Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16

were promptly rescued, and when
aroused and seeing that they were in
strange locality and in the open air they
were nearly frightened to death. They
had been shaken up and knocked about,
carried up into the air above the tops of
the trees and then dropped into the bro
ken shell of another house and yet we're
not awakened. The story is a tough one,
but is vouched for by Mr.. Smith, on
whose plantation they lived. Macon
(GG) Telegraph.
OLD RHINE WINES.
A thousand louisdo'r, OF 1890, for a
fudder of IL ohms of 10-year-old Jo-
hannisberg equal to about G5 dozen
was good price to pay, on the spot,
in 1889 and it is recorded to have been
actually paid by an Englishman. Such
a wine were worthy of the regal nipple
ment which gives it's name to the ''Gold-
ener Pfropfenzieher" at OberweseI,
whose signboard Schroeder painted, and
which Badeker still affectionately marks
with a *. The ordinary cost of the first
quality, as soon as it became salable, was
then from three to four thousand forms,
or about third of the Englishman's
mad price. The Abbey of Johannis-
berg, which was also called Bischoffs-
berg, was then mere clubhouse of the
powerful and wealthy Abbey of Fulda,
where the best of the wine was sent year
by year. Still there remained IN the
immense cellars thousands of fuddere.
Bischoffsberg was founded as a Bene-
dictine convent (ss* montes Bene-
dictus amabat') in HOG, by Ruthard,
oF hoiV,
mantled in the sixteenth century by the
Markgraf Albrecht, of Brandenberg,
and subsequently entirely demolished by
the Swedes in the Thirty Years war. It
was then mortgaged by Archbishop An
selm Casimir, and sold by the mortga-
gee-one Hubert Won Bleimann-. to the
Abbot of Fulda, who rebuilt the schloss,
the church, and-the cellars. When
Fulda was suppressed, in 1902, SchIoss
Johannesburg fell to the Prince of
Orange; in 1907 Napoleon gave it to
Kellermann--if because of his name, he
made one of the best practical Jokes on
record and it was finally presented, in
1916, by the Emperor of Austria, as an
imperial fef, to Prince Metternich, who,
ere he blossomed into princedom, had
long, as Graf Won Metternlch, owned
considerable property, not far off, at
Rudesheim, including the fine ruins of
the Bromserberg. Saturday ReyieaU.
IN THE HANDS OF THE RUSSIAN POLICE.
In Russia every one who has the mis-
fortune to fall into the hands of the
police as political offender-no matter
how trivial his offense may be-is, in
ninty nine cages out of q hundred,
lost man. The preliminary detention is
made at the arbitrary pleasure of the
prosecution, which in Russia is another
name for the police; they can arrest and
detain whom they will. No blame at
taches to mistaken arrest; on the con-
trary, the more arrests the greater the
merit of the prosecutor. Forinstance, at
the time of the trial of the hundred and
ninty- three" in 1878, there were, over and
above this number of the accused, about
1,400 persons arrested. Of these half
were set at liberty after few months,
but the remainder were kept in prison
during the whole four years that the
case lasted; save only rs who died,
some by suicide, some of consumption,
some insane. And In more recent
times, when the white terror followed
upon outbreaks of revolutionary terror
ism, and especially in the reign of Alex
ander III. who invented species of
political proconsuls, sucn as Strelmikoff,
to devastate towns and provinces, and
arrest right and left-the seventies have
been even greater. But / have no pos
tive figures at hand. The normal pen
alties for political crimes are simply
Draconian-10 years at the galleys for
for single speech or for reading or pre-
serving a proclamation. And whenever
prosecution follows an outbreak, the
tribunal receives special orders to ag-
gravate the penalties so as to make ''a
salutary example" ands-the iverdict bes-
come legal assassinations of the most
monstrous character. The lad Rosovksy
was condemned to death aud actually
hanged at Kiev on the 18th of March,
1880, for merely having in his house a
proclamation of the Executive Com
mittee. The same Judgment was
passed on the student Ffremoff for hay
ing lent a room in his house to two
plan of escape without even
taking their young host into confidence.
But his sentence was committed to a
lifelong condemnation to the galleys in
consequence of having the weakness to
appeal for mercy. Drobiasgin, Maid
ansky, Lisogrub, TohubaroV, we're all
hanged-some for having subscribed
money to the revolutionary cause, others
for conveying box, of which they did
not know the contents, but which proved
to contain notes for circular drawn up
by two or three youths, offenses, one
and all, which the actual law of the
country Furnishes only with exile OF few
years of imprisonment:-St IN
the Contemporary ReU6eaO.
The British Hangman.