The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-08-21

A meeting of the St Peter Total Alb
stinence Society OF Oshkosh was held OF
Tuesday evening. at which the Soci It,
received an accession of 50 members
Wolves are prowit around the Sua
mieo woods Two of them were recent
iy discovered feasting on the remain.
I'll deer
The Janesville Gazette states tha,
Hon. ID. G. Checver, member of Assem-
bly, from the third district of Rock conn.
ty, having been elected Superintendent
ofthe Southern Illinois Minipg Company,
Is about to remove frDm this State.
The La Crosse treasury has been re
plenlshed with Sl0I in the shane O;
hines against keepers of houses of i'll fame
The editor of the La Crosse Repubii-
can learns from farmers that corn, pota-
toes. garden sauce, and grass. are suffer.
ing badly for the want of rain, and that
unless this dry weather is speedily chars
ed, these crops will be small indeed.
Corn Is said to be drying up in many
places. the ears are nor filed out, which
viii lnjure the quality and materially
lesson the yield.
Dyptheria. in bad form, prevails at
North Bend, jackson county.
On Sunday boy hy t,.esname of West
phale, aged Is years, was drowned in
Black River. near North Bend Jack
county.
The Grant Couniy Herald states that
Peter bradley, residing near Lancaster,
was bitten by ratfiesnake, but copious
iibatlons OF whisky saved his life.
In Grant county wheat will be an
average crop. but oats will fall somewhat
below; many fields rusted badly, some
not even being worth cutting.
The foundry of Gourley, Watson &
Co, IN Delavan, was destroyed by fire.
Loss ST 0C0; no insurance.
Green Bay suffered jail delivery a
few nights since.
The Oshkosh Northwestern says ::
There is child in this city whose father
ana mother, two gmndmothers, two
grandfathers. three great grandmothers
and three great grandfathers are now
living, We doubt if another such a case
exists in the State
Grand Rapids is troubled with drunken
Indians
Mr., Gaynor, late Of the Waukesha
Democrat. has been engaged to teach
school in Grand Rapids for the ensuing
year.
The Vernon County Censor says
troutlng this season. is nearly over,
nearly all the streams being fshed out.
onless these fish are better protected,
but a very few years will elapse until
they will be numbered among the things
that were. Fishing in trout streams
should be prohibited after August lst,
and heavy fines imposed upon vioators
of the law
Nine thousand dollars in premiums will
be paid by the Northern Agricultural
Society this fall
Prairie chickens sell for 50, 25 per
dozen in Prairie du Chen.
House breakers infest Madison.
The dangerous Illness of Col. Samuel
Ryan, OF Menasha. one of the oldest resi-,
dents In fact as well as age of the Lower
Fox River Valley, is announced by the
Appleton Crescent
Two well-known Madison roughs at
tempted highway robbery a few nights
since.
The Fond du Lac Reporter states that
on Saturday last DR.. Dixon removed
from the abdomen of lady patient r.
siding In Oaktield the contents OF a large
encysted tumor. The entire bulk re
moved weighed fifty-four pounds.
Watertown has a magnetic spring.
Grasshoppers are destroying the to bac-
co in Rock county.
Galesville for snakes Charles ana Sylvester Smith
struck den of rattlesnakes the bluff and killed
thirty-four, but the remainder estimated at twenty
hye turned and slid away Ito ye and rattle another
The Green Bay failures are not so bad as antici
pated.
In Marquette county the grain is all ia stack In
good order.
Jno. Barnhart of the town of Marion Waushars
county, had his barn burned last Friday night. to
gether with his summers crop of hay and grain from
his farm, a threshing ma hine, etc.
The Plymouth Reporter notes that some $50 oG(
worth OF buildings in process of erection
there also that various substantial Improvements
in progress at Sbeboygan Falls including a depot
and bridge hy the Shebcygan and Fond du Lac Rail
road Company.
Wausan has 5000 inhabitants
Kate Scott, the old Indian sq1iaw living in til,
town of Grant, Clark county the farm of her de
ceased husband, has killed eight bears this summer.
The storm of a week ago Sunday in the town Of
Porter, Rock county. demolished f. Squires tobacco
house and threshinG machine and reaper wlcl
ed at an expense of six hundred dollars. and de
strncton, together with that of the machinery men
toned is complete.
Sheboygan will receive 81 900 steam fire engine
from Seneca Falls in day two.
On Wednesday afternoon of last week, Mr.. Reisen
w ber living the Island, while fishing from h
IN in Menasha. fell into the river and drowned
j. about three feet of water. He GO years of age
& it is supposed he had fit, during which lie .el
over.
The vicinity of Reedsburg is some on melons. n
U. Green has eight acres-5,000 hills-whic;, ne es
til lates VIII yield five good merchant table melons
the hill $4,000 melons S. DeverauX has acres
and James iIarland has one or two acres, equal
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