ceremonies?"
II am asked to become the guest of
the chairman of the committee, and he
has pressed me to take Mrs. Hancock
with me and become an inmate of his
own private residence in Washington,
but have engaged rooms at Wormley's
hotel"
'1s it because the chairman of the COM
mittee is prominent Republican that
you do not wish to accept his personal
hospitality"
ooh, have no such reasons for my
action. A great many of my political,
military and personal friends will no
doubt visit we while am in my own
room in the hotel than in another mans
private residence would feel more free
in hotel; so would my friends. Another
good reason is the fact that | would not
feel it fair to ask private host to enter
tain guests friendf."
"Will you attend in a military capacity
or merely as citizen Of the United
States?"
CAS- to that, [ cannot exactly say.
Some time ago Gen. Sherman requested
my presence in Washington the 4th of
March"
"Will you attend the grand ball in the
evening?'
''No, sir; but will be present during
the ceremonies in the Senate chamber
''Will you appear in the procession?'
'It is not my intention to parade my
self on Inauguration day. By virtue of
my official position as chief officer of the
military dINiSlOu Oh the AGlanClc, / Will
be in reality in command over all the
troops in Washington on the 4th of
March. The military barracks of that
city are virtually under MY charge"
"What is your personal opinion of the
election of Gen. Garfield as President of
the United States?''
'In regard to Gen. Garfield I will say
that Democratic Senate and House of
Representatives have declared Jhim duly
elected President Of the United States,
and such being the case it is proper that
any person who is resident of the IN
tied States should attend the Inaugural
ton exercises. Some persons have doubt
ed the wisdom Of my appearance in
Washington the 4th Of March, and others
say there's no harm in my attending. It
seems right to me. Of course in this
matter the merits or demerits of the diff
ferent political parties are not in ques-
tion Gen. Garfield is to occupy the
Presidential chair for the next four years,
and there can be no harm in seeing and
hearing him when he takes the oath of
his high office. [ say this without refer
ence to parties or disputed political ques-
tons
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02

The following is a pen-picture of the
Baroness Burdett-C -Coutts: She is tall and
graceful, and has dark-brown hair and
hazel eyes. Her energy and vitality are
extraordinary, and when she is well she
defeats her age by dozen years. Her
hands are very small and delicate, and
have been modelled as specimens of per
feet beauty. She usually dresses in Ozark
velvet or silk of a well-chosen and sub
dued colcr She wears no head-dress in
the morning, but in the evening she is to
be seen in an Augot cap. She has an
abundance of most rare and costly jewel
ry, but she rarely makes any display of
it her person. Occasionally she wears
tigers claw, richly set, as pendant
to the gold chain round her neck. Hwas
presented to the Baroness by Sir Garnet
Wolseley, and she values it highly. The
Baroness is a good horse-woman, and is
fond of exercise, and she walks with an
elasticity that many younger woman
might envy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02
MR.. YoUNG'S WIFE.


PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 22.-The ar
rest in Denver, Col, on Tuesday, by
United States Marshal Charles H. Haw-
ley, of John W. Young, son of the Nor
mon prophet, Bigham Young, at the in
stance of Miss Elizabeth Young, nee
''Libbie" Canfed, of Philadelphia, for
bigamy, revivesthe rather romantic mar
riage of Young 10 his Philadelphia wife.
About the latte part of 1866 John w.
Young was in this city, ostensibly on
business for th' Mormon community, but
in reality withan eye to private specula-
ton. Being aman of genial and enter
tanning presen.e, and not at all bad-looE-
ing, and, besides, having made number
of strong frierds who were willing to
show him ever possible courtesy during
his stay in theQuaker City, he readily
obtained an Introduction to Miss Libby
Garfield, of tie Garfield Manufacturing
Company, at Ihat time doing business at
Seventh and Cherry streets. Young had
previously nei the young lady and was
somewhat Alijten with her acknowledged
beauty an, charming manner and upon
being presented to her Immediately began
the siege whith finally resulted in Miss
Libby's capihlation. They were mar
ried in 1867, notwithstanding the fact
that the young lady had a husband liv-
ing in this city from whom she had never
been divorced and Young was in SINH
lar plight or worse, for he had two wives
awaiting his eturn to his harem in Utah.
The marriage between Young and Miss
Garfield, however, was the result of pure
love, for it issaid that he exhibited to-
ward her mare affection and tenderness
than he did o any one or all of his other
wives combined
1t Is frlrthG stated that when Young
was welded % his Philadelphia bride she
was fully aware that he was already
doubly incunbered, but that she over
looked this t'ifiing matter when her hus-
band explained that the other two were
merely nominal wives forced upon him
by the laws of the Mormon church at the
dictation of the prophet Brigham, senior.
However that may be, Young and his
Philadelphia bride went to Salt Lake
City, and there led life of domestic
bliss which brought forth fruit in the
form of three children. Nothing occur
red to mar their uniform felicity until
1878, when Young took unto himself a
fourth wife in the person of Luella Cobb,
which caused IN unlooked-for disruption
in his previously well-regulated house
hold.
Prayers and entreaties proved of no
avail. Mrs. Young, of PHILADELPHIA,
who had always been recognized as the
favorite, would submit to no such usur-
patton of her rights, and accordingly
packed her trunks, and, taking her three
children with her, left the city of many
wives and returned to Philadelphia.
Young has given bonds for his appear
ance in thesum Of $4,000, but the tele-
graphed statement of his having broken
a pledge never to practice polygamy is
laughed at by Philadelphians conversant
with all the facts connected with his mar
riage in this city.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02

