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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
A Long Island Peanut Boom.
from the New York SUM-

lELO1A1 JIG NSW 1OTK sum-
A peanut boom is progressing on
Long Island. The soil has been found
peculiarly well adapted to their cul.
ture, and the crop planted this year
already promises a good return. The
low, sandy soil of Long Island has
never been very valuable for agricult-
ural purposes, but it seems to be the
very thing for peanuts. No crop is
more easily planted and none requires
so little care. The nuts grown there
are large and white, and compare IA
vorably with the best grown in Virgin
Ia. The crop was planted a little late,
but if there is no severe frost the yield
per acre will be large. Many gentle
men doing business in that city who
have country places on Long Island
have devoted an acre or so to expert
mental culture, and they are meeting
with almost universal success. The
nuts have been planted at various
points all over the island, and the
crop will be ready for gathering about
the last of this month.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
THE MOVING HERDS.
Catt1emen ObedientIy Taking Their Stock
Out of Indian Territory.

Catt1emen ObedientIy Taking Their Stock
Out of Indian Territory.
LEAvENWORTH, Kas., Sept. 1O.-Gen.
n. A. Miles has returned from an ex-
tended trip through Indian Territory
He states that the cattle Of the Ara
pahoe & Cheyenne Cattle Company
and others, will all be out of the terri
tory within a month from this date.
The General states that he has sta
toned an officer at each post with a
sufficient command to protect the cat
tlemen. These officers will also see to
the sorting out of any cattle belonging
to Indians which may have been alb
sorbed by the herds. This precludes
the possibility of any conflict between
the Indians and cattlemen. "The
cattlemen," Gen. Miles says, shave
had a great deal to contend with, for
there have been unusually heavy rains
in the territory, and what few bridges
were then across the streams have
been washed away, and the water has
been so high that they were compelled
to move slowly"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16

Both parties in New York have
adopted the sensible plan of a short
and merry canvass in preference to one
so long drawn out as to be tedious.
The Republican convention will be held
early in September; that of the Demo
Gratis in the latter part Of the same
month, thus making the contest from
four to six weeks long. The advantages
of short over a long canvass are OBJ
vious. When the campaign is lengthy,
public interest in the issues is sure
measurably to die out before the date
of election, while constant repetition
of the same facts and arguments in the
ears of the people begets q disgust for
everything that in the least savors OF
politics. In addition to this, a long
campaign affords opportunities for
dickering and trades that seldom pass
unimproved; wilhelm short canvass,
things go with a rush, everybody being
in earnest and in hurry. To be sure,
opportunities for political dishonesty
are never lacking to such as are willing
to practice them, and trade may, I'M
der some circumstances, be made as
we'll in five minutes as in five months;
but the complications that arise in the
course of a long political struggle are
certainly more apt to suggest and fos-
ter dishonesty than are the surround
ings of a brief, hot campaign.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
Minor Mention

At a sham battle in Reed City, Mich. on
the 10th inst, G. w. Clifford, a Kalkaska
man 70 years Of age, was fatally, and two
others seriously injured, by being run over
by the artillery.
A man named Scott with geological
party, was killed by lightning on Yellow
stone Lake, M. T., on the 10th inst.
Two men attempted to blow up the pow
der magazine of the Woolwich, Eng, arse
nal on the 18th inst, but failed.
The western half of the Union Depot at
Huntingdon, Pa, was destroyed on the
18th inst, by coal train running into it
over q misplaced switch. Loss, $4,000.
The failures in the United States for the
week ending on the 18th, were 1874.
At Evansville, n. Y. on the 18th, Miss
Clara Bari on, president of the Internation-
al Red Cross Society, announced her inten-
ton tC vote at the fall election.
On the 18th inst, the trial OF w. H. l..
Maxwell, the ST. Louis trunk mystery man,
was postponed until October 10.
Thirty shop girls at Cambridge Mass,
were overcome on the 18th by naphtha used
in cementing the seams of rubber coats, and
work in the cOat-roOms Of the American Rub
Der Company was temporarily suspended.
William Andrews, who had forged notes
for 81, 900 on Doane d Golf, New York
commission merchants, surrendered at Chi
cago, on the afternoon OF the 18th. His
conscience troubled him. The New York firm
refused to prosecute.
A terrible gale in Paris on the 18th inst,
did great damage to property, and several
casualties were reported.
Rev. Albert Hudson, OF Worcester, Mass,
was sent to the insane asylum on the 10th,
the result of oVerwOfk.
Moses Frelich drank hydriodic acid by
mistake at New York on the 10th, dying
soon after.
sensation in whisky circles was caused
on the 10th in Lexington, KY, by the seiz-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16

