The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-26

arrest of Edmond About. He is charged
with publishing and circulating hostile arti-
cles in German territory.
The East.
Gold closed in New York on the s1st at
1879.
| Daniel B. Judson has been unanimously
nominated for Congress by the Nineteenth
New York District Democratic and Liberal
Republican Conventions.
A recent New York dispatch says "Dur-
ing the past two weeks there have been in
and around the city about fifty suicides,
actual and attempted, more than have been
known in the same time for many years.
This destructive epidemic continues"
John o. Whitehouse is the Liberal candi-
date for Congress in the Thirteenth New
| York District.
General W. T. Sherman arrived at New
| York on the 18th, from Europe.
The Kennebec (Me.) Journal of the 18th
publishes complete official returns of the
late election of Governor from the entire
State except some small places which last
year threw a total vote of S3e about evenly
divided between the two parties. These re-
turns give Perham, II, S24; Kimball, "a, TAP;
majority for Perham, 17,0S2.
Matt Morgan, the artist was mistaken for
a burglar, while calling on a friend in New
York the other night, and locked up in a
station house.
A recent New York dispatch says that
within week two poor lunatics, both harm
lesss and one of them cripple, had been
fatally beaten and kicked by brutal keeper
named Thomas Farrell, at the New York
Asylum for the Insane on Wards
Island. Farrell was arrested. One of the
victims of the cruelty has since died; Farrell,
denies that he inflicted the punishment, but
admits that parties in the Institute were
whipped
| Rev. Oscar Chute, a Unitarian clergyman,
has been nominated for Congress by the Lib
erals and Democrats of the First New Jersey
District.
| Governor Curtin is reported to have ac-
cepted the Democratic and Liberal nomina-
tion as delegate to the Pennsylvania State
Cons titutional Convention.
! The telegraph announces a large attend
an ce upon the Soldiers and Sailors Conven-
ton, which assembled in Pittsburgh the
18th. The welcoming address was delivered
by General j. B. Sweizer. He was followed
by Governor Geary. After prayer by Rev.
| DIR. Preston, General A. E. Burnside address
ed the Convention. General ]. B. Hawley,
of Connecticut was called upon to preside.
Committees on Permanent Organization and
| Resolutions were appointed. Senator Will
son was present and addressed the Conven-
ton in the afternoon. General John A.
Logan, of Illinois, was chosen permanent
President, with list of Vice-Presidents.
Speeches were made by several gentlemen,
when the Convention adjourned to the 18th.
At ne examination, in New York, on the
18th, of Forester, the alleged murderer of
| Nathan, female witness testified that she
positively recognized the prisoner as the
man she saw on the night of the murder
| entering the basement of the Nathan man
| sion.
Six hundred Mormons arrived at New
York from Europe on the 18th, en- route for
Utah.
The Soldiers and Sailors Convention in
Pittsburgh, at it's session on the 18th, adopt
! ed series of resolutions declaring in favor
of Grant and Wilson.
| In August, James johnson, who had
charge of the Stamp Division of the United
States Sub-Treasury Office, at New York,
obtained two weeks leave of absence, os-
| tensibly to take his family to the country.
AS he did not return at the specified time,
suspicion was aroused, and the Treasury De-
partment ordered an examination of his
books. An apparent deficiency of between
500, 600 and 100000 has been discovered.
The bondsmen of Assistant Treasurer Hill
house will, it is said, be held responsible for
the loss.
| The Labor Reformers of the Fifth Mas
sachusetts District have nominated James
NJ. Buffum, of Lynn, for Congress. Ex-Gov-
ernor Marcus L. Wood is the Republican
candidate for Congress in the Sixth New
Jersey District. The Democrats of the Sc
cond New Jersey District have nominated
Samuel A. Forker for Congress.
Hon. George II. Pendleton arrived at New
York on the 18th, from Europe.
| Rumors were current in New York city on
the 18th that the various organizations had
determined to unite on the name of Charles
O'Conor for Mayor, but they were subse-
quently dispelled by the authoritative state
ment of Mr.. O'Conor that under no circum-
stances would he accept the nomination.
The New York Executive Committee of
Straight Democrats, have called a Conven-
ton, to meet at Albany, October 8, to NOM
| mate an Electoral ticket.
The Tammany General Committee on the
Goth took action looking to the expulsion of
certain members who had not given in their
adherence to the public support of its Ma
tional and State nominees.
A. T. Stewart has declined to allow the use
of his name in connection with the candidacy
for Mayor of New York. City.
J. L. G. Williams is the Republican can
didate for Congress in the Eighth Massachu-
sets District. The Republicans of the Thir-
tieth New York District have nominated
| Lyman K. Bass for Congress; and the Lib
| erals of the Twenty-second New York Dis
trict have nominated Judge Henry II. Fos-
| ter.
| The West.
James Kennedy, who was pardoned out of