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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12

AN experienced farmer writes concern
ing the most suitable weather for sowing
grass seeds, that a fine day should be
chosen, when the land is tolerably dry,
but when there are Indications of ap-
preaching rain. Such conditions are
much more favorable for sowing seeds
than during rainy or showery weather,
for, in the first instance, the seeds are
more likely to be evenly covered, and
Will be gradually absorbing moisture
from the soil previous to the next fall of
rain, which they will be in a condition to
receive with benefit. Whereas, if sown
after shower, as is too frequently done,
the above advantages are not obtained,
but after the seeds have been saturated
with moisture the dry weather returns,
and they become "malted"
A WRITER in the Ohio Farmer saws:
My method of seeding corn stubbIe to
wheat is very simple, and as long 1 can
raise as good crops as / have been rails
ing l shall continue to follow corn with
wheat. / have my corn cut 4x24, max
ing So hills to the shock; consequently
the shocks are small, stand close togeth-
er, giving wide space between the
shock rows, obviating the necessity Of
drilling around shocks. Ii corn has
been thoroughly cultivated, going over
the field once or twice with harrow
will put it in good condition for the
drill. [ have never used one ounce of
commercial fertilizers, depending solely
upon barnyard manure and clover to
keep up the fertility of the soil, and for
the last ten years my average has been
25 bushels per acre.
A GREAT amount of labor is lost by
sowing fodder corn too thick. Many
SOW three bushels to the acre; some SOW
but two bushels, and few SOW but one.
1 SOW but one-half bushel, and my corn
is too thick. The man who has raised
the largest crop the past season sowed
but twelve quarts of seed to the acre.
Make the drills at least four feet apart,
and SOW one half bushel of ensilage seed
corn to the acre; then, when it is about
foot high, thin it to six and eight
inches between stalks. When corn is
planted too thick those plants which do
not attain their full growth are nothing
more than weeds. As dirt is out of
place. so weed is only plant out of
place. No plant is 50 far out of place as
when it is crowded by other plants of the
same kind so that its growth is impaired;
it then becomes mere weed, and only
serves to injure the growth of the proper
number of plants in the hill or drill.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12

voice of his black-eyed travelling COM
panion.
"Well, mother, did he Gomez" she
asked.
"Peleg didn't come" said the Widow
Buck, "but young gentleman from
city came. And do you believe, Naomi,
[ took him for Peleg, and I peppered
away at him well!'
ooh, mother, what will he think 2"
cried the softer young voice.
81 ask his pardon, of course" said
the old lady. "And he took it all as a
Joke"
And when Peleg briggs himself, the
next day, put in an appearance, he was
summarily dismissed. While Mr.. Per-
cival Payne and the fair Naomi were
sitting by trout-pool in the cool woods
below; for Naomi knew all about the
hauDts and hooks of the neighborhood,
and handled 3 fishing pole most skill
fully.
Mr.. Payne liked Mailzie Ford, and
stayed there all summer. And as there
were several boarders in the old stone
house; Miss Naomi concluded not to re-
turn to factory-life in the Lowell mills,
but to stay and help her mother with the
Homework; and when the autumn came
she was engaged-to Mr.. Percival
Payne.
"The sweetest wild-fower in all the
northern woods, " he wrote, enthusiastic
ally, to his friend Warden.
Warden went up to Mailxie Ford. He
was introduced to Miss Naomi. He
agreed with his friend
"She's a. little jewel" said he.
"You're lucky fellow, Payne. But L
didn't know, when you wrote me, that
you were so well suited with the accom-
modations here"
"That I was suiting myself for life p
interrupted Payne. But you see that
such was the fact"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
The Old Bailey,
From London Society.l