The Atlanta Constitution saws:
There is a good deal of talk about
negro superstitions, but the fact is
that the negroes are no more super
stitious than the whites, after all al
lOWances are made. There are num-
bers OF fairly well educated people in
this country to-day who shudder when
they hear dog bowling or the qua
vering cry Of a screech owl. Supersti-
ton IN some form or other is part of
the natural and inevitable equipment
OF the human mind" There is a vast
amount OF truth in this. 1t takes an
extremely weil-balanced mind to get
rid OF inherited superstition and really
feel confident that law, not spooks
controls the universe.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16

THERE is confirmation from many
sources OF the report that thePanama
canal is really making but little head
way. Engineer Menocal says that
from personal inspection he is salts
fed that not more than 6 per cent. OF
the digging has been done. The obi
cations of the country already exceed
1888, 100000. To finish the work
will require an expenditure that will
raise the debt to S6OO,OOO,OOO, and
on this sum no possible receipts can
pay interest. The great problem
how to control the Chagres Rivers
still unsolved. 1t is now proposed to
raise q wall or dam $50 feet high to
divert it from its course. The cost OF
such work disables calculation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
Chinese LaundrieS

At a meeting Of the Woman's Industrial
League, at Washington, D. c., on the 10th
resolutions were adopted declaring that
"the good of the public and health of the
country demand that the Chinese laundries
shall CO." and calling upon the administra.
ton to recommend Congress to pass "such
laws as will protect the Industrious of this
country from further encroachment of these
heather barbarians, and the community
from the Introduction by them of that
hideous and loathsome disease known as
leprosy," and denouncing Secretaries Man
ming and Lamar for the announcement
given these Chinese laundries in letting ont
the washing of the towels of their depart.
ments by contract"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
Terrible Tragedy.

At Danville, Ill, on the Sth inst, Perry
Whitelock, aged %, went to the residence
of his father-in-law, g. Coe, and shot his
wife, Emily, aged 25, and her sisters, Mag
gle and Tinchie, % and % respectively
and then killed himself. All three sisters
are mortally wounded. Mr.. Coe was alb
sent from home when the tragedy occurred
Whitelock had previously threatened to
kill the whole family. He and his wife
lived unhappily on account of his dissipated
habits, and she recently left him. White.
lock came from Indian Territory four years
ago, and after short acquaintance mar
ried Miss Coe against the wishes of her par.
pntS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
WHEAT AND CORN.
Condition of Wheat and Corn in tn,
Northwest During August.

Condition of Wheat and Corn in the
Northwest During August.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 1O.-The
condition Of spring wheat, according to the
September report of the Agricultural De-
partlnent, has been impaired since the first
OF August In the Northwest, the district of
principal production. Heavy rains were
followed by extreme heat between the first
and the middle of August, just before har-
vest, shriveling the grain and causing rust.
Heavy wind storms Frustrated and injured
large areas. In Nebraska there is some
complaint of smut, and little in Dakota
Chinch bugs have done some damage in
Wisconsin and Dakota. The injury
was greater in August than in July.
The averages are: For Wisconsin II, a loss
OF points; Minnesota rs, loss of 5; Da-
kOta 90, a loss of 4; Iowa SO, a loss of z
points. Northern New England, Colorado
and the territories are nearly or quite up
to 100. The general average for all spring
wheat is S6R, against 95 in August. The
bushels. The returns of winter wheat
are almost Identical in results with
those of July There is a slight
advance in Michigan, Texas, Maryland and
some other states, and point or two OF
decrease in several. The general average is
65.S against So in July Except as the re-
suit OF threshing may change present eXpec
tations, the winter wheat area may be
placed at PIT 100000 bushels and the re-
naming area about 134,O00,OOO. If in
iuries reported in the stack should proveto
be greater than at present apparent, few
millions of reduction might still accrue.
The condition Of corn still continues high,
ranging from 80 to 100 in state averages.
The general average is 95, against 96 in
August. 1t was "a last year, in September.
FrOsts have wrought very little injury, and
will be capable of little if deferred ten days.
The prospect is still favorable for a crop
slightly above the average.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16

