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WATERTOWN, WIS.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7~ 1878.
GENERAL NEWS.
Gen. Von Moltke has just been de
feated for the reichshig in Berlin.
Associate Justice Miller is again able
to get out. He bas been very ill.
Prince Arthur, ibe Duke of Con
naugt, will marry his German princess
next February.
The Pennsylvania people now be
lieve the threatened miners’ strike will
not occur.
Capt. Eads, though standing between
the sharp cross tire of bis friends and
enemies, keeps busily at work deepen
ing the Mississippi channel.
Vinnie Ream Hoxie, who failed to
save her husband from being dropped
from the District of Columbia pay roll
as lieutenant of engineers, has secured
his appointment as assistant engineer.
Six hundred and twenty mail routes,
embracing all those authorized at the
last session of congress, were let on the
29th of July. There were 7,533 bids
—a competition far in advance of
any previously known.
The yellow fever seems to have main
ly developed in the lower Mississippi
valley instead of on the Atlantic coast,
this year. Quarantine against its fear
ful ravages is being established as far
up as St. Louis.
The interest in carrier pigeons is
again reviving in this country. Several
interesting experiments have recently
been tried. There is a mystery about
the wonderful instinct of .these birds
that is well worth attention and devel
opment. ;
The wheat speculator
says look out for an August corner in
wheat. The sun and clouds seem to
have gotten up the worst possible cor
ner on pretty much all small grain, and
it is a corner, too, that the “shorts’
(the farmer in this case) can’t “break. ’
The Canadian press almost, if not
quite, unanimously endorses the ap
pointment of the Marquis of Lome to
be governor-general of the provinces.
The fact that a daughter of the queen
is to come among the people of the
American provinces is a very gratifying
one; while the marquis himself is ex
ceedingly popular, and will be heartily
greeted on these shores.
Gen. Fnz-John Loner’s re-hearing
has developed the fact that at the time of
his court martial during the war for dis
obeying Pope’s orders, the verdict stood
nine for shooting to one against. That
‘was a sccreet of the court room long
kept from the public. In the more
sober judgment of “ peace and good
will,” Gen. Porter seems to be faring
much better at the hands of his exam
iners. • "
The Sho-wae-coe-incites boat crew,
that failed by an accident to win one of
the boat races in the Henley, Eng.,
regatta, has returned to its native land
well and hearty. The members of the
club say they were coldly treated by
the English and perpetually made to
feel the insufferable snobbishness of the
foreign boatmen. Nevertheless, the
club says it was given a perfectly fair
showing in the race.”
The Union Pacific railroad company
has notified shippers of an increase on
first class merchandise from New York
to San Francisco from six to twelve dol
lars per hundred. The reason assign
ed is that when rates were low mer
chants only shipped light freight by
rail and sent all bulky merchandise by
clippers around Cape Horn, thus leav
ing to railroad companies light and
costly freight on which the risk was too
great for small profit.
Are all our preby romances to be
rudely dispelled ? The latest attack of
the voracious historian is made upon
the “Battle of Lookout Mountain.” We
have all seen or read of the picture of
that event so graphically portrayed by
one of the gieat artists. And now
comes the historian backed by innum
erable generals and colonels, including
Gen. Grant, and says there was no pat
tie upon the mountain at all. Gen.
Grant himself says: “The battle of
Lookout Mountain was one of the ro
mances of the war. There was no such
battle and 1 no action worthy to be
called a battle on Lookout Mountain.”
The Winona, Minn. Republican,
brings information that Prof. J. W.
Stearns, formerly of Winona, who has
for the past three, or four years been
the president of the normal school of
the Argentine republic, has just return
ed to this country,- making the tour of
Europe with his family en route. Binge
his arrival in Chicago? he has been Of
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fered a professorship “in the Chicago
university, asako the, presidency .of the
Wisconsin normal school at. White*,
water, recently vacated by Pj-of. Phelps.
It is understood that he will accept the
latter position. The salary is $2,500
per annum.
Miscellaneous News
THE RED |lEjj.
Boise city advices of the 2nd yist.
state that Gen. Howard with the main
body of his troops was at Rocky can
yon, on Malheur river, last night in
pursuit of hostile Indians who attacked
the stage yesterday. They were esti
mated at about 200 in number, and
have gone up Snake river towards Bru
neau valley.
Parties just arrived from the Payette
valley report two small parties of In
dians in the tributaries of the Weiser.
