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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1878-06-28

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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-04-04
Some of Prentice's Savings.

A recent writer reproduces from the
files of the Louisville Journal some of
George ID. Prentice's witticisms, which
were not dependent upon time and cir
cumstances, as most of them usually
were, for their point and force. Follow
ing are few of them:
"TO keep your friends, treat them
kindly; to kill them, treat them often"
"Men should not think too much of
themselves, and yet man should be
careful not to forget himself"
I" A dinner to which a man is not in
vited generally sits hardest in his stom-
acb."
"There are many men whose tongues
might govern multitudes, if they could
govern their tongues"
"The doctors ought to escape calumny.
No man living has right to speak i'll of
them"
"The working of a corkscrew is about
the only thing best achieved by indirec-
tion.'"
"A few days ago the freedom of New
York city was presented to Mr.. Van
Buren in gold snuff box. There was
plenty of room in the box for all the
freedom that New York has enjoyed for
many years."
"There are tive periods when congress
does no business. One is before the holi.
days and the other after"
can opposition editor offers to bet his
ears on something to our discredit. He
shouldn't carry gambling to such extreme
lengths"
"If the editor of the - isn't arogue
he ought to bring libel suit against his
own face"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-04-04

HUGH REED was fatally assaulted, on
the 31st inst, by VIM. Burns, at the house of
the former, in Boston. The quarrel arose
from difference about dollar bill.
THE notorious Madam Restell suicided
at New York on the 1st inst.
Mr.. AND Mrs. MORTON, of Louisville,
a respectable old couple, principal witnesses
in criminal case, were murdered on tine
1st inst Their bodies were found with
heads and legs severed, with every appear
ance that the victims were burned to death
THE bank of South Pueblo, Cal, was
entered by masked robbers on the 30th ult.,
who gagged the cashier and robbed the safe
of $1,000 in currency.
IN quarrel over religion, on the 30th
ult., at Versailles, KY, viii Seays killed
Simon Boswell with a club.
MARTIN BURNS, a farmer, fatally in
jured Geo. n. Butin with an axe, at Chilli
cothe, Iowa, on the 29th ult Twenty min
utes afterward Burns body was found
hanging in barn near by. The parties had
a dispute concerning fence lines.
In an affray at Elliottsville, Rowan
county, KY, on the Goth inst, between a
gang of fifteen men, headed by one Fults
and Jake Brooks, arising out of a family
feud, Brooks brother had his throat cut
from ear to ear; Jake was fearfully beaten.
A number of others were wounded.
ELMIRA, daughter of Elijah Scales, of
Huntington, Tenn, committed suicide, on
the 9th, by shooting herself through the
heart.
AT Waltham, Mass, on the 9th, Jas.
Larkin, while intoxicated, beat his mother
senseless with poker. Supposing her to
be dead he set fire to the house and jumped
into the river, but the current bore him to
land, and he was arrested. The fire was
extinguished; the mother, though severely
bruised, is likely to recover.
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CASUALTIES.

On the 1st inst, Patrick and John
Reilly, brothers, of Chippewa, Ont, started
to cross Niagara river in a row boat
When half over it was neticed that theyw
IN trouble, as if an oar was broken. They
were too far down to be rendered any as
slstanee. They went over the Horseshoe
Falls, just outside the Three Sisters Island
The crockery store of Isadore Levy
4 Co, of New Orleans, was destroyed by
fire on the night of the 1st. Loss, Is, 900; (;
insurance, $4,000.
SECTION No. 5 of the Wason car COM
pany's building, at Springfield. Mass, was
burned on the 30th ult. Loss 1000, of
which the Connecticut Valley Chrome
Llthograph company loses $4,000; insur-
ed for 1000.
A THREE-YEAR-oLD daughter of John
Zwicher, living at Green Bay, was fatally
scalded on the 31st ult-, by falling into pot
of hot water
AT McLeansboro, Ill, ON the night
of the 2sth, man named Rogers was sent
to the calaboose for drunkenness. The
building was isolated, and at a late hour got
on fire, somehow, and he was burned to
death before the fire was discovered. Only
the limbs and lower part of his trunk were
recovered from the rxins. 1t is not known
how the fire originated.
TIE barn of George Banker, ten miles
from Dayton, Ohio, was burned on the night
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of the 9th, with 700 bushels of corn, 5000
pounds of tobacco, and large quantity of
hay and number of cattle. The family
were awakened by the cries of the cattle
endeavoring to escape from their stalls.
The bones and teeth of human being were
found in the ruins and are supposed to be
that of some person having gone to sleep
there over night. The loss is s. 900; insured
for s., 900.
Two children of Mrs. Whiting, of
Brussels, Ont, were fatally poisoned, on the
9th, by eating wild parsnips. Two others
are expected to survive.
E. I. RILEY's restaurant, Broadway,
n. V, was damaged to the extent of $50, 900
by fire, on the 9th. The other occupants
of the building were damaged, in the aggre-
gate, $4,000.
AN explosion of dynamite occurred at
Montebello, two miles from Baltimore, on
the Goth inst, instantly killing Michael
O'Rourke boss of the workmen, and fatally
wounding several others. O'Rourke had
one leg torn from his body, both arms
broken, and his face terribly lacerated.
John Lyon, assistant was terribly injured,
and Patrick Gilligan, aged 1G, was fatally
wounded.
A FIRE on Canal street, New York, on
the 26th, destroyed 100000 worth of pro-
perty.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-04-04
ABROAD.