Entering by the low spiked wicket, SO
familiar to all passengers in the Old
Bailey, the visitor passes through the
warder's common room into dark, mar
row passage, which, running north and
south, communicates with every part of
the interior. In front, on the right
hand, is a gallery opening into a small,
comfortable-looking room, fitted with
press, safe for the keys, and a leaden
cistern bearing the date 1881. In the
press are kept variety of disused hand
cuffs and leg-lrons, some of them being
of great thickness and weight. The
leg-irons, when worn, hung from an irop
belt round the culprit's waist. In the
cupboard are also preserved the block,
with its hammer, upon which the pris-
oner would place his feet that his chains
might be fastened on and unriveted Just
before his execution, with the axe that
was carried to the scaffold in front of the
condemned under sentence for treason.
The axe has never been actually used for
the purpose of decapitation after death.
The head was severed by skilled sur
geon. The last time the axe went to the
scaffold was on Monday, May l, 1920,
when Thistlewood, Brunt, Ings, David
son and Tidd, principals of the Cato
Street conspiracy, were executed accord
ing to the horrid manner of traitors. In
this apartment, too, malefactors were
pinioned by the hangman. That opera
ton is now performed in the condemned
cell, with set of straps of ingenious
construction. The place of execution
for Middlesex has been at Newgate since
1888, and until few years ago before
the door in the more northerly portal.
The procession so frequently de-
scribed in the daily journals used to
start from the pinioning-room down the
passage, through the kitchen, passing
between black curtains put up for the
occasion, and so on out into the Old
Bailey. The gibbet, or scafold, was
brought over night from its place in the
Sessions House yard; the staples to
which it was fastened may yet be seen
at either side of the outer iron door of
the kitchen. The dissection of the
bodies of executed persons was discon-
tinued In the year 1882. Casts are now
taken of their faces, these, arranged in
lobby of the warders' room, are by no
means pleasant TO look upon, though not
without their value from psychologists
point OF view. The chapel, where di-
vine service is celebrated every day, is
on the first floor, at the rear of the gov
errors house. IN the Microcosm is
plate by Rowlandson and Pugin of its
interior (since considerably changedD III
the year 100, on Sunday, preceding the
day of execution. Sunday being a dies
non in the eyes of the law, it was then
customary to hold capital trials on Fri
days, and to give the condemned the
full benefit of the few hours grace
melted out in sentence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
Keen 1t to Yourself.

You have trouble-your feelings are
injured, your husband is unkind, your
wife frets, your home is not pleasant,
your friends do not treat you fairly, and
things in general do not move pleasant
ly. Well, what of it? Keep it to your
self. A smouldering fire can be found
and extinguished; but when the Goals are
scattered, who can pick them up2 Bury
your sorrow. The place for sad and dis
trusting things is under the ground. A
cut finger is never benefited by pulling
off the plaster and exposing it to some
body's eye. Tie it up and let it alone.
Charity covereth multitude of sins.
Things thus covered are often covered
without scar but once published and
confided to meddling friends, there is no
end to the trouble they may cause.
Keep it to yourself. Troubles are
transient, and when sorrow is healed
and passed, what comfort 1t is to say:
+" No one ever knew it until the trouble
was all over"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
HOW THE KING LOST HIS CROWN.
BY ]. t. TRowBRIDGE.

The kings men, when he had slain the boar,
Strung him aloft on the fishers oar,
And, two behind and two before,
In triumph bore him along the shore.
An oar says the king, tits a tr1de why
Did the fisher frown and the good wife sigh?
A trife, sire. was the FOOLS reply;
Then frown or laugh who will; for 1,
Who laugh at all and am only clown,
Will never more laugh at trifes
runner next day leaped down the sand,
And launched skiff from the fishers strand;
For he cried-An army invades the land
The passes are seized on either handl
And must carry my message straight,
Across the lake to the castle gatei
The castle he neared, but the waves were great,
The fanged rocks foamed like the jaws of Fate;
And lacking an oar the boat went down,
The FAIRIES laugh at trifles!
The swimmer against the waves began
To strive as a valiant swimmer can.
Methinks said the fool, 'twere no bad plan
If succor were sent the drowning man
To succor peried pawn instead,
The monarch moving his rock ahead,
Bowed over the chessman, white and red,
Gave check Then looked ON the lake and said,
The boat is lost the man will drown
Oh king beware of trifes.
To the lords, the mirthful danes, the bard
Was trolling this latest song; the guard
We're casting dice in the castle yard;
And the captains all were drinking hard
Then came the chief of the halberdiers,
And told to the kings astounding ears;
An e-C1y on every side appears
They have gained the wall and surprised the town
Our fates were woven of trihes!
The red usurper reached the throne;
The tidings over the realm were blown:
And, flying to alien lands alone
With trusty few, the king made moan.
But long and loudly laughed the clown;
We broke the car and the boat went down,
The messenger lost, we lost the town;
And the loss of the town has cost crown
And all these things are tribes!
Our Continent.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
A Miscellaneous Flock.

From the New York Herald.l
There are Jews coming to the United
States from Russia, Irishmen from Mum
ster and Ulster, cordially detesting one
another; republicans and Bonapartists
from France, some of whom believe that
the pope has been cruelty wronged, and
others that he should be driven from
Italy. To assimilate all of these and blend
them into harmonious homogeneous
political society is task that no other
nation in the world could successfully
undertake.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12

JOHN MILLER bought planning mill
at Dunkirk, Ohio, month ago. He
lost finger the first week, two fingers
the second and whole hand the third.
The mill is now for sale.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12

In the overhowed portion of Arkansas
cattle are still dying of hunger and being
tortured by gnats. Near Old Town
point, buzzards can be seen by thou
sands, having grown so tame that they
scarcely fly out of the way of boats.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12


the sight of you. There So just pick
up your traps and go back ag'in in the
way you GOMEZ You won't never be a
son-in-law of mine -
But while Widow Buck was volubly
uttering these last glib sentences, faint
light began to dawn on Mr.. Payne's
semi obscured brain.
CT think, Mrs. Buck" said he, "that
you must be laboring under little mis-
apprehension. My name is Percival
Payne. [ am from Boston. [ was re-
commended here, as an eligible boarding
place, by Mr.. Warren, of Is Peppermint
Place
Mrs. Buck nearly dropped her lamp
in her CONSERVATION.
Well, I never!' said she, instantly
finging the door wide open. "Please
to walk in, sir. I'll send the boy out af-
ter your trunks and things in half min
ute. 1 beg your pardon, Tn sure, for
installing You for Peleg briggs, of Low
ell, as was coming here after my daugh-
ter Naomi She works in the Lowell
mills, Naomi does. To think however
could have made such blunderl DO
walk in, sir.
And Mr.. Payne was promptly intro
duced to delightful little g interior" of
red carpet, round table spread for tea,
shaded lamplight and fire of logs burn
ing on an open hearth, to keep out the
damp of the summer evening.
After 10 o'clock, when the wearied
traveller was in bed, in a pretty little
room, where there was an eight-day
clock in a cherry-wood case and car
pet made of woven rags, he heard the
opening and shutting of doors below,
the clear sound of familiar voice-the
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-06
Mothers! Mothers!! MOthers!!!

Are you disturbed at night and broken
of your rest by sick child suffering and
crying with the excruciating pain of cutting
teeth9 If so, go at once and get bottle of
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 1t will
relieve the poor little sufferer Immediately
depend upon it; there is no mistake
about it. There is not mother on earth
who has ever used it, who will not tell you
at once that it will regulate the bowels,
and give rest to the mother, and relief and
health to the child, operating like magic.
1t is perfectly safe to use in all cases, and
pleasant to the taste, and is the prescrip-
ton of one of the oldest and best female
physicians and nurses in the United States.
Sold everywhere. rs cents bottle.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-06
Advice TO CONSERVATIVES.

On the appearance of the first symp-
toms-as general debility, loss of appetite,
pallor, chilly sensations, followed by
night sweats and cough, prompt measures
of relief should be taken. Consumption is
scrofulous disease of the lungs; therefore
use the great anti.scrofulous or blood
purifier and strength-restorer, Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery" Superior
to Cod liver oil as a nutritive, and unsur-
passed as pectoral. For weak lungs
spittirg of blood, and kindred affections 1t
has no equal. Sold by druggists. For
DR.. Pierce's treatise on consumption send
two stamps. Worlds Dispensary Medical
Association, Buffalo, n. Y.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-06
Tennyson's New Poem.

The Nineteenth Century for Septem-
Der contains new poem by Alfred Ten
nyson. 1t is inscribed "To Virgil"
and was written at the request of the
Mantuans, for the nineteenth centenary
OF Virgil's death. A few of the verses
are appended
Roman Virgil, thou that singest
Hons lofty temples robod In fire,
llion falling. Rome arising,
wars, and tiial faith, and Ddos pyre;
Landscape-lover, lord OF language
more than he that sang the works and
days,
All the chosen coin Of fancy
Thou that singost wheat and woodland
tilth aud vineyard, hive, and horse and
herd;
An the charm OF oil the Muses.
often flowing In u lonely work;
Now the Rome OF slaves hath pcrish'd,
and the Rome of freemcn holds her
place,
I, from out the northern island,
sunder'd once from oil the human race.
salute the Mantovnno, H|
that loved the since my day began,
Wieldcr of the statecst measure
ever nodded by the lips OF man.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-06
RIVER ITEMS.

