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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-01-11
INSURANCE COMPANIES

Some weeks ago mentioned the fact that the
Hon. Llywelyn Breese, Secretary of tate, visited
this city and personally Inspected the books and pa
pers of the Milwaukee Mechanics, Mutual Insurance
Company, invitation of the officers of the nstitr-
tion The Secretary expressed himself satisfied with
the manner in which the business of the Company is
conducted, and since then has tho folio wing
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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-01-11
DRINKING WATER,


five could establish the habit of drink
ing water freely In the morning, soon af
ter rising, commencing with small guam
ties, increasing gradually as We learn to
relish it, until the chief portion taken
during thesday is before breakfast, it will
promote the health to much greater
extent than it ordinarily does, eradicate
disease from the system, and become a
most decided luxury in time.
TOBACCO.
1t is stated that tobacco in any form
may be used with great advantage against
snakes of all kinds. By pouring decoc-
ton of it in suspected places, they are
driven away, and this fact is known to
both natives of Hindostan and to those
of North and South America. IF it can
be administered to them it is certain
| death.
Boil six potatoes, peal and mash Add
to the mattera good handful of hops.
Boil thoroughly; strain the matter; stir
in -four AMI the potatoes; add one table
spoonful of sugar, one of salt and one Of
ginger ( in warm place until ii
ferments.
OF all applications for burn. there
are few equal to simple covering o.
common wheat -four. THIS is always al
hand, and while it requires no skill ii
using. produces most astonishing effects
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10

We have, on several occasions, de-
manded of Hon. Joseph G. Wilson,
the publication of that otiser platform
upon which he is making his canvass
for Congress, and which was gwen as
q private pledge to the Railroad King,
by which the support of the latter
was secured. But Wilson persists in
his silence, and the only platform he
holds out is the one made by his party
in the Convention which nominated
him. What is the nature of that pri-
vate pledge ? In the name of the
public we demand to know. Has he
made private pledge to the Railroad
King, inconsistent with the published
platform OF his party? Aud yet, If
the two are not inconsistent, why is
the one kept so profound a secret?-
The Railroad King don't allow any
Republican TO be candidate aud ge,
his support, unless that candidate SUBJ
scribes to certain conditions which
the King prescribes. Wilson, we are
informed on good authority, has made
certain pledges, in private commu-
cation to the King; and the whole
public is interested to know what the
pledges are. Let us have them. II
is not allowed for a candidate to play
this double game. Out with it Let
us have both platforms Herald.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10
A DYING NATION.

The accounts of the famine in Per-
STA, which continue to arrive in great
er detail. bid fair to treat the world
to the spectacle of a calamity the like
which has not been Witnessed in his
toric times, at least-tfie sudden ex-
tinction Of a nation by want of food.
This has really been the fate of the
great states which once filed the val
ley of the Euphrates, and it is fate
which has for centuries been threaten
ing some modern States-Spain, for
instance. Man has stripped the soil
of trees; the absence of trees brought
droughts; droughts have slowly di-
minished the productive powers of
the ground, and finally destroyed
them-tbe population, in the mean
time, dwindIing in numbers and vitali-
ty. Spain had forty millions of peo-
pie in the time of the Romans and
flowed with milk and honey; it is
now an arid region, only half of it un-
der cultivation, with only sixteen
millions of inhabitants, and, if mod
ern science had not come to its aid,
would probably go the way of Baby
lon.
Persia was ope of the most power
ful states of antiquity, and even in the
fourteenth century was able to sup
port the army OF Tamerlane, who
marched without commissarit or bag
gage, during the bloody contest. IS
is now almost wilderness, with a
population of two millions-about
half OF them nomsds. which is rapidly
perishing from famine brought on by
three years drought. The worst OF
it is, that, owing to the absence OF
either common roads or railroads, it
seems to be impossible for the chaTi-
ty of the rest of the world to reach
the sufferers. so that there is really
strong prospect of the total dcpopula-
ton of the country.
The moral of this horrible story is
look after your trees.-Neso York
Nation.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10

