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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
His Heart is Good"
From the New York Telegram


Blear-eyed, parched and penitent,
John James Murphy leaned over the
bar of the Yorkville police court to-
day and listened in a listless sort of
way to the complaint his wife was
pressing against him.
''He is drunk every night of his life"
said she. "He don't earn 81 that he
don't spend so cents OF it for drink"
''He's bad man." said the court,
looking sternly at the prisoner. But
John didn't seem to care who looked
at him until his wife resumed her
story.
~ could forgive him all if ne had
kept his hands off me" she said, and
the tears started from her eyes. HE
struck me last night for the first
time"
John woke up. His eyes looked as
if they would leap from his head and
his frame trembled as at the approach
of a gale.
What" he cried, staring wildly at
his wife, 'did | strike you, Jennie?"
"You did, john" she replied in
touching tones.
MAY my arm be paralyzed if | ever.
again raise a glass of liquor to my
lips" he prayed in hoarse tones. And
he meant it.
"Iake your husband home" said
Justice Duffy. 81 think this experience
has made man of him.
They passed out arm in arm.
"That one blow has cured that man
drum drinking, said his honor. His
heart is good"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
A HAPPY TERMINATION.
Peace Between Russia and England Full
1y Assured.

LONDON, Aug. 29.-It is almost GER
tain that peace between England and
Russia on the Afghan question is now
completely assured. The two govern
ments are at present busily engaged in
arranging the last details of a mutual
understanding, and the negotiations
are proceeding rapidly and har-
moniously. The business of conduct
ing these final negotiations to happy
termination is now engrossing all the
time Of Baron De Staal, the Russian
ambassador to England, and in con-
sequence he has been compelled to
forego his customary vacation and
remain here during the August
heat, which long ago drove all
the resident English statesmen out of
town. The Baron, ever since the ar
rival Of the Marquis of Salisbury at his
chalet in France, has daily sent to the
British foreign Office for transmission
to him a very large Geographic CORE
spondence, and the same office has al
ready dispatched the British premier a
number of special messengers with i'm
portant confidential letters. During
all this time the Russian ambassador
has also been busy in attending to the
vast cable correspondence which his
government has been carrying on with
him concerning the adjustment of the
Central Asia difficulties from ST. Peters
burg
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
THE supreme courts of Iowa, Nebras-

THE supreme courts of Iowa, Nebras-
ka, and Wisconsin have recently rem
dered opinions that will affect actions
brought to recover damages for per-
sonal injuries. By the general prac-
tice heretofore followed, the existence,
nature, and extent of injuries alleged,
have been determined by the evidence
Of the complainant and his own medi
cal witnesses. In these recent cases
however, the principal has been at
frmed that the plaintiff may be re-
quired to submit to a personal ex.
animation by physicians chosen by
the defense or designated by the court
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
Innocent Butchers.

A dispatch from Tallodega, Ala, says in
that county J. H. MCGOWAN killed and
dressed a pig for barbecue on the night of
the 23d. His three children, aged IL, 9
and 4 years, saw the process of butchering
the pig. The nextday MCGOWAN left home,
and the children agreed to repeat the pro-
cess of the day before. Having no pig, the
two older children proceeded to butcher the
youngest. They cut it's throat and hung it
up by the heels as the pig had hung, and
were proceeding to disemboWel it when their
mother discovered the horrible tragedy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02

A WISE Boston paper declares that
the future success of journalism de-
ponds upon editorial writing that shall
treat of things that are going to occur
instead of things that have already
taken place. The application of such
a theory in news matters has frequent
ly been tried, but as a general rule, we
believe, it has been found that the
reading public is not disposed to en-
courage enterprise of that kind.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
Imprisoned for Buying Real Estate.

c. A. Van Bakelen, ex- United States con-
sul-general at Port au Prince, Hayti, ar
rived at Philadelphia on the 28th by
steamer. He reports having been arrested
and imprisoned by the Haytian govern
ment for fifteen months for the crime of
owning real estate on the island, which is
forbidden to any but a native. His suffer-
ings are described as terrible, and his
health is broken down in consequence of
his long confinement. Hewas only released
on a peremptory letter from Secretary Bay
ard, threatening military interference Van
Bakelen, on retiring from the office of con-
sulgeneral, married native woman.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
Iowa Republicans.

The Iowa Republican State Convention,
in session at Des Moines, on the 9th, nom
mated Senator Larrabee for governor on
the first ballot. The convention then NOM
mated, for lieutenant governor, Capt. J. A.
F. Hull; judge of the supreme court, Beck
(re-nominated); superintendent of public
instruction, j. w. Ackers (re-nominated) .
The platform declares in favor of state
board of arbitration to settle disputes be-
tween capital and labor, and in favor of a
further trial of the present prohibitory liq-
nor law.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
Is it a Canard ?

A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa, Of the
29th, says a mysterious stranger, who had
been hanging about the city for a week, and
strong resemblance to the published pho
tographs Of Preller, the victim OF the St.
Louis trunk murder, and is believed by
many to have been that gentleman in dis
guise. During the week q letter was re-
ceived at the ST. Louis jail from Wilkes
barre, purporting to have come from
Preller, and as the handwriting looks like
that in the hands Of the police, the mystery
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
Smoke.

A fire in a London lumber yard on the
goth caused a loss of $25O,OO0.
Two large buildings at Yazoo City, Miss,
were destroyed by fire on the 10Th, involv-
ing loss of $43 900.
At Vinton, Ia, on the goth, large flour
ing mill, with it's contents, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000.
The big chair factory of Gardner, Holmes
& Co., New York, was burned on the Both.
Loss, $125, 900; insurance, 100000.
The Plumbago Crucible Works, at Bat
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
swindling Accident Companies.

The recent explosion on board of the
steamer S. M. FELTON,, at Philadelphia, has
been traced to an act of a man whose name
is given as Adriance Spears, who was killed
by the explosion. 1t now appears that
Spears caused the explosion for the purpose
of getting money from accident insurance
companies. The history of the man has
been hunted up by the detectives, who
claim that he has made a fat living for
many years by taking out accident policies
in various companies and then getting him
self hurt. His last venture finished him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
A South Carolina Cyclone.

Charleston, S. c., was visited by ter
rife cyclone on the morning OF the 25th.
According to dispatch from that city one
fourth of the houses in the place were un-
rooted. Several church spires were blown
down, and four vessels which had arrived
the day before were wrecked. No lives are
reported lost. The loss in dollars will
reach a million. The same storm struck
Savannah, Ca, where much damage was
done and number of people were killed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02

INDIAN INSPECTOR ARMSTRONG has
just taken a census of the Cheyenne
and Arapahoe Indians. The popula-
ton of these tribes was found to be
2,167 and 1,2O7 respectively. They
had been neutrality-suspicious. ten years
for 3,76S and 2,1OS members respec-
lively. The saving in beef and -four
alone by the new censusis 100000 a
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
A DefauIter Suicides.

Ex-Treasurer Adams, of the birmingham
(Mass.) Savings Bank, whose accounts
were being subjected to special investiga
ton by the United States bank commits
sioner, and whose resignation had been
asked for on account of Irregularities in mis-
books, committed suicide at the bank on
the Oath by cutting his throat. The ac-
counts of the bank are in bad shape.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02

The missionary in Chinatown, San
Francisco, does not find his field OF
labor a promising one, judging from
the statistics which are given. Out
of population Of 100000, in seven
teen years there have been just 115
souls converted, which shows that
the Heather Chinee is peculiar.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
In Honor of Grant.

Memorial services in honor of Gen. Grant
were held in the Mexican Hall of Congress,
in the City of Mexico, on the evening of the
9th. The services were under the auspices
of the Mexican government, and all mem
bers Of the American colony were specially
invited. The programme included funeral
music by large orchestra, an Grafton by
Senior Ramon Prida, an address by Senior
Tomar Regeo Retana, and the singing of
the cave Maria" by Rosa Palacios, the
Mexican prima donna.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
The Chinese Flood,

Details Of the recent floods in the vicinity
of Canton, China, have just been received
at Washington. 1t appears to have been
the most terrible visitation Of the kind in
many years. More than 10000 persons
lost their lives, and much larger number
were rendered homeless. Entire villages
were swept away, and the rice and silk
crops were almost totally ruined.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
The Mystery Deepens.

A letter from a party in New Orleans, adj
dressed to Maxwell, the ST. Louis trunk
mystery man, and intercepted by the
police, gives information which strengthens
the belief in the minds of many in that city
that Preler is still alive, and that the body
in the trunk was a part of a scheme to de-
fraud the English life Insurance companies.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02

GERMANY's annexation of the Caro-
line Islands puts Spain into apassion,
and King Alfonso has shown his sym
pathy with the popular feeling by re-
signing the nominal colonelcy of Ger
man regiment. When his temper rises
to the full height ofthe afront ALT may
even forswear lager and pretzels.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02

women, and yet the men employed ex-
ceeded the women four to one. Some
of the head officials say the only way
to get the women clerks to work salts
factorily will be to put them in divis-
ions bv themselves and have chiefs Of
their own sex.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
Resisting EYiCtiOnS.

A Dublin magistrate, with 100 police,
went to Bally Farrissey, Coun Killarney,
Ireland on the 9th for the purpose of
evicting a number of tenants. They were
met by a mob of 1000 persons, which at
tackled the police, who fought with fixed
bayonets. Many men were killed and in
iured on both sides. The eviction was not
O
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
Yellow Fever in Mexico.

