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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-06-01

'sYou told me yourself, uncle, that you
don't mean what you say. How was |
to know that this was an exception
An irate rejoipder trembled on uncle
Joseph's tongue, when suddenly he
caught sight of blue column of smoke
wreathing up under his window.
whats that smoker" he ejacula-
ted.
II think its Mrs. Perkins, sir, putting
fresh kindlings ON the kitchen fire"
cit isn'tr' yelled uncle Joseph. 1.-The
house is on FIRE p
Theodore dropped the spoon and bowl,
and rushed out of the room, shrieking,
sThe house is on fire help! murder!
thieves!"
The servants below the stairs caught
up the cry and echoed it in shrill dismay.
Uncle Joseph listened with bristling bair
and dilated eyes.
"Helpl help!'' he bawled, but no one
resounded. Louder still he yelled, but
yet In vain.
Sam [ to stay in my bed and be burn
ed to death ?'' he asked himself, ard
scrambled out with an agility that fairly
surprised himself
The servants were arrayed on the lawn.
staring in all directions to find the exact
locality of the fire. when the gardner
uttered a shrek:
IF there AIM the master, as hasn't
left his bed for years, a .runnin' as if a
tiger was arter him -
"Where-where' the fire? p painted
Uncle Joseph, gazing wildly around
him |"
Mrs. Perkins rushed to the front door,
her cap strings streaming,
81 never saw such a pack of born
IDIOTS in my life, she gasped. ''There
amt no fre-only few pieces Of green
wood I put on the kitchen fire. One
would think you'd never seen smoke
afore, and-why, if there amt mas
ter!''
'"Theodora,' said Mr.. White, looking
somewhat sheepish, where did you see
a fire p
81 didn't see it, uncle, but you said
the house was on fire." Theodore made
answer demurely, and of course I
thought you must know Please, uncle
go back to bed again.
II won't |" said uncle Joseph, gath
ering the skirts of his wrapper close
around him.
'tBut, uncle, you re SICK
"No, I'm not 70
''Uncle, do you really mean it ?'
"Oft course I do, Theo!'
And he did mean it. The cure had
been effected and Theodore mentally
congratulated herself on the success of
her plan of treatment. And uncle Joseph
never alluded to the day on which his
niece had taken him SO implicitly at his
word.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-06-01
MISCELLAN EOUS.

A man that starts on the day of his
marriage as first lieutenant in the fam
lily. need never expect to be promoted.
1t makes great difference whether
glasses are used over or under the nose.
What is that which is full of holes and
yet holds water? A sponge.
They keep "Knew Syder Fur-SaiP' at
| a Texas grocery.
Why is the sun like good loaf? Be-
cause its light when it rises.
The man who 'couldn't find his match
went to bed in the dark.
The best band to accompany lady
vocalist-A husband.
When is soup likely to run out of the
sauce pan? When there is leek in it.
Railways are aristocratic. They teach
every man to know his own station, and
to stop there.
John, said father to his son one
day when he caught him shaving the
down off his upper lip, don't throw
your shaving water out where there are
any barefooted boys, for they might get
their feet pricked.
Cure for the ea1ache-gct pretty girl
to whisper in it night and morning.
A country paper tells of smart has
band to raise seventy acres of wheat. =
The way she helped him was to stand in
the doorway and shake a broom at him
when he sat down to rest.
A census-taker recently asked a SER
want girl in the vicinity of Boston, how
many regular steady boarders there we're
IN the house. She informed him there
were fifteen boarders in all, ''but not
more four Of EN- is steady; the rest
is dimmecrats! !"
what carrotty- headed little brat is
that madam do you know it's name p
why, yes, that my youngest child
tYou done say>so, indeed. Why, what
a dear, little, sweet, deve-eyed cherub
he is, to be sure %
1t is said some babies are so small that
they can creep into a quart measure
but the way in which some adults can
walk into such measures is astonishing.
The Pittsburgh girls have adopted a
new method of preventing corner loun-
gers from staring them in the face. They
do it by showing just a little of the
stocking.
