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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10

Hon. J. f. McJurkin, the attorney general
of To va, died at Washington, III that state, on
the 1stinst.
Miss Josephine G. Meeker who was for some
days prisoner among the Utes in Colorado,
died of pneumonia, on the Both, at Washington,
where she was employed in the office of the
secretary of the interior.
Leon Gambetta, the French statesman, died
at Paris early on the morning Of the LIST inst.
He was born at Cahors in 1888, and became
member of the bar of Paris in 1856. At the
fall of the empire he was made minister of the
interior, and IN October, 1870 he proceeded
to Tours, and was for some months dictator of
those provinces of France which remained free
from the German invaders. He owned an
interest in two journals of Paris.
Elisha Allen the Hawaiian minister, was
taken with fit of apoplexyat the White House
in Washington, on New Years day and expired
in the cloak-room. He acquired his fortune
when minister to Hawaii during the time the
fee system was in vogue. The fees of the
Office amounted to from $50, 0O0 to $4,000
yearly when Honolulu was prominent as a whal-
ing station. When the fee system was abolished
he resigned and entered the service of the king
of the Sandwich Islands.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
Justice in Morocco
LFrozn Blaekwood,g Magazine.


The court of justice was sitting, and
had frequent opportunities of observing
it afterward. The procedure, to any one
fresh from the old Baily, appears little
strange. The bashaw recllDes on a COM
Portable couch listening to the witnesses,
who give their evidences with great
energy and yolubility. Sometimes In
the middle of it all the prisoner will
jump up and exclaim that he can get a
witness on his behalf. He viii then run
out of court, unattended by guard or
policemen, and presently returns with
his man. No one expresses any surprise
at this performance, and it never seems
to enter their heads that he should avail
himself of the opportunity to escape.
The usual punishments, besides fine and
imprisonment, are mutilation, by cutting
off q hand Or fOot-the stump being
plunged IN boiling pitch to stop the
MISUNDERSTANDING and putting
out the eyes. There used to be blind
beggar constantly demanding back
sbee8h at one Of the gates, who had been
a noted robber IN his day, but falling at
last into the hands of bis pursuers had
suffered this horrible penalty. There
were at least two murders during nav
stay at Tangier-both perpetrated IL the
most open manner, though in neither
case was any adequate penalty Ct any
penalty at ALL inflicted. The first was
from motives of jealousy, and the muir
derer stabbed his victim IN the middle of
the town-the body lying out in the
street TILL a guide from the hotel stun
bled over it on his way home at night.
The second was committed by Rifian.
to wipe out bloOd-feud that existed In
his family. A relation of his had been
killed by man, and from that time the
solemn duty devolvedupon him ofayeng-
ing his death. The act may have been
committed generation back; but IN that
case the mother would daily charge the
child upon her knee with the task he had
to perform, and when he was grown up,
never let him rest till vengeance was ex-
acted. The man has little hopes to es-
cape. No Irish landlord under the bane
of "Captain Moonlight could be SO
certain Of his doom; and in Barbary he
cannot even avail himself of the doubt
full protection Of police. In this case the
murderer cooIly shot his victim dead as
he was sitting in the SOkO, and then
brandishing his knife at ali who attemp-
ted to arrest him, got clear off into the
country. A friend Of mine once heard
bashaw inhict fine Of 18d. on Moor
for the peculiarly cold-blOoded murder
of a JeW-tbat impartial functionary ob
serving that the sentence would have
been heavier one, but that 1t was nee
essary that Jews should be discouraged.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
The Battle of Atlanta.

Gen. Logan, IN his speech in the sen
ate on Saturday, made contribution to
military history which may cause some
of the authors to revise their books. IL
Illustrating the maxim of Napoleon, that
it is the duty of corps commanders to
march to- the sound of the enemy's guns
witbO waiting for orders, he said that
the great battle of Atlanta, on which so
much depended, was fought and won by
Union generals who did not receive a
single order from their commanding off
Ger. Gen, Logan did. not refer to him
self, but military men In the chamber
knew that it was his own experience he
had in mind. He added that from the
beginning to the end Of the battle the
corps commanders all of whom he rank
ed, never received an order from their
general officer, who was Gen. Sherman.
Gen. Logan thus on the floor of the
enate, has declared that the battle of
Atlanta was fought without any orders
from Gen. Sherman. He referred to the
fact that Sherman in his memoirs
has said that every order was anticipated.
The truth is, therefore, according to
Gen. Logan statement, that the battle
Of Atlanta, for which Gen. Sherman
has received so,much credit, was fought
to a conclusion without any suggestion
or direction from Gen. Sherman himself.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 10. 1883.
THE GOLD PRODUCT OF CALIFORNIA.

