The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-04-30
News Items.

Col Robert Johnson, son of ex-Presi-
dent Johnson, died on the 23l at Green>
vile. Tenn
A car is being built in Jersey Git, which
will he the oOStlest, the largest, and one of
the most elegant in the world. 1t is 70 be
run on the Erie road, and cost $50 0O0.,
A famer in Lawrence Ind, last year,
raised $40 POUNDS of sage on the eighth of
an acre of ground. and received $l40
for his crop. He will put IN two acres Of
the herb this year. sa sfg =
A severe accident occurred near Jamaica,
Cd the Long Island railroad, Frida, alter
noon, caused by the breaking of a rail.
Six persons were killed, aud fifteen wound
ed. u >HI fl
An eminent Swiss naturalist says that
Without birds successful agriculture is i'm
possible. .... ......',f
A dispatch from Dublin, Ireland,
states that Fl ugh Bradshaw, well known
Irish mag strate has been shot in Upper
ary.9 F@
The Austrian Reichtrath has passed the
primary school law, the Polish and Tyrol-
ese delegates protested against it. r.l- =.
George Dalton, we'll known New York
broker, shot himself while in a carriage, on
Broadway, on Saturday The cause was
unfortunate speculations in stocks. r;''
f. Henry Ward Reechsr, in one of his dis
courses, said that some men wouldn' t
shave on Sunday, and yet they will spend
all the week In shaving their fellow men,
and make fools believe it is very wicked 10
black their boots on Sunday morning. vet
they do hot hesitate to black their neigh>
Dor reputation on week days.
Rev. Michael Mullen, assistant pastor of
81. Patrlck church in Chicago, died on
24th, aged 81. 1t is strange coincidence
that he died in tho same house which has
had the same fatal Influence upon fur
pr.estly occupants within period of seven
months. Rev Patrick Dillon entered he
house un The i4h of September, and died
on the l4th OF October following His
brother, Rev. Jas. Dillon. took charge of
the h. USE Oct. 18th, and died Nov. 18Th
following. Rev. DR.. Danne died in the
same house Dec. 2Oih, 81 days after and
now, just tour mouths after, Rev. MIR.
Muien. -..
At Vermont, Fulton county, ILL.,, on
Monday last, i, httle son Of j. II. Harri>,
aged about thirteen years, was found sus
pended 10y his neck with strap, In his
iather barn, quite dead. In tie alter
noon ofJhe same day, a son of Col. L.
Irnny was iouud hanging IN the same way.
No cause can be assigned for these cobcor>
dant acts of self destruction. The most
Intense excitement PRIV aIs.
The floods at Wa,errown and Utica,
New York, have destroyed property to an
enormous amount Dams, mliis, tanner
les, and manulacturlng establishments have
beun swept away. ...ri ........
On Sunday last FIVE children belonging
TO The families of james Creswel and
John WaIn>cott, living near GnatZ, keH
tucky, were poisoned by eating wild carrots.
The son OF MIR. Wainscott, aged two years,
died alter having some forty hard couvul-
>luns. The remaining four, Mr. Cleswelis
children, are still alive, though In tritl
cal condition, .r.r.. /. 81. ..s s--,..
A Washington dispatch says that Secre-
tary Bon lie OF the navy department, has in
unated 10 the president his intention 10
resign, on account of 1T health. Since his
apponuAent ne has pertorlned Tut little
othulai outy--the department being fully
under the contro! OF Admiral Porter. Is
The body Of Miss Sophie A Howe, who
mysterlou>ly disappeared last January, at
Sprinpfvld Mass was found ON he 2aih
III he Um,ed States water shops pond
he body bore no marks OF violence, and il
is believed that she committed suicide
The Baraboo Wis. Republic says OF hops:
Last yeal probably hop roots enough 10
plant not less than twenty thousand
acres werc sold in Sauk county. This
year probably the man who wolld offer for
sale to a SauE cuuntyman would get his
eye punched for the insult. Aud yet Potter
tells US thar he has actually sold some fifty
or Sky acres to farmers Tar away, who
have ordered them for this springs plant
Ing. One missouri man goes In for sixteen
acres" -s-5 81" e
Tennessee is all alive with Andy johnson
Peop'e hock to hear him by thou sands.
A dispatch from Berlin mentions a ru>
NOR OF the expected marriage of Mrs.
Abraham Lincoln to the chamberlain of
the Duke Of Baden. "7 = .T'T} ? 't
1t is reported that the Catholic Mission
aries III the province Of Zechnn, China,
with several hundred converts, have been
massacred by the natives.
The steamer Urelda, en- route to St. Lou.
ls with discharged soldiers from the various
posts on the upper Missouri, struck a snag
Sunday morning, about 80 miles above
SIOUX city, and while sipklug, her boiler
exploded, killing and wounding . large
numbrr
The Farmers of Renfew county Canada,
are killing their cattle by the hundreds to
save them from starvation, it being impns>
sitle to obtain provender for them, az any
price. 1t is feared that all the stock in
that and Cornwall and ST. Lawrence dis
trlcts vii be destroyed before aid reaches
them. In most cases the animals killed
prove total loss, as their aesh is unfit for
TODD. - 3HE" ~ "'fi III
MormeDism is fGurishing in England.
In London alone there eight branrhe,
OF the chaHi. and 40 elders, 38 priests,
% teachers. and 80 deacons are always
hard at work s
q Mrs. Kate Herbes, Of Covington, La. ).
committed snicide on the 18th lust. In q
irig1nfuliy coot mariner. Che put the
muzze OF the pistol against her breast
and pulled-the trigger, but the weapon
missing fire. she applied lighted candle
IL the VENT, when the charge exploded,
killing her almost instantly She left sew
evaai children. 'efi @9'A "a ii1'19