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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
A GOldsmith's Exhibition.

A Vienna letter in the London Stand
ard describes an exhibition of rare gold
smiths work which will shortly be
opened in Pesth, in the rooms of the
National Museum. Among the exhibits
will be some richly ieweled crowns of
historical interest and a number of
pyxes, chalices, and other ecclesiastical
objects, some of which are of immense
value. The bulk of the exhibition will
consist OF valuable gold plate and per-
sonal jewelry either of Hungarian man.
ufacture or the property of the old Hun
garian families. The principal objects
have been lent by the Imperial Schatz-
hammer at Vienna. and by the various
archdukes, magnates and ecclesiastics,
and a few have come from abroad,
Amongst the crowns is one, set with
pearls, with which King Ladislaus and
the great Matthias Corvinus were
crowned; and the so-called 'sfuneral
crowns" of King Bella I'LL, and his wife
AMIGA, OF Antioch, found in their graves
at Pressburg. There are also several
pieces of enamel from the crown of the
Emperor Constantine Monomachus,
bearing portraits of the emperor, his
wife, his sister, and two dancing girls;
and crown discovered in the last CEN
fury, during the excavations made at
Grosswardein for fertilization purposes,
and whose origin is uncertain. Anoth-
er remarkable exhibit is the so-called
exchequer of the Gothic King Atanaricb,
consisting of a number of golden cups
and vases, weighing 2,400 ducats, dis
covered at Torontal. Among the eccle-
siastical articles are the pyx and chalice
presented by the Hungarian King
Louis of Anjou to the chapter of Aix-la-
Chapelle in 1910, and now lent by it;
further, huge golden bust of King
Ladislaus, crowned, from the high altar
OF the cathedral in Raab; besides about
thi1ty golden chalices from the time of
Matthias Corvinus, when the goldsmith s
art in Hungary was at its height. There
e, further, a golden cup, richly set with
jewels, which possesses q remarkable
history. 1t was given, In 1898, to Count
N1colaus Palfy by the Austrian states,
for services rendered in the reconquest
OF Raab from the Turks. This cup.
which weighs 1000 ducats, and is still
more valuable for its rare artistic merit.
was afterward given by son of this
Nicolaus Palffy as ransom to extricate
his father from the hands of the Croats,
who had made him prisoner. It thus
came into possession of the sultan, and
was eventually presented to the Austrian
Emperor Leopold, who, recognizing the
arms of the Palffys on it, restored il to
the family. The catalogue, which will
itself form handbook of great interest,
had been drawn up by N. Pulszky, di-
and his son, Karl Pulszky, director of
the Eszterhazy gallery in Pesth, who
together planned and arranged the ex-
hibitiOn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
How the Cowboy Stopped a Stampede.
[From the Chicago Herald.l

Gone of the slickest things [ saw in
my travels" said a passenger from the
West, twas a cowboy stopping cattle
stampede. A herd of about 800 or 800
had got frightened at something and
broke away pell-mell with their tails in
the air and the bulls at the head of the
procession. But Mr.. Cowboy didn't get
excited at all when he saw the herd was
going straight for a high bluff, where
they would certainly tumble down into
the canyon and be killed. You know
that when herd like that gets to going
they can't stop, no matter whether they
rush to death or not. Those in the rear
crowd those ahead, and away they CO.
[ wouldn't have given dollar a head
for that herd, but the cowboy spurred
up his mustang, made a little detour,
came in right in front of the herd, cut
across their paths at right angle, and
then galloped leisurely on to the edge of
that bluff, halted and looked around at
that wild mass of beef coming right to-
wards aim. He was as cool as cucum-
Der, though expected to see him killed,
and was SO excited could not speak.
Well sir, when the leaders had got with
in about quarter of mile of him saw
them try to slack up. though they could
not do it very quick, But the whole
herd seemed to want to stop, and when
the COWS and steers in the rear got about
where the cowboy had cut across their
path, I was surprised to see them stop
and commence. to nibble at the grass.
Then the whole herd stopped, wheeled,
struggled back and went to fighting for q
chance to eat where the rear guard was.
You see that cowboy had opened big
bag of salt he had brought ont from the
ranch to give the cattle, galloped across
the herd'sI course and emptied the bag.
Every critter shifted that line of salt,
and, of course, that broke up the STAN
pede. But I tell you it was a queer
sight to see that cuss out there on the
edge of that bluff quietly rolling a cigar
rette, when it seemed as if he'd be lying
under 200 tons of beef in about a min
ute and q half.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
The British Hangman.

