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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-12-04
TERMS, E4.OO Per Year

The ROCKY MOUNTAIN HUsBANDMAN is designed
to be, as the name indicates, hnsbandnan in every
sense of the term, embracing in its columns every
department of Agriculture, stock-raisi,.g, Horti-
culture, Social and Domestic Economy.
ADVERTISING RATES
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
Financially Embarrassed

The Northwestern Car Company, at Stillwa-
ter, Mimi, suspended on the 10th, with liabili-
ties to the amount of S1,1OO,oOO, and assists of
81, 500, 900.
Hudson & Co., bankers, Tombstone Ari.,
suspended on the 10th. Liabilities about $780,
900.
B. S. Snow & Co., one of the largest fish
firms of Boston, assigned on the 10th, without
preferences. The liabilities of the concern are
placed at 100000.
Santerman & Stewart, grain dealers, Grays-
vile, ILL.,, failed on the 10th, with debts to the
amonnt of $4,000.
Dispatches Of the 9th, report the failure of
Grant, Ward Il Co., brokers, New York, much
more disastrous than at first supposed. The
liabilities of the concern are now estimated at
from $8, 900. 600 to $10,000.000
The firm of Grant d Ward, and J. d. Fish,
president of the Marine Bank, have assigned.
Francisco Virvsgo, one of the oldest bust
ness .houses IL Laredo, Mex, closed his doors
on the 9Th inst. The new stamp tax was the
immediate cause of the failure.
Daniel B. Fisher, of Leesport, Pa, assigned
on the 7th, with liabilities amounting to $780,
600. His assets are figured at twice that
amount.
Dunlop & Twaddell, jute spinners. Glasgow,
suspended on the 9Th. Libilities $4,000.
The Marine National Bank, of New York city,
closed it's doors on the 9Th. Its capital stock is
$40G, 900.
Grant & Ward, stock brokers. New York.
have failed. The firm consisted of Gen. Grant,
James d. Fish, U. s. Grant, Jr., and Ferd.
Ward.
Graft Abrahamson & Co., dry goods dealers
of Chicago, were closed up by the sheriff, on
the 9Th, on judgments by confession amount
ing to $4,000,
The failure of the Ceylon Company was an
nounced from London on the 5th. It owed the
Oriental Bank, which failed a few days since,
$2,OOO,O00.
Moses Fraley, the st. Louis Spectator, an
nounced to his creditors on the 5th, that he
was ready to pay all claims dollar for dollar.
Henry Ihort & Co., upholsterers, New York,
assigned on the 9Th, giving preferences to the
amount of $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
ALASKA.

The voyage of discovery in Alaska,
undertaken by Lieut.. Stoney, who sailed
from San Francisco on April IL, in the
United States schooner Onalaska, will
be closely watched by persons who still
believe that Alaska is rich in the
precious metals. It is surmised by some
that tine reports of its mineral sterility
were circulated to keep the territory in
obscurity until careful Investigation
can be made in the interest of capitalists
who wish to seize its richest treasures.
Lieut.. Stoney found year ago that the
Putnam River is navigable at least fifty
miles, and he is steering for the mouth
of that stream, intending to ascertain
the true character and value of our
Alaskan possessions before he turns the
PROV of his schooner homeward.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
THE IRON INDUSTRY.

In the last five or six years the pro-
duction of iron in all countries has in
creased by 10000 tons, or more than
43 per cent; the production of steel has
increased $780, 900 tons, or 14Oper cent,
and the production of coal has
increased about 100000 tons, or
about 81 per cent. Iron and steel are
principally consumed in the manufact-
ure of agencies and instruments for the
use of industry and commerce, and coal
is the source of their motive power.
The nnexampled expansion of industrial
activity and trade is thus illustrated by
the expansion in the chief universal in
struments which they use in their varied
creation. No staple products of indus
try have felt such an expansive force as
these
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
Delicate Surgery.
From the TROY Times.1

