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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
EuHiGICaIa

Grover Cleveland, mayor of Buffalo, was
nominated for governor by the New York dem
ocratic convention on the 22d inst. The pro-
ceedings of the convention were highly excit-
ing. Roswell P. Flower and Gen. 81. W. Slo-
cum had the greatest number Of votes in the
first and second ballots, the second ballot
standing 1913 to 1913, with the balance scatter
ing. On the third ballot John Kelly voted for
Cleveland, and despite the efforts of the friends
of Flower and Siocum regular stampede
commenced for Cleveland. Much confusion
here ensued and the ballot was not continued.
The roll was then called for the fourth ballot,
which resulted as follows: Cleveland, Oil; Slo-
cum, 1876; Flower, Is. Total vote 1872.
Charles ]. Folger, secretary Of the treasury,
was nominated for governor by the New York
republicans on the 10Th. The convention was
somewhat stormy and good deal of spirit
manifested between the Cornell and Folger
nation was made unanimous.
The Massachusetts republicans assembled at
Worcester on the 20th and selected Robert R.
Bishop as their candidate for governor. Oliver
Ames secured the second place on the ticket.
Resolutions were adopted welcoming the pro-
hibltiOnists back into the republican ranks and
pledgine the support of the party in favor of
prohibition.
Gen. VIM. 81. Bulkeley was nominated for
governor by reclamation at the Connecticut re-
publican convention on the Goth. The platform
favOrs protection and the submission of pro-
hibitOry liquor amendment to the people.
The Massachusetts democrats, in convention
at Boston On the 10Th, nominated Benz. F. But
Ter, for governor.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
How TO Swim.
From the London TRUTH

from the LOnuOn TRUTH
There really is no mystery In learning
to swim-an accomplishment which is
possessed in perfection by the most
stupid of frogs. More than once have
explained how anyone can teach himself.
The trunk, less the arms, is heavier than
water; with the arms, it is lighter; all,
therefore, that person has to do is to
acquire the habit CT drawing in the
breath when be is preparing to make
stroke, and expellIng the breath when he
is making it. Let any che 10 this and
keep calm, and he will fad that he can
swim. Bat, perhaps, it is better to &C
qoire confidence by preliminary course
OF floating. 70 do this it is only Heces-
sary to lie fiat on the water, stretch out
the arms with the palms of the hands
downward, throw back the head, and
whenever the body sinks low, slowly to
fiji the lungs with air.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27

The members of prominent firm of New
York mining stock brokers have "skipped
out" leaving many confiding dabblers in min
ing stocks, who had intrusted their money to
them, in the lurch. ''Society ladies " and mer-
chants are their victims.
Major Phipps, who forged comproller's GER
tiicates in Philadelphia to the amount of
$150,0G0, was arrested at Hamilton, Ontaria,
where he and bis wife were staying at second
class hotel under the name of Thomson.
Alfred Rogers. of Philadelphia, transfer
clerk of the insurance company of North
America, is known to have obtained $25, 900 by
raising certificates of stock and borrowing
money upon them, wasting the proceeds in
mining stock Sneculations
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27

entirely in the way it is now doing. 1t
would be better to let them on lease for
ninety nine years, as is constantly done
In England. For the purchase such
lease would be almost equal to the free
hold. All the railways Of our CONT
nent are but lease-hold property, with
eighty or ninety years to run. Agricul-
tural progress would be every bit as
rapid, and at the end of the century the
state, coming into re-possession of all
her lands, would be enabled to suppress
a very large proportion of the taxes. !"
This system obtains very largely in
London, where crown lands, the leases
of which are purchased for ninety-nine
years, are constantly falling in or revert
ing to the crown. The Regents Park,
for instance, in London, is all crown
land, and will revert to the crown some
where about the year 1903, when new
houses may possibly be built, if neces-
sary, and new leases granted for another
period of ninety-nine years. 1t will be
easily understood that property which
reverts to the crown is worth less to the
tenant every year as the lease grows
shorter, but still, as the author of the
article before us says, "To favor the
progress of agriculture hereditary or
very long leases approach nearer to
ownership in proportion as the tenure
is more surely guaranteed, and for a
longer term"
Arthur Young says that one years
lease will lead farmer to ruin the best
land in the world. The misery of the
Irish and their detestable farming are
proof of this. To complete the system
of small landed property, the reconsti-
tuition of the state sovereign dominion
must be added.
"Look," says DR.. Laveleye. SO at this
moment, what difference between the
farmer of England and the peasant-pro-
prietor of France. The first has to pay
wages to his workmen, interest on the
capital and rent to the landlord; and,
as just now the prices Of wheat are de-
pressed by American competition, farm
ing is for him losing trade. By and
by he will let the1and remain unculti-
waited. The peasant proprietor of
France, with his ten or fifteen acres, has
nothing to pay to anybody. He lives on
his land and from his land. He sells
some wine, poultry, eggs and vegeta-
bles, which fetch always good prices;
and with what he gets he buys what he
cannot produce himself-his cloth, shoes,
furniture and rural instrumen ts, at long
intervals. He is free man, because
proprietor. He has nothing to fear from
American competition, nor from the fall
of prices. That is the reason why farm
ing is drifting to bankruptcy in Eng
land, and is going on pretty well in
France" There is a great deal IN this
last paragraph which we can take to..our-
selves. If we raise our own chickens,
fruits, eggs, wheat and vegetables, we,
too, are independent of exports and i'm
ports, and the system of small farms and
99-year leases would work admirably
here, both for state governments and the
tiftprk, OF UuU Gull.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
Terrible ExUsRSiOns.

The ferry steamer Richelieu was wrecked by
the explosion of boiler at Lachine, Ont, on
the 21st. -Four persons were killed and several
injured.
fornia Powder Co.'s mill. containing 5000
pounds of the explosive blew up. R. Tufts
was killed.
Fire damp exploded in a mine near Dart
mund, Germany, on the 18th, and killed twenty
persons.
A powder mill at Guaymas, Mexico. contain
IUn Inst. Tbs mill was demolished together
with numD5r OF awnings. One man was
killed. Pecuniary loss estimated at 800, 1000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
Poisonous DYES,
[From the N. Y. Times. !


M. Grondhomme, who is the superin-
tendent of one of the largest laboratories
in France, has just published volume
of notes as to the alleged poisonous
properties of aniliDe dyes now SO extern
siVeIy used in the manufacture of socks,
stockings, and other fabrics worn in
contact with the cutaneous surface.
Such dyes are especially used In the
fancy fabrics, sold for the wear of chill
dren from four to ten years of age, and
in the blues and various red shades of
gentlemen's socks. NJ. Grondhomme
declares that the cases of poisoning
recorded by medical men as due to these
dyes are really traceable to the arsenious
acid used in the preparation of the col
ors, not to the coloring matter ITSELF
The fumes of few of the dyes arising
from the manipulation of petroleum pro-
duce difficulty of respiration when per-
sistently inhaled. This is true of naph-
tholin, for example. Others are per-
fectly neutral and inert in their effects,
and possess no toxic potency whatever,
and to this category belongs aniline and
its immediate relatives. The facts dis
closed by M. Grondhomme are worth
knowing; first, because they show that
such cases are to be treated as rule as
cases of arsenical poisoning, and. second
ly, because they rescue q valuable col
oring matter from a false imputatlon
under which it has labored for many
years. He has not, however, pointed
out any mode of eliminating the arse
nc, and thus, while relieving these col
ors themselves, uniquely considered,
from the blame heretofore associated
with them. he leaves their practical use
as peril0us as ever.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
Sporting.

A La Crosse match for the championship of
the world was played between the Shamrock
club, of Montreal, and the Toronto club, in the
former city. Ten thousand persons attended.
and $4,000 changed hands. The Shamrocks
won three out of five games.
A race for Isl, 900 a side was rowed in Poplar
Bay, st. Lawrence River, on the 18th between
Courtney, Ten Eyck and Dempsey. The con-
test was close at the start, bur Courtney won
easily. Time 20:591S.i
at Creedmoor on the 18th, VIM. N. Farrow,
OF the Newport artillery, scored So out of a pos
sLbie 105, and was declared the military cham
pion of the United States.
The following table indicates the position Of
the various clubs in the contest for the cham
pionship:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
ARMY of the Cumberland.

The Society of the Army of the Cumber-
land under the presidency of Lieut.-Gen. Phil
Sheridan, and with large attendance of ex
soldiers of rank and distinction, held its four
teenth annual business meeting at Milwaukee
on the Goth, and in the evening great meet
ing was held in the hall at Schlitz Park, at
which Gen. Sheridan presided. The annual
Grafton was delivered by Gen Charles Fl.
Grosvenor, of Ohio, followed by an eloquent
and interesting address by Gen. Jacob d. Cox
on "The Youth and Early Manhood of James
A. Garfield" subject of unfailing interest
when treated so earnestly and ably as it was
treated il Gen. Coxs grafton.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27

a collision and fire on the Union Pacific Rail-
way, at kirkwood, Mo-, on the 18th wrecked
an engine and twenty cars and badly damaged
tunnel. Loss $50, 000
Two mutes named Alsers escaped from an
institution at Staunton, Va, on the 18th, and
we're run over and killed by a railway train.
The sections of freight train came in col
lision at Buckland, Mass. on the Fitchburg
Railroad on the 18th, smashing four cars, and
immediately another freight rushed into the
wreck. causing the serious woundlng of q fire.
man, and causing total damage estimated at
S8 coo,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
SMiCidPa

the heart at Claremont, N. Y, on the Oath, be-
cause his mother reprimanded him for putting
bullet through dogs tail.
Geo. w. Foster, while in jail at Syracuse, n.
Y, on the Oath, suicided, and at Union Deposit
Pa, on the same day Mrs. Ehling, ended her
life in fit of grief over the death of child.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
SHSao

Mrs. Henrietta Melville, wife of the returned
Arctic explorer, has been placed in an insane
asylum. Her mental trouble is hereditary. A
% fresh reporter interviewed the demented
lady previous to her incarceration and she
poured tale of domestic woe into his asinine
ears, charging her hero-husband with having
deserted bis family. The interview WAS tele-
graphed broadcast over the country and great
injustice was thus perpetrated on an already
wronged and maligned officer and gentleman.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27

A twenty thousand dollar burglary was per-
petrated at North Battleboro, Mass, on the
night of the 10Th, the gold works of @. E.
Smith & Co., being the scene Of operation.
Safe-blowers secured 1000 in currency in
the store of Mcconnell & Sons, at Cumberland,
Indiana All the guests in a hotel opposite
were awakened by the explosion, but the thieves
were left to escape
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
Well Shaken.

Panama experienced another short but sharp
shock of earthquake at daybreak on the
9th inst. Half the population sleep in the
square or walk the streets, and some families
are encamped on the plain. Traffic on the rail
way is suspended, as the bridges are out of
line.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
Tough.

A particularly sad case of robbery occurred
at Mount Holly, day or two since. Stephen
Day, aged 70, secreted 3,000-the savings of
life time-in tin box in his house. During
the temporary absence of himself and wife
some miscreant stole the box and contents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27

made beforehand. This settled the matter, an
equitable change of the mixed cattle was then
made, the dead we're buried by the other men
of both herds and the drovers and those in
charge separated for their different routes
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
We RrfHREXa

Col. Isaac Eaton, prominent Kansas poll
tician and for number of years member Of
the democratic national committee, died at
Leavenworth on the 18th.
Girard V. Wellesley, chaplain to Queen Vic
toria, died at Windsor, on the 18th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
Al LAST

The Christiancy divorce case is at last end
ed. On the goth Minister CLristiancy was
granted divorce from his wife, on the ground
of desertion
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Cholera

There were 356 deaths from cholera in the
vicinity of Manila, Philippine Islands, on the
18th and 10Th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27

The time has come when the coal
dealer begins to feed his men sumptuous-
" that he may fatten and weigh heavily
on the cart.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-09
COMING TO a HEAD.

A dispatch yesterday shows that the
question of the Pope's residence and indie
pendence is about to be brought to head
Bismarck, it is stated, has addressed dis.
patch to the Italian Government, taking
the ground that the condition of the Pope
must be regarded as an international, and
aot as an italian question, and proposing a
Congress OF the Powers to deal with it. Il
Is added that Russia, Austria, Germany,
England and Spain, favor holding the Con-
gress as early as possible, and that France
has not yet announced her views on the
subject. The presumption of course is
that if Bismarck proposes Congress he
has already arranged programme for it,
and that the other powers viii be made use
OF, if possible, to ratify his predetermined
plans. France very naturally holds back
when such proposition is made, and it
might have been better had England been
equally cautious. For it is gate evidsnt
that there ara enough points of divergence
In this question of the papal Independence
TO make the proposed Congress the pro-
Iogue to European war on great scale.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-09
EMPEROR w1LI1An's paocL.mATIos.

Under the Prussian Constitution the
executive, and part of the legislative au-
thority. is vested in the King. The pres
ens King of Prussia would naver have
granted his people Constitution at all
had he been free to settle the matter in
accordance with his personal views. Hav-
ing as his President of the Council man
like Bismarck, however. he has been ena-
bled to feel almost as absolute as though
there had been no Constitution. He has
nov thought it necessary to issue proc
lamation in which he asserts that his Min
listers are not responsible; that their acts
are, in fact, simply manifestations of his
authority, delegated to them for the pur-
pose; that consequently they must not be
expected to yield as responsible Ministers
do, when defeated in Parliament. He
further declares that all officers of the Gs7-
eminent must support it, even at the
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PASSENGER LISTS.

OMAHA, January 7th-Left here to-day. to
arrive in Sacramento January 18th: ID. w.
Gale. Chicago; Fl. REEVES, Eureka, Mo
Mrs. o. I. Knight and family, Milton; f.
De Long, wife and two children, Black
Point. Marin county Miss Annie NJ. Bower,
Lockpoit, N. Y; the MissessN esbet. Sarnia,
Canada; Mrs. L. 81. Osment and two chill.
dren. San Francisco; Captain Paine, Omaha;
Mrs Mary 81. Knapp, Fannie Knapp, West
Newberry, VT; VIM. l.. Banning, the Misses
B aiming, st. Paul, MINI.
Thirty-two through emigrants left on last
nights emigrant train, to arrive in Saera'
mento January 18th.
OMAHA. January Sth-Left here to-day, to
arrive in Sacramento January 18th jerome
Rowan, Batavia, n. Y; Mrs Julia Ustick,
Mrs. Gashwiler. A H. Rutherford, San
Francisco; E H. Winchester and daughter,
Portsmouth, N. H; II. 81. Covert. Mil
waukee; Mrs. Henry, Madison, Wis; J,
Mosely, Chicago; I. II. Milton, New York
Cabin, January Sth. = Passed here TO-
day. to arrive in Sacramento tomorrow
William R. Chadsey, New York ii. Koch,
J. G. Russell. John Doid, San Francisco
A Kosh. J. Schwab, Cleveland, Ohio L. II
Wise, Yorktown; A. Fuents, Havana Z.
Arnold, France w. 81. Craig and wife,
Oakland NJ. L. Hull, Butte. Mont; NJ, G.
Rses, kingston, Canada Mrs. Pauline Oh
son s.d child. Salt Lake B. G. Sarenson,
Portland Or; E. G. Keen, Baltimore, Md
S Pendegsst. Minnesota; 50 enigrants
passed, including go males, to arrive in Sac
ramento January 10Th.
NEwHALL, January sh.-Passed here tc,
dew. to arrive in San Francisco tomorrow
L. N. Hubbsl, G. 2. r. r.; w. D. Smith
and wife, L. E. Norton. w. S. Lyon, Sar
Francisco; L. n. Griswold, Jasper Griswold
Los Angeles; Allen J. Jones Lindell. J. H
Sisson and wife, Alexis johnson, w. J
T. Blackson, n. NJ. II. Gsossmeyer, Sar
Francisco; Miss Nettie, San Bernsrdino
Harry Nisbett, F. j. MargetsoD, j. I. Rich
San Francisco.
KANSAS CRY (Mo.), January Ssh.-Ths
following passengers passed Topeka to-day,
to arrive in San Francisco January 18Th
John A. Gill, Sacramento. CAL; Genrg,
King, New York Mrs. e. w. Harris, ]. NJ
Harris. Philadelphia; Kirk Sheidel, Port
land, Or; Mrs. Colontl Crothrath and feu.
children, San Francisco.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-09
POOR vIRG1SIA.

The Governor of Virginia, in his annual
message. tells the people that the Riddle
berger bill is So the most honest and equi.
table yet proposed" and recommends its
snlmediate adoption. What tken must the
ether propositions have been? But in fact
what Governor Cameron says is not true.
The Riddleberger bill is on the contrary
Ghe least honest and equitable proposition
that has been made. For it involves the
open reputation of one-third of the present
funded debt of Virginia it declares that
the people of Virginia will never pay the
5nterest accruing on the public debt during
the whole period of the war and recons.ruc-
ticu amounting to $I5, 600, GOO; it scales
the debt $40, 100000 in its provision for the
issue of new bonds and finally it attempts
50 nullify the decisions of both the State
and United States Supreme Courts, by
providing that the coupons of the new
bonds shall not be received for taxes. In
fine the Riddleberger bill is the most ras-
cSlly, impudent, shameless and thoroughly
disgraceful act of knayery that was ever
profered to people for their Endorsement.
There is no defense for it whatever It is
double and a treble reputation. 1t is
dishonesty duplicated and intensified with
deliberate purpose. But what adds ten
fold to the infamy Of the measure is the
fact that the author and the supporters of
1t have been picked out for special approval
and assistance by the representatives, and
leaders of that political party which until
now was supposed to stand for the honor
and good faith of the country in peculiar
way. 1t is in vain that Governor Cameron
endeavors to sugar-cost the pill. No hon.
eyed words can render the Riddleberger
bill anything else than shame and dis
credit to all who have anything to do with
it, and a stigma upon its defenders which
they will find it impossible to eface, even
should they desire to do so never SO much.
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elections. The King does not wish to in.
terfere with the freedom of the elections,
but he cannot permit any officers of the
crown to vote or work against the Min
istry. Rightly considered this proclama-
ton Is tantamouns to notification of con-
stitutional government. In effect the
King asserts that though the Landtag may
discuss the measures proposed by the
Government, they cannot exercise any
influence upon the course OF that Govern
ment save by refusing to do what it
wants. The will of the sovereign, in fact, is
to be the controlling factor in legislation
and policy, and however impossible the
majority in the Landtag may find it to get
on with the Ministry in Office. they cannot
compel any change in it. The King fur
Their takes the position that no Government
employee has right 10 his own opinion on
political questions. This is as Though the
President of the United States were to
issue proclamation prohibiting all the de-
partment clerks, postmasters, and revenue
officers, from voting the Democratic ticket
under any circumstances. 1t is evident
that where such liberties are taken with the
Constitution, or where a Constitution capa-
bic of being so construed, exists, the
freedom of the people can be little more
than pretenae In fact there has never
been in Prussia what We should call free
dom. No American or Englishman could
tolerate the Prussian system. But liberal
Germans have been hoping that the ten
dency was towards greater freedom, and
now it seems as though William and Bis
marck were bound on curtailing the privi-
leges conferred upon the people by the Con-
stitution, as the easiest way to evade the
endorsements arising from obstinate In
sistance upon an unpopular policy. twill
be interesting to see how the new move is
regarded in Germany, or whether the Prus-
sian press will be permitted to express it
self freely on the subject.
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A Weli-known Detective Finds snn,e
Mighwaymen He WINS NOT Locking for.
OREGON.
Adyices from Portland.

PORTLAND, January 75h.-Rev. A. E.
Fiederelson, a Scandinavian minister, aged
Y, died at the Samaritan Hospital this even
Jog.
Tonight. in the j. G.. Robson murder
trial, at Astoria, which begun Tuesday, the
twelfth juror was obtained One hundred
and twenty-eight were examined.
A ten-year-old son of Willis Lewis of
Junction, Lane county, was killed this after
noon by the accidental discharge of gun.
Last night, in the bay at Astoria, the
American ship Almira Robinson, turning
with the tide, dragged her anchor and col
lided with the British snip Balloghmyle, the
Robinson sustaining damages to the amount
of 81 coo. She was ready for sea, and will
probably have to discharge her cargo to no.
dergo repairs.
GSECoND DISPATCH.l
PORTLAND. January 8sh.-John Randall, a
sailor of the ship Duke of Connaught, fell
from the gang-plank at noon to-day, and
broke the fourth rib, which penetrated the
lung, causing death in one hour. He was
Scotchman. aged 50 years.
Another case of smallpox was taken to the
pest-house to-day, making a total of four.
The quarantine against Heppner, Umatilla
county, has been raised, and the Oregon,
Idaho and Utah stages have resumed trips.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-09
A Conflict OF Authority.

WILLOWS, January 7th.-Fred. Crawford,
Zeal Bates, Sam Culver and Allen and Geo.
W. Williams. were arrested for violating the
Sunday law on Christmas. They were in
the actual custody of Constable Brooks when
Constable Jamison, of Colusa, with warrants
issued in Colusa, arrived. Brooks refused to
surrender up his prisoners. This is considered
victory for the Leaguers over the Opposi.
ton, and the prisoners, while locked up, were
the show of the season. The Sunday war
promises to be warm in this county, as both
sides are at fever heat.