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Year: 1869

The New York Tribune says
Nothing is more common than to hear
people talk of what they pay newspa-
pers for advertising. DC, as so much
given in charity. Newspapers, by en-
hancing the value of property in their
neighborhood. and giving the localities
in which they are published reputa-
ton abroad, benefit all such. particular
ly if they are merchants or real estate
owners, thrice the amount yearly of
the meagre sum they pay for their sup
port. Besides every public spirited
citizen has laudable pride in having
a paper of which he is not ashamed,
even though he should pick it up in
New York or Washington.


A good looking, thriving sheet helps
property, gives character to the locsli-
ty, and in many respects is desirable
public convenience. If from any
cause the local or editorial column
should not be to your standard, do not
cast it aside and pronounce it good for
nothing, until satisfied that there has
been no more labor bestowed upon
them than is paid for. If you want a
good readable sheet it must be support
ed. And it must not be supported in
a spirit of charity either, but because
you feel necessity to supportit. The
local press is the power that moves the
people.
Year: 1869

A DELIGHTFUL LEGEND.--There is
charming tradition connected with the
site on which the temple of Solomon
was erected. 1t is said to have been
occupied in common by two brothers,
one of whom had family; the other
had none. On this spot was sown a
field of wheat. On the evening sue
ceeding the harvest, the wheat having
been gathered into separate shocks,
the elder brother said to his wife,
"My younger brother is unable to bear
the burden and heat of the day; / viii
arise, take off my shocks, and place
with his without his knowledge" The
younger brother being actuated by the
same benevolent motives, said within
himself, "My elder brother has
family, and have none; will arise,
take off my shocks, and place with his
without his knowledge" Judge their
mutual astonishment, when, on the
following morning, they found their
respective shocks undiminished. This
course of events transpired for several
nights when each resolved in his mind
to stand guard and solve the mystery.
They did so; when, on the following
night, they met each other half way
between their respective fields with
their arms full. Upon the ground hal
lowed by such associations as this, was
the Temple of Solomon erected--so
spacious and magnificent, the wonder
and admiration of the world. Alas, in
these days, how many would sooner
steal their brothers. whole shock than
add to it single sheaf!
Year: 1869

Will i think of thee ever; in gladness or pain,
Tho all else should fail thy face must remain;
Tho my spirit with earth and the earthly shall


part


will keep thee place in my innermost heart,


And love thee as now and forever
Year: 1869

ES SHAKESPEARE SAID Truly tnaI
"the evil that men do lives after them;
the good is oft inferred with their
bones.'' And you and I must often
feel conscious that while we are apt to
discover our neighbor's faults, we are
not SO anxious about his virtues.
Happy would be the man who, taking
for his axiom: "There is good in ev-
ery mortal" would set himself to find
that good in all with whom he comes
in contact.
Year: 1869

Will think of thee always; thy memory fond,
Must ever awaken my souls glad respond,
Thine image I'll cherish as purity's own,
Remember each light that about thee has shown,


And love thee as ROW and forever
Year: 1869

~ A servant girl in Altoona re-
Gently tried whisky to kill rats. She
sweetened it with sugar, soaked bread
in it, and then left the bread in the Gel
lar, where rats ''do most congregate.
She had been up stairs but half an
hour when she heard laughing, sing
ing and a general hullaballoo down
stairs. She accordingly went down to
see what was the matter. Imagine her
astonishment to find about dozen rats
gloriously fuddled, engaged in throw
ing potato parings at each other, and
hauling one another up to drink.
Year: 1869

Will think of thee truly; while reason is mine,
1 will hsRor thy virtue thy beauty enshrine,
Let constantly burn the rich light of thine eyes,
Preserve every joy which thy presence gives


rise,


And love thee rs now and forever
Year: 1869

The following from the Appleton
Post is as applicable to Manito wocC County
as it is to Outagamie. Conae..orer "The
state democracy have surrendered every
them as party here or elsewhere.
Their fight is for ofhce-for that and
nothing else. Whatever doctrines they
have rofessed are set floating, and now
for Office they shout in one breath good
Lord and good devil" This may do for
the hungry barnacles, but we cannot be-


icve that the voting democrats are such
complete tools as their leaders take them
to be.