The Fresno, Cal, Vineyard Companys
winery and distillery burned on the 18th.
Loss $4,000; partly insured
Swan 81 Finch's oil warehouse and fac
tory, 115 Maiden Lane, New York, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss $50, 900;
insured. The stock of Lichtenstein Bros,
next door, was damaged to the extent OF
$4,000, and three men were badly hurt.
W. H. Mccormick s distillery burned at
Beardstown, ILL.,, on the 18th, Loss $40
600; insurance SIS, 1000.
The school-slate factory of the Hyatt
Company, of Allenboro, Pa, burned on
the 10th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $12,-
500.
Seventy horses and mules were burned at
Nashville, Tenn, on the 18th, in the livery
stable of Lester Bros. Loss, $4,000.
A fire which started in the Doan Oil
Works, at Cleveland, on the morning OF
the 7th, caused a loss of $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
VTSITEH THE WICKED.
bahds OF white Regulators Clarifying
South CAROLINA MORALE

South Carolina Morals
CHARLESTON, S. c., Sept. ia full
account IS published of the recent do
lnes OF bands of white regulators in
falrheld County, showing that
their motive is a determination
to abolish miscegenation. Last
July the regulators. COMPOSED
OF the best young men of the
county, visited farm near Ridgewa,v,
where lived white family named
Boyles, one Of the daughters living
openly with a negro man. Others
kept disreputable house for
negroes. The regulators whipped
Boyles, his wife and two daughters,
and warned them to leave the country
in ten days. Boyles begged to be al
lowed to harvest his crop, and on &C.
count OF his poverty he was given leave
to do SO; but in themeantime the orig
inal order being disobeyed the regu-
lators gave the family another whip
ping. Next the regulators visited
parties between Ridgeway and Wins
boro and whipped them badly. Lloyd
Davis, who has negro mistress, was
next visited. Hegot away. His house
hold furniture was badly broken up,
and his colored family warned to quit.
Tom Davis, the richest merchant in
Ridgeway, reported worth $45. 900,
was given ten days notice to quit, be-
cause he had negro mistress and
family. He left his business in the
hands Of his clerks, and put out for
Mississippi. Ross Williams, living on
the other side OF Ridgeway, with q
negro woman, was visited, and showed
fight, but was severely whipped, as was.
his mistress, and ordered to leave.
About ten families, all mived, have
felt the power of the regulators so far.
The excuse the regulators give, is that
the grand jury does not take
cognizance of those living in open
adultery because it is so hard to prove
the existence Of such fact. The people
could not be reached. by law, and SO it
was determined to reach them outside
OF the law The chief offenders, wheth-
er warned or not, are dissolving their
establishments and leaving, and fear
Of exposure and punishment prevails.
The regulators disguise themselves
while visiting, by covering their faces
with cloths. No weapons but hickory
switches have been used.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16

THE Philadelphia Inquirer tries to
belittle Kansas by giving this para
graph currency: "Oakville, Kas.,
brings forward the champion mean
man in resident for whose dying wife
the doctor prescribed wine. Wine
could not easily be had and the doc
tor furnished some from his private
stores. When he sent in his bill the
sorroWing widower laid an informa-
ton against him for selling liquor in a
prohibition county, contrary to the
Scott law" Now, this paragraph
contradicts itself and exonerates Kan
sas from any man as mean as repre-
sented; for there is no Scott law in
Kansas for anybody, doctor or drug
gist, to violate.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16

ACCORDING to a Boston paper that
has given special attention to the mat
ter, more than twenty centenarians
have been brought to public notice in
the last three months. 1t is really be-
coming quite common for persons to
reach a hundred years; and the infer
ence is reasonable that the duration
OF human life is frightening on some
account, Notwithstanding the general
fact that we live faster and more in
tensely than has ever been known be-
fore. Possibly, however, the present
crop of centenarians is due to causes
which no longer exist, and is not likely
to be repeated twenty years hence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16

