The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-28

sons nave become hOhlau OdlilOucS. LII
the u. S. there has been an epidemic of
scandals and prosecutions for heresy OF
prominent clergymen. In March con
gregationh council tried the orthodoxy
of Plymouth Church of Brooklyn. In
April the hand of Fellowship was with
drawn from the Rev. Florence Mccarthy
of Chicago, then from DR.. Swing. Then
Glendenning of Jersey city was tried for
seduction and worse crimes, and finally
came the Beecher scandal which will al
ways be reckoned among the causes
celebres.
SOCIAL QUESTIONS.
About the middle of the year the wo-
men of the country took the temper
ance cause into their own hands and de-
termined to break up the business of
whisky selling at once and forever.
Their efforts were vigorous but Ill re-
gulated. The crusade after giving oc-
casion to many ridiculous and some i'm
pressive incidents was discontinued
without tangible results.
A movement In favor of cremation, or
burning instead of burying the dead,
has attracted much attention. The
hygienic argument in its favor seems to
be good but it is opposed as unscnptural.
| No sufficiently expeditions and economic
| al method of consuming bodies to make
the practice popular has yet been dis
covered.
The movement has met with in
fuential support in all the civilized
countries. Among its advocates is the
eminent scientist Col. Jas. Young of
| Washington, who has expressed him
self as follows:
| This world is all fleeting show,
| How sweet it is to pass,
TO yarniSh up the chimney as,
| CarbOnic acid gas,
Don't lay me on the river bank
| Amid the fagrant flowers
Nor where the grass is Watered by
The early summer shower;
But put me in the kitchen range
| And open wide the damper;
And then my vapOrOuS remains.
Can up the chimney scamper.
An event the significance of which is
| not to be measured by the slight atten-
ton which it attracted at that time was
! the formation at Worcester Mass, in
February, of an order somewhat similar
to the oranges, but composed of
mechanics and to be known as the So
vereigns of Industry. Its ramifications
are widely extended and unless we are
mistaken it will be significantly heard
from.
The gay world has been delighted
during the year by a number of highly
elaborate weddings. These have been
chiefly the marriage of the Duke of Ed
nburg to the eldest daughter of the
Gear; of Miss Nellie Grant to Mr.. Sar-
toris;.of Mr.. Fred. Grant to Miss Hon
ore; of Gen. Sherman's daughter to
Lieut.. Fitch. and of Miss Sharon, of
San francisco, whose father owns $500,
OOO,OOO HOiGi VI SOlu hIIhSo, w I'LL
Frank Newlands.
| THE CALAMTTIES OF THE YEAR
commenced with a famine in Bengal
which threw 3, 100000 people upon the
care of the government. On April 18th
the Mississippi overfowed seven of the
largest parishes of Louisiana and left
$4,000 people without food OF shelter.
| In the same month two frst-class ocean
| steamers, the Europe and pAmerique,
were lost in succession. May Is the
| Mill River reservoir in Massachusetts
burst and destroyed $50 lives and mil
lion dollars worth Of property. In July
deluge at Pittsburg destroyed 10O
lives. In the same month Is squares
were burnt over in Chicago at loss OF
$4,O0O,O00. The devastation of Ne
braska by grasshoppers followed.
Early in September at Meiningen,
Germany, burned 100000 worth of
property and rendered 700 families
| homeless.
IN THE WAY OF SCIENCE
Coggia's comet was discovered early in
! April and reached its elimination about
the middle of July. It constituted to
astronomers and lovers pleasant fea-
ture of the summer nights. It was
judged by critics to be ''an incande-
scent soli6i.'' A transit of Venus, the
first for about $50 years took place on
December 9.
Some extraordinary engineering works
have been projected. Among them is
Gen. Chanzy's plan to create sea $50
miles long in northern Africa as means
of redeeming the desert of Sahara.
Steps lave been taken to build great
railroad from southern Europe across
4 sia into the remote east IT, NOV bo