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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-15

The great Intentional rifle match,
which was shot yesterday at Dublin, re.
suited in splendid triumph not alone
of American skill, bnt of American
weapons as well It was the second
competitive trial between the picked
rihemen of Ireland and America, both
countries being the most famous in the
world for skill in target-shooting Ire
land has now been beaten twice, and the
honors of supremacy fairly belong to
the United States. The result affords
conclusive proof of the superiority OF
American rifles, the match having been
won at the longest distances. At 300
yards the Irish team scored 1913 against
1877 for the Americans, but when it
came to ranges of 900 and 1000 yards,
the Sharp and Remington breech- load
ers used by our side carried the total
score to a majority of 38 points, or 967
to 500. The great capacity of the
weapons Of the Americans will be more
easily understood when it is remember
ed that 800 yards are nearly half a mile,
900 yards about four-sevenths, and LOCO
yards about three-fifths of a mile, or
equal to the distance from Madison
street bridge to the lake. The best rifle
that England and Ireland could produce
proved to be inferior to the arms of
American manufacture. Incidental to
the eventful test of human skill and
mechanical merit there was displayed
by the gentlemen of both England and
Ireland degree of warm good viii and
hearty hospitality which will leave us
their debtors, while it makes more mem
orable the visit of the American team
and their great achievement.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-15
Coop ADv1oE.-We find the following

Coop ADvICE.-We find the following
in the Racine Advocate. It applies
with equal force to this locality:
IF all inhabitants of our city conform
to the following rules, which must ap-
pear at first sight convincing and con-
elusive, they viii add immensely to the
prosperity and growth of our town:
1. Spend your money at home as a
rule. By taking your money to other
places you injure your own home inter
ests and no benefit will accure from it to
your neighbors.
2. You cannot aid your home inter-
ests more effectually than patronizing
good merchants, traders, and by Undue
ing honest and active people to settle
down here. By spending and investing
money elsewhere, you are an enemy of all
these purposes.
3. It is your duty to invest your mon
ely where you are receiving and earning it.
4. Whenever you wish to get on trust
you can only do so with the merchants
at home. In such case, is it not I'M
just to carry the cash outside of the
town?
5.H all would spend their money here
our merchants could keep larger and
better stock of goods and sell cheaper !;
property will rise in value and the rental
of houses and business places will be
more advantageous.
6. Ii the merchants and mechanics in
your home or town command large
trades and patronage, they in their turn
Will be able to make more improvements;
they will need more help and can prompt
ly pay more wages and salaries.
7. Spend your money at home. Be-
gin to do SO at once, this very season,
and great results and changes will be
noticed. Buy your clothing, dry goods,
provisions and groceries, your books and
newspapers at home, and a portion will
be surely coming back to you.
g. What reasonable pretext can you
furnish for investing your money away
from home or replenishing the Golfers OF
outside merchants ? You will rarely buy
cheaper or better, and your money thus
spent Is forever taken from home bust
ness,
9. Our merchants and mechanics are
your neighbors, your friends, your asso-
ciates /; they assist you in need, want CT
sickness. Without your assistance their
shops and stores can scarcely exist
without you the town would become
desolate and its business the by-word of
travellers and strangers, and the ambl ton
OF our citizens would be ridiculed. Do
you wish for such a result? spend and
invest your money everywhere but not
ut home. IL not, do the contrary and be
wise
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-15

THE past is the only index that we
have of the possibilities OF the future
If we have known a man through long
series of years, and can bear testimony
to his honesty, his fidelity, his ability,
we are not afraid to trust him in the fu
ture. Our confidence has a firm basis,
ana though it may be shaken, the
chances are that it will not; that the
character which has proven true in the
past, viii continue true to the end.
This is the teaching of human expert
ence, and holds good with parties as it
does with men. The Republican party
has stood the test of fourteen years of
severe trial. Its fidelity has been tried.
Its honesty proven. Its patriotism has
been established beyond question. 1t
has brought the nation through danger
greater than any that ever confronted a
people. Its whole record from 1861 to
1875, is open, like a book, to be read
and judged by all men. It has had its
faults, but they have been the uninten-
tional faults of friend, and not the de-
signs of an enemy. Judged by the
standard of practical experience, it has
proven a worthy public servant, devoted
to those vital principles which are nee
essary to a healthy public growth and
the preservation of free institutions.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-15

