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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
SPORTING,

CLEMMIE G. is showing up in great
form. She was sent a mile o few DAVIS
ago in 2:191, trotting the last half in
1857.
IT is reported that Clarence jenkins
ran trial mile, on bicycle, at st,
Louis, in two minutes fifty nine seconds
IN the face of a heavy wind, riding his
Expert.
SANTA CLAUS was sent fast mile late
ly at Point Breeze and made it in 1921,
dong the quarter in SO seconds. He
will make his first appearance at the
Chicago Driving Park this month.
The pigeon shooting match at Usage
City, Ks, on the 4th inst, between
Fred Erb, Of ST. Joseph, and J. VI. Her.
shy, Of Usage City, for 5000 a side, fifty
birds, was won by Hershy, the score
standing 40 to 80.
A TRoTEING circuit was completed at
Marshall, Mich, on the 9th inst, and is
TO be known as the Central Michigan
Trotting Circuit. Purses aggregating
$13, 900 have been offered and the follow
Ing programme arranged: Marshall,
July 2l to Aug. 3; Elton Rapids, Aug. s
to IL; Charlotte, Aug Is to Is; Jackson,
Aug. p to "a; Flint, Aug. % to 81.
DANIEL O'LEARY has suffered Sec
ond defeat in Australia. In the six
days walk with William Edwards. which
closed May 9Th, at Sydney, O'Leary
was beaten by seven miles, the score
standing 466 to 459. This was the sec
ond time Edwards beat the exclamation.
but as the attendance at both contests
was large, the loser doubtless obtained a
large sum of money.
The regatta at Lowell on the 4.h was
very successful. The principal race and
great attraction was the professional
single scull free for all. Prizes, $500,
5000, and 500. Distance three miles.
There were seven entries, but only
five started, Hanlan, Hosmer.
Hamm, Conley, and GayseI, of New
York. Banlan won easily; Hosmer
second, Hamm third. HanIan's time
was q minutes and q seconds; Hos
mer's Fl minutes and "a seconds:
Hamn's p minutes and 81 seconds.
The other races were the single~scull
for Lowell men and working boats, free
to all, two miles. Both were won by
Dan Driscoll. The four-oared race,
Lowell boats only, was won by the
Merrirnacs In Il minutes and 23I sec
onds, and the four-oared barge race,
one mile, was won by the Enterprise, Of
Salem, in 81 minutes and All seconds.
TIE following table shows the stand
ing Of the League clubs at the close Of
the games on the 9Th inst:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
SHAVING Dead Men,

From the Detroit Free Press.l
A lady stepped into a barbershop on
Woodward Avenue the other day. lead
ing little child by the hand.
''Can you cut this chIld's hair ?" she
asked of the artist at leisure.
"No, ma'am," was the answer, as the
barber hurried on his coat; "Pve got a
job"
"But will pay you well, persisted
the lady.
''Got job that pays better, ma'am, !"
said the barber; 'fgoing over on Miami
Avenue to shave dead man !"
The lady nearly dropped with horror.
When she could speak she said to the
man who was trying razor with hair
borrowed from his own hair: "It won't
take long to cut this childs hair"
"But 'tother job won't keep-dead
men can't wait. Besides, I'll get s.. %
for shaving of him."
Il was true; the average professional
tonsorial artist hates TO shave a man
when he arrives at that peaceful state
where he can neither be talked to death
nor made to absorb pint of hair-oil in
a shampooing process, and he is super
stitious about cutting into flesh that
can neither feel ror resist; but the fee is
q good one, and he is willing to pocket
his preiudices on one hand and the fee
on the other when the opportunity
presents.
eve don't ike to shave a man after
de spirit am Departed" said one of the
brotherhood. "You can't tell him any
Jokes to pass de time, and its solemner
den a frln'ral. It am sleepy Gravity
kind of a performance wild de chin music
left out. d
The undertaken, while not barber, is
financial way He considers the fee of
the professional quite too large, and
shaves the corpse himself for half the
money.
81 thought" said welI-known
undertaken of this city on Grand River
Avenue, "that any kind of razor would
do to shave dead man with when I be-
gan the work, and I made fearful job
of the first case undertook. The razor
was dull, and what would have been an
abrasion of the skin became livid spot
in death. I learned then that I must use
exactly the same care with dead man
as with q living one. [ generally use
the razor Of the deceased person and
bury it with him. so that it can never be
used again, as it might contain a ter
rible poison-the virus Of DEATH"
els it true that the hair and beard
frequently grow after death ?"
"Not one word of truth in it; just the
merest superstition.
But If is a well-authenticated fact
that missionaries and early settlers in
this country have been found and ex-
humed whose boards had grown through
the face-cloth wrapped about them.
They crumbled to dust on being ex-
posed to the air, but there are those who
saw them and recorded the fact. It was
true OF the first Napoleon"
L" Mere newspaper stories not q
scientific truth at all, said the under
taker. $ helped TO exhume men who
| bad been buried in the Russell Street
Cemetery half a century, and there was
not a hair or any trace Of it left-noth,
! ing but bones"
Al intelligent barber claimed that the
hair could grow simply from the mois.
ture CT decomposition. He said he knew
/ the beard grew after death, and in &
! mos tsre1narkable manner.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
Popular Science Catechism.

