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ELECTION EXPENSES.

1t costs money to run for parliament
in England, and if those who perchance
may have set up wrongful opinion in
their minds regarding the purity of cleo
tions in England as against America
would read statistics of elections in
Great Britain wholesome change would
surely result in favor of America. Re-
turns have just been published of the
expenses incurred by the two candidates
in the recent important parliamentary
election for North Riding, in England.
The totals we're: For Mr. Dawnay, the
successful candidate, SO, 447 0s. ID; for
Mr.. Rowlandson, e5,59S los. Sd. 1t
appears that among the items in Mr..
Dawnay's accounts are SO, 76S IS. Cd. for
/" legal agents and sub-agents," e2,167
18s. Sd. for conveyance of voters, Cnclud-
ing railway expenses,) and 81, 861 lis.
lid. for printing and advertising Mr..
Rowlandson's largest item is printing,
postage and advertising, 81, Ala los. 1Od. !;
conveyances and railway fares cost him
e916 los. 3D., and agency, e7S7 Is. 10d.
Hence the total expense of the election
of the two candidates was els, 046 les.
3D., or about $75,235. Few congress
men in America have ever paid for their
seats at that rate.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
A DEBT-RIDDEN NATION.

There has seldom in modern times,
says the New York Times, been a war
more financially disastrous to country
than that into which the late czar was
driven with Turkey in 1876. In 1875
the financial plight of Russia appeared,
for the first time in years, encouraging.
There was even slight surplus, instead
of the usual deficit. In 1876 the deficits
began again. That in 1877 was 465, 544, :
600 rubles. The Turkish war added to,
the national debt more than 800, 600, 900.
Since the war ended there has been
growth In expenditure far greater than
the growth in revenue. This is attrib-
ated to the influence of the military
party, which contrives to neutraize the
economic efforts of the minister of
finance: Such vaporings as those lately
of Skobeleff do incalculable damage by
keeping alive this war spirit. Were
Russia now to embark in campaign
her credit abroad would-unless, indeed,
her successes should be unprecedentedly
rapid and decided-be gone. As it is.
she has OF late been compelled to do her
borrowing at home because she must pay
SO high price abroad. There would be
a frightful fall in her securities were she
to go to war tomorrow, and, in view of
her financial condition and internal trou-
bles, it seems inexplicable folly on the
part OF Russians to think of such step.
If ever an empire should mean peace it
is the Russian Empire to-day, and
peace, too, should mean at least half the
army sent home to become bread-win-
ners.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
a DIREFUL RECORD.

The explosion in the Blockhouse Col
liery, near Sunderland, England, re-
Gently, says the Chicago Times, makes
twenty-five serious explosions in coal
mines during the last four years, result
ing in the loss of nearly sixteen hundred
lives, not including the injured persons.
Most of the loss of life has occurred in
Great Britain, though only fourteen of
the explosions have occurred there. The
great extent of the coal mines in Wales
and other parts of Great Britain, and the
proportionately great number of men ex-
posed to the destructive effects of any
one explosion, account for this discrep-
ancy. The fourteen British explosions
have cost over twelve hundred lives, and
the fatalities in the other eleven disas.
tiers do not much exceed $50. The aver
age loss of life in British mine explo-
sions, it will be noticed, does not fall
much below 80, being Sc for the disas-
tiers included in this enumeration, while
those IN other countries hardly average
thirty-two deaths apiece. This average
happens to be exactly the number of ia
talities resulting from the explosion in
the coal mine in Midlothian, Virginia,
February 8. Sunderland, where the ex-
plosion of yesterday occurred, is near
Triandon Grange, where sixty or seventy
people were killed February Is last by
coal mine explosion, and Seaham,
where 1874 men were killed by similar
accident September, s, 1880. North
Stafordshire had suffered heavily; an
explosion in one of it's coal mines March
%, 1878, killed 35 men; two in Leycett,
one on September II, 1878, and the other
January q, 1880, killed five and seventy
men, respectively, and one at Chell,
February 7, 1881, resulted in seventeen
deaths Wales has suffered severely; an
explosion in the Ebbw Vale colliery
killing no less than 281 persons, Sep
TENDER j, 1878; another at Pen-y-graig
new colliery, Rhonda Valley, December
10, 1880, killing 100; one at Dinas, JAN
uary 10, 1879, killing so men, and one
at Risca, just across the Welsh line,
July Is, 1880, resulting in the death of
l19 men. This explosion was caused by
lightning. More than two hundred
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
WATERFOWL. WIS.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 26. 1882.
ADULTERATION.

