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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
THE LONDON EXHIBITION.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.--The Star says
the governors of twenty states have
written to express desire to cooperate
in making the American exhibition, to
be held in London in 1886, faithful
and thorough exposition of the arts,
manufactures and products of the
United States. j. Gilmer Speed, agent
here, has received very general assur-
ances from public men of their support
of the resolution now before Congress
providing for official participation in
the exhibition by the government.
With this in view it is proposed to take
the government exhibits now at New
Orleans to London on public vessel.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
SPOTTED" CONDUCTORS.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. Railway
circles are considerably excited here
over the discharge of passenger con-
ductors on the Kansas Southern Rail-
way, which began two days since. The
road is about 400 miles in length, and
is part of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe system, by which it is governed.
The conductors discharged are the old
asst in the employ of the company, many
of them having run passenger trains for
twelve years. No cause is given for the
action on the part of the company, but
as ''spotters" have been running up and
down the road for several months, their
reports are no doubt the cause of the
general decapitation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
QUARELED ABOUT IRELAND.

New YORK, Jan. 9.-Thomas Phalen
said to be superintendent of the Kansas
City workhouse, was stabbed and prob
ably fatally wounded in the Office of
ODonovan Rosa, to-day, by a man
named Barry. The men quarreled, pre-
sumably in relation to Irish national af-
fairs. Phalen opened fire with his re-
volver upon his assailant, when both
reached the street. Barry was locked
up in Oak Street station. Phalen
was removed to the Chambers Street
Hospital, where it is thought he will
die.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
THE PHILADELPHIA FAILURE.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6.-The old firm
of Henry Croskey & Co., lumber
merchants, which failed with liabilities
amounting to $45o,OO0, was always con-
sidered one of the staunchest on the
street. The rumors of its embarrass-
ment were hardly credited. Croskey
says none of the creditors will lose any-
thing, as the assets are fully 800, 600.
Henry Croskey says the cause of the
failure was the acceptance of drafts
from the keystone Lumber and Salt
Manufacturing Company. The drafts
amounted to $4,000, and as the Key
stone Company could not supply them
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

FARMINGDALE, L. L, Jan. 9.-The
Deer Park accommodation train, which
left Hunters Point last night, was
derailed at Betpage Junction, one mile
west of here. The locomotive upset
with Engineer Henry Burtsen and Fire
man Joseph Dotzel. Burtsell was dead
when taken out. His body was terribly
mangled. Dotzel was alive, but his in
juries are fatal. The train consisted of
a locomotive, one combination baggage
and smoker, and enc passenger car.
Both cars left the track. Fortunately
there were but few passengers aboard
and all were in the rear car. They were
badly shaken up but were not injured.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14

with the money they we're forced to let
the drafts go to prosest. Croskey said,
further, shat the Keystone Company Is
good for the amount due, rs ito property
in Michigan is worth twice that much.
The plants of it's works are at West Bay
City, where it has four salt wells which
cost $4,000, and the company owps
$4,000 acres of timber land. The COM
pany is indebted to no one, but as
Henry Croskey & Go. will give them a
Judgment for the amount. he does not
think the Keystone Company will be
seriously embarrassed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14

asylum is to be erected. The heirs-at-
law now propose to break the will, and
with it the bequest, on the ground that
the provisions of the will have not been
complied with, and that the testator was
monomaniac on the subject OF an asy-
lum for female orphans. This is the
second attack at the will, the first, in
1882, having been unsuccessful. The
total amount involved is $656,000. Mr..
Ready left six nieces and two nephews,
to each of whom ne left about $4,000.
These relatives are now making the
fpht
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
A DARKROOM BRAWL.

