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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-29
A NUISANCE AND A FRAUD.

Reform policy WAS made to yield to
the dictation of the radical Senate eau
Gus which declared the Potter bill should
become law. Sothe Potter bill viii be-
come a law. The Potter act violates in
all its terms the form of railroad legis-
lation which the Reform party pledged
to the people. IT is, SO far as it creates
control over the railroads, unconscion-
able, impracticable, a nuisance and a
fraud.
The NeaUs will not be party to any
of the tricks OF any of the demagogues
who propose to run Potter into Sawyer's s
seat IN Congress, by praising OF comte-
nancing the 1nonstrosities Of the asinine
Potter railroad law.
From the News, of May 21st.
It is the position, early assumed by
the Neacs, that the rates fixed by the
Potter act are such that the railways
cannot run their trains under it without
loss-and therefore, the Potter act does
not come within the scope of the admit
ted power Of the State to regulate rail
| roads and limit tolls and rates of trans
portation. 1his IS also the opinion of DR..
Wioht, and of the best thinkers on the
subject.
From the News, May 22d.
!
| as the Potter act, complete system of
improvements would have been com
menced. Upon all these works
| the palsing hand of the Potter act was
laid prostrating industry, containing the
closed gates against new channels of
trade and stopped our city and the en-
tire State in their forward career of pro-
| oress. So much for the Potter act.
THE WORK OF THE RADICALS.
From the News. June 21st.
As TO the disastrous blight which the
asinine Potter railroad act has brought
upon all commercial, manufacturing in
dustrial interests of the State, the only
difference between us is, we charge up
the Potter act against the radical regency
senatorial caucus during lie session of
the Legislature. We charge that
it is a radical Republican regency meas
ure.
WIPE IT OUT LIKE THE GRAHAM Law.
From the News. June 21st.
We tell these good friends, that when
the Potter law is swept into the corner
where the Graham law and other such
rubbish is piled up, and when our par
ty has gathered strength ard vitality
from that act, as it gathered strength in
the repeal of the Graham law, then the
course of the Neacs ON the question,
viii be abundantly vindicated, as its
vindicated.
From the Milwaukee News, May 23d.
We repeat what we have before said
that the Potter statute was conceived In
sin and born in republican iniquity-
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CHARLES FkOE'EEe.


If Gshment, Sth street. near south end OF Bridge
The tailoring department is complete, and contains
o large assortment of fashionable clothes and Gents
furnishing goods constantly hand. Please call
and examine before purchasing elsewhere. 1921
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E2. IA. F.GEs.E, IN. I'D.

homeopathic Physician, SgIrgeOn
b and Acconcheur late resident Physician at the
Nahrremann Hospital, Checago, has permanently To-
Gated at Manitowoc Office in Platts Building, Cor
uer York and Ninth Streets.
<, Horne. TO A Nj.
ofsA"h iio0'- to 2 aud to ?. n
Diseases of the eye and treated
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FRED SEEGER.

OFFERS TO his many friends and the
Ny public generally, choice selection OF Fresh
Meats Salt Pork and Beef, Smoked Beef and Hams,
Shoulders Sausages, Tallow and Lard at the lowest
ratas Market on Comm ercial Street. ely
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ED. MAERKLIN,

nrug-isf and Apothecsry. sthStreet
j opposite the Post Office. Is now fully provided
with a complete selection of fresh Drugs aud Medi-
sere. and offers his services especially TO the PEYsI
CLANS of this vllsge and county for the carsfI end
of their prescriptions 49,
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s. g.s.y.ssEERsON,

NYANVFACFUKEEE RnU IbeHIer n
I$s Boots Shoes Leather, &C., &c. Shop on Buffalo
street ue,; the corner of Eighth. Repairing neatly
and promptly executed
MsnitoWoc September 30, 1865.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-29

voTE early, and vote the straight
ticket.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-29
THE POTTER LAW.
LET FARMERS, CHANGERS AND
THE INDUSTRIAL GLASS READ.
The Reformers Opposed to Genuine Re-
form.
Read What Their Chief Organ, the Milwaukee
News. says Of the Noble Potter Law.
From the Milwaukee News, April Ith.
uEpIr2IIGAM NE As1 Ire.

