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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.
MADISON. Feb. 9Th.

| subject has been more or less talked about
here by members from different parts of
the state 1t is subject on which every
one seems thoroughly posted, and the
resident of our city can get great deal
of good advice from disinterested parties
at small cost. There is but one opinion
as to what should be done-and that is TO
settle with as little delay as possible with
those holding claims against the city, COM
promise the debt the same AS nearly every
city in the state has done, pay what you can
now and the balance at some future time.
Watertown cannot be expected to be
made the single exception to the general
rule, and be relieved from paying respon-
siblities incurred in common with almost
every municipal corporation in the state,
during the railroad craze a quarter of a
century ago. However unpalatable the
above is to the citizen of Watertown 1t Is
common sense, and the opinions of men
who have nothing for us but good wishes.
While I think that WATERFOWL has the
sympathy of this legislature, as she has
had of preceding ones, it is nevertheless
fact that our do nothing policy is strong
ly condemned by nearly every man of in
telligence in and out of it. Is it not to be
expected therefore that sooner or latter
forbearance will cease to be a virtue ana
the wall which now hold the bond-hold-
ers at bay be thrown down by some
legislature in the near future? Then no
compromise will be possible-then the last
farthing will be exacted.
presume the average citizen of Water
town is not aware of how much the debt
which hangs like vast thunder cloud
over Is injures the MY. II the u. err
most ends of the earth it would seem,
w .,e.,awn and her bonds, are known,
and what wise capitalist knowing our
condition would invest his money in
Waterfowl subject to the vast mortgage
which common sense tells us will one day
ue torecIosed. l dare say that there is not
sane man in Wisconsin outside of Wat
ertown who is not firmly of the opinion
that our bonds will have to be paid some
day, and the only way out ofour dilemma
is to settle on the best terms we can get
while temporary relief is vouchsafed lis.
A day or two since member OF the pre-
sent legislature told me that he had had
some Thoughts of removing to WATERFOWL
and really desired to do it, but said he,
Il am not going there to help you pay
that immense debt; | want to go to a
town where l can make an investment in
home and feel that l shall not have TO
pay for it twice over" This gentleman
IS one Of considerable means, does large
business which could easily be transferred
to Watertown, and employs a great
many men. He would be valuable ac-
QUESTION to any. community. We. have no
means of knowing how many men of like
enterprise and capital have been deferred
from settling in Watertown from the
same cause. But we do know that no
capital to speak of has come among US
for several years, and that none is likely
to come while the debt hangs over us in
its present shape.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

The annual returns from the three do
cases of the State recently made to the
Archbishop of the Catholic Province of
Milwaukee, show the Roman Catholic
population Of Wisconsin to be 81, 800, or
Qne-fourth of the entire population of the
State. There All Catholic Churches, 26
Ghapels, IS stations, 334 priests. One
half of the Catholic population of the
State dwells within the Diocese of Mil
Faukee There are over 1900 Indians
On the State, chiefly in the Green Bay
and La Crosse dioceses, who belong to tie
Catholic Church.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

The richest man in the next United
State Senate, it Is said, will be Mr.. Fair,
of Neveda. Of the others, Mr.. Hale, of
Maine, as the inheritor of Mr.. Chandler's
fortune, is one of the wealthiest, Messrs.
Miller, of California; Malone, of Vir-
ginia; Camden, of West Virginia; Davis,
Of Illinois, and Sawyer, of Wisconsin,
are more than millionaires.. There are
many other rich men in that body, but
the richest in brains have, as rule, the
highest purses.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

A BIG SELL.-D. Sullivan, Malcolm,
Ontario, writes: Il have been selling DR..
Thomas Electric Oil for some years, and
have no hesitation in saying that it has
given better satisfaction than any other
medicine that cures more than it is recon-
mended to cure" For sale by K. Schu-
bert & Son.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

The cost of living in Washington has
greatly increased this season.
Ice thirty-six inches thick is now be-
ing cut from the Connecticut river.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
FOR SALE.

AS we intend leaving Watertownin the spring,
we offer our Drug Store for sale. 1t is located
in the best business part of Nam street, and
well stocked up with Staple Patent Medicines,
Drugs, Chemicals, Toilel Articles and every
thing belonging to a FirstClass Drug Store. The
business was established in 1847, and entirely
rehtted in the most comfortable and best style in
1874. For particulars call at the store or address
the proprietors by letter.
All persons indebted to us are requested to call
at the store and settle their accounts, within 30
days from date. X. SCHUBERT & SON.
Watertown, Wis. Jan. 5th, 1851.
/ also wish to sell my brick building on Main
street, in which our Drug Store has been kept
70 the past years. 1t is well and substantially
built. The second story is very comfortably ar
ranged for family purposes, and may rs we'll be
used for offices, making it very desirable pro-
perry. Parties wishing to purchase, will please
call and examine or address,
Il X. SCHUBERT
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-11
An Extraordinary Magnet.

Mr.. and Mrs. John C. Collins, re-
siding at III East Ninth Street, st. Paul,
are astonished, almost dismayed, at q
remarkable REGULARITY only lately OBJ
served in their son, a boy 10 years old.
The boy is q healthy one, with nothing
odd in his appearance except that close
observers might consider his head dis
proportionately large. He attends a
lower-town Catholic school, and in
school appears as q rather bright
scholar, but without particularly studi-
GUS habits-just stout 10-year-old boy,
with q boys inclination for play and
mischief, but quick to learn when he has
to study. The peculiarly is that the
boys left hand is wonderfully strong
magnet. Metal articles of light weight
attach themselves to his hand 60 that
considerable force is required to remove
them. Knives, pins, needles, buttons,
etc., enough to cover his hand, will thus
attach themselves so firmly that they
can not be shaken off. Still more, the
attraction is SO strong that q common
coal-scuttle can be lifted by it, and
heavier implements have been lifted by
stronger persons taking hold of his arm.
With heavy articles, however. the boy
complains of sharp pains darling along
his arm. In lesser degree his left arm
and the whole left side of his body ex-
erts the same power; but it is not at all
manifest on his right side. A scientific
investigation of the phenomenon has
been acknowledgements Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-11
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

An electric railway experiment is pro-
posed for Paris.
ILLINOIS manufactured half the farm
ing machinery made in the United States
last year.
THE exports of grain from the port of
New York during the year 1880 reached
1O7 ,OO0, 900 bushels, an excess of nearly
$4,000, 900 bushels over the exports Of
any previous year.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
Company has awarded a contract for
IA narrow-gauge locomotives TO the
Baldwin Company of Philadelphia. The
machines are to be delivered this year.
The cost is over 81 100000
The corrosion of iron in boilers is
due, for the most part, according to Nj.
Lodin, to the absorption by the iron of
the oxygen in the water, and but slightly
by the absorption of oxygen set free by
the decomposition of the water.
The life of submarine telegraph
cable is shown by experience to be from
ten to twelve years. If cable breaks
in deep water after it is ten years of age,
it can not be lifted for repairs, as it will
break of its own weight-a fatal diff
Guilty, and for which there seems to be
no practicable remedy.
The Photographic NeaOs describes q
detective camera, the invention of Mr..
Bolas. It is like q shoeblack's block,
and may be slung over the shoulder
with q strap. 1t carries gelatine plates
already in position, and lens that is
always in focus for any distance from
twenty to thirty feet. 1t may be dropped
in the street any time the owner sees q
group he wants a picture of. When it
touches the ground bulb is squeezed
and the exposure is made.
COMPRESSED peat in London, and
indeed in almost all the towns of con-
siderable size throughout Great Britain,
is rapidly coming into use. On one of
the most important railroad lines, too,
compressed peat has for some time past
been used, and with entire satisfaction,
the fact appearing, from the engineers
report, that twenty-one pounds of peat
will raise steam for a mile of transit,
while the number of pounds of coal
required to do the same work is twenty
six. Its cost is less than one-haf that
of coal.
The metric system seems to be max
ing progress in this country. In the
Marine Hospital service it has proved
an unqualified success, and the Medical
Journal states that nearly all visiting
lists, call-books and dose-books, as well
as works on Materia Medica, are now
being printed with metric equivalents,
while in many medical colleges it is now
hardly possible for students to learn, or
the instructor to impart, such branches
as histology, physiology, chemistry,
etc., without Introducing the metric
system.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-11
PITH AND POINT.

