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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14
THE CONFESSION.

The public will not fail to observe that
neither rsGovernor Taylor, nor ANYBODY
authorized to speak for him, has denied
the truthfulness of the serious charges
which Col. Farr made against him. The
Democratic papers have, indeed, denied
many things which nobody affirmed; :;
but that Taylor proposed to Farr to
make money out of the soldiers by pay
ing them less bounty than the town of
Cottage Grove authorized them to paw,
and make money out of the town by in
ducing the soldiers to sign false receipts
for larger sums than Taylor paid them,
by using those fraudulent receipts in a
settlement with the town, and that Tay-
lor and Farr divided the surplus; these
acts stand confessed. And it is well
that they are so confessed; for all the
parties know them to be true, and know
further, that in case of an authoritative
denial, there is an abundance of collat-
eral evidence within reach which would
overwhelm any person who should make
the attempt. The Democratic Journals
have also abused Faar, but all this, let
1t be obser .-ed. upon the assumption,
that what he had sworn to in his affidavit
was the truth with reference to the trans
actions which he there detailed. Why
full transactions before? says one. The
answer is, he did make them known.
He told Carter of them at the time they
occurred. Farr is very bad man exclaims
another. The answer to that assertion
is, that Farr is not asking the suffrages
of the people of Wisconsin on the ground
of purity and reform; and, whatever con-
demnation applies to him, may Justly
and with more force be applied to Tay-
lor, because he was the sworn representa-
tive of his town. Moreover, Farr has
been a resident of Dane county for over
twenty years; he is welI-known by his
fellow-citizens, with whom he has had
extensive business relations, and he is
not so bad man, that any one of these
Democratic scribblers have dared at
tempt to discredit his statements by any
authority likely to obtain credence with
the public. It is limited in several quart
ers that the Democratic magnates are
consulting with reference to Withdraw
ing Taylor from the canvass and placing
at the head of the ticket some man who
can restore confidence to their shattered
and discounted ranks. It is admitted
that this exposure has fearfully demor-
allied the rank and file of the party,
and attached to the whole ticket an op-
probrium which will weaken its support
in every part of the State, and the
friends of the other candidates urge that
with the hope of redeeming fatal mis-
take, it is better to throw Taylor OYER
board now, than to go forward in the
canvass with him, and all meet the con
demnation which awaitss MIN at the polls.
They need not be at the pains to make
any change IN their ticket, however, for,
II the Republicans of the State do their
duty, these bogus Reformers will go
down all together. Gazette.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

In the current number of the Over
land Monthly California geologist re-
views the geological evidence of the an
tiquity of human settlement near the
present town of Cherokee, in that state,
and estimates the age of that most an
cient of discovered town to be not less
than 18O, 900 years
The traces in question are numerous
stone mortars, found in undisturbed
white and yellow gravel of a subaqueous
formation, not huviatile, underlying the
vast sheets of volcanic rock of which
Table Mountain is part. In one in
stance mortar was found standing up
right, with the pestle" in it, apparently
just as it had been left by its owner. In
some cases the mortars have been found
at the depth of forty feet from the sur
face of the gravel underlying Table
Mountain. The distribution of the NOR
tars is such as to indicate with great
positiveness the former existence of a
hnman settlement on that ancient beach
when the water stood near the level at
which they occur time anterior to the
volcanic out-pouring which Table Noun
tain records, and anterior to the glacial
epoch
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

DIR. DARWIN shows that many species
of plants, inhabiting Europe, Africa,
India, Australia, and North and South
America are adapted for capturing small
aquatic animals, and that they absorb the
product of their decay. Ordinary plants
of the higher class produce the requisite
inorgantic elements from the soil by
means of their roots, and absorb carbonic
acid from tine atmosphere by means of
their leaves and stems. But also there
is class of plants which digest and
afterward absorb animal matter. These
plants can also dissolve matter out of
certain vegetable substances, such as
pollen, seeds, and bits of leaves, and
absorb the salts of ammonia brought to
them by the rain. Other plants can
absorb ammonia by their glandular hairs.
Another class cannot digest, but absorb
the products of the decay of the animals
which they capture. A third class of
plants feed on the products of the decay
of vegetable matter. A fourth class of
parasites (such as the mistletoe) are
nourished by the juices of living plants.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

