The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-11-30
Items of News.

600 to be converted into model lodging
houses. -
- Laura Keenas (the New York &C.
tress, real Bhme is Sally Taylor,
Many Of the southern papers come
TO us with turned column rules, mourning
for the impending fate Of the Union.
Lady Franklin visited the new regi-
mental gymnasium, opened for the first
time in New York on Thursday last.
Thursday the 5th was the one hun
dred and seventy eighth anniversary of
the landing of William Penn on Pennsvl
vauia soil at '' old Chester"
A young man, Alexander Gordon,
was shot dead the other night, while as
sailing a brothel, in Syracuse, n. Y, of
which Belle Williams is the mistress.
- The work of finding bodies of the
dead Of the Lady Elgin disaster still con-
tinues. The lake last week gave up fifteen
bodies, making a total of about $40
- The number of deaths resulting f. ON
| the Globe steamship disaster at Chicago
is already fourteen.
- On election day the sum of s28 was
contributed at Harrisburg, Pa, to the
Washington National Monument. There
acas some balm in Gilead."
The Original MSS. of Burns immor-
tai Scots VIVA Hae,' was to be sold, with
other relics, at auction in London, on the
! 10th inst
A young lady, writing as enthuasti
cally as young ladies generally do, por-
trays Garibaldi as - dear old weather
beaten angel"
"A brother of Charles Dickens is en-
ployed in the land office of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company. He does
little in the literary line.
= In Birmingham, England, woman
was recently arrested for numbering SIX of
her children during the past ten years.
"A destitute young girl was found in
the street, in Boston day or two ago, and
on being taken to the police office, gave
birth to a child.
A young sea serpent three feet three
inches long, headed like a mackerel and
tail like a rat, and name an inch and a
half long, was caught in Miles River, Nd,
last Saturday.
DUELLING IN PARIs-It is said that out
Of one hundred and ninety five duels fought
in Paris during the last year, only two
have proved fatal to the combatants.
At recent private fancy ball in Sa-
vannah Miss Albania appeared asMusic,
A with at least a million dollars worth of dia-
monds in her attire. Truly, Music had
charms" on that occasion.
/ = Mary Thomson a Jealous courtezan,
al Galveston, Texas, put out an old lovers
eye for abandoning her for a new flame
t They often " shut up" peoples eyes.
K - Miss Georgietta Tucker eloped with
; a negro barber from Toledo Ohio, lately,
b and they were married at Detroit. The
= young lady is represented as highly ac-
complished.
: Edward Everett is about to enrich
5 our literature with a g." Life of Franklin"
} which shall embrace the whole Of his ca
reer in one continuous narrative.
B. 7. Shillaber, ("Mrs. Partington,' "
it appears is not elected member of the
Massachusetts Legislature after all. The
official count elects his opponent. We
: should like to know Mrs. P's opinion Of
politics,
A widow of 80, living at Stratford,
Canada, lately sued a youn. man of TWEEN
ty one for SO 600 damage for breach of
, promise of marriage. The jury gave her
$500. ~
Morrissey, the pugilist. is said to have
. won $4,000 in betting on the Presidential
E election.
GENERAL ScoTr.- General Scott is the
Il
e is six feet six inches tall, and weighs two
: hundred aud sixty pounds. He is seven
ty>four years old yet his health i. good
and his whole system apparently vigorous,
, much Of which is doubtless owing TO his
, temperate habits.
TAR AND FEATHERS James says
. the first mention of this singular punish
] nfent occurs in one of the regulations form
t ed IL Richard Coeur de Lion for the gov
eminent OF lis troops, when about to enter
upon the second crusade, that if any one
/; should be discovered committing robbery,
! he should be tarred and teathered.
HAPPY VALLEY.-A pedestrian traveller,
through the valley of Cashmere gives
glowing account of its prosperity. The
, soil is cultivated to the top of the little hills,
roads are excellent. handsome bungalows
and gardens meet the eye on every side !;
: public edifces are rebuilt; and the peo-
pie are everywhere busy and contented.
AN Iron PALACE The Pasha of Egypt
is establishing magnificent palace Quilt Of
French cast iron, for museum ofantiqui-
ties, to be filled with relics of antiquity
found in Egypt, in the execution of which
$500 men are employed under the direc-
, ton of Farriette, the French archaolo-
gist.
MARRIED Clover Lea, Hanover
. county, Va, Col Lewis w. Washington,
+. of Bell Air Jefferson county, Virginia, to
Ella NJ, daughter of George w. Bassett.
t Esq. In this marriage singular conci-
cence occurs, the groom being the great
grandson of two brothers Of Gen. Wash
ington and the bride of the great grand,
8 daughter of the only sister of Gen. Wash
! lnpton. and also great GRAND dauphter Of