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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-02
Improved Rail Fence.

Rail fences are still economical In
some parts of the country. Where
lumber costs nothing, they are cheaper
than fences made of barbed wire. The
rails are liable to be displaced
by animals or bio vn down by the
wind. To avoid these difficulties,
g. correspondent of the Toronto
Globe makes these recommendations
After the rails are laid up in the usual
way, six or seven according to their
thickness and regulation height,
four-inch nail is driven intosthe bot
tom rail to about half an inch from
home. and one on the other side also,
about six inches from the end and
parallel with the ground; now procure
strong wire, such as fencing wire but
with out barb, make loop or eye on
the end, and hitch on the nail, bring
the other end of the wire over the top
and down to the other nail, make
loop and hitch on also; the wire when
hitched on nails to have an inch or
two of slack; now, understand me,
the nails and wire are to be between
where the rails cross Or intersect each
other. Now get short handspike
and insert it between the rails at their
intersection and pry down; the wire
will now be strained tight; put a toy
gle, wedge or fiat stone between the
rails so pried apart, to act as key,
and push it in tight as possible about
midway between top and bottom;
the corner will now be firm and secure
against the rubbing or throwing down
by cattle. AS further precaution
against the tremendous power of the
wind or any rocking motion, a short
brace reaching from the ground in a
diagonal direction and pushed snug
and tight under the top rail, and Sc
cured by nail driven through it into
the rail under on the inside corner of
all the panels. The bottom rail
should always be the thickest, and
smallest at top, if any difference exists
in size AS all wood shrinks or swells
according as the weather is, in a.
droughty time, should you find that
the fence is not as tight when put up,
tighten as before directed by means
of handspike and key.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-02

EEGETARIANIsM is spreading rapidly
in London.
, 1885-02-17
ROLLER SKATING.
A Leading Physician Gives His Opinion
of It's Effects.

Americans have a way of entering into a
sport with a vim hat borders close on
mania It was 50 with base ball, and it is
SO with roller skating. The latter is Just
now ''all the nge," and under the cir
cumstancesi it is probably useless to sound
the note Of warming. even though the ex-
ercise be dangerous to health, as the best
medical experts in the east claim. The
amusement which has grown to the pro
portions of arfnll-siEed craze will run its
course, be the results what they may.
Nevertheless. the press and the medical
profession in the east are waging a hot
war on roller skating. DR.. Thad. A.
Reamy, than whom there is not 4 better
authority in the United States on the dis
eases Of women. and whose word is law in
the American Society of Geneologists,
says:
The injurious effects arising to women
who use the sewing machine are not due
to the posture assumed, nor yet to the
muscles employed in its use, but to the
prolonged maintenance of the posture,
the prolonged use Of a certain set Of
muscles to the exclusion of others, and
to the lack Of opportunity for proper ex-
ercise in the open air. The moderate use of
the sewing machine, as in the family, is not
injurious Roller skating is quite another
thing. 1t may possibly be INDUCED in to
a moderate degree by young women with
u serious injury, but / have no hesitan-
cy in the unqualified statement that it is
an exercise for which women are anato-
mically and physiologically untitled. To
indulge in this exercise violently land
they do not seem to do il in moderation
l say that to indulge in il violently, and
for many hours in succession, under ex-
element and stimulation, as at skating
Kinks, must infict lasting and irremediable
injury upon the women who are partici-
pants. OF course, the damage to some
must be much greater than to Others
Little girls, as well as those approaching
womanhood, should be positively forbid
den such exercise. ss
At the present time thepeople of Chey-
enne have the craze in a methodical and
matter Of fact way, but it promises to de-
velep into a surging mania Half an hour
on roller skates can hardly hurt any one
who is strong enough to skate at all, but
- H. I4I - A. .---m~ r..l
, 1885-02-17

