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

CONSIDERABLY building is going on.
BEAVER DAM has population of 1856.
THE population OF GAINESVILLE is found
to be 10,
DKLEvAN has a population of 2549, a
gain of 40 in five years.
The population of Beloit is 4, 6O2-in-
crease since 1870 only 305.
LANCASTER has population, accord
ing to the new census, of 2742.
Monticello shows up 884 inhabitants,
an increase of 30 in the five years.
THREE-CARD monte men heeced Chas
Kindstead out of watch worth 1925
at Green Bay, Tuesday.
a BURGLAR sent circus-tickets to a
Waukesha family, and while they were
enjoying the show, he robbed the house.
ALBERT CURL, of Glendale, thought
he could jump on a morning train at
Sparta. His foot has been amputated
THE Eau Claire county delegation to
the Republican State Convention will
vote for Gilbert E. Porter for Lieuten-
ant Governor.
DURING the storm on Wednesday
night of last week, the house of Hon.
VIM. Frazier, of Jefferson, Vernon coun-
ty, was blown to pieces, and two of his
children SO badly injured that they have
since died.
Mr.. D. A. DAVIS and his two daugh-
tiers, living in Racine, on Sunday ate
some peaches which had been canned
two years, and are now seriously i'll,
with every indication of having been
poisoned. Hopes ere entertained of
their recovery.
THE census just taken shows the pop
ulation of the incorporated villages of
Kewaukee and Door counties to be as
follows:
kewaunee ...-...-......---......-l .09s
Sturgeon Bay ----..-....-.-..--.. tzl
THE Oconto Reporter says fisherman
at that place captured a sturgeon, one
day last week, that weighed four hun
dred and seventy eight pounds, and
measured nine feet and two inches in
length. This is probably the largest
fish ever caught in the waters of Green
Bay.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-01

The population of Sheboygan is 6S28,
being ITO in excess of that of Manitowoc
In 1870; Sheboygan had $40 and Mani
towoc 5168, showing a gain over our
neighbors in five years of q, which,
while comparatively small, is evidence
that our city is steadily gaining and is
much more satisfactory than if the show
ing were reversed.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-01

ONE of our exchanges records the in
vention of g new lawn game, neither
croquet nor achivalrie, but it gives the
gentlemen a chance to put their arms
around the girls-which is all that is
needed to make it popular. Won't some
one introduce it here?
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-01

REPORTS from thirty of the principal
counties in Wisconsin exhibit a general
increase of acreage in wheat, with every
prospect of a heavy yield, unless blight
and rust should intervene. Oats, rye
and barley promise well, but corn is
backward. The potato crop will be full
ly up to the average of. former years.
The yield of hay, too, is large.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-01

HERE is a specimen of the shots which
Nash, of the Chronicle, is pouring into
the Pilot man, and to which he will re-
ply in equally positive language
Asthmatic lungs have we, Ell Well,
if we have, we can out trot any old pod
bellied, pot-valiant Apollo that ever
came West from Steuben county to grow
UP with the country.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-01

LAST Thursday German farmer
whose name we could not learn-fell
backwards from the top of stone wall
into the basement of barn which he
and his neigbors were putting up, in the
town of Meme, in such manner as to
break one of his shoulder bones. DR..
Coakley was called and the man is now
getting along finely.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-01

TIE population of Fond du Lac, ac-
cording to the census just completed, is
15,209.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-01

Without exception these pupils, to-
gether with many not here named, are
entitled to the thanks of their teachers,
not only for their uniform lady-hke and
-gentleman-like department, but also for
age their teachers in every way possible.
HOSEA BARNS.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-01

