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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

Congressman Lynch, of Mississippi,
expresses confidence that the Republicans
may carry the State, and being asked
whether he thought it possible that, in
such contingency, the votes could be
counted, he said: "Our chances of get
ting a fair count are certainly worth the
effort to secure majority Of the votes,
and we are going ahead and shall vote
Notwithstanding the Democratic newspa-
pers threaten the use of the shotgun if
the Republicans make any organized
effort to elect their candidates.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

LIEUTENANT GREEDY thinks that
there is an open Polar sea, but that the
North Pole is inaccessible. His men
went 10 latitude S3 degrees and 20 min
utes north, or just 400 miles from the
imaginary pole. This is the total result
of the expense, the suffering, the loss of
life, the cannabalism and the other hor-
rors included in all the experiments for
purposes of Arctic discovery.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
GonntY and Senatorial CONVENTION.

A convention of the Rep lblcans of Jefferson
county and the 23d Senatorial district, will be
held at the Court House in Jefferson on Satur-
day, August 3Oth, at O'Clock p m. for the pur,
pose of electing six delegates to represent SAD
COUNTY in the state convention to be held in
Madison, september Sd; and to also elect two
delegates to represent said senatorial district in
the Congressional convention to be held at Be-
lott, September 10th. s,4.
Each town viii be entitled to five delegates
and each ward in cities and Incorporated VII
lagos to two delegates in said convention.
= j. 7. MOAK,
j. w. OSTRANDER,
NJ H GANONG,
MARK CURTIS,
F. NJ, GRISWOLD,
no+o6 Apcust nth. 1884. County Committee.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

w. H. BARNUM the Chairman OF the
National Democratic Committee, was
robbed recently, and in the stolen peck
etbook found were thirty annual rail
road masses. Now the Democratic anti
monopoly papers desire to know how he
obtained them and why he accepted them.
while pretending to be in favor of anti
monopoly, etc.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

THE New York Sun (Dem.) says:
1.-THE prompt action which Mr.. Blaine
has taken to stamp out scandalous
story concerning his early life commends
itself to all decent men. The denial,
coming so promptly, in such vigorous
form, and precisely at IA time when it
suggests interesting comparisons, in
creases our respect for Mr.. Blaine's cour
AGE"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
Very Remarkable Recovery

Mr.. Geo. V. Willing. of Manchester,
Mich, writes: s'My wife had been almost
helpless for five years, SO helpless that
she could not turn over in bed alone.
She used two bottles Of Electric Bitters,
and is SO much improved, that she is
able now to do her own work"
Electric Bitters will do all that is
claimed for them. Hundreds of test.
monials attest their great curative pow
ers. Only fifty cents bottle at H. T.
Eberle's
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
Assembly First District Convention.

A Republican convention of the First Assem-
blv district of Jefferson county will be held at
t,,a office of the REPUBLICAN, in the city of Wa.
tertown. on Saturday, September 6, 1884, at z
clock D. m, for the purpose of eectlng Two Two
delegates to represent said district IN te Id 81
Congressional District Convention 10 pe nelu l, d.
BeioIt, Wednesday, Septemb r 10. Each town
will be entitled to five and each ward OF CIV
=? So ID convention VIM L. NORRIS,
- 9'Ao JAMES MCCALL,
w. E. BUTCHER,
n S. GREENE,
r. N. POTTER,
District Com
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

CLEVELAND has carefully considered
the Democratic platform, and $50 plain a
statement of Democratic faith and prin-
ciples'' needs no supplement. That
"plain statement Watterson says, means
free trade, while Alex Mcclure says 1t
means protective tariff.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
HENDRICKS RECORD.

Voted against repeal
of fugitive slave law.
Voted against constl-
tutional amendment
forever prohibiting
slavery.
Voted against giving
the freedmen the right
WAR RECORD of suffrage,
of Voted in Indiana to
Thomas A. Hen. make It a crime for
bricks. any colored person to
come into the state.
Voted against giving
colored people the
rights of citizens in
District of Columbia.
Declared that the
Emancipation Procla-
nation was wicked.
philadelphia Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
Rucklen's Arnica NaIye

The Best Salve in the world for cuts.
bruises sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands. chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-.
lively cures Piles, or no pay required. It
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price Is cents Der
cox For sale by H. T Eberle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

CAN any one tell us what Grover
Cleveland ever did to qualify him for the
position Of Observation-Disclosures Journal
That is pretty hard one. In this
vicinity, where Mr.. Cleveland is known
best it will be given up without strug-
gle.-Lockport Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

IT is said that St. Johns candidacy
has not "made hole as big as pin
head in the solid Republican vote OF
Kanaas."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

THE Springfield Republican predicts
that the Butler vote IN MASSACHUSETTS VIII
not exceed $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
Watertown 'THarket.

