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

drank, topping off with about pint Of
whiskey. A coroner's jury subsequently
passed upon his case Verdict: Death
from apoplexy, caused by intempera,lce.
in Providence, few evenings since, a
citizen was passing down street, when he
noticed the skirt of lady s dress in flames.
He at once extinguished the fire, burning
his hands severely. The lady had just
passed man with lighted cigar, from
which the dress caught.
The father of Baron Bunsen, a shrewd
and humble born German, sent his SOL out
into the wide world with this advice as to
expenditure-"I In clothing live up to your
means, in food below your means, and in
dwelling above your means. Don't be a
soldier stand erect before q man with a
title"
"A party Of gold hunters in Schenec.
tady, N. Y, were told by fortune teller
to dig, and they would find first stick OF
wood, then an old spoon, and then the
iron pot. They dug every night for about
week, fearing to speak lest they should
destroy the charm, and found all the
articles, excepting the gold
John Philips, an Englishman, for some
time employed in the Freedmen's Bureau
in Washington, and lately discharged fol
intemperance, committed suicide in thai
city. He stood before a looking glass, cut
his throat with razor and leaned over s
bucket which caught the flowing blood
until he fell over exhausted
MIR. William King, formerly o.
Springfield, Ill, but now resident o.
Washington cornty, Mo-, and well known
as an expert shot to many of the Audi
bon Club, of Chicago, made a wager O
$500 that he would Kill 50 birds out of so
Conditions % double birds, 19 yards rise
100 yards fall. Mr.. King dropped AZ birds
out of the 80. Three were taken wher
flying over the head of Mr.. King. On 6
| second trial Of the same bird, one sho
| killed two birds.
Some one who had no visible means O
| support, and does not deserve any, ha.
calculated that The snulf annually con
| sumed in France would make thirty col
umns as large as that in the Place Ven
| deme, the smoking tobacco would make s
| solid cube as large as the Arc dEtoile
chewing tobacco would fill $3.50 two-hec
| tolitre casks, and the cigars, laid end t
| end, would stretch round the globe twice
| at the equator.
"A young woman in the South, during
the war, wrote to jeff Davis saying: 81
want you to let Jeemes Clancy of Co
| It'll, 9Th S. G. regiment, come home an(
| get married Jeemes is willin', | is will
| lin, my nanny, she is willin', his mann
my says she is Willin', but Jeemes' captain
he amt willin', now when we are al vii
| lin, 'ceptin' Jeemes' captain, / think you
might let up and let Jeemes come. II
make him go straight back when he'
| done got married and fight as hard a
ever" Jeemes was allowed to go home
married, rejoined the army, and fought til
the end.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue. has had the question propoundet
him: Where an administrator wishes t.
assign mortgage not due, to the guar
! dian of decedent's heir, in order TO settl
his trust finally, is it necessary to staml
the assignment? No consideration, 0
! course, passing from the guardian tc In,
administrator To this the following re
spouse has been made: a reply to you
letter of the 10th instant, that the assign
| ment OF a mortgage requires, in every
! case, the same stamp as a new mortgage
for the sum still secured. The tax doe
not depend, as IN the case of conveyance
upon a valuable consideration"
! "A clergyman in Petaluma, CAL, named
James Hurter, insured his life in the Man
/ haitian Insurance Company for $5,000,anC
had paid 1899 in premiums, when, a few
| months since, he died The necessary
| steps were taken to adjust the matter AM
! pay the policy to his widow, but when tn
amount was rendered her she declined t.
receive it on the ground that, when he
| deceased husband insured his life, he with
! held from the agents Of the company anC
/ the examining physician, information of ,
/ malady under which he was suffering
! and W hIah vENnl1 r0robo Ilu hova ,,rauo,,t
| ed him from securing a policy on his life
/ On being notified of her surrender of thu
/ policy, the Board of Directors rewarded
| her upright and noble conduct by present
| ing her with $4,000 for her own use anC
! that of her two fatherless children.
"A California paper tells this story
a convicted murderer, sentenced to death
at Austin, Nevada, was last week furnish
ed by his sister with materials for writing
three files, four fine saws, and poison will
which to commit suicide in case his effort.
to escape failed. They were concealed il
the back of the frame Of large photo
graph of his sister, which she brought tC
him and mad the jailor deliver to him il
her presence. With the saws he had near
ly cut off his irons when his attempt was
discovered and the tools found, though
the poison was yet effectgally concealed
The sister promised other assistance
which she was to render in person, as
Others were afraid, and plan whereby
under pretence of giving another prisoner
into his charge, the jailor was to be in
duced to open the door, when he was tc
be overpowered by the pretended guard
and the murderer spirited away. The
sister was indicted for aiding to rescue g
prisoner.