The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-07-27

gimert which served in the Mexican war
have formed an organization to be known
as "The Association of Massachusetts,
Volunteers in Mexico"
The number of beer stamps Of different
denominations issued during the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1871, was 22,703, ,s0S,
representing $7,4S5, 46a, being an increase
over the previous year of 2, ,297 ,6S3 stamps,
and $729 1862.
On Lake Michigan, on the night of the
18th, the propeller J. Barber was burned
to the waters edge while on her way from
Belton Harbor to Chicago with cargo of
fruit There were twenty persons on
board. but all were saved except two mem
bers of the crew.
A Joliet, H., dispatch of the 10Th says
The water from the Chicago River is
killing all the fish of our river Their
dead bodies are to be seen floating down
stream in great numbers
Much excitement has been caused at
Olney, Richland County, ILL.,, by the recent
discovery of the fact that the title to the
land on which the town stands is defective
through some flaw in the enactment of
Congress, the quarter section on which
the city is located not being entered on
the books of the General Land Office.
This discovery was made by land specu-
lator named Wilson, who has secured a
patent on the land, and now proposes TO
pre-empt or compel settlements from the
occupants.
At the Alabama State Convention of
Teachers and School Superintendents,
recently held at Montgomery, it was re-
solved by unanimous vote "that the
education of the colored race was duty
and high privilege of the white race, and
that the convention concur in any
measure calculated to accomplish such a
result"
The Maryland Democratic State Con-
vention met at Baltimore on the 10th, and
made the following nominations: For
Governor, VIM. Pinkney Whyte, of Balti-
more; for Attorney General, A. X. Syl-
vester, of Washington County for Comp
troller, Levin Woodford, of Somerse.
County, present incumbent
Tennie c. Claflin has publicly announc.
ed herself as candidate for Congress in
the Eighth District of New York city.
Distinct shocks of earthquake were felt
in different sections of Maine, New Hamp
shire and Massachusetts on the morning
of the Goth.
At Harrisburg. Pa, a very bold robbery
has come to light, by which, it is alleged,
a traveller at the depot in that city was
robbed of satchel containing Sl5O,0O0
He had carelessly left the bsg under
the seat of the Car while he W, mt to get
some refreshments. No trace of the rob-
Der.
The engine Vulcan, on the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad, blew up at Coalport, Pa,
on the Goth. The engineer, fireman, and
four trainmen were killed. Four bodies,
in terribly mangled condition, were
found, but could not be recognized. The
engineer and fireman were not found
They must have landed in the Lehigh
River and been swept away.
A Washington dispatch of the Goth says
the Secretary of the Treasury had received
q letter from Judge Richardson, who
speaks rather encouragingly of the pros
poets of negotiating the new loan in Eng
land although there was nothing specific
on that point.
The courts of the District of Columbia
have decided that no distinction can be
made ON account of color in any public
place. The question came up on the re.
fusal of restaurant keeper to give re-
fire shments to one of the colored officers of
the Police Court A fine was paid of $50,
an appeal from the court below dismissed
and the decision of the lower court was
sustained
The Nebraska Constitutional Conven-
ton has fixed the salary of the Governor
at 81 600, Secretary of State and Auditor
at Il 600, Treasurer at $4,000, and the At
General at $2,50O.
A few nights ago large body of dis
guised men went to the Alabama & Chat
tanooga Railroad yard, at Chattanooga,
Tenn, and captured and locked up the
watchman in the round house, then dis
abled all the engines in the house, by re-
moving parts of the machinery, which
could be only replaced from shops in the
East. No trains left the city on that road
the next day.
A Louisville, KY, dispatch Of the Goth
says that, on the night of the 18th, 'forty
men attacked the house of Reuben and
Martha Mason, colored, six miles from
Shelbyville. Reuben escaped, but the men
entered and whipped Martha severely,
and left an order for both to leave the
neignborhood. On Tuesday night several
men went to the same house and ondeav-
ored to set il On fire, but Reuben shot at
them and drove them off. JnO. Myers,
Cave Washburne, and VIM. keplinger
were arrested for the offense, examined
before a magistrate and discharged. To-
day they were brought b, fore United
States Commissioner Beatty, Of this city,
and held to bail in $500 each to answer to
tQc CudI St UtioJc tnC 4 coCiol SoulI IS'
The horse disease has made its appear
ance at Portland, Me.
The whole business portion of the city
of Truckee, California, on the Central
Pacific Railroad the great lumber depot Of
the Sierra Nevada r gion, was destroyed
By fire on the Goth. Loss immense.
The trial of Oliver Pesslee, engineer on
the Chicago, Rock Island q Pacific
Railroad, for manslaughter, in killing
Wilson Wigant, in October last, by run
ming over hin on the railroad, was con-
cluded at Joliet, Ill, few days ago, and
the jury not only rendered unanimo' s
verdict of " not guilty" on the fir st ballot,
but Immediately thereafter wrote state.
ment to the effect that they not only
found the prisoner not guilty # man
slaughter, but fully exonerated him from
all blame in the transaction.
The manufacture of Canada thistles
into robes and textile fabrics, it is said, Is
about to be attempted, On a scale that will
at least settle the practicability of the pro-
cess, whatever it may do for the manufac-