The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-04-22
FRANKLIN.
April II, 1880.


The query of your Morrison CORE
spondent has awakened MS to the fact
that We agreed some time ago to con-
tribute to your columns whatever of i'm
portance occurred in our vicinity, and
We scrupulously tried to do so, but were
almost always forestal,ed by some other
chap whose facilities or ability to pick
up items surpassed ours. But this time
We won't be beat, we will get cur work
in on this snow storm, and he can whistle.
What joke On the frogs who had just
got their pipes tuned up for the seasons
work, and what an April-fool on the
birds! How sweetly their notes blend
with the tinkling of the sleig-bells, and
then the hot sum above and the yellow
mud beneath and the beautiful snow be-
tween, what a glorious harmony
We are going to be rash, we are going
to break VOW, but when en- Octogenarian
and Septegenarian join hands in mat
rimonial contract we think we are justi-
fed in doing it, any one who knows the
parties to this affair knows we don't lie.
We suppose they intend it as rebuke to
some of our young men, for when an old
lady with one foot in the grave and an
old man straddled legs on his coffin can
find courage to venture twice on the sea
of matrimony, they might try it once any
how. We would show ourself sensible
of the intended hint did the law permit
it; but one wife is enough Juggling at a
mans poll.
The ball given by the Morrison C. T.
4. was not financial success whatever
else it may have been, and if the Irish
suffering hoped any great things from it
they are doomed to disappointment as,
the net proceeds will not aggregate ten
dollars, and they were to get only one
half.
The Cato Literary Club is now num-
bered among the things that were but
now are not; but why this is the case we
can not tell. It may be that it is only in
trance and will revive again. This
hope springs from knowing that Dave
Solar was up this way last week and his
mission must have been something in
connection with the L. A. We know
Dave and believe that thing of this
kind that he cannot resprect deserves to
be eternally dead. Some malicious folks
think that Dave has that engineers mala-
dy and It's that draws him in this direc-
ton. They are mistaken. The seat of
that malady as it affects Dave lies out on
the Calumet road, IA miles west of Mani
towoc. We know whereof we speak, so
discussion is useless.
We fear the census takers will have a
hard time at the business in June, and
believe there will be more of them killed
than will make honest truthful reports
for with press items, warnings and swind-
ling stories farmers are we'll nigh dis
posed to shoot anything that shows a
lead pencil and note book.
When about to seal our letter this af-
ternoon-the 1--we heard that Mrs.
Cronin, of Maple Grove, died last night.
She had been sick quite long time.
HE general impression is that John
Ward committed suicide. There was no
inquest held when the body was recover
ed and consequently no formal opinion
has been reached. The only reason, and
that is pretty strong one, to believe
that the drowning may have been acct
dental, is that there was no adequate
cause for young, healthy man to take
bis own life. His trouble was only such
as the majority of young men encounter
when beginning life for themselves.
We have taken pains this week to in
terview some persons who saw Ward i'm
mediately before he leaped from the
bridge. Parmene Camp met him on the
bridge when walking toward the place
from which the plunge was made. At the
time he appeared to be under the infiu-
ence of liquor. Pat Sullivan saw him
leaning against the bridge railing, near
the abutments on which the bridge
swings, and spoke to him. Ward did not
reply. Before Sullivan had reached the
barber shop on the other end of the
bridge he heard that man had jumped
into the river. George Houghton stood
at the west side of the bridge, just oppo-
site the spot where Ward jumped in.
He says Ward climbed up on the guards
deliberately, sat on the railing few
seconds and plunged in. He scouts at
the idea of its being accidental, and says
that the man sprang from the railing, and
went down head foremost. Holly saw
the man reach the water and says he
shouted. Our inquiries have led to Abe
same conclusion stated in the PILOT last
week, that it was a case of suicide, al
though for time we believed other
wise.
PLUMB & NELSON'S ITEMS.
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