The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-01-21
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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the Carlists were defeated with considerable
ioss.ss1t sSreported that Don Carlos is de-
.,,.-s tersnined On a vigorous prosecution of
- the war, Notwithstanding the restoration
s~~~Sof rfhe Monarchy. AT a largely-at-
= <tended Indignation meeting at Cooper
~~7lnsttute, Nav York city, on the evening Of
Sfhe 1fth a long series of resolutions Was
adopted, denouneing military Interference in
State affairs and condemning the dis
patches Of Gen. Sheridan ... The suit
@of Theodore Tilton against Henry Ward
Beeeher has been fairly begun, Mr..
Mouis, counsel for the prosecution, de-
liYering the opening speech. The Repub-
licah members Of the Louisiana Legisla-
ture have made report concerning the pro-
iAs ceediugs in That body on the 4th, which in
the main comedies with the official state
ment made by Gen. Sheridan The
public schools in New Orleans re-
~" opened on the 11th with a large attendance
"A meetiiie Of Republicans in New Orleans
on the 1lth was largely attended Resolu.
tons were adopted indorsing the telegrams
Of Gen. Sheridan, and stating that his repre-
6entatipns were only defective in that they
.dmnottel'haf the story Of outrages to which
RepubliGans In Louisiana have been subjected
years past.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. BIT is reported
that the Carlists have taken Pampeluna, and
that Gen. Morones, commanding the Nation
al troops in the North, has pronounced against
King Alphonso. 1t is also stated that Deputy
Leon Merino has left Madrid with 500 follow
ers to raise the standard Of the Republic in
the Sierra Moreno. The New Hampshire
State Republican Convention has nominated
Person &. Cheney, Of Manchester, for
Governor and Charles F. Powers for Rail-
road Commissioner. . The Legislature of
Mississippi has adopted resolutions indorsing
the course of Gen. Sheridan. in New Orleans
liking Kalakaua arrived in Chicago on
The l2.h, on his return from the East. The
Louisiana Legislature (Kellogg) on the 10Th
adopted a resolution to go immediately
into the reelection of Lieut.-Gov Pinchback
as United States Senator, in order to silence
all doubt and questioning as to mis- title to
~ seat in tAst body, and the vote stood: Senate,
Is to .; House, 4S to T.. The Nevada Legis-
iatpre has elected William Sharon (Repub
Ican 10 the United States Senate The
lilipos State Grange met in secret session at
Springfield on the 18th.
THURSDAY, Jan. 1.-THE Spanish Gov
.ernment has Informed Germany that complete
satlsfactioa win be given for the outrage on
"a The brig Gustav immediately upon the receipt
OF full dispatches from its representative at
Berlin. Dispatches have been received
,-at---N&dcid --- announcing that several
bands OF Carlists have been badly de-
Seated by the National troops in
ssthe Departments of Barcelona and
81 Navarro. According to the report of the
Secretary of the Illinois State Grange there
&ssare now ,533 Oranges in the State, with an
- aggregate membership of little over u.s.
600. The Louisiana Legislature has passed
resolution requesting Congress to
Immediately institute thorough investira-
tion into affairs in Louisiana. . :. Ex-Goy
Thomas E. Bramlette, of Kentucky, died sud
denly at Louisville, on the 18th, of heart dis
case. Both houses of the Ohio Legislature
have adopted resolutions condemning the
interference OF Federal troops in Louisiana
affairs.
FRIDAY, Jan. 15-The British cutter
Lapwing was recently attacked by natives of
Santa Cruz Island, her crew overpowcred and
massacred, and the vessel burned The
cashier Of the First National Bank of
Carbondalc, Pa, was, at noon on the 18th,
bound and gagged by two men, who succeed
ed in making OFF with $4,000 in currency.
Helena (Mont) dispatch says the weather
! that the mercury in the thermometer froze
solid Proof whisky left out of doors also
froze solid in half an hour. Four Cinnamon
who left Helena at four o'clock on the after
noon of the 18th were found the next morn
ing abaut half a mile from town, frozen to
death, The whisky they had with them, in
= small kegs, was frozen solid.
{ SATURDAY, Jan. 16.-A dispatch was
-
LouisEh Wilt, claiming to be Speaker of the
Louisiana House of Representatives, and di-
rected to the President, asking him ito
direct the military to restore the statu
- QUO existing at the time Gen. de Tro.
BRAND elected certain members from
the House, in order that the House of
Representatives may proceed in the discharge
of its duties without molestaton" d. Two
negroes, Lewis Jarvis and Ebert Jackson,
were banged at North Hampstead, Long
Island, on the 18th for the murder, in June,
1873, of Samuel Jones'. Jackson made
full confession. The hanging of
Jarvis was a bungling and horrible
atiairstl rope breaking the first time, and
the second time slipping out of the latch
: riog. The poor wretch then exclaimed,
: For Gods sake, make it sure this time, land
the Sheriti's assistants seized the rope and
hauled him up by hand, when he was
strangled to death. At Norwich, Conn. on
the 10Th, by order of the Mayor, a national
salute was fired in honor Of the President be-
s. causeof his action on the Louisiana question.
Z At the anuual- iaeeting of the Union
: League Club IN New York on the J
evening of the =l4th a short and
spirited discussion of the Louisiana
trouble followed, the TENOR of which WAS an
approval of the Presidents course large
meeting was-held IN Albany on the evening
of the 14th toexpress indignation at the re-
cent action of the soldiery in New Orleans
s-9-.Chaies A.kStevens has been elected to
Congress from the Tenth Massachusetts, Dis
trict for the unexpired term of the late Alvah
Crocker. A large meeting was held in Bal
tialore on the night Of the 18th TO protest
against military interference in Louisiana.
Reyerdv johnson was the leading speaker
The Virginia Legislature has adopted resolu-
tons protesting against the recent conduct of
Federal troops in Louisiana as a gross and
wanton usurpation Of power.
MONDAY, Jan. 1S.-A Berlin telegram
says Germany viii soon have fifty guns on
thenorthern coast of Spain to sustain any de-
frnand She may make for indemnity for the
past aat security FOR the future. :. The En-
Slsh astronomers at Greenwlch have given to
the public the results of their first tenta-
tive computations from the data OBJ
tanned through observations of the recent
transit Of Venus. Remarking upon these re-
suits, an American astronomer states the
suns distance FROM tire earth to be s., ,443, 126
miles-6,9 ,926, 274 miles less than the distance
as computed by Eneke from observations of
the last transit. He says at this rate Of
progress the earth will fall into the sun in
about 40 years. But as the earths motion
viii be greatly accelerated through the
increased influence of the suns attrac
tion the two bodies approach each
other the catastrophe naN and in fact must,
inevitably OCCUR much sooner, unless the
suns force should be proportionately de-
creased or its volume reduced. A man who
gave hisname as W Allen was taken from
JsilSN Urbsns, Ohio, on the morning of the
18th by party OF masked men and hanged
to a tree in front OF the Court House.
He had confessed to having horribly
outraged the person of a nine-year-
old girl few days before. .. The Republican
members of he Ohio Hnnsa NJ panrasa,ta