From the Troy Times.1
Last Wednesday night Sebastian Kar-
ner, farmer residing in East Green
bush, swallowed while asleep tooth
plate, with four teeth attached. Medi-
cal aid was Immediately summoned, but
after an examination it was concluded
that the plate had passed into the stom-
ach. AS he still suffered pain it was
thought best on the following day to
send for DR.. McLarn, of this city, who
upon arrival discovered that the plate
was still in the food passage, lodged at
point near the entrance of the stomach.
Efforts to dislodge it failed, and Mr.. Kar-
ner was told that an operation (esopha-
gotomy, which consists IN cutting
through the neck and osophagus) must
be performed. He entered the Troy
Hospital yesterday for the purpose,
where DR.. Mclean, assisted by Drs.
Nichols, Schuyler, Burbeck and Hutch
inson, successfully removed the plate
and teeth. They were found thirteen
and half inches below the mouth, and
so thoroughly impacted that they were
removed with great difficulty. DR.. Nc
Lean has had remarkable success in the
removal of false teeth that had been
swallowed by their wearers, this being
the fifth operation of the kind performed
by him. Probably no surgeon in the
world has been called so often to the re-
lief of patients suffering from this cause
as Dr. Mclean.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
A FEMALE LAWYER.

Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore has been ad-
mitted to practice law in neof the Phil
adelph1a courts, which includes her adj
mission to the bar generally. She was
formerly a Western woman, and was "a
subordinate teacher in one of the schools
at Madison, Wis, where she married
David Y. Killgore, the principal of the
school, a man of some reputation
throughout the West as lecturer on
radical topics. They afterwards re-
moved to Philadelphia, where Mrs. XII
gore, after long struggle, has secured
this victory. Two years ago she was
granted diploma as " Bachelor of
Laws by the University of Pennsyl-
vania, and has been engaged since that
time in her struggle to be admitted to
practice. "She is no longer young"
saws the Chicago Journal, " and how
ever susceptible jurors might be to
youth and beauty and eloqueuce in
pleading the case of an unfortunate
client, not much success can be expected
for wrinkles, gray hairs and other marks
of withered female age, when the y
pear in court -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
THE COTTON CROP.

is;ct acreage in the Memphis Dis
'cC owing to Bad Weather.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Nav 8.-Tbe cotton
crop report for the Memphis district.
embracing West Tennessee North
MISSISSIPPI, and North Alabama to he
published tomorrow by Megsrs. Hill
Fontalne d Co., will say:
There will be decreased acreoo,o ,,1o-.,
cotton in this district of u per cent al
pared with last year. The ACREAGE ;n cor,1
however, shows an increase plantnd of OF
per cent. The weather has been most nnfog ~
able for planting purposes, nearly all onr 9e8
correspondents reporting too much rain and
cool weather. The average date
for planting cotton in this district il from
April ~ to n, yet up to May /, one-half tbe
land that was to be planted IN cotton had not
been touched and as the weather has contin
ued unfavorahle to date for planting, farm
ing interests through the district are therefore
fully three weeks late. With fair weather
from now on, however. planting will be pushed
with Vlgor and the backwardness of the season
cannot be taken as unfavorable for good
yleld. In an aggregate of 298 responses
concerning acreage SO report increased
acreage planted in cotton as compared with
last year, rs report decreased acreage, and 1850
about the same. The average decrease is Is
per cent. AS regards weather 284 report the
weather less favorable than last year and IA re-
port 1t about the same. Concerning labor. 272
report labor good and 26 not SO good as last
year. In corn 112 report increased acreage
planted as compared with last year, % report
decreased acreage and 164 about the same. The
average increase is ID per cent.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
HOrse-cars in Turkey.

[Cor. San Francisco Chronicle
There are no sidewalks in Galata, and
everybody goes in the streets. As con-
sequence the first weeks receipts of the
horse-car company included four Ar
meniane, three Turks, a Nubian, and
Greek children and dogs not counted.
business was equally good the second
week. But the third they had the mis-
fortune to include a pasha. It was
bungling piece of business, for they did
not kill the pasha they only mangled
him. And when he got round again he
put in his whole time working for an in
junction against the road. 1t was shown
in evidence that the company did not
wantt the pasha or the other people killed;
they bad been at considerable expense
to dispose of them, and further that it
had rung it's bells, as by law required,
and was not responsible for the people
who got in the way. The pasha fled
his answer and said that he had heard
the bell; that anyone not deaf could not
we'll help hearing it; but that it was not
his bell and he could not be expected to
look out for every slave that rang one
in the public streets. If the slaves were
to be bell-sheep for the pashas he
thought it was time for the latter to re-
sign. It was very pretty quarrel and
occupied good deal of government
time. But finally compromise was
reached and an arrangement adopted
which has continued in use until the
present time. The speed of the car was
not slackened nor its right of way de-
MED. But in consideration of the crowd
ed state of the thoroughfares and the
impossibility of making the populace
turn out or mind their bells, the compa-
ny was handicapped with outrunners.
Each car was provided with a negro,
armed with club-whip and tin born,
whose business it was to run some if-
teen PAGES ahead on the track blowing
his horn and industriously clubbing the
pashas, donkeys, and small boys into
opening swath through which the car
could follow in his wake. They are pict-
uresque fellows, these outrunners, in
their red fezzes and green shirts that are
open nearly to the waist. They are
small respecters of persons, and their
pace is so tremendous that they are gone
before vengeance could reach them.
The dogs have learned the ropes, and
very few of them now 60 to sleep on the
track, but the people never will learn,
and in the more crowded portions to-day,
whenever car passes, with the scatter
ing andexcitement and whips and horns,
it is more like a riot than anything
know of.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
Deeds of Blood.