Henry Ward Beecher says he has
knocked the bottom out of hell This
accounts for the cold weather we are hav-
ing this spring How could you. Henry,
and coal SO high, too
A young man at Evansville, Ind, was
arrested and fined FIVE dollars for howl
ing around under window and disturb
ing the rest of a couple of girls The
next dag he retaliated by procuring
license and marrying one of them The
citizens always thought him little out
of his head, and now they are sure of it.
A farmer in Jefferson county laughed
when his wife told him it was dangerous
to smoke on load Of hay When he
came home With his clothes all burned
off, having sold the iron work of the
horse and wagon for a couple of dollars
in store pay, then she laughed. A d.
vorce will likely grow out of it..
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-06-01
Women's w ages

The Massachusetts, Board of Statistics
have recently made public the results of
a careful examination and investigation
of the various employments in which wo
men are engaged in Boston, with the rate
of wages paid to each class. The results
are probably the same as would follow
like examination in other parts of the
country.
The most striking fact is that the wo-
men employed in domestic service ar
best paid, and have the best food and
lodging, and the greater personal COM
forts, with the least comparative labor,
and, with the exception of the few I'M
usually skilled workwomen, are able to
dress better, and save more money.
Ofthis class, cooks receive, in addition
to board and lodging, from SIS to SO per
week; seamstresses, 81; nursery maids,
So; chambermaids, 50. SO to So; kitchen
girls, So. In the families where there
are but two girls employed the wages
housework the ayerage.is So. Seamstres-
ses get from IS cents to $3.50 per day,
according to skill. Women for washing
and scrubbing get II cents an hour. In
hotels and saloons housekeepers get $l2
per week for IA hours work; cooks, SO
for 9 hours work day; table girls, $27
a month for 10 hours work day; cham
bermaids, $25; laundresses, 81 a week.
In stores, accountants range from Sc to
$50 per week, the average being $12.
Saleswomen get from 81. SO to $I2. The
labor is from 10 to IL hours per day; and
out of the wages the girls have to dress
neatly, and pay their board if they do not
live at home.
In shop and manufacturing work the
labor is ten hours a day, the wages rang
ing from 81. so to $l5 per week; but those
who get above the average wages are I'M
usually skilfnl, or take work home with
them, on which they labor two or three
hours at night. But, in all branches of
this kind of employment the work is not
continuous; some branches only lasting
sixteen weeks, and others.twenty, twenty
four, and the highest thirty-six weeks in
the year.
The supply of women for all branches
OF employment is greater than the de-
mand, except in the case of domestic SER
vice, where competent persons can always
find the highest rates and have choice of
places. One of the causes of this is the
constant migration of women seeking en-
ployment to the large cities. Those en-
| ployed, unless unusually skilfulget but little
higher wages, if any, than in the country
or smaller towns, while employment is
precautions, and the expense of living
much greater. Girls make the same
mistake that boys do when they leave the
country to come to large cities to work
Even supposing they find work, which is
not the case In a majority of instances,
the opportunities and temptations tc
! spend their wages are tenfold greater.
To those having homes in the city, where
they haye watchful care, and in which
| they can reside when out sof work, the
case is different. The girl who abandons
work in the country to come to the city
almost invariably abandons all chance of
saving any wages, land rarely, if ever,
betters her condition in any sense.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-06-01

1t is nice to go to some Iowa schools.
A lady teacher at Des MONIES called a
boy up and made him show her how he
kissed the big girls.in the woodshed. After
he showed her, she punished him by
making him stay after school. He says
he don't want to graduate for two years
yet.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-11-24
Ectier f~n,s, Curtis Neck.

Correspondence o. The Richmond dispatch.
CUEL's NECK, VA, November -.
though nearly III the sight ot the spires
. sour city, scarcely ever see anything
.u!r payer from this section.