From the Milwaukee News. April 7th.
REPUBLICAN, MEASURE.
The law had its origia, IN u Repubh-
can Senate, and from Republtca Sen
tor, and its ACCEPTANCE or nothing was
forced by the body in which it orlg7na-
ted.
The Neus held from the start that
last winter we were not get ready for pos
tive railroad legislation of any kind.
DELUsIoN AND SNARE.
From the Milwaukee News, April 18th.
The Railroads believe the Potter Law
to be fatal to their existence, and they
believe it to be unconstitutional. They
therefore propose to disobey it's provis-
ions, risk its penalties and take their
chances N the courts. Now, so far
from this being incendiary and revolu-
tionary, is it not the usual course under
such circumstances How else are ques-
tions to be raised and gotten into courts
and settled. If to sue under this
| ac5 is .smockery of right of action"
and is ''sure to cost the party prosecu
ting, many hundred times more than he
could ever recover" then we admit that
the Potter law is delusioa, snare and
hambug. In speaking of the course Of
the roads, the Neaos gays editorially !:
s'Tnere is nothing in this revolutionary,
nothing to infame thepubic mind
The Neaos copies approvingly this !:
"a gentleman representing a new rail
road company, called on prominent
railway man in New York to solicit CO.
| operation. The reply was Just 0hat
might hare been ecpecteG. ono sir, we
| can't think of touching Wisconsin rail
way. Your law won't let us.
| THE INDUSTRIOUS POTTER RAILROAD LAW.
From the Milwaukee News, May 5th.
| We think that every man OF 1ntelh-
gence admits that the Potter law is an
egregious bIunder-that the railroads
cannot be operated under it without a
| loss-that the demagoguesan politicians
by whom it was put into the body OF
our laws, inflicted blow alike upon the
railroads and upon the business interests
of QUIZ State, from which it will take a
long time to recover. x The crea-
lures to whom the State is indebted for
an unconscionable and unjust law, SO
far as they are responsible through their
iui ell i,ro.a1so,1 1o4aesllO to TO held accOunta
ble for the loss, damage and ruin which
may follow their Ill advised act.
THE REFORM LEADERS OPINION.
Here is DR.. O. ". Wight, the great
Reform leaders opinion ''The Potter
bill WAS unquesdonably designed to de
feat the ends of railway Legislation. Ii
its inventors should finally be hoisted with
their own petard, the mourners would
be few"
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THE TRIBUNE.
yro MILLER RD. soacHERDT.
MILLER & BORCHERDT, Pubs.
OFFICE, Corner York and Main Sts.

TERMS, $500 PER YEAR
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CE4.HS, II. REUTER-
DGIJCE JUSTICE AND NOTARY.
public Office, corner Jay and Eighth Streets,
Sszrfh SIDE. ManltoWoc, WIS. nol-!o
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H. ssyF.T0T.EK. .M. ED.

Offers his services to tn, p1hlic. Office J. E.
EiunAb Bro. store of Buffalo and 3th streets
SmayI4
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R. CD.4AEEE', IF. I'D.

ErEE EEYSSrCEkN and SureaSn1I, teiass no e So ~@
sxrv TIE people OF ble City
.a County of Manitowoc. Office over j. a. Koehler's
Esore- Residence and office. Richards new Brick
Block up stairs. l3-1
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In opening this exclusive glass and crockery bu=-
mess meet want long felt among the peope OF
Manitowoc. ay assortment is complete in tye-y
particular. The foreign goods my are OF ~
best and as they are imported by myself can Sell
this class Of goods cheaper than any other hou in
te city, who have had to pay the importers pi offs
invite the public TO examine my stock, and will
guarantee to give satisfaction. Give me a call.
WHITES NEW BLOCK Sth ST.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
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DIR ES- H.AKETG.

uyRs. FL PHILLIPS has removed to North Sth st
ftf between Buffalo and Chicago street. where ell
orders in her line will be promptly and satisfactorily
sTs.utad 17june74
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-10
The Penalty Paris Pays for lis Pleasures.
From the Chica o Tribune ]

