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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07

A SLEEPING CAR EPIsoDE.-The IN
iontown (Penn.) Standard narrates this
accident: ga few nights ago a lady pas
senger on the west-ward-bound train,
Connellsville route, engaged berth in
one of the palace sleeping coaches. When
she was ready to retire she took from
her satchel gum bed, which she infa-
ted and placed upon the regular bed in
the berth she was to occupy. It hap
pened that her berth was very close to
the stove, and the night being rather
cold, the porter fred up pretty lively.
The heat from the stove caused the gum
bed to expand until the pressure got so
great that it collapsed with tremend-
GUS shock, similar to the report of can
non, and the passengers jumped out of
their berths in their night clothes, think
ing there was collision. The force of
collapse threw the lady against the cell
ing of the berth, but did not hurt her
beyond slight bruise. When the real
state of affairs was known, and the lady
was found to be unhurt, the thing crea-
ted considerable merriment among the
passengers, and that lady vows she will
never take any more gum beds with her
when she goes travelling"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07

THE proprietors of Cleveland news
paper have recently applied an appara-
tus to their Office chimney which is said
to be perfect preventive of smoke and
great saver of fuel. Its discov cry was
purely accidental. As mechanic was
trying to secure better draft for slug
gish fire the thought occurred to him, af-
ter other devices had failed, to try the
effects CT steam A small pipe was
made to conduct the dry steam from the
boiler to the upper end Of the furnace,
which it entered in two small jets, strik-
ing downward on the burning fuel. No
sooner was the steam injected into the
furnace than the sluggish, smoky fire
sprang up into clear, bright yellowish
and intensely hot flame, filling the VII ole
furnace with a loud roar. The man
found he had not only secured strong
draft, but something much more impor-
tant-a smokeless fire.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07
COMMON SENSE IN PLoWING

Teams drawing loads on the road get
breathing spell on the descending
ground, while in blowing, the draft is
the same from morning till night. There
Is certain number of pounds that a
team can draw day after day and not
worry them, but if more be added, even
as little as fifteen or twenty pounds, they
walk unsteadily, fret, and soon tire. No
amount of feeding will keep them in
condition. I have seen many plows in
use on which it would have been an easy
matter to decrease the draft TWENTY-FIVE
pounds, and if men were drawing them
instead of horses, it would have been
done. 1t must be plain to the farmer
that every pound taken off from the
draft of his pillow, is so much gained for
his horses.
It may be done in this way: For any
soil except sand or gravel use steel
pillow. Their cost is but little more, and
the draft enough less to pay the differ
ence IN plowing twenty acres. In plow-
ing sod, the coulter does great deal of
the work, and should be kept sharp by
forging at the blacksmith s and grinding
every day if necessary. Of course it
Will wear out sooner, but new coulters
are cheaper than new teams. Set the
coulter in line with the pillow, the edge
square in front, with an angle of forty
five degrees from the point, to which it
Is attached to the beam. When the share
gets worn short it is poor economy to
use it any longer, but replace it with
new one. Let the traces be as short
as will allow the horses to walk without
hitting theirheelsagainstthe whifietrees,
and have just ,.ressure enough of the
wheel on the ground to make the pillow
run steady. IF the handles crowd con-
tinually one way, the draft is not right,
and If the pillow is good one it can be
easily remedied at the clevis. To pre-
vent the horses stepping over the traces
in turning, fasten a weight of about
three-fourths of pound on the outside
end of each singletree- is, on the
right end when you turn to the left, and
vice rersa. Every observing farmer
knows that horses are susceptible to
kindness and equally so to unkindness.
T HOY hot
steadily, made reeking with sweat in a
short time by sharp word or jerk on
the bit. Let your horses do their work
as you do yours, as easily as possible,
and be as willing to overlook their mis-
takes as you would the mistakes of hui
man beings. -Cor. Detroit Free Press.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07