A Silver City dispatch savs the hos
tiles on their way up Snake River yes
terday stopped at Ranschmagar ranch,
and encountered a number of Chinese
employes, four of whom they slaught
ered.
The savages have been committing
serious depredations at Sucker Creek
and other points within fifteen miles of
tins place. There is no probability that
they will conic nearer town.
JOURNALISTIC.
A Columbus dispatch under date of
August 2nd says a change in the Ohio
State Journal is announced to-day where
in George E. Ross, of London, and D.
Flickinger, of Dayton, obtain one
twetfth interest each, and will be con
nected with the editorial staff. The sale
was made on a valuation of s<>o,ooo for
the entire establishment. A. W. Fran
cisco retains the management of the
paper. Gen. Comely retains his one
third interest. The Journal is the only
morning paper at the state capital, and
has control of the morning Associated
Press dispatches.
TERRI RLE STORMS.
Cincinnati advices of the 2nd inst.
state that a tornado swept through
eastern Indiana on the night of the Ist,
damaging crops, trees, and buildings
quite seriously. At Liberty, the Meth
odist church was badly damaged. The
residence of M. Darcow was partially
burned at Eaton, Ohio. Corn was bat
tened out over a large area; apples and
pears covered the ground in the vicinity
of orchards. Reports of the same
tenor are also received from Green
ville, Ohio, West Alexandria, Ohio,
Rushville and Connersville, Indiana.
A telegram from central Illinois states
that Wednesday night’s storm, did con
siderable damage to crops and barns in
Canton and vicinity. The storm was
less destructive, but unusually violent,
at Havana, Champaign, Springfield, De
catur, Bloomington and Frescola. At
Pekin the loss is $20,000.
CONGRESSIONAL LABOR COMMITTEE.
Tim committee of the house of rep
resentatives to consider the labor ques
tion met in New York City
on the Ist inst. There were
present Messrs. A. S. Hewitt, of New
York, J, M. Thompson, of Pennsylva
nia, W. W. Rice, of Massachusetts, and
Thomas A. Boyd, of Illinois. Word
was received that H. L. Hickey, of
Ohio, would not be able to serve until
after the October elections.
THE JULY WHEAT CORNER.
A Milwaukee dispatch dated July
31st says the corner in July
wheat culminated amid great ex
citement at 2:30 this afternoon. A few
minutes before noon the board closed,
and McGeoch instructed his brokers to
bid $1 30 for all July wheat offered,
thus establishing a price at which de
linquents must settle. Settlements
were made for all but 84.000 bushels.
This amount is due from prominent
members of the board, who claim their
deals are margined to a higher figure
than the closing price; but that they
were forbidden by their customers to
settle. Matters will he thrown into the
hands of the committee foi* arbitration.
1 McGeoch <fc Co.’s profits by this corner
is variously estimated at from one hun
dred thousand to half a million dollars.
It is certainly the most successful ma
nipulation ever attempted in the north
west. It is now thought that August
wheat is also cornered.
Under same date as above a
Chicago dispatch says, the corner in
wheat culminated to-day, and the high
est price for cash was sl.lO. At the
close sl,lOl- was paid for July. There
was less excitement than anticipated,
the price only having gone up about
two cents during the entire day, and
the corner showing much less strength
here than in Milwaukee. There is
much discussion as to whether
the rule of the state warehouse board
as interpreted by the directors regard
ing the right of operators to deliver
winter wheat in contracts in place of
spring, will stand in court. Test cases
will immediately be tried, and
shorts who offered winter wheat,
mixed with spring in settlement, will
insist that the rule which makes such
wheat grade as spring is in force, and
that they have settled. Otbersuits will
be brought on the ground that this
whole operation is a corner contrary to
law and the regulations of the board of
trade, which meets now for a settlement
of prices.
BEAR PAW GOLD.
A Sioux City dispatch of July 31st
says the Bear Paw Mountain gold dis
coveries are creating considerable ex
citement in this section. W. 11. Orcut,
a former resident of this county, but
who has for several years been keep
ing a wood-yard in the vicinity of
Bear PatV, returned here to-day,
and is going to commence immediate
ly organizing a company of 250
men to start from here on the 25th of
August, and to-day contracted for the
steamer Eclipse, E. D. Coming, agent, to
take the party to their destination.
Mr. Orcut brings with him some
very fine specimens of placer
and quartz gold, and is very enthusias
tic. These discoveries promise to make
a greater stir than the Black Hills ex
citement of four years ago. hi
THE TOTAL ECLIPSE.
