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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05

The Ellanora Spring Hotel handsome
frame building at Haysville, Pa, valued at
S13S.0OO was swept away by an incendiary fire
on the LIST inst
Koch d Sons stationary house was damaged
$4,000 worth by fire on the I'd inst. Loss
$4,000.
fire at Stockton, Cal. on the I'd inst con-
sumed Sperry & Co.'S mills and several adioin-
ing buildings. Loss 5000, 900. Insurance
$4,000.
Arrisons planning mills and Willets. Oliver &
Co.'s box factory at Kaighn's Point N. J.,
were reduced to ashes on the 3lst ult. Loss
$4,000.
Nine houses were destroyed by fire at Forest
City, Ark, on the night Of the Both ult. Loss
$4,000.
Riesck's safe factory, Pittsburg, Pa, was en-
trely destroyed on the 31st ult., together with
five brick dwellings, in the rear. Loss $50. 900.
The bark Graharns Polly, laden with petro-
leum, was burned to the waters edge in New
York harbor on the 31st ult. Loss 1915, 900.
The Canterbury paper mill at Norwich Conn,
burned on the Goth ult. Loss $4,000; insur
ance $40, 900.
Jacob Rorer's store, at Boranchtown suburb,
near Philadelphia, burned on the morning of
the goth ult. Loss $4,000.
Toronto was visited by serious fire on the
night of the 28th ult., which consumed the
Toronto Wagon-Wheel Companys works and
the Consolidated Purifying establishment. Loss
$50, 900
Walker Hall, the finest of the Amherst Col
lege buildings, was destroyed by fire on the 29th
ut. The building and contents were valued at
$3.50, 1000. The Shepard mineral cabinet alone
was worth $50, O00 Insurance on all S72, 600.
Tarthing's distillery, Buffalo, N. Y, was re-
dEced to ashes on the 29th ult Loss $6O,000.
The paper house of Richards u Co., at Gar
diner, Me-, burned on the 28th. Loss $50, 900.
Insured for 1872, 600
The town of Grundy, near Lynchburg, Pa,
was almost entirely consumed by fire on the
28th.
The business portion Of Hurdsboro, H., was
swept away by fire on the Goth. Loss $26, 900.
Couner d Lat1in's dry goods house and Wies
Il Sons drug store at Spencer Ind, were
visited by tile on the 28th. Damage $25, 600.
The Albion Springs Tooth Harrow Works at
Detroit. Mich, were partially destroyed by fire
on the 9th. Loss S25, 1000.
Fires at Boeszenfa and Paks, Hungary, de-
stroyed ITO buildings at the former place, and
248 at the latter. Several hundred families are
left destitute
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05

The steamer Golden Eagle, en- route from
New Orleans for Cincinnati, was burned at
Memphis early on the morning of the 31st ult.,
lost, mostly women and children. So rapidly
did the flames spread that five minutes after
discovering the fire amidships, the after part of
the steamer was all ablaze and those who es-
capped had to flee in their night clothes. AS
near as can be ascertained there were twenty
three ladies on board the Inflated steamer, two
OF whom SO far as known. were saved. Stoves
circus was on board. The entire outfit con-
sistlag OF six cages of animals, the band and
other wagons, tents and horses were consumed
The fire was occasioned by a Waterman acct
dentally setting fire to a lot Of jute, which was
stored anlidships. Pecuniary loss about $780,
eco. Mrs. L. E. Kountz, the wife of the
wealthy steamboat nall, and her three children
are among the lost.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
CRIMINAL IMPOSITION,

