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

Personal 0Rd Literary.
BLoNo1N broke his arm by fall from
his rope at Cologne
IT is stated that Rev. DR.. Bellows in,
tends to write novel.
DoEsT1CKs has abandoned literature and
is studying medicine. 7 -
MRs. OLIPHANT is writing " Religious
Life on the Continent"
JOHN STUART MILL will soon pay
visit to the United States
"WoMAN's WRONGS" is to be- the title
of Gail Hamilton's new book.
MRS. BARCLAY, aged 1o2, died recently
in Bullitt county, KY. She dined with
Washington once.
THE engineer who occasioned the re-
cent Harlow bridge accident in Vermont
has become insane.
Mr.. ROBERT BUCHANAN will shortly
publish THE Life of John James Audi
bon" the naturalist.
THE mother of General N. B. Forrest
lately died in Texas, aged sixty four She
raised fifteen children.
OLE BULL, the celebrated Norwegian
violinist, is now in Chicago, where he is
expected to remain for some time.
PROF. J. G. BoDwELL Is making hay
while the sun shines, by lecturing on
SAoAAOo AANACAo Al ANCW ldAO V1lldRCSs
HENRY WARD BEEcHER never saw a
theatrical performance or circus exhibit
ton, and never expects to. So he may
never see even his own Norwood"
EDWIN HIGGNs, of Constantine, Mich,
who has been nominated and confirmed
as Secretary of Utah, is printer, and left
a situation to enter the army, where he
maintained good standing.
THE late Thomas Garner, of New York
city, left an estate: valued at from ten to four
teen millions. He divided $500, 900 among
various charitable institutions, and willed
the rest to his family.
Mr. BIGELow, late Minister to France,
is said to be preparing for the press new
edition of Franklin's autobiography, from
the long-lost manuscript, which he is said
to have found in Paris.
THINK of making a tour to Egypt and
the Holy Land at eighty years of age
Amos Kendall, Jackson's Postmaster Gen
eral, has just done it, and is back home
again, as well and vigorous as ever.
THE Cleveland Herald is authorized to
state that Charles Dickens will undoubt-
edly read in that city, probably on the
Oath of February, on his way to Chicago,
and If not then, some time in March, on
his return from the West.
The oldest policeman in Louisville, KY,
Is Harvey Seaton. He is about sixty-five
years old, is still hale and hearty, and has
served as policeman for thirty eight years.
He has not been three months off of duty
during that long period of service.
THURLow WEED promises to write a
book of political "reminiscences after the
next Presidential election, with the assist
ance of some two thousand letters which
have been preserved and indexed by his
donnhtor Those 1offorQ from q III the
leading Wing statesmen and Republican
politicians of the last thirty or forty years.
MISS MINNIE SACKETT, the lady to
whom Col. Parker, the Indian, was mar
ried at Washington, is a daughter of
Amodio, the singer. After his death her
mother married Col SacketL, of Oneida
county, N. Y, and is now widow for
the second time, Col Sackett having been
killed in Virginia during the war. Miss
Sackett is nineteen years of age, and is
said to be very handsome.
THE papers said that Whittier didn't go
to Dickens opening reading in Boston.
He couldn't resist the temptation, however,
and on the third evening went, and with
his companions is thus described by a
lady: "The most interesting thing of the
evening was that Longfellow, Whittier
and the elder Dana all sat together in .
front seat-Longfellow with large hea
and streaming white hair and beard !;
Whittier with closer cut white hair and
firm, erect head, and Dana, small, with a
long fringe of silvery hair around his bald
crown. They we're wonderfully striking
trio. Whittier was much pleased, and
Longfellow likes Dickens so well that he
has been every night"
Miscellaneous Items.
There are fourteen thousand Quakers
in Indiana.
The valuation of Maryland is $492,-
653,572.
1t now costs but twelve cents to send
letter to Europe.
The Chicago street railroads earned
$720,OO0 for the past year.
Milwaukee expended $176,O 900 in street
improvements last year.
There are now 800 miles of paved
streets in New York city.
One of the Maine courts lately grant
ed forty divorces in single term.
There are nearly 10000 members Of
tenn perance societies in New York city.
The gross income of the Atlantic Tel
egraph Company is said to be about S., 600
per day.
The last valuation of the property of
the State of Ohio is 81 ,140,000s000, half
the national debt.
1t is said there are ten thousand men
in Montana who would be glad to get home
with empty pockets.
The Chief of the Cherokee nation is
anxious to have newspaper in his capt.
tai, printed in English and Cherokee.
The number Of immigrants from Eu-
rope, who arrived in New York during
the past year, exceeds that of the previous
year by 11,622.
"A grandson of Daniel Boone, who
lived in Missouri, found the settlers getting
too numerous for him, and he emigrated
to Colorado.
Six thousand mules, twelve thousand
oxen and one thousand horses crossed the
Plains between July LIST and the 3Oth o.
September.
During the year ending November l,
nearly eighty million Go 925 ,0O0) persons
crossed the ferries leading to New York
This is about double the entire population
of the United States
The Union Bank of Concord, n. n,
after len years of prosperity, has closed.
On each share of one hundred dollars it
paid two hundred and twelve dollars and
thirty cents. @~
Bean poles are among the leading pro-
ducts Of Maine. A million of them were
sent to Boston from Ellsworth and Tren-
ton. The average price is thirty cents a
dozen. t
commissioner Wilson is in receipt OF
returns showing the Gi.rSsal Of 3O1T7