X-Denverspecial to the Inter Ocean
gives the following graphic description
bf the eclipse and the observers:
The cloudy afternoons and daily
r&ins which have prevailed up to to-day,
have, brought anxious forebodings to
the seientihg men who ligYiTassembled
to witness the total eclipse of’the sun.
hpis morning-, however he'arose into.a
perfectly cloudless sky, and grave.pr*>
lessors boldly asserted that their inten
tion'of standing on theiri heads if the
heaven continued to smile. At Prof.
Blinker’s academy, a little northwest
of Denver, Avere located by the Rev. Dr.
Swnzey and Professor Burnham, of
Chicago, the former of Avhom might
have been seen, in the convenien
shadow of the barn wi*h a table
of lagarithms, figuiing intently. At the
same place were professor Ingersoll, of
Columbia college; president Rogers, of
Christian college, Missouri; and profes
sor Turner, of Kentucky. Universally
a smile of cheerful content illuminated
their faces when the subject of the
\yeather was broac.hed. Next, half a
mile north, was the tent of the Chicago
astronomical society, with Prof. Colbert
presiding. The Princeton college, led
by the distinguished astronomer, Prof.
Young, ' and assisted br Profs.
Brackett and Rockwood, of Prince
ton; Professor Grant, of Chicago,
and nine young men from the col
lege, was located two miles further
northwest, near Cherry Creek. This
party was by far the best equipped of
any in the vicinity, and has spent nearly
a month on the ground in preparation.
Their instruments were a large teles
cope with connected spectroscope, used
by Professor Young; a comet seeker;
several good smaller telescopes; a
double telescope with prism, used by
Profs. llockwood and Grant, four pho
tographic instruments, and a prismatic
spectroscope, besides many smaller in
struments, Mr. llanyard, secretary
of the Royal Astronomical Socie
ty, also made independent ob
servations in connection with this
this party at Pike’s Peak. Our univer
sal friend, Old Probabilities, had taken
his station; also Prof. Langley with a
large supply of instruments. The pre
vailing belief was that their station was
poorly selected, on account of danger
from haze and clouds. It is now
thought that their view was unobstruct
ed owing to the wonderful clearness of
the day. At Schuyler, Prof. Stone, of
the Cincinnati observatory, selected run
eligible location, while Mr. Edison, the
great genius of the age, with his
party, located at Ka vlins, Wyoming
Territory. Special observations were
also taken by Professor Stoekwell,
the well-known mathemathician of
Cleveland; Professor Gove, formerly
of Chicago, now superintendent of
schooishere; Mr. Nelson, of the Railway
Review; Profcsssor Snow, of Sacramento,
and Professor Snow, of Lawrence, Kan.
At 2:19 all eyes were directed eagerly
to thesun, and, according to prediction,
in a few seconds the first contact was
seen to take place. Nothing of specia l
interest Avas developed until the appear
ance of Venus, and later of Mercury,
which Avas to-day seen for the first time
by hundreds of people. As the totality
approached, search was made by par
ties not interested in Avatching the cor
ona for Encke’s comet, which
was calculated to he above the
horizon. The mountains on the edge
of the moon Avere very plainly visible
about half an hour after the first con
tact. Madame Gretner, a spiritualist
went last night to the sun in spirit, to
find the position of Vulcan. So far,
hoAvcver, it lias not been reported as
seen by the eye of science.
The Vassar college scientists, directed
by Professor Maria Mitchell, ob
served from the Sisters’ Hospital Hill,
the highest prominence northwest
of the city. This distinguished in
structress was aided by four cory
phees, all alumme of the college, and
the manner in which three of them
warmed as many excellent glasses,
while a fourth took rapid sketches in
oils of the great phenomenon was an
attraction to the gaping, yet respect
fully distant, multitude of masculines,
almost as absorbing as the eclipse.
Prof. Mitchell herself, as with iron-gray
curls fluttering under a broad-brim
med Leghorn, she swept the hea
vens with a four-inch telescope, or di
rected with native majesty and grace
the operations of her assistant nymphs,
was a figure, and perfectly command
ing. No one on seeing her unsparing
exertions, which insured the signal suc
cess of the observations, would have
imagined her physical strength equal
to the masterly lecture delivered by
the lady in the evening before
a theorizing audience, upon the astron
omer Herschel. The party Avas success
ful in fixing the time of the beginning
and end of the obscuration, and also
with great nicety, the exact dura
tion of totality, on Avhich point
the labors of the Chicago obser
vatory explorers were not so satis
factory. Three planets discovered their
beauties to the ladies —Mercury, Venus,
and Mars —and a perfect myriad of stars.
