The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-01-18
CLIPPINGS.

The cash value of the far rs of tE
United States, according to the return
1871, was SO. .261, IT'S. 12l of farm pro
ducts, 50, AS, ,6O2, 729, and Of live stock
81, ,524, ,271.714. There were 267, ,730
95l bushels of wheat produced, and 760
T63 ,204 bushels of corn.
Harvey Thacker, son-in-'aw of Dan
iel Boone, died a few days ago in Cali
fornia at the ripe ago 12S years. He i
supposed to have been the Oldest man il
the United States, if not in the world
No mention is made of his life recorc
during the revolutionary war, though he
was .irot 33 years when that war broke
out, but he is said to have served afte,
he was 10 under General Jackson at the
battle OF New Orleans. under Harrison
at the battle of Tippecanoe, and also in
the Black Hawk war in and about Iii
nois.
The New jersey life-saviag stations
had work enough to do during December
no less than seventy persons having been
rescued by the service men with their
life-saving apparatus. On the Goth of
December, the italian bark Viliotine,
from Genoa, laden with marble and
bound for New York went ashore at
Squan Beach, and during the heaviest
surf her crew, consisting Of fifteen per-
sons, were rescued and safely landed.
The service was thoroughly re-organized
last summer and new apparatus procur-
ed.
"Out West is still remarkable for its
expanse. Few people, however, realize
the immense dimensions of some of our
territories. Two or three of them are
twice or three times as large as all New
England, and it is small territory that
is not at least ten times as large as Mas
sachusets. Colorado is thirteen times as
large as Massachusetts,, while Dakota
and Arizona are half as large again as
Colorado. The eleven territories contain
over one billion and quarter acres, ex
ceeding by nearly two hundred thousand
square miles the aggregate territory Of
all the at present admitted States Of the
Union. The territory of Alaska contains
369. 500, 600 acres. So keep the good old
song in ture: For Uncle Sam is rich
enough to give us all farm
A large Japanese Embassy, consisting
Of high officials, are on the way to this
country: and around the world. From
the State Department there are twenty
one under Secretaries, selected from
Bureaus of Religion, Foreign Affairs, Ed
ucation, Finance, War, Judiciary, Navy.
and A griculture Of this number, light
er thirteen are to be detached for service
as may be seen desirable, by the Chief OF
the Embassy. They ha c full power t.
make contracts which will bind their gov
ernment for any supplies. matei ial or en-
terprise they may engage in.
A deluge occurred in North China
during the latter part of September con
sequent upon the overaovirg Of the riv-
ers. which submerged twenty thousand
square miles, destroying the crops and
houses of the people.
The citizens of Rhode Island who arc
disfranchised, by the property Quallfca
ton, for suffrage, are signing petition
to Congress, asking the National Govern
ment to enforce in Rhode Island the
amendments to the Constitution Of the
United States.
The Yosemite Valley is showed in
Two of its three hotels are closed and
abandoned till spring, but from fifteen t1
eighteen persons are spending the win
ter in the other and in private cabins.
There were 1O7 railroad accidents il
this country during the year ending DC
tober 81. 1871, killing 81 persons ani
wounding 254.
Miss Alice Webber has been re elected
Engrossing Clerk of the Minnesota Sc
nate by vote of 80 to IL.
Admiral Polo is announced as the new
| Minister of Spain to the United States
Gen. Frank p. Blair, of Missouri, ha:
come out very vigorously for the ''pos
sum- policy on the part of the Demo
cracy. He does not pretend that the
Democrats have abandoned their views
and therefore should not enter the field
| He does not claim that they at all agree
with the so-called Liberal Republicans
on the vital question of the validity Of
the amendments. He only declares that
the people won't give the Government tc
the Democrats. and the next best thing
to do is to get it, if possible into the hand
of facticn which would be powerless
without the Democrats, and with whom
they would, therefore. have influence.
The spectacle, from the point of view
of the pohticol moralist, is an edifylnc
one, and must delight those stern reform
ers who don't think the Republican par
ty Is virtuouS enough for them.
The National Republican Convention
to nominate candidates for President and
Vice President will meet in Philadelphia
on the first Wednesday in June uext.
Mr.. GreelS desponds. To correspon
dent in Philadelphia he writes: 81
heartily wish my name had meyer beer
connected with the Presidency. / SEE
plainly that it can only result in vexa
ton and misappreh-e~."
Four appointments of ladies to first