RIVER ITEMS.
The Andy Baum from Memphis arrived
here yesterday morning at 0 o'clock. She
had fair up stream trip and about 80
cabin passengers-with engagements above
sufficient to fill her out on the present
stage OF water.
The Will Kyle from Cincinnati arrived
here yesterday morning with splendid
trip Of freight and sixty cabin and 40 deck
passengers. She added some eighteen or
twenty more here and filled out With
freight, left for New Orleans at p. m.
The Gus Fowler had good trip yester-
day and is due here at p. m. from Padu
cab, leaving here on her return trip at 5
p. m.
The Centennial is overdue for New Or
leans. She had a big trip and is tussling
with the dry spots above between here and
st. Louis.
The tow boat Jack Frost arrived here
last evening with large tow of lumber
from Helena, which she will take to some
point above ST. Louis.
Business looked lively yesterday on the
wharf,
The U. P. Schenck from New Orleans
will report here Saturday for Cincinnati.
Capt. w. P. Wright freight agent OF the
Big o Line gave the Kyle all the freight
she could carry.
The elegant passenger packet Hudson
from st. Louis is due here early this morn
ing for Paducah and Shawneetown. She
has large party of passengers on board
who have been attending the St. Louis Fair.
The river kilograms failed to come in last
night, consequently, can't report the stages
of the rivers.
The John B. Maude and City of Provi-
dence and Commonwealth were over due
when we went to prees but had failed to re-
port.
The weather is unusually hot for October
and cold weather will be heartily welcomed
when 1t makes its appearance.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-06
Society Notes.

A GOODNESS growing out of the follow
ing conversation, has sprung up be-
tween Gilhooly and his friend, Gus De
Smith:
Il had a splendid time last night"
said Gus. a spent the evening at a
little social gathering at the Goodman
mansion"
Are the Goodman nice peopleP"
queried Gilhooly.
"Well, | should say so. They are
very aristocratic. To get in their circle
one must have deal of money or a
great deal of genius"
you don't tell me so--and you say
you We're there"
"Ycs.h
,"You were invited, were your"
"Of course
"And to be invited a man has to have
a great deal of money or plenty Of
genius"
PRECISELY"
"Well, Gus, am very glad to hear
you have become rich all Of u sudden.
Lend me five dolarsp"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-06
Medame Rene's Cheese.
The Suspicious Package in a German Actress
Trunk.

The Suspicious Package in German Actress
Trunk
On the arrival of the Hapsburg at
Hoboken recently, there was more than
the usual confusion among the passen-
gers. They were hurrying to and fro,
and all were excited and noisy, except
the German performers for the Thaia
Theatre. They were calmly seated on
their trunks taking matters philosophi-
cally, and evidently wondering why ev-
erybody was so excited and in such u
hurry to do nothing. Madame Rene, Il
plump blonde, attracted attention be-
cause Of her perfect quietude. She car
ricd in her hand handkerchief full OF
something, which lynX-eyed Custom
House official bounced upon, thinking
it apparently Il bundle of diamonds 1t
contained large and quaint collection
of KEYS of all sizes and shapes, and ev-
cry moment she was called upon to UNI
lock one of her many trunks or boxes.
Of course it required some time to sort
out the right one, and this wrought the
official to fever heat. BY the manner
in which he rummaged her trunks, ruff
fled her pretty stage dresses and her
temper, it was evident that he was hay
ing his revenge But the actress soon
had hers. There was suspicious-look-
ing basket which she never let beyond
her reach. She placed her pretty foot
upon it, partly concealing it with her
dress. This was enough for the Official
He wanted the box opened. She con.
fusedly said: "Dere is nosing in it, sir"
This made the bluff official deter
inmate to do his duty at all hazards.
The box was burst open in an instant,
when the officer quickly stepped back,
raised his hand to his forehead and
cried, 'Ilold! Shut it up, quickly"
The excited crowd began to scatter,
evidently fearing destruction from an
explosive Internal machine. The bas-
ket contained limburger cheese of the
most pronounced type, Everybody
laughed except the incenscd oilicia, who
Immediately attacked another less for
midablc trunk in another direction.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-06
Bishop Clark on Incorrect English,


