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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14

PRINTERS everywhere viii learn with
SORROW of the death of George P. Cor
dol, the printing press builder. He
was one of the best-known of those in
ventors towhom the rapid development
of printing in America is SO largely due.
He had no special connection with
newspapers, his presses being of the
smaller sort used in job printing. They
are very ingenious in their design, and
rapid and perfect in their operation.
and have for twenty years held the field
against all competitors. The curious
thing about them is that Mr. Gordon
believed he had received the design of
them from the other world. He was
an ardent believer in spiritulism, and
professed to have received knowledge
from the spirits of Franklin and others
of all the improvements in printing ma
chinery which he patented, nearly fifty
In number. Mr.. Gordon Was of Scot
fish descent, nearly seventy years old,
and the most irascible, unreasonable
and kind-heartea Of men.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14

THE Legislature of New Hampshire is
having under consideration a very ex-
celIent railroad bridge bill, proposed by
the State Engineering Society. It pro
vides that Railroad Commissioners
shall inspect al the 800 bridges of the
State. at the rate of at least twenty in
1878 and thirty each succeeding year,
the results OF the inspection to be re-
corded ii the nainutest particulars, and
the records TO be kept open to the pub
lie, and the conclusions of the examina-
tons to be embodied in the annual re-
port. Any railroad company, before
beginning bridge or trestle, must file
with the Railroad Commissioners COM
plete description and specification Of the
structure, including statement of its
strength and estimated cost; then if the
papers are satisfactory, the Commission
ers shall grant permit for the work,
and after its completion shall authorize
It's use for public travel, only after a
scientific examination.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14
S5l,0Sl,l79.66
pUI,UUIl I TTIC
Discussed IN 1876.


This Company Is purely mutual, not having dol
lar of stock. Its policy ders the only mem
bers of the Corporation. 1t is therefore in effect,
simple partnership of persons for insuring each 9TH
ers lives There being stock, there can be
sale of the Company from set of owners and
managers to another; but lis affairs remain perpet
ually Ia the entire control of tho members them
selves, to elect board of twelve directors each year.
This board meets weekly 2ca directly supervses all
the business of tho Company.
The Company issues whole 1ifepolicies with either
annual premiums for life, which it prefers and re-
commends, with limited number of premiums !;
it will also issue Iong-term endewments. Expert
has shownt hat these the most advantageous
forms of policies both TO the individual and to the
Company We SHALL therefore, restrict ourselves to
them.
The surplus earned in any year is returned to the
following year. only by reduction of premium. thus
limiting the payments TO the actual current cost of
the insurance.
In thirty years, this association of men, united in
interests and purposes single feature in its his
tory has paid to the representatives of seven hous
and five hundred and sixty members who have died.
the vast of twenty five millions one hundred
and twenty. nine thousand five hundred and thirty
six dollars-25, 12S, 536.OO-as follow:
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14

The Judiciary committee of the house.
with one absent, was evenly divided on
the proposed sixteenth amendment,
that is, giving suffrage to women. The
absent member is said to be opposed to
it. Those voting aye were Butler,
Frye, Conger and Lapham, Republi-
cans; and Lynde. Democrat. The OPP
ponents were all Democrats, and that
the women may know whom to anath-
ematize we give their names: Knott,
Partridge, Stenger, McNTahon, Culbert-
son and Harris.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14

The senate finance committee has
agreed to report bill for the issue of
bonds of ten dollars and multiples there
of at $50 per cent. interest. The bill
is substantially the same as that recon-
mended by Secretary Sherman. If
passed it viii afford a safe means of in
vestment for small savings, although not
a very profitable one. But, in the days
of crumbling savings banks, safety of
the investment is better than the prom
Use of large interest which may, or may
not, be paid.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14

We do not believe that the Republi-
can party could do better thing for
itself than to remove the disabilities
from Jefferson Davis and allow the peo-
pie of Mississippi to send him again to
the Senate, as they undoubtedly desire
to do. His election would be the strong
est possible argument in favor of the
Republican success in 1880. He is the
chief as well as the most thoroughly I'M
repentent rebel and his return to the
Senate by his own State would warn the
North that she must not sleep while the
South regains supremacy in the nation.
We do not think that anything else that
could happen could equal this rs card
to win Chicago Post.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14

PRESIDENT HAYES has written letter
to Atty. Gen. Deyens on the subject of
the conviction of Gen. Anderson.
While temperate in tone it deprecates
the action of the authorities as likely to
disturb the peaceful tendency which
had apparently followed the efforts at
cancellation.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14

THE bill which passed the Legislature
at Madison making eight consecutive
years OF insanity sufficient ground for
divorce demonstrates the painful fact
that husbands and wives who have sol
emily sworn to cherish and protect their
consorts II sickness or health, turn
away in times of misfortune, and are
willing to leave their loved ones of other
years TO the care of strangers or public
charity, while they seek for fresh past
Ures. The human heart that can thus
leave behind the object OF its purest
and strongest lovesbecause it is oyertak-
en- by sickness, is not to be compared
with those OF the comnonest beasts
Fond az Lac Com.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14

THE sick man of the East appears to
be the Gar. He is seriously indisposed,
the cable tells us-so weak and thin
that he sits on pillows and soft cushions
to prevent the bones from coming
through the skin. He is depressed too,
with The presentiment of his approach
ing death. No Romanoff has lived be-
yond so, and he will be 60 in April.
When his sister died, two years ago, she
reminded him of this, and told him he
must be prepared to go before he was
go. They say her words made a great
impression on him then, and now that
he is not well, they constantly recur to
him.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14
Ed. BORCHERDF, Editor & Publisher.
THURSDAY, FEB. IA, 1878.

GIDEON WELLEs, Secretary of the
Navy IN President Lincoln's Cabinet,
died at his home in Hartford, CT, Mon
day evening, aged rs years, after an
illness of two weeks.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14
Cancellation

ANoTHER argument in favor of the
Matthews resolution and Bland bill:
One of the heaviest dealers in bonds in
New York says: "The demand for our
bonds has altogether ceased, and they
are being returned by every steamer to
be disposed Of in this country at a loss"
These bonds have to be replaced in for
eign markets with gold
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14
ABOUT daylight Thursday me

ABoUT daylight Thursday morning
the horrible discovery was made that
the dead body of an infant had been
pinioned to q pile of lumber in q Yard
at Appleton. The body had been
pierced by nails, and thus horribly
fastened where every passer-by could
see its CHASTITY form OF murdered inno-
cenee. Investigation proved it to be a
rag baby.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14
ECCLEsIAsT1CAI ACTS

Among the ecclesiastical acts and
events which distinguished the reign of
Plus X are: The reform of the great
religious bodies by the encycIical letter
OF June II, 1877, the PUBLICATION, Dec.
5, 1864, OF the catalogue of propositions
condemned by him at various times: the
celebration in 1869-T0 of the first session
of the council of the Vatican; the crea-
ton IN the United States of q vast Rom
an Catholic hierarchy, crowned in
March, 1875, by elevating 20 the cardin
alate the archbishop OF New York: the
conflicts with Rassia, Germany and
Switzerland.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14

THE Sentinel remarks with kind of
melancholy accent that Statistics show
the fact that Wisconsin has more church.
es than Massachusetts,, but we lack the
religious influence of Ben Butler
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14
POPE Plus NINTH.

Pope Plus Ninth, whose secular name
was Giovanni Maria Mastai- Ferrettl,
was nearly Sc years old at the time OF
his death, having been born at Sinlgag-
liza, May 13, 1892. He was the son OF
count. In early life he was subject to
epileptic attacks, and was compelled to
suspend his classical studies at the col
lego of Voiterra, which he had begun II
1903. In 1909, finding the disease grow
ing worse, he went to Rome to devote
himself to theology. In 1914 he attend
ed the lectures at the Roman Academy
as layman. Soon after, his epileptlc
attacks decreasing in frequency and sew
Gritty, he was allowed to take minor cler-
ical offices and in 1918 became compan-
ion to Carlo Odescalchi, afterwards
cardinal, in a missionary excursion IN
his old neighborhood OF -Sinigagila on
the Adriatic coast. His zeal induced
his friend to recommend him to appoint
ment as deacon. He received permits
sion from Plus VII, to receive priests
orders in 1919, and was appointed di-
rector of the institution for the educa-
ton of poor boys. In 1928 he became
secretary to Monsignore Muzi, apostol-
ic delegate to Chilli, where he was en-
gagged In ministering to the Indians
chiefly. He returned TO Rome in 1925
and was made domestic prelate to Leo
XII, and in December of that year was
made superintendent of the hospital of
San Michale a Ripa. He was nominated
archbishop of Spoleto in 1927, and
created at his personal expense various
charitable and industrial establishments.
Tt was here in 1881 that he persuaded
body of 4, 900 insurgents to give up their
arms to him and obtained their pardon;
he acted as governor of the province for
q time. He was active in relieving the
suffering caused by an earthquake IN
1892, and was in consequence made
archbishop of Imola. In 1910 he was
proclaimed cardinal.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14
LOSS OF TEMPORAL POWER.

The events which gradually deprived
Plus TX of his temporal power had
their beginning with the withdrawal of
the Austrian forces, the peaceful revolt
of Romagna, the organization of q pro-
visional government and the transfer of
the territory to Sardinia. September
II, 1860, the insurgents in Umbria and
Marches placed themselves under the
protection of Victor Emanuel. The
Pope was supported by the French, but
province after province capitulated to
the insurgents. February 26, 1871,
Victor Emanuel was proclaimed king Of
Italy by the parliament of Turin and it
was affirmed that Rome should become
the capital of Italy. The pontifcial
government protested against the title
assumed by Victor Emanuel, but he
was recognized by the great powers.
The object was to drive the French
troops out of Rome. Garibaldi tried 10
accomplish this, but the italian govern
ment chose to effect the withdrawal of
French troops by treaty with Napoleon
Ill, which was concluded September
10, 1864, and in 1870 the last French
soldier departed and Victor Emanuel
entered Rome. The pope protested in
vain against the aggressions of the Itai-
ian government.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14
OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS.

OTHER lMPOkIANT EVENTS.
In April a French force restored him
to Rome, and Cardinal Antonelli, his
secre AIRY Of foreign affairs, became act
i've and aroused the hostility of England
by brief restoring the Roman Catholic
hierarchy in that country. In 1854 the
pope invited the bishops of the world to
meet at Rome, and defined the doctrine
OF the immaculate conception to be a
dogma of the Catholic faith Other i'm
portant acts of his pontificate have been
the concordats with SpainQ 1859, Baden
$3.50. and Austria QS55)- of which
have been revoked-and the foundation
at Rome of English and American col
leges for theological students The
pope's cherished project Of an italian
confederation was revived in 1859 by
Napoleon Ill, but the pope refused to
entertain it. AnoSher outbreak occur
red, and the pope complained of the
part Sardinia took, and asked the assist
ance of foreign powers. The pope ad-
dressed letter to Napoleon, refusing
to take part in the European congress
unless the emperor recognized the in
tegrity of the papal states as defined by
the treaties of 1915. Napoleon advised
the surrender of Romagna, which the
pope refused, and then issued q bull of
communication against all persons
concerned in the disturbance OF his do
minions.
Another important measure carried
through by the pope was the doctrine
of the infallibility of the pope.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14

CnAI1tdDIS anu luOuStIIai OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
1t was here in 1881 that he persuaded a
body of 4, 900 insurgents to give up their
arms to him and obtained their pardon;
he acted as governor of the province for
@ time. He was active in relieving the
suffering caused by an earthquake IN
1892, and was in consequence made
archbishop Of Tmola. In 1910 he was
proclaimed cardinal.
ELECTED POPE.
On the death Of Gregory XVI, June
1, 1916, he was Immediately designated
as fit successor, and was elected. He
found himself, without experience, il
the midst of grave political difficulties,
and was accused of being weak and ir
resoiute. Austria was opposed to him
and SO was the court of Naples. His
aim was to realize the Grooertain ideal
OF confederated Italy, without sur
rendering any part Of his prerogative as
temporal sovereign if it would trammel
his independence III governing the
church. He appointed commissions
composed of eminent jurists to inquire
into needed reforms; he reduced his own
household expenses, abolished ell pen
sions not granted for great public ser
vices, imposed three years tax on all
benefices and wealthy church corpora
tions, reduced the taxes, chartered rail
road and telegraph companies, declared
free ports OF entry, stimulated home
manufactures and encouraged the form
alton Of agricultural societies.
On the Sth of August, 1876, he super
seded the commission of six cardinals
by appointing Cardinal Gizzi as secreta
tary of state. In the meantime the scien-
tific congress at Genoa proved to be
revolutionary, and its members pledged
themselves to the overthrow OF monarchy
and ecclesiasticism. A manifesto was
published at Paris providing for organ
ization throughout Italy for the estab-
lishment of national constituent as
sembiy and q united italian republic
without pope or state religion. In con
sequence OF scarce harvests, riots occur
red and republican demonstrations took
place. Trouble increased on all sides
and finally the pope was forced by q
mob, which killed his secretary at his
side, to accept radical ministry-after
which lie escaped to Gaeta, disguised as
simple priest. He Immediately issued
a protest against the revolutionists, and
in February, 1910, called upon the
Catholic powers for armed assistance.
On the 18th, the Roman assembly de-
clared the inauguration Of republic and
the deoositiOO of the rn,,a from his tam
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-03-29
NEW YORK FIRhMEN's TIME
n Triumphant Practice Driii In the Liberty
street Engine House.

Capt. Crum Of steam fire engine No. in
vited several gentlemen 10 the engine house. al
80 Liberty street. yesterday morning to view a
practice drill. The stalls Of the horses are
twenty feet in the rear OF the engine. anl are
hroadsde TO it. go that the animals must back
out from them. The first trial was Of htching
from the stalls The men We're ounging near
the engine. the horses stood quietly in their
stalls. in which they were fastened 10y halters
Capt Crum stood by tho side Of the gong. with
small wooden mact in his hand. and one OF
the visitors gazed intenty upon the face Of
st0u watch held in his hand. The Captain
struck two quick blows on the gong, AT the same
time pulling the lever that loOsened tho haltrrs.
In the stalls there was snort ana n wild clattrr
of hoofs and tn" horses. Bill and Charley. tore
out from behind the engine. stopping abruptly
at the pole, The men sprang 10 their places,
there was a sharp cnshng Of snaps and steel
rings. and as the driver. who had sprung to his
scat and seized the lines. called Rcady, tho
stop watch recorded o. seconds from the time
Of striking the first blow on the gong. A rep
ctition Of the trial WAS made with the horses
taken from the stalls and standing Just behind
the engine In seconds they were ready to
start.
The triumph of the exhibition. however. was
when the men were sent up stairs to their Sleep
ing room and the horses returned 10 their
stalls. Again the gong struck. tho mon seemed
to reach the foot Of the stairs nt "A single leap,
there WAS another rush Of horses and in cN-
uctly seconds the driver shouted. Ready"
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srIRAs fHoM rnE IEAEGRlpn

s nanc frcrc Goycrnr 4 cipo Colony, thinks that
BiN burn. d yesterday loss, sslnp
Tho senate m eNccuuyc session. today connrmed
ni'nh W srol Ia to Doe Register oi the Irru-urN.
The rncc for the ,tfpnn sariut Cnr was won o., lle,
per Lancaster was second ami Min,lol,rn tnrl
Thomas Otuunoll oi Gn,hen \ brakeman was
h!"l un tr JDrNN tuN tnd Alhnu, branch u tlr NiI.
lnnl Railroad h laieisifaW Yesterday, while trying TO
uncoulc cars
Judge ntnio WarlWol ~ Rome Y died on Wed
hc~Af ne was uuus mrmltr nl III, bar rrprr
Tuirl I'lrts"u county IN the Assembly and s,H sd
three terms IN Congress
In considering todnay the hill revising Internal rcyr.
nnc itAts, t't committee Ntv, lIi NJ improved
clauses reducing taN ON tnhurrn lrpm "a to III cents
pound ana ON elsars lom - TO -
In the trial of mining sui M DcaiWuoi one of the
MllncsNS ulukins question asked Inn b. " II Gag
80 &C. HiiutnA AMI rN tNn-it ,.llu llsW Montana.
lcf-onil, drew revolver and attempted lo shoot linn
MiNlnnl legislative committee has reported nm
hfnrhhA u!"n hs Nr dfm'-"s ' property lu the l.il
road rots sll there was drrcicon ou the uAit nf
w prevent ue deetluouuu of popoity
Rr}nold, oi AannmA 10 he First Auditor ui the rrra,
cry Nlrr David MtiIu resigned. amt tnht of Iu.opli
Huston OF B0l~ CN, Idaho to be United States Aior
ney Tor Idaho
The drand Jury have found indictments for breaking
into aui rnerns tu onnlt assault AGAINST the nar
mouth students e. NJ tnukr and q Barnett. the ilnr
lenders ~ lht lhkus iUr Nhu,c HTrc, President Bartrt
nnrrS s%r Im"olhtrs Mhu Nce arrested were accepted
A. Sial, seNlItE.v
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THE DANGEROUS UYOMING.
Rotten. and Leaking In ~ Dozen Pinccs-A
sailor Calls Her Floating Conn.

