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Year: 1868

TlIE LATE BASE BAIL MATCn We
find in the Sheboygen Falls Herald of the
29th communication from n member ot
the Stedmau club, in relation to their late
visit to Manltowoc, which contains fat
terlng tribute to our village and its people.
The Manitowoc club, and our citizens GEM
orally, endeavored TO make the stay of the
Stedmans as pleasant as possible. That
they succeeded so we'll is due as much to
the gcntlemanly demeanor and friendly dis
position evinccd by their visitors as to their
own efforts. The writer says:


1T is pretty generally known to the pco-
pile OF Sheboygan Falls and vicinity, that
the Stedman Base Bail Club, Of this place.
went 70 Manitowoc last Saturday, to play a
match game with the "Hittemhards. :" Of
that place, and it is also pretty generally
known that they (lhe "Stedmans"l came
home pretty badly beaten. But it is not
known TO all what a generous reception we
received at that place, nor how much the
"Hlttemhards" j" did to make our stay pleas
ant and agreeable. To be sure they did
not allow US to beat them, and it was per-
fecuy Tlght that they should not, but in
every other respect can say, and know it
IS the feeling of every man. who went to
Manitowoc on that day, that they did
everything that it was possible for men to
do, to entertain us, and make us satisfied
with our visit. And for this, on behalf of
our Club, | wish TO thank them. Ii is bad
enough TO &C away from home and get
beaten, but when men come out and use us
In the style that we were used BY the
"Hittembards, and in fact BIZ every citi-
zen OF Manltowoc, it almost makes us
ashamed that ne ever tl1ea TO vanauish
them, which We certainly did try our best
TO do.


Words cannot express our qualification.
All we can say is, may We do so to them
when they come here. And although il
will be difficult thing to use them as well
as We were used, We will do our best &c
send them home satisfied with our hospi'
tafities.


ALLOW me to say in closing, that you
want to get into live town, aud amongst
some live men just go to Manitowoc and
you Will have accomplished your desife.


BE- These be breezy and pleasant dsys.
Year: 1868

TEA toll>gate keeper was brought be-
fore magistrate tor cruelty to his dauch.
ter. The little difficulty arose from a dis.
covery made by the parent that the girl.
who was frequently left in charge of tho
gate, used to allow her sweetheart, s
young butcher, 10 drive his wagon through
| free. ''She never toilet her love"
Year: 1868

New FIGURING MILL.-Messrs p. J. &
A. Z. PIERCE and G.. SLYE have commenc-
ed erecting fine Touring mill at Branch
village. A solid stone foundation has al
ready been laid, and the frame will be
raised next week The mill will be 80 by
40 feet, three and half stories high, and
will contain 2 run Of stone. 1t will be in
running order by the first of November, and
we know of no better location for an insti-
tuition of the kind in the county, or bet
ter set of men to run it. That will be
worth fortune to the farmers of large
section OF country, and We hope will prove
profitable to the enterprising projectors.
Year: 1868

ABSENT Last week S Tribune announces
that its senior editor, Mr.. SMITH, has been
obliged TO leave the editorial chair for few
weeks on account of sore eyes. We hope
the time of his affection viii be of short
duration.
Year: 1868

u Goodbye" -


They watched him out of sight. The
little bark, a mere eggshell for thAsussalal
to play with on such s


u never come back no. more,
MASTER" said woman who stood near
the gentleman, and the faces of all about
them said the same. "5~a@ q.


An hopr thence tempest had burst
over them, such as only opesold woman
in all that seaside place could remember
having known before. And then (it
was fifty years or more since the dayl
twenty dead bodies had been cast upon
the beach in the morning; BODIES Of
fishermen caught outside the harbor bar
by the storm.


There were aud hearts an the town
town filled with sea-going folk. nearly
every household of which had some dear
one afioat upon the ocean. But eyerv
woman there had a thought to spare
from her own sorrows for. poor Jack
Marble, and tho young wife who wept
for him.
Year: 1868

When the corn first appears above the
surface of the ground, cut alder bushes
and strew them over the field about rod
apart, placing them as near the corn hill
as possible. If the worms are plenty, In
a day or two you will find them gathered
about the bushes when you can destroy
them. They will leave the ground and
crawl under the alder bushes and the
corn will escape. This remedy is simple
and easy and requires but little time ; all
can be done during the leisure hours
which every farmer sometimes has. l
have tried this remedy and found it very
effective Farmers would do well, though
to plow ground in the fall when the ex-
posure of the soil to the cold of winter
will kill the insects which produce the
worm.
Year: 1868

Our people must be careful how they
use eggs. Since the advent of the locusts
the yolks of the eggs have been chang
ing to light yellow, bordering on the
green, in which state they arc unheathly,
if not positively poisonous.


