The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-08-28
Weekly News Budget.

Baltimore has appropriated $1,000 900
for a City Hall. r
Harvard University has now school of
dentistry.
Maine produces annually 100000 of
blueberries.
The sweet potato crop at the South will
bsa very large one.
mount Hood, of Oregon, shows symp-
toms of q new eruption. +.
2 1t is said there are over 1000 children in
New York CITY for adoption.
The Great Eastern, with four other ships
willlay the Franco.American cable.
1t is estimated that to repair the streets
and rebuild the bridges OF Baltimore will
cost $2l5,O00.
The Philadelphia Methodists are build
ing marble church on Arch street. 1t
will have tower $50 feet high.
The mackerel fishing in the Bay of ST.
Lawrence mas not proved very successful, so
far rs reported this season.
Lawrence, Kansas, mas voted to rail-
road a sum almost sufficient to tax every
voter in the city thousand dollars.
A fossil elephant has been dug up at
Easton, Md. Many portions are nearly
perfect, including a tusk eight feet long.
A letter containing an Indian scalp, and
addressed to woman in Maine, was lately
stopped for postage in st. Louis.
Carl Schurz declines to run for Congress.
Queen Victoria second son, the Duke
of Edinburgh, is to start in October for a
trip around the world.
Governor Seymour delivers On address
before the Saratoga Agricultural Society
September l0;h. t
Fourteen Car loads of cattle arrived in
New York last Monday, many of them in
fected with the Texas disease r5Y
Miss Stout is to be married; consequent
]y she wears her solitaire curl over her left
shoulder (only those with hearts whole and
fancy free wear it over the right.
Paralysis is said. to be more prevalent
than formerly.
England exported oyer four thousand
A $27, 900 gold block has been cast at
Helena, Montana.
Captain Parker Snow says there are
mosquitoes In the Arctic regions.
An American is TO start a stage line be-
tween Jeddo and Yokohama, Japan.
The Utah graSshuprers eat window cur
tains, much to the disgust of the female
saints.
Prince Napoleon spent $1,000 a day in
Pesth.
His NJ jesty of Portugal has pawned his
jewelry.
Thad Stevens possessed about 5000, 900,
the most Of which has been devised to
charitable objects.
Victoria has evidently a good appetite
yet. 1t costs $50, 900 year to maintain
her kitchen.
The new Russian bride that has been
found for the King Of Bayari, IS not yet
sixteensyears OF age. .af.
Some rascals at Decorrah, Iowa, blind.
folded cow, last week, and then drove her
into mill pond, where she drowned.
Two cases Of Asiatic cholera had oc-
cured at Sing Sing.
The Peoples Bank of Baltimore lost
$l6,350 BY recent robbery. - sat.
Rcverdy johnson, American Minister to
Engla d, arrived in London ON the 18th.
Canada now has money enough to pay
OF all its unfunee debt.
The trade societies of NV lo-k city
number ne. r. 50, 900 memb r.
The Father Matt CIV 8 Q Lies of the city
of New York have an aggr, gaze member
chip of ov5r 10000.
The cod line Quakers" Of Oh ,ster, Pa,
are said to be so neat people that they
whitewash their coal before they burn it.
neys to leave off their black clothes and
wear linen suits during the hot weather.
The idea had never occurred to the suffer-
ers.
The drought in England is beginning to
affect very unpleasantly the prices OF gar
den and dairy produce. Butter is selling
higher there than even in this land OF high
prices.
Cotl ~ 49, ,,ko
ist Of Newark, N. j., believes that in the
course Of twenty years he could raise straw
berries as large as pineapples, and of equal
dellcacy with those now grown.
J Cincinnati has contributed $4,000 to the
papal loan.
The widow burning excitement in India
has died out.
The All England cricket eleven sail for
America September 2, to play six matches.
sThesyine growers in Switzerland Lever
raised more grapes than they do this year.
Oshkosh has three and quarter saw
mills for every thousand OF its population.
The Boston Common fountains take l50,-
900 gallons of water an hour to keep them
running.
- Sambo, where's your mastery
"aGone out" 8 Has he left off drinking
yet 2" "Oh, yes; he leave off two, three
times dis mornin."
A New Haven brewer is going to make a
lager beer cellar by cutting into the solid
rock, forming chamber fifty feet deep by
twenty five feet in width and height.
: A peddler, calling out an old lady to
dispose of some goods, inquired of her
if she could tell him of road which no
pedd!er had yet travelled. YES" she re-
piled, i" the road to Heaven
There are six sugar refneries in Phila>
delphia, which refine about 10000, 900
pounds per year of raw sugar, costing at
present prices $4,000, 900 in gold. Afrer
being refined it sells for S26, 500, 900.
The population of Bavaria has increased
only about one per cent in the last FIVE
years.
Apples, carried from Boston to China,
packed in ice, sell at Hong Kong for $500
dozen in gold.
Lord Napier, of Magdala, it is reported,
will be commander-in- chief Of the British
forces in India for the term Of FIVE years.
Capt. Pierce, of Warren, r. l., has
made three voyages yearly to Cuba, for fif-
~ five years, without single loss to him.
self or the insurance companies.
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