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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02

or within six years from the time such claim
or account acCruedl; to make bills of Iading
negotiable. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, July 25.-The speaker announced
the regular order of business to be the further
consideration of the bill allowing drawbacks
upon imported materials used in connection
with domestic materials IN the construction of
vessels for foreign account end the pending
question to be the motion of Kelly TO TeCOmmit
the Dill TO The committee on ways and means.
Agreed to-yeas 100, nays 10. .Washburn
(MInn.) offered a resolution which was referred
directing the secretary Of the navy to convene
court OF inquiry to investigate the cirCum-
stances of the loss in the Arctic seas of the
United States exploring steamer Jeanette. and
of the death of Lieut-Com. belong and
others Of her officers and men, including an
inquiry into the condition of the vessel on her
departure, into her management, into the pro-
visions made for the safety Of the boats crews
On leaving the wreck and into the general con-
duct of her officers and men. Page (Cal.)
presented and explained the conference report
on the river and harbor appropriation bill. The
house refused to agree to the repOrt-yeas 80,
nays 81. Strait (MiLn.) moved to reconsider
Cox On. " moved to lay the motion on the
table, pending which the friends of the bill. 80
it now stands. mustered their forces and car
ried adjournment.
WEDNESDAY, July 26.-Page called up the
con terence report on the river and harbor bill,
and the House voted to reconsider the vote
of disagreement to the report. The report
was then agreed to-yeas III, nays 81. Pound
(Wls.). from the committee on public lands,
called up the bill providing that in all suits.
civil or criminal for any trespass on public
lands, or for any conversion of timber or ma
teTial taken therefrom, the actual expense of
survey, settlement or estimate necessarily in
CURED IN ascertaining the extent of trespassing.
shall be included in costs of suit It was passed.
Adjourned.
THURSDAY, July 27.-Deer1ng called up the
senate bill granting the right of way for rail
road and Geographic purposes to a certain rail
way company through lands owned by the
ChOctaw and Chickasaw nations. After debate
the bill was passed. j.. Williams offered an
amendment to the sUnlry civil bill, directing
the attorney general to ascertain what would
be just and reasonable compensation for the
services rendered by Charles II. Reed IN the
defense Of Charles J. Guiteau, and to make
allowance therefor not exceeding $4,000. Re
ferred. Adjourned.
FRIDAY July 28.-The senate bill passed es-
tablishing ports of delivery at Kansas City and
st. Joseph, Mo. The house then adjourned
ill Monday.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
EnfaTthfFel Servants.

The fact has developed that Geo. L.
Doughty, late secretary Of the Cincinnati. Ne
Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company,
over-issued stock to the amount of $400, DOC
He invested the proceeds Of his crookedness in
stock Of another corporation, which collateral is
now in the hands Of the executors OF the de-
ceased secretary's estate. This stock, together
with $4,000 due from Doughty's bondsmen
will nearly indemnify the c., n. o. & I. P.
Company.
John G.. Croft, cashier Of the Exchange bank
at Franklin, Pa, has wasted in oil speculations
a sum estimated at from $4,000 to 100000.
Dolonel 0. T. Lockhead, who has spent two
years in the Detroit house of correction for
embezzling $4,000 from a national bank at
Flint, Mich, has been pardoned by President
Arthur. Lockhead viii return to his home and
accept a position of trust, which awaits him.
Robert F. Richards, clerk i'll local treasurer
office of the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Rail-
way, at Chicago, is an absconder, leaving de-
felt of $50, 600 in his accounts.
John Roper, an employee of Allen & Co.'S
jewelry house, Chicago, embezzled his en-
ployers' funds to the extent of So, 900.
Gardner D. Child, general manager of the
South Brooklyn hydraulic works, has disap.
peared, with $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
Tit for Tat.

[From the Youths Companion.I
1t is pleasant when o rude person has
said an ill-natured thing to see him put
down by the intended victim of his I'M
mannerIy tongue. Said p0mpous man
of money to Professor Agassiz: 81 once
took some interest IN natural science;
but became a banker, and am what l
am"
"Ahw replied Agassiz, "my father
procured place for me in bank; but
[ begged for one more year Of study,
then for a second, then for a third.
That fixed my fate, sir. If it had not
been for that little firmness of mine, [
should now have been myself nothing
but banker"
The money dealer must have felt as
small as the American Judge, who, find
ing his enforced bed-fellow by no means
overwhelmed by the company of per-
son OF his dignity, observed: "Pat,
you would have remained long time in
the old country before you could say
you had slept with a judge"
FTrue for you" said Pat; "and yer
Honor would have been long time in
the ould country, I'm thinking, before
Ye'd been a iudgep'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
TOLEDO.
sT LOUIS
What a Dandy Did.
From the Humane Appeal.