THE Scientific American announces
that an insect, hostile to housewives and
slumber, has been purged of his pesti-
lontial qualities by simple scientific
method, and rendered a delightful and
indispensable article of the dressing
table By soaking nice fat bedbugs in
eatlrat4ed solution of nitrate of potash
and water, a perfume, delicate, delicious.
penetrating, and like nothing else in the
wide world, is obtained. What an i'm
petus this gives to the slaughter of insects
of this persuasion, Nitrate of potash is
cheap, and bedbugs are plentiful The
underpaid clerk on S. week. living at
o dingy, third-class boarding house, has
III this announcement the wherewithal to
accumulate competency. Such is tile
value OF the daily newspaper as the
handmade of Science, and benefactor of
the helpless and needy.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-15

The day following our centennial
festivities the following incident occur
red in g South End salooa: A friend
had invited one of the South Carolina
soldiers into the saloon to put another
turf on the buried Ratchet. While stand
ing at the bar q stranger came in. The
Carolinian suddenly dropped his glass
and closely eyed the strange. His
gaze was SO steady and peculiar that the
friend began to be alarmed and to fear
that the Ratchet was about to be dug up
again. Directly the C2-olinian asked the
stranger If he knew him. There was no
recognition, whereupon the Carolinian
asked him if he was not in the late war.
Eyes, was the reply. ''And took part
in such skirmish 2" Yes well, I
thought so, replied tie Carolinian, and
raising his hat, showed large scar on
his forehead, saying. There is your
sabre mark, my boy; come ur and take
a drink And SO then and there they
decorated the grave OF the buried hat
chet.-B0stO1e Herald.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-15

OVER two thousand persons lost their
lives by the recent disastrous flood on
the river Garonne, in France. Fully a
hundred thousand people are entirely
dependent upon charity. It is crafty
ing to observe that the appeals for aid
for the sufferers have been most gener-
ously responded to. Already sufficient
money has been contributed to meet the
pressing necessities of those who lost
their all by the terrible visitation, and
contributions are still pouring in. The
disaster was one of the most terrible of
modern times. None who were within
range of the food had time to save their
personal effects; thousands were over
whelmed and lost their lives in the resist
less torrent. Fortunately, France is
able to care for her own sufferers, and
no assistance viii be required from other
sources.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-15

In consideration that q number OF manufacturers
Their counties have Ieagued together to destroy
the facturers of piows Nantowoc by instruct
ing their agents sell their pows nd points cleap
they do at the factory, and in consideration
that several merchants in Manitowoc and some IS
pretended agents have Joined in this conspiracy and
in the full faith, that the farmers of Manftowoe
County disposed to support our home industry
and aid il this conspiracy have resolved
sell my pows and points at the following prices
No "a Lord cast-il On blow complete 5000
% "a steel pillow complete 1880
{" IS 4" common point .4t
70 cutter point IS
rs .s land side for cast-iron pillow SO
rS steel ploW Loo
All other plows and points at the same rates. Al
points are GROUND and all plows are w R
RANTED.
1Saugi4 emo z. j SMALLEX E.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-15

The Republican party, through its
administration ola wise financial system.
has paid over 5000, 0o0. 900 of the public
debt in less than ten years, and this in
the face of a steady reduction of taxation.
This splendid showing may entitle the
party to no credit in the eyes of Democ-
racy, but the Thoughtful men of the ma
ton viii see in this financial exhibit, the
proof, strong as holy writ, of the ster-
ling integrity and capacity of the party
to govern the Republic wisely and we'll
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-15
INTERESTING FACTS.