OwINa to the naughty revelation about
Taylor and his connection with bribery
and the bounty-frauds of his town, it is
stated that the chairman of the Demo
cratic State Committee left La Crosse a
few days ago for the capital, to procure
his withdrawal from the ticket. But
Taylor, being obstinate and ambitious,
refused to come down. Since, then, the
Democracy have an unwelcome candidate
forced on them, they will do the best
they can to carry the load. They cannot
refute the charges, but they can abuse
their authors, and direct attention to
other irrelevant matter. Too late ! The
party which sustains convicted fraud,
must go down with it.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

The CENTENNIAn.-A Philadelphia
dispatch says
The State of Ohio has commenced the
erection of its building in the National
Centennial grounds, at Philadelphia.
Similar headquarter buildings will be
put up by Massachusetts,, Connecticut
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Kansas, and Missouri. The
English Commission has applied for an
extension of its space in the park, for
the erection of a third building. The
reception of applications for exhibiting
space will be discontinued after October
QO
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

dozen in my stake; I become an object
of interest to the bystanders, some of
whom evidently consider me, if not
handsome, certainly superior sort of
fellow. Seven wins, of course. My
three bothersome ounces have become
twenty-four splendid doubloons-round,
yellow and heavy-fair to see and pleas
ant to hear.
Three hundred and eighty-fo dol
lars and since my breakfast the day be-
fore, l had not eaten a morsel fairly
blessed Fate; and as for the number
seven, set him up on a throne of
philosophers stone, with a crown of
Midas on his head and brimmer of
vino d'ore in his hand. And the cap
tain, princely fellow, worthy to be a
king, waived his right to share with me.
He had plenty, he said, displaying a
pocketful of doubloons, and a nugget as
big as doughnut. New comers were
not usually suffering with surplus, aod
he dared say that had not more than j
few hundred dollars. I should need it
all to start with; when his pile should
tumble, he would be happy in holding
me his debtor to the extent of q dozen
ounces or SO.
L condescended to accept his terms,
and the same hour next day saw me
fourishing professional shingle on the
broad side of an adobe house in Sacra-
mento street, and a professional card.
in the most imposing and attractive
style, in The Alta California. I had
soon q lucrative private practice; from
seventy-five to hundred dollars was
not too much to earn in day, when an
exclusive pen in Howe's circus cost fifty
five dollars, when ten dollars was de-
manded for the plainest of dinners at
Wheeler's, when stout boots cost forty
dollars pair, and potatoes dollar a
pound-to say nothing of spurious
champagne at ten dollars bottle, and
five dollars for the honor of Professor
Lewis Thompson's tonsorial fingers in
your hair.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14
Coop BUSINESS

Coop BUSINESS PROSPECTS.
Chicago Tribune says
From large number of interviews
with the leading wholesale merchants of
Chicago, it appears that an unusually
hopeful and encouraged feeling prevails
without exception relative to the fall
trade. Many of the heaviest houses re-
port that business was never so brisk as
during the past two weeks, and all are
agreed that it was never upon a sounder,
healthier, or more promising basis.
Prices of goods that the consumer needs
and must have are lower now then for
many years past while on the other
hand, the crops are uniformly heavy
throughout the Northwest, and prices
fair and firm. Our merchants have made
large preparations for fine fall trade
and the season Is now sufficiently far ad-
vanoed to prove the wisdom of their an
ticipations. The outlook is indeed graf
flying. =. r.. ri
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

A SCIENTIFIC editor writes ''It is q
painful sight to see a sweet, innocent
child crushed to death by railroad
train; tits painful sight to see whole COM
panies of ones country men moved down
in battle by tempest of shot and shell /;
and it is painful sight to see ones
at-grandmother blown out of a seven
ty-two- FOUNDER but to the man of refin-
ed taste, what iare these compared to
the sight of beautiful girl meandering
forth in striped stockings?"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

An English girl lately swan five miles
in the Thames another capped the eff
fort by swimming seven miles and now
a third plucky little creature has thrown
all former feats by women in the shade
by making ten miles. The champion
is said by the London Times of the Goth
ult., to be about IA years of age. She
swan fairly the whole way, remaining
in the water two hours and twenty y-seven
minutes
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14
He had Just finished his soup, VII

HE had just finished his soup, when
he noticed at the bottom of the plate a
strange looking object. 'sSay, look
here p he cried what do you think I
found in my soup? That !" "Wen, what
IS it p asked mine host. sWhat is it ?
Why, don't you see? It's bit of rag. -
"See here, now," returned the other,
taking up bill of fare, and reading :
"'Soup, ten cents a plate Did you
expect, sir, to find silk velvet cloaks
and sealskin sacques for that money ?''
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14
The Detroit Free Press can't sc

TIC DtIIOII L Itt TtSS CHI See HOW
any man "oan coolly and deliberately
eat lobster-a big clawy, horrid, red
lobster" Nor can we. It is not wholly
that we might be induced to
swallow small piece for the wealth of
the Indies, but we would much rather
swallow steam threshing- machine un-
der full headway for two dollars and a
half C0urier-JOur1aL
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

JACK DowLINe, a gambler of Chicago,
offered Times reporter recently, a
81, ,CCo bill for no other reason than that he
Oowning) had won during the day $40,
600. He had in his pocket at the time
forty 81 200 bills. His real name is
Thomas Oliver Thompson.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

A CALIFORNIA woman has taken q
prize at the State Fair for Sanitary
Corsets," and another has received a
diploma for Emancipation Under
suits" Regeneration Palpitators'' and
Educated False Calves" will come next
no dOubt
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

A MERCHANT in Milwaukee recently
published GA card to the shirt-wearing
public" Tho limited attention it at
tracted was due to the small class of per-
sons in that city to whom it was address
ed
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14
Il. HERI,

WORK street, ,Manit0w0c,W Wis. Dealers
In Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Fancy Goods
1lass ware Boots and Shoes, Ready made Clothing,
Hapsr hangings Hats, Caps Toys Oh Idren Carriages,
Live Geese Feathers, Bird Cages, Kerosene Oil and
Lamps, ke., te. share of public patronage is solf-
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14
F. R.aTSCH,

TEWRLER and Photographer. All
u kinds of work In the line of my business prompt
y attended to- and warranted to give satisfaction. /
have just received a Wing L Ornsbeys Multiplying
CANARA OBSCURA, with which take small
pictures Of the finest order for dollar Dozen
Photo graphs taken of all sizes. Albums sad Frames
snstsntly on hand. York Street. 13-<tf
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14
GUSTar FEHRS,

VVyATCHNAKER and JEWELER. OF
w fsrs his services for repairing all kinds OF
Clocks and watches. Has a fine and well selected
assortment Of the latest and best styles of Clocks
American English and Swiss Watches, as also of Gold
and Plated Jewelry, at his Brick Store on Sth
trest South side door south Of Kremer's. Mani
eves ely
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

The last surviving child of John G.
Calhoun, the South Carolina states man,
died recently in that State.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

THE hog crop for the year is estimat-
ed at 18, 900, 900 head, and it Will soon
be time to begin salting it down.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14
CHARLES HOTER,

MERCHANT TAILORING ESTAB-
NJ Hshment on Sth street. south end of Bridge.
The tailoring depar Is complete, and contains
large assortment of fashionable clothes and Gents
furnishing goods constantly on hand Please call
and examine before purchasing elsewhere 1921
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14
FRED SEEGER.

OFFERS to his many friends and the
~ public generally, choice selection OF Fresh
Meats Salt Pork and Beef, Smoked Beef and Hams,
Shoulders Sausages, Taliow and Lard at the lowest
rates. Market O q Commercial Street. e-1J
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

This Hotel has lately bsen enti ely rebuilt and
refarnished. II is the aim of the management to
make HoHE for the travelling public of the state.
Tbs low any ether rst class hotel in
tie State. 2sjspT5
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

s. S.aTDERSO.r,
NFANUFACTURER and Dealer I'm
M Boots, Shoes Leather &C. &c. Shop on Buffalo
street. nea. the corner of Eighth Repairing neatly
and promptly executed
Nsnitovoc, September 90, 1855.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14
DENTISTR r,

DR. A. j. PATCIEN, Dentist. Once
IL in Shermans building, Sth Street,
Aanit0woc Wis.
- Teeth extracted without pain.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-14

