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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-02-08
STATEMENT
GREAT WESTERN INSURANCE CO,

GREAI MESltM lASlkAME u.
MAY LIST, 1871
Subscribed Capital, sl,l96, l76 90
Cash Capital, S224, 4S67a
Surplus, May /,
1871, 55,ss2l4
-- S27e sss &c
ASSETS.
First Mortgages,
Real Estate, sl7S,70O.0O
Cash on hand and
in bank l2,2530s
Loan on Bonds and
c. St 1 N.wRR. ''''00'0'
Land Certificates, 4,53000
Interest on Mort
cages mot duel l3,345.25
Bills receivable,
Cash Premiums
on farm risks, ls,5ss5s
Interest on same, ,05l -
Due from agents in
course oftrans-
mission, 27,344.47
ityCollectionsand
Accounts, 10 97l.U0
Office Furniture
and Personal
Property, 4,7li.F
go, SSo .oo
LIABILITIES.
Losses adjusted
and not due, S 10000
Losses in process
and adjustment,
(estiInatedl 5000, 90
All other liabilities, l 900. 90
- SIS, 800 90
L. KEMPER, Agent,
49-ly Manitowoc, Wis.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-02-08
The Largest Stationary Engine I'm
the World.

The largest stationary engine in the
world was put in operation few days ago
at att the LehlS S Zlnc Works. at f RI %"o
capable of pumping, if necessary, from 49,
600 to l7,0GG gallons of water per minute,
and this from depth of 800 feet. The
heaviest pieces are sections of beams weigh
ing "a tons. The cylinder is 10 IA inch
es in diameter, and the length Of stroke
is ten feet. Two wrought iron shafts
weigh l6 tons each Crank pins one ton
each. The piston rod is IA inches in diam
eter. The crosshsad weighs s tons. The
connecting rods weigh II tons each, their
length is Al sect 2 IL inches, and their d.
aneter inches in the neck, and IL inches
in the middle.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-02-08

the best families out. We 60 in for fun.
The man who won't cultivate it must
keep a gosd half rod between US.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-02-08
An ignorant Dog.

An old farmer went out one day looking
over his broad acres, with an ak on his
shoulders and a small dog at his heels.
They esried a woodchuck. The dog gave
chase and drove him into stone wall,
where action Immediately commenced. The
dog would draw the woodchuck partly out
from the wall, and the woodchuck would
take the dog back. The old farmers SYM
pathy getting high on the side of tho deg,
he thought he must help him. So, put
ting himself in position, with ak above the
dog, he waited for the attraction of the
woodchuck when he would cut him down.
SO an opportunity offered, and the old man
struck, but the woodchuck gathered up At
the same time, took the dog in far enough
to receive the blow, and the dog was killed
on the spot. Forty years after the old
man, in relating the story, would always
add: ''And that dog don't know to this
day but what the woodchuck killed him."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-01-12
.u.1TRLuO.vI. BxTR.sORDF.v-
.IRI'.

