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seemed to be asleep at that hour. The
station was thronged with staggering
swearing cowboys, and oily confidence
men. With some difficulty we rubbed
our way through the crowd, and follow
ed the porter to the "Great Western
Hotel. Any of our companions that
might be bent on sport could need no
special reckoning, for at all the billiard
halls, concert saloons, and keno dens,
the lamp still held out to burn.
Seen by daylight Dodge City has a
better look; though somehow, pretty
much all the buildings, which are of
frame, lurch to the west as if impatient
to move on, the effect of high prairie
winds. The population can not be far
from 1000, though there is large float
ing element, increasing rapidly, and a
month later, when the cattle are swarm
ing in and things are at high tide, there
will be in the town and outskirts as
many as 5000 people. The cattle ship
ping season gathers traders, spectators,
gamblers, and all sorts. Through June
and July Dodge City will be the liveliest
place in the West. The best trails from
the Panhandle of Texas strike the rail
road and river at this point; it is
outside the "dead line" prescribed by
Kansas laws, and offers every facility for
large stock transactions. There are
now in this vicinity about 10000 head
of Texas 'beeves" already arrived and
ready to be marketed. There are on
the trail, between Dodge and Cimarron,
$4,000 more. The last accounts from
the south indicate that there are upward
of 225, 900 head of cattle moving north
ward from Red River, fully one-half of
which will take the trail to Dodge City.
About the LIST of July the larger share
will have arrived here, and the shipping
season will begin in earnest. There
will probably be put on the cars at this
station from $4,000 to 10000 beeves for
Kansas City, st. Louis and Chicago.
The greater share of the cattle that are
driven to this point from Texas do not
20 into Eastern markets yet. They
will be allowed to feed their way west.
ward and northward, and two months
later will appear at stations on the Kan
sas Pacific and Union Pacific Roads
further east, some to be shipped to Kan
sas City and Omaha, but the great bulk
to remain feeding on the plains until
next spring. The cattle "drives'' from
Texas each year represent good deal
of money, and are in the hands of COM
paratively few men. A careful compi-
lation of the owners, number o. head,
and destination of the Texas cattle in
this northward drive for the season of
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ThanatOpsis.
ny WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

To him who In the love OF Nature hoius
Communion with her visible forms, she
speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has n voice OF gladncss, ana u siniie
And eloquencc of beauty, and she glidcs
Into hls darker musings, with ma
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he Is aware. when
thoughts
OF the last bitter hour come like blight
Over thy spirit, and sad images
OF tho storm agony, and shroud, and pail,
And brcathlcss darkness, and the narrow
house,
Make thee TO shudder, and grow sick ut heart ;
Go forth, unto the open sky, and list
To Natures teachings, while from all around
Earth and her waters, and the depths OF air
Comes "a still voice-Yet u few days, and then
The all behoding sun shall sec no more
In ,dl his course nor yet I'm the cold ground
Where thy pale form was laid, with many
tears, .t.-..
Nor In the embrace of ocean, shall exist
Thy image. Earth, that nourishcd thee, shall
claim ...
Thy growth, to DO resolved to earth again,
And, lost each human trace, surrendering up
Thine individual being. shalt thou go
To mix for ever with the elements, n.
To be brother to the insensible rock
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude
swain
Turns with his share and treads upon. The
oak
Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy
mold.
Yet not to thine eternal resting place
Shalt thou retire alone, nor cOuldst thou wish
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie
dowh
with phuiarchs OF inc infant woria-"Nh
Kings,
Inc powerful Oh inc oarth-'ho "iso' 'ho
goou'
ran iori"S' anu hoary seers oi nscs pus''
AL III one hiShty Scpuichio. iho "ii''
ROCK 'ilppen ana ancient as thc suh-'ho Va'es
Strc'chhhs III pchsiNe q"ic'"oee p''"o'"'
the venerable woods-rlvers shat move
IN rhhJoSty' anu thc '"'hTi"i''i"S o'ooN'
That make inc meadows Sreeh' anu pourco
round all
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Are nut the solemn decorations all
oi inc ercat tolhD Oh man. Nc Bolueh sum
The planets, MI the INFINITE most OF heaVeh'
Arc SHINING on ,hc SUI hpoues VI ue"'n
Through the stu lapse OF ages All tnattread
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AHELENA Montana) father recenu!
lost 500 in greenbacks, but some dAls
afterward found that his little daugh'e'
had used IL to make heai-dress for hs'
doll, chipping off the corners to maksA
good fit.
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ASHER W. HAENANY, of Virginia
has failed. He owns the Natural Bridge,
and it Is set down among his assets for
$4,000.
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A RUSSIAN RUSE.

