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.SHERIFFS sale
REAL ESTATE.

10y VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION
ID issued out of the District Court of
the Third Judicial District OF the Terri
tory of Washington, holding terms at
Port Townsend. in the suit Of j. G. Kel-
logg. Plaintiff, and Belle Thomas, Rach-
el Morgan, Charles Morgan, Thomas n.
Potter, Sarah r. Vrooman and Sydney
b. Yrooman, Defendants, duly attested
the 23d day of June, A. d., 1882, / have
levied upon the real estate described as
follows, to-wit: All of the east half of
the southwest quarter 10 of sw -
lots two (2) and nine (0) and the east
half (e ~ of lot eight (Sl in section
twenty-one t21) and lots one (D two (2)
and three 81 in section twenty-eight (2S)
all in township thirty-two C32). north of
range one l) east of the Willamette mer-
Idian, in Island County, Washington
Territory, and containing one-hundred
and sixty-two and 54-100 acres, as the
property Of said Defendants. Notice is
hereby given. that on MONDAY, the 7th
day of AUGUST, 1882, at the hour Of ii
o'clock, A. NJ, in front Of the Court
House at Coupeville. in Island County,
/ will sell all the right, title and interest
of the said Belle Thomas, Rachel Nor
gan, Charles Morgan, Thomas n, Potter,
Sarah Il. Yrooman and Sydney B. Vroo-
man, in and to the said above described
property, to the highest bidder, for cash,
gold coin of the United States, or SO
much thereof as will satisfy a Judgment
of four-hundred and thirty.ninc $3.50
dollars and costs of said suit. amounting
to seventeen and 75-l0O (slL75) dollars,
and Gccrung costs.
Dated this, 3d day Of July, A. d., 1882.
JOS. c. POWER,
Sheriff of Island County.
, 1882-08-04
FOR SALE.

THE SCHOONER MIST.
In first-class condition. Recently
been thoroughly overhauled and repair,
ell. Rigging, sails, etc, complete and
new. VIII be sold cheap. Apply to
II. LASDEs,
Port Townsend,
, 1882-08-04
WANTED.

A woman to do general housework
Gle man pre- fer.ed. Apply to
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, 1882-08-04

ship Ioquo Capt MS loading grain New Tacoma for Europe
Doane loading lumber Tacoma fodny
, 1882-08-04
Shipping NeAS or the Month Of July.

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

Particulars have been received of a highly
sensational duel between cowboys in Colorado
as the story goes Geo. Howard, owner of a
herd OF 5000 cattle, and John Keely, owner of
herd of 1000, were driving Ill company from
Arizona. North of Trinidad, Col. on the
plains, the two herds were to separate. Howard
to take the OLD Santa Fe trial to Kansas CITY.
Keely to drive north to Denver. On the route
accidental exchanges had been made and How
ard insisted on having his stock out, but was
unwilling to deliver Keey's, and it was finally
agreed to settle the matter by battle between
six picked men of each party. Accordingly
twelve men arranged themselves on horseback.
the two sides fifty feet apart, and at a signal
from their employers the fight was to begin.
At the first fire four men were Instantly killed.
Geo. Lester of Keely'5 party was shot through
the breast, one of Howard's men fell wifi
bail through his forehead and two Others of
the same party were shot through the heart.
Dismayed, the Howard party with the excep-
ton of their employer, fed to their CAMP.
Reely then rode up to Howard and proposed
that they should fight it out. Howard de-
clined, saying that he understood the matter
to be settled according to the terms of battle
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
Railway Wrecks.

train bearing Sells Bros. show left the
track at Point Lick, KY, on the morning of the
24th. Sixteen cars went down an embank-
ment, causing a fearful wreck. Three men
were instantly killed, three probably fatally in
jured and seven or eight wounded. A tiger
escaped but was captured soon afterward. The
loss is heavy.
While a passenger train on an Austrian road
was crossing the river at Brave, the bridge
gave away, resulting in the drowning of fif-
teen soldiers, thirty others being injured.
A stock train was ditched near Pekin, Ill.,. on
the 23d, killing William Pointing and seriously
iniuring several others.
Two railway trains collided in tunnel under
Fourth Avenue, New York City, on the 22d.
Five people were killed and many wounded.
Several of the latter will die. The trains were
the Port Chester special and the Harlem train.
Owing to break down which blOckaded the
track, the Port Chester train was stopped. The
Harlem train came dashing along soon after
ward, and owing to carelessness in regard to
signals, plunged right into the former train.
The darkness in the tunnel rendered the scene
Immediately after the disaster particularly hor
rible
A bridge ON the Missouri Pacific Road, be-
tween Fort Worth and Denton, fell on the 3d.
carrying down a general freight train and
stock train. A brakeman was mortaily wound
ed. Damage heavy.
By a coli ion between two freight trains on
the st. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Road,
near Atwater, Mimi, several cars were ditched
and Andrew Kevit, a fireman, and Henry
Snider, a brakeman, killed.
coal train near Wilkesbarre, Pa, went
through temporary trestle and fell fourteen
feet. A number of railroad hands were
seriously injured.
Owing to disobedience of orders on the part
of conductor, a serious collision occurred on
the New Haven and Northampton Railway near
Greenfield, Mass, on the 18th. Conductor
Phillips, Brakeman Curtis, and fireman
named Egelston were killed.
rail was laid across the track of the Boston
and Albany road about one mile from Roch-
dale Station. When the Chicago express struck
it, the engine was thrown from the track, and
the engineer and firemen we're pitched out and
somewhat injured. frult-car was wrecked,
but the remaining coaches did not leave the
rails.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
Work OF the Flames.

Kahler & Sons handle and beading works at
Bernvllle, Pa, and church adjoining were re-
duced to ashes on the oath. Loss $50, 900. A
blaze In lumber yard at Long Branch on the
same day licked up 1885, 900 worth of property
fire at Susanville, California, burned two
blocks of business buildings, the loss being
pl5O,OOO. A conhagration at Fort Smith, Ar
kansas, swept away property valued at $75, 0OO
Inc destruction of the business portions of
Wattord Ontario, and Rosenberg, Texas, is re-
ported.
The Nail City Glass Works at Bridgeport, O..
caught fire spontaneously on the 22d inst. and
were destroyed. Loss 800, 0OO
Seventeen buildings were swept away by fire
at Beleville, o., on the 21st inst
Ledyard u Co.'s large jean mill at Chester,
"a, fell prey to flames on the 22d. Loss
$50, 900; insured.
The exposition building at Sydney New
South Wales, has been destroyed by fire with
all its contents.
The Wooster Pad Factory, at Cleveland o.,
was destroyed by an incendiary fire on the 21st.
Loss estimated at $4,000.
Fire at New Orleans, burned the Boston ware
house, Lafayette Street. store on Magazine
Street in the rear, and damaged several other
buildings. Loss 100000; insured.
e. W. Shaw's WOODEN mills at Wales. Mass.
burned. Loss $4,000; insurancei$21, 900.
L. DeVaue's foundry, at Hyac nth, Canada,
burned Loss SAC, 000; insurance $4,000.
Fire at Minneapolis destroyed the livery
stable of Wilson & Strickland, .and;damaged adj
joining property. Loss $4,000 insurance
about one-half.
Fire at Cincinnati caused loss of about S35,
900; insurance $4,000.
A fire at Red Cliff, Cal, on the goth, swept
away fifteen buildings. Loss 1875, 900.
Half of the village of Grand Meadows,
Mimi, was laid in ashes on the night Of the
18th. by incendiaries. Loss heavy. Tramps
threatened 30 destroy the place several days
previous, and posse is now in search of them.
An unused mill was destroyed by fire at
Dubuque. Ia, on the 18th. Loss $4,000 At
st. Charles, H., the Cooperative Dreaming
Co.'S factory was consumed. Loss 800, 900.
Brigham and Sons shoe factory at Hudson,
n Y, was fired and destroyed by burglars on
the night of the 18th. Loss $65, 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
A Noble Man.

Under monument in Westminster
Abbey is inscribed: "This marble per-
petuates the memory of Lieutenant
General John Guest, who closed a SER
vice of so years by faithfully defending
Edinburgh Castle against the rebels in
l745." Gen. Guest began life as hostler
to the postmaster of Borough Bridge,
Yorkshire, but so far from being
ashamed of his aDtecedents or being
anxious to conceal them, it was his
kindly custom to send the first slice of
meat from his table to the seDtinels at
his gate, because he remembered the day
when he was himself sentinel. and how
his mouth watered at the sayorv odors
which reached him when on guard. How
much envy and ill-feeling would be
avoided in thousands of cases we're the
sentiment which inspired this kind
hearted soldier more common. How
many people could, by putting them
selves back a few years, recall the
vexation and sometimes hardship thew
suffered at the hands of others, which a
little of Gen. Guests sort of thoughtful
consideration might lave prevented; yet
now they IN turn irfict pain and disap-
polntment without a thought about it.
This springs from that absence of SYM
pathy between class and class which
formed the subject of Judge Talfourd's
last memorable address to a grand jury
8. few hours before he breathed his last.
and out of this absence of sympathy be-
tween different classes Of society, high
and humble, employer and employed,
rich and poor. spring fenianlsm,
nlhlllsm, socialism, and such horrors as
eliminated in ST. Petersburg last year
and the Phnuix Park in May. Even in
this country, with our growing wealth
and luxury on the one hand, and the
jealousy of it on the other, we shall do
wisely to initiate, if only for safety, such
a spirit as actuated Gen. Guest.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
THE COST OF WAR.