LOUISVILLE, Jan. 9.-In bar-room
fight this morning at Ninth and Walnut
Streets, Fred. Ecker was killed and
Israel Smith fatally shot. The two
quarreled last night and Smith was cut
on the head. This morning he
returned to Eckler's saloon, renewed
the difficulty and hit Ecker on the
head with brick, killing him in
stantly. AS smith turned to walk out
OF the saloon Eckler's brother Frank,
drew pistol and shot him through the
neck. The parties are colored. Frank
Ecker was arrested.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
BOY, CIGAR, POWDER, EXPLOSION.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Jan. AT Por-
ter, Washington County, while one of
the clerks in Porter's general merchan-
disc store was weighing out powder to
a party of hunters, boy smoking a
cigar elbowed his way through the
crowd to see what was going on. A
spark from the cigar ignited the powder.
The explosion which followed badly
wounded three of the men and burned
the others. A portion of the building
was blown to atoms.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
Establish

In Kentucky, Alabama and Virginia
extensive mining and iron companies,
with large capital, are organized, which
runs up the total investments in those
states, though they also added many of
almost every branch of general manu-
features represented. A noticeable feat
ure is the amount of Northern and
Western capital going into the
South, though the Southern people
are themselves showing remarkable
energy in developing their resources.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.

BALTIMORE, Jan. THE Baltimore
Manufacturers Record, in it's annual re-
view of Southern industries, will to-
morrow publish list of all manufact-
uring and mining enterprises organ
lied in the Southern states in 1884.
The list shows 1866 new enterprises,
with aggregate capital reaching the
enormous sum of $105, 267, 900, divided
among fourteen Southern states as fol-
lows
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
WHEN CLEVELAND WILL ARRIVE,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Col. Lamont
Mr.. Cleveland's private secretary, said
this morning, .Mr. Cleveland has not
yet fixed the day when he will come to
Washington, but I am pretty sure he
will not arrive until very few days be-
fore his Inauguration. I know he felt
as II great load had been lifted from
his shoulders when his resignation as
governor took effect, for you know the
last week of his administration was an
unusually onerous one. He now has
time to attend to the future"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
COMING UP TO THE SCRATCH.

The light other eye was shining blue.
The cast of her lips a ruby red;
Ana this was all that he thought 10 do,
AS he placed his hand on her well-poised head
TO steal one long transient kiss:
And he Bonded overWard on his toes
But all the remembrance of his bliss
ls the scars of finger nails on his nose
-Cherubosco PeOpLe,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14

OVER 5000 patents on churns have
already been granted by the govern
ment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14

HANNIBAL HAMLIN is about to write q
book giving history of his political life
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-08
CHAPTER no.


AN All TO amend section 2433, chapter 1l3, of
tne revised statutes, entitled 'of court com
customers ss as amended by chapter Isl. of the
1885, W. ~ ' -
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
IN senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
oecClon l. Section 2433, of the revised statutes
as amended by chapter ISL, laws of 1881, and
chap5er 1917 of the laws of 1885, is hereby amended
py aqulng to said section the words Give such
court commissioners may be appointed in the
section 2. This act shall be in force and
enect rom and after its passage and publication
approved March Is, 1885.
CHAPTER ia.
AN ACT to provide apartments for the Wisconsin
Capitol.
The people Of the state Of Wisconsin represented
oScu0n L. The governor is authorized to assign
10 the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and
Letters, suitable rooms in the Capitol for the
neetlngs OF the Academy, the preservation of its
library, and the proper exhibition of its collec-
uons including the specimens gathered by the
sate geo 9g1st and his assistants during the state
Academy
section2 2. This act shall take effect upon its
passage
Approved March 10, 1886.
CHAPTER 100.
AN AT relating to the termination and contin-
uance of leases, and amendatory of section 2187,
revised statutes
In senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 2lS7 of the revised statutes
Is hereby amended by adding to said section the
following words to-wit: "but such tenancy may
De terminated at the end OF any year after the
expiration OF said term, by either party to said
Lease on giving to the other party thereto notice
In writing not less than thirty days prior to tbs
date of such expiration, that he elects to termi-
nate such lease at the end of such year.
Section q This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication
Approved March 10, 1885.
CHAPTER 90.
AN ACT to repeal chapter TO- of the private and
local laws of 1872, entitled IAN act to amend
chapter III, general laws of 1868, entitled IAN
act relative to compensation of county judges"
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
section1. Chapter 20, of the private and local
laws of.1872 entitled "an act to amend chapter
121 general laws Of 1865 entitled san act relative
to compensation of county Judges is hereby
repealed.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after December 81, 1885,
Approved March 49, 1885.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-08
A Campaign Lie.
from the Laramie Boomerang.


Several Mexicans werein camp at the
mouth of the Medina River, in Texas,
and were lying about the fire, when
one of them, Telestro Cruca, saw a
large centipede, fully nine inches long,
travelling slowly over his leg. Know
ing that the least motion would make
it sink it's claws into his skin, without
moving his leg, he got out his revolver
and waited until the insect had almost
reached his knee, when, slowly putting
the mouth of his pistol to it's head, he
pulled the trigger and the centipede
was gone But centipede's claws are
quicker than gunpowder, and Cruca
began to cramp in afew minutes. The
track of the insect along his leg turned
a brownish yellow, and fireplace where
it was killed swelled up frightfully.
Cruca rapidly grew worse, and in lit
tie over four hours died in great agony.
But the most singular part of the story
is that the bullet from Cruca' srevolver
cut a small nick in the fore leg of
mule that was tethered near by, and
at daylight the next morning the mule
was also dead, with the leg so swollen
that the skin had burst in several
places.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-08

ONE of the sheriff's deputies, says
the Murlon (Ga.) Index, was sent into
Horny to levy on and take mule in
the possession of a citizen of that
county. The gentleman pointed to
his stables, saying; '"The mule what
YOU come arter is in that off-stable.
[ see you got the rights TO go in arter
him, but I don't see that you are pro-
vided with authority to come out
again. Betsey, bring me my shot
gun" The deputy returned but he
did not bring the mule.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-08
A Temperance Oasis.

The Anglo-New Zealander and Aus
tralian Times states that, on the
requisition of the native race in New
as the "King Country" has just been
proclaimed by the governor Of the col
Ony as protected from the sale OfintOXi-
eating drink forever. There is a pro-
vision in thelicensing act of the colony
which was inserted with this object in
view 1t provides that if the native
owners of any land on which a license
for the sale of Intoxicating drink has
not yet been granted make application
to the governor to have their land ex-
empt from the operations of the licens-
ing act, the governor in council shall
make proclamation declaring that no
license for the sale Of drinks shall be
granted within such areas. For many
months past some friends of theMaori
race have been actively eXerting them
selves to bring the knowledge of this
provision before the minds of the ma
tives, and have succeeded in receiving
the cordial assent of the whole people,
from Tawhiao down, to have their
lands protected from the demon of in
temperance; the application has been
presented and the proclamation made
in legalform. Itisinteresting to know
that, the proclamation once made,
there is no provision in the act for re-
calling the prohibition from the land
which can only be done by special
act of parliament. The consequence
of this is that an area of 100000
acres of the most fertile land in New
Zealand, and possessing one OF the
finest harbors in the colony, has been
absolutely dedicated to temperance
forever.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-08

Mr.. ROBERT SWAN, of Geneva, N. Y,
protects his ounce trees from borers
in the trunk by heaping coal ashes
about the trunks. He does not claim
this as specific, but the fact remains
that he raises a good crop of fruit
every year, and employs no other
means to protect the trees
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-27
STATUE OF
A Work of Art Successfully Raised frsm
the Bed of the Tiber.

