The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-07-16
Brfuities.
Miscellaneous Items.
"A flrst-rate shirt cutter in New York il
paid $4,000 wear.

paid $4,000 year.
Eight conductors of street cars were
| arrested in st. Louis the other day, on
charge of fraud.
! Tom. Allen, the pugilist, receives a
benefit at the National Theatre at st Louis
on Saturday evening next
"A wrier in the Atlantic Monthly says
| that if we would abolish the inebriate we
must begin with his grandmother.
New Albany, Ind, will soon have plate
| glass works, which have heretofore existed
| in this country only at Lenox, Mass.
The silver wedding of Bishop Morris
| (the senior Bishop of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church of America), was celebrated
at Springfield, Ohio, June rs. II
"A drunken man in a fit of delirium
| tremens, jumped from the Suspension
bridge at Cincinnati, tho other day, and was
| drowned. ~ ~ Z
Fifth avenue houses in New York have
Cashmere door mats now, and it is suppos-
ed that the next novelty will be camers hair
| dish clouts.
The agents of the Cuban Junta have
bought an estate of 10 acres in Bergen
county, N. j., to be laid out in villas for
Cuban exiles. -"
The Red Stockings on their return to
Cincinnati were presented with cham
pion bat, 275 feet long and weighing 900
pounds, upon which were engraved the
| names of all the members of the club.
"A Kentucky distiller having noticed
| that VIII isky is improved by sea voyage,
| has put up treadmill in his warehouse,
and uses horse power to keep the whisky
in perpetual motion. r,
| The rumor is current at Memphis that
| the counsel for Yerger, who killed Colonel
Crane ct Jackson, Miss, will apply to
Chief Justice Chase for q writ of habeas
corpus. aga a~. ~ .r..t. .a-.s
| The Barkentine Western Bill sailed
from Humboldt for San Francisco in Janu-
| airy, 1865 and has never been heard rom
until recently, when portion of her hull
with the name painted ON it was discover
| ed on the northwestern coast of California
near Cape Perhoties.
| Mrs. Kolb, who recently died in Madi-
son, Georgia, left an estate valued at near
| 500, 900, almost all of which is bequeath-
ed to the Ordinary OF the county, in trust,
for the purpose of educating the poor or
phan children of the county. -..
| Sacramento has doubled in population
| since 1865; it now contains 22,000 people.
A system of levees has been completed,
protecting it against future danger from
| floods; their aggregate length is twelve
miles, and they have cost over 81, 900, 900.
Near Cheyenne has been discovered
an immense tract Of land covered with edi-
BILE mushrooms of extraordinary size and
delicious flavor. Cne is spoken of which
was seven inches in diameter with q stem
two inches thick, and which weighed a
pound..e .4.at .lt .-.r.5 r.. .... -
y Notice has been served by the United
States officers ON the owners of whisky
burned i'll the warehouse of Gaines, Berry
i q Co., in Frankfort KY, some time ago,
for the payment of the tax on said whisky.
The amount of taxes demanded is about
100000. An extensive lawsuit will result
The New York postofice always sends
| to Europe much greater number of letters
than it receives from that part of the world
i For the month of May it sent away 420, $50
letters and received 391, 062 The rule
however, is broken in q single instance
The Italians sent home but 4, $50 letters,
for 1888 brought over to them.
The malignity of the London Times
toward Senator Chandler is painfully ex-
. hibited in the fact of its utterly ignoring
his arrival on British soil in O gorgeous
turnout. Even the Court journal main
tains a provoking silence on the Michigan
Senator's presence in England.
! An old negro, applying for coffin, at
Evansville, Ind, lately, to bury his child,
: aged three months, said that he was one
hundred and six years old; and hisIwife
twenty. He claimed to have known nearly
! all the Revolutionary Generals, and to have
been at the battle of New Orleans.
Church, New Orleans, was filled with q
congregation of Cubans and Spaniards' in
attendance upon the ceremonies of the
Episcopal Church, which were performed
in the Spanish language. With the excep-
ton of the singing by the choir, the service
and sermon were given in Spanish.
"A physician of Platin, Mo-, one Dr. A.
Hill, reports that the notorious desperate
and outlaw Sam Hildebrand, for whose
head a reward of $4,000 has been offered,
is dead. He declares that the fellow died
from the effects of wound in his thigh,
and that he attended him at the request OF
some person to himself unknown.
There is a peony plant in Wellfeet,
, Mass. which was brought eighty years ago
from Plymouth Ponds to that place by the
bride of Captain Daniel Mayo as a memen-
to of her old home and O. beautifer of the
!, new. Since then it has each year flourish
ed, and in the four score years has been
tended by mother and daughter. at
! A noted Ohio horse-thief, known as
} Bill Wheeler, who had served fifteen years
il the Kentucky Penitentiary, and was a
very desperate character, was shot and
} killed by party of men, in the vicinity OF
Quincy, KY, few days ago, who had
chased him from over the line in Ohio. He
had been ordered to halt, but refused to do
so, and fired on his pursuers. Hence his
death. r, H.-a t.tss- .-f ..s.....
! "A fortnight ago, at Napoleon, Ohio,
two boys named Cameron, aged nine and
fourteen, were sent to bed supperless and
threatened with thrashing in the morn
ing. In the night they got up, walked five
miles to railroad station, went to Chicago
thence to Baltimore, and since leaving the
latter place the persons employed by Mr..
Cameron to find the boys met with no sue
cess. They can be heard of at different
points, but can not be caught. They seem
to have no definite object in view, but when
a.,train of cars drives up they get on and
travel to the end of the line.