II. II, PJIT.E. VI. ID.

mOeOpathie Physician, Surgeon
IL and Acconcheur, late resident Physician at the
Hahnsmann Hospital Ckecago, has permanently To-
Gated Nanitowoc. Office in Plumb's building cor.
Buffalo and Eighth Streets.
o.,,,. uorn. to A NJ
SsfieA ho'HS' / to ., and to P. n.
Diseases of the eye and treated
Arizona weekly miner., 1875-08-13

REruRNED.-Hon. c. A. Luke, mayor O
 Prescott, who has been absent two month. in California, having taken his wife to Sat Francisco for medical treatment, returned or Tuesday morning. He informs us that Mrs Luke's health improved every day after start, ing on the road, and she now feels confident of entire recovery. She will remain in San Francisco until Spring.
 The mayor saw and talked with c. p. Huntington and General D. D. Colton on Arizona railroad matters and received a nos itive assurance from them that the 35th par- allel route has not been abandoned by any means, but that as soon as the Gorgonia pass road is completed to the Colorado rlver. So as to command the Southern Arizona trade their attention will be turned to the Tebacb. epa pass route, and the road pushed with all possible dispatch to the Needles. MT. Hunt ington will be in Arizona Tn a short time in person, to examine the lay of the country. and may change the route from Whitewater so as to cross at or above Ehrenberg.
Arizona weekly miner., 1875-08-13

QtID PRO QUo.-The Citizen explains it, sihsion to quid pro quo, of which Judge Dunne complained in the note we published last week, to mean something quite different from what the Judge understood it to imply ftwill. be remembered that Judge Dunne used the term in his letter which we publish. ed on the 18th of July, and enquired if we "were beginning to think that to explain the conduct of others we must sec the ouid pro quo for them plainly in view, or within easy reaching distance ?" This, the Citizen says, was understood to have some allusion to the exclusion of his articles from that pa- per, and be was merely warned that the less said about it the better for his reputation.
 The paper, we arc glad to note, disavows any intention to reflect upon him as a judge. In fact it commends him, and only qusrrels with his conduct, off the bench, in attempt ing to foist upon the country relick of bar bsrisin that every enlightened nation upon Earth is ashamed of, to-wit, the unity of Church and State. The Judge, we fear, is too sensitive on the subject of his removal from office. No one has suggested it but himself, and should he keep on kicking be- fore he is spurred others may begin, ere while, to enquire if there may not be some reason for it.
Arizona weekly miner., 1875-08-13
PIMA IrEMs,-From The Citizen of July

PIMA IrEMs,-From The Citizen of July 31.
 We have learned of the following ship
 ments this week: Quinlan's train took away | for Yuma from Lord < Williams 900 pounds | of wool, . lot of hides, etc. L. M Jacobs &
 Co. shipped lot of hides and pelts by train
 of Amabiscl. Thursday, E. N. Fish X Co
 shipped lot of wool and pelts by Deguerre's
 train also by same train lots of merchandise | for Blackwater and Pima Villages. and 1000 pounds lead bullion to Florence to aid work
 ing ores from the Pinal mines. E. N. Fish S Co. also received a large lot of lumber this
 week from Gardner's saw mill in the San
 Ritas, some of which goes to finish up the
 Touring mill of Solomon Warner. just across
 this valley. Early in the week Lord < Will Hams shipped per Fully < Ochoa's teams from E. N Fish & Co.'S mill 5000 pounds four for the Indians at San Carlos also same
 trains took some freight to Camp Grant. Samuel Hughes (assayeD came in from
 Florence carly in the week and expected to
 return before to-day, He informs us that
 the smelting furnaces of Hughes and Arey and Mir. Jennings near Florence, are in oper- ation. They are constantly improving and enlarging. Mir. Hughes says mill is most needed, as the ore is mostly milling ore. It is understood that Nash & Go. will erect their mill at Florence, and that it will have a capacity of ten tons per day. But at the rate mines are being discovered in the Pinal mountains, one mill will afford but limited accommodations.
 Lieut.. E. D. Thomas of Gen. Kautz's staff arrived here on Wednesday and left on Thursday en route to Camp Grant to survey a military reservation there, which is to in clude enough timber on the Graham noun tains for government use. c. W. Gearhart, canvassing agent for the Missouri Valley Life Insurance Company, returned to Tucson with Lieut.. Thomas.
 The rush to the various mines has been larger than usual this week. It is now diff cult to get a day laborer in Tucson. And the reports come in better and better re- garding both gold and silver mines. There is now chance for more laborers in this sec tion of Arizona.
 Two emigrant wagons and families passed here eastward bound yesterday. It is a sort of habit that some people have of moving back and forth between Texas and California, living from one to two years in place at time. These may or may not be some of this | element. If they like it, we cannot see any | reason why they should not keep it up. The | life is surley healthy and now that the h. iians are quiet, 1t is safe enough.
Arizona weekly miner., 1875-08-13