THE FOURTH Germans of this
city, and all others who may be so in
clined, will celebrate the Fourth of July
Next Sunday in an old fashioned man
ner. From the published programme
guns will be fired at sunrise at nine
o'clock meeting of the several fire
companies, the turner's and rifle company
will be held at Turner Hall, where a
procession will be formed to parade
through the principal streets to Wash
ington Park. Arrived at the Park, the
President of the Day, Hon. John Schu-
cite, Will make an opening address, after
which the exercises will be-
LIST, Reading of the Declaration of In
dependence in English, by Mr.. A. J.
Schmitz.
I'd, Grafton in English, by Hon. r. D.
Smart.
Sd, Reading of the Declaration of In
dependence in German, by Prof. G. F.
Viebahn.
4th, Grafton in German, by Mr.. Chas.
Esslinger.
9Th, Return march to Turner Hall.
Music by Belongs full band will en-
liven the programme. The following
gentlemen have been appointed Marshals
to preserve order P. Mulholland, Chas.
White, F. Schultz, F. Schuette and
VIM. Hemschemeyer. In the evening a
grand ball at Turner Hall will be given.
Aside from one or two basket pic-nics,
we have heard of no celebration as be-
ing on the tapis by our American citi-
zens.
We are indebted to the Messrs.
Schuette for the following statement of
produce, wood, etc., shipped by them
from this port for the year ending the
31st of May, 1875:
Wood, 1900 cords.
Posts, 10000.
Ties, 8, 500.
Peas, 10, 900 bushels.
Butter, 10000 pounds.
Eggs, Is, 900 dozen.
Potatoes, 5000 bushels.
!. Oats, 5, 600 bushels.
Wool, $500 pounds.
Hay, 500 tons.
The above does not include the ship
ments made from the Oriental Mills.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-01
j. e.. PLATT.

P. S.-The price on all Teas OF last
years crop reduced 10 cts. per pound.
1jul-12m J. r.. PLATT.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-01

examination of our goods and prices will pay as
intend to and can sell cheap as the cheapest
By honestly and far dealing hope to merit share
of the public patronage. 24june75
JOIN BoLEy. JOIN SULLIVAN
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-01

The following named pupils have
neither been absent nor tardy for tao
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-22
One Way for a Drunkard to Reform.

Let every young man whose appetite
for drink is consciously growing, but
whose conscience is not yet scared by con-
firmed habit, adopt the plan of making an
accurate note of how he feels in the morn
ing after drinking too much the night be-
fore. Let him analyZe as nearly in detail
as he can his thoughts and reflections
when he first wakes up, and put down in
black and white plain, truthful descrip-
ton of them. do not refer to the sense
of physical pain or discomfort which al
ways follows debauch, but to his moral
conditions in the early morning, and in
the absence of the Fictitious excitement of
conviviaiity. Let this be done conscien-
tiously, and let the young man read over
his own words carefully, and endeavor to
thoroughly realize what he has described
on paper, every time he thinks of taking
a drink, and l believe that most young
men controlled by principle, actuated by
a-desire to do right, and struggle against
the inherent weakness of human nature,
would in a short time come to the conclu-
sion that the ''game is not worth the can
de-" and in many cases eventually give
up the desire to indulge in so treacherOus
and ddusive a relief from ennui-sO dan
gerous and false a means of excitement
Providence Journal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-22
BarbarOus Treatment Of Captive by
the COmanches.

A young Texan, who was captured
by the Comanche Indians about a year
ago. gave the following account of his ex-
periences recently TO a correspondent OF
the Galveston Nelos
was trying to get five beef steers back
to the herd last May, when was sudden
ly surrounded by about twenty-five Co
manche Indians, and taken prisoner. This
happened near sunrise. was tied on my
horse and carried some 80 miles that day.
At night we arrived at a sort OF camp,
where we Joined fifty more Indians, and L
found they had another white man prls-
oner. | was not allowed to speak with
this man. but [ could see from the blood
on his face and clothes that he was wound
ed. As soon as the Indians had kindled
fire and eaten some meat, they began to
torture this second prisoner, though for
what reason have never learned. They
beat him with cartridge-box strap with
large buckle on the end of it, after strip
ping him of his clothes. They cut gashes
on him with knives. They sawed OFF his
thumbs with an old cavalry sabre. and
mashed his toes between rock and the
butt end of carbine After gouging out
! some of his teeth with a bayonet. and
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-22
The Cadiz Window-BOx.