In an ARRAY in which whisky took a prom
inent part, at Minnicks Station, near Pittsburg,
on the 18th, James Moore shot and fatally
wounded Michael Hart.
In fight between policemen and gang of
tramps at Nation, ILL.,, on the 10th inst, two
of the latter were shot.
At Smithland, KY, on the 10th inst, in q
fight, the result of quarrel between the wives
of the principals, James Sullivan was killed by
Dick Crouch.
In quarrel in beer garden at Cincinn att
on the 18th, Thomas McDermott was shot and
seriously wounded by Especial policeman
named DeIeto.
Jas. S. Coleman (colored), was hanged at
Columbia, s. c.. for murder on the 9th inst.
An Englishman, named Thomas Leonard,
was murdered for his money at Nebraska City,
Neb., on the night of the 9Th. His body was
ghockingly mutilated.
A Mt. Sterling. KY. dispatch of the 9th, an
nounces the killing of the penitentiary guard
by one of a gang of eight prisoners, and the
escape of three of the prisoners.
Fred. Hogan, wire puller in divers Mill,
at Pittsburg, became incensed at his Hungarian
assistant, named Rice, on the 9th, and struck
him several blows on the head with hammer,
MASKING his face and breaking his 9 Evil
At Tidloute. Pa, .on the 9Th inst, Geo.
JENNIE shot and instantly killed VIM Ellis, in a
quarrel over log chain.
/ Alphonse G. Eclovitz, while craZed through
insompia, on the 7th inst, jumped from the
fourth floor of the Clark House, Minneapolis.
and was killed.
An attempt was made on tie 7th, to wreck a
Mexican Central special train with visitors on a
bridge near chihuahua. construction train
that preceded the special met with disaster, and
six men were killed and eight or ten wounded.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
Smoke.

Fire at Wallingford, Conn.,, on the 10th
ints., destroyed the Sweetland Manufacturing
Company's works. Loss $40, 600.
The paint works of Sherwin, Williams & Co.,
at Cleveland, were partly burned on the 10th
inst. Loss $4,000.
The factory of the Narragansett Suspender
Company, together with several other build
ings at Canton, Mass, burned on thes11th, in
volving loss of 100000. Over 100 persons
are thrown out of employment
Fire at Moberly, Mo-, on the night of the
10th, destroyed the foundry and hay-rake fac
tory OF Fort Il Wayland. Loss 100000.
The Arcade Block at Oswego, N. Y, burned
on the 11th. Loss $4,000.
Asch's fur factory at Norwalk, Conn.,, burned
on the 9th. Loss $4,000
Adams Il Co.'s glass factory at Pittsburg
burned on the 9th. Loss $4,000.
Between 100 and 200 acres of timber land
near New Bedford, Mass, burned on the 5th
inst.
Pebbly Beach House, Gloucester, Mass,
burned on the 9Th. Loss 5000.
One thousand acres of timber land in the
vicinity of Freehold, N. j., have been blasted
by fire. The loss is estimated at $4,000,
The entire village of Gilman's Depot, in
Sullivan County, New York, was swept away by
fire on the Sd. Loss 100000. The residents
were obliged to desert their property and flee
for their lives
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
Minor Mention.

