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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-12
THE Y4LUE or 4 WIFE.

GLOW do you get along ?" said wife
to her husband, in the midst of the
panic. ooh, shall weather the Storm
but I wish I had few hundred dollars
more" "Don't you wish you had mar
ried rich wife ?'' said she, in a teasing
way; then, going to her room, she re-
turned with rather more than the
amount required in United States
bonds. "Why, where in the world did
YOU get this % said the husband. I" We'll,
nv dear, you went to a champagne sup
per seven years ago, and, on your return,
finding navigation around the room
rather difficult, deposited hat, shoes,
gloves and a large roll of bank bills on
the carpet. 1 put the money away and
waited three weeks for you to inquire
if / had seen it, wien, finding you were
ashamed to do so, 1 invested, and here
Won have it, The moral is-weu. we
don't know what it is, unless that II
YOU will get drunk and lose your money,
do it at home under the eye OF your
wife.
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THE LITE ROBERT DIE OVEN
OF the death of Robert Dale Owen, the
Cincinnati Enquirer says:
In many respects-perhaps i'll all-he
WAS remarkable man, and he was of a
remarkable family. His father, an un-
commonly successful self-made business
man, became a practical Communist, and
i'll England and Mexico, and at New
Harmony. Ind, he undertook to cstab-
lish communities on his theory. One
son was State Geologist of Kentucky for
some time. Robert Dale himself was a
member OF Congress in 1913, and Charge
Pierce.
His chief fame, however, rests on his
faith i'll communion with the other world,
and his "Footfalls on the Boundaries of
Another World, is the most popularity
famous of any book ever written on the
subject. His latest publicity in that
line was his ardent but misplaced conf
dence i'll Katie King. If any spirit in
the other world would have a constant,
restless ambition to materialize and
shade over the boundary little into
this world it is Robert Dale Owen, and
it there is any POSSIBILITY of truth i'll Lis
belief he may be expected to revisit the
glimpses of the moon to add one more
to his "Footfalls." He was about 70
years of age.
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Mrs. Ruth 3. Southworth, of Ply
mouth, Mass, has just celebrated her
Tooth birthday. She is quite deaf, but
threads fine needles and sews without
using spectacles. She does the house
work for herself and her son, and plant
ed her own garden last spring. She
took her first dose of medicine last year.
Mrs. Catherine Evans has recently been
visiting her great-granddaughter at
Mendoza. Ill. The old lady is now 107
years old, reads without the aid of spec
tacles, walks to church, and is always in
good spirits.
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TIE CROPS IN C1LIFORNyI

California has stopped sending us
lugubrious accounts of its crop failures
this year, and is resuming its more IA
m1llar role of Boosting of its great pro-
ducts. 1t seems certain that the State
will have a surplus of 800, 900 tons of
wheat for export, which will bring from
? to q cents per pound at San Francis
co. The new wheat is already coming
IN, and the first sales are at 81. 40. BY
reason of the suspension of Friedlander.
the great wheat king, who always took
care to have a lot of ships on hand for
the export season, and because of the
false cry that there was to be no surplus
for export, there is great scarcity of ships
at San Francisco TO take the grain away,
and freights are likely to be high. The
rate is now e2 IS per ton to England.
Some of the especial stories of great
crops this season are almost startling. as
usual. Gov. Bidwell's town of Chico. in
Northern California, threatens to have
surplus of $4,000 tons of wheat, which at
y cents pound would bring in s., 5OO.-
600, and Colusa county Will have
10000 tons to export, for which it
expects 100000, and one man
has $4,000 acres under the sickle, and
counts on $500, 900 rs his share. These
Callfornians are getting to be dreadfully
tedious fellows with their big stories.
They can either make more money or lose
more in given space of time tlan any
ether set of people on the face of the
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-12
INILTSIS OF Il TENNESSEE MEAT
SHOWER

A meat shower fell at Franklin, Tenn.
Thursday night last. A scientific man
says: / have placed the substance I'M
der fair microscope and find it an or
ganism, loricated infusoria. The in
closing jelly is perfectly transparent, ex-
cept little coal dust and paint from the
tin roof. Each animalcule is inclosed in
case or shell of silica, and all are alike.
of the same family. One drop contains
about fifty or sixty, and they have
plenty of room TO float around. They
are about one four-hundredth of an inch
long. Where they came from cannot
say possibly from the decaying heaps
of kelp in the Gulf of Mexico, or, as the
winds have been from the north for some
time, they may have come from the
lakes. -Louispiue Courier-Jousndl.
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Revive the Drooping Energies

