The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-11-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Philadelphia is building the handsom
est grammar school house In the world
Ten thousand negroes in Virginia have
learned to read during the past year.
| A real live manatee, or sea COW. has
been captured in the st. Louis River,
Florida. @
Virginia las nine and half million
| acres OF improved, and eleven million
and quarter Of unmproved lands.
A first itistalmeist of nearly four hun
| Virginia, in care of the Virginia Imni
grafton Society.
A three-mast schooner of S25 tons, new
measurement, was launched at New
Haven, Ct, lately. She is the largest
vessel ever built at that place, and is de-
signed for the cotton and tobacco trade
The horse on which Sheridan rode from
Winchester twenty miles away to
Cedar Mountain, is rusticatfng at Fort
Leavenwolth.
A squash grown near Toledo measures
SIX feet eight inches in circumference, and
weighs one hundred and fifty six pounds.
1t is said that Bonner would not sell
Dexter for 100000. Dexter, in spite
OF lnany predictions, is making good
roadster
The average mortality among the Yale
college graduates for thirty years is ID
per cent Among the 2,SgI graduates
there were All deaths.
A supposed burglars retreat, consist
ing OF hut OF bark, in a dense thicket of
the TREAT Swamp, in Stratford, Con-
necticut. was discovered on Sunday.
Fifteen Germans are on trial before the
Cincinnati Turner'S Society tor having
violated their initiation pledges in voting
against the negro suffrage amendment.
Queen Victoria is having woven at
lyons new dress Of best quality black
silk. 1t is to be covered with death S
heads, and the border at the bottom is to
be made Of white silk tears.
A large cave has been discovered in
Berhs county, Pa Il is three hundred
Yards deep, and ends in ayawning chasnr
The chasm has not yet been explored:
A horse owned by J.. G. Lowell, of
Rockingham, Vt, deliberately commit
ted suicide recently. 1t waded into the
middle of Williams river, and lay down
in the water until it drowned.
A mad steer ran muck through a
crowded square in Pittsburg the other
morning, knocking down three women
IN succession, and tranpling a fourth in
80 frIghttul manner that it is doubtful
If she RECEIVERS. i.JH
A little daughter of Geo. Fry.at Milton.
Ohio, on Monday evening assembled to
the top Of her fathers tile kiln. when her
clothing was isntcd from the blaze of
the Kiln, and she was burned to death.
A correspondent at Fort Dodge. Kan
sas, gives the details Of the killing by In
dlans of John II. Felch aud James Y ounc.
These men were working at a wood camp.
and having killed buffalo near by start
ed with a team to secure the meat. When
but short distance from camp twenty
Indians swept down upon them, and after
a short fight filled and scalped both.
The Indians also stole fifty mules and
drove them acrosss the Arkansas river.
At Lawisburg, Penn, the ether day,
a man was engaged in building bridge.
A clergyman happened along, lie remark
ed to him that he was going to see the
bridge up. Yes" replied the minister,
'Sif Providence permits. y
His answer was, Damn Providence !"
and at that instant a rope broke, and
down came the stone. which was being
70 10 =
to death instantly.
A canal across the Florida peninsula is
Such canal would be less
than hundred miles, and would shorten
the voyage from New Orleans to New
York several days, and be the means of
avoiding the dangers, of the Florida
coast. c ~ M
The receipts of grain at the FIVE prin-
cipal lake ports fot the fye weeks ending
September 2S, amounted to I7,l3O. 900
against 11,750, 900 bushels for the same
period of last year-showing an increase
of S, 400, 900 bushels, or 46 per cent. ~
During September the heading at the
east end of Hoosac tunnel was carried
forward one hundred and eleven feet, and
sixteen hundred and nine cubic yards Of
rock were excavated from the enlarge
ment of the east end
Cleveland. Ohio, is the principal coal
mart of the West. She sold 200, 900 tons
of Lake Superior iron ore in 1866, and
this year the sales will foot up $50, 900.
The receipts of coal, much of which is
used with manufacture Of iron, were in
1866, 583, 407 tons.
i
The tobacco monopoly of the French
yields revenue OF lS5, ,OOO,
900 francs yearly Napoleon l. estab-
Iished that monopoly by degree in 1910.
About $4,000 persons are employed In
France about tobacco.
New York is probably the greatest
shell fish market in the World. There
are employed in the oyster trade alone
about one hundred vessels, ranging from
Fifty to two hundred tons, carrying from
two thousand to FIVE thousand bushels
each, and which are solely for that mark
ct: