The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-04-08

pumpkin growing Ill q uolO IAS 1ultICG-
ment was squashed, however.
THERE are estimated to be in the
United States about 1, 500 thoroughly Or
ganized base ball clubs, having an aggre-
gate membership of over 25, 600.
BEECHER will not commence answering
81 don't remember" for some days yet.
| There is enough for him to negative to
keep him denying squarely for week.
PERHAPS Bessie Turner was painfully
modest" once, but the reporters of the
Beecher trial unite in the opinion that
she has got bravely over it. She told
her indelicate story without a shadow of
embarrassment. ---r~, -----. -
The Philadelphia Times claims that
Senator Carpenter will make the city of
Brotherly Love his permanent home,
and that he will soon commence the
practice of law in that city.
On Sunday last, in the town of Addi-
son, Washington county, the dwelling
house of Mr.. Doll, with al its contents
was burned. It was insured in the Far
mers' Mutual, of Germantown.
THERE are five pairs in the present
United States Senate, the Camerons,
Joneses, Ferrys, Johnsons and Morrills.
This Minister Schenck would call de-
cidedly good hand. How would be play
them.
A GOLD knee buckle of good workman
ship was recently found by citizen
living i'll the vicinity of Braddock's
Field, in the western part of Pennsylvania.
It is one of the unfortunate victims of
Braddock's defeat.
A fattened bullet has just been re-
moved from the temple of Sheriff Stran-.
ahan, of Sigourney, it having worked it.
self to the surface. The Sheriff received
the wound in the late war and carried
the bullet in his head ten years.
| A middle aged man recently married
Weyauwega girl who was but II years
of age, although under oath the parties
swore to the minister marrying them the
girl was Is years old. A great row and
lawsuit is the consequence.
| A FEW days ago a number Of young
ladies went down into shaft of the
Crawford coal mine, near Massilon, Ohio.
! While they were there something got
wrong with the hosting apparatus, and
they were compelled to spend the night
in the mine.
A DWARF elephant has just arrived in
Paris from India. Cawnpore, as he IS
called, is nineteen years old, but for
years has not grown any, and is now
only thirty eight inches in height. He
is remarkably intelligent, and performs
many tricks.
REAR ADMIRAL MULANEY, command
ing the north Atlantic Station, reports
that one Spanish man-of-war, lying off
Havana, has forty cases of yellow fever,
and another has 36 cases. No cases
have appeared on any United States
steamer yet.
GEORGE JONES, painter at Licking
ton, KY, was shot and dangerously
wounded Saturday night by Charles
Blame. Jones stepped into Blane's sta
BILE, and struck match to look at his
watch. Blame saw the light, and think
ing it was an attempt to burn his stable,
fired at Jones, MORALLY wounding him.
GEO. T. FELTON,, an old and esteemed
resident of Depere, employed in Mon
roe's mill, was caught in the betting of
the mill early Saturday morning and
literally torn to pieces, about the only
distinguishable portion of the remains
being the arm and portion of the left
shoulder.
THE Madison Democrat says: cit is
reported that Co.. A. Burpee, formerly
of the Revenue Department, is about to
bring suit against Col. E. w. Keyes,
for SANDER. It is claimed that the post
master made statements at the national
capitol which Col. Burpee claims are
unkind to say the least
STARTLING information has been re-
ceived at Washington, to the effect that
the yellow fever has made its appear
ance at the Gulf ports unusually early,
and is rapidly spreading. The naval fleet
at Key West are in quarantine, and the
fort garrison will be at once withdrawn
out of the reach of the dangerous cpl
demic.
THE new rules for the redemption of
mutilated currency go into effect on the
first of May. In legal tenders one tenth
of the note must be missing to vitiate its
value fractional currency one fifth. IF
more than one half of any bill is missing,
redemption is refused unless satisfactory
evidence is given that the parts have
been destroyed.
A LEADING Holland journal saws the
future battle field for France and Ger
many will be Holland that it would BIZ
no means be annexed to Germany. but
that there would be great danger of a
military occupation. Little Holland is
evidently of the opinion that France, III
case of hostilities, would be able to carry
the war almost into the epemys own
country.
AN Albany paper reports that Lake
Michigan is frozen over solid, an event
that has never before occurred That
is mistake; the same year that the
Atlantic froze solid and line of ice boats
was run from New York to Liverpool
the same thing happened to Lake Mich
igan. For the enlightenment of the
Albany journalist, we may say it has