The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-04-28
THE NEWS.
Custom receipts last week, 81, 9o3

Custom receipts last week, 81, 9o3,-
040. .r
/ The naval appropriation bill before
the House appropriates sl6, ,64l ,s45.
"A bill has been introduced in the
Senate to amend the revenue law. so as
to exempt farmers who sell their own
produce.
No order has yet been issued for the
May interest, but its payment will be
commenced before the end of April.
| The bill repeating registry law, ex-
cept in New York city, has passed the
Senate ; also the bill removing the disa-
bilities from colored voters.
The Governor of New York, in a.
message to the Senate, urges the adop-
tion Of the Assembly resolution f.. the
payment of the state ante-war debt in
coin.
The market house at GalIipolis,
Ohio, was burned on the 2lst By an in
cendiary FIRE. A man imprisoned in the
station house building was burned to
death.
The President has nominated Adam
Badeau az consul general at London !;
Edward Phelps as marshal of Arizona :.
Fred. Morley as register of land Office
at Detroit.
| About 200 barrels Of oil in the re-
fnery of p. Weisenberger, Of Pittsburg,
we're burned on the 2Ist. The building
was partly destroyed. Loss estimated at
$4,000.
The Adjutant General of Canada
has made a requisition for seven picked
men from each volunteer battalion, for
service in the Red River country for one
or two years.
The locomotive on the Toledo & Wa
bash Railroad exploded its boiler at To
ledo on the 2lst, instantly killing the
fireman, J. Clark, and fatally iniuring
the engineer, William Darker.
-Advices from Rio Janeiro of the Sth
ut, confirm the capture and killing Of
Lopez. Great rejoicing took place at Rio
Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, and other places,
upon the close of the war
At the instance of Gen, Butler,
nearly all the members Of the Recon-
struction Committee have promised not
to act on the Georgia bill until his return
from Massachusetts on the 9Th of May
Commander VIM. B. Gushing, of
the navy, attempted to horsewhip C. T..
Bishop, editor of the Journal, at James
town, n. Y, bet the employees Of the
Office separated them. Gushing was
bound over for trial.
On the Goth ult, vigilence commit
tee, forced the Marion county jail at
Salem, Ill.,, and took out and hung a
notorious desperate named Hank Leon
ard, alias Rogers, who was awaiting trial
for the robbery Of farmer.
The Massachusetts, House has pass
ed the ten hour bill by a vote of 134 to
63, with an amendment making it apply
to Minors
"A Schenectady, n. Y. =. dispatch of
the 2lst says: Considerable injury was
done to the Erie Canal here and west by
the freshet. The repairs are progressing,
but the impression is that the canal viii,
not be opened till the 10th or 18th Of
May.
"A report of the officers at the Grand
River agency, Dakota, for March, states
that there arrived at the agency 1,127
indians, all in a starving condition.
Many had to kill and eat their horses.
The agent sent them provisions to assist
in getting them there, and On their arriv
al clothing was issued.
The Northern Pacific Railroad bill
has passed the Senate, with amendments
providing that lands not sold five years
after the completion Of the road, be sub
Ijected to preemption at 81, SO per acre !:
that Congress may at any time alter or
amend this joint resolution aud that
American iron and steel shall be excIus-
lively used in the construction OF the
road.
Southern Arizona advices to April
10th say that the Indians are ravaging
the country.
Tho new Haytien minister, Preston,
presented his credentials to the Piesi-
dent on the odd
1t is reported that an official in the
government service In PHILADELPHIA is a
defaulter in $50, 600.
/ Summers bill to provide for return
to specie payment, has been indefinitely
postponed by the Senate.
The Senate judiciary Committee
/ vii next week present a measure to en-
force the 18th amendment.
The ship Thomas freeman, from
New Orleans for Cronstadt. was struck
by tightening on the 18th inst, in lati
tude 35 deg 2lm., longitude IA deg, and
burned. The crew wers saved by the
brig Osvego and taken to New York.
The steamer Darien, Capt. Laird,
arrived at New York on the 22d from
Leghorn, reports that on the 20th inst,
in lat. 81 deg. NJ, she saw vessel on
fire. A boat was lowered, when it was
found that she was q steamer, and was
burned to the waters edge.
The United States steamer Nichi
gan, which had been at Erie, Pa, during