The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-04-04
THURSDAY, APRIL 4th, 1878.
Whitewater factory turns out 125

WHEAT sown March LIST, in La Crosse
county, Is now two inches high.
Tn fruit in southern Wisconsin is
thought to be uninjured by the late cold
snap.
JAS. BoorH. of Lisbon. Waukesha
county, last week sold thirty fat sheep
for $240.
IoRAIN, Polk county, boasts of having
only one unmarried woman and she is
engaged.
IMMIGRANTS from Germany and Aus
tria. In considerable numbers, are taking
up lands in Pepin county.
Ten carloads of horses were shipped
from Cincinnati on Friday for the British
army. More are wanted.
No MATTER how many grangers there
may be in the Legislature next year,
they won't raise Timothyvunless they
raise him out of his seat in the Senate.
LEE, the sheriff of Brown county, was
arrested Thursday and gave bail in $500
to answer April 18th to a second charge
Of assault with intent to commit rape.
THE Legislature will be called in extra
session abont the first OF June. The
only business to be transacted is the
consideration of the Revised Statutes.
The New York Express is becoming
personal. It says that to operate canals
by steam would retire donkeys enough
to stock two or three legislatures.
PARTIES who have been looking over
the Menomonee Iron range are excited
over the prospect, believing it will prove
the most valuable deposit Of iron ore
ever discovered.
Howe has afforded seat for nearly
every journal in the land, and the jour
nails don't seem to be particular how
hard they sit down, either. Timothy
looks very much 'ssquoze.'
AN old Indian at Traverse de Sioux
predicts that there viii be great freshet
in June and July, this season, and that
the Mississippi river wiz be as high as
in 1851 and 80.
MIR. BoTTsFoRD, of Pennington, Wau-
paca county, has invented an instru-
ment which he calls the Sticecommeter,
which ne assures will predict correctly
the season six months in advance, etc.
On Wednesday, while q son of Mr..
Sarbacker, IN the town of Montrose,
Dane county, was blowing, lightning
struck and instantly killed the team of
horses attached to the plow. The
young man was not injured.
DURING the past season Chicago has
packed 4,009,311 hogs, more than st.
Louis, Cincinnati. Milwaukee, Louis
vile and Indianapolis combined. And
still her directories show that the popu-
lation has not decreased
We have failed to find single news
paper in the State that defends Howe's
scurrilous attack upon the President
and Carl Shurz. In fact, the vile New
York Sun is about the only one in the
country to applaud the great blunderer.
A PROCLAMATION issued in Cuba,
under date Of March 9th, proclaims
total forgiveness and promises complete
oblivion OF all past events. The wounds
produced during The ten years struggle
for freedom will now be allowed to heal,
probably.
THE house Representatives has voted
to make the tariff bill the special order
for April 4th, and every day thereafter
until disposed of. The Republicans
generaily voted against the motion.
The vote was 137, ayes nays III.
RURAL, Waupaca county. prices: Po-
tatoes Is cents per busheI, eggs s cents
per dozen, ham 7 cents per pound, hut
ter 1879 per pound, johnnie-cake mater
ial 65 cents per 100 pounds.
A MAN in Dorchester writes as follows
to the Milwaukee TFjscons5sa: Il wish
to inform the public Ct a humbug in the
shape of grain called Australian rye.
which IS being sold for wheat. I have
tried it end it is a failure. Farmers
should bewars of such humbugs.'
CHISoH bugs are found in innumera.
bic quantities in the edges of fields, and
under logs and leaves in the timber.
A man. while digging well near Farm
ington, found them thirty feet below
the surface. Some farmers talk OF try
ing to cremate them by firing the woods.
II TH1sKI really believe that Mr..
Howe feels better now" remarks Presi-
dent Hayes, ard timothy losses and
writhes, and pulls at his handages and
shouts: sob, / feel sp1e1iaid-ow-
ouch-i never was SO happy in-oh, my.
happy in my-u9h-my life. Oh.
kill me, somebody, do,''-! Wisconsin.
TIE officials in charge Of Castle Gar
den. New York, report that immigration
is at present much heavier than it has
been for n long time. Those landing
are also said to be Of better class than
usual. being for the most part well
clothed. and supplied with more or less
cash.
The Shaboysan Times says: Work
on the extension of the Milwaukee,.
Lake Shore aud Western r. r. from
New London to Clinton7isle, II miles,
iaas beea quietly but steadily going for
ward for two or three months past. and
we understand that trains will be able to