Let us organize here at once, and show
them how completely they have been
sold. Let us push them on their plat
form and their candidates Let US ex.
nose them in their political lcchery.-
Let us unveil their treasons to past pro-
LESSONS. Let US unmask their designs
on the state. 1t is utterly impossible
for the political hermaphrodites to resist
the assault of reason. facts and logic that
can be brought to bear on them. Let US
organize at once. Old men and young
men, old settlers and new corners, take
hold, and work together. No iealosy
about who shall lead or who shall be bell
wethcr, take YOUR grip and take il now


A thorough effort may possibly redeem
Outagamie, will certainly break the back
bone of the Shams But we must work.
Lethargy, apathy, nonaction is defeat
Energy, activity, and zeal must succeed
Organized effort is what counts Let us
meet and organize at once
Year: 1869

We have the pleasure to-day of laying
before our readers the result of the Re
publican nominations of the county, and OF
the several District Conventions of Mani
towoc 1t is u pleasure to us, not only be-
cause these nominations were so very
unanimous, but especially because every
nominee on our ticket is we'll known tC
be fully qualified for lis respective Office
and all without exception are respected
as men of the highest mt agIity and most
honorable reputation. Without to dag
going into detail Of giving the antece-
dents Of our respective candidates we can
assure the people Of Manitowoc that
by the election of our ticket we shall Sc
care honesty and economy in the place Of
waste and prohigacy in the administra-
ton of our County affairs and thus OBJ
tain a reduction Of the enormous taxation
which has become very near unbearable.
May every voter of Manitovoc County
do his whole duty to bring about such a
happy result al our next election.
Year: 1869

ANOTHER UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY.
At the next session of the Dominion Par
lament an application will be made TOR
charter for road to be constructed from
point on Lake Superior via Red River
to point on the eastern boundary OF
British Columbia, with power to improve
the navigation leading to and from Rainy
Lake and Lake of the woods; also, for a
railway from Pembina via Fort Garry,
to point ON Lake Winnepeg, Saskatch-
evan River with power to improve navl
cation to Saskatchewan. This makes the
fourth transcontinental route complete
and projected al of which will probably
be built in the next ten years. Let the
good work go on. There cannot be toe
many of them.
Year: 1869

Last night an oil train Of the Erie raj
way took fire on a side track at Penn
Horn city about three miles west of the
large tunnel the flames spread whith such
tapidity that before any of the cars could
he detached and removed beyond danger
the entire train was enveloped Twelve
-ank cars filed with oil were burned. in
volving loss of about $50. 900. The r. r
track was on fire in several places AT
midnight the Penn HON oil works were
safe
Year: 1869

The Pilot complains about the ener-
nous increase of our taxes to the general
Government during the past ten years,
but is very careful not to state that these
taxes, caused by immensely increased IL
abilities, are the fruits of the treason Of
his own party, especially during these
last ten years, and then farther says that
two-thirds of the annual expense is
squaadered uselessly.


The Plot is right, as the champion of
Democracy in saying SO, having always
been in favor cf this Nations playing
the part of scouudrel aud swindler in
repudiatiag our common debt, but the
charge is contemptiblc, especially from
such source, when we must consider
that this vast debt of ours is purely and
solely caused by democratic treason in
producing and supporting the late re-
belion when the facts are staring us in
the face that millions upon millions
must now annually be paid merely for
the interest on that debt which these So
called democrats compelled us to contract
to save the Union; that millions more
have to be paid to the thousands of Grip
pied invalids and thousands of suffering
widows and orphans of our noble mar
tyred soldiers who sacrificed their lives
in overcoming the same treason of un-
worthy citizens of our great Republic
who call themselves Democrats" This
is what two-thirds of our taxes are an
nually to be expended for. And that
| the Plot calls G steal


II requires but little intelligence to
perceive that at no time In the history of
this or any other nation has a people
been blessed with such prosperity, as ours
is to-day; Never was labor so well paid
for and prosperity so universal: there is
no distress anywhere except among those
who were led astray by the teachings of
the democratic party. In every State
and county we see forests and waste prai-
ries turned INTO farms and gardens IN
every city and village new streets and
massive and costly buildings in their
suburbs new villas and commodious
dwellings multiplying rapidly; and while
shallow politicians are constantly repeat
ing that the energies of the people are
borne down by the oppressive pablie
burdens, the FIRST journey is performed,
by rail, from the Atlantic to the Pacific !;
| all of which shows plainly that the
party whose total stock of argument is its
opposition to our paying our honest debt,
Year: 1869