The question of food adulteratfn sur
passes the liquor traffic in its Importance
and is In much more need of vigorous
agitation. In the liquor warfare the
poison is unmasked and can be prudently
avoided and pointed out, but in the mat
ter of food no one can tell what it pass
ing into his stomach without first going
to the trouble of an analytical test. IN
infant food alone the New York Times
says there are about twenty European
preparations and at least twice as many
American, all of which profess to furnish
a complete nutrition for the infant dur
ing the first few months of its existence,
while yet the conversion of starch into
dextrine and sugar is beyond the ca
pacity of the unframed digestive func-
ton. The examination OF these with the
microscope, assisted by such simple
tests as iodine which turns starch cells
blue, and gluten Cor albuminous) gran
ules yellow, has engaged the careful at
tention of DR.. Ephraim Cutter, of Cam
bridge, and his results will startle most
mothers who have relied upon the ex-
travagant pretenses set forth in the cir
culars of manufacturers. Eliza Melon
ough, who preceded DR.. Cutter in this
field, has been in measure discredited;
but it appears that her assertion-that
the starch, SO far from being transformed
into dextrine, was not sufficiently altered
to render the recognit ion of its source
difficult, whether from wheat, rye, corn
or barley-was strictly true and
that these pretentious foods are, without
exception, nearly valueless for dietetic
purposes. All Of them consist of baked
-four mainly, either alone or mixed with
sugar, milk or salts. In some cases, the
baking has been very inadequately per-
formed, and the doctor found one that
consisted merely of wheat and oats whose
starch cells were proximately in their
natural condition. The general result
of DR.. Cutters examination may be stated
In brief terms as follows: There was
scarcely single one of the so-called in
FAINT foods that contained a quantity of
gluten as large as that contained in Or
binary wheat -four. That is to say,
well-compounded wheat cruel is superior
to any of them, particularly when boiled
with little milk; and mothers are in
error who place the slightest dependence
upon them. AS respects one very ex-
pensive article, processing to possess
270 parts in every 1000 of phosphate
salts in connection with gluten, DR..
Cutter was unable to find any gluten at
all. The thing was nearly pure starch,
sold at an exorbitant price as a nerve
and brain food and great remedy for
ricketts,. So all through the list. Some
times trace Of gluten was present; more
frequently none at all. In one case
there were 80 parts of starch to 10 of
gluten; but this was exceptional, and the
majority were less valuable, ounce for
ounce, than ordinary wheat -four. Con-
sidering the semi-philanthropic preten-
sions that have been put forth by the
manufacturers of these foods, some of
them sustained by the certificates of
eminent physicians, the report of DR..
Cutter is one of the dreariest comments
upon human nature that has recently
fallen under the notice Of the journalist.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
COLLEGE Incidents.
from the Buffalo Commercial. I


A few years ago one of the students at
Bowdoin College bore the euphonious
title of ''Spud." He was fine scholar,
and after graduation was chosen an in
structor in the college. Of course, his
student name still clings to him. He
knew it and didn't like it. He was very
dignifed and his professional chair did
not diminish the gravity of his demean-
or. One day some boys playing ball
near the door of recitation room in
which "Spud was conducting Latin
exercise, annoyed the expounder of sub
jectives and the intricacies of indirect
discourse, and calling a sophmore to
him, he said: ''Please go to the door,
Mr.. A. ,and say tothose players that | de-
sire them to cease their play or make less
noise.'' A. went to the door, stuck his
head out and shouted in stentorian tones:
"Here, you fellows Spud says to dry
upr' Another professor in the same
college bore the nickname Kalgar,
from two common Greek words. In fact
very few professors in any American col
lege escape familiar or opprobrious
an the hands of the students.
One of the happiest hits of this sort was
at the expense of certain Yale profess
sor who was called sold Spondee,-a
8poadee, in metrical versifcation consist
ing of taOo long feet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
a Monument Demolished.

The Andre monument erected by Cyrus w.
Field at Iappan, N. Y, on the spot where the
notorious English spy was hung in revolution
airy days, and upon which was engraved an in
almost ruined on the night OF the Both ult., by
some unknown persons who exploded charge
of dynamite under it. The base was completely
shattered but the shaft still stands, partially dis
mounted. Since the mutllation of the nscrip-
ton of the monument on Washingtons birth
day, by Geo. Hendrix, who is now refugee
from legal pursuit guards have been stationed
in the neighborhood of the cenotaph, and it is
mystery how this last act of desecration was
ACCOMPLISHED
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
SEninWrRcka

The captain and crew of the brigantine Will
liam. wrecked on Sable Island, reached Halifax
on the I'd inst. The vessel became locked in
the ice, and provisions giving out, the crew
were compelled to subsist for 20 days on oats
that had been in the crevices Of the vessel for
years.
On the night of the LIST inst, collision oc-
CURED off Cape Finisterre, Spain, between the
Spanish steamer Yerurac Bat and the Royal
Mail steamer Douro, from Brazil. Both steam
ers sunk. Thirty of the crew of the Spanish
steamer, including tho captain and pilot were
drowned. The total number lost could not be
ascertained.
The coastlng steamer Pelton foun1ered in the
British Channel on the Goth. Eighteen persons
were drowned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
MGrpUArYe

L. H. Ballinger, a prominent politician of
Galveston, Texas, died from the effects of vac
cnation
Gen. Hurlburt. late United States minister to
Peru, died at Lima, on the 28th ult., of heart
disease.
Mr.. Joseph Harris. an old citizen of Chicago,
who was prominent member of the board of
county commissioners some years ago. died on
the night of the Goth ult., aged Sc.
Henry B. Meyer, father of the late Gen.
Meyer, chief of the signal service, died at Chi
cago, on the 29th ult.. at an advanced age. He
Invented sleeping Car in 1854, and at the time
of his death was engaged in perfecting safety
car.
Judge Patton, of the West Virginia court eof
appeals, died at Wheeling, W. Va, on the 30th
ult-, of heart disease
Captain Thomas FL. French, retired officer
of the TIA cavalry, died suddenly at Leaven-
worth, and was buried at the fort
Francis Ashton, ST.. one of the pioneer resi-
dents Of Lima o., died on the Goth. aged 81
years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
Mr.. Harris Back Paw,

A Washington correspondent says that
a very good story of back pay is told by
ex. Representative Harris, of Virginia.
voted against the bill, he says, "but
I took the money. When I was up for
reelection, they threw it up at me. [
told them / had tried to beat the bill.
but had taken the money, yet I thought
that they would forgive me when they
heard what I had done with it. Il took
that money down into Virginia, said /,
and gave it to poor woman with seven
children, and / told her to use it for her.
self and children, and the story is not
bit worse because that woman is my
wife, I don't think I lost vote by
that back pay business.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
OUR DEMONSTRATING COURTS,

After summing up the progress of in
ventors in the efforts to keep pace with
the hurry of American life The Hour
scores the courts for tediousness in bust
ness. It says: The world of business
may move with accelerated speed, but
our courts will not be hurried. The SUI
preme court of the United States is three
years IN arrears of its calendar. Who
ever wishes to indulge in the luxury of a
lawsuit which has to be finally decided
at the capital, must wait that length of
time before his case can be heard. Not
withstanding the multiplicity of judges
and lawyers in this and other cities,
there is no such thing as the prompt
hearing and speedy disposal of pressing
cases. So tedious and expensive are our
courts that our exchanges have to make
it forfeiture of his seat if an appeal is
made to the law by member for the set
Element of dispute. The merchants
also have an arbitration court of their
own to settle their differences. In Eng
land and France there are no such de-
lays in legal proceedings as are tolerated
III this country. DR.. Lamson, in Eng
land, is to be hanged on April 4th, hav-
ing been found guilty on March 14th of
numbering his brother-in-law. The trial
began within few weeks after his arrest
and did not last over week. Had it
taken place in this country it would have
consumed at least two months time, for
there would have been an immense mass
of worthless expert testimony allowed.
If lunatic fires at the queen, he is
promptly put out of the way and every
thing is done to avoid making him an
object of public interest. But Guiteau,
under our court procedures, was allowed
to administer to his own diseased vanity
for months, and though there was no
question as to his guilt, a year will
elapse between the murder and his exc
cution. A case was recently reported
of a controversy over policy of insur-
ance of S., 0G0, between the st. Nicholas
Insurance Company Of New York and
the Merchants Insurance Company of
Newark. The case began in 1866, when
the plaintiff obtained verdict; where
upon the general term of the supreme
court granted a new trial. Again the
plaintiff prevailed. The case was then
carried to the court of appeals, which
reversed the Judgment of the court be-
low. Seventeen years have passed since
the litigation began, four times the
amount of money involved In the case
has been wasted and the controversy is
as far from settlement as ever. There
are literally thousands of such mon
strous instances upon the records of our
courts.
It is clear that this anomalous state of
affairs cannot last. Our courts and con-
crosses will in time be forced to recog-
nize the fact that this is an age of rail-
roads and telegraphs. IF the courts can
not sett e business disputes promptly,
the example of the stock exchange and
the chamber of commerce will be fol-
lowed In other instances. Judges must
be made to realize that courts exist for
the benefit of the community, not for
the emolument of the legal profession.
The demand of the time is for more and
speedier justice and for good deal less
law
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
SFaSpEda7.