A recent paper in the Rerue des Deur
Mondes, by NJ. Maxine du Camp, brings out
startling facts relative to births, marriages
and deaths in Paris. The last census of the
city was made in 1872, and the whole popu-
lation at that time was 1851 ,792, of which
number scarcely One-tbird were to the
manor born. The Parisians proper counted
GAP, us, while 1,O3l ,S65 We're from the prov
inces, and III 200 strangers to the Republic.
The figures given in regard to the diminu
ton of births are very striking. In 1868, it
was shown before the Academy of Medicine,
that in five years the population of France
had increased only 80 in 10000; in 1872 this
small portion was still further diminished
there being only 16 in 10000. In Paris,
from 1868 to 1869, the birth-rate was 1928,
about 324 to every 10000 people, while in
1871 only 81 ,410 births were registered.
AS to marriages NJ. Du Camp says: "The
union of two people, young, healthy and in
tellgent is one of the rarest things to be
met with in Paris.' and he urges this as the
reason why births are in such small proper
ton to marriages, and young life is so bru
tally destroyed. With regard to the death
rate in Paris. NJ Du Camp says:
From 1865 to 1869 the deaths were as s31 an
nually. In 1870 there We're 5,7S2 deaths,
but between 1869 and 1872 what exact num-
Der of people in Paris died there never will
be known, save that it occurred in vast pro-
portions. 1t seems certain that the obituary
record during these years was greater than
during the cholera season of 1882. In
August 1879, the deaths for the month in
Paris were 4,942, about the normal figure
but in September it increased to 5,222 in
October it was ,543, and in November had
swollen to 1885. In the year 1870 Paris
lost by death the fearful number of 3.563.
The capital was suffering then from cold
and hunger, but in the beginning of 1871
matters were even worse.
Think of it! In January the record says
1928 people died in Paris; then the city
fell. and in February there was decrease
of 5000 deaths 1871 was, however, a sad
year for human life, as, from war and pesti-
lence, the deaths amounted to 5000. 1t is
appalling to sum the mortality counts Of
those two dreadful years-1S7O and ISL
which foot up 16O, 1923. The deaths caused
by Prussian shot and sEell, the blood and
iron regime" were insignificant, scarcely
worth counting only some 6O93 in all.
When we divide this fearful holocaust into
its proportion of men and women, we find
that of the 10000 who persisted in Paris
10, 1897 We're women.
Thus does Paris pay the penalty of its
gayety, it's folly and its vice. 1t bodies i'll for
a republic which shows such record of in
fanticide, of badly assorted marriages and
fearful death rates. 1t is not difficult to
foresee where a republic with constantly
di minishing population must end
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According to the Ocala Banner, in I'll

According to the Ocala Banner, in the
early history of Florida oranges and lemons
were very scarce, and it was generally
believed that the climate was wholly I'M
adapted to their production. Mr. E. j. Har-
ris was one, however, who differed from the
generally received opinion on this subject (;
and, accidentally coming into the possession
Of a small, unpromlsng lemon Seeding, he
set it out on his place on Lake Harris, sim
ply as ali experiment. The place was soon
afterwards abandoned, and this twig had to
struggle for existence among ranker
growth of weeds and brambes. After the
war this place was reoccupied and it was
found that this neglected and unpromising
twig had developed into tree, and it now
Yields an annual crop Of seven thousand
lemons. 1t is at this season literally
weighted down with fruit, and is the won
der OF every traveller to this lake. The fruit
is not of the best variety, but the tree has
acted well its part; it has exploded the
false ideas of those times and is living
argument that lemons can be grown in
Florida.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-10
The Stupidity of Bees.
From the Chicago Tribue.l

