The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-12-03
At the Boston Female Snffraoo Oo.-

At the Boston Female Suffrage Con
vention the irrepressable Daniel Pratt
exclaimed: II am for women 8 rights.
I go for giving every old maid a husband
and every old bachelor wife. I am an
old bachelor" His voice was drowned
| in roar of laughter, and the announce
ment of the. next speaker Shut him off.
Tennyson has the best chan&e of sue
ceeding Carlyle as Lord Rector IF Edin-
burgh University. At the nomination
the poet had a larger show of hands than
Rost.~Lowe, Lord Stanley or Bdskin
Jardon and Dernery, two French dram
atists, each derive $4,000 yearly from
their plays, while some of the best au-
thors only make $500 or 5000 a year by
their books.
Gutta percha houses are suggested for
earthquake countries.
Cows can be purchased at $40 per doz-
en- in Texas. gsF Il #sE
Miss Braddon, the novelist, has Joined
the staff of the Saturday Review.
The schools and colleges of the South
have been more largely attended this
year than ever before.
The weather throughout the Louisian
cotton parishes continues very favorable
for picking, and the yield is turning out
better than expected. s
James Lynch, colored preacher in
Mississippi, is soon to issue monthly
magazine which will be called The Col
ored Citizens Monthly.
For eighteen months woman of Mon
treal tried to kill her husband by slow
poison; failing which she fed.
A California clergyman insured his
life for SIS, 900, and died soon afterward j;
but, when the company offered to settle
with the widow, she refused the money.
asserting that her husband had withheld
from the company the fact that he suf-
fered from malady that would have pre-
vented his obtaining a policy. When
the Directors met they decided to urge
the widow to accept $4,000
Whelan, the convicted assasinatol
OF Thomas ID Arcy MeGee, has been
brought to Toronto, to apply for new
trial. He disavows Fenianism and as
serts his entire innocence.
Prof johnson asks Montreal citizens
to give $4,000 toward McGill College
Library.
Three doctors succeeded in cutting
out mans tongue, in Montreal on Fri
day. He did not complain of the pain
| A Toronto church was so crowded, or
Sunday, to hear Dr. Ormiston, of Ham
llton, preach, that several persons tainted
TO- want of air and water
Leipsic has sixty printing Offices and
eight hundred printers
Prof Newton, of Yale. saws that a
comet, which is travelling at the rate Of
1000, 900 miles per day. has just whisked
Its tail IN our faces and made us see stars.
Yale College library contains 50, ooc
volumes. 80 ~ IA
spirited exhibition of women's rights
was lately witnessed in Alton, \. II.
when the women emptied the contents
OF liquor shop into the street
The steamboat scene at Wallack S,
view 1orK, is pronounced most perfect.
A large boat, with real steam and smoke,
lands live passengers at u pier, then
blows her whistle, and glides across the
stage through the canv water. \ rail
road scene also draws at Niblo S.
In the Vermont State Senate, rece ntIy,
an honorable member, who had been
speaking, sat down where he supposed
his chair was, and landed on the floor.
Quietly picking himself up, he remarked.
amid the laughter of his brother Sena-
tors "Mr. President, think | am en-
titled to the floor now