The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-08-19


the road, an opinion which seems to be
shared by the papers generally that com
ment on it. The bridge, which fell, was
thirty-two feet above water, and it is as
serted, and appears generally to be be-
lieved, to be so rotten as to be scarcely able
to sustain its own weight.
SHoT.-A Prussian Colonel, having been
suspected of forwarding plans of certain
Prussian Notifications to the French gov
eminent, has been tried by court-martial,
condemned and shot.
SCARCITY OF PorAroEs.-The drought
has affected the potatoe crop of Wisconsin
so seriously that the fall yield will not be
one third that of last year.
CAPTURE OF SHARK-A shark weigh
ing over 700 pounds, and measuring seven
and half feet in length and three and a
half feet around the girth, was captured
by party of sharkers from New London,
on the Goth ult 1t was caught in the
Sound just out from New London, Conn.
GREENWOOD Cemetery, near New York
City, was founded in June 1910, and from
that month to the 23d ult., 5000 bodies
took up their residence in the silent city.
Greenwood will, in the end, outstrip New
York, and ere many years be able to count
its inhabitants by millions.
A BOY of the name of Forbes, about 16
years of age, was killed in the town of
Plymouth, Sheboygan county, last week
by a swing gate, which fell on him frac-
turing his scull.
A BoY WITH HoRNs.-The Kinds Coun-
ty, (Miss.) Gazette, gives an account of a
negro boy in that region, eight years old,
who has horns on his head. The horns
are said to be three inches long, and pro-
ject from the head above each ear, and to
interfere considerably with wearing a hat
They are stiff and hard, but not flinty, as
are the horns of quadrupeds.
TIE next annual address before the
State Historical Society, is to be delivered
by E. G. Ryan.
THE New York Herald is of the opin
ion that the large surplus of wheat this
year will command more than the average
price obtained for American wheat ship
ped to Europe during the past ten years.
Hope this will be so.
The Milwaukee News gives figures on
which to base pretty accurate estimate of
the wool clip of Wisconsin for the pres
ent season. There have been marketed
already about $4,000 lbs. at an average
of 40c per ID, and doubtless there are yet
fully $4,000 lbs unsold, so that the aggre-
gate may be safely set down at 100000
lbs, which gives 100000 as the value of
the wool crop this season.
A MAN named Dillon, aged about forty
FIVE years, living in the town Of Forest,
Fond du Lac Co., committed suicide on
the night of the 1st inst, by hanging him
self to a projecting log in his stable.
A MILWAUKEE BUYER AT THE Ono
Wool FA1R.-We see by the report of the
Cleveland wool sales, that Mr.. II. Hill, of
Milwaukee, bought 10000 lbs. full blood
Ohio fleece, at 53c; $1,000 lbs selected
Ohio feeces, 55c; 1000 lbs fancy tleeces
selected from the best clips in Ohio, at 60
1-2c.
OUrRAGE.-The Rome, N. Y, Sentinel
says: "a negro by the name of George
Little, is in Rome Jail from Western, for
committing rape upon young (white)
woman Of responsibility, near Hillsdale, in
that town. The girl is about II or Is
years of age, as we hear; and was going
along the tow path of the Black River
canal, when she was me; or oyertaken, and
brutally ravished.
A LOT of land in St. Louis, Is feet front
by 70 feet in depth, was recently sold for
$4,000 which is said to be the highest
price ever paid for land in that city.
The Chicago Tribune says, that one
Michael Joy who was sent to the peniten-
tiary at Joliet for five years, and who has
three years yet to serve, has just fallen heir
to fortune of $4,000 left by an uncle in
California, and transmitted from thence to
New York where it is now in the hands of
Mr.. Fargo, of the Express company. Pc
titions are naturally in circulation for
Mixes release.
THE DRoUGHr IN OH1o-A feeling of
gloom pervades the people of Ohio gener
ally, on account of the severe and long
continued drought The frost was great
calamity, but the drought bids fair to be
even worse. The grass is generally dried
up; potatoes, which are now in the set,
may be a failure; corn is suffering badly;
and all other crops come in for share of
the calamity.
Ertraoagant Dinners at .Saratoga-
One lady is reported to have given din
ner, to twenty friends, which cost $500,
and New York banker paid $3.50 for
twenty eight persons. A Southerner,
however, surpasses that, he having paid
81 400 for one dinner, the largest private
dinner ever given at that fashionable re-
sort.
DRowSED.-Col. VIM. V. Hickey, of
Mississippi, who served in the Mexican war
with Gen. Quitman, and distinguished
himself at the battle of Monterrey, recently
fell into the Mississippi river from the deck
of a steamer, and was drowned.
THaAsHISG BY SrEAM.-T. Vansant, of
Kent county, Maryland, was last week en-
gagged in thrashing wheat by steam. 1t
requires two feeders and about thirty
hands, and thrashes and fans from six to
eigh. hundred bushels per day.
The CUBAN MATCH IN New YORK.
Esteban St. Cruz Ovieda, a Cuban planter,
is about to marry Miss Fanny Bartlett of