The gold product of California, from
the discovery of the precious metal by
James W. Marshall in the tail-race of
Suffers mill, January 10, 184S, to June
80, 1881, amounted to 81, 10, 900, 900.
OF this sum 5000, 900, 900 is estimated
to have been extracted from the aurifer-
Gus placers. The remainder represents
the yield of gold quartz mines, of which
the state contains many. The yearly
product of gold in California is from
$15, 900, 900 to $20,OOO,OOO From the
date of discovery to 1861, inclusive, the
gold product of California aggregated
800, 900, 900, derived chiefly from the
modern river beds and shallow placers.
A large proportion of the remaining
200, 000,0 has been obtained in the
deep gravel deposits, by the hydraulic
method. Strange as it may appear, an
industry which has contributed so large
~ to the wealth of the world, and has
been the means of the settlement and
development of California, has reached
a period In It's history when it is claimed
by large portion of the community to
be a greater evil than blessing, and the
question of suppressing the hydraulic
method of gold mining has been the
subject of discussion in and out of the
halls of legislation. The law has been
invoked to suppress or control it. Even
the state, through its attorney general,
has commenced suit to suppress it.
The trouble grows out of the immense
amount of debris which the hydraulic
miners are discharging constantly into
the water courses of the state.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10

describes the rotation of crops and the
following of the soils with lucidness
which would do credit to a modern book
on scientific agriculture. 1t is still an
open question with farmers whether it
is judicious to burn the stubble on
wheat lands, and the curious reader will
find that question argued in much the
same way in the Georges of Virgil.
The differences of soils, climates and
seasons are so infinite that it is q work
of difficulty to arrive at results with
sufficient accuracy to settle these old,
vexed questions, but it can be done if
the record of experiments is averaged
for long series of years and the expert
ments are themselves conducted on a
sufficiently extensive scale. 1t is ap-
parent that many things which have
been taught in the name of scientific
agriculture areInow exploded. But few
years ago the first and last advice of
every writer to the farmers was to
plough deep, though it is now conceded
that the idea that deep blowing is
always advisable, was a mistake. Among
practical farmers there is less unanimity
as to the proper methods of the art than
among the persons engaged in any other
calling whatever. If an inquirer were
to undertake to ascertain and reconcile
the different theories and opinions of
farmers upon the subject of Wheat-grow-
ing, he would find them the oldest jun
BILE imaginable. Scarcely two farmers
would have exactly the same opinion.
It is not that these problems are insolu-
bic, but that scientific methods have not
been applied to them.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
Dishonest Treasurer.

Considerable excitement prevails at Mem
phis, Tenn, over the development that State
Treasurer Marsh L. Polk is a defaulter in the
sum of 100000. Treasurer Polk left Nash
vile, on the Sd inst, and was last heard of at
Milan, Tenn, from which point he wrote back
that he would return on Sunday. His family
do not know of his whereabouts. The
amount of the deficit in the treasury cannot
be accurately ascertained until after thorough
investigation. One Of the bondsmen who
have been examining the accounts says they
show thus far a deficit of 1880, 900. The same
bondsman says the treasurer's books and ac-
count at one Of the banks shows a discrepancy
of over $4,000. Just before Christmas he
said he drew out of the Bank of Pulaski
$4,000. The state funds were distributed in
various banks at Nashville, Knoxville and
Memphis. Ike missing funds are supposed
20 have been lost in speculation or loaned to
personal friends engaged in speculation in
bonds and stocks.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
She Wouldn't Do.
(From Texas Siftings.]


