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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15
COUNTY CONVENTION NEXT MOI
DAY.
The Officers to be Elected Who is Men
toned as Probable Candidates. .

A Republican Convention to nominate
candidate for State Senator, three Mem
bers of Assembly, Sheriff, County
Clerk, County Treasurer, District At
torney, Register of Deeds, Surveyor and
Coroner, will be held in Klingholtz Hall
in this city, on Monday next at 2 O'Clock
in the afternoon.
Who are even probable candidates to
fill the Senatorial and Assembly ticket
we have no idea, nor can we hear OF any
one whose name has been prominently
mentioned in connection with the highly
responsible position.
For Sheriff, the name Of Hon. Peter
Ruther, residing, we believe, in Two
Rivers, is prominently mentioned, with
the prospect of there being one or more
candidates against him in convention.
For County Clerk, precedence seems
to be given to Mr.. "A. M. Richter, the pres
emit trustworthy and efficient incumbent.
At least we have heard of no one entering
the lists with him.
Querin Even, the present County
Treasurer, has held the Office two terms;
but owing to the fact that he was loser
to a considerable extent, through the
perfdy of his immediate predecessor,
| we for one should not feel as though he
were receiving more than his due, were
he to be re-nominated next Monday.
There is much truth in the statement
made by the Chronicle, an opposition
paper, to the effect that it would be
policy to re-elect Mr.. Even; whose
honesty is above suspicion, rather than
run the risk of getting another P. P. T.
into the position.
| Who the nominee for District Attor-
ney will be is still a matter of speculation.
There are numerous members of the
legal profession in this city who would
meet the requirements the Office entailes.
To GUST John Franz, the present
Register of Deeds, should he receive
the nomination at the hands of the Dem
ocratic party, at their Convention next
Saturday, is difficult job, but there
may be some one who, after the opposi-
ton convention has been held, will see
his way clear to victory.
John O'Hara is the only gentleman
mentioned in connection with the office
of County Surveyor.
The contest for the Office Of Coronor
will not call for any spirited work upor
either side, and the nominee to fill it is
a subject but little discussed.
It is clearly the duty of the delegates
chosen to make these nominations to &C
into the convention prepared to work
together harnloniously, and for the best
interests, not Of the party alone, but Of
the County. Let such men be presented
for the support Of the people as will FL
the Offices with honor, and by united
effort they can be elected in spite of the
majority claimed for the opposition under
any circumstances. Should the Repub
hcans. of Manitowoc County do thei
duty on election day, the maiorities Of
former years may be reduced if not en-
tirely overcome, on strict party vote.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15

The OCTOBER ELECTIONS on
Tuesday gave her usual Republican
majority. In Indiana the Republicans
claim majority in both houses of the
Aegislature. In Ohio the Toledo dis
~trict is carried by the Democrats and
1t is impossible to surmise further, the
snference being that there is a RepubE-
can gain on the whole.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15

A NEW afternoon paper made its ap-
paarance in Milwaukee, on Monday, un-
d r the name Of the Daily Advertis er.
Hon. A. NJ Thompson, formerly of The
Sentinel, is editor in-chief, and it is I'M
necessary to state that it will oppose the
return of the Long 81 anch hero to Con
Uress next winter.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15

A FEW days ago two daughters, aged
6 and 10, OF Mrs. Switzer, who keeps a
hotel at Columbus KY, were burned to
death by discharged servant named
Bridget Mahoney. She saturated the
bed and mosquito-bar with coal oil, and
deliberately fred them. The house and
most of the furniture was destroyed.
The fiend was arrested.
NINETEEN natives of Navarro, Spain,
serving in the insurgent army, have
been shot for insubordination.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15

4 CALL, emanating from the leading
men of the county, requesting Hon.
Joseph Villas to become candidate for
state senator at the coming election,
having been widely circulated ard num-
erously signed. it gives us great pleas
ure to announce that Mr.. Villas has
finally yielded to the earnest solicitations
Of his friends, and viii accept the nom
alton, If rendered him by the convention
to meet on Saturday next.-Iuo Rirers
Chronicle.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15
Tbs REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION

The Republican County Convention for the purpose
ri nominating County Officers, and for transactne
such other business as may be brought before tie
Convention will be held Monday, October 18th,
1874 at O'Clock 2. M, at Klingholz Hall. in the
eify OF Napitowoc The several towns and election
precn is are entitled the following number of del
ega
Centerville 4 Meme, Q j; Liberty, 81 Newton, 3
Rockland / Eaton. 2; schleswig, . Maple Grove l;
Franklin . Cato, 8; Kossuth 4 Cooperstown,
bianitowoc Rapids 81 Two Rivers, 3; Two Creeks l:
Mishcott, l; Gibson, 8; Town Manitowoc, 2
CITY MANITowOC
1st ward, A. Cd ward, .; Sd ward. 8; 4th ward, g.
CHAS WEDELSTEDT,
Chairman County Com
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15

NOMINATIONS for the Assembly viii
-3pe made at the following named places
at 10 o'clock next Monday forenoon:
LIST District, at A. Teitgens.
Cd JOS. Kuhne's.
2d /" Klinoholtz Hall.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15

Hon. Jos. Villas is candidate for
State Senator. If he receives the noml-
nation we shall have occasion to note the
undyiag fidelity CT Democratic editor
10 the the cause of reform. More
anon
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15

WHILE in conversation with a leading
-4ion turned upon the eligibility of Rinds-
kopf, Reform nominee for Congress in
the 4th District. ooh, nonsense ~ ex-
elaine our Refor N friend 'Rindskopf
is eli gible. Hes got lots Of aohiskeyf'
Great is Reform.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15

CANDIDATEsf for Office or the Reform
--s-rticket are numerous. There Will be
---1ively scrimmage at their convention.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15

Now that Calkins has secured his swag
$4,000, Pump Carpenter is coming in
with an old Barstow forty-thieves' bill
against the State.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15

GRAIN EXPORTS OF '73 AND '74.-The
fiscal year of the United States termin-
ates on the 3Oth of June. The export of
the two last fiscal years show an extra
ordinary increase in wheat for '74-of so
per cent. The exports of wheat and
flour reduced to wheat, and the value,
were as follows
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15

Bushels. 81, TIA, $50 81, $40, 1893
Value. 800, S33, 91S S130, 7SS, 553
The export of corn in IA was about
10 per cent. less IN quantity, but never
theless its value is 4 per cent. The fol-
lowing shows the exports and value of
corn:
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-29
Investigation of the Claren
Murder.

Yesterday morning George w. Garrison,
the Waterman who was employed on the
schooner Lizzie at the time of the Claren
murder, on the 4th of April, was brought up
before Judge Macarthur, of the First NJ. P.
Court, on charge of willful murder
The prisoner plead not guilty to the charge,
and the testimony Of several witnesses was
then taken, the substance of which was
merely circumstantial, but, owing to the
peculiar circumstances connecting the ac-
cused with the murder, he was remanded ia
the Parish Prison, without the benefit of
bail, to await his trial before the Superior
Criminal Court.
Garrison is a man of about IS years of
age, about feet 1O4 inches in height, with
red moustache and goatee, and, from out
ward appearances, does not look like man
who could be guilty Of perpetrating such a
diabolical deed as the murder of a helpless
old man: though the charge seems to ex-
cite him considerably, causing extreme
restlessness on his part; for while in the
dock he walked up and down at quick
pace, with his eyes upon the floor, like a
man whose brain was filled with conflicting
emotions, yet he denies most positively
having had any connection with the muir
der whatsoever
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-29
The Pilfering Pets Again.