The great result of this eclipse cannot be
fully known until the professors can
compare notes, but all express satisfac
tion. Many very perfect photographs
were taken of the crescent and corona,
and the spectroscopic observations were
specially successful.
Professor Colbert reports that his ob
servations tend to show that the moon’s
path in the heavens lay a little farther
to the southward than indicated by the
lunar tables, or else that the esti
mate of the moon’s diameter is too
large.
Perhaps the measures made by Mr.
Easterday indicated that the corona ex
tended out on an average about twenty
six minutes of an arc corresponding to
a distance of fully seven hundred thous
and miles all around the sun. It was
strongly striated, and in the dircc
tion of the ecliptic the rays
were nearly straight, while above and
below that line they were markedly
spiral in their character, and some of
the dues at the base formed an angle of
not less than thirty degrees with a pro
longation of the sun’s rays.
A HORRIBLE CRIME; i
A New York dispatch of July 28th
says the Times of to-day adds to
the criminal record an accbunt of per
haps the'most audacious crime eyer
perpetrated in Pus country. It appears
that some months since a married lady
of .Boston, of great refinement and
beauty and occupying a prominent
social-position, had been visiting friends
in thq, interior of this state and when
levying tppk , ; a drawing-rMm tar, ion
the New ; Yprk ( Central roayd for Albany,
where her husband awaited her. Tyvu
villains followed her into the car
probably attracted by the noticeably
jewelry she wore, and when the
conductor approached the lady for a
ticket they informed him that they
were her friends, and that she was de
ranged and they had unfortunately been
selected to convey her to the Utica asy
lum. In spite ot her protestations and
appeals for protection, the scoundrels
succeeded in convincing the conductor
and passengers of the truth of their
story, and removed t' e lady from the
cars at Utica, she swooning as the train
moved away. She was then lifted into
a coach, chloroformed and taken to a
house of ill repute, outraged and rob
bed of her jewelry and clothing. The
husband learned of ids wife’s alleged
insanity when the train arrived at Al
bany, and procuring a special engine,
started for Utica without delay; upon
arriving, a fe\\ : inquires enabled him
to find thodisrepulahlo house where the
wife was taken and there he found her
lying on a bed almost stripped of her
clothing and her mind seriously injured
by the terrible experience. No names
are given from considerations of deli
cacy. The husband made every effort
consistent with privacy to discover the
fiends, but so far without avail.
INDIAN MASSACRE.
A Portland, Oregon, dispatch of July
20th says that Lorenzo D. Perkins and
wife were attacked by Indians near
Battle Spring, Columbia river, and both
murdered. The bodies were recovered
by a party of citizens Avho went on the
trail of the missing people.
Foreign News.
GERMANY ELECTIONS.
Berlin advices of the Ist inst., state
that results in about one hundred elec
tions are known, and are as follows:
Fourteen national liberals, fourteen
clericals, nine conservatives, eleven
progressionists, three of the various
separatist and particularists parties, and
one socialist. In the remaining
twenty-three districts second bal
lots 4 Avill be necessary. The
socialists have been defeated in four
constituencies whore they were former
ly successful, but arc concerned in
many of the second ballotings, includ
ing those in Dresden and Sffiingen.
COMPLETE RETURNS
from flic kingdom of Wurtemburg elect
seven'free conservatives, three imper
ialists, two national liberals, and one
Ultramontane. Second ballots in three
districts Avill be necessary. The Free
conservatives and imperialists elected
may he considered supporters of Prince
Bismarck. The national liberals have
carried the Duchy of Brunswick.
FULL VOTE.
Special dispatches from Berlin to the
London press agree that the great fea
ture of elections is the interest display
ed by the people, from 80 to 00 per cent,
of the full vote having been polled in
Berlin and the larger towns, against the
usual average of 4G per cent. Another
feature is the notable front shown by
the socialists, who, though they lost
several seats, polled more votes than
ever, and weie only defeated by the ex
traordinary efforts of tneir opponents.
ANOTHER CONGRESS.
