The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-12-25
Ths Pilots Budget of Scraps.

equaled Tor tIe past tea years.
Hon. William RodmaB, formerly May
or of Providence, Rhode Island, was found
dead in lis ted N that city on friday
morning.
The bo1es of pre-Adamite auirnals of
gigantic size ere found from time to time
in the deep geld washirgs Of Montana.
-The military commanders of the sew
eral districts OF the South report to the War
Department that all has been quiet there
since election day.
-Prosr ceting companies pass through
Washington City almost daily CD their way
South. they are generally men OF ample
means, anxious to invest In Southern en-
terpr;se.
AT Central City; Col, last week, sins
gle retoTt Of sold bullion, weighing 500
ounces. aEa worth ST. 600. was on exhibit
tor at n Arreu, Hussey 4 Co, 3 banking
house
The Council Bluffs Nonparea says that
passenger train PASSED over the temper
arg railroad b-idse at Council Bluffs only
ten minutes before the structure was swept
away.
1t is now thought that the number of
lives lost By the burning Of the steamers
America and United States, on the Ohio
river, vii! aot exceed sixty>fye. Fifty
four bodies n ave been recovered.
"A bout twenty~seven millions in gold
will be paid out 81 The Treasury, the first
of January, 70 meet the seini annual inter-
est. This win leave seventy millions in the
Treasury. aud some twenty three millions
more IN gold certificates
A farmer ia Derbyshire, England,
lately took prize at fair on three cab
bage that averaged y , pounds.
tfi.EfupAnra hot q
French gentleman, named Bryant, has pur-
chased land on Mis,io Ridge, with the in
tention Of establishing there colony of
French vine growers. The site is said to
be admirably adapted to the purpose
Martin Iuther's marriage ling is un-
dergoing repairs IN Saxony.
-AcOTus are now quoted IN the Market
Lane, London, corn market.
Might trains over Mont Gents are not
lighted
The young man 0ho asked the daugh>
ter's hand AMI got the fathers foot, had
the consolation Of knowing hat his wooing
was not boo.ess
"A Texas editor, on being asked how
he got along with his paper, said he had
written one editorial and shot three men N
the previous twelve months.
The smallest fossil horse yet seen was
lately found by Professor 0. q. Marsh, Of
Yale College. in the tertiary deposits of
Nebraska. Although full grown, as the
bones prove, il was only about two feet
high. This makes II species Of fossil
horse now kuoWu to have lived in North
America
A Bridgeport paper tells story Of a
young somnambulist in Sirattord, CT, who
went down t. the dock and fohcd for
an hour without having bite, and then
went back to bed, and in the morning was
entirely u-,15 nscious Of his excursion.
One Of the japanese students at Rut
gers College u - baptized at New Bruins
wick, i. j., last Sunday, receiving by his
own choice tie name OF John Wesley in
addition 10 his japanese name OF Iwoski
Nagi.
"a COY, found holding horse by the
road side, near Ithaca, n Y , recently, was
asked whose animal he had in charge he
replied that i belonged to crazy Dutch
man lookinr for birds nests over yGnder In
the WOODS. Inc crazy Dutchmau was
Agasslz.
Mrs. Cooch, Of Wells. Me-, has be-
quea.hea 81, 600, to be divided between the
Bible Society, Maine Missionary Society
and American Hoari of Commissioners for
Foreign hlisslore. End $500 to the Sea.
mems Friend Soeiety.
Deacon 81 eoezor Bodwell, soldier OF
the war Of 1872, died at Andover, Mass,
a few days s:Lea AGED eighty>three years.
He was nati.e OF Bradford Mass. and
in early life removed to Anduger. He re-
ceiyed sevcs. round in the head uring
the engagement ct Chataqui Woods, which
rendered him a pensloner during his life
time
a tippIer sail to clergyman, who
was reproying him, 'Gc're right, sir.
Whisky 5 bad thing = especially bad
whisky"
A car is aildirg III California for the
first through rip to New ork over the
Pacific Railroad The finish is to be Of
California laurel.
1t took Two freight cars, packed full,
to carry tc V Arlington the records of the
mastering Office III Columbus, OHIO. They
are to be stuasd away III the War Depart
ment till ther rot.
A number Of patriotic ladies' Of Phila,
delpba propose TO start a movement fol
the purchase Of the LINCOLN homestead in
Springfield, to be set apart as the property
Of the nation, SAP liar to the Mount Yer,
non. home OF y sshinston.
Nelson More 0ss, OF Windham, Mass.
is tabled by aMaino paper to be the owner
OF cat liLy -gND ~~Ia OIu. j his femafka
bic animal, iY hel early life, sailed three
trips to the West Indies, hefore the mast
and has te the mother q 255 kittens.
A WORTHY Quaker thus wrote: Il ex
pect to pas through this world but once.
If, therefore. there IL any kindness | can
show, or any good thing | can do to any
fellow human being, let me do it now.
Let NE not dttcr or ueglec: 1t, for | vii!
not pass this war again.
A Nostha rpton, Mass, girl recently
introduced to her sister man whom the
latter had never met or heard of before
and told Der cue might as well get married
now as ever. AVID here was the man tina,
would make her good husband. And
that same evening they were married
The son and beir OF VI. pauIin who
founded the Paris Illustration, " hich made
his fortune, committed suicide lately by
wrapping his head IN linen soaked with
enormous quantities of chloroform. He
began life with an income OF Is, coo francs
year, and squan3c1ed it all in gambling.
MIR. Charles Ii. Ke!ton, of Fitchburg
Mass, died 10y 80. Just twelve hours
later his father died ut Hthol and the