The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-08-20

cover the whereabouts of a valuable dia-
mond pin of which he had been robbed,
and, greatly to his surprise, in working up
the case, the detectives fixed the robbery
on the merchants own son, who had got
into the fast ways of living, and took the
liberty to pawn the old gentleman's pin
for 5000, and spend the money in gam
bling.
The Washington Chronicle records
the case of lady residing in that city who
has suddenly become deranged, and it is
said that it was brought on by the fire.
quent use Of what is popularity known as
"Planchette." She had purchased, sew
eral weeks previous to the sad occurrence,
one of those little instruments for the use
of her family, using it frequently herself,
and was superstitious enough to believe in
its workings. She has been conveyed to an
insane asylum.
Recently, a young married woman,
babe in arms, went bathing in a pond at
Newport. She remained over a quarter
of an hour in the water, where she amused
herself by performing all the evolutions
known to expert swimmers and throwing
her infant some distance from her, and
then diving for it. The babe enjoyed the
sport hugely. The woman, after having
swan with one hand around the pond, the
other hand holding the child, came on
shore, donned her wearing apparel and
walked home with rosy cheeks and an
elastic step.
Mrs. Mary Woodward, of Harvard
Mass, has been held in 81 900 for trial on
a charge of inhumanly treating her step
son, six years ofage. 1t was testified in
the Police Court that the child had been
whipped by the hour at a time with a
heavy stick; that one day in July the wo
man drew three buckets of cold water
from the well, and, selling the child, re
moved his clothes, and, placing him tub
dashed water upon his head, then took
him by his feet and held his head in the
a cat brought meadow mole in the house
which the mother cooked and compelled
the boy to eat it. Mrs. Woodward, il
court, said it was not aAmOle but rat.
The Louisville Courier, of the 5th
gives the following account of the acci
dental burning and death of Father B. J
Spalding, of That city: cit has been The
custom of Father Spalding to keep gas
light, with sliding tube, burning in hi
bed room over night. It seems that a
about 1 o'clock yesterday morning thu
tube slipped down and came in contac
with the mosquito bar In a few moments
the bed clothing caught, and when Father
Spalding awoke his night clothes were il
flames He managed to extingtlish tht
fire on his person, but not until his flesl
was shockingly burned. In his terrible
agony, he rushed into his bathroom ad
joining, and bathed in cold water, which
had the effect of intensifying his sufferings
Father Bonchet, hearing his groans, has
tened to the room, and found the bee
clothing burning rapidly. He at once
threw them out of the window, an(
checked the fire. Father Spalding's nigh
clothes were burned nearly off him, an(
he was writhing in agony. He wa
wrapped in a sheet, and medical ai(
promptly summoned, but before the ar
rival of the doctors he became frantic will
pain, and the second time immersed him
self in the bath-tub. On the arrival of thu
physicians, the proper remedies were APP
piled for his relief, but to no purpose. HI
fingered IN great agony until 6 O'CLOCK
last evening" when death relieved him O
his suffering His resort to water, NJ
doubt, caused the fatal result"
Industrial.
The chief cook of the Cataract House
Niagara, gets $3.50 per month.
The sweet potato crop Of the Soutl
this year will be very large one.
San Francisco BARRIERS get $50 pei
month in gold, and board.
"A schooner arrived at San Francisco
lately with 10000 Alaska Goldfish.
Largo quantities of hay are BEING
shipped from New York to England.
The total value of property in New
Orleans is $685., $40, 165.
The first house in San Francisco was
built just twenty three years ago.
There are invested in fruit-growing
for the Chicago market, 100000, anc
the sales amount to 100000.
The journeymen bricklayers of New
York propose to erect . large hall for the
use of all the Trades Unions of the city
"A Babylon, o.. T. farmer caught in
one day, with hook and line, 1900 pounds
of blue fish, which he sold for thirteen
cents a pound.
Potatoes weighing four pounds each
raised in fifteen weeks from the day OF
planting, without irrigation, were offered
last month in the San Diego, Cal, market
The inventor of a new style of horse,
shoe has sent to the soliciting firm in New
York model made of solid silver The
inventor lives in Colorado and could not
afford to use iron.
There is woman in Pittsfield, ninety
years old, who seWs, knits and reads read
lily without the aid of spectacles, and
milks a COW twice a day. She says " the
gals nowadays amt worth much
-Rockland, Me, gathers and ships more
than one hundred and fifty thousand
bushels of blueberries annually, selling
them at an average price of two dollars
per bushel, or for three hundred thousand
dollars in all.
"A firm in New Bedford is making
three-wheeled wagons and carriages,
which are much liked by those who are
using them. They are said to turn in less
space and with less danger Of upsetting
than four-wheeled vehicles.
A ST. Louis telegram of August 10
says: "The estimated crops in Utah this
season are: wheat, $4,000 bushels; corn,
135, 900 bushels; potatoes, 700, 900 bushels !;
sorghum, 10000 gallons. The grasshop-
pers caused more damage this year than
any previous season. The entire crops in
some counties were destroyed. A larger
breadth of crops was planted in Colorado
this year than ever before 1t is estimated
that 10000 acres are under cultivation,
nearly two-thirds of which are planted in
wheat and corn"
College Names.
Harvard College was named after John
Harvard, who, in 1858, left to the college
e779 and a library of over 300 books.
Williams College was named after Colonel