Red Winter Wheat.................. "a
White Winter wheat so
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

WAR RECORD
of
Thomas A. Hen.
bricks.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-22
Charcoal and Salt for Stock,

Farmers all know the value of salt fo]
stock, and yet we doubt if there are many
of them who furnish it as freely as they
should. Salt should be given once week
at the least, and in most instances we doubt
if it would not be better to keep it lying by
the stock, or at their feeding places, ali the
time. Salt is healthful,- acts BEAUTIFULLY on
the blood, counteracts to great extent the
effects of bad water and bad food, and pro.
tects from epidemic or contagious diseases.
Plenty Of salt to hogs and young stock
tends to prevent worms Salt, as is we'll.
known, tends to produce thirst, and alb
serbs the gases by which worms are sus-
tanned. OF course it tends to improve the
stock and keep them in better condition.
To make stock pay, it is necessary TO take
good care of it, but until salt is provided in
ample quantity,you have not quite fulfilled
your duty toward them.
But there is another article that is very
beneficial to domestic animals, and we had
like to have said as necessary for them as
salt. And that is charcoal All highly fed
animals should have charcoal given them
plentifully, and there is no stock that an
occasional dose of it will not benefit. Char
coal heals and strengthens the stomach and
alimentary canal, allays Inflammation, alb
serbs putrescent gases and prevents collie,
and imparts tone and increased power. to
the digestive organs. 1t is particularly
useful in the summer season, as then stock
partake of greater variety and more sue
culent food calculated to produce disorders
of the system.
The farmer and stock-owner, then, should
be sure to provide himself with quantity
of pulverized charcoal, and should give it to
all his animals about once week regular
ly, and as much oftener as he finds any of
them ailing. The dose may be from one
teaspoonful for a young animal to one or
more spoonfuls to a grown COW or horse. 1t
may by given with certainty that it will be
eaten, by mixing it with the salt, as the
latter is fed. Or it may be put with meal
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-22

: STANDARD TIME--East OF Huntington, 18th
meridian, or Eastern time; West of Hunting
ton, Goth meridian, or Cen Iral time, which is
one hour slower than Eastern time
Nos and s, daily except sunday. Do not
run between Clifton Forge and Huntington.
Nos. and 5, daily between Clifton Forge and
Ashland. No. 2. daily except Saturday. Clifton
Richmond to Clifton Forge.
G. & o. Sleeping Cars on trains Nos. 2 and 5,
between Richmond and Clifton Forge.
Nos. and 4. Washington, Louisville, and
Cincinnati Express, Solid Trains with Pullman
Sleeping-Cars and Coaches without change,
run daily between Louisville and Washing
ton and Cincinnati and Richmond. Do not
stop for local.ousiness.
CHARLOTTESVILLE ACcoMMoDATIoN.-No.7 7,
leaves Richmond, except Sunday, 400 p M;
arrive Char lOttesville, Oils D. m.
No T. daily, except sunday. leave Cannelton
Sis a M, al rive Huntington ILLS p. m.
No. 8, daily except Sunday, leave Hunting
ton BIS p M, arrive Cannelton SIS p. m,
Old Dominion steamers will leave either
from Norfolk or Newport News for New York
on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Satur-
day. at 500 p. m.
GoING NoRTH.-Pullman Parlor Cars on s:35
P. NJ Train from Old Point connect with Pull
man Sleeping Cars TO New York at X. F. & p.
Junction. From the North, Pullman Sleeping
Cars connect at R. F. & P. Junction with Pull
man Parlor Cars to Old Point. The latter Train
leaves Richmond il:25 A. M. daily; arrives Old
Point 2l0P. M.
For Rates, Tickets Baggage Checks, apply to
any office of G. & o. R'y; or Depot or Ticket
Office of connecting lines.
n. w. FULLER,
G. W. SMITH, Gen'l Pass'r Agent.
Gen'l Manager. APPS
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-22
A Village Gossip.

