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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-11
The Last Snake of the Season..

from the Fort Valley (Ga) Mirror.l
Pat Jones Jones suspended the
stuffed skin of a. rattlesnake in the
Matthews drug store last Wednesday,
measuring over six feet in length and
Welve inches In circumference, with
thirteen rattles attached. 1t was
killed by Lewis Lee, in the swamp on
the Pope place in Crawford County.
Mr.. Lee had shot squirrel, which fell
on a pile of brush, and while STOPPING
to pick it up he was Mortified by the
terrible warning given by the monster,
who lay in coil, with uplifted head,
just beneath his hand. Mr.. Lee
jumped for life, gun and squirrel flying
right and left. When he became COM
posed he soon emptied his double bar
rel into the head and neck of the snake
and hunted the most open way to the
house.
While several of our citizens were
looking at the stuffed skin, G. Roach,
our skillful tailor, speaking of snakes
was reminded of an adventure with
one of these swamp rattlers some
years ago near Baton Rouge, La,
which is worthy of the special notice
of Editor Woods and all other intern
perate dealers in snake stories.
Mr.. r. says his dog, who was some
distance in advance on g. road, set up
a fierce, rapid barking which indicated
an encounter with bear or panther,
and fearing for his dog he called him
away. Soon after he discovered some
200 or 800 yards off cloud of dust,
which comerapidly toward him. Soon
he saw an immense snake approaching
with open mouth and elevated head.
When he presented his gun the snake
paused and he fired into his mouth.
and after few writings and contor-
tions Of his immense body he lay still
in death.
Mr.. Roach says he cut off forty two
rattles, but was unable to drag the
snake from where he lay.
Relating the circumstances to a. doc
tor in the village, he was requested to
60 with the physician to the spot, who
secured the snake and brought him in.
The weight and dimensions were not
given, but Mr. r. says it required the
utmost strength of himself, the doctor
and another man to lift it into a
wagon.
The rattlesnake is years old be-
fore a rattle appears. The button is
formed at 1 year of age. MIR. Roach
says this is the fact, AID accordingly
the snake he killed in Louisiana was
"A years old.
This, we promise, is the last of the
season, as the frosty time of the year
is close by.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-11
Submarine Gable Graphing.
[From Engineering.l


In cable operations, especially on a
soft sea bottom, it is sometimes diff
cult to tell when the grapnel reaches
the bottom. The experience OF the
captain of the cable steamer is often
relied upon for this, his acquaintance
with the strain of the grapnel
rope, telling him, by the feel
of the rope, when the grapnel
has landed. Sir James Anderson and
Mr. Kennedy have, however, devised
an electrical tell-tale for this purpose.
1t consists in attaching hollow
chamber at or near the grapnel and
communicating by wire with cable
running up the grapnel rope to the
ship, and in circuit with battery and
electric bell or other alarm A GUAM
tity of mercury contained in the hol-
low chamber serves to complete the
circuit and ring the bell when the Crap
mel and chamber reach the bottom,
because when this occurs the mercury
flows until it completes the circuit by
establishing contact between the wire
to the ship and an earth connection.
We are not aware that the plan has
been tried in practice; but it is in good
hands for such a test, and we trust it
may be.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-11
How to Test Butter.

'"There is, says the Scientific Amer
lean, ''a qualitative test for butter so
simple that any housewife can put it
into successful practice. A clean piece
OF white paper is smeared with little
OF the suspected butter. The paper is
then rolled up and set on fire. If the
butter is pure the smell of the burning
paper is rather pleasant; but the
odor is distinctly tallowy if the butter
Is made up wholly or in part OF animal
fats"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-11

PHLu had a fire in the office stove,
one of the cold mornings last week,
when Charley came in. "Got a fire
have your" inquired Charley. ayes,
and it's great, too," replied Phlit, cud-
ding up toit. "Ah, indeed? 1t looks
more like stove. Phlit turned the
hose omit, and Charley was frozen out.
Merchant Traveller.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-11
SUSPENSE.
by SARAH LOUISE MORRIS.

"A hand of steel that,tightens ..
All ones heart strings
Till they are fit to break
A eonjurOr-who frightens
First then g1ads you -
Again, and yet again
AS his swift changing pictures make
Impression on an almost frenzied brain;
With fingers all too skillful, Hope and Despair
Alternate, strike the strings or WELD the brush,
Flooding the eyes with tears, or anxious care
Relieving, as a blessed hush
Steals in upon the heart SO overwrought
By the continued warfare of conflicting thought.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-11

ACCORDING to recent census Green
land contains a population of 5000.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-14
DispdssA corrected as and stated shas
il was Edwsrd.--Afidafa consf'sa''0"'
And EDWARD Il was.
small Beginnings.