How One Of the Cars Post CAPTAIN. a.
Iuainted Himself with American sb 1e'
Building. ip'
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Mrs. Pitman,s Dust.

The calcined remains of Mrs. Benn
Pitman, when they were taken from the
retort of the furnace of DR.. LIE Moyne's
crer1atory, weighed fraction over four
pounds two ounces. Their appearance
generally, as described by correspond
ent present, was that of a clear white
bone ash, as of a thoroughly burned
bone pulverized by a heavy weight, in
termingled with fakes resembling fish
scales, of an extremely light pearl color.
Mixed with the bone ash were the hardly
distinguishable fibers and shreds of the
cashmere robe in which the body was
wrapped, and of the alum soaked sheet
with which it was covered, distinguish
able by the difference of texture, and
what were also believed to be the petals
of.the flowers placed upon Mrs. Pitnan's
bosom but all these were reduced to
an impalpabie dust in handling the re-
mains, which lay on the bottom OF the
retort, distributed in almost exact pro
portion to the quantity of bones that &c
to make up the human skeleton.
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Age Of the Idea of He'll.

Ia the first place, it is necessary to
rise above that narrowhess of view Which
regards the doctrine of hell AS espe-
cialiy Christian doctrine, or as the
monopoly Of any. particular religion.
On the contrary, 1t Is as ancient and
universal as the systems of religious
faith that have overspread the world.
The Oldest religions of which we have
any knowledge-Hindoo, Egyptian, and
thffyarious oriental sEst CT IfIurlarship
with accompanying bells for the torture
of condemned sotl1s We certainly CAN
not assume that all these systems are
true, and of divine origin but, if not,
then the question forces itself upon us,
how they came by this belief. The old,
historic religious systems involved ad
vanced and complicated creeds and
rituals, and if they were not real divine
revelations in this elaborated shape we
are compelled to regard them as having
had natural development ont of lower
and cruder forms of superstition. TO
explain these feligions-as to explain the
earliest political institutions-we must
go behind them There is a prehistoric,
rudimentary theology of the primitive
man, the quality of which has to be de-
duced from his low, infantine condition
of mind, interpreted by what we OBJ
serve among the inferior types of man.
kind at the present ti1ne-Prof YoA-
mans, in Popular Science Monthly for
March,.
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IN FEARFUL PERIL.
Thrilling Railroad Experiencc-A Brake
man Who Was Equal to an Emer
sency

Thrilling Railroad Experience-A Brake
man Who Was Equal to an Emer-
sency
The following intensely interesting
acc6unt of What came near being ter
rible accident on the Dtinkirk, Warren
and Pittsburgh railroad is from the
jamestown On. Y. Democrat
every one in any way conversant
With the construction of the Duukirk.
Warren and tsittsbtfeh railroad knows
how rapid is the descent ff5n tsona
into Fredonia. The fact that the great
est care has always been observed in
running trains over this part of the road
Is we'll known to the engineers and
brakemep, and they are very liable to
be "oh deck and busy when they strike
tllis dangerous locality. Last Saturday
evening, about Il O'Clock, an accident
happened at the place we have above
described which came very near ending
III geath and destruction The night
was intensely cold, at1d when the regu-
lar freight train pulled out of Cassa-
daga all the brakemen but one were in
the caboose warming up, preparatory to
standing guard over the long train of
t~enty-nlne cars when the heavy grade
was reached. Just after leaving the
station the train broke In TWO, tite last
five cars being left behind, the balance
with only one brakeman keeping on un-
aware of the accident.
The top .sf the hill was reached end
the descent began. The engineer, End
ing himself impelled along at terrible
rate, reversed his engine, though he
says he expected to see the cylinder
heads blown out and his locomotive
wreck-and whistled for brakes. The
cars were covered with ice and snow, and
the solitary brakeman took his life in
hand when, In the darkness, and the
train laundering along at the rate of
about mile minute down grade that
increased the speed every second, he
sprtng from one car to another and set
every brake on the ~hole twenty-tliree
cars. The run from the top Of tie hill
to Fredonia was made in an incredibly
short space of time, and, by the bravery
of the brakeman, the quick discovery of
the impending danger by the engineer,
and the good work of the locomotive
and every brake, the train was kept from
q plhhge INTO the Dunkitk depot ard
total humiliation The distress and
anxiety of the conductor md brakeman
in the caboose as to the whereabouts of
their charge and friends was very great,
until dispatch from Fredonia finally
relieved all fears, and that which i'll
luck had severed for while mans in
genuity soon brought together again"
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Bat-GUauO.

