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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26

The stables of the Cambridge Horse Railway
Company, Boston, burned on the 22d. Loss
$35, 900.
Fire at Memphis, Tenn, on the 22d de-
sroyed storehouse occupied by the Milburn
Machine Company, Loss 1885, 600.
The cottonseed oil mills of Boggett & Great
house, at Temple, Texas, were DESTROYED bv
ire on the 22d, involving loss of $4,000.
~ FIRE In the insane asylum at Wards Island,
New York harbOI, on the 21st damaged the
building to the extent of $4,000.
-, The corn mill, elevators and warehouses of
Tyson Bros, Baltimore burned on the goth
inst. Loss $4,000.
The high school building at Evanston.
burned on the goth inst. Loss $4,000.
One warehouse containing cotton at Bali
more was entirely and two others partially de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th inst. About >. 600
bales OF cotton were burned. Loss 1916. 600.
st. Peters Episcopal Church at Port Ches
ter, N. y, burned on the goth INST. Loss $780,
900. '
Fire at Paris, Texas, OH the 10th DESTROYED
the dry goods store of P. N Harrison. Loss
$31,0
The Blanchard's lumber mill at Winterburn,
Clearheld County, Pa, burned on the 10th.
Loss 800, 1000.
Fire at Lisbon, Portugal, on the 18th inst.
destroyed the government .dockyard, several
warehouses; and the training ship Cameras.
Loss G100, 900.
The dry goods store of Spencer P. Brundage.
at Farmland, Ind, burned on the night of the
18th. Loss $17, OOO
The residence of S. P. Creasinger, at Fowler,
Mich, was burned by an incendiary on the
morning OF the 18th. Loss $21, 900; insurance
$4,000. Creasinger was also robbed of 1000
cash.
About half the business portion of Rockport.
twelve miles north of Grand Rapids, was burn
ed on the morning of the 18th. Loss on build
!ngs about $4,000; on stock 100000. Total
insurance $4,000.
What was left by the recent fire at Rat Por-
tage, Manitoba, was wiped out by second con-
migration on the 18th inst. One store and two
or three dwellings is all that is left of the town.
The losses aggregate 300, 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
How to Mix Paints.

from the journal OF Chemistry
The following table, the source of
which we are unable to trace at this mo-
ment, though we can vouch for its trust
worthiness, viii be found serviceable,
especially for amateurs, as showing how
simple pigments are to be mixed for pro-
ducing compound colors:
Buff.-Mix white, yellow ochre and
red.
tnut.-Red, black and yellow.
Chocolate umber, red and black.
Claret.-Red, umber and black.
Copper. yellow and black.
DoVe.-White, vernilion, blue and
yellow.
Drab. White, yellow, ochre, red and
black.
Fawn.-White, yellow and red.
Flesh. White, yellow, ochre and YER
million.
Freestone.-Red, black, yellow, ochre
and white.
French Gray.-White, Prussian blue.
and lake.
Gray.-White lead and black
White, stone ochre and red.
Green Bronze. -Chrome, green, black
yellow.
Or00u Z Sd.-W ulC0 duu CuEOm0 BE00Hs
Lemon.-White and chrome yellow.
Limestone. White, yellow ochre,
black and red.
Yellow, blue, black and white.
Orange. and red.
Peach. White and vernilion.
Pearl. White, black and blue.
Pink. White, vermilion and lake.
Purple. Violet, with more red and
white.
White and madden lake.
Sandstone. White, yellow ochre,
black and red.
Snuff.-Yellow and Vandyke brown.
Violet.-Red, blue and white.
In the combinations of cOlors required
to produce a desired tint, the first nam
ed color is always the principal ingredi-
emf, and the others follow in the order Of
their Importance. Thus, IN mixing a
limestone tint, white Is the principal in
gredient, and red the color of which the
least is needed. The exact proportions
of each color must be determined by ex-
pertinent with small quantity. 1t is
best to have the principal ingredient
thick and add to it the other paints.
thinner
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
Financial Embarrassment.

