The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-10-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mcclellan made speech, last week, at
Littleton, N. H., where the people had
called him out for the purpose. The
General lately visited the New England
Fair, and while there an old gentleman
from the rural districts. exclaimed, with
sympathetic tears coursing down his sun
Drowned cheeks: General, l am glad
to see you l am delighted to see you
l have long desired to meet you al
ways believed that you managed the army
as ,oeu as you knee hoU" The General
thanked him.
General Howard, the commissioner of
the Freedmen Bureau, expresses him
self as opposed to the demands which are
just now being made for a continuance
of that institution in certain portions of
the South. General Howard says he is
only in favor of the bureau which relate
solely TO the educa tioaal work among the
negroes.
A woman gave birth to a pair of twins,
on a Pennsylvania railroad train, lately.
She said it always did make her sick to
ride on the cars.
Oshkosh has thirty two saw and SHIN
gle mill establishments, which consume,
on an average, 5, 900, 900 feet of logs each
during the season, making an aggregate
OF l69. 100000.
The notorious DR.. Mary Walker was
in Cincinnati recently, wearing what the
reporters there termed ''semi-male at
tire" A young lady, of the name OF
Price, seeing Mary, and becoming enam
ored of her style of dress, adopted it,
with some Improvements, which made it
SO near the costume of the males that
when she appeared on the street she was
promptly arrested ty ''horrid police.
man, and locked up in station house.
Ladies should beware of breeches and
coats, when man is not in them.
Nine millions are said to be the fruits
of Fisk manipulations of the gold mar
ket on Friday last. That will do very
yell for one day and one man. Fisk can
now buy another theatre, and can sail as
an Admiral on the Ocean as well as on
the Sound. And Fisk can carry on his
speculations while he sails, for it is Just
as easy to be pirate Oh the high sea as
highwaymah on dry land.
That represents the sum that a thou
sand other por devils have lost A
thousand men who staggered heavily, into
ruined homes, the luckless victims of as
base conspiracy as ever Newgate felon
swung for But the one is a fashionable
robbery, which gives it followers an open
sesame into fashionable haunts. The
other is brand, crime, written in let
tiers of living fire upon the brow of felony
and opens to its votaries, not gilded par.
lors, but prison coors. Alas when will
crime be treated for what it is, and not
for what it passes for?
The London Times accepts the settle
ment OF the Puget Sound question as
evidence that England and America can
apply to the principles Of common equity
to adjustment Of international disputes.
Spain Is again in revolutionary commo-
ton. The Republicans are becoming
holder, and have made some demonstra
tions. In Barcelona there was fight
OF Saturday, resulting in considerable
bloodshed
Mount 4Etna is in violent state of
eruption
1t is now stated that Lord Clarendon s
errand 10 Paris was to inform NAPOLEON
OF an arrangement between England,
Pr ssia, Austria and r, g ,ia, to revt mt
revolution IN France in case Of his death.
A dispatch from Liverpool says the
total amount of specie known to have
been Slipped to New York within the
past three days Is $4,000. 900. one half of
which was exported Thursday.
The Empress of Fashion and France
has decrecd that long chatelaine bralds"
shall succeed cLienons, high pufs and
frizettes.
A velocipedist kicked himself from
London to Edinburgh, four hundred
miles in five days.
There is rumor in Berlin that King
William the First of Prussia has shown
symptoms of insanity.
The French Government requested ex.
Queen Isabella. 10 stay away from Vichy
during Gen. Prim's sojourn at that fash
ionable watering place.
Prince Charles, of Prussia, having
been too intimate with wife OF his valet,
paid the offended husband $4,000 in
preference to suffering an untimely
death.