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, 1881-03-30

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az round. lrln,a tlnshy ndIt ~ ta.tj. decline VI
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pciccs nf MondnY. I'hers wHs suHU trnlin3 In INK
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stenty Ut aYps f1rnsr aNotHnuns stl"s WS59 II tnaao
tnar ind t!.4(3.Ll fur low to high psEies lU bugs
Gnv1r-sy0d NJ t4A for prlnGi car .0Dd hAx-seou ut
TAIJNW-i'he market was weak, With very littlo
ltuurys rrlne Gy ia tnlAIt Ut k4ct No. country Mt
t3{ujiS1f Nh. TIT 1tkssJhu.
cIina 1t March ID Ti1 Ias0 ptlca WIS t por Kallon
, 1881-03-30

Young Married People.
Seven couples lseluu9inS to tho parsce COM
tnlntty were ately married IN ltuu,bay, nf whn1n
tho eldest was IS years. wh!lu tho youngest
prideKfo!lh WAS ID months. uni tho youngest
bFtle llush1u1 lpsnuly u months.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25

A Boy SHOOTS A BABY.-On Wednes-
dav, Inlv 6. there occurred in the town
oi I4l'eiy Il oOMowhdt LIaSIC UOCurIeuvo
IN the shooting of 14-months' old baby
OF Elihu S. Briggs, by Sylvester LeVoice,
boy of II years of age. Awaiting the
result of the shooting, and in view of
other circumstances, the arrest has been
delayed until yesterday, when the boy
was taken in charge by officer jeff II.
Moon and brought to jamestown, The
circumstances of the Shooting are briefly
as follows: The baby was sitting on the
floor of the sitting room between the
pantry and front door. The boy LIE
Voice entered the house, went directly
to the pantry, came Qus with revolver,
held 1t 81 q distance of about six inches
from the infants head and fired. The
ball penetrated the forehead above the
left eye, passing through to place be-
hind and Q little below the left ear, where
1t now lies fattened against the skull.
Immediately after the shooting the boy
dropped the pistol and ran home to his
mother. telling her what be had done.
DIR. Waterhouse attended the wounded
child, who is sufficiently recovered to be
brought to town to- day.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25

TWENTY SEVEN years ago German
farmer named Van Rusen was murdered.
and s., 500, lot of valuable articles and
papers stolen. 4 man named Schultz
and his son were convicted of the crime
and sentenced to State prison. The old
man died behind the bars and the son
was pardoned ten years ago. The money
and yaluables were never found. About
three weeks ago young man made his
appearance IL the neighborhood of Their
esa, Juneau county, where the crime was
committed, borrowed pick-axe and
spade, proceeded to q knoll, dug up two
boxes, returned the tools and left. It is
now thought the boxes contained the
lost treasure,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25
FRUIT CANNING.
SOMETHING FOR THE LADIES OLE THE
HOUSEHOLD TO READ.

Time for canning fruit is at hand.
Hints upon this important household OPP
Grafton are therefore reasonable. Good
canned fruit is a stranger to tables of
thousands of farmers when it might as
easily be used. Fruit is often left to
spoil, though a slight expenditure would
preserve it for winter. If they can be
fruits. Peaches, apples, plums, apricots
and, indeed, all eatable fruits, are worth
canning. Dried fruits can never wholly
take the place of canned fruits for fam
lily use. Glass jars are preferred by
most persons, and are cheapest in the end.
With care these can be used many years.
though new rubber bands must be pro
cured when needed. LII canning, sugar
should certainly be used, and it should
be of the granulated white grades as poor
sugar hurts the flavor of the fruit. The
rule is to put one quarter of a pound of
sugar with one pound of fruit, but this
quantity may be doubled if the fruit be
unusually acid. Some persons think
that fruit is good when canned without
sugar, but in that case it loses color and
frmness. The fruit used for canning is
to be of the best quality, and as freshly
picked as possible. Well ripened fruit.
| not, however, dead ripe and soft. is in
every way preferable. In fact, cannery
should really be located near the orchards
the quality of the fruit between the time
it is picked and the time it is ready for
the cans. Course grained market vari-
cites seldom can do SO well as the more
highly favored kinds. When the fruit
has been peeled and pitted, place in a
preserving kettle and properly cooked,
but if it is still boiling hot the cans are
to be filled full, to the very brim, and ell
astic put on, the jar wiped, and the top
screwed down at once, and frightened sew
eral times afterward. AS writer on the
subject said recently: Good fruit, put
boiling hot into the perfect cans, filed
full and sealed up at once, will be fresh
and pure when opened, though years
later" Simply pouring boiling water
over fruit does not expel the air. Part
ly filed fruit jars will spoil. Canned
berries are to be put in preserving ket-
tie, with layers of sugar, and boiled from
five to fifteen minutes. The syrup can
be bottled ap, some of it, for other uses.
Some persons prefer to cook berries in
the jars in which they are to be canned.
In this case the jars, filled up with fruit
ore set ~, :, ,r-ar,l, I,ilnr nm prool7ar, crot-
so as not to touch the bottom. Cold wat
er is poured iii until it comes close to the
rims of the jars, and heated until the
fruit is we'll cooked, when the fruit in one
jar is used to fill up the others, and they
are sealed and put away. We may add
that glass jars of fruit should be put in a
dry, dark, and cool place, where the tenn
perature is equable throughout the sea-
son.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25

A LAZY BoY's LUoK.-A Vermont farm
or had lazy, shiftless son who everybody
said ought to have gone out and fed swine
on small salary, but who refused almost
to feed himself. Everybody agreed that
he was good fer nothing, and one day
she old man ambled him out of the house
with the toe of his boot. The boy went
away and invented the lemon squeezer,
and in one year had enough money in
his pocket to buy his old dad ten times
over. He made altogether $40, 900 from
the patent, and the man he sold to made
100000 in three years. There are two
morals here. Kick your boy into luck,
and then kick him again to keep him
from selling out at too low price.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25

CoFFET GROWING WILD IN FLORIDA
During the recent survey in the extreme
southern portion of Florida, far away
from the habitation of man, Capt. Duval
says: "One day the dull monotony of
our labors was broken by South Ameri-
can Indian-negro yelling out: Coffee !
coffee coffee !! and, throwing down his
tools, he began filling his pockets from q
plant resembling the genuine coffee plant.
The beverage made from it was excellent
in flavor and aroma, and was enjoyed by
-Ine entire party 1t appears that this
plant was quite plentiful, growing wild
iu that unexplored portion of Florida, but
Captain Duval did not say that it was
genuine coffee, or that it was equal in
aromatic qualities to the imported. Ex-
pertinent, however, has demonstrated the
fact that genuine coffee can be success
fully grown in south Florida. Mrs.
Atzroth, of Manatee, sent last year to the
agricultural department at Washington,
two pounds of coffee as sample of her
own growing, which was said to be quite
equal to the best imported, and we may
expect ere long to see south Florida
growing large fields of coffee.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25
WEIGHING s6O,ooO,OOO IN GOLD.

The weighing is being done in the
large melting room in the Assay Office.
The brass scales are about four feet high,
and the weight on either side and at the
center rests upon knife edges of sharp
ness that will have been worn SO much
when the present weighing is done that
they will never be used again. The bal
ance Of the empty pans is so exact that
the one-hundreth part of an ounce added
to either side bears it down promptly.
The weights used are of a composition of
metals looking like brass. They are
shaped like large tomato cans, with
scooped out tops, across which are
straight handles, and they weigh 500 troy
ounces each. Ten of these weights, or
5000 ounces, make the capacity of the
scales, drop of this size disposing of
twenty-five bars of gold. or Sl25, 900. Of
course there are many smaller weights to
secure perfect accuracy. The entire ac-
emulation of gold amounts to 700 melts,
of which fifteen can be weighed in an
hour, and, the working hours being from
9 a. m. to 4 p. m., only los melts can be
disposed of in a day. Allowing time for
lunch and delays, the work will probably
not be completed much before the last
day of the fiscal year, which is June 30.
The gold, which is in bars about six
inches long, an inch thick, ard two and
a half inches wide, is stored in compon
open wooden boxes, with about the
capacity of hod. Ten bars are kept in
each box, and the hand truck in which
the gold is hauled from the vault to the
scales will hold twenty boxes. Each bar
is worth $1,000, each boxful about S50,-
900, each truck load about $1.090,000
The reporter, when shown into the vault,
was surrounded by shelves piled up with
gold and silver worth about $50, 900, 900.
~ Y. World.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25
THE SECRET OF HAppTNESS

How often have we longed for perfect
enjoyment and how seldom found it.
Misfortune has come, or i'll health over
taken us. Perhaps a cough has come
upon US which threatens that dreaded
of all diseases, consumption, and we feel
that death is near. With what Joy should
we be filled then, when such a remedyas
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton is placed within our reach. It has
cured thousand who were nearer the grave
than ourselves and made their lives peace
ful and happy. Asthma, bronchitis,
hoarseness, loss of voice, difficulty of
breathing, or any affection of the throat
and lungs are positively cured by this
wonderful discovery Now to give you
satisfactory proof that DR.. Kings new
discovery will cure if you will call at
G. F. Buerstatte's drug store you can get
trial bottle for ten cents or a regular
size bottle for S1.00. Sold by G. F.
Buerstatte.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25