After Wolseley with fire and sword
and ink, and of the two plagues the lat
ter will surely be the worse, says the
New York Times. The butchers bill
will be, for the British, small one, not
comparable with the campaigns in At
ghanistan, where SO officers and /, 524
men were killed, or Ill Zulu-land, where
the corresponding figures were So and
1928. What the savages' loss was can
not be stated as to these two wars, but
we have been told by English sources
that 1000 Egyptians were killed in a
single battle. AS to the cost there are
some significant hints. Between August
90 and September the sum earned by
the Suez Canal was $4,000 for the pas
sage of transports Such of these boats
as were chartered cost a pound ton a
day, or about $4,000 day for each of
such boats as were chartered from the
National Line, whose ships are rather
favorites with the admiralty. Then in
single fort which was stormed there were
destroyed 1900 worth of ammunition
and stores. In this respect the war will
be no mean competitor of the Afghan
and Zulu campaigns, which cost,
respectively, e19, 800, 900 and s4, OOO,-
600 These are considerable figures,
but to satisfy the American love FOR the
biggest things, it is necessary to go to
the Franco-German war, which cost 49,
939, 100000 or to our war of the rebel
lion, which cost in direct expenditure
Sc, 1916, 1872, 500, and the charges for in
terest and pensions are still continuing
items. The French campaign in Tuniss
cost 592, $40, 045f., an amount frightful
IN comparison with the damages by the
Kroumirs, which were the ostensible
cause of the conflict, and which were
assessed at ITS, 954f Our own little
wars have been cheap ones. Even the
Sioux war of 1876 cost under 50, 600, 900,
and the total direct cost of all our Indian
wars fer ten years was So, 058, 821.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
NINETY-NINE-YEAR LEA sEs.

La settling up this vast continent, it is
strange that men are SO eager to obtain
large tracts Of land, which they cannot
cultivate, when they could grow rich on
small farms, and promote the prosperity
of the country as well as their own. 70
simply and so abundantly. A learned
writer on the different Systems of lard
Tenure argues that we, in America, are
hurting ourselves very severely by dis
posing Of our vast ranges of territory in
the way which prevails at present, and
that as the d0nlinion of all estates be-
longs legally to the state. SO it would be
better to lease them on ninety -nine-year
terms than to sell them outright.
DR.. Emile Laveleye of Liege, in Bel
GUM, IN an article contributed to the
Agricultural Review, contends that:
g Authorities on legal matters, and
among them Blackstone, have always adj
mitted that the dominion of all estates
belonged to the state. In feudal times,
all hefs were concessions from the
sovereign. Louis XIV, in his instruc-
tons to his son, considers himself as
possessed of chief authority over the es-
tates of bis realm. Herbert Spencer
proves very clearly that land, essential
as it is to tue very existence of man,
cannot be monopolized by few indi-
viduals, or the result would be univer
sal system of slavery. The recognition
of the supreme sovereignty Of the state
should induce the contribution to that
source of al augmentationsin value which
are not brought about by the possessors,
but are the consequences of national
progress.
He continues: "In addition to this,
IN new countries like America, where
the state still possesses vast ranges of ter
ritory, 1t il not wise to dispose of them
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
WIS.
WOMEN AND PROPERTY.

