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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-06
THE EAST,

IT is stated that the Newport, r. l.,
Manufacturing Company called meeting of
creditors on the 4th inst. Liabilities about
$250,000.
THE New York NeaUs of the Sd inst.
says the Philadelphia, Reading and Lehigh
Valley companies advanced the pr1ce of Goa
thirty-five to fifty cents per ton. /
The Boston Sandwich Savings Bank
was declared insolvent on the 1st inst. The
total amount of deposits in the bank is about
81 100000. The present difficulty is due to
the shrlnkage in the value of property in
Boston and other places on which mortgages
to the amount of $4,000 are held. The ex-
act condition of the bank cannot be ascer-
tanned for several days, but it is feared it
will not be able to go on again.
THE Brooklyn Eagle of the 31st ult.,
announces that the Rev. Halsted Carroll,
formerly pastor of a church in that city, now
of Newburgh, became a voluntary bankrupt
with liabilities of $4,000 due Brooklyn and
New York banks and the Merchants & Man
haitian Life Insurance companyt The latter
Is the largest ditor, i'll $4,000.
GEO. A. BRIGGS, Henry Lindenberger
and David Weand, of Northumberland coun-
ty. Pa, were found guilty by the United
States court at Plttsburg, on the 3lst ult.,
for interfering with the running of trains or
the Central Railroad of New Jersey, after th,
same had passed into the hands of receiver
appointed by the court. They were each
fined 800 and sentenced to 90 days iHl-
prisonment in the county Jail.
CARRIE, youngest daughter of Judge
Pierrepont, chief justice of Vermont, was
married at Vergennes on the 30th ult., to
Albert II. Cobb, of Chicago. Senator
Edmunds, Hon. E. R. Phelps, Trenor Park
and other distinguished guests were present
IT isnow reported that Gesner, charged
with forgery, who was a clerk in the
auditors department of the custom house
in New York in December, 1868, was con-
cerned in the forgery of raised check for
$500, which was accepted at the sub
treasury in that month, and the authors of
which were never detected.
SAMUEL III. VALLEY, prominent
railroad man, president of the Revenue
bank, and Wing candidate for governor in
1855, died at Boston on the 9th.
S. A. BEEKMAN q Co., manufacturers
of and wholesale dealers in straw goods, in
New York city and Franklin, Mass, have
failed. Liabilities estimated at over $780, ,00O
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ABROAD.

A PARIS dispatch dated Sept. Sd, says;
"All the journals announce that ex-Presi-
dent Thiers died quite suddenly at O'Clock
ENGLISH cropreports are very gloomy.
All grains will fall below the average.
A STRIKE of 10000 operatives COM
menced at Bolton, Eng, on the 1st INST
AN explosion of the boiler of steam
threshing machine in Westminster town
ship, Eng, on the 1st inst, killed three men
and seriously injured two.
A PARIS dispatch of the 31st ult.,
says: "The military tribunal has sentenced
to death Lyaz, deputy mayor of the Twelfth
reimbursement during the commune, and
guilty of ineendiarism and ordering illegal
arrests"
A CABLE dispatch says Edward
Cunard, econd son of the late Sir Edward
Cunard, of Staten Island, was killed on the
31st ult., while playing the game of polo.
RETURNS of the census of Japan for
1875 give a population of 33,625,67S. The
japanese industrial exposition was held
August 81, in the new edifce constructed
for the purpose in the park of Myeno Toxic.
An annual repetition is intended.
A DISPATCH from London dated the
29th says: Rain has fallen in torrents all
over north Scotland, almost without inter
mission since last night. Harvest reports
from all quarters are most desponding.
Floods have caused great damage in south
Wales. The weather in England and else
where is very bad.
BRITISH agricultural returns show the
area planted with wheat this year is about
2,16S,0O0 acres. This is about 1880 acres
in excess of last year, but about the same
quantity less than 1875. 1t also appears
that, compared with last year, barley and
oats have been sown upon slightly dimin-
ished area.
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MurdersBlOOd Indelible.
St. Louis Dispatch

