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Year: 1868

70 come. Mr. James Blamphin-a recent addition to
the ebony troupe-last evening gave a superb per-
iormance upon the harp, which called for well
deserved encore, and gave evidence that the per
former was master mas err Of 4 the instrument. 1t was, in
short one or the best or this particular kind OF per
formances that we have heard in minstrel hali for
many years.


BENEFIT CONCERT TO Miss ADELAIDE PHILLIPs.-
The farewell benefit concert to this talented young
lady takes place this evening at the theatre OF the
Union League Club, in Twenty-sIxth street, and
promises to be a grand and magnificent affair.
Should the weather prove fine there will most
assuredly be full house.
Year: 1868

Soap for family use can be
made very cheap, and of excel


lent quality, with little trouble
Iby the use of common articles
sold in all drug stores. This is
ilye, put up in a concentrated form
in small iron boxes holding one
pound. These boxes cost 25 cents
and will make 25 pounds of green
or new soap. The plan of pro-
cedure is merely to take box Of
this substance, knock off the lid,
and throw it into n gallon of boil
ing water. After standing ten
hours the lye will be clear, and
must be thrown into a wash boil.
er with another gallon of water.
When the contents of the vessel
boil, four pounds of any grease
must be added slowly, poured in, in
a thin stream, and stirred well.-
When intimately mixed, the boil
er should simmer slowly for four
or six hours, and halt an hour be-
fore taking off, another gallon Of
hot water may be added. Two
tablespoonfuls of pulverized borax
and four tablespoonfnls of resin
add greatly to its detersive quail
ties. A teacupful of salt is then
thrown in.


When the soap Is thought to
be done, plunge a case knife in it;
if the mass drops clear and ropy,
and chills quickly, it is soap, and
will be finn and hard when cold.
Have ready a wash tub, well wet
on the bottom and sides, pour the
soap in and let it set; in a few
hours it will be hard to cut out.
and as white as snow.


The process makes rs pounds of
soap, or, by the aid Of grease 4
pounds, lye one pound, "a pounds
of water, less two quarts driven
off in boiling, Zone gallon weighs
s pounds nearly,) are converted
into soap of excellent detersive
properties.


Since the grease is saved from
the family waste, the soap has on
ly cost what the lye has come to,
and, as the loss by drying is only
25 per cent, Is pounds of soap
can be made for 35 cents-not
quite two cents pound.
Year: 1868

One of our exchanges advises
bottling cider, and gives the follow
ing directions


For bottling let the pumace lie
in the trough over night. The
first run of the cider from the press
is best. Let the cider work day
or two, the casks being full, SO that
the pumace may pass off at the
bung-hole. Then take an empty
.cask clean and sweet, put into it
ten or twelve gallons of cider,
thrust into the cask through the
bung-hole an ignited rag-sulphur
match, suspended by wire from
the bung-hole, to which it is to be
attached; and after this another,
and so on, till three or four match
es have been consumed. Then
shake the cask violently, until the
fumes of the sulphur are complete
ly incorporated with the cider
Pour the cider thus prepared into
the cask into which you propose
to keep it for the winter. Repeat
the same process until the cask is
full. Bung the cask tightly and
letit remain in thccellar till March,



then draw the cider off and bottle
it. Place the bottle on the bottom
of the cellar and cover with sand.
Some place the bottles bottom up,
in IA trench or between two bits of
joist, as in this way the corks will
remain secure without twine or
wire.


If you don't care to bottle it, you
can make excellent cider in this
way; Take pure cider, put it into
clean casks; then after the cider
has worked SO as to be pleasant,
add to each barrel pint of mus
tard seed, and -bung tight. The
cider will remain till spring Of
pleasant taste and sparkling ap-
pearance, when poured into q tum-
bier. x8ss ea
Year: 1868

At Tiffin, Ohio, last Sunday. a
physician succeeded in amputat-
ing the leg of a tiger which had
been viciously chawed and mu-
tilated in a fight with panther.
After tying down the tiger and
supplying him with chloroform, he
was taken from the cage and his
fore paw cut off to the satisfac-
ton of the owners of the show.
Year: 1868

A homesick dog recently travel
led 900 miles, and got back to his
old home in Missouri by instinct.
After November there will be an
exodus of homesick two legged
dogs from the South, hunting their
kennels much farther off.
Year: 1868

1t gives one an idea of the ex-
tent to which billiard playing is
carried in this country, to read that
a single billiard table mandatory
in New York employs more than
400 men; and that it had on hand
at one time three hundred finished
tables, and four hundred 10 process
reconstruction. gss5sq
Year: 1868

During the recent visit to this
country of the Chinese Ambassa-
dors, one of them stated, in reply


to the inquiries of a physician,
that it was not customary in Chi
ma, except among the lower class
of people, for the doctor to see or
touch female patients. In order
to ascertain the pulse of the sick
woman, string is tied around her
wrist and extended outside the
window to the doctor, who holds
the string between thumb and fin
ger, and by this sort of telegraph
is enabled to count the pulsations.
This seems a.ludicrous plan, but
it is far less mischievous than our
custom of admitting men doctors
to the private apartments of fe-
males. The opportunities for the
medical education of females in
this country are yearly increasing,
and we hope the day is not far dis
tant when the ladies will be able
to rout the men from the sick
room, and compel them to stand
out in the cold, under the window
sills. In China only women nur-
ses attend during child birth.
Year: 1868

1 The Natlon, Wrising apout tne
"Crisis at Washington" says Mr..
johnson "has the satisfaction OF
knowing that he has now nobody to
say word for him, and that there is
not a man left in the country who
does not think him either fool or q
knave. His disappearance
from the scene will new be heart
felt relief to everybody" This is
cutie near the truth of the matter
Not being ''availablep to any party
as an official, the individual Andrew
johnson has become of no account.
The Nation puts another point terse-
ly, thus:


"If every court in the country next
month pronounced the Tenure OF
Office act unconstitutional, 1t would
not in the least improve Mr.. John
sons position. What he is about to
be tried for is not only his disobe-
dience to the law, for OF this deci
sion tha. the law was unconstitutional


that is, null and void-psigh alb
solve him, but this taking upon him
self the functions of the Judiciary,
and deciding for himsel. that IL was
unconstitutional, and acting in his
official capacity under his own ruling.
Year: 1868

w The Cheyenne papers. claim
that besides gold. the territory of
Wyoming is rich in the baser metals
Copper, iron and lead are found in
inexhaustible quantities siong the
base of the mountains for long dis
tance from the Colorado line north
Good servieeahle coal can be found
in quantities to suit all over the Lar
annie Plains, in which same neigh
borhood a goodly sprinkling of oil
and mineral springs have been re
ported In the new Territory the
agriculturist will find excellent farm
ing lands contiguous to m untain
ranges, which will always afford
good markets for the produce he may
Year: 1868

~ A communication has been
made to the French Academy OF
Science. by Father Babas, in regard
to spiders. He asserts that they
have not only the power of spinning
a web, but of projectieg it to any
given point within six or seven
yards. 1t can thus shoot film up
to the ceiling of room, and escape
by it if necessary. Father Babas
states that spiders of certain descrip-
tions can swim in the air without any
web at all
Year: 1868

S 1t is said that the news oil
the passage of the impeachment
resolution in the House staggered
the President. It is easy enough to
stagger him. We should like to see
something occur that would sober
nim.-Chieago Post.
Year: 1868

This is the last issue of our paper before
the spring elections will have taken place
and we wish again to impress upon our
Republican friends the important bearing
it will have upon the great Presidential
contest that is to take place in November
next. Our opponents are making great
efforts to carry the Judicial election in
the State for the sole purpose Of making
capital for the Presidential campaign, and
hence it is necessary for the Republicans
in Manitowoc county to see to 1t that the
full strength Of the party vote is polled.
That the contest is becoming partisan
one is not due to the action of the Re-
publican party. The democrats called
their party convention first and in this
way forced the Republicans to join issues
with them


The Republican nominees, and
Paine-are men in every way competent
for the positions they have been nomln-
ated to fili They are inen of large judicial
experience, high legal attainmcnts, and
unimpeachablc personal character. Every
requisite necessary for faithful and I'M
partial discharge of their duties they
possess in the highest degree. Our OPP
ponents do not and cannot offer one single
satisfactory reason why change should
be made in our present Supreme Judges.
They do not claim that their nominees
are better qualified; they DO not care
whether experienced Judges are on the
| Supreme Bench they do not care tt
benefit the interests Of the people Of the
State, but are willing to sacrifice the sta
bility of our Supreme Court in order tx
make little political capital for The
Presidential campaign. The democracy
are now fighting to defeat Grant 1o. il'sosi
dent. Under these circumstances the
duty of Republicans is plain. The,
must meet the enemy on these issue:
and defeat them. Every Republican IL
the county should 90 to the polls and vote
/ the Judicial ticket. Remember that tt
| Judicial Ticket mast be on a SepGrdt
/ 5lflIot and roted IN q separate batlot-bor
Year: 1868

THE MANNER OF MAN He Is.-The
Darlington Union, published near the
home of Hon Charles Dunn, the Demo
cratic nominee for Chief Justice, gives
the following account of him:


Judge Dunn. the Democratic candi-
date for Chief Justice Is resident of the
town OF Belmont, in this county, and is a
genial. pleasant old gentleman of about
seventy years, superanuated, and so tine
tured with the virus of Democracy that
he is untitled for faithful unbiased dis
charge of the duties Of the position Of
Chief Justice of a free, progressing and
andc ivilizing community Reared in the
pro-slavery school Of politics follower
of Calhoun while he lived, and an ad-
vocate of that great enters theories
since his death he has steadily adhered
to the peculiar dogmas of the South, and
always advocated the cause of the slave
holder In 1853, when running an op-
position candidate for Congress against
General G. c. Washburn, he made a
speech from the balcony of the Russell
House, in this village, in which he fully
endorsed the great Kansas iniquity known
as the Lecompton Fraud and he took
ground in favor Of the right of the
STAKEHOLDER to take his slaves into
any state in the Union, and hold them
| there as chattles. His was one of the
Year: 1868

Charles Dunn, the democratic nomi-
nee for Chief Justice of the Supreme
court, is KnowNothing. In theWiscen-
sin Constitutional Convention, Dunn was
a member. and voted against the clause in
the suffrage article under which foreigners
can vote after one years residence. He
gave it as his opinion that even five years
was not long enough period for for
eigner to live in the state before being
permitted to vote. He held that they
were too ignorant to be entrusted with
political power until qualified for its ex-
ercise by familiarity with our institutions
which, in his view, they could only ac-
quire after long residence How do the
foreigners like that? Fancy the Irish and
Germans of this county voting for a
Know Nothing for Chief Justice. Re-
member his name-Charles Dunn. Spot
him.
Year: 1868

The idea of offering such opposition
to Judge Taylor as is now being raised by
the extreme partisan democrats is ridicu-
lous Why this Mclean run for police
Justice of the city of Fond du Lac last
spring, and didn't get votes enough to
show that he had been nominated.
Year: 1868

The idea of making the election of
Circuit Judge. or any other for that mat
ter, the occasion for partisan strife is ridi
cllous This is inviting to that high of
fee man who will decide for you if you
are On the same political side Of the fence
he is, and against you if on the other
without regard to justice. Then vote for
an Independent candidate, Judge Taylor
is the man.
Year: 1868

Charles Dunn is not only Know
Nothing but also a Copperhead He
agreed with James Buchanan that the
government of the United States had no
right even to attempt TO prevent South
ern traitors from destroying the Union.
Year: 1868

views as expressed by the Ne'cs and will
vote for Judge Taylor, believing that he
is the best and most competent man for
position. At the same time the Demo-
Gratis of Calumet are as sound politically
and otherwise. if not more SO, than the
Democrats of Fond du Lac, eyen if the
Journal says otherwise
Year: 1868

four votes cast in the town of Belmont,
IN 1860, for John G. Breckenridge for
President.


,R q 1861, at the breaking out of the re-
HGaon, Judge Dunn made speech in
the village of Belmont, in which he took
ground against the right of the Govern
laent to ceerce the rebel communities of
the South into obedience to the Constitu-
tiosa and laws. He contended that the
gcternment possessed no authoritative
remedy in the matter, and the South
sfnuld be permitted to go in peace


In addition to his want of sufficient
ability to discharge SO important a trust
as that Of Chief Justice, Judge Dunn is
ineapacitated by age for the performance
OF the onerous labors which attach to
to the office. 1t would certainly be un-
wise for the people of the State to elect
hna over his faithful and efficient oppo-
neif. We feel confident they will fall
into no such error
Year: 1868

Our roots fine and solid


From Young Yards Only
plant none other) We pack and deliver on Raj
Road Treatise on hop growing FREE The yards
east are now threatened with annihlation and WIS
c.asin must supply the demand. Buyers are already
Offering for the coming hop crop. We plant success
fully as late as May 90 but ship early. For far
prices. Address


WILLIAM 8. GRUBB
Hop and Hop Root dealer Baraboo Sauk County Wis
Year: 1868

Such bargains cannot be obtained elsewhere
in this city as you can get at the selling out
place. Tho Same is to continue only for short
time, and it is to the advantage of every one to
call and purchase at tho small but well stocked
store, No. 30, KING ST., which you cannot
fail to notice. from the fact that small red
flag hangs out at tho door SO far, every one
who has purchased, calls out cheap, cheap,
very cheap. Notice the following price list:
Year: 1868




At the termination OF the contest the Palisado
handed In protest, contending that the Vesper had
lost the race, owing to the "f0u;n but tho Vesper
crew making the same charge the matter was ut
length fully set forth before the referee who, after
occupying nearly one hour and half In giving the
claims Of both parties o proper consideration. de-
cided in favor Of tue yesper crew, all bets being or
Year: 1868

On Wednerday evening the residence OF
Inomas H. WhIe, tsq., on the corner of Perry
sftet and Scoylu avenue, Wa entered by a
burglar. Fortunately, however, the man was
discovered before be had an opportunity to do
any rtning, and his retreat was effected with
sucn haste hat he did not even wait 10 pay the
ordinary parting civility OF bidding the family
good night. Upon retiring, one OF the hall
windows, connecting with a sloplng shed, the
turther edge OF which was only about efynT
feet rom the ground, was lett open. Directly
opposite the window was the room IL Miss
White, sister of Mr.. White. Adjoining her
chamber was that of her two brothers. During
the night Miss White awoke - not from
sweet cream OF peace, but with a start,
and with full knowledge that some one was
near her-and saw within the moonlight in her
room no angel writing in q book of gold, bat
big burglar standing at the foot of the bcd. For
moment she lay motionleSs, but he stirred
not; then, with a scream which alarmed the
whole house and brought her brother to her


immaculate esslsiance. she sprang from the b d
ana seized her watch and jewelry upon a
stand near the head OF the bed. The burgla-
rious wearer Of biturcated garments tarried
not Tor moment, neither stood be upon the
order OF his going. but sprang to the door.
crossed the halt and mizzled through the win
dow. Mr.. White opened the door Iust in
time to see him go through the window,
and reached the win dow inst in time to see him
leap from the shed. He was man about n We
feet eight inches high, light aud muscularly
hnilt and dressed IN dark clothes and light
slouched hat The police lave a clue. and his
arrest, IL be remains in this city is but ques-
tion OF time. Miss White possesses a delicate
has often said that no one could enter her room.
no matter how soundly she slept without
awakening her and without her feeling their
presence. This assertion she has proved In a
practical way that admits of no cayilling ut
her powers: for so quietly did the burglar en- :
ter the window and cro-s the hall thai, with
Inc door OF bis room open. and himself awake


ner oro s1er did not hear a football. -ClereIand
Year: 1868

ClvIL RIGHTS CAsRfN BosToN.-A very
geEteei colored barber Of Boston was refused
refreshments at a restaurant OH account of his
color, and the owner afterward told the barber
tnat the waiter was correct. Subsequently the
restaurant keeper went to the bari ber's shop 10
get shaved, and hung up his coat, when the
barber told BIN that his patronage was not de.
Year: 1868

~Anexcitement was caused in Middletowp
VI, on Friday, by the discovery Of the body of
mr.. Thomas Steel, OF New Yerk. in the river
on Portland side There were marks on the
body that led to the belief that he had been
murdered and then thrown into the river. Mr.
Steel was a master stone cutter in New York
and q man Of considerable property
Year: 1868

The ESToRN.-The rain storm which was so
refreshing here to-day was extraordinarily se-
we're IN the North, and dispatches received
here previous to the breaking down OF the
wires, north and west of Baltimore. say that 1t
did great deal of damage TO property in New
York and elsewhere
Year: 1868

My DEAR SIR When I read tho
proceedings of the Democratic Con-
vention, in Columbia, I remarked to
one of the delegates from Barnwoll
that thought it particularly unfortu-
nate for us that tho convention had
expressed any opinion on the subject
of negro suffrage. It is on this very
question that the Democracy and Con-
scrvatives of the North will do battle
with the Radical, revolutionary party
that has seized the Government. TO
strike now from the platform the last
plank upon which the party can stand,
seems to me the most impolitic thing
that the convention could havo done.
[ cannot conceive of political equality
without social equality, the ono is a
sequence of the other. We must 20
into this fight with tho party banner
that this is "1hc White MANS Govern
ment," it is more important to us in
the South than to the friends of the
Constitution in the North, and we not
only weaken our own cause but give
fatal blow to the cause of constitu-
tional liberty by yielding the priuci.
pie.


l suppose no delegate will feel him
sef bound by this declaration of the
State Convention. | certainly would
not. do not expect to be able to at
tend the Democratic Convention in
New York next July, although it
would give me great pleasure to he
able to do, but | am too poor to get
away from home.


Yours, truly and respectfully,


Il. P. ALDRIcH.
Mn. RurTr
Year: 1868

WHAT TIE DEMOCRATS WILL DO If
SuCCEssrUL.-Coloncl John FORSYTH,
the talented editor of the Mobile Regis.
ter, who is now at Washington, writes
to spaper concerning the policy of the
Democrats towards the South, in the
event that they get possession Of the
Federal Government


IL have taken good deal Of pains to
learn what are the sentiments of leading
Democrats, as to the action Of the party,
should it win the administration in tho
November contest, in reference to Fed
eral policy towards the South. It was
question Of the largest practical inter.
est, whether, should the Democracy
come INTO power, it would leave tlo
whites of the South to struggle as best
they could ont Of the mire Of radical re-.
construction, or whether it would at
once lift them ont, by the strong hand
OF Federal power I get but one an
swer to tho inquiry, and that is, the
Democracy will be swift to sweep from
the statute book the whole system of
African reconstruction, as utterly null
and void, and OF no effect. and at once
to reorganize the existing white Const.
tntions OF the Southern States, and re-
admit tho latter to their full equality in
the Union. must confess that cid
not, personally, need such assurances,
for, when policy and good faith both
point to one course, the result ls seldom
doubtful. But some Southern friends
did deem them necessary. think, that
before Congress adjourns, the Democrats
in that body will make further decla.
ration and pledge to that effect.
Year: 1868

From the Cleveland (Tenn.) Banner. April 2.


On Friday night last, about half past
eleven O'Clock, a squad of armed mem
of the Jail, at this place, six prisoners. As
near as we can gather the facts, they are
these: About the time of night above
mentioned, two or three men made their
appearance at the jailer's door-which is
the lower story of the prison-and called
him by name requesting him to get up and
open the door The jailer not suspecting
any foul play, and thinking the applicants
for admission were some friends, got mp
and opened the door. As soon as the door
was opened two men stepped in with their
pistols drawn, and told the jailer they in
tended him no harm, provided he would
offer no resistance They told him they
had come to take from the Jail three men
naming them-and he must deliver up the
keys, or suffer the consequences. The jailer
being circumvened and overpowered by
numbers, could do nothing but hand up the
keys, and do their bidding. They proceed
ed up stairs, unlocked the prison door,
when instead of releasing three prisoners
they released six, only leaving in prison
hOse, VINO WAS HedNiiy Chaibeu- Inc ASa-
cuing party then left, taking the Jailer
with them beyond the railroad-some
three or four hundred yards distant
where they told him they had no further
Use for him, and that he might go where
ever his inclination lead him. The jailer
returned TO town and raised the alarm, but
by the time assistance got TO the Jail the
parties must have been distant two or three
miles, and pursuit was useless. No effort
has been made 10 recapture them. The
iailer thinks there must have been thirty
or forty men 10 the crowd that took the
prisoners from Jail.
Year: 1868

And kindred topics, we shall also give An eK-
tensive variety Of valuable and interesting mat
tor-the hest adapted to tho farming classes o.
our State which will. in great measure sup
ply the place Of a family agricultural paper