Planning operations have been much him
I rcd hy the continued rains. Many farm
',~ had I" stop before they bad finished
80, du@ wheat, and nov il seems they are
80 rpu>uCc the remainder of the ycar in
J. 'is!u@ the corn crop. which, by the way,
Us :. good one. Wheat looks weil, but il is
'r' too carly 10 prophecy.
the St.t"mcut in Your paper in regard
- the robbery OF sir Jones, vino kept
-'orr near Turkey Island bridge, is in some
.pcCiS erroneous. He lived several days
fer gcttin. home. aud stated that the
.@u who vas with him-onc Ben Roach
,"at him severely alter lie fell from the
cat; but his physicians say the most
b, ruUs injury was from the fail. Roach
!. : necn committed 10 Charles City jail to
wait the action OF he grand jury.
We have read with much interest the ac-
IN OF the City Council in regard to "the
umnci.' We tcci Il deep interest II amy
hin. connected with Richmond and James
.,cr, considering ourselves almost q part OF
t.c same. This is nos the only good move
"a" success OF which is due i'll i great mea-
sure 10 the Dispatch. NERITAs.
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Frank Lewis, aged sixteen years, son of
Hon. Charles 5. Lewis, OF West Virginia.
accidentally shot himself in the head. near
Clarksburg, w. Va, on the 18th instant.
while climbing fence, one rail of which
broke, causing the discharge of his gun.
Mr.. Jeremiah Brooks, seyenty.nine years
old, started from York, Me-, lately. with
bis team to drive to Boston, q distance Of
seventy miles. He refused to 20 BY railroad.
as he wanted to go safely, and no said he
knew all about his horse.
At Birmingham, near Pittsburgh, thew
were burning the bedding upon which q
man had died of smallpox, when the old
mother of the deceased rushed into the
flames and snatched roll Of bills worth
$500 from the mattress. She had forgotten
that the money was concealed in the bed
ding when she sent 1t away. #--
The Union army during the war had
two General Hookers-" Fighting Joe"
and Ben Butler.-LouisUiHe Ledger.
Everybody is aware that our American
GALS OF Pecune de rfcunle do marry plenty
of counts and barons, principally French
some of them taIlors, many OF them bar.
bers.-Joltn Mitchell.
A correspondent affirms that his every
soul was cofled up in horror" by some in
cidents of the Chicago fire.
Why are Cashmere shawls like people
who are totally deaf? Because you cannot
make them here.
Why is Professionalism like new milk
Because 1t strengthens the calves.
Does cows tail resemble a swans
breastf Yes, for they both grow down.
Labor In Woodworking in coal mine.
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NolNGs of Tile PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL.
i ne ambitious managers Of the Pennsf Iva
Isl Railroad appear to be possessed with the
@..4-aud it !UOSs as il they VIII succeed
~ 1 the only railroad ia tic United States
IA Il! ne the Pcnpsy lYania, ana that all other
81. d.. slllll tie branch concerns. The latest
syiucyrmcnt OF the Central Is the leasing OF
iar Cleveland and Pitls1urg road, which
> not only i route bctWeco important
,uti utnc1ulIng cities, but has also line
t,.u Yellow creek down the OHIO TO Bel
l1i.r, lo!ty-lblcc miles, forming cute from
=" rcrlug 10 Pittsburgh aud Cleveland, ana
1Ian.i th;rly-lwo ulles lnng from Bay
a,a - New Philadelphia, Ohio. 1t enters
Pittsburgh, however, on The track oil the
II.l.burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago rail-
" ~, over twenty-six miles OF which, from
Kprhcslcr, it has had The right OF running
Trans. The entire mileage oi tue company,
winch will be turned over to the Pennsyl-
yi,..i, Company Oh The l5t oil December, IS
10 ;Iilts.
~ tlle terms Of the lease the Pennsyl-
tuia VIII ply lie interest on the bonded
lrJl OF tue Cleveland AID Pittsburgh
s"ou, S3,S0O ,U00), and seven per cent. diVl-
tiyuGs Oh the capital stock increased by
i! - per ccut.-Wnich will give IN income
.H! zen per cert. OH The present snare capi-
al Just what j, has earned FOR some years
ysrt. Tue present share capital Is ABOUT
:. $4,000.
