The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-02-06

knife, and forty cents. a p -5l' e
f "A woman In Grossbrenner, New Jer
sey, drank two ounces of the oil of bitter
almonds in mistake for whisky, few days
ago, and died soon afterward.
"A State reform school is about to be
started at st. Paul, two miles and q half
north of the city. The building is to be Of
stone, and viii cost about 81, 900. s.
A school teacher out in Kansas re-
Gently got married, and very afectlonately
presented the pastor with Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary as marriage fee.
An old Roman coin of the time of
Trajan has been found among the Macki-
nav Indians, who say they dug it up.
The coin is in good state of preservation.
james Mathews died recently in the
State Prison of Maine at the age of sixty
eight years. He was committed August g.,
1854, under sentence Of death for murder.
"A Mississippi editor has been furnished
with an album quilt by the women of
his county, each one of them contributing
q part and inscribing her name on her
work. EI9 Eoea ~ re 20 4
a man in Albany used kerosene in
lieu of vinegar upon dozen oysters, and
the "n1outh" made after swallowing one
of the bivalves is described as painfully
ludicroua
Paul NJ. Burke shot his wife in the
village Of Bennington vt, firing FIVE shots
at her, four of which took effect. He was
enraged at her for procuring a divorce
from him. =. .
"A young girl named Jagenisky, COM
pleted lately a feat of skating thirty hours,
with but thirty minutes rest, at one of the
skating parks. She was not harmed by
her effort. q a.a5F2 eye eAi
elephant Romeo, which recently
killed his keeper at Harrisburg, Pa, has
not been pacifed. He is confined in a pen
of stout timbers and viii allow no one to
approach him er-l4
"A midnight elopement in New York
was frustrated by cat who frightened the
young lady into fainting fit as she was
going down stairs to meet the expected
lover at the door. -" eng
"A negro w.lo brutally outraged Mrs.
Brown, in the town of Chenille, Schenec-
tady county, N. Y, 8 few days ago, has
been sentenced 10 twenty years 1mprison-
ment in the State Prison. s
IT. R. O'Conner, school teacher in
Richfield, Minnesota, was put off the cars
for failing to pay the extra ten cents ex-
acted for not procuring ticket at the
CAA1CC, dAu WdS A1OAtn W Ocdlu. q
In Hancock county, Maine, three men,
hunting deer, came upon q black bear,
which it took eighteen shots to kill. It
weighed four hundred and thirty five
pounds and sold for fifty-nine dollars.
Going into bankruptcy as managed
under the law is somewhat expensive, the
costs and fees of voluntary petitioner
amounting to $3.50 to 1926, and from a
compulsory bankrupt to between $500 and
$500. I Easa s2i5 IaiE
Seventeen hundred and twenty-three
Infants, which had been thrown away by
their parents, were picked up in the streets
of New York last year, and 749 Of them
are now cared for in the institution at
Randall's Island. 90 u
No corporal punishment has been in
fiicted upon prisoners in the Sing Sing
On. " State Penitentiary for the past
year. The prison contains fifteen hundred
inmates, of whom one hundred and fifty
one are females. ~. =
At Omaha, q young lawyer named
Brooks, late from Otsego county, New
tempting to light fire In q stove with
petroleum, which exploded. Brooks died
the next morning. .f..e4 q
"A number of Bloomington ladies treat
ed their gentlemen friends to grand leap
year party, a few nights ago, at which all
the details of the ball and supper room
and the honors of the occasion were man
aged by the fair ones. r.
The Jail fees for keeping John Brown
in Jefferson county, Va, In 1859, have
only recently been paid by the State Audi
tor of Virginia. A Judgment for $165 was
rendered against the Auditor in 1861, and
the litigation has BIZ. w been ended. e.
Coral ieweiry, which has of late been
very fashionable, is said to be, to great
pared artificially from marble dust made
into paste by using silicate of potash and
little isinglass, and colored by Chinese
vermilion. 2
Stephen Marsden, ESQ.,, his wife and
child, started in sleigh to visit family
living two miles from Galena, III. The
child was but five months old, and was
wrapped closely to protect it from cold
On arriving at their destination the infant
was found smothered. s,,
"A cynical old bachelor, who firmly
believes that all women have something
to say on all subjects, recently asked a
female friend "WelL madam, what do
you hold on this question of female suf.
frages" To him the lady responded
calmly: "Sir, Ihold my tongue"
The Kennebec Journal gives CONVEX
sation between two little girls, az ed re-
spectively five and six. Emma, said one
of them, wouldn't it be awful if sorle-
body should shoot our school mistress ?"
Yes" was the reply, " but then wouldn't
1t be nice not to have any school"
"A gentleman, residing near the Aims
house, Richmond, Va, shot colored man
who was making raid upon his wood
pile, with peas. The thief thought. he
was wounded with real shot, and yelled
most Justly as he scampered away.
The peas may make him mind his kesos in
future. sra 7sE e E s25a1
While Judge William B. Wright was
dying at Albany, his daughter YVES at his
bedside. While attending upon her
father in his last moments, she received
news of the death of her husband,
Lieutenant Adams, of the navy, at the
family residence in Kingston, Ulster coun-
ty, N. Y. 20 =
Two strong legged and brave hearted
young men have made arrangements for
leaving McGregor on the 1st of May for
an exploring trip to the Rocky Mountains
They will go all the way on foot, and the
journey will be 5000 long miles in length
They are after money, health and fame.
Mrs. Mary Holland, of Vinton, Ohio,
has had her son Thomas arrested on
charge Of perjury in swearing that he was
twenty-one years old, in order to obtain
marriage license. The fond mother is bit
terly opposed to the match, and says she
shauld rather see Thomas 60 to the pen