The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-12-17
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
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state Board Of Canvassers TO award McDill
tie Congressional certificate from the Eighth
itstti.t.s Tie New YOrk Court Of Appeals
hac decided IN the case of Mr. Tllt0n against
Mr. beecher that the defendant has right 10
have the bill Of particulars asked for in the
court below w..-. Reports reached New Orleans
on the night of the 18th that large bodies OF
armed negroes were on their way to Vicks-
burg to take possession Of the Court House
On the 7th Gen. Emory received dispatch
that riot and fighting began on that day. An
Associated Press dispateh Of the same
date SAYS an alarm was sounded at nine O'Clock
in the morning that the negroes were march
ing on the town. The citizens gathered e,.
D,asse, armed Immediately, and advanced To
meet the negroes on the Baldwin Ferry road.
They we're encountered on Grove street, just
outside Of thb city, about 30 strong,
Ths tJmr arder Gf .tl,t citizens warned
the negroes to disperse, but they
refused, and Immediately firing com
mencsd on both sides. The negroes retreated
about a mile, and again made a stand in an
old bresst-work and house, but were soon
routed. The loss in this engagement was one
citizen, Oliver Brown Killed, and about twelve
or fifteen negroes killed, several wounded
and about twenty prisoners. On the
Halls Ferry road about 80 negroes were
found and routed after a short engagement,
with several killed and wounded. The attack
was made for the purpose Of rcinstating a
colored man named Crosby in the office Of
Sheriff. II is reported that the negroes we've
burning cotton gins and dwellings In the
iltlgh!,5rii6of
WEDNESDAY, Dec. J.-Rec nj Paris dis
patches say the Rothschilds have advanced
30,m0,oU reals TO the Spanish Government,
and the bankers Of Madrid l5OOOO,Oo0 reals
more. Rumors prevail that Don Carlos Is
negotiating with eN-Queen Isabella %. A
train on the Kansas Pacific Railway was
stopped by obstructions on the track at Nun
Gle. Mo, on the Sth, and five armed men en-
tered the express car, uncoupled it from the
train, and compelled the engineer to haul it
away from the other ,ars, when they robbed
the safr uf Wells, Fargo 4 Co. OF about 800.
900 The passenger ear wis not entered nor
were the pdssCusprs disturbed Some firing
vas indulgcd in, but no one was hurt
ThURsDAY, Dec. Dispatches ffBm
India announce that the observation of the
transit of Venus in that country had been en-
tirely successful. Over 100 photographs were
taken. Successful observations al Cairo
Suez and Thebes were also made. At Shang-
hal the weather was cloudy and the sun OBJ
secured. Grand Jury which
indicted the defendants in the late
safe conspiracy trial in Washington having
been declared Illegal, the defendants have
been discharged -. The latest news relating
TO the Nicksburg troubles is TO the effect that
the excitement is still subsidng and
business generally had been resumed.
The Governors proclamation denouncing
The alleged riotous proceedings and
Ealing OH 81 soud citizens to
aid in unfolding the LAWS Of The State issued
ON the eth, was responded to by proclama-
tiun by the Mayor of Nicksburg, who claimed
that there had up to that time been no riot
Gus asscmblagc in that city that the meeting
of the unarmcd taxpayers who requested the
resignation Of irresponsible officials who had
failed to execute bonds was quiet and orderly
etc The Proctor Mouton libel suit has
been compromised, Moultou paying the costs,
amounting to about 5000. Miss Proctor
sOlemnly AYERS that there was no truth in the
charges made against her as to her relations
With Mr Beether, diid Mr. Nsuton admits
that he spoke merely from hearsay.
FRIDAY, Dec. 1l.-Cable telegramS say
that observations in regard to the transit of
Venus failed in Ormsk, Orensburg, kasan,
Uralsk, Astrachan, KertCh aud Titiis, but were
successful at Tehcrsn, Hobartstown, Adelaide,
and Melbourne, Australia, and at
points in India, China and Japan.
The American party at Hobartstown
succeeded in taking ll3 photographs of
Venus during her passage over the disk
If the sun. Gen. Iona has issued
PROCLAMATION s,imnionng the Catlisis to
surrender within eight days, aud threat
ening TO devastate The country occupied by
them in case offurther resistance . Ezra Cor
nell, the founder of Cornell College died on the
9th at Ithaca, y ". Rev. w K. Huntington,
ofWorcester, Mass, has been chosen Episcopal
Bishop Of the State Of Iowa by the conyen-
tiln reCently In session at Davenport 80.
The Iowa State Grange met at Des Mones
on the Sth. About 300 delegates were pres
cnt. The annual address puts the num-
Der of subordinate Oranges in the State
al 2oro-an increase over last year of l62
One hundred and nine smaller Oranges
have been consolidated. On the 10th
the Treasurer reported the receipts last year
at S$S, $3.50; expenditures for last year,
S3l ,NT7l; balance on hand, -, SSH. The
State Agent reported the business of his
office FOR the wear at $4,000. The saving TO
the Grange by the State Agency is over s27,-
90 The Committee on the Railroad Tariff
Law reported that it was not the law they
wanted, and had proved impracticable
The actual number OF negroes killed iii the
btrbf AZ
at $50.
SATURDAY, Dec. 1@.-In the trial of Count
Won Arnim at Berlin the fact has been dcyel-
rpcd that his secretary was instructed by Bis
tnartk to act as d spy upon his conduct.
Washington dispatch says the Admin
istration approves of the course of Gov.
Ames, of Mississippi, in endeavoring to sup
press the disorders existing in that State
without calling for the assistance of the Fed
cral Government. In the case of Jesse
Pomeroy, the boy murderer, on trial in Bos-
ton, the jury have brought in verdict of
murder in the first degree, with a recon-
meuddtion that he be imprisoned for life 80.
The trial of the suit of Tilton against
Reccher has been postponed until the first
Monday in January ... Miss Julia A. Gar
rrt,on has been elected State Lecturer OF the
Grange in Iowa, in place of Mr.. Wilkinson,
resigned.
MONDAY. Dec. 1.-THE insurrection in
the Argentine Republic is over and the Gov
ernment has issued proclamation granting
amnesty 10 al political offenders. The
Southern Claims Commission has favorably
passed upon about LOCO claims and a total
amount awarded of about $1506G.
he attorneys for Tilton have appealed
from an order Of Judge McCuc granting .
hlI OF particulars in the Tiltou- Beecher case.
The appeal is to the General Term, and is on
the ground that the Brooklyn City Court shall
not limit the prosecution on the trial To proof
eight wears, residing with hi> parents in West
Hohoken, \. j., was kidnapped by a man in
buggy on tine evening Of the 10TH
while playing with companion A
large ImbeT Of citizens Of Nickshurg
have issued an address, giving a statement of
the troubles there, i'm which they charge Il
vast amount Of official corruption, and defend
The action Of the citizens in the recent war
fare, claiming that they were obliged to take
up arms in sef-dcfense. They say that g our
people, IN the trying circumstances in which
they have been placed, might we'll have done
more, and could not have done less for the
protection of themselves, their families and
their property =. King kalakaua reached