Several iron works at Holidaysburg, Pa,
have shut down for the winter owing to lack
Of orders.
Business failures in the United States for
the week ending on the 21st, 281.
Gordon, Baker & Co.. millers Sparta. H..
failed on the 21Bt, with liabilities to the
amount of $3.50, 600.
J. w. Woolfolks, cotton manufacturer Col
umbia, Ga, suspended on the goth. Liabilities
$200,000; nominal assets $3.50 900.
The Enterprise Machine Company of Gene
va, Ohio, assigned on the 10Th. The concern
owes $4,000. Seventy-ive men are thrown
out of employment.
The New York corporation known as the
Standard Coal and Iron Company, organized
over year ago with a capital stock of $685.
100000, has collapsed. An effort will be made
by the creditors 10 reorganize under a new
name.
The famous Willard blind pool " has num-
bCred among its victims d. NJ. and E. G. Hol-
bert, dry goods dealers of Binghampton, N. Y,
who failed on the 18th. Liabilities nearly $780,
600.
J. Livernois, Montreal, fruit importer, has
failed. Liabilities $4,000.
W. P. q A. NJ. Parsons, builders, New York,
have suspended, Preferences 1922,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
ABOLISH THE TRAMPs.

The New York Mail and Express,
commenting on the tramp problem,
says: "The Orange Mountain tragedy,
like the murder of Rose Amber in Con-
necticut and that of the Maybees on the
Long Island, is suspected to be the
work of tramp. The most depraved
creatures. many of them ex-convicts, are
going about as common tramps, and
crimes of indescribable brutality fare
committed by them. Their adjustment
ought to be effected quickly, completely
and permanently. Every tramp should
be arrested as 8 vagrant and compelled
to work. To give food or anything else
to tramp is to encourage beggary and
crime. Legislation should be made
more stringent for the suppression of
tramping and the security of life and
property demands speedy and thorough
work to abolish tramps."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
THE POSTAL ESTIMATE.

Postmaster General Graham's annual
report contains an estimate of the re-
ceipts of the postal department for the
fiscal year ending on June 80, 1885,
which will be the first full year of two
cent postage. He anticipates a deficit
for that year of So, 958, Ill, on basis of
$50, 062. 189 expenditures. 1t should be
noted that the expenditures of the past
year were about 81, 500, 600 less than this
estimate, and also that a surplus is a
hard thing to find in the history of the
service until after 1880. In 1860 the de-
felt was more than $40, 500, 900, and for
years after the war it averaged about
81, 900, 900. 1t is evident, therefore,
that the adoption of two.cen letter post
age was not a mistake, even if the de-
deficit for 1886 is as large as it is now
estimated that it viii be. But it is not
improbable that the business of the de-
partment will increase SO rapidly that
the deficit will be smaller than Mr..
Gresham expects it to be. And a sur
plus may be anticipated before the next
census wear arrives
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
Who Pulled Down the Confederate Flag.
[Cor. springfeld Republican. ]


At the Twilight Club dinner day or
two ago, number of war correspond
ents were present, and were called upon,
during the evening, for some feminis-
cences. These were frequently interest
ing and indeed novel, Notwithstanding
the supposed familiarity of the subject.
Henry J. Winser, formerly correspond
ent of the Times, and late consul to Co
burg, Germany, was invited to give his
experience with Col. Ellsworth. Winser
was an intimate friend of the young col
onel, and acted as q sort of military seq
rotary with his regiment of zouaves. He
was with Ellsworth at Alexandria, and
accompanied him to the Marshall House,
to pull down the confederate flag flying
from the roof. The two entered the
house. and saw no one but a man in his
shirt-sleeves, to whom the colonel spoke
of the flag, and of his determination.
The man made no reply beyond saying
that he was boarder, and had nothing
to do with the flag. They then mounted
to the roof, and Ellsworth began to unite
the rope to which the stars and bars
were fastened. He found this difficult,
whereupon -inser, drawing knife, cut
the robe. and down came the flag. The
correspondent gathered it up and was
carrying it below in his arms when tne s
two, side by side, again encountered the
man they had formerly met in his shirt
sleeves. He then had gun in his hand
and quick as thought discharged it with
out word at Ellsworth. Almost at the
same moment Brownell, who had come
up with a file of men, shot the man, who
proved to be Jackson-and who, as well
as the colonel, died instantly. Thus it
appears that Winser really pulled down
the confederate flag, and ought, from
the nature of things, to have been
killed. But Jackson, recognizing Els
worth by his shoulders straps as the
commanding officer, wreaked vengeance
on him. It must not be supposed that
Winser told the story to derogate in any
way from the fame of Ellsworth, for he
is very modest and unassuming, but
simply to detail the exact circumstances
of one of the earliest events of the war.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
Minor Mention.

