The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-02-09
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CLIPPINGS.

Ouc OF the greatest Planters IN tnlS
State is widow who has just buried her
sixth husband.
The Dodge county Democrat says
there Is girl in Hustisford who possesses
sclaim to notoriety from the fact that
she is only ten years old. and weighs one
hundred and thirty nine pounds.
Green Bay ships more shingles than
any other port in the world. Last year
!, sent 34S, $40, 600 shingles to market
These would load 1856 cars, or 34S OF.
binary sized schooners.
Governor Fairchild has appointed
Major Robert Hardness. of Delavan,
Walworth county, as judge of the first
judicial circuit, in place of Judge Lyon,
elevated to the supreme bench.
Sumner is now completing his goth
year as senator from Massachusetts.
By direction of the President, the
headquarters of the department of the
South Is transferred from Atlanta, Ca, to
Louisville, KY, the latter being the head
quarters OF Gen. Halleck.
"A Madison dispatch to the La Crosse
Democrat closes with the significant re-
mark: The legislature has many Dem
ocratic symptoms" A legislature which
will blindly declare itself in favor of free
trade surely does exhibit symptoms of
Democracy, or some other mild form of
insanity.
We are glad to see that the Fenian
ex prisoners. recently arrived iu New
Yo'k. have sense and Independence
enough, to decline the attentions of poll
tIcians of both parties who tried hard to
make political capital out of them.
The town of Ixonia, Wis, claimes
the smallest boy of his age to be found in
America. His name is John Lewis: he
is well proportioned. fifteen years of age,
twenty-eight inches high. weighs 10
pounds, is possessed of average intelli
gence, and is unusually healthy. He has
not grown any during the past ten wears.
MIR. Lawrence, of Ohio, introduced
into Congress bill positively prohibi.
ting the sale OF gift of liquor within the
District of Columbia. making the lease
OF real estate for the sale of liquors,
ground for prosecution, and allowing re-
dress to all persons injured in person or
property by intoxicated persons at the
hands of those who furnished them with
liquor. The bill was referred.
The Chicago Republican says the
chagri n of the St. Louis Democrat over
the election of Frank Blair to the Senate
an event which is but the natural re-
suit OF its own political engineering-is
strongly suggestive Of little story which
MIR. Lincoln used to tell when he wanted
to illustrate marked case of parental
Reputation. 1t was that of Bill Rev
noid's mare. This animal had lust pass
ed through the pains and perils of ma
ternity, and was about to Indulge in its
joys and its hopes, when, looking round,
she beheld in her offspring the unsightly
form OF mule colt. She pricked up
her ears, ran off, and was never afterward
seen or heard of; but her owner was
heard to remark that she alone was to
blame for it. We leave the Democrat to
make the application.
The Louisville Courier Journal re.
minds the Democratic party that it is re-
sponsible for law and order in Kentucky.
and that 1t cannot afford to carry even
the appearance Of completely with the
vlllainy that has recently disgraced the
very neiehborhood of the State Capital.
And it tells the Democrats that unless
they set their house in order they will
have no right to complain of Federal in
reference, and will not be able to avert it.
The young Democracy of Scott coun-
~, Kentucky are on the war path with
ku-kluxing inoffensive negroes. One
day last week, says the indianapolis Jour
nal, select party of these gentlemen
had grand negro hunt, killing three
and wounding three more. The colored
men had the impudence to defend them>
selves, and one of the huntsmen was
killed.
A soldier in the war against the re-
bellion," on discovering that soldiers and
sailors, in order to get the 100 acres of
double minimum lands to which they are
entitled under the act of last July, must
settle on and cultivate it for homestead,
writes to the Chicago Post
1T will thus annoar that an officer soldier or SAIL
can have public land the same terms AS anybody
else, eis: by going and working for it,
Not so. 1t thus appears. on the con-
trary, that an ex officer. soldier, or sailor.
by pre-emptlng and cultivating eighty
acres of the preferred land, to which
everybody else is entitled on the same
terms, is presented with an adjacent eighty
acres for nothing. To have provided
that a soldier or sailor could have a war
ranty deed to the public land ,citlout ac-
tual settlement, would generally have de
frauded them of homes altogether and
opened bfoad field for the widest spe-
eulation.
The Chicago Times knows more
about the corruptions of the Democratic
party than it has been genenerally willing
to admit. We believe that it kno,cs that
there is no use mincine matters. We
believe that it knows that the Democrat
ic party has been more cursed by thieves
in its own organization. etc. In fact, it
alleges as much when it casually remarks
There is in n,ncing matters. The Demo-
cratic party has been cursed by thieves in its
organization than it has been helped by thieves
in the opposite party.