The Baltimore Sun makes an exhioi.
Of that city's industrial progress, and
in commenting on the same says
"a striking fact Of our recent IN
dustrial history is the steady expansion
from small beginnings Of a multitude OF
new manufacturing establishments. En-
terprises which in the census year were
OF such small dimensions as to escape
notice in making up statistical aggre.
gates have attained, under the careful
and conservative management for which
Baltimoreans are famous, respectable
and sometimes large proportions, and
give promise of indefinite future de-
velopment.
This emphasizes what the Dispatch
has repeatedly urged upon the attention
Of the people Of Richmond, and this is
the wisdom of being content with small
beginnings. AS rule, the enterprises
that grow and accumulate capital
through prudent management, and not
those that are born full grown and with
plenty of capital, are the most success
full in the long run and of the greatest
benefit to community.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-14
DEATHS.

BOOTH.-Died, suddenly. OF heart-dis-
ease, on Sunday the 18th instant, at 81.
Lukes Home. in the city Of Richmond
Miss FANNIE REBECCA, daughter OF Mr..
Il. q. Booth, of PHILADELPHIA
The deceased was a person Of rare attrac-
lions. both OF person and character. Highly
cultivated, she mingled in the first circles
of society. She was widely known, and
had many, many very dear friends. She
travelled extensively. both In Europe and
this country. She was indeed an ornament
to society. A member OF the Presbyterian
Church. she adorned the doctrine of God
her Saviour by consistent walk ana con-
yersation. Surviving friends and relatives
find precious consolation in the full Assu-
rance that her happy spirit now rests In the
bosom of her Divine Redeemer.
COURTNEY.-Di on Friday night, nj
her country residence. FANNIE f., wife OF
William b. Courtney, In the thirty-thlrd
year OF her age.
Funeral from Monumental church THIS
MORNING at half-past o'clock.
MoORE.--Died, Saturday. June 10, 1885
Mrs. MARIA l.. MOORE; aged seyenty-tw0
years.
dence OF her son, ]. =. Moore, 2209 east
Broad street, on SUNDAY at 4 o'clock Z. VI
Her friends and acquaintance are invited
to attend without further notice.
PEARCE.-Died. at the residence Of her
son, W. f.. Pearce. corner OF Fourth and
Leigh streets. after n short Illness. Mrs.
MARTHA =. PEARI f. I'm the seVenty-fifth
year of her age.
Funeral will take place THIS Sunday
AFTERNOON at 3 o'clock from the above
residence, Friends and acquaintance in-
vited 10 attend.
REGNAULT-Di at his residence.
Wednesday night June 10th, JOHN +.
REGNAULT.
His funeral will take place from the Mon
umentsl church THIS Sunday AFTER
NOON at O'Clock.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-14
DAN VILE.
Rebate Allowed and schools Provided For
BuryiDg.Ground for CoIored People Other
Council ifems-IIOlds over.

Rebate Allowed and schools Provided For
Buryiug. Ground for CoIored People Other
council items-IIoids over.
Correspondence ofthe Richmond Dispatch. !
JUNE IL, 1885.
The Council passed law last night
which allows a rebate of ten cents per
800 Of value from the tax on real
estate levied for general purposes, and
gives the public schools the income
from a tax of fifteen cents per 800 of
value. This reduction of the tax on
real estate carries with it a reduction
at the same rate on personal property
and incomes. But really the estimates
of the trustees of the public schools
had been long ago approved. and there
was no fear their claim would be dis
allowed.
There has been very great demand
for an additional burying-ground for the
colored people, and the Council has
had much difficulty in finding it. The
Committee on Public Grounds and
Cemeteries has at last effected pur-
chase of 81 | acres from the Tunstall
estate, west of the city, at 400 per
acre.
A trade has been effected with Hof-
man. Lee & Co., of Baltimore, for 4.G
acres of land, and thus a right of way
to the pump.house has been secured.
Four hundred dollars has been voted
the repairs Of the Free bridge. Order
has been made that Craghead street,
for certain length thereof. be paved
with new stone, and the old stone be
used elsewhere. One of the city mules
was killed day or two ago by the fall
of brick from a building which was
being erected, and the Council thinks
the builder ought to settle therefor.
The officers of the internal revenue
here are holding over under Collector
Helm, but what changes he will make.
if any, is not known now. There are
many surmises, however, and some ru-
mOrs. ALPHA.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-14
A MOHAMMEDAN FAST.
sleeping bv Day 10 Avoid Eating -Feasting
and Dancing by Night.

