The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-08-29

tlOn OF the ID she has was the re-
queim of his departed hopes Mr. Blank
was no more fortunate with his darling
Kate, who was a confident of Maggie and
as events proved "a chip of the same
block. He had squandered some $500
on her and as an act of Gro wing folly
sent her to Detroit, where her folks were,
intending to marry her there. The day
after her departure he learned that she
was very sweet on another chap in
the house, had been for year indeed,
and that very chap was about taking a
journey At once he went to the man
about to travel and asked him where he
was going. ''To PEORIA said he with
the carpet bag in his hand, but the in
tended bridegroom was suspicious and
little detective effort developed the fact
tha1 Detroit, and not Peoria, was his ob-
jective point. By the next train Mr.
Blank also went to Detroit and arrived
there just in time to find his faithless
Kate, sweet Kate, dainty Kate" stand
ing up before priest and being married
to ''tother feller." She wore splendid
silk dress which he had given her but the
week before as wedding present, and so
enraged was he that he tore the dress
aim ,st off her He was too muscular to
be whipped, so he returned disconsolate
to Chicago, but sound in body if not in
mini. Ever since, the two unfortunate
dupes wander aimlessly together smiling
ghostlv smiles at the jokes of their friends
and softly whistling to each other:
"she gives thee garland woven isir,
Take
1t is fools cap for thee to wear,
Beware, beware:
Trust her not
She is fooling thee"
The principal events of the past week,
here have been the National labor I'm
ion" Congress and the Episcopal Dioce-
san Convention. The former, however
great the importance it assumes, really
impresses me as as being good deal of
farce. 1t has between sixty and seven
ty delegates, to represent all the Trades
Unions, labor Associations and Leagues
in the country and according to the show
ing OF its Treasurer had at the commence
ment Of this Congress not collected
enough money to print the minutes of
the Congress of last year and were only
possessed of SIT, so ''balance on hand
nevertheless A. &. Cameron says unto
them Let not your hearts be troubled.
-ye believe in Trevellick. believe We also
in me and they at once feel their great
ness. The Tribune irreverently lik-
ems them unto the three tailors of Dooley
street who issued the memorable procla-
nation beginning we, the people of En-
gland In return, they call the Tribune
the tool Of the arlstocracy. They de-
term!ne to send a missionary over to Eu-
rope, to organize labor there to pay
their president 1000 year salary and
give him the task of finding out if the
Unions want 'workingmen' party
and if SO make up ticket for it t;-they
ask Congress, Chat is. the T. s. Con
gress, not the \. l.. u. Congress for
S25, 0oo0 900 to be expended by their of
hcers for the general benefit Of laborers
without distinction of sex, color. or To-
cality, and for the advancement Of eight
hour reform they propose to take Cuf-
fee Freedman under their protecting wing
by organizing Trades Unions for him
they talk of starting a great new newspa-
per;-a sort of ''Advance to protect
labor; and various other jocalar and
original things SO they do. That petition
for S25, 900, ,0J0 was SO eminently funny
that some of the members, PERSISTED
that it was a burleSque, tried to get the
resolution rescinded. but the majority
stuck to it that it was 10 joke and sus
tainel it. The newspapers here have
''humored them to the top of their bent
by giving full reports of their meetings.
which is about as cruel thing as they
could do.
The Diocesan Convention is purely
Unconventional assemb!agc and Is very
largely attended. Its proceedings are of
such character that IN the limits of this
brief letter [ can say but little of them,
farther than that all thcir reports show the
church to be III Il most highly hourishIng
condition, in all the diocese
One of the old land marks of the city
has disappeared The old Police Head
quarters, on the corner of Washington
and La Sale streets has been torn down,
to make place for magnificent new bull
ding ior the Union National Bank
The Commercial news of the day are
as follows: Flour, duh, $l2, so for White
winter, $7,25al0,93 for Spring Extras.
Wheat unsettled and still declining, ST.
So for No 3 Red Sl,72al II for Nc. |.
Spring $l,60al ,65 for No. 2, do ST ,55a
l SO for No do. Corn, 95a959 for No.
!: SSa9Ol for No 2 !; S6aSS for rejected.
Oats, 42a4t4 for No l, 42a43 for No 2.
Rye 81 90 for l, ,9Sal 90 for No 2 Bar
ley 81 ,O2al ,05 for No - SSc for rejected.
Mess Pork, $23, 50a23,75. Shoulders lie
a11s Lard held at Is, buyers at l2s;
Ereights. steady. Corn &c to Buffalo and
&c to Oswego. Seeds, quiet, Timothy,
81. SOa2, 80; Flax $2,25; Clover 1919.
Don.