The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-23

miscellaneous Items.
-Eighty-two suicides in New York in
1857. .----- - =
The Pittsburgh G6zette is eighty-three
years old. 80
Maine makes $50, 900 worth of spruce
gum yearly.
Treasure diggers are at work in Haz-
ardville, Conn. 81
The National Bank currency in cir
culation is $299,S29,S16.
One firm in Castleton, Vt, turns out
l25, 600 slate pencils daily. LIS s
Twenty three thousand persons died
In New York city last year.
-Marufacturing towns show decrease
IN the consumption OF butter.
Three hundred million matches are
used daily in the United States.
The Boston Homo for INDECENT Fee
males made profit of SIS, $40 last year
An Eastern railroad company adver-
tises that it "runs thr ugh sleeping cars"
No Western State has so many pa-
pers, in proportion to its population, as
Kansas.
Steel billiard balls, made of two semi
spherical pieces of hollow steel, are being
introduced.
a ITO ol6 IculluS III bOutDOn COu0-
ty, Kentucky, at from $3.50 to $500 an
acre per annum- -
The Colorado Legislature has located
the Registry law.
Since the opening of the Iowa Insane
Hospital, Loaf patients have received its
care and treatment. 20
-. The locomotive America, which took
the grand prize at the Exposition, is to be
brought home and sold.
-Four hundred and fifty thousand tons
of copper ore were taken from the mines
at Lake Superior last year.
.-Major Clobridge, at present in Gov
FentOn's office. has taken, the Farragut
premium for left hand penmanship.
The New York police have orders to
arrest ell persons soliciting aims in the
public thorough and on ferry boats
The Health Off ;er of St Louis official
ly reported 6S4 eashs from cholera, in that
city, from June .. to December 7, 1867.
During the tis.y the Inhabitants near
Fort Bridger, Colorado, skim, the waters
of the creek and obtain kerosene for the
midnight lamp.
Senator Sherman has specimen of
the new French coin, brought home by
Professor Ruggles. On one side is stamped
SO dollars-25 francs"
1t is now positively stated In New
York that Vanderbit-will put the express
companies off the, roads which he controls
80 soon as he can complete his arrange
ments for 30 doing.
The Northwestern Telegraph Comps
ny. Wisconsin institution, headquarters
at Kenosha, employs $50 men and women,
and has 1878 miles of line, much of which
is double, making a.35S miles of wire.
Some idea may be formed of the mum
her OF our base bali players by the fact
that single mandatory in Lynn, Mass,
made and sold thirty thousand pairs of
shoes for base ball players, the past sea-
son.
Seven women in Machias, Me. wnye
twelve hundred and fifty-three yards of
cloth the past season. In the same school
district, a lady of seventy six wove six
yards one morning, and went visiting IL
the afternoon.
The aggregate grain trade of Buffalo
for 1867 is 5O,16S,074 bushels. being very
much less than III 1862, 1868, and 1866.
The aggregate trade and commerce for the
year by canal, railroad, and lake is valued
at $a50, 100000.
-On the I'd of tlis month the Hoosac
Mountain had been .unneled distance of
7,O9S feet. The distance through the
mountain is 25 ,031 feet (about 4s4 miles),
and there consequently remains distance
of II ,933 feet to accomplish.
Maine journals say manufacturing in
that State during the past year has been
without profit. But few mills can show a
new dollar for an old one as the result of
their operations. Nearly all mills carried
large stocks during the rapid decline in
cotton.
The new State House of Kansas, in
process of construction at Topeka, pre-
sents fine appearance, and when com
pleted will have no superior in the West
The beautiful magnesia limestone, of
which it is constructed, shows off to great
advantage.
Patrick was In charge of ferry boat