From the Humane Appeal
In a crowded city street an ill-natured
mashf seized little dog by the throat
and threatened to strangle him. A
crowd soon gathered, full of sympathy
for the little sufferer and Of anger against
the mastiff. Words and blows we're
freely used to compel him to let go his
hold and stones and clubs were brought
as additional arguments. But the ugly
brute held on the more tenaciously and
the case of the little dog seemed hope
less.
When everybody was at his wits ends,
a dandy, exuisitely dressed, happened
along Looking with sort of contempt
on the mongrel crowd, he said in con-
sequential tone, "Leave him to me"
The laugh was general at his expense.
But with admirable GOODNESS. drawing
from his pocket golden snuff-box, he
held two or three pinches of snuff under
the nose of the mastif. While the
mouth was closed, the mastif could
breathe only through the nostrils. Ia
moment the snuff did its work. The
brute began sneezing vigorously;
dropped the little dog, and, half fright
ened, took to his heels. The dandy
looked around complacently OF the crowd
and went on his way.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
THE TIMBER QUESTION.

The timber supply of the country is
far from exhausted, and the census show
how much marketable timber there was
left on May 81, 1880. Even i'll the
three northern states of New England
something is left and something new
growing. According to the Forestry
Bulletin, Nos, Is and 16, just issued,
Maine had 5000 million feet of spruce,
board measure. left, while Vermont had
755 million feet, and New Hampshire
l,510 million feet, making for the three
states total of 1906 million feet, while
the cut for the year ended May 81, 1880,
amounted to $50, 281, 900 feet. OF the
original white pine, Maine has but 475
million feet left, while Vermont and New
Hampshire are denuded, and all three
states Try to depend on second growth.
But all these states have denuded large
portions entirely and devote them to
agriculture, and only Maine has any
virgin forest-a small district at the
headwaters of the AllequaSh River, Yet
even to-day the northern half of New
England might give JOY to the forester.
The forest resources Of the south and ex-
IRENE west have hardly been touched,
and those of the south are practically
inexhaustible. The cry of the middle
states for more forests. then, is not the
cry OF the country, but of particular sec
tions, all Of which would produce less
were they placed in charge of modern
foresters. Indeed, the problem resenl-
bles that of our farmers. Our farmers
have exhausted much soil, as our tim.
bermen have destroyed many vast for
ests. Yet, as the case stands, it is far
from desperate, and it will be in high
" satisfactory condition if the older
states will follow Massachusetts in the
proper care of planting and preserving
forests wherever they are needed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02

! ments and tombstones, aud intended
This view of the law was lately followed
in New York by United States District
Judge Brown, who ruled IN Yuenghngs
case that a chrome distributed among
beer saloons as an advertisement of a
brewers business may be the subject of
copyright, though for special reasons he
held that the pl intiff had no exclusive
rights In the chrome in controversy.
The case before the court of appeal in
England related to pamphlet or cata-
logue containing designs of furniture
and upholstery. 1t had been prepared
by one dealer for use in his business and
was reprinted by another dealer for a
similar purpose. The copyright was
upheld and the piracy enjoined. The
court holds that the question of copy
right is to be determined, not by the use
to which publication is put, but by the
intrinsic merits of the production.
This, says the New York Herald, is
sound and sensible conclusion.
If q production has sufficient lit
erary or artistic merit it is entitled to
copyright; and it matters not whether
the owner chooses to use it for advertis-
ing or other purposes. It is his proper
ty and he has q right to use it in the way
he finds most profitable. Of course it
does not follow that this rule applies to
every insignificant or worthless pubhca-
ton that may be used for advertising
purposes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
A Sport-Lovinu Bishop,