The "little busy bee" is fool. SO says
Sir John Lubbock. This crushing blow to
the bette NOR of childhood will be hailed with
universal joy. The ugly insect has buzzed
around the ears of lazy people, and stung
them into working when they didn't want
to- on false pretenses. To be sure, the crea-
ture labors, but it's intelligence, it's high
moral one-all the virtues commonly at
tributed to it, save industry, are non-exist-
ent. 1t is but stupid brute. despite its
hexagon cells despi' e it's boosted ingenuity,
despite Linnaus and DR.. Watts put together.
Sir John Lubbock has tested the bee intel
lect, and has found it wanting He entirely
rejects the idea that they communicate quite
complex ideas to each other. He cOmbats
the belief that they are shrewd. He has
enticed bees into his parlOr, and has there,
by his experiments, destroyed their reputa-
ton as thoroughly as the spider did the fly.
First he put some honey in the room near
an open window. Eight bees were brought
to it, one after another. Each loaded itself
and flew away. Not one had sense enough
to come back. Sir John afterwards placed
a hive of bees in the room, between the
open window and the honey. The mair en-
trance was toward the window, but he cut
a smaller one at the back of the hive, by the
honey. Very few bees came out of this
back door, and nearly all of those which did
so flew to the window, not finding the
sweets at all. The few which did find the
honey worked steadily to get into the hive,
but did not communicate their discovery to
the others. Either they could not, or else
they were Unfortunately selfish. In either
event their efficiency as moral mentors is
sadly impaired. Perhaps the most striking
proof of the semi-idiocy of the average bee
is the conduct of one of the tribe in bell
glass.
The glass was eighteen inches long, with
a mouth of six and half inches in diane
ter The closed end was turned towards
the window. The bee inside buzzed about
for an hour in the attempt to get out, but
kept always at the end by the light, quite
unable to find the easy egress at the other.
1t was finally released, in despair and dis
gust. Sir John suggests, i'll view of this
display Of stupidity, that the bees which
sometimes buzz so distractingly about our
rooms are not doing it for fun, but because
they have lost their way and are roaming in
helpless search for it, If these journeys are
really as distasteful to them as to us, their
exasrerating conduct loses it's last excuse.
On these and other experiments the iuvesti
gator grounds his theory. He will find few
to say him nay. 1t is joy to know that
the busy bee is really Zany.
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Unemployed Ministers.
TROY IN. W Times.]

Now that Wiswall is ont of employment
he will form part of that large body OF
idle clergy which is always found in this
city. How large that body may be is not
easily estimated, but you find its members
almost everywhere. They are at board
ing houses, libraries, religious meetings, aud
above all at newspaper offices, where they
seek employment in the use of the pen OF
voice. Most religious papers have list OF
such men, who are ready t, supply pulpits
at a days notice. and glad enough to get
the opportunity. They bore the established
pastors for assistance in getting appoint
ments, and one of the latter made the re-
mark, "They seem to think l keep an
intelligence Office for vacant churches
This class is also ready to serve in a
subordinate clerical capacity being even
willing to become city mi sionares, a
work for which they are untitled, but their
cry of distress often procures such an APP
pointment Hence the constant danger OF
filling up the ecclesiastical and benevolent
organizations with clerical "sticks.' Many
of these men attempted teaching, profes
sion which is crowded, and hence poorly
paid. They come from all quarters, and,
besides our own supply; there a large num-
bers from Great Britain of those who have
heard of the success of the distinguished
foreign ministers. The life insurance agency
department has it's share of this class, and
some turn book agents and even house
agents. Some find that they mistook their
calling when they began preaching. and
work after a while into something more
facile and natural 1t is painful to con-
template this large and generally helpless
class which combines refinement and
poverty, and with little hope of ameliora-
tion-but they are an inevitable feature
here.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-10

Ii Is one OF the sweetest and most consol-
ing rehectlons OF the opening season of buds
and flowers, when the brooks shall ha ~
leased from their icy chains and there il q
ialr promise OF the gentle lambs skipping
from rock to rock and thistle to thistle. thai
the nights are rapidly growing briefer and
the IRON rod of the oppressive gasman has
been broken at the fountain to some extent
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THIS NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN, SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1874.

minus one ear, and now and then, when in
a confidential mood, lie would groan
lost my other ear in pistol fight thirty
years ago. | had quarreled with a man
about the Pritchard indemnity case, then
the leading topic of the hour. Bat who re-
members the Prtchard indemnity now, and
what good has the loss of my ear done me g'
This man might have hunted i'll couples
with a Roman noble, of whom Benedict
XIV tells US, and who received a death
wound after a literary dispute in which he
championed Ariosto against Tasso. at is
hard to die for Ariosto," he moaned, in his
parting breath, for l have never read a
line Of his"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-10

The New York Times, the rampant organ
of the Administration, would like to rally
to the support of the Washington Ring
but it can't do it. This is the best that it
can do:
"The investigation into the improve
ments carried out at Washington does not
prove anything against Mr.. Henry Cooke,
in our opinion; but it shows that under
his successor there has been great deal of
iobbery going on in reference to contracts.
In these days, wherever large contracts are
to be given out. there seems to be more or
less of fraud as an inevitable part of the
transaction. 1t is unfortunate for the Ad-
mnistration that newspaper proprietor
who boasts Of confidential relations with
the White House should have been a con-
spicuous party to some of the worst of
these frauds"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-10