Dispatches Of the goth from various por-
tions OF Western Mexico report yellow fever
is prevalent to an alarming extent at both
Guaymas and Mazatlan, and has also APP
peared on the Pacific coast. Many small
towns have been almost depopulated by
the disease.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02

SAM JONES and Darwin agree on the
evolution theory. The only difference
is as to the starting point. Jones be-
lieves in Darwin's theory inverted.
He says: "Invert it and it's fact. We
came from the blessed hand Of God
perfect, but l look about me and |
think the world stunning x, monkeys
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
Qhe Rtpublifa't
WATERFOWL, wIsC0NsIE.

A GERMAN corvette with 23S aboard,
is reported to have been lost in q cy-
clone in the Red Sea, adding another
to the many disastrous casualties OF
this year which will long memorable
for numerous and appalling accidents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02

tersea, near London, were destroyed by
fire, on the 2Sth. Loss 100000.
The fireworks factory in the Civita Vec-
CHA, Rome, burned on the 9th. A large
number of lives were lost.
Fire at Fergus Falls, Mass, on the 27th
caused loss of $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
Sheet-Iron Manufacturers.

All but two Of the sheet-iron manufact-
urers of Pittsburg have signed the Amalga-
mated scale. An extensive strike has been
avoided, and there is great rejoicing among
the ODeratiyeS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
Badly Scared.

A big panic has been created in the little
country district along Sycamore Creek, in
Clay County, WA, by the appearance of a
strange disease which bears strong re-
semblance to cholera. A number of deaths
have occurred and the doctors are puzzled.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
Bandits Ragged,

Five Mexican bandits were brought into
Laredo, Tex, on the 25th. They had been
captured by company of soldiers after
fight in which three bandits were killed and
two soldiers wounded. One of the men
killed was charged with six murders.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
RUN ON A BANK.
A Philadelphia Institution Undergoing a
Severe Test.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 26.-There
is run to-day on the Spring Garden
Bank at Twelfth and Spring Garden
Streets, state concern. The bank
has not been closed and all demands
are beingmet. The President, Francis
w. Kennedy, declares that the run is
due to malicious rumors and that the
institution is entirely solvent. He
says the surplus is about $4,000.
The capital stock is 1910, 100, and the
deposits 81, 65O,947.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
With 100 Lives,

A dispatch from Bombay under date of
the 25th says: 1.-THE steamer Bungaloo
was wrecked yesterday in the Gulf of Alden,
and 100 persons lost their lives"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
Thirteen Lives.

A dispatch from Beaufort, s. c., OF the
2Sth, says it has just been learned there
that three pilot boats, with thirteen of
their crews, were lost during the recent cy-
clone off the coast.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
A Young Counterfeiter.

A boy OF 10 years, arrested at Rockford,
ILL.,, on the Doth, for passing counterfeit
money, had more than 200 spurious half
dollars in his possession. He said he
found them.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
England and Russia.

Dispatches of the goth report that the
negotiations between England and Russia
are nearly completed, and that an amicable
adjustment of their differences is imminent.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02

THERE is nothing of the offensive
partisan about the cable cars. They
do not go.-Philadelphia Press.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-04-17
Some Stage Pecu1iarities.

From the Brooklyn Eagle
There is often more amusement in a
theater than is confined to stage per-
formances. Diplomacy is revived at
Wallack's, and most of the audience,
on the first night, seemed to be we'll
enough entertained by the acting; but
my own attention was distracted from
the marital complications of the play
to the actual spouses Of the players.
Osmond Tearle was the hugger ard
huggee of the suffering heroine in MINI
icry; but in an orchestra chair, with
her eyes missing none of those mock
demonstrations, sat his wife, formerly
the Minnie Conway of theatricals, and
still q beautiful woman. Annie
Robe was the simulator of dramatic
agony, the recipient of kisses and
embraces which had the seeming
heartiness Of reality, as slim as
Sarah Beruhsrdt, and equally varied in
her sinuous poses Of passion; but bur-
ly British husband stood at the rear Of
the parquet, close watcher of it ALL
Herbert Kelley figured in the piece as
a rejected lover, while his wife, Caro-
line Hill, used all opera glass the more
distinctly to see his doirgs. Young
Blackstone, son of the famous London
manager, had a small role, and his
youthful bride, Adele Measor, solicit
ously gazed from a chair twenty feet
away. And tie veteran Wallack,
wigged and .rouged to look reasonably
like dramatic hero, WAS confronted by
his matronly wife and several daugh-
ters and sons-in-law in proscenium
box. All these mentioned auditors
were interested in the artistic feats of
their several partners, and they did
their enthusiastic share Of the applaud
ing but I wondered if there wasn't just
a little Of jealous concern as to the pre-
tended relationships on the stage before
them.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-04-17
Comparative longevity Of Men
ss and Women. #

