The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-08-21

This game. simple as it is, is exciting
enough TO satisfy their natures, particul-
arly as they can win Or lose very large
sum of money in a day. At one hotel in
the upper part of the city, at which a
great many rich men board. the ladies
made a game in which each put in 500
each time. One lady won that day near
ly $4,000, which was lucky thing for
her, as she was in debt, and wanted it.
But how was it with the losers, who,
probably, we're also in debt and wanted
it likewise?
EMIGRATION.
Many good people have felt some
alarm at the vast number offoreign- born
citizens who, this season, have gone back
to their former homes supposing that
the panic and the consequent scarcity Of
labor had driven them back to Europe.
All these fears are groundiess. The tact
is the dnllness of trade has told terribly
upon the steamship lines, all of them
nave 6een running at loss. To get as
much business as possible, they all put
down the rates of passage to very
small sum to induce travel Thousands
upon thousands of we'll to-do Irish
men. Germans and Frenchmen have
taken advantage of the reduction to re-
visit their old ho mes, and that is all thero
is oft. They will all return in the fall
ana bring others with them, who will be
attracted hv what they say Of the ''iand
of the free" but more, by the evident
prosperity of those who return.
Emigration is not as brisk as in form
er years. for the simple reason that there
b,,% la FL gr,t
are coming every day, nevertheless. The
farm laborers Of England who are out Of
work In consequence ct the great strike,
are coming. Indeed, one hundred and
fifty OF them landed here last week, and
took the touble to see them. They are
generally good people. though lament
ably ignorant. They lived the life of
animais, almost, on the great estates that
held them, with no earthly opportunities
for development in any direction. One
Of them told me that his entire family,
consisting of himself and wife and eight
children, lived in cottage" Of two
rooms, in which there were no floors, the
entire family sleeping together IN one
room! In this mans family was Que
rather pretty girl OF eighteen, VINO every
year had to go away to work, living with
her feliow-laborers In precisely the same
way ! The condition Of things on those
estates may be imagined. The wages
paid TO laborers in this country seemed
TO them enormous, and they were anxious
TO get West and get at it,
Why" said one of them to me.
'osey say we'll get never less than four
stillin' day At that, | can earn q
honse for myself.
Some day that man will not only own
a house. but it will stand 10 the centre
of l60 acres of Kansas land.
OLEoMARGARINR
has gone up. You remember it. 1t was
process for making butter out Of grease.
For time it created sensation here.
Samples of butter made in this way were
shown, and they were good. Welp they
ought to be, for they were actually but
ter. The Inventor of the process kept
up the stir till he sold the patent for the
Pacific States to ve;dant Californian,
who did actually pay $4,000 down and
gave bis notes for $65. 900.
A company waa organized Ia San Fran
cisco, and $50, 600 worth Of stock was
actually disposed of, when the inventor
appeared and wanted the remaining S65,-
900. There was an explosion. The
process was tried and found to be entire
ly worthless, and the rum pus that ensued
was something terrific. The antecedents
of the inventor" were looked up. and it
vas discovered that he was an old spe.
cuator in this style of enterprise. and
that "Oloemargarine'' was2neither his
FIRST or his worst swindle. Exit grease
butter. The dariesare reinstated.
BUSINESS
is picking up all the time. and the great
city begins to bave lively appearance.
Next month things will move still better.
The country merchants are arriving by
carloads, aud there is trade doing. Let