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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-02
A Remarkable SchOOI-Misfress.

DR. n T. True, School Superintendent
of Oxford county, Maine, has made a
special report concerning a schoolmis-
tress IN that State, and her work. Her
name is Nesta Howard, aud she teaches
In the town of Bethel She is ffty-five
years old, and has taught seventy terms
of private and public school. Yet, says
DIR. True, she is far in advance Of most
young teachers, instead of being antigua
ted. The following are extracts from the
account of the school:
''She commenced her afternoon SEES
sion by saying that she did not think it
best to set the children Immediately at
work upon their studies, because they
had been at their play and were not in the
best condition for close application. She
therefore took a second progressive read
er. and read a story as badly as she could
and let them correct her faults She
then read it correctly, as one would talk,
and all eyes were turned upon her. She
then called a register of scholars by num-
bers, who answered by their names and
ages. Among them was a Winfield
Scott, Gen Fremont and other proni-
nent names; and as they were announc
ed she had word to say about their his
tory without hardly stopping her register.
She then made them all take their books
out Of their seats together without noise
No states were to hit the deskss, or books
to be shuftied. She selects a captain for
each of the smaller classes, who steps out
and calls the class out by numbers Books
are all held alike This makes them ex-
cutive scholars.
I'm reading, small children repeat the
same word till they can command it in the
sentence, and then read it in concert In
spelling they all fold their arms. with the
book under the left arm. Sometimes she
spells the words and then pronounce
them. This was fine exercise. She
made them pronounce correctly, COW,
how, now, bow, row. They made grace
full bow in leaving for their seats Each
class has definite time for studying their
lesson, and the teacher calls their atten-
ton to it at the moment.
They came out to read with folded
arms, read with strong emphasis, and
naturally. She makes them look at her
lips and pronounces the words round and
full and makes them do the same after
her. While hearing the class reading, if
class is studying geography, she will
suddenly call their attention to some point
in the lesson and then go right on with
the reading She will call upon schol-
ar by surprise to rise and tell something
about the lesson she is. studying. This
was done with great promptness. This
kept them on the alert.
''She has boquets all around the room,
and maps and pictures on the walls, to
make the room look pleasant. Her order
is perfect. Not book nor pencil is ever
heard prOminentlv
''She questions them on what they
have read. In spelling, they give famil-
lar definitions in their own language, and
are required to pronounce each letter full
ly and forcibly"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-02
Desire and Need Of Girls.

A lady writing from New York city to
a journal in Cincinnati, treats of the
young women so numerous in the great
metropolis, and moralizes little as fol-
lows:
Fully behalf of the girls who are now
filling situations in stores, Offices, etc, go
there in the first place in order to be able
to dress better. They liue in plain but
comfortable homes, and must help with
the bousework or the children Of their
own kin; but they hear the glowing ac-
counts of the city, they want the fnery
that is denied them, and they want to go
from those peaceful home lives, from the
kind guardianship of parents, to the tolls
and temptations Of the ten hour system.
They go plain country girls, with mod
est, blushing cheeks, and smooth, shining
hair. They stay there year or two and
their cheeks are pale and their hair is
trizzed. They have lost the gauchenie of
blushing and are bold at repartee They
dress somehow, but they have hours of
dependency that make them old 1t is
one long struggle with labor and tempta-
ton.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-02
Personal Items.

"a SVhNA 4tC"Ss
Grant, who shot Pollard, IS with
Bryant's Minstrels.
John G.. Breckenridge has been of
fered Professorship in Kentucky law
school.
Joe Jefferson has bought some
grounds in New Jersey and is to build on
it a 100000 house.
The late Wade Bolton, of Memphis,
wllled $4,000 to the widow of the late
Stonewall Jackson.
Ten men recently assembled in a
hotel in California who count up among
them seventy three million dollars.
DR.. Mudd, of Wilkes Booth infamy,
has an extensive practice since his release,
at his old home in Maryland.
Associate Justice Grier, of the United
States Supreme Court, seyenty-fve years
old, and feeble, viii resign this fall.
Mrs. Julia W. Goodrich, daughter
of Noah Webster LII D., and widow of
Professor Chauncey A Goodrich, died
suddenly in New Haven, Conn, last
Thursday.
The New York Tribune doubts the
truth of the confession of John Bowen
in the matter of the Carr Rock tragedy,
believing it to be concocted by wild
desire for notoriety.
Rev. James A. Clark, Professor of
the Latin language in Kalamazoo College.
died of consumption at his residence in
Kalamazoo on Thursday morning, the
18th inst, aged Al years.
Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan has finally
resolved to build his mansion on the top
of Orange Mountain, New Jersey, on
land adjoining the property of Gen.
Marcy. his father-in-law.
Ida Lewis has accepted the invita-
ton to attend series of memorial exer-
clses to be held in October under the di-
rectlon of the Pennsylvania Seamen' s
Friend Society in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Edes, the editor of the Dover
(Me.) Observer, is eighty years old, has
never seen train of cars, and but two
steamboats,, one of them being Fulton S
original, the other little pleasure boat
on the Sebec Lake
Anna Dickinson visited the Yose
mite Valley a few day ago. She wore a
tlil suit of the RIoomer coStun,a Seyc tho
Golden Era, rode astraddle on a man S
saddle, climbed to the most inaccessible
places and went as high and as far as the
strongest and most active men.
Raphael Semmes, of rebel pirate no.
torlty, has published three column let
ter IN Mobile paper in relation to
local quarrel about school matters. His
object is to defend himself against charg-
es OF being ''bribed to do the dirty work
OF carpet baggers and scallawags."
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-02