We appreciate the compliment the Chi
cago Times 80 often pays us by copying
from other papers intelligence which first
appeared in these columns. But that lively
journal wouja get more credit for enterprise,
and would give Inter uews, il il should
copy directly from this paper instead Of
writing for tho republication Of our articles
in papers at distance. For instance: The
Tines Of yesterday copied from the New
York World al article purportiug to be q
summary Of observations on the recent
eclipse. OF this, two-thirds is taken bodily,
word for word, from TEE TnmrSEs account
Of the eclipse as seen at Des Moines only
one-fourth OF the article had any other
source than this paper; mud the tenaning
frnction is copied IRON our columns with
The occasional change Of a word Had
the World not undertaken to disguise its
stolen goods it would have avoided one un-
lucky blunder, and if the Times bud stolen
at first hands it would not only have had az
accurato instead Of gazlled report, but
would have escaped being, IS usunl, ten
days Lcbindhand. We can casure our mex
pericnced ueighbor that the best why to
get the news is TO read The leading news
papers diligently.
Year: 1869

Instead OF making huge bonfire OF the branches
OF the poor old trees in the City Hall Park, why
could they not have been given to the poor in the
vicinity, many Of whom no doubt. were without .
nre during the late. cold snapi BY the way, who
gets all the little odds and ends In rhis new Post
ONCE jobf


Is sanybody responsible for q nuisance that has ex
listed for Q year past at the northeast corner Of
Eighth avenue and Forty-third street, About nrty
cubic yards Of broken stone, blasted from the sub
cellar OF the adjacent building. monopolizes about
one-third Of the width Of the avenue Blast !


the selling Of the plank fence around the City
Hall Park for bill posting was bid to perpetuate
nuisance for two, or 1t may be 1ve, years to come.
Tho meanness of the thing is despicabIe.


Who took down the great liberty pole In Franklin
street and left lot OF stumps, deorts and uneven
ground instead abating one nuisance and creating
anotheri Does anybody speak.


The better way for the government to have done
in regard to tho new Post Offlco site would have
been to have made neat fence around the enclo-
sure and to have had 1t whitewashed and kept clean
and free from the odious placards that will now
cover It. But this would have been whitewashing
process In which the people were personally inter-
ested, and as no Congressional committee had .
hand In the business the people must suffer.


A very pleasant exhibition OF the chemistry Of
nature can hourly be seen on the corner OF Eleventh
street and University place. The broken walls OF
the sinks ON the vacant lot in that locality show
better than any chemists laboratory tho influence of
decomposing forces on animal and vegetable mat
ter. Il would be good move for the chemists Of
the Health Board to select this place for their daily
experiments.


The sub-letting of places for placards on the new
Post once fence has, 1t is reported already begun,
and the chief lessee Is likely to receive handsome
revenue from 1t. New Post once job No. 1.


The government going into the show business
Leasing to speculator the fencing around the new
Post Once site for show placards
Year: 1869

Oobt.


The Treasury Department is able fortunately
to exhibit to the country another fattering
monthly statement of the public debt. AS the
figures are arrayed there is decrease of the
debt of over ten millions and half since the
LIST of August, and of over forty ty-seven millions
since March, when the present administration
came into power. The calculation is made by
estimating the total outstanding obligations
and then deducting the cash in the Treasury,
the sinking fund and the bonds purchased for
cancellation, but which lie In the Treasury
awaiting the action of Congress. But in this
mode of estimating the debt accrued interest
is reekoned and the bonds issued to the Pacific
Railroad are ignored Adding the accrued
interest the decrease of the debt the last month
amounts 70 over five millions six hundred
thousand dollars. The bonds issued to the
Pacific Railroad, however, should be reckoned
as part of the debt or obligations Of the gov
ernment, and Secretary McCulloch always
placed them as such in his debt statements.
They were issued by the government, it is re-
opouoADio AoA tuoiu, ouU ~ iuoy Aovo w P"y
them. Counting this as part of the debt,
therefore, and taking the comparative exhibit
Of the whole debt for the year, we find that,
after deducting the amount In the Treasury
the debt has decreased since September l,
1868, over thirty-seven and half millions.
Even this reduction shows the enormous re-
sources Of the country and revenue and our
ability to lIquidate the debt. Still, much more
might be done under an improved system of
finance and by using the surplus money that
lies all the time in the Treasury for purchas
ing bonds and saving the interest on them.
With all the demands for specie to pay the
coin interest on the debt there il now in the
Treasury the enormous sum of hundred and
one millions. While other governments find
it difficult to make both ends meet Mr.. Bout
wells great trouble is to know what to do with
the plethora of money in his hands.
Year: 1869