Chicken flesh is said by medical men
to be seriously impregnated with the state
of the locust, and, of a consequence, is
very unhealthy. Unless you are assured
and know about the chickens and eggs do
not use any in your family.-Ex.
Year: 1868

If man begins to save ten cants day
when he is twenty one years old, and con-
tinues to do so until he is seventy, he will
then be worth SO, ,956.37. How many
could realize handsome competency for
old age by little frugality.
Year: 1868

Take lump of alum the size of a
walnut, powder it and dissolve in warm
water. The horse must be drenched in
this liquor and it will throw him into a
profuse perspiration, and he will soon be
as. we'll as ever; it should be done as soon
as Won ascertain his condition.
Year: 1868

LEAP YEAR.-Our ladies are no doubt
already aware of the fact that this is the
year during which it is their special privi-
lege to pop the question to any fair Young
man who is pleasing to their sight. The
following, from volume on courtship and
marriage, published half a century ago,
will show the antiquity of the custom


"Albeit, it has now become part ofthe
common law in regard to the social rela-
tions of life that as often as every bissextile
year doth return the ladies have the sole
privilege during the time it continueth OF
making love unto men, which they may DO
either by word or by looks, as unto them
seemeth proper, and, moreover, no man
will be entitled to the benefit of the clergy
who doth refuse to accept the offers OF q
lady, or who doth in any wise treat ner
proposal with slight or contumely."
Year: 1868




The New York Herald, which is now
pretending to be a Radical paper, has, in
its columns of last Wednesday, an article
on the proceedings of the National Com
ventiOn, in which it says: .. G. '


1t was expected by many that the half
vote given for Blair on the first ballot and
the scattering votes cast for him at later
period Of the proceedings settled the ques-
tion 80 far as the General was concerned !;
but inquiry at the Worth House and at
other places, where Blair men congregate,
showed that such was not the case. Dele
gates known to be pledged to support him,
laughed when asked the meaning of their
inaction yesterday, and asked that judg-
ment on their conduct might be suspended
for a few days. They expressed the same
confidence in the result Of their labors
and displayed the same quiet determina-
tion in their cause which has characterized
them since Blair's name was mentioned in
connection with the Presidency. s ..


A strong delegation of Irishmen, leaders
of the New York Fenians and officers of
the Brotherhood, met at a late hour last
night and resolved TO present 10 the New
York delegation this morning at 10 o'clock
an ultimatum, which they fattered them
selves will have the effect Of securing the
nomination for Gen. Blair. They propose
to tell the New York ring that Blair, hav-
ing given satisfactory proofs of his willing
ness to bring the Alabama claims and the
naturalization question to a satisfactory
settlement if elected to the Presidency,
they must either vote for him in the con-
vention to-day or be prepared to meet
arrayed against the Democracy at the poles
whole battalions of voting Fenians. They
will declare their determination to prevent
the election to State and municipal officers
of every New York politician, at least, who
cannot show that he has given hearty sup
| port to their favorite candidate. Shonld
Gen. Blair be rejected in the convention,
the Fenian Brotherhood all over the Union
will cast solid vote for Grant
Year: 1868

The breach between Austria and the


Holy See is widening When the HgOdN


less laws" which struck at the root Of


the Concordat were proposed, the remOn.


