The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-10-23
Weekly News Budrat.

Colfax's own town voted against hin last
Tuesday, giving large Democratic gain.
tx President Pierce has so ar recovered
as to be atte to ride out
James ii. HerTick, of Lodi, Ill, aged
eighty one, wa, married at Dover, OHIO,
Us; week, to Miss Lucy Chatfeld, OF the
same tender years.
Lady franklin, eighty Ole years of age,
htlt' bale and hearty, Is ROW sojournlng In
France. & .4--r.
General Bcaurcgari has returned to New
Orleans from Virginia >.
The rs at Contributor works are to be
published in New York.
Queen Victoria viii spend this month at
Bdmora, November at Windsor, and De-.
cembeT at Osborne.
James Gordon Bennett has daughter
OF seventeen, who, with james Gordon, jr.
vii share all the old man 5 wealth.
Some correspondents at Rome express
the belief that the Pope will never see an
other Dece.uber.
A correspondent Of the Boston 4arertiser
describes Gen. Butler as a man who al
WAYS had bad neighbors -
Voters in Italy have 10 pay 9 tax and be
atle to read and write
Advces from India report that the civil
war in Northern Afghanistan is at an end.
Aman was mOrtaiiy wounded in an cleo
ton riot at Wilkesbarre, Fem, on the
l3th.
a Massachusetts company has bought a
Norway lake. 1t proposes to sell ice in
London.
A policeman, who was shot in Phlladel-
phIa on the 18th, has since died.
In trot at Narragansett Park, Provi-
dence, the stallion George Wilkes made a
mile In 2:22.
Chinese hemp is successfully grown in
Kentucky. The longest stalks measure
over sixteen feet
A regular train lately went through Bal
timore to Washington a the rate Of a mile
q minute.
Six important RAILROADS are now in pro-
cess Reconstruction in Oregon, two Of them
connecting with the Pacific railroad
The choir Of Grace tEriscnpal) Church
IN New ork have seeded, TIE new rector
refusing to allow the performance of oper-
attic airs.
John Broueham, the actor, was natural
izeu at New York on Wednesday. He de-
clared his intentions eighteen years ago.
California has already sent thirteen thou
and dollars to the sufferers by the late
earthquake on the So4ih Pacific coast
A Fenian prisoner named Henry Muir
ply, confined at Ottawa made desperate
effort to escape on Tuesday night, nearly
killing the turnkey.
Two military officers a. Washington are
quarrelina about a dog--a small dog at
that. A court martial is likely to ensue.
The All England Eleven have been beat
en- at base ball, 81 to 4, by a miscellaneous
nine in Boston The iinglish gentlemen
could 1T hit ard henoogh, you know, but
some hidiot nd Railways catch them hout.
Unusual attention Is now given to the
grape culture ~ SoI ,hern Virginia. Two
cultvators in Roanoke county expect to
get from 81 900 to SIS, 900 from vineyard
covering l6 acres.
Later Intelligence from South America
informs us that In Ecuador alone 10000
lives were lost 10y the recent appalling
earthquake. From the same cause the
water along the Peruvian coast has de-
creased eight fathoml in depth.
Trains on the Central Pacific Railroad
reached Winncmu~rr. 325 miles east Of
Sacramento, Sept. 30
The Spanish Legation in Washington
are in an unpleasant dilemma. Our Gov
eminent refuses to recognize them as the
representatives, Oh Queen lsabela's over
thrown government, ard the Spanish revo-
lutionary government has given them no
authority to act in IT'S behalf
The Governor Of Massachusetts has des-
iCratcd the Goth Of November as a day OF
Thanksgiving.