Lisbon, Portugal, was touched by slight
shake of earthquake on the 22d inst.
The steamer Bolivia sank in the Clyde, Scot
land, on the 22d inst. No lives lost.
By an accident at Memphis. Tenn, on the
22d Al. Smith. brakeman, was killed, AID
George Stock had leg broken.
Two men were killed near Providence, r.
l., on the 22d by a railroad snow pillow.
While party of young men were serenading
newly married couple at Cintondale, N. Y,
on the night of the 2t0h. one of the anvils used
in the ceremony exploded, killing Samuel
Coulter and injuring another of the party.
J. s. Harris conductor on the Iron Noun
tain Railroad, was crushed to death at Fulton,
Arkansas, on the 18th inst.
Frank WalWorth, who killed his father at
New York seven years ago, was married on the
18th INST, to daughter of Ex-Governor Bram-
lette, of Kentucky.
Burglars entered the house of E. J. Hop
kins, at Grand Rapids, Mich, on the night of
the 18th inst, and got away with loot to the
extent of $4, 800.
Swear old boy named McGowen was left
alone in the house at Eau Claire on the eve
ming Of the 18th, when in some manner his
clothing took fire and he was burned to death.
The barge Monitor, ashore at Manitou
Island, was abandoned on the 18th. after
strenuous efforts by the tug Kate Williams TO
release her.
Two more bodies of the crew of the wrecked
steamer Eclipse have washed ashore at John
sons Island, Lake Ontario.
q. +. q. Collins, an old and respected citizen
of BeIoit, Wis, and a prominent Mason, died at
that place on the 18th inst. He was Al years
of age.
While attempting to jump from his milk
wagon at Milwaukee on the 18th inst, a 1han
named Kr@ger struck his head against the
wheel in such manner as to cause instant
death.
Thomas Mulcahey was killed by an Illinois
Central train at Chicago the 18th inst.
In order to avoid shut down for the winter,
the men employed by the Edgar Thomson Steel
Company, at Pittsburg, agreed on the 18th to
accept temporary reduction of Is p6r cent. in
wages The works employ 900 men.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.



TUESDAY, December 18.-Bills reported from
committees and placed ON the calendar: Pro-
Viding a civil government for Alaska; in re-
gard to the election OF President and vice
president. At the expiration of the morning
hour the senate proceeded to the election of
officers with the following result Secretary
Arson G.. McCOOk: chief clerk Charles w
Johnson, Of Minnesota; executive clerk, James
r. Young. of Pennsylvania; chaplain, the Rev.
Elias Dewitt Hantley, of the District of Column
bla: sergeant-at-arms, W. P. Canaday, of
North Carolina. The senate then went into
executive session, and adjourned.
WEDNESDAY. December l9.-Bills introduced:
10 provide for the acceptance Of the Illinois
and Michigan Canal by the United States: for
commission to investigate railroad transpor-
tatlon. The resolution for o holiday recess
was taken up and the 18th of January fixed as
the date for reassembling, when it was sent to
the house for concurrent action. Considerable
discussion Wss INDUCED in on the report of the
committee on rules, after which the senate
went into executive srss1np and adjourned
THURSDAY, December 20.-BiIls introduced:
10 regulate inter state commerce.: for the
erection of monument to the late Gen. War
rem; and to authorize the distillation of fruits
without tax by the general government At
ter short discussion on the report of the COM
mittee on rules, the matter was postponed till
after the holiday recess The house Joint reso-
luton for tie celebration of the centenary of
the surrender of the command of the army by
Washington was concurred In, after which the
senate adjourned till Monday.
House.
WEDNESDAY, December 19.-Skinner. repre-
sentative elect from the first district Of North
Carolina, was admitted and took the oath. A
resolution was reported and agreed to creating
the following committees: Civil service re-
form; the law respecting the election of Presi-
dent and vice president; the payment of pen
sions, bounty and back pay; the public health
and ventilation and acoustics of the hall of
representatives; on American ship-building
and ship-oWning interests; and committee on
the alcoholic liquor traffic. resolution was
adopted, calling on the secretary of state for
all communications, documents and papers In
his possession relating to the trial, conviction
and execution of the late Patrick ODonnell by
the British government. The senate amend
ment to the recess resolution was concurred in
Adjourned.
THURSDAY, December 20.-A resolution to
allow months extra salary to discharged en-
ployes Of the government was, after discussion,
referred to the committee on accounts. Much
discussion was had on q resolution to appoint
special committee on woman suffrage, and
the resolution was rejected. A senate amend
ment to the joint resolution fixing the date of
reassembling after the holidays on the 9TH of
January was concurred IN. Adjourned till
Monday.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
Deeds of Blood.

