The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-12-27
& Column Of News.


pus IN England.
It is reported that the Grand Duke Of
Baden is about to abdicato.
Large numbers Of Canadians are enlist
ing III the Papal army in Rome
The elephant Romeo killed his keeper at
Marlborough, Montgomery county, Penn,
on the 10Th.
Gen. Hancock has issued an order re-
versing an order Of Gen Mower removing
snndry officers.
The Legislature Of California has elected
Eugene Casserly, Democrat, United States
Senator to succeed Mr. Conness.
1t Is generally believed that the Senate
Will not agree to repeal the cotton tax, but
VIII reduce 1t to one cent.
Prominent Democrats are taking steps
to bnng Gen. John y. Dix forward as
Democratic candidate for President.
4 despatch dated London, Goth, nine
O'Clock p. m, states that u conHagration is
raging at Newcastle on the-Tyne.
Among those slightly injured by the late
accident on the Lake Shore Railroad, is
Mrs. }. Ii. TyEicrson, of Waukesha, Wis.
-Four men named English, Mulvaney,
y hcefe and Desmond have been arrested
Tor completely IN the Clerkenweil expio.
sion.
y broken car wheel is asccrtained 10
have been the cause of the recent horrible
disaster on the Buffalo & Ohio Railroad.
y Washington despatch states that Min
iSter lIao mas been negotiating tor the pur-
chase o. CUBA Tor some tlme, with d fair
prospect Of success.
Chas. y. Dana has bought the New York
SHa for $4,000. Mr. Beach retains
small interest. The Office is to be removed
to Iammany Hall.
A Liverpool despatch states that the Fe
n'an alarm continues, and that special DO
lIcemcn are being sworn and the guards
around the prisons strengthened.
The third incendiary fire which has vis
lted Hlcksburg within the past week, &C.
! CURED Thursday night, and destroyed
property to the value Of $57 GOO; insured
| tor $50 600.
a gas explosion, at a dwelling house in
Boston, on Friday morning, killed an Old
lady named Rebecca Burnett, aud injured
several persons, and made CON plete wreck
OF the building.
Later adyices from the recent battle on
the Parana show that the Paraguayans,
|
! turned upon by the enemy and completely
routed, with heavy loss.
The effort for the removal of Mr.. Rol-
| lins from the Commissionership of Internal
| Revenue, by the friends OF General Stead
man, has failed. The President and See
retary McCulloch are satisfied with him.
The Austrian Rcichsrath has passed
! b-II assigning to the several provinces and
| 10 the kingdom of Hungary their proper
! tons of a tax, tue proceeds Of " hich are to
/ 0e applied 10 ihc payment OF the national
debt
The H'ar Department has furnished the
| Military Committee with a complete hst Of
/ all military stations and eposts, and the 10,
cation OF officers and men, in order that
they may see where they can best afford to
dispense with both officers and men.
The President did not send the District
OF Columbia Suffrage Bill back to Con
! gress with a veto message. and, inasmuch
as Congress has adjourned over the holidays
he viii withhold his signature, thus killing
the measure. Congress will probably, on
| re assembling, pass 1t again. &.
The Louisiana Convention on Friday
adopted q resolution requesting Congress to
provide that all public lands and all lands
sold On executions from United States
| Courts be sold III tracts OF not less than
| fifty nor more than one hundred acres, no
one person to buy more than one tract.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Rela
! tons are nearly unanimous against the Da-
nish treaty for purchasing of her the West
India islands, and the friends''of the treaty
now ask postponemont of it, or that the
committee will merely report back to the
! Senate for debate, where it will certainly be
| lost.
Mrs. Susan B. Anthony is at Washing
ton completing arrangements for starting
reform paper in New York, in January,
called The Rer0lution, Mrs. Il. g. Stanton
and Parker Pillsbury, editors, and Mrs.
Anthony, proprietor. George Francis
Train will soon arrive, and a campaign for
woman's suffrage at once begun.
Mr. McCulloch, in response to call of
! the House, returns the amount OF tax on
| crude spirits recorded in the whole State of
| Illinois for six months up 10 November %,
! 1867, at less than 1914 600, which is not a
hunaredth part Of the tax that ought to
have been received. During the four
months commencing August !, 1866, sin
gle house in Quincy, ILL.,, paid a tax on
crude spirits OF between S4O0,OOO and
| $500 900.
Workmon engaged in excavating for the
pier of the bridge over the Mississippi at
| St. Louis, few days since, came upon the
wreck Of the steamer Glencoe, which was
wrecked By boiler explosion seventeen
gears ago. Six skeletons were found inn
! bedded in the mud on the deck. The
| Glencoe, when wrecked, had just landed
from New Orleans, and was thronged with
persons looking for friends, hotel agents,
f! etc The three boilers exploded at once,
/! and the boat disappeared A large mum
/ bCr were known to be killed, many more
were missing. and the affair created great
excitement which led to the licensing Of
engineers by the Government.
/ The State Department IS busily engaged
! In preparing an answer to the Senate rcso-
/ luton calling for the Alabama correspond
ence, and other kindred papers. The re-
/ plg will be very luminous. and will, I'M
d l. y.