The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-12-30

at milwaukee,, has Deem auJuuio<''eo
bankrupt.
OK Friday of this week there will be
a wholesale turning out of employees at
the Treasury in order to reduce expen-
SEES.
TWENTY miles Of the road from Stew
ems Point TO Portage have been COM.
pleted, and Gov. Taylor went last week
to inspect it.
THE luInbermen of Eau Claire, Chip
pewa Falls and Necedah, who issued
due-bills on their stores, have been fined
500 each and costs of suit.
THE Natinal Republican committee
will meet in Washington, January 18th,
1876, for the purpose of fixing the time
and place of the next National Republi-
can Convention.
THE Epoca declares that Spain is
resolved to retain Cuba, even II the IN
slrgents should obtain greater forces,
and could rely on some powerful prctec-
tor.
TWEED is said to have reached Havana
in safety, and he is probably ready now
to interview emissaries of the New York
police, and politely ask what they are
going to do about it.
THE residents of Waupaca have called
d meeting to consider the propriety of
securing the repeal of the city charter
of 1874 and the reincorporation of the
pluce as a village.
Two ex-members Of the House have
lately sought work in the document
folding room, at Washington, work
which includes the wheeling of matter
III barrow to the postofice.
A FARMER named j. j.. Weise, living
near Milwaukee, has fallen heir to $780,,
900 in Prussia. He received notice
day or two ago to prove up his claim,
and this afternoon the necessary papers
were forwaded.
THE Cincinnati Enterprizer, which is
high Democratic authority, speaks of
the newly-appointed Chairman of the
Ways Means COMMITTEE as "a brawling
empty-headed, unknown village politi-
clan Of Waterloo. Ill.
It has been discovered that the Wig
nette Oh special licenses issued by the
Internal Revenue Department to recti-
fiers and wholesale liquor dealers is the
figure of Mercury, the god of thieves,
isolated on q wash-tub.
We note with sincere pleasure the ap-
pointment and confirmation of Hon.
Geo. E. Hoskinson, the able editor of
the Green Bay Gazette, to the position
Jamaica. President Grant could hardly
have made a better appointment.
A GREAT STORM has been experienced
at Gibraltar, in which scarcely a road
CT street escaped damage. Many houses
were burst open by the force of the
water, in some cases, water was eight feet
deep in the lower stories. Two vessels
were wrecked, with q loss of fifteen lives.
ANOTHER ship canal project is urged.
This time, it is to cross Michigan by
way of the Kalamazoo river. 4 writer
who appears to be familiar with the sub.
ject, thinks that six million dollars will
improve a water route across the PENN,
sula, SO that ships of 500 tons burden
could leave Chicago and reach the De
troit river in so hours.
INFORMATION has been filed with the
authorities in Washington that Spanish
agents have violated the neutrality laws
by enlisting Italians in New York fol
service in Spanish regiments in Cuba.
The matter is to be examined. 1t seems
| to be a similar affair to that which led to
the English Minister, Sir John Cramp
ton, receiving his passports under Pres,
! ident Pierce.
MADRID, December S.-Intelligence
has just been received from the Philli-
pine Islands giving the details If dread.
| tul hurricane there on the 30th of last
month. The storm was particularly
| severe in the provinces of Alban and
neighboring islands. At Luzon, two
| hundred and fifty lives were lost, and
| $500 dwelling destroyed. Many cattle
persisted, and crops in all directions
ruined.
A CHICAGO paper is responsible fol
| stating that ''the Wisconsin Democ1 ats
are known to have resolved to offer the
| Speakership of the next House to Hen
| flied as Independent This would prob
| ably give them majority of one vote
and the organization of the House Il
| Fink will accept, he will get the Dem.
ocratic nomination without going into
caucus.
FASHIONABLE intelligence from Milwau.
kee - ''The lovely and accomplished
Mrs. Crokid Bourbon was the admira
tion of all the indicted guests at the
fancy ball last night. She wore 10000
! gallons of the finest point lace sent he1
! by her husband when he fled to Europe
and forfeited his bail bonds, and sci
| of diamonds valued at the whole local
press and twenty-five Gaugers and In
! spectOrs.
II is intimssed by a Washington cor
respondent of the Chicago Times that
the recent activity in the Navy Depart
ment was for show and cost but little.
1t is said that the alleged enormous ex-
penditures never took place that many
of the ships said to have been reftted
are not seaworthy and that the hustle
was all for show, designed to produce q
temporary effect, and costing little OF
nothing.
THE attempt of The Chicago Inter
| Ocean to connect Secretary Bristow
with the whisky ring, in a very long
and detailed article, on Saturday, has
been the subject of considerable comment.
| Gen. Babcock has characterized the
| article as an infamous falsehood from
beginning to end, and without word
| of truth in it, SO far as statements pur-
porting to have been made by him a.e
concerned. It Is believed that the
article in The Inter Ocean was written
in Washington and was inspired by men
who are determined to break down
| Secretary Bristow.
THERE are 1900, 600 of us. At least
that is the conclusion reached by a
Brooklyn paper by process somewhat
as follow: Fifteen States have made a
census of their inhabitants during the
present year. From the returns, partly
estimated, it is concluded that the total
increase of population in these States is
1000, coo. In 1870, they had a little