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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07
AN OLD BASE BALLER.

The doctors didn't think Mr.. Wright
field could last much longer. He was
failing rapidly, and they thought that
in few days he would pass away quietly
and painlessly He was able on pleas
| ant days, TO be carried out on the sunny
porch where he could sit III his arm chair
and listen to the shouts that came from
| the distant base ball grounds, and his
| eyes would brighten as he heard the Old
| familiar sounds. Sometimes the boys
would come down and talk to him, after
| the game was over, and it would make
him cheerful and happy for hours after
| ward, and he would chatter about the
grand old games they used to have when
| he was centerfield in the sfWonderfuls, -
and the season he played behind the bat
| for the ssFearfuls,'' AID the year he was
shortstop for the s'Dreadfuls,' and the
season he stood at second base for the
''Awfuls." But still he grew no better,
| and he babbled about the old times, and
| the new rules and bad regulations and
| mourned over the changes and wished
that he was young and strong again and
could play just one more game before
he went Out forever.
Well, the boys heard Of it, and one
Saturday afternoon they went down and
laid out the grounds as we'll as they could,
50 as to bring the strikers face right III
front of the invalid's chair, and told him
they we're going to let him play behind
the bat for both mines in little practice
game. Well, sir, the old man braced
right up, and he made his wife take off
his coat, although it was enough to kill
him right there, before he could let the
ball go to the pitcher. Then they got
started at last, and the pitcher tossed
him an easy one, and the man at the bat
just licked it enough to make an easy foul
of it, and dropped it right into Mr.. Wright
fields hands but the old man saw thro'
it and got furious, and when the umpire
called out, ssout on foul-man to bat he
wouldn't have bit of it, and yelled at
the pitcher as loud as he could with his
feeble, quavering voice, ''to send 'em in
red hot, and put twist on EN- He
wasn't goin to play minute if they were
going to baby him, he said, when he
had forgotten how to play base ball a
dozen times before any of them ever saw
or heard of the game.
Well, the upshot of it was that they
had to humor him to keep him from 60
ing off in fit of Mysteries, and tie next
ball the pitcher shot in ca me like mete-
or, whizzed past the strikers head and
when the old man took it, it broke two
of his fingers. He just yelled with de-
light and the boys's eyes just stood right
out of their heads when he stood right
up on his feet. Then they rushed in on
him and socked him in the pit of the
stomach with brick, hit him on the
head with locust club, stepped on his
toes, iammed his fingers in the crack of
the door, threw dirt in his eyes, kicked
him in the shins and poured arnica all
over him. And if you'll believe it, that
man got up next morning, covered him
himself in thousand places with court
plaster, and went down to the Office and
has been at work ever since. Sineilia
si7aillibAs catrarat,tr. -Burli1egton HaaUk-
enc.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

At GREEN BAY with Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
way for 0cOnto, MeuUmineo, Escanaba Marquette,
LAusc.
Close connections made, except Sundays, with
hight and morning trains which daily to Apple
ton, Neenah AMI MeuaSha, s0hkush, Fond du Lac
Milwaukee and Chicago. Through tickets sold at
PRINCIPAL stations for Eastern Cities, all routes
from Chicago.
With Wisconsin Central r. Il. for milwaukee and
points line OF that ROAD also during of ma
VACATION with Union Steamboat Company for Detroit
Cleveland Buffalo aud New York.
Al NEW LONDON, with the best equipped stage line
in the Northwest for Clintonville, Embarrass and
iShaloaRo.
At AMHERST Junction with Wisconsin Central II.
Z. :cr NaTpaca. Medina and Weyauwega-
At PL0N Err with Wisconsin Central 4. Il. for Pr
tagc and hudson and with fast Stage Line for
SttereDS I0ini.
At GRAND RAPIDS with Wisco. sin Valley Railroad
for Tomali and WaEs7u,
At II HATFIELD with FAT Stage Line for NeiZSrille.
At MERRIAM junction with West Wisconsin K.
r. for Black River Falls, Madison, Eau Claire, Me-
nominee, Hudson, Saltwater, 81 Paul, minneapolis
and BreckcnI dge
At NINONA with Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul
Railway, for Nabasha, Redwing, Hastings, 81.
Juul and Minneapolis.
" III Winona and St. Peter Railroad, &C. & N. W.
for st. Charles, Rochester, Ovatouua, Mankato,
New Um and st. Peter and during the Of
navigation, with heokuk Northern Line, "A l.
packets for all Mississippi River points
At LA CROSSE with Southern Minnesota r Il and
with Chicago, Dubuque and Minnesota r. r.
D. NJ KELLY, {. b. KEDERICK.
GeHeiat Wdn9ger. Superintendent.
DAN ATWOOD Gail Pass. AGf
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

GEO. JARVIS was instantly killed in
MenasEa, on Saturday, by the fall of a
staging.
JOHN LoTHRoP MOTLEY, one of the
most brilliant of the American historians
died in London, on Wednesday last.
HUGHES and Muller, the Robbers of
LincoIn's tomb, Springfield, Ill.,, have
been found guilty and sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary.
The Catholic church, of Ripon, was
robbed of gold chalice and vestments
valued at $500. The congregation could
lily afford to suffer the loss. No clue to
the thieves.
If any capitalist desires to invest in
real estate, he is advised to go to Port
age this week, and take the whole town
for nothing. A convention of brass
bands is to be held there Thursday.
F. Fl. CoBURN, of Whitewater, was
garroted on Main street. Madison, at
2 o'clock Tuesday morning, by three
ruffians and robbed of 1921 in green
backs. The police are making siren
uous efforts to capture the rufians.
A WATER SPOUT flooded the country
two miles northwest of Burlington, Ia,
causing Hawkeye Creek to suddenly
overflow and do several thousand dol
love, xr,o,.fb Of 1opoaro To fo,7ndriac
machine shops and agricultural works.
The West Wisconsin railroad is in the
hands of receiver, W. FL. Ferry, the
general manager of the road, having
been appointed to thatposition by Judge
Drummond, sitting at Madison for
Judge Hopkins, of the United States
District Court for the western district
of Wisconsin.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

The telegraph account of the tidal
wave at the Sandwich Islands, seems to
have been but very partial account of
o general commotion and upheaval of
the waters of the Pacific ocean, occurring
almost simultaneously, on the 10th of
May. These unaccountable disturban-
ces seem to have exhibited themselves
all along the Pacific coast-in Oregon,
California, at Peru and other South
Americans States upon the Pacific A
vast amount of property was destroyed,
and many lives lost. At San Francisco
the hight of the wave was comparatively
small, but the town of Iquique,
IN South America, was almost totally
destroyed, and from 600 to 800 lives are
said to have been lost At Callao, the
rise was gradual, but the principal
docks and piers, and many stores were
destroyed At Mollendo, 800 feet of
the railway along the shore were washed
away, and all along the coast the tidal
wave made itself felt, and did much
damage. Earthquakes of more or less
violence seem TO have accompanied these
connections, and, in the vicinity of vol
canoes, unusual eruptions of lava were
exhibited.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

YESTERDAY morning Mr. W. M. Wright
permitted us to see curiosity in the
shape OF an egg within an egg, laid by
young hen belonging to Mrs. Mehr-
eng of the First Ward. The egg was
large one, measuring 7!x9 inches. On
breaking it open, another perfect egg
with hard shell, was noticed inside float
ing in the white and yolk of the first or
outside egg, which was also perfect in
every respect. This was indeed a strange
freak of nature. Crescent.
AN important case relating to insur-
ance companies is being tested in the
supreme court of this state. It arose
from recent fire in Oshkosh, and will
determine whether, in a case where
property is totally destroyed by fire, the
owner can recover the full amount of
insurance, or the value of the property
when it is insured for more than il ia
worth.
A LAD fourteen years old recently
swan from a vessel on Lake Superior a
mile to the shore, the water being lev
cold, and clambered upon the shore ice
at Laughing Whitefsh Point, benumbed
and exhausted. On being questioned,
he said that he was going to Marquette.
and gave as a reason that ssFather said
he would throw him overheard"
TIE hopes of the country, financially
speaking, hang On the coming crop:
merchants say it won't make no differ
ence what the prices are, if the crop is
large. Everything points to a very
large crop, and the inferance is there
fore that the hope is hopeful.
TIE five months of the present year
have been notably prolific of seriou S
fires. Insurance companies claim that
the loss to them til Is far has been double
the loss for the sane time during 1876.
IT is reported that General Logan has
been offered, and declined, The colIee-
torship Of the port Of Chicago. He al
so declined the Brazilian mission. To-
gan's whole nature Is changed since his
defeat for the Senate.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07
THE American citizen must be very

THE American citizen must be very
narrow partisan who cannot take the sim
cerest satisfaction in the crowding hon
ors that are overwhelming General
Grant in England. No foreigner, not
reigning sovereign, ever visited England
who has been received with such univer-
sal heartiness of enthusiasm as has been
shown to our ex-President. Such demon
STATIONS as have been accorded to him
can not be manufactured. The English
people are not of the sort of material to
be manipulated for state purposes, and
to be made to feign an admiration they
do not feel. Neither can "reasons of
state compel the ancient noble houses
of England to extend their courtesles to
any visitor whom they do not want to
honor. They follow their own inclina-
tons as to such matters, and only show
their hospitality when their own feeling
ana sense of propriety dictate. The
reception to ex-President Grant cannot
be explained away" 1t may as well
be accepted rs great and significant
fact
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

THE Beaver Dam argus states that
Cyrel Vesper, of the town of Oak Grove,
has on various occasions found his
lambs in a headless condition, and all his
efforts to discover what did the deed have
been unavailing until last week. One
morning he stood in his yard and saw q
horse, which he uses but little, walk up
to lamb, take it by the head and shake
it. When Vesper arrived at the spot the
horse had devoured the head. Gases
are very rare when animals of that ma
ture will eat live flesh, but that horse
seems to be carniverous in his tastes.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07
Centaur
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[ Letter from q Postmaster. !

Letter from postmaster.
ANTIOCH, Ill. Dec. l, 1874.
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icians and many remedies. The only thing which
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reJoiced to say this has cured her / doing what
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This is sample of many thousand testimonials
received, of wonderful effected by the Centaur
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Of Swellings, Stiff Joints, Eruptions, Rheumatism
Neuralgia, sciatica, Caked Breasts, Lock Jaw, &C.
than all other Liniments, Embrocations, Extracts
Salves, Ointments, and Plasters in use.
For Toothache, Earache, Weak Back Itch and
Cutancous Eruptions, it is admirable IT cures
burns and scalds without scar, Extracts poison
from bites and stings and heals rostbites and chill
blains, in short time. No family can afford to be
without the Centaur Liniment white wrapper
The Centaur Lininlent, in Yellow
Wrapper. is adapted to the tough skin, muscles
and flesh of the animal creation. Its effects upon
severe cases of SPAWN, Sweeny, Wind Gall Big Head
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Messrs j. Mcclure Co., Druggists, cor. Elm and
Front SITS, Cincinnati. O.. say:
SIN our neighborhood u number of teamsters arc
using the Centaur Liniment They pronounce If
superior to anything they have ever used. We sell
as high as Jour or five dozen bottles per month to
these Transfers
We have thousands of similar testimonials
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Livery men and Stock-raisers have in this Liniment
remedy which is worth hundred times its cost.
Laboratory of J. 3. Rose & Co.
40 DEY STREET, NEW YORK.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

a TERRIBLE wind storm struck Mount
Carmel, ILL.,. Monday, by which l6 men
were killed, thirty-five wounded, and
twenty-five are missing. Four of the
killed were burned. A large number of
houses were blown down, and it is esti-
mated over 100000 worth of property
destroyed. Among the buildings de-
stroyed are the Presbyterian and Metho-
dist churches, two schoolhouses, the
court house, and several stores and resi-
dencaS.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

THE Pail ball Gazette believes that
nothing short of miracle can prevent
the Russian attack in Asia from succeed
ing up to the full measure of the inten-
tions of the Russian Government. It
assumes that the defeat, dispersion, or
capture of the Turkish armies is only a
question of weeks or months, and that
before winter Russia will have annexed
$4,000 square miles of territory. She
will hold this, will favor the Armenians,
and will round out her territory by for
Notifications, make roads from arsnels,
and prepare new base for aggressive
operations. This is an Engigh view.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

The number of wounded by the Mount
Carmel disaster will reach seventy. A
number cannot recover. Eighty five
buildings are in ruins and seventy
families are houseless. The velocity of
the wind was one hundred and fifty
miles an hour. The damage is estima-
ted at $500, 900. During its prevalence
the air was filed with flying roofs, win
dows, doors, lumber, rails, clothing, etc.
Much of the debris was carried more
than mile away. 1t being rainy day,
many farmers who could not work at
home were in town. The county court
was also in session, which brought
many people to the city. Men, women
and children were blown a distance
of four hundred feet as if they We're
feathers. The best pert of the town
was DESTROYED.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

THE New York National Exchange
Bank was robbed of package contain
ing $4,000, Saturday afternoon. A
young boy entered the bank, and made
some inquiries of the cashier which
necessiated the cashiers opening the
gate, aud while his back was turned for
o moment the boy got away with the
money. The thief is still at large.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

The Secretary of War has issued an
order to Gen. Sherman instructing him
to direct Gen. Ord, commanding our
forces on the Mexican frontier, to IN
vite the cooperation of the Mexican
government in preventing incursions of
thieves and robbers from Mexican terri
tory, and to notify it that if such incur
sions continue through it's neglect, the
duty of surpressing them will devolve
upon him, and he will feel at liberty, in
his discretion, to pursue the marauders,
when in sight of them, or upon fresh
trail, across the Rio Grande, capture
and punish them, and retal1e the stolen
property wherever found. This order
is eminently just and proper, and Gen.
Ord will no doubt vigorously execute it.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

The 'last-ditch" defenses of Con stan
tinople are to be constructed at once.
This line of defense will be twenty-one
miles in length, with all advantages in
favor of the Turks, and it is believed
will make Constantinople impregnable.
The Notifications will extend along an
old lire, from Demons on the Black
Sea to Biiuk Checkmmadje on the Sea
of Sfarmora
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

A rather sensational report comes
from Berlin of the existence of con-
spiracy to form an alliance between
England, France and Austria against
Russia and Germany, and charges that
Count Won Beaust, Austria Ambassador
at London, was the principal agent in
the plot, which comprised a joint attack
by France and Austrian upon Germany,
while England was to engage Russia
single handed. The Berlin Post origi-
mated the stOry
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

A POOR, lone Turk who was travelling
in this country CHANGED to read several
kilograms from the seat of war, and an
editorial on the Eastern question. He
was sorely perpiexed, and asked a
Russian friend where this war was.
Then the two together studied the tele-
grams and editorials, consulted several
of the war maps, and came to the con-
clusion the fight was somewhere in
Southern Africa.-OM Citu CAL.
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IT appears that the war in Europe is
already aiding the American shipmaster.
The Freight Circular, just received by
mail, says in longvoyage chartering
merchants give a decided preference
to American, Norwegian, Swedish,
italian, and other flags, which are not
likely to be mbroiled in the present
war. Europe is taking a surprising
quantity of American fruit. The pur-
chases have amounted to over s. 500, 900
worth since last June, compare with
5000, 900 in the same period the year be-
fore. Dried apples figure largely in
this movement. This country has ex-
ported u, 900, 900 pounds of them since
last June as compared with 500, 1000 the
previous year.
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THURSDAY, JUNE z, 1877.

Ex-SECRETART Bristow has implicit
faith in the President and believes he
will succeed in restoring the whole
country to peace, harmony and pros
perity. AS for the opposition, he ex-
poets to see that fade out entirely, and
thinks the President will leave his Office
much stronger than when he entered it
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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-07

The Chicago Northwestern Railway embraces
under one management the Great Trunk Railway
Lines of the west and northwest and with its
merous branches and connections, forms the quick
and shortest between Chca go and all points
in Illinois, Wisconsin, Northern Michigan, Mime
sofa, Iowa, Nebraska, California and the Western
Territories Its
Omaha and California Line
Is the shortest and best route between Chicago and
all points in Northern Illinois, Iowa, Dakota Ne
brasks, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Caiifor-
MIA, Oregon, China, japan and Australia. Its
Chicago, ST. Paul and Minneapolis Line
Is the short line between Chicago and all points in
Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, aud for Madison
st. Paul Minneapolis, Duluth and all points the
Great Northwest. It's
La Crosse, Winona and st. Peter Line
Is the best r"ute between Chicago and La Crosse,
Winona, Rochester 0watonna Mankato, st, Peter,
New I'm and all points in Southern and Central
Minnesota. Its
Green Bay and Marquette Line
Is the only line between Chicago and GAINESVILLE,
WATERFOWL, Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Appleton Green
Hancock and the Lake Superior Country It's
Freeport and Dubuque Line
Is the only route between Chicago and EIgin Rock
ford, Freeport, and al points via Freeport. Its
Chicago and Milwaukee Line
the old Lake Shore Eoutc and is the only one pay
sing between Chicago and Evanston, Lake Forrest
Hghiai.d Park, Waukegan, Racine, Kenosha and
Milwaukee.
Pullman Palace Drawing Room Cars
on all tlirorgh trains of this road
This is the only line running these cars betveer
Chicago and st. Paul and Minneapolis Chicago and
AiIwarkee, Chicago and Winona or Chicaeo an
Green Bay. anu
Close connections are made at Chicapo with tho
Lake shore ana Michigan Southern Mict,igan c.
iIaI baltimore d Ohio Pittsburg Ft Wsyne and
Chicago kankakee Line and Pan HandIe a.. s
all points East and SOUTHEAST and with ~ go;
60 ana Alton and Illinois Central for al
:, Niose connections are also made with the UnioT
L. all far
Ciose connections made at junction points with
trains of all cross points, pms WIN
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Ticket gents il. the United States and Co,,,ds
h.eAneinber you ask for your tickets via the Cbica
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