Cornelius J. Yandelh1lt brother of Will
liam H. Vanderbilt, shot himself at Glenham
Hotel, New York city, on the I'd inst, and died
from the effects o. the wound four hours after
ward. The cause OF the act is said to have been
mental arrangement brought on by epilepsy.
James Tremaine, wealthy broker of Boston,
Mass, committed suiced on the 31st ult.
Allen Fox, aged 81, wealthy citizen of
Louisville, Ky, cut his throat on the 29th ult.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, Ida Smith, aged IL,
bought cents worth OF arsenic and committed
suicide with it because her mother had reproved
her.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05

Dick Little, the train robber, has made con-
fession giving all the transactions of the James
gang since his connection with it, together with
the names of the participants in the Gad's Hill.
Coulterviile, Glendale, Winston and Blue Cut
tram robberies. It was on Titles testimony
that Clarence Hite was arrested in Kentucky
and taken to Gallatin, Mo-, where he received
twenty five year sentence for participation in
the Winston train robbery. in which Conductor
Westfan was killed. J. R. Undertake sheriff
of Clay County, Mo-, and I'll. FL. Craig, Kansas
City policeman. received $4,000 for capturing
Little.
AS a sequel to the Little confession it trans
spires that the following conditions were exact
ed by the criminal ere he turned states evil
dence: He was to receive immunity from the
government, be paid $1,000 on giving himself
up, and $4,000 more in the event of the capture
of his companions through his instrumntality.
Should the other robbers be arrested. Commits
sloner Craig and Gov. Crittenden will receive
in the neighborhood of 100000, the aggregate
of rewards offered, minus the $4,000 paid Little
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05

Two men named Rider were killed in quar-
rel at Waverley, O., on the 28th by a man
named Sharpstine.
All old man named John Henderson was shot
dead III o disIeputable hou e st trrand Rapids,
Mich, by W. H. Clark, colored barber.
Six cnlored convictB working on the Texas
Pacific Railroad killed their guard and escaped
towards Mexico. Two got over the line but the
others were overtaken, and in fight which en-
sued two of the negroes were killed. Two were
captured
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
Victims OF u Blizzard.

During violent storm which swept a portion
OF Dakota recently, several persons lost their
lives. A lieutenant from Fort Sisseton, Day
County, became lost on a journey to Watertown
and died from exhaustion shortly after being
found. Mrs. Long and her son Albert were
found dead three miles west of Goodwin. Pierre
Duchain succumbed to the clements near Cava-
her, and his body was found under the snow.
Eight land explorers from Aberdeen for Water
town. started out before the blizzard One or
two of their ponies had been found at last ac-
counts, but the whereabouts of the party was
not known
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05

IT is always easy to make wrong
application of a good maxim. There is,
for instance, a cubic foot of solid truth in
the saying, "Never put off till to-mor-
row what you can do to-day" And yet
when his mother uttered it in the pres
ence of her little boy-little boys are al
ways empty-heat once replied. ''Then
mother, let us have the rest of that plum
pudding before we go to bed"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
FEapnafica EsE,rAteeaa

A temporary wooden building used by the
Territorial Insane Asylum at Yankton, d. T..
while the new brick structure is in process OF
erection, caught fire Oh the Cd inst, and was
consumed. There were tifty-four patients in
the structure and of these four lost their lives.
The property destroyed was valued at $40, 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
Oxford VS.. Cambridge.

The annual Oxford and Cambridge eight
cared match was rowed upon the Thames from
Putney to Mortlake on the lat inst. The Ok
fords won by six boat lengths,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
Couyictce, Nibia,Sss.

Official announcement is made of the COM
mutation by the czar of all death sentenced
passed on the nihilists recently convicted, to
hard labor III the miues FOR an indefinite period,
except In the case of Marine Lieutenant
Suchanof, whose sentence was confirmed. The
latter however, was granted military execu-
ton.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
EftRWnk xes &tDErss.

The Vulcan Powder Company's works OPP
poste San Francisco, Cal, were annihilated by
explosion on the 9th. Eleven men were killed
outright and four we're badly injured. Six OF
the killed were Cinnamon.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
w asekErsS Case

Judge-A Advocate General SWAIN has decided
that the finding of the court-martisl III the case
of Sergeant Mason was invalid and that there
fore the imprisonment Of Mason was illegal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05

TEnaE is bachelor in Ipswich, Mass,
SIS years of age, who has worn the same
hat for over so years. He has never
used anything bat peat for fires and he
burns tallow dips for light.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
Miflnr MisEaanS.