THE scientific vocabulary Of the
present is SO singular tumble Of un.
intelligent Latin and uninteligible
Greek that no inconsiderable portion
of the labor Of learning a science con-
sists in arriving at an understanding
of what the words mean. 1t is thus a
relief to find the National Association
for the Advancement of Science discuss
ing the propriety Of designating
plants by their English, instead Of
their Latin Or botanical names. The
argument against this is the fact that
the Latin being q sort of universal
scientific language, will be understood
by the scientists of every country,
while if plant have only an English
name this will be unintelligible to the
Frenchman, or the German. The
objection is good or good for nothing
according to taste, but it should not
be forgotten that we name our plants
for our own convenience and not for
the convenience Of F'renchmen or Ger
mans, and their feelings and prefer
ences need not necessarily be consulted
in the matter. A more valid objection
lies in the fact that the same plant has
sometimes two or three different
names in as many localities, but even
the inconvenience of a possible confus-
ion arising from this circumstance
will hardly compensate for the disuse
of what is sometimes beautifully ex-
pressive and appropriate English
name.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16

SOME statistician has deliberately fig
ured it out that in this country there
is annually spent for liquor $85O,oOO,-
900; for tobacco, S69O,OOO,OO0; for
bread, $500, 900; for meat, $685.
O00,OOO;for iron and steel, $29O,OOO,-
900; for wooden goods, $237,OOO,OOO;
for sawed lumber, 1898, 100000; for
cotton goods, S21O,OOO,OOO; for boots
and shoes, $196, 100000; for sugar
and molasses, $155, 100000; for pub
lie education, .$85, 100000. The only
way we seeto remedy this discrepancy,
so far as the expenditure for educa-
tional purposes is concerned, is to
make more girls and boys go barefoot,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
Deeds OF Blood.

An unknown Mexican who was badly
used in a Bisbee, Ariz.. gambling house, on
the 18TH returned to the place with his re-
peating rifle and wounded five men, two Sc
riously. posse overlook the Mexican and
lynched him.
Osgood at Gloucester, Mass, on the 18th
inst. Osgood was only IS, and had been
employed in Renshaw's barber shop.
In a quarrel near Falmouth, KY, on the
18TH Robert Wolfe stabbed and killed
John McGrain.
William A. Riddle, ex-president Of the de-
funct Penn Bank of Pittsburg, was dis
charged from custody on the 18th inst,
under the insolvent laws.
Mrs. E. A. Garfield, wife of the artist, was
killed at Yonkers, n. Y, on the 18th, by
the accidental discharge of a revolver.
Emory A. Storrs, the Chicago lawyer,
died at Ottawa, H., on the 18th of paraly-
sis of the heart.
Montana stage robbers secured the Wells
Fargo box containing $500 near Miles City
on the 18th.
McHaney were drowned near Nevada. Mo-,
on the 18th, their engine with caboose
going through a bridge into the Little Usage
River.
Chas. Young, E. S. Curtis, and Arthur
Wheeler were drowned at Rockland, Mass,
on the 18th, by the upsetting of a sailboat
Joseph G. Fisher postmaster of New
Brunswick. n. j., from 1869 to 1881. was
found dead in his bed at a Brooklyn, n. Y,
hotel on the 18th. Supposed suicide
: At Hoboken, n. j., on the 18th inst,
Jean Z. Durand was mortally wounded in a
scuffle with Claude Stuval. a young French
woman was the cause Of the trouble.
A negro named Scales, who had made a
brutal assault upon 5-year-old girl, was
taken from the Burlington, O., Jail on the
18th, and lynched.
At Montreal on the afternoon of the II tn
inst, Count Wilhelm Browne of Berlin,
Germany, shot himself, just after receiving
a cablegram that his wife had fed with a
young tradesman.
At colored church ten miles from Can
ton, Miss, on the 10th, Leon CockrelI, a
negro school teacher, shot Aaron War;, a
colored deaconl while praying.
In a shooting ARRAY at Marshall, Tex, on
the 10th, H. H. Ramsey was shot dead by
John Crowder. Both were sporting charac-
tiers.
Bud Hughton, Waco, Tex, hack-driver
was shot dead on the 9th, by young man
named Dram, about whose mother and Sis
tiers Hughton had made slanderous re-
marks.
Jim and Pink Lee. the Gainesville, Tex,
desperadoes and murderers, were killed. on
the 9th, by four officers, who attempted
their capture, after desperate fight.
Lincoln Smith and James Sinister, two
Goldendale, W. T., boys, who were stealing
fruit from Joseph Linder's orchard, on the
18th, were fatally shot by Under.
Isaac n. Harlan shot himself through the
breast, at the Windsor Hotel, Chicago, on
the Sth.
T. T. Buch, a stranger with letters of in
PRODUCTION to several New York newspaper
men and ex-President Arthur, suicided in
Central Park, n. Y, on the 9Th inst.
At Greenville, o., on the night of the 5th,
John Essick shot and killed William Wise,
a neighbor.
Miss Mary Burg, pretty Jewess dress
maker, from Chicago, Smother in Central
Park, New York, on the 9TH inst, but the
wound will not prove fatal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
Fatally Stabbed by an Italian