Mr.. Peterson ChaHey recently adver-
tised for colored servant. Among the
colored ladies who applied was Miss Su-
sannah Grow. She was willing to do the
work and receive $15 a month, provided
her conditions were conceded to. She
wanted quite number Of concessions,
and among them immunity from any
thing like work. ct want it understood
l amt gwine ter fotch no water nor wood
inter de kitchen, and somebody has got
ter get up in de morning and make de
fire." "Of course not, Susannah. No
body would expect you to do those
things. Whenever you want the tlre
made, or water or wood brought in, just
ring the bell for Mrs. Chatfey, and order
her to bring in what you want: And
Use not gwiue ter do no scrubbln, and
no washin' OBJ de dishes. No cullud
lady in Austin does de like ob dat. {"
Of course not, Miss Grow. l always
make my wife and daughter do the druid
gerry about the house. Ii at any time
tbeS dc not speak respectfully to you,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
Minor MISIlanS.

The wife and two children of ThOman JEFF
ferso n, living in Westmoreand County, Pa,
at the foot of a mountain, were buried and
suffocated by landslide on the Sd inst.
A fall of coal in mine at Ashland, Pa, on
the 5th killed Thomas Garrach and seriously in
jured David Davis, James Davis and Patrick
White.
John Russell, aged So, and John Llntemap,
aged 40, were drowned by the capsizing Of a
boat in Dorchester Bay, Mass, on the 4th
inst.
On the night of the Sd inst, John Sanville,
aged %, and Miss Raullier, aged 10, started
attempted to cross the ice at the mouth of the
river when both broke through and drowned.
They were engaged to be married.
Three cOlored labOrers on the Kentucky Cen
trail Railroad extension at Winchester Ky. I'M
dertoOk to dry quantity of dynamite on a
stove on the Sd inst. The house was demOl-
ished and two Of the foolish men killed. The
third was seriously injured.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Arnold were killed while cross
ing railroad track in sleigh at st. Thomas,
Ont, on the Sd.
Willie Dubose, grandson Of Gen. Bob.
Toombs, Of Georgia, was killed and several of
his companions seriously hurt by coasting &C
cident at Troy, N. Y, on the Sd.
Nimrod Owens Michael Longeon and
Mathew Hassett, laborers, were killed at
Auburn, N. Y, on the I'd, by the caving of an
embankment.
4 boiler in HOLSTERS cav mill at the village
of ST. Louis, Mich, exploded on the I'd inst,
killing S. r. Goodwin and injuring +. Richter
and F. Meyer.
While thawing out quantity of giant pow
der at Weeksville, Montana, three Cinnamon
were killed and three others severely wounded.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
The Chain of Friendship.

When Fanny Davenport played Rosa
lind, she insisted on putting a real gold
chain about Orlando's neck. Mr.. Barry
more objected, for he knows he is the
most careless of men. CT insist upon
using the chain,' said Fanny, sc [ like
real things and this is solid-it cost
$1,000" "and weighs 1000 pounds, !"
said Barrymore, taking it in his hand.
He told Miss Davenport he would lose
il. but she would have her way. Finally
the chain was lost. Instead of lament
ing her own folly she turned upon Barry
more, aud, after upbraidlng him for his
carelessnese, refused to speak to him
any more. For thirty-two weeks they
played together, he acting Romeo to her
Juliet, Orlando to her Rosalind, ETC..
but they never spoke. At the end of
that time the chain was found, so they
kissed and made up.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
FOREIGN Floods.

Fifty German villages are reported destroyed
by the present great overflow of the River
Rhine. The loss of property by this flood is
unprecedented.
All traces of the quays and banks of the
Danube are lost'at Vienna, their places being
merely marked by eddies in the torrent.
From Mayence downward the entire plain
between Mannheim and Worms is an immense
lake. FIVE hundred hoe ~-o~e d"et"o,,-~3 i
,"e-. To Cg.
The northwestern potion of North Brabant
is submerged and hundreGs of people are
homeless.
At Frankenthal Bavaria, six thousand peo-
pie abandoned their homes.
Seventy houses have fallen at Badenheim
and at Rexheim, Morsch and Oppan $40 houses
have succumbed to the elements. The town of
Robstadt is deeply submerged. Ten thousand
people are rendered homeless near Worms,
5000 at Ludwigshafen and 1000 at Mannheim.
Mannheim appears to stand on an island in an
immense lake. The great Rhine dam at this
point gave way on the night of the Sd.
Steamers and boats were rescuing people by
tOrchlight.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
A Brave Fireman.

