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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
Work of the Flames

Six stores were consumed by fire at Shubuta
Miss, on the 22d. Loss $24, 0OO.
The Mount Tom Thread Company's works at
East Hampton, Mass. burned OF the 22d inst.
Loss $50, 900.
Otto q Layers lager beer brewery at Cam
den, N. j., was destroyed by fire on the 22d
inst. Loss heavy.
The cotton factory at Brownsville. Tenn.
was reduced to ashes ou the 23d. Loss S75,-
900.
Birmingham, Conn.,, suffered a loss of Bas-
sett's paper box factory and Halleck's hardware
establishment by fire on the 3d. Loss $780,
000
The Albion Mills, at Black River Falls Wis.
owned by d. j. Spaulding, were consumed by
fire on the 22d. Machinery for the Holly water
ocks was in the building and was DESTROYED.
Loss $4,000.
The Mansard Block and the Union Hotel.
adjoining were reduced to ash les at Oswego,
N. Y, on the night of the Goth. Loss 885. O0I
The Mansard Block was owned by the United
States Life Insurance Company of New York
Rutter's boOk-bindery, New York CITY,
burned on the 21st. Loss $4,000.
Buffalo, n. Y, suffered severely by fire on
the 21st inst. The blaze originated in the
magnificent new Commercial Advertiser build
ing, which IN brief space of time was reduced
to smoking pile with its valuable contents of
presses and other printing material. The en-
ployes made their exit from the burning struc-
ture by means of the fire escape. One of their
number was badly burned, however About
the time the walls of the Advertiser building
began to crumble the FIRE communicated to the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27

RearAdmiral James T. Schenck, retired
brother of Gen. Robert c. Schenck. died at
Dayton, O., on the Dist inst, aged 70 years.
He entered the service in 1921 and was made a
rear-admiral in 1868. He commanded the feet
which operated against Fort Fisher during the
rebellion.
Ex-Gov. Ben. G. Humphreys died suddenly
at Lef1ore County, Miss, on the GOTH He was
distinguished rebel general during the war,
and in 1865 was expelled from the governors
office at the points of federal bayonets.
Trenor W. Park of Bennington, Vt, capt.
talist of considerable note, died of paralysis
on board the steamer San Bias at Aspinwall on
the 18th inst
Henry James, ST., prominent in literary cir
Giles, died at Boston on the 18th.
Isaac Hedges, for many years closely identi-
fed with the sorghum interests of the west,
died at st. Louis, Mo-, on the 18th, after 8
brief illness.
James Lyons, who was q member of the con-
federate congress, died at Richmond, Va, on
the 18th, aged 81.
James Laughlin, senior member of the iron
manufacturing firm of Jones & Laughlin, died
at Pittsburg Pa, on the 18th, after an illness
of many months duration.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
CoIIyer's Rise,

The Rev. Robert Collyer told a con-
gregation, at Springfield, Mass, how he
had made his way from the anvil to the
pulpit. Fifty years ago he was child
in Yorkshire, England, with unIettered
but industrious parents, who put him at
the trade of blacksmithing. He worked
eight years with an employer who died
of drink, and he thinks it was only
love of reading that saved him from the
same fate. His first preaching was as a
Methodist exhorter, and for the first ten
years of his ministraiion his income.
from that source averaged seventy five
cents year, his living being earned as a
blacksmith. He came to America with
his bride in 1850, and during the panic
of 1857 he carried a bod for while.
Twenty years ago he became salaried
preacher, gong over from the Methodist
to the Unitarians, and he has since been
very successful.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
A Chinese New Years Celebration.