The organ of vision is considered the
most delicate organization of the human
frame yet many who have been born
blind have been enabled to see by sur
oical operations, and the following is an
Interesting fact concerning one of the
class =
A youth had become thirteen years OF
age when his eyes were touched by a
Surgeon. He thought scarlet the most
beautiful color; black was painful. He
fancied every object touched him, and
he could not distinguished by sight
what he perfectly well knew by feeling ;
for instance, the cat and the dog. When
the second eye was touched, he remark
ed that the objects were not so large IN
appearance in this as the one opened at
first. Pictures he considered only par
thy colored surfaces, and n miniature alb
solutely astonished him, seeming to him
like putting bushel into a pint.
Stanly, the organist, and many blind
musicians, have been the best performers
of their time and q schoolmistress in
England could discover that the boys
were playing in a distant corner of the
room, instead of studying, although q
person using his eyes could not detect
the slightest sound. Prof. Sanderson,
who was blind, could, in few moments,
tell how many persons were in mixed
company, and of each sex. A blind
lady could dance in figure dances, sew
and thread her own needle. A blind
man in Derbyshire, England, has actu-
ally been surveyor and planner of roads,
his ear guiding him as to the distance as
accurately as the eye to others the late
Justice Fielding, who was blind, on
walking into room for the first time
after speaking few words, said, f'This
room is twenty-five feet long, eighteen
wide, and twelve high" all ofwhich was
revealed to him with accuracy through
the medium of his ear Verify eve are
fearfully and wonderfully made.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-15
THE Atheneum contains the following
curious arrangement of figures


1t viii be seen that the sum OF each
line, each column, and each diagnoi is
ga. The four corner fgures-34.
The corner figures OF any square of four
figures (of which there are four in the
larger sauarel-34 The four figures of
the central square-34. The four fig
ures of each corner of the whole square
81 Making altogether 20 different
ways in which 81 may be reckoned. The
other sums of 81 may be obtained by
taking the figures which stands next to
the corner figure, going round from left
to right, thus, 3, s, IA, 9, 81 Then
take the figures which stand to the left
of the corner figures, going the other
way round, 2, s. ID, 1874.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-15

Conducted by Us in every form, on Commission only
Puts and calls best houses and lowest rates Cost
Sl00 to $780, and often pay s. 600 profit Pamphlet
explaining how Wall Street speculatons con-
duet ted seat free. SeHd for n copy.
TU NHBRlDGh Sc CO.,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
avail Street, N. Y.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23

He was dining with some friends near Lon
don, when a broken soldier, in old tattered
uniform, came to the window begging; on
which Coleridge launched into history,
causes, ciIects-everything-O the Peninsu-
lar War "What a pity" said one of the par
~ afterwards, that that old soldier came up
to the Window at would have been all
the same said the other IF maybe had
hoped across the path 1t seldom happens
that those who are famous at monologue are
equally clever at retort But Coleridge ut
tered one of the finest things. on sudden
provocation, ever said in any language. lie
was addressing British mob, when some OF
his hearers, hot liking his sentiments, Missed.
He paused, looked calmly around at them,
and then. cnunciating very slowly, SAID
when, on the burningembers oil Democracy
you throw the cold water of reason, no won
der that they hIsS" II was al coarse Oel'ei
suited to an A,heniau assembly than 10
British mob, but it WIS Il glorious outoHrs'
all the same.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23

THE family, eleven in number, in the ag-
gregate, measured 70 feet and onehalf inch
in height, weighed 2,29S pounds, and the sum
of their entire ages then was 557 years The
computed strength of the father and six sons
was $500 bounds. At that date 1856 there
were several grandchildren over 81 feet high,
and still growing. The mother, Mrs Katy
Howard, nee Current, died aged SO years, on
May IA, 1870, near Ruddell's Mills, where
she had lived for sixty years-seven children
surviving her. She had twelve brothers and
sisters, each over feet high"
In this connection We will state that the
Rev. James Quinsenberry, of Clark County,
Kentucky had two sets of children, twelve in
each. The twenty-tour children each had
from twelve to nineteen offspring. Soa Clark
man, who heard us speak of the tall families,
says. A Mason County gent added that Mel
son Cliff, of that county, had twentyseven
children. married several times, suppose ?"
we added. mo, sir, only once 1 think" he
replied.
Maj. John Edwards, of this county, had
twenty-four children from two marriages.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23

