Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-28

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The curfew is still rung at many towns
in England, and at Ripon a horn is blown
at p. M, in memory of the presentation
to the city of horn, still extant, by
King Alfred.
Great Britain is reducing her national
! debt each year about as much as the
! United States reduces it per month. 1t
IS still about twice in amount that of the
the United States.
The unpopularity of American hogs in
| Germany is not altogether inexplicable
when it is remembered how some of them
act in picture galleries and hotels.-PhiL-
GdetphiG Press
Intemperance among women is increas-
ing in Great Britain. Some years since
it was five Incorporate women to ten
men, but later statistics make it stand
seven women to ten men.
The Government has decided to re-
ease Sitting Bull and 40 braves from
military custody. They will be taken,
May l from Fort Randall and placed up
on a reservation at Standing Rock Agen-
cy. They profess an earnest desire for q.
life of peace and industry in farming and
stock raising.
Jenny Lind now resides in London2,
and is by no means the aged lady that
some reports describe, She is 60, but
does not look over so; her eyes bright.
and happy, ard her form well preserved
She retains warm memories of the stagey
and has kindly welcomed and advised
the young singers who have sought her
out. But her general advice to aspirants
is-Don't.
Miss Lottie Galloway, the Baltimore
young lady who has been converted to
the Jewish faith is handsome girl with
light hair. blue eyes and fair complexion.
She has admired the habits and ceremo-
nies of the Hebrews from childhood.
Her name is changed from Lottie to Re-
becca. She observes all the Jewish Gus
toms, and has become proficient in the
Hebrew language. Her only motive was
her love of the faith.
The London Figaro says: "Wagner
left larger fortune than was thought.
Herr Neumann alone paid him nearly
$4,000 year in royalties, and the total
income from this source is nearly thrice
that sum- Wagner has also left about
100000 in cash besides his freeholds.
The opera on which he was engaged at
the time of his death is entitled Die Bus
ser ('The Penitent') But it is in too
incomplete state to be touched by other
hands,"
So numerous has the emigration to
America become in Switzerland lately,
that the utter depopulation of some dis
tricts is threatened. Already one dis
trict (Guitannen) is without solitary in
habitant In other portions of Europe
the emigration furor is growing rapidly,
and the prospect is that we will receive
greater addition to our population from
Europe the present year than during any
preceding year in American history.
CoLLEcToRsHIPs ABOLISHED WASH
INGToN, March 21.-President Arthur
has decided to abolish the Offices of Is of
the internal revenue collectors. This
will rob number of Democrats of sup
ply of campaign thunder. They have
said "What if Congress did cut down the
| internal revenue taxes, they did not abol-
| ish the place of one of the federal Office
holders" Only some OF the Southern
members did not use so polite phrase as
that. They said every federal pimp and
spy of the Internal Revenue Bureau was
still retained. With the abolished col
lectors will go small army of subordin-
ates. President Arthur is doing so much
in the way of civil-serYice reform that he
will leave but few laurels for the civil
| service commission.
The general call of the National League
of Ireland, the Irish National Lsnd
League of the United States and Canada,
and of the Committee of Seven, signed by
Patrick Egan, Of the National League
of Ireland; James Mooney, president of
Irish-American Land League; Nicheai
Boland, chairman Of the Committee of
Seven, for the Irish-American National
Convention, in Horticultural Hall, Phil
adelphia, on April 26, has been issued.
The call Is for the purpose ofexpressng
sympathy with the suffering people of Iref
land, land to potest against the despoiling o.
the constitutional liberties of her people.