A correspondent Of the Omaha Herald
writes from Fender, Neb., that serious
Indian troubles are imminent
The correspondent fell in with a party
Of Indians just returned from the Pine
Ridge and Rosebud agencies, and learned
from them that there is liable to be an
outbreak among the Sioux. They say
that for a long time they have had less
than half %rations, and for several weeks
almost nothing. While their leaders are
we'll aware of their inability / o cope with
the United States government, yet they
say they had better die fighting than TO
die of starvation. Others say that no
tribe ever got anything from the govern
ment without fighting, and all those who
have refused to fight have been left to
dwindle and disappear from want power
ty and disease, The Osalalla and Brules
have sent ont runner to other tribes in
the southwest and the north to secure
their aid.
Red Cloud refused to have anything TO
do with the revolt, telling the Indians it
was utter foolishness, but he was sold
that he must join them. or at least hold
his tongue, or they would kill him. The
Indians with whom he conversed, some
Of whom are very intelligent, be-
lieyed that there would be trouble,
as many things, all working to-
gether, were tending to make the Indians
desperate. The murder Of Spotted Tail
and White Thunder at the Rosebud agen-
cy (all of which would have been pre-
vented had their agents known or cared
anything about Indian laws and customs)
has divided that tribe into two fierce FAC
tons, ready TO cut each others throats, and
making it a very easy matter for one party
to cry traitor against the other, and
thus force both parties into a conflict with
the whites, regardless of consequences.
| was much amused at the shrewdness
Of one Indian. He said the trouble was
this: The agents up there knew that a
new president was coming in soon, and
then they would all be put out So. dur
ing the little time that was left. they were
stealing all they could, and the Sioux, in
consequence, had nothing to eat, and a
Sioux, when he is hungry, gets awful
mad, and don't care what he does.
1t is &c be hoped that one Of the first
things that Grover Cleveland does, after
his Inauguration, will be to send some
man to clean out the nest of thieves,
whose chief habitation is along the Mis-
sour. from Sioux City to its headwaten,
who have been swindling the government
and the Indians without let OF hindrance,
as the editor of the Herald knows, for
the last twenty years or more.
, 1885-02-17

Clara Morris at the Opera House Last
Evening.

Owing partially to the advance of
prices, and partially to the absence of bill
board and pictorial advertisements, the
audience that greeted Clara Morris at the
opera house last evening was not as large
as it should have been
article Al is an emotional play of the
French school, Cora a Creole girl,
meets George Duhamel'' in New Or
leans, where he falls madly in love with
her She accompanies him to France as
his mistress While they are at Havre his
latent jealousy is aroused by her caprices
and frivolity, and he shoots her. The
, 1885-02-17

The Warm North wind Wears AWAY
the snow.

A chinook, /" that strange warm wind
from the north, began blowing Sunday.
Its advance guard came in the form Of a
biting blast that blew for an hour or
more ere it died away. Then came gusts
Of wind; at first n ''capful, = as the sailors
say. then stronger puffs, and at last the
chinook began to blow. All day yester-
day il howled down ehimneys. whistled
around the corners, and sang a merry
tune to the owners Of range cattle as it
made eolian melody among the wires.
The thermometer stood above the
freezing point all the day, and the thaw-
ing snow was rapidly worn away by the
wind. Out on the ranges, where the
winds have unfettered sweep, the snow
was rolled along in steadily decreasing
clouds until the hills became bare and the
abrupt gulches were filed with the driven
snow.
Reports from the Laramie plains are
not as encouraging as those from other
portions Of the territory. On those bleak
uplands the cattle have doubtless suffered
and the loss, especially among Texas
pilgrims, will probably be appreciable.
Messrs. Allen and Cross, who arrived
yesterday afternoon from the Chugwater,
were three days making the journey.
They report the snow very deep in the
gulches and cattle find their accustomed
, 1885-02-17

The locomotives On the U. P. railway
are undergoing q change IN the style Of
their ~smokestacks, or as the dade reporter
would say. exchange 'bell-c<oSn'' for
straight plug hats. The Hmokestacks
which have been in use on the road for a
number o fyears were built after a design
made at the shops in this city, with a
view to guarding especially against the
escaping Of sparks and setting FIRE to the
prairie grass. All engines built at the
shops at this city. and all bought east,
whether at Taunton. Philadelphia, or
other shops. have been equipped with
these stacks, which are eonical in shape
and apparently quite c~apacious. A rail
man said yesterday that the change
to the ordinary straight stacks was being
made with a view 10 securing a bigger
exhaust than is possible with the old
stacks, and a consequent advantage in
forcing an engine when il is necessary to
haul unusually heavy loads.
, 1885-02-17

Xii Hamilton, Of gold brick fame. and
robbery fame and several other kinds of
fame, went home last night and related a
blood-curdling story of a terrible assault
that had been committed on him. Some
body had nmmed the barrel of a revolver
into his mouth, snapped the weapon
twice. beat him over the head and
kicked him terribly. The neighbors we've
called in, but failed to find any bruises or
evidences of assault. The impression
prevails that Eli is steadily acquiring a
reputation as a nuisance.
, 1885-02-17

1t is reported that the fnt section of
freight train No. 8 broke in two when
near Granite canyon yesterday morning
and that the rear half ran backwards,
colliding with the engine of the second
section. The damage is said to consist of
a wrecked engine and several broken cans.
, 1885-02-17
MS Father rock Him Al nj word,

From the Texas siftlngs.
A student at the university of Texas
being short Of funds wrote to his father
in Galveston: Send me 500 by return
mail. He who gives quickly gives
double. The old gentleman replied by
the next mail inclosing $50, with the re-
mark that as he had responded promptly
the $50 inclosed were equivalent to the
desired 500.
, 1885-02-17
THE WAGES OF SIN.
Two Stories of Very Mysterious
Crime.


mrs Isaac Jacobs. OF her confinement IN
tue county hospital oil the arrest Of
acops aAu OF ms apparent insanity IL
VIII pc remembered tnat jacobs was ac-
cusea oil siashing ms w'ie "'th a razor at
'he ons o. har'- Ayres' . that jealousy
was .he 1''egea canse 'or 'ne a''el'p.ea
mu'uer. "nen prougn. pe'o,e JUSTICE
rishel iol PRELIMINARY 't,ai 'acops "a'seu
examination ana IN oeiaui' OF pau was
sent 70 Jan- ROT several weeks IL was
supposed lie was insane out OF iate ne
pas peen more RATIONAL At .ne am OF
'ne cutting Oh mrs- jacobs PUBIC ieeiinK
was very much against her husband Du'
ms temporary INSANITY wnicn was un-
uoup'eu'y genuine, caused pity 10 'aNe
,ne place OF ~d'gnau ihere were
MINIS tnatthe true Story OF q Ian was
never gwen 70 the pubic, n develop
mems Yesterday showed these suspicious
were wen founded
SUNDAY morning ms Jacobs
10 iease the city deputy Snerin "e,
uon'gie was at tine depot, however \
discovered her on ne Denver racine
Tain Just as inc tnin was ABOUT 70 ue-
part AS . was n as a witness
AGAINST ner husband sne was arrested auu
takenl 70 the county jan
estsrohy AFTERNOON an Application ior
n E EnA-ua nr-,r - kaAAl| ~
a VIII oil napeas corpus IN penaii OF
yacoDs was neaid before Oniel 'uSuce
Lacey IN chambers ana 'ne 'es'iinony IN
.ne enl're anair was aouucsu- 'aeops anu
ms viie related the particulars OF the cut
ung put toia contradictory n dec'ueo'y
sensational s'ofiss-
jacobs VINO appeared ciea1-nesoeo anu
enereiy rauonai' saiu tnal upoa .ne even
ing tne cutting occurred, ms "iie' VINO
was a servant at H. Nagie $ sen. MN
woru 10 eau AT tne mouse ABOUT Q c'ocA-
ne went tnere ABOUT an our eafnei'
noNeNe.' anu US ne approacnsu .ne s'ePs
sa" nus VINE anu young wafer noau
iea'e 'ne Ai,cnen ana go in'o an a'lo'n-
ing ioo'n A9ou, zen Iinn'es .nes
reappcareu' nouo Deing pu. parvAny
uieSseo ana ene woman > e,o'nes uisi
,.ngeu' Ai'er n came JACK 70 inc
Ai'enen 'ne TWO inuu'seo nn oareSse7 anu
pe.,Orneu certain ac'S "nicn SacODs ue
oeu o"' WHICH art "nn' io' pnp
''on-
, 1885-02-17
WrOMIhG's GOVERNOR.
Public Expression of the Choice Of
the People.
A New and Appropriate Method
Worthy Of Support.

Relying upon the long established Gus
tom Of retiring presidents in declining to
make political appointments after the dec
l~araiion Of the electoral vote. the Demo
Gratis of the territory propose to express
their opinion as to who should be recon-
mended to President Cleveland for the
office Of governor. In order to obtain
the most extended expression the follow
ing call is made pubin:
We, the undersigned, citizens Of Wyo-
ming Territory, do hereby respectfully
call a meeting Of citizens who are favor
able to a Democratic appointment TO the
Office of governor Of Wyoming Territory,
to be held at Library hall, Cheyenne, on
Wednesday evening. Feb. 10, 1885, to
express an opinion as to the choice Of the
citizens Of the territory for that position:
luke Voorhees,, j. G. Baird,
L. r. Bresnahen. Geo. w. Jones,
ID. @. Rhodes, +. i. Billiard,
A. ii. Reel, Geo. Mitchell.
David Miller, A.. c. Snyder,
Charles F.. Miller, John Hunton,
Peter HANNA, j. NJ. Tompkins,
Louis Loeb, William Myers,
NJ. Marks,
I. Dyer, President Of city council.
I, JEFF Carr, Chairman Democratic
county committed
Many prominent Democrats are absent
from the city. while Others were not in
their places Of business yesterday when
the call was being circulated. 50 that their
names do not appear. However, there
are sufficient for the purpose of calling a
meeting. where the real work is to be
done.
The LEADER is requested to state that
the invitation to attend is most earnestly
extended to the Democracy Of the entire
territory. Limitation Of time alone pre-
vented personal invitations being sent
abroad. All of the faithful are included
IN the invitation. Il is expected that
many persons will be present from the
west.
Library hall has been engaged for the
occasion, and arrangements are being
made for the proper accommodation Of
the audience, among whom many ladies
are expected, as they have an equal right
with gentlemen in expressing their opin-
ion on the matter under consideration.
Ia - Trr nw. 49, ~. :.
, 1885-02-17

A. G. McGregor sells coal from the
Fox 4 Paterson mines, which is CON
sidered the best Colorado coal in the
market.
, 1885-02-17

Persons desiring pure Lake Mahapaluta
ice should leave orders at Christ. Mauss',
SIT Ferguson street. or with the
undersigned. SLOAN & 90.
, 1885-02-17

Tell your rheumatic friends of Cham
berlain's Pain Balm, and you will do
them alasting favor. Il costs bat so cents,
and Is sure to relieve the worst cases. Sold
by W. N. Hunt
, 1885-02-17
For fine watch repairing,
DAVID MILIER, 18th street.

The largest stock of fine bnndies, old
whiskies. choice hQuesrs and superfine
cigars at George Masters well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets.
, 1885-02-17

Use Model Mills Patent Flour, manu-
featured by Hungarian rolls from select
ed wheat .
, 1885-02-17

Marshall coal, full weight, at Riner &
Johnson's. Telephone l02.
, 1885-02-17
Tablets.
Tablets.
TnhInfa.

B0mething new. Gibson's imported
fruit tablets, Forty different iayors.
An Of the old popular havon, and many
new ones. Try them. Rhodes 4 Toxell.
, 1885-02-17

Engraving in al its branches is dons at
ZRHNKR, JACKSON & BUEcmER's.
, 1885-02-17

The best smoking tobacco Is Little
Joker"
, 1885-02-17

Wells Health Remover restores
health and vigor, cures dyspepsia, impo-
tence, sexual debility. 81.
, 1885-02-17

Applied locally on the pain.place st.
jacobs Oil cures at once. Price fifty cents.
, 1885-02-17

New styles of business envelopes at the
Leader Office.
, 1885-02-17

.9nofher opportunity 10
bay goods cheap. Dan. eA-
fire stock Of Dress Goods at
cost for the meat fess days.
ByscneH = Go.
, 1885-12-05

Louth, has been defeated. He will, however,
petition.
A Paris despatch states that the Budget
Committee favors prohibiting the purchase
of supplies abroad.
Advices received fran Madagascar re-
port that the Malagassy ENJOYS are nego-
tiating with Admiral Mot.
The physicians of Paris have protested
against the Munlcipality's proposition to
expel the nuns from the hospitals.
A Constantinople telegram
that the Sublime Porte has formally ap.
pointed Djevat Pasha to be Governor of
Eastern Roumelia.
New York, Dec. 4th.
Flour, per bril-, st Lawrence brand 500.
Meal, best b%randywine, per bril-, $500.
Heavy Mess Pork, per brl., -
New Seasons Pork, per brl $40 to 1O4.
&c.. Crystals, per Id 6 to 6l-16
Dug" f. toG.R, per h., So to !.
English Islands Molasses, per gal. 23c.
Exchange New York and London, 1888.
London, Dee. 4th.
Demerar4 Crystals per cwt go l8s.
Sugar Muscovado per cwt., Cd Is. GIL.
Clayed Havana, No. II, aaolt.
go los. 81.
Demerara Rum per gall, Is. Id.
Trinidad Cocoa per cwt. El Is. OF.
Consols, 90 ZIG GIG.
Bank Of England Rate of Discount, 3 p. CT.
Liverpool Cotton Middling upland per 10.
81.
Three per centRcntes in Paris Fcs. 8O.35
, 1885-12-05
acknowledgements

IMET bekjendtgj0res herved, at I'd
~ kast til Repartitionen paa Fel-
lesboet eftor afgangno Forvalter
HOLGER RIISog efterlevende Enke
FERNANDO, f0dt Muhlenstedt, vii
bliye fremlagt i en- Session, der af-
holdes paa Boet Onsdagon den 23de
December d. a. Eftermiddag III. 2
slet, hvOrefter BOet f~Orventes sluttet.
ChristianSteds Skifteret, st. Croix den
1ste December 1885.
NJ. r. NYSSUM.
cSf.
, 1885-12-05
Bekjendtgjorelse

NET bekjendtgjores herved, at
~ Udkast til Repartition i af-
gangne ugift ADRTANA DARDIS'
D0dsbo vii blive fremlagt i en- SEES
sion, der afholdes paa Boet Onsdagen
den 23de dennes Kl. II Eftm., hvor;
efter Boet forventes sluttet.
Chr~istiansteds Skifteret, st. Croix den
1ste December 1885.
NJ. r. NYSSUM.
noT.
, 1885-12-05
Bekjendtgjorelse G.

NET bekjendtgj0rcs herved, ct I'd
u kast til Repartition i FallesbOet
efter afgangno T0mrer HENRY
WILLIAMS og efterlevende Enke
EMILE WILLIAMS vii blive fremss
lagt / EN- Session, der afholdos paa
Boet Onsdagen den 23do dcnnes
Eftermiddag III, p slet, hvorefter
BOet f~Orventes sluttet
ChriStianStedS Skifteret, St. Croix den
1Ste December 1885.
NJ. r. NYSSUM.
ct
, 1885-12-05
NSLAT
Publication.

5pT is hereby made known that
q Mr.. H. HANSCHELL, Govern
ment Secretary, has, from this date,
taken over the Government Score
tary's Office at st. Croix.
Government Of the Danish West In liza
Islands, st. Thomas 9th November 1885.
c.. II. ARENDRUP.
, 1885-12-05
IT. G~RIESSELICH & Co.,
Weavers' Hall, Wool Exchange, London,
SHIPPING & COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
ESTABLISHED 1876,

Shin to order IN description of British ami Continental Goods upon 2!oo coHnE"
sion, selected by buyers with Colonial experience amt ATTEND To Ge prUPU "% 10
of Produce at highest prices upon 11o commission Orders TO De accom- account t n"H ny w
Letters OF Credit or prtremittance IN lilk Drafts or froouc@ op" AV"
surance for floating argOe to cOver sea- risks. ~. -, :. Ao Paul
References: Chief Office of the London md WednHh@ bak, VI As" Damn
London, nd most of the Colonial Banks. Eu~oho
Current Price Lists, Produce Reports, and any necessary samples Or ofh"
on application, e
, 1885-12-05