When the physical energies droop, revive
them with that safest and most active of tonics,
Hostetters Stomach Bitters. By a timely use
of this salutary and agreeable medicine you will
save yourself from positive disease for, be as
sured that the lanSuor and loss of strength and
appetite which troubles you is in fact the pre-
cursor of some malady of, perhaps, serious
nature. Appetite, tranquility of the nervous
system, and pristine vigor, will assuredly be re-
stored if the Bitters are used Systematically,
and the alimentary disturbance, which i'll nine
cases out of ten gives rise to debility and nerv-
BUSINESS, be entirely removed. Regularity of
the bowels, active hillary secretion, the eXpul-
sion of impurities from the blood through the
kidneys, are also among the beneiicent effects
of this admirable restorative.
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DON'T BE TOO cRIrIcII

Whatever you do, never set up for a
critic. We do not mean newspaper
one, but in private life, in the domestic
circle, it will do You harm-if you object
to being called disagreeable. If you
don't like anyones nose, or object to
anyone's chin, don't put your feelings
into words. Ii anyone's manners don't
please you, remember your own. Peo-
pie are not ali made to suit one taste.
recollect that. Take things as you find
them unless you can alter them. Even
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CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT II.ElfS.
ARTIFICIAL eyes for horses are re-
cent invention.
THE Army of the Tennessee meets in
st. Paul in September.
BUTTS county, Ga, has had fifty-eight
honlicides since the war.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, entertained 800
tramps one night recently.
ALL the New York papers have
shrunk in circulation since March.
A PINE belt seventy-five miles wide
girds Georgia from east to west.
THERE is u pecan tree in San Saba
county, Texas, the trunk of which is six
feet in diameter, and line drawn across
its branches, the widest place, measures
$50 feet.
A TwENrY-FoUR pound turtle, recently
captured near Norfolk, CT, was strong
enough to move about from place to
place while bearing on its back man
weighing 200 pounds.
A PARTY of riotous young men. be-
longing to the wealthiest families of
Pittsburgh, have been sent to the work
house for ninety days. They are denied
the alternatives of paying fines.
1t has been discovered in Paris that
the little yellow marks upon certain
brands of Havana cigars, which cause
them to be greatly priced by smokers,
are created by the sprinkling of acids.
A KENTUCKY man is reported to be
operating daily a steam wagon of his
own invention, which weighs about $500
pounds. runs at the rate of fifteen to
twenty miles an hour, and Gan be turned
easily.
A KIND of spiritualism exists among
the Fijians. Capt. Fitch, a resident,
says they go into spasmodic condition,
during which they profess to see their
dead relatives and to foretell future
events.
AFTER the lapse of seven years the
Lady Godiva procession at Coventry, i'll
England, was revived the other day, and
the streets were crowded. Lady Godiva
was represented by lady from Ashley S
circus.
BY the laws OF Florida no man who
has lost an arm OF a leg, no matter
how or when, OF from what cause, can
be taxed for any business he may enter
into, always excepting the liquor bust
ness.
A ScoTCH correspondent writes
"With war and high prices, an unto
ward entry into this world would seem to
have been made at Dundee, where there
has recently been born a male child with
two stomachs"
DIR. LIE NOME, of Pennsylvania. tc
make sure that all his children shall fol
low his example and be cremated, has
made will providing that his heirs shall,
before receiving their lcgacies, make q
formal promise to be burned after death
MATHEMATICIANs have named the
northumberland ighty -thousandth Of
an inch as the limit of visibility in the
microscope, but Rev. VIM. r. Dallinge1
has constructed lenses which reveal OBJ
jects much smaller, and he docs not be-
lieve that he has yet reached the limit OF
division and visibility by instrumental
means.
THE strawberry and green-pea trade al
Memphis is rushing one while it lasts.
One planter gathered last season and
probably will equal it this) 100000
quarts of strawberries from his patches.
In single day the present season, he
sold 1,44O quarts i'll Memphis, and
. shipped to Chicago, Louisville and St
| Louis, 5,400 quarts.
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OUR JUVENILES.
The DdadetiOl1 Boz