The San Francisco Record says Of the
relative longevity Of men and women
the following: Interesting resources
concerning the comparative longevity
of men and women in Europe have re-
Gently been made by the director of the
bureau Of statistics at Vienna. From
these it appears that about a third more
women than men reach advanced age.
Women oftener lead quiet, regular lives.
They have few bad habits, are
less exposed to strong passion and
excitement. It appears from the
gathered statistics Of the world,
says the Modern age, that women
have greater tenacity of life than men.
Nature worships the female in all its
varieties. Among insects the male
perishes at relatively early period. In
plants the SENATE blossoms die earliest.
and are produced in the weaker limbs.
Female quadrupeds have more endu-
rance than males. In the human race,
despite the intellectual and physical
strength of man., the woman endures
longest, and will bear pain to which the
strongest man succumbs. Zymotic dis
eases are more fatal to males, and more
male children die than females. Dever-
ga asserts that the proportion dying
suddenly is about 100 women to $50
men; 1880 men in the United States
in 1870 committed suicide to 285 wom-
en-. Incompetence, apoplexy, govt,
hydrocephalus,5 affections Of the heart
or liver, scrofula, paralysis, are far
more fatal to males than females. 800
Pulmonary consumption, on the
other hand, is more deadly to the latter,
which argues that we ought to give the
girls of our families all the out door ex-
ercise that they need. Females in cities
are more prone to consumption than in
the country. All old countries not dis
turbed by emigration, have q majority
of females in the population. In royal
families the statistics show more daugh-
tiers than sons. The Hebrew women
is exceptionally long-lived, while the
colored man is exceptionally short lived.
DR.. Hough remarks that there are from
two to six per cent mere males born
than females, vet there is more than
six per cent excess of females in the
living population. The rush and worry of
the average business man in this country
is apt to make him prematurely old,
unless he takes judicious recreation.
The females are to q great extent ex-
empt from ibis over-straining about
business cares, which may, in degree,
account for their superior vitality"
There can be no doubt but that in the
last sentence of the above there lies
the kernel of the true difference in the
United States between the longevity of
men and women in this country. More
than one close observer noticed that
last summer and fall many men died
from the over wrought pressure brought
to bear upon them who promised under
more favorable circumstances to live
for many years.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-04-17

A short time ago one Of the strikers at
the Mccormick paper factory at Chicago, at
tempted to stop one Of the company's buses on
its way to the works. /. "A Pinkerton detective
inside the bus shot the man dead Alright q
large body of strikers lately employed in the
paper works gathered around its walls and
made some demonstrations. Those in charge
fearing an attack would be made sent for as
slstance, and a number of Pinkerton police
were loaded into an omnibus, together with
twenty-five mtlskcts and the necessary ammu-
milton, and sent to the works. As they neared
the place they were surrounded by strikers,
who stopped the vehicle and went for the men
inside. Several shots were fired, but the only
person hit was one Of the policemen, who re-
ceived q scatp wound The police were driven
out OF the bus, their guns captured, the horses
unhitched and the bus burned 81 +.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-04-17
his FEEBLE MUsTACHE. /


have watched and waited with patience
For the growth Of each baby hair.
! have scanned with longing eagerness
The strength Of the latest pair,
And After painful years of wattinge +
u For its size to be manly and strong,
Have made up my mind it's useless to try,
There is visibly something wrong.
Il have let 1t grow for SIX months-yes, more
And cen then it can hardly be seen. =.
y have watercd Ii, yaselned 1t, trimmed II
2 with care, 4 1870
Yet still it remains naked and lean;
And at last worn out with impatience,
Half sick with the care Of that lip,
/ have stricken it OIL and am waiting
For some one to give me the tip.
have followed afar with a jealous gaze
The man with more than his share.
have looked in anger at kids with their
growth Z ID
As though didn't care, 1..y&.e.
But though to you may seem contcnted,
AS il I'd nothing to trouble or fear, .
Don't be deceived by my satisfied look,
At times Pm kicking like steer.
I have read the brilliant advertisements, a.
Some Offering a large reward, 49,. .1s
While other claim they have The stuff
To bring hair out on board.
l have tried them all with an eager hope,
But each hope has proved forlorn;
And here at twentr-six my face Is as bare
As 1t was when l was born.
Z" --"Hn Tude,,,
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-04-17
Wo1.aa Than riraa ,.,,,u

The editor of an Omaha paper, in comment
ing on several cases in that city where chill
dren died from the effects Of taking cough syrup
containing morphia, remarks that opiates,
poisons and narcotics are more dangerous than
firearms. Mothers should note this and fur
thermore that different Boards of Health, after
making careful analyses have certified that the
only purely vegetable preparation of this kind,
and one that is in every way harmless, prompt
Of Health, have publicly endorsed this valu-
able discovery.