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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
The Death of Robertson.
lFrom London Society,

One night poor Keats gave slight
cough and said, "That is blood from
my mouth. Bring me candle; let me
see this blood" Then, looking at it he
said, with the utmost calmness, 81 know
the color of that blood; it is arterial
blood. [ cannot be deceived in that
color; that drop is my death warrant. I
must die" An equally significant cir
cumstance befell Robertson. A mem-
Der of his congregation, chemist, asked
MIN to look at his galvanjc apparatus.
He took the ends Of the wire, completed
the circuit, experienced the tingling. He
then held the wire to the back of the
head and neck without single sensation
being ELECTED. He then touched the
forehead for a second, Instantly a
crashing pain shot through as if my
skull was stove in and and bolt of fire
were burning through and through"
In the same letter he writes: "My work
is done" Some hope might have been
entertained if he could havehad a curate
to help him with his work. But the then
Vicar of Brighton, rather an unsympa-
thetic man, refused to let him have the
curate on whom his heart was set. So
he sank, unrelieved into death. The
dark secrets of the hospital of torture
hardly reveal greater suffering than that
Robertson endured in those last hours.
When they sought to change his posi-
ton he said: 81 can not bear it; let me
rest. must die. Let God do His
work These were his last words.
He was only 81 years of age when he
died; an age when he had not reached
the climacteric of his powers, or the full
development of his character and views
He was in the eager progressive stage of
intellectual life in which some of his
opinions had, perhaps, hardly crystal
lied into definite forms, and from which
ampler fruit might have been expected.
The work which he has actually achieved
is very great. His works consist of
some eight volumes of sermons, exposi-
tions and lectures; or, if we add, as we
fairly may, bis correspondence, of some
nine or ten volumes. 1t is as interesting
circumstance that, after his death, an in
habitant of Brighton, who had stood
aloof from his teaching during his life
time, read his sermons and was so struck
with the beauty of his teachings, that in
gratitude he placed a marble bust of the
great preacher in the Papillion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.

To those who have at all listened to
the communistic arguments Of impe-
cunious extremists regarding an equal
distribution of the worlds wealth and
division of the immense fortunes in the
Golfers of alleged monopolists, the de-
auctions of MI. Mulhall, well-known
English statistician relative to the dis
tribution of wealth, VIII be of interest,
Comparing 1910 with 1877, the probate
returns of the United Kingdom showed
that, dividing all classes into rich, mid
dle-class, and working class, in 1910, In
England, of the first there were, 2.40
per cent, of the second, 21.2O, of the
last, 7640. In 1877 it was represented
by $40, 29.4O, and $500 per cent. In
1910 England had an aggregate wealth
of Sc per cent as her shares of the means
of the whole United Kingdom, but in
1877 Scotland and Ireland showed IN
creased means, and that of ENGLAND fell
some 3 per cent. If in 1910 the amounts
of property on which probate of sue
cession duties were paid represented a
total value of means equivalent to 954,
10000, this was about e. Is. average
per inhabitant. In 1877 it was e131,
100000, or 5e3 los. per person in the
United Kingdom. It is in Scotland that
there is more wealth IL proportion to
persons than perhaps any other country
in the world. During the thirty-seven
years from 1910 to 1877 her wealth has
increased from e1e6, 100000 to $780,
100000, or to-day she has e277 to every
inhabitant. "Forty years ago, writes
Mr.. Mulhall, Scotland swarmed with
beggars to such degree that the sher-
ifs declared the state of the country
was most alarming, and the farmers were
SO poor that they bled their cattle and
cooked the blood as food" What has
been the condition of Ireland? Her
wealth, too, has increased. In 1910 il
YVES e308, 600, 900, or e112, 900, 900 more
than Scotland. To-day it is CABS, 000,-
900, or 983 per head. Wherever the
middle class is the most comfortable the
country is the most prosperous. This is
three times as numerous In France as In
Germany, and lowest in Russia. II
fact Russia is country of princes and
peasants-and the frst-some "a, 746-
have an average income of $19, 900; the
merchants, some $4,000, $1,000, while
the 1924, 100 peasants have an income
of S185 each. These figures show that
the people of the old world are improv
ing In condition in ratio co-equal witt
the advance of intelligence and the cul
tivation of economical habits, and thai
the worlds wealth Will always flow to
wards those who exhibit intelligence
and energy 10 LIES management coupled
with rational degree of accretiveness
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
NEinAr NYiShHnS.