Henry Burroughs and Peter Foyer were
drowned in the canal feeder at Trenton, N. J..
on the Cd inst.
Three young sons of Lewis Rowland, a rail-
way engineer of Port Providence, Pa, were
smothered to DEATH on the LIST inst, by the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05

The March statement of the condition of the
public debt shows a reduction for the month Of
SIG, 1852, SAG.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
New Cardinals.
The Public Debt.

On the 27tn the pope created Archbishop
McCabe, Of Dublin, and Six others, Cardinals.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05

A sHrRRED puff finishes the neck
April dresses.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-11-02

The tenor is generally cooper, q
baker, a cabman or a tanner, who has
been caught singing over his tubs, his
hot rolls or his hides. Why is a tenor
so rarely law student, an architect or
an apothecary's assistant? This prob
lem is one for psychologists to solve.
The only thing quite certain is that the
tenor is never q prodigy of learning.
Grammar, especially, perplexes him;
photography drives him to despair, He
therefore adopts a phonetic system of
his own invention. "Let him take
lessons, then," you say. Very good;
but taking lessons in spelling is con-
fession that he cannot spell. His pres
tige would suffer. What would the
idolatrous crowd think of their idol on
learning that in letter to his mother,
he had written, ''HeYery mornin heat
raw hegg for the sake of my elth?"
And his fellow-singers in the green
room? Wouldn't they make fun of
him? Consequently, the tenor abstains
from writing; or, if absolutely obliged
to write, he takes refuge in prudent
Iaconism. One sweet-voiced gentleman,
compelled to answer manager who
had proposed, by letter, a reduction of
his salary, thought of sending his card
with the simple phrase "I maintain my
pretentions. But the last syllable OF
the word sorely puzzled him. Not
liking the look OF it with t, he tried it
with double IS, AMI finally decided on
C, "pretencions. His geographical
knowledge is equally at fault. He is
offered an advantageous engagement
at New Orleans, and, without redec'
ton, signs at once. You are going tc
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-11-02

see q beautiful country" says the
manager. mo doubt; L have often
heard speak Of the Maid OF New Or
leans, and I am particularly fond of
New Orleans pIums." "Ahl" says the
manager, opening wide his eyes. eve
start in three weeks time. Send your
luggage at once TO Liverpool" 'Liver-
pool? I don't know him. Where is
his Officer Liverpool is the seaport
where we take ship" f'No ship for
me. If you please. You can 60 by sea.
If you prefer; shall take the express
train instead" Ii was the same indi-
vidual who fancied that horticulture
was the art OF cultivating orties (nettIes),
and who thought to give dignity to
"Robert the Devil" who was cheva-
lier, by wearing the cross OF the Legion
OF Honor. Another drawback to the
tenor's happiness is that he himself is
the slave of his organ. That voice,
which is the source of 6ll hls success,
has to be regarded and nursed with
jealous care. Sobriety, even austerity,
have to Re strictly observed. Syrups,
gruels, lozenges, liquorice, potions and
flannel neckties are his fate. Besides
which are TO be reckoned his profess
sional labors, mental and physical.
Thus between 1880 and 1870, Mario,
the famous tenor, learned by heart,
studied, rehearsed, dressed and per-
formed more than one hundred grand
operas by Meyerbeer, Mozart, Rossini,
Verdi and host of composers too
numerous to mention, TO say nothing
OF minor pieces, concerts and the like.
Was that the life of a sybarite? And
his final destiny is to be forgotten. The
painter leaves his picture behind him,
the sculptor his statue, the author his
book, the composer his score. What
permanent record of the tenor remains,
not merely after his death, but after
his operatic life is ended? History
speaks Of Sophocles, Phidias, Appeles;
but what historian, two thousand years
hence, viii rescue Rubini from oblivion?
How many of our younger readers have
ever even heard of Rubini? Unhappy
vocalist, in the midst of thy triumphs
"Memerto, tenor, Quia, pnlVis, es!"
(Remember, 0 tenor, thou art but
dustD