A GOOD housekeeper-A watch dog.
Toronto Grip.
THE shoemaker has chance of being
the last man when the world comes to
an end.-NeU Orleans Hcay,sne.
The girl who was courted by spruce
young lawyer said she liked to be pro-
tected by the strong arm of the law.
THERE is not Smith in the United
States Senate, and yet that body is sup
posed to represent the people.-Phila-
delphia Ns,0s.
A BOY who can gallop along the walk
with three boys on q sled behind him
finds an armful of wood q back-break-
ing burden.-Detroit Free Press.
A YOUNG city fellow bought a farm
last winter. He had q fine orchard of
about two hundred apple trees, and a
few weeks ago he tapped every one of
them for cider.-Kenne6ec (Me.) Jour-
nal.
A LITTLE girl living down town was
had just finished ''give US this day our
daily Bread" when q precocious four
year-old brother exclaimed, "Say took
les, Mamy!''-Iroy Times.
A BIG six-footer was lifting for
all he was worth on q wagon
wheel which was stuck, when q
little two-foot mite of humanity,
nearly as broad as he was long, and
just out of long dresses and into pants,
with hands in his pockets and a swagger-
ing air, sang out: Mister, do you want
me to help you? l can grunt while you
lift.''
SOUTH END Maiden asks: "When
a young man comes twice week with
a carriage and takes young lady to the
theater and to supper afterward, and
makes her magnificent presents, what
does it indicate?'' 1t indicates, ma am,
that he has got more money to fool away
than we have.-BOStO7s Post.
All. well! our lives are something like old
papersi
We serve our day and then are shelved at
last.
Like pages spoilt by printers in their capers,
Some pages are blanks and misprints, and
are cast
Away forever; others. free from stain,
Bear virtues impress, and as joys remain.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-11
THE HAPPY MAN.

BIZ day, no biting cares assail
NY peaceful, calm, cOntented breast;
BY night my SAUNDERS never fail
OF welcome rest.
Soon as the Sun, with orient beams.
Gllds the fair chambers of the Day,
Musing trace the murmuring strearos
That wind their way.
Around me Nature fills the scene
With bOundless plenty and delight:
And touched with joy sincere, serene.
Ibless the sight.
bless the kind, creating Power
Exerted thus for fran mankind;
At whose command descends the shower
And blows the wind.
Happy the man who thus at ease,
Content with that which Nature gives;
Him guilty terrOrs never seize;
He truly lives.
-Cnam6ers's Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-11
Indian Progress In Montana.

SAYS the Daily Independent, of Hele-
ma, Montana: The Blackfeet, Bloods
and Piegans, on the northern border of
our Territory, have entered the wedge
of preparation for the change required
by the fast wasting supply of buffalo.
For three years past all the labor at
their Agency, such as cutting and haul
ing firewood, assisting at the putting in
and saving of the crops on the Agency
farm, ETC., has been done by them. All
the fences around the Agency were con-
structed by Indian labor solely. They
inclosed more than 500 acres of land.
About forty heads of families have aban-
doned their roaming habits, built log
cabins and now cultivate small farms.
While seed potatoes were so scarce and
high in price last spring, one Indian,
Running Crane, had enough remaining
after winter use to supply with seed all
his brother Indian farmers. Potatoes,
turnips and carrots are their favorite
crops. Last autumn, on one of the
''issue'' days at the Agency, when the
Indians were all gathered there, an In
dian drove his wagon to the gate loaded
with the produce of his farm, and then,
in true Yankee peddling fashion, sold
out by measure to the assembled crowd
his potatoes. turnips and carrots. The
taste for cabin building and living Gas
the white man does" is spreading among
them, and in some of the valleys there
is almost village. To add to this the
Department has sent saw-mills, now in
course of erection, SO that the necessary
T., L. L. L. nL:1l~o,,
in reach of the Agency attend school:
of which they are very fond-and make
fair progress. Several can read and
perform very creditable examples in
arithmetic. In speaking English, also,
there is great change. Formerly not
a word of English was to be heard now,
around the Agency, "Open the door,"
s'Come to school, ''Where are you go.
ing?'' "Come in" etc., are commonly
heard.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-11

And now there is, indeed, second
Ronald Morris to the front, the very pith
and marrow of his fathers self; and all
who remember the cordial, happy and
promising young author foresee that in
a few more years, when time has filed
out the sons muscles, broadened his
shoulders, and deepened his chest, he
will grow to be the very counterpart of
the lost man.
Young Ronald was just nineteen, and
since he left school had been placed on
a drudge's stool in a city warehouse,
from which there had been no release in
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-11


will, and while almost curdling my
blood, yet impelled me forward, knew
not how or why! 1t was spot to flee
from rather than penetrate; it might be
likened to witches trysting- place, the
haunt of evil spirits, of demons, elves
and COLLINS, who all had found en-
bodiment in the shrunken and mis-
shapen trees.
81 had strolled off on this wandering
and desultory excursion without any
definite purpose, hence came upon this
place purely by accident; but, once there,
and realizing its strange appearance,
was, Notwithstanding the feeling of awe
which it inspired, filed with a sense Of
gladness.
"Moving forward half unconsciously,
l had entered but yard or two within
the confines of this unhallowed- looking
region, when I was startled by large
black snake writhing away before my
tread from under the rank grass and
dense parasitical growth. The next mo-
ment l caught sight of a huge fox, as he
rushed across a narrow opening amid
the trees straight in front of me. Al
though l plainly saw the noisome crea-
lures, it was as one sees and shrinks
from such objects in a nightmare, and /
felt as incapable of drawing back as if ]
had been really dreaming. The uneven
nature of the ground soon, however,
made further progress so difficult that l
hardly knew how l got along at all. Yet
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-11