An entertaining article entitled "Tony
Weller's Widows" appears in the Chester
Pa.) Republican, from which the follow
ing is an extract:
Another very courtable widow was
young lady, of Washington, Pa. She be-
came engaged to a young man named Rob-
ert-, in 1916. Her father, however, object
ed TO this match with one of his clerks.
and when the young lady received tempt
ing proposal from wealthy sutor the pa
tcrnal influence soon affected a marriage,
despite the former engagement In less
than three months her husband was killed
by kick from horse. Robert was a sec
ond time then a suitor, but delayed the
important question until fifteen months
had elapsed, when to his horror, she in
formed him that she was engaged. In three
months thereafter she was married. Two
years elapsed, when the married couple re-
moved to Syracuse, n. ", where among
the victims of the cholera, when the pest-
lence swept that city, was the second. Rob
ert again sought her hand, and when year
had elapsed, was on the eve of declara-
ton, when 10 he received an invitation to
her wedding. Her late husbands business
was found in such state that to avoid I'M
mense losses she married the surviving
partner. shortly after, she removed with
her third husband to Detroit, Michigan.
a few years elapsed, when hersefand hus-
band were on a steamer that was wrecked
near Buffalo. The husband perished, and
the wife escaped solely through the exer-
tions of a friend who was on board. His
gallantry inspired such sentiments lin her
breast that she married her brave presery-
er a few months after her third widowhood.
The happy pair removed to Pittsburgh,
where the husband was engaged in mer-
camille business. Thither Robert, still
cherishing his first love followed them.
One day as he was passing the husbands
store he saw a terrible commotion. Rush
ing in, he beheld the mangled corpse Of
that gentleman on the floor. A tierce of
rice, in being hoisted to an upper story,
had 'allen through the traps, killing him
instantly. Anxiously Robert inquired if
any one had been sent to inform his wife,
and was told that the book keeper had just
gone. Robert started for Allegheny City,
Wnele tue ueceaseu nau reslueu, ut the toI
of his speed. The book-keeper was just a.
head of him, aud, from past experience,
knowing the virtue of prompt action, and
apprehending that the clerk had designs
on the widow, he ran for dear life, side-by-
side. The race continued until they reach
ed Hand street bridge, when the clerk was
obliged to stop to pay the tolls, while Ro-
bert commuter, passed over without stop
ping. Reaching the house of the widow
first, Robert told the heartrending news,
and in the same breath made proposal of
marriage. He was accepted. True to her
promise, after year of mourning she be-
came his wife. As all her husbands had
died wealthy, Robert was comfortably
fixed after all. This case is a remarkable
example of what pluck and perseverance
will do for a man, while at the same time
it teaches lesson ON the danger Of delay.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-01-12
CHuTL sERJICB REEOR.u.

The new civil service regulations are re-
coiving more discussion than when first
made public. The commissions Of the
members Of the board expired with the
presentation of their report to the Presi
dent, but he Immediately Informed them
that he desired their services and advice in
putting the rules they had framed into
practice. The commission will, therefore,
become an advisory board. The board will
first form the officers of the whole service
into groups, those being in one group
whose duties are similar. Whoever enters
ono Of these groups will enter at the lowest
grade and vacancies in a group above the
lowest grade will be filled by promotions
within that group. In the departments
for the most part, each bureau will
form enc group. The Agricultural depart
ment will form one, the New York Custom
House will form one, the Boston Custom
House another, and so on. The Board will
then arrange for proper examination with
in each group, and the examinations will
bear proper relations to the duties to be
performed. In the case of minor customs
and other Offices where grouping is imprac-
ticable, competition will in case of vacan-
cies be opened at once to the public. At
any time when an officer has doubts of the
capacity of one of his subordinates, it will
be competent to send him before the Ex-
amining Board TO compete with others for
the position he now holds. When the sys-
tenn is fairly in operation the worthless ma
terial that may be found in any department
will disappear without such panic being
produced as will result from any sweeping
application Of examinations TO all those
now employed in the departments.
One Of the rules prepared by the COM
mission, and adopted by the president, re-
quires that all postmasters hereafter ap-
pointed whose salaries amount to 5000 or
over, shall be subject to competitive ex-
animation. The list has been completed
in the post-oflice department, showing that
the total number of offices is 300. When
vacancies occur in the larger of these Off
ces the rule of promotion will be applied,
fany subordinatcs therein are found to be
fitted for the position, or, in the absence of
subordinates desiring promotion, the ofl-
&c will be open forpublic competition until
Il proper selection is made. The books of
the department show that there are about
$4,000 postmasters whose salaries do not
amount to 5000 per annum. These appoint
ments will continue to be made upon APP
plications, supported by credentials as to
character which are satisfactory to the post
master general, large proportion of the
places being held merely for the accom-
mediation Of the public. About one-half OF
the total number of postmasters receive a
compensation not exceeding $50 per year.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-01-12
J.IsIT TO n SIE.IIy'L F.JCTORI'
Nv C.sSEs.NERE.