"Come here, my dandelion boy,
With cheeks so fresh and looks so hale;
doubt me not but many toy
You'll buy with proceeds of your pail.
The kitchen door is yonder, that
From which the playful kitten ran
Down, Carlo! Give his head pat,
My little dandelion man;
"For surely you are much too brave,
Thus early struggling for place
Among the workers, stern and grave,
Engaged in life's determined race,
For me to call You boy sob, please
Don't turn them out into the pan.
But so, in handfuls, just like these
Said the little dandelion man.
ssWhat what is that the way you do?
Look at the bottom of the pailI -
Quoth L: g l should not think that you
Would try to cheat me- Flushed and pale
by turns his bright face quick became,
And down his checks the hot tears ran;
al wasn't playing any game"
He said-the dandeIion man.
al know L left III here few;
But see my basket in the street
III give you half of them if you
Won't think that L was trying to Cheat
''But why not give these ?" quoth I,
And quick his troubled face did scan,
'fAnd leave those for the next TO buy,
My little dandelion man %
An instant he did stand in doubt,
And then took from his pail the few
He there had left. When all out,
My eyes sought there to find clew
For his strange action. First, some sticks
He lifted up, and then his plan
Unfolded, growing quite prolix,
The little dandelion man.
81 made a little pen, you sec,
And put these dandel1ous in
And violets-I found just three.
And butter-cups for sissy's chin;
And covered them with sticks-with these
To keep 'em fresh for Mary Ann.
III tel you bout her, if you please
Said the little dandelion man.
90 She's awful sick, and talks of flowers
SO much thought I'd get her some;
There amt none in such streets as ours.
l thought I'd best keep kinder mum
Bout having them, some folks might
Have laughed at me for such plan,
ana Calico me SlfI-Doy- An! quite right,
My little dandelion man.
The world is wont to laugh at those
Who seek outside the realms of trade
For joys palliate earth's woes.
A wise man he whose pride has made
pen of sticks, however rude,
To guard from eyes that coldly scan
Soul flowers from its mead and wood,
AS did my dandelion man.
-EdFt Marble, IN Youths Companion.
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a dinner that is swallowed carrot be
made any better. Continual fault-find-
ino continual criticism of the conduct of
this one and the speech of that one, the
dress OF the other and the opinions of
the other, Will make homo the rlnhappiest
place under the sun.
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Thirty years experience proves the
Graefenberg Vegetable Pills to be the mildest
and most effective medicine ever known for the
complete cure of headache, biliousness. liver
complaints, ncrvousness, fevers and diseases of
digestion. Sold everywhere; price 25 cents per
box. Send for almanacs. Graefenberg Co.,
New York.
SEND 81, and fifteen cents for postage,
and get the Chicago Ledger for one year. The
Ledger is the most successful, i'll fact the only
successful, literary Paper ever published i'll the
West. The above price is merely nominal fol
such valuable paper. Address The Ledger,
Chicago, Ill.
The PONDS EXTRACT Co., 9S Maiden
Lane, n. Y, publish small book free, telling
what the people use Ponds Extract for, besides
being good for pain.
Hofmann's Hop Pills cure the Ag'te at once
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You have often to make rolls, biscuit and such
delicacies, in about ten minutes. It's easy and
certain with DooLEYs YEAST POWDER, the best
of them all. Troubled housewife, here is one
cause of your annoyances swept away. Full
weight and the best material are the watchWord
of the mannfa cturorS
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L-IOIES OF THE WHITE HOUSE,
ABIGAIL POWERS FILLMORE.