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Foreign News.
ILLNESS OF TIE PRINCE OF WALES

ILLNESS OF TIE PRINCE OF WALES.
LONDON, November 23.-The indisposi.
ton Of the Prince Of Wales continues. His
physicians state that he has symptoms of
typhoid fever. He passed rather an I'M
comfortable night.
Later.-A bulletin this evening signed by
the physicians says the Prince is suffering
from an attack Of typhoid fever, but that
the symptoms are not alarming.
MONARCHY DENOUNCED.
a mass meeting was held in Bristol last
evening ut which the speakers were uDre-
strained in their denunciation of monarchy
in Great Britain.
TIE UNIVERSAL MUSICAL FESTIVAL, &c.
P. S. Gilmore has returned from the con-
tinent, where he met with complete sue.
cess in securing assistance of the Powers
in the projected universal musical festival
to be held at Boston in 1872. He sails for
home In the City of Brooklyn.
The lecture Of Sir Charles Delke at
Leeds on royalty was followed by trihing
riots. .
FROM PARIS.
PARIS, November 23.-Thiers's journey
to Rouen to lay the cornerstone Of the
military establishment there has been post.
poned.
Gortaut Bieron is mentioned as the
French ambassador to Berlin.
All the Communists charged with the de-
struction of Thiers's house have been con
yieted and sentenced to Imprisonment FOL
from two to twenty years each.
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New York Items,

NEW YORK, November 23-The malt
house of Peter Ballentine & Sons has been
burned. Loss to buildings $4,000, to
stock $4,000. and to. machinery Sl5, 200.
They will continue business, however, IN
their new malt house, just erected.
Joshua d. Miner, the alleged counter
feiter, has been bailed in the sum of $50, 600:
Detective Whitley says he was offered
500. 900 to abandon the prosecution.
Nuv YORK, November 23.-Tbe Herald
has information from Ben Butler, Henry
Wilson, and Thurlow Weed, stating that
thew know nothing of the formation OF an
anti. Grant party. Wilson also dlsbelieVes
that Sumner is engaged in any such move
ment. -. s.-.s.--
The Herald processes to have reliable ~
formation that the Grand Duke ALEXIS Is
charged with mission from the Car 10
this country, being proposal for an o1en-
siye and defensive alliance between hussla
and the United States.
DR.. Winder, of Brooklyn. reports the
narrow escape of himself and family from
death, resulting from eating behring's EVIL
IDENTITY tainted with arsenic.
: 1t is believed that the youcher-tnleves
will turn States evidence and disclose VINO
employed them to burn the papers stolen.
/; The National Savings Bank winds up Its
affairs shortly, but pays depositors.
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Burning of New England steamer
loss of Life and PeraIcus Escapes.

NEW LONDON, Conn, November 22.-The
City of London, which left New York last
evening with freight and number of pas
sengers on her regular trip to Norwich,
was burned to the waters edge in the
Thames just above Allyn's Point and be-
low Norwich. She was filed with freight.
The fire caught in the kitchen at $50 this
morning. Flames were first discovered
issuing from one of the yentilators. Cap
tain Brown was on deck and ordered the
boat anchored. Efforts were Immediately
made to eXtinguish the flames, and after
short time were apparently successful. A
rigid examination discovered no traces
of fire, and the boat proceeded up the
river. When about three miles below the
city and abreast Of Poquetannock cove,
fire was discovered in some cotton which
was on deck. The donkey-pumps were
started, and the captain and engineer,
aided by the crew, in less than three mi
nutes had three streams on the fire; but
despite all exertions the flames spread with
great rapldity, and soon enveloped the for
ward part of the boat. The captain, seeing
that all efforts to eXtingnish the tire were
useless, ordered the boat to be backed, but
the engineer could not start the engine.
