The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-09-16
A COLUMN OF NEWS.

whole population is ,O0U 600. The ag-
gregate of the salaries of the pastors of
these churches amounts to S52O,O00, or an
average of about s1,769 per annum each.
A MAN named Louis MarteI, residing at
Montreal, was on Wednesday fined $50
and costs, for having few days previous.
ly sold a glass of beer without having a
license.
Ex-JtDGE WATSON, of Charlton county,
Mo, has been indicted for robbng the
county safe of $4,000, about a year since
when he was acting as County Judge. He
is a man of wealth and of respectable
standing and associations.
The Montreal Witness regards the sum-
mer frost as blessing. The opinion gains
ground that the summer frosts which oc-
casioned so much alarm have been the
means of saving the wheat crop. Thew
kept back the nudge until it was too late
to do much harm.
VIM S. O'BRIEN, Esq, bas in addition
to his own subscription of e5, procured
from the members of his family a sum of
to to the Sarstield Memorial Fund.
WIN. L. YANcEY, the leading disunion-
list of the South, who is an advocate of
Congressional intervention for Slavery in
the Territories, has been beaten in his con-
test for the United States in Alabama. A
large majority of the Legislature are for
Governor Fitzpatrick, the present Senator.
THE New Orleans Delta SAYS that Bob
Harlan, the black groom who accompanied
Mr.. Ten Brock to England, and who is
one Of the best race managers in the Unit
ed States, won $4,000 on the recent sue
cesses Of the American horses.
HE Chicago papers complain of the
severe trosts that have prevailed of late.
In some OF the northern counties of that
State tender garden vegetables, Buckwheat
and some cornfelds were ruined.
Gov. RANDALL has pardoned W. II.
kempton, who was convicted in Brown
county, last fall, of arson, and sentenced TO
twelve years in the penitentiary.
Our of seven hundred deaths in New
Iork city week before last, upwards of five
hundred were children under ten years of
age. Swill milk, unripe or rotten fruit,
had nursing, and the foul atmosphere of
the filthy " tenant houses" are supposed
to be the seeds of this harvest of death.
In the museum at Hifaluten is a flea
skin, containing seven misers souls, seven
rich mems consciences, the principles of
seven leading Republican politicians seven
teen old bachelors hearts, and all the re-
naming sweetness of seventy old maids.
Mrs. MARY E. GARDENER, of Chenango
Forks, was arrested in Syracuse last Mon
day night, for wearing pants, coat, hat and
boots in the street. Before her arrest she
visited several restaurants, and attracted
particular notice by her neat attire, deli
cate figure, and jaunty carriage.
il Chicago, on the ODD valise contain
ing between $4,000 and $4,000 in notes.
papers, &c, was stolen, at the Wells street
depot, from passenger named Fowler, re-
siding IN Livingston county, New York.
THE chaplain of a United States vessel
stationed at the China seas says that la
boring man can live comfortably in the
interior of the country on food costing only
cent per day.
THE Chicago Democrat says there are
1900 drinking saloons in that city.
TEXAS and California are either Of them
larger than England, Ireland and Scotland
together.
THE estate Of George Brown, of Bati-
more, deceased, it is said, will not 90 over
100000, of which $3.50, 900 is in real
estate. He leaves nearly all to his wife
and family.
EIGHT persons in the jail at Columbus,
Ohio, made their escape on Saturday even
ing, by knocking down the jailor who was
entering to give them their supper.
THE great Western plains are literally
covered with buffalo. The number each
year seems to increase rather than dimin-
ish. They 90 in immense droves, and at
times seem to cast dark shadow over the
valley.
THE PoLIsH AND RUSSIAN RAILWAY
Twenty thousand men are at work on the
st. Petersburgh and Warsaw Railway, and
other lines are progressing.
TIMOTHY McCARTY, a young man, of
IRISH birth, was killed IN 1rempeleau coun-
ty on the Both of August, by log rolling
over him, which he was endeavoring to
load on to a truck.
IT is calculated that the books in the
Library of the British museum occupy ID
miles of shelf.
TWELVE hundred passengers sailed for
foreign ports by the steamer leaving New
York on Saturday week.
Chief Justice fancy, of the United States
Supreme Court, is eighty-two years old.
Some of the other Judges are over seventy.
A ScoTcHMAN aged 1902 years was found
homeless and destitute wandering about
the streets of New York last week. He
was cared for by the police. He said he
served under Lord Nelson in the battle Of
Trafalgar.
The TIDE OF GOLD.-On the 9th Mi.
the steamship Moses Taylor arrived at New
York from Aspinwall with S2,l26, 900 in
gold on board from California Telegraph
ic advices received by way of Tehuantepec
announced that the Sonora and Cortes are
on their way to Panama with 81 1872, 900