AS the New Orleans fire department were
completing their annual parade, on the 4th
inst, they were called into active duty by fire
alarm. Three firemen were killed and four
wounded by falling walls before the fire was
subdued.
Three whisky-fuddled men attempted to cross
the river at Fort Madison, Ia., on the 4th inst,
when their craft capsized, drowning two,
named Shaw and Mccarthy. The third,
O. moulder, named Kuntz, was rescued.
Henry Carlson and Peter Johnson were killed
outright and Thomas Williams and Collins
Magnus injured by q fall of earth in the
Lothian Mine, Ishpen1ing, Mich, on the 18th
inst Magnus injuries proved fatal.
On the Sd inst. as Stones Station, near Win
chester, Ind, a boiler explosion killed four men
and njured three. One of the wounded men
is considered fatally hurt.
Joseph Watson and Thomas Hoffman were
killed at the Eckert ore mine, at Reading, Pa,
on the 9th ult., by falling earth after an ex-
DlOsiOn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08

in thawing the frozen part. It should
be immersed in cool water or covered
with cloths kept cool by frequent wet
ting with cold water, until the natural
feeling is restored. Felons may often be
cured, especially when they first begin,
by freezing two Or three times. Lum-
bago and sciatica, as we'll as other forms
of neuralgia, are sometimes almost in
stantly removed by freezing of the skin
Immediately above the painful part.
We have cured some of the most obsti-
nate cases of sciatia by this means, after
other remedies had failed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
SANITARY NOTES.
From DIR. Foote'S Health Monthly

From DIR. Foote'S Health Monthy.1
NEVER lean the back upon anything
that is cold.
NEVER begin journey until breakfast
has been eaten.
KEEP the back, especially between the
shoulder blades, well covered; also the
chest well protected.
MILK which is slightly acid, and but
term1lk, produce in some individuals
hypnoti Sleepy effect.
The weight of the heart is from eight
to twelve ounces. It beats one hundred
thousand times in twenty -four hours.
ONE ounce of salycilic acid is sufficient
to preserve barrel of cider, that is, to
keep it from fermenting and becoming
sour.
A SMALL cup of warm milk containing
teaspoonful of lime-water may be given
frequently in cases of "bowel COM
plant"
The percentage of recoveries from
habitual drunkenness Gnebriety or Dip
somania) is one-thi1d under competent
medical care.
NEVER omit regular bathing; for I'M
less the skin is In an active condition the
cold will close the pores and favor con-
gestion and other diseases.
OF one hundred infants sucked by
their mothers eighteen die during the
first year, while of the same number
sucked BY wet nurses thirty died.
WHEN hoarse, speak as little as posi-
bic until it is recovered from, else the
voice may be permanently lost, or diff
017l t1nc IF 4hn 4hrao4 ho
AN Industrious German collector of
statistics has found that while the aver
age life among the "weil-to- do" is fifty
years, among the poor it is only thirty
two,
WHEN going from warm atmosphere
to colder one, keep the mouth closed,
SO that the air may be warmed by it's
passage through the nose, ere it reaches
the lungs.
MERELY warm the back by the fire,
and never continue keeping the back ex-
posed to the heat after it has become
comfortably warm. To do otherwise is
facilitating.
NEVER stand still in cold weather, es-
pecially after having taken slight de-
gree of exercise; and always avoid stand
ing upon the ice or snow, Or where the
person is exposed to cold wind
DIR. ANDREW CLARK, of London, says
Of alcoholic beverages that in perfect
state of health there is absolutely no
benefit to be derived from their use, and
that as he goes through the wards of his
hospital he concludes that seven of every
ten cases owe their Ill health to moderate
drinking.
FooD is an agent of tremendous power.
Feed mankind with the same science
that birds, kline and horses are fed-to-
wit, on their natural food-and then we
may look for the healthy results OBJ
tanned with these animals. Dairymen
know how to feed for health and milk.
Hostlers know how to feed their horses,
and ladies their canaries. They all seek
to give the normal, natural food of the
animal under their care. Now if man
would treat his own race as he does his
animals, we think human nervous sys-
TENS would not show such signs of weak
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
Vrsiu Robbers Captured.