Paris advices under date of July
30th say that a preliminary meet
ing of delegates to the congress, for the
consideration ,cf a commercial treaty
between France and the United Stales,
was held yesterday. A draft of the
treaty was submitted, and avi 11 ho dis
cussed at a further meeting, It is pro
posed that the French government shall
engage to admit all American produc
tions on the same terms imposed upon
the production of the most favored na
tions, and that the United States shall
make the same arrangement regarding
productions of France; that if either
nation impose domestic duty upon its
own productions, the same duty may
he imposed upon productions of the
other party to the treaty.
FRANCE DISSATISFIED.
London advices under dale of July
29th say the results of the Berlin con
gress continue to excite much popular,
feeling in France against England, be
cause they are regarded as a challenge
to that country, both in regard to Syria
and Egypt.
Sir Garnet Wolseley, governor gen
eral and commander-in-chief of Cy
prus, has selected for the officers of his
staff nearly all those who served under
him in the Ashantee campaign. Much
sickness is anticipated among the troops
at Cyprus, who landed there at one of
the most unhealthy seasons of the
year.
Admiral Yelverton, whose death is
reported, is the officer whose divorce
from his wife twenty years ago attracted
such wide attention.
The Whitworth thirty-eight ton gun
recently experimented upon at Wool
wich proves to be a failure.
THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT HAS DISTRIB
UTED A PROCLAMATION
in the native language. It says; “The
Austrians come as friends to stop evils
which have for many years disturbed
Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Aus
trian borders. The Emperor Francis
Joseph could no longer look on
and see the sufferings of these prov
inces where force and turbulence
reigned, while the government of the
country was incapable of restoring or
der, and want aucl misery Avere knock
ing at the frontiers of his own states.
The emperor therefore directed the eye
of Europe to yom position, and the
Council of nations decided that Austria
should give you back your long lost
peace and prosperity. The sultan com
mits you to the protection of his
mighty friend, the emperor. The
Austrian troops bring you peace,
not war. They will protect
all and oppress none. Established cus
toms and institutions will be respected.
The revenues will be applied solely to
lhe Avants of the country. Arrears fc of
taxes will not be collected.”
A LARGE MOBILIZATION.
Austrian subjects in Servia belonging
to the Autslriau reserves have been
peremptorily summoned to join then*
battalions. This creates uneasiness, t
because I’t indicates a far larger mobili
zation than was originally intended for
the occupation of Bosnia.
GOVERNOR OF CANADA.
A London telegram of July 29th says
the Marquis of Lome will appointed
tu succeed Lord Dullerin as governor
gcugral of Canada. '
practice ot filling up the holes 1 of
Thdl-’stonesdvitb a mixture of lead aiVd
’glNTeripe has resulted in producing'ser
iduse.ifises of lead poisoning in some
pWI Ain France, Norway* and England.
The French have prohibited the use 6f
lead in that way.
POLITICAL.
VERMONT GREENBACkEBS.
A Burlington dispatch of the 2nd
says the state greenback convention to
day, Kelson Nye presiding, adopted
resolutions and adjourned to meet in
St. Albans. Aug. 22,* when a state ticket
will be nominated.
Following are the resolutions;
J* Ihe financial system needed is
that all piouey must be issued by the
government, Avhether made of metal or
paper. It must be perfect and com
plete in itself, be full legal tender in
every case, and to any amount, in the
payment and lawful discharge of every
.-pecies of indebtedness, no matter how
little the commercial value of tlie ma
terial of which it is made.
2. Congress shall create a suitable
amount of money, in a sate and con
venient form, to meet the necessary re
quirements of the business and labor of
the country,
3. There shall be no privileged class
of creditors. Official salaries, pensions,
bonds, and all other debts and obliga
tions, public and private, shall be dis
charged in legal-tender money of the
United States, according to the stipula
tions of the laws under which they were
incurred.
4. Public lands are the common
property of the people, and should not
he sold to speculators and granted to
railroads or corporations, but should he
donated to actual settlers in liberal
quantities.
5. All useless offices should be
abolished, the most rigid econornv en
forced in every branch of the public
service, and sevt re puni>hment inflicted
upon public officers who betray the
trust reposed in them.
G. That a graded income-tax on all net
incomes exceeding $2,000, to be increas
ed on each additional SI,OOO, of income.