TeSas possesses very singular mine
OF wealth. stored in multitude OF caHes.
These subterranean chambers have been
Tor ages the resort of swarms of bats.
which have left upon their floors a de-
post that promises to be as valuable for
tert1llz1ng purposes as the guano from
Peru. A description of one of these
caves is given by traveller, who says .
Our objective point was the great
bat-cave some Ten ihiies east of The little
town of Selma, place seldom visited by
Northern tourists. When within less
than mile of the cave; which is situated
on the ctest Hf q. high bliiff that may be
called an irregular table-land, Gen. Ord
directed my attention to an immense
dark shadow in the horizon, extending
from the ground-line high up in the
heavens. It had all the appearance of
strong volume of smoke issuing from
the funnel OF some gigantic 0cean-steam-
er. 1t looks like smoke said the
General, but it is simply a cloud of
bats issuing from the cave. On ap-
preaching nearer I eonld distinctly
make out the flying verInin, which We're
truly thicker than the densest swarm of
bees ever seen; and there appeared to
be no end of them. We soon reached
the cave, which dips into the brambly
gorge and from the capacious mouth,
shaped like the half-choked arch of a
bridge, we could see the bats flying out
in tens of thousands, the column grow
ing deeper every second. The cave is
gloomy as the realms of Pluto, having
a gentle decline OF some hundreds OF
feet, the roof being djtite. lofty, and the
floor covered to an incalculable depth
with guano-deposit. Bats, as you know,
do not perch singly, but hang to the
wall and to each other, just as bees do
when in swarm. The temperature of
the cave is sufficiently low to prevent
them from becoming heated and how
they manage to support the enormous
weight of their own masses is a question
which only practical ttatura1ists can
solve. They manage to do it, though,
without the slightest apparent discom-
fort. And there cannot, at moderate
computation, be less than 3O,OOO,O 900 of
bats In these enormous caves"
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HE PrOsneritY of France.

[ have said that the exception tG this
widespread decentralization is France :;
and [ believe it. Her experience seems
to have baffied precedent and prophecy.
She seems to have survived t1ost of the
evils that have afflicted others. Attacked
and beaten by an external foe, lacerated
by savage internal feuds. BETRAYED by
she 1s paying OFT her great war QeDt,
keeping her. credit high, personal ana
general, suffering Httle from strikes
among her work people, and In the
midst of a great foreign conflict, holding
wisely aloof. and quietly founding a
republic on safe snd conservative
principles. The boasted elements of
strength in other nations she dis cards,
and succeeds by discarding. AS a naval
power she is relati gely weak; as a
colonial power she is far in the rear.
She is untrammelled by the sill
yer "scate," because she uses
it herself, aid hef beet states
men favor reconciliation. In period
of confessed mediocrity her poets are the
best of the modern life; her dramatists
write the plays acted, and too often
stolen by the rest of mankind; her paint
ers and sculptors are patronized and
busy; her people industrious, happy and
frugal, aud. in the midst OF o universal
panic, she is building vast universal
exhibition, as if to show that she IL pros
pering while others are poor. Is not
France the exception ?-J. W. F'Oruey's
LUnaOn Letter to the Philade, 91hia
Press.
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An AnecdOte Of Lincoln.