The donkey-pumps, however, were still
kept at work until the engineer notified
the captain that he feared an explosion, in
winch event jill NOulu Ut tOSt. uc spTSau
of the flames had in the mean time cut off
all communication with the boats, and rem
dered the life preservers inaccessible.
The passengers and crew then threw
themselves into the water, clinging to such
portions of the cargo and boat as had fallen
overheard. Those who were able to swim
had not much difficulty in reaching the
shore. Some were picked up by boats from
floating pieces of the cargo in an exhausted
condition and taken to farm houses in the
vicinity. where they were cared for and re-
suscitated.
A train with a fre.engine was taken
down from the city, but too late to be OF
any service. The wreck drifted down the
stream and to the leeward about quarter
of mile below Holden's island, where IL
was abandoned by the crew, and lies fast
aground Just below POquetannock cove.
Trains are running down hourly. anu
yirilant search is making for the missing
men. L..
The City of New London was trst-ciass
boat. and had large cargo. The office oil
fine Norwich and New York Transports.
ton Company, in this city, Is crowded
with persons anxious to learn the fate OF
their friends amongst the passengers anu
crew. and much excitement prevails.
The loss of life by the City-o'-NeW.Loh'
don disaster Is greater than was anticlpa-
ted. There were only seven passengers,
but OF these William Z. Norton OF Norton
Brothers c.. B. Rogers of q. b. kogers q
Co., and Harrison Z. Aldrich, all OF This
city, were Lost. or the oheera and assk
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.nsnas known 90 be lost arr, yF,ll,a,, {, rr,v
Raiar ~ Conn.,, second mate M, w.
n ,.sn OF Norwich, engineer: Henry Din.
Esan NeW London. stewnrd !. I >Vsbstar
Sas Eil, second cook; Frank Flowers.
NSsteSe unKnown, waiter Warren
affisScneli, oiler; Driscot suiIivan patr ien
i TrlIanony, ana Thomas Rourka dac,r s ss..S
s ene NeW London carried q CARGO ~ baa..,.
IaotSSus, principally cotton, raos' oroca.;nsy
tha hldes, &C., which. topefher az .r ,Ss,
the a poat, Is total loss. On anco,,r ". w
the a;nsence Of the manager of the linz sro, VI
RANGES = Is impossible to obtain the insu.
am, IL d ,s understood the boat is insnred e.,
iif e.sayino distinguishing apparatus and
ranid snrs. adP pe were ample, but the
10 the boats a VI Tue flames cut of approach
servers o ,aa,a ana saloon where the lifs.pre.
naa 70 save themselves by Sras, aru rev s'I
noatins matter as fell overboard frS seS ~
burning boat. A large force Of Ioen a sus
9oys nave been at the scene of d;ssatas an III
uhay, ano Vigilant search for the hodie. az ~
; Tug ;n.ssang passengers and crew has hesr
itns'itutea; but they only succeeded in find.
ns Ihe Dodles OF two men, deck hands
r misncn were brought to this city and taken
POSSESSION OF by the coroner. who imnan n.
ndiled a jury, who, after viewing the bodies
ADJOURNED until to. morrow. 4, D.A'S'
Inc oihcers OF the boat, particuIsrlv the
captain and engineer, receive great nra Sse
ior thelr GOODNESS and bravery in Their t srse
ing position, the former escaping bv Iowey.
ing himself from the paddle-box h MI" th.
neaVlng'iine when all avenues Of esco ,ne
were closed by the flames, and clinain Sap pe
tne padd!e-box until rescued in an ex W
nausted condition, and theIatter LOSING h,
me after giving the life.preseryer which hs
got from his room on the upper deck at th he
last moment to the only lady PASSENGER a..
VINO by its aid was saved.
Inc origin of the fire is a matter Of nm
certainty, but it is supposed to have taker
IN some way in the kitchen when the cool
went to kiudle the fire for breakfast. On,
account states that it was bya poker
heated by raking down the fire, being hun,
against the pine partition, but nothing re
liable is known.
Seven more bodies, making nine In all
nave been recovered from the wreck of tho
steamer. - 'A'>
Ldter.-Eleven bodies In all have been re-
covered from the wreck of the City of New
London.
