The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-09

"A boy in St. Louis was carrying home
tumbler of molasses, when he fell, break
ing the tumbler, piece of which entered
wound, from which the entrails protruded.
The attending surgeon said the boy would
live If he could prevent Inflammation, which
was very doubtful.
One Hanson, clerk at the Trade
Palace, Louisville, was arrested, recently,
for attempted bigamy. He had wife in
Chicago but was about to marry another
at Louisville, young lady of good fam
lily and fortune. He had also q family
in New York He was quite lady's
man.
"A young lady, Miss Mary Grant, sit
ting by the window of school room, in
Mount Vernon, Ohio, few days ago, was
looking at a game of base ball, when the
ball, by an unlucky stroke, was sent
through the glass, driving splinter of it
into her eye. The teacher drew the glass
out, but the eye was sightless.
Henry Morrison, laborer at the New
Jersey freight depot, while moving some
bars of iron, on late cold morning, took
up one SO cold that it adhered to two of
the fingers of the right hand, and when
he threw it down, it stripped the flesh en-
tirely from the first joints. leaving the
bones bare and rendering amputation ne
cessary.
When Richard Pierce, printer, of
Boston, worked off upon his hand-press,
on the 25th of September, 1850, the first
newspaper ever published in America,
the General Court took the sheet in Gus.
tOdy, held solemn debate over the daring
disturber of the quiet, and voted that it
" contained reflections of a very high ma
ture,' and its publication was contrary
to law. It was not allowed to appear
again. :
/. "A lady not long since visiting GENE
terry, in Gardiner, Me, with her little
daughter, observed on one of the stones g
neatly cut figure of horse Wondering
why such an emblem should be used, they
examined the inscription closely, but could
find no clue to Its appropriateness, when
her little girl remarked: presume she
died of mig htmare" Notwithstanding the
solemn surroundings, the lady could but
laugh at the comicality Of the idea.
a year or two since the poor box st
St. Mary's Cathedral San Francisco, was
robbed, and, in order to prevent recur-
renee of the theft, a pipe was connected
with the bottom of the box, through
which the contributions slipped immedi-
ately into the reservoir in the basement.
An ingenious rascal, however, recently
found his way to the treasure by cutting
the pipe below the box, stopping it so as
to prevent the money flowing down, and
extracting the accumulation at his leisure
when his circumstances demanded II.
james E. Engley, Of Providence, r..
l., and G. Dean, of Boston, have been ar
rested for attempting to defraud the Mer-
chants Union Express Co. of $500, 900, by
stealing from the safe, at Providence, q
package fraudulently representedt to contain
confederates in New York, one of whom
betrayed the scheme. Engley was largely
| interested in the Neptune Express Co., of
Providence, which the Merchants Union
| bought out He stipulated tibet he should
be retained in Inc employment of the
| latter company, and at once laid plans
| to rob his employers.
| Truth continues to be as strange and
| striking as fiction. In the year 1862 a man
named William Berry went West from
| Charlestown, in Massachusetts, and settled
in Minnesota. At the end Of ten years,
two of his boys, one eight and the other
eleven years old, returned one morning to
their home from the woods to find father,
! uucIutE, IuItd 6lolcIS, duo d ~ ing
! dead on the floor, massacred by Indians.
| The little fellows fed, with their faces
turned towards the East, and, hating and
journeying on foot for i've years, at last
reached Charlestown, in search of their
fathers friends. But they found none
| there, and were lately taken In charge and
cared for by some charitable persons.
"A few days since, in one Of tie t,ains
from Boston, quiet individual, sitting by
the stove in one Of the passenger cars, drew
forth bottle and commenced having his
hands with the contents The day was
very cold and the neighborhood of the
stove was crowded. One old man watched
the bottle holders operations with great
interest, and finally asked him what kind
Of stuff he was using. Glycerine," re-
derr and the old man rushed for the door.
Others caught up the word, in imagina-
ton adding "nitro," and they all rushed
into the adjoining GERS, leaving our glyce-
riBe friend to smooth his chapped hands.
| "A scribber who is rambling around
in Minnesota, writes the Pittsburgh Ctron-
icle the following description of the man
| ner in which the Indians in that section
catch ducks: Get large sized pumpkin,
cut hole in one side, disembowel it. then
stick the hunters head into it, be careful
| to have eylet holes to see out of it; then
take bag and wade out into the lake so
that nothing appears above the surface OF
the lake except the pumpkin, stand STILL
| soon the ducks will gather around the
pumpkin, and they peck slyly take them
by, the legs and pull them under and
bag them. The bag full, make your way
to shore. Some may laugh and think this
smacks of a hoax. Slightly mistaken my
friends. 1t only exemplfies the cunning
of the Indian, and the Stiffness of the
ducks.
"A woman named Somers, residing in
Worcester, Pa, went into the orchard to
gather some fruit, and left her little babe
| less than year old, sitting upon the
ground She soon passed out of sight OF
| the child, but hearing his voice cooling
and laughing, she gave herself no uneasi.
ness. Suddenly the sounds ceased, and
she stepped around to him, supposing him
asleep. But to her horror, she saw him
perfectly motionless, his lips parted, and
his eyes fixed upon an enormous rattle
snake that waa approaching him by al
most imperceptible motions. She looked
| in vain for some stick or stone to kill the
monstrous reptile, then quick as thought
sprang toward it. overturned the pan
which she had in her hand, SO as to effect
ually cover its body, got upon 1t, and
screamed for help. The covering upon
the snake broke the spell upon the child
its little body swayed to and fro, and il
quickly crept toward the heroic mother
| In few minutes friends came to her re-
lief, and the cause OF her terror was dis
patched.