A lively skirmish between train robbers and
officers occurred at Ashtabula, o., on the night
of the I'd inst. The conductor of a freight
train on the Lake Shore Road discovered two
men in car. He locked them in and tele
graphed ahead to Asbtabula for officers to be
Cd hand when the train should arrive. The
robbers, when the attempt to arrest them was
made, drew their revolvers and thirty shots
we're exchanged. One robber escaped, but was
captured on another train as it passed through
Ashtabula, his efforts to find a surgeon to dress
his wounds having disclosed his whereabouts.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08

sence of the ex-presidents and vice-presidents.
who had special invitations, was noticeable, and
especially that of Mr. Hayes, the predecessor
and feIow-citizen of Garfield. No member of
fine late Presidents family was present. The
eulogy was concluded at 1:50 P. NJ, having
taken Just all hour and half in its delivery.
AS Mr.. Blaine uttered the last solemn words
the spectators broke into storm of applause,
which was not hushed for some minutes. The
benediction was then offered by Rev. DR.. Bull
lock. The Marine Band played the " Garfield
March as the invited guests filed out of the
chamber in the same order in which they en-
tered.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08

The governor of Missouri telegraphed the
secretary of war to increase the rations ordered
for the flood sufferers. Secretary Lincoln re-
piled that eight days supplies had already gone
forward to the inundated portion of Missouri,
and that the Arkansas commissioners ask 49,
900 rations for forty days, which will exceed
the appropriation. Eight army officers will be
detailed to investigate the needs of the people,
and it is thought that $500, 600 viii be required
with seed corn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08

York terminated on the night of the 4th inst.
with Hazael the winner. Rowell, the celebrated
English walkist retired on the LIST in demon
allied condition. Hszael made 600 miles and
one lap followed by Fitzgerald. EST miles, More
mac, 555 miles, Hart, 542 miles, Hughes, 535
miles, and Sullivan 525 miles,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08

Jacob A. Crossland, for thirty years prom
inent wholesale merchant at Indianapolis, died
on the 4th inst.
Hessie Helfmann. the Nihilst, who received
a respite from execution for the murder of the
czar, died in childbirth at st. Petersburg.
The widow of Daniel Webster died at New
Rochelle, n. Y. on the 9th.
Zelotus Truesdell prominent Michigan
educator, died at Ann Arbor, On the Goth, aged
So years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
Queen victorfn's Escape

A decided sensation was created at Windsor,
England, on the Cd inst, when an attempt was
made to shoot Queen Victoria as she WAS enter
ing her carriage at the railway station. The
would-be assassin. who proved to be grocer's
clerk, named Mclean, was Immediately seized,
and, with difficulty, taken to Jail, owing to the
excited state of the populace. The queen es-
capped unframed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08

The town of Valley Mills, Texas, was almost
devastated by cyclone on the night
Of the 28th ult. Only one business house was
left standing. Brinkhams Hotel, a two-story
frame structure, with ten inmates, was carried
some distance and dashed to pieces. All were
injured. There was no loss of life, though the
pecuniary loss was heavy.
hurricane at Pine Bluff, Ark, on the I'd
inst, destroyed several houses and killed an old
lady named Waldron.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
Suicidal.

Alice Wright, the soubrette of a theatrical
troupe, having become demented by typhoid
fever, leaped from fourth-story window of
hotel, in Cleveland, on the 4th inst, and was
instantly killed.
Edison L. Fuller, incarcerated in the state
prison at Windsor, Vt, for murder committed
at Reidsboro, committed suicide on the I'd
inst.
August Ash, United States marshal at Vir-
ginia City, New, suicided ON the 28th ult.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
brow nGds

During a gale at sea five men were swept
overheard from the bark Mary Lawton, bound
from Liverpool for Baltimore.
African adylces are to the effect that o ferry
boat while crossing the Lagoon of Lagoo, cap
sized, and out of sixty passengers, forty seven
lost their lives.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08

NATIVE Egyptians, whenever they save
any money at all, are fond of burying it
in the earth. Last August the Egyptian
branch of the Imperial Ottoman Bank
attempted to found savings bank sys-
tenn, and started it by opening small
banks in Cairo and Alexandria. It has
just published report of the results of
the undertaking, from which it appears
the. the Alexandria bank has obtained
Sc depositors and $4,000 in money, and
the bank at Cairo 70 depositors with de-
posts of 81, 1000. Recently there was
a large increase of business, and hope is
strengthened that the plan will succeed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
EsHRyVBp to Atoms

While unloading nitro glycerine at maya
zine near Bolivar, Pa, on the night of the 23th
ult., John Grant and VIM. circuit were blown
to atoms. The whole front of the magazine,
containing 100 pounds of nitro-Glycerine, was
torn off, but, strange as it may appear, the
compound did not explode.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
PitcherY-RridQerY.