The feat of George Hutchins, a Boston
fireman, will bring him medal. It was
performed at the burning of gun store,
described the other day by telegraph.
It was impossible to keep the people far
away from the building, although they
were told that it contained explosives.
The firemen learned just where the stock
of powder was kept, and Hutehlns vol
unteered to go in after it. He climbed
through a window, got down on his knees,
and crept toward the spot to which he
had been directed. The smoke was stiff
ling and binding. His hands touched
one huge copper-box containing powder,
and carried it out. Then he went back for
another box. The copper burned his
fingers, and as he sprang out the flames
followed him, but the powder was safe
under the effect of a powerful stream of
water.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE.

Although the tilling OF the soil is the
occupation in which the majority of the
race are and always must be engaged,
agriculture, says the Alta California, Is
the industry IN which the application Of
scientific methods seems to make the
least progress. In the Industries sub
sidiary to agriculture we have made
great progress, and it has resulted IN
increasing the value of the land and its
products; but In the art of making the
ground produce the greatest possible
amount there has been little advance.
All the great inventions IN the United
States which have benefited the farmer
have been improvements IN the methods
of reapiug and transporting the harvest
after it is grown, or of getting the seed
into the land at the least possible ex-
pense. improvements have been in the
direction of reducing the cost of per-
forming the old operations of plow-
ing, planting and harvesting, and to
this end the invention of new plows,
harroWs, drills, moving machines, head
ers, reapers, rakes and thresbing
machines contribute. But in the art of
stimulating the soil and making it yield
as great an increase as possible of what
is put into it, we are about where the
agriculturists were two thousand years
ago. Most of the questions which were
unsettled then are unsettled still, so slow
is the progress in arriving at fixed and
accurate results. 1t is an absolute fact
that summer-fallowing, the rotation of
crops and the preparation of ensilage,
which are considered new ideas In farm
ing in this country, were all in practice
among the Romans In Italy at about the
beginning Of the Christian era. Virgil
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
EXHAUSTION OF ANTHRACITE COAL.

There are but four anthracite coal
fields In Pennsylvania, and their aggre-
gate area Is but 483 square miles. Re
liable engineers estimate that the
amount of coal the four fields will yield,
if the present wasteful method of mining
Is continued, cannot be more than three
billion tons. But the year which ends
with the present week has taken 90, $780,
600 tons of anthracite coal from Penn
sylvania mines, and it is expected that
the amount taken will be greater, rather
than less, In future years, so that the
supply will be exhausted In a century,
If not sooner, Besides Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island and Virginia are the only
states which produce anthracite coal,
and their supply is insignificant. The
service performed by anthracite coal in
the development of the resources Of the
United States has been so great that the
prospect of the exhaustion of the sup
ply, even century hence, must be re-
garded with much concern. The declar-
alton that long before the century ends
anthracite coal will be q luxury which
only the rich can enjoy will cause a pop
Qlar demand that the wastefuI method
Of mining known as the ''pillar and
breast" be abandoned, and that the more
economical method employed IN English
mines be substituted for it. 1t is true
that the supply of bituminous coal
seems inexhaustible, although, ire ar
does not much exceed 2,o00,000 tons,
which is about onesfourth of the coal
product of England. Ohio, which ranks
below Pennsylvania and Illinois Id the
production of bituminous coal, can pro-
duce more than England, whose capacity
is already severely taxed. But the iron
and steel industries of the United States
could never have reached their present
proportions but for anthracite coal, and
the exhaustion Of the anthracite fields
inevitably affect the prosperity of the
country, unless inventive genius devises
a new fuel to feed our blast furnaces and
move our engines-a contingency so re-
mote that the gravest considerations
remain to urge economy III anthracite
mining,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10

just let me know and I'll see that it does
not occur again" ." believes I'll come
on de f1lst oh de mur1f " Before hir-
ing you, Miss Grow, want to ask you
few questions" "What does yer want
ter know!" "Can you play on the
piano? Can you render Beetboven's i'm
mortal symphonies with the proper ex-
preston? ono, sab; but l slpgs camp
meetin' tunes" "Then am afraid you
will not suit the family ct all. While my
wife is washing the dishes and doing the
scrubbing, l want the cook to play on
the piano and receive company. | am
afraid you will not fill the bill. Just
get out of here, you old charcoal fraud! :"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
obituary.