While the ceremonies of the second
Inauguration were in progress, just as
Lincoln stepped forward to take the oath
of Office, the sun, which had been OBJ
scured by rain-clouds, burst forth III
splendor. II conversation, next day,
the President asked, "Did you notice
that sun urst? 1t made my heart
Jump" Later in the month, Miss Anna
Dickinson, in a lecture delivered in the
hall of the House of Representatives
eloquently alluded to the sunourst as
happy omen. The President sat directly
in front of the speaker. and, from the
reporters gallery, behind her, [ had
caught his eye, soon after he sat down.
When Miss Dickinson referred to the
sunbeam, he looked up to me involun-
tarily, and 1 thought his eyes were suf'
fused with moisture. Perhaps they
were, but next day he said, g wonder
if Miss Dickinson saw me wink at you .
NOAH Brooke "Reminiscences Of Lin
coin, IN March Seri6'aer.
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Hard Times.

"Hard Times !'' is on every lip, and
breathed from every tongue; the banks
are cursed by one and all, the aged and
the young. The merchant has to close
his doors, and throw his ledger by; such
times he VOWS were never seen by any
mortal eye. The shopmen quit the
counters side, for customers are few; ;
the times are so very tight it makes them
all look blue. The citizen in vain es-
says to make more than his bread q
pound Of which he declares won't weigh
a pound of lead There's not day but
some one fails-scme house that goes to
smash and names that once stood high
on Change, are out for want of cash.
Those supposed to be millionaires, and
rich in shares and stocks, their million
heirs now disappoint, they fail and
leave no "rocks." "Hard times hard
times were ever seen such times, SO
hard as theseI p This is the cry, from
morn till night, in which each one agrees.
A remedy-how do you think this will
do? Pull off your coat, roll up your
sleeves, and work the hard times through
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Land Grants Forfeited.

The House Committee on Public
Lands have agreed to report to the House
bill forfeiting all land grants to the
following named railroads, with the
recommendation that it be printed and
re ommitted for consideration by the
committee. The railroads named are:
Northern Pacific, Texas Pacific, Atlantic
and Pacific, Oregon Central, Hastings
and Dakota, St. Paul and Pacific (St
Vincent extension and Braiuerd branchl,
Wisconsin Central, North Wisconsin,
Houghton and Ontonagon, Detroit and
Milwaukee, Little Rock and Fort Smith,
ST. Louis and Iron Mountain, New Or
leans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg,
North Louisiana and Texas, Florida
and Gulf Central, Pensacola and
Georgia, Alabama and Chattanooga,
Mobile and Gira I'd, Coosa and Tennes-
see. Alabama and Florida, and Gulf and
Ship Island. It is estimuted that this
bill, if passed, will restore to the public
domain about one hundred million acres
of land Washington Cor. Chicago
Times.
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Jolly PrincetOnians.

A Freshman revealed the state of So
ciety at Princeton by his reply, when
asked why he carried arms, Why,
don't carry anything but a revolver. 1
had a knife, but lent that to fellow who
hadn't any pistol" William n. Strong,
son of United States Supreme Court
Judge Strong, is Princeton Freshman.
His room was visited by Sophomorcs
some weeks ago, but he escaped at the
risk of his neck He next day bought
an immense bulldog, in addition to a
revolver, and was ready Tor another call.
Tuesday evening, just beffore After
bury's shooting, squad of Sophomores
reached his room. Strong unclaimed
his dog, cooked Ills revolver, opened the
door, and asked the Sophomores He
was not hazed. That is the nice way in
which the students live at Princeton
Letter from Princeton College,
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Az Indiana deaf mute returned home
from Lafayette recently, in the night.
His deaf mute wife, not expecting him
to be back before the next day. was not
Oh the lookout for him, and the poor
fellow, after hammering with might and
main at the door for ever SO long, was
at length forced to make the doorstep
his bed and remain out all night.
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was as much awake as I ana now; and
when you ore rs cid as I an, and have
seen as MANY wonders, you will be Sur
prised at nothing. snd will own that
there are more things in Heaven and
earth than die dreanled Of id yout phi
losophy. "-BelgraUio.
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NUMBER 81.
IRISH SONG.
SUGGESTED BY A LYRIC OF BARRY CO

