The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-12-10
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
tOlie1sed iTea kilograms Of Accompanying Dates.

announced at Madrid that Gen. Saballs, the
Marquis de Nilladarco, aud other prominent
persons have abandoned the cause Of Don
Carlos Mayor Hayemeyer, Of New York,
died Of apOpeXy on the Both ult. Alderman
Vance took the oath Of office Of Mayor on the
afternoon OF the same day. to serve until
the expiration Of the term. The boy
in the family Of F. W. Peyton, at Bar
bDursrillc, W. Va, who was supposed 10
have been the missing Charlie Ross, was
found, upon investigation. 70 have escaped
from neiElborin" ppor-A0use. Later ac-
counts from Tusaumhia, Ala, place the
number Of live, lost by the tornado in that
place at sixty, aud TIE value Of property
destroyed al $1,000 ABOUT sixty persons
were also wounded. Four hundred people
are houseless and great destitution prevails
Tgscumbia is a town Of about so inhabit-
ants, situated on the Memphis & Charleston
Railroad, seventy-dye miles west Of Hunts
vile aud two miles from the Tennessee River
Walter Strain, Of Buffalo, Y. Y, arrived at
Dcs Moines, Iowa, on the 2sth uIt, from the
Black Hills, where he had been prospecting
since August lie made q thorough prospect
and reports some pocket" gold found, but
not enough to pay He declares that there is
not 4 shadow of truth in the statements made
a, 10 tb" discoveries Of gold in that country
Two Of his comrades we're shot by the In
dan-, Of whom the hills are full.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2.-The French Ma
tiOnal Assembly reassembled on the 3Cth ult.
NJ. Buffet was reelected President on the lst
by vote Of 34S to three scattering . Grigua
Land has been absorbed by the British
authorities, thus completing the terri
torial connection between Cape Colony
and Natal The New Hampshire Re
publican State Convention for the nomination
Of candidates for Governor and Railroad Com
missioner is % be held at Concord on the 18th
Of January. w.. The Ohio Legislature met in
adjourned session at Columbus on the 1st
Tie annual message Of Governor
Allen was read in each house.
The total local Indebtedness of the
State is 81 $50 OO736; refmbursable debt,
S7,9Ss ,2053O; total, so, ,S74, PIP &C. The ire
ducible debt is $4l22, l9l S6. The aggregate
debts in Ohio, State, local and trust fund 533,
991, 1,20f y. The taxes levied in 1873, collectable
in 1874, aggregate S26, "A, As The taxes levied
in 1874, collectable in 1915, aggregate 1914
729 The taxable valuation in Ohio, as shown
by the grand duplicate Of 1874, is: Real es-
tate in cities, towns and villages, $354, $40
l97; real estate not in cities towns and viii
lagos, $697, 40S, ,537; personal property, S52S,-
12l,5SS. Total $3.50, ,319,324, which is an
increase over the grand duplicate Of 1873 of
sl3, t0l, S65.... The ncwly-clected city officials
Of New Orleans were Installed on the }Oth ult.
.... The American Cheap Transportation Con
venton met at Richmond, Va, on the 1st.
About scycuty-iye delegates were present, the
Hon. Josiah Quincy, Of Massachusetts, pre-
siding. y report on transportation was read
by F. b. Thurbcr, Of New York, in which he
argued in favor of trans continental railroads
in preference to canals. Committees were
appointed.
THURSDAY, Dec. 3-The steamer La
Plata, chartered to repair the telegraph cable
foundrred oil U-hant ON the 2gth ult Sixty
persons were drowned. Fourteen persons
were rescued BY Glasgow sic mer after
floating for about two hours. Among
the lost were the Captain and ail the officers,
and Mr.. Rek.'~, the chiet electrician
Dir. krncalN, the counsel Of the Tichhome
claimant, has been dismissed from the British
bar. The British authorities on the Gold
Coast have ordered that slavery be abolished
in Ashantec....T The annual report of the Reg
,
Of thl country exhibits an apparent increase
Of l0iG2G tons, 5635 tons in registered
tonnage and 9Sg9l tons in the en-
rolled and licensed tonnage ~ The
New Hampshire Prohibition State Con
yenton met at Concord on the I'd and nomi-
mated Nathaniel White, of Concord, for GOV
ernor David Head, Of Milford for Railroad
Commissioner. and the following. for Con
Second District, J. VI. Fletcher. Third
District, Edward II. Weston 49,. The Rev John
5. Glendenning has been acquitted by the
Jersey City Presbytery on all the counts
against him ... The Tweed haIeaS corpus case
has been dismissed by Judge Barrett. and
Tweed remanded TO prison . The entire
business portion of the village Of Wilton, y.
H, was destroyed by fire on the ID, the
loss aggrcgating about 100000 The
first annual session Of the Alabama State
Grange met at Montgomery on the I'd
The banking firm Of Henry Cleys 4 Co,
New York, has been adjndged bankrupt
The returns from the Michigan State election
show the vote for State Treasurer to be as
follows William b. McCrcery, Republican,
10, 4s6; Sterling, Democrat, 9s,O49; Pro
hibition ard Reform candidates, 4lI9;
making McCreeys majority over all
S,3lS. The remainder Of the Republican
State ticket will show about 1000
majority....W. F. Storey, editor Of the
Chicago Times, was married on the I'd to Mrs.
Eureka c. PearsOn....A recent Montgomery
tAa) dispatch reports 4 meeting Of colored
men, representing twenty cotton counties Of
Alabama, 10 concoct measures for wholesale
emigration To States where the colored men
are in the majority The emigration feeling
is represented as very strong.
FRIDAY, Dec 4.-The message of Pres
idcnt MacMahon was presented to the French
Assembly on the Sd. The President an
nounces his Intention to occupy the post
which he has been called to fill. to the last
day, with mistaken firmncss and scrupulous
respect for law. Dockerav, the American,
who had been sentenced to death as a spy bv
the Cuban authorities, has been pardoncd
a telegram from Carlist sources saws the
Government troops in Valencia have been to-
tally defeated by the Carlists with a loss of
600 killed and wounded and 40 prisoners.
\ Washington dispatch saws it is known in
diplomatic circles that Spain has paid Ia
Great Britain only part Of her indemnity
un account Of the Virginius affair. leay-
ing the remainder and other questions
to be hereafter adjusted The Su-
prrmc Court Of the United States has
recently decided that the Confederate GOV
ern1nent of the Southern States had no exist
ence except as a conspiracy to overthrow
lawful authority, and that all contracts grow
lnS out Of purchases from it are void Is con.
trary to public policy...A New Orleans dis.
patch SAYS Judge Durel has forwarded his
resignation TO the President
SATURDAY, Dec. 5-Mairid DISPATCHES
mention mutiny in ono Of the regiments
ordered north. Thirty arrests have been
made The Carlst leader Sohano WAS can.
turcd on the Sd while travelling on railway
train to Cordova. O., the +th he was shot
having been adjuegcd guilty of assassination
udrobhery =. Prince Bismarck has given no.
iice to the German Reichstag that the Vatican
legation had been abolished and the sum ar,rrn
prlaied for its maintenance has been stricken
from the budget The last official docu.
ment issued by the late Mr.. Hsvemcyer
Mayor of New York city, was commuuica.
ton 10 the President of the Commissioners
Of Charities and Corrections, PROTESTING
against the alleged partiality shown toward
Mr.. Tweed in his prison confinement. and
asking an inquiry into the same. Roy