The body of Susan Gibbs, an old woman,
who carried on the business of q peddler, and
was thought to have a large sum of money in
her house, was found at Huber River, short
distance from Toronto, Ont, on the 22d. She
had been dead for several DAYS.
The jury in the case of Thomas Boyle, of
Portage, charged with numbering his wife, re-
turned a verdict of manslaughter on the 21st
inst.
Jessy Cox was hanged at Georgetown, S. c.,
on the 21st for the murder of Henry Rembert.
Jim Taylor, for murder, was hanged at Gid
dings, Texas.
Geo. W. Davis was dangerously shot by a
highwayman at Chicago on the night of the
10Th.
William Conroy, the New York policeman
who dubbed q man to death, has been sentenced
to be hanged.
Asa Baker, of Brockton, Mass, wife murder
CT, whose trial began on the 18th inst, pleaded
guilty to murder in the second degree, and was
sentenced to the penite Tertiary for life.
A San Francisco cOroner's jury on the 18th
inst, decided that the killing Of Charles Nc
LaughIin by Jerome B. Cox was in self de-
Tense.
The second trial of Frank Allen, for the MUIR
der of John Waters, in Milwaukee last spring,
began at Waukesha on the 18th inst.
J. B. ShaWner, a stock buyer Of Luverne,
Mimi, was knocked down and robbed near that
place on the night of the 18th by an unknown
man. The thief got 81, 200.
A futter was created in New York police cir
cles by facts brought out in q seduction suit
brought by young girl named julia Pudding
against one John Wilton, which complicate the
latter in the murder Of Jennie Cramer. The
police are looking for Wilton.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
'sThe Smell of It's

An Irishman was recently installed in
a Boston oil store as roller of barrels
and pumper of the slippery fluid into
casks and cans. He is apt and bright,
and has made himself useful and famil-
lar with the store and its equipments,
among other things the telephone. He
is sometimes trusted TO answer calls
through that instrument. Saturday
morning Pat was busy as usual, and for
the moment everybody else was absent,
when the telephone bell sounded. Pat
wiped his oily hands and took up the
sounder. He soon got the name of the
person desiring TO speak with the firm.
A sample of q certain number and grade
of fish oil was wanted. Pat stepped TO
the shelf and got phial, then back to
the telephone and shouted;
"Here it is"
'But send it over" came back
through the instrument; "we can't tell
whether it will suit till we see it. "
Here was dilemma. Pat could not
leave the store to carry the sample of
oil over. But his ready Irish wit was
equal to the occasion. He uncorked the
bottle, held it up close to the trans
mitter and shouted:
''And can't ye tell by the smell of it p
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
Modern Life in the Grecian Capital.
from the Providence tR.I1 star1

From the Providence (R. L. Star.l
The following extracts from a private
letter recently received by Providence
gentleman from an American student in
Athens, Greece, will prove of general
interest: "I live in a Greek family"
he writes, where we speak only Greek.
The house is on Holus Street, with
Socrates, Euripides, and Herinmes Street
not far off; so that you can easily i'm
agine the hallowed associations that are
daily suggested. Our maid of all work
is named Athena. There are twenty.
eight newspapers in the city. I can
count dozen dailies on my fingers, and
I presume there are others of which I
have not yet heard. With that number
of papers and $50 lawyers, as many
priests and dozen thousand soldiers,
the is, 900 people in Athens are pretty
well supplied with these appurtenances
of life. The city is very modern,
though In some parts it does not look
so; but where dirt is allowed to accumu-
late it soon makes things look hoary. I
suppose Athens is type, or better than
the type, of all Oriental cities, and that
where people can make a meal off a
piece of bread and bunch of grapes in
| dustry is not necessary. But l have
not seen a mandatory in the city,
aside from the little shops of few
handi- craftsmen. The whole town has
grown up about the palace Of the king.
The rich men are those who have made
or are making fortunes elsewhere, and
live here for society. The University
of Athens has $500 students, 1900 Of
them In law, and two-thirds Of them des-
tined to be farmers-for many of the
law students will never pratice that pro-
fession. There are hundreds of wine
shops always well filed. The streets
are full of bustling men, but they are
bound for nowhere. At the Pn@us (the
harbor city where are $4,000 people en-
gagged in active industry. Besides the
foreign shipping there is considerable
coasting trade in farm produce. The
people here are very proud, but the
glory of dead past is only bond of
unity and patriotism, not a support of
individual life. There are no parties on
public questions, only cliques support
ing certain leaders with their policies,
which may not be different"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
THE FxULTANT IMPOSTOR.

