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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-17

RtcHMoSD, Va. February lG,--The house
of delegates to-day passed bill fx-
ing general election day which
occurs in November, for submitting TO
the people for ratification or rejection
the constitutional amendments abolish
ing the payment at the capitation
tax as n prerequisite to voting II is cur
rently reported that as soon as this bill can
be pushed through the senate an
effort will be made to adjourn
the legislature sine die This report
has the color of truth The readiusters
have passed their debt bin, and It is now
law, and they have done most of their
work. The recent detection from their
ranks of several senators, which has put a
deadlock on the election of an audi.
tor, and the incpasing dissatisfaction
of a number of members of the house has
caused much confusion among the readjus
ters, and IL is more than probable That they
will arrive at the conclusion that nothing
can now be done. They will, therefore ad
journ as the best meansoi quieting matters
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-17
Sanger BROTHERS!
Important Announcement

For Week Offer SPECIAL BARGAINS in HOUSE.
KEEPING DEPARTMENT.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-17

Better qualities ut 200, |
2 rs, 2 so, 300and upwards, |
all worth from SOC to / 90 |
apiece more than we
have them marked.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-17

A line of felt Table
Covers at 90, a great
bargain. Our lot of wool
printed and embroider-
cd covers at % and
l 80, reduced from for
mer prices.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-17

One lot large size, heavier and
superior quality OF towels at 400
per dozen, also excellent value.
A large variety Of fancy new
styles Just opened, in all qualities,
ranging from 60c to 10 apiece;
these are real goods.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-17

An extra heavy quality half
bleached German Table Linen at
40c, worth S. TO 60c,
Turkey Red Table Cloth at soc,
sold previously at 60c,.
One special lot Turkey Red Table
Cloth marked down from 30 TO 75c.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12

President Arthur brought the suspense con-
corning the fate of the Chinese immigration
bill to close on the 4th inst, by sending a
message to the senate vetoing the MEASURE.
The message is lengthy and thoroughly revises
the negotiations between the United States and
Chinese commissioners at the time the Bur-
lingame treaty was modified and also Analyses
the provisions of the treaty as it EXISTS at
present. The President states that he with
holds his signature from the bill, because, in
his opinion, suspension of immigration for SO
long a time as twenty years was not contem-
plated by the treaty commissioners and that
sdch restriction is a violation of the treaty Oh
legation which declares that suspension, if con-
sidered necessary, should be for reasonable
period. He also calls attention to the fact that
no provision is made in regard to the passage
through our country OF Chinese subjects going
to or returning from other countries. He
also improves the opportunity TO criticise
some other provisions, such as the registration
and passport system, which he considered
hostile to the spirit of republican institutions.
Reference istmade to the advantages derived on
the Pacific coast in former years from Chinese
immigration and the intimation is advanced that
the tendency of the bill in its present shape is
to injure our commercial interests.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
WATERFOWL, WIS.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

The supreme court of errors of Con-
necticut has decided that where person
contracts with another for chattel not
In existence, but to be made for him,
and pays the full price in advance or
from time to time, he acquires no title In
the chattel unless contrary intent is
expressed) until it is finished and de-
hvered. The case was based upon these
facts: The contractor failed when part of
the work in making special tools was
done; but those who ordered the tools
had paid the whole contract price, and
brought suit to recover from the as
signee. The judgment was against
those ordering the tools, on the ground
that no title ever became vested In
them, since inspection and acceptance af-
ter the work was done were needed to COM
plete the bargain. The purchasers had
the right to reject the tools after their
completion, for cause; and while the
money had gone into the contractors
pocket, the articles in question still be-
longed to the manufacturer. The de-
cision is fresh warning against paying
prematurely.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12

are consequently most sought after
which sparkle by gaslght. Large and
perfect stones are of fabulous value.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts has a fine
sapphire, considered worth $780, 900.
Sapphires and emeralds are rarely set
alone, but with smaller stones, COM
manly diamonds, which throw their
beauty into relief. Expert jewelers. are
not agreed as to whether the sapphire or
the emerald is the more valuable, but
the last, perhaps, maintains greater
popularity. Its value increases rapidly
with it's size. The wife of a railroad
king purchased a fine ten-carat emerald
a dozen years ago for 5000, which is
now worth probably $40, 900. It is worn
in ring as a solitaire and needs no foil
to enhance it's extraordinary beauty.
There said to be many rubies and emeralds
in this country worth from So, 900 to S.
900 or even more, which are in the pos
session of cOnnoisseurs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
Deer Caught with Lariats.
From the Modoc independent. I