Abigail Powers Fillmore, who sue
ceeded Mrs. Taylor in the White House.
led the life which, except for its close,
after having known the Hottest position
America gives, is that of multitudes of
Northern women. The daughter of a
clergyman, and her mother early left a
widow, she took her education into her
own hands, teaching what she already
knew during half the year, in order to
gain the means to attend IL higher school
for the other half; and she presently
graduated as a successful teacher, and
continued that occupation until her 2Sth
year, when she married Mr.. Fillmore,
then struggling young lawyer. She
taught for some time after her marriage.
kept her house, and did her work; but
as her husband grew uorc prosperous,
she relinquished her arduous duties for
the direction of her children, and the
pleasures OF society, and of books, of
which she was always an Unsuitable
reader. She had a strong and well-bal-
ton and much sociability. She was of
tall and fine figure, with fair face and
luxuriant, fair crlrls about noble
head. She was in every way her hus-
bands helpmeet; and her loss, just at
the expiration of his term of office, was
irreparable.
Being III mourning when she entered
the White House, and having been badly
famed, Mrs. Fillmore allowed it's duties
to devolye as much as possible upon her
young daughter, and found the seclusion
so pleasant, surrounding herself with
friends and music in the library, that
| Congress furnished in the Executive
Mansion largely with view to her pleas
ure-the oval room which Mrs. Adams
found SO pleasant-that she presented
herself below stairs only when it was
unavoidable; although scrupulously 60
ing through with the tediousness of re-
ceptions and state dinners upon require
ment, and making them easy by the
simple manners of her own gentle breed
ing. Her daughter, Miss Mary Abigail
Fillmore, just from school, played the
part thus assigned her in the White
House with remarkable f-possession
and tact. The graduate of a normal
school, speaking French, italian and
German as well as English, a proficient
in drawing, remarkably-accom
musician, and a modeler in clay, familiar
with literature, quick to read character
with a ready wit, an arch manner, fine
conversational powers, and pleasant
face, acquainted, besides, with all the
etiquette of the place, Miss F'illmore''
talents and requirements qualified he
to fill her station quite as well as, if no
better than, many of those who had pre-
coded her. She died very shortly afte
her mother, having enjoyed early til,
triumphs that many women struggle TO
all their lives.
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''Durang's Rheumatic Remedy" the great
Internal Medicine, will positively cure any case
of rheumatism on the face of the earth. Price,
81 a bottle, six bottles, S. Sold by all drug
sists. Send for circular to Helphenstine u
Bentley, Druggists, Washington, d. G.
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At the disaster which, not long since,
destroyed the lives of many miners in
the West Pittston pa mine, an incident
occurred in which the heroic and pa
thetic are mingled.
A boy of II years, named Martin
Craighan, stood with companion on
carriage, waiting to be hoisted up from
the mine out of impending danger, when
it flashed upon his mind that number
of workmen had not been warned of the
terrible peril they were in.
! With Il noble impulse of self-forgetful
| kindness, he resolved to rescue them, if
possible, and asked the other boy to go
with him. This boy refused, and was
safely drawn up-the last who was
brought up unscathed. Martin rushed
through the chambers and galleries of
the mine alone, to carry the startling
news to the imperiled miners. Then he
hurried back to the shaft again, hoping
to escape with his life.
He waited fer the carriage to descend;
but the wire rope had melted, and the
fire was now burning SO fiercely above
him all hope of escape in that way (the
only outlet was cut Off
He fed back to the miners again, but
experience had taught them the utter
hopelessness of escape by the ordinary
way, and they had built barricade in
Martins absence, which afforded them
a temporary protection from the noxious
gases and smoke that were slowly filling
the mine.
The barrier was soidly built, for upon
the defense it afforded them against the
smoke and gas depended the only chance
that they had to live until the burning
shaft was extinguished.
Martin stood at the barrier and begged
piteously to be admitted. The few sur
v1vors who heard him say the little fell
low cried. But to have made passage
way for him would have been death to
all. So they were obliged to refuse
him.
After while he went quietly away to
the stable. He had been promoted to
the position of a mule-driver only the
day before; and now he went to his mule,
and there wrote with chalk upon a piece
of board the names of those who we're
dear to him, and then lay down beside
his mule to die.
His body was found close to that of
the poor animal, which, in its death
agony, had rolled upon him and wound
ed his breast with a portion of the har-
ness. So died this little hero in the
dark.
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THE SUN.
377. NEW YORK. 1877.