The contending Republican factions
in the Pennsylvania Legislature have
at last reached compromise which re-
suited in the election of a United States
Senator Wednesday, Hon. John I.
Mitchell, now member of Congress from
the Tioga district, was agreed upon as
the compromise candidate last night,
and this agreement has been formally
ratified by his election. Mr.. Mitchell
was openly opposed to the Grant third
term movement last year, but is never
theless, on good, friendly terms with the
leaders of both the Cameron and the
anti Cameron factions in that State, He
has been teacher, a lawyer. an editor
was soldier in the war, three times a
member of the Legislature, twice elected
to Congress, and declined reelection
last fall. He is only AZ years of age.
Heis stanch Republican, a man of
culture and ability, a personal friend of
General Garfield; and has made record
in his State as an opponent of corporate
monopolies.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02
FERNANDO WOOD.

Erect, angular and freezing was the
impression be made on outsiders; but
those who have sat at his famous din
ner parties tell Of Jokes and good cheer.
For many years his wife has been insane,
and Mrs. Hickox, a relative, took care Of
the smaller children and kept house for
the family. His last wife was Miss
Alice Mills, very beautiful heiress. The
policy of Mr. Wood concerning money
matters caused trouble, so I have been
informed by friend, and his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Mills, was entirely separated
from her daughter, and while loving her
with passionate tenderness, never would
enter Mr. Woods house to see her. So
bitter were her feelings toward the hus-
band of her child that she even willed
her pictures to public gallery in order
to keep them from adorning his walls.
When the longing to know something
of the delicate, and, as she thought, mis-
erable girl, whom the venerable man had
wooed for her fortune, became too strong
to be resisted, Mrs. Mills would take lady
friends to her child's door, and sit in the
carriage yelled, while they called, and
with tears and eagerness would ask of
them as they drove away how Alice look
ed and what she said; and yet SO severe
and proud was she that no message was
ever carried from her to Mrs Wood, who
never guessed how, in disguise, her
mother often waited outside her home.
So miserable were these two women
separated, that Mrs. Wood health droop-
ed, she became melancholy and prison
er in her own rich house. Mr.. Mills
restless, unreasonable and morbid, SEEM
ed almost beside herself when mention
was made of Mr. Wood or his wife. Her
life was in gay society; she lived at
hotels in Washington, but at last, after
a day of weeping for her lost child, she
fell or jumped from the window of her
room one Fourth ol July five or six years
ago, and died in a few hours.
They say Mr.. Wood acted very kindly,
at the..last, came to the dying woman and
tried to see her; but with her last breath
she begged the bystanders to keep that
man away. Since her mothers death
Mrs. Wood has been continuously in an
insane asylum, and probably has no
knowledge of her husbands decease.-
Cincinnati Commercial.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02

Prince Bismark likes to get his
Parliamentary guests in a circle about
him, and wrapped in clouds Of smoke
from pipe and cigar, thence to deliver
epigrammatic sayings. II want no col
onies," he is quoted as saying. ''For us
in Germany this colonial business would
be just like the silks and sables in the
noble families of Poland, who have no
shirts to their backs" At the Prince
latest soiree one of the four laboring
men he has appointed as members of the
new Commercial Council approached and
congratulated himself upon being allow
ed to discuss questions of State with such
man. Whereupon the Prince clinked
his glass with the laboring man, and
everybody was delighted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02
ECLECTRIC OH AMONGST THE BAs7