S. S. Bailey, of South Ford, CAL, tells
us of an exciting deer chase that &C.
Cured on his ranch last Sunday. Mr..
Bailey, T. H. Mcbride and Charley Viii
Hams were in the barn saddling their
horses preparatory to taking ride. Mr..
Bailey's little daughter called out to
them that there was band of deer COM
ing out of the swamp They looked out
and saw seven deer coming across the
fields and making for the hills. The
three men were Immediately in the sad
die and started in pursuit. They sue
ceeded in cutting off two of the animals,
and lively chase ensued. The excite
ment seemed contagious and in few
minutes there were fifteen men in par
suit of the deer. Some of the South
Fork boys are very handy with the rope
and never ride without their riatas. In
less time than it takes to tell it, these
useful articles were brought into use and
the vaqueros had two fine deer tied to
the fence. They wereleft there until ali
who wished had good look at them,
when they were butchered and the meat
distributed among the captors.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
Minor Mishapss

Rev. Lorenzo Barber, while hunting near
Troy. N. Y. on the 9th inst, accidentally and
fatally shot himself.
An astonishing case of fatality in which
three sisters died within half An hour was re-
ported to the coroner at Philadelphia ON the
9th inst. Mrs. Watson, a widow, aged 81, was
discovered III her room in dying condition
Her sisters Mrs. Cynthia Winsmare and Mrs.
Elizabeth Smith were summoned to the bed
side. When Mrs. Watson breathed her last
Mrs. Winsmare fell to the floor unconscious and
died in ten minutes. Five minutes later the
third sister, Mrs. Smith was corpse.
crew of six men attempted to reach their
vessel off Victoria B. c., on the 9Th INST, and
were drowned by the capsizing of their boat
Three men and seven horses were drowned
near Tintah, in Northern Minnesota, on the Sd
inst, while trying to ford the Mustinka River
Two miners named King and Garter were
killed at the Parsons mine, Ishpeming, Mich,
on the 7th inst, by large fall of earth.
Near Waxahatchie, Texas, on the 9th inst,
while four children of J. Witherspoon were
playing near creek. three of them slipped
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
Rampant RreeXeS.

A furious cyclone, which started near Ray
mond, Rice County, Kansas, swept IN north
erly direction, demolishing everything in it's
path and causing the death of a number of
people. In Rice County the dwelling of Mr..
Wilson was dashed to pieces, and his wife and
a Mrs. Parker killed. When the storm reached
the new town Of Chase, the cloud assumed a
frightful aspect, being funnel-shaped and
whirling and twisting with frightful rapidity
Out of twenty-six buildings only four were
left standing, while scarcely an Inhab'ant es-
capped unhurt Several people were killed.
A severe hail storm visited the vicinity of
Kalamazoo, Mich, on the 7th inst. The dwell
ing of man named CrandaI was demolished
and Crandall, a child and guest named Mrs
Taylor, of Pontiac, were killed, and daughter
Of Crandalls severely injured. The storm
covered an area less than half q mile wide, but
leyelled everything in it's path. The IDIOT sis
ter of Horace Sherman, of Kalam0, was killed
and another sister had leg broken. Nj. Sher-
mans jaw was dislocated, and the whole fani-
ly, together with their horse was thrown fifty
rods and into a swamp. AT Kendall, on the
South Haven Railroad Mr.. Wildes house was
blown down, killing Wilde and inju1ng his
wife and a friend. A portion of Missouri suf-
fered like visitation and large amount of
damage was inflicted i'll the Des Moines valley
Iowa, by the wind. The pecuniary loss in the
storm stricken localities is very large.
stone house near Mcpherson, Kansas, was
blown down on the night of the 7th inst Mrs.
Wesley Bayard and her two children were
buried in the ruins and killed. The husband
labored alone in the darkness to extricate his
family and only went for aid when the cries CT
the unfOrtunates ceased.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12