The report of the crops which we published
yesterday from the great farming region of
Ohio is most promising From all quarters
we read such phrases as these :-"Wheat crop
magnificent, oats splendid, hay crop un-
equalled;" "wheat, oats and potatoes have
not been equalled in the last twenty
years )" 'harvest laborers receive two dollars
day and found, field hands average twenty
dollars month and found" and so on. The
fruit crop, too, with the exception of apples,
which appear to be short in quantity this year,
is quite as abundant as it is in our own vicinity
and in the States south of us. So far the
prospects of the agriculturists in the great
West are beyond all expectation. Reports
from Europe state that the harvests are very
prosperous. In England the grain crop is
regarded as fair average, and if there be
any more needed we can supply 1t at moderate
prices. With these facts before us we may
safely calculate that popular disturbances are
not very likely to occur during the coming
winter, for cheap bread makes happy people.
The cereal productions Of this season must
secure that boon to both continents. It is
true that some short-sighted farmers may
growl because the prices are low, for they
always do, without gratefully considering
the blessing which has been showered
upon them in an abundant harvest Dry
goods and other necessaries of life, We
observe, are also declining towards prices
within reach Of the poor. so that If the coal
monopolists would only abandon their horrible
conspiracy to defraud the public in the sale Of
that article there would be no reason to antici-
pate that dread of the working classes,
sshard winter"
Year: 1869

A "CoRNER" IN GoLD.-The gold gamblers
had an exciting time Of it yesterday, the
''bulls" making sudden dash upon the market
and putting the price to 1851. They are said
to have purchased more gold than is really in
the city, 80 that 'corner" is expected to be
the result. The speculative movement is
greatly to be condemned, for the reason that at
this season, when the fall trade is opening, II
is essential to have the greatest equilibrium in
the price Of gold.
Year: 1869

How BELMONT MAY HEAD THEM.-The
Tweed men desire Belmont to resign his posi-
ton as chairman of the National Democratic
Committee, and they want Tweed In his place.
But Belmont may head them of by simply
resigning the Craftsmanship, retaining his place
as member of the committee. Thus New York
will still have its member, and the committee,
from some other State, will have to elect their
chairman from the committee as it stands,
leaving Tweed farther off than before.
Year: 1869

CALIFORNIA GONE DEMOCRATIC. Accord
ing to our telegraphic dispatches the elec-
tion in California on Wednesday went demo-
cratic. This result was to have been antici-
pated. General Grant, with all his popularity,
carried the State last year BY mere majority
Of some five hundred, and the democrats had
a majority Of fourteen in the Legislature last
year as prestige to enter the present contest
with. The principal point settled in this sue
cess of the California democracy-if further
accounts confirm our first reports-is that, 80
far as the fifteenth amendment to the consti-
tution-negro suffrage-is concerned, 1t can
not receive the vote of the Legislature Of that
State. No doubt the coolie suffrage question
also entered into the canvass and helped to
swell the vote of the democrats in opposition
to the extension of the elective franchise to the
newcomers, Of whom California has at pre-
sent more than its share. The democrats car
ried San Francisco, electing their candidate
for Mayor by majority Of thousand or so.
The vote was small, and, contrary to expecta-
ton, there was very little excitement
Year: 1869