sieepipg bv Day 10 Avoid Eating-Feasting
and Dancing BY Night.
lConstantinople Letter in San Francisco
Chronicle.I
This is an annual season of religious
awakening. For thirty days between
sunrise and sunset no good Mussul-
man allows mouthful Of food or
drink TO pass his lips. Theoreti-
cally he is supposed to devote this
time to more active study
of the Koran, and a more practical OBJ
servance Of those doctrines of charity
and good.fellowship that it inculcates.
Every man who has worldly goods is
supposed to stand in his door at sunset
and offer the hospitality Of his board
to any and all beggars who shall
chance to pass. Theoretically, it is a
time Of soberness, Of quietness, Of
fasting, and of prayer. Practically, it
has become a month Of rioting, Of
dancing, Of feasting, and Of song.
Nothing but the form is kept up. From
the firing OF the gun that announces
the first direct beam Of the rising sun
to the report that signals its going
down the fast is still rigidly observed.
But then it does not discommode the
Turk at all, for during. that time be is
asleep. He simply reverses the order
Of things and sleeps daytimes instead
Of nights. There is no law against his
eating at hight. He rises from his
couch at sunset and takes his breakfast
before going to the mosque to pray.
midnight he has dinner, and partakcs
Of supper just before sunrise in the
morning, when he again retires to bed.
The night not being good for work, he
gives his whole waking hours to plea
sure, and the entire month from sunrise
TO sunset becomes vast carnival in all
countries under Mohammedan rule.
Thus the form is perpetuated, while the
substance goes to waste. The fast
month comes q certain number Of DAYS
fourteen, think) later every year.
When it occurs in cool weather it is
not so bad, but when il falls in the hot
season It works great suffering to one
class at least.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-14
Industrial Notes.

The Alta California has received
specimensof leather made with an herb
which grows abundantly in Arizona,
where it is simply known as "yerba -
(herb). 1t is stated that the plant con-
tains 80 10 80 per cent. tannin, making
a good substitute for the common oak
bark. Besides. it adds weight to the
hides and tanS the leather perfectly in
the ordinary time.
The shipments of cinchona bark to
this country from Ecuador have pracIi-
cally ceased. A large number of men
have been employed in gathering this
bark, and some very large and valuable
shipments have been made, but at the
present time it is almost impossible to
ship anything. The main cause of the
decline has been the wonderful develop
ment of the cultivated bark in Sierra
Leone, Africa. and the East Indies.
While the best quinine bark that is
shipped from South America has sell
dom over q to 3 per cent. Of sulphate
of quiDine, under cultivation IN India
they increase it as high in some cases
as 10 per cent.
Letters dated April 18th have been
received at Provincetown, Mass, from
Russel-Bay islands from the whale-ship
California, of New Bedford. She had
taken in the past eleven months 430
barrels Of right-whale oil, +30 barrels
of sperm-whale oil, and 1856 pounds
Of whalebone, making q total for the
voyage Of l,l60 barrels 81 sperm oil,
2,35G barrels Of right-wsale oil, and
22,500 pounds OF whalebone. Every
thing was tsll except the water-casks'
spd she expected to fill those on the
passage home, which will be about loo
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-14
New Books.


The Revised Version Of the Old Testa-
ment. With Marginal Notes and the
Readings and Renderings Preferred
by the American Revisers printed as
Foot Notes. In Four Parts. Part
H., Deuteronomy, xxxii., I; III.
Chronicles, XXX, S. New York.
HARPER K BROTHERS.
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON & Co.
Hearts Delight. A story by Charles
Gibbon. New York. HARPER &
BROTHERS. 1885. Price 20 cents,
in paper.
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON & Co.
The anglers Guide Book and Tourist
Gazetteer cfh Fishing Waters ct'the
United States and Canada. 1885.
Compiled and edited by WILLIAM
G. HARRIS. editor Of " The Ameri-
can angler"
For sale at g The american Angier"
office, New York city.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-14
Art Notes.