Though the schoolmaster holds his
receptions in almost every nook and
corner of the land, there is a great deal
OF incorrect talking even among educat-
ed people. Bishop Clark gives few
specimens OF these popular errors of
speech in the form of dialogue be-
tween a careless talker and his critical
friend:
Good afternoon, John, how long
have you been setting here?"
81 have been sitting here for about
an hour watching to see these men set,
the stones in my wall"
''lt kind Of seems to me that the
work is done rather lily"
Perhaps it is not done quite as
'welly' as it might be-"
Il kind Of think that word 'welly'
sounds odd"
1T is as good word rs lily But
why do you say: 1T kind of seems and
Il kind of think when you might Just
as well say; 1T seems and Il think ?"
eve got sort Of used to talking in
that way"
at is a very poor sort of way"
81 never had nobody to learn me
any better"
You mean that you have had no.
body to teach you"
81 am getting tired, and think will
lay down on the grass for spell.
you can lie down, but it would be
well for you to lay your cloak on the
ground for Won IA lie on
" Be- you going to stop here for
long?"
Il stopped here when arrived, but
shall not stay long. Are you going
home soonv'
Il be-
"Why not say 4 amp BE YOU and
4 be are very raw and disagreeable
phrases"
IAN right; o X; but the master al
ways says to the scholars BE you
ready to write?' Him ard me- met at
the deacon's last night"
"What did him and you do after
you got thereP"
1--WE looked at them things he has
just brought from New York"
Were them things worth looking
at?''
=" Tolerable.' BY the way, the dea-
con must have quite a fortune"
''What sort of fortune? Quite large
or quite smallP'
"Quite large, of course"
"Why did you not say sop'
"My next neighbor has just put up
fence on either side of his front yard"
Il suppose you wish to say that he
has put up a fence on both sides"
Between you and p
please change that to Between YOU
and me- You would not say; There is
no great difference Of opinion between
you and he
Il usually say: Him and me agree
pretty well. "
Then you speak very bad EnrlSh,
of 1T is l.. ,"
"Of course I do, and so does most of
the people know. My boy is just 60
ing to school, and as he is new be-
ginner | suppose he will appear to be
rather green"
did you ever hear Of any beginner
who was not newP"
II wish to simply state"
THAT is you wish to state"
That our mutual friend"
"PleUsr 3y or common friend. You
would not call him reciprocal
friend"
"Why do you interrupt me so oftenp"
because you make so many blum
doris -
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-06

Charles UConor is described as ram
bling daily about the cliffs and town Of
Nantucket, with his hat on the back Of
his head and both hands IN his pockets
happy, contented, hale and hearty, bear.
ing lightly the weight Of his IS years.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-06

There are on file in the Office of the
Controller of Connecticut in compliance
with the requirements Of the State law,
the names of nearly or quite 5000 de-
positors in the savings bank OF the State
whose deposits have remained uncalled
for and have not been increased other
wise than by the accruing interest for
twenty years past. The amounts thus
unclaimed range from o few dollars 10
83.346. ----.,.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-06
OEFItJEItS:
BOARD OF MANAGERS:

j. A. Goldstinc, OF Godstine & Rosonwater, whole.
sale and retail dry good, etc. JAS. y McGiahey,
lumber dealer; Wm, r. Pitcher, general agent;
Albert Lewis, dealer in flour aud grain; l.. y.
Thomas, bricklayer; Moses Phillips, contractor
aud builder; II A. Chumblcy, grocer; Thos.
Lewis, secretary and attorney.at,law; ". ii:
Marean, Homeopathic physician; IL, Sander, OF
Sander 4 Son. groccrs; X, II Baird, street super
visor; Ed II. White, asst sec, w. b q. NJ. A. 30.
ciety; j. W Spier, lumber and saw.mill; Y. l..
Gernigon, barber; y. b. Dietrich, clerk W., 81. I.
APR r.; NJ. kober. merchant tailor; JEFF NJ.
Clark, dealer In wall paper and window shades; J.
E. English, contractor and builder; VII, T. Red
burn, OF Morse h Redburn, cigar manufacturers;
+, Vincent, dealer In lime aud cement \ A.
II. Taber, mfg. jeweer; j. II Robinson, j. and
notary public; j. 3. Petris, physician; II. w.
Bostwick, insurance agent: ". K. Jarboe. foreman
". Gas mains, and Il u. Walbridge. lumber and
sAw.mlll, OF Cairo; ". Leighton, cashier Nat.
Bank, Stuart, Iowa; Rev. Y. A., wilkerson, Pryors'
bury, KY; J.W. Tarry, physician, Fulton, Ky.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-06

Ask your physician and he will tell you
that Cascara is one of the best vegetable
remedies for Dyspepsia, Constipation, and
Kidney difficulties. 1t is freely used in the
preparation of Hops and Malt Bitters,