The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-02-09
Personal Notes.

one who has ever heard of Camoens,
the greatest of Portuguese poets. Such
is fame.
OF Webster's Speller, more than so.
600, 600 copies have been sold The
present rate of production is 1000, ,0OO
annually. DR.. Webster received one
cent upon every copy.
A THIEF recently went through the
house of Governor Yarmouth, ofLouis-
lana, and among other booty, captured
portion OF the Governors message to
the Legislature, in consequence of
which it was not delivered upon the as
sembling of that body.
MAYOR AGUILAR, of Los Angeles,
Cal, is Spenlard, and does not speak
or write the English language He
sends his messages to the Common
Council in Spanish, and has them read
by an interpreter.
MINISTER BANCROFT, at Berlin, has
written to gentleman In Pittsburg,
Pa, that the delay in the completion
OF the bust of Humboldt, ordered for
the public park in that city, has been
caused by accidents, which had twice
occurred, In attempts to make the
| bronze casting.
! LYON COUNTY, Iowa, had not single
white inhabitant until the summer of
1867, when Daniel McLaren, a hunter
and trapper, settled on the Sioux river.
Now the county bids fair to become
one of the most populous in the north
western portion of the State
DIR. LANCASTER, a London magistrate,
has given notice that, in case any per
son shall come by his death through
slipping on pavement from which the
snow has not been removed. he will
direct the jury to return verdict of
manslaughter against the person
through whose neglect the accident
may have happened.
DEWEY, the man who was hung up
for while last fail by vigilance com
mlttee at Charlton, Iowa, has been
prosecuting his hangers, @nd finally has
succeeded in obtaining a Judgment for
$1,000 damages against three of them
AN affecting illustration of "a dogs
devotion to kind master was given in
the case of DR.. Roberts, who was shot
and killed at Bedford, Virginia, last
week After he had been laid out his
little pet jumped upon his dead body,
fondled his face, whined and moaned,
and would not permit anyone to touch
his body.
THE executors of the British million
aire, George Baird, of Stitchell, report
the value of his movable estate in
England and Scotland at S4, 500, 0CC.
He owned beside landed estates and
funds, amounting to large sum, in
this country. He left $40, 200 per an
mum to his wife, in addition to her
jointure, so long as she remains un-
married. The value of the stamp on
the inventory of his estate was S67, 900
OUR western exchanges are filed with
accounts of the detention of trains on
the Union and Kansas Pacific r. r. by
snow. Trains from Denver were ten
days in reaching st. Louis.
UNDER new law in London, the pen
atty of 95 can be enforced against any
person keeping a dog for a single day
after the 1st of January without Ii
cense. The licenses expire on the 31st
of December
THE Maine House of Representative
is composed of Isl members. There
are 80 farmers, 20 lawyers, 23 merchants,
5 doctors, clergymen, and one editor.
Politically the house is divided as fol
lows Republicans, 112; Democrats,
3S; Independent l.
CALIFORNIA papers complain of
manifest increase Ill the number of
shooting affrays throughout the state.
and one of them ascribes it to the re-
peal of the law prohibiting the carry
ing of concealed weapons.
THE Chinese begin another cycle of
thousand years in their calendar,
early in February, and those of the race
in California will devote two weeks to
festivity in celebration of the passage
from the old cycle to the new
A MIsER worth $40, 900 died at Knox
vile, ILL.,, recently from unintentional
generosity. He drew bank check of
nephew, and when he found what he
man," and died from the effects of the
shock.
In any business never wade into wa
ter where you cannot see the bottom.
Put no dependence upon the label of
a bag, and count money before you
receipt for it. See the sack opened be
fore you buy what is in it, for he
who trades in the dark asks to be
cheated
THE San Francisco people are tired
of supporting self-elected vagrants in
comparative idleness, and are making
efforts to have such gentry sentenced to
labor on public works. There are
many idle persons in that region who
choose to winter in Jail as vagrants in
preference to doing any kind of honest
labor.