The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-02-26
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meDt or the physician or the Board OF
Health with the wife Of well known
druggist.
"A critic says Of famous singer, that
'shs sings few airs and puts on great
many.
KNOWLEDGE always desires increase it
is like fire, which must be first kindled by
some external ageLt, but which will after
wards propagate itself.
The grocery store of Page & Co., on
Poplar street, Memphis, together with the
contents, was destroyed by the bursting of
an oil lamp, Tuesday night Loss &c.
900; partially insured.
A daughter of Hon. L. Foote, of
Milwaukee, has hair which measures
five feet and seven inches in length. So
says the Sentinel
The whole amount OF grain annually
raised in New England would not supply
Its Inhabitants six weeks.
Several trips were made, Saturday, on
the elevated railway on Greenwich street,
New York. Tue line is completed only
from the Battery to Cortland street, and
that distance was run in a little over three
minutes tune. So far il is believed to be a
success.
AT Bellville, ILL.,, a Mr.. File sued Mr.
Eislefe for fifty dollars commission In Sc
curing Miss File husband. The case was
thrown out Of court, but Mr.. Elisefe gave
ten bushels of corn and paid the costs.
The wife of Charles Curtiss, OF Belvi
dere, ILL.,, in jumping from sleigh, was SO
injured a. to cause her death In a few
hours. Two others lay at the point of
Death from the same cause.
-rostmaster>General Randall is of the
opinion that the portion Of ocean postage
accrulng to the United States, including
the island postage belonging thereto, will
next year amount to a million and a half
OF dollars.
-Silas Dunn was shot and killed at
Murfreaboro, Tenn, Saturday evening, by
Robert January. Dunn had previously
shot at January and missed hin.
The Boston Courier, speaking of the
great extent Of modern hotels refers TO
them as the fulfllment of the poets desire,
20, for lodge In some vast wilderness. ="
There were 300, $50 passengers be-
tween England and France last year, half
going via Ca!ias.
The unfavorabIc issue of long law
suit in Austria, drove father and his two
children raving mad.
An insane woman was found skulking
in the White House. on the 10th, and
when asked what she was there for, she
said she was ther by command of God, to
kill Andrew johnson. An old double bar
relied pistol was found upon her, but is was
not loaded. She was taken in charge, and
will probably be sent to the insane asy
lum.
The Catholic National Council provid-
ed that no divorced Catholic can marry
again without the &C nsent OF his bishop.
1t also provided that catholic who MARI
ed out of the church can be absolved from
such violation Of the rules only upon APP
plication to the bishop, and by public
avowal Of repentance,
in the United States Circuit Court in
New York or the 18th, Jacob Dupuy,
coveted Of whisky revenue frauds, was
sentenced to two years In the penlntentia
ry, aud fined $500, and his son Moses
10 one year imprisonment.
-Newbury Mass, mourns the death of
Betsey Rogers, a remarkable berry woman,
whom broken leg killed at the a of 90.
She leaves the memory of 800 bushels OF
gathered berries, a snug sum of mvney, and
five generations of descendants, embracing
fifty persons.
Mr.. Thomas Dutton, of Delaware
NDuDtN. Il emu, teeDIdJCu Ills
birthday Oh F& 2 He is probably the
only person living who heard the firing Of
the cannon in Philadelphia on Independ-
ence day, l776, at which time he was sew
en- years of age.
Peter Bamberger shot a young girl
whom he was counting, name Sarah Boerd,
turning from bell. He then shot him
self. Both will probably die. Trouble
with the girls step father was the cause.
San Francisco dispatched 500 vessels
in 1868, with cargoes valued. in the aggre-
gate, at little less than $23, 100000.
West Viryinia has built 5000 school
houses within the past year-and very few
ere substitutes for old oucs
A Cleveland couple, the gentleman
aged 70 and the lady 10, who had each, a
few months before been bereft Of their
partners, few days since were married
for company
One district of Kentucky has ninety
four distilleries, of which twenty-five
were in operation in January. The pro
duct Of sevnteen Of them was $4,000 gal
Ions of whisky.
About half million tons of ice will
be taken from the Hudson river this seas
on.
-Forty-two dry goods houses in New
York made sales exceeding 81 100000 last
year.
August Belmont race horse, "Maid Of
Honor" died last Friday. She was val
ued at $1,000,
In olden tines when pastors spoke
right out in meeting clergyman in Scitu>
ate thus addressed the late Mr.. Bryant
"Neighbor Bryant, it is your reproach
that you have disturbed the worship by
coming late, living as you do within mile
Of this place, and especially SO, since here
is Goody Barstow, who has MIXED sever
COWS, made a cheese, and walked five
miles to the house Of God in good season. ,
The remains of David f. Harold, an,
ether of the assassination conspirators, were
by order Of President Johson, given W
on SATURDAY to his mother, and inferred il
the Congregational Cemetery. An orde
has been obtained for the delivery of thu
body Of Atzerodt to his friends. Booth
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