strances Of the eccles;asties were loud


and fierce, and when they were passed,


the Emperor attempted to avert their


wrath and that of the Pope by adopting
deprecatory tcne as to his own share


in the matter, assuring his Holiness that
resistance would have cost him his
throne. As was anticipated, says the
New York Times, this admission by
Francis Joseph that his subjects poss
sessed the right to constitutional regula-
tiOn Of their own affairs, without regard
to the external authority of the Pope,
and that his duty simply was to carry out
their will, even when it clashed with that
authority, opened the eys of the clergy
to the fact that their power was swiftly
and irrevocably passing away. They
say that the. movement in Austria
was no mere temporary popular ebullitiOn
that priestly craft could assuage or con-
troll. They saw that the Emperor, hith-
ertO their trusted ally, had entered on
the duties of constitutional monarch in
good faith, and was neither able nor
willing to help them to eyade the ex>
pressed viii of the people. They be.
came blindly furious, and after they had
still further weakened their influence in
the Empire by wild and incorporate
denunciations, the Pope came to their
aid with an allOcution, cOuched in the
style usual in such cases. But both he
and the Austrian clergy had gone too
far Hatred of foreign influence had
reused still further the determination Of
the Austrian people to exert their own
constitutional rights, in the face of all
attempts to hinder them, and as in the
case Of other nations before them, the
futile attempts of the Papacy to over
awe them only served to ex,
cite their spirit of independence.
This time, instead of being an apolOgetic
letter from the Emeror, the Austrian re-
ply takes the form Of a vigorous note
from Baron Won Beust in which, speak
ing as a responsible Minister in tie
name of the people, he plainly tells the
Pope that intermeddling with the do
mestic legislation of Austria, such as
that attempted in the allocution, is vio-
lation of the independence and dignity
of the Empire. This is a clear and un-
mistakable enunciation of very import
ant principle-one which the Papacy
has often been before compelled with bit
terness to see other nations adopt, but
which has taken root in Austria with a
rapidly only to be accounted for by the
violence of the natural revulsiOn from
the bondage Of that COncordat which, it
was fondly hoped, was to enslave the
minds of the Austrian people beyond
hope of liberation But the Austrians
have now taken the matter into their own
hands, and thanks to their present form
of government can announce their de-
termination with no feeble or uncertain
voice. . ..E ..
Year: 1868

Gold dug from the bowels OF the earth gave
California tremendous start in growth and
population few years ago, and scarcely any
thing else was thought of. Flour brought fab
ulous prices, but lgold from the placers could
pay for it. Twelve years ago the gold prod
uct in that State amounted to S4OOOO,OCO,
and the wheat crop was of very little account.
In comparison with the gold prodnct it was
hardly worthy OF notice; at least most people
thought SO. In 1868, the product in Califor-
mia is estimated at about $25, 100000. The
year previous produced nearly the same
amount. The wheat crop of 1868 is estima-
ted TO amount to the same sum.
The acreage sown is fixed at 2,5OOOOO,
against 100000 in 1865, and yet the growth
of grain in that country is in its infancy
We hardly dare to guess the amount that
will be grown there at no distant day. No
doubt the product will be enormous and
throw gold digging for into the shade. 1t has
been truely said the grain wealth of Califor-
MIA will yet far exceed the gold dreams of her
most enthusiastic citizens, for the golden
kernels of wheat possess value far in ex-
| cess of her auclferous sands.


The truth is, agriculture, and not gold dig
ging, lies at the foundation of the wealth and
prosperity of any country; and according to
the present aspect of affairs in the Golden
State and its neighbor, Oregon, it is the prod
uct of the farms that is to add wealth to
those States and sustain rapidly increasing
population. Where the soil and climate are
favorable to agriculture, the cultivation of the
earth will take the lead even if gold lies bur-
led in the mountain sides, in gulches or in
the bed of streams. A few years ago flour
was dollar n 2ound in some sections of
California, and now she sends large quanti-
ties across the Atlantic to Europe, and even
from it. ...
Year: 1868

The ten days limitation on the omnibus
bill expires to-day, and unless it is vetoed
by the President, it will become a law with
out further action by Congress. If he does
veto it each House of Congress will pass it
at once over his veto.
Year: 1868

A gentleman who travels frequently be-
tween Boston and New York relates an
amusing anecdote of fellOw-passenger who
fell asleep soon after the train left the de-
Dot, and on its arrival at a certain station
the conductor called out, Jamaica Plain y
when the sleepy fellow sang out: "Not
that-brandy cocktail for me.n
Year: 1868

Gordon Granger as a politician is keeping
up his record as general-ano that is about
as eondemnatOFy a thing as can be said
about him. He has gift for making him
self the reverse Of popular OF succes8ful.
Year: 1868