MIR. Charles Reade, the novelist, has
most fiercely assailed the English laws
relating to the property of women, and
it is probable that the married woman's
property bill, which passed the English
parliament August IA, is to a great ex-
tent attributable to his writings. For
merly all but the aristocratic married
women of ENGLAND were almost without
property rights, husbands having arbl-
trary control of the estates of their
wives. Hereafter, " every woman mar
ried before the commencement OF
this act shall be entitled to have and to
hold and to dispose of in manner afore-
said as her separate property, all real
and personal property, her title to which,
whether vested or contingent. and
whether In possession, reversion or re-
mainder, shall accrue after the COM
mencement of this act, including any
wages, earnings, money, and property so
gained or acquired by her IS aforesaid. :"
Every married woman will now be able
to manage her separate property, and
incur liability to it's extent, exactly as If
she were femme sole, but it is pro-
vided that "no criminal proceedings
shall be taken by any wife against her
husband by virtue of this act while they
are living together" The Importance
of the new law is indicated by the Lon
don Times when it says that '' it may in
the end pulverize some ideas which have
been at the basis of English life.
Measures which affect the family econo-
my are apt to be epoch making,' and
probably when the most talked-of bills
of the session are clean forgotten, this
obscure measure may be bearing fruit. %
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
End of the Egyptian War.

Abdallah Pasha still holds Damietta and also
the forts at Dibha and Ghemlieh. Arab
Pasha's old regiment. which marched out Of
Ahouker with orders to proceed to Kafr-el-Dwar
and surrender, moved off eastward and Joined
the forces at Damietta. Admiral Seymour and
Gen. Wolseley are planning combined attack
on the stronghold of the unrepentant rebels.
The report that Abdellal Pasha, one of Ara
bis generals, has surrendered at Damietta to
the British, and been shot by his own soldiers,
is contradicted. Damietta at last accounts was
still held by the rebels.
Damietta has at last surrendered. One thou
sand Bedouin3 have occupied the entrench-
ments at Kafr-el-Dwar which the British aban-
doned. Arab. while in power despoiled the
national treasury of 9200, 1000, G18.OOO of
which has been recovered. The ambassadors
have advised the porte to act in accord with the
British policy in Egypt. Arab and all of his
supporters will be tried by court-martial.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
Minor MiSEAapSe

Fl. Brady, assistant chief of the San Fran
cisco fire department, was thrown from his
buggy while riding to fire on the Dist and
fatally injured.
Benz. Goodson and wife were struck by
lightning at Bryant Station, Ind, md instantly
killed.
Five people were killed in church at Mazat-
Ian, Mex, during panic caused by lightning
striking the edifce. A number of others were
seriously injured
A sad drowning accident occurred at Wyom-
ing, Ont, on the 10Th. A boy who was in
charge of buggy containing two daughters of
T. McKenna, drove the ANIMALS into creek to
water them. In some manner the vehicle cap
sized and both ladies drowned.
During the performance of circus at Mon
terey, N. c., on the 18th, the seats fell with
1900 persons. Over fifty were seriously hurt,
many having legs and arms broken. Several
ladies are in critical condition.
While Charles Eaton was tapping barrel of
oil in his cellar at Mocksville, N. O., an explor
sion occurred which enveloped the unfortunate
man in burning fluid and caused his death.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
Driving Fish.

A ''blackfsh drive" is the Cape Cod
fisherman's idea of sport. The blackfsh
or grampus appears frequently on the
coast In schools OF from four to five
hundred, and is "driven at every fish
ing hamlet along shore from Truro to
Cedarville. An Evening Post corresp6h-
dent says the "drive" is managed in
this way: When a school is discovered
feeding close inshore a score or so of
boats are put out to intercept it. The
boats are In two lines, one on each side of
the school and pull silently out, until far in
the rear, when they unite and advance on
their prey. No fish is more timid than a
grampus, as the fishermen well know.
and they take advantage of this trait to
effect his destruction. When still sew
eral hundred yards away the school dis
covers the boats and begins to show
signs of alarm. Then the drive begins.
The boats are urged forward, the crews
splash the water, fire pistols, blow horns,
wave their fsher-coats, and yell Like
Comanches. The frightened fish rush
shore ward-their only line of retreat
through the breakers, high and dry upon
the beach. A few remain in the surf,
and among these the men leap like mad
men, shouting, thrustlng with lance and
pike, never ceasing until the last victim
is slaughtered. I" It's excitin'," said a
grim old whaler, "but it's kinder harra-
win tew. There's young 'uns among 'em
that cries out like human, and it goes
agin the grain to stick 'em.' Tales told
of the booty taken in these drives seem
incredible. Four hundred have been
driven ashore at one time. The old whal-
er above quoted said that he went out
one moonlight night, not long ago, and
captured sixty-four. At another time he
drove three ashore at Billingsgate. Be
sides his share he purchased $50 at S15
each, had them towed to the try
works in Provincetown, and realized 50
apiece on them.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
THE ENGINE OF THE FUTURE.

