The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-08-24

day OF last week there were seventy new
cases and thirty-four deaths, and on We'd
nesday eighty new cases and twenty
deaths.
4 dispatch from Serwalki. Poland, says
the cases of cholera are decreasing in that
town, whose population does not exceed
six thousand, about one-half Of whom are
jews. There has been four hundred and
forty-three cases, eighty-three of which
We're fatal.
An extensive fire occurred on the 17th
inst, In Leicester, England, which is
the principal wood-manufactur;ng center Of
England and which resulted in heavy loss
es. Several persons were killed. The
dead bodies were so burned as to be beyond
naturalization.
The Captain and entire crew of the brig
Victoria, which arrived at New York from
Cienfuegos, Cuba. on the 10th, were at
tackled by yellow fever during the voyage.
Sam Goody, the second mate, is now in
West Bank hospital. The rest of the crew
are recovering.
Carl Tausig, one of the greatest Of living
pian'Sts, and the most prominent pupils of
Lis. {, died at Deipsic on the 18th ult., of
brain fever, after an illness of two weeks.
The body was sent to Berlin, where the de-
ceased resided. Tausig was comparative
y young man, thirty or thirty-fve years of
age.
An accident on Thursday last on the
Northern Central railroad at Ashland, fl
teen miles from Baltimore \ freight
train stopping at Ashland was run into by
u following train, and James Little, a
brakeman, killed, and ". I. Clendcnin,
also brakeman, terribly injured. Several
cars We're smashed and one of the engines
badly broken.
There has been proposition made to
establish direct line Of steamers between
Chicago and some French port. The yes
sells are to be constructed so as to draw
only y feet water. The French govern
mant views the matter favorably, and viii
despatch Il war vessel of the required
draught of water to test the practicability
of the proposition.
a terrible boiler explosion occurred on
Chautuaqua Lake, near Mayville, \. Y,
on the afternoon Of the 18th. The little
excursion steamer, named from the lake,
stood woodIng ut n landinf when the acct
dent took place. Four persons were killed
outright and fourteen others injured, some
of whom viii doubtless die. Ii is becoming
not less agravating tnan sad to record these
multiplying horrors.
The committee appointed to examine the
mine, in order to ascertain the cause Of the
disaster at Plttston, report that after four or
five hours careful examination in the
mines, that they found one door on m up
cast air way, and that through this air way
men could hardly crawl. The mine pre-
scented indication Of an explosion from
large accommodations Of gas, which was IL
able at any moment, from the situation, to
ignite from the naked lights of the men at
work.
a despatch from Ogdcnsburgh, y. Y,
dated August Is, says that the excitement
about Baron de GARNER, the lecturer is
abating. One of the rioters, who was
baiied on Wednesday,, the 10th, assaulted
one of the most respectable citizens, to-
day, and then gave himself up. lie was
again hailed. The Baron delivered his lee
ture this afternoon at the skating rink, be-
fore Il good audience, under the protection
Of the Mayor and police. No attempt was
made to disturb him.
\ despatch from Quincy, H., dated An
gust II, says that a passenger train coming
east that morning, on the Hannibal and
st. Joseph Railroad, and when near Cald-
well Station, running at rapid rate, the
engineer Observed an obstruction on the
track. Knowing il to be impossible to
stop the train III time, he let on fall head
Of steam, the engine striking the obStruc-
ton with such force as to clear the track,
thus preventing that which might other
wise have been u most terrible accident.
The most destructive fire which has ever
visited Cambridge, the county seat OF
Henry, H., occurred on the 10th inst,
causing 4 heavy loss, rs follows: Laiferty
& Brothers, large livery barn, together
with sixteen horses, and q full supply Of
carriages, wagons, harnesses, hay and
grain, were totally destroyed. The fire cx-
tended to the hotel barn of the Inman
House, which was also consumed with It's
valuable contents. The Chronicle Office,
in which building Is the Office Of the Great
Western Telegraph Company, was on fire,
and considerably damaged. The fire broke
out at midnight, and is believed to have
been caused by an incendiary.
?. J. Smyth, one of the leaders in the
late Dublin riot, has been prominent in
Irish politics since 1918. lie left this
country to effect the liberation of Mitchell
and 0 Bricn, then in Australia, and after
ward became editor of the Dublin Irish
man. He was recently elected to the
British Parliament from Westmcath. A.
VI. Sullivan, another leader, is editor Of the
Nation, national Journal Of. large circula-
ton, and has been 4 member OF the Dublin
corporation. The Wellington monument,
in the immediate vicinity of which the riot
occurrcd,is close to the entrance of Phoenix
Park, which is LOO acres in extent, and is
the principal promenade Of the inhabitants
Of Dublin.
The receipts and expenditures of the
United States Government for the fiscal
year ending January 80, 1871, arc as fol
lows:
RECEIPTS.
Net receipts from customs ...... S2OG go, i0S
Net receipts from internal reve-
143, COS. 1873
Sales Of public lands ......... 23SS, 6I6
Miscellaneous sources 81 $50. 73j
Total net receipts Of revenue. 1885,, 323, 943
EXPENDITURES.
Civil and Observation-Disclosures. 60, 400, O00
War Department. g.. 500. GEO
Navy. .......... 19.43I. 900
Indian Bureau. ...... go. 1851. 900
tensions. ........... "a. l04 900
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