In these days of charging all materials
that we use for food with impure sub
stance, we In America might well follow
the example of the project of police in
Paris, who has doubtless under the ad-
vice of eminent chemists, putinto practice
the most stringent laws against the adul-
terating goods commonly used. He has
forbidden confectioners, distillers, groc-
ers and shop-keepers generally, to use
the following substances for coloring
sweetmeats, iqueurs and alimentary sub
stances: Mineral colors-The COM
pounds of copper: blue verdigris, noun
tain blue; compounds of lead: massicot,
minimum, Cassel yellow. Turkey yellow,
Paris yellow, white lead, flake white,
sulphate of lead, Naples yellow, chrome
yellow. Cologne yellow; chromate of
baryta or yellow ultramarine; compounds
of arsenic: arsenite of copper, Scheele's
green, Schweinfurth green and sulphide
of mercury or vermillion. Organic col
ors-Gamboge and Naples aconite; fuch-
sine and its sub-products, such as Lyons
blue; cosine; nitro derivatives, such as
napthal yellow and Victoria yellow.
These substances are also forbidden for
colcring the paper used for wrapping up
any article of food. Both manufacture
ers and dealers are held responsible for
any accidents which may occur in vio-
lation of the above. Frequent inspec-
tions will be made, if deemed necessary,
and the chief of the municipal police,
the mayors, the commissaries of police,
and others whom it may concern are
charged with carrying the measure into
effect
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
Thieves and swIndlers.

A company of Texas rangers started from
Colorado City in pursuit of the gang which
robbed the Texas Pacific Road Rumors are
af1oat in Dallas that eight thieves have been
corraled in frame house six miles from the
scene of the robbery, and that in fight which
occurred one of them was killed while attempt
ing to escape.
The German National Bank of Denver has
suffered to the extent of $4,000 through a
forgery by mail-robbers. A treasury draft sent
westward from Washington was found to have
cashed soon afterward on false signatures.
Burglars entered the residence of Samuel G.
Holmes, deputy collector of city revenue, New
York City, and distracted SIS, $50 worth of bonds
from the safe.
An iron safe in the postofice at Paris was
forced by burglars and robbed of 1870 letters.
the value of their contents being estimated at
1,000,0 600 francs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
A Gymnast's Fall
From an Interview with William Hanl

From an Interview with William Hanlon.
We were playing IN Havana. The
same people go to the theater every
night, and they demand constant
changes in the bill. Mo brother Tom
was taken sick suddenly. His ladder
was in the dome ready for "the leap for
life" and the people began to clamor to
have sit DONE" I finally agreed to do
it. The feat consists, after the perform
ance of a variety of tricks on the ladder,
in swinging myself into motion and
jumping to taut rope, running from a
ceiling at an incline to the wings. The
Jump was long one, and the house was
very quiet when I began to swing pre-
paratory to taking the leap.
l threw myself at the rope, and, when
l was In mid-air saw it was no go, and
that was done. I struck out desperate
~ with my feet, in the hope of helping
myself forward, but / only reached the
rope with the tips of the fingers of my
left hand. Both hands and both feet
were extended in spread eagle form, if
you like. I ought to have struck the
rope with both hands fairly in the CEN
ter of my body, with the legs across the
line, so as to distribute the strain of
sustaining my weight over my whole
body. AS it was, it all fell on my left
arm and my body swept in toward the
rope like whip-lash. Of course I let
go, and then I began to turn spirally
like corkscrew and then go down. L
instantly realized that I must not land
all spread out. I gathered my left arm
close to my body. pushed my head for
ward and drew my legs together, strug-
Cling to get into shape to fall on my side.
I did fall just that way forty feet On
wooden stage. My arm was driven into
nay side and rib was broken. The arm
was shattered and I was laid up for
many months.
While I was going down in an instant
l saw oyer again, as vivid as life, every
fall that / ever witnessed. They came
up in my mind, one right after another,
like successive flashes of lightning, and
I seemed to be exper .encing all of them
in my own person. But worse than any
thing else, great deal worse than the
shock of arriving, was the terrible shrek
of agony that went up from the audience.
1t was like one heartbreaking wall of
agony. can hear it yet, and I hear it
every time I think of the accident.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26

miners were killed in the explosion in
coal mine at Haydock, near Wigan, Ian
cashire, June 7, 1878. Saxony had two
coal coal mine disasters within few
weeks of each other-one at Chemnitz,
December 2, 1879, killed more than sew
enteen men, and the other at Nielsen,
January 20, following, killed ten. In
this period Belgium has had three ex-
plosions with 100 fatalities; Nova Scotia
two, with IS fatalities, and the United
States four explosions, killing Sc per-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
Minor Mishapss

