The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-02-12

NEWS CONVERSATIONS.

A 299 year-old newspaper of Stock
holm circu!ates $1,000 copic. daily.
Mr. Ruby, Of Maryland, has passed the
Rubicon and married Miss Jett
A brakeman adYertises anti-breach Of
promise ink, and says that writing with
this ink disapl ears Lefore one month, thus
avoiding the system Of ridicne to which
old and young promise breakers are now
exposed
The coming carnival at Memphis, it Is
said, will be tie finest ever led n Ameri
ca.
a sale OF condemned government cloth
ing at Omaha, on Wednesday, realized
SIS, 900
The Pullman Palace Car Company and
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad have
leased the Mammoth Cave, and will hence
forth run it in connection with the railroad.
The anvil for the thirty ton steam ham
mer to be erected at the Wooiwicli
/ Arsenal, England, will weigh sixty tons
the anvil block weighs one hundred and
three tons, and took sly months to cool.
altogether six HUNDRED aad sixty tons of
iron Will 90 u,cd in the foundation work
James W Daniels, of Minnesota has
been confirmed by the Senate as Indian
Inspector.
Board of Engineer Offers has been
constituted to examine into and report up
on the James River and kanawha Canal
project.
In q melee at Jacksonville, H., Monday
evening, between George Atwood ard a
man bamed Mckenna, TIE latter Was
stabbed in the back by the former, inflict-
Ing q terrible wound, and breaking the
blade of the Knife off in the flesh. The
victim, j. is thought, will recover.
: A man namcd William Pillow was
: drowned in the old river bed ut Cleve.
land on Monday evening. lie lad two
dogs with him, one Of which was drowned
while trying to rescue his master
The London Saturday Review says :
What the Unitcd States are to the rest Of
the world, Chicago is to the United States. -
i James Cusick, of billiard fame, and
who was an adopted son .f Alderman
Thomas Foley, died at Chicago. on We'd
nes1sy, after pro tracted illress,
OF the Is, 0C0,0 600 inhabitants of Spain,
10000, 600 can neither read nor write.
There are 1900 towns, villages and elite.
presided over by mayors, 1000 Of whom
are unable TO sisu their name to any ub .ic
document.
The New York World says that Disrasli
will return to the Premiership of Great
Britain, ard will have no difficulty in call
ing around him cabinet of men superior
in ability to the cabinet now on trial. The
Herald thinks that in the new Parliament
the Liberals will be largely in the majority
Ella L. Adams, wife Of Col. C. w.
Adams, and oldest daughter Of Mrs. Sena-
tor Lane, died 1T the residence of Mrs.
Lane, in Lawrence, Kansas, on Monday
evening.
On Wednesday evening the Automatic
Telegraph Company sent from Washing
ton to New York the presidents message,
with the Spanish protocol, numbering eleven
thousand one hundred and thirty words in
sixtY-nine minutes against seventy minutes
by the Western Union. The Automatic
Company used one wire with two operators,
while tie Western Union had eight wires
and sixteen operators.
Michael nonahue, who killed fellow
convict named Elihu Moore, in the State
Prison in Auburn, N Y, has been convic-
ted of murder in the first degree a second
time, and been sentenced to be hanged on
March 20. Another murderer, Engler, a
German, is also under sentence to be hang
ed there on TIE Sth of next month.