The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-05-13

Mr. Robert Kelley, the late English
comedian, left property of the value Of
$4,000.
Mr.. Motley has been elected mem
Der of the St. Petersburg Academy Of
Sciences.
The famine among the Jews on the
frontiers of Prussia and Russia shows
no signs of cessation.
Miss Burdett Coutts has taken on her.
self the entire expense of introducing
pure water into Jerusalem.
First-class private houses in Paris, In
good localities, rent at from $4,000 pei
annum in gold.
Offers were recently invited from Cler-
gyinen in an English paper, for marrying
two or more couples at a certain hotel.
Many vessels are at the Florida ports
picking up cattle for the Cuban market,
the duty having been revoked by Gov
Gen. Dulce.
A New-Orleans blind beggar appeared
in court the other day and went security
for friend, swearing himself worth $40,
600.
Chinese laborers are still employed to
a considerable extent In some OF the par
ishes of Louisiana. and seem to give very
good satisfaction.
The late Major Charles o. Rogers of
Boston left an estate valued at $500, 600,
independent of The Journal establish.
ment. which is said to be worth $780,
900.
Mrs. Tom Hood, the younger, has
written a cookbook, to which her hus-
band has furnished preface 1t is call
ed ''Tib's Tit-bits," and has over two
hundred recipes.
Notwithstanding the large amount of
wine produced in California, the Pacific
Coast imports directly from France at
least $4OO,O0O worth OF sparkling wines
evry year.
There is sect of Greek Christians in
Siberia who keep the Jewish Saturday,
Such sects already exist In the United
States, in Germany, and, we believe in
England.
The Postmaster-General intends to
furnish visitors at the leading watering
places of the country with better postal
facilities this Summer than have ever be-
fore been enjoyed.
A new evening paper, called LIE Sou,
has been started liz Paris. 1t does not
appear until halt-past seven o'clock in
the evening. is OF the size of sheet OF
letter paper, and sells for Is confines.
There is beam in the roof of the Por-
fugese Synagogue in Bevis Marks, Lon
don. which came from the timbers, of a
man of.war in the reign of Queen Anne,
by whom it was presented to the sYna-
gogue.
Wolves are making sad havoc among
the hogs and sheep in Amite County,
Mississippi. They are supposed to have
driven into that county by the high wa
tiers in the Mississippi swamps.
One of the benefactions OF George Pea
body is the gift to Post Mills, VT, where
he once lived, Of library building
which cost $1,000 with 1900 volumes
and fund of $1,000.
At the granite quarries above Rich
mond, block of granite 95 feet long, IS
feet wide, and 81 feet deep, was blasted
out. It contains Ill, $40 cubic feet, and
weighs 1926 tuns, or Is. 652, 600 pounds.
The numbering season in tbs Saginaw
Mich, region has just closed. About
45O.O00,0O feet of lumber have been cut,
but nearly one third of it will be left ir
the woods unless the streams are speedi-
ly EwolIen by freshets.
A Mississippi editor and Justice of the
peace married couple in 1858 divorced
them in 1860. married the man to an
other woman in 1861 married the woman
to another man in 1862, and last weel
he married the original couple.
A very highly placed and patriot,
American told us, says The Lonone
Spectator, that if a New-York million
aire committed murder it would be liter
ally impossible to punish him. The jury
would be discharged without a verdict
The ordinary mode of churning in Chill
is to put the milk in skin-usually ,
dog skin-tie it to donkey, mount &
boy on him with rowels to his spur
about the length Of the animals ears
and then run him about four miles.
During an examination of cadets a
Wiesbaden. one of the boys was askee
when the battles of Jena and Vuerstad
were fought. He replied that bis teache
told him he needn't know anytbin,
about battles where the Prussiaus wer,
licked.
Ruby Valley, in Nevada, is so callec
on account of the immense number o
rubies found in thousands OF the noun
tain streams flowing through it. Thes
gems though very beautiful and perfect
are too small to be merchantable, tn
largest being only as large as pin head
Works Of art Of great antiquity an
value are still found in the excavation
of the Roman Emporium. Among sew
eral fine blocks ofmarble recently brough
to light is one bearing the consular dat
of Ycspasian aud Titus. about AID Il
the year in which the Temple of Peac