The following is an extract from all ar
ticle entitled A Chinese New Years
Day in Santa Barbara, by II. H., in the
January st. Nicholas:
The Chinese New Years Day In 1882
fell on the seventeenth of February.
They have a week of holidays at their
twenty-ifth of December and the first of
January.
In the cities they make a fine display
of fireworks, but none of the Chinese
people in Santa Barbara are rich, SO
there were no fireworks, except crack
ers; but there were barrels and barrels
full of these, and the Chinese BOYS do
not fire off crackers on their New Years
day as American boys do, a cracker at
time, or one package at a time; they
bring out large box full, or a barrel
full, and fire them off, package after
package, as fast as they can, till the air is
as full of smoke as if there were a fire,
and the ground is covered with red.
half-burned ends.
1t was amusing to watch the Ameri-
can boys darting about from shop to
shop and house to house, coming out
with their hands full of queer Chinese
things to eat, showing them to each
other and comparing notes.
cob, let me taste that y one boy
would exclaim, on seeing some new
thing; and, "Where did YOU get it :?
Which house gives that ?" Then the
whole party would race off to make de-
scent on the house, and get some more.
/ thought it wonderfully hospitable on
the part Of the Chinese people 70 l,t 81
t-ls1 Am, mean boys run IN and out of
their houses in that way, and help them
selves from the New Years feast.
Some of the boys we're very rude and
in-mannered-littl better than street
beggars; but the Chinese were polite and
generous to them all.
In some Of the stores there were men
playing a game that has been played, IN
der different names, all over the world.
1t consists simply in one man holding
out his hand, with part of the fingers
closed and part open, and his antagonist
calling out, instantly, how many OF his
fingers are open. One would think
nothing would be easier than this. But
when the movements are made rapidly
it is next to impossible to call out the
number quickly without making a mis-
take. For every mistake fine of some
sort, according to the agreement of the
players, is to be paid. These Chinese
men played it with such vehemence that
the perspiration stood on their fore
heads, and their shrill crying out of the
numbers sounded like unbroken SEN
fences; there did not seem breath be-
tween them. They rested their elbows
on the table, and with every opening
and closing of the fingers, thrust the
forearm forward to its full length, so
there was violent exercise IN 1t.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
HE COMING METAL.

A dispatch from London announcing
that at last method for the cheap pro-
duction of aluminium In large quantities
has been discovered, and that the metal
trade of Birmingham and Sheffield is in
commotion thereat, led the Boston Daily
Advertiser to comment as follows: May
this be true, though it is quite certain
that we shall neither have aluminium as
cheap as steel, nor that we shall have to
wait another fifty years for the discovery
Of the process now needed. Aluminium
costs at present about forty cents an
ounce, a year ago it cost dollar per
ounce, and fifty years ago it was dearer
than platinum. The present production
of this ubiquitous metal is estimated at
$500 tons year. Yet the actual de-
mand for aluminium would be very great
If the metal could be supplied in guam
titles and cheap. The London dispatch,
therefore, deserves general attention, if
but for the purpose of directing the at
tention of metallurgists and inventors to
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
EcCentri BuriaIs.
r. H. Busk, III Notes and Queries J

J
Squire Waterton, the weu-known
author of the Wanderings," a Catholic
in the midst of Professionals, had, be-
ieve, a small mausoleum consecrated for
himself and his wife in his own park at
Wolton Hall, Yorkshire. There was a
touching story, too, which l heard with
in a few days of bis burial, of q flight Of
the birds he had so fondly protected all
his life, following the cortege IS his
body was borne by water to this resting
place.
The case of a distant connection of
of mine supplies a most singular instance
of eccentric burial. She had been so
distressed at the loss of two children
within a brief space of time, that she in
duced the clergyman of the parish to let
her remove the bodies directly after they
had been buried. She had them en-
balmed, and they were thus kept for
something like thirty years in an empty
room in her house in one Of the princi-
pal streets of Brighton Though OCCASION
ally to the establishment and terror Of
servante) looking like wax dolls in their
pretty little collins with glass lids. At
her death they were buried by Her son
in orders, not many other clergymen
probably have been called to bury sis
tiers who had died before they were born.
There is also the case of Ettore Viscon-
ii, whose mummifed remains, buried IN
an erect position in the churchyard wall,
are shown TO the few visitors of Monza.
The burial in an erect or sitting posture
of Charlemagne and Frederick Barbar-
ossa Care to speak of the weird legends
predicting their return to reign or earth)
also come under this head.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
Broken Ranks.

Great excitement was created at Rochester,
n. Y, on the goth inst, by the announcement
that the City Bank of Rochester had closed its
doors. The amount of deposits is stated at
100000 and the amount of paper held by the
bank 100000. The failure was caused by the
use of bank funds by G. L. Upton, its presi-
dent, IN unfortunate oil specuIatiOns. Upton
owes the institution S330,OO0 and has made
restitution by turning over property valued at
$4,000 The city of Rochester has no funds
in the bank, but the county is badly involved.
The Second National Bank. of Jefferson. O.,
has suspended temporarily, pending investiga-
ton into defalcations by S. j. Fuller aud h. L..
st. John, cashier aud assistant cashier Fuller
had speculated and lost about $4,000 of the
banks funds. st. John, on hearing of the ex-
pose was stricken with paralysis. The depos-
itors will not suffer as the stockholders are liza
BILE for more than the deposits.
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Ute 8epnbHrar.
WATERTOWN, WIS.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER AZ, 1882.
4 NEW INDUSTRY.

