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Year: 1874

The treasury girls are again in trouble.
The transfer Of portion of the engrav
ing and printing to New York has ne
cessitated the reduction Of the bureau of
engraving and printing, and about four
hundred are about to be dismissed, three
hundred and sixty of whom are women.
They receive on an average about forty
eight dollars month and as many OF
them are widows and the daughters OF
needy parents, their dismissalis likely to
cause much hardship. A large majority
of the employees of the bureau are wo-
men, which will account for the dispro-
portion in the numbers of the sexes to be
dismissed. The necessity for this event
is to be regretted, but the government
cannot attempt to supply all needy per
sons With employment, whether then
services are needed or not.
Year: 1874

NJ MOT1CE is hereby given to the owners or occur
~ pants OF lots parcels of land fronting on 9Th
street, between Franklin and Jay Streets the first
ward, OF the city of Manitowoc that the tax list for
the Improvement of said 9th street, the first ward
has been delivered to me for collection and that the
said owners or occupants of lots parcels of land
fronting on the street above described. hereby
required to pay to within thirty DAYS after the
date of this notice. the taxes charged in said list to
the lots parcels of land owned by them respect
lvey together with the commission of five per cent,
on the amount thereof for collection fees and that
II said taxes will be paid within fifteen DAYS from
the date of this notice, the fees for collecting the
same will be only two per centum on the amount of
such taxes FRED HARRIS, Treas


1oct4W
Year: 1874

Siii VI MANIToWoC, Oct, Sth, 1874.
M HEREAS, the Board of Aldermen of the CITY
w OF Manitowoc, have ordered the building of =,
sidewalk the north side of Marshal street betwes
eSh ana Eighth Streets in the 1st ward of this city
Notice Is hereby given that the owners of property
situated on the north side of Marshal street between
sixth aud Eighth streets, directed to build good
and substant tal side walk the north side of Mar
shal street between Sixth and Eighth streets with
IN 10 days from tho date of this notice said dewaIk
co be not less than five feet wde of sound two inch
plank, with curb plank and the established grade
OF said Marshal street according to the record in the
Clerk office of the City of Manitowoc


GEO. DUSOLD,
Year: 1874

NJ HEREAS the Board of Aldermen of the Citv of
w Manltowoc have ordered the building of side
walk in front of lot block 233 in the lst ward Of
this city,


Notice is hereby given that the owner or occupant
OF lot block 2S3, is directed to build good anf
substantial sidewalk i'll from of lot block 233 with
In ten days from the date ofths notice said sid walk
to be not less than five feet wde of sound two inch
plank, with curb plank and established grade ac-
cordng to the record in the Clerks office the CITY
OF ManItowoe. GEO DUSOLD.


Street Commissioner of LIST Dist
Year: 1874

THE telegraph this morning fore
shadows the views on national finance
of Hugh Mccullough, Secretary of the
Treasury under President johnson,
and the ablest officer in that Depart
ment during the past score of years.
The meagre brief of his letter to the
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce in
dicates that he favors an entire divorce
of Government from the banking bust.
ness as necessary to the return of a
constitutional currency. He also init
mates that the poor West and South
should not be longer taxed to ''prOteet"
the rich East.
Year: 1874

THE KnozUiUe Press and Herald
pitches into Thornburgh for wearing
gold sleeve-buttOns and gold watch
chain. And now let the Chronicle
come back at Houk for..sporting clean
shirt once a week and scorning to turn
his paper collars.
Year: 1874

In Haywood county, landowners
are resolved not TO rent their places to
negroes who are making war upon their
interest and working with carpetbag-
gers. Sour landlords should call meet
ings at once and resolve to do likewise.
Let the negro know that if he expects
the whites to keep him up, he must be
their friend and not their enemy
Jackson Dispatch.
Year: 1874

SOME Of the regular soldiers sent
West have married squaws and are
doing their best to civilize the poor Ig-
nurant redskins. As soon as the squaw
gets pair Of army boots and a brass
chain on she begins to act refined and
lady-hke.
Year: 1874

If the left ear of the coming girl
is larger than its mate the fact may b.
ascribed to the extra chance for devel-
Opment afforded it by the style of loop
ing the broad-brimmed hat up on that
side, and allowing the sun to shine on
the organ.
Year: 1874

MADRID, August 29.-It is thought that
10000 men will be added to the army by
the conscriptiOn.