On Monday morning, about halfpast II
o'clock, while the members of the family of
DR.. Wilson, who resides at No. 1S Dauphine
street, were absent, his house was entered
by the front door by thief, who after seek
ing in vain for something portable in the
ball, walked back into the dining room, and
here hastily took handsome silver coffee
pot and waiter from the side board, and
hiding it under his coat, escaped. So fire.
quently are we called upon to chronicle the
actions of these gubernatorial lambs that
we feel nauseateG.
If the police cannot put stop to such a
condition of things the people will have to
take the guardianship of their property into
their own hands. In connection with this
subject, we learn that small house-dogs, to
keep watch on the inside of the house, are
exceedingly high, the price going up from
the great demand.
An old English burglar stated that ter
rier in the house was worth ten mastiffs on
the outside in giving an alarm and navy
revolver is said to be wonderfully efficacious
after the alarm.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-29
The Roux Inquest.
Further Testimony.

This inquest was continued yesterday at
IL NJ. in the office of Capt. Mccain, of the
Third Precinct Station.
Several parties were examined, and some
further testimony was elected, much of
which served but to substantiate the state
ments already made by others previously
examined.
However, the testimony Of one Kate En-
gel, a beer jerker at Wengor's saloon, brings
to light few facts which may lead to the
right trail, and which certainly 60 far to
further implicate the cab driver Sam Ste
phens in the affair, and prove that he is
more concerned in the matter than he h
willing to admit, and knows more than he
has thus far been induced to tell.
1t would seem from the statement of Kate
Engel that this Sam Stephens, at the time
the shot which killed Mr.. ROux was fired,
was standing at the counter of Wenger's
saloon drinking beer, and that he was one
of the first, if not the first man, to run out
upon the sidewalk when the alarm was
given.
This is entirely contradictory to the as
sertions of the driver in question, who de-
clares that at the time of the murder he was
standing on Canal street leaning against the
show windows of the Lopez confectionery.
He still remains incarcerated at the Parish
Prison, charged with being accessory after
the fact
The inquest will be carefully followed by
us, and all further developments carefully
noted. sks HNs" = -
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-29
The Relief COlnmi lite es.
Editors of the Bulletin:


l would suggest, as in the last degree very
desirable, that the Relief Committees make
known to the public the details of what
they have done and are doing.
To what points they have sent relief, the
nature of the relief sent; and, so fast as
they obtain the information, the number of
applicants and benefciaries they have on
hand at the different points to which they
have been and are sending relief.
One thing should be carefully guarded
against, and that is, that undeserving per-
sons should obtain any f the relief now be-
ing sent. The best way to secure this end
is to place the dispensing of the relief in the
hands of parties who have no personal or
political end to serve; and, therefore, prosi-
dents of police juries, parish officers and all
such species should be very carefully and
pertinaciously avoided.
Letters have already been received from
overlooked districts, showing that parties
who are not worthy have been made bene-
ticiaries of relief which has been sent. In
some cases relief has been given to persons
who were not overlooked, and have quit
work at their houses, where they were high
and dry, to obtain the relief which is alone
intended for tt Ose who are the victims of
the flood. Private generosity is at work in
this emergency. Information, therefore, as
referred to above, becomes necessary to
secure Wise action S.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-29

DISTRIBUTION OF RATIONS.

The Purchasing and Shipping Depart
ment of the Relief Committee, under the
charge of Messrs. John N. Payne, charm an,
Samuel Jamison and D. Lanaux, are work
ing with great zeal and efficiency in the
distribution of rations to the sufferers by
the overflow throughout the State.
They are occupying the spacious ware
house of Mess1s. Deeves, Hubbs & Co.,
Tchoupitouias street, gratuitously furnished
by those public spirited young merchants.
The character Of the gentlemen comprising
the committee affords sure guarantee that
the work will be fairly and squarely per-
formed.
We paid visit yesterday to the ware
house, and gathered from Capt. Payne the
following statement OF provisions already
shipped to the overlooked districts:
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-29
THE SOUTHERN INFERNO.

