The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-03-15

date contains the following:
IAN obscure village, on the lake shore
north of here, somewhere near Centreville,
boasts of two newspapers, the editors OF
which have for the past two or three weeks
been attempting to poke fun at Sheboygan.
We had not intended to notice such trivial
concerns from more smaller sources, as the
editor of the Times, of this city, first called
them out in an article of his relative to the
taxes of Mantowoc, but as they seem to
have dried up" his ink we will have to
drop in shot.
AS everybody knows-we beg pardon,
but very few this side of Centrevi!le know
where Manitowoc ocis-Manitowoc is generally
called the jumping off place. Until
lately its citizens have been contented by
living quietly, trading their shingles and
cedar posts for whitefsh, and their white
fish. for shingles and cedar posts Until
lately, We say, they have lived contented
and happy-''none knew them but to love
them"-i. e., themselves Capt Good
rich, of Goodrich S line of steamers, sop
ped there last summer, and from the many
hne oaks and pine trees standing in the vii
lage he thought it would be a good place to
build vessel He built one there last
winter and in compliment to the fine oak
and pine growing in the village, he named
her the "Manitowoc. The Manitowoc
editors have been insane ever since, and
most of the rest of the aborigines The
other day, as we see by the Manitowoc
litot, some enterprising individual moved
building on a wagon from the Rapids to
that place, and from the glowing description
given OF it a comparative stranger would
think it the Crosby Opera House," Yo
Semitic Valley and all. -
Well, Mr. Journal, you have fred your
little gun, but didn't you forget to put the
shot in? If not, you must have GER
taiDly hit your neighbor, the Times" for
we don't hear of anybody being hurt here
abouts. We are nothing at all rufled or
astonished at the Journals oblivity concern
ing Manitowoc and it's resources, when We
remember the visit of inspection, made by
the SHARP looking representative of that
paper year or two ago, and its attending
circumstances. A state of solar somnam-
bulism does not, We believe, quicken o,
stimulate the percep,ivc faculties, however
much it may assist its dim eyed subjects in
stepping off sidewalks, bridges, bluffs and
precipices (our readers will see that
jumping off, is still the uppermost idea in
the Journal editor head, and We amaze
and wonder, in view of what we know,
that the man should remember having seen
any such staples as pines, oaks, whitc-fsh,
OF cedars. We think it should have read
bourbons, layers, malts, ryes and German
.heatricals. However, strange halucinations
betake men at times, and christian charity
must bear with their infrmities.
If we mistake not, the moving of build
iLgs from the Rapids to Manitowoc, is
referred to with evident chagGn by the
journal. That paper sees glimmer of sub.
stantial hope for the poor owners Of tenant
less houses in dilapidated Sheboygan, and
its Imagination sees the exodus of the fatec
city (save the last word) on the Manitowo,
road with their houses en- route for Mani
towoc, where there is living generation o.
living men with enterprise, capacity, ener
gy, and honesty-a people who don't havt
to apply to the Legislature to be allowed tt
settle with their creditors, but people thai
can do their own business without outside
assistance.
IF your link" Mr.. journal, should not
dry up, like your neighbor' s, give us another
squib, but please don't call it shot.