From Life
What is this?
A druggists clerk, darling.
Is he not a druggist?
No, dear.
But he is putting up prescription.
Oh, no! he is not.
What, then, is he doing?
He is trying to put one up.
LIS he succeeding?
He is very near success.
How near?
Well, the doctors prescription calls
for five grains of quinine in each dose.
And what is the druggists clerk do
ing?
He is putting five grains of morphine
in each dose.
Oh! But will not this hurt the poor
patient?
Not very much.
But how much?
1t will kill him.
Ny! But what dreadful thing for the
clerk!
Not half SO bad as for the patient.
. What will the poor druggist say when
they arrest him for the murder
He will say his clerk put the prescrip-
ton up.
And what will the poor clerk say?
He will say he was sleepy and mistook
the bottles.
Why! are the bottles of morphine and
quinine kept on the same shelf?
Certainly.
Then such mistakes are liable to occur
at any time?
They are, my precious.
But why does not the poor druggist
hire clerks who know the difference De-
tween quinine and morphine?
Because he can hire a boy who does.
not know, for less money.
Then we are in danger whenever We
take the medicine the poor doctor or
ders ?
We are, darling.
Can we do nothing to protect our.
selves?
Oh, yes.
What?
We can throw the medicine out of the
window.
But is not the druggist or his clerk
punished for killing innocent people in
this way?
No, dear.
Why?
Because the over-zeal Gus coroner fills
the jury with druggists and doctors, and
they acquit both the druggist and his
clerk.
Oh! the druggists and doctors stand
by each other.
Every time.
But when the poor druggists clerk
puts up such dose by mistake, does he
not really murder the poor patient?
Oh, no, my pet.
Why?
Because the poor patient commits sui
eide by taking it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
Terrible Calamity.

A terrible calamity occurred near Renfrew,
on the Clyde, near Glasgow, Scotland, the
steamship Daphne, with over 200 persons on
board, being capszed while being Iaunched on
the Sd inst. The vessel left the ways at q very
fast rate, and when she gained the water she
rolled from side to side, as she had too much
top weight. and finally rolled over and nearly
disappeared beneath the water. 1t is known
said that the companionway of the Daphne is
blocked up 10y q solid mass of bodies one on top
of the other. 1t appears that the men who
were at work below when the ship went over.
rushed from their work and became iammed
in the passage way. Some Of the bodies still
have tools i'll their hands
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
.GE0t Weather.

A New York dispatch of the 9Th says that
city is suffering terribly from the heat. There
were rs cases of sunstroke on that date, three
Of which were fatal. On the 4th the number
of deaths III the city was $50; on the 9Th, 1879;
up to noon on the 9Th 2O5. large proportion
of the victims are children under years of
age in the crowded tenement house districts.
There were three cases of sunstroke in Jersey
City, and five in Philadelphia, five Of them re-
sulting fatally.
The heat in New York on the 7th was most
intense. There were 176 deaths, with IS fatal
cases of surstroke. The street-car companies
erected temporary sheds for their horses.
Each street was patrolled by carts loaded with
blocks of ice and covered by tarpaulins The
greatest suffering was among the immigrants
at Castle Garden. No less than 672 children
under five years Of age died in New York dur
ing the week.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
Earthquakes i'm southern America.

