The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-03-18

A Wis firm gets the contract for re
building the Michigan State Insane
Hospital.
THE prospects of DR.. De Koven, as pros
pectlve bishop of Illinois, are growing
smaller by degrees and beautifully less
IT is reported that farmer on Blake s
Prairie, Grant county, has lost eighteen
head of horses and thirty-six head of
cattle this winter.
A STEER with three horns arrived al
the stock yards. near Chicago, on Sat
urday. The center horn is twelve OF
! fourteen inches long.
Mrs. BRooKs, OF nIontville. Conn,
got her dress on fire, tiee other day, and
died from inhaling the flames, though
the fire was extinguished at once.
THIS placard adorns the bars CT the
Richmond, Va, bar-rooms since the
passage of the civil rights bill: "Drin ks
$5-subject to discount
A MADISON girl was recently relieved
| Of water snake eleven inches long,
| which is now 'Dottled'' as a curiosity.
The girl is fifteen years of age.
GEN ORD has ordered company of
cavalry to start from Fort Laramie with
instructions to bring IN all the miners
reported to be at Harney's Peak.
THEY found engraved on the plate of
a Fond du Lac girls garter the motto
Excelsior And that word means
something on garter, young man.
| IT is a current rumor in Washington,
that Senator Ferry, of Michigan, is en-
gagged to the only daughter Of DIR. Nc
| of
| Eighth District.
The way that Southern saloon-keep-
| ers evade the Civil-Rights act and keep
| out Sambo is to put up sign, Drinks,
| S5, subject to discount. The discount
for white men is .S5 per drink.
The skin of calf which was born
without legs has been shown to the editor
of the Burlington Standard. The calf
had two shoulder blades partially formed
but no hips.
The salaries of the editors, reporters,
pressmen and clerks-in fact all the en-
ployes of the Chicago Inter Ocean, ex-
cept the compositors, have been cut
down 12a per cent.
PARTIES just from Indian agencies
state that the Indians are anious to sell
the government their right to the Black
Hills country, but do not propose to
give it up without pay.
FoUR new indictments have been
found by tie Grand Jury Of Cook county,
ILL.,. against W. F. Story of the Times
three for libel and one for publishing an
obscene newspaper.
IT now appears certain thai there vii
be no Spanish treaty agreed upon at this
| session Of the senate, as the dralf pre-
| pared by Minister Cushing IS not accept
able to the Alfonso Government.
McSpADDEN & Co. 'soank, at Boscobel,
Wis, has suspended, with liabilities
| amounting TO 800, 900. It's assets are
$4,000. Many poor people will suffer
| by this. failure.
WHrrELAw Reds dollar subscription
| for the sufferers in Kansas and Nebras-
ka has contributed up to date So, 600 to
| relieve the grasskopper afflicted people.
| The New York Tribune has done well.
| The fishing schooner James III. Cres-
sv. with a crew of twelve men, is
| supposed to have been lost off the banks
| of New Foundland. She was owned in
Gloucester, Mass.
| MISS ALICE ROBBINS, of Geneva, has
received her parchment from the Ann
Arbor Medical Coll ege, and there seems
to be perfect epidemic of disease among
the young men of Geneva.
CALIFORNIA CHINAMAN poked at a
swapping tin tie until he got his thumb
mashed, and then with ''joop! joop!'
he hoped onto fence yelling ''Medcan
stone crawlee and bitee Ike hell !"
ABOUT 1000 colored laborers march
ed to the executive mansion III Wash
ington on Monday evening, and called
for the President, but he excused him
self. They claimed that their pay had
been improperly withheld.
OLD LUKE and Ben were two loving
men, who slept in one bed for years that
were ten, when up jumped Luke IN
terrible ire, and cried, "Brother Ben,
you're a d ID old liar. > Washington
Capital.
A wooDsMAN felled tree near Ma
sons Mill, Wausau, a lew days ago, III
which were a she bear and two cubs.
The bear and one Of the cubs were xii
led by the fall, and the o5her cub was
captured, unhurt.
MARY SMITH died at the House Of the
Little SlsCe.s of the Poor, Cathont
Benevolent Institute in Baltimore, on
Wednesday, aged one hundred and sew
enteen years. She was born In Baltl
more county in 1888.
| SCHoo1. Inspector to urchin CHOW
Johnny how many can you count 2
Johnny lone, two, three, four, five
six, seven, e1gnt, lime, ten Inspector
"Good, Johnny, go on" Johnny (afte1
moments thought "Jack, queen
king, ace."
! VALMAsEDA is now fairly installed az
Captain General of Cuba. We may
know what to expect by remembering
what is not disputed fact by the Span
ish Government, that at the close of hn
administration in 1872, 43, 500 prisoners
had been put to death.
The law has laid its heavy hand OF
Brigham Young and actually incarcerat
ed him for one day in the penltentiary
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