At Springwells, suburb of Detroit Mich,
on the 21st inst, two employees of Baugh's
Of them lost his balance and in endeavoring to
recover his equilibrium thrust one leg under
the great steam power shears and had it sew
cred at the knee
Samuel Walch. ship-builder at st. Johns,
n. F., went under the steamship NarwhaI ia q
divers suit, and was drowned by the discon-
necion of the breathing tube.
Two cars were blown from side track onto
the main line, near Baltimore, Md, on the Goth
Inst. Thomas J. Walker, fireman of an ap-
preaching freight train, fearing a collision,
jumped and was killed Joseph Countess, en-
gineer, was badly injured.
Mrs. S. p. Veazie, of Bangor, Me-. who had
been slightly i'll for two weeks, was fatally
poisoned through the criminal carelessness of a
druggist.
The coroner at Washington gathered up the
fragments of two men who persisted in break
ing rifed shell with an Ak. Their names were
George Phillips and John Stewart.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
TWenty-One Years of Waiting.

An English paper tells pathetic story
of the patient waiting of a drunkard's
wife, who hoped against hope during
twoscore years that he would be re-
formed. The lesson of the story is one
that only devoted heart could put In
practice" While there is life there is
hope:''
The wife of hard-drinking man
named Martin, in West Riding, York
shire, England, prayed twenty -one
years for his reformation and conversion.
When that long time had passed, and
no answer had come to her prayers, she
went one night, at midnight, to the pub
lie house where her husband spent much
of his time, and found him sitting in the
bar-room with several other men and the
landlady.
"You go home, 4" said Martin, roughly,
when he saw his wife enter.
Wait little, and your husband will
go with you," said the landlady.
'Mrs. Tolman, % replied the poor wife,
advancing to the table where they were
sitting, F" 1 have waited twenty-one years
for my husband to go with me and all
that time l have prayed for him."
She steadied her voice and added:
ST am certain, too, that God will an
swer my prayers. AS sure as he is sit
ting in your bar, shall live to see him
pass your house and have no inclination
to go in.''
She turned to go out, and Martin rose
and followed her, saying not word.
That night was the turning point in
his life. The long-felt promise to the
heart of the pious wife, that her hus-
band should "go with her" began to
fulfill to her patient waiting.
He went to meeting with her, and was
melted by sermon on the words,
"Where thou goest, I will go,
thy people shall be my people, and thy
God my God;" he went with her on the
road to life, and helped her to lead their
children In the narrow way.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
Explained.
lFrom Texas Siftings.I

"Now," said the justice to the wit
ness, "you will please tell precisely how
it happened.
''Yes, sir, I'll try. The prisoner and
that man were eating dinner at the same
table, and they got to quarreling, when
the prisoner just up with a dab of
mashed Irish potatoes and bit that other
man on the head with it.
"Do you. sir" said the justice stern
y, pretend to tell the court that dab
Of mashed potatoes even when thrown
with the greatest violence, can make a
cash five inches long on mans head,
and knock him senseless? If you trife
with the court you will be locked up
"Judge, I reckon l forgot to say that
when the prisoner threw the dab of
mashed potatoes at the man, he forgot to
first take the dab out of the dish"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
Two Misers,
[From the Youths Companion. ]