The railroad from New York to con-
meet with the Boston, Hartford and Erie
has been located, and part of it will be
finished this year.
By the present law in Minnesota the
property of a married woman is not only
independent of her husband, but is in no
manner liable for the support of herhus-
band, herself or her family.
1t is said that Professor Ames has
discovered copper and silver mines on
lands owned by Gen. Caleb Gushing, on
the shores of Lake Superior, some ninety
miles from Duluth. The mines are in
Lake County, MINI.
james W. Fitzgerald, of Cincinnati,
has obtained temporary injunction re-
straining the holders of the Fenian fund
from any further disposition thereof He
claims, as contributor, $4,000 of the
money, for the recovery of which he has
commenced suit.
DR.. W. H. White and F. ". Louis,
County Commissioner at Memphis, have
been indicted by the grand jury for over
issuing county warrants to make their
salaries equivalent to greenbacks. The
law provides that their salaries shall be
paid in warrants at their face value.
st. Louis was alarmed the other day
by a drunken Indian, who ran through
the streets brandishing a tomahawk. He
was, no doubt. hired to do so by the peo-
pie of Washington, to discourage the
proposed removal of the capital What
VI. G.. would want to live where Lo
swings his tomahawk around so loosely :?
"A very large number of soldiers dis
charge papers are retained in the office
of the Commissioner of Pensions. All
the other bureaus return them after act
ing upon the case which they accompany
After their final action in the Pension
Bureau, they are retained, but can be OBJ
tanned by direct application to the Com
missioner. Those signing their letters by
mark must have it witnessed by two per-
sons, and verified BY some person having
a seal.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-02
NEWS ITEMS.

The n. Y. Republican convention
meets at Syracuse on the 10th Of Septem
Der.
A destructive fire occurred in Balti-
more on the 25th. Loss not ascertained,
but is very heavy.
David Kirly of Dayton, Ohio, a
brakeman, was stabbed and killed at
Cincinnati on the 25th, by Phillip Ware
ham.
John Hamilton fell from an elevated
sidewalk, at Cairo, on the oath, and was
killed.
"A German named Louis Berger was
found dead in his bed, at Wheeling, W
Va, on the oath.
Numerous cases Of sunstroke are re-
ported by telegraph at different places
throughout the country.
The coal strike, repoted ended, has
been reconsidered and the terms rejected
by the miners in the Scranton district.
Water is being pumped into the
Paramount reservoir, in Philadelphia, by
steam engines, at the rate of |, $780,
gallons every twentyfour hours.
Burton Stout, aged nineteen years,
Miss Annie Rogers, and Miss Martha
Hunter, all of Philadelphia. were drown
ed, while bathing, at Atlantic. n. j.,
ON the 25th.
Two freight cars we're thrown from
the track, on the Erie road, on the 18th,
and pleclpltated through bridge dis
lance of one hundred feet, into the Della
ware River. Nobody wat hurt.
The Fcnian Congress commenced a
secret session IN New York on the 25th.
with small attendance. Rumor saws
that Savage will resign the Presidency,
and Will oe succeeded by a younger man.
The horse Henry, winner of three
races recently at Buffalo has been sold by
his owner, D. W. Bell to Mr.. Wallace
OF New York, for $4,000. This horse
is considered the best young horse in the
cauntry.
-The Haytien agent at Washington
has made an offer of the Bay of St Mich.
oias to our government in part payment
Tor several iron-clads he desired to pur
chase.
-Extensive robberies have been made
recently around the wharves in New York
where ships are discharging cargoes. The
ponce have discovered the rendezvous of
gang of rlver-thieves and recovered
considerable property. Three of the
thieves were arrested.
The demands on the Treasury for
fractional currency are SO great and the
amounts required so large that to supply
them would necessitate the issue of cur
rency at the rate OF S20O.000 day for a
year to come.
The preparatory observations with
respect to a canal through Schleswig- Hol-
stein, which is to unite the North Sea with
the Baltic, are now completed. The
proposal to leave the construction to pri.
vate enterprise has been abandoned, and
it will be undertaken by the Government.
Naval and military considerations hav,
led to this decision. The expenses ar,
estimated at $4,000, 900 thalers.
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Terrible Tragedy.