The condition of the United States steamer
Wyoming. now lying in the dry dock at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. proves TO be much worse
than was anticipated. From the load line down
to the light line. she is absolutely and unquai-
icdly rotten. The leaking. instead Of being in
the stlrboard bow. has been found to exist in
dozen different places. Yesterday. after the old
copper had been stripped OF. several pieces OF
plankng forty feet in length, were taken out.
These were 80 rotten that they fcll apart while
being removed. Besides this it is alleged that
the apron to which the stern is attached. and
one Of the most important tmbers in n ship. Is
cracked or checked. II is also alleged that some
OF the claml : that support the decks are broken
short Of The caukcrs say that instead Of
using only two strands Of oakum. IA il usual in
rccaulking sound ships. they have 10 usc six
and in some cases oight strands. This. they
say. indicates that the seams have rOitcd.
Hence when the new oakuu reaches the old
the latter gives war. the chisc in some cases
penr'raiing to he handle.
From several persons who were I'm the Wy
ominE ON her last trip the following WAS gath
cred: While unier steam she did not leak. hut
under prr~- ot cHnVa- the spnr- seemed to
act ~ levers. wren hing the ship, and opening
her, seams al every fresh gust Of wind. THO
tmhcrs crcak"d and yawnoi Us she lnbOred
heavily In 'ac soawny. At ono time there was
ivur lert oi water IN the forward st'rcro9m.
one mnrning the navigating oillcer reported To
Capt Watson that 1t would not hc safe to kcop
the vessel was headed homcward
Since the carpenters and calkcrs have been
AT work the crew haVo learned the true rondi.
tion Of the ship. and ihcrc Is much dissaii-fa'-
tion among them. Many OF them don't want TO
go out IN her again.
" tell ycr. said ono old sailor yesterday. as
hc fixed his eye upon an Object several miles
distant. apparently ON the. lookout for squalls.
tell yer she's nuihin' moron n npftn'
collin. Yesterday evenin' me and my mate soc
rat leave her. Now. when rats leave "a ship.
AL them as Is ludgmaical leaves her too. Rats
alus knows when II amt no more safe to stay
by ship
Another said. " II was we'll We had free wind
70 get home with. II IL had been TO windward
we'd never hg,c reached H. By-the-wnd. the
wyoming is llk" a tub in wash sea: she can
lust about get out Of her own way and that's
all"
Twenty i've thousand pounds ~ copper arc
in waiting for the time whom the Wyoming shall
be sum ienty tinkcred up for re"ppperlng.
According o. the testimony Of well-iniormrd
persons who have seen her hull all the copper
Ing IN the world won't make the Wyoming a
snie snip. EXCEPT when the weather is unusually
favorable and the snils are not set The inien-
tnn j. To take sum 'ient coal aboard t. last her
until her arrival at Hayre.
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PROCLIM1TION by CiMPOs.
Refugees Invited TO Return TO Cuba-Immu-
nifty from Punishment Promised.

HAVANA, March PA proclamation, dated
Santiago de Cuba, March ~. and signed by
Gen. Martinez Campos. has been made public
hero. The proclamation declares that peace
has been substantially recstablshed in the
greater part Of the district lately in rebellion.
and that 1t is now necessary to hcalthc wounds
oceHsioncd by ten years OF strife; " therefore in
accordancc with article Of tho peace condi-
lions and hv the authority Of the Home Govern
mrit, the General dncrccs:
flrSt-Ihe authorities Of tho pacincd terri
Tory are 10 observe the most coniplcie oiliv-
Ion Tor past events. and strive to prevent the
rtSu1ct'ltun OF 'ygOne passions.
Ne'phd-Al persons now in imprisonment
lpf treason, rebellion, and scdition. or for be-
lhg accessory thereto. are to be liberated. and
returned To their homes If desired, and those
VINO have escaped punishment are not to be
proceeded against.
Ihlrd All cases now pending before the tri-
hunal~ oi IN" island for such crimes are to be
alMNdoued Immediately.
f9urth-A persons hani-hcd or deportcd for
su n causes are To be permitted to- return home
and are To be exempt from molrstatiOn or per-
sceution ior their previous conduct.
fith-All persons included in the foregoing
articles and tnoSe residing in foreign coun-
tri"~. ar" 70 regain their rights of citizenship
SiAth-All deserters from the Spanish forces
WHO are stu ~ arms arc To hc pardoncd, If they
surrender ly the lJth of April.