The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-01-08
FRANKLIN.
Dec. 81. 1879.

| DtSu u1itN.e III .le CLUTCH de Kuaple GEONe.
Posters arc up announcing ball at
Mangin's hall. Jan. 10th. \ real live
ventriloquist viii be one of the attract
ions.
Death, the king of terrors, has been
very busy in our midst lately. Instead
Of Joy and happiness, the holidays bring
only sorrow, sickness and death to many
households. The death of Mrs. Daniel
Haggarty occurred on Sunday the 21st.
She was the mother Of fourteen children.
Twelve of them are living, the youngest
scarcely month old.
Another of Jos. Mulhall's children was
buried On Christmas day and q son of
Mrs. Meany Of Cato on Sunday, making
two more deaths from diphtheria within
week.
John Hayes OF Franklin died on the
23rd of dropsy after long and lingering
| illness OF some months. He leaves a
wife and five small children to mourn
his loss.
Some parties here are exhibiting pieces
Of hard coal which they claim was found
on the farm of NJ. Pfeffer in section %.
| A piece nearly as large as mans fist was
! picked ont of the dirt thrown out of the
hill 10y woodchuck. Several smaller
pieces were plowed up near the same
place. No effort has yet been made to
ascertain the extent or value of the coal
field if there is one. 1t is possible there
may be q bonanza in our midst. Our
quiet community may yet be theater of
great monopolies, trades-unions, and
strikes. Who knows what luck there is
in store for US.
Your correspondent is charged with
being the author of communication
from here that appeared in the issue of
Dec. 4th. To the parties interested we
would say that we know nothing about
the matter and never wrote the article
referred to. The private affairs of other
persons are of no interest to us and we
always endeavor not to mix in them.
Consequently we have neither qualms of
conscience to upbraid US nor anything to
account for in such matters.
FRANKLIN, Dec. 20, 70.
Diphtheria is rapidly spreading and
with fatal effect in our vicinity and the
death rate during the past three weeks is
truly alarming. In the week preceding
Christmas there were four interments in
the Maple Grove church yard and on
Christmas day there were two.
Rev. Father Scholter was the recipient
of a handsome Christmas present from
the members Of his school.
John Doolan bursts button with dig
nifty every time he is asked how that lit
tie girls who made her appearance in
his household about Christmas time.
To-day the farmers grin broadens as
he watches the falling Of the beautiful
Snow" and in imagination sees his logs
piled mountains high at the mill.
If there be young man within ra-
dius of ten miles from US, who has
horse and cutter, and who did not dash
by our window yesterday, he must be
too homely to have girl; we never be-
fore regretted our poverty or this horri-
BILE physiognomy which forever debars
us from the pleasure of Turing to the
bliss found in the lapel of our overcoat
the pretty head Of some pretty girl.
Some time ago we said something re-
lating to introduction of a set of school
books for joint dist, No. 3, The gent
employed to teach the young ideas how
to shoot in that institution thought he
could better accomplish this end with
the aid Of certain series and sought to
have them introduced but did not sue
coed. The gentleman who presided as
chairman of the meeting called to con-
slider the matter was predetermined to
thwart the ambitious design of this phil
anthropic pedagogue, and did SO. He
clearly proved to the meeting that there
was a fortune in it for the teacher if he
could succeed in getting this series
adopted, but he was not disposed to al
low this district play ''county board to
humor him in his pet projects and create
another o. Moses; those teachers may
be smart but our chairman says what
they don't know would make big book.
We try to honestly and considerably
report all our local news of any import
ance. We never dug up Ratchet to
make war on any one. We smoke it
continually and try to live in peace with
all mankind and yet the last matrimonial
item we gave you got a friend of ours in
trouble Oh how our conscience rebuk-
ed us as we listened to the offended one
abuse our friend for crime he never
committed; we were tempted to go to
his relief to confess our guilt and take
the consequences, but ignorant of what
these might prove to be we sought COM
fort in the adage-Dscretion is the bet
ter part Of valor" and were discreet
enough to hold our tongue, and then and
there swore never again to say anything
about the matrimonial intentions OF any
one no matter how often nor how fast
they marry. We suppose that because
Nature endowed US with such forbid
ding frontispiece, We were never permit
ted to enjoy the advantages of cultiyat-
ing those delicate feelings and tender
emotions that culfninate in matrimonial
ambition, and for the same reason we
J are unable to report them in becoming
spirit-No we will never tell on any
young man again, but that was fact all
the same.
WE GUARANTEE WHAT WE SAY.