John b. Ireland, who travelled long
time in India and Cashnere, gives some
curious facts apout the manufacture and
cost of real Cashmere scarf or shawl.
While in Cashmere he visited Nook Shah,
who is the best and greatest manufacturer
of shawls in that city. The factory was a
miserable dirty building; the workroom
measuring about sixty by thirty feet. Here
he found some forty men and boys, of all
ages, from six TO fifty, arranged in twos
and threes, at different looms, each one
having loom to himself, for all the most
valuable shawls are made in looms, in
small pieces, according to the pattern, and
then sewod together. The pattern is not
put in colors and squares like our patterns
OF worsted work for chair backs, seats or
shippers, but the directions are written.
When the patterns are made, they are all
there appeared 10 be four or five hundred
small pins of wood with rolls of different
shades of woollen thread, to be used in
different parts of the pattorn. 1t was as
tonishng to see the deXteriy with which
the small children worked these hand
looms, and understood their written direc-
tions.
The traveller bought shawl which took
fifteen mon seven months to make; the
workmen receiving four and three-fourh
cents day Mr. Ireland says he cannot
imagine where all the one, two and three
hundred dollar shawls come from-certaln-
lv not from Cashmere. Mootki Shah
makes none that could be bought in Lon
don or New York for less than eight or
nine hundred dollars. our author, upon
application TO the trade would have learn
ed that n large portion of the shawls sold as
real India ones are actually made in France,
for the Thibet goat was introduced into
that country more than forty years ago,
and Cashmere shawls also initiated with
considerable skill. There was maguih
cent shawl made at this factory for Eugene
while empress of France. II had "A white
ground or centre, and was the most elegant
specimen of Cashmere work MoOlki Shah
ever produced. Thirty men were kept
steadily al work on It for nino months.
That is $3.50 day. work were bestowed on
that one shawl. The price, when finished,
| 300 rupees, or $3.50. Such shawl would
sell for about $4,000 in London or New
York SO the shopkoopers, even If they do
not visit India to make money, are enabled
TO realize little when they stay at home.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-01-12
sB.v.sTOR IYLs0.v O.v TR.uPRx-
.f.VCB

Senator Wilson lately delivered a lee
ture on total abstinence at fremont Tenn
pie, Boston. After vivdly portraying the
evils of intemper9nce, and showing by sta
tistics what a vast financial drain II is upon
the industry of the country, he alluded to
the progress Of the temperance cause, and
said ii had been such as should encourage
US all. lie had been in Congress some sew
cnteen years, and there were fewer drink
ing men there now than when he first went
there. Then they always dreaded night
session, because they did not wish to make
an exhibition of themselves, TO be laughed
at by the whole country. Now about one
fourth Of the Senators were pledged tenn
perance men, and there was not a hard
drinker among them. 1t was about the
same in the House of Representatives, and
there were no such drunken scenes there
now as had taken place in the past. In
temperance Boston was altogether behind
Washington, and there were not so many
allurements in Washington as in Boston or
New York. When he first went to Wash
ington the departments were full of drunk
enness, but many men had been weeded
until now among the many thousand clerks
there was scarcely a drunken man. Sobri-
ETY. was now one of the quail fications for
admission there. In all this there was
much to encourage, and if temperance men
were faithful and worked on they would
advance the great cause. Much was said
nowadays about the hard lot OF working
m a pf ba
was brought on by the use of liquor, and
If the men who were endeavorng to organ
ize the labor interest, would turn their en-
erges TO the cause of temperance, they
would do more TO lift up the suffering mill
ions than all the theories they had advance
ed. He advised the laboring men to cling
to the temperance pledge AS an ark Of safe
ty, and he advised young men to write
their names on the total abstinence pledge
as strong as John Hancock wrote his on the
Declaration of Independence. There were
$4,000 rumsellers in the country, and he
believed they were doing the greatest
wrong that men could. He believed in
prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating liquors.
lie always did believe in it, and always ex-
pccted to believe in it. He criticised, how
ever, severely those members of the Chris
tian church in following the customs of the
past in the use of liquors, and condemning
the poor Irish woman who sold liquor to
keep her children from starving. He wei
coined the moral movement all over the
country, for if they had law they must put
moral force behind it, 1t was the duty of
temperance men to labor, work, hope and
pray on, and rally the good men and wo-
men of the country to the support of their
nnuSn
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-01-12
P0etry.
E.V'DTR.st'CR.