A contributor writes to the London
Standard: 1t is probably painful to be
hanged at all, but it must be positively
revolving to be executed by Mr.. Bar.
tholomew Binns. I pass over the feel
ings of a sensitive murderer at being
strung up by man with such name,
like that of the hero of music hall dit
ty; but, seriously, how long is this state
of affairs revealed in your report this
morning OF the execution at Kirkdale
prison to be permitted to continue?
Binns arrives at the prison drunk he
is IN tipsy sleep, and violent when
awakened; he will not give up his appli-
ances to his assistant; he is only quieted
by the entrance of the police; the COVER
nor of the Jail testiies that he has no
idea of executing a man scientifically;
the doctor considers there were several
defects In the way in which the execu-
ton was carried out: and finally, the
jury severely censure this incompetent
hangman, who thereupon goes off to
exhibit the instruments of his CHASTITY
trade in public house.
As for the long drop, that Warburton
saysr ''May be the height of the hang
man g charity who waits for your clothes !;
but it is quite evident that Mr.. Binns
takes so many drops too much, andis so
incompetent that his continuance in his
office will be public scandal. No one
bankers to be hanged but the least we
can do for naeSSieatrS GSS0SSi7as is to in
vest the painful operation with as little
bungling as possible.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16

ming OF swarm of bees, and looked
around to locate them. He at last con.
Guided that the sound came from the
earCn at certain spot. He raked off
the ieaVes there, but found nothing, He
STUCK ms ax,helye into the ground, and
when he pulled it up he and Mr.. Colvin
thought 1t was rather unnaturalIv warm.
de got scared. They marked the place
and went Oft. The sound at times was
like the putting of steam engine. He
could hear 1t occasionally thirty wards
away. That night he and Mr.. Golvin
returned and dug until they got tired
They continued to hear a sound like
something frying, but developed moth
ing. He had not been there since.
Most of the colored people had been too
scared to visit the spot. On the second
Sunday after the discovery the noise
was heard for the last time. In response
to further questions Anderson said that
there had been number of white Wis.,
Itors to the spot. To-day there had
been several.
The sO-called volcano is evidently
nothing but an underground stream.
The detonations were doubtless caused
by the caving of the earth in the hollow
made by the water, and the varied noises
were made by the ripping of the i'm
prlsoned torrent. The volcano appeared
on the side of hill. At the foot Of the
hill three hundred yards away spring
CUISINES up. The rains just before the
discovery had been extraordinarily
heavy. This is the only plausible ex-
PLANTATION of the great Chester volcanic
demonstration, which is no doubt still
being kept in eruption by special cor
respondents for the benefit of Northern
peWspapers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
SLOW and BehOldso

(Albany Journals Washington correspondence
[ did not know that it was possible to
be decollete enough in evening dress to
shock the foreign circle here and those
who affiliate most with them, but Mrs.
Henry S. Sanford, who with her hus-
band and their eight children have main
~ resided In Brussels since he was our
minister at that lively capital, and who
has superb and Juno like figure slight
" growing into redundancy..of outline,
seems to have reached that point. The
family came on here last fall and took the
Kindleburger residence, and have
mingled freely in the select circles.
Mrs. Sanford is much beloved for her
amiability and brightness, but even
Partisan ladies wish she bad an
inch or so more protection to her bodice.
Not that she does not look beautiful In
it, for she does. One of the new sena-
tors who had observed her in street dress
at recent reception of Mrs. McElroy's,
asked me her name, at the same time
complimenting her beauty. told him,
and added ingenuously: "To judge
her beauty adequately you should see
her in evening dress" ''T1t, tut, he
rejoined mischievously, "I am afraid
that wouldn't be proper, from all I
hear"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
A Japanese Engineer.
From the Baltimore Sun.


MIR. T. A. Matsdaira, the new city
engineer of Bradford, Pa, is native
of Japan and the first man of his nation
atty to be chosen to a civil Office In the
United States. He was educated in this
country at the expense of his father, a
wealthy Japanese nobleman, and upon
graduating asked consent to remain a
few years longer to practice civil engi-
neering, to which he had devoted much
study in his college course. His father
replied that unless he came home on the
next steamer his allowance would cease
and he need expect no more help from
him. The son replied that he would
stay, and the father became angry and
wrote to his Japanese friends to have
nothing to do with the young man. He
stayed and practiced his profession, act
ing for some time as assistant engineer
of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad
Company in New York, and afterwards
for three years as chief engineer of che
Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming, Ida
no and Montana. When elected city
engineer of Bradford he was engaged
on railroad work in Mexican County, Pa.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
A ScrupulOus Farmer.

