The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07
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procity treaty.
GREAT activity e1sists in Cuban cir
cles in New York, and an expedition, II
is reported, is being fitted out.
The annual sale Of the pews In Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn, took place
Tuesday night. The sales amounted tc
$40, 900, against $4,000 last year.
AT the Democratic State Convention
in New Hampshire, Tuesday, Hiram X
Roberts was nominated for Governor
and A. T. Pierce for Railroad Commits
sioner.
At St, Louis, Tuesday evening, o. ..
Carr, formerly clerk In the office OF
the Missouri Railway Company, was
found dead in his bed. An overdose OF
morphine was the cause.
The harbor at:.St. Louis is frozen
over and ferryage has ceased. The traf-
fic is now over the bridge, and the struc-
ture has demonstrated its utility and I'M
portance. The mercury ranges below
zero. ~
THOMAS 81. PAINE was elected Speak
er of the Tennessee Legislature on
Tuesday. It was rumored that the vote
of the Republicans would. be cast for
Andy johnson for United States Sen
ator on the first ballot, but that they
will desert him afterward..
MAJ. WALSH, of the Canadian mount
ed police, arrived at Helena, M. T.,
from Fort Mcleod. He reports the
whisky traders entirely expelled from
the British possessions.
THREE hundred ounces of gold bull
lion were received at Helena, on Tues
day, from the Jawbone lode, In Jetfer-
son county A large body of silver ore
was struck on the Sallie Bell lode, in
Liber District.
The new site for the Grow agency
has been selected by Agent Clapp at the
mouth of Prior's Greek, the main camp
of the Grows or Big Horn, where they
will remain till spring. The Grows
have had several victorious skirmlshes
with other tribes. They report white
men in the Black Hills, near Snake
Canon.
A BALL given at Lancaster for the
benefit of the poor, Melted $145.
A LITTLE son of Herman Buchner was
badly scalded a Lancaster, Last Sunday,
by upsetting pot of boiling tea upon
himself.
But little snow has yet fallen in the
Wisconsin pineries, and the numbering
operations are greatly retarded in con-
sequence.
THE season of..trotting on the ice at
Madison viii be formally naugurated
next Saturday.
THE Chippewa Herald states that the
Lafayette postofice will shortly be re-
moved to Blue Mills.
DISPATCHES from various points in the
state show the weather to have been uni
fornily cold on Tuesday. At Neenah,
the mercury indicated 81 degrees below
zero; at HORIZON, rs degrees below at
Eau Claire, 90 degrees Fond du Lac,
~ degrees at GAINESVILLE, Is degrees !;
at La Crosse, 20 degrees at Madison,
20 degrees, and at Watertown, 20 de-
grees below Green Bay, % degrees.
The great desert of Africa is as
big as the United States. And lyceum
bureaus fattering themselves that Stan
ley may get lost there for decade or so.
If the SDaniards would only send over
for a few of our hard-shell Democrats,
they could soon put down the Bourbon.
.A7ta California.
WASHINGTON boasts that she Is the
only city In which Sunday laws are not
broken. Considering the amount Of
law breaking done through the week, a
let-up on Sunday is an inevitable neces-
sity.- Chicago Tribune.
A YOUNG lady in storein Terre Haute,
Ind, Christmas-Eve, was looking at a
that had just ceased playing.
Wishing to hear it again, she attempted
to START it, but without success. ''Oh,
pshaw,' said she, cit won't go for me. -
One of the proprietors overhearing the
remark, stepped up and said: 81 wish
was a music-box-I'd go for you.
JOE HOWARD calls on Beecher to
''shake the Devil out of Tilton." This
would be fair PREPARATION for Tilton's
shaking the disguise off Beecher.
YOUNG MEN who are already troubled
about that New Year vow which Danish
ed Concha and Bourbon will be glad to
that Horace Greeley once de
clared that the way to resume was to re-
sumo.
An Idaho gentleman stripped himself,
hung his apparel on the saw-buck, and
retired on pile of cordwood. His mis-
take was discovered by his wife, who
overheard him quarrelling with an i'm
aginary old woman about there not being
cover enough on the bed.
THE owner of a Nashville street-rail-
road tried to ride on one of his cars last
week for nothing, and the driver
s.bounced'' him. The driver, who had
read that story about the great warrior
and the infexible sentinel, expected to
be promosed, but is now looking for a
job.
IT is stated that President McMahon
will soon send message to the French
Assembly, urging that body to vote on
the constitutional laws.
The new opera house in Paris was
opened Tuesday night with great cere-
mony and a brilliant display, prepara-
tions for the event having been made