From the leading editorial in the New
York Herald of the 2lst, on "The Troubles
in the South" we extract the following sen
sible and truthful observations:
| 1t is easy to provoke chaos and call it re-
construction. This is what we have done
in the South. It's condition to-day is far
worse politically than Poland or Ireland. In
Poland the military hand presses rudely
upon the people, but they are not robbed.
In Ireland aliens sit in authority, but they
are gentlemen who do not show their dislike
to home rule and repeal by robbing the ex-
chequer. 1t has been reserved for the
American Republic to unite Russian sever
ity with a rapacity which belongs to no
other nation and for which we have to find
a parallel in the careers of Verres and War
rem Hastings.
The blame for this rests largely upon the
General Government, but not wholly. We
do not excuse the leaders of the South for
their apathy. Something more than SILENT
unprOtesting acquies ne in the rule of adj
venturers and ignorant ,edmen was reGuir-
ed from the men who had been high in the
councils of the Confederacy and who still
possessed popular confidence. The Southern
people have been abandoned and helpless.
The men who should have guided them threw
away responsibility. There is not South
ern State, excepting, perhaps, South Caro-
lima, where, notwithstanding the suffrage to
the negroes and disfranchisement, the old
leaders of the South would not have sue
ceeded in Overturning the rule of the carpet
baggers, or at least frustrating their schemes
until an awakened puDlic spirit in the North
came to their aid.
What will be the ende Some think that
we shall have these periodical and constant
ly recurring outbreaks, these eruptions of
the political volcano, until it burns out and
becomes extinct. We are reminded that
long after the Stuarts were driven from the
throne OF England, their followers were mu-
tinOus and defiant; that rebellion succeeded
rebellion for more than half century, until
Jacobitlsm became memory and was only
preserved in ballads and rOmaf1ces. But
England never oppressed the Jacobtes,
while Ireland, which she did Cypress, re
mains as hostile to her rule as she was seven
centuries ago. The condition of the South
ern States is a scandal.
We can never feel that we have perfect
peace until we have perfect reconstruction.
Dante, in his immortal poem, speaks of
visiting that hell where the surface of the
black water was ever bubbling. 1t was be-
caEse of the signs of suffering souls impris-
Oned beneath the waters We never see
these buildings and restless movements of
Southern society without feeling that tbev
the imprisoned souls beneath, and
hoping that the time may come when they
will be released from their thraldom and ad-
nitted to II. ,.t.aih.iity :, = eonerous
and uL 1iad citizenship.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-29

much to the satisfaction of Henry Clay, OF
the Third Ward as it gave him an OppOr-
| tunity to say considerable, which nobody
heard or cared to learn. He was, however
none the less happy because Of this circum-
stance.
Pinchback, throughout the eommotion
was serene and smiling.
There was considerable fillibustering and
brisk skirmishing, which resulted in the
the cOntesting delegation was thereby ex-
clnded.
The committee on permanent organization
reported
In accordance with their report the cleo
ton of officers was gone into.
A. j. Dumont was elected President, Chas
A. Baquie was elected Secretary, and in adj
dition there were seven vice-presidents.
The permanent organization was conf
pleted by the election Of Sergeant at
Arms.
Mr.. Green entered the arena and opened
fight by introducing the following resOlu-
tions:
Resolr d, That the selection of delegates to
made by the Republican voters of the Sec
Ond Ward Central Climbs recognized by the
State Central Executive Committee.
ResOlred, That the election of delegates
shall take place at the halls of the respect
i've Ward Central Clubs, on Monday, May
II, and the delegates elected shall meet for
organization on May IL, at the Mechanics
Institute, at o'clock.
He spoke to it at some length.
Isaac Bush also spoke, and, when he con-
cluded left great doubts in the minds of his
hearers as to whether he favored or opposed
the resolution.
Dibble did not like the resolution, and in
troduced substitute to the effect that a
mend some plan for the election by the Con-
vention of parish executive committee.
Dibble spoke at length to his substitute
He talked harmony all the way through.
Wilson, of the Second Ward, had his own
idea Of the best mode of securing harmony,
and moved an amendment to Dibble's sub
stitute. Instead of committee of five, he
wanted a committee composed of delegate
from each ward to do the same thing that
Dibble laid out for his proposed committee
to do.
Wilson wanted to talk harmony also, but
as Pinchback wanted to do the same, he
magnanimously yielded.
Pinchback talked harmony, manhood and
duty. He said further that cit would be
better for the Republican party to fail strug-
Cling for truth and honesty [something
new for the Republican party] than to set
up another gang of thieves" He wasn't
talking of Kellogg and his crowd-oh, moi
He then went on to talk Of the obedience Of
the State and municipal authorities, the
mandates of ward politicians; and he ex-
pressed the hope that the Convention, be-
fore it adjourned, would pass resolution
that would put stop to this business.
Isaac Bush made speech and succeeded
in making it understood that he favored
Wilson's amendment.
Mr.. Bechtel offered as an amendment to
amendment the proviso that moth
ing should be recommended by the commit
tee that would take away from the people
Of the wards the right to vote for the dele
gates.
The proviso was adopted. [Pinchback's
game was spoiled.
On motion Committee on Resolutions
was appointed.
The committee then adjourned until IL
NJ, Monday next
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-29
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN LIE.

