The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-05-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE national debt was reduced 81, $50,
2245, during the past month.
MILWAUKEE, through her city council
appropriated 81 900 for the relief of the
sufferers by the Oshkosh fire.
The British government intends to
send the frigate Valorous tos survey
Baffin's Bay and the North Atlantic
THE New York Times thinks that Mr..
! Schurz is in the position of the Irishman
who, when climbinga rope, let go to spit
on his hands.
The bait has been swallowed already,
| and half the snobs are clamoring fol-
more Cardinals to do their marrying fo1
| them.
BOOTH refused an offer of So, 900 g
! week, for four weeks, at the California
theatre. He preferred taking half the
receipts.
j. WRIGHT, CT Platteville, fell dead
in Cameron & Losey's law Office in La
Crosse Oh Tuesday. Death resulted
from heart disease.
AND now comes German meteorolog-
ica1 philosopher with an unwelcome
prediction that we are to have cold
summer.
The fruit crop in the ST. Joseph re-
gion will be almost total failure. The
old trees are nearly all dead.
AT Washington, Monday, the Athlet-
les beat the Washingtons, 81 to 0. The
Bostons beat the Mutuais at New York,
Monday, by a score Of IL to 1.
The Racine Advocate says: ''The
mirage on the lake on Monday afternoon
reflected the vast field of ice which is
upon the eastern shore"
SUSAN b. ANTHONY lectured in Racine
the other day, to an audience of fifteen
persons, and nary one asked her about
sitting on Tilton's knee.
ATTORNEY GENERAL P1ERREPoNT is
said to be in favor of Free Cuba. But
it is not matter that he will have much
control over Besides, there is no au-
thority for the statement.
JOHN O'CoNNEh, of the town of Dun
kirk, Dane county, recently captured
four young wolves In an old stump near
his farm. Their pates were worth $40
each. They appear to be a hybrid of
the gray and prairie wolf.
The receipts from internal revenue for
the month of April, is stated to be. ST.
022, 1871. The increase in revenue of
100000 is reported for the first few
months of this year, over that of the
corresponding period of 1874.
AN almost blind man at Sheboygan,
named Hefer. suspected criminality on
the part of his wife and man named
Simmons. A fight between the men
ensued, resulting in the death of the
blind man.
If this cold weather holds on till camp
meeting time, fellow may perhaps slide
his arm around Methodist girl occas-
ionally to keep her warm, without pro-
yoking her to yell for the elders.
The Somerville (Tenn.) Falcon esti-
that county (Fayette) from the buffalo
gnats, from last Friday night till Mon
day, at 800 to 500 head.
DISPATCHES from Muskogee, Indian
Territory, says water-spout burst Fri
day near Honey Spring which was fol-
lowed by the severest rain-storm for
many years. Bridges and cuIverts were
washed away.
AT st. Adams, VT, few days ago, a
man named Jerome, obtained verdict
of $4,000 damages for being elected
from railway car when he had a ticket,
though it appeared the ticket was not
found till after he was expelled.
BAD FIRE AT EVANSVILLE. learn
that there was a serious fire at GAINESVILLE
Saturday morning, at which the Congre-
gatlOnal Church was burned. The total
loss was $4,000. The loss will be Sc
| we're one to the church and city.
It is positively stated that the position
of Attorney General was offered to ex-
| Senator Carpenter, and that he declined;
given the place, had not two Cabinet
members decidedly objected.
The library of the great Naturalist,
Audubon, was entirely consumed on the
| 29th, by fire which burned the resi-
dence of his er-in-law, Mrs. Bake
well, at Shelby-ville, Kentucky. The
collection numbered about 800 volumes,
many of them of.rare scientific value.
LIZ Mrs. Swisshelm really believes the
| time Will come when womeh will not get
into their clothes head first, she ought to
| take trip up to Chippewa county, and
| see the girls there stand on a chair and
| hop into % pair of army pants. And
then ask herself if it is not here already.
A LITTLE son of David johnson. OF
| Tunbridge, Vermont, fell into a deep
well, the other day, but lodged on the
| bucket, which was partially lowered.
| The mother attempted to draw him up,
telling him to cling on, but when almost
within her reach, the little fellow S
| strength gave out, and falling to the
bottom, thirty feet, he was killed.
HE Eastern papers will oblige The
Tribune by understanding that Potter
law Potter, of Wisconsin, has never been
seriously mentioned for the Republican
Gubernatorial nomination. He has new
er been asked, and he has never offered
himself. He is the Democratic candi-
date for the Republican nomination
Chicago Tribune.
EVIDENCES of the late disastrous fire