One of the most significant results
appearing IN the recent census bulletin
giving the statistics OF manufactures IN
the United States by industries is the re-
turns of cotton-s seed oil and cake. These
returns show that in 1880 there were
forty-five establishments of this kind IN
the country, presumably In the south,
and that the value of products for that
year was nearly eight million dollars.
The cotton seed used was valued at about
five and half million dollars. In 1870
there were but twenty-six of these mills,
only a million and three hundred thou
sand dollars worth of seed was pressed,
and million two hundred thousand
dollars worth of oil made. The busl-
ness is now carried on to a vastly greater
extent than it was in 1880, since within
the past two years many new mills with
extensive capacity and improved ma
chinery have sprung up, IN various parts
of the southern states. The growth of
this new industry in the next few years
bids fair to be enormous. The south has
at last found source of great wealth in
what, until recently, was considered OF
no value. Before the war millions of
dollars in cotton seed were yearly thrown
away. The utility of the seed as a fer
tiIizer was then discovered, and it was
for a time used chiefly for this purpose.
It was next found to contain valuable
oil which is now pressed out, refined
and used chiefly for cooking purposes
as a substitute for lard, while the re-
manning meal or cake has proved to be a
rich food for animals. Even the bulls
Of the seed make an excellent fuel.
Seed that was once thrown away is now
sold for twelve and fifteen dollars a ton,
and the price is likely to go higher.
Much Of this product is still wasted In
some parts Of the south, owing chiefly
to the want of convenient mills. It has
been estimated that at no distant day the
annual crop of cotton seed will be con-
verted into products to the value of fifty
to seventy-five million dollars.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
HEALTH PRECAUTIONS AGAINST COLD.

Thegreat thermal changes now occur
ring with the alienation of "cold
waves and "warm spells F." of weather
over the country, says the New York
Herald, will be unusually fruitful of
winter diseases unless the public guard
themselves against the irregularities of
the season. Strange as 1t may seem, it
has been found that the mortality due to
the winter extremes (from bronchitis.
diseases of the respiratory organs and
nervous affections falls most heavily on
females-the class least exposed to out
of-door air. The report of Buchan on
British mortality shows that IN winter
'the mortality rises to 11.2 per cent.
above the average among females,
whereas among males it only rises to 7.8
per cent. This fact powerfuIlysuggests
that the perils of our winter cold are not
to be overcome by housing ourselves or
cur children, but rather by hardening
the body by moderate and well~guarded
eZnosuro 70 The borc2l weather.. 10
temperate, sufficiently fed and well-clad
people the Arctic wave . Of this season
IS not an unmingled evil, but may be
means of inauguration. The great dan
ger to people of weak lungs from its Wis
ltation IN our large cities arises from
the fact that with the sudden altera-
ton of temperaturefor which many such
invallds are unprepared by proper nu-
triton and clothing, the cold wave fills
the air with dust and putrefactive or
ganic matter Of dirty streets which must
be inhaled freely when they go out of
doors. The geld, dry air of such high
pressure wave, as it bursts over city.
has not, therefore the antiseptic quail
ties which make a pure, cold and .rari-
fed air Of the Alpine resorts so curative
to pulmonary patients that a residence
IN the Engadine often causes the chest
to expand and tones up the whole sys-
TEN. The cold waves which reach us
are not attended by long continued high
winds; the central area of each wave is
comparatively calm, so that if the pre-
caution is taken to avoid exposure to its
high winds, usually lasting about six or
eight hours, the danger Of facing it is
much lessened. If this precaution was
observed by delicate and young persons,
and care taken not to remain in the cold
air after the system has ceased to react,
thousands of lives might be saved which
every year perish in periods of extreme
cold
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27