There are great many things in this
world that are regarded as superstitious
and of so vapid a nature as to be dis
credited, but the old saying that it is
impossible to wash murder-blood out of
wood is verified in the fact that the
blood stains on the floor where Mabel
Hall dropped after her murder at the
hands of Edgar Moore, at the Comique
Theatre, are still ingrained on the wal
nut paneling. Since the event of the
murder, the restaurant in which Mabel
was murdered, has been converted into
barber shop, in connection with the
Comigue. Every Saturday morning the
floor of the shop is scrubbed, but the
blood of Mabel will not wash out. The
spots are ingrained and though perfectly
sleek from attempts to rub them out
they stand there to remind one of the
cold blooded murder which startled the
community at the time of its perpetra-
tion. Here is a question for theorists,
and if it can be determined that the
blood of murdered person 10 indelible
while that of simple wound from acs
cidental causes is not, 40 further preef
cf Divine curses will bs needed The
above statements sss Ssis Esshsstlsatsai
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-06

HENRY STERRY, about a years old, a
molder by occupation, shot and probably
fatally injured his wife in fit of jealousy, at
Cincinnati, on the Sd inst.
SIMEON GARNET, the negro who COM
mitted rape upon the person of Mrs. Perry
kingrey, wife of farmer near Oxford, o.,
on the 1st inst, was taken out of Jail on the
Sd inst, and shot dead by mob.
A GENTLEMAN apparently about rs
year old, registered at the International
hotel, Niagara Falls as L. NJ. Stein, NJ. D.,
New York city, suicided on the 1st inst, by
jumping from the new suspension bridge
10 feet, into the river below. He rose tC
the surface moment, then disappeared
He seemed detected and feeble.
w. ID. MILLER was shot and instantly
killed on the night of the 3Oth ult, about two
miles north of West Chester, la. He was
walking along with his wife, when some one
in fence corner, concealed by an old hedge,
fired on him, the shot taking effect in his
head. Seven balls entered the head, COM
pletely shatterlng 1T to pieces. Miller had a
quarrel with Lennox Dayton in the after
noon, and knocked the old man down sew
eral times, and suspicion rests on him and
his two sons.
CARL MEIsNER fatally stabbed his
brother John at New York on the 30th.
THE grand jury at Columbia, S. c., on
on the 29th, found true bills against Ex-
Lieut.-Gov. Gleason, Ex-Treasurers Parker
and Cardozo, Ex-Comptrollers Dunn and
Ioge, Ex-Speaker Lee, Clerks of General
Assembly Woodruff and Jones, Ex-State
Senator Owens and others, on various
charges of fraud in connection with the dis
charge of their official duties.
A MELEE occurred at Richmond, KY,
on the 9th, between Geo. Edwards, John
Ballard, Walter Saunders and others, over
a dispute about trivial assault and battery
case which was on trial in the court. Pistols
were freely used, with fatal results Saund-
ers and Ballard being killed Geo. Edwards
slightly wounded. Edwards brother was
dangerously hurt.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK,
APPALLING CALAMITY.

j. ?. HALE's piano factory, on West
Thirty-ffth street, New York, was entirely
destroyed by fire on the morning of the Sd
inst. 1t is rumored ten persons perished.
The flames extended to the south side of the
street: destroying the entire block between
Tenth and Eleventh avenues, also NJ. Con-
nolly's board factory, j. Graham & Coz silk
factory and several houses adjoining SOUTH
Walker & Co.'s charcoal factory, north of
Thirty-fifth street, and block of frame
houses on Tenth avenue, between
Thirty-ffth and Thirty-sixth streets
The statements concerning the loss
of life are conflicting One authority
says there must be from IS to 100 bodies
buried in the ruins. Another statement is
that some % to 80 girls employed in the up
per stories of Hale's factory have perished.
Ambulances have removed some IS or 20
wounded who jumped from the burning
factory. About $50 families are rendered
homeless, and most of their furniture de-
stroyed. The loss of property will foot up
over half million.
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lished a new grade of wheat, to be known as
white winter wheat, and which shall consist
of white wheat grown in this state, that is
unit to grade as extra white wheat, but
which is better in quality than No. 1 white.
THE Knight Templars of the United
States had a competitive drill at Cleveland
on the Goth. Each commandery was al
lowed 80 minutes. The prizes were awarded
as follows: To Detroit, No. l, the first
prize, beautiful banner. To Taper. No. /,
of Indianapolis, the second prize a silver
libation set, and Monroe, No. II, of Roches-
ter, n. Y, set of commandery Jewels.
The prizes were the gift of Oriental COM
mandery, of Cleveland.
Ben De BAR, the veteran actor, died
at st. Louis on the 2Sth.
THE Sixth Maryland Baltimore regi-
ment, two companies of which did the fatal
shooting at the beginning of the strike, has
disbanded.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-06
MANITOWOC
DRY DOCK.
How He Startled Her.