GFrom the London Daily Telegraph
According to our Viennese contempor-
airy, the Apotheker Zeitung, consider
able sensation has been produced in
Austrian medical circles by the recent
appearance in the drug market of new
narcotic, hailing from Queensland and
at present only known to the trade by
it's quaint native name of "pitchery
bidgery." It is a flower of plant be-
longing to the solanacea order and indi-
genous to Northern Australasia sort of
stunted shrub, from three to four inches
In height when full grown, and bearing
blossoms of waxy texture, white in
color and hecked with pink spots. These
flowers are picked IN the month of
August, dried, packed tightly IN canvas
bags, and then subjected to high de-
gree of pressure, which imparts to them
the consistence Of cake tobacco. By
chewing a small plug of this substance
relief is speedily obtained from bodily
fatigue, hunger and thirst. A larger
dose of pitchery-b idgery" produces
absolute insensibility to pain, but does
not SUBJECT the patient to any of the in
conveniences resulting from treatment
by ordinary an@sthetics. In common
with the narcotics hitherto familiar to
the faculty. pitchery- bidgery, admins
tered in minute doses, acts as stimu-
lant-in larger quantities as powerful
| sedative. But it is stated to possess the
peculiar property of enabling those who
take it habitually to withstand fatigue,
and undergo great physical exertion
upon a low diet. Like the famous hash
ish of Monte Cristo it is said to be an
effective and agreeable substitute for
food and drink. Considering tbepresent
cost of good butchers meat and whole
some fermented liquor, it is probable
that the general public will await the
further developments of "pitchery-
bidgery with eager and hopeful anxiety.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
The Public Debt.

The official statement of the public debt
made on the 1st inst, shows a decrease during
February of SO, 1888, 81, and decrease since
June 80, 1881, of $97, 869,442. Total debt,
81, 983, $50, 1893. Debt less cash in treasury,
81, 742, 729, 500.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08

IT is told of Rochester man who had
become disciple of Oscar Wilde that he
whitewashes his wood before he puts it
in the fre-Nea0 York Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08

Col Brim, of the British Royal Engineers, at
tempted to cross the channel i'll balloon, with
man named Simmons, but they fell into the
sea at Dover and persisted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
ShiDwreCks

The loss of four Gloucester, Mass, fishing
schooners makes % widows and 81 orphans.
A London dispatch announces the loss OF
collier. off Yarmouth, with % lives.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Crushed to Eseaths
AL fNr Science.

Forty miners were engulphed by the cavint
in of a mine at Templitz, Austria.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-08

THE coronation of the czar will cost
13, 900, 900 roubles. The main expense
will be for extra policemen.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-01-06
~ CLOSING. SALE OF ALL KINDS

Ia CLOSING SALE OF ALL MINIS
OF WINTER DRESS GOODS, SILKS. sATlNs'
vELvETs, and FANCY GOODS for TRIM
MINGs;
CARPETS, RUGS, DRUGGETs, and BLANK
ETS
SHETLAND WOOL SHAWJS at s5c. would be
cheap at $3.50;
See the bargains in our LARGE-sIZE DRUG
GETS;
See the bargains I'm TABLE DAMAsK, NAP
KINs, TOWELS, and DOILIES;
JEWELRY In great variety at prices TO suit every
body;
LACE BED-SETS, PILLOW-SHAMS. and
SPREADS to match;
MARSEILLES QUILTS at sl.75 worth $3.50, at
$3.50 worth 81, at "a worth 81
DOUBLE MARsEILLEs QUILTS, extra large
size and fine quality, at SO;
FLANNELS of every description at the lowest
prices;
CANTON FLANNELS In all cOlors and qualities
LADIES' UNDERWEAR-Special bargains In
this line. 1t Will pay you TO examine this stock.
CHARLOTTESVILLE CASSIMEREs-The best
goods manufactured; colors and quality cannot
be surpassed;
CLOAKs, ULsTERS, DOLMANS, and CIR
CULARs at prices that will make them 20 of
fast. See our stock before purchasing else
where.
RIBBONs-A large lot Of the cheapest ever brought
TO this city;
LINEN COLLARS and CUFFS for ladies and gen.
temen-the best assortment yet offered;
Thousands of dollars worth of goods 70 be closed
out this month. as we wish 10 reduce our stock
before taking inventory on the lst of February.
ia3 LEVY BROTHERS.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-01-06
Republicans in Disguise.

