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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27
A Dearth of Good Actors.

st. Louis GlObe-DemOcrat.
The death of John Mccullough has
served to remind the country in a
striking and impressive way, that our
list Of really competent dramatic
artists is a very small one; and to this
must be added the equally significant
fact that there is little room to hope for
the early coming of fit successors to
those who have in the past adorned and
digniicd the American stage. There is
nobody left, it is conceded, who is
worthy to wear poor McCullough's
mantle in the Interpretation of any of
the characters with which his
name is so closely and SPLEEN
didly associated. 1t is doubtful, in
deed, II we have more than three or
four actors who are able TO play any of
the old heroic parts in a fairly credit
able way; while as for actresses, there
is perhaps not one Who can represent
a Shakspearean herutne with distinct
force and skill. Booth is Incompatible
within certain limits, and Barrett is
entitled to highest praise with Il similar
qualification; and when these are
banned, where are we 10 look for
another who can truly he called first
class in any respect? there are as.
pirants enough, of both sexes, but they
all come short of definite and CON
elusive excellence, and are at best
merely passable.
In all the other professions there is
a steady supply of good material, and
the average compares favorable with
that of any former period; but in the
line of acting, deterioration is the rule,
and the development of really substan-
tlal talent seems to have practically
come to a stop. We do not lack for
competent lawyers, physicians, clergy
men and the like co take the places of
those who pass away; but when a supe-
rlor actor goes hence he leaves a gap
that we must despair of filling.
In the nature of things this should
not be the case. The incentives to
ambition and exertion in the theatrical
domain are at least as great as can be
found elsewhere, and the price of sue
cess is very much the same in that as
in all other pursuits. An actor who
succeeds is certain both of fame and
fortune, the measure of each depend
ing entirely upon his own capacity and
fidelity. The opportunity is always
waiting for him; the public is just as
eager on its account to have him sue
coed as he can possibly be to earn its
approval and support-and the popu.
lar favor once secured, the task of
holding it is only a question of devo-
tion to duty, Of honest and faithful
personal service.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

GEN. PHIL SHERIDAN, it is said will
write a History Of the War" He's
not afraid.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

The famous Boston divorce suit of
Loud VS.. Loud has been decided in
favor of Mrs. Loud, who is allOmed to
take her maiden name.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

This is an off year in politics." say
the Republicans. Yes, and it will be
further off with you as the years come
and go.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

THE Irish-American Union de-
nounces the hanging of Riel as a ju-
dicial murder.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

ONE hundred pounds of flesh and
bone, after passing through a crema.
tory, make just two pounds of ashes.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

IT is alleged that the Servians report
a smaller number of losses on the part
of the Bulgarians than actually exists,
but Russia may interfere.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

SENATOR WALTHALL was in Holly
Springs Tuesday, on bis way to Wash
ington.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

CALIFORNIA Trades Unions meet on
the 28th of this month to devise
means to scare the Chinese away.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

Gov. Lowry has issued his procla-
nation appointing the 26th inst. as a
day Of Thanksgiving.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

THE wife of Minister Phelps is one
Of the most highly esteemed ladies in
English society.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

CHOLERA Is spreading in Brest,
France.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

CANTON has shipped 1900 bales Of
cotton, so far, this season.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

The taxpayers of the county will
feel the benefits of the change when
the next tax levy is made.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

THE war against the little brown
jug Is waxing warm in Georgia.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

Most OF the exc Confederate generals
VINO are not in politics are interested 10
some way with railroads.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

FIVE female lawyers make life a
burden fOF iurIes in Iowa.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

WHAT would be the result if the
forty billions of Indebtedness of the
United States, now payable in either
gold or silver? The distress following
such an act could not be estimated.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

The pickle crop of this country Inst
year as Just four pickles to every man.
woman and child. This year Il IL short
more than a pickle apiece.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

MINISTER CURRY left London for
Madrid, Spain, on the 18th.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

Tits not church bells alone that call
some young men to worship.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27

The grand old garment is a grand
old shroud for the grand old party.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-01
CHAPTER 81.