7. That the passage by congress of a
joint resolution'declaring the principal
of the bonds payable in coin was an act
of flagrant injustice and grave breach
of public trust which ought to be im
mediately rescinded, and the issuing by
the secretary of a large amount of 4 1
per cent, bonds in advance of the gov
ernment’s need of money, and when
the 4 per cent, bonds could have been
floated just as well, was an act of un
accountable folly or impeachable
fraud.
SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS.
A Columbia dispatch dated Au
gust Ist, says the state demo
cratic convention met to-day, Gen. John
1). Kinnedy president. The platform
adopted reaffirms the platform of 187 G.
is in harmony with the pledges and
performances of Gov. Hampton, and
guarantees full protection to all classes
in the administration of justice. Ac
companying the platform is a series of
resolutions, also adopted, urging
unity of purpose and action
among the democrats and denouncing
fusion with the republicans, and depre
cating the presence of independentcan
didates;also strongly recommending the
fostering of immigration; inviting peo
ple from every part of the globe to
make their homes in South Carolina.
In directing the attention to the reve
nue troubles in the upper counties, the
resolutions uge congress to amend the
law and quiet the irritation, and re
quest President Hayes to grant am
nesty to the illicit distillers in the upper
counties.
Gov, Hampton and the entire state
officers were endorsed and renominated
amid great enthusiasm. Hampton and
others made speeches.
WISCONSIN REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The Wisconsin republican state
central pomhlittee met in Milwaukee
on the 31st nil., and adopted a brief ad
dress, urging consistent and harmonious
action on LBe part of the republican
congressional district conventions, and
submitting the following propositions
as a suitable platform on which* the
party may go into the coming canvass:
First —Adherence to the principles of
the republican national platform of
1876, and the sentiments expressed in
Mr. Hayes’ letter of acceptance, recog
nizing the honest differences of
opinions among republicans,
respecting certain features of
the policy of the natioi al adminis
tration, but cordially approving the
aims of the president in seeking to re
store fraternal relations between the
different sections of the country, and to
purify and improve the civil service.
Second —We earnestly desire the es
tablishment of fraternal relations be
tAveen the different sections of tl c
Union, but demand that the laws be
impartially executed, and that all citi
zens, without distinction, shall enjoy
equal rights before the law and equal
protection under it.
Third —We rejoice in the pros
pect of the resumption of specie pay
ment by the close of the present year.
A stable, non-fluctuating currency, pos
sessing the intrinsic value of coin or
paper, convertible at par into gold or
silver, at the pleasure of the holder,
is the only secure foundation of a per
manent; business prosperity. Such a
currency Avill impart that steadiness to
prices Avhich is an essential condition
for the successful prosecution of legiti
mate industry and enterprise, and is
equally demanded by the true interests
of the laborer, the business man and
the capitalist.
Fourth —The value of all paper cur-;
rency, whether issued by the govern-1
ment or by banks, consists in the prom- ,
ise It bears of payment, and in the de
gree of credit attached to that promise.
If it cannot be converted at pleasure
into currency of intrinsic value, it can
not remain at par, and its depreciation
will be in proportion to the prospect
of its, being convertible within a longer
or shorter period. The printed bits of
paper which some wild theorists pro
pose to employ as currency, and which
the term “absolute money,” containing:
no promise of.pay ment and po intrinsic
value, would speedily' become
absolute in one respect, only tney would
be absolutely worthless. This and all
the ntpCr chimerical subjects by which
it is proposed to bind' aV/cheap and
worthless, substitute for the measure of
value accepted and- employed
by the civilized woHd are based upon
delusion, if qot dyshopesty, and if
would result in disaster and
shaipq. We hold it to be the duty of
republicans and of all good citizens to
oppose with uncompromising firmness
ail those mitfchicviuus theories as well
as cognate doctrine of communism
and internationalism which menace so
ciety, individual liberty and the accu
mulated savings of industry.
Fifth—We condemn the democratic
party for attempting to disarm the na
tional aim and for seeking to
debase the currency . and arrest
all progress towards resumption for vot
ing to reduce largely tnetax on articles
like whisky and tobacco, thereby ren
dering necessary increased taxation on
other industries.
Sixth—We declare the investigation
respecting the last presidential election
has wholly failed to disclose any im
proper action by President Hayes.
Seventh —We oppose further grants
of public lands in aid of corporations
against sectarian control of public
schools and favoring economy in public
expenditures.
How the Austrian Linperor Fell in Love
at First hight.
He married a. princess who was al
most a shepherdess. She livdd in the
mountains with her sisters and an old
bonhomme of a father, a kind of coun
try gentleman, who dressed himself in
coarse cloth, and his daughters in wool.