Andrew Bismeller. ownes of the opera house
at Sandusky, o., died on the Sth inst,
Joseph B. Weaver, proprietor of the Everett
House, New York, is dead.
Thomas Allen representing St. Louis in con-
gress, died in Washington on the 9Th inst. He
built over one thousand miles of railway In the
southwest. and took the first locomotive across
the Mississippi. Some years ago he presented
a library building to his native town, Pittsfeld,
Mass His fortune is estimated at Sc 600, 900.
Dennis Florence Mccarthy, the poet, is dead.
Joseph Dowdal. past grand master and one
of the most prominent Odd Fellows in the
country, died at Columbus, o., on the 7th inst.
Gen. Jack Wharton, United States marshal,
died suddenly of apoplexy in Surveyor Pinch
beck's Office, New Orleans, on the 7th inst.
Frederick Drake, the celebrated German
sculptor, is dead.
Frederick William Kuecken, the German musi-
cal composer, is dead.
LIE Play, the celebrated engineer and scien-
tiic writer has joined the silent majority.
Mrs. Emily Bristow, mother Of ex-Secretary
of the Treasury Bristow, died at Elkton, KY,
on the Sd inst.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
Work of the Flames.

A loss of $40, 900 was incurred at Buffalo.
N. Y, by the burning of J. l.. Moore's ice
house.
Ten buildings at Hamilton, O., were wiped
out by fire on the 9th inst Loss $40. 000 On
the same day, at Pella, Marion County, Ia, five
stores were consumed. Loss $780, 900.
A fire at Streater, ILL.,, on the 7th inst. en-
tirely destroyed the window-elass factory. Loss
about $50, 900. Insured for $50, 900.
The court house at Yakima City, ". T.,
burned, on the 9Th inst. All the records were
consumed.
The Eastern Railroad depot at Salem, Mass.
with all the freight and baggage it contained at
Loss about 800. 900.
Cincinnati suffered the loss of st. Xavier's
Church by fire, Oh the 9Th inst.
large block at Attleboro, Mass, occupied
by eight jewelry manufacturing firms, burned
on the 4th inst. Loss $150.000. Two hundred
and fifty artisans are out of employment.
Three fine brick blocks were reduced to ashes
at Hearne, Texas, on the 4th inst. Loss
$4,000.
Hopkinton, Mass. suffered the loss of thir-
teen dwellings,, the Congregational Church. the
town hall hotel and Bridges & Co.'S. boot and
shoe factory. by fire on the 4th inst. Loss
heavy.
A fire broke out in Standard Oil Refinery No.
l at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 4th and consumed
the warehouse, settling house, IL, 500 barrels Of
distilled oil, 10 tanks, 10000 new barrels and a
barge loaded with empty barrels. The total
loss will not fall short of $125,000.
The Gladstone Mills, at Ashton-under-Ty
were reduced to ashes on the 4th inst. Loss
9100,0 600.
Tramps who sought refuge in barn at Otter
Lake, Mich, on the I'd inst, accidentally fred
the premises and caused quite confagraton.
Twenty buildings and 1900, 900 feet of lumber
were destroyed Loss $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
4 REVIVAL OF WHALING.

The whilom active but long defunct
and fast decaying whaling industry has
deveIopeda spark of promise which leads
a New Bedford paper to brightly picture
the future of the business. It says the
increase in the price of the sperm-oil
from 80 cents, which was the gallon price
in 1881, to 81. OF per gallon, th e prevail
ing price at the present time, has en-
couraged the whaling merchants in no
little degree. The prospects are that the
increased activity of trade which this adj
vance in price evidences will result in
the reintroduction in the whaling service
of vessels now lying at wharves and
which would have been otherwise been
sold for other uses. The home stock of
sperm-oil at the outset of this year was
about 16, 500 barrels, as against 27, 500
barrels last year, while in Europe it was
$500 barrels, as against $500 in 1881.
abroad 1000 barrels as compared with
the previous years stock at the same
period. The prospect is that the impor-
tation of sperm-on will be reduced to
5000 this year as compared with 1881,
when the importation reached 10000.
The total consumption of sperm-oil last
year was $4,000 barrels, $4,000 being
utilized here and 26. 900 abroad. Under
the circumstances there should therefore
be bare" market on January l of
next year, provided the consumption
reaches the figures of last year. There
was consumed in England in 1877, when
sperm oil was 81. Is per gallon, an amount
of sperm-oil equal to the consumption of
any year during the last five, when the
price was below that figure. From this
fact the journal quoted infers that the
price of the oil will not only not fall be-
low 81 per gallon daring the year, but
may even advance from SLOT to $1.25.
This promising condition of the traffic
will, in all probability, draw back to the
arctic feet of whaler vessels which were
withdrawn from the work when the
whaling was improbable.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
THINNING THEM OUT.