The late Bishop Scott was strongly at
tached to outdoor sports. In early
youth he was forced by poverty to fish
for a living, and to the latest years of
his long life he retained a fondness,
which he frequently INDUCED, for the
hook and line and net. He was expert
at the tiller and at the oars, and was also
a crack shot with fowling piece or rife.
After he had risen to the highest honors
Of the church, he often took delight In
roaming through the fields and woods,
and sailing on the streams or bay, ac-
companied by his grandsons and other
boys of the neighborhood, who found
him genial comrade and an apt instruc-
tor in the sportman's arts.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
Work of the Flames

A fire in New Orleans on the 3Oth DESTROYED
$3.50, 900 worth of property.
Michaels machine shop and the Granite
Mills adjoining were swept away by fire at
Rochester, n. Y, on the Goth. Loss S38, 900.
fire at Hillsboro, Ark, DESTROYED sixteen
places of business, causing q loss of $780, 900 OF
more.
Destructive forest fires are raging in South
ern New Jersey. Twenty miles of pine and
cedar woods were burning on the 9th. and
$4,000 worth of timber has been consumed.
FennimOre u McKinley's flo ur mill at Palm
erston, O., burned on the 28th. Loss 800
900.
Colorado City, Texas, suffered to the extent
of $685. 900 by fire on the 28th.
Techby's boot and shoe factory at HalIstOn
Mass, was reduced to ruins on the 28th. Loss
$50. 000
Owen Co.'s dry goods store, saddlery es-
Enlistment, hardware store two saloons and
Humphreys livery stable are swept away bv
fire at Stockton, Mo, on the 28th. Loss
heavy.
The steam mill of Skidmore & Thatcher, at
Walbridge, O., valued at $35, 900, was DESTROYED
by fire on the 9th.
A fire at Walbmdge, O., on the goth, con-
sumed the station house of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, stove factory and several cars.
Loss 1886, 900.
Six business houses at Exeter, Eng. were
swept away by fire on the 9th. Loss Csc. Goo
are doing immense damage. Farmers are driv-
ing their stock to the lake shore and sending
their families to places of safety.
number of dwellings, at Springwells, sub
urb OF Detroit, Mich, were swept away by fire
on the Goth inst.
Waukesha, Wisconsin's famous summer re-
sort, was visited by serious coniagratOn on
the 24th inst, which at one time threatened
to destroy the business portion of the village.
The Methodist church, fine structure, and the
Mansion House stables were destroyed. The
Mansion House was on fire several times and
was deserted by the guests. Total loss about
1927, 900.
Fifty business houses, including five hotels,
burned, at Fresno, Col, on the oath. Loss
about 5000, OOO
Rodivillov' Russia. was the scene of a disas-
ferrous fire onthe Oath. Three hundred houses
and several large warehouses were destroyed.
Three thousand people were rendered homeless.
fire at Grand Rapids, Mich, on the 24th
swept away six million feet of lumber and six
dwellings,. Loss estimated at 100000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
DAMAGE BY FIRE.

The damage to property by fires was
exceptionally great in this country dur
ing the past six months, says the n. Y.
Times. During the past five years,
indeed, there has not been q period OF
similar length, with one single exception,
in which the fire wastage attained the
extent recorded during the recent period.
The fires causing damage Of over $10,-
600, IS figured 10y the Commercial Bull
letln, numbered IN January 40, 123 in
February, 164 IN March, 141 in April,
159 in May, and 1873 in June. Includ-
ing al the fires, both large and small,
the money loss inflicted was $40, 500, 900
in January. S7.200,O0O in February,
So, 900, 900 III March, the same amount
was lost in April, $1,000, 900 IN May,
and $7,500,0QQ IN June. This makes a
totsl destruction Of property for the six
months aggregating $40, 100000, and
there is reason TO believe that the loss
for the year viii not fall short of the ag-
gregate Of 800, 100000, which, as the
journal quoted remarks, has come to be
the usual estimate of annual fire loss.
1t is a striking fact, that of the above
nearly $50, 900, 900 Of loss more than half
was caused by 205 only out Of
the many thousands of fires of which
were reported during the six months.
1t is also commented upon as significant
that the number of small fires, which
are attributable largely to caselessness,
were unusually numerous. The aggre-
gated fire losses for corresponding
periods during the last five years were
S39, 648, 100 for 1881, $40, 626, 800 for
1880, $50, $40, 800 for 1879, $34,793, 900
for 1873, S59, 54S, 600 for 1877. The
latter amount includes $50, 600, 900 con-
sumed in the great fire at St. John. It
viii be seen S@Dn the above that in one
of these years only-1879-was the loss
Of the last six months exceeded. Moved
by the lesson Of these statistics, COM
mercial paper pertinentiy exclaims:
fIhe matter is not one for argument or
counsel. 1t is simply matter of COM
mon sense. Can we afford to burn up
all these millions every year? On the
other hand, Is there any easier, better,
wiser, cheaper way of adding 500, 000,-
600 TO the common veal and the COM
mon wealth than by putting some brake
on the carelessness that is costing the
country just that much money every
year? Is It creditable TO a wide-awake
people that all this loss and waste
should occur, when, if we were really
wide awake, it certainly need and would
not occur?''
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
Minor MiShaDS.