How much the heart may bear, and yet not break
How much the lesh may suffer and not die!
question much Il any pain or ache
OF soul or body BRIGGS our end more nigh,
Death chooses his own time: till that is worn,
All evils may be borne.
We shrink and shudder at the surgeons knife
Each nerve rocoiling from the cruel steel,
Whose edge seems searching for the quiyering life
Yet to our sense the bitter pangs reveal,
That still, although the quivering flesh be torn,
This, also, can be borne.
We see a sorrow rising in our way,
And try to flee from the approaching i'll.
We seek some small oscape-we weep and pray
But when the blow falls, then our hearts arc still
Not that the pain Is of It's sharpness shorn,
But think II can be borne.
We wind our life about another life,
We hold 1t closer, dearcr than our own
Anon it fants and falls In deadly strife
Leaving us stunned an stricken, and alone;
But ah : we do not die with those who MOURN
This also can be borne.
Behold, we live through all things--famno, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and pain,
All woe and sorrow; life innicts its worst
On soul and body-but we cannot die,
Though We be sick and tired and faint, and worn
Lol all things can bc borne
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-01-12
~ FfSOLETIO.N.

If you've any task to do,
Let me whisper, friend to You, no H.
If you've anything to say,
True aud needy, yay or nay, Say II.
II you've anything TO love,
As u blessing from above, Lore IL.
If some hollow creed you doubt,
Through the whole world hoot and shout,
Doubt il.
If you know what torch to light,
Guiding others through the night, Liglt ii
II you've any debt to pay,
Rest you neither night nor day, Pay il.
If you've any joy to hold,
Next you heart, lest it get cold, Hoh il.
If you've any grief to meet
At the loving Fathers feet, NectH.
If you're given light to see,
What a child of God should lie, il.
Whether life be bright or dear,
There's message sweet and clear
whispered down TO every ear. Hear il.
Harper's Magazine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-01-12

INTEMPERANCE IN VERMoNT.-Rev l..
II. Stone, agent of the Vermont Temper
ance Society, in his report to the late State
Temperance Convention, says there are
over 1000 drunkards in Vermont, who are
intoxicated more or less frequently; that
there are 10000 hard drinkers, such as
drink twice, four, six, or more times every
day and there are more than %, 600 young
men, from seventeen to twenty-five years
of age, who are in the process of training
for the condition and prospects of the ine-
briate. He visited nearly all the towns in
the State and obtained his information
from intelligent persons, such as clerg =
men, lawyers, physicians, ETC., who knew
whereof they affirmed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-01-12

and Curtis, I believe that If the republican
party only needed two votes to carry New
York, Mr.. Greeley would take his wife
and daughter to the polls on stretcher,
rather than print democratic majority in
the columns of the great Tribune.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-01-12

Foreign mails close 2'l5 ri. day previous to sail
in nf steamer from New York. II. W. CLARKE, p. NJ.
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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-19

deGCon's coat Twas the first time ever
spoke in my lite"
Il hope it won't be the last, Mrs. Flint, if
you always speak as much to the purpose
as you did last night" said the minister,
coming forward.
YES" broke in his wife, "Henry said
he,d advocate wOmens speaking in meeting
after this"
ut was capital" said Mr.. Brown, re-
crossing the room to where the deacon
stood. THAT'S what Joe Dean has needed
Tor long time, good reproOf, but no one
had the courage TO give it to him. Your
little wife has done just what the whole
parish will thank her for"
Everybody I've seen since Is Just enrap-
tured with you" said his wife to the laugh
ing heroine, who had been rehearsing all
the funny passages to her. " You have
made yourself famous; look out for plenty
of calls this week"
"Oh, WELL" she said tossing the baby,
g the washing is done, and shall have
plenty of tirle."
Mrs Brown laughed and said: 81 think
l will send you word next Saturday night
that the next day will be Sunday, and you
had better not wash till Monday
Mrs. Flint, said the minister, 81 think
you are fully competent to manage your
own affairs without any of my wife's inter
ference" and so, laughing merrily, they
started.
Samuel" said his bonnie wife, as she
reached the door, don't you think / have
call me Neutrality-suspicious. again
when 1 am hanging up your shirt in the
front yardf
Somebody was chased out in the kitchen
just then, and laughed so loud it Weakened
the baby-ChicngO Adrdnce.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-19
English Women Mated with Savaqes.
TRrnm the Pail Man Gnrnt4n