At the beginning of the oil excite
ment in Pennsylvania very religious
old farmer, who owned forty acres of
land in the center of the ''belt," had Of
fers for his farm until he couldn't sleep
nights, says the Wall Street News.
They began at 81, 600 and went up to
$50, 900, but to each and every would
be purchaser the old man steadily re-
piled:
''If the Lord has put coal lie under
my farm, it isn't for me to dispute his
WILL"
One day, however, the agent of a
syndicate came along and asked what
figure the old man would set on his
acres.
'I've Din offered $5O,OOO."
"Yes?"
GIVE bin saying as how the Lord put
the lie there for some purpose of his
OWL"
EXACTLY"
"Well, now, if you could convince me
that about one barrel in ten of the lie
from this farm would be used for people
to read their Bibles by, I reckon I'd set
my iggers at about $50, 000."
In less than three hours the farm
changed hands.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
About Lieut.. GreeIy.
[Newburrport Mass Valley Visitor.

lNeWDuryport (lnass.) valley Visitor
The vessels for the Arctic to relieve
Lieut.. Greedy will be ready to sail May
l. As early as January 80 the ice be-
gan to move southwark, and was con-
s1dered a good indication of open water
this season. AS we have frequently
said, we believe IN no danger to Lieut..
Greedy, unless it came.from hazardous
attempt last summer to force his way
south IN obedience to government or.
ders. After he left the Greenland vii
Lagos, he passed very inhospitable re.
glon abandoned by all living things.
here he found the weather cold; but
passing up it grew warmer to near the
point where DR. Kane terminated his
exploration. There he found an album
dance of animals, with duck-nests full
OF eggs on which the old ducks were
sitting, and on the scattered patches of
bare earth flowers were in bloom. The
vessel lay week unloaded and then
left.
This was the last seen of that party;
but their hOuse-a large frame building,
the sides and roof of four thicknesses.
house within hOuse-Was In process of
erection; their provisions had been Sc
cured and two miles away was an in
exhaustible supply of coal. To illus
trate the situation photographs were
taken every day and the plates sent to
Washington on the return vessel. A
few days ago ex-Alderman J. A. Greedy,
brother of the Lieutenant, had fourteen
of these pictures printed; one exhibited
the results of their first days hunting
three musk oxen, which would yield a
ton of beef, and 165 birds-one-half
geese of large size or Muscovy ducks
nearly the size of our geese. In the
course of busy week they had killed
eleven musk oxen, one bear, one seal
and an enormous quantity of birds; in
all, Lieut.. Greeley wrote, ''enough
fresh meat to supply for three months.
Why should anybody think of dying
IN country like that where the death
rate Is less than it is in the army in our
latitude? Why starve with plenty of
guns and ammunition enough for seven
years? They ha9 gone north to the
"open sea-, whic. Esne's men claimed
to have discovered, but found it not.
As soon as they could arrange their af-
fairs they proposed a journey towards
the pole, and as it was a distance less
than 600 miles, and they have had two
polar days-two summers FOR progress,
why should We doubt that they have
either reached it, or gone hundreds of
miles nearer than any human being ever
went before? If the climate continued
as mild, there was nothing but glory
and success before them; if it grew
warmer, as it had for some hundreds
of miles last past, what could prevent
their solving the great problem on which
others had labored and risked? They
had their dogs and sleds, their boats
and their steam launch, and an album
dance Of necessary equipments. Only
one thing is against their covering the
whole question and being back in Sep
TENDER, and that is that Lieut.. Greedy,
belonging to the army and being a
strict disciplinarian, may have obeyed
orders to his own destruction,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
The South Carolina s. Volcano"
[Cor. Charleston News-Courier.1

[Cor. Charleston News Courier.J
The Chester County "volcany" was
discovered on Sunday week by Mr.. Mich
olas Colvin, Jr., and Jack Anderson, col
ored. This unquestionably proves that
noises under the ground were heard on
the surface. The impressions made by
these noises were various. Some COM
pared the sound to the barking of a fox,
others to the humming of bees, others
to the putting of railway engine, 9TH
ers to the report of gun, but there was
no vapor, no decided heat, no threat of
explosion. There is evidence that num-
bers of negroes were frightened at the
stories which were circulated, and some
averred that they heard loud detonations
in that quarter at night. Some of the
more ignorant and credulous white peo-
pie were alarmed, but there is no state
of terror in The Halsellville section. Mr..
Nick Colvin, Jr., one of the discoveries
of the volcano, was not at home when I
called to question him about his discov-
cry, but Jack Anderson, colored, his
companion on the occasion, was blowing
in field near by and was interviewed
between his pillow handles. Anderson
said that on Friday week he was in the
woods with Mr.. Colvin doing some cut
ting. He heard a sound like the hum
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
How Merry Submitted.