a correspondent of the american Build
er, writing from Cadiz, thus describes an
architectural novelty which he thinks
would soon become popular if introduced
in this country:
sit is sort of glass box to hang out
side of your window and sit in. 1t is not
a bay window at all, but much cheaper
and better contrivance to serve similar
purpose. The windows of the houses are
large, with French easements opening on
hinges outside there is floor about two
and half feet in width, with its inner
edge resting on the stone sill, its outer
edge being Supported by bracket. On
three sides of this floor light wooden
paneling rises about as high as the top of
a chair, and above that, in the winter sea-
son, are glass sashes, extending to the
roof of the little box, which is just little
higher than the top of the window to
which it is hung. In warm weather, which
prevails the greater part of the year in
CadiZ, the glass sashes are removed, and
fresh linen awnings on blue and white
stripes or bright silken curtains take their
place. The effect is beautiful, and man
who has seen it, as [ do at this moment,
with the mischievous eyes of fair senor-
ita peering down at hiM from behind her
fan, is net likeIy to forget the Cadiz bay
window nor the CadiZ fan, which affected
Lord Byron so seriously half century
ago.
1.-THE perch is simply five-sided box,
hung up in front of the regular window,
which takes the place of its sixth side, or
cover. 1t is portable, and can be taken
off and put on at will. 1t is usually hung
in the second and third stories of house,
sometimes higher, but never in the ground
floor, as bay-windows usually are. In
bad weather it is simply closed, and serves
as double protection without interfering
with the regular window at all. 1t is COM
mon to fit inside shutters to it in summer
to shade the interior from the blazing
tropical sun. As all large houses have a
number of these boxes at the different
windows. the effect upon the street is
highly picturesque. The passer-by might
easily fancy himself an actor, walking
down the stage OF a very long, narrow
theater, for the amusement of several hun
dreds of dark-eyed spectators occupying
the double row of prOscenium boxes
above -
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-22

sticking cactus thOrns in his flesh, they
poured powder in his ears and burnt it.
All this time the man did not complain or
cry out, as he probably expected, by his
fOrtitude, TO induce the Indians to spare
his life. But in this he was mistaken, for
they, finding that he did not complain at
all these tortures, began to cut pieces of
flesh out of his legs and back and eat
them; or at least pretend to eat-l think
they only chewed up the flesh and spit it
out. Seeing that all this torture did not
make him cry out flor he had flinted), the
chief stepped up and cut out one of his
eyes, and put live coal of fire in the
socket, and then put an en1 to his life
with knife.
The Indians then had a grand dance.
was led to a small tree. | had no water or
any thing to eat for thirty-six hours. The
next day about midday the party moved
in northwest course, travelling about 20
miles; and after this we moved ina north
west course about 800 miles, where we met
several large parties of Indians, some OF
whom had been on raids in Northern
Texas. remained in that section of coun-
try with the Comanches, and was kept
employed mostly herding ponies, and
sometimes dressing deer skins and buffalo
hides. My clothes were all taken away
from me few days after | was captured,
and L only had pair of drawers and a
blanket afterward. 1 often had to eat raw
venison and buffalo meat without salt.
After | had been with the Indians some
six months, they ceased to treat me as a
prisoner, and was allowed to go some
distance from the camp. l think it was
about the 1st of February left them. |
was herding ponies, and was allowed to
ride one of the best without saddle. The
second night took nay buffalo robe and
used it as saddle, filled a sack with dried
meat, and struck out for the settlements,
which | reached toward the last of the
month. l sold my horse and buffalo robe,
and collected three months pay that was
due me at the time L was captured; and
now, with Gods help, shall keep out OF
the way of the Indians hereafter.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-22
A Poets Apology.

