The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-05-25
Ed. BORCHERDf, Editor & Publisher.
THURSDAY, MAY 10Th, 1876.

The Senate is still wrestling with the
impeachment question, and devotes
comparatively little time to the consid-
Grafton of regular business.
John, wish you'd close that door,
said an irritable Aberdonian to his son.
Your mother must be scolding some
body at the other end of hall, there's
such draft from that quarter.
1t is reported that President Grant
has informed Gov. Kellogg that if che
were at his post doing his duty instead
of lounging about Washington begging
the Federal authorities to do his work,
there would be less trouble in Louis
lana" That was a severe rebuff, but it
was deserved.
SECRETARY robson has written let
ter to the Chairman of the House Com
mittee on Naval Affairs demanding for
himself and every officer in his depart
ment against whom charges and insinua
tions haze been leveled hearing in open
session of the committee. The letter
is brief and very decidedly to the point.
SENATOR Howe's term expires on the
9th of March next. Howe would it be
to return him to the U. S. Senate He
has been an honest and faithful servant.
Appleton Post.
We had never thought about that,
having always considered his reelection
fact which the Republicans of North
eastern Wisconsin would not stop to
question.
The political calculators are figuring
away briskly on The strength of candi-
dates at Cincinnati. A Washington cor
respondent of The Chicago Tribune
reaches this result: Bristow, 1872
Blaine, III; Morton, 83 Conkling, 90 !;
Hartranft, So. This includes only the
delegates already chosen.
THERE is a split among the glorious
Democracy of Wisconsin. The faction
calling itself the s'Peorle's Reform
Party" has called convention to elect
delegates to st. Louis to meet on June
z. The rest of the party, made up of
the real Jacksonian Bourbons, will meet
for the same purpose on June 13.-N.
Y. Tribune.
Ex-DooRKEEPER FITzHUGH is on the
war-path. He feels keenly the ingrati-
tude of his fellow Democrats of the
House, with whom he was wont to
frolic, and is making overtures to the
Republicans to expose the true inward
ness of the Democratic House manage
ment. He claims to have in his possess
sion facts the publication of which will
raise howl of anguish.
The New York Herald severely com
ments on the folly which is shown in the
floral displays made at funerals. In its
remarks on this subject it says: ''Its well
to make our graveyards places of beauty
like that at Rome of which Shelley said
it would almost make one in love with
death; but it is not proper to over-deco-
rate funeral and make a grief seem
discordant and death itself like a skull
wearing a wreath of roses.''
The report of the Committee on Ex-
penditures in the Treasury Department
on the much-talked-ofM Mary Merritt case
will be made during the present week.
A meeting of the Committee was held
on Monday and Bright and Williams, were
appointed to draw up the report. Sec
rotary Bristow viii be exonerated from
all criminal connection with the case.
1t is shown that he received no consid-
Grafton whatever for his services. he
himself swearing that he did not know
of the action of his Assistant Secretary,
who passed the case during his absence.
WILLIAM r. TAYLOR declines to have
his name used any longer as candidate
for Congress on the Reform" ticket, in
the Second District. Inter Ocean.
Now that's real mean in William. At
ter having proven himself an adept
in all the mean and dirty tricks oppor-
tunity gave him chance to practice,
and shown that he was educated fully
up to what the Reform Democracy CON
sidered the aema of perfection in a can
didate, be now turns around and deserts
his constituents. And that is where he
is meaner than his constituents of last
fall-they would not then or now desert
him.
The jury in the Wilmer murder case.
in Milwaukee, last week returned a YER
dict of guilty of murder in the first de-
gree, after having been out fifty-eight
hours. The woman was undoubtedly
insane when she killed DR.. Garner, and
the verdict is severely criticized by the
press of Milwaukee. II they had let her
off on the plea of insanity, and imnled-
lately taken steps to confne her in an
insane asylum or other place where she
would be unable to kill some other per-
son, it would perhaps have been better.
But this letting murderers escape on the
plea of insanity, and then turning them
loose to practice their blood-letting pc
cuharities upon some one else, is decid-
eddy thin.
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