From the Detroit Free Press.
A whoop-bang sort of boy, with feet
as broad and fat as pie-pan, trotted
through the Central market Yesterday
till he reached stall kept by a single
woman about thirty years DID, Hating
there, he yelled out:
Say! say! Your little boy has been
run over and killed, up to the City
HALL"
"Oh! OIL Heavens-ohl oh -!"
she screamed as she made a dive under
the counter, came up on the outside, and
started to follow the boy. After going
ten feet she halted, looked rery foolish
all of = suddea, aud remarked
hWhst q geese I ami Why, | sin't
even msryiealh
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-06
THE MARKETS.
New York.

NEW YORK, September $3.50 P. M
Cotton-Quiet, Flour-Firm; receipts 49,
600 bbls; sales $4,000 bbls Wheat-1@3c
better; receipts los, 900 bus; sales 100000
bus; at S1.394@1. .4019 for No. winter red
September. Rye-Steady. Corn-About
1c better; receipts 354, 600 bus; sales 125, 900
bus at 56057 11c for western mixed. Barley
Nominal. Oats-Firmer; receipts $4,000
bus; sales $4,000 bus; at 30937 11ac for
mixed western 33@42c for white do. Pork
Quiet at S12.90@13121z. Lard-Firm
at $S.S7k@S.90. Whisky-At S1.13k.
Petroleum-Crude at nc; refined at 1879
1324c for seller October
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Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE, September S.-Flour-
Quiet but firm at previous quotations.
Wheat-Active but irregular on future de.
liveries; steady on cash, No. / $114 cash
No. ? Sill 15@1.12 cash; September, S1.05@
1.o714; October S1.02@1.041l. Corn-Quiet
No. at 43c cash; Oats-Quiet; No. 2 al
2S4 cash. Rye-No. l firm at 54A. Barley
No. 2 irregular 66@67c cash and seller
September; October 66. Pork-Steady at
$500. Lard-914e. Hogs-Steady at $4.75
05.30, as to quality
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-06
WASHINGTON.

On the afternoon of the Sd inst. Hon.
Kenneth Raynor, solicitor of the treasury,
meeting Mr. Soteldo, editor of the National
Republican, on the treasury steps, ordered
aiaj ts move out sf bis way snd siIsn as.
back end then followed . further esehsngs
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Foreign.

LONDON, September S.-12 80 P. M.-Con
soils 95 5-l6. Liverpool wheat market opens
strong. California club at 12s 9d@13s; av-
erage California at 12s 6d@12s Cd; spring
at lbs ld@13s I'd; floating cargoes strong; on
passage strong; Mark Lane turn dearer
English country markets quiet; French a
turn dearer: farmers deliveries of wheat dur.
ing the week 20,000@25, 900 quarters.
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Chicago.

CHICAGO, September $500 p. NJ
Wheat-Strong and higher at SLIP for
cash; $f.045s for seller September. Corn
Firm and higher at 1880 for cash; 44c bid
for seller October. Oats-Firm, a shade
higher at 241sc for cash; 247sc for seller Oc-
tober. Rye--At 5412c. Barley-At
e61fc- Pork-Firm and steady at s12.35 for
CASH. sf2.45@12,47H for seller October.
Lsrd-ssssdisri $3.50 Ef@s, 40 for seller Sep.
tsrneeri 1871 fer seller October, Whisky
aAi si.oel Hoss-~Rseslrt. 1900 head
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active and firm, 5@10c higher; sales OF
light at S5.35@5.45; heavy at S4.90@5.S0.
Cattle-No market
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DEBT STATEMENT.