THE Money Market Reriew, a London
weekly paper, directs attention to the fact
that Russian exchange has fallen off eleven
per cent during the past week, and that q
rouble is now quoted at twenty-one and
three quarters to twenty-five pence, a
depreciation of about forty-one per cent.
from par, thirty-seven and a half pence.
The Money Market ReuielC concludes that it
is morally certain that war would be i'm
mediately followed by Russian bankruptcy
and an entire suspension of payments on the
debt
THE pope received ex-President Grant,
his wife and son on the 30th ult.. Chatard,
rector of the American College, awaited
Gen. Grant in the hall of the Swiss Guard,
and accompanied him to the pope's apart
ments, where Cardinal McClosky presented
him to the pope, who received him with
every mark of distinction.
EIGHTY former insurgent chiefs have
arrived at Havana from Cinco Villas. Col.
Jose Rodriguez has surrendered near San
tiago de Cuba.
In consequence of the re-establishment
of the Catholic hierarchy of Scotland, the
pope, it is now stated, desires entering upon
diplomatic relations with the British gov
ernment, and has instructed Cardinal
Franchi, pontifical secretary of state, to
take steps with that object.
THE grand national steeple chase was
run on the Goth at the Liverpool spring meet
ing, and won by Mr.. John Nightengale's
| Shifral.
On the 2Sth ult. there was four inches
of snow in the midland counties of Eng
land, and it was still falling. The weather
throughout the kingdom is unseasonably
cold, and farming operations are impeded.
Considerable damage is likely to result in
consequence of the forward state of yegeta-
ton, after two months of very mild weather
A PARIS dispatch says that the COM
munist captain, Garien, who was sentenced
to death by default, as one of the ring
leaders in the shooting of Generals Thomas
and Lecomte, in Paris during the commune,
having ventured to return to France, is
being court-martialed.
THE government store houses at Lon
don are so crowded with material under re-
cent contracts that storage has been secured
in the warehouses at Victoria docks and on
other wharves.
DIR. ACKERBACH, Prussian minister of
commerce and public works, resigned on
the 25th.
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and Assistance, for transportation in the
event of an emergency.
1T is thought that Safvet Pasha will re-
quest England to withdraw her fleet, as
Russia and Turkey are now allies.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE telegram states
that Osman Pasha has been appointed COM
mander-in-chief
The English government has dis
tributed among hoat-builders an order for
additional horse-boats, to be delivered I'M
mediately.
RUSSIA, by the advice of Germany, is
conciliating Austria and disregnrding Eng
land. 1t is believed that Russia is prepar-
ing for war with England. Two hundred
thousand men of the Russian landowich
have been called out.
DIPLOMATIC relations between Turkey
s,sd Russia have been renewed and Gen.
Nelidott has been appointed Russian charge
d atfaires at COnstantinople.
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WASHINGTON.