There Is case before a coroner in Hoboken
illustrating the worthlessness of all present
provisions for protecting the lives of the people
from the "charms Of powerful trouble" sold in
the drug shops. By the united stupidity of a
father and an apothecary one grain of opium
was given to . child three months old, with di-
rections to repeat the dose in four hours This is
adose for grown person, and, ordinarily given,
would bea safe one, but given to an infant must
cause death with absolute certainty. 1t is a
common custom for people to 90 to the apothe-
cary rather than to the doctor for ''physic,"
and they do not know the exact limit of safety
in this respect; and while spothecaries sell
drugs on such call they should be made re-
sponsible for such atrocious heedlessness as
distinguishes this case. The subject Of tho
sale of poisons Is one that needs entire re-
vision In the law. We have o provision for
bidding the sale Of certain number Of poi
sons whose names are more familiar to the peo-
pie; but there IL an infinite number beside
these whose sale Is not forbidden at all. We
believe our own statute forbids tho sale Of
poisonous doses Of opium, and II this is true
there isnot single bottle of the soothing syrups
and similar abominaHons sold in the shops but
exposes the seller to penalty. Has not the
Board Of Health some duties In this direction?
Year: 1869

Persons having real estate for sale or to let
and those desrous Of purchasing or renting suchpro
pery will mud It to their interest to advertise In the
TRIBUNE Its aggregate circulation exceeds that OF any
other newspaper and in addition to this advantage IHE
TsIsUNE will DO found not only In New-York and sll its
sjtss and villages but in every State and Territory


within the Union The advertisement should be made as
brief as will allow OF the advantage offered being clear TO
the reader We would especially dwell on the fact that
the subscribers for the three editions OF Tue TRIBUNE
Daily Semi Weekly and Weekly, comprise individuals In
every profession or business consequently aoverins
rents In each disseminate among all classes THk
JnpuSE devotes especial attention to the reports OF sales
OF real estate both the city and country thus adding


greatly to the value Of its columns as an advertising me-
dunn The charges for advertising are az follows; DAILY
TRIBUNE as cents per line for each insertion; WEEKLY
TRIBUNE " per nne; sEMtwEHKLr TRIBUNE Is cents
per About ten words average ne after 'he nrst
line, which usually contains only four or nVe words
Terms, cash In advance
Year: 1869

youths are growing up in habits of
ignorance, which promises badly
for their future career and which
but too frequently lead to vice and
degradation. An apprentice has
the opportunity of acquiring some
useful trade or industrial pursuit
which will be advantageous to him
or her in after life in securing em-
ployment and good wages, and
with the schooling which always
should be provided for, enable
them to enter upon career which
if industr iously pursued will lead
to rsspectability and wealth.
Year: 1869

MAKING SAuER. KRAur.-The
best we ever eat we made our
selves for many years, and for con-
siderable time with our own hands,
and always from Savoy cabbage.
It was manufactured in this wise !:
In the first place let your "stand :"
holding from a hall barrel to a
barrel, be thoroughly scalded ont :;
the cutter, the tub and the stamp
er also well scalded. Take off all
outer leaves of the cabbages, halve
them, remove the heart, and pro
ceed with t cntting. Lay some
clean leaves at the bottom Of the
stand, sprinkle with a handful of
salt, fill in a half q bushel of cut
cabbage, stamp gently until the
Juice just makes its appearance,
then add another handful of salt,
and so on until the stand is full.
Cover over with cabbage leaves,
place on top a clean board, fitting
the space pretty well. and on top
of that a stone weighing twelve or
fifteen pounds. Stand in q cool
place a II d W h G n hard freezing
comes OH remove to the cellar. 1t
will be ready for use in from fonr
to six weeks. The cabbage should
be cut tolerably coarse. The Saw
oy variety makes the best article,
but it Is only half rs productive as
the Drummond and Flat Dutch.


[Germantoson Telegraph.
Year: 1869

A LADY employed q young girl
about fifteen years old, to assist
her about her house. On day she
was making cake, and wishing
to put some kinds of plums IN it,
she set II dish down on the table
with the plums, and told the girl
to stone them. To show hsr how,
she took up q plum and took ont a
stone, with the remark, "That is the
way" Thinking the girl understood
what she meant, che put the plum
she had into her mouth, instead
Of into the dish, and went away.
What was her surprise, a short
time after, to have the girl come
into the room where sha was, and
tell her she had eaten all she could.
And when the lady went into the
room where she had been at work,
she found that she had pat all the
stones into the dish, and eaten all
she could of the plums, thinking
that the hard pieces-meaning tho
stones-would soften up W Q n
baked in the cake.