ChAE1Eh
An ACT relating to telegra ph telephone, eleetrfe
light and other wires and cables.
The people Of the state of Wisconsin, represented
In senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. Whenever any wire or cable used
for any telegraph, telephone, electric light, or
other electric purposes is shall be attached to.
or does or shall extend upon or over any building
or land, no lapse of time whatever shall raise a
presumption or justify prescription of any per-
petual right to such attachment or extension.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March Is. 1885.
CHAPTER 81.
AN ACT relating to telegraph, telephone, electric
light and other wires and cables
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, 10 enact as follows:
Section /. Whenever any wire or cable used
for any telegraph, telephone, electric light, or
other electric purposes is or shall be attached to-
or does or shall extend upon or over any building
or land, no lapse OF time whatever shall raise a
presumption or justify prescription of any per-
petual right to such attachment or extension.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March Ii. 1856.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-01
Bugle Calls in the English Army
From Cassell's Magazine.

From CaSSell s Magazine.
All military matters are brought,
nowadays, much more frequently to
the eyes and ears of the general pub
lie than was the case formerly, and
perhaps hardly a family exists in vii
lage or town but has some connection
with members of either the regular
army, the militia or the volunteers.
During the summer months, when
camps of instruction are frequently
formed, the sound of the bugle testi-
fies to the presence of the civilian
army throughout the length and
breadth of the land, and the inhabi-
tants of a garrison town are in the
same way continually reminded of the
presence irregular troops by the notes
of the bugle, the calls being the same,
whether addressed to the volunteers
in camp or to the inmates of town
barrack, a short explanation of them
may befound interesting to those who
frequently hear them.
Considering the length of some Of the
calls, it may surprise the reader to
hear that there are only five different
notes played on the bugle, and,
though that is the case, the language
of the instrument is not at all limit
ed. A language with only five words
might be thought easy to learn, and
yet the different arrangements of these
"words" ("sentences," as [ may call
them) are endless. 1t is, indeed, a
very necessary part of a soldiers
training to learn the language Of the
bugle, and even unmusical men soon
acquire it. For, in the first place, the
same "calls" sound much about the
same time each day-a hungry recruit,
for instance, does not take long to
recognize the Dinner Bugle, " nor does
the careless soldier forget the sum-
mons to extra drill, much as he might
wish to do so. The men in their bar
rack rooms, too, often associate
words with the notes of the bugle, and
that is a help to remember the mean
ing of the sounds heard.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-01
The Arabs Never Surrender.
From the London Telegraph.

nj
AS at Teb and Tamai, the wounded
Arabs refused to be made prisoners,
and great caution had to be exercised
In moving about the field, not only to
avoid the covert stabs dealt by the
bleeding Arabs, but the rushes and
cuts of the fanatics who slammed
death in order that they might the
more surely get a chance of burying
their weapons In one of us.
Exploring along this wady a party
of our men GENE upon six dead and
four wounded Arabs lying under a
bushy dwarf mimosa tree. The SOL
dlers had an interpreter with them,
and the Arabs were called upon to
surrender and come out. That they
said they could not do; would the sol
dlers therefore came and take them
The four wounded men still held their
spears in their hands. every good, r"
said our soldiers, "put down your
spears, and we will see you are well
treated, and do all we can to cure
your wounds"
The answer OF the four Arabs came
fierce and concise: "Put down our
spears, infidel dogs By God and the
prophet, never!" There was a crack
of Martini-Henrys. You can guess the
rest. 1t was again, as at Teb and
Tamai, almost impossible to take
prisoners, and we secured but two of
their wounded alive.
The third prisoner I assisted to
bring In, but he was hardly q capture,
for the man gave himself up He had
a Remington and over one hundred
rounds of ammunition. His story
was that he had been one of the Ber-
ber-Egyptian garrison, and since the
fall OF that place he had been forced
into the Mahdi's army. He was glad
to escape from them, he declared, and
must say the fellow looked cheerful
at being taken. A trooper of the
Nineteenth conducted him to Gen.
Stewart. He was our one unwounded
prisoner"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-01