Washington Jenkins bursts out in th;s
extraordinary manner in regard to Mrs.
segnin: GAN hail to the Queen of Central
tos take your scepter and wear your rubv-
studded diadem. Parepa herself will ioin
rom the skies In the chorus of your corona
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-10

"There,' says an old topper, see what all
this temperance crusade praying has done ;
first, busted the Lindell Hotel tank and
liked to drowned st. Louis aud now over
flowed the whole South with water. If the
women keep on, we'll have another l,."i.
S.ze. n--aArgus.
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REMARKABLE RELIGIOUS FRENZY.-A sin
gular mania has broken out among the
cOlored people of this city. Religious re-
vivals Of the most exciting character have
been going en- in the churches Ior some time
past, and the eolored people generally have
become so confused that in many eases
their condition actually approaches that of
positive lnnacy. The same disorder broke
ont in Kentucky a few years ago, and was
called by the medical men "the Kentucky
jerks That if is a disease is very sure.
Yesterday morning the streets in the
upper portion of the city We're resonant
with shouts, groans and mumblcd prayers
About midday, in front of the Harrison
street colored school, a scene took place
which detes description. Perhaps one hun
dred children, from eight to fifteen years of
age, were mingled in a mass of dancing,
bowling hEmanity-all repeating the same
formula, all making the same wild gestures,
all using the same tone OF voice. Bedlam
was holding a high carnival of maniacs,
and discipline was lost in chaotic frenzy.
The gddy mass snrged hither and you,
while teachers vainly commanded entreat-
ed and implored the enthused children to
come to their studies, but they might as
well have talked to the wild waves of the
sea when the storm king held his court.
Higher and higher rose the tumult, till
physical exhaustion brought relief alike to
the perpleXed teacher and wearied child.
We feel real anxiety concerning the result
of this extraordinary halucination in oui
city. Without doubt, many will become
raving maniacs, while the mental power of
hundreds will be injured for life. Expostu-
lation is thrown away, and there seems to
he no remedy but to wait until the storm
exhausts itself
In many respects the disease resembles the
terrible visitation which came over Naples
in thesseventeenth century, when ST. Vitas
or st. Johns dance took the form OF an cpl
demic and spread over the entire city.
Petersburg (Va) News.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-10

BANK OF FRANCE-Mons. Rouland, chief
actuary Of the s. Banque de France" has re-
Gently made a statistical report of its affairs,
from which we extract the following inter
ting items:
Notes discounted during 1873 So 921,9l5 AZ
Cash on hand January 30, 1874 ....... 16s, "a 600
Government taxes paid ............... 1893 1928
Average balances for 1873. Al 800 600
Net profits for 1873. 1902 1913
Circulation February l, 1874. 566, 537 800
The issue of notes by the Bank of France is
limited to $40, 100000. The number of en-
ployees of the bank at Paris, consisting of
book-keepers, tellers, messengers, etc, is
81 at the branches at MarseiIles, Lyons,
Lille, Bordeaux, Havre and otCer places,
704; total, 1915, besides about 600 auxilia-
ries. The discounts for 1873 show an in
crease over the previous year of S3l, 324 600
The number of depositors for the year was
3,4s5, 295,representing the sum of 81 ,03s ,345.
31S
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-10

The editor of the Farmville (Va.) Mercurv.
on O. retiring to the privacy of private life, in
forms his readers of his resolve in a yaledict-
Dry. lie says: "My editorial experiences
has been exceedingly pleasant. have re-
celved every encouragement from the peo-
pie, ana have been honored by the press far
more than l deserved. The number of those
whom have slaughtered and cremation is
no. great. have never been horse whipped,
pnmn'elled or cussed for anything I have
SAID, written, done or left undone as an edi-
tor, and In ceasing to be one am filled with
melancholy Sadness -'A
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-10

A sample of the tyranny of men was
shown at womans rights meeting in
Iltusville, where a gentleman entered and
told his wife, one of the officers of the meet
ing, to come home quick, Gas the baby had
the cOlicr