Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-01


Baby Syrup is perfectly safe at all
times Price 25 cents. For sale by all
Druggists
The daughters Of the poed Longfellow,
who have been in England for some time
are now at Bergen, Norway, On visit to
the widow Of Ole Bull.
Verdi, the famous composer, is now 73
years of age, fine-looking remnant of
humanity, with snow-white hair and
mustache. His public operas number
125.
General Hazen of the United States
Signal Office, has been at Ipswich, Mass. 4,
gathering information of his ancestors,
who ware among the early settlers in
| Agawam.
Mrs. S. III. Clark, OF Baltimore, who
died last week, was ga mountain of flesh. -
Before her illhess she weighed over 600
pounds, and after death 5S2 pounds.
Mrs Clark was notable for her kind heart
and charitable works.
A report from Washington states that
Justice Bradley, of the United States
Supreme Court, will resign his place in a
few months and that Judge Gresham,
now Secretary of the Treasury, will be
his probable successor.
Congressman Peele writes that the
Republican prospects of Indiana are
much brighter DIV than they were at
this stage of the contest four years ago,
and in his opinion Indiana will give
Blaine and Logan larger majority than
Garfield and Arthur received in that
state.
Hon. P. O'Mara, of Rock Island,
heretofore prominent Democrat and
member Of the last Legislature of Illinois
has publicly announced for Blaine, max
ing the third recent Irish Democratic
member of the General Assembly who
has come out boldly for Blaine and Logan,
Eels weighing four and half pounds
are now caught at Green Bay. It is only
within three or four years that any were
caught there. The river men suppose
that they are from the Mississippi river,
and that they reached Green Bay when
the dyke broke and caused the Wisconsin
river to overflow into the upper Fox
river
Another prominent Democrat of
Brooklyn, N. Y, ex-Judge Samuel D.
Morris, is out for Blaine, He has lust
returned from trip to Europe, and says
bis eyes were opened by the talk, especi-
ally in England, of the triuL ph of tree
trade principles illustrated by Cleveland's
nomination. Judge Morris believes in
protecting American capital and Ameri-
can labor, and he declares be will not
vote for free trader like Cleveland.
Rev. Professor John Lord Taylor, D
D., who died at Andover, Mass, on the
23d, was one of the most eminent Con-
gregational ministers of the country,
He was connected for nearly thirty years
with Andover Theological Seminary, in
the capacity of trustee, treasurer and
Professor of Theology and Homiletics.
He resigned, owing to delicate health,
in June.i 1879, leaving to the institution
a parting gift of $4,000. He has since
continued TO live in the vicinity. At the
time of his death he was in his 10Th year,
St. John is not quite so hard on liqor-
drinkers as Hen tricks once was. In his
speech recorded on page 81, Congression-
al Globe, first session of the Fortieth
Congress, upon the "bill to prevent the
bringing of any spirituous or malt liquors
into the Capitol" Hendricks said: II am
perfectly willing to vote for this or any
other bill short of putting to death a man
who shall take drink of liquor" He
has DO doubt changed since then, aod
would like this forgotten, as he does his
record of disloyalty during the war. But
there is no way to correctly estimate a
public man that is better than to take his
record, and Mr.. Hendricks is no excep-
ion.
A cable dispatch which probably needs
verifcation is to the effect that in County
Mayo, Ireland, there is serious defec-
ion from the forces OF Parnell, and that
the insurgents will make Capt Boycott
one of their candidates for the House of
Commons. Captain Boycott was, few
years ago, the most unpopular public or
private individual in Ireland. He could
not hire the peasantry to assist in har
vesting his crops, which, therefore, rotted
in the fields. from which the popular
labor phrase, "to boycott" originated.
Irish politics is marked by much incon-
stancy and by many revolutions, but
this would be one of the most remarka-
BILE changes that has occurred in its re-
cent history.
Our Federal Constitution is now nine
ty-seven years old, having been adopted
IL, 1887. The convention
which framed it was presided over by
George Washington, and among its men,
bers were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas
Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and
James Madison. The convention re-
NAMED in session with closed doors for
over three months, but at last, after many
earnest discussions, the Constitution was
adopted, and the event was celebrated
by great rejoicings over large part of
the country. The Articles of Confeder-
alton had made of the colonies independ
ent States, and the Constitution united
them into compact Nation. 1t was at
last ratified by all the States, North Caro-
lima and Rhode Island being the last Eto