1HE house committee on the Pacific
railroads, have completed the pro rata bill
by inserting the name of George Thomas NJ.
Cooley, of Michigan, as the third commits
sloner, to act in con junction with Charles
Francis Adams, jr., of Massachusetts,, and
Albert Fink, of Tennessee, constituting the
board OF Pacific railway commissioners.
AT the close of March one million sill
yer dollars had been coined. Arrangements
have been completed under which, during
Aprll, the Philadelphia mint will turn out
l,750,000.
The total expenses of the Sioux war
are shown to have been S2,312, $50.
The following are the metric tables as
proposed by bill introduced in the house
by Stevens ON the Doth inst: Measures
of length-One hundred hairs make nail,
100 nails make metre, 1000 metres make
kilometre. Measures of surface-Ten thou
sand square meters make a great acre
Measures cf bulk and capaeity-One hun
dred drops make spoon, 100 spoons make
quart, 100 quarts make cask. Measures
OF welght-One hundred seeds make coin,
100 coins make NUT 100 nuts make a
bipound or bip, 200 bips make ton.
THE revenue force on the North Caro-
lima border, have destroyed eleven illicit
distilleries 25000 gallons of beer and mash,
and 260 gallons of whisky.
THE secretary of the interior sent
to the house of representatives on the 2Sth
ultimo, with his endorsement, the letter of
the commissioner of Indian affairs recon-
mending the appropriation of S250,000 for
providing stock, cattle, farming implements,
etc, for Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, the
Sioux Indians lately removed from Nebras-
ka to the Missouri river.
THE house committee On public lands
have agreed to report favorably upon Repre-
sentative Cravens' bill extending the time
of the Hot Springs commissioners until
Feb. /, 1879, in order that they may COM
plete the work assigned them. The COM
mittee, however amended the bill by max.
ing the compensation of the commissioners
s., 800 per annum, the amount allowed, in
stead OF $5,000 as proposed.
THE national temperance society re-
joices in the passage by the United States
senate of the bill for a national commission
of in Jury concerning the alcoholic liquor
traffic, and earnestly requests the concur
renee of the house.
The president has appointed Glenni
w. Schofelj, of Pennsylvania, register of
the treasury vice Allison deceased.
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THE WEST.

IT is stated tnat two English gentle
men are in Chicago, and have agents
throughout the west for the purpose of
buying 10000 horses, ostensibly for street
cars in Scotland and England, but, Judging
by the character of the animals they select,
they are intended rather for active move
ments than for draft purposes. They have
bought 800 III Chicago, and will soon begin
to ship.
The Wyoming Indians are reported to
be assuming hostile attitude.
GENERAL WILLIAM TRIP, ex-sur-
veyor-general of Dakota, ex-lieutenant gov
ernor of Maine, and prominent as an officer
of volunteers during the Sioux war of 1862,
died at Iankton, ID. T., on the 3lst ult.
THE four-handed game of billiards
played at st. Louis on the 30th ult., between
Schaefer and Gallagher on one side and
Slosson and Dion on the other, was won by
Schaefer and Gallagher by a score of 800 to
sos. Schaefer's best runs, 15S and 2SO; Gal
lagher's, 81; Slosson's, AZ and 81; Dion's, 80
and l03.
A DISPATCH from Yuma, Arizona,
says that Mark Hopkins died there on the
29th ult.
THE friends of ex-Congressman Vance
who mysteriously disappeared from Cincin-
natl recently, have abandoned the idea of
foul play, and intimate that mis- disappear
ance is voluntary and caused by financial
troubles.
THE Hancock bank, private concern
at Findlay, Ohio, suspended on the 2Sth.
Liabilities unknown, assets 100000.
SEEDING in Kansas is fully a month in
advance of previous years. Fruit trees are
in full bloom, and winter wheat is from
eight to ten inches in height.
The proposition to issue city bonds to
the amount of 100000 to build bridge
across the river at Ft. Smelling, six miles
above st. Paul, was carried by large ma
jority in the st. Paul city council.
UNOFFICIAL but trustworthy infor-
nation from Fort Walsh confirms the re-
cent story of large confederation of hostile
Indians in that vicinity, and that Sitting
Bulland Spotted Eagle have been reinforced
by lodges from the Missouri river agencies,
including Red Clouds, and it is now esti-
mated that there are from 5000 to 1000
warriors within a hundred miles of Fort
Scott. The force is well armed and
equipped.
THE greenbackers of Chicago have
started penny daily called the Telegraph.
The proposition to do away with the
United States surveyor genera1ship of the
several states excites strong opposition in
California.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-04-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