The Alert, of the Greedy relief party, started
on her northern voyage on the 10th.
By an explosion in Cincinnati printing
house on the 10th inst, three persons were
seriously injured.
S. P. Burt, well-known citizen of Milwau-
kee, died suddenly at Metropolitan, Mich, on
the 10th.
The Thetis, of the Greedy expedition arrived
at st. Johns, on the 9th.
Daniel Critzen and Alex. Burket, of Free
port, Pa, while crossing the Allegheny River
on the 9th inst, were drowned by the upsetting
Of their boat.
The boiler of an engine exploded in the
roundhouse of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railroad. at Parsons, Kas., on the 9Th inst,
killing two men and wounding several others.
A school house at Rothsville, Pa, was struck
by lightning, on the 9th, and two children Sc
rIously hurt.
The remains of DR.. Samuel D. Gross of Phil
adelphia, were cremated at Washington, Pa,
on the 9Th.
Ten women were blown to pieces by dyna-
mite explosion in Mobiles factory, in Ayrshire,
Scotland, on the 9Th inst.
TWenty-t three persons were injured by the
ditching of a passenger coach and two sleepers,
near Decatur, ILL.,, on the 7th inst. broken
rail caused the accident.
judah P. Benjamin, ex-member of the Con-
federate cabinet, died at Paris on the 7th inst.
The American Medical Association is in ses-
While working on log jam at Chippewa
Falls, On the 9th inst, Bah Savage was carried
over the falls and drowned.
court of inquiry, to examine into the con-
duct of the Fourth Ohio Regiment during the
Cincinnati riots, began its session on the 9Th.
Dudley Hartman, an old settler of Wal
worth County, died suddenly of heart disease
at his home IN Delavan on the 5th
Cleveland dredge in tow of a tug capsized
off Black River, Lake Erie, on the 9Th, drown
ing the woman cook and her little daughter.
Seven men on board were saved by the tug
An unknown incendiary is held accountable
for the destruction of large quantity of straw
belonging to the Rock River Paper Company
at ReOt on the 9TH
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
DEAD LANGUAGES.

The Christian an Work wakes elo-
quent with prophetic wisdom over
'tnodern tongues VS.. dead languages"
and exclaims, ''The end of this century
will witness the end of this college dead
language fetchism. And when that ex-
pires, the colleges give their grip to the
worlds living tongues, true scholar
ship and the right sort of culture will
take gigantic stride forward. Greek
for such as want Greek, Latin for those
who lean to Latin, but German, French,
Spanish-in brief, living tongues for
those who desire them"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
Power of an Elephants Tail.

Two young ladies were gazing at the
white elephant as it stood enthroned in
all it's sacred splendor, and surrounded
by the mystic emblems of it's holy char
acter and the adoring priests who were
kneeling devoutly on every side.
"How curious it is" remarked one,
s'that any race of people should be so
deluded as to worship an elephant.
''It is, indeed" replied the other, sad
ly. "When l look upon this worship
ing throng of ignorant, superstitious
creatures and realize how earnest and
sincere they are, cannot but feel that
there should be no rest until the mis-
sionary message is borne to the last one
of these benighted heather"
<True," asserted the first speaker, SIT
is grand and solemn duty"
just at this juncture the animal
hicked it's tail and struck one of the
Buddhist priests in the mouth.
"Howly Moses!' he exclaimed, inter
rupting his devotions, ''ye hathen haste
=" and then the young ladies strolled
on to the monkeys cage.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
THE JEANETTE DISGRACE.
Testimony Before the Jeanette Investi-
eating Committee at Washington.