The circumstances of the submission
of the Mervl1 are furnished by the Sviet,
small newspaper of st. Petersburg,
owned and edited by M. Komarof, late
chief of Gen. Tchernaietf's staff IN
Servia and brother to Gen. KomaroH,
the governor general who received the
homage and fealty of the Tekke Khans
at Askabad. It appears that IN conse-
quence of Persia's complaints OF Take
depredations made IN November OF last
wear. the governor of the Trancaspian
sent several companies of infantry and
two and half squadrons OF Cossacks
and several guns to intimidate the Mer-
VII. with orders for the detachment to
halt within 100 versts of Merv. This
display evidently frightened the hhans
of Merry, and when NJ. Alikhanott ap-
peared in their very midst, surrounded
BY a Cossack escort and bearing let
ter from Gen. Komaroff to one of their
chiefs, they all knew that the days OF
their independence were numbered.
The offer of the recipient of the letter to
persuade his fellow Khans to go over to
Russia. and Gen. Komarof's reply lay
ing down the conditions of their re-
nouncing slavery and liberating their
Afghan, Persian, and Russian prisoners,
were speedily followed by the whole
tribe submitting.
While M. AIikhanoff was in Merv he
studied with Yoosooff K han, boy OF IL,
brother of Maktoom Kuli, who COM
manded the Akkal Tekkes against
Skobeleff, and who received the rank OF
major when in Moscow last spring, dur
ing the coronation festivities. The pop
ular assembly which settled the point of
submission to Russia met III the house
of Yoosooff Khan's mother. The pet1-
ton was drawn up IN Jalar on huge
sheet of parchment, and was signed 10y
all the deputies who reached Askabad
by February 6, accomra nied by Col. Mar
atoff, commanding the expeditionary corp
which he'd been sent to the Merv 'front.'
Ter. The oath of allegiance was solemn
" taken on Feb. IL in the governor s
house, the deputies swearing upon a
copy of the Koran, which was brought
by a Mollah from Geek Tepe. Gen.
Komaroff welcomed them in an eloquent
speech. The oath was taken according
to the usual form, and, the act of sub
mission vas drawn up and signed by all
present. This document and others re-
lating to the same matters were brought
to st. Petersburg by Col. NJ aratof.
The prisoners captured by the Mervli
were liberated, and Afghans and Per
slams returned to their respective coun-
tries. Of thirty-seven Russian subjects
twenty went directly home and seven
teen to Askabad. The cattle which had
been taken from the Persians were sent
to Khorassan. On the arrival of the
liberated Russians at Askabad some
touching scenes occurred. They were
received by the authorities, and all wept
for Joy. The released captives were
photographed by Swiss traveller who
happened to be at Askabad.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
The Florida Everglades.

A correspondent of the Boston Jour-
nal says of the Florida Everglades: eff
he deserves praise who makes two
blades of grass grow where one was be-
fore, what shall be said of the men who
bring as by a new creation a territory
larger than some of the states from be-
meath the waters? Strangest of all is that
this pestilential swamp, this breeder of
fever and home of the alligator and rat
tlesnake, is in fact perfect sanitarium,
swept by fresh and constant breezes. the
Thermometer never rising above So de-
grees in the shade, and in gang Of $50
men employed in the swamp constantly
two years, not case of serious sickness
has occurred.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
" A PHOTO"

In the wreck of an old worn album
That a child uneafthed at play,
found this little picture
A leaf from long closed day.
That face of boyish beauty
Must now belined with care;
And the locks of raven blackness
Must CLEAN with silver hair.
Somewhere he lives and labors,
And takes his part in the strife
That is not at all the poem
We dreamed in early life,
The ways we planned together
We must tread apart through time;
For the years stepped in between us,
And they spoke in prose-not rhyme
And so hid his picture
Away from my own sight,
And bravely looked for sunshine
Through clouds as black as night,
It has glimmered often upon me,
But never as of old
Has dropped in a royal shower
OF pure and melting gold:
And know, through all the darkness,
IT is all for the best, some way;
Yet wish that little photo
Had not been found to-day.
e. W.