To the Editor of the NetC York Tribune;
DEAR SIR: l have been informed that
there is always brisk demand for good
poetry. l have long been inclined that
way, having studied in the best schools.
You may have seen my ode to the comet
which was published last summer in two
of our local papers | send you a piece
which is in my best vane and which IS en-
tirely at your service. l shOald like TO see
it in your paper for | think it would be
honorable to both parties.
don't know what your custom Is as re-
CARDS ompensation-neither do | care
faim is what write for and if | could by
my own unaided efforts reach the pinicle
on which Shakespeare stands [ would die
cont ent. Do you not think that the un-
restricted air of the vastly prairie eondueeS
to poetry? Your answer in the columns
of the Tribune will much Oblige several.
If YOU publish the enclosed poem please
do not hesitate to criticise it. God made
me an honest man and | like the honest
truth.
When you move into your new build
ing | would like to write an ode for the OC-
casiOn.
Yours very obediently and fraternally
JOHN SPIKES SPIKESON.
P.S. /. OF course TrionyX is not my
real name which is SpikesOn. 1t Is my
pOetical cOgnomen-and is well known III
our region. 1t means ''three clawed" from
the greek tri, three and Onux claw. The
/ idea was original. j. ,. ,.
p. S. 2. The poem enclosed is supposed
| to be addressed by young man who had
volunteered for the war or perhaps only
for three months to the young lady to
whom he had promised marriage. He
was not trying to get out oft; he was
bona fdc honest straight and real out
and Outer-as is evident. j. ,. ,
p. S. 3. You may print this letter too If
you like although it is not fair sample OF
what can do. | would like to be your
permanent correspondent from here if
YOU are agreeable. / am going to the
Smoky Hill and the Lodge Pole Creek
soon and will write to you if you like.
Don't fear the expense as / write only for
faim-and my faim will only rebound to
your glory. y. D. D.
| P.S. 4. Knowing how uncertain the
mails are send this by private hand.
| OMAHA, Neb. March l, 1915.
7 The editor comments as follows: Our
only reason for not printing the singular
/ ly original and beautiful poem which ac-
companied this note, is that we consider
| it quite too good for our columns. Anx-
ious, however, that it should not be lost
to the world, as we fear the same writer's
s. Ode to the Comet" already is, we have
introduced it to the attention of those dis
pensers of "faim,'' the editors of the
monthly magazines, and we regret to say
that it has not been received by them
with enthusiastic alacrity. One OF them
tell us that he has already three flour bar
rels full of the same sort; another offers
to publish the piece at the usual adyertis-
ing rates while the third contemptuOus-
Iy, and we must say unfeelingly, advises
Mr.. Spikeson to stick to the local news
papers. If our correspondent, with just
Indignation at this want of appreciation,
should determine never to write another
line, we believe that his resolution would
meet with general appreciation.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-22
Tom Miners Missing Finger.

As general thing people don't want
to go to Evansville, but when they do they
go by way of Terre Haute, on the princi-
pie that the longest way around is the
nearest in direct line. | went over on
Tom Miners train. Tom is the biggest
and best natured conductor that ever
swung lamp or punched a hole In an
emiorant's ticket. He speaks German
with ravishing fiueHcy, and even grass
hopper refugee can ask him a question
without danger of being snubbed. But
Thomas came precious near losing his
temper on this occasion. A long Clay
County man, in butternut jeans, had his
attention attracted to amutilated finger on
Toms right hand, and kept staring at it as
If fascinated. Now, Tom says that he was
married two years before his wife missed
the half-inch of finger, and even when she
did discover il, she was too much OF lady
to ask questions. But this tObacco-chew-
ing, whisky-drinking. coOn-hunting,
seven-up playing, unkempt, unwashed vo-
ter, couldn't rest satisfied until he had in
formed his mind in regard 70 the missing
Joint of that conductors finger. BE fidget-
ed. and spat to the right and left, and
finally, catching Toms eye, beckoned him
alongside, and then, in a horse-thief whis-
per, wanted to know How did you lose
that thar finger?'' at was chawed off, ("
said Tom, and passed on. The fellow
didn't seem satisfied, and as Tom came
through again he stopped him, and in
quired "How?'' "Well," said Tom, d" If
you must know, had fight. A fellow
kept asking me impertinent questions one
day until could stand it no longer, and l
sailed into him. You see the result" At
ter moments pause, the fellow eontin-
ued she ruther got away with you
didn't he?'' % Yes" said Tom, Sowing
fiercely, Z" but he was a much bigger man
than you are. REV. George G. HGTdt''g
~ the Indianapolis Herald,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-22
Smoke Clouds in Vineyards.

1t is a common practice to protect the
vineyards of France and Germany against
frost by the production of artificial clouds
of smoke. A new method in this opera
ton has been recommended by Nj. G.
Wizard. This consists of mixing gas-tar
with sawdust and old straw, and piling the
material in large heaps in the vineyards.
Despite of rain and moisture, the mixture
preserves its inflammability for more than
fortnight. When required for use, the
heaps are divided into smaller ones, and
distributed in and about the vineyard. If
the wind be high, which it is in cases offrost,
the heaps burn freely for about three and
half hours, producing very dense
smoke. The artificial cloud which thus
envelopes the vines considerably decreases
the radiation from the ground, and thereby
counteracts frost, which is greatest to-
wards morning during calm spring nights,
and does so much injury to the tender
nlantS
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-22
Factories vs.. Farms.

