The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-02-25
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OUR NAN ABOUT TOWN.

sOIlioqulZlng thuSly: what shall l 1rr7te
what shall tell; will it be right to pitch
in pell nell and tell all I hear? nigh,
have fuss, get into row with some
ugly cuss who would use COW hide OF
pub off my ear; must go slow, or get
ready to fight and take blow for blou,
for some blow when they ,oritc, which is
not right l fear. won't say a word
about young Mrs. Who? nor that nice
young bird-I do not mean you-who is
known far and near; nor that spruce
young clerk, nor that sch DOL girl fast, nor
him who hates work-in the scorkhouse
at last he'll find lonely cheer-but what
| will say, I'll swear is no lie, finding
local amt play, tho I'll never say die,
would you reader, dear?.. gay lit
tie runaway took place in front of our
office last Saturday. A whifaetree broke
the tongue got loose Ia loose tongue plays
the Dickens sometimes) the sleigh sud
denly played crack the whip and swung
round the circle at fearful rate, the wo-
men screamed, the man was scared, the
horses were caught and no one hurt.
Wood was sold at quite reasonable rates
last week /; the best maple was bought fol-
s3-........The Singing Society on this side
of the river has made excellent progress
this winter. 1t is mighty good institu.
ton and well sustained in point of num-
bers.........We have had some good sleigh
ing Of late, which the farmers have not
been slow to improve. Several times the
street in front of our Office was block, d
up.........One OF the editors of the TRI-
BUNE found someone rash enough to trust
him for new suit of clio hes few DAYS
ago, and putting them on he sailed forth
on the street As result none of his
friends knew him, but every one else took
off their hats to him. Supposing some
distinguished parsonage from abroad had
come among US. Who wouldn't be an
editor and wear good clothes? The ice
taken out of our river now is two feet
thick and exceedingly cold, and the water
under it is said to be very wet; at least
that chap we saw tumble into it last Sat
urday started home as though he had wet
himself considerably. Amt these
datN times and yet we hear of sonae-not
in Manitowoc-who are badly cut up......
The TRIBUNE is in such great demand
nowadays that the publishers have to
furnish nearly all regular subscribers
with two papers, as some one steals the
first copy before they can get their
hands on it. The list is rapidly
increasing and we hope to have $1,000
readers within two months. are
much obliged to our friends for their fire.
quent communications of late We hope
they will not stop now, if the Poor Com
missioner subject is getting little old.
Write about any other abuse you know
of; we wish to inform you those letters
made the light fingered gentry tremble,
swear, fret, foam and threaten, and if you
know of any other class who want punch
ING up, go tor EN- l.......-Dogs; we like
dogs, but we don t like hydrophobia bit,
and if you get bit you have it sure Sew
enteen men and boy in New York have
lately died mad because mad dog bit
EN-. Look out for enraged CANNES ......
Boys don't hang on behind the passing
sleighs; it ism t manly and its very dan
gerous. Almost every day we see ac-
counts Of an arm OF leg broken, or some
other serious injury resulting from this
bad habit. is very pleasing to see
the faces of our merchants brighten up
such days as we have had of late; we hope
we may have many more SUCH.
There are some very fine cutters manu-
featured in this place and some very nice
painting done.........The wood choppers
in this locality are troubled with the piles
of snow in the woods. were
pleased to meet dozen school teachers
III oul eoHCtulu last Weth. COulC again
1--WE learn that certain building
in this town was found one morning not
long since labelled "Manitowoc Poor
House. We do not sanction such pro-
ceedings as this. If man has done
wrong We are not afraid to tell him so,
but we would about as soon burn a man S
building as to deface it in such disrepu-
table manner. sidewalks are bad
in some places, but there is one place
that is actually nuisance, we refer to
that on Eighth Street between the Foun
dry and Goodenow & Barnes store. We
hope the authorities will see to it.........
The streets were very quiet On the 22d.
We saw no disturbance of any kind; on
the contrary all seemed to enjoy them
selves we'll, and thus the day passed
pleasantly by.........There was a little
skating on Monday last and our devil on
a bender, bent little too far, fell and slid
out on the bending ice. 1t bent with him
fearfully, but he laid low and bending all
his energies and being the incumbent OF
assistance bent his way ashore; his hair
turned white in single night" .........M Mr.
Mahoney has moved into his new store
one door west of Villas & Co. 1t is said
he has good stock of goods; our man
has not been around
Our BRIDGE.-The Village Board
finding that the Bridge would not proba-
bly, go through the summer without re-
pairs have let the contract to have it re-
inyenated TT was swupp Last Saturday