W. P. Kellogg sought to make capital out
of the Shreveport epidemic by stealing a
thousand dollars from the contingent fund
and donating it to the Howard Association
in his own name; and now, his organ, the
New Orleans Republican, is seeking to make
out of that same great calamity, capital fol
it's negro pets. This is becoming offensive
and the public opinion of the State should
frown down these hyenas and jackals
The Republican replying to the charge of the
New Orleans BULLETIN that the negroes OF
heads by their own arrogance, says:
"There was last year terrible epidemic
at Shreveport. The white people were
Frustrated by sickness or paralyzed by fear
Who made the crops, watched the sick, and
rendered all the mental service to this dis
tressed community? 1t was the cololed po-
pulation. There was nothing of arrogance
then and there. 1t was give me to drink
Titimus."'
There was scarcely white man or white
woman in any sphere of life but devoted his
or her time day and night to the sick The
white people did the nursing dressed and
buried the dead; and, with the exception
of professional nurses sent here from abroad
did SO without compensation.
Our men and women, ave, half.grown
boys and young girls held themselves ever
ready to obey any demand that might be
made upon them, and worked without fall
tering, and without fear.
y
The negroes never watched the sick, etc.
There were probably not dozen negroes
in Shreveport that lifted hand during the
epidemic without being paid for it two or
three times the amount they ever got before
for twice the amount of labor.
Upon the other hand, very nearly the
whole negro population of the city were
fed from the supplies of the Howard Asso-
citation. Indeed, we believe it is safe to
say that fully two-thirds of the supplies of
the association went to the negroes, whose
sick did not number one-fourth those of
the whites, and the deaths among whom
were only, we believe, 14O.
Now, in the name of decency, we request
the New Orleans Republican to cease its dis
graceful efforts to make false political capt.
tai out of our calamity. 1t may lie as much
as it pleases about the gentlemen of
North Louisiana going cunning for negroes,"
but we demand that it shall let our dead
rest.-.Shrereport Times.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-29
The Rivers.

At this point the river is about stationary
mark indicating IA inches below high water
mark of 1871.
Red River.
From the officers of the Selma we learn
that upper Red River was falling when they
left Shreveport, and that from that point
down it was rising.
The Crevasses
are all in about the same condition as last
reported.
Point COupee.
The reports from this parish are truly
heart rending. Almost every acre is under
water, and distress, suffering and misery are
met on every hand.
At Memphis,
on the 9th, the river was still rising and
the weather indicated more rain.
At Vicksburg
the Father of Waters continues to rise at
the rate of one inch in 81 hours.
The Ohio
at Pittsburg, on the 9th, was falling AT
Cincinnati, the same date, it was rising slow.
ly, and at Evansville had fallen IA inches
in AZ hours. At Louisville, the telegraph
informs us that the weather was cloudy,
with prospects of more rain and the river
rising.
the rivers were stationary at last advices.