The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-07-25

miscellaneous Stems.
Twenty nine free schools axe in opera
ton in Jackson county, Fla.
Violent sand storms, doing great damage
to the growing crops, arc reported in Ari-
IONA.
y lake has been discovered in The Cas-
catc mountains, Oregon, completely sur
rounded by wall Of rock, 1000 feet high.
\ middle-aged German woman III Gin
oinnati fell down the collar-stairs of va
cant house she was cleaning. and re
manned there helpless four day, AMI night.
before she was discovered.
\ Tcnncssecan killed a rattlcsnake the
other day, that lie had been hunting for
during sixteen years. He estima ties that he
had consume ii three months of his time IA d
had walked twelve hundred miles IL pursuit
of the reptile,
The steamship Great Republic sailed fer
japan and China on the 18th, from San
Francisco, taking i'll one shipment, the
Ihhl'iSc sum Oh 81, iiC,Voc Ill specie.
This is enc of the straws which show how
our trade with the Oriental nations is en-
'argeI.
\ gigantic floating dock has just been
b tilt by the British Government at Bcrmu-
ia. Its extreme length is $50 feet inside
width, SIS feet inches width all over.
l2i feet depth, IS feet, The weight of
the dock IS $3.50 tons, and vessel weigh
ing ten thousand tons or more may be east
y lifted.
\ good story is told of :. clergyman in II
Massachusetts town who forgot his notes
on II Sabbath morning, and as 1t was too
late to send for them, lac said to his aud
fence, by way of apology, that this morn
ing he should have to depend unon the
Lord for what he might say, but that in
the afternoon he would come bcttcr pre-
pared.
\ Mauck Chunk paper tells Il pitful story
Of II dumb boy whose legs were caught and
crushed i'll coal breaker, and states as Il
marvellous circumstance, that though Il
mute from his birth, while in this terrible
position he appealed oloquently to those
round him, to get him out quick, and pray
ed to Heaven As tluently and distinctly rs
any one could do.
The Lexington, (Ky.) Press Of day or
two since, had the following: alt is I'M
derstood that Adam Harper has brought
suit in the " oodtord Circuit Court against
Wallace Harper, for slender, growing ont
of the horrible tragic death Of cid Jacob
Harper and his sister, q short time ago.
The damages are laid at $4,000 1t is
interesting facts in relation to tho great
murder
An amorous pctroitcr tried to kiss IN
unwilling fair one last week, but she be-
came angry and bit his check. He attempt
cd to return the compliment, but the pain
of the bite was SO intense that he falntcI,
and the wound has since so festcred AMI
swollen that the surgeon has decided to burn
the flesh with caustic and treat it as he
would the bite of mad dog. Both the bitter
and the bitten belong to the first families
in the city.
The most remarkable example Ct quick
railroad time was That mad3 bv the train
which bore Tom Scott and party from New
Orleans to Philadelphia lately. The party
left New Orleans at so p. IN. Thursday,
and arrived in Philadelphia on Sunday at
l;50p. m, having travelled the entire dis
tancc-l,G COZ miles-in sixty-six hours,
/ being an average of p Il miles an hours,
| and So miles a day, inclrding stopraSes.
The botanists are trying to acclimate
in Europe the COriarta hymifoIia or ink
I plant Of New Grenada. The juice which
it aeords, and which is called chanchi, is a
\ little red, but in few hours changes to a
! deep black and may lie used without any
preparation, This fluid corrodes pens much
/ less than ordinary ink, and rcsists the ac-
/ ton of chemical agents and of time much
better. In the time of the Spanish domin-
ion all their public documents must have
| been written with this ink.
The "iron famine" now prcvailn, in
the world, especially in our country, has
brought out the fact that to keep our raj.
road tracks IN repair and iron fot the rev
roads req uiros fully one-half CT all the
iron productions. The United States has
now 65,o0o miles completed in railroads.
| The suit brought by the Erie Railway
( Company against the Jefferson Railroad
is to break up a contract made 5y Jay
Gould, by which it is alleged that ould
came INTO possession Of 10000 shares OF
Jefferson Railway stock which is now held
in trast for him by Justin d. White The
complaint further charges Gould with with
drawing from the Erie Railway SIS, 900
of Jefferson Railway bonds, and the sub
stitution of al equal amount Of doubtful
bonds.
Gen. Wilcox and Lieut. Fred Grant
have arrived from Europe.
By advice of counsel the Erie Railway
Company have decided to repudiate tbs
500, 200 scrip awarded in 1869 to holler:
of preferred stock in lieu of the accumu
lated intereS: then due their certificates