LIMPRICTIT.
dctg.
, 1885-12-05

LIMPRICHT.
est.
National Republican., 1885-12-28

Secretary Manning has received dispatch
from Senator Fair, dated San Francisco Dec.
q, saying that the American whaling bark
Amethyst, of that port, was supposed TO be lost
on her way from the Arctic ocean. The last
ship arriving there thinks she went down in
the Behring sea. The crew Of the Amethyst
consists of forty men. He says: "If the ship
has been lost on the passage down the crew
may have got ON shore of some of the islands
ofthe Behring sea, in which case. unless assist.
ance is rendered Immediately. they will all
and masters of the whaling fleet has been for
warded you By mail imploring you to send up
a party immediatelyS5 The Secretary took
preliminary action yesterday. 1t is believed
that search party at this season will be I'M
practicable. The revenue marine steamer
Corwin is at San Francisco, and would be the
best vessel at the governments disposal for
such work. Revenue marine officers at San
Francisco have been telcgraphed and II the
adyices received are favorable the matter will
be laid before the President for his decision
National Republican., 1885-12-28
CIVILIZATION A SUCCESS.
The Reply Of W. c. Murdoch TO w. j
ArmHtrong's Pessimistic Views.

The subject sis our civilization failure"
which wm. J. Armstrong dscoursed upon be.
fore the Ethical Society Sunday week ago,
from pessmistic standpoint, was taken up
again yesterday. Wm. G. Murdoch, whose
view on the subject is Numerically opposite
lie believed that fauit.fnding is a cheap lux.
ury. Nature has proclaimed the law by which
she is to be conquered. Untirlng industry, great
capacity, and continued vigilance are the Gle.
monts Of success. To. the man who Is able,
nntiring, and industrious nature Isl willing
slave, II is for him she builds palaces and
surrounds with the comforts of life, This Is so
true that she prefers wicked worker to yiT.
tuous drone. She has but one method, and all
must take the method, whether rich or poor,
strong or weak. II you do not push on IL
Is your business and you must suffer the conse.
quences Of your own ignoulnce and of your
own want of observation: All you want 70 do
TO test the accuracy of this statement Is TO
look around you. Look at the leading families
to-day. They have sprungup from hard.work-
ing men. They worked from poverty 10 anlu-
ence by strict attention to tho things which
make success and no law can prevent II. Dis
tribute all the wealth of the world among the
people and give TO the ignorant and the lazy
that for which they never toiled aud ten years
hence some will be poor and some Will bo
rich, unless you can obliterate laziness, stupid.
ity, and vice, and even then you will have to
bring every man down TO q level mentally.
When listen 10 such lecture as was deliy-
cred here last Sunday wonder II the man
"
whether he has ever visited museums, libra.
ries, scientific schools, and legislative Assem-.
blles Because II he knew that these are all free
gifts TO the people, as free as water to every
man, woman, and child who seeks, he could
not have sent up that doleful wall OF com.
plant TO which we listened There are rem.
edies for such evils as he complained, but they
are not nihilistic nor the boycott. Libertyln It's
trucst sense is the highest evolution that can
be applied to human government. We arc
working out the plan on the basis Of equality,
fraternity. and liberty Educate the people.
| Teach them pure ethics and pure morality.
| Teach the people to be unselhsh Then can
| we stand shoulder to shoulder asking for what
| is right, and no government on earth can re.
| fuse II. The power is In our own hands. II
| there exist bad laws we can change them. II
| some of our fcllow.citzens have grown rich
| they have not done so by violating the law, or
we could punish them. The law is that we
| ourselves have made. But these are bui
slight things compared with what We really
| enjoy. Our civilization is not a failure. II I,
| the grandest and the best that has yet existed
| and tho proof Is that millions OF foreigners
| are seeking our shores The people of the old
world trust us; let us not be destroyed by OH
own children.