The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-12-23
CITY AND COUNTY.
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PcoR weather for skating

/ = Ills Is the earliest Ioi'riiiS ol iS''oi''
CoNGkEss adioured until the 9th OF
January.
ARE there any Strawberries and green
peas in the market
Iris impolite to say man has Check
say Glacial area.
The prospect of a sleighride on Christ
mas day cannot be realized.
READ the prospectus of Scribner's
Monthly, III another column.
ETR. GEO. PHTPPs, of De Pere, has
been in the city for a few days.
| The public schools in this city will
/ close to-day until after the Holidays.
TUESDAY, the End inst, was supposed
CIRCUIT Court adjourned this morn
| ing until the first Monday in February.
The jury has been discharged.
Mr.. HERMAN EcKR, of Meeme, is max
ing preparations for the establishment
of cheese factory at Kiel, next spring.
TIE prospectus of the Chicago Inter
Ocean, the great Republican paper of
| the Northwest, will be found in another
column.
THE privilege OF paying taxes is not
seized upon as eagerly rs might be by
our property owners. Walk up, gentle
men; it's got to come.
II you want to get any more Of those
first quality 5 cent prints, go to J. W.
Barnes & Co.'S next Monday. We fear
by Tuesday they will all be sold.
The Turner's propose giving a grand
Ball ON New Years Eve, which they
| will spare no pains to make pleasant and
| agreeable. See advertisement in anoth-
er column.
They say that as an Investigating
committee Hon. G. II. Schmidt, of the
Nord- IFestef, is an immense success.
In fact, he discovered fraud the first
/ time he put his hand down.
For fine selection of Toys, Confec-
| tionery, Fruit, Nuts and other articles for
the Holidays, go to F. hfika, on Eighth
street His stock is complete and the
| prices will be made to suit.
A CHRISTMAS CONCERT will be held
in the Methodist Episcopal Church on
Sunday Evening, the 25th inst, at 7
O'Clock. 4 sermon in the morning, by
the pastor, suited to the occasion.
NASH, of the Chronicle, says he's
going to hang up his stockings to-mor-
| row night. We hope he will reconsider
| that determination-especially if north
east wind prevails during that time.
W. A. WALKER, our efficient County
! School Superintendent, leaves the city
| to-day to attend q convention of Super
intendents at Madison, after which he
will visit his former home in Plattyille
The Fair and Festival given by the
ladies' of st. James Church, last Thurs
day and Friday. was not as successful in
| "a pecuniary sense as the one given last
year. the net receipts amounting to less
than 1925.
REMEMBER that 4. Piening has an
elegant stock of Holiday goods, embrac-
ing full line of Books, Toys, Chrom os,
| Musical Merchandise, and a thousand
| articles both useful and ornamental,
| suitable for Christmas gifts.
A MAN stole an over-coat from one of
the stores in this city on Tuesday. He
was detected with the stolen property
in his possession and was let off upon
the payment of S1S. We have been re-
quested to withhold the name.
A STATE Agricultural Convention will
be held at Madison, under the auspices
of the Wisconsin State Agricultural So
ciety, commencing with an address on
| Tuesday evening, February s, 1876, at
Y p. M, continuing three days.
THE many friends of Mr.. J. G. Smith,
a former resident of this county, will be
pleased to learn that the report to the
| effect that he was dead is untrue, letters
having been received from him from
| Rochester, n. Y, where he is now re-
| siding.
| A FIRE broke out in the building occu-
ped as store and dwelling house by
| G. f. Geese, of Reedsviile, last Thurs
day, which resulted in total destruction
| of the house and contents. The loss is
estimated at 81, 900, OF which there was
an insurance of 81 800.
we were pleased to notice that the
| City Board took the initiative step
toward the building of respectable
engine house for the steamer, by the
passage of resolution appointing a
committee to ascertain at what figure a
suitable lot could be purchased.
THE active members OF the Turner'S
| Society will give an exhibition at their
Hall next Sunday afternoon and even
ing, the evenings entertainment to con,
clude with grand ball. Excellent mu-
sic viii be furnished, together with re-
freshments.
THE Rev. John Henry Hobart Brown,
| S. T. D., of Cohoes, New York, was
oon -Accated Bishop OF Fond du Lac, in
CT John Church, Troy, n. Y, We'd
nesdav mornins With imposing eere-
monies Bishop Po, Ter presided. The