fruH tue montgomery City (Mo) standard.
Three miles west of this place, on the
evening of the It'll inst, William Il.
Thurman, farmer, and man hitherto
respected by his neighbors. while under
the influence of liquor, struck his wife on
the head with chair, from the effects of
which she died the next morning. It
seems that Thurman had COW and calf,
which by some means had got together
and strayed off. His wife sent negro
man to look for them, but failing to find
them he returned, when she sent him to
nelghbor house on an errand. While
the negro was absent Thurman awoke
from his drunken slumber and asked if
the COW had been found, and on being
answered in he negative, he jumped from
his bed, and, catching a small chair.
struck his wife a terrible blow on the head,
just back and above the temple. Shestag
gered round, and as she faced him, i'm
ploring him not to kill her. he struck her
again, telling her to the floor. Bv this
time the negro had returned, and placing
the lnsensl bic woman upon the bed. he
endeavored to resusciate her, but in vain
She fingered until the next day. when
death relieved her of her suferincs
Thurman, after committing the deed
mounted his horse and came to town after
fresh supply of whiskey, and after pro
curing the same he returned to his home
and laid down within few feet of his
murdered wife. The murderer was ar.
rested and committed to jail to await trial
DIT the laii term OF the Circuit Court.
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l Wild Han i'm the W0Ods.-ssTruth
Stranger than Fiction"

Wild Jim, the only name by which this
mysterious individual is known, came to
this vicinity some sixteen years ago, since
which time he has avoided all intercourse
with his fellow men, Rumor has it that
he came from the State of New York.
and lived for long time near the town
without attracting attention.
He is blacksmith by trade, is about
feet eleven inches, of sandy com plexion
hair and whiskers, both of which he al
well built, muscular, and must weigh
about two hundred pounds. Everything
connected with his life is shrouded in the
darkest mystery, and, in fact, very little
is known Of his singular habits since his
arrival here. He observes almost per-
petual silence, only speaking when he
comes to town for tobacco aud groceries.
Mr.. Martin, the gentleman with whom
he trades, informs US that he never comes
IN the day time, selecting the gloomy
mantle of night to hide him from his fell
lows. lie Will answer no questions, new
er allows the eyes Of mortal to rest upon
his face, and always asks for what he
wants with his back turned toward the
person whom he addresses.
Parties who have observed his habits
say that he is adverse to work he has
been known however, to chop and sell
wood on his island in the winter, when
necessity obliged him. He recently
built himself new log cabin, which he
uses rather as an asylum from human
view than as a place of abode.
There must have been something dark
and dismal connected with the unfortunate
creatures life before he severed all the
ties which bound him to companionship
with his fellows. Perhaps a deed Of
blood; fortune lost or squandered or,
more probable, some false but fair one 3
cruel conduct drove this modern ancho
vite to the woods, and still compels him
to loathe and shun his species. -Lonsang
(Ioual Chronicle
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w. S. Kimball of Rochester, has
been convicted in the United States
Court at Buffalo Of making fraudulent
returns to the Government. The YER
diet causes forfeiture of tobacco-ma-
chinery to the value of $20,00O.
On Sunday last, Mrs. Ames, residing
at Mound, Ogle county, Illinois, admins
tered poison to herself and to her little
glrl. The child died in fifteen minutes,
and Mrs. Ames in about ten hours.
There had been some trouble between
'ifs. Ames and her husband, and she
TOOK THIS way to end them.
Tho Policeman, John Cattle has
been arrested as the murderer Of Job,
Bebb, who died from the effect Of blows
given by Cattle on the 18th, in Cincin-
natl. hhe deceased is said to be re-.
mote relation of exGovernor Rebb He
was young man 81 years old and leaves a
T~lfe and three children. He was intoxi-
Gated.
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:, SINGULAR CHANGE IN WHEAT.-J,ast
Monuay Mr.. A. II. Noodle showed us
specimen OF Russian wheat which we re-
celved from the Patent Office FIVE wears
ago. Mr. w. has sown this variety four
seasons; The first two years the heads
were all bearded, while the last two wears
Ihey were nearly all smooth, and entirely
Tree from beards-but very few bearded
me Teaos appearing in the field this harvest
ne heads are of medium size. well filed
ana retain the same colored (redl chat
tnae characterized this variety The first
year yea, that Is was sown by our informant
!" no can account for this change from
oeardy to smooth ?-Moaroe SentlneI
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-02