Testimony Before the Jeanette Investi-
eating Committee at Washington.
WASHINGTON, May 8.-Seaman Min
dermann resumed his testimony before
the Jeanette investigating committee
this morning. While at Bulun, Melville
said to the witness she didn't care a
damn" for Capt. belong, but was serv-
ing for those whom the captain had
dragged with him to death.
John 2. jackson, Paris correspondent
of the New York Herald, testified chat
Lieut.. Eisenhower, at Irkutsk, had said
to him, it seemed that if the course Of
the whale boat had been pursued day
longer, Bulun would have been reached
month sooner. Noros ard hinder
mann would have met help, and belong
and his party would have been saved.
There could be no doubt, the witness said,
of this. He had been told by Newcomb
and Bartlett that Collins had papers on
his person during the retreat, which
were not found on his body. Newcomb
and others had spoken Of the bad treat
Ment Of Collins, and said Melville caused
it. He thought the delay at Geeomo-
vialove was decidedly TOO long and quite
unnecessary, and that if Melville had
left there when he first had an opportuu-
ity, De Longs party would have been
saved. His opinion was gathered from
conversations with natives and from OBJ
servations. The party at any rate
should have gone in sleds earlier than
they. Melville had said there were no
dogs. This was so, but it was because
Melville, by his bad treatment of the
natives had frightened them and caused
them to send their dogs away. Jealous
les between different members of Mel
ville's party was doubtless the reason
nobody was sent with Kusma to Bulun
after all. He had been informed Bartlett
offered to walk there and had been told
to 'shut up his mouth" Kusman's de-
lay in returning from Bulun was be-
cause his companions met some friends
there and got drunk. When he did re-
turn with news ofNinderman and Noros,
Melville was aroused to activity, but it
was too late. De Longs party
had kept signal fires burning, which
could have been seen 25 or 80
miles and witness said he had heard
De Long had continually expressed sur.
prise at not being rescued. The chief
cause for the loss of De Longs party
was doubtless his devotion to his men,
and his refusal to leave the least of them
behind. This caused slow progress.
Mrs. Kusma had told witness that the
natives had come upon a broken
Winchester rifle left by the captains
party in hut, and had found footsteps
there not over two days old; that natives
followed the footsteps short distance
and then abandoned the search. This
was kept quiet by the natives to conceal
their negligence. The entire search was
badly conducted by Melville, he thought.
Melville was very ungentlemanly, and
retarded the witness in his search after
the facts connected with the expedi ton.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
Ihe RepnbHrar.
WATERFOWL. MIS-
FOREST FIRES.

The fires which have been raging in
the Pennsylvania forests are of the most
disastrous character. Thousands OF
acres of valuable timber have been burnt
over and property that it will take
generation to replace has been destroyed
It is now said that small amount OF
care exercised by the state or the prop
erty-owners in keeping the forests clear
of dead underbrush and leaves would
prevent these fires.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
A COALITION VICTORY.
Important Decision of the Supreme Court
of Appeals of Virginia.

important Decision of the Supreme Court
of Appeals of Virginia.
RICHMOND, Va, May 8.-The supreme
court OF appeals to-day rendered decis-
ION declaring unconstitutional the law
passed by the last legislature providing
tor the election of registers and judges
OF election by boards of three members
chosen by that body for each
city, town and county in the
state, because it required the mem
bers of said boards to be freeholders.
This decision makes the elections of
registrars and judges by these boards to
be illegal, and of no effect, and conse-
quently takes the whole election ma
chlnery of the state out Of the hands of
the Democrats and replaces it where it
was before the passage of the law, ia
the hands of the Coalitionists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
ALL SOLID.

It is an excellent indication of the solid
business condition of the country, says
the Chicago Journal, that the recent
failure of "Jim" Keene did not precipi-
tate panic, nor hardly even shake the
market. The failure of Jay Cooke
brought on the panic of 1873, and that
of the Ohio Life and Trust Company
brought on the panic of 1867. Keene's
failure was as striking an event as either,
considered in itself, but it did not create
more than momentary furry in prices.
The country is pretty solid.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
SENSIBLE FIRM.

The great manufacturing tobacco
firm of Lorillard & Co. employ three
thousand operatives in their factory at
Jersey City. On last Christmas they
presented each of these operatives with
a weeks double wages, and now they
are at work fitting up building for
their employees, which is to contain a Ii
brary of ten thousand volumes, read
ing room to be supplied with newspa-
pers and magazines, and room for
cards, chess, and other games. Such
acts are well calculated to promote a
good understanding between the en-
ployes and employers, and it would be
well for both capital and labor if things
of this kind We're more common.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14

At Marion. near Memphis, on the 7th inst,
Jas. Murray had legal trouble with VIM. d.
Hardin, ex-sheriff of Crittenden County, Ark.
Shooting was INDUCED in and Hardin was killed
and Murray fatally wounded. Hardin had been q
hard character with a murder and several af-
trays on his record
Ham Patterson, a negro was taken from
bed by mob at Hatton post-ofice, Galloway
County, Mo-, on the night of the 9th, and
killed.
Charles Ford, the slayer of Jesse James. put
a bullet through his own heart at Richmond,
Mo-, on the 9Th. No cause is assigned.
party Of white men attempted to chastize
negro at Montserrat, Mo-, on the 9Th. After
fatally wounding two of his assailants the negro
surrendered to the authorities.
The trial of Neill Mckeague for the murder
of MIR. and Mrs. Wilson. commenced at Chica-
go on the 5th. Philip Armour, the great pro-
yison dealer, was drawn on the jury, but
failed to respond. An attachment was issued
for him.