The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-08-21

ltOrs this season.
London has home for lost aud starving
dogs found In the streets.
The board for pet dog is S. per week
ct the fashionable watering places
! The Salem Mass. Gdzetee celebrated its
hundredtb birthday on the 5th inst.
Overland mail time from San Francisco
has been shortened two days within a
mouth
There is firm in Syracuse by the name
Of Settle & Burst.
The disease of cattle called "Charbon'
has-reappcared In Louisiana, and is caus-
ing great uneasiness among Planters.
Judge Aben, of New Orleans, has de-
hvered a charge against ducling-an un>
heard OF proceeding in that climate.
Baltimore has removed about 10000
carloads of mud ard sand, which the late
visiting waters deposited in her streets.
Nearly 5000 operatives 10 and around
Ellicott City, Md, are out of employment,
owing to the factories and mills being de-
stroyed.
Liege, in Belgium, which claims to have
been the birthplace OF Charlemage. inaugu-
rated a statue OF that Emperor on the 18th
of July.
There is man in lunatic ASYLUM in
ernment wishes to build an iron foundry in
his stomach.
A rich and eccentric friend Of painters
and lover of pictures in Paris, is trying to
promote the cause of high art by buyine
and burning the worst daubs he can find.
Presbyterian paper of Canada says the
people of Prince Edward Island recently
made presents to their minister, then
charged their value against him, and rob-
bed him OF part of his salary besides.
The postmaster at New Orleans is
charged, at the department, with being
defaulter to the extent Of $4,000.
A South Carolina alligator probably in
the interest of the ''rebe democracy. 1"
ate promising young black voter the 9th.
er day.
All the magistrates elect of Shelby Co.,
Ala, are negroes, and not one of them can
read or write.
Judge Black says that Pennsylvania will
give Seymour aHd Blair majority of 25,.
600.
A clergyman of Oshkosh, who has
habit OF adding "ah'' to many of his last
words, told, last Sunday, of "those who
had been brought up ON the Lords side
all T.
A Buffalo woman hung herself because
somebody found out that she had two hus>
bands.
Nearly $4,000, 900, 900 were spent for
liquor in the United States ia 1867, or
$l39 tor every 81 devoted to education.
In the insane hospital of Indiana there
are Al women crazed by the brutal conduct
OF drunken husbands
Maine farmers in some places pay $75
month for help, and $50 is the general rule.
There is ncgress in Jail at Davenport,
Iowa, who has whipped both the jaier and
sheriff.
The Free Masons of Austria are seeking
PERMISSION to reopen their lodges, which
have been closed since 1894.
The wheat crop in Ohio has been secured
IN excellent order, and the supply is full
average.
A beer saloon for ladies has recently
been opened in New Orleans, and hun
dreds OF them patronize it daily.
:. Morocco parasols are a new fashion in
New York, while silk parasols, square in
shape, arc the London novelty.
The first pier of the bridge that is being
built across the Mississippi at Dubuque, on
the Illinois side, is completed.
A Long Branch belle sports forty differ
ent fans to match her toilets.
Miss Garcia, of Havana, stopping at the
Union Hotel, Saratoga, wears diamonds
valued at over 800, 900.
LoBgfellows three daughters are much
admired in Europe. A Londen journalist
calls them the Three Graces.
Mexico has public baths for men and
horses.
The first house in San Francisco was
built in lS45.
Our more enterprising bellies now wear
false eyelashes
A large grape crop and much wine in
France this year.
A national horse fair will open in Detroit
this month.
The corn crop of Virginia is now safe,
thanks TO the late rains.
The Southern rice crop will be- about
third larger than it was last year.
A boy, who was bathing near the New
York Battery, on Monday, was attacked by
q shark, and severely, but not dangerously
bitten. 9t
A young man in New York has gone to
jail for stealing ladies' curls, thus becoming
an awful warning"
Paris boasts of ,63l cafes and beer gar
dens, GA bars, IL, 344 vinturers, 1,2Ol ba-
kers, and /, 544 butchers. s
Many trunks at Long Branch stand in
the halls, because they are too large to be
carried through the room doors.
A homes:ck dog travelled alone, and
doubtless on foot, from Kentucky to Mis-
souri,, 900 miles, and reached his own ken.
mel by instinct
Adah Isaacs Menken died at Paris on
the ith
Reports Of the cereal crops in France
are highly favorable, and prices are falling
in consequence.
The first bale of cotton of the season
reached Selma, Ala, on the llth, and sold
at IS cents per pound
Advices from China by way of London,
state that the country is quiet and trade
unobstructed
London munches million pounds of
bread every day.
A Canadian river has just disgorged
diamond worth G40O.
Court gossips assert that there is an un-
derstanding between the son of the Vice
roy OF Egypt and niece of the Sultan.
A New York undertaken got drunk the
other day with the funds provided for fu-
neral, and left the mourning relatives in
the lurch.
A New York paper says most of the