An Arkansas Republican paper
thus refers to the conservative groans
over the recent ruin OF the south "a
few months Of radical reign, and alas
for the evidences Of gross misrule. Sew
eral hundred free schools in operation
and buildings for several hundred more
In process Of construction What an
imposition upon the people One rail
road rapidly building, and several more
actually under contract. Immigration
rapidly settling in too, and, horror of
horrors, all Of the radical type T.
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i owe my success in life to one sin
gle fact, viz :-that at the age of twenty
seven | commenced, and continued for
years. the process Of daily reading and
speaking upon the contents of some his
tofical and scientific book. These Of
hand efforts were made sometimes in a
corn field, at others in the forest, and
not unfrequently in some distant barn,
with the horse and OK for my auditors. =
Henry Wdy.
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How WE GRow.-A single fact in
connection with the ceremony of breaking
ground for the new postotfice in New
York, illustrates most palpably the rapid
growth of American cities. The first
shovelful of earth was cast by the man
who formerly carried our whole Southern
mail in wheel barrow and took it over
the river in a row boat During one
mans life that wheelborrow load has
grown SO that half dozen locomotives
are necessary to move 1t.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-02
The following advice is given by a

The following advice Is given by a
medical publication NeSer enter
sick room in moment of perspiration,
as the moment you become cool your
pores absorb. Do not approach coata-
gious disease with an empty stomaeh...
nor sit between the sick and the lire,
because the heat attracts the Vapor.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-02

THE WIDoWER' WIFE.-Within the
year the widower found consolation, and
this time the wife was young and pretty
that is to say, she was generally so es-
teemed, being white, plump, hard and
crisp as turnip just pulled from the
ground She was selfish, indolent, pet
fish, with small intelligence and no rea-
son. 10 be married was to be married
that was all she knew except it involv-
ed new dresses, white veil, and some
flowers. After that she entertained some
vague notion that generous living and all
sorts of holiday delights flowed perpetu-
ally IN of themselves, and that she, at any
rate, had only to stand and wait Her
ideas OF marital felicity underwent, in
company with her tatalistic yoke fellow,
singularly sudden transformation, and
she went humping about her house like
bat when the sunshine is all at once let in
upon it. 'Leander, I want this = and,
.Leander, why don't you get me that?
Mrs. So-and-so has it, and | want it and
will have it - These and such like were
her staple of conversation. Before long
came threats. iii go back to my faith
err, see if [ don'tl You might get me
things like other folks! | always had
sweetcahe at home! If you haven got
money tell them to give you some I'll
have blue satin dress and pearl ear
rings, or Ill go home to my father p
And her round white face would houn-
der among the pillows as she thus leased
for half the night. And, sure enough,
the threat got itself executed at last aud
with little white head, much like her
own. rolling about on her shoulder, and
a little bundle OF blankets crushed in her
arm, she one day took up line of march,
leaving the cupboard bare. Alec Careu
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-02

The Cincinnati Enquirer revives the
old talsehood that the public debt had
increased since the war closed, and pre-
tends to prove it by emitting the amount
III the Treasury. Other Democratic pa
pers presume justly on the ignorance Of
their readers by copying the story. The
Enquirer, being brought to account by a
Republican neighbor, insists upon the
truth of Its previous statements and dis
torts figures through column editorial
to maintain It's position. The fact is
that since the beginning Of Grants Ad-
mlnlstratlOn the national debt has been
reduced about $50, S96, 523.
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DiscOYey Of Human Bodies that exist
ed Before Adam.

In the Department De la Dordogne, of
France, human skeletons co-eyal with the
mammoth have been discovered, and they
present such features of interest that the
French Government has sent Mr.. Lariet,
the distinguished paleontologist, to make
a report on the subject. He reports that
the bones Of five skeletons have been dis
covered, and that they belong tC some gil
gantic race whose limbs must have re-
sembled. both in size and form, those of
the gorilla. The skulls, Of which ONLY
three are perfect, are fatal to the simian
theory, having contained. voluminous
brains. The skulls are now in the hands
of a committee Of savants who are pre-
pairing an exhaustive chronological report.
The result will be awaited with interest
by those who are devoted to the interests
of science in the old world. The cur
ious and various theories propounded
and advanced by savants lead us to view
their decisions with distrust
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The Muskegon Chronicle says that
Mr.. B. Moulton has started d fruit farm
on the north side Of Muskegon Lake,
within the past year. At the farm is a
strip Of as good land as can be found in
that region, about 100 rods wide, lying
between Muskegon and Bear lakes, and
the situation is such that the protection
from frost is as perfect as it can be. In
the way Of farm produce Mr.. MouIton is
raising this year 20 acres of potatoes and
about % acres of corn, and both these
crops look we'll The fruit trees and
vines set last spring comprise 1900 grape
vines, 5000 blackberrles, 1000 raspber-
RES, 100 apple, 200 peach, 100 cherry,
l25 pear, 100 plum and 100 ounce trees.
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JUST PUBLISHED.
Price, Twenty-Five Cents.
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