THE SUN continues to be the strenuous advocate OF
reform and TetrenchmC1t. and OF tho substitution OF
craftsmanship. wisdom and integrity for hollow Iretense,
Imbeclify and fraud in the administration of public
affairs 1t contends for the government of the people hy
the people and the people, 10 government
by frauds the ballot box and in the counting of votes
enforced by violence. 1t cndeIvnrs To- supply li5
readers body not far from million OF snus-with
the most careful complete and trustworthy accounts OF
current events, and EMPLOYS for this pur"sc numerous
and carefully selected tH of reporters and cocspon
cns- Its reports from Wasr,st9ii especIiiy are i4
and fear less: and it doubtless ContQues to de-
and enjoy the hatred those who thrive by PUN
dcTIng the Treasury y UsuT, what the laws does not
give them, while cudcGvOrs merit the confidence OF
the public by defending tho rights of the people against
the encroacbments Of Hnjustiijed power
Tie price of the Daily sun j. cents month or
$3.50 year. postpaid with the sunday edition.
$40 year. ,,
The Sunday edition Alone eight pages, ? 20 year.
post paid
TIE WEEKLY Sun, eight pages OF 50 broad columns
is furnished - = year, postpaid
SFECIAL NoIICE.-In order to introduce The SUN
widely to the public, We viii send THE WEEKLY
edition the the year, Jan. 1, 1875.
postpaid for Hall j Dollar. Try it.
Address THE sun, NY civ
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course Porter joined in these occasions
with the utmost enthusiasm.
Every war vessel of any size has a
marine guard. The men making up this
guard are sea-soldiers. They wear the
uniform of United States soldiers, but
do duty in the navy. They are a dread
to would be mutineers for, III all their
history, marines have never been known
to join in mutiny. The snowy appear
ance of these men, in full uniform, un-
der the command of dashing officer,
captivated Porter's fancy, and he longed
to join the guard. His father let him
do this, had little uniform made for
him, and gave him a small rifle and a
knapsack. Thus equipped, Porter
proudly took his place in the ranks, as
much according to regulation, as he
thought, as any man of the company.
No one ever told him that he was not
regularly enlisted and actually in the
United States service.
In few weeks Porter could drill: and
did well OF parade. He insisted, from
the first, upon being assigned to tie
usual duties of marines and, while at
his post, he was as grim as the oldest
veteran, permitting no familiarity from
anyone-not even from lady friends who
might come to visit the ship. Porter
shirked no duty on account of its hard
ship. Indeed, he seemed rather proud
of being called on to do hard or unpleas-
ant work. On cold days he would stand
and drill, with only thin gloves to hold
his rifle, and he would patrol the decks
with his hands so numb that he could
scarcely handle the weapon. Only when
on the sick list would he yield his place
to fellow marine.
At times some of the guard would come
on board tipsy from "leave" ashore,
and would have to sober off in the
g brig the ships prison. SO, on one
occasion, Porter fcigned to be tipsy
claimed his right to be put in the brig
and was led to prison by the masters at
arms, while the crew pretended to d
awfully shocked On pay-days Portel
would appear with the men to receive
his months "salary ten silver dimes
which, in his eyes, counted as ten dollars
Part of his money went to pay his "mes
BILL and what remained went anyhow
In one thing Porter greatly excelled-
true courage, and what always goes will
it-fortitui e. Like other boys, he wa
always meeting with accidents. One
he fell overheard, and was rescued will
difficulty; another time, he fell and brok
his arm. Afterward, by exposure, III
became very sick, so that his life wa
almost despaired Of Yet not word o
fear or complaint did he utter One da,
he cut three of his fingers so badly tina
the ships surgeon at first thought the,
would have to be amputated. Hi
mother and sister were much frightened
which seemed to move the boy a goo'
deal, and, looking up to his father, h
said, "This is no place for women, is
papa?" And while the surgeon sewe'
up the wounds Porter did not eve1
whimper.
For good conduct Porter was promoter
time after time, until now he is sergean
of marines and still actively employed OF
one of the finest ships in the American
navy Written by q NaUa5 Officer.
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BHIH Is A NITES

No human being in this big world ;an
equal Bijah in soothing a lost child.
When the reporters got down they found
that some of the officers had been vanly
trying for an hour to quiet a 4-year-old
boy, who was temporarily lost to his
distressed parents. Here, gimme that
young 'un, D demanded Biiah, as he fin
ished sweeping. Now, my little cher
ry blossom angel birdie loaf SUI gar
strawberry-shortcake, cuddle close to his
loving breast and let me rock and sing.
I'll have you asleep in ten ticks O. a
brass watch, and bime-by your dear
mother will come rushing in and palEd-
ly disclaim Where, oh where is my
lost darling FitznoodIe p Now let me
sing" And he sang: