The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-06-03

| A fARGE seizure of Milwaukee crooked
whiskey, was made in New York on
Saturday.
THE delicate minded Boston belle
| speaks of Spotted Tail as Mr.. Variegated
Narrative.
| The Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention last week nominated Gov
ernor Hartranft for reelection.
A MONSTER expedition is organizing in
Philadelphia for the Black Hills. It is
said that 10000 men are enrolled, and
that the crusade Will start in June.
a MEETING of the Patrons of Husban-
dry was call at GAINESVILLE yesterday, for
the purpose of organizing a mutual life
insurance system within the Order.
THE loss of life by the Holyoke disas-
| ter is now put at ninety three already
/ dead or fatally burned, while some thirty
| others were wounded in various degrees.
| A GANG of counterfeiters, five Italians
and one woman, were captured at New
| Orleans on Saturday evening. They
+! had $500 in counterfeit nickIes, dies,
plates, etc.
! Mr.. A. j. Alexander, KY, has sold two
| of his valuable short-horns to Mr.. Fox,
of England, the found Duke of Audril
and the twentieth Duchess of Audril, at
$50, 600 for the two.
| A SERIES of earthquakes in the prov
| ince of Boronssa, Asia Minor, in the begin
ming of May destroyed 600 houses, and
| killed upwards of 100 persons and in
iured 1877 others
IT is reported that the firm of J. B.
! Peck & Son, the largest dealers in GEN
eral merchandise in Schleisingerville,
this State, has failed. The. disabilities are
| $112, 900, and the assets are estimated at
$50, 600
The war of Mitchell VS.. Sage, for the
control of the Milwaukee & st. Paul
Road, will be decided on the 10Th of
June. In the meantime, it is generally
| conceded that Mitchell is ahead, and
sure to win.
The cotton report for May indicates
an increase in acreage of nearly per
cent. over that of last year-labOr great
ly improved, and the condition of the
crops not differing greatly from that of
last year.
AN old gentleman arrived from Europe
on Friday, and he had no sooner entered
his hotel than some one spoke to him
he, ''ain't that thing over yet?" And he
sailed for Europe On Saturday.-NeaO
York Mail
The Papal ENJOYS, who came to this
country to make Arch Bishop McClOsky
a Cardinal, called upon the President,
bearing with them the kindly wishes of
the Pope. They were kindly entertained,
| and passed pleasant hour.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has in
structed the Assistant Treasurer of the
United States at New York to sell $500,
900 in gold each Thursday during June.
Total amount to be sold, $4,000, 900.
Mrs. RoHM, the fat woman of Bar
NUNS show, died at her residence in
| East Baltimore last Friday, aged % years
Her weight was 583 pounds, height 6
| feet 4 inches, ard span around the waist
| n inches.
| A FOUR-sToRY building was demolished
in Boston Wednesday, twenty persons
were killed and many others INJURED by
the terrific explosion OF the chemical APP
| paratus IN connection with soda foun-
| tain iii the basement of drug store.
| As soon as Congress conyenes, next
| December, the Postmaster General in
ent law governing the postage on third
| class matter, or transient newspapers, so
modified as to be more ust and equita-
| BILE.
CHARLES Brown, of Milwaukee, lost a
wallet containg 1920 while attending a
! performance of Burr Robbins circus
troupe at Princeton. An employee found
the wallet and handed it to Mr.. Robbins,
who returned it to the owner. The find
er was literally rewarded for his honesty.
BASEBALL has demoralized Hartford.
The careful Clemens has bought q seat
in the grand-stand the clergy have sea-
son tickets and, worse than all, one en-
thusiastic family mas removed the cush-
ions from it's church pews enu applied
them to alternating the agony of a ten
inning game.
RECENT estimates of the defalcation of
Abraham Jackson, the missing Boston
lawyer, swell the amount to over 800,
600. 1t Is stated that jackson is in Yer
mont, but it is more generally believed
that he is carefully provided against
| arrest, and is on his way to Europe. No
steps have yet been taken to secure him.
GOVERNMENT officers on Monday seized
the rectifying establishment of A. T.
Marshall, in Cincinnati, on charge of
illicit distilling- They found small
still IN cellar, that was so arranged as
to run the mash into the sewer upon the
approach of the officers. An effort was
made upon the approach of the officers
to use this appliance, but it failed.
THE Kewaunee Marshal found a cow
straying down the streets of that hamlet
and proceeded to arrest her in legal form,
The woman who owned that COW capered
up and knocked the Marshal down.
Then his official dignity being outraged
he brought suit against her for assault
and battery, and she was fined 81. But
he didn't capture the cow.
WHILE setting buoys in Green Bay,
Capt, Hart fshed up considerable iron.
Among other things he found the rud.
der post of the old schooner Sam Hale,
near Whales Back. A little eastward
of Frying Pan Shoals he found lying at
the bottom, on the rocks piece of iron
about IL feet long by IL inches wide,
weighing about 700 pounds. Upon ex-
animation, it proved to be a propeller
shoe.
THE Wautoma Argus says: ssMr.
Budd Burr, of the town of Oasis, has on
exhibition the stuffed skin of a pig born
this spring, which has but one head, but
has two bodies from the shoulders. It has
two ears in the usual place for these or
gans, and another ON top of its head. 1t
has eight legs, and two complete outfits
of intest1nes and other internal organs.
Evidently nature had intended to make
a representation of the Democratic par
ty."
Iowa has succeeded in electing Bish-
OPP by close vote, and without that har-
mony and enthusiasm which should pre-