morbid fancy, said, which made me
attribute it to any other cause, and l
was recovering something like healthy
tone of mind, when, as was taking q
last long look into deep recess of the
wood, l beheld sight which half para
lyzed me, and instantly brought back
with renewed force that sense of the
weird and supernatural which l was
Just shaking off. YOnder, within a
narrow cleft in the rocks, moss
grown, and covered with the eternal
1ndergrowth, there was a spectacle
about which there could be no doubt ;
no tree could assume such shape as
that. Evidently, positively, it was q
human skeleton, damned tightly like
one of the trees in treacherOus fissure,
such as that into which had just lately
slipped.
every indistinct are my recollections
of what 1 did, or what my feelings, dur
ing the next few minutes. have a
hazy memory of remaining irresolute for
q time, and then of hurrying away,
dazed, and then of returning and plung-
ing into the thicket, regardless of the
thOrny brambles and the uneven, slip
perry, crevice-beset powders, for re-
member was standing presently close
to these human remains, only little
above them, at the mouth, as it were, of
the cleft. Twas examining them intently,
peering at them between the ferns and
grass, which, hanging in thick clusters
and pendant wreaths, grew from either
side of the deep fissure in which the
skeleton was immured, upright, and
with an arm cutstretched, and caught
by the elbow tight between a smaller in
terstice of the rock. shuddered as
looked into the eyeless sockets with their
grim yet pitiful expression, at the TWO
rows of glistening teeth, at the bleacaed
bones with here and there shreds ct rot
ten clothing still adhering to them. Tall
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-06-09

A somewhat curious story comes from q
town in Columbia county. Some yearr ago,
as it runs, a loving couple became esssanged.
Each married, and, in the lapse Of time. the
companions of both died. A year or so Ia
ter the couple met, and not loog after they
we're married. A few months ago they both
died within few hours Of each other. They
were buried on the same day, the wife by
the eide Of her fr-t husband, the husband
beside his first wife.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-06-09
on, WHAT A COUGH.

Will you heed the warning. The signal
perhaps Of the cure approach of that more
terrible disease Consumption. Ask your
selves If you can afford for the sake Of cav
ing 80 cents to run the risk snd do nothing
for it. We know from experience that shi-
loh's Cure will cure your cough. 1t never
fails. This explains why more than Mil
lion Bottles were cold the past year. 1t re-
lieves Group and Whoopins Cough at once.
Mothers do not be without it. For Lame
Back, Side or Chest, nee Shiloh's Porous
Plaster. Sold BY H. J. Fringer.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-06-09

II people who are troubled with colds
would make use of Ayers Cherry Pectoral
before attending church or public lectures,
they would avoid coughing, and the comfort
Of hearer and speaker would be greatly pro-
NOTED. The Pectoral enables public speak
ers to speak clearly and without fatigue,
having an immediate and wonderful effect
in increasing the power and tle1ibility of the
voice.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-06-09
KANSAS NEWS,

Everybody in Kansas should keep posted
as to State news, and We know Of no better
way than to read The Leavenworth Weekly
Times. Each week il has four or Eve col
umns of choice miscellany selected from its
Kansas exchanges, which feature is alone
worth the price Of subscription. Besides
this, you always find the best farm depart
ment, Washington news, ringing editorials,
and items Of especial irtsre@t to Western
readers. Clubbed with the DODGE CITY
TINES for $500. Bring your subscriptions
to this Office.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-06-09

Mr.. Bennyworth's Pioneer Sugar Factory
has been under headwsy and is now turning
out iner sugar than any made BY il Lest fall
He had several thousand gallons Of syrup
and Il now masking il into sugar. The mer-
chants are selling it here q, ten cents per ID.
-Larued Chronoecope.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-06-09

The Eldorado Times makes . very sensi-
bic protest sgsinst the custom Of Kansas ed
itors continually Haunting their poverty in
the faces of their patrons. and pleads for
more dignity and self-respect among Kansas
journalists,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-06-09

We have q speedy and positive cure for
Catarrh Diptheria. Canker Mouth and Head
ache, in SHILOH'S CATARRH RENE.
DY. A nasal Injector free with each bottle.
Use ii ifyou desire health and sweet breath.
Price so cents. Sold by H. J. Fringer.