The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-05-28

Onlo hseIs AT tlncinnati, rTluay, ana MS |
drowned.
Extensive preparations are being made
by the citizens of Chicago to decorate the |
graves of the patriot dead in the various
city cemeteries. -. %~ /
~. Krkwood, the murderer of A. Knowles, I
of Newcastle, Penn, was captured at Deca-
tur, Ind, Thursday, and sent ia irons to
Newcastle, for trial. ----~s
AT special meeting of the Board of
Overseers of Harvard University, the nom
nation of Charles f. Elliot, for President,
was confirmed by vote of sixteen to eight.
= Caesar Virgins, one of the negroes on
trial, at Savannah, for the murder of Brood
hacker and Bucklan, on the 9Th of December,
WAS found guilty of the murder.
The neutrality laws are to be strictly en-
forced, and no expedition supposed to have
arms or recruits for the Cuban insurgents
will be allowed to leave New York.
The committee of arrangements for the
decoration. of soldiers graves, at Detroit,
have voted to change the dly for that eere-
mony from the 30th to the Goth inst.
The Board of Police Commissioners at
! as police magistrate, the first of the Afri-
can race In the District of Columbia
The graves of the Confederate dead in
! Louisiana we're strewn with flowers Thurs
day afternoon. Nearly 90, 900 people, mostly
women participated in the ceremony.
Vincent Collyer, who was reported cap
| tured by Indians, with detachment OF sol
diers OF Company f., Lieut. Jacobs, acting as
his escort, has arrived in New Mexico
| As part of the cargo of the steamer
! Jasper, from st. Paul for st. Louis, Wednes-
day night, there were IL, 600 bushels of wheat
for H. Eames. for the Liverpool market.
The salt-Eell ct Muskegon Mich, has
been completed and commenced pumping.
The brine is pronounced equal, both in
| Id a,n1 10 H. : -
Saginaw.
| United States Assistant Treasurer Van
Dyck, ofNew York, gives notice that sales of
| gold will be made ON Mondays and on Thurs
days of each week. Not more than e, 00O, 900
will be disposed of each week.
postmaster at Cambridge, Maryland, on trial
in the United States District Court, charged
with unlawfully opening and destroying let
ters, has been acquitted.
AT the Paterson races, Wednesday, the
bay gelding Gerald beat Fgotist and Urbana,
mile and quarter, selling race, in 2:22t.-
The other races announced for that day were
not run, owing to the rain.
A messenger Of the Irving Bank, New
York, on Wednesday, placed in the hands of a
messenger of the Corn Exchange Bank $780,
900, to be delivered to the latter bank, since
which time nothing has been seen of either
money or messenger.
ue ITosIdeut HIS appointed IOllOW-
ing postmasters: Jas. M. Reed, Steubenville
Ohio; Lindley NJ. Cox, Thorntown, Indiana;
VIM. M. Kendall, Plymouth, Indiana; Il. A.
Reed, Marshall, Michigan; John Chandler
) Coldwater, Michigan.
The rumors prevalent of the alleged re-
pugnance of the Haytian government to the
appointment OF a colored minister are au-
. thoritatively denied: on the contrary, the
appointment is declared to be received by
the Haytians as high compliment to the
col0red race.
The brakesmen and baggagemasters of
Northern railroads are holding convention
in Cincinnati for the purpose of forming a
mutual insurance association. 1t is largely
attended. The total Plumbers represented
are: of baggagemen, 42l; passenger train
brakesmen, $50; freight train brakesmen,
, iad. Total, aaf.
Leonard Hughes, President of the late
Merchants Bank at Washington, who was
convicted in the Criminal Court of the lar
,, ctny of $40 worth of bonds, and SEN
fenced to three years imprisonment in the
penitentiary, has been granted a neW trial by
the Court In it's general term.
A proclamation for proper observance
, of the eight-hour law has been prepared
and will shortly be issued from the Depart
ment of State. 1t provides that the pay for
eight hours work shall be the same as for
ten in all Government establishments. in &C.
cordance with the law of Congress.
The abstract of all the national banks,
, more than 600, shows an aggregate of re,
sources and liabilities of 1851 $3.50, 30O includ-
ing loans and discounts, an aggregate of
1859, 900, 000 specie, nearly So 500, 900: legal
tender notes, $50, 500 900; three per cent
certificates, $5l. DOC, 900. The capital stock is
over 1920, 100000.
"A shooting match for $500 has been ar
ranged between Captain Bogardus the crack
shot of Illinois, and Abe Kleimar. the former
to shoot from wagon, while in motion, at
twenty-five double and twenty-five single
pigeons at a distance OF twenty one yards,
and the latter to shoot at the same number
of birds at distance of thirty yards, stand
ing on the ground-the match TO take place
at Chicago.
Commissioner of Ind an Affairs Parker
has made the following assignments of army
officers detailed to execute fhe duties of In
dian superintendent: Col. D. E. L. Floyd,
for Idaho; Brevet Brig. Gen. John A. Sully,
Intosh, for Colorado; Brevet Col. E. NJ. Hud-
son, for Oregon; Brevet Col. Samuel Ross,
for Washington Territory large number
of agents have also been assigned.
FOREIGN.
-Eugenie's Journey to Jerusalem is said to
De quite decided upon.
1 The London Rowing Club have chal-
lenged the Harvard Club to match.
1t is more than probable that the Queen
of England will revisit Germany this sum-
mer.
Twelve acres Of Regents Park, London,
are to be prepared and set apart as cricket,
ground.
Blanc, the proprietor of the Hamburg
and MANAGE gambling hells, is worth 60, 900,
600 francs.
A considerable number of Belgian work
men are emigrating to France, on account OF
the strikes.
Emperor Francis Joseph has given sane
ton to the Public School bill passed by the
Reicharath.
"A clergyman at Kingston, England, re-
fuses to admit young ladies to confirmation,
unless they promise never to dance.
The Grand Lodge of Orangemen of Ire
land has petitioned the Queen against the
disestablishment Of the Irish Church.
An Irishman at Wolverhampton England,
when recently Infatuated by liquor, neatly
and sklllfully scalped woman with a razor.
Italian papers announce that Garibaldi
has fresh attack of illness, and is suffering
die any moment.
The financial measures proposed by the
government OF Spain are not well received
by the Chambers, and will probably be re-
jected unless they are withdrawn.
1t was rumored that Chinese Official of
high rank in Pekin, in fit of anger, slapped
the French ambassador, Count de Iamade, in
the face, and that the flag over the French
Legation had been hauled down.
| Elections have been ordered for Cath
Ole Conference in Hungary, on the question
Of the autonomy of the church in Hungary