Col Ed. C. Anderson, ex-mayor and presi-
dent of the Ocean Steamship Company, died
at Savannah, Ga, on the 9Th inst He was
formerly an officer IN the United States navy,
and afterwards a confederate colonel.
William Barrett, the famous jockey who rode
Parole in England for Lorillard, and also rode
many other famous horses, died at Long Branch
on the 9th inst, of consumption.
Charles Gossage, the head of one of Chi
cago's largest dry goods houses, died on the
9Th inst.
Gen. Chanzy, the distinguished French COM
mander and life senator, died suddenly of apo
plexy at ChaIons on the night of the 4th.
Major Frances De Gress, vice president of
the Mexican Oriental Railroad Company, of
which Jay Gould is president, died at the City
of Mexico on the 4th.
Rev. Titus COan, who has done missionary
work in the Sandwich Islands for over half q
century, died last month at Hilo
DR.. Charles Porterfeld Krauth, D. D., vice
provost of the University of Pennsylvania,
died at Philadelphia on the ID inst, aged CO.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
Oysters in PUGET Sound.

The oyster beds in Puget Sound are
attracting attention, aud when railroad
facilities are completed there is no rea-
son Why the northwestern section of the
United States should not receive their
oysters from this source. The gathering
of oysters has been so far carried on by
the Indians, but lately white men have
engaged in the business, and transplant
ing has taken place to the advantage Of
the oyster. OF late some very wonder
full beds of oysters have been discovered.
The oysters are described as being Of
unusual size, and, though more meaty
than those of the Atlantic coast, quite as
well favored.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
Deadly Explosions.

The boiler in Hoffman q Stillmans flour
mill at Fillmore Centre, Mich, exploded on
the 4th inst, wrecking the mill and injuring
six men. One OF the injured died soon after
vive their injuries. The boiler was hurled 300
feet.
MclTilson & Ports sewer pipe works at
Blackhorse Landing, w. Va, were wrecked by
a boiler explosion on the 4th. Two men we've
killed and two badly injured.
A boiler explosion at the Peninsula Manu-
featuring Company's works at Muskegon,
Mich, on the 4th, killed four men and injured
as many more. The works were badly
wrecked
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10

TELL me not of the mediBval terrors;
tell me not of those bells that are Gre
ated of Goals, OF sulphur, of fiery flames,
of all gorgons dire, and of all savagery,
of ali tempestuous and debauched i'm
aginations; they are the merest fancy;
thew are abominable; they are barbarous;
they are hideous; but they have no
moral power. They have no relation to
the exaltation of men above the flesh
into the spirit hfe.-Henrg Ward
BeecheT.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
Sunk at Sea-

On the morning of the 7th inst, as the
steamer City of Brussels, of the Inman Line,
was lying-to in the estuary of the Mersey dur
ing dense fog, she was run into by the
steamer Kirby Hall, just from Glasgow on her
maiden voyage. The Brussels was cut down
below the waters edge and Logan to fill rapid
ly. The passengers and crew of the sinking
steamer were transferred to the Hall which
conveyed them to Liverpool. Three Storage
passengers and eight of the crew of the Brus-
sells were lost. The Halls bow was crushed in.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
Death by Drowning

A dispatch from Berlin dated the I'd inst
states that steamboat conveying passengers
from Open TO Ludwigshafen, struck sunkel
tree and was wrecked. Thirty-fiVe persons
were drowned.
A fiat boat having on board thirty peniten
tiary convicts. mostly negroes, bound for the
Cowee Tunnel on the Western North Carolina
Railroad. capsized on the Turgaseegea River
IN. CD on the morning of the Both. Only
twelve of the convicts reached the shore.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
SARlsa.pLrRRX.

Baltimore is having a smallpox scare. There
were seventy-fve deaths in that city from that
disease during the last week of the cid year,
and /, 200 cases are reported.
Advices from Capetown state that during the
past two months 5000 people have beer
stricken with smallpox, and that 2,400 died
The natives object to vaccination.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
SVUiCIdes

Count Won Wimpffen, the Austro Hungarian
ambassador at Paris, drove from his residence
to the Avenue Marceau, leaned against o
building, and shot himself dead. He had
been annoyed ia his officia work and delayed
in finishing a new house.