AN EMPIRE FOR SALE.-We have received the maps and schedule of the division of the old Peter Lassen grant, in Tehama county, Cal, which now belongs to Henry Gerke, and is advertised for sale at auction, in lots of from 40 to leo acres, commencing on the 9th of September. This little empire is Is miles long and three wide, in the very heart of the Sacramento valley embracing the cell ebrated Gcrke vinyarls and farms. Gerke hes Il, 900 acres in wheat this year on the place.
Arizona weekly miner., 1875-08-13
MINING NOTES.

Mir. Clark, of the Signal Service, received
 permission last week to visit the Peck ant
 other mines in the direction of the Brad
 shaw, but after three or four days rambling
 returned without being able to find tho
 Peck, but he visited several ether mines, ana
 on being ordered out on the line to attend tc
 some repairs, he left his notes with us, from
 which we take the following:
 The mill at the Crook mine will be ready
 to run in about two weeks. Found nine
 shafts sunk on the Crook ledge of an average
 depth of sixty feet. A force of men is at work on a road from the mine to the mill
 Johnson & Go. have about $50 tons of ore fl on the dump. Three new gold lodges have
 recently been discovered within few miles of the mill. w. A. Cullumber and Charles Stewart have located the principal one, which measures 100 feet in width and carries gold, silver and copper. No assay has yet been made.of it, but it is estimated that it will go S25 in gold. Newton & Silsbee have started saloon near the mill. About 20 men are employed on the mill and road. John Curtin is running hurdy -gurdy, work hg Crook ore. Two hurdys are run by Mil Ter Co, also on Crook ore. There are ten arrastras in all working this rock.
 Stewards ledge, Monmouth, is 20 inches wide.
 Earnings two arrastras, in Maple Gulch, : have been running for two weeks on ore from his mine, the U. P.
 About half mile south of the gulch is Fredrick's mill, which has been shut down about A hours, having cracked a mortar. His cnginei l4-horse power. About forty inches of water running there. Earnings Overshot wheel is running two arrastras half . mile below Fredrick's mill
 At the Bully Bueno found E. Fender build ing ten-stamp mill which he expects to fin ish late in the fall, in time for the winter rains. It is to run by water-power. There arc 800 tons of rock on the Bully Bueno | dnmp. The old Bully Bueno mill, burned | down some years ago, furnishes the batteries, | stamps, dies, cams shafts, etc.
 6uS Dci aSCo miuc 10 uOt UtiuS WOIkcQ at present. The mill has been working or War Eagle ore. Goodwin & McKinuon are running three arrastras on War Eagle creek working War Eagle ore, and one arrastra in Bradshaw Basin on Buckeye ore.
 About two and g half miles below the old Bully Bueno mill, on Turkey creek, are sev- eral valuable lodges, located during the h. dian troubles. The Compton is five feet wide with 12 inches of S2OO ore. The Buck eye assays $2SO per ton, and there is a streak of seven inches in the Hartford that goes S35O The Dexter has two feet of one hun fred dollar ore. Work will be resumed on these in short time by - Compton, Pat DIG. Moreland, and Bill Simmons. 'he packer. |: Didn't see the Peck but heard glowing &C., 'ounts, and that Mir. Bean had contracted at sS2 per ton to deliver the ore from the mine 9 San Francisco, viz: $40 from the mine to :. 'rescott, $50 from Prescott to Ehrenberg, nd Si6 gold from Ehrenberg to San Fran isco. There arc seven men working on the eek and about 40 in the vicinity.