Still another of the carpet bag
Governors who have been engaged in
robbing the South las come to grief,
the victim in this case being Harri-
son Reed, of Florida. The Legisla-
ture of that State, it is said, voted
unanimously to impeach Gov. Reed.
on the recommendation of the Rail-
way Committee, for being concerned
in gross frauds in connection with
the issuing of bonds for the construc-
ton of railroads-a favorite scheme
of plunder with the carpet-bag gen.
try. There is a long story relating
to the particular outrage which has
brought Gov. Reed into difficulty
As fur back as 1868, so the tale runs,
one Swetson joined with Gov. Bull
lock, who lately decamped from
Georgia, in projecting railroad in
North Carolina. For the construc-
ton of this road the Legislature of
that State, under pressure from an
other Governor, who subsequently
was impeached and deposed from of
fee, authorized the issue of $1,000
900 in bonds. Swetson carried the
bonds North, raised $500 900 on
them. and leaving the new railroad
to take care of itself, ran off with his
plunder to Florida. There he fell
into the hands of shrewder Iascals
than himself, and was stripped of the
most of his booty; whereupon, with
the assistance of Gov. Reed, he re-
peated the game which had been so
successful in North Carolina, and the
Legislature was induced to issue
So 900 900 in bonds for building a
certain railroad in Florida. OF this
sum S125 900 was expended on the
railroad, while the remainder went
into the pockets of Swetson and his
confederates. Thus two States were
made to pay S11 ,S75 900 in order to
get $125, 900 expended on single
railroad in one of them. This is q
fair example of the way in which af-
fairs have been conducted in tine
South wherever the carpet-baggers
have held the power, and the fact
that these gentlemen are almost
unanimously in favor of the re-elec-
ton of Gen. Grant will not be con-
sidered strange when it is remember.
ed that it is mainly owing to the sup
port they have received from the Ad.
ministration that they have been en-
abled until quite recently to pursue
their iniquitous schemes with impu'
nity
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10
BRIBERY AND NEPOTISM.

Were there no more serious charges
which could be truthiully alleged
against Grant, as the Chief Magistrate
OF great people, there are two we'll
founded and beyond successful con-
tradiction, which should utterly con-
demn him in public estimation as to-
tally unfit for the high place which
he now disgraces, namely: bribery
aud nepotism. These fraiities, OF an
originally weak moral character, have
brought him under the ban OF popular
contempt, and even the most unscrnp-
ulous aud resolute Of his Radical fol-
lowers have admitted the ayariclous-
ness OF the man, and the potency OF
the fellow feeling which causes him
10 be so wondrous kind towards his
relatives in the distribution OF the
peoples money.
IL il true that some Of his organs
have had the andacity to declare that
"the great smoker" has accepted no
presents, since he came into office,
other than such as were Legitimate and
usual to the occupant of his exalted
place. While we shall not controvert
we may doubt the validity OF such as
sertion. But "the question is not" as
Radical journal remarks, whether
these presents were given since he
was inaugurated, but whether they
were given because he was about to
be inaugurated, and whittier he has or
has not nominated or appointed tho
doners in numerous instances, TO i'm
portant public Offices" That he has
done SO, in innumerable instances, his
boldest defender will hardly deny;-
and that be has SO acted, has wofully
degraded the digniiied and almost
sacred position, III the public regard
in former times, which he occupies.
That the present incumbent of the
Presidential Office has used the pre-
negatives of his high place to provide
lucrative sinccures, in different de-
partments of the Government, for his
immediate family, and even its most
distant connections, is an accusation
which can be more certainly sustained
than that he has been influenced by
bribes in his official action. The long
list has been repeatedly published III
the journals of the day. nor has any
successful attempt been made to show
that any Of the individuals mentioned
were possessed OF merit, sufficient TO
entitle them to be the recipients OF
profitable appointments from the Pres
ident, outside of their relationship to
him. lie has continually been gov
erned in this bestowal of his patronage
by the Scriptural injunction, He that
prosideth not for his own household
is worse than heathen." While We
fully indorse the good sense OF the
proposition, so far as the individual
Is concerned, we submit that il should
not he the beacon-light by which the
daily conduct OF the President of the
United States is gnided.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10

