The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-03-01
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

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Il. Il. HAYES will be inaugurated az
President of the United States next
Monday.
| PRESIDENT GRANT hns issued procla-
nation officially announcing the extra
dition treaty with Spain d
THERE is q chanc that 10y the aid of the
| Southern Democrats the Republicans
will secure the organization of the new
House.
WISCONSIN is to be the straw which
shall break the ''Reforn" cancels back
it being the last in the list of States TO
be counted
A MEASURE has been introduced in the
Michigan Legislature appropriaGing 800,
900 for representation of The State at the
Paris Exposition.
JOHN MOORE, of the town OF Eden,
tried the experiment of cooking gun
with his foot, by which he lost pair
of fingers, and barely escaped losing
his head.
On Saturday last two boys, sons of
Mr.. Lang residing at Eagle Mills, near
Fountain City. Wis, found an old re-
volyer with which they were playing,
when it went off, killing one Of them in
stantly.
WISCONSIN, Republicans are urging
! Senator Howe, of that State, foE the va
cant Supreme Court Judgeship, and so
confident are they of his choice if Davis
resigns during President Grants term
that they are looking for successor for
Howe IL a the Senate and are men
tioning Colonel c. K. Keyes.-Iste1'
! ocean.
The Messrs. Frank Crikelair & I. De-
grandgagDage. CT Green Bay, on whose
farms the large deposit Of lumber was
found last fail, are preparing to bring
the article iuto market. They have four
men there erecting building and suit
able grinding machinery, and have COM
menced mining the lumber. Mr. erik
clair has the sole agency for the sale
of the lumber and will be able to make
his first trip to introduce the material in
about two weeks.
Two swirdlers who gave their names
as George 3. Maloy, of Mansion, and
Horace L. kimball, of Oswego, n. Y,
secured the payment OF a draft for 5000
at the City Bank Of Portage, purporting
to have been drawn by the Lake Ontario
National Bank of Oswego, \. Y, by
Daniel G. Fort, cashier, on the national
Shoe and Leather Bank of n. Y. city, in
favor OF Horace T. Kimball. An at.
tempt was made to catch them the next
day, but they had escaped.
SPECIAL. AGENT STUART, of the Post
Office Department, who has been in Chi.
cago for several days looking into the &C
counts of the Chicago Postofice, has
discovered that Gen. Macarthur, the
postmaster, is defaulter to the amount
of SIS, 900. This fact was ascertained
Saturday, when Gen. Macarthur tele.
graphed his resignation to the post
master general at Washington, and then
went into voluntary bankruptcy. 1t is
believed his boDdsmen ara also bank
, rupt.
The fftyseven Democratic revolution
lists in Congress, or Friday evening,
again voted TO delay the electoral count
by deciding, in caucus, to favor a recess
from that day till Monday, and then til
| Tuesday. Yet these same men voted fol-
the bill whose operations they now seek
TO defeat. Fine statesmen these. exalted
patriots Let tue people remember
| that one-third of them have been rele
gated to private life by their constitu
ents, and the majority of the remainder
| will no doubt follow two years hence.
II is intimat ell that our Legislature
may delay final adjournment il the ex-
pectation that there may be a vacancy t.
ill IN our Senatorial delegation, by tht
appointment Of Senator Howe to the
Supreme Court. Such contingency is
not very likely to occur at all, and if i
should, il viii not be for some weeks
1t is apparent that Davis will not resign
until 4th of March, and the incoming
President will have so many other mat
tiers of more Immediate importance tC
attend to that the vacancy would not
probably, be filled forsome weeks there
after.
TIE vote of Florida, Louisiana, Ore
gon and South Carolina-tbe only State
Of whose action on November eth there
was any qaestion-hava been declared
for Hayes and Wheeler, and the Demo
Gratis have TO peg left upon which t.
hang hope. Some of the hot-heads o
Congress are making superhUman efforts
TO defeat the declaration of Hayes elec
ton by dihtory measures, but we have
the assurance that ii that game is prac
ticed after to day the Senate will adop
tinued struggle ended, so that before an
other Issue of this paper is laid before
our readers we confidently expect ths
government to be under the administra
ton of E. B. Hayes. UPON this result
we congratulate our readers.
THE Democratic party was ''reform
party last year. The reform candi
date for the Presidency resides at /:
Grammercy Park, to which house the
following dispatch FRONT Oregon was sent