Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-11
will yield enough profit to justify ship
ments from Oregon to the East

will yield enough profit to justify ship
ments from Oregon to the East.
Edmund de Goncourt, the veteran
novelist, thinks the last revolution the
novel will have to pass through in order
to become the vehicle of modern thought
will have been achieved when it is made
into book of pure analysis.
The Orangeburg is. CO. Democrat
"honestly believes" that four-fiths of the
white people of the State are opposed to
being taxed to educate the negroes, and
at no distant day will demand the repeal
of the law. The Charleston News dis
putes this.
Two boys, 13 years of age, while fish
ing in a slough near Eureka, CAL, the
other day were attacked by a deer. They
broke his horns off with club, end after
a hard fight succeeded in knocking him
down. when they cut his throat with a
pocket knife.
A carrier pigeon arrived in Paris about
ten days ago from Oson, Switzerland,
about $50 miles from the French capital
The bird was sent off on the I'd Of Sep
tember last by the Societe Colombophile
de Paris, but the stormy weather since
retarded the pigeon.
The national debt continues to melt
away under the wise and judicious fnan-
ciering of Republican craftsmanship. 1t
was reduced in the amount of Sd, ,763, 241
during the month of May, and notwith.
standing this, there is to. pay balance of
$147,817, ,66O in available cash in the
Treasury.
Mrs. Bolton writes in the independent:
Great numbers of postoffices iD England
are managed by women. / said to one
in London: "You manage this as well
as man." "We are said to do it better, -
she replied, "because they say, we are
quicker and more patient"
The Leavenworth correspondent of the
St. Louis Republican unearths from for
gotten records the circumstances under
which General Phil Sheridan was fined
800 for assault and battery by Kansas
court on a charge trumped up by sutler
whom he had arrested in the line of his
official duty.
Whitelaw Reed, the editor of the New
York Tribune, has the finest house ever
owned or occupied by New York editor,
and one of the best features is its ex:en-
sire library. He does most of his editor
ial writing at home. He is now AZ years
of age, and has been connected with the
Tribune for sixteen years r.
+ Prof. Richard A. Proctor claims thai
If the full power of the xrms and legs
can be 90 applied to ingepiously arranged
mechanism as 10 work wings more or les.
resembling those Of . bird, there is little
reason Of doubling mans power of sus-
tanning himself in the air, or even trav-
cling with great rapidity throughit.
Lord Coleridgs's friends say that biz
book ON America, now nearly completed
will create sensatiou, and that "Ameri
cans will be surprised at the matter con-
tanned in certain chapters devoted to &
correction of ultra. American sentiments
delivered by Coleridge in some of biz
after.dinner and levee oratory, and which
were so i'll received by his more conserYa
tive English friends"
Though ninety-tsvea years have passed
since the organization OF the Govern
ment, the metbod Of selecting Presiden-
tiaf candidates by National Convention:
has been IN vogue only some fifty years
The first President who was nominsted
By National Convention was Martin
Van Buren, who received the Democrat.
ic nomination for that Office in 1885.
The Chairmen of the Republican Ma.
tionsl Conventions of the past have been
Henry S. Lane, of indianapolis, in 1856;
George Ashmun, of Massachusetts, in
1860; William Denison, of Ohio, in 1864;
General Joseph r. Hawley, of Connecti-
cut, in 1858; Thomas Settle, of North
Carolina, in 1872; Edward Mcpherson,
of Pennsylvania, in 1876; Senator George
F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, in 1880, and
now Hon. John B. Henderson, of Mis-
souri,.
A letter from Raleigh in the New York
Post credits the Republicans of North
Carolina with an excellent prospect Of
victory in the coming election. They
have adopted the policy pursued in every
case heretofore by the successful party
nominated man of the people for Coy.
ernor. The man is Tyre York, Repre-
sentatiyesin Congress from the Seventh
District, a physician and ''man~o of the
people in q sense that no other recent
politician Except Senator Vance) is.''
Miss Anna Goodwin, the daughter OF
Parke Goodwin, of New. York, is engaged
to be married to Turk by the name OF
,DeCastro, who is in this country to look
after the interests, Of Mr.. Mackey in the
new cable company. DeCastro was Mr..
Mackey's private secretary, but his busi-
ness talents were more available in an
other position, and he sent him over here
on this important mission. Miss God
win will not be the first American girl to
marry Turk. Two of the. Turkish min
listers have married New Yorkers. Blac-
que Bey married a daughter of Dr.
Valentine Mott, and his son, Valentine
Blacque, is well known broker, and a
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