The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-10-25
CITY AND COUNTY.
MaasitozOoc. 7 THURSDAY, October IS

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THERE was Mouse-nest in the con-
vention of Saturday.
THE Democratic convention was a
harm onO-i-us affair.
THE express failed to bring the daily
papers Monday night.
The Temple of honor now numbers
ninety seven members.
The board of registration are now
rectifying, revising. etc.
NASH might write something beautiful
on the weather we are having.
BASE BALL has given place to hunting
as an amusement and exercise.
WE are in receipt of communication
which must lie over until next week.
BASE ball last Monday. Pete John
ston played star game with his feet.
A wH1RLGIG or thin ala gig or some
| thing of that kind is somewhere in town.
THE price of wheat nowadays is as
varablea as the style of Walkers whiskers.
SOME sneak thief stole the Mill books
from the Office of Louis Busch of Reed
vile.
THOSE who attended the Presbyterian
sociable Tuesday night report slots of
| fun
THE birds are appointing committees
to discuss the ACCESSIBILITY of moving
south.
WHEN Buck puts on his standing col
lar it increases his weight just five
pounds.
A FARMER of the town of Cato had
valuable COW stolen from him some time
last week.
ELECTION two weeks from Tuesday
next. How Walker and VIII Nash
quak with fear.
The literary society, consisting of
pupils of the high school, now numbers
thirty members.
WILL NASH is on the dragged edge"
pending the election /; he says things are
very doubtful in politics.
Plumb & Nelson having enlarged their
store have begun to enlarge their stock
to make things come out even.
THE melancholy note of the wild goose
now breaks OH the Silly air as she wings
her flight toward warmer chimes.
ANEW locomotive made its appearance
on the Lake Shore Road this week.
This is the twelfth engine on the road.
ALL wool Beaver for cloaks and ever
coats, very good quality, for So, at
J. ScHUErrE e Bros.
The steamers were finally forced to
succumb to the storm. Saturdays boat
did not arrive here until Sunday night.
KISSING by telephone is said to be
the latest invention. We 'stake this
opportunity" to express our preference
for the old way.
The schooner Day-spring of Sheboy-
gan while attempting to turn around in
the harbor struck against the dock and
broke her dolphin.
A few weeks of this beautiful weather
would make ample amends for the
worst storm that ever howled over the
bleak rocks of st. Helena.
DEMOCRATIC Conventions have gen.
aroIIx- TWO 1utiao RI r,orforr, Nop,ino+o
candidates and mediate between rival
delegates from Maple Grove.
Tine rain which lately has been be-
slowed on us with such lavish hand,
proved too much for the soaking capacity
of some of the cellars in town.
PIEN1NG having more money than he
knows what to do with, is putting it
into goods and filling up his store SO
that customers can hardly get in.
How do you like (y) our ticket? We
will bet two to one that we will elect our
County Superintendent and member
from the second district this fall.
THE Depere papers can throw more
dirt and bilhngsgate at each other than
any other papers we know of. How in
teresting it must be for their subscri-
bers.
THE young men on the south side
have rented a club room on Eighth
street, and propose to enjoy the long
winter evenings there.
The moot court holds its first session
on Friday night ut the Office of Nash &
Schmitz. Shades of Blackstone and
Chancellor Kent, won't law be rampant.
THE best assortment of cloaks can be
found at Schuette's. They always keep
a full line from the low priced ones at
50, up to the finest beaver and natal
lessi.
A BOY in the employment of J. F.
Dumke, in jumping out of a wagon one
day this week, had his foot caught be-
tween the spokes and wrenched out of
joint.
THERE were sixty members present
at the last meeting of the Temple of
Honor. 1t terminates the first year of
its existence with an increase of mem
bership and but few backsliders.
AT Saturday night dance in the for
mer Empire saloon, some young bloods
in attendance tried their hands at blood
letting. We are glad to report that the