The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

been detailed to carry King Kalakaua to
his home.
GREAT activity exists in Cuban circles
IN New York, and an expedition, it is
reported, is being fitted out.
HE firm of G. A. Trowbridge & Bro,
| jewellers of Fond du Lac. have gone
into voluntary bankruptcy.
WASHINGTON society thinks Mrs. Fred.
Grant would make more of Colonel
than her husband.
EUROPEAN Governments have taken
measures to prevent the importation of
American potatoes infected with the Col
orado beetle.
RUMoRs of the resignation of Gen.
Spinner and other officers of the Treas
ury Department, in circulation lately.
are denied.
Miss Winnie Ream will be given the
task of executing statue of Admiral
Farragut, to be paid for by the nation.
ALI the great powers have authorized
their representatives at Madrid to enter
into semi-official relations with the new
government.
THh dwelling house in Chiffon, owned
by Mrs. Mary R. Scott, and occupied
by Sam. Vincent, Sheriff, was burned
on Monday.
PRINCE ALFONSO, son of ex-Queen
Isabella, has been proclaimed King of
Spain, and is recognized by all the forces
comprising the armies of the North and
Center.
KALAKAUA rises at 7 and calls for his
worm. Chicago Tribune.
This gives rise to the query: Where
does he generally keep it o'nights?
Mr.. w. M. Brigham, received a dis
patch from Gen. Ord at Omaha, stating
that several thousand sufferers in that
State will have to be supplied with
bread for the next four months.
IT is now regarded as certain that the
tax on tea and coffee will be restored by
the present congress. The great falling
| off in customs has rendered this step alb.
solutely necessary.
ACCORDING to the Appleton Crescent,
Arthur and w. Babcock and Daniel Ter
rice have killed, since the early part of
November, So deer, besides catching
brook trout in abundance.
The present week promises to be a
lively one for the politicians throughout
the country. The legislatures of twenty
one states will convene for the purpose
Of transacting business.
"PUMP" CARPENTER, will publish a
daily paper during the session of the
Legislature. This paper as we under
stand, will be devoted principally to leg
islaion on railroad questions that may
arise.
SINCE the famine set in in Asia Minor,
$4,000 persons have migrated from the
various parts of the country to the city
of Adana, half of whom have since sue
cumbed to disease.
A NEGRO preacher in Milwaukee en-
ticed fourteen-year-old girl into his
study on Saturday evening, outraged
her person, and let out for other fields
The Advertiser says that, like Beecher,
he believed in spending and being spent
for the edifcation of the Divine Spirit
@. L. INGERsoLL, Of Vernon county,
probably thinks this cruel world. He
sued the publisher of the Wisconsin
Independent for libel, laying his damages
at $4,000. The suit was concluded
last week by granting the man of dam
aged character S..
ESTIMATES made in the Office of the
Bureau of Agriculture at Washington
put the aggregates of grain and potato
crops Of 1874 as follows: Corn, So, O0O,-
900 bushels; wheat, 10000, 900 bush
els; oats, 27O, 100000 bushels; barley,
80, 100000 bushels; potatoes, 105, 600, 900
bushels.
THE Monroe Sentinel publishes some
statistics Of cheese making in Green
county, from which it appears that some
S43, 900 pounds of Swiss and Limberger
and $50, 900 pounds Of American OF reg
ular cheese, amounting in all to 1, 693, 900
pounds, and valued at $211, 625, has
been manufactured during the year 1874.
THE Democratic members Of the
House are getting very tired of the Pa
cifc Mail Investigation. They never
thought, when they were SO hot in push
ing the matter. that guilt would first be
brought home to Democratic Congress
man.
GEN. SHERIDAN asks for the passage
Of bill declaring the White Leaguers
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