comfortable. The next morning he
commenced shouting again until his
throat was sore, but was only answered
by the howlings of the tempest. He
had set his gun against stump out
side, and longed to get at 1t, that he
might fire it off and attract somebody's
attention. He soon began to get hun
CRY. His thirst he quenched by thrust.
ing his hand through the chinks be-
tween the logs and raking up snow and
eating it. Thus day after day elapsed,
during which his mental suferings were
terrible. 81 tell you men," he said, ST
thought of everything had done in all
my life, from the time was boy six
years old At last brilliant idea
struck him. He had matches and
would burn his way out With the heel
of his boot he would kick and grind
log until he had accumulated a quantity
of dust and splinters, which he would
light with a match and blow the fire
with his hat until he had burned hole
large enough to crawl out ALI the day
previous to that on which he was found
he thus employed, but on the trial
the scheme would not work. The
wood refused to burn, and he again lay
down to die. That day passed: and the
next day he had abandoned all hope,
and was calculating how long it would
take strong, healthy man to die of
starvation. He was in a state of abject
stupor when he heard the report OF
gun. He was in doubt whether 1t was
not the effect of his own maddened i'm
agination, but he halloed with all his
might and kept on shouting. When
his cries were answered he was almost
delirious with joy. AS the voices ap-
preached his visions of approaching
death fled away and the realities of life
came back like flood. He was pro-
fuse in his gratitude to his deliverers,
but declared his intention of getting out
of the Sierra Nevadas as soon as posi-
BILE and abandoning bear hunting. He
said that he had had most too close
call, and didn't want any more of it in
his. The next morning he left for the
camp of some od-choppers, who were
no doubt, at loss to account for his
long absence.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07

PAY Your SMALL BILLs.-The crying
evil of the times is the refusal of men
(who can pay if they Willy to pay their
small bills. A bill of five, ten or twenty
dollars is a small thing of itself, but
when we follow up the payment of one
of these bills it Is astonishing what it
will do in day or two. It will pay
many debts and find it's way back per-
haps to the man who started it out on
It's mission of good. A five dollar bill
kept moving is of inestimable value to
the public. No man could undertake
the computation of the amount of debts
it will pay, the amount of anxiety it Will
remove or the suffering it will relieve in
one months time. IF there are any who
doubt it's value, let them owe neigh
Dor anything start 'sV" out and try
the experiment. If every man in Min
ersville, who has the money in his
pocket with which to do it, would pay
five dollars of his debts to-day we will
guarantee there will be nothing more
heard of hard times for month to come.
The 'times'' are just as we make them.
If we refuse to pay our little bills to the
merchant or tradesmen, or whatever 1t
may be, they must of necessity fail to
pay their large bills. They cannot re-
plen1sh their stock, hence the manu-
facturer is compelled to close his doors
against operatives and employees, and
this is what makes ''hard times Pay
your small bills and thereby keep bust
ness moving, and when business is brisk
work is plenty-all are employed and
hard times are never thought of. Fact
cries cannot run without market for
their ware. The hum of machinery
makes work for the miner and thus it
goes through all the ramifcations of the
business world. IF you want hard times
and no work just continue to carry the
money around in your pantaloons
pockets that belongs to your creditors,
and you will get suffciency of BOTH
Exchange.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07
PITMAN,S IRON GLAD CAT.

Now that the opening of the session
of Congress is close at hand, I feel that
there is a need that the attention of that
body shall be directed to the Importance
of placing a probibitory duty upon
stovepipe. / allude to the subject be-
cause of the conduct of my next-door
neighbor, Pitman, in reference to his
cat. The animal is considered to have
a phenomenal screech. On calm nights,
when it has been practicing in the up
per register, its high @ has been heard
eight miles up the river, and twice it
has called out the fire department. It
may readily be supposed that this yoci-
feration has not had soothing effect
upon me. In fact, have projected
nearly all the loose material over the
fence at him, at odd times, and it used
to interest me in the morning, after a
bombardment, to see Pitman come out
and collect my soap cups, and boots, and
cologne bottles, and carry them into his
house as calmly as if the had been
rained into his yard by some benef-
cent fairy who lowered around for
the solitary purpose of blessing
Pitman. Finally I borrowed gun,
with the intent to annihilate the
cat utterly; and fired at it on five sue
cessive nights, with no other effect than
to induce it to run higher up the scale,
and to emit bowls which might have
been heard eighteen hundred miles in a
high wind. On the sixth night [ went
on guard with club, on my side of the
fence, and waited till Pitman' s cat mount
ed the top rail and began his customary
howl. He was in the midst of some var
iations when I. swooped down on him
and knocked him into my yard, I thought
the blow sounded very queerly, and
when I sezid the animal [ found that it
was iron-cIad. Pitman had bored four
holes in section of stovepipe and in
serted the cats feet in them, while the
animals body remained inside, and the
pipe projected six Or eight inches beyond
it's head, so that when it yelled it's voice
sounded like trombone The cat is
dead now; but I retain it's armor, and I
am going to use it before the Congress
ional Committee on Ways and Means to
have the tariff on stovepipe put up to
an awful figure.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07

