The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-11-22
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ROBERT BUCHANAN, Lne poet, mas "a
pension of $500 a year.
The population OF the Black Hills
mining country is IL, 900.
GIRLS in Georgia wear hats made of
natural leaves and flowers.
GERMANTOWN, Pa, has Maltese cat
which weighs eighty pounds.
GEN. SKoBELFFF went into the battle
of Plevna with white kid gloves.
LARGE quantities of grain are being
shipped from New Orleans to Europe.
THE Emperor William, of Germany,
will celebrate his golden wedding next
fall
HUGo's stHistory of a Crime" has
already reached its thirtieth edition in
Paris.
VANDERBILT is discharging engineers
and fremen who engaged in the great
strike.
CorToN- SEED oil, shipped to Europe,
comes back to America and is sold as
"pure olive OIL
KENTUCKY, Tennessee, Virginia and
North Carolina have all cut and housed
fine tobacco crops.
SINCE the Crimean war England has
reduced her national debt from $780,
900, 900 to e712,0O0,00O.
New YORK has twenty sugar refneries,
some of which produce $500 barrels a
day, OF nearly 500, 900 pounds.
Ten Texas cattle breeders alone own
], 024, 600 cattle, besides horses and
mules, and have pasture inclosed con-
tanning 692, 900.
The first printer ever confined in the
Jacksonville, Ind, penitentiary, has
ust been committed for life. His name
George Woods.
In Indiana there are at present 80, $50
full-fellowsbip Methodists, and 5, 969 on
probation, and Indiana is not very re-
igious State either.
A LITTLE girl in Terre Haute died
from the effects of swallowing a tack. It
lacerated her throat in such manner
that she began vomiting blood, and died
soon after in great agony.
A WEsTERN-BoUND emigrant aston
ished some Kentuckians by riding into
their midst on a COW. He proposes to
continue his journey the same way,
milking the COW when he takes his meals.
TALL varieties OF trees are far more
numerous among us than in Europe.
There are not more than forty kinds
there that attain hight of thirty feet,
whereas in North America there are
about 140.
In 1868 the postofice delivery at the
town of Pithole was the third largest in
Pennsylvania. Last November It cast
SIX votes, and the survivors of the great
Oil metropolis have now petitioned for a
dissolution of its charter.
PUBLIC executions have been abolished
IN Sweden. They are to take place in
prison interiors in presence only of few
functlonarles and Of a dozen citizens
chosen By the people of the district
where the execution may take place.
ASHAKER community at Pleasant Hill.
Ky, have had series of matrimonial
7nisfortunes recently which threatened
to destroy the society. First, q young
man and a young woman eloped, then
an Old man and an old woman travelled
the same road; and within month nine
more marriages have taken place.
BosToN has spent within the year
$l2O, GOO in sweeping and cleaning the
streets, work that employs eighty-six
men, fifty horses, twenty -slx,,wagons, six
water carts aad ten sweeping machines.
During the warm weather the principal
Ilorougn1ares are swept regularly every
morning, and the other streets twice
week.
In Auburn prison on Oct. 20 there
were ,4O5 convicts. Fifty three of that
number were 81 life men," of whom, on
their entrance the oldest was 81 years
old the youngest Is. The man longest
IN the prison was sent there on Sept. Is,
1858. The average cost of supporting
each convict is $7O.31 yearly; or 10 cents
and 3 mills daily.