At Chicago, on the 18th, j ohm Kehoe and
four other young men, while returning from
a dance stopped at the fruit stand Of
Michael Rosa, an italian. One of the men
produced some money and, at his invita-
ton, all the others helped themselves to
two bananas each. Instead of giving the
money over to the peddler, the young man
returned it to his pocket. The italian de-
manded his pay, which was not given to
him. After further parley the enraged Ital-
ian ian plunged his knife into the breast of
Kehoe, who then ran across the street
sank down on the curbstone, and died with.
IN two minutes. The wound was in tbe loft
breast and the knife's point had reached
the heart. Rosa made an effort to escane.
but was soon afterward arrested and con.
fessed his guilt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
Prisoners Roasted Alive.

Washington, Ark, dispatch of the 18th
inst: A mob on Sunday night visited the
Pike County Jail at Murfreesboro, and made
an attempt to shoot the Polk boys, con-
fined for murder, but not being able to get
them in range, the mob hauled load of
wood to the jail, piled it around the iron
cell, saturated the wood with coal oil and
literally roasted both prisoners alive. Moth
ing is standing but the brick walls Of the
Jail. The Folks murdered peddler last
year, and have had several trials. This
was the third effort bymobs to kill them
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
Loss Of a Steamer.

A cablegram of the 18th inst. from Lon.
don says: Information comes from Genoa
to the effect that the steamer Villa de
Malaga, with sixty passengers and crew
OF twenty-eight, foundered near Sarona.
When the vessel which was supposed to
have struck upon a rock, was found to be
sinking, terrible panic ensued among the
passengers, and the crew, it is said, awaited
themselves OF the confusion thus created to
lower three boats with which thevessel was
provided, and made good their escape from
the sinking ship. Forty-four passengers
however, managed to save themselves, the
remaining sixteen being drowned.'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
Leveled by Wind.

A Springfield, o., special of the Sth ipstA,
gives details Of a terrible cyclone which
struck Washington Courthouse, Ind, a
city of 1000 inhabitants, and .dAnast
literally swept it from the face of the earth.
1t came from thenorthwest and broke upon
the town suddenly. Every business block
on the main street was destroyed, and the
churches and depots were carried away.
After the whirlwind, which lasted about
ten minutes, a heavy rainfall set in.
Searching parties were Immediately organ
lied and fifteen dead bodies were found in
the ruins, with the probability that many
more would be found in the morning
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16

HELondon Times of June22, 1915,
had the news of the !battle of Water
loo, which was fought June Is. The
Times of that day was but a single
sheet, twenty-five inches in breadth
seventeen inches in length. Itwas divid-
ed into four columns, making sixteen
columns OF printed matter; of these
sixteen columns, six and half col
umns were devoted to advertisements.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH.
A Dividend of One and One-haIf Per Cent.
To be Declared.

"A nCs
To be Declared.
New YORK, Sept. DIR. Norvin
Green, president of the Western Union Tel
egraph Company has presented his report
for the current quarter to the executive
committee. The statement shows that the
net revenues Of the quarter ending Septem-
Der 80, based upon nearly completed re-
turns for July, partial returns for August
and estimating the business for Septem-
Der will be about 81, 45O, 900. Add surplus
July LIST, $4,324, 004. Total So, ia, 0O4.
from which appropriating for-interest on
bonded debt Of 1923, 76S. Sinking funds,
$4,000. Leaves a balance of So, $50, 236.
It requires, for dividend Of II per cent. on
the capital stock, S1,199, 842; deducting
which leaves surplus of 81, 43O, 1913. In
view of the preceding statements the COM
mittee recommend that dividend of IL
per cent on the capital stock of the COM
pany be declared, payable on and after the
10th Of October next, to stockholders of
record at the close of the transfer book on
the 18th of September.