dispatch from Panama under date of June
23d, says: ''The volcano of Ometepe, on Lake
Nicaragua, is in eruption. When the crater
first broke forth people fled to the churches,
feeling that the whole island would be de
stroyed. The valley of the Atrats, in the state
of Cauco, continues to be the center of the
volcanic activity. At Rio 6ucio, forty miles
rom the Atlantic, the earth opened in many
PAGES, throwing out very fine sand in a heated
site. while a subterranean noise was heard,
resembling that made by boiling water. at
Tufbo, on the Guano Uraba, the earth
opened, and water issued, flooding the streets
to depth Of two feet. Many houses were
shaken down. The small villages Of Buiics
and Eicurio were completely engu1phed. The
mouth of the river Leon, which empticd into
the Atlantic. was completely closed up, and
all orer the district the movement of the
earth is so continuous that the inhabitants
are enigrating. Aslight earthquake was felt
at Abmpos, on the river Magdalena, in the
state Of Bolivar, followed by a sharper one,
wher8hocks were also felt at San Salvador and
GuaRgui
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
THE BRITISH DEBT.

II Mr.. Gladstone's promise that the
public debt of Great Britain shall be re-
duced $860,000,0O0 during the next
twenty years is to be verified, he and
his successors in the premiership viii
have to stop all foreign military exploit
alton and land stealing to do it. The
British debt is now about 50, 800, 600, :
900. and it has been reduced about
$4,000, 900 during the last twenty
years. The promised reduction, of
course. can only be accomplished by
twenty years Of profound peace, and
there is very slight guarantee for that.
III. Gladstone came into power IN 1880
On 8 distinctively peace platform and
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
Justice Asleep and Awake.

From the PAladeIphla Ilmes.I
The man whose profound reverence
for the law always breaks out at the
wrong time and in behalf of the wrong
man tells us that the law which should
have hanged Dukes must hang young
Mutt. So it would if God had filed our
veins with ice-water instead OF blood.
But men are not CLAIMS. If the law will
not hang the right man when it should,
because it is asleep, most certainly it
shall not hang the wrong man because
can when it wakes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
The Plague

Alarming reports come across the ocean in
regard to the spread of the cholera. Up to
the 9th inst, the deaths at Damietta, Egypt,
averaged more than one hundred a day. A
few cases are also reported at Ismaila. Cairo
and Port Said. The notice of extreme quaran-
tine Of all vessels from infected ports has al
ready sent number of ships around the cape
which would otherwise have gone through the
prevent the spread Of the scourge, but great
uneasiness is felt at all seaport towns in Europe
Notwithstanding.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
4 Rignteous nNLudge.

Judge Haughn, of Jefferson, Texas, was as
sassinated late on the night Of the I'd inst.
One ball passed through his right breast and
another penetrated his heart. His horses
head and his own clothing were perforated with
buckshot. 1t is not known who did the shoot
ing, but it is believed by Mrs. Haughn that it
was done by negro whose daughter the Judge
had wronged before marriage.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
Judge Lynch in France.

A meeting at Marseiles. attended by a large
number of persons was held on the 9Th inst, to
protest against the sentence recently passed
upon Louise Michel. 4 resolution was adopted
pledging those present to murder the jurymen
who convicted her, ut the first opportunity
The author of the resolution viii be prosecuted
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
Behaved PyrOteChnicS.

At Creston, Iowa, on the evening Of the It'll,
during an exhibition of fireworks postponed
from the Fourth, mass of rockets accident
ally ignited. Several OF them penetrated
plate-glass window in store, killing a lad
named Msckimer and burning or cutting three
other persons.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11

The novel race between Frederick
Hughes catamaran, Jessie, and Ezra
Daggett's horse, Boston, from New
York to Stony Greek, Conn, was won
by the catamaran, which passed New
Haven at 2:30 P. NJ, and landed at the
Stony Creek dock at 1926 Sunday after
noon. The horse passed the same point
going six miles an hour and showing
signs of fatigue at $50 P. NJ, arriving
at its destination at s o'clock. The race
was for 81, 900 a side.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11

On the morning of the LIST inst, Mrs
Christina Ambacher, worthy white woman,
was found dead ten feet from her back door
at Shipwith. Miss, with her skull fractured
and two other wounds on the back of her
head. Suspicion pointed to a negro named
Martin Jones, and he was promptly arrested.
A search of his dwelling revealed bloody
shirt, whereupon he confessed the crime He
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
4 Close Call

a negro named Dick Biggerg, who attempted
to rape servant of t. q. Anderson, at Mount
Sterling, KY, was taken from jail at that place
on the night Of the 7th. and was about to be
hung to railroad bridge when Marshal Pauch,
who broke up the celebrated Barnett bandits,
appeared, and in short speech persuaded the
crowd to let the negro be taken back to jail.
The mob was masked and numbered over fifty.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
Jail Delivery

A jail delivery was effected at Hudson, Wis.,,
on the night of the I'd inst, in which two high
way robbers answering to the names of Lead
and Daily and a sneak-thief by the name of
done by mining the upper southeast corner of
the calaboose, from which nearly half cord of
masonry was moved admitting the rogues to
the world via the courthouse steps.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11

Levi Miller fourteen times, from which he
died. Middleton was drunk.
AT Salem, Ore. on the 4tb inst. the state
prison convicts made break for liberty. Three
were killed aud two wounded. Eight priso-
nCrs escaped.
Two Indians were killed during a bloody
fight OF an Indian dance at Bird Creek, l. L.,
ON the night of the "a inst Over 100 Paw
nees, with drawn ravolvers and knives, took
nor
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
EI1hHniIICa

An unusual number of lightning strokes are
reported from all over the country on the 6h
Several houses were struck in the vicinity Of
Dover, n. H., with fatal results to three PEI
sons. At Bradford, Pa, an oil tank contain
and at Atlantic, Ia, bonded warehouse with
700 barrels of alcohol fell prey to the de-
stroving fluid
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
A Little Mixed.

On the 5th inst, woman named Clark
entered the office OF Mayor Kendrick, of
Waterbury, Conn.,, and saying that her hus-
band had deserted her. asked the mayor if he
proposed he support her. On the official an
swering III the negative, Mrs. Clark accused
him Of being responsible for her death, and
proceeded to swallow big dose of laudanum.
Three doctors and stomach pump averted
death. There is a "nigger in the fence "
somewhere
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
History Repeats

At Galveston, Tex, on the 9th inst, Mrs
Christensen was arrested on a charge of mur.
der. After her arrest the woman made con-
fession, giving the details of seven murders
committed, three of the victims being her own
husbands. Detectives have been on her track
for several years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
A BungIfng sheriff.

At Ell Paso, Tex, on the 5th inst, Joseph
Brewster was hanged for rape on Mrs. Davis,
committed year ago. When the drop fell
Brewster kicked and Writhed so that the rope
nearly slipped off his neck, and he was hauled
up, the rope properly adjusted, and the man
swung Off a second time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
Street Car Accident.

At the Humboldt Street crossing of the
Manhattan Beach Railroad in Brooklyn, on the
4th, a collision took place between locomotive
and street car, the latter being smashed into
splinters. Cur1oUsIy only one passenger was
seriously injured, although the car was fun at
tbe time
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
Under Rans

In the case of the Louisiana State Lottery
injunction case the United States postmaster
general on the 7th inst. promulgated his de-
cision. The document is long and exhaustive,
and is to the effect that the delivery of mail
matter to the above company is contrary to
the United States law against lotteries. Here
after all mail matter directed to that institU-
ton will be returned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
Westward Goeth the Dude.
From the Boomerang. !

4 genuine dude has struck Laramie.
He has a homeopathic head and allo-
pathic feet. His pants are SO tight that
he never takes them of, and he has a
plate glass window in one eye. The
other is closed for repairs, He got on
the widest kind of debauch last night
with half an ounce of pepper sauce and
8 bunch OF cigarettes. He halls from
New York.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
Starvation i'm Vermont.