ECLECTRIC OIL AMONGST THE BASE
BALLIsTs. s.-Joseph Durrinberger, Broad
way, says he had the misfortune to severe
ly sprain his ankle, confning him to his
room, and causing extreme suffering. His
brother "Jesse, of the E. Side B. B.
grounds" who always uses it in such
cases, induced him to try it, and he says
that the application of the Eclectric Oil
half dozen times enabled him to walk
around, and before he had used one-half
of the bottle he was quite recovered. For
sale by K. Schubert & Son.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02
THE BOERS.

Two hundred years ago four ships sail
ed from Holland, carrying to regions that
then lay at the uttermost bounds of the
known world certain French Huguenots
exiled by the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes Those vessels carried altogether
about $50 men, women and childen, all
French citizens Among them were
many good names, names which, little
more than century later were figuring
high in that long roll of marshals and
generals of France which the revolution
and its great soldier gave to fame. Hugo,
Joubert, JOGrdain, Retief, Arnold, De
Villiers, Bertrand, Fouche, Du Plessy,
Mouncey, Serrurier, Victor, and many
other names appears, in the list
of those who selected the distant Dutch
colony of South Africa as their future
home. These exiles brought to the little
colony strength and mental power of a
new kind. Fifty years later the French
language had died out, the second and
third generation had intermarried among
the Dutch, and the allconquering moth
er-tongue had had its usual triumph.
But these $50 French Huguenots made a
mark upon the colonial community that
has never been effaced from the national
character. It was Retief who led the
"Great Trek into the northern wilds
It was De Marais who headed few
hundred followers against the hosts ofthe
Matabele King in 1887. 1t was Cellier
who read the service in the laager on the
Black Umvolosi on Sunday morning when
the Zulu army, in that chest and horn
formation SO familiar to us years later,
moved to the attack Of the Dutch camp.
1t was Joubert who covered the beaten
wreck of the Boer Commando after the
disaster on the White Umvolosi, and to-
day another Joubert is the moving spirit
in the Transyaal revolt. These French
Huguenots and the smuch larger number
of Dutch employees Of the old East India
Company, were the ancestors of the peo-
pie whom to-day we call the Beers "a
people slow to think, but not easily to be
turned from their thought when once
they found it; slow to embark in any
movement, but certain to follow it to its
extreme end when it has once begun.
A homely sober, virtuous quiet, dull race
of beings, as full of faith in God and of
fair dealing between man and man as
this world holds human sample of.-TAe
Contemporary ReU5eao.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02

The champion bee-keeper lives, very
appropriately, in Beeton, CAL, and bears
the not unfamiliar name of Jones. In
the year 1879, from 800 colonies of bees,
he obtained $4,000 pounds of honey, and
IN 1880, from 400 colonies, he obtained
10000 pounds, worth $4,000, and the lat
ter year was bad year for honey. Dur
ing the latter year he obtained 600 new
colonies from the 400, and commences
1881 with 1000 colonies of bees, valued
at 81 900, independent of the cost of the
hives. Mr.. Jones says he will clear at
least $50, 900 this year, unless some un.
foreseen accident occurs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02
SPARROWS ON TOAST.

A new dish is offered to the epicure
to pass his opinion upon, that of English
sparrows upon toast. This morning, as
a representative of this paper was pass
ing one OF the city markets, he observed
a string Of small birds hanging outside
which resembled the common English
sparrow. Upon inquiry, he was inform
ed that the birds were sparrows, and
could be either stewed or served on toast
They sold for 8 cents pair. Azbany
EUening Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02

Here is paragraph from a letter
written twenty miles north of Lima,
after the fall of that city: "Some 1000
wounded are now in the hospitals in
Lima, and probably as many more are
being cared for in private houses. The
surgeons from the various foreign men
of-war lave gone to the city to offer such
assistance as they may be able to give.
DR.. Dickinson, of the United States steam
ship Adams, returned this morning, and
reports that nearly all the sufferers in
the hospitals are wounded in the back y
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02

A JEsT-A witty man can make jest
wise man can take one. 1t does not
take either to find out the virtue offspring
Blossom in curing disorders arising from
impurities of the blood. Constipation,
Indigestion, etc. Price, 80 cents, trial
bottles 10 cents. For sale by sale by K.
Schubert & Son.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02
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