write this from country village con-
tanning about 1000 Inhabitants 1t is a
lovely little town, nestled on side hill to
break Off the raw winds Of winter and the
hurricanes of summer. When | arrived
this morning it seemed to me as if there
could not be a bad man or scolding woman
III the village but four hours have passed.
and l am wiser man. l came here to see
old Mrs. Brown about pension she wants
from the government, and when we had
finished our business, said:
81 see you have four churches here
''Yes; but we never have any sermons
worth listening to-
"The men look intelligent and smart"
''Humph They are regular pokes
There isn't a man in Farmville who knows
enough to ask boot in a horse trade.'
"But the women look happy, I pro-
tested"
"Then they look what they ain't,' she
answered. 81 don't believe there is a
happy woman in the whole village. If you
knew of the awful carvings on here you
would not look for happy wives.''
'What awful things do the men do.''
''You had better ask what they don't do
It's a wonder to me that Farmville hash t
shared the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah ="
"Do they drink
''De they? Didn't see even old Deacon
Harris weaving this way and that as he
climbed the hill last evening? It's Slip
perry path, of course, but sober men don't
climb hill sideways"
''DO they gamble ?''
..Gamble What did Mrs. Potts tell me
that her brothers wife told Mrs. Davis not
a month ago? Four of the leading men in
the place were caught playing checkers
for the soda water. That nice example,
Isn't it?''
'1sn't Mrs. Potts nice p
"Nlce Why, she's the worst gossip in
town It's a wonder the men don't duck
her in the mill pond %
'And Mrs. Davis? %
''She's hypocrite f! She'll talk sweet to
your face and abuse you behind your
back"
Mrs. George is well spoken ofP'
"By whom? I've known her fifteen
years, and | never heard human being
speak well Of her She eats opium and lies
like a trollop!
'1sn't Mrs. McHenry all right?"
Gail right? Why, no one can live in the
house next to her,"
''The Postmaster seems like good man."
I ventured to remark.
"Good man Why, my husband always
believed that he was the very man who
threw yaller dog down our well | don't
say that he steals letters, but I know that
when l sent two three cent stamps to my
daughter in letter in Illinoy, she never
got it."
''But there must be one good man here?"
''There must, Ell Well, 1 wish you'd
pint him out to me. I'd like to polish
up my spectacles and take good look at
him.
'sAnd isn't there one faultless woman ?''
"Well, don't want to seem vain and
conceited. because none of us are long for
this world, but I expect Pm the fauitless
one you are inquiring after -
l think l shall go out ON the evening
train. Mrs. Brown says that every house
and lot is mortgaged, every business man is
ready to "bust," and every family has at
least one scandal about them On nv way
over to the post-office an hour ago I asked
a grocer if he knew old Mrs. Brown.
know her Why she's gossip, liar,
a hypocrite and dead beat, and too lazy
to change her stockings more than twice a
year r'-DetroH Free Press.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-22
Vital Questions /! !

hSh GIlC LlOSU clulucuU puySlCldn
Of any school, what is the best thing in
the world for quieting and allaying all irri-
tation Of the nerves and curing all forms
childlike refreshing sleep always?
And they will tell you unhesitatingly
''Some form of Hops p
CHAPTER I.
Ask any or all of the most eminent ply
sicians:-
''What is the best and only remedy that
can be relied on to cure all diseases of the
kidneys and urinary organs; such as
Bright's disease, diabetes, retention or ina
bility to retain urine, and all the diseases
and ailments peculiar to Women
tAnd they will tell you explicitly and
emphatically "Buchu."
Ask the same physicians
"What is the most reliable and surest
cure for all liver diseases or dyspepsia; con-
stipati' n, indigestion, biliousness, malarial
fever, ague, &c ," and they will tell you
'Mandrake! or Dandelion %
Hence, when these remedies are COM
bined with others equally valuable
And compounded into Hop Bitters, such
a wonderful and mysterious cuI alive power
is developed which is so varied in it's opera
tions that no disease or ill-health can posi-
bly, exist or resist its power, and yet it is
Harmless for the most frail woman, weak
est invalid, or smallest child, to use.
CHAPTER II.
patients
Almost dead or nearly lying"
For years, and given up by physicians of
Bright's and other kidney diseases, liver
complaints, severe coughs called consump-
ton, have been cured.
Women gone nearly crazy
From agony of neuralgia, nervousness,
wakefulness, and various diseases peculiar
to women.
People drawn out of shape from excruciating
pangs of rheumatism
Inf1ammatory and chronic, or suffs ring from
scrofulai
Eryspelas!
Salt rheum, blood poisoning, dyspepsia, in
digestion, and fact almost al: diseases Trail
Nature is heir to
Have been cured by Hop Bitteis. proof 81
which can be found in every neighborhood in
the known world. april ly
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-22
First Presidential Election.

