The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-02-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEaS.

Paris has l2,543 cafes and eating houses,
and 10000 billiard tables.
Ex President Roberts. of Liberia, 1ined
with other guests at Senator Simmer s the
other night, the first instance OF Senatorial
recognition of African brotherhood at the
festive board.
A proposed bridge over the East river
between New York and Brooklyn is to be
$50 feet high, have but one span, Is esti-
mated to cost SO, 900, 900, and take FIVE
years in F9iding.
In several mines in Cornwall, England,
there are galleries which extend under the
sea where the sound OF the waves is clearly
heard when the sea is aeita,ed, rolling the
pebbles and boulders over the rocky bottom
of the ocean
A clergyman in Boston, the Rev. Mr..
Murray, thirty years old, and the pastor of
the Park street Church, created a sensa-
ton last Sunday By praying that the Lord
would bless those middle aged females In
the congregation whose youthful hopes had
been disappointed. -
& young fellow named Warden, of West
Bend, Wis, Who wanted to get married
badly, put his Intended and his mother in
the stage on "Wednesday last, he following
them 10 Fond du Lac on foot, arriving at
the hotel before The stage. After supper,
justice son made them one of flesh, and
the next morning off they went in the same
high style.
Horace B. Chahin the head of the house
Of Claim 4 Co, which sells dry goods to
the amount OF $43 600 900 an ually, holds
real estate in The city Of New York assessed
at 100000. His taxes on that real estate
are SO, 800.
a staistician has calculated that it wo'd
require period Of nearly four hundred
ye y to read the titles OF all the books con-
tanned IN the various libraries OF Europe,
allowing one minpte to each title.
The navy has been reduced to the
strength 1t was previous to the war, $500
men. The total tonnage of steam and sail
ing vessels Is 3, 1909 267 tons There are g
Oh steamers and B. 042 sailing vessels
English railroad companies may well he
cautious in their management if such ver-
diets as she following are the rule The
family Of Mr. Howard, killed on the
Great India Peninsula Railway, has been
awarded damages amounting to S5S, $50.
how woald such yerdicts suit our Ameri-
can companies?
San Francisco is to be supplied with ice
from the summit OF the Sierra Nevada, in
g very nOve way. 4 party of spectators
have constructed an ice house, capable of
holding eight hundred or nine hundred
tons OF ice, near the Pacific railroad track
FIOm a stream on the hillside above, a
humo has been run to the top Of the ice
house, where the water Is allowed to fall in
small jets or spray into the building below.
~ this manner they expect to gradually
form mass OF solid ice which will fill the
entire building.
About O'Clock Saturday morning, the
roUi OF the new and unoccupied stores, 259
and 26l Notre Dame street, Montreal, fell
in ana crushed through floors, clear to the
cellar. The whole building is complete
wreck, nolAiug but tie bare walls remain
iag.
Michael Kaufman, a German barber of
PrtsblTg, shot hide boy named Edward
Miller, On last Saturday evening The boy
was looking through the window, and after
being ordered away by Kaufman, the lat
tei hred revolver through the window,
killing the 10y almost instantly. Kauff>
man narrowly escaped being Iynched by the
clllzen~, hut was hurried Oft to jail
A man named Hotter, living in the out
skirts OF Hannibal, Mo, on Saturday muir
dered his daughter, ten years old. lie first
her body ID tgo with knife. Afterwards |
he tore her heart out aud cut it open with |
knife and swallowed The blood He was |
arrested, and when asked why he commits |
ted The deed, replied that Christ was killed, |
Und IL was no wore for his child to die than |
Ciilst; that he offered her as a sacrifice to |
Christ. 1t Is said that the man is insane |
On religion.
The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce has |
presented an address to Reverdy johnson. !
American Minister urging the practical |
adoption Of the principles Of free trade in |
The United States.
Tnrner Hall, large frame public hall, !
in Evansville, Ind, was totally DESTROYED |
BY ire on the 9th, aud an adjoining build
ing was badly damaged. Loss about S.
600; insured for $1,000
An unknown pedd' er was murdered in
McNar county, Teun., few days since, by |
boy named Quill, only fourteen years DID, |
The boy vas arrested, and confessed his |
guilt.
George VI. Lee distinguished lawyer of
Cincinnati, has become insane.
Rev. lGnatius Mark was, on Sunday, con-
secratcd Bishop Of Marquette, with i'm
posing ceremonies, at the Cathedral in |
Cincinnati, Arch Bishop Purcell oficia,ed,
assisted Is the Bishop Of Dctroie
The London papers announce the failure
OF Morgan, Melbourne Il &c, merchants
whose Liabilities reach half million pounds
sterling, and the suspension of Ward & Co.,
Of Bradford, England. Liabilities heavy.
4. /. Stewart has sold twenty shaws
this season worth $4,000 each, and one
worth 81 600.
Letters received from Corea, a depen-
oeney 81 CHINA, state 3 600 Christians have |
been put 10 death by the natives.
Vanderbilt recently made $4,000, 900 on
the rise OF New York Cent al stock. This
viii serve him Tor pocket money during the
season.
Two brothers, named John and Frank
Rockwell, living near Plattsburg, Missouri,
get into a dispute about a horse, on Mon
day last, whtch resulted in the former
killing the latter
A Canadian woman named Mary Ann
Bar.iste, who has lived at Prairie du Chen.