Cur THIS oUT.-Every person should
know how to treat flesh wound, because
one is liable to be placed in circumstan-
ces away from surgical and veterinary aid
where he may save his own life, the life
of a friend or of beast, simply by the
exercise of a little common sense. In
the first place, close the lips of the wound
with the hands and hold them firmly
together TO check the flow of blood until
several stitches can be taken and band
age applied. Then battle the wound for
long time in cold water. SHOULD it
be painful, correspondent says, stake
a painful of burning Goals and sprinkle
upon them common brown sugar and
hold the wound part in the smoke. In
a minute or two the pain viii be allayed,
and the recovery proceeds rapidly. In
my case rusty nail had made a bad
wound in my foot. The pain and ner-
vous irritation were severe. This was all
removed by holding it in smoke fifteen
minutes, and / was able to resume my
reading in comfort. We have often re-
commended it to others with like result.
Last week, one of my men had finger
nail torn out by pair of ice-tongs. 1t
became very painful, as was to be expec-
ted. Held in sugar smoke twenty min
utes, the pain ceased and promised
speedy recovery.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07

AN UNTIMELY POLITICAL QUERY.-Mrs.
Cooley takes, perhaps, too much interest
in politics. The other evening Cooley
and his brother-in-law were carrying the
piano down stairs, and after an awful
amount of suffering on Cooley's part,
they got the instrument down as far as
the landing. They were just trying to
get around the corner after having goug-
ed three or four chunks of plaster out
of the wall and broken two of the banis-
ter rails, and Cooley, beaded all over
with perspiration, was just wondering
whether the thermometer was not at 107,
and whether he couldn't relieve his feel
ings by splitting the piano up with the
ak, when Mrs. Cooley made a remark.
She was standing below in the entry,
very cool and comfortable, and she had
just been saying that she could have
brought that piano down without ruin
ing the wall, when at this critical mo-
ment it occurred to her to ask Cooley if
he thought Grant really did want a
Third Term. It was the one straw too
much. Cooley dropped the piano on
the landing and dancing down stairs in
frenzy of rage, he addressed Mrs.
Cooley upon the general subject of her
failings and foolishness in such lam
guage that she put on her bonnet and
went home to her mother with the ex-
pressed intention Of taking steps to pro-
cure a divorce upon the following Mon
day. It seems to have blown over.
however, for only yesterday she was at
home talking over the fence with Mrs.
Pitman about the propriety of trimming
brown overskirt with pink silk. Her
yearning about Grants designs seem to
have been satisfied somehow.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07
A BARREL, of cider NAV he preserved

A BARREL of cider may be preserved
in good flavor and condition for next
spring by the following method: Fill
a clean, strong barrel with juice from
sound, good apples and let it ferment
from two to three weeks, until the liquor
becomes quite clear Then rack the
cider into tubs, cleanse the barrel and
fill it with the fumes of burnt sulpher
by burning a rag dipped in melted brim-
stone, in the barrel. Replace the cider
in the barrel, taking care to FL the cask
full, and bung tight. IF kept in a cool
cellar, it will be nice next April and
Nav.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07

SOME time during Saturday nights
in New York, the jeweiry store of
Geo. ". bearing & Co., No. 165 Wash
ington street, was robbed of gold watch
es, diamonds, and other articles, to the
value of upwards of $4,000. Two safes
were broken open, all the most valuable
contents carefully selected, and the re-
mainder of the stock strewn about the
place.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07

&c a train on the Saginaw road had
nearly reached the junction, the other
day. an old lady suddenly shouted out,
'sStop this keer-stop herr A passen-
ger wanted to know what was up, and
the old woman ran up:and down the pas
sageway and excitedly exclaimed, 'Where
the man who runs these keers-I've left
a quart bottle of cold tea al Detroit 70
The train didn't back up.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07

