The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-08-13

peachnent excitement He thinks he is
President Johnson, and has been convict
ed. He was sent to the lunatic asylum
near Bonn. T. 81 - ~, %;
The most striking case of the effects
of lightning. recorded, occurred during
| tempest at Landerneau- and st. Pol de
| Leon, France, where twenty four churches
were struck, though only three distinct
claps of thunder were heard. ~ -rs n,
"A Berlin newspaper recently had
large sale. In fact, one merchant bought
I'D the whole edition It contained a no.
tice of the betrothal of his daughter, which
had unfortunately been annulled by the
fickleness of that young woman after the
paper had gone to press. 49,. -
/ AT a recent bull-fght at Cadiz, the
animals were so tame that the indignant
populace tore down the barricades, and,
armed with the splinters and pianks,
rushed into the arena and baited the bull
in amateur STYLE The military then came
in and baited the rioters. 19ag
The English papers predict that
although Sir Morton Peto is at present a
financially ruined man, there is little fear
that with his wellknown character and
energy, he will soon surmount all his
difficulties and again take his old place
both in the commercial world and in the
councils of the nation.
Capt j. M. Hudson, whose trip across
the Atlantic, in the little ship Red, White
and Blue, excited much attention, is in re-
duced circumstances, in London, and with
out the means to return to this country.
A serious accident to his wife has been the
chief cause of his embarrassments. His
little ship is now under seizure for debt.
"A sick nurse has been arrested at
Geneva, Switzerland, on charge of poison
ing successfully eight persons whom she
had under her care. The only explanation
given for the crimes is sort of homicidal
monomania, as she does not appear to have
derived any profit from the death of those
persons.
Thirteen persons have applied to the
municipal authorities of Vienna for per
mission to change their religion. Among
them are ten young girls who wish to EN-.
brace the Jewish faith in order to marry
Israelites. All the efforts of the Catholic
clergy to dissuade them from their pur.
pose have proved unavailing.
The King of the Sandwich Islands
gets $4,000 in gold year, which at the
price Of living there is equal to at least
100000 for our President. The Chief
Justice of the Islands Supreme Court has
S10,000, and his associates $4,000; the
Police Judge of Honolulu $4,000, and the
Clerk Of the Supreme Court $4,000.
The cattle disease, according to an
official note published in the Paris Mona.
teur, has completely disappeared from
Western Europe, and is dying out in the
districts OF Central Germany most liable
to it. The French Minister of Agricul-
ture has therefore re established complete
liberty for the cattle trade on the frontiers
and IN all the ports.
The court of assizes of Posen has lust
been occupied with criminal affair,
something like the poisoning Of the Coun-
tess Chronisky. A book binder of that
city named Whitman, 80 years of age,
was tried for having poisoned, between
the years 1852 and 1866, four women
whom he had successfully married, also
his son, three years old. He was found
guilty and sentenced to be beheaded
A Frenchman, who brought home
many ostensible diamonds from China,
where he purported to have held high
command in the army, tried to buy a house
with handful of them, but paste revealed
itself, and the Chinese hero, whose name
IS Negroln, and who is an officer of the
Legion Of Honor, went up for three
months and was fined 5000 francs
The King of Prussia carefully
examines the evidence of persons on
whom sentence of death has been passed,
and he does not sign the death warrant
until he has silenced all his scruples as to
the justice of the sentence. When the
Queen is at Berlin, he usually pardons
every criminal that has been sentenced to
suffer the extreme penalty of the law; the
kind hearted lady never tires of appealing
to her husbands humanity until he
promises to grant the pardon she asks for.
An English jury recently found tai
lor guilty of petty theft, and he was SEN
fenced to three months i'm prisonment with
hard labor. 1t has since transpired that,
so far from finding the prisoner guilty,
the jury were unanimous in the belief that
he was innocent, and the foreman was
charged with the delivery of a verdict &C
cOrdlngly, but that when he stood up to
reply to the formal questions of the Clerk
of the court, the unfortunate man lost his
presence of mind, and delivered YER
dict of guilty, and the prisoner was con-
signed to jail in the presence of the jury,
who were too frightened to interfere.
He who saw the Isthmus of Suez six
months since could hardly recognize it to-
day. Port Said, the Mediterranean en-
trance to the canal, in 1862 was bank of
Sand. LII contains at present, 1O,OOO souls,
with hotels, bazars, cafes, etc, and has one
of the best harbors on the coast Two
years from now, when the canal will be in
operation, the city of Port Said will have
become noted seaport The water tran
sit is already open from Port Said to
Ismaila, about 60 miles The latter, an
other town which owes its being to the
cutting of the isthmus. is situated upon
the border of Lake Thrash, about half
way from Port Said to the city of Suez,
the Red Sea termination of the canal. 1t
has 1000 inhabitants; the Arabs on one
side, the Greeks on another, and the en-
ployes of the canal company between
them. Eu.4
Religious and Educational.
There are 1872 schools in Philadel-
phia. avon
There are 1853 school houses in
Ohio.
Providence has opened free school
for pupils during vacation.
The cost of education for each
scholar in Boston, the current year, will
be 1874 Sc.
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