1t occurred in the middle of a cold win
ter, most inconvenient season. Congress
did not learn the acceptance of the new
Constitution by a sufficient number of
States until late in the summer of 17SS, and
did not name the day for the election of a
President until the 18th of September.
The three interesting days were then APP
pointed-the ''three Wednesdays as they
were called On the first Wednesday of
January, 1889, the people were to elect
Presidential electors. On the first We'd
nesday of February the electors of each
State were to meet and choose President
and Vice President. On the first Wednes-
day in March (Which was the 4th) Congress
was to meet in New York, count the electo-
| raj votes, and set the new government in
| motion.
So the first Presidential election took
place at very cold time of the year. Mr..
Madison, afterward President, who was al
ways fond of his joke, used to take much
pleasure in telling his friends what re-
markable time they had at that winter
election. He was running for Congress in
Virginia against James Monroe, who was
destined to succeed him in the Presidency.
The two candidates had a public discus
sion one Sunday afternoon in the open air,
from the steps of a Lutheran church.
1t was not usual then to hold political
meetings on Sunday, but the issues were
deemed so important, and it was so hard to
get people together in the middle of win
ter that it was thought proper to invite
the congregation after church to listen to a
political debate
A keen northeastern was blowing. When
Mr.. Madison mounted the steps, and adj
dressed the people, he had to face as sharp
a wind as ever blew in Virginia. 1t was SO
cold that one of the speakers ears was fro.
zen, and SO badly, too, that the ear showed
some traces of it to his dying day. As Mr..
Madison told the story, he would point to
the marks upon his ear, as ''the honorable
scars he had borne from the battlefield"
Out of the whole body of voters it is
questionable if a hundred would have cast
their votes against Gen. Washington.
AS to the Vice-Presidency, nobody ap-
pears to have wanted the Office very much.
1t was generally agreed that, since Virginia
was to give a President, Massachusetts
ought to furnish the Vice President. The
three candidates most spoken of were Sam
uel Adams, John Hancock, and John
Adams. Gov. Hancock was too proud to
want the second place. Samuel Adams
was not thought to be hearty friend of
the new Government.
The choice, therefore, fell upon John
Adams just home from England and Hol-
| land, where he had served his country with
great ability.
believe his descendants to this day pos
sess ''the chain and medal of gold, of the
value of ], 300 FORMS" which was given to
him that year by their High Mightinessess,
the chief magistrates of Holland.-James
Parton.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-22

or hominy, and fed dry. For poulty, mix
it with the dough. 1t is very good for
young chickens and other young fowls,
keeps them healthy, and strengthens them
against the gapes, but will not prevent it.
There would be much less heard of chicken
cholera, and hog cholera, too, if farmers
would make free use of charcoal. Every
farmer can make his own supply of it, in
deed, there are so many uses for it in sum-
mer that it is really surprising it is so little
employed on the farm. The free use of
salt and charcoal would do much to prevent
disease, and insure healthy meat, milk, and
butter They are natures remedies, both
simple and abundant. Try them.-Peters-
burg Index Appeal.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-22

The ,colored editor of newspaper in IL
linois declares that if he be not elected a
delegate to the National Republican Con-
vention he will not only leave the Republi-
can party bit carry with him all the color
ed voters in his district. Heis right. The
colored voters in Illinois make that State
Republican, and if the white Republicans
there ignore them in the distribution of the
honors and emoluments of the party, they
have the means in their own hands Of en-
forcing their demands for redress, and
should not hesitate to apply them at once.
And what is good rule in Illinois would
be better one in Virginia, where, except
for the colored vote, the Republicans would
be impotent, and the Mahoneites, nothing.
-Aler. Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-22
"TELL ME THE OLD, OLD STORY

The dear little Misses we meet with in life
What hopes and fears they awaken;
For when a man chooses Miss for a wife
He may be Miss-led or Miss-taken.
When 1 courted Miss Kid and secured the kiss,
1 thought, in the warmth of my passion,
That I'd made a great Hit in thus securing a
Miss;
But it was only characterization.
For so many Misses surrounded Miss Kid,
With me and my love interfering,
A jealous Miss-trust put 1t into her head
That she ought not to give men a hearing.
Then certain Miss-chance that I met with
oned day
Almost sent my hopes to destruction.
For she felt suspicion of what would say.
All owing to one Miss construction.
Deceived by one Instrumentation wrote,
The cause of her anger demanding;
Miss-direction prevented her getting the note
And introduced Miss understanding;
When to make her my wife exultingly swore
Miss belief made her doubt my intention,
And nearly got wed to Misfortune before :
could wean her from Miss apprehension.
But when she no longer would yield to Miss
doubt,
Nor De leu by misrepresentation,
She had with Miss-like a most serious fall Out
And to wed felt no more hesitation.
But when to the church to be married we went
hiss-take made the parson to linger.
And got SO annoyed by an awkward Miss-fit
That put the ring on the wrong finger.
Having been SO Miss-used, 1 kept stric
watch,
For still felt a fear of Miss leading;
And 1 found. when too late, an unlucky Miss
match
Interfered with the joys of our wedding.
Miss-rule in our dwelling put everything
wrong,
Miss management there took her station,
Till my cash, like the time taken reading thi
song,
Was all wasted by Miss-applIcation.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-22
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-22
Among the Whitest Things on Earth

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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-22
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