The property to seek irregular mediums
for advertising is one of the queer things in
this business. The prices that some business
men will pay for sticking their advertise.
ments in an irregular place, where no one
looks for business advertisements, is unac-
countable, especially when compared with
their unwillingness to pay anything for ad.
vertising in the regular channels. They will
pay large sums for inserting their business
cards IN section of frame in hotel, bar.
room, street-car, railway station, or in a no
tel register, or an almanac, or u guide-boOk,
or annual of one sort or another, or IN thea
ter programme, or in special advertising
sheet, issued when ii can get enough to pay.
The by-ways they seek, or that successful
ly solicit them, are innumerable. Likewise
they will spend large sums in printing spec
ial circulars, and in postage to send them.
In all this they ignore the most essential con.
dition in advertising, namely, that II has char
acter and effect. from the mediums through
which it is given to the reader. Advertise
ments thrust into irregular and unbusiness
places impress the general mind that the con-
Germ is of similar character. On the other
hand, an advertisement in a general newspa-
per of flrst.rate standing, carries the impress.
sion that the advertiser has standing IN his
own community, which he is not afraid to
shrink from competition with the best of
them.
| These are the different impressions that
are made on all minds by advertisements in
4 journal of high character and general cir
culaton among the reputable classes, and
the same when seen in by-places, and irregu.
lar or low channels. Every one finds this in
his own feelings, and il he will but think on
the subject. II any one is going to place to
buy, whether he be a trader or buying for
use and has to seek the dealers through ad-
vertisements, where will he look for them :
To registers, almanacs, theater bills, frames
in railway stations, occasional advertising
sheets, or circulars? On the contrary, he
looks to the most reputable newspapers ofthe
place, and he thinks that advertisements in
these give an assurance of the good standing
of the advertiser, ard of his business enter
prise, and the sufficiency of his stock.-Cin.
ctHadti Gazette.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23

To make imitation ground glfs that steam
will not destroy, put piece putty into
muslin, twist the fabric tigh and tie it
into the shape OF pad; will clan the glass
first and then pat it all over. The putty Will
exude sufficiently through the muslin 10 rem
der The stain opaque. Let it dg hard, and
thea varnish. Ii apattern is required, cut II
out In paper as a stencil, place j SO as not to
slip. and proceed as above, rtmoving the
stencil when finished. Ii there should DC
any objection to the existence of the clear
spaces, cover with slightly opaque varnish
-JourRdl IF Chemistry.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23

Georgia has been longer under Democratic
ruIe since the war than any Other southern
state. A, u consequence Of the good govern.
ment which II has had the state debt is but
Ss,OOO.OOO, and its credit stands high IN
New York and abroad. At the beginning OF
The wear there was a surplus IN the treasury
OF over 81 100000. The cost of theState gov
crument for 1874 was S776,r00, and the coun-
tics have no debts to speak OF.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23
GIANT FAMILIES.

Spec linens of Vermont and Kentucky Heavy
Weights.
70 the Editor Of ms Paris True Hent"eka"'
CHICAGO, Sept. IA, lS75.-l understand you
have in your county Il very tall family. VIII
you procure and publish the name height,
and weight of each member OF that family
Herewith send you the following correct
statement in relation to the Metcalf family,
of ROYalton, Vt +. ID.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23

THE KENTUCKY FAMILY.
In Collins new History of Kentucky, We
find the following In relation to the Howard
family of this county: .E
an February 1856, there was living in
Bourbon County the parents and eight out
of nine children of family without paral.
lei IN the known world-for their size, height,
weight, good health, age, and strength, -sug-
gestIve of the Bible record in Genesis vi, 4:
There were giants in the earth in those days
The father. then IN the 10Th year, was brought
to Kentucky when quite young, and raised,
in Bourbon County, his family of SIX sons
and three daughters, whose height, weight,
and aggregate age are here given:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23

Never speak harshly to hack.driver
Though he may not be an orphan, he will
answer you in language SO meek and graciou;
as to IN axe you feel ashamed OF yourself
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23

Many suppose that Flora Temple, the ia
nous trotting mare Of bygone days, is dead,
but such is not the case. She is now thirty
five years old, strong aud active, and In COM
pany with Goldsmith Maid will be exhibited
at the Centennial mex! year.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23
Farms for Sale.