Manufactures are magical in their work
ing. On the border of the Connecticut
Valley lies a territory, rocky and wild,
whose people twenty years ago were, like
their fathers of happy memory, poor and
blessed with many children. The hungry
raven passed it hastily by, and even the
wild fox refused to make its hole in its
hillsides. Through this little valley flowed
a tiny brook, which bore away to the Con-
necticut River, The surplus rain and ill
spared soil, the loss of the latter causing
the rock surface to spread out wider year
by year. A Maine fellow CHANGED that
way, and after frequent libations-not
from the brook, but at the grocery-told
the gaping farmers the brook was their
{ fortune. Some giggled at this; Others
shook their heads-all agreed that he was
mad or fool. Incensed at their verdict,
he mounted a whisky barrel, and gave
them a most sensible talk about co-opera-
tive unions, utilizing of water-power, etc.
When he had ended his speech, they wish
ed they hadn't laughed. They went to
work the brook was widened they DAM
med il above the village. The farmers
pulled down their old blue stockings, and
put all their hard money into the enter
prise-some fifty, some a hundred, and
some atbousand dollars. They built their
factories and elected officers. A year or
two ago we passed that place. Twenty
one factories dot that little brook, five
thousand people dwell about or in that
village, which formerly contained hun
dred souls, and that community is one OF
the wealthiest and most intelligent to be
found in the Nutmeg State.-Iros Age.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-22

they watched every opportunity to make
the exchange Ii did not occur until their
arrival in Washington, where it was effect
ed while Mrs. Fitch was fixing her shawl,
preparatory to her leaving the cars. The
rest of you know" "And now," says
he, :" / am prepared to take the conse-
quences." All that Clarvoe said in reply
was that he had probably done the best
thing possible for himself under the cir
cumstaHces, and that his frank confession
might possibly mitigate his punishment.
The thieves were then locked up in sep
arate rooms, and they will be taken before
Judge Smell this morning at 10 O'Clock.
when the news of the recovery of her
treasure was conveyed to Mrs. Fitch her
revulsion of feeling
WAS ALMOST AS MARKED
in demonstrations of Joy as it had been in
grief. She clasped her hands and shouted,
:" Thank Heaven - "Thank Heaven l''
+" Thank the ofiicers!' and her delight
was of itself to her physicians, almost as
dangerous to her reason as her grief had
been. At this hour of writing 1890 a. m.)
sheis comparatively tranquil, but express
es firm determination to return to st.
Louis in the evening train, and in obedi-
ence to her wishes Lieutenant Fitch has
postponed his contemplated business with
the Navy Department, and will accompany
his wife home.
Senator Sherman, who is now in the
city. was made acquainted with the facts
at ii O'Clock, and he at once repaired to
the hotel and has been with his much-be-
loved niece all the night.
The necklace, after it has been identi-
fed in court this morning by Lieutenant
Fitch, will be taken to Gault's, where,
curing the day, in an inside showcase, it
will be on exhibition, and all who visit
Gault's will be able to see it, but towards
evening it will be conveyed to the Nation
al Safe Deposit Company for keeping un-
der Mrs. Fitch's orders.
Mrs. Fitch, in referring to the robbery,
expressed wish to meet her friends dur
ing the day, and DR.. Garnett advised this
course, as, in his opinion, it would have
tendency to make her feel re-assured and
more speedily restore to their wonted tone
her much-shatterea nerves. 1t is at the
last moment of writing, but we must say
one word for the detective officers. Their
skill, judgment and courage cannot be too
highly commended, and we are already
aware that they will receive suitable re-
ward.
IN. Bit should be added that the
above is only clever "April fool" hoax,
concocted by reporter of the paper to
which it is credited.-EDIToR.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-22
A Cow With q Wooden Leg.

Mr.. Miles Wilson, in Borrowdale, had
several young cattle grazing on the fell
behind his house. Somehow or other two
of them fell from a considerable height,
and came rolling down among the rocks.
One of the animals was killed outright ;
the other escaped with its life, but had its
hind leg broken. A veterinary surgeon
was called in. who at once amputated the
limb, and replaced it with a wooden one.
The animal is now walking about and do
ing l.-Fdnciers' Gazette.