J. J. HILL and Edmund Rice repre-
senting the owners of the st. Paul and
Pacific railroad, have returned from the
east, and report the transfer of the bond.
holding interest from the Dutch holders to
Canada and Minnesota parties completed,
and that the proprietors have obtained a
majority of the bonds on very favorable
terms, which will place them in possession
of the road within six months after the fore
closure, which will take place in June at
cost Of not more than $4,000 in gold per
mile. Cars will be running from st. Paul to
Winnipeg, in Manitoba, by November.
THERE was a general resumption of
mining operations in the Schuylkill coal re-
gion on the 1st inst. The allotment for
March gives but one weeks work during
the month"; which, with the general suspen-
sion of operations in February, carried
great destitutiOn among the miners, Four
hundred thousand tons are to be mined in
April.
JAMES PUNCH, a backer of Trickett,
the Austrian oarsman, has notified Court
ney that Trickett would row him for 81 900
a side and $500 expenses. A conference of
Courtney's hackers was held at Auburn, n.
Y, ON the 29th ult., and the terms were ac-
cepted.
THE remains of the late John E.
Leonard, member of the house of represen-
tatives from Louisiana, who died recently in
Cuba, arrived at New York on the 2Sth inst,
from Havana. The body will be taken to
Westchester, Penn, the former home Of the
late representative, for burial, accompanied
by the joint congressional committee ap-
pointed to attend the funeral.
REVENUE officers report that they have
broken up seven illicit distilleries in Put
nam and White counties, Tenn, since the
18th of March.
THE six penny savings bank, of New
York, has suspended, with deficiency of
about 100000.
A DESPERATE fight occurred at Topeka
on the Goth inst, between lynching party
and the Jail officials. The former were after
True, the murderer of Rev. Mr.. NJ. Walpiel
The attacking party were finally driven off.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK,
THE EAST.

The operatives of the Methuen Jute
mills, at Lawrence, Mass, to the number of
four hundred, struck on the 1st A short
which time, the operatives state, that they
have been obliged to do double..work.
AT Hartford, Conn.,, April 1st, the
Democrats carried the city election.
George 6. Sumner, Democrat, was chosen
mayor by six hundred majority.
The thirteenth anniversary of the
advent of modern spiritualism was celebrat-
! ed in New York on the 3lst ult.
The printing machines of the Lowell,
Mass, Print Works stopped on the 30th
ult., throwing 800 persons out of employ
ment, and the entire establishment next
week will shut down for a month, owing to
the large supply of goods on hand and the
Gull market.
A PUBLIC reception to Bayard Taylor
was given at Westchester, Pa, on the night
of the 2Sth ult. Over one hundred guests
were present.
The New York Times is out with a
statement that Mrs. Tilton will rejoin Theo-
dore about May 1st, letting bygones be by.
cones, and that the reunited family will
visit Europe.
G. F. SHORES, of Bangor, Me-, walked
106 miles in Armory Hall, st. Albans, in
twenty hours, three minutes and fifty-two
seconds, and proposes to challenge OLeary.
JUDGE DANIEL WARDELL, of Rome,
n. T., died on the night of the 9th.
THE Lehigh coal company has fixed
its prices for April as follows: Lump coal,
$3750400; steamboat, S.. 80: broken, So, SO
@3.75; stove, $3.50; chestnut, 1926.
The Pennsylvania republican state
convention will be held at Harrisburg on
May 18th.
THE annual bench show of dogs, un
der the auspices of the Massachusetts, Kennel
Club, opened at Boston on the Goth. Over
700 specimens are on exhibition, embracing
entries from various parts of the United
States, England and Canada.
LOCKWOOD, BROOKS & Co, book pub
fishers, Boston, Mass, have suspended.
Liabilities $4,000.
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MANITOWOC
DRY DOCK.
A Dead Beat.


One of the common funny scenes in
the minstrel show is the feigned death
scene, gotten up for speculation. The
husband is laid out, and the supposed
widow begs for money to bury the body.
When they get it they have a good time.
This was actually carried out in Brook
lyn a few days since. A lady touched
by the grief of the newly-made widow,
contributed literally toward the burial
expenses and retired, but before reaching
the street she missed her muff, and re-
turning hurriedly to the chamber OF
death in search of it.
As she entered she heard a voice, as
from the tomb, saying: "Ole oman, if
you'll just hump yourself right lively
this here dead husband business is gwine
to pay purity tolerable damn we'll, you
bet" And there, sitting up in the bed,
were the remains counting their
money! The mere presence of few
dollars in the house had brought back
the poor husband to life. But, hearing
somebody drop a casual remark touch
ing the police, the now happy couple
hastily removed from the neighborhood
Too many peas in the broth-"A pick.
pocket picking a pickpockets pocket
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THE SEAT OF WAR.

