The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-30

military service as Lieutenant Colonel Of
the Third Wisconsin Regiment.
PRESIDENT DAY, recently deceased, was
President of Yale College 90 years; DR..
Holyoke was President of Harvard SO
years; DR.. Wheelock was President OF
Dartmouth SO years; DR.. Lord, OF the
same institution, was in Office SO years
DR.. Hopkins, of Williams, has held his
present position 81 years.
Miscellaneous Items.
The total funded debt of Philadelphia
is s3e, SIT, 529.
Whisky is three hundred dollars bar
rel at Santa Fe.
Cincinnati paid S214,495 for amuse-
ments last year.
The first Virginia newspaper was is
sued in 1880, at $50 per annum.
The colored population in and around
Indianapolis is estimated at 5000.
Troy, New York, has accepted plans
for soldiers monument, TO cost $4,000.
The Mississippi threatens to destroy
Napoleon, Arkansas, by washing it away.
Minnesota had four postofices in
1858, but now has five hundred and thirty
eight.
The assessed valuation of real estate
LII INV AoAA O4UJ AO4 1OOO oulOuAtS W
1851, 497, $50.
Mass, which is sixty seven years old, and
still serviceable
Cheyenne and Salt Lake City are free
from rats, and probably the only cities in
the world that can make that boast.
BY recent Tennessee Dog law, each
family in the State is allowed one free of
tax, but all above that number must pay
So each.
In Georgia, N. r., there is pork-tu
which has been used for packing pork
every year since the Revolution, and it is
good yet.
"A husband, On being told, the other
evening, that his wife had lost her temper,
replied that he was glad of it, for it was a
very bad one. ~
-"A drawing room car" is now at
tached to each northWard bound train
from New York on the Hudson River
Railroad.
In the city of Boston there are 507
streets, and $50 courts and places. The
newly acquired Roxbury adds 1C7 streets,
and 101 courts and places.
"A new style of veil has been invented
the eyes being Of different material from
Charles Francis Adams, Jr, styles
ga great satellite of New York." and "an
outlying province of Wall street."
The New York Typographical Socie-
ty own the identical press which was
pulled by Benjamin Franklin when earn
ing his bread as journeynan printer.
A Cleveland clothes dealer has been as
sessed in $500 damages for locking one of
his customers in his store and refusing to
let him out without making purchase.
Both the New Haven and the Hudson
River Roads are preparing to lay steel
rails over their entire course. It will be
an expensive, but, in the long run, a pay
ing, job.
The Cleveland & Toledo Railway,
during recent snow-storm, stopped its
trains for twenty-four hours, aud at the
same time paid all the hotel bills of the
delayed passengers.
Among the negotiations for purchase
of foreign territory by Secretary Seward,
it is said that he is contemplating the pur-
chase of New Jersey from the Camden
and Amboy Railroad Company.
There is living in the sixteenth ward,
in Cincinnati, an old Frenchman who
stood near the scaffold where the great
French tyrant, Robespierre, was guillo-
tined, the blood Of the victim actually
spouting in his face.
"A lady entered train at q country
station, sat down with her back to the To-
connective. Finding her mistake, and not
wishing to ride backward, she asked the
conductor if he would be 80 kind as to
turn the car" He did not do it.
Dickens writes home in his private
letters that his greeting in this country
has been surprisingly cordial and satisfac-
tory. At Boston it was "magnificent"
and at New York splendid; the audi
ences bright and perceptive; the general
delight was most enthusiastic"
"A farmer4nd his wife who live lust
out of Lee, Mass, have some queer no.
tons about life. They occupy separate
divisions of the house keep house" on
their own hook; purchase farm and dairy
products from each other as from strangers,
and exact the highest market prices.
Commodore Vanderbilt, it is said, is
seeking to obtain the ownership or control
of the New Haven Road He doubtless
hopes in time to acquire the whole road
between New York and Boston, and thus
own through route between the Hub"
and Chicago, eta the New York Central
The emigrant ship Liebnitz, whose
passengers were almost decimated by
cholera, bad no surgeon on board, and
when the pestilence made its appearance,
its poor victims could get no medical re-
lief other than that which was afforded at
the unskillful hands Of the officers and,
crew.
The Newark Sheriff gives as his rea-
son for excluding New York reporters
from the recent execution that, on pre-
vious occasion of that sort, when the re-
porters were admitted before the prepare
lions had been made, one of the more en-
teIprisipQ yoke the prisoner from 4 sound