-Four companies 'of Vermont militia, under
Governor Barstow's personal command, went
to the copper mines at Ely, on the 18th inst,
and captured eleven of the rioters. 1t was
found that the families of some miners were
on the verge Of starvation. and women carry
ing babes appealed for assistance. The COM
pany will disburse 50, 500 at once, and make
weekly payments on the amount due the strik-
a1c
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11

was placed ia charge OF q posse and started
for the county jail at Mayersville. The posse
had not proceeded more than a mile before it
was overpowered by a mob who took the pris-
oner TO the most convenient tree and hanged
him
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
ONLY Gnes

The negro John Cone. for the rape of the
white woman, Mrs. Scott. IN January, 1882,
was hanged in Jail at Houston, Tex, on the
9th, in the presence of 100 persons, among
whom were the husband and father of the out
ragged woman. Cone made short speech on
the scaffold, protesting his innocence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11

J. Annoy Knox, editor of Texas Siftings, and
David B. Sheahan, New York sculptor, had a
"little difficulty" in the studio Of the latter q
short time ago, which was settled according to
1.-THE CODE" on the 9Th inst, on Long Island
at twenty PAGES. Knox was slightly wounded
in the arm
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
Another County Heard From.

At the Sligo Creland) assizes on the 7th
inst. RogerSor, fanny, Kelly and Houghton,
accused of conspiracy, were convicted. Alleged
crime intended was the blowing up of the
Weston House. Galway.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
CrOnksA CAPTURES.

wac decided o9 tba 7tb met tbot knnoItoe -
tured by Crook in his recent raid should be
detained at the San Carlos reservation as pris-
oners of war, in charge of the war depart
ment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11

Ehicano,s sseeuEar.

j. II. FLYNN shot Wm. Mccarthy at No. 80
North Oakley Avenue, Chicago. on the night Of
the 9Th inst, inflicting wound from which he
died. All parties were drunk.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
six perNORrs KILLED.

A fatal accident occurred on the Cincinnati
Hamilton and Dayton Railway at Winton Place
crossing, OHIO. just north of Spring Grove
Cemetery. at S:45 o'clock tonight, whereby six
persons were instantly killed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11

SIXTEEN COWS, twice a day." is the
boast Of a Vermont milkmaid. She
ought to have rest in the udder world.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11

MUsTARDvI1LE is the name of new
town in Washington Territory.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-06-30
To Campmeeting!
Oregon.

On Sunday last the writer ard three
OF four friends essayed matutinal air.
ing behind one of Cartons best teams
The objective point of the party was
tae campmeeting ground, six miles
above Roseburg On Deer creek, where
the church people known as United
Bretheren in Christ were holding a
campmeeting in conjunction with the
session Of the annual conference for
the current year.
The trip from Roseburg thence was
most refreshing, the cool, hracing air
from the Cascades beyond wooing us
to prolong the drive, even though the
full tones of the choral wershipers re-
minded of the day and occasion.
The grounds are not we'll adapted to
campmeeting purposes, and the Deer
creek church-house location must have
decided the matter when the selection
was made, for there was scarcity OF
good, refreshing water and a super
abundance of noise and dust near the
stand erected for the outdoor services.
The orderly manner of all present
was very noticeable and was in marked
contrast to the dissraceful scenes that
often marred similar gatherings in the
estates in earlier times. The day
was warm, but the interest in the de-
vot'ons seemed to find its climax il
the class or experience meeting prelud
ing the Bishops annual sermon. This
earnestness with which old and young
poured forth their testimony prec.rdes
the assumption that religion, pure anc
undefled, no longer holds sway in tht
hearts Of the people.
In the evening when the shadow.
from the oaks and pines surrounding
the scene Of the meeting had cas-
their inviting shade to its almos
ultimate limit, we turned cur eyes anc
horses homeward, glad to see again rh,
place where we exc out an existence a
purveyor to the discriminating liter
ary tastes of our readers.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-06-30
FRENCH SETTLEMENT.

Weather cool and dry. , sss
The district school closed on the 22d.
Our Sunday Scool is made interest
ing by large attendance.
Z. F. Conn has returned from Salem
where he has been attending school.
His many friends are pleased to well
come him home again.
"Uncle Billy Rose has again re-
turned to his fishery at the junction Of
the north and south Umpqua, and is
gathering his annual tribute from the
6nny tribe.
The people Of this district have COM
pleted woodshed at tho schoolbouse,
and contemplate other improvements
which will make it one OF the most
convenient in the county.
A petition is being circulated in
Coles valley asking the county COM
missioners for an appropriation te
bridge the Umpqua at Reseburg.
Signers will no doubt be 'Like angels
! visits, few and far between A
bridge with nothing but sheep path
leading to it is not what is wanted
here. Better place it where the people
can get to it. NEWsBoY.