The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-06-26

DuukcI AAu was opocisCo III Dostou u
the 18th.
1t is stated that the Pope will celebrat,
the anniversary of his accession by a gen
eral amnesty to political offenders.
= The Legislature OF Florida, on the 18th
elected A. S. WEIGH United States Senator
for the term ending March, 1869.
The story In some Of the papers tha
General Grant has sent an officer to tht
Canadian frontier to watch the Een;ar
movements is entirely unfounded.
~, Another detachment of recruits for the
Papal army left Montreal on the GOTH. fol-
Rome.
The Missouri delegation to the Nationa
democratic Convention leaves by specia
train on June 30th. The Kansas delega
ton is expected to accompany them.
The bricklayers of New York, numbering
some 2, 500, have agreed to strike for eight
hours day and $3.50 wages. The pres
cnt standard is ten hours for $500.
&. Eight schooners and four Scoops were
entered for the New York Yacht Club re-
gatta, on the 18th.
The Chinese embassy was presented te
the President and Cabinet last week.
One tannery in Milwaukee employs s.
men.
The schooner Oneida Chief totally
wrecked on Lake Superior two weeks ago,
but crew saved.
Calicott, the noted Radical e. S. Col
lector 10 New York, has been sentenced te
pay fine of $4,000 and be imprisoned
two years, for defrauding the government.
One confederate fined 50, 500 and to be m-
prisoncd Is months; the other 81, 900 fine
and IL months imprisonment.
The Cheyennes have been fighting the
kaws, on the reservation of the latter.
The Senate has refused to confirm Geo.
B. Mcclellan as Minister to England.
Thirty farmers of Green Lake county
went Oh gopher hunt of week, aud
killed in that time two thousand two hun
bred aad twenty one.
Dispatches from Abyssinia, as late as
May both, stated that Napier would reach
the Red Sea soon
The Massachusetts Legislature has APP
propriated IS, 900, 900 to complete the Hoo
sac tunnel
The Indians in Western Kansas and
Montana are again become troublesome.
The net proceeds of Mr. Dickens Amer
lean trip ore stated by the English papers
at 5000, 900.
Dennis O'Connor, the last American cit,
isen imprisoned in Ireland, has been re-
leased and is on his way home.
About 5000 persons were in ex-Presi>
dent Buchanan funeral procession.
The Senate intends to reject the treaty
for the annexation of st. Thomas.
A tornado did immense damage at Rock
Island last week.
A Connecticut man, who died recently,
wllied large fortune to two sons, cond-
toned that they should not use tobacco.
a woman and two children poisoned at
Milwaukee last week by eating schweitzer
iase.
Second hand furniture Wade's cabinet
Winnie Ream was driven out of the Na>
tlonal Capitol with her studio because she
refused to influence Senator Ross to vote
guilty on Impeachment. One of these
days the scamps VINO acted thus meanly
will feel Rean,-morse for so doing.
Some wag says that woman has one in
dlsputable rlght-the right to bare arms.
The White Fawn people have to bare more
than this, though some people think it is
MT right Init n wrong
Chicago has recently completed another
elevator, and now boasts of sixteen, with a
capacity of over nine millions of bushels.
Commodore Vanderbilt is re elected
President of the Hudson River railroad.
According to the census of the city of
Chicago, recently taken by the Board of
Health, the population is 240, 000-an in
crease of $4,000 in two years.
The track Of the Pacific railroad is now
laid distance of 63S miles west of Omaha.
The road is graded 100 miles further, and
the graders expect to reach Salt Lake by
the 4th of July.
The harness race at Dexter Park, near
Chicago, between Bashaw, Jr., and Jim
Hockey, was won by the latter. Best time,
324 AS.
Crete has become a part of Greece.
This will lead to war between Greece and
Turkey, which, it is believed, will ultimate.
ly result in a general war in Europe.
Hon. VIM. Sprague has been reelected
United States Senator by the Legislature
Of Rhode Island
The steamship Nevada, bound from
New York to Vera Cruz, has been totally
wrecked off Cape Hatteras
a man In Cavendish, VT, charged dol
lar for acting as pail bearer at funeral
The Orphan Girls Home, at Newton
Centre, Mass, was destroyed by fire, on
Sunday morning
Gen. William B. Franklin, of Hartford
will preside at the national convention of
conservative soldiers in New York, July
4th
Late arrivals from the north shore of
Lake Superior reports parties working at
the silver mines. The agent sent over by
London capitalists to examine the mines
was on the ground and will make favora-
BILE report.
Great exertions are being put forth to
complete the Central Pacific Railroad to
Salt Lake in advance Of the Union Pacific
Iron is being transported by the Isthmus,
and arrivals via Cape Horn are noted every
week.
There is probability that the committee
on Ways and Means, satisfied that more
revenue can be collected from whisky by a
low than high tax, will report in favor of
reduction Of the whisky tax to so or 60
cents per gallon.
The Sultan OF Turkey proposes to give
alien residents to the right to hold property
in his dominion.
The London press halls the appointment
OF Hon. Reverdy johnson, as Minister to
England, with qualified satisfaction. ;.
The Barnum's museum property, con.
sisting OF six lots on Broadway and Mercer
streets, New York was sold at auction on