q field promising unlimited rewards.
Aluminium. like iron, does not occur in
its pure state; but in connection with
silicates or loan forms whole mountain
ranges and fertilevalIeys. 1t is the very
essence of feldspar and of clay, 1t was
discovered in 1927 by the great WohIer,
but recently deceased, and its technical
treatment has been described best by
Sainte Claire Deville. The commercial
article, however, is not chemically pure,
containing from two to twelve per cent.
of foreign substances, chiefly iron and
silicum. Yet even this article stands,
in color and lustre, between platinum
ana silver; it is four times lighter than
silver, highly ductile and malleable, and
may be made as hard as iron. 1t does
not oxidize on exposure, and preserves
its lustre where silver would be tar
nished. It forms alloys with most
metals, and with copper produces a
metal highly valued By jewelers., opti-
clans, and instrument makers. 1t melts
at 7000 G. Aluminium is highly sonor-
Gus. It is easily gilt or colored, and is
the ideal metal for domestic luxuries and
human use generally, as it is light, and
requires no care, like steel, silver or
brass. The oxide of aluminium crystal
lied is the basis of rubies, the topaz,
the sapphire, and the oriental amethyst.
Ten parts of aluminium and ninety
parts of copper produce a bronze re-
sembling gold, which surpasses every
other kind of bronze in frmness, and
can be worked like steel. This is
enough to show the value of aluminium
and its common occurrence. The point
to achieve now is simple method by
which our mountains and our clay banks
can be made to give up their treasure.
so that every theater- goer can have a
light and handsome glass, every diner a
hand some knife andspoon, every bridge
builder-but we shall wait for particu-
lars from London and from our own in
yontOrS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
a RaiHroad GabhIed.

One of the results of the late war between
the great rival railway companies of the North
west is the virtual absorption of the Chicago,
st. Paul. Minneapolis and Omaha line by the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company.
Mr.. Marvin Hughitt, the general manager of
the latter, and who is one of the most success
full railroad managers in the world. becomes
president of the absorbed line, which will
henceforth be run as part of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway Company's grand sys-
tenn of roads. Mr.. II. H. Porter, the late
president of the Omaha line, and who was the
disturbing element which prolonged the re-
cent war of rates, retires from the field. and a
permanent peace is now anticipated.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
Railway NIisnapS.

Two freight trains teiescoped at Melrose, N.
Y, on the 18th. locomotive and thirty-five
cars were wrecked. Five men were killed and
several injured.
An east-bound passenger train on the Gin
cinuati and st. LOUIS Railroad coIlided with the
limited express near Kings Station. out 80
miles from Cincinnati, on the 18th; Engineer
Poke Peters md pasta, Clerk W. Il. Wharton,
were Instantly killed The elephant belonging
to the Kerafy "Around the World Combine
tion," was killed. Several persons were
seriously hurt.
Twenty freight cars were demolished by
collision at Gilberton, Pa, on the 18th, causing
loss of $4,000 and like accident near st.
AIMS on the Grand Trunk Railroad wrecked
two locomotives and fifteen cars. Loss $780,
600. No lives lost in either accident.
A freight train on the Iron Mountain Rail
road broke in two while ascending grade at
St. Louis, Mo-, on the 14th. The detached
portion dash ed down the incline killing team
Of horses and pilip3 itself Unfortunately all
over the street. Damage $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
RObberIeS.

A San Francisco police named Joseph Lark
tree Is in durance vile, charged with blrglar;z-
ing Central Pacific car of $4,000 worth of
silk
The First National Bank. of Detroit was
victlmized to the tune of $1,180 by a forged
check on the 22d inst
The house of ". H. Dillingham; at Louisville,
Ky, was robbed of $4,000 worth of iewelry,
etc, on the night of the 18th.
While a clerk at N. K. Fairbank & Co.'S lard
refinery, corner Main and Washington Streets
st. Louis, was crossing the street from the
office of the refinery on the evening of the 18th,
to pay off the workmen, he was set upon by
four men and robbed of 81 800. No clue to the
perpetrators.
A man giving the name of George Coleman
has victimized the City National Bank OF
Dallas to the amount of sc, 100.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
Miner MTS7aapS.

During haiIstorm at Huntsville, Texas on
the night of the 10Th, milling house was
blown down, killing Albert Dryden and four
negro women who had sought shelter under
the roof.
Thomas Doyle and Katie A. Morgan, a run
away couple from Oneida County, N. Y, were
found suffocated in their room at Rochester
on the morning of the 18th, having blown out
the gas.
The farmhouse of John Clark. in Linn
County, Kansas, burned on the night of the
18th. His three children persisted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
4 MINE near El Dorado. Gail. was LAST

week leased, and the mill was stopped
Tor cleanup. One of the plates being
found loose it was taken up when it was
discovered that more or less sediment
had found its way under the plate, and
closer investigation showed that a large
percentage of it was gold. This discov-
cry led to the taking up of all the
plates, and to the owners great sur
prise and pleasure, the under side gave
cleanup of $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
KecNrd of Tragedies.

company of soldiers mutinied at TampicO,
Mexico, on the 22d. Captain Burgoo was
killed and lieutenant aud several soldiers
wounded. Troops pursued the deserters and
captured about one-half of them, who will be
shot
negro was hanged by mob at Nelson,
Ca, on the 22d, for assaulting a white girl.
a Brooklyn negro named Alexander Jeffer-
son, in jealous fit on the 21st inst, shot
Henry Hicks dead and cut Mrs. Jackson's
throat from ear to ear, causing Immediate
death. The fiend also seriously shot his
brother Celestial, and slashed Annie Jackson
severely in the breast with razor. The muir
derer became enamoured with Annie Jackson.
and was lnsanely jealous of the attention paid
to her by his brother Celestial and the man
Hicks
At Morrison. H., on the night of the goth
inst, two brothers named Hays, were OBJ
served burglarzing a hardware store One
was shot and mortally wounded, and the other
captured.
Levi Naltseberger, aged G5, was fatally
stabbed in a bar brawl at Reading, Pa,
on the 2lst inst. Conrad Brettman did the
stabbing.
terrible and peculiar tragedy occurred at
Sandersvllb, Ga, on the night of the 18th.
Dave Wilbur attempted to play a practical joke
on his brother by frightening him. The latter,
in paroSym of fear, seized a gunIand shot
the joker dead.
Nine persons who recently escaped from jail
at PleasOntOn, Texas, are creating a reign of
terror in the neighbOrhood by shooting at citi-
zens and stealing horses. Two citiz. ms have
been killed thus far
Valentine Wagner farmer residing near
Mt. Giead, o., killed his brother-in-Iaw, Dan
lei Sheehan on the 18th.
At Waxahatchie, Texas, City Marshal Spaud-
ing, in attempting to arrest a negro, was shot
and killed. The negro fled, but was captured
in an clubhouse and riddIed with bullets.
News is received from Dallas, Texas, of the
lynchng OF two brothers, George W. and Jim
Fraley, the latter a mere hoy. Both were ar
rested in the Commanche country, charged with
stealing cotton. They were placed under
guard at Hazel Dell. At midnight a mob
AIMED with shot guns, overpowered the guards,
took the prisoners to the woods aud hanged
them on the same limb.
In Leadville dance-house early on the
morning OF the 18th, two men named Miller
and Cummings began firing at each other. the
latter and a spectator named Rearick, whose
home is at Victoria, ILL.,, receiving mortal
Gounds, Miller escaping without scratch.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
Suicide.

At Fort Apache, on the 18th, Lieutenant
Colonel George w. SchOfed. of the 9th
cavalry, killed himself with q revolver. from
dependency caused by i'll health. He en-
tered the volunteer army at st. Louis, at the
outbreak of the war, as a lieutenant of arti-
lery, and rose to the rank of brevet brigader
general. In 1866 he was commissioned major
of regulars. He is a brother of General John
NJ. Schofeld, now commanding the division of
the Pacific, and his father and sister reside in
Chicago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Fatal Explosions

On the afternoon Of the 18th inst. a boiler
exploded in the GLOBE Rolling Mill, at Cincin-
natl, O., killing two men and seriously injuring
several others.
A terrible explosion occurred at the Laffiin
& Rand Powder Works, Singack, N. j., on the
18th. which resulted fatally to three employees.
The buildings were completely destroyed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27

which it was evident That the farmers
were radically divided. A resolution
was passed calling on congress to legis-
late for the suppression Of pieuro pueu-
mOnia In cattle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27

SIX cats were found hanging in the
house OF a Philadelphia man who had
killed them to eat. Many good people
want to buy him rabbits, but ne insists
on eating only the game to which his
stomach is accustomed.