Over two hundred Carlists have been
killed and many wounded in the attack on
Puycerda. The Republican garrison have
nineteen barrels of
Year: 1874

Bishop Potter, Of the Protestant EpiscO-
pal Church, puts his foot down upon the
proposition for a church congress prelimi-
nary to the session of the general cOnven-
ton in this city hext October.
Year: 1874

AS manager OF the gift concerts given
in the aid of the Public Library Of Ken
lucky, my position creates an important
trust in behalf of the Public Library
and the ticket-holders of the fifth gift
concert. The Public Library Of Ken
tucky and the ticket-holders are jointly
interested in the amount OF the drawing.
The larger the fund to be distributed
in gifts, the greater will be the gift
awarded to each lucky ticket-holder and
the more the amount realized by the Ii
brary. To have a full drawing is so
manifestly to the interest of those inter-
ested that, rather than TO have q frse-
tional drawing on the thirtieth instant,
1 deem it due to the trust confided to
me by the ticket-bolders and the Public
Library OF Kentucky, that short post
ponement be made to enable me to dis
pose of the unsold tickets and have q
full drawing. Though the very large
amount now in bank would enable us to
distribute handsome gifts, yet we should
feel disappointed in this our last concert,
should we be compelled to make frac-
tiOnal drawing, however large.


We have received SO very large q
number OF letters from all parts of the
country from those most largely inter-
ested, urging a posrponement il all the
tickets be not sold by the thirtieth, that
we feel strengthened in our sense of duty
to the ticket-holders and the Public Lii
hrary, to make the postpOnement.
Under the circumstances, We have de-
termined, in the interest Of all parties,
to postpone the concert and drawing to
Saturday, February y, 1875, at which
time the drawing will positively take
place, and, as a guaranty Of good faith
toward ticket-holders, we pledge our
selves to refund to any ticket-hOlder his
money, upon presentation Of his ticket,
should the drawing fail to come off at
the day now fixed. The past we feel
assured, will be sufficient guaranty to
all interested that they will be fairly aud
honestly dealt with. The money paid
for tickets is sacredly preserved against
ali contingencies until after the pay
ment of the gifts, after which the ex-
penses are to be reimbursed and the
Public Library is to be paid its profits.


THOS. L. BRAMLETTE,


Agent and Manager.


fTn
Year: 1874

a letter was read before the Prussian
reiohstag from Bismarck, announcing
In the name Of the emperor, etc, that
the sum for the maintenance Of the Ger
man legation to the Vatican is struck
from the budget.
Year: 1874

eyes OF the emperor OF Russia had to do
with the last Indian foray on the plains.
II Governor Ames did not know that
his statement was false, he is unfit to be
constable. If he did know it, and yet
uttered the falsehood, he is worthy of sn
association with the mesnest convict in
the penitentiary.
Year: 1874

AS the trials of life thicken, and
the dreams of other days fade, one
by one, in the dim vista of disap-
pointed hope, the heart grows weary
of the long continued struggle, AMI
we begin to realize our insignifi-
cance. Those who have climed to
the pinnacle of fame or revel in lux
ury and wealth, 60 to the grave at
last with the poor mendicant who
begs by the wayside, and like him
are soon forgotten. Generation
after generation, says an eloquent
writer, have felt as we feel, and
their fellows were as active in life
as ours are now. They passed
away as a vapor, while nature
wore the same aspect Of beauty as
when the Creator commanded her
to be. The heavens will be as
bright over our graves as they are
now around our path; the world
has the same attraction for offspring
yet unborn that she once had for
ourselves, and that she now has for
our children.
Year: 1874

-. -


I confess that increasing years
bring with them an increasing res
pect for men who do not succeed in
life, rs those words are commonly
used--Heaven is said to be a place
for those who do not succeed upon
earth; and it is surely true that
celestial graces do not best thrive
and bloom in the hot blaze of world
ly. prosperity. Ill success some~
times arises from a superabundance
of qualities in themselves good
from a conc!ence too sensitive,
taste too fastidious, self forgetful-
ness too romantic, a modesty too
retiring. I will not 60 so far as to
say, with a living poet, that "the
world knows nothing of its greatest
men, but there are forms of great<
ness, or at least excellence, which
die and make no sign;" there are
martyrs that miss the palm but not
the stake; heroes without the laurel
conquerors without triumph.
Year: 1874