A PERA dispatch says that Osman and
Reouf Pashas have become more Russian
than English. Turkish and Russian SOL
diers fraternize, the latter going about Con-
stantinople IN uniform without evoking ami.
mostly. If war happens to come England
must contemplate the possibility of having
would get from Turkey a one-sided neu-
trality of little or no substantial use.
THE Russians are fortifying the lines
OF Chatalja, and erecting entrenchments at
all strategetical points.
ENGLAND has sent a circular to the
powers, explaining her position on the
eastern question. She says the San Ste.
fano document conflicts with the general
treaties now existing, and besides it is too
severe on the Turks and would destroy the
independence of the Ottoman empire.
A SPECIAL from Constantinople, states
that if the English fleet is not withdrawn
the Russians will occupy Constantinople,
with the approval of the sultan. The same
correspondent understands that Mr.. Layard,
in accordance with the instructions of the
British government, has asked the Porte
what its attitude would be in the event of
an Anglo-Russian war. Safvet Pasha re-
pHed that he was personally inclined 20
neutrality, but would submit the matter to
the council.
THE Russians will occupy Bujukdere,
as the English have landed a quantity of
war material on the island of Tenedos.
THERE is considerable feeling in Rus
sian official circles over the action of the
English cabinet in calling out the reserve.
War is now looked upon as inevitable.
The press place the responsibility upon
England.
IT is reported that the Russian army
about Constantinople is being reinforced.
There is great excitement in England over
the prospect of war with Russia. The
course pursued by the government is gener-
ally applauded.
LORD DERBY resigned as secretary of
foreign affairs on the 2Stb, owing to the ac-
ton of the British government in calling
out the reserve.
A SPECIAL from Portsmouth saws that
| orders have been received at the dockyard
| for the immediate preparation of all troop
ships belonging to both the Indian and
Imperial governments. except the Simeon
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Chicago.

CHICAGO, April Ii 80 P. M.-Wheat-
Unsettled; closing lower; gilt edge at SLIP
for regular; s1.10H for cash and April;
Slips bid for May Corn--Unsettled and
lower at 42Ac for cash; 1870 for seller
May. Oats-Weak and lower at 23Hc for
cash; 26s4c for seller May Barley-At 46c.
Pork-Unsettled and lower at $9.37HG9. 40
for cash; $3.50 for seller May. Lard
Weak and lower at 1920 for cash; s7251z
for seller May. Aleohol-At 33c. Hogs
Receipts 500 head; steady; packing at
$3.4o@3.55; light at $3.45@3.60; choice
Philaoelphias al isS3. 65@385.
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THE MARKETS.
New York.

NEW YORK, April Is 100 P. M.-Cotton
-105sc for middling uplands. Flour
Quiet; receipts $4,000 bbls; sales $4,000
bbls at $5.l5@6.75. Wheat-Quiet; receipts
PAS, 900 bus; sales 81, 900 bus; at s1.2S for
No. northwest seller April. Rye-Very
firm at 79@S0c. Corn-Dull and &c lower
receipts $4,000 bus; sales $4,000 bus at
4S1S@56Ic for western mixed. Barley
Quiet. Oats-Dull; receipts $4,000 bus !;
sales $4,000 bus unchanged. Pork-Firmer
and unchanged. Lard-Firm at Sz571z.
Whisky-Unchanged. Petroleum-Crude,
7c refined, unchanged.
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MILWAUKEE,, April 300 p. M-FIour-
No activity to this business, but prices re-
main firm; choice extras at $5.25@5. 70 !;
common at $4.75. Wheat-Comparativel
tame, but firm; April at $1.101s@1124;
May at s1.12I@1.131s; No. cash receipts
at $l.18 and No. 2 at $1.13; No. 8 at $l.07.
Corn-Duh but frm at 43c; new, 38G4Oc.
Oats-Quiet at 25c. Rye-Dull and easier
at 5S4c. Barley-Demand light; No fresh
soc; No 8 at 40c. Pork-Dull but firm at
$3.50 cash. Hogs-DulI at $3.40@3.55.