A lawyer in Troy, N. Y, states that in
the bitter weather of lastJanuary he was
called at midnight to make will for a
supposed pauper named Ager. He found
the man dying in wretched hovel, with
out fire, apparently of want, his wife
beside him, dying also of hemorrhage of
the lungs.
Ager had one thousand five hundred
dollars in four small bags, and six hun
dred dollars in gold in his pockets, which
he had carried so long that they we're
black and greasy. Gold was also found
secreted in iron pots and tea-pots in the
house. He died before morning, and his
wife an hour or two later. They were
both educated and of good birth.
They had bought no fuel all winter,
and had literally starved and frozen to
death. When asked why they had not
spent few dollars in making themselves
comfortable, they replied, SO Money was
good thing to have" They could not
take it with them, however, and at al
most the last moment of life gave it to
charitable society.
Such instances of extreme avarice are
very rare among native Americans. The
nation is too well-fed and ll-clothed:
the general habit of life is too prodigal;
money comes too easily to foster even a
wise economy In the eyes of American
children.
A certain Major s. was well-known
to the past generation in the middle
states as miser of land. He was child
less and owned enormous tracts in Penn
sylvania, New York and Ohio, which he
only improved sufficiently to enable him
to pay the taxes on them, and to buy
more land.
His whole life was spent in travelling
on foot over his possessions, and it was
his boast that he could walk from the
Hudson to the Miami, and sleep every
night on his own ground. On these
journeys he begged his food from his
tenants, and wore the same suit of
clothes until it literally dropped off of
him, rotten with filth and age.
Nothing could induce him to sell or
give away foot of land. At last the
the old man was missed, and after a
couple of months, his body was found in
forest on the Allegheny Mountains,
where having been taken Ill on one of
his journeys, he had crept to die. Six
feet of ground was given to him for
grave, and that, by strange chance, as
if in derision of the old mans folly, be-
longed to another man.
The folly of these two men is evident
to the dullest of us. Their lives to the
very hour of death were spent in discom-
fort and want that they might accumu-
late riches which they knew they must
leave behind them.
But are we any wiser How many of
us are striving only to gain the property,
fame or social position which we must
leave behind us? What goods have we
to make comfortable and happy that life
beyond the grave? Which of all the
things we prize and hoard here, will be
of any more use to us an hour after
death, than were the gold or land to
these dying misers
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
MOrtuarVs

Rev. Dr.. Leroy M. Lee, noted Methodist
writer of Virginia, died at Richmond, on the
22d.
Gervasse Smith, formerly president of the
Wesleyan Conference, is dead.
G. M. HARDWOOD. of Shelbyville. KY, state
senator and leading lawyer, died on the Goth.
General William L. Burt, the president of
the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Rail-
way, died at Saratoga, N. Y, on the goth inst,
of paralysis. He was man of wealth and
great business energy, aged 81.
Charles r. Darwin, the well-known scientist,
died at London, Eng. on the goth inst, aged
IS years.
Captain Robert Baldwin, probably the Oldest
steamboat captain, died at his residence
in New Albany, Ind, on the night of the 10Th
inst, aged 81 years.
Hannibal FL. Chase, president of the Peoples
Bank, of Baltimore, dropped dead On the street
on the 18th inst.
DR.. r. G. G Jones, prominent educator of
Louisville, is dead.
Baron Bauer, the distinguished German
philosopher, died on the 18th inst.
Charles E. Wilstach, ex-mayor of Cincinnati,
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Jesse James, Siayers.

The pardons issued by Governor Crittenden
to Robert and Charles Ford reached st. Joseph
on the 18th inst, and the boys shook hands
with everybody and passed out of Jail. at the
door, Sheriff Trigg, of Ray County, arrested
Robert for the murder of Wood Hite, near
Richmond. 1t was arranged that the trip
should be made by way of Kansas City, and
the prisoner was attended by his father and
brother and guarded by officers. Sheriff
Thomas, at st. Joseph, has slept in his clothes
for two weeks. The Ford boys claim that Gov.
past crimes, but the governor denies the state
ment Indignantly. He may pardon them, how
ever
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
Suicidal

An inmate of the Cook County insane asy-
lum, named George W. Reynolds, drowned him
self in the pond on the 22d inst At the out
break of the panic of 1857 he was a successful
packer in Chicago In later years he was a
member of the board of supervisors, and
served as chairman of the building committee
which supervised the erection of the structure
which for many years has been his only home.
Herman Monk, wealthy citizen of Louis
vile, KY, took laudanum on the 18TH inst, and
died from the effects. Cause, business trou-
bles.
Alex Fisher, manager of the Ontario Bank,
at Toronto, Canada killed himself on the 18th
inst, owing to protracted illness.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
MurderOus Deeds.