Not with reproof for any of that
days sins Of omission or commits,
sion. Take any time but bedtime
for that: If you ever heard a little
creature signing or sobbing in its
sleep, you could never do this
Seal their closing eyelids with kiss
and a blessing. The time will
come when, al too soon, they will
lay their heads upon their pillows
lacking both. Let them, then, at
least have this sweet memory of
happy childhood, of which no fu-
ture sorrow or trouble can rob them.
Give them their rosy youth. Nor
need this involve wild license, The
judicious parent will not so mistake
my meaning. If you have ever
met the man, or the woman, whose
eyes have suddenly filed when a
little child has crept trustingly to
its mothers breast, you may have
seen one in whose childhood's home


" dignity" and severity" stood
where love and pity should have
been. Too much indulgence has
ruined thousands of children, too
much love not one.-Fanny Fern.
Year: 1874

In view of the high-handed outrage
against the peace and dignity of the
State perpetrated at Trenton yesterday
morning, every reader Of the UNION
AND AMERICAN will commend with US
the prompt action of Gov. Brown in
Offering rewards for the arrest of the
offenders and telegraphing to the Sher-
iff Of the county, offering arms and all
the assistance in his power. Owing to
Brownlow's abuse of the Office, the
Governorship has been shorn of
many powers needed in such an
emergency. The new Constitution
forbids the Executive to call
out the militia except at the
instance of the Legislature, which
could not be convened for days. There
fore, it is the more incumbent on the
people to sustain the Governor with
their moral support. The times are
such that lynch law cannot be tolerated
in Tennessee. Every man who cares
for life, family or property, must
sustain the constituted authorities. 1t
is the only salvation to society. Law
lessness in all its forms, white and
black, must and shall be suppressed, at
all hazards and at any cost.
Year: 1874

UlDOVN OVONIIs


A Perfect Reign of Terror.
Two Negroes Turn State Evil


dence.
They Swear to the Existence of
a Widespread Conspiracy.
Its Object to Murder the Whites


for Their Property.
A Score of Negroes Arrested on


Their Testimony.
The Horrible Sequel of Black
Conspiracy or Black Perjury.
Sixteen Prisoners Taken from
the Trenton Jail and All


Slaughtered but One.
Year: 1874

We are opposed to excessive taxation,
the deadly foe, as all experience proves, Of
every industry: and we insist upon the
strictest economy IN every department Of
government, federal or stale, county or mu-
nicinal
Year: 1874

We are opposed to grants Of the public
domain to railroad corporations, and we re-
joice at the fact that the determined OppOsi-
tiOn of Democratic senators and representa-
tives in Congress and the unequivOcal con-
demnatiOn of the people have put stop t0
scheme of legislation that but lately
threatened to bestOw upon great corpora
tions, comparatively few in number, the
whole body of the public lands. We favor
the policy that looks TO the ownership of
these lands by actual settlers, and therefore
approve the principle Of the homestead set
Element law.
Year: 1874

We are opposed to all combinations and
devices of whatever character that tend to
increase the cost of transportation beyond
a fair remuneration to the carrier, and We
demand the exercise of all constitutional
powers TO remedy existing evils in this re-
spect, and to prevent their occurrence in
Year: 1874

Time was, when almost every stage driver in
New York was known to abstract a greater or
less share of all fares received, and his employ
er had no remedy and no sure means of detect
ing the rogue. But thanks to the ingenuity of
the inventor, our Broadway Jehus have been
transformed into honest men. They can't steal
if they would. The patent money box, in
which the passenger drops his fare, relieves the
driver from the duty of handling the money,
and consequently none sticks to his fingers.


On the street railway cars, the pilfering con-
ductor although not rendered wholly honest, is
considerably interfered with and his stealings
reduced by means of the patent bell punch
He is required by the rules to punch strip of
paper for every fare received. The punch con-
tains bell, dial mum bering register and a
receptacle in which the punched bits of paper
are received. The punch, paper, and money,
are returned to the Office by the conductor at
the end of every trip. The dial pointer shows
how many times the punch has been operated,
and the count of holes in the paper, the punch
ed bits within the punch, and also the money,
should be all found to agree. Any discrepancy
is at once shown. But this device does not
fully answer the purpose Of detection, because
the conductor may take fares and not work the
punch, especially in a crowd, without being
observed.


