The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-02

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year. but sixty years Of age, or an officer
OF the guards, aged twenty-five inst upon
town with only IS note in his pocket;
and Lord Derby is said 10 have replied
that he would exchange with the young
officer ct that moment If he could.
"A young lad was recently brought be-
fore Liverpool magistrate, charged with
embezzling nine poundg from his employer
On investigation it appeared that the boy,
less than fourteen years old, had spent the
money in entertaing his sweetheart Jagged
twelve) with pleasure trips on Sunday,
donkey rides, and other refreshments. The
young lady testified to this effect, and also
averred that she had frequently drawn on
young Lothario to the amount of two or
three shillings, and that her drafts were
always honoled through female friend,
who acted as messenger The young
scapegrace admitted the charge, and coolly
told the magistrate that he ..allowed Miss
Taylor Is. week"
: "A paper OF Nantes, Franch, publishes
the following: "a farmer was found
upon his wife; she was arrested; and,
when questioned by the magistrate, made
the following atfectionate confession ::
Well. in faith, there is not much to be
told. Going home last night, l found my
husband by the side of the fireplace trying
to hang himself; the rope was already
round his throat. AS he had already told
everyone that he was determined to hang
himself, endeavored very naturally to
assist him, by passing the other end of the
rope over raffer, and pulling as hard as
/ could, uli:il &C was suspended in the air. ;
Judge You confess, ther, that you
strangled your husband?' Yes, little !;
but not quite, because he pulled the rope
also. Besides, I knew the poor man was
tired Of his life. l was well aware should
be arrested; but before you send me to
prison beg you will let me attend my
poor husbands funeral 1t is needless to
say that the desire expressed by this ex-
cellent wife and fervent Christian was
fully appreciated by the court, but not COM
piled with"
Incidents and Accidents.
One count >,in Arkansas, Johnson, has
had twenty. four murders since the close of
the war. ~
AT the burning of livery stable in
New York city, three horses were smoth-
cred to death. % 5
"A little girl three years OLD, at Youngs-
town, Ohio, fell into cistern, On the Goth
and was drowned.
A family in Oswego, Ne " York, CON
sisting of father, mother, and ten children,
was recently found starving, having been
without food for four days.
"A man in Toledo, Ohio, who disap-
peared fourteen years ago, has just come
back to his wife, but won't explain the
mystery of his absence.
Three brothers named Callen were
found murdered about fifty miles from
committed by travelling companion, who
escaped.
In Lawrence, Kansas, q few days
since, two men entered the office of the
! Kansas Stage Company, while the agent
was asleep therein, and stole the safe and
carried it off without detection.
"A negro attempted to rob the till of a
butchers shop in Buffalo, was arrested,
and turned on his captor with a razor
when the butcher cut him down with q
cleaver, inflicting lrightful wounds.
"a young man. of Troy, New York,
was 50 enraged at the conduct OF his af1.
anced, who pettishly threw his engage
ment ring into the fire, that he dealt her a
black eye, and was mulcted in damages
and costs.
The GAINESVILLE (Chio) Courier SAYS
that the measles recently prevailed in q
family of that city. In few days the dis
ease extended to pet monkey, which ex.
hibited all the symptoms of human be-
ing afflicted with the malady, until his re-
covery.
"A man was recently executed in Vir.
ginia for having murdered three persons
in family of four. He confessed the mnr-
ders, was devoutly thankful that Provi-
dence had prevented him from perpetrat.
ing the fourth, and was profuse in his de-
clarations of forgiveness for all his enc
mics. z
On the ED, the boiler which supplies
hot water to the bath room OF Theodore
Cooks residence, Cincinnati, exploded, and
seriously damaged the kitchen, destroying
the windows, furniture and everything in
it, besides shattering the walls so as to rem
der the building worthless. No one was
seriously hurt.
George Bush, aged about twelve years
was recently killed, near Fort Wayne, Ind. :,
by tree which his father was cutting
down, striking him in its decent, and cut.
ting open his head and killing him il.
oS1hy. hC was tdhiuS us IaLQeI Q10-
ner to him, but was not seen by him until
after the fatal accident.
An American medical gentleman, In
an article in the Boston Medical and lSuros.
cal Journal, on Foreign Bodies in the
Ear" says that in his experience he has
taken from the ear beans, cotton, slate
pencils. peas, maggots, cockroaches, beads
glass, crockery. shells, paper, pins, ivory,
teeth OF combs, stones, and seed.
Some Californian started the follow
ing: "a noted trout fisher died in
Alameda county, not long ago. Fishing
was the one idea of his existence. His
last words were characteristic: L say,
Brown, I'm going to peg out, sure. I've
fiirted my last fish; but bury my tackle
with me-who knows but they bite in Jor-
danr"
AT Webster, New Hampshire, on cleo
ton day, where there are less than two
hundred voters, there were twenty. six men
who were over seventy years of age, eleven
between eighty and ninety, fourteen be-
tween seventy and eighty, and one over
ninety, who walked upward of mile and
back, and was the first to come and among
the last to go.
p I'm Ssn Francisco suicide has assumed
an epidemic form; in fact, for several
months suicides have been very numerous.
no less than 700 bodies have been found
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