A HOUSE WITHOUT PICTURES is like a
stem shorn of its fair flowers. IF you
would make a room look neat. cheerful
and homehke, first, and above all else,
rob it of its staring naked walls, by
covering them up with modest and re-
fined pictures.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07

NEAR st. Croix Falls, Polk county,
last week, Chippewa Indian known as
John Buck, while resting in the woods,
was approaced from behind and stabbed
by another Chippewa. He died in a
few moments. His assailant escaped.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07

AN unsuccessful attempt was made at
Viroqua, Sunday night, to lynch James
Lara. the murderer.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-16
NEWS FROM THE OLD WORLD

DUBLIN, June 18.-The Lord Mayor Of
Dublin welcomed the American Rife
Team on their arrival at the station yes
terday. Large crowds were assembled
and greeted the Americans with enthu
siasm. They were entertained at din.
ner at hotel by the Lord Mayor and
city dignitaries. Colonel Gildersleeve
speaking in behalf Of his comrades, ex.
pressed their grateftllness at the cordial
welcome extended them; 1t had tran
scended their utmost expectations.
LONDON, June 16. - The morning pa
pers announce the failure Of Alex. Collie
& Co., commission merchants Of London
and Manchester, and Shahd & Co., East
India merchants, London. Amount oi
liabilities not stated.
A dispatch from Berlin to the Daily
Telegraph says that Prince Bismarck
the foreign representatives and gave
each assurances Of the peaceful disposi.
ton of Germany.
Won Arnim was reopened Yesterday.
Among the distinguished guests at the
banquet to Admiral Worden last night
were General Won Stosoh, Chief of Ad
mirallty, and Counselor Won Phillips.
born, Director OF the Foreign Oa1ce. Ad.
miral Worden and the officers Of the feet
accompanying him to Berlin, dined with
General Won St0sch last night.
1t lie reported that Archbishop LIE.
dochowski Is dangerously Ill.
ROME, June 16.-Ip the Chamber oI
Deputies to-day debate OH tho Public
Safety Bill was continued. An order o,
the day was postponed, which was
agreed to by the Government and passed
by a majority of seventeen.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-16
Tho wstsr-.yorks Inyestsos.so,,.

Mr.. C. J. Chambers, formerly an Off
and-0n-man," teatified that he and every
other "O9-and-cn-man" in the employ
Of the Water-works had at different
times collected bills for Merk. That he
had collected in all about $1,000 and
never received any compensation, and
not always thanks for the service. He
had gone TO houses to turn off water and
was told by the parties living there that
they had never received any BILL. He
always reported these facts to the Sec
retary.
John H. Franz, an engineer at the
Frontstreet fumping-house, formerly
an "of-and-on-man," testified that he
had collected about IS, 900 for Merk. Had
never given any receipt for the bills he
received from Merk. and the only eyi.
dence Of the transactions held by Merk
was the memorandum in his notebook.
He also collected some few bills for Mr.,
Wahle and MIR. Shannon.
Mr.J. n. Greuter was recalled, and
testified that lie could not remember
when the 81, 800 loaned to Mayor john
ston was returned; had made memc-
randum OF the date Of the loan; had told
Snelbaker OF the transaction when he
returned from the East, and Snelbaker
said that 1t was all right. He therefore
believed that Snelbaker had assumed the
responsibility. He did not suppose that
the Mayor would keep the money more
than Day ct the farthest, and did not
tell him that it was Mater-Worts Honey,
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-16

