The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-21

OF L LAII.
JOHN BRANDT has paid the fine i'm
posed upon him by the Court for at
tempting to shoot Billy Herzog, and
was released from jail on Tuesday.
ssPETE," the wide-awake little tele-
graph messenger, has the burglar alarm,
suitable for every person, for sale at the
Office. Go and see it.
G. B. SHOVE, a former resident of
this city, now doing business at Du-
buque, Iowa, is in the city visiting rela-
tives and friends.
LAST Friday night sneak-thief en-
tered Fred. Rudolph's liquor store on
Franklin Street and stole several bottles
of wine and quantity of whisky.
FROM figures obtained from the re-
cent transit observations, it has been
estimated that III LAO years the earth
will run ker-smash into the sun.
Ice twenty inches in thickness and
clear as crystal is now being taken from
the river. Mr.. Rahr will harvest be-
tween 400 and 500 tons for use in his
brewery.
EXTENSIVE arrangements are already
being made for a grand masquerade
ball to be given by the Turn VERNE and
Saengerbund at the hall of the former on
Tuesday evening, Feb. 9th.
DONATION PARTY.-The friends and
Pensioners Of the Rev. l.. n. Wheeler
propose to meet him at the Methodist
church on Tuesday evening, Jan. 26, with
their free will offerings, to which all are
respectfully invited.
Ii Fred. Seeger fills the Office of
Chief Engineer of the Fire Department
half as acceptably as his beef steak is
nice, no one will have cause to COM
plain at the selection made by our gal
liant fremen.
KLINGBEL offers to the public all the
latest daily newspapers from Chicago
and Milwaukee Harper's Bazaar,
Weekly and Monthly; Leslie's Inustrat-
ed journals the German illustrated
papers, and other good reading matter.
His place is next to the Post Office.
The mercury in Manitowoc therr.on-
eters crawled up to within ten degrees
of zero on Monday. We won't swear to
it, but we have q recollection of seeing
several Of our citizens rugged out with
linen busters and straw hats in conse-
quence.
CAPT. GooDR1cH designs purchasing
1000 cords of wood here this winter for
use On his steamers, about 1000 cords of
which is already delivered. He is also
buying 1000 cords at Neshoto, which
will be transported to Two Rivers by
water.
MERRILLs WASHING CoMPoUND will
save housekeepers a vast amount of
trouble. so cents worth of the COM
pound Will save $500 worth Of soap, to
say nothing of wear and tear of clothes
and consciences. J. A. Koehler, corner
York and Sth street, is the agent.
Mrs. Col. WEDELsrEDT is deserving
of great praise for her efforts in finding
out and interesting herself for the poor
in our city. Several cases of actual
want have been discovered by her and
few other large-hearted ladies of the
South Side within the past week, III each
of which the suffering has been alleviat-
ed through their kindness.
TRUMAN & MORSE have their mills on
Quay street in full operation, and are
making -four Of very superior quality,
by what IS called the patent process.
The patent -four made by this firm is
far superior to the -four formerly made
of winter wheat, and is very cheap. The
firm is prepared to I'll all orders for the
flour. whether large or small
Our thanks are rendered to Hon. r.
D. Smart for the annual reports of the
Commissioner of Public Printing, and
of the Board of Trustees of the Wiscon-
sin Institute for the education of the
deaf and dumb. From the latter we
learn that this county now has four
representatives at Delvan in the persons
of Johan Dill, of Newtonburg, Carl
Gauger, of Cooperstown, John Lissac,
of Kiel, and Henry Poh, of Manitowoc