The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-01-25


the spring.
The small schooner Reindeer is adver-
tised to be sold at hIarshal's sale in this
city on the 30th inst. ..~
THE schooner Minnehaha arrived from
Milwaukee on Friday evening, with
cargo of corn and salt. :.
The friends of Rev. J. w. Olmstead
viii hold a donation reception-at the
Methodist Church next "Wednesday eve
ming.
THE business of the NJ. L. S. and W.
r. r. is said to haze increased fully
twenty-five per cent. since the extension
of the line to New London.
The snow drifted to such an extent
during Saturday that the express train
on the NJ, L. S. and W. r. r. failed to
make its way through from the south.
An Oshkosh girl, who hung up her
stockings on Christmas eve, received a
silk dress and a bushel of apples in one,
and cabinet sewing machine in the
other.
TOMORROW, the Goth inst, the County
Board OF Supervisors viii convene. As
the Circuit Court is in session the mem
bers of the County Legislature will
probably do their work in the Sheriff's
Office.
A BUsHE1 of wheat was worth yester-
day, in this city, $1.3S. The prediction
that it would command $1.50 before
spring seems in a fair way to be fulfilled
and our farmers will be the happiest lot
of mortal5 in the land.
len members of the State Agricultur
al Society have declared in favor of
GAINESVILLE as the place to hold the State
Fair of 1877, provided the citizens of
GAINESVILLE raise $4,000 to erect suitable
buildings. 1t is very probable the fair
will be held in GAINESVILLE.
No quorum being present last Monday
evening, the few Aldermen who assem-
adjourn for one week. If we were one
of those city dads we should endeavor
to devote one evening in each month
to the discharge of our duty
BY announcement elsewhere in this
paper it will be seen that the Turner's
and the SengerbUnd have combined to
give a masquerade ball on Tuesday,
February 18th, which will be one of the
most successful ever held here. The
full programme will be oriu~-- faGer.
NEyEp- --4uept upon one occasion, was
prominent editor of a newspaper of
Milwaukee known to refuse to take a
joke, and that was the other day at noon
when the boys linked his spectacles, and
sent him home with a lantern to apollo
gize to his landlady for being out till
midnight,
TIE preliminary steps toward the
erection of at least three fine brick bust
ness houses in the city, in the spring,
are being taken. It Will not be sur
prising to US should public improve
ments next season be made on a scale
which will give the lie to the familiar
cry of ''hard tines
A HIGHLY interesting lecture was de-
livered in Turner Hall to fair audience
on Tuesday evening, by Mr.. Fritz
Schultz, his subject being t'The Child
and It's Meaning" Those of our Ger
man citizens who attended, pronounced
it one of the best lectures ever listened
to in this city.
A LARGE number of young people ia
| dulged in a sleigh ride to Two Rivers
last evening. They made the Lake
House their headquarters while there,
and of course cannot say enough in
praise of the good supper and kind
| treatment received at the hands of Mrs.
John Bonn.
The boys have habit of skating and
coasting on the sidewalks which, unless
stopped, will be the result of serious
injuries. Several cases where pedes-
TRANS were landed on their backs by
reason of their feet suddenly sliding out
from under them have come to our no
tice, but fortunately no serious injury
has resulted. You shouldn't do it, boys.
THE bark Constitution was sold at
Marshal's sale on Tuesday to Lem.
Ellsworth, of Milwaukee, who bid her
in at 3, 800. The Constitution was
wrecked last fall and brought to this
port, where she was thoroughly repaired
in Rand & Berger's dry dock. The coal
with which she was loaded was purchased
some time since by Truman and Morse.
STILL Notwithstanding the
| hard times and high prices, the sale of
d. Is. DeLand & Co Best Chemical
.SateratNs is still on the increase. Peo-
pie viii use it. and every successful
housewife tells her neighbor, and when
her neighbor tries it she tells another,
and thus its fame spreads until it is hard
to tell where it will stop.
Rev. G. W. WILSON died in Two Riv-
ers last Sunday morning. He was born
in Ovid, New York, in 1926, went to
Two Rivers in 1867 and established a
mission of the Reform church, since
which time, until prevented By i'll health,
he has been an interchangeable laborer for
the cause of christianity. He leaves a
wife and daughter and many friends in
Two Rivers and this CITY to mourn his