The August statement of the public debt
is as follows:
Six per cent. S14, 4,341 050
Five per cent. bonds .............. 703, ,266, ESQ
Four and one-haf per cent. bonds. 1S5,OoOOOO
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-22
The Pope.

ROME, November 13.-Notwith.
standing his debiitated condition, the
Pope gave audience to-day for the pc.
Rod of exactly six minutes. He re-
ceived five priests, six laymen and
eleven ladies, most of the priests be-
ing French. His Holiness was borne
in by four palfreneers, and locked
very pale and weak. During the six
minutes the audience lasted he never
once moved his legs, but he moved his
hands frequently and with apparent
freedom. The appearance he present
ed was that of a man on the very
brink of the grave, but who seems to
retain his mental faculties, hardly to
be expected under the circums tances.
The pilgrims favored with an audi
ence looked on with reverential awe,
feeling that they had cast their laet
look on Pho Mono alive. The Pontiff
conversed in French, and spoke with
an amount Of effort that was painfully
evident. The few words he spoke re-
ferred principally to the political con-
vulsions in France, about which he
evidently feels very deeply. He coun-
seled prayers for peace so that France
might be spared the horrors of anoth-
err revolution. The pilgrims were
much struck by the Pope's excessive
his eyes. His movements were some
what spasmodic, and there was an I'M
mistakable appearance of a strong
will battling against complete physic-
al prostration.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-22
Frem the Topeka Commonwealth.
Something About Coal.

ELDoRADo, November y, 1877.
EDITOR COMMONWEALTH :--Y ou
are aware that company has been
engaged for some weeks "boring fol-
coal oil" near Eldorado, the indica.
tons being sufficient to warrant an
investigation. A few feet below the
surface of the ground threc-inch
vein of coal was found; at forty feet a
ffteen-inch vein was discovered. and
at seventy-three feet good vein OF
coal over three feet in thickness was
found. Ii now seems TO be an indis-
putablc fact that we have such vein
of coal short distance from town.
The specimens taken out indicate an
article much different from the ordi-
nary Kansas coal, it being harder,
brighter or blacker in color, aud freer
from sulphur or other foreign SUBJ
stances.
Contrary to general belief, and con /
trary to the oft-repeated statements
of biologists, this vein of coal seems
10 actually exist within seventy-three
feet of the surface of the ground.
Work will continue in search of
coal oil, while, on the other hand, the
company will commence sinking a
shaft for the coal. This news is al
most too good to be true, but for all
that we expect to be taking out coal
from our new mine within sixty days.
The shaft will be 6x10 feet, and can
be put down very rapidly through
the soft magnetism limestone and
"soapstone."
nnr now railroad will onsbla rs fo
furnish Southwestern Kansas with a
better article of coal than they are
now getting, and at better figures
than have heretofore been paid.
Yours truly, T. b. MURDOCH.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-22
Special Correspondence of the Globe-Demo'
Ths Kansas and Nebraska Desert.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-The follow
ing outline of a plan for irrigating
and redeeming from sterility large
area along the western border of Kan
sas and Nebraska, has been compiled
at the Hayden Survey Office from re-
cent data:
The plan consists IN forming in the
region mentioned large reservoir OF
water with which to irrigatc the
plains around it, or rather on the east
ern side of it. The elevation of the
Arkansas river at Grenada, the Kan
sas at Wallace, and the Platte at Brule
are very nearly the same. These
three points lie pretty near in a
straight line north and south, run
ming near the eastern boundary OF
Colorado. The plains lying between
these points are comparatively level
and but little elevated above the
streams, at least this elevation is
comparatively small.
The plan is 10 throw up q levee or
embankment or earthen wall running
north aud south from the Arkansas to
the North Platte, curying east and
west, as matter of course recording
TO the variation OF the elevation, so as
to be level, then by throwing dams
across these and the the others above
this line, turn the water into this res
ervoir. The somewhat rapid slopes
of these streams above (wesD this line
are amply sufficient TO throw the wa
ter over any part OF this area, and
hence favorable 10 the project.
An embankment or wall averaging
thirty or forty feet on the general,
taking advantages of all the elevated
points, wouId-as the average slope
here is about six feet to the mile
form a lake varying from say four to
eight miles wide and 200 miles long.
This would give a surface of some l.
200 square miles.
In the summer and autumn it Is
probable that evaporation would
nearly or quite equal the supply of
water from the streams, but during
the winter and spring the reservoir
would be filed to its utmost capacity.
Suppose that depth of ten feet
could be drawn from this during the
growing season when irrigation is
necessary-from March to July-some
$50 days, then according to the esti-
mate made this would irrigate $4,000
to IA 900 square mics. But as not
more than one-half of farm is irri-
gated i'll one year it would supply
farming area of some "a, 900 to $4,000
square miles.
But this is not the only advantage
to be derived; the evaporation would
also supply a narrow belt, at least Oh
the west side; it would also have
TO increase the rainfall in
the Immediately surrounding areas,
aud thus widen the fertile belt. A
timber belt would also soon be formed
200 miles long. There are also other
which will suggest them
selves that need not be enumerated
here.
The cost could be estimated by
some competent engineer. Suppose,
however, it should be $50, 900?
A single crop from one-third of the
area redeemed would be sufficient
compensation for the outlay.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-11-22
Tax Paying.