The Queensland papers report the mar.
riage of two South Sea islanders with Eng
hsh women, the first marriages of the kind
which have yet occurred. The ladies who
have thus broken through the bonds of Gus
tom are the Misses Harriet Charlesworth
and Ann Simms. The former is a native of
WalfOrd, in the county of Essex, and is aged
twenty-five. The latter is one year younger,
and Beckington, in SOmersetshire, is entitled
TO the distinction of being her birthplace.
The bridegrOOms are natives of the island of
Lifu, and intend to return to their island
home Immediately, carrying their spouses
with them. They were Christians before
going to Queensland, and have a fair
knowledge of English One of them was
able to sign the marriage register in hand
writing that would have been oreditable to
an accomplished European, and both of
them answered all the questions put to them
by the minister very intelligentIy, although
somewhat puzzled at the Undergraduates re-
specting the degrees of kindred. Their
wives are only late arrivals in the colony.
having gone out by the Indus on her last
trip. If the idea once gains ground in this
country that Christian South Sea islanders.
or even South Sea islanders who NAV be-
come Christians under domestic influences.
are looking out for English wives in
Queensland, the Indus, on her next trip,
Will not lack fair cargo of passengers.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-19
Filming sToCKs sTOREEs.
The Rare Fortune of Bankrupt Banko
[From the San francisco Chronicle.l

The Rare Fortune Of a Bankrupt Banko
[From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Among the most romantic and singular of
the results OF the mining excitement is that
In connection with the banking house of
john slime 81 Co., the announcement of
whose failure startled the community a few
months ago. At the time of the failure it
was found that the liabilities of the concern
amounted to $22500O, and to meet this
large amount 5heTe was naught but the pitt
full sum of about $4,000 in coin and lot of
mining stock, the value of which was then
so insignificant that some of the creditors
GOntemptuOusly referred to it as Odd
wild cat" But truth crushed to earth will
rise sgain, and so will mining stoeks-parti-
cularly on occasions like the present. and
that poor, despised mining stock has
wrought miracles in this case. A large pOr-
ton of the stock was Exchequer, which was
then worth about IS per share Pending
the settlement of the banks affairs, the
stocks were kept locked up, and behold the
results; On Monday, Exchequer was sold at
500 per share-iust twenty times the value
it possessed when the failure was an
nOunced. The other stocks of the bank have
appreciated in an equally astounding man
ner. and, in consequence, the affairs of the
broken bank have been lifted out of the
shadowy depths of poverty and placed high
in the radiant sunlight of financial prosper
ity. Last Saturday the cash in bank was
1857 200, and yesterday a further sum of
100000 was realized, making the total as
sets $467 900, and leaving S242, 900 to the
credit of the estate after paying all indebted
ness,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-19
The Connecticut Co.r,.z.

A special Washington dispatch to tho ST.
Louis Republican says:
- The coalition in Connecticut between tbs
democrats and Republicans, by which the
legislature g1 Of that State decided to-day to
re- Senator Ferry for six wears from
the fourth of March next, has excited verV
general comment here, and is looked upOn
t ~ tne supporters of Mr.. Greeley as one OF
Baltimore. While Mr.. Ferry has NOT onenIw
identified himself with the Liberal ReDub-
mean movement, his recent votes and
speeches show that he is heartily antagon-
ISClc to the extreme legislation which the
republican party continues to press in Con-
gress; To-day, on the news of his re cleo
uon being received in the Senate, he was
only congratulated by Messrs TrumbuU
and Schurz and other Liberal Republicans
The administration Republicans from that
State in Congress declare that the Comes
ticut coalition breaks up the caucus system
there, and turns the State over to the Den
Ocrats for the future.