The subjects for this years cOmpeti-
ton called the Prix de Rome are THE
mistocleS at the Home of Admetus "
and "A Spartan Soldier Killed in Com
bat and Brought Back to His Mother
by His Companions
Mr.. f. Hopkinson Smith will meet
and address a number of artists and
amateurs in Boston in regard to the
formation there Of branch of the Ma
tional Society Of Arts on the plan of
that started in New York.
W. A. j. Claus, = Boston painter,
has discovered patrons and fame in
India. He has painted Lord and Lady
Dufierin, and has left Calcutta for Muir
shedabad, in the interior, to paint the
portrait Of the Nawab of that place.
A paper gives this hint to artists :
d" Before sending your picture to the
exhibition find out the mdteriei of the
jury. If it be composed of figure and
portrait-painters, and you class your
self in that guild, don't send. II it be
jury Of undergraduates you are
safe. And rice rerSa."
The panoramic = Battle Of Gettys-
burg" lately finished by Boston
painter, has reused the ire Of a veteran.
He finds that the flag prominent in the
picture has six red and seven white
stripes, the edges Of the flag being
white, and the blue field having a width
Of five stripes instead of seven.
An elderly lady of Cincinnati, whose
children have married, has taken to the
study of ART. She writes as follows
MY first school year has just ended.
You are astonished> Well. you know
| never had any dignity to trouble
me, and /, woman of more than
fifty, can sit down by a miss Of
fifteen and study the same lessons
with perfect indifference as to how it
looks read quite lately an endorse
ment of my freak. Somebody said,
If you want to stay young take up
new studies or learn a new trade in
middle life That is just what am
doing. do not expect much, but |
am interested and occupied, and not
going on i'm a rut,r
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-14
CHARLOTTESVILLE.
Personal - Graduating Exercises - Senator
Call.

Personal - Graduating Exercises - Senator
Call.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch. !
JUNE IL, 1885.
DR.. j. $. Davis, while rapidly re-
covering, does not expect to be sufii-
GENTLY restored to fill the place Of
resident physician at the Rockbridge
Alum. He has therefore resigned,
and DR.. Chancellor, who has been in
vited to accept the position, will prOba-
bly, do so.
Last night occurred the graduating
exercises at the Albemarle Female In
stitute. Miss LIZZIE 5. lsbell and Miss
Irene +. Anderson were the graduates,
and read their essays. The formers
essay was on Life was Given for Noble
Deeds" and the latter's on The True
Philosophy of Life" The exercises
were very pleasant.
United States Senator Wilkinson
Call, Of Florida. has consented to adj
dress the joint literary societies of the
University. our.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-14

ever glad to welcome stranger; but
there is lack of enterprise on the part
Of its business people as compared with
some other towns in the State. 1t is
222 miles from Richmond, has u popu-
lation of about 1000, and is the prin-
cipal trading point in the county. One
Of its prominent businessmen was
heard to say: "well, Lexington has
lost its opportunity to be big
town by failing to encourage Ma
jor Brown, who was anxious to
build some few years ago q tobacco
warehouse" The good people OF
Lexington are Of the opinion that to
Mayor Brown much Of the prosperity
of Winston is due, as ne erected the
first tobacco industry in that town, and
since then thirty-two factories and sew
eral tobacco-warehouses have been
built. There are two large tobacco
factories here, but their doors are
closed and operations have been sus-
pended. II is hoped that some enter
prising manufacturer will soon set them
going. The principal business-houses
Of Lexington are @. A. Hunt K Co.,
B. b. Roberts & Co.. W. G. Perry, G.
F. Lowe, and X. S. Adderton. These
do a general merchandise business.
Smith & Watson, druggists +. NJ.
Thompson & Co., j. l.. Peacock, hard
hardware. There are other smaller
houses, aggregating twenty-five in
number. j. II. Thompson & Son
have SASH and blind-factory,
machine-shop, and foundry; Finch
& Wilbourn, the Cleveland Flour
Mills--capacity, 800 bushels per day !;
Crime Brothers, the Victor Mills.
Crime Brothers have recently enlarged
their mill, and are putting in the roller
process machinery. Here also is To-
Gated the Southern Normal School. 1t
has been in existence year anda half.
L. C. Duncan is principal. Its speciality
is the training Of teachers.
Among the Richmond boys travel
ling in the interest Of their respective
houses | have met with in this section
of North Carolina are W. ID. Roach, of
Davenport & Morris; John Harrison,
of Drewry & Co.. j. W. Cobb, OF
Cringan & Watkins G.. Z. Elicit and
Charles Watkins, of Watkins & Cot
trell; II. T. Phillips, Of Z. b. Taylor /;
C.. b. Neal, Of j. Il. Jefiries & Co. /;
NJ. A. Glazebrook, of Millhiser Il Co. /;
F. Middleton, of II. NJ. Smith & Co. /;
Henry Cook, of Purcell, Ladd & Co.
Robert Crump and G. E. Leftwich, Of
Wingo, Elicit & Crump; DR.. W. IL.
Henley, of Powers & Taylor; w. o.
Shelburn, of Wade & Shelburn; 7. C..
Hicks, Of John A. Kratz; Robert Gar
land, of John A. Gresham John Don
nan, of Donnan, Cannon & Co. L.
NJ. Michaux, of SPOTS & Gibson; p.
Ii. Yancey, of Harvey & Blair; -
Weaver, of j. p. Yancey & Co. n.
E. Beall, of Catlin, Talley & Davis.
ARAMINTA.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-14
The Proposition 90 Abolish the sun
Treasury system.

