The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-16
THE NEWS.

The receipts of customs for the last
week were 81, 59l, 3Ol.
| The Emperor Napoleon presided at
the Council Of Ministers on the LIST.
"A colossal bronze statue of Commo-
dore Vanderbilt, costing half million OF
dollars, will be unveiled on the 2Sth inst.
on the Hudson River Railroad depot in
New York City.
The Constitutional says Serrano is
daily becoming more prominent as can
didate for the throne of Spain
The Constitutional announces that
the Emperor, has recovered from his Ill
ness, and will probably go to Chalons.
The Government organs say the re-
enforcement about to sail vii be sufficient
to extinguish the insurrection IN Cuoa.
| The Harvard Grew are on their way
home. having sailed on the city Of An
twerp on the lst.
The Empress Eugene has abandon
ed her visit to the Orient for the pres
| emit.
A movement is on foot in Washing
ton looking to the holding of an interna-
tional fair in that city in 1871.
The Treasury Department On the Sd
issued to the Western Pacific Railroad
S32O.Oo0 worth of bonds.
Senator Fessenden is seriously III at
his house in Portland. Me. 1t was not
thought that he could live through yes
terday.
Lady Thorn beat Mountain Boy,
mile heats, in harness, Friday afternoon,
at Prospect Park fair grounds in Brook
lin, in 223i, 2:2l, and 2:2l3
Barney Duffy was killed in saloon
fight in Pittsburg on the third, by Thorn
as Sullivan, a pugilist. The murderer
was arrested, but subsequently, escaped.
The ship laborers Of Quebec are on
strike, and have exhibited riotous
disposition. The military had to disperse
| them.
"A game of base ball between the
Red Stockings and Alerts, of Rochester,
resulted in victory for the former by a
score of 80 to 10.
Hon. Vim. A. Howard having resign
ed the appointment as Minister to China,
the administration will, in few days,
appoint successor.
The last rail of the Leavenworth,
Atchison and Northwestern Railroad
connecting the Central branch of the
Pacific Railroad with Leavenworth and
ST. Louis via the Missouri Pacific, was
laid on the 22d, and the first train pass
ed over it to Atchison.
Late crop reports from all sections
of Louisiana and Western Texas, represent
the cotton crop as very promising. Many
entertain the opinion that all will lie
made that can be gathered with present
help. The cane, though backw; ri prom
Uses an abundant yield.
"A Panama letter of August 25 says
that Frank Ward,a son-in-law of VIM B..
| Aston jumped overheard from the steam-
er Sacramento, near San Sose, and was
drowned.
Collector Grinnel has ordered every
employee in the weigher's department of
the New York Custom House to be sworn,
so as to avoid irregularities in the depart
ment in the future.
A quarrel occurred near Oswego n.
| Y, on the Sd, between two farmers nam
ed Russell Woolver and John r ,ynolds
which resulted in the killing of Reynolds
by Wooler.
"A man named Paul Kaperoth, a sup
posed outlaw, was killed near St. Louis
Friday morning, by person who had
arr estcd him the night previous, and
from whom he was trying to escape.
The long pending mate oh for the dia-
mond cue, the billiard championships and
fi'e Thousand dollars side, between
John Deery and Melvin Foster, will be
played on the l4th inst, in New York
The office of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad. in Chicago.
was robbed Thursday evening of one
thousand three hundred and twenty-five
coupon tickets. The value of the tickets
is about $4,000.
The wagon-bridge across the Des Moin-
es River at Des Moines, Iowa, fell on
the Sd with about one hundred and fifty
Mustangs upon it. About dozen OF the
animals were ruined by having their legs
broken, &c.
The case of A. j. Ulman, whose dis
tillery near Baltimore was sezed a few
weeks since by the revenue officers, for
compromising liquors in the cistern room,
has been compromised by the Revenue
Department, Ulman paying $40, 200 and
costs.
-Advices from the German Arctic ex-
petition state that the first ice was en-
countered on the 18th of July, in lati-
tude 10, longitude 10. The west coast
of Greenland was sighted fourteen days
afterwards. The EXPEDITION had exper-
fenced adverse winds and much mist.
The weather was colder than 1868. All on
board were well
Thursday morning train from Boston,
when near Chatham, ran off the track at
q switch, the lock of which had been
broken. The conductor and fireman we're
injured, the engine badly damaged and
the track torn up for some distance. No
lives we're lost.
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