During the temporary absence of Marie
EppolteO from her appointments in New York
City on the 29th, fire started and her two
children were burned to DEATH The mother
was SO overcome by the calamity that she lies
in a critical condition.
While r. S. Brown, Jr., railroad ticket
agent, was practicing target shooting with a
rife at Louisville, KY, on the 30th., ball
perforated an oaken plank and killed Anna Nc
Mahon, the 7-year-old daughter of widow.
Three men who sat down on a railroad track
near Jamestown, n. Y. on the 18th, were
struck by a train. Two were killed outright
and the third severely injured.
At Newcomerstown, O., on the 9th, at a
barn raising, Charles F. Davis and his son
Robert were killed by a portion of the frame
falling On them.
Two men were killed and third seriously in
jured by lightning at West Roxbury, Mass, or
the 9th
During a sudden gale off Astoria, Oregon
several fishing smacks capsized. Two lives
were lost.
small dwelling near Grand Haven, Mich.
occupied by Mrs. n. Baker, her 2-year-old child
and Mrs. Anderson, caught fire and was con
sumed. The child was found walking outside
of the burning structure, having evidently beer
thrown from an upper story window. The
women were suffocated.
sailboat capsiZed at Marquette, Mich, OF
the 23d inst, drowning A. W. Loveridge, Of
Saginaw.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
WETERTOWTd, WiS-
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2, 1882.
EUROPEAN CROP STATISTICS.

The agricultural department at Wash
which will be both of value and inter
est, particularly to the farmers of the
country. The large exports of wheat,
corn, beef, pork, and other products OF
the soil and farm from the United States,
would seem to render q knowledge of the
changes occurring In European produc-
ton, as well as in the current condition
of foreign crops, desirable to our own
producers. Congress appears to have
taken this view of the matter, and has
made an appropriation for the purpose
of procuring the information desired. A
central office will be established in Lon
don under the auspices of our agricul
tural department, and system of crop
reporting will be established throughout
Europe. The agents of the department
will also collect statistics relating to
live stock, and report the prices of beef,
mutton, pork, and of all dairy products.
They will also investigate from time to
time such processes of European agri-
culture as will be deemed of advantage
to the American farmer, and such other
statistics as may be deemed of value In
the regular and special work Of the di-
vision of statistics of the agricultural
department. During each month of the
growing and harvest season a special
dispatch will be received by the commits
sioner. at Washington, from the London
office, and more extended reports will
be published LII the monthly statistical
report of the department 1t is intended
that this work shall be well done, and
every effort Will be made to secure &C
curate information. That this move
ment will be appreciated by our agri-
culturalists cannot be doubted, as it is
undertaken very largely for their bene-
fit. In referring to this matter, Com
missioner Loring says that in the pres
ent condition of trade, the crops of all
commercial countries are pooled for the
markets of the world, and for this rea-
son American farmers should be fur
nished with the most reliable informa-
ton relative to all matters affecting the
products of their labor
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
A Mulberry Park.

Ten miles from London is a fine old
place called Charlton Park. Many years
ago a great sale of mulberry trees, with
other timber. took place there. The auc-
tioneer could give no explanations as to
how such an immense quantity of null
berry timber should be there, but it was
subsequently explained that, with a
view to British silk culture, James I.
had done all in his power to encourage
mulberry plantations, and actually APP.
peared at court in silk suit woven out
OF cocoons which the queen had person
ally raised from her silk-worms. It was
later on deemed to be impolitic to check
French imports, SO the silk scheme fell
through. The Charlton trees had been
planted at the time of the rage for silk
making.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
COPYRIGHT IN ADVERTISEMENTS.

