The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-22
AMATEURS.

HAVE you seen potato bug yet?
/ CIRCUIT COURT adjourns for the term
to-day or tomorrow.
MANY of our leading merchants ale
using delivery wagons.
WILD Strawberries were offered yester-
day at shilling quart.
THE longest days and consequently
the shortest nights of the year are upon
us now.
DoN'r fail to go to Turner Hall next
Saturday evening. Give the boys a
I rousing house.
Four days of almost ineessant rain
since last Thursday has caused our farm
ers to cry ''Hold enough ''
The tug Kitty Smoke, yesterday after
noon, started to the relief of the Barnes,
and will tow her to Milwaukee.
VIZ have reduced our prices on Ladies'
| Cashmere Jackets about 20 per cent. to
close them out. J.SoHURTTE & Bios.
NEXT week the Democrats go to the
unnecessary trouble Of nominating q
candidate for the. Presidency, at ST.
Louis.
WHEN Fred Heinerlan marries he says
he's going out to ''Kiver' Lake on a
wedding tour. Very appropriate place,
that.
TOMORROW the present term Of our
public schools close. Interesting '.last
day" exercises are to be held at the
Second Ward school house.
A BRIGHT, dazzling object appeared in
the heavens yesterday for time. Per
sons who could remember a similar phe-
nomenon, said it was the sun.
New PRICE LIsF-Read Mossrs. T.
A. Chapman Sc Co.'S new price list OF
bleached and brown cottons, tickings
and denims, prints, etc., at retail. They
are selling these goods lower than ever
before.
.'FoURN ONE, the nameof new kind
of gents cuffs which can be worn until
soiled and then changed three different
times so as to look clean after each
change. Try a box. For sale at
J. SCHUETTE & Bros.
THERE will be special meeting of
Manitowoc Steam Engine Co., No. 1,
this CI'hursday) evening at u o'clock.
A full attendance of members is request
ed, as business of Importance is to be
transacted. Fl. HALvERsoN, Sec.
Dock THIEVES are class that now re-
quire watching. The Marshal nabbed
a young fellow last Saturday who had
broken open a box at the Goodrich
steam boat dock and abstracted some of
the contents. The thief was given ten
days in jail.
NEW and substantial bridge is to be
built over the Neshoto river in the town
of Gibson, at a place known as the old
Indian planting grounds. The contract
has already been let to VIM. King, and
the bridge is to be completed by the LIST
of September.
NEVER before, we think, in the his
tory of Manitowoc, has the water in the
river and lake reached such height as
at present. The bridge across the Lit
tie Manltowoc, near the toll gate, was
entirely submerged on Monday-some-
thing never before heard of.
SoME of these pleasant evenings, take
your wife or sweetheart, go to Ander-
son & Hanson's boat house at the foot of
York street, get into one of their neat
and easy pnlling boats and exercise your
muscles by a row on the lake. It viii
do you good.
Mr.. CONRAD BRTz honored our snnct-
I'M with his presence after d twelve
years residence in Saint Louis. He
spent several days with his brother in
Two Rivers, and was warmly welcomed
wherever he went. He is a genial, en-
tertaining gentleman whom it is always
q pleasure to meet.
THERE is something too much of this
weather rain is likely to injure the
crops. But the granger may make up
his mind for forty day of it, if prophets
do not err. 1t seems that when it rains
Corpus Christi CAST Thursday there is
no escape from forty consecutive days
of showers
ABOUT noon ON the 10Th inst, the car
penter shop of Gustave Miller, in the
village of Reedsville, was burned to the
ground. The loss, which was consider
able, is partially covered by Insurance.
His residence, standing in close prox-
unity, was damaged to the extent of
$3.50 and narrowly escaped destruction
WEacknowledge the receipt from Geo.
2. Rowell & Co., of a pamphlet contain
ing list of newspapers published in the
United States, and a brief description
of the cities and villages in which they
are published. With the exception of
six or seven gross miscellaneous in
regard to this city, the six line descrip-
ton of it is correct.
THE propeller Missouri was placed in
| dry dock at this port on Saturday last,
since which time it has been pretty well
| torn to pieces and will receive thorough
oyerhauling and repairs, among which
new arches ere the principal Items
Messr5. Rand & Berger have the con
tract, and will, as usual, make good