IN Ford Vermlll"n Champaign and hoQrol' counties.
Price nam fS1 10 $40 Terms 10 salt Purchasers.
For further Information ADDRESS orcal on
A. & MORI,ISS,
Sept. l3mos Real Estate Agent, Paxton, Ford Co.. III,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23

CIA ss.'H. BRUSH, Attorney and Counselor
~ at Law. Othce-Room No. Post Office Block. Otts,
wa. Illinois. Iparl'13
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23
Improved Farm for Sale.

Having engaged In the hardware business vii. sell my
farm living about four miles southeast from Seneca,
bargain and reasonable terms said contains 100
acres. 20 OF which II timber Schools and market conye
nent Good honse. good cellar and csten. Good nnces
and good fruit. Enquire Of
NEWPORT e. RAYMOND
deci9u seneca, La Sale CO.. III.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23

d. JONrs. L.w BREWER.
ION EcS ~ BREW Err, Attorneys and Coun.
sellers At Law, Ottawa, Ills ONCE, Rooms Nos.
second door, Metropolitan Block. octl9,72
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23

Ira X u. Ora WORD, Attorney
Law Room IL, $50 Clark St., S. W. cor Monroe On
cago. Notary Public. msri.'H
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23

IRA A. FISHER. Attorney and Conn
seor at Law. vii practice In La Sale and adjoining
counties. and In u s. court Room Postotice Block. OF
tawa, Ills. novl6
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23

W. BUSHNELL. L. BULL. C.HaJLNAN
BUSHNELL, BULL 81 GILMAN.
ID Attorneys OF Law. Office In Bushnell b Leand's
block west OF Court House. Ottawa. Ill. augi'14
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-10-23
THE VERMONT FAMILY.
THE KENTUCKY FAMILY.

Ten persOns-average height 9 feet |
ches nearly.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-10-13

ard whose future prosperity depends "pon
pold government, who have the't p"aa
r,ised assIns, the party whose power, a'u
that alone, has saved then' and all OF Us n"'N
ruin. Nothing short OF judicial Dir ases's-
nav madness-could impel such men 10
course of conduct that, If 1t Is attended VIII
a,v success. could do nothing else than ''n'
nair the strength of the CONSERVATIVE pA'S
and bring upon them and al CT US 'he ''oS'
fearful injury.
We sar via, an earnestuess of devotion 10
NO rx,hIic welfare which has never been
s,r,sssed X, the heart of any man living or
dc.s, tina. BRADLEY T. JOHNSON has no su'
neror IN bis wisdons and his practical COM
uvon.scns, AS TO the best means of improving
this city and increasing her population ano
wealth. For quicSuess Of 'ehension and
for accuracy of judgment as to what mill
tates against her interests, what would pro-
tect them. aud what would facilitate TIE
city's growth. he has no superior, II an
eousl. in this city, His letter OF acceptance
of the nomination rendered him by the Con-
seryatIye party contains comprehensive
view OF the plan for advancing Rlcnmono IN
greatness which we are sure not one OF n''
. ASSISTANTS evcr dreamed OF.
It is a sad sight 10 true devotee oil VIZ
4 einia and hec lovely and promising capital
that of ever one man who has large interests
at stake going off in open resistance 10 lux
Conservative party after men few OF VINO"
have any true conception of the puohc lh'ei
ests. and the most of whom never l''eo
finger butt opposition 10 every pT''ec' 'na'
conld add AN ornament TO the city or al 'ni
MIGRANT to her population. But there are
neople enough who belong to the improving
age to rescue this grand city from tne ,.h
nTactjcsbiity and perverseness that no" d's
turb her peac. and excite her appreoens'on,
We write thus of one of the CONSERVATIVE
nominees because be is the assa'leo one Oh
tho ticket. We know the consequences ol
breaking the line, and we defend the point
,hot is most attacked. If we destroy the
union and harmony of the Conservative
nsrtv In this city untcld public injury Will
follow, We support the ticket entire ana
uon,d do so no matter who might be noml'
mated. It is with US ga mattcr of prlncl
!