The English court of appeal has just
rendered an opinion on question of
copyright which must have a wide COM
mercial interest IN this country as well
AS IN Great Britain. [ has long been a
mooted point whether publications got
up and prepared exclusively for adver-
Using purposes are a proper subject of
copyright and are under the protection
Of the copyright laws. Some years ago
Lord Romilly decided this question IN
the negative. More recently Vice
Chancellor Hal took the opposite
ground and granted an injunction re-
atraining the piratical reprint Of a pub
LEGATION containing designs of monu-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
A New Prussian Railroad.

Prussia contemplates the building Of a
railroad from Rostock to Strulsund, a
distance of forty kilometers, which
would secure to her an uninterrupted
line along the entire Pacific coast. The
ports along this coast she is now
Strengthening with new and important
Notifications. Kiel already has forts in
her harbor and four strong works
at the entrance to her bay, while the
town is being surrounded III a wiue semi
circle with number of detached land
Notifications. At Pillau two iron-clad
forts are to be erected; at Memel one is
to be, while at Dantzic tive are to stand
on the left, and three on the right bank
of the Vistula. At several other points
works are either in contemplation or in
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
MurderOus Deeds

Ike Miller, notorious character, was shot
and instantly killed by Charles Miller (colored)
at Bardstown, KY, on the Goth.
At late hour on the night of the 29th, Ed
ward Thaler and Fred. Glozier quarreled in a
saloon at Cleveland, o. The men were sepa-
rated but Glozier followed his comrade and
shot him dead
Au autopsy revealed the fact that Geo. X.
Proctor. prominent citizen of Salem, Mass,
who was found in dying condition at the foot
Of a stairway at his residence had been shot.
It was at first supposed that apoplexy was the
cause of his sudden taking Off. bullet had
entered the head just back of the left ear. The
affair is wrapped in mystery.
A between MeXicanS occurred near Laredo,
Mexico. on the 9th. Pedro Gomez was shot
dead by some one In the crowd and because
Pool Aguiltar complained that he did not have
fair play he vas shot also.
Deputy Sheriff McCul!och was killed by a
Mexican III Oldham County, Texas. A mob
pursued the murderer and lynched him.
Henry Weston was shot dead by Phillip Hun
ter at Manistee, Mich, on the night of the 9th.
Weston had accepted situation which Hunter
had forfeited, hence the murder.
Two horse thieves resisted arrest at Haywood.
Dakota. on the 28th and were killed by a
sheriff posse.
John O'Neill, a guard in the military prison
at Fort Leavenworth shot Provost Sergeant
John Henry on the 9th. He refuses to ac-
count for the murder.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
EaSEtERV yEESslanS.

Two freight trains on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul Railroad collided near Nc
Oregon, Ia, on the night of the Goth, most of
the cars plunging off a high trestle. A fireman
and two tramps were killed, and several pas
sengers injured.
A fast passenger train ran into the rear of a
freight train on The night OF the oath, between
Tvlngton and Centralia, Til. The freight ca
boose was demolished and the passenger en-
CINE badly damaged. The engineer and fire.
man were badly injured.
A collision occurred on the Little Miami
Railroad near Fosters Crossing, on the oath,
between al express train and freight train.
The engines were wrecked and two freight cars
thrown INTO the Miami River. Several passen-
gers we're slightly injured
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
MOrtuarVs

John P. Laird, general superintendent of the
Florida Central road, died at Tallahassee of
Bright's disease.
Mrs. Emma Young, queen of the gypsies,
died at Newark. O., where she was buried with
great ceremony.
c. W. Wolf, wholesale millinery merchant
of Milwaukee, was found dead in bed. He has
been great sufferer from asthma.
Aaron c.. Burr, adopted son of Aaron Burr,
died at New York city on the Goth. He was
son of Count Verdi de Isle, and was born in
Paris in 1903.
Uncle Seth Parmalee, one of the oldest set
tiers and noted characters of Tazewel County,
H., died on the 9th, aged sc. He had lived
in the county forty seven years, and leaves
seventy-fve children and children'S children.
John Church Hamilton, son of Alexander
Hamilton, died at Long Branch, on the 25th,
aged 80 years.