The Washington Republican Is Stall
wart Republican paper. 1t Is edited by
GEORGE C. GoRHAM. 1t is notorious for
its abuse OF the Democratic party, and
especially southern Democrats. 1t Is a
GRANT organ. 1t was third-term organ.
1t belongs to that wing OF the Republican
party 10 which belong CONKLING, LOGAN,
CAMERON, and the other bitter enemies OF
the South. 1t OF course has nothing to do
with the reimbursement OF Nirginia's debt.
It's editor is the Republican nominee for
Secretary Of the United States Senate. Its
business Is to aid In the success OF the Re-
publican party.
Well. this stalwart Republican sheet
came out yesterday with recommends
tory certificate signed by JOHN PAUL, Jo-
sEpu JoRGEYsEN, and JOHN +. DEzENDoRF,
and by other Republicans; and special
certificate signed by General MALONE. The
letter is rs follows:
PETERSBURG, VA, January 4. 1882.
Dear Mr.. KiIbourn:
Ii gives me pleasure to commend the
National Reputlicdn-so well and ably ed
ited-to the earnest friendship Of those
who would uphold the Constitution and
the laws, discourage sectional lines and
class legislation, foster public education,
4 and respect the rights and care for the pro-
per interests OF all the people OF common
country. Yours truly,
WILLIAM MALONE.
Where was Mr.. FULKERs0ss That Gen.
eral MALONE and Mr.. PAUL have fully made
up their minds to act with the Republicans
hereafter, there seems to be no longer any
reason TO doubt. We do not at all regret
their departure. II they would only avow
themselves Republicans, that confession
would clear up the political muddle In Vir-
ginia. The certificates alluded to ought to
be sufficient TO satisfy every Democrat that
PAUL and MALONE are nothing but Repub-
licans In the disguise Of "Resdiusters."
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-01-06
Oscar Wilde and the Baltimore
ESthetes.

The announcement OF Oscar Wilde's ar
rival in this country, and his probable visit
to this city after he had "done" New
York, created quite sensation among the
aesthetics OF this city yesterday, and il may
as well be said that Baltimore claims TO be
ms aesthetic as any city in the country, leav-
ing out Boston OF course. The utterly
utter young men rushed to their tailors
and ordered bottle-green oyercoats and az
fected languid style of walk. The con-
yersation grew transcendental and "too-
too" Quite a number OF the young men
also allowed the lower jaw TO hang low,
for it was reported that the divine Oscar
hung his that way. The young ladies
besieged the librarians desk at the
Mercantile Library for Wilde's book OF
poems, and the booksellers also report large
sales. There were many calls at the Mount
Vernon Hotel to know II Oscar had ar
rived. Mr.. James Barton Key, OF the
Comly-Barton Opera Company, left for
New York yesterday for the purpose OF
seeing Oscar Wilde and bringing him on
here either to-day or tomorrow. The man
ayers OF the Patience Company last night
had not heard whether Mr.. Barton had
been successful or not In his mission.
Manager Samuel W. Fort, OF the Academy,
arrived home last night from New York,
and said he had made arrangements for
Mr.. Wilde's appearance In this city In
March. Mr.. Wilde Is under the manage
ment OF Mr.. D'0yly Carte, and will surely
visit this city .-Baitimore American.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-01-06
Departurc OF the French Guests.

General Boulanger, Colonel Bossan, Com
modore BureauX De Pussy, st. de Sahune,
Lieutenant de Abboyille, and Lieutenant
de Noailles, members OF the French delega-
ton to the Yorktown celebration, sailed for
France yesterday on the French line steam,
shin Canada. The French Consul, General
NJ. de Pierre, A. d'Onyille, and several
members Of the Chamber of Commerce,
were at the pier to extend their best wishes
to the departing guests. General Boulan-
ger. in behalf Of his associates, expressed
his gratitude to the citizens OF this country
for their cordial reception OF the French
guests. and for the efforts made to entertain
them here. He said, also, that one OF the
most pleasant memories OF the visit was the
banquet given in honor OF the foreign
guests by the Chamber of Commerce. Each
delegate was presented with handsome
bound volume containing the speeches
made, and an account OF the other proceed
ings, together with n list of those present
at the dinner, which was compiled by
George Wilson, secretary OF the Chamber
OF Commerce Nelc York Tribune, 5h.