The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-30

to her astonishment took from thence q
large pin.
Geo. W. Williams has been arrested
at Boston and bound over for trial in
5000 for forging Government stencils. 1t
ls alleged that he is the party Vino made
ana furnished the revenue stencils
which were used extensively in the Buff
talo and Boston whisky frauds some
months since.
Miss Gilbert, the daughter of wealthy
New York tradesman, ran off with her
fathers clerk, who was promoted from the
Office of coachman, and got married to
him. She returned after having been
away three days, when her father gave
her her clothing, packed her off to her
husband, and told her to come home no
more.
"A weather prophet In Michigan, who
squares his practice as farmer in accord
ance with his own predictions, thereby
showing faith in them, prognosticates as
follows: list. About the middle of Janua-
~ there will be a thorough thaw. 3D..
February will be very moderate. 3D..
About the 9Th of March it will begin to
be cold-very cold. 4th. We shall have
an open winter and very late spring.
The Kansas papers state that several
cases Of poisoning have occurred in that
State from parties eating buckwheat flour
in which the seeds Of the "jimpson F"
weed had been mixed and ground The
crying and laughing fits, in which the
pupil of the eye becomes greatly dilated,
and finally delirium sets in. No one has
yet died of 1t, but several persons have
been affected, and in one case whole fam
lily OF four was thus poisoned.
"A young man who got married st the
Phillips House, Dayton, Ohio, Christmas
eve, shortly after midnight alarmed all the
dodgers with the doleful wailings and
lamentations that proceeded from his room.
A crowd of hastily dressed persons gath
cred about his door, supposing that there
might be murder going on inside. An
investigation. however, showed That the
new bridegroom, who had never been
from home before, and felt uncomfortable
among strangers, was simply "bawling
for his mother
Some time ago little daughter of
Mr.. Bowers mysteriously disappeared from
Sandusky, Ohio, and was supposed to have
been stolen by gypsies. Since then the
father and mother of the child have been
constantly searching for the lost one, but
without success. They have once or twice
obtained traces of the gypsy family trav-
cling with mule team, and having with
them white child, but have not been
able to overtake them. The mother
writes eve have found five or six little
children that are supposed to have been
stolen, and we must find ours, although it
is long, dreary waiting"
The Boston Commonwealth relates that
a lady of Charlestown, great admirer of
Mr.. Dickens writings, but unfortunately
paralyzed in her limbs from an accident sc
that she cannot walk, wrote to him to ask
If the doors of the Temple could be opened
to her earlier than the usual hour, that she
might be lifted into the hall unobserved by
other attendants upon the readings, men
tioning to him her intirmity OF limbs. Mr.
Dickens sympathizingly and gratefully
acknowledged the note, gave the requisite
order for the lady's accommodation, ano
claimed the honor of presenting her, be-
sides, with supplementary tickets Of ad
mission.