ice was ordered to third reading. The
Milwaukee charter was reported back as
correctly engrossed.
MADISON, March 27.-Consideratio of
the Joint resolution for final adjournment
was referred to the committee on state af-
fairs, with the amdmenent fixing the date
as april 8. Bills passed providing for q
change OF place Of trial from county and
municipal courts; regulating bail in murder
cases; making more rigid the law prohibit
Ing the sale OF liquor to habitual drunkards
regulating the manner of the sale of real es-
cate by sheriffs; fixing the salary of the
chief engineer of the Milwaukee fire depart
ment at So, 500; providing for the appoint
ment OF state game and fish protectors
Bills were concurred in loaning 100000
from state trust funds to the Light Horse
Squadron of Milwaukee, for the purpse of
constructing an arsenal and armory. The
Dill providing for the taxation of telephone
companies in cities, towns and villages was
indefinitely postponed. At the evening
session a motion to adjourn until Monday
was negatlved. The bill detaching the
north half OF Lincoln County and for the
formation of another county out of the
territory was advanced to third reading
MADISON, March 28.-A resolution was
adopted allowing the introduction of q bill
granting each county agricultural society
SlOOper year In addition to thesum now APP
proprlated. The bill was concurred in
amending the charter of the Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance Company SO as to per
nit OF the holding ofreal estate for ten years
or longer. Bills passed in favor of civil
service reform in the police and fire depart
ments of the city of Milwaukee, taxing tele-
phone companies. Bills were indefinitely
postponed in relation to the manner of
securing release Of inmates from the Wau-
kesha and Milwaukee Industrial schools,
regulating the passenger rates on railroads
IN the state; prohibiting railway companies
from charging greater rate for a shorter
than Tor longer haul; requiring an ex-
animation OF railway employees for color
blindness
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-01
The Chinese and the Schools.
TFrom the San Francisco Cali

From the San Francisco Call
The supreme court has decided that
under the present school law Chinese
children of school age are entitled to
admission in the public schools. The
decision does not make their admis-
sion rest upon the inherent right in
the child, but declares it a right under
the present school law. There are I'M
doubtedly a good many Chinese of
school age who have been brought to
this country either to work or for
other money -makingpurposes. Prob
ably a portion of these would like to
enter our schools as a means of learn
ing our language, but the court does
not declare the admission of such OBJ
ligdtory. The court does not discuss
the question whether the Legislature
might have excluded Chinese children
born in China but living In this coun-
try, but declares that it has not done
so. Consequently, the schools are
open to all children between the ages
Of 6 and 10 years who are not per-
sonally Objectionable. The case upon
which the decision was made was that
Of a Chinese girl born in this city of
Chinese parents, but the fact of Amer
lean birth is not made the basis of the
decision.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-01
Gas in Passenger Cars.

A public test of a system of lighting
railway cars by incandescent gas
lights, recently invented by Mr.. j. NJ
Foster, was given in Cincinnati, March
3. Three of the lights are stated by
the COmmercial-GaZett of that city
to have made all parts of the car sui
fciently light forreading. That journ-
al describes the Foster system as fol
lows: In the operation Of the Foster
compressed gas system gas is made
from petroleum lat a terminal sta
tion) and compressed into storage
tanks until a pressure OF fifty atmos-
pheres is attained; from these it Is
transferred by means of a hose into a
tank fifteen inches in diameter, which
IS suspended under each car; from this
it passes through pipe to agovernor,
which automatically regulates thefioW
of gas to the burners, keeping the
same uniform, regardless of any change
of pressure at the source of supply.
A gauge placed in the closet indicates
the supply of gas IN. the tank. The
products of combustion are utilized,
both gas and air are heated to high
degree, insuring not only perfect COM
bustion, but a porcelain cylinder sur
rounding the burner is heated to IN
candescence, greatly adding to the
luminosity of the light. The light IS
as steady as an electric light incandes-
cent, only more intense, the intensity
being equivalent to fifty sperm candles
FOR each burner. The duration OF
each light is fifty hours. In practice
this is sufficient to supply q car for a
week, the cost of gas consumed not
exceeding two cents per hour, which
is less than the cost of good oil giving
the same light.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-01
The Horse in Scripture.
from the Gentleman's Magazine.


remember having seen somewhere
a picture of Adam in the garb of Eden
riding barebacked mustang, lion
gamboling by his side. But in Holy
Writ the horse appears in only one as
pect-as the war horse. "He saith
among the trumpets, Ha ha and he
smelleth the battle affair off, the thun-
der Of the captains and the shouting"
In Genesis the name does not occur az
all. Nor, as a matter of fact, could it
do SO, seeing that the first F'horse"
(the first that science knows of was g.
little fve-toed, sharp-nosed creature,
much too small for a man of even our
degenerate stature to ride upon, and
otherwise also unsuitable for a. steed,
and it is, therefore, very probable that
"the first man" never was on horse
back.
Yet. the use of the animal dates back
to prodigious antiquity The Assy-
rian sculptures show us high7bred and
carefully caparisoned chargers, three
thousand years and more ago. Nor
is it at all likely that they were the
first to train them, for the horse is a
native of Central Asia and the early
Aryan is hardly likely to have wasted
such a useful beast. At any rate that
perfection to which the extremely an
Gent Assyrian monuments show
us that the breeding had attained
some eighteen hundred years before
Christ must certainly have taken a
long time in DEVELOPMENT.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-01
At TRAITORS Gate"
London Cor. of Boston Herald. ]

[London Cor of Boston HeraldJ
ORATORS gate" was the passage
gate for prisoners brought hither by
water. Now it is kept as an unused
relic. Come, let US stand closer. OPP
posite is the 'Bloody Tower" where
the bloodthirsty Richard III had the
beautiful boy princes, his nephews,
put to death with fairly hellish cruel
ty. What are the voices we hear?
Guy Fawkes, and as it dies away, a
feeble infants wall The latter is the
daughter of Edward H., who was born
here, and named "Joa1 of the Tow
er." Another voice or groan follows;
it is a dying groan of hapless Anne
Boleyn, and of Catherine Howard.
Lady Jane Gray and her husband
also sighed out upon the headman's
block their short-lived love. Here
Queen Mary showed her Romish ten
cts. Elizabeth, when princess,
through Traitors gate, entered on her
imprisonment for suspected favoring
of Sir Thomas Wyat's design. Listen
closely, with the face pressed
against the cold stones, and history
repeats Elizabeth's words to the ear
as she entered the tower by Traitors
gate: "Here lambeth as true a sub
ject, being a prisoner, as ever landed
at these stairs. And before Thee, oh,
God | speak it." To enumerate
even the names of great men and wom-
en- who have talked and laughed and
wept about the vicinity of Orators
gate" would be only to catalogue the
events and peoples of the past hun
dra0S Of wears who have f10I1rad mora
or less Importantly in English affairs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-01

AMOR PATRIE: The Esquimaux
think their snow place like home.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-01