If reports are well grounded the
British government is at work upon a
new method of solving the Irish prob
lem, viz: that of shipping the impover-
ished and malcontent population of the
green isle to the broad acres of the west
ern hemisphere. Admitting it to be a
fact the New York Times says: Irish
men In this country have an opportunity
of doing something which will reflect
everlasting credit upon them. Nearly
all Irish immigrants have come from
rural districts. They have been born
upon farms and accustomed to work as
agricultural laborers. Hitherto these
men have been landed upon our shores
and have helped to increase the misery
of tenement-house life in cities and to
swell the catalogue of crime. lie there
was properly organized Irish Colonial
ton Society much of this evil could have
been prevented With millions of acres
of government lands to draw on for set
Element, it would at any time have been
comparatively easy matter to ship
thousands eff hearty young Irishmen and
women to new districts and give them
the means of tilling land which, after
a few years of hard work, might
become their own property. The hunger
for farms In Ireland has been the most
fruitful cause of trouble with landlords
and agents. The Irish come to America
with this feeling strong upon them, and
it seems a thousand pities that they
should be allowed to recruit the worst
classes of the community when it is SO
easy to put them in the way to become
valuable producing citizens of the re-
public. We can see what the Germans
can do in the way of building up the
northwestern states. They come with
money in their pockets, and do not wait
In New York long enough to fail prey
to the attractions of city life. Irishmen
are not so happily situated in money
matters, and having friends and &C
quaintances in big cities remain in them.
1t may be said that there are already a
considerable number of Irish benevolent
societies, but not one of them has risen
to the height of arranging to furnish
free transportation and homes for immi-
grants in purely agricultural districts.
IF the land league had undertaken a
work of this kind even in connection
with it's original purpose, it might have
secured the voluntary support of thou
sands of Americans who lave no interest
whatever in its crusade against Irish
landlords.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
PENNIES AT THE SOUTH.

In the long catalogue of southern
needs, says the Boston Advertiser, there
is one necessity, not often mentioned,
which the people of the states below
Mason and Dixon's line are at last slow
~ beginning to recognize. The intro
duction of pennies would not put an end
to disquiet and an unreconciled frame of
mind, but it is urged that the con-
venience of the smallest coin, which the
north takes for granted and is almost I'M
known at the south, would hasten the
era of good feeling. The citizens of
Georgia are exhorted by the Atlanta Con-
stitution to be pioneers in penny re-
form which shall sweep over the whole
south. Those familiar with that section
are aware that nothing in the form of
money below five cents is a circulating
medium among southerners. In buying
and selling there is certain lavishness
which wars against economy and thrift,
and all because there is no medium used
for narrowing the margin. For example:
In paying fares on the railroads the pas
senger has the advantage of the COM
pany in certain instances, for the corpor-
alton now loses the fraction below two
and half cents, although it gains the
fraction of nickel above the dividing
point. The suggestion is made that the
circulation of pennies would be brought
about by the railroad organizations
under the direction of the railroad com
mission, when they should charge ex-
actly three cents a mile. Between two
stations eight miles apart the fare would
be twenty-four cents, and the company
would be required then to return a
penny. In this way pennies would be car
ried not only to the towns but to all the
villages along the line. The people could
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12