REPAIRING NEEDED.-AttenIion has been
called, many time and oft through these
columns, to the almost impossible condi-
ton of our most important thoroughfare,
leading from Walla Walla to Wal!ula. Some
little work, and very little, it is said, was
done on this road late last fall-uot enough
to accomplish any permanent good. Travel,
and freighting, nearly suspended during the
winter, will he resumed on the road in few
days, and we are reminded that several bad
places need repairing Immediately The
Bridge across Mill creek, few miles from
town. Is said to be in an unstable condition,
iu consequence Of one of the abutments be-
ing partly undermined aud the bank washed
away from it by the action of the water. It
is impossible for teams and needs fixing i'm
mediately. 1t will ouly cost trife 10 re
pair now as compared with the sum it will
require if the work is put of until the bridge
is swept away. A log crib put alongside
the abutment in question, properly dlled,
with a little work in shoveling channel
through bar above the bridge. will start
the current in the proper direction and CON-
plete the work all right Look to the mat
ter at once, you whose duty it is to TO do it
Other portions of this road ought, also to re
ceive early attention.
Year: 1868

SPRTSG TINE has come, gentle Annie or any
other body. The weather is delightful, and all
nature is radiant with the genial warmth shed
forth in rays Of sparkling loveliness by the
bright orb of day-the pillow is moving, and
the yeomanry Of the country are getting ready
TO plant their early 'taters. LIS no use-poetieal
sentiment, as Tom Page would say, has no abi.
ding place in prosaical gizzard.'
Year: 1868

SEVERAL persons lately left the City for the
Willow creek mines. Among the number, were
Messrs. F. P. Allen and Jno Kelly. We hope
they will 6Dd enough gold TO make US all rich
their return, though we feel quite certain
they won't Hank Lehman left on Monday for
the Sweetwater digRings-not caring a cent
about those 1000 Indians who are out there
fishing around for scalps. If he succeeds in
keeping his hair on his head, be will write back
when be gets glimpse ut the mines.
Year: 1868

gentleman connected with the press Of this city,
while riding on Broadway car a,bout eleven O'Clock
on Monday evening, was accosted by one James
Crowley, special car detective" OF the Twenty.
ninth precinct, who ordered him to leave the car as
he had no right there. The gentleman, who knew
the offlcer and supposed that the oflcer knew him
as member of the press suggested that he (the
oficer), was laboring under q very great mistake.
The "detectiven lsave the mark) insisted that lie
knew his business, and several times repeated his
order for the gentleman to leave the car, which
the latter very properly refused to do. He finally
told the officer who he was, but for long time was
unable to convince the very able special-apponted,
doubt, because OF his detective abllity-that he
had perfect right to ride Oh the car.


This Ia only one OF several like 0utragcs that
t'specalr ward officers have committed during the
past two years. More than once respectable women
have been hustled into the station house as bad
characters and gentlemen OF respectability as
thieves The especial menn who make such mis-
takes think that apology for outrage Is all that
IL needed and manifest very little regard for the
feelings OF any one who has suffered from their stu
pfdity.
Year: 1868




IN the Matter OF George H. Goodrfdge, Bank.
yup-In this case the Court says the substance and
erect Of the i've specifications fled In opposition to
the discharge Of the bankrupt are:-That the bank
rhpt has wilfully sworn falsely on his examination
before the Register in swearing that he had no pro-
perty when his petition was filed except property
named therein and no property concealed in the
hands Of his brother, John II. Goodridge, and that
his said brother was not indebted to him; that the
said brother and has not delivered 1t TO the assignee
and that for the purpose OF preventing the sum OF
s. 900 to $50 600 from being distributed among his
creditors In bankruptcy he has resorted to the device
OF keeping that sum In the hands OF his said brother
claiming that 1t was paid TO him In discharge OF
debt.


A fraud Of the kind here alleg ed is one that can
seldom be proved by other than crcumstantal EVIL
dence, and the stories OF such witnesses as appear
In this are TO be believed as told, no fraud can
bankrupt and his brother as they tell 1t, Is as con-
slstent with fraud with an honest transaction,
and II the alleged fraud to be perpetrated ra-
tional way ~ c0nsummate II with the hope OF
escaping detection would have been the way en-
poyed In this case. After the closest scrutiny Of
the testimony OF the bankrupt and his brother


The Court says-l cannot resist the conclusion that
the $4,000 or $4,000 which the bankrupt alleges he
made for ais brother at the West was not made for
his brother and was not the brothers. property but
bankrupt for his own purposes, and calling It debt
due to his brother. He claims that he paid 1t up by
instalments, the last OF which was paid somewhere
in the first half OF the year 1857. The impression
made by the whole testimony Of the bankrupt is un
favorable The Court quotes from the testimony OF
the banKrupt and his brother at considerable length
and In concluding decides the specifications are sus
tanned and discharge Is refused.
Year: 1868

Seventy Yard Dash Between Cozad and
Perry-Coxad tho Winner.