The intelligence of another massacre
of troops sent against Ell Mahdi is &C
companied by report that enthusiasm
for the false prophet is sweeping over
the Soudan like wild-fre. He is re-
garded with superstitious awe, even in
the Egyptian army, and it is futile to at
tempt 10 destroy him with native troops.
Cairo will soon be menaced, unless an
effective blow is struck to prevent his
advance. The employment of Inu1an
troops, led by few British regiments
is the best method for England to adopt
for the emergehty, and the sooner they
are sent forward the less dreadful will
the results of the "holy war be likely
30 be. Hindoos are so much more nu-
merous than Mohammedans in India
that it will not be dificuItEto secure there
an army of excellent soldiers to subdue
the impostor who announces as his mis-
sion the restoration of the glory of Is
lam
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
At the North End of Moses.

Our contemporary, the Montana
Churehman, Bishop Brewer has the
spiciest anecdote column of any of our
exchanges. The following are some Of.
the many good things found therein:
AT one of the sessions in the Upper
House of the Convocation of Canter-
bury, the meaning of the words "5efore
the table" was under discussion. It
was finally decided that the meaning
was s. at the north end of the table.
After adjournment, the blotter of the
Bishop of Peterborough was found, on
which he had scrubbed the following:
"The piper played sbefore Moses. "
Now this may mean-O that the
piper played antecedently to Moses
birth; or, O. that he played be
fore Moses did; or, 60 it might imply
that the piper played in front OF Moses.
But it means none of these. What this
remarkable man really did was to play
"at the north end Of Noses Z"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
CoNsrANTINoPLE's CoRFLAGRATION

The recent destruction of 600 houses
In the great city of the Bosphorus is
described in a dozen lines by cable, but
pages fail to convey an adequate I'M
preston of the misery it involves. The
fire broke out on the afternoon, and
ragged for four hours before it could be
subdued, the snow storm which aided in
its extinguishment increasing the suffer
ing Of the people rendered shelterless.
According to the best English authori-
ties Constantinople has population of
600, 900, although not including the sub
urbs 5000 would be fair estimate.
The destruction Of 600 houses in Chica-
go would be similar calamity, consid-
ering the difference between American
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
DUAL RULERS.
The Greek Nation Troubled with a
Double Set of Chiefs.

MUsKoGEE, /. r., December 10. "A
Creek council at Okmulgee was ordered
to recount the votes for principal chief
and the count elected Spieche, chief by
81 votes. He WAS duly inaugurated yes
terday and took the oath of
office. The second chief, who
had heretofore refused to take the
the oath on account of the fraudulent
count under which Perriman was chosen,
was also sworn in. This gives the Greek
nation two principal chiefs and adds an
other difficulty to the situation. A large
majority of both houses Of the council
favor Spieche.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
WIS.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1885.
BUTTER AND EGGS.

According to the statistician of the
National Butter, Cheese and Egg Asso-
citation, whose annual meeting was held
at Cincinnati last week, the value OF
those products marketed in the United
States during 1888 is more than $40 for
every man, woman end child in the pop
uIation, not including the 800, 900
worth of milk and cream sold in a nat
uraI state. The eggs received in New
Y annually are worth nearly as much
as the cheese, half as much as the but
ter. and three times as much as the
poultry. We export eggs, but we i'm
port large quantities from Germany,
Denmark and France, and the egg is an
altogether larger institution than most
intelligent people are aware.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
\ New Proposition from China.

A Paris dispatch of the 10th says: at is
understood that Marquis Tseng proposes to
France the following fresh basis for a settle
ment of the Tonquin question. The delta of
the Red River with the city of Sontay to be-
long to France; the delta of the Song-Can
River i'll Bac Mini to belong to China; the
northern and western province of Tonquin to
lsuzeraintY over the kingdom Of Amman.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26

prosperity and Turkish poverty. The
destruction of the palace of the legisla-
tive chambers in Belgium a few days
later was another misfortune to show
that in the old world SIS we'll as in the
new, protection from loss by fire is a
subject which has been neglected.