supposing that he knew such was the
case. He loaned the money on his own
responsibility, and, If Mayor Johnston
had failed to return 1t, should have co q
sidered himself liable for the amount.
Thomas e. Snelbaker was then called,
but after some talk between the Chair
man and Mr.. Pattison, 1t was decided
that Mayor Johnston should. be called
first, and that the'witnesses should be
separated. Messrs. Wolf and McCaf-
ferry violently opposed ~this measure,
scendant of Judas Iscariot." Mr.. Dir
favored the separation Of witnesses, but
the resolution against separation, Of
fered by Mr.. McCatfery. was carried.
Mr.. Snelbaker then voluntarily with
drew from the room, and Mayor John
ston was placed on the stand. Before
the testimony commenced, however, Mr..
Pattison arose to explain, and Mr.. Nc
Caffery told him thatif he insulted him
he would click" him, and the Committee
declined to hear Mr.. Pattison.
MIR. Pattison wrote out a question,
which was put to Mayor Johnston by the
Chairman. 1t was whether he had ever
borrowed any money from Mr.. Snelbaker.
but did not know that it was Water
works money, and had never knowingly
borrowed any Water-works money from
anybody. In answer to q question he
stated that the relations between Mr..
Pattison and himself had always been
friendly. Mr.. Pattison had told him day
before yesterday that he would bring "
witness at the last moment who would
prove something, and he had asked him
if that was part of the scheme to indict
him for which $1,000 had been given by
the gambling interest Of this city.
Mr.. Snelbaker was then put on the
stand, and denied the statement that he
had ever said before the election that he
had papers which would send Mayor
Johnston to the Penitentiary, or that he
had ever had any conversation with any
body concerning his relations with the
Mayor.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-16
Aoed Nt,,etx-t,uo.

A commendable effort Is being made to
secure a permanent home for Mrs. Cath
arine Apple, aged 92, who was present at
the Centennial Fair held few weeks
since, whose father was a constant com.
panion Of Washington during the Revo.
lutionary war, and who is herself one OF
the few now living who saw Washing
ton while President. She was born in
Winchester, Va, in 1888. At the early
age Of sixteen, her father fed from his
home in England, and, until the war for
our independence, he never saw or heard
from his relatives. But ene day during
the struggle he, as foot soldier, recog-
nized in British officer, who was in the
act OF striking him down with sword,
his own brother. He was with Washing
ton during the whele war. Her father
emigrated to Kentucky in 1892, but was
killed by the Indians while guarding a
camp. She was married when about
eighteen to Capt. Samuel Montjoy, who
was killed ut the battle of Maumee Riv.
er in 1912. After the death of her Sec
ond husband, Mr.. Apple, with whom she
lived "a years, she was left destitute and
is now by reason of her age unable to
care for herself. It is the desire Of con-
siderate friends to better her condition.
and a call ie made on the benevolent to
contribute such sums of money as they
can to the care of Mrs. j. Q. A. Keith or
Mrs. Lewis, in Covington, or care of H.
B. Baily, at No. 1874 West Fourth street,
city. It has been thought advisable to
raise funds sufficient to place her COM
fortably In the Widows Home.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-16
Gen. Cary Speaks.
CINCINNATI, June 10, 1875.


ED. STAR: A petition appeared in
yesterday mornings papers fled against
myself and other gentlemen of repute,
charging upon us all fraudulent dealing
in the salerof the Grandview Mine. The
unusual circumstance ofpublishing such
legal document, taken In connection
with the fact that in two days the Demo-
cratic Convention meets, before which !
am prominent candidate for Lieuten-
ant Governor, shows the real purpose for
which this action is instituted.
In the brief moment allowed me for
reply to these, base imputations simply
say, that all these allegations of fraud
and unfair dealings are untrue in every
sense Of the term, and their falsity will
become apparent il the plaintiffs do not
evade a trial by dismisslng their suit
after they find they have failed in their
object of defeating my nomination. l
offered to rescind the contract, to take
back the stock of all persons disa ffected,
repaying them all their money with in
terest, in consequence of dissatisfaction
expressed by them with the price they
had paid. This was peremptorily re-
fuseds one. ground Of that refusa
being the great prospective value
of this stock, and determined pur.
pose to obtain possession of or cancel
The stock held by Inc and my friends, and
to eject us from all interest or partici-
patton in large futures profits. / then
offered to submit all the matters in dis
pute between the parties to any three
good, disinterested men, one Of whom
should be chosen by plaintiffs, one by
myself, these two to select third, who
should act as arbitrators, their award to
be final and binding upon all. This,
also, was peremptorily refused, thus
showing clearly and conclusively that
the object sought by plaintiffs i'll bring
ing this action at this time ID to injure
ton. I / now derv these Gentleman G o,nS, 40 do
their worst, as the Courts will vindi.
cate my integrity, and have confidence
that the Convention of the Democratic
party will see that no injustice is done
me in consequence OF this attack.
S. f. CARY.