The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-01-08
NEWS CONDENSATION.
TkADE OF BALTIAOkE


The annsal report Of the trade of Balti-
more Is printed to-day. The statistics
show generally healthy increase in most
branches OF trade ever last year. The
receipts from customs has fallen of about
100000. The kgsres for the month
of December, 1873, exhibit /. most favor
able showing when eoptras.ed with Ncy-
emter last, or December, 1872.
A GERMAN STEAMER LOST WITH THIRTY
TWO LIVES.
LONDON, Dec. 3l.-Intelligcnce has
been received that the steamship Ebe,
bound from London for Hamburg, was lost
at sea, and that thirtY-two of those on
board p.nshed.
VERSAILLES, Jan. 1.-The court-nartial
setting for the trial of Communists ha.
condemned six more of them to death.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. jan New Year
was ushered in with the ringing Of chimes
and the firing Of cannon. The stores
were closed during the day. Comparative
ly few calls were made. The weather was
beautiful-exactly like spring.
A telegram from Wheeling, W. Va,
says: "At the close of the year it can be
claimed for this the largest nail and glass
manufacturing city 10 the Union, that it
has passed through the late panic without
a single suspension of any mercantile or
manufacturing firm or a run on any of our
banks. Our mills and factories are in full
blast. Money is comparatively easy, and
Parties are already paying their accounts.
The business outlook is encouraging in all
rsspeete'
The theory of geolegists that Kansas
was once covered with water receives
confirmation from the fact that specimens
Of shale from the coal shaft, at Council
Grove, exhibit well formed. clearly defined
rice, grain and stem, SO perfectly formed
that they look almost natural also, marine
plants and shells Of the coal formation
perfect.
AT The WHITE HOUSE
The President and Mrs. Grant held their
usual New Years reception to-day aided
by the Cabinet officers and their wives.
After tbs reception Of the foreign represen-
tatiyes and home officials in the usual order.
the veterans Of 1912 were received, and at
2 ID. p. the doors were thrown open to the
general public.
THE FEw AUSTRIAN MINIsTER.
| The reported appointment of Barren
/ Schwarz as Austrian Minister here is cup
| posed to be made en- account Of the active
I part Austria intends to take iu our Censen-
NAL. lie was Director of the late Vienna
/ Exposition, and had, while exercising i'm
( portans diplomatic relations in the other
countries of Europe, much to do with the
organization of TIE worlds fair. His gov
eminent has great desire to find market
for large class of its manufactures which,
yet, have not found their way here in
great quantities, and it is believed that the
selection of this officer is with the expection
OF the promotion of Commercial and in ius
trial developments of his own.
Snow-bird, abound at Battle Mountain
New, says the Measure for Measure, and
as they are but kbrief flyers the Indian.
fetch them down with bow and arrow. W.
saw one CID fellow with a string of tive
dozen. These little birds, though sma /
are exceedingly plump, and seven or eight
Of them skewered on a cambria needle and
broiled on a thimblefu Of Goals make a
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-The L ni.ed State,
District Attorney says that no fur,be,
proceedings will be taken in the case of
the |lrginius. 1t is not likely that the
vessel Will ever be raised, and it is deemed
requisite that the vessel should be produc.
Cd before she could be libeled. Govern
nent officers say that whatever NAV have
been the ration of Mr.. Patterson to the
'irslnlus at the time of her register, there
Is abundance of proof that he was not her
owner at the time of her capture.