SUGGESTED BY A LYRIC OF BARRY CORNWALL
Oh the Springs delight
Is the cowsllp bright.
AS she laughs to the warblin' Iinnet;
And a whistiin' thrush
Ol 3 white May brush,
And his mate in the nest widin it.
sT,nrnsr she shows
Her rose, her roeei
And oh, all the happy
The nightingale wooes her;
At dawn the lark sues her
Wild the crystal surprise Of his song.
King Artumps crown
Is the barley brown,
lied ever wild rosy fruit;
And the yaIio~ trees,
AS they sigh i'll the breeze,
Are the strings of his solemn lute.
Ould Winters breath
Is could as Death,
WiTra! lonesome he's left the earth;
Yet the thrush he sings
And the rose she springs
From the fame of his fairy hearth,
The Spectator.
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DENTISTRY

hK. n J. PATCHEN, DENTIST. OFFICE
Msnltowoc Wis VII Gun S'ice''
SS Teeth extracted without pain
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E. RANSCH,

IEWELER AND PHOTOGRAPHER. ALL
- kinds of work in the line of my business
promptly attended to, and warranted to give
satisfaction have just received n Wing Sc Orns-
beys Multiplying CAMERA OBSCURA, with
which can take small pictures of the finest
der, for one dollar per dozen. Photographs taken
of all sizes. Albums and Frames constantly on
hand. York Street.
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A. B. MELENDY,

PHOTOGRAPHER, EIGHTH ST., WHITES
L new block. Manitowoc, Wis, is prepared to
take photographs or Tintypes of every size ana
in the latest style of the art. All negatives re-
touched Call and examine specimens and
prices; Copying and enlarging old pictures a
speciality. keep constantly on hand a large
assortment of frames for the trade.
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Killed With a Baseball Bat.

Kent McLin, a young son OF S. B.
McLin, formerly of Florida, died in this
place on Sunday night from the effects of
injuries received during the game of
base ball on Friday afternoon. A MUM
ber of boys were playing game Of base
ball, and young McLin and another
young man named Dudley were on the
same side. McLin claimed that 1t was
his turn to go to the bat, and Dudley
said it was his, and walked up to McLin
and took the bat from him. McLin be-
came angry and struck Dudley in the
stomach with his fist Dudley jumped
back, and seeing McLin still approach
ing him, as if to strike again, he COM
menced waving the bat rapidly in front
of his body and walking backward. Nc
Lin continued to approach, trying to run
in near enough to strike, holding his
head forward and down. In this
position he ran up too near to Dudley.
and the bat struck him on the temple
just above the ear, fracturiDg the skull.
THO777rspiIle (CG J Ey1terOisc
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GUSTAV FEHRS.

" ATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. OFFERS
w his services for repairing all kinds of Clocks
and Watches. Has a fine and well selected as
sortment of the latest and best styles of Clocks,
American, English ana SWISS NVsitC1IS--, ..iyj
of Gold and Plated Jewelry, at his new Brick
Store on Sth street, South SIDE door south of
Kremer's, Manitowoc.
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CHARLES HOVER

NJ EhCHANT TAILORING ESTA ABf.fsH-
vi ment, on 8th street, near south and ~
bridge The tailoring department is complete
anu contains large assortment of fashionabIe
cloths and Gents furnishing goods constanti,
on hand Please call and examine before pur,
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MRS. z. KERN

work STREET, MANITOWOC. WIS. DEAL
er IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery Fam
cE Goods, Glass ware, Boots and Shoes Ready
mace Slothing, Paper Hangings, Hats, Caps
1oys. Children Carriages, Live Geese Feathers
pro cages, Kerosene Oil and Lamps, &C., &C.
"a snace OF public patronage is solicited.
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S. SANDERSON.

ln Boots, Shoes, Leather &C. &C. Shop on
Bunalo street, near the corner of Eighth. Re-
pairing neatly and promptly executed.
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FRED. SEEGER

rFERS TO HIS FRIENDS AND THE PUB-
N,o..E nc geneTally, choice selection of Fresh
Hams, Shoulders, Sausages TalIow and Lard at
the lawest rates. Market on Commercial Street.
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A TTORNEYS AND COUNCILLORS ATLAW.
u Ofhce over Platt's store, corner of York
and Ninth streets. Collections promptly atten-
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r. X. PAINE NJ D.

HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, SURGEON
i and Accoucher, late resident Physician at
the Hahnemann Hospital, Chicago, has perman-
tiy located at Manitowoc. Office in Plumbs
building, ecreer of Buffalo and Eighth Streets
oFFrcs acens sto9A:M:
Diseases of the eye and ear treated.