The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-01-28
NEWS ITEMS.

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A Constantinople dispatch brings q
rumor that the Greek ship Shwattle had
fred into French sloop killing several
persons.
A delegation of leading men among
the revolutionary Cubans is in Washing
ton seeking recognition for their comrades
as belligerents.
The Paris conference is awaiting an
answer from the Greek Government to
its propositions for settlement of the
Eastern troubles.
The trustees of the Peabody Southern
Educational Fund met at Baltimore on
the 2lst The report of the general
agent speaks encouragingIy of the prog
ress of education at the South.
General Grant requests that the Gus
tomary inaugural bali be dispensed with
The English yacht Cambria is to be
reftted to compete in the approaching
yacht race.
1he Greeks propose to ignore the
action Of tbs Paris conference, anu to
build war feet.
A dispatch from Havanna states that
the revolutlonlsts in Hayti are gaining
ground everywhere
n. =. Langford, lately appointed by
the President to be Governor of Montana
vice Green Clay Smith, resigned, and
whose name few days since, was sent
to the Senate for confirmation. is the
person who made himself so notoriously
conspicuous at Helena last fall, by escort
ing Pinney. the slayer OF tie venerable
Ex-Governor Dca!l, Of i -i;c1nsin. through
the public highways of that city, iullue
diately after the criminal was discharged
-Four large Brewers of Bellville, Indi-
ana, have made contracts for barley in
Germany, and hereafter will obtain their
supplies from there.
Charles Brandon has instituted suit
IN the Iowa courts to recover $4,000 Of
persons charged with acting as Vigilance
Committee, which last fall took NJ. B.
from his residence at night and hung
him to tree, in vain efforts to extort
confession Of completely with horse
thieves.
The Minnesota Legislature, it is repor-
ted, will be invited TO meet the Wisconsin
Legislature in Madison this month, and
If the invitation is accepted both bodies
will visit Milwa ukee together.
A shock, supposed to be that Of an
earthquake, was lelt iii Pitt sburg, last
trlday evening. 10 damage done.
Five canals, descendants of those i'm
ported by the Government from Egypt
few years since for the purpose of carry
ing the mails in the desert regions of
I v estern Texas, have arliyed at Detroit,
and viii go into the circus business.
The wife of Charles Lefferts, cotton
broker, residing in Brooklyn eloped on
the 23d with a young man named Jared
4. Tomlinson, of Chicago The lady
took with her jewellery and money to the
amount Of $4,000. The parties sailed
IN the City of Antwerp.
British papers report fresh disturban-
ces in Fenian districts particularly in
Tlpperary and adjacent counties. The
landlord Of one estate near Cashel was
shot by person unknown, and another
was threatened with death if he did not
leave within certain time. The police
arrested two men suspected Of being
agents from America. and took them t
Dublin for examination.
Late mail advices Indicate tha; all the
passengers Of the wrecked steamer Hi
beruia were saved.
Secretary Seward proposes an exten-
i've trip across the continentand through
South America, next spring
1t is considered certain that the Greek
Government will accept the terms pro
posed by by the Paris conference.
ES-Secretary Stanton authorizes the
statement that the story going the round
that General Banks was ordered to
supersede Grant at Vicksburg, AMI
that he declined, is wholly destitute of
he truth
A Cincinnati dispatch says Governor
Bronlow Of Tennessee, will at once enroll
10000 militia. Twenty-Five counties of
Tennessee, in which Ku-Klux outrages
have been of common occurrence, and
crime runs riot, are to be placed under
martial law.
One John Dewitt has accomplished
the feat in walking one thousand miles in
one thousand hours at Chicago.
The journalists of Berlin have united
in petition to Gen. Grant asking him to
recommend the passage Of an interna-
tional copyright law.
The police madea great haul of italian
counterleiters at New York, on the 22d
They had s25, 900 in bogus United States
notes in their possession.
Hon. Will Cumback Withdrew from
the Senatorial contest in Indiana and. on.
d. D. Pratt was thereupon nominated
by the Republican caucus and elected
by the Legislature.
The Court of Errors and Appeals has
finally denied the application of Whelan
sentenced to death for the murder of
D, Archy McGee, for new trial. He
will be executed on the 18th pro1
There has been gain Of nearly s. 900
600 in the amn1lnt of The whisLau toy