The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-11-12

Gently hanged their daughter, because she
persisted in receiving the addresses of
young man they disliked.
The British Government declines to
recognize the rights claimed by the Hud-
son Bay Company, in the territory be-
tween Canada and the Pacific Coast
Horrible London statistics show trat
every day there are seven children Doru in
that city, who, from their residence in NOR.
ally infected districts must inevitably lead
a life of crime.
Count Adelsvaerd, one of the wealth
lest noblemen of Sweden, is said to have re-
fused an offer of $4,000, 900, made to him
by an English Company, for his copper
mine at Atrudaberg.
The Egyptian Viceroy has sent his
two sons to Paris to finish their education,
and Napoleon has appointed general
army officer to instruct the second Prince.
A third Egyptian Prince has gone to En-
gland.
"A man in Toronto, who has been
twenty-four years deaf and dumb, caused
by scarlet and typhus fevers when five
years of age, suddenly recovered the full
use of his hearing and speech few days
since.
"A passionate mother in England, late
" threw table-knife at her little boy,
who had been guilty of some misconduct.
The knife entered his side, and in a short
time the child bled to death
-Dadanwala Maha WaIaS-we Wiiaya-
sundara Senewiratna Wikkramasinha Ma
varatna Chandrasekara Pandite Wasa-
lamudiyanselage Madonna Banda has
been appointed deputy coroner for Vat
tinuwara, in India
1t is rumored in Germany that Prince
Louis of Hesse intends to apply for
divorce from his wife, the Princess Alice
second daughter of Queen Victoria. Rea-
son-jealousy and in-temper on the wife's
part.
Nine young men who left Rouen on
their velOcipedes at in the morning
reached Paris at in the evening. They
performed the distance OF thirty-two
leagues in eleven hours, having rested
three hours during the day.
The smoke from the volcanic eruption
in the Sandwich Islands was seen one
thousand miles from the islands, and at
half that distance was so dense that
officers of ships were prevented from
making their observations.
AT Lucerne, Queen Victoria offered a
party of ten-pin players $500 to abstain
from playing on the Sabbath while she
stayed at the hotel. The landlord refused,
rudely adding that Switzerland was a free
country, and those who disliked their Gus
toms might stay away.
"A poor needle-woman lived as long as
she could on two shillings week and then
she died by gradual starvation Two bot
tomless chairs, broken table, heap of
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found in the poor girls room one morn
1 ing.
"A new geographical map of France is
ordered. The first map Of the kind was
designed in 1894, when the mining engineers
were organized butt was only executed in
1910, and completed by descriptive textin
1913, the whole map comprising six Sheets
| The new map is to comprise 2S6 sheets,
and 200 copies of each will be printed.
1t is expected that by the sale tie treasury
Will recover the money advanced.
"A houseat Keranfurus- Huella, France,
occupied by two families, in all nine per-
sons, was destroyed by fire one night
recently. Two women, named LeGengre
/ and LsCante, with two children, one be-
longing to each, were burnt to death
/ Their husbands escaped by throwing
themselves from the window. A gardener
and two female servants were got out
alive in their night clothes.
An African lion hunter was parading
full grown puma, or South American
lion (Which is considered harmless), at a.
fair at Nottingham, England, when the
/ animal caught sight of a dog held by a lad
in the crowd. Breaking away from its
! keeper, it sprang on the dog and killed
it almost instantly. The people fed in all
directions, and the puma, seeing another
dog short distance off, rushed at it and
dispatched it as quickly as it had done the
first. The keeper here succeeded in secur-
ing the animal, which was led back to the
menagerie with the dead dog in its mouth
An atrocious act of cruelty has oc-
CURED at Talkusch, in Moldavia. A dill
genCe having been robbed of 1000 ducats,
about dozen persons were arrested on
suspicion and put to the torture to make
them confess. Oneman, after being beaten,
had splinters driven under his nails: his
wife was suspended by the feet, and eggs
taken from boiling water were applied to
her armplts and the most sensitive parts of
the body. Other men and women were
dragged along the streets tied to horses
tails and sprinkled with boiling oil Sew
eral OF the victims are not expected to
recover.
SCto StOIy Is lOIl III 1aTlS OF a son
of M. Bixio. This eminent man was for a
short time incarcerated in the fortress of
Vincennes, after the coup detat. His wife,
accompanied by one of her sons, went to
see him. They dined together in his
chamber. The son was extremely sad and
taciturn during the dinner, and at last at
tracted his fathers attention, "Why. nv
dear boy, what is the matter with YOU ?'
Nothing, father" replied the lad of
eleven. Nonsense | see something is
the matter with you. Come, tell me what
it is" The boy blundered: "Why, pa, I
am so disappointed. l made sure of seeing
you in dungeon, chained to the wall, and
you amt"
Among the poorer and lower classes
in Tuscany the process of burial is as fol-
lows: A pit or excavation 100 feet deep is
made, and the sides walled up, covered
with stone and made air-tight. &he
privilege Of burial in these pits or wells
is bought at any age for a certain sum
paid down, and sum paid annually until
the death Of the future tenant of the vault.
Into these the bodies, eveloped in linen
sacks and without collins, are lowered by
a rope. All who pay for the privilege are
buried without regard to sex or family, in
the well in use until it is full, when the
next is taken and used until full. When
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