The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-16

of innocent property holders. suit has beef
commenced at New Albany upon tire
bonds threatening to unsettle the who'll
settlement. The New Albany Ledger say
the suit is the most important ever brough
in that county.
The press Is just now engaged In glo
| rifying q new invention made for slaugh
ter1ng people by the Wholesale. We refel
to Roberts breech- loading Iide-abou
thirty eight inches long in the barrel, an6
weighing nine pounds thirteen ounces. i
can be easily kept free from rust, an6
taken apart in four minutes, and put to
gether again in about the same time. Or
| trial it fired ninetv-nire balls in about
seven minutes. General Pleasanton fired
| it fourteen times in one minute, and every
ball struck the mark. With q charge Of
sixty grains of fine rifle powder and siz
hundred and seventy grains of lead, it
| the iron plate behind. The chap who
should invent machine to make two
blades of grass grow where only one gr7w
| before might live in oblivion and starve
| to death; while the chap who invents ma
| chimes to hurry men out of the world is q
| public benefactOr, and is rewarded with
stamps.
PLANS for heating railroad cars without
| mourning the danger of fire are now the
| general topics of discussion among rail-
road circles, and several experiments are
being tried. One of the most simple,
cheap and eff1caceous methods is that
adopted on foreign railways which Is thus
described in letter to an exchange:
rho how frova1oH nv railroad in
almost any part of Europe In winter, will
have observed how comfortably warm the
cars are kept, by tin cans or tanks of hot
water, laid in the bottom of the cars in
front of every seat, upon which to place
the feet. The cans are perhaps three by
six inches, the length of the seats, which
are generally for four persons. The cans
are inserted in case made to f1t. covered
with carpeting. The water in them needs
changing only once in several hours, in
deed they retain the heat much longer
At regular stations the heaters are
changed, the cold for warm. It is done
very quickly, with very little trouble or
Inconvenience to passengers.
Industrial.
The aggregate of manufactures in
Davenport, Iowa, during 1857, was S 49,
$50.
Buildings to the value of $4,000
were erected in St Joseph, Mo-, during
1867.
Two manufactures in Worcester,
Mass, turn out half million envelopes
daily. ri, --.a z
Manufactures (buildings included) in
Chicago in 1867 reached the sum Of ST.
100000.
The sub-Treasurer of New York
counted SOL ,O0O,O 900 in gold, recently, in
one hour.
1t is proposed to open q canal from
Houston, Texas, to the Gulf, at cost of
100000.
Two hundred clerks were discharged
from one New York establishment the
other day.
The Pennsylvania and Erie canal car
ried, last season, 327, 374 tons of freight,
including 165,850 tons received at and
shipped from Erie.
Twelve hundred kegs of Hazard pow
der, ordered by the Government, were re-
Gently shipped from Springfield, Mass, for
Omaha, Nebraska.
The citizens of Burlington, VT, had
their water-works completed on Christmas
night. They can command 300, 900 gallons
per day, fresh from the lake. ~.
The Candee rubber factory of New
Haven, Conn.,, makes z, 600 pairs of rubber
boots and shoes day, and contains ma
chinery valued at 100000. 4t
The stoppage of portion of the ma
chinery of Evans, Seagrave q Co.'s cassl-
mere mills at Waterford, R. l., has thrown
$50 persons out of employment
An official statement Of the amount
of lumber surveyed at Bangor, Me-, the
past season, shows decrease of 30, DOC, 900
feet from that of the year preceding, and
gain of 10000, 600 feet over 1855.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad Company, and the Dix
on Works at Scranton, Pa, have notified
ali their employees, some 1900 in number,
of a reduction of ten per cent. In their
wages.
The Bay City (Mieh.) Signal gives a
tabular statement of the lumber business
done by twenty-three mills in Bay county,
during the past season, the totals of the
same being: Lumber, 49,, 077 1852 feet !;
lath, 17,722, 775 pieces; valne of lumber,
50. 63S ,637 men employed, 1903; value of
mills, $1,107,000.
The Mankato (Minn) U17ao7o says the
heaviest purchase of furs ever made in
Mankato was for b. A. Bromley, Of ST..
Paul. OF muskrats he purchased 1880
skins; of mink, $50; of red fox, 100; of
beaver, 100 pounds; besides many other
furs in small quantities The entire lot was
valued at $4,000.
The Taunton (Mass) Gazette says that
the report of the discharge of several hun
dred hands employed at MasoD's works in
Taunton is incorrect. Less than fifty
have been discharged, while at present
there are upwards of four hundred in bis
employ on good class work. and at rates
averaging less than 10 per cent. reduction
from usual prices Not more than two
hundred hands have been discharged from
all the manufacturing establishments IN
that city.
EereaEE Gossip.
"A female dentist is the last Partisan
novelty.
-Eihu Burritt is to edit new London
magazine, called FSreside Words.
lie Nord says Col Kelly, the Fenian,
has taken refuge in Belgium.
Mount Cook, on the west coast of New
Zoo1ap6 10 q 2fC feet hiuh