anything. The grating and the neck
cloth told the story Of his fate as
plainly as though we had seen the
final struggle.
In my minds eye I saw tho poor
fellow as the ship moved rapidly from
him; the first bewilderment of his tall;
then his horror and despair, as he
realized his condition; the gleam of
hope Us he caught the grating and
heard the loud tones OF command as
the ship rounded to; then the long,
long agony of hopes blasted and, the
final despairing cry to his Maker, as
"Environed with wilderness of sea-
he sank to rise no more.
Well, he had gone, and there was
no help for it-men must die at some
time or other
So reused me from my sad reverie
and gave the order to step the masts
and get the sails ready to hoist, when,
as the ioresail was hoisted. | heard
one of the men cry, There's the ship,
sir" and, sure enough, there she was,
dim speck to leeward in the south
west, but rapidly growing larger as
she sped onward toward us under
steam.
We kept near the spot where the
grating had been picked up, and in
about two hours were all on board
again and my tale told.
But the captain still clung TO the
idea that Seavy might have got hold
of the life buoy, and so we cruised all
that day looking for it-sharp look.
outs with glasses aloft, but We saw
nothing more, and, when the sun
went down, the "old man" reluctantly
gave the order 10 steer the course
again.
"IIe might have kuowed," said old
Maui, that ere bird was Bills speer.
it,
And, rs we shaped our homeward
course and the watch ran away with
the stun's halyards, and the ship
blowed away toward her port, had
food for reflection as / thought OF
poor Bill and wondered ii the good
people in their cozy homes on shore
realized how much of the tragic is in
volved in that brief notice which they
so frequently see III the marine col
umn of their newspapers, as they sip
their coffee at breakfast before Il suug
iire-"Lost at Sea"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10
MARK TWAIN ON HORSE
BACK.

Everybody rode horseback in that
town. I never saw such magnificent
horsemanship as that displayed in
Carson streets every day, and did
envy them, though was not much
OF q horseman. But / had soon
learned to tell horse from q COW,
and was burning with impatience to
learn more. l was determined to
have horse aud ride myself. Whilst
this thought was ranking in my
mind, the auctioneer came securing
through the plaza on black beast,
that was bumped, and like a
dromedary, and fearfully homely.
He was going at Twenty, twenty
two dollars, for horse, saddle and
bride"
A man standing near me-whom l
didn't know, but who turned out to
be the auctioDeer's brother-noticed
the wistful look in my eye, and re-
marked that that WAS remarkable
horse to be going at such price, let
alone the saddle and bride. I said
l had half notion TO bid. "Now,"
he says, II know that horse. know
him we'll. You might think he is an
American horse. but he is not any
thing Of the kind. He's Mexican
plug" but there was something else
about that mans way of saying it,
that made me Just determine that I
would own genuine Mexican plug
if it took every cent that I had.
And said, HAS he any other adyan.
tages?" He hooked his forefnger il
the pocket of my army shirt and led
me to one side. "Sh!' don't say a
word! He can out-buck any horse
in America; he can out-buck any
horse in the world" Just then the
auctioneer came along. "Twenty-
four, twenty-four dollars for the
horse, saddle and bridle." 1 said,
"Twenty-seyenw "Soldw
took the genuine plug, paid for
him, put him in livery stable, let
him get something to eat and get
rested, and then in the afternoon /
brought him out in the plaza, and
some of the citizens held him by the
head and others held him down to
the earth by the tail, and I got on
him. And as soon as these people
let go he put all his feet together in
bunch. let his back sag down, and
then he arched it up suddenly, and
shot me one hundred and eighty
yards; and I came down again,
straight down, and lighted in the
saddle, and went up again. And
when / came down the next time
lit on his neck and seized him, and
slid back into the saddle, and held
on. Then he raised straight up in
the air, on his hind feet, and just
stepped around like a member of
Congress; and then he went up the
other way. and just walked around
on his hands, just as a school boy
would. Then he came down on all
fours again, with the same old pro-
cess of shooting me up in the air.
and the third time went mp I heard
a man say, "Oh. don't he buckl'
So that was "bucking" was very
glad to know it. Not that I was en-
joying it; bit then I had been taking
general sort of interest in it, and
had naturally desired to know what
the name of it was. And whilst
was up somebody hit the horse a
whack with strap, and when I got
down again the genuine bucker was
gone.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10

FIsK's First MISTAKE. Fisk used
to often tell about his first mistake
in life. Said the Colonel: "When
/ was little boy on the Vermont
farm. my father took me up to the
stable one day, where row of cows
stood in the stable"
Said he, "James, the stable win
dow is pretty high for boy, but do
you think YOU could take this shovel
and clean out the stable?"
II don't know. pop" said James,
II never have done it. -
"Well, my boy, if you will do il
this morning, I'll give you this
bright silver dollar" said his father,
patting him on the head. while he
held the silver dollar before his eyes.
"Good. James, 'I'lltry, and
away he went to work. He tugged,
and pulled, and lifted. and puffed.
and finally it was done, and his faith
er gave him the bright silver dollar,
saying:
ssThat's right, James, you did it
splendidly: and now I find you can
do it so nicely. I shall have you do
it every morning this winter"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10
WHY SOME ARE POOR.

Cream is allowed to mold and
spoil.
Silver spoons are used to scrape
kettles.
The scrubbing- brush is left in the
water.
Bones are burned tha. would make
soup.
Nice-handled knives are thrown in
to hot water.
Brooms are never hung up, and
soon are spoiled.
Dish-cloths are thrown where mice
can destroy them.
Tubs and barrels are left in the
sun to dry and fall apart.
Clothes are left on the line to whip
to pieces in the wind.
Pie-crust is left to sour instead of
making few tarts for tea.
Vegetables are thrown away that
would warm for breakfast.
Dried fruit is not taken care of in
season, and becomes wormv.
Bits of meat are thrown out that
would make hashed meat or hash.
The cork is left out of the molas-
ses jug. and the flies take possession.
Pork spoils for want of salt, and
beef because the brine wants scald-
ing.
Coffee. tea, pepper and spices are
left to stand open and lose their
strength.
Potatoes in tie cellar grow, and
the sprouts are not removed until
they become useless.
The bread is sifted in wasteful
manner, and the bread pan left with
the dough sticking to it.
Vinegar is drawn in tin basin,
and allowed to stand till both basin
and vinegar are spoiled.
Cold puddings are considered good
for nothing, when often they can be
steamed for next day.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10

A CURIOUS WILL Casa con-
tested will case was on trial last week
in Stockton, which created considera-
BILE public interest Eliza Barry, alias
Lizzy Owens, woman who for years
had been keeping house of prostitu-
tion in Stockton, died in that city last
October, leaving property amounting
to about $4,000, and bequeathed it
all to David Porter, a wealthy liquor
merchant of this city. Julia and
Eliza Grady, nieces of the deceased,
instituted proceedings to contest the
will, on the ground that undue in
fiuence had been used Hall Meal
lister appeared for contestants. and
George d Loughborough and Judge
Lake for the proponent. The trial
developed no evidence of undue in
fiuence; but still, owing to the fact
that public sympathy was strongly in
favor of the nieces, the Issue was con-
sidered doubtful. A compromise
was effected. upon which the meces
withdrew their contest. The case
was submitted to the jury last Satur.
day, and verdict was rendered Tor.
Porter. Loughborough, his attorney,
Immediately arose and stated in court
that Porter had just executed deed
to the young ladies for all the proper
ty, deducting the expenses of the
contest. Porter states that he had no
desire from the first to retain the
property, and would have yielded to
the young ladies without contest had
they not charged him with using un-
due influence, and had he not been
fearful that they, having obtained the
property, would sue him for further
amount. under the plea that he had
not given them their whole rights
San Francisco Bulletin
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10
RECKLESS SPENDING OF THE
PEOPLES MONEY.

The Elmira, n. Y, Gazette gives
the following explanation of Secretary
Boutwell's manner of paying Govern
ment bonds, which is worthy the pro-
found consideration of every citizen,
be he Democrat or Republican:
On page 196, Financial Report,
1870, there is tabular statement
showing the whole amount of bonds
purchased by Secretary Boutwell,
from July l, 1869, to July l, 1871,
from which it appears that the amount
purchased was Sl23, ,492, $50, Tor which
he paid Sl41.5J3,29S 10.
The amount which the Government
owed was the face of the bonds, and
the amount paid exceeded the amount
owed just SlS.076,l9S 10.
Thus in 1870 nearly one-third of the
amount expended by the Democrats
in 1860, for all purposes, was, by the
Secretary of the Treasury, in violation
of law, donated TO bondholders. most
of whom are European capitalists,
who obtained the bonds at less than
fifty cents on the dollar.
1t would ordinarily be supposed
that the Government, having bought
in one year S123,420, 100 of its own
bonds, would at the end of the year
be that much less in debt, but by re-
ferring to the first page OF the Secre-
tary's report it will be seen that the
debt was reduced in that year only
S101 ,601,9l6 SO.
The question now presented is, what
became of the S22,000,000 difference
If these bonds have not been cancelled,
who got them? Ii they have been can
celed why was not the debt reduced one
hundred and twenty-three millions in
stead one hundred and one millions!
On page 169 of the finance report
it is stated that $123,O0O,0o0 of bonds
cost nearly s142,000,000. Now if by
Republican financiering it costs $142,-
000,0UO to pay l01,000,00O of the
debt, is it not clear that the slower
the debt is paid the better it will be for
the country2 Why anticipate the
payment at such cost, and drain the
country of the money it so much
needs at home, to send to Europe to
to buy bonds not yet due?
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10
CHARTY.-That charity is a virtue

CHARITY. That charity is virtue
which still survives, is abnndantly
proven by the manner in which near
ly oil the cities of the United States,
and many of the cities of Europe.
have contributed to the relief of Chi
cago. In some instances the contri-
buttons hare amounted to almost q
million of dollars; while, in many,
they are estimated by the hundreds
of thousands. Preachers and lay
men have become SO accustomed to
abusing the world, or the people
which composes it, that an outsider
would have fancied that such q thing
as christian charity was stranger to
our day and generation. But occa-
sion has furnished most excellent
proof that one-half the world does
not willingly let the other half suffer.
Chicago has great need to be grate-
full that charity is not yet dead.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10
ALBANY BATH HOUSE!

j. fully inform the citizens of Albany and vi
enity that be has taken charge of this Establish
Pasnt, and, By keeping clean rooms and paying
strict attention to business, expects to suit all
those who may favor him with their patronage.
Having heretofore carried on nothing but
First-clsss Hair Dressing Saloons,
be expects to give entire satisfaction to all.
9- Children and Ladies' Hair neatly cut
and shampooed. JOSEPH WEBER.
v3n33tf.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10

A Western editor speaks of a rival
as smean enough to steal swill from
q blind hog. The rival retorts BY
saying: He knows be lies; never
stole his swill.' =
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10

A Methodist minister in Minnesota,
having obtained contributions in lnm-
ber, is erecting a commodious parson-
age with his own hands.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10

A man who sat upon q paper OF
carpet nails said the reminded hin
ct the income tax.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10

TsAsH PAID FOR WHEAT. OATS, PORK
IL Butter snd Eggs by WHEELER
AT SIEDn.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10

The DEMOCRAT until after the cleo
ton for fifty cents.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10

An ungrammatical Judge is apt 10
pass az incorrect sentence.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10

Knight Of the Bath Saturday.