The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-02

Mi.ceIIaneous Hfeus.

There were over 1900 births in
Philadelphia last year.
The Artemus Ward monument is to
be placed in Central Park.
Az Albany physician says negroes
never have the deliriuns trenaens.
The Astor estate is valued by one who
processes to know, at $144 ,OOO,O 600.
West Point has furnished &c college
Presidents and S5 railroad Presidents.
The Wisconsin Fenians viii hold q
State Convention at Madison, April IA.
-Tnere are In Ohio 1,UO0, 600 children,
and but one-third of them attend Sunday
school.
"A New York paper suggests that the
"game laws be SO framed as to protect
Indians.
"A lax title question having been in
litigation forty-eight years in an Ohio
court, has lately been decided.
An oil well in Pennsylvania has been
burning more than two years, all efforts to
extinguish the flames having failed.
The Atlantic Works, at East Boston,
recently contracted to build engines and
machinery for ten steamers to run on the
lakes.
The depth of frost in the ground the
past winter is pronounced by railroad men
greater than for any winter for forty
years.
1t Is estimated that Louisville has
more attorneys -atlaw, according to its
population, than any other city in the
country.
Georgia puts into her new Constitu
ton provision that no divorce shall be
granted without q concurrent verdict of
two juries.
The business in distilling spirits COM
menced in Boston in the year 100, when
West India molasses was converted into
New England rum.
"A man III one of the Hartford cotton
mills opened bale of cotton, the other
day, and found a wallet containing. 5000
in Confederate bills.
"A Cuba letter cautions American mer-
chants against Spanish doubloo1s of light
weight which have been sent 10 the United
States for circulation.
Brigham Young has advised the bish-
ops and Mormon people to lay up from
two to seven years supplies of wheat
and flour, as he expects great famine.
The managers of the Chicago and Al
ton Railroad have ordered that the use of
kerosene lamps in passenger coaches shall
be discontinued and candles substituted.
Two hundred dollars year, each, is
the tax which Brigham Young exacts
from those men who prefer single blessed
ness to the state of polygamicai wretched
ness.
The Internal Revenue Department
has decided that the proceeds of Mr.. Dick
ems readings are not liable to the per
cent. tax which some assessors have levied
on them.
Michigan has IA newspapers, of
which 70 are Republican, and 81 Demo
cratic. All are printed in English, with
the exception of five in Dutch and three
in German.
Immense quantities of cotton are
shipped East ui0 the Evansville and Gin
cinnati Railroad. Two extra trains have
been over this road every day during the
past month.
The Winona, Mimi, Democrat esti-
mates the quantity of wheat now in store
215. 900 bushels, ofwhich 135, 00C bushels
are at Winona.
Massachusetts, with $4,000 farms,
averages only "a acres to a farm, being in
this respect the most minutely divided of
any State in the Union. Rhode Island
averages SO acres to farm.
A bridge over the. Hudson, between
Buttermilk Falls and Cornwall Landing,
is contemplated to enable the trains of the
Western railroads to reach New York
without breaking bulk, or delay.
"A Baltimore merchant, whose son lost
81, $40 at faro bank in Cincinnati, has
received a verdict in the Common Pleas
Court for the full amount, with interest,
against the proprietors Of the gambling
house.
"A man in San Francisco attempted to
shoot fellow who had thrown vitriol on
a lady with whom he was walking. The
vitriol thrower escaped, but the injured
man was fined $500 for shooting in the
streets.
During a recent flood on the Moke-
lumne river In California, accurate obser-
walton showed that the water was four feet
higher on the north than on the south bank.
An explanation of the phenomenon is re-
quested.
instructions have been issued to all
engineers of passenger trains on the Hud-
son River Railroad to run at a rate of speed
not more than twenty miles the hour, and
freight trains not more than ten miles the
hour.
The consumption of manufactured
tobecco in this country last year is esti-
mat I'd at 13O,OOO,0OO pounds, which at
forty cents per pound ought to have yielded
$52, 100000 revenue; but only SIS, 250, 00C
were collected
No mind so bright but drink will be-
fool it.; no fortune 80 ample but brandy
will beggar it; the happiest it will fill with
misery; the firmest health dissipation will
shatter; no business so thriving that
whisky cannot spoil.
"A finty critic of "No Thoroughfare T"
informs the New Orleans Times that the
moon was not at the full November 80,
1885; in fact did not fill until the 5th of
December. The Times thinks it is of no
use to be so particular.
From the LIST of October 1867, to the
LIST Of March, instant, the total re-
ceipts of cotton over the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad and its branches, from
the South, were one hundred and thirteen
thousand two hundred and sixty-three
bales.
New York has a Police Bureau
especially devoted to the finding of missing
people. No less than 239 cases of lost
persons have been reported to this bureau
within the past four months. OF these, Sc
were adult males, 80 adult females, 63 boys
and SO girls.
-Josokus says he has seen a great dea
about railroads carrying passenger.
through without change" and as he was {
little "short the other day, thought he'd
try it. The experiment resulted in his be
Ing put off in the ditch, and he declare!
there's no believing anything the news
papers say.