A Work of Art Successfully Raised frem
the Bed of the Tiber.
The bronze statue found lying in the
bed of the Tiber has been successfully
raised. This was a work of some diff
Guilty, for it had evidently been flung
into the river head foremost, and was
found with the feet uppermost. The
workmen first struck the metal plinth,
which being hollow, was supposed to
be a large bronze plate. But on clear
ing the sand from below, the men
quickly found the feet of the statue.
1t is q Bachus. a little under life-size.
the head crowned with ivy leaves and
berries. The left arm is fixed upward,
the hand holding a long vine-crowned
thyrsus. The right hangs down, and
is extended a little outward. The face
is very slightly turned to the right, and
the weight Of the body rests on the
right leg, the left being bent at the
knee, with only the ball of the foot and
toes touching the ground behind.
The statue is perfect in every respect,
with the exception of a clean fracture
above the right ankle and the thyrsus
is broken into three pieces, which have
all been found. 1t is a work of great
beauty; but, as far as it is possible to
form a judgment, coated as it still
is in many parts with Tiber sand, /
am inclined to attribute it to the
Greco-Roman rather than to any Greek
school of art. The face is strictly
ideal, the line of the nose straight, and
the mouth and chin are clearly and
symmetrically modelled, in full accord
ance with the typical rendering of the
divus. The eyes are of some artificial
material to initiate nature, the iris
being represented by globular concav-
tiles. Some are inclined to think the
eyes are silver, but this can aot be as
certained until the incrustation of sand
is removed, and that will not be a diff
cult task, for it is very loose. The
bronze has a beautiful golden tint.
The statue was found in the middle
of the river, where the works are going
on for sinking the foundations Of the
middle pier OF the bridge which is to
connect the new street through the
Regola on one side and the Trastevere
on the other, neal the church of San
Crisogono. This spot is but a short
of the Island of st. Bartholomew; and
as a portion, extending more or less
to where the works are proceeding.
vas washed away during n of the
foundations in the middle ages it is
probable that the statue may have been
| flung into the river from the northern
! point of the island, where stood a tenn
, pie of Faunus.-C0r. London Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-27
An Old Slavonic Custom.

The village of Minussinsk. in Russia,
has been deeply troubled by the pest
among its COWS; and the conscript
fathers of the community held a meet
ing to decide upon the best means Of
putting a stop to the calamity. 1t was
agreed that resort should be had to the
old Slavonic custom of Ground plow-
ing" The Sviet gives an account of
the process. Seven virgins, two old
women and a young bachelor of good
character are elected. At midnight a
procession Of the peasants is formed,
led by the two old women carrying
pictures of saints. In the rear of the
procession the seven maidens are har-
messed to a plow. which is guided by
the young man. A light furrow is
plowed around the village; and there
by, according to the belief of the local
agriculturists, a barrier is provided
against the evil spirit which causes tho
pest; he has no power to pass over the
mystical furrow. Il
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-27
PARIS THIEVES.
The Various Cl-assifcations of In Light
Fingered Gentry.

Fingered Gentry.
The lowest in the scale is the
"Pergiot," the apprentice thief who
seeks to earn promotion by successful
operations in the lower walks of his
profession" High above him towers
the ''Haute Pegre," the French slang
phrase for ''high art" the ne plus ultra
of the business, the fashionable thief,
atsired in patent leather boots and
white necktie. He is generally young
and possesses the airs and manners OF
a perfect gentleman. His sphere of
operations is to be found in the stalls
or front seats of the balcony at the
theaters, and he never dimes at any
but the best restaurants on the boule-
ward. The masters of the ''Haute
Pegre" would deem it an insult to be
mentioned in the same breath with the
"Poivriers. whose sole occupation is to
rob drunken persons, or with the
'"&ouliers'' or "Rouletiers," who plum
der the lurries and railroad
trucks. The ':charr.eurs" chiefly
practice their devices on I'M
suspecting country people, fire.
quently resorting to the confidence
trick, the three-card trick, etc. The
pickpockets are subdivided into "Four-
1%ineurs'' and ..Tirailleurs." The latter
are for the most part poorly clad and
find their victims among the groups of
people stationed around the rope
dancers, ballad-singers Or other stroll
ing performers. The "Fourlineur'' is
always respectfully dressed, and fire.
quents fashionable thoroughfares and
~promenades. He is around with a
fancheuv, or strong flat pair of shears,
for cutting off gold watch-guards.
Among the ordinary feats of this class
we may instance the col q ~recontre,
which consists in suddenly running up
against a gentleman in the street, as If
by accident, and with incredible rapid
ity relieving him of his watch and
chain, which are at once handed over
to an accompl;ce, who makes off with
the booty while the thief is profuse in
| apologies for his carelessness. If the
robbery is discovered he Indignantly
demands to be searched on the spot,
and as, of course, the stolen property
is not found on him, the scene usually
ends with the victim alaing the thief's
pardon. The cleverest of these pick
pockets, the liking of the Fourlineurs,"
Mimi Previl, a Partisan by birth, not
long since ended his days in the bagne
at Brest.-Chronk der Zeit.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-27
OUTWlTTED.
An Anccdote Showing That Proper Man
age1nent Will Overcome Greed.