As the law passed few years ago,
relative to the payment offaxes,is not
well understood by all, we state, for
the information of those interested,
that the whole tax of the year be-
comes due November LIST.
Full or half payment, however, is
optional with the tax payer, If full
payment is made on or before Deem
her 20ih, rebate of two and one-half
per cent. will be allowed. Ii half pa, :
meut is made on or before December
Goth, and second half on or before
June 20th, next following, the law
" Ill be satisfied, and no costs will at
tach
If half payment is not made by date
above specified the whole becomes
due Immediately, the privilege of half
pa, ment is Withdrawn, and the pun
ishmeut comes in instaIlments of five
per cent. cacE-Decembe 2lsi, March
2lsi and June 2lst
Advertising costs attach 10 delin-
quent real estate, July LIST, and the
tax sales occur on the first Monday oil
September each year, after which in
terest aecrues at he rate of fifty per
cent. per annum.
Half or fill payment OF personal
property taxes NAV be mad. As in the
case OF real estate taxes; but if de-
fault be made, The sheriff collects up
on wriis, which come into his hands
January Isl and July 1st.
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Agricultural Report.

Hon. Alfred Gray, Secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture, has just
got out his monthly reports for the
months of August, September and Oc-
Der.
As usual it is an Interesting and val
liable document. In this issue Mr..
Gray gives list of his correspondents
throughout the State, on which he de-
ponds, in part at least, for the infor-
nation which he publishes in these re-
ports.
DISEASE AMONG FARM CATTLE.
Under the above head Mr.. Gray has
reports, which he gives from every
county in the State, which is summa-
rized as follows:
The foregoing notes Oh live stock
show apparently general complaint of
sickness among hogs, but an analysis
Of our reports, and comparison with
the tables of condition. show that the
real amount of loss is small, and that
the complaints are confined to locali-
ties, and the October reports state a
general improvement over August the
difficulty being nearly abated.
We give on page consolidated Ia
BILE of condition of farm animals for
the three months. The State average
on cattle is 10Y: work animals 103
horses and mules 104; sheep 1902; swine
10S.
For August the averages were: Cat
tie, 10S; work animals, l04; horses and
mules, l04; sheep, 102; swine, 10S.
For September: Cattle, 1O6; work
animals, 1O4; horses and mules, lO4;
sheep, 102, swine, 107.
For October: Cattle, LOG; work ami
mails, 102; horses and mules, 104; sheep,
l01; swine, 100. Work animals tri-
tie thin in some parts of the State,
from continued heavy fall work.
AS rule, the distinctive marks of
characteristics of the various diseases
mentioned by correspondents, are too
indefinite to distinguish the disease,
without which information it is i'm
possible to suggest remedies. Unless
the diagnosis can be correctly deter
mined, it is safer to rely upon hygienic |
measures instead of dosing with pc
troleum and other supposed remedies,
the specific effects of which are not, in |
most cases, known to the person ad-
ministering the same.
Some kind of fever among horses,
more or less. is reported in certain
parts Of the State.
The report then gives from Youatt