not be depended upon for concerted action
in such matter, it is declared, and only
by the interposition of large organiza
tons, like the railroad companies, can
the benefit of q penny circulation be in
augurated. It is reported that many
people in influential quarters are OPP
posed to the introduction of the humble
coin which we find Indispensable. 1t
would seem as if long usage adverse to
a petty currency had come to be regard
ed as the equivalent of an important
principle. The period of recognition of
pennies may be deferred in the south,
but it is likely to be at hand when SOL
eron leading articles in widely circulated
papers are devoted to the question. The
coinage of one cent pieces in 1880 was
27,774, 100 At the Philadelphia mint
the only mint where minor coins are
struck-the demand for one cent coins In
that year exceeded the capacity of the
Office, SO far as concerns promptness IN
responding to orders. The multitude of
pieces issued in single year gives an
idea of the use the public makes of this
insignificant coin. The circulation of
pennies is so general at the north, and
the European nations have recognized
so clearly the adaptability for general
exchange purposes of the minor divi-
sions of two and one, that it is quite
curious to observe how the south has
kept aloof from handling the trifing and
yet most available conveniences for exact
bargains. If, as most of us think, the
south is to increase and prosper, the
more it is unlike its old self and resem-
bles the north in manufactures, in indus
trial policy and in the minor details
which prevent waste and contribute to
the wealth of a community. it is not be-
meath the dignity of the subject to init
mate that the relatively unimportant
matter of using the same money as the
north, in the lowest divisions of coin,
may be sign that the popularity and
reserve of old days are passing away,
and that even a penny is counted at the
south worth saving and worth earning.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
Serene Power.
REV. Edward Judson. !

One night, during the late war, the
army was encamped in front of the ene-
my, when there was seen a cleaning
light among the trees in front of the po-
sition. They thought it was the enemy's
camp fires and began firing with their
batteries upon the light. But soon the
moon rose up from behind the trees and
they had been directing their artillery
against the radiant queen of night And
SO upon Christianity, infdelity rains its
shot and shell, but it is like firing upon
the moon In her inaccessible splendor.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
Comparative Values of Gems.

Scientists speak lightly of colored
gems as alumina found in nature crys-
talized and colored with oxide of IRON,
and "valued at enormous sums" 1t
hardly raises the more precious in esteem
to know that the emerald, ruby, sapphire
and amethyst are almost the same chem
ically, or the emerald and aquamarine
only differ in color, the former being alb
solutely priceless, while the latter has
no determinate value. Pearls are sold
by the grain. All other precious stones
are sold by the carat, which weighs four
grains. Diamonds weighing less than a
carat are more valuable than rubles,
sapphires, or emeralds of the same
weight. But all the colored stones ex-
ceeding carat are more valuable than
diamonds, and the difference in value in
creases very rapidly with the increase OF
size. If a ruby is very perfect, and OF
rich, dark color, it commands an extrava-
CANT price. A fine, three-carat diamond
might be worth from 5000 to 81 900, ac-
cording to the quality, while perfect
tnree-carat ruby would find a purchaser
at from So, 0O0to SIS, 900. Rubies weigh
four carats have been sold IN eastern
cities for $4,000. Scientific writers
class sapphires and rubies simply as
sapphires. The red sapphire is ruby,
and the blue ruby is sapphire. The
present demand for rubies exceeds the
supply. It is not exactly known where
those came from that are now finding
their way into the market. but it is pre-
sumed that many are taken from old or
naments in family collections. Sapphires
are very rare and scarcely less valuable
than rubies. They make an exquisite ap-
pearance, properly arranged, and having
small diamonds as foils. They are apt
to show dull color at night and those
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12

A north-bound train on the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe road was robbedat water station
called Blum, in Texas at 10 O'Clock on the evening
of the 7th inst, Six masked men entered the
passenger coaches, two standing guard at either
end while another couple walked down the
aisles with FELLOWSHIP and robbed everybody.
The conductor was fired upon, but escaped in
jury. The amount secured is believed to have
been about $1,000. The officers of the road
sent out bloodhounds from Fort Worth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
a Md Case

At Boston, Mass, few days since, sharpers
got the venerable Charles Francis Adams,
whose mind is weakening from age, and fieeced
him out of $19,530. The matter was divulged
by the bank cashier who cashed the checks, and
the family are taking vigorous steps to recover
the money and prosecute the crooks.