ageInent Will Overcome Greed.
The following anecdote illustrates
the fact that the man who is asked to
do an unusual thing will expect much
more pay than for doing a usual thing
that costs him several times the trou-
bic. Some years ago, before the sale
of game was legalized. and a present
of it was thought worth the expense of
carriage, an Englishman rented a moor
within twenty miles of Inverness.
Wishing to send a ten-brace box of
grouse to his friends in the South, he
directed a servant to call upon Donald
Fraser (who owned a horse and cart,
and made a livelihood by driving peats
into the town., and ask him what he
would charge for taking the box to In
verness. H
Donald would not take it under eight
shillings. The demand was thought
so unreasonable that the gentleman
complained to a Scotchman, who was
shooting with him.
The Scotchman replied that he (the
Englishman) did not understand how
to bargain with the natives, and that
n of them approached in the right
way would do the job for much less.
Calling Donald, he held the following
conversation:
"Guid-mornin's Donald! What's the
price O. peats the noo?"
'.Juist auchteenpence the load. sir.''
Every weel, We can tax a load into
my aoose in Inverness the first thing
the morn's mornin'."
'I'n dae that, an thank We. sir"
The Scotchman then walked on
about twenty yards, when he suddenly
turned round, and said:
''By the by, I hae a box tae send; We
can JUST pit it on the tap o the peats. -
"I'll dae that, sir. It'll no MAX
muckle difference"
In this way the Scotchman got a
good load of peats, and the English
man got his box of game sent for
nothing -Amerscaa.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-27
voLGA N DON.
A Scheme to Unite the Two Mighty Russian
Rivers.

a Scheme to Unite the Two ighty Russian
Rivers.
A group of French and Russian cap
italists arc seeking from the Russian
Minister of Finance a concession for
emitting a canal between the Rivers
Volga and Don. These two mighty
streams penetrate in their. course
through Russia within fifty miles OF
each other, at Tsaritzin. and her
strike off, one to the Black Sea and
the other to the Caspian. The pro-
moters of the undertaking seek by the
construction o. the canal to give the
extensive commerce of the Volga an
outlet into the Black Sea. The phys
ical difficulties are not insuperable,
although sufficiently severe to test the
resources of any except a very power
full syndicate. The idea of the canal is
by no means new, Peter the Great hay
ing personally gone over the
ground and made a rough scheme
for one. HIS successors, however, in
spite of their enterprise in canal-mak-
ing. have always been averse to tho
undertaking. In the flood season both
rivers are unmanageable, and it has
been thought that if a canal were cut,
the Volga might some spring burst into
the Don and cause a catastrophe. Of
course, with engineering skill it would
be easy to prevent this fear Of timid
Ministers being realized, but it is inter-
esting to mention that nature herself
is preparing the way for some such
eventuality, the Volga yearly cutting
more and more into its west bank. and
thereby drawing nearer the Don. At
| present the two rivers are connected
by a railway, described by Mackenzie
Wallace as the slowest, worst laid and
most infamous in Europe. The traffic
is not very large, and even the pro-
moters of the canal project do not
think they could carry out their project
without a considerable subsidy from
the State.-Engineering.