The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-04-19
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uSI Clty WdIC1.
THE new Vagrant law of Indiana fails
to "hold water"
GRAssHoPPERs grow faster than corn
in Leon county, Texas.
FRUIT in Georgia, with the exception
OF pears, is in promising condition.
The prohibitionists of Ithaca, N. Y,
have decided to allow women to vote at
their caucuses for candidates for town
officers
THREE is great restitution among the
miners in the Wyoming basin, Pennsyl-
vania, and thousands are suffering from
hunger.
IT cost nearly $1,000 lest year to col
lect and print the returns asked for by
various members of the British Parlia-
ment.
A sKTEEN-nNoH vein OF coal. was pierced
by artesian well-diggers at Omaha, last
week, at a depth of one hundred and
thirty feet.
SEVERAL leading attorneys of Topeka,
Kan, refused retainers in behalf of Viii
son, the murderer of Swayze, and ten
dered their services to the prosecution.
GEORGE LAWSON, for iftytwo years an
editor in New York State, has withdrawn
from the editorship of the Albany Even-
ing Journal, and is succeeded by Charles
E. Smith.
THE Black Hills Pioneer speaks of
the biggest cleanup of the season
seventy pounds of gold, or $16, 300, the
result of one weeks labor. This from
the Father DeSmet lode.
A CocK-FIGHT at the New York Hippo
drome was broken up on Tuesday night
by Henry Bergh's officers. When they
took the birds from the pit they turned
out to be dummies, working on wires.
THE San Francisco Bulletin prints fig
11res to show that seventy-three mines on
the Pacific coast have paid $92, 423, 100 in
ten years. Of this amount thirteen of
the Comstock mines distributed $76, O34, :
500.
A REMARKABLE fondness for canned
oysters having been noticed among the
inmates of the Albany jail, one of the
keepers made an examination and found
that the cans supposed to contain oysters
contained whisky.
AN ordinary man may hide broken
heart under a hollow smile, but it takes
a man of towering genius to meet a party
of lady friends, and hide an acre and a
half of Goldfish behind little bottle of
heliotrope perfumery.
GA WANT long felt," says the San
Francisco Chronicle, "has at length
been filed by the opening Of drinking
saloon on Montgomery avenue, at q
point where five doors interviewed with
out such an indispensable convenience F."
The Rhode Island House has passed a
bill providing that married woman
whose husband has neglected to provide
for her support for six months shall have
the same control of her property aud
under the same laws as if she were
single.
The gross earnings of the Central
Pacific railroad during January and Feb
ruary last amounted to $2,O76,OO This
is by far the largest two months earn
ings, although the Eastern traffic has
fallen off. The increase was in the local
traffic.
YHE people Of Deadwood are very
hostile to the project for branch rail
road from the Union Pacific at Cheyenne
or Sidney to the Black Hills. Such a
line would make Custer, on the other
side of the mountains, the metropolis of
the hills, and leave Deadwood out in the
cold
Two GIRAFFEs recently escaped from
the Jardin d'Acclimation, Paris, and
trotted gayly along the avenues of the
Bots de Boulogne. Their liberty was,
however, of short duration for two
men on horseback were sent after them.
and having soon captured them led them
back to their quarters with halters around
heir necks.
In sentencing wife-murderer to death
in an English court, the only plea offered
being that he was maddened by drink,
Justice Manisty broke out with excla-
nations of horror at the misery and
crime which drunkenness was daily bring
ing before him, and exclaimed, ooh,
that we might end it by administering
the law p
GEORGE ". TYLER, a San Francisco
lawyer, was counsel for Mrs Ann G..
Pratt in a suit for divorce The suit was
successful, and Mr.. Tyler presented
bill for 100000. The client paid Mr..
Tyler 81 900, and was sued for the s99,-
900. She refused to pay. A jury has
returned a verdict for $40, OOO-ten times
as much as the client estimated the servi-
ces to be worth, and one-tenth as much as
the lawyer sued for.
a Card for Rational Readers.
Irrational people always reject good advice
and IN nothing Is their folly more frequently
conspicuous than in ignoring precautions neces-
sary for the retention of health. Forecast on
the other hand, is q notable characteristic of
the RATIONAL and It is the exercise of this quail
1ty which We would suggest to them. Protect
the system against diseases which fasten upon
the debilitated, the nervous and the dyspeptic
by bracing the physique, regulating the stomach,
bowels and liver, and banishing dependency,
with the purest and most efficient of botanic nvg
Grants. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. That these
effects follow its use, and that it prevents as
well as annihilates intermittent and remittent
fevers, are facts established by indisputable evil
dence. To enjoy the twin blessings of "a
sound mind and sound BODY" in all their
plenltude, try a course of inis sterling medi-
cins.