In HE address at the recent opening of
the British Association DIR. Carl Siemens,
its president, pointed out the probable
vast future Of the gas engine. Instead
of steam this engine is worked by a COM
bustible mixture of air and hydro-car-
bon. In the condenslng steam engine
the waste of heat is very great. Adding
to the heat lost by imperfect combustion
of coal, that carried away IN the Chin
ney and that communicated to the con-
densing water, the losses by friction and
radiation in the engine, the best steam
engine yet constructed does not yield in
mechanical effect more than one seventh
of the heat energy residing in the fuel
consumed. In the gas engine reduc-
ton from the theoretical efficiency must
be madeon account of the serious loss of
heat by absorption in the working cylin-
der, which has to be cooled artifcially
down to point at which fabrication is
possible. But after allowing for this,
together with FRACTIONAL and other loss,
EuC dCtuhl 1OuuCCO Ouly W
one-fourth. cit follows from these con-
siderations, he says, "that the gas or
caloric engine combines the conditions
most favorable to the attainment Of max
imum results, and it may reasonably be
supposed that the difficulties still in the
way of their application, On large scale
will gradually be removed" In his
view, before many years steamships and
factories will be run by engines with a
fuel consumption not exceeding one
pound per effective horse power per
hour. The advent of such engines will
solve the problem of rapid transit on the
ocean, and mark, as DIR. Siemens says,
new era of material progress at Least
equal to that inaugurated by steam IN
the early part of our century. In the
case of ocean transit it seems, however,
most probablet that the nextgreat advance
will be in the construction of ships which
can both avail themselves fully of an ar
tifcial power more economical than
steam and also utilize the maximum
motive power of the winds.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
HaYeS' Dakota EARN

Whether or not ex-President Hayes
"builded better than he knew" when be
bought his big Dakota farm, IT seems to
be pretty well settled that he selected
about the choicest piece Of land in the
territory both as regards the land itself
and its location. 1t lies in the northern
portion-Burleigh County-six miles
from Bismarck, on the line of the North
ern Pacific Railroad The soil is dark
loan, with some sand, giving it such
warmth as to enable crops to be planted
two weeks earlier than in other parts of
the territory. Mr.. Hayes had this year
$40 acres in wheat, the yield of which
is reported to be very satisfactory.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
Marine Disasters.

The steamer Lepanto from Hull, Eng, for
New York, collided with and sunk the steamer
Edam of the Netherlands Royal Mail Line, il a
fog on the Dist. Two seamen were lost, the
balance of the crew and passengers being res
cued and taken on board the Lepanto. The
Lepanto arrived at New York on the Oath IN a
crippled condition.
The British steamship Nuphar is ashore near
Seaville, New Jersey, and is expected to go to
pieces. She was built last year, at cost of
100000, and her cargo of pig iron and drugs
is valued at $4,000.
On the 21st inst, the steamer Picton, bound
from Port Colborne for Owen Sound. Ont, to
take the place of the Inflated Asia, struck the
rocks at Rondeau, Lake Erie, and went to
pieces. An old man named Jameson, employed
as porter, was lost. The Picton was valued at
$35, 900. Insured for $4,000
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
A Disastrous DeIuge.

An unprecedented rainfall was experienced
in the eastern sta ties on the 23d and oath, the
damage from the freshets occasioned thereby be-
ing immense. At Plainfeld, N. J., dams gave
way, carrying off bridges and wreckng manu-
featuring establishments on the river front. In
Bound Brook n. j., water flowed ten feet deep
through Main Street, being on a level with the
show cases of mercantile establishments which
line the street. More loss will be suffered by
the Bound Brook people from the flood than
by the fire which destroyed the town several
months previous. At Trenton, N. j., damage
to the extent of 100000 was inflicted.
Near Weehawken the new tunnel of
the New York, Ontario and Western Railway
was damaged between ,000 and $780, 600. A
bridge gave way over Berry's Greek, precipitat-
ing freight train into the torrent. Conductor
Weber was killed and the engineer and fire.
man probably fatally injured. Thousands Of
dollars worth of property was destroyed at New
Brunswick, N. Y, and people navigate the
streets in boats. -Four mills on the Lower
Rappanannock, in Essex County, Va, were car
ried away. Waterbury, Conn, was flooded a
new bridge being damaged to the extent of
$4,000. The Hoosac River rose four feet
higher than usual and dam at Reedsboro
Mass, was damaged about $4,000 worth. At
Frankenford. Pa, the loss was 500, 900. Rail-
roads throughout the deluged region suffer I'M
mensely by washouts and consequent delays.
Five lives are reported lost thus far.