She had not been brought up for the
tlirone, and it was one of her sisters
that they destined for the youthful Em
peror. Francis Joseph arrived one
evening in hunter’s-dress at his future
father-in-law’s, on the banks of the lake
ofTrrun, Ashe wa3 chatting before
the house with the four young girls—
who have since become, one the Queen
of Na( Jes, another the princes of Thurm
and Taxis, a third the countess of Trani,
and the fourth the duchess d’ Alencon
—of a sudden he saw detach itself on
the skirts of a neighboring wood, that
the setting sun was streaking in red
and yellow, like stained in the
windows of a church, the admirable
form of a young girl all in white, fol
lowed by an enormous dog. The sun
set tier dress a-sparkle in a thousand
points of light, and she came forward in
a halo of an apparition, her magnificent
hair streaming over her shoulders. It
was the princess Elizabeth; at sight of
her the heart of the emperor felt itself
fixed. Some days afterward, at a ball
at Ischl, he passed almost ail the even
ing in dancing with the lady he called
“ the Fairy of the Forest:” and so he
marked his preference publicly.
The Hill of Life.
The roads leading over the hill of life
are numerous; some people take the
road which is bright and gay—on which
flowers of the richest hue are blooming
—hut they find, that before they are
helfway, the flowers are faded, all is
bleak, they are wearied, and are glad
to lie down and die; others strive to go
over the steep banks \vhich lead to for
tune and to fame, but the paths on
which they walk are weak and rugged;
some stop at a deep precipice over
which they are unable to pass; the foot
hold of others give way, and they are
hurled to the bottom, while only a few
reach the coveted goH; but the wise
man chooses the road wdiich goes over
the hill with a gradual slope, on which
here and there are sweet flowers which
Cheer him on his w r ay until he arrives
at his journey’s end, where dwells
Peace, Happiness and Contentment.
A Troy inventor will shortly take out
a patent for a cataphone, By means of
wires stretched along back-yard fences
and house-tops he conveys, with the
aid of some machinery, all concatenate
caterwauls into an air-tight barrel. By
another simple contrivance the sound
in the barrel can be compressed, and
can be used in quantities for fire and.
burglar alarms. Tile inventor predicts
that he will give to the boys something
that will make Rome howl, in place of
dangerous fire crackers for Fourth of
July celebrations. For blasting rocks,
he says, it is just the thing.— Troy Whig.
Dr, Carver, the glass-ball rifle shot,
spent a thrilling and thoroughly ditpc
novel youth. His father, mother, broth
ers and a sister were massacred by the
Souix in Minnesota and he taken cap
tive to be brought up in the tribe. A
life of nineteen years as a nomad .with
the rifle, his most loved companion,
gave him the wonderful skill recently
exhicited. —Philaddphia Times.
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A gentleman asked a shepherd ‘weth
er that river might be passed over or
not.’ ‘Yes,’ says he, but upon trying,
he flounced over head avid ears. ‘Why,
you rogue!’ says he, f did you not tell
me it might be passed over?’ ‘lndeed, sir,
says he,’ I thought so; fbr my geese go
over and back again every* day, and I
did not doubt but you was as wise as a
goose.’
A “ Female Hercules,” a native of
France, is to be seen in Loudon. One
of her feats is to lift an anvil by the hair
of her head, and then have the same
anvil placed on her bosom, while three
smiths forged a horse-shoe with their
hammers, she talking and singing all
the while.
There are but fifteen coal producing
countries in the world, and the entire
annual product is about f140,000,000
tons. Of this, 135.000,000 tons, or over
one-half, is from the English mines, and
about 50,000,000 from American mines.
In 1808 the production of English coal
was but 11,000.000 tons.
A large manufactory was recently
shut down a few days foV repairs, and
one day the proprietors and their em
ployes devoted to picnicking together.
This was a couiforgabhy
and, doubtless, of benefit to’ all inter
ested. I
The fashionable wife looks upon her
husband# money as spoil — something
which lie wants to guard, anti she to
seize.
The aggregate value of the petroleum
exported "'from this country was, S6A
-000,000.,“ Q lt*]^4jg^,o(|t).
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In 1850 Ifaly had 1,000. miles of .rail
way. Now there, am aides
in operation*. ■, *
The woman who maketh a good pud
ding in silence is belter than she who
maketh a tart reply.