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

dirk Is pressed against their breast by one
robber, and q companion rifles the pockets
of the victims.
In Quebec that well-knoWn individ-
ual, the Oldest inhabitant," asserts this
TO be the coolest winter in his memory
not 80 much from the occasional state of
the Thermometer as the steady average
degree Of cold. -r.fs-. - - 81 =
British newspapers were lately
IN ecstactes over the capture of Captain
Michael Doheny, the american Fenian, u
at Dublin. The Captain died two years
ago, and 1t must have been his ghost the
Britishers caught 5s sa b4s ea38
The cable announces the destruction
by ire, January 25th, of q church at New.
bury, England, built in 1866, during the
reign of Henry VII. The bell W as among
the Oldest in the country, having been cast
in London in 1905. ~ 3l '17a-Il =
Penny readings have been resumed liz
Liverpool this winter, with even more
promise than last winter. The selections
are choice and various, excluding every.
thing vulgar and immoral and the admis
sion fee is only one penny. -. 800 :.
The London Times lost five thousand
subscribers last year, and did not make &C
much money by $4,000 as in 1855. Blu,
then its profits in that year were 100000
or nearly five millions in greenbacks, SO il
is not In suffering condition. e4 r.
Smuggling on the Canada frontier is
conducted by well organized bands, who
daily transfer hundreds of packages free
of duty. The other day a ieht took pla ce
in Vermont between a gang of smuggIers
and a party OF customs officials. NJ p
"A Scotch literateur ia about to write
what he calls true history of William
Wallace and Robert Bruce, separating fac,
from fiction, and dragging those person.
ages out OF the ideal region in which their
memories have been SO long permitted to
dwell. ,.-. -, - 8
The Quebec Legislature had its sense
OF etiquette terribly shocked the other day
because the "usher of the black rod'' for.
got to knock at the door with his staff
and then fell short of the half dozen bows
required when approaching the Speaker
chair. III "a !
The Italian Government has under.
taken to finish the Mount Gents tunnel
and open 1t for business in 1871. The
French Government has promised to pay
Its share of the expense in three annual
payments, the first of which will be due
in July, 1868. ]98 sleaE EoT :
At the Stafford (England) Town Hall
an Irishwoman was recently charged with
theft and it appeared that she had trained
her daughter, only five years of age, to &C
company her to shops and pilfer articles
from the counters whilst she engaged the
attention of the shopkeepers. d
The English journals are engaged in
an active discussion of the moral conduct
OF man named Pritchard, who deliber.
ately starved himself, his wife, and three
children. rather than apply to the parish
for relief. When found he was dead, but
the rest of the family survived. -, g..
The total number of emigrants that
sailed from Liverpool to all parts of the
United States, British North America, the
Australian colonies, South America, etc,
for the year just closed, amounted to u.s.
6S1, and for tie previous year 1872, 563
showing decrease as compared with 1866
of 6,7O2 sfr r. os - - si5l5l 3
I'm Client, a man had furiously at
tackled with an axe some relatives on sus.
plcion that they had robbed him OF prop
erty after the death of his mother. Two
of them have since succumbed, namely
De Castro and Van Rysselberghe. The
wife OF the first also remains in despe
rate condition
Professor Paimleri, of Naples, who is
making rigid investigation into the pbe
nomena accompany! 6 the eruption OF
Nesuvius, states that he has never seen the
magnetic needle SO frequently and go seri-
ously disturbed as it is at present, and thai
the seismograph records at least ten dis
tinct earthquake shocks daily. s &
The young King of Greece is only
twenty-five, has Chestnut hair, blue eyes
an aquiline nose, full, round cheeks, and q
face expressive of amiability and good
humor rather than force Of character
His Queen, Olga, a girl of seventeen, is q
pretty, plump blonde, and, most remark.
able of all, is very economical in heI
habits.
The famine which recently decimated
Orissa has found its counterpart in Algeria
where the poor Arabs are perishing in
tens of thousands. The latest foreign
papers say that in certain districts the
dead bodies of Arabs, men, women and
children, who have persisted of hunger
are found upon the public highway, just
as was the case two years back at Orissa
A young Spanish lady, Saturnia Lopez
y AlonzO, having been attacked by chol-
era at Madrid, made VOW that, should she
IeCoVeI, sue Wouiu make pHSTlma2e on
foot to Rome and Jerusalem She has
performed her undertaking, Setting out
in March, she arrived at Rome on the 9th
Of June, and witnessed there the .fetes OF
canOniZation; reached Jerusalem in due
course, where she visited all the holy
places, and is now at home. d 81.
Recently there died an old huckster-
woman in Prague. She had always been
very poorly dressed, and lived in a wretch
ed little nut hence, she was universally
believed to have been very poor. Imagine,
therefore, the establishment of the authori-
ties on finding about 100000 forms in gold,
silver, and paper money in the old bureau
of the deceased huckster-woman AS she
had no heirs, the empty Austrian treasury
received the whole inheritance.
"A paper published at the French Is
land Of Martinique, West Indies, having
received two warnings, announced to its
subscribers that it would henceforward
give up controversial politics, and, instead
of leading articles, would print elegant
extracts from the French poets Its next
number contained La Fontaine's fable of
the "Wolf and the Lamb" whereupon
the Governor of Martinique, accepting the
fable as personal insult to himself, sus-
pended the unlucky journal for month.
The excavations which have been
made in the hill of Fouvrieres at Lyons,
has brought to light numerous vestiges of
Roman construction which are of great
interest. There are found columns and
capitals of the pure Archaique style, with
tablets of stone and sculptured marble, in
dicating beyond question the spot where
was situated one Of those sumptuous pal
aces Inhabited by the Caesars, who made
the CAPITALS of Gaul their homes during