Treasury SyStem.
To the Editor Of the Dispatch:
II is q source Of profound satisfac-
ton to see the new Administration so
fully alive to the country's needs, as is
shown by the favor accorded by it to
Mr.. United States Treasurer Jordan's
scheme in connection with the lodg-
ment Of the public revenue. The Adj
ministration could not possibly COM
mend itself better to the business COM
munity land that, after all, covers all
interests) than to adopt and act on MIR.
Jordan's proposition. The old sub
treasury system has long out-lived its
usefulness Gf it ever had any, and
should be abolished. We cannot sub
nit longer to such moss-back arrange
ment in the presence Of the modern
standard of business movement cleo
tricity.
England is certainly country that
knows how to do business, and do it,
too, on a basis Of progressive conser-
vatism. The revenue Of the Govern
ment there is not boarded up in re-
ceiying houses like our sub-treasuries,
waiting for the movement Of the Gov
ernment's obligations to let it loose,
but as it comes in it goes to the Gov
ernment's credit on the books Of the
Bank Of England, as to any other de-
positor, and is checked out in the same
way. All the money Of the country
being thus always in motion, there is
no room for panics on this account.
We have seen how often we have been
Of late years on the very ragged edge
of financial destruction through the
enormous boards of money lying idle
in the sub-treasuries, when they should
have been ahoat and doing service.
1t is absurd to oppose this movement
on the ground that it would make mo-
nopolies of the banks. Are not the
banks the servants of the people? And
can they live unless they accommodate
the people? They provide for the pub
lie place Of security for its money,
pay it out as directed, take all the risk
of forged signatures and counterfeit
money, and are entitled to a legitimate
compensation for the service. That
this compensation is not excessive is
shown by the measure of the dividends
they are able to declare. When bust
ness is active, enterprise needs money,
and a great deal of it. If all the
money in the country is afoat these de-
mands will be met with comfort and
it will be ahoat when we have no sub
treasures to hoard it up.
1t is proposed that the Government
shall be secured by an adequate de-
post of United States bonds. This
makes the public money secure, no
matter what happens. 1t is not de-
sirable to pay off the public debt any
faster than can possibly be helped.
Fiduciaries want securities that are alb
solutely sure for an income for the
helpless people under their charge, and
if anybody is to owe money let it be
the Government-that is, let the debt
or's solvency be beyond question-and
that is the case with a Government
bond.
1t is hoped that the press, which is,
or ought to be, the synonym of real
progress, will not dispose of this most
important matter in any slap-dash way
nor be trammellcd by traditions that are
ont of date now. but encourage the
President to complete this movement.
AN OLD MANUFACTURER.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-14
Ohio-Sherman.

A telegram from Springfield, Ohio,
the seat of the late Republican State
Convention, to the Wheeling Register
says that there is but one interpreta-
ton placed upon the result Of that con-
yention, and that is that the Republican
party of Ohio has turned its back upon
JOHN SHERMAN and put the political
machine in the hands of Ex-Governor
FOSTER, who had been adroitly playing
for it for some weeks at the primaries.
We shall not cry over the retiring OF
Mr.. SHERMAN, if he has been or is to
be retired. But we do not take much
stock in the rumor. Mr.. SHERMAN is
not man that can be disposed of in a
jiay. What says Mr.. HALsTEAD!
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-14

The prevailing OPINION among the
congressman now in the city upon the
financial and currency propositions that
have just been made is that the former,
for keeping the money of the sub-trea-
suries in the national banks. will meet
with strong Democratic opposition, but
that the latter, for the issuance Of silver
certificates based ON silver bullion at
its market value, will probably be
adopted. Washington iettsJ-- Aieraa-
dria Gazette.
A good many Of the silver advocates
oppose Mr.. wARNER's compromise.
We do not consider it by any means a
settled fact that it will ever become a
law.