AN ACT to amend chapter Is Of the general laws
OF 1882 entitled IAN act to grant the land neces
sary to increase the depot accommodation of
Inc northern hospital for the insane" by cor
recung an error In the description OF the land
therein mentioned
Inc people OF the state of Wisconsin, represented
~ senate and assembly, do enact as follows
,o Secton |. Chapter Is of the general laws Of
30, enttled AN act to grant the land necessary
70 increase the depot accommodation of the north
ern hoSpltal for the insane" is hereby amended
Dy sulklng out the words and figures Fifteen"
aiter the word range" and before the word
east IN the eighteenth line of section thereof,
ana Inserting instead the words and figures six
teen,' SO that the range mentioned shall read
range sixteen east" and the said chapter Is
shall be construed and taken as having been so
originally written and the grant therein made. as
herein corrected In description, shall take effect
from the date of the passage OF the faid CHAMBER
Is OF the general laws Of 1882 The governor shall
execute and delivsr to the Chicago and North
western railway company new patent. with the
correct description aforesaid in correction of the
patent heretofore executed and delivered pur-
suant to the provisions of said chapter 49,
Section 2. This act shall take effect from and
after It's passage.
Approved, March 13, 1885.
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-03-20
[St. Louis Globe-Democrat.I


In a recent issue of the La Union /qcl-
tecdad, Mex, appeared the following piti-
full tale as an illus ration of the bar barity
of los gringas, the American railway con-
ductors, and, incidentally, of course, the
desperate bravery of the Mexicans.
''They tell us of sad drama which oc-
Cured on the Central Railway, although
we have no proof to vouch for its being
true. A passenger with two children who
was on the train was reprimanded by the
conductor because the children had lost
their tickets and compelled by main force
to leave the train, without any considera-
tion 70 the tender young ones who were to
remain abandoned in the desert. The
father Of the children felt so indignant for
such a brutal treatment that he
drew his pistol and discharging it at the
Yankee, khied him on the spot. We are
not aware Of any other particulars, know
ing only that the said passenger want
ed 10 repay his passage, to which the
conductor objected, and, on this account,
be was reiucei 70 the extremity Of taking
the law in his own hands. These are con-
sequences Of the abuses committed by III.
brei Americans"
The Isr0 Rlp1blits. published in thu
City % HeT.co. inquired into the matter
49, found the facts 70 be as followsi
A woman boarded the train with two
children. fourteen and sixteen years Of
age. for.wh0m size refused 20 pay. Size
vas quietly put fl the train, nor did any
revolver figure IN the matter"
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-03-20
A REPORTER WHO HAS EN-.
The Strange story Told by Newspaper
AIan-Ghosts Which Leave Fingers Be
hind Them.


Annie Coleman, colored. rushed excitedly
into Lucien Alexander's drug store this
morning, and threw a small package on
the counter She requested that it be ex-
amined, and asked the clerk TO tell her
what it was.
The clerk. on opening the bundle, found
a large black thumb. The relic had been
picked up on Congress street, between
Eighth and Ninth After leaving the drug
store. Coleman went into DIR. Payton's Of
tice and asked his opinion of the fragment
OF mortality From there she went TO sew
eral neighboring places in all of which she
displayed her trophy and solicited opin-
ions.
In an old house on Congress street, be-
tween Eighth and Ninth, Annie Coleman
and her husband live. Within the last
year the woman claims that eight deaths
have taken place in their present abode.
The numerous persons deceased conspir-
ing together in the spirit la nj have deter
mined to render miserable the lives of
those now residing in the former home of
the departed.
With this idea IN her head, Annie very
positively asserts that the ghostly visitors
have haunted her house steadily for the
past few weeks and. unlike the ordinary
every y-iay ghost. they kick up as much OF a
row IN daylight as in darkness. A. sub
stantial evidence oi the truth Of what she
says Annie produces a number Of fingers.
toes and ears which she has at various times
picked up ia a lit,le side alley next to her
house. The uneasy spirits who so disturb
l. Al.
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-03-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

QUITTING AND BASTING done at the Nm e
~ Kellogg School of Dpess-cutting. no rent-
ting uniting. satisfaction guaranteed. don Z
fail 10 call.
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-03-20
The Enemies Of Childhood.

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