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VIRGINIA NEWS.
letter from Petersburg.

correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.
PETERSBURG, November %, 1871.
/ ,t night. 1t is alleged. man from
champion county named George Hol-
man got negro named Wilson Grey in
\i,atcd and then robbed him Of his car
= sack, contasnirC some new clothes, bat,
H.. and ti(ty-tivc dollars in money. This
,-,~njrc Nolloman left on the Petersburg
.~,i Norfolk train, but warrant had IN the
qran time been procured for his arrest,
.,l a constable, following close on his
|, els. found him in the company OF bis
. 70 making some purchases In store at
r4krijrld. Hnlloman, on being told he
..u>i return to Petersburg, made no re-
.iauce and came along quietly, and was
rested immediately on his arrival here.
.,,pg q! The money was recovered, but tho
= oC il. being in the laas'S possession.
p ,i}l.ry did not get hold of. Holioman
,as committed to jail. and will be EXAM
add tomorrow.
Il y ,;.rca that before the war Hclloman
-. worth - coo. his father being also one
NJ ,at wcaigh;e>t men in the county. Liquor
,g, h.aG-ht aim down to the place he now
..,uIir>.
Another white man was arrested to-day
II stealing from negro. William viii
III, relieved venerable darkey OF ten
. naIc> be bad brought to market. He
a., seat - jail for thirty days.
caste considerable quantity Of property
UuNGCio and Prince George counties
So = Il to-day. One tract, belonging To
Nr. humIs Banks, and containing 23l
....,>. was sold 10 Mr.. John L. Banks Tor
. ,bI. 4 tract containing 4l3 acres, and
longing ~ Or. John VI. Tucker. was sold
j.. In G. Mitchell Tor $50. The Ravens
.gvi; fam, III Prince George, near the cor
.u3at'uu limits Of the city, was sold to Il.
!. lnuug Tor s. 600.
I1r following sales OF city property have
',,n recently made 4 tenement on Ner-
g., street, belonging TO Mr.. &. l.. Peticolas,
s,.,~ sid 10 Mr.. +. b. Balm for $1,000; OK.
uAlur Carr. who Is now collector of Gus.
,>n> for this port, has bought fine house
un lNhh street Tor g, COO cash.
Uy-the-Hy. Mr.. Carr informs us that the
re, i,,ts from customs for the past month
wee equal in amount 10 the receipts for
t,, ruilrc first year during which he had
.n.r.r of The custom-houSe. A sufficient
,.t;turr OF the great Increase of our eX-
; atoms.
IL" Circuit Court was in session to-day
JU.>" Weisigcr presiding; but only chan.
,r.t causes and some civil cases before the
f"isc.
uc Radicals arc casting about for 4
%asor. For some reason The present in.
,uaItcnl appears TO have fallen into dista.
tH.. lie i an extreme enough Radical,
.Ui h~ administration has been in the main
ar and impartial. Richard Weeks, Joe
Nub3 son. and Tom Sc0t,-thc two latter
"r.IoeS-are mentioned as probable candi.
les.
there was heavy hoar frost on the
.:uuul this morning, and in shaded places
I1lInCd OF sufficient thickness to last all
-. ROBIN ADAIR,
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Ex-senator Gwin, of California, DUKE OF
Sonora, has just made a fine "strlke - 10
his gold mine in Calaveras county, Cal.,
worth, according to the local paper, $780,
900 as far as already developed.
The cornerstone Of the first Methodist
church in salt Lake City was laid Tuesday,
and there are now there regular church
ORGANIZATIONS of that denomination, and OF
the Episcopalian, Presbyterian, and Roman
Catholic.
A Boston Yankee has invented fruit-
preserving paper, and it is claimed that ac-
tual tests have proved it to be sure pro.
tector against the decay of fruit, and in fact
oil vegetable matter. 1t is asserted that the
invention win preserve fruit In transporta-
ton for TN indefinite length OF time.