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

NlfDceuaneoue lfeaa1.
One thousand Indians still reside in
Massachusetts,. M aec9 .
Strawberries cost ten dollars per quart
in Washington City. =
"A colony of one wife Mormons are set
Ting near Otter Tail Lake, in Minnesota.
The proposed National Charity Fair
viii be held in New York early in the
summer.
Counterfeit los on the Marine Ma
tional Bank, Of New York city, are in cir
culation. -sss:
The Fenian organization in California
is said to be now on war footing, in funds,
arms and men.
-Pennsylvanis prisons are so full that
in all of them it is the rule to confine three
or four convicts in each cell.
The Albany Journal states that Gov
ernor Fenton has finally decided to refuse
pardon to young Ketchum-
-Barnum's giraffe is not dead, as has
been reported, but is living and recovering
from its injuries at the Veterinary Hospi-
tai On Twentieth street.
The Connecticut election takes place
on Monday, April 6. The vote last year
WIS: for Er glish, Democrat 47,565; for
Hawley, Republican, DC. 1918. Majority for
English, 987.
The two early New England books
which now command the highest price
somewhere in the vicinity Of a thousand
dollars each-are the Bay Psalm Book,
1910, and Elliot's Indian Bible, 1868.
=" Jennie June" says the bills for car
rage hire for some of the New York
young ladies who go to ball or party, or
reception every day or two, is often SIS
per month, ind she does not wonder that
pater fdn1ilfas wishes them married, or at
least engaged.
The Cleveland papers mention an
alarming prevalence of insanity there.
The number of maniacs belonging to
Cleveland and Cuyahoga county, in the
asylum at Newburgh, the county Jail, and
known to be at home in the care of tier
| friends, is reported at $50.
The Centerville (Md) Observer sevs
i that this Is the year for the reappearance OF
| the scventeen-year locusts in that State
These insects made their first chronicled
appearance in Maryland in 1899, and re.
| turned every seventeen years after that
| time. They last appeared in 1851. I
|
| modore Biddle by the Peruvian Govern.
| ment, which was stolen from the Patent
Office short time since, has been recov.
| cred by detectives. The diamonds, five
OR six in number, were removed by the
thief Two of them have been recovered
"A recent decision by Judge Treat, in
| the United States District Court at St
Louis, recognizes as valid the supposition
that the western boundary of Illinois is on
the west side CT the Mississippi river, and
that the waters of that stream are wholly
within the State of Illinois.
| The jury, at Cincinnati, in the libe'
suit, brought by M. w. Myers, claiming
$4,000 damages, against NJ Halsted, one
of the proprietors of the Commercial, failed
to agree, and were discharged. It is I'm.
derstood that the jury stood eight for the
defendant, two for one cent, damages, and
one for larger amount
The new base ball rules for 1868 re-
quire that all balls used in match mus,
be stamped with the size, weight, and
makers name, and if any other is used the
game played will be null and void" The
new ball is smaller and lighter than The
old one, being but nine inches in circum
ference, and weighing five and quartz,
ounces. 4
/
| ance. The Des Moines (owa) ReQiste,
says that they have already come out O.
the ground in the meadows around SAVIOR
vile by brigade millions-the surface o.
the ground literally crawling with the
young insects. The cold nights do not af
feet them any more than to make them sor
OF "limp" and stupid -
| i'm Florida, near Ocola, there is ,
spring of water that covers more than al
acre of ground and is thirty seven feet deep
A stream more than fifty feet wide flow
| from it. The water is so clear that the
form and color of pebbles and leaves
on the bottom can be distinctly observed
Steamboats, Of light draught can go up tn,
stream fed by this source alone, and flee
could lie at anchor in the spring itself
An "extra was circulated in Hous
| ton, Texas, on the morning of Februar,
25, which had been surreptiously ISSUED
from the Telegraph Office during the pre-
| vious night, with highly imaginative ant
sensational headings, announcing the com
eral Thomas, the captivity of the Presi
dent, Grant proclaimed dictator, men ant
women killed and wounded, etc. In tn,
dead hours of the night it was gotten u,
by printer named King.
| "A report was published a short tim,
since that the wife of the magician, Ander
son, had eloped with John Norris, the magi
clans agent, and taken with her abou
| So 500 of her husbands funds It wa.
added that the abandoned magician hao
killed his child and committed suicide
This part of the story, the Meadville (Pa
| Republican says, was neat piece of sleight
of hand out Of Anderson's usual line, but
| quite as successful as any he practices il
his sale dia6ozaque Its object was to en-.
trap the fugitives, which it did They
reading the report of the murder and sui
eide, took the back track, and at Middle
ton, Ohio, were met by the injured hus
band. The runaways, the report says
were compelled to restore the plumber, eci
then the foolish woman-abandoncd BY
her paramour, who, having lost the funds
seemed to have no further desire for he1
company, and repudiated by her husband
was allowed to depart alone for hel
former home.
| Curious People.
| A citizen of Chicago contributes the
| fn1iowinr fO the Tribune of fhot c;tr.