The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-03-25

tons III this state are very discouraging.
A EVANSVILLE novelty is an egg meas
urlng over eight inches in circumfer
ence.
HIRAM TAYLOR, of Sugar Greek, cut up
| a tree that made fifteen cords of wood
Perhaps this is true.
IT is positively stated in Washington
that Elk Senator Chandler will be nomi-
ted as Minister to Russia.
| DURING the food at cambridge, Pa,
last week, a warehouse containing 5000
bushels of corn was swept away.
The Republican Convention of Con-
necticut Will, it is said, ingore party, and
nominate Citizens ticket that will sweep
the field
A St. Louis man gave minister $50
bill by mistake as marriage fee, and he
had to sue the reverend and sell the
judgment at a shave of Is per cent.
The amount of the State tax levied by
the Legislature this year is 1886, 125
/ against $2S7, $50 levied by the Reform
Legislature last winter.
| The Monroe Reformer states that a
little child of MIR. Musselman, living on
Skinner Creek, was choked to death on
Wednesday, by getting a screw in its
throat.
The Interior Department will as soon
as possible dispatch competent geo
| logist to examine the Black Hills coun-
| try and ascertain accurately its mineral
wealth.
| ANDY JoHNsoN's two-hour speech in
! the Senate on Monday is spoken CT as
mixture Of impudence, egotism, absurdl
| ty and righteousness that would excite
a smile upon the face Of on anchorite.
THE Chicago Journal states that par
ties of girls are constantly passing through
that city from the east for San Francisco
where they expect to lead lives of pros
titution.
The general tone of the Republican
papers of Ohio leaves little room to doubt
| that Ben Wade will be the gubernatorial
candidate in the state next fall to contest
the field with "Petticoat Allen
WALTER DEBERNY is under arrest in
Milwaukee, on a charge of embezzling
81, 800 worth Of railway tickets while in
the employ of the Wisconsin Central
railway company.
TRUE to the programme Vasquez, the
brigand, SO long the terror of California,
Nevada, New Mexico and Mexico, was
hanged by the neck until he was dead
on last Friday, the 18th inst, at San Jose.
LAST Thursday large German mass
meeting was held in New York, with an
attendance of 5000 persons, to protest
against the exclusion of the German Ian
guage as regular study of the free
schools.
Mr.. ALBERT y. WYMAN, recently ap-
pointed Assistant Treasurer of the Unit
ed States, is native of Madison in this
state, being the son Of W. W. Wyman,
editor and publisher of the Gazette.
The estimated product of the Lake
Superior copper mines for 1875 is 81,
900, 900 pounds, which at % cents per
pound amounts to ST., 1900 as the to-
tai income from that source.
CENTRAL Georgia has been scourged
by an awful tornado. The visitation was
one of extraordinary severity, involving
| large destruction of human life and
property, and an unusual amount of
suffering.
SINCE the 18th of January the net con-
traction of national bank currency has
been 81 500, 900 greenbacks, 81, $50, 900;
total contraction $3.50, 000-for the
sixty days to March 18th.
ST.. PATRICKs DAY in the morning
was the occasion of immense professions
both in New Yark and Brooklyn. The
former city witnessed 35, 900 sons Of the
Emerald Isle in line; the latter 10, 0CO.
RUSSIAN royalty is peculiarly unfor-
tunate in the performances of its Off
spring. An ilegitimate son of the Gear
of Russia has been arrested on the charge
of kidnapping Norwegian girl to pre-
vent her appearance against him for Sc
| duction.
SENATOR INGALLS,, of Kansas, has
alarming advices as to the prospect OF
! Indian hostilities. He starts west on
Monday, and will visit all the frontier
Kansas settlements to advise the settlers
to arm themselves and build stockades
against the Sioux, who are Infatuated on
account of the gold hunters.
The circus man John Robinson is
! likely to be Cincinnati's next mayor.
The people of that city have an eye to
business, and as rings form most of the
political machinery of the day, they pro-
pose to have a mayor who understands
/ them.
A MASS meeting of 80, 900 Irishmen was
| held in Hyde Park, London, on Sun
day. Resolutions were adopted demand
ing the release Of the Fenian prisoners,
condemning the coercive laws of Ireland
and condoling with the family of John
Mitchell
Hon. PHILETUs SAWYER, Of Oshkosh,
has just been elected President of the
Menominee Lumber Company, of Me-
nominee, Michigan. The Company
swings 100000 capital and has one OF
the largest mills on the Northern PENN
sula.
TIE Portsmouth On. H. Journal
says the most unblushing frauds were
perpetrated by the Democratic manipu-
lators of the cheek lists in that city. 1t
says: ''Nearly if not quite 800 illegal
Democratic votes were thrown