The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-05-10
THE country roads are drying up.

THAT'S so are we to have Fourth
of July celebration this year?
The permanent exhibition at Phiia
delph:a will be opened today.
A FULL stock of Muskegon lumber is
being received at Guyles' yard.
PISNEY & Co. have sold the Sturgeon
Bay Expositor to Chas. I. Martin.
PIENINe las a splendid stock of wall
paper, curtains and window shades.
FARMERS viii do well not to purchase
any goods from wandering sharpers.
If decoration day is to be observed it
is time preparations were being made.
The scow Laurel has been undergoing
some minor repairs at Richards yard.
THE attendance at Sunday school is
increasing. Picnic time is coming, you
know.
CONSIDERABLY freight is now being
transported over the Goodrich line for
this port.
Ir is authoritively reported that very
few changes will be made in the Consul
lar service.
THE Wisconsin State Medical Society
held its 31st annual session at Madison
on Tuesday.
THERE is talk of bringing the tug
Willie Richards to Chicago from Mani
towoc. Inter Ocean.
IF the crops turn out well this year,
it is confidently predicted that we shall
hear no more of hard times.
The large propeller City of Duluth
took on forty head Of cattle at this port
on Sunday, for Lake Superior.
An exchange remarks that waiting
for failure of the Presidents policy
must be pretty dismal business now.
CHILDREN LINEN SUITS, cloaking
ETC., in great variety at
j. SCHUETTE & BRos.
IT is proposed to introduce a new
social recreation called s'carpet beating"
They will be classed as lawn parties.
TIE first cargo of wheat ever shipped
direct TO Buffalo from Manitowoc left
last Week.-Chronicle.
You mean the first cargo this season.
A BUFFALO man has been held in $500
bail fer opening his wife's letters. This
item is given for the information of hus-
bands.
The Queen Of May now has her throat
done up in red flannel and wears a mus
tard plaster where it will do the most
good.
Jos. SrEHLE, Assessor, is making the
rounds of the city aud leaving blank
property statements for the eager tax
payers to fill out.
PATENT REVERSIBLE BRoCHE SHAwLs,
Shetland shawls, in white and scarlet, at
J. ScHUETTE & Bros.
THE alarm of fire on Tuesday evening
had the effect of getting the entire fire
flames to conquer.
NORTHERN Wisconsin Sunday School
Association will hold its annual convo-
cation at Fort Howard, May 18th and
10th. Choose your delegates.
An official statement issued oy the
Treasury Department shows that the de-
crease of the United States debt from
March L, 1859, to April so, 1877 was
S455, 104, 642.
LAST Saturday night the depot build
ing and the saloon of John Guse, at
Forest Junction, was destroyed by fire.
The saloon was insured the depot
building was not.
IT has been decided by the Board of
Managers to lsy out the base ball grounds
on the lots near the depot, and they will
be enclosed, le7eled and otherwise put
in first class shape for the season.
PRIVATE letters have been received
here by Hanson & Scove, from the Schr.
John Schuette, at Hamburg, stating
that she arrived there all right and will
probably take general cargo to ST.
Petersburg.
JOHN ROBERTS, a Ripon farmer, raised
IL, 700 bushels of wheat last year, and
registered VOW not to sell 2 bushel for
less than 81. SO week ago he hauled
the entire crop to town at S1.95, and
raked in a small fortune.
LADIES If you want a perfect fitting
and fashionable cloak, dolman OF linen
suit, you should call and examine our
stock before buying elsewhere. We
think we can suit you as well in regard
to style and fit as in prices.
J. SCHUEFTE & Bros.
ONCE in while you find man who
prefers city weekly to his home paper
because ''is's got more readin' in it. -
He is the same chap who always buys
the largest pair of boots in the box, be-
cause they cost no more than a smaller
pair which fit him best
ONE day last week while VIM. Johns,
a well known Manitowoc mechanic, was
at work repairing some machinery in
Fullerton's mill, Mt Shawano, he had the
misfortune to get his left hand caught
Ia belt and was unable to release it
before the first two fingers were cut of
THE Vessel-owners' Association OF
Detroit, through its chairman, Capt.
Joseph Nicholson, and its secretary, A