The Fashion Course, on Long Island, was yesterday
the Of . very exciting foot race between J. w.
Cozad, OF Iowa, and J. r. Perry, OF Philadelphia,
for 81, 900 side and the championship OF America.
Two O'Clock was the time fixed for the race; but
owing to the very poor condition Of the track It was
found impossible to have everything In readiness for
the contest BY that time. There was some disposi-
ton on the part Of Perrys friends to postpone the
to another day, the muddy state OF the ground
being, In their opinion. unfavorable to the success
OF Perry, who is much smaller man than his
competitor; but after great deal OF discussion
men, 1t was finally decided that the race should take
place. The distance agreed upon by tho parties to
to be decided In one heat Men were engaged from
two o'clock In leveing and smoothing 100 yards OF
the race track IN 'front.' Of the grand stand but u was
There not very many spectators present besides
the Immediate friends and hackers Of the contestants
York and Philadelphia. These, however were very
much excited over the event, and betting was quite
brisk Pools were sold in hotel near the entrance
to the track all day and q number OF private bets
for large amounts on the result Of the race were
made by the admirers OF Cozad aud Perry. Forty
to twenty and one hundred to nfty on C0zad was
offered and several times taken In the afternoon,
and when the men, at half past four O'Clock, entered
was exceedingly brisk. Cozad seemed quite conn.
dent OF victory and manifested no little impatence
to have the matter ended. lie was dressed In Q
white suit and looked the very beau IDEAL OF swift
runner Perry, although light and 1.-THE In appear
ancs did not seem to have those pecuarities OF
physique which 90 TO make up q successful racer
Both however, were finely formed and stripped well
Perry was dressed In suit Of red racing clothes.


There was considerable dflculty experienced In
getting q start, Cozad being quicker than his oppo-
nent; but afer i've or ak attempts the nnal signal
was gwen and excellent start was obtained. The
distance being SO very short IL was almost impossi-
BILE to tell which was the better runner; but the re-
suit, which announced directly after the race,
clearly showed that for Q short distance Cozad -
amost without an equal. Nearly from the start to
iwo-thirds Of the way Cozad led Perry nve or six
feet; but the iatter gained considerably the re-
mainder OF the distance but not enough to prevent
hs opponent from winning by three feet. The time
made from the start until Cozad struck his breast
aesnst the line In the hands OF the judges was seven
seconds and quarter The result Of the race was
hailed with much cheering by those who had backed
Cozad for large amounts and by his particular
friends and admirers on the ground. A rush was
then made for buggles and carriages and the track
was soon cleared OF spectators.
Year: 1868


Each at the dawn uprears its silver chalice,
When day-spring ushers in the dewy morn,
Gems that make bright the sweet sequestered


valleys,
Day stars that mead and mountain glen adorn!
God said, Let there be light" and 10! crear


tion


Shohe forth with smiles emparadised and fair,
Then man had Eden for habitation,
And ye, bright children Of the spring, were


there!


You to bless the eye when sin had clonded
The glorioIs earth with ruin pale and wan
Ye came to cheer the heart when sin had


shrouded


With peril dark and dread the fate of man!
Ye came TO whisper with your living beauty
A lesson to the hearts that doubling stray;
To win the spirit to a trusting duty,
And guide the wandering steps in wisdom


way!


What though your accents, gentle, sweet and


lowly .....
Unto the silent ear no sound impart
Ye whisper words all eloquent and holy,
Tojwake the finer feelings of the heart
Meekly We tell your emblematic story
OF the Creators love with pathos true,
For Solomon, with all his pomp and glory,
Was neer arrayed like any one OF you!
Ave- We have lessons for the wise, revealing
Truths that proclaim Jehovah's bounteeus


love;
And wisdom then grows wiser, nobier, feeling
How all that's good descendeth from above
Ye touch the thoughtful soul with pure emo
% ten,


When contemplation doth your beauties scan;
Ye fill the heart with calm, serene devotion,
And breathe O moral unto erring man