The money box plan is apparently the surest.
There is a chance for some ingenious person to
invent portable Dox lor conductors, Whlch
will be promotive of their integrity in crowd
ed cars.


One of the latest lodges in this line comes to
us from Constantinople. The driver or con-
ductor Of the car gives to every passenger a
prize ticket bearing number which is record
ed on the company's books. A drawing takes
place monthly, the company providing GER
tain number of prizes. We read of one pas
senger who lately drew prize of 500 in this
way. The hope of drawing prize makes the
passenger careful to send in his tickets; and if
the money returns of the driver or conductor
are not equal to the number of tickets return
ed, there is a showing of dishonesty, and the
particular culprits may he detected by compar-
ing the return tickets with the records of the
tickets issued to the several conductors.
tifc american.
Year: 1874

Mss- DR.. Prime tells in the Christian Observer
a story illustrative of the remarkable intelli-
gence of dog owned by his father. The ami
NAL had a peculiar attachment to religious
places and religious services. He was regu-
lar attendant at family worship, and had no
use or affection for the man who could not pray.
DR.. Prime is the editor of Christian paper,
and therefore are to presume that he would
not indulge in those exaggeratons which some
times disfgure the secular press. We say we
presume that the Doctor is free from exagger-
alton, but of course we have no positive knowl-
edge on this point. Giving him, however, the
benefit of the doubt, we invite attention to the
following concerning the pious dog;


cit required extraordinary care to keep him
at home. Shut up in a room he dashed through
a window and was at church before the family.
He was once shut up in an clubhouse that had
no floor. He dug out under the sill of the door,
and was at church before the first psalm was
sung. In church he occupied the upper step of
the pulpit within which his master ministered.
He lay quiet during the service unless other
dogs below misbehaved, in which case he left
his seat, and after quieting the disturbance re-
sumed it. He was equally devoted to the week.
ly PRAYER meeting which was held from house
to house, the appointment being announced on
the Sabbath. He remembered the evening and
the place, and was always present. AS it was
not agreeable to have dog at an evening meet
ing in private house, he was confined at home.
The next week he went early before the fami-
ly had thought to shut him up, and waited for
the hour and the people. He knew the names
of the families where the meetings were held,
and where they lived, and could have gone to
any of them on an errand as easily and cor
recty as child And the only knowledge he
had of the place of meeting he got as the others
did, by hearing the notice on Sunday. These
habits of the dog were not the fruit OF educa-
ton. On the contrary, pains were taken to
prevent him from indulging his religious pre-.
ferences He did not manifest fondness for
other meetings or for any individuals out of
the family circle, except those whom he recog-
nized by their habit Of praying as the people
in whom he was especially Interested"
Year: 1874

BUTTER IN FRANCE.-If our dairymen reed
spur, an eye opener, a lesson which speaks vol
umes in three words, here is one at the head Of
this article. Butter is actually brought from
France and sold by the New York Dealers
And this is thus because there is an actual
scarcity in the market of good butter put up in
attractive shape for small consumers. When
we know that one dairyman gets $1.15 pound
for his product, another ST and another rs cents
the year round, at his dairy door, it is easily
seen that it will pay to bring butter across the
ocean from France, if it is only good and shape
ly enough to suit the fastidious purchasers who
will have something nice whatever it may cost.
All this butter is made from choice cows, choice
ly fed on clean sweet food the milking is done
in the cleanest manner. The milk is handled
as carefully as though twas nectar; the cream
is churned with utmost care by clock and ther-
mometer, the butter is worked with skill, and
is made up in shapely cakes, which do not re-
quire to be cut when brought to the table
Compare then, this cake-hard, golden yellow,
sweet, fragrant and tempting to all the senses
with an unsightly chunk, which is cut out of
greasy keg, and smells of old age and rancid
ity, and is made from i'll kept cream from cows
ilthily lodged and earelessly milked, and is
churned any how, and the difference is amply
accounted for.-N. Y. Tribune
Year: 1874

ANOTHER SCENE IN MAX ADELER's CHURCH.
Ours is the most exciting church on he conti-
nent We had hoped to conduct the services
in quietness after the last demonstrat ion of our
deaf member, Mr.. Collamore, but we were dis
appointed. Young Shocks came to church last
Sunday with Miss Jones, and his pet terrier
dog came with him and settled on the floor Of
the pew. Shocks at first thought he would send
the animal home, but he didn't like to make a
fuss in church, so he let it remain. Miss Jones,
however, did net know that the dog was there.