John A. Willis, a rustic from Shelby, Rich
land County, Ohio, while walking near the
Sherman House, Chicago, on the afternoon of
the 23d inst, was accosted by drunken brute
named Thomas Kelly, who commenced to abuse
and finally struck him in the stomach. This
rolled the verdant Ohio man to such an extent
that he drew rusty horse pistol of ancient
pattern and shot Kelly dead. Willis was imbued
with the idea that Chicago twas a tough
place." of the mining camp style and that the
prompt use of weapon was the proper thing
under the circumstances. 1t is thought jury
will not consider the deed IN the light of a
crime.
Marshal Hewitt, of Nortonville, KY, killed q
gambler and his son on the 23d inst. They re-
sisted arrest.
Mrs. Brown Pierce, residing with her husband
near Richardson, Texas, was found hanging
from door knob, on the 21st inst, with her
three children lying on the floor in row, dead.
The awful discovery was made by Mr.. Pierce
himself on returning to his home from the field
where he was at work. The supposition is that
the poor woman, in fit of melancholia, stran-
gled her children and then hung herself.
Marshal David Snodgrass, of Crestline, o.,
was killed on the 21st inst by a man who re-
sisted arrest
Edwin r. Preston, aged &c, murdered his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Russell, aged 70, at
West Somerville, Boston suburb, on the Goth.
Financial misfortunes had weakened PrestOn's
mind, and his wife was preparing to have him
incarcerated in an asylum when the murder oc-
Cured.
The Socos band of Indians are on the war
path. The chief of police at San Carlos agency
was killed
Chas. C. Atkire, citizen of Barnard Mo-,
was fatally shot by an unknown tramp on the
18th. A sheriff and his deputies hunted down
the murderer and killed him.
John Linnon, tailor, residing in New York
City, murdered his wife in brutal manner on
the 18th. He inflicted nineteen wounds on
her body with knife and then cut her throat
from ear to ear.
A band of Arkansas convicts, encamped near
Little Rock, made dash for freedom on the
17th Eight passed the guards, but one of
them was shot dead, two were badly wounded,
and five escaped TO the woods, where blood
hounds are searching for them.
Chas Carter, an aged citizen of Muncie, ILL.,,
was recently murdered by burglars.
John Hamilton shot and killed Edward
Pierce, near Hopewell, KY, on the 18th inst.
Both were drunk and engaged in quarrel.
At Rockford, ILL.,, on the 10th inst, John Sui
Ivan made an unsuccessful attempt to kill Es-
tella Andrews. He had been keeping company
with the young lady for some time. On the
evening mentioned, on returning from church,
he knocked Miss Andrews down with club and
inflicted twenty-four stabs in her body with a
pocket-knife. The victim is in a dangerous
condition
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
wrecked by Winds.

Monticello, Miss, small village, was complete
ly destroyed by storm on the night of the 22d
inst. Ten persons were instantly killed and
between fifteen and twenty injured, some badly.
A tornado swept through the Streets of Cairo.
H., on the 21st inst. The colored Methodist
Church and four other buildings were blown
down, the gasometer and five loaded freight
cars were overturned, and ten or more houses
were unroofed.
Mount Vernon, an ore mining town situated
five miles from Scotdale, Westmoreland County,
Pa, was visited by fearful storm on the even
ing of the 18th inst, which demolished a num-
Der of dwellings, an6 killed Mrs. w. Wiregroves.
Many were seriously injured. The roof of one
of the buildings was blown two miles.
destructive storm struck Brownsville, Mo-,
on the 18th inst, inficting great damage to
property and killing six persons. Thirty are
reported wounded some badly. The town of
Montrose was visited by the same gale and
suffered the ruination of eighteen dwellings
and four churches. No lives were lost at the
latter place, however.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
Traiu Robbers FOiled

Robbers ditched train near Rincon, N. M,
on the 10th inst, in an indeavor to secure
treasure to the amount of $4,000 in the
hands of the Wells, Fargo & Co., express. The
engine and baggage Car left the track, killing
the fireman and badly injuring the engineer
and express messenger. Before securing the
booty, SO many passengers fiocked around the
wreck that the robbers became frightened and
fled
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
RIOOdfhirskv SaYaPes.

Apaches at Clifton, New Mexico, killed five
transfers and ran off sixty head of mules. A
raid was was then made on the works of the
Detroit Copper Mining Company. Two hum
dred warriors under Loco and Juh, crossed the
tracks of the Southern Pacific twenty miles
west of Fordsburg, recently.