The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-02-03
Communications.

Communications.
MAMTowoC. Ms. Jan. 3Ist, 1870
;, EDITOR PILoT =
Permit me, through your paper. 10 call
the attention Of district schoo. officers con-
tracing with unqualified teachers. to the
follow ng extracts from the School Code !;
relating to the Illegally Of such contracts,
and tie liabilities Incurred by parties to
/. them.
Section 40. Of School Laws of 1868, pro-
vides that, No order for the payment of
teachers wage. shall be drawn, counter
signed. or paid. which is in favor Of any per
son who has taught the school of said dis.
triet. when not holding a certificate Of
! qualification from the County Superin,end
cnt, or, lin case of appeal from tie State
superintendent"
! Section I07. mo school district clerk
shall have power TO contract With teacher
unless such teacher shal have . certificate
/ Of qualification in force at the tiAIe of max.
| ing such contrsct.
Section 1856 Any clerk who shall draw
an order upon The treasurer for the pay
ment Of wages of 4 teacher, net legally
qualified; and every director who shall
counter.ign such order, shall be liable to a
6ne of not les. than one hundred dollars;
aud any elector may prosecute for the uee
aud benefit Of such district, for the recoy-
cry Of the fine prescribed in this SECTION"
With such exrress statutory provisions
agains, the offences above enumerated, i;
is strange to find school officers So ina,u-
ated, ard teachers so foolhardy, as 70 per
sist in endeavoring to evade the law. VIII
those interested please take notice? X.
Schleswig.
From our correspondents at SchlesEig, we
learn that the Supervisors Of this town
have appointed Charles Zlnke, Chairman,
! to FIJI the vacancy occasioned By the resig-
nation Of John Bartl., mem Der Of assembly.
One morning last week, | counted eight
teams all together loaded with wheat frou.
New llolstein, bound for N4nt0w0G. Ia
I fact, hundreds of bushels Of wheat
leave this town and New Holstcin, daily
! for your village The reason Of this is that
Mantowoc pays from to cents more per
/ bushel for wheat than they do at Shcboysan,
and there is also 2 saving Of 50 cents in toll
in going TO Sheboygan. The citizens OF
our town ere anxious for good wagon
4 road from this town TO Manitowoo Q
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! Chat about Men and Women.
| Josh Billings i. having bad spell.
The ex Grand Duke Leopold II. died at
Rome on the goth ult., aged 73.
A daughter of Edward Sweeney, of Deca-
tur, was burned to death the other day.
Senator-elect Revels, Of Mississippi, has
arrived at Washington and Ames soon fol-
lows. Gov. Alcorn comes with them.
James, one of the Harper Brothers, is dan
gerously ii.
Wagner, the erratic composer, is violently
| Ill, and sol. ening of the brain is feared.
The Young Mems Library Association of
La Crosse have engaged Josh Billings to lee
ture February %.
! Hon. S. S Co1's lecture in New York, in
aid Of the New York Founding Association,
netted $40, 3d.
The first ten performances Of Booths Ham
/ let, this season, brought S27 $50 into the
treafury of the theatre.
John II. Stevens, one of the wcalthiest and
Oldest residents of Newark, n. j., died at his
residence in Bond street, last Sunday evening.
He was eighty years Of age, and leaves prop
erty valued at $4,000, 600,
A colony of 100 f, miles from Nova Scotia
has settled at Rush City. on the line of the
Lake Superior and Mississippi railroad.
The shoemskers of ALBANIA, y. T., .re on
strike.
| Robinson, held for e1trsdition at Toronto.
charged with arson in Massachusetts,, has
been dis harged, on account Of defect in
the warrant and insufficient evidence
William Brunt, Assistant Assessor Of Inter
nal Revenue was assa.sinated III Blackshre,
Price county, Ga, on the 2Sth ult.
| The house of Davil Adams, in Pittsburgh,
was burned or the Goth, and Adams wife was
burned to death. She had been drinking and
! is supposed to have set the house Oh fire.
The wife Of David Herald while partially
insane from religious excitement, cut >her
throat from ear to ear, causing instant death;
! in Derinda, 10 Davies county las. Tuesday.
| Her two little daughters, who were present,
heroically but vainly tried to prevent the sui
eide.