When they stood up to sing, the dog leaped
on the seat Immediately behind Miss Jones,
and when she sat down her whole weight came
upon the terrier. She gave loud scream and
leaped to her feet, while the dog barked, and
bit at her, and Shocks in loud voice ordered
him to be quiet. There was instant confusion
in the church, and old Mr.. Collamore misun-
derstanding the cause of it, raised cry of fire
and rushed from the building. A panic en-
sued, and the congregation made for the door.


A moment afterward an engine arrived, and
in a minute it had three-inch stream playing
through one of the windows on the hindmost
of the congregation. By the time there were
two inches of water on the floor of the church
the matter was explained and the engine went
home. The damages will amount to bout $780,
If Collamore is not suppressed, we shall give
up our pew and resign.
Year: 1874


ines written on seeing lady with fashion;
lie protuberance. They have the true spirit
swift. The following is the conclusion;
When nature first produced the fair,
'Mong other things, it was her care
AS fair the form in beauty grew
To shape the back both straight and true;
Except indeed, when in a whim,
Some uncouth dwarf or monster grim,
She favors with swelling sack,
Perched high in honor on her back
But in these days of wondrous light
Taste rises in her power and might,
And disappearing natures plan,
She forms bag Of wool or bran,
And where she thinks a hump should be,
Straight in that place, hump you'l see;
The names with which the humps abound
Are full of sense well as sound
Nothing more dignifed, Pm sure,
Than Bishop Bustle, or Tourneur!
And If some sour old fashioned me
Should tartly ask, "Whars in a nameY"
We'd answer, "That cannot answer;
But, mama, the thing is full Of bran l''
Now listen to me, lady dear,
word I'd whisper in your ear;
Why be so partial to one spot
Why hump one place and Others not;
If in the hump such beauty lies,
As true friend, I'd you advise
To raise the hump on every place,
And then you'll be all over gracel
TEen if we beauties wish to find,
We need not always look behindl
Year: 1874

Ms-A brother was lately giving in a New
York religious meeting the experiences of HIM
self and family, saying, among other things,
that his first wife was a very good woman, but
she sickened and died in happy frame of
mind, and he should rejoice if his present part
ner would go just the same way.
Year: 1874

lie was young, he was fair, and he
parted his hair like tho average beau,
in tho middle ho was proud, he was
bold. hut the tr nth must be told, he
played like fcnd on the fiddle. But
aside from this vice, he was every
thing nice> and his heart was so loving
and tender, that he always turned
pale when he trod on the tail of a cat
lying down by the fender. lie clerk
ed IN the store, and the way that he
tore off calico, Jeans and brown sheet.
ing, would have tickled q calf and
made the brute laugh in the face
"f quarterly meeting lie cut quite
dash with a darling moustache,
which he learned to adore and cher.
iSh for one girl had said, while she
dropped her proud head, that 'twoud
kill her to see the thing perish. On
Sunday he'd search for the straight
road to church, unheeding the voice
Of the scorner and demdrely he sat
like a young tabby cat, with the
saints iu tho far amen corner. lie
sank like n bird, aud his sweet voice
was beard fairly tugging away at
long motre and we speak but the
truth, when we say that this youth
could out sing hungry musquiter.


She was yourg, she was fair, and
sho scrambled her hair like the aver
nge belle Of the city she was proud
but not bold, yet the truth must be
told that the way she chewcd wax
was pity. But aside from this vice
sht was everything nice and the
world much applaudod her hustle /;
and tho Fayetteville boys, being
charmed by the noise, walked miles
just to hear the thing rustic. She
cut quite swell, did this wax chew
ing belle, and tho men ilocked in
armies to meet her; but she gave
them the shirk, for she loved the
young clerk, who sang like hungry
musquiter. She hemmcd and she
hawed, and she sighed aud she ohaw.
ed until her heart and jaws we're
both broken then she walked by
bis store, while lie stood at the door
awaiting some amntive token. Sho


raised up her eyes with pretty SUR
prise and tried to enact the proud
soorner but to toll tho plain truth
she just grinned at tho youth who
loved the devout amen corner.