HIS DISTINGUISHED ColfPAAY.-In the
good old tlRes," some soldiers robbed
nfght-watchman of his coat, boots, and
money. The next day he repaired to
the captain of the regimen! to complain
OF his misfortune. The captain at once
asked him whether he had on at the
time the same things he was then wear
ing. Eyes, sir, the very same" replied
the poor man. "Then, in that case, nv
good fellow" rejoined the captain, II
can positively assure you that the paltry
ras1ais do not belong to my distinguished
company, otherwise they would have left
you neither waistecoat, trousers nor shirt"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25

HARTMANN, the Russian Nihilist, is in
town. He is here disguised as driv-
er of Herdic, but reporter of the In
ter Ocean who used to play with him in
st. Petersburg detected the man, and
met him last night at ninteen minutes
TO twelve in the Washington street tun-
mel. Hartmann was shaved, but other
wise appeared as he did year ago. He
loves the country, and is particularly de-
lighted with the Constitution. Of course
he can speak nothing but Russian and
Greek, but the reporter being familiar
with these tongues, there was no difficult
ly in maintaining Tattling converse
lion.
Hartmann said: "How the dickens
did you know me?"
Reporter-I saw bomb sticking out
of your coat-tail pocket as you sat on the
box of the Herdic.
Hartmann quickly put his hand behind
him, and exclaimed, "Well, dern me, if
tlat amt SOL l couldn't imagine how you
detected me-" He put the bomb further
hack, with smile.
"Got many them about your clothes!"
asked the reporter.
''I'm lined with them, said Hartmann.
A hurried examination showed this to
he true, and revealed the further fact
hat he carries torpedoes in his shoes,
and is also proved with sharp iron
row, SO than he can turn himself into
amarine ram at a moments notice. He
Ii dangerous customer, is Hartmann.
"Where are you going from here2" in
qlired the reporter.
"You mnst not say anything about it, "a
rplied Hartmann; "but / am going to
Omaha"
The reporter gave his word to keep the
natter secret, and soon afterward the
t7o separated.
Before this sees the light Hartmann
VII be safe in Omaha, and no one will
how what has become of him.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25

A CHASTITY MEMENTo, We were shown
this week by Col. John Hafer, of Bed
ford, Pa, the sheet upon which Abraham
Lincoln, the first martyr president, was
laid after be had been shot down by the
assassin Booth, and upon which he died.
It is made out of muslin, unbleached,
scanned in the middle, and is of usual
size. Upon it there are several stains of
blood, one from six to eight inches in
length and several inches wide. I shows
also very plainly bloody prints made by
the fingers of a human hand 1t has
several times been carefully washed with
out diminishing the distinctness or
brightness of the colors, and this has
been accepted by some as confirmation
of a pretty generally believed opinion
that 'the blood of the murdered cannot
be washed out" Its identity is fully
established by competent testimony.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25
4 HOT-WATER RIVER,

The great Sutro tunnel, cut to relieve
the celebrated Comstock mines at Vir-
glnla City, New, of vast quantities of hot
water which is encountered in them, af-
fords an outlet to $4,000 tons every "a
hours, or about 100000 gallons. Some
of the water, as it finds its way out of the
mines, has a temperature of 1862, while
four miles from the mouth of tho tunnel
the temperature ranges from 130 to 135.
To obviate the inconvenience which
would arise from the vapor such a vast
nuantitv of water would ssIfU vII,
fsuc6hhin1 il c6hn1ctedH tb ftfhSTong6 the entire tunnel.
four miles, in tight fume made of pine.
At the point of exit the water has lost
but z of heat. Sixty feet below the
mouth of the tunnel the hot water Is uti-
hzed for turning machinery belonging to
the company, from whence it is turned
off by tunnel ! 100 feet In length, which
serves as waterway. Leaving the
waste way-tunnel the water flows to the
carson river, mile ana half distant.
The hot water is being utilized for many
purposes. The boys have arranged sew
eral pools, where they indulge in hot
baths. The miners and others use it for
laundry purposes, and arrangements ere
being made whereby u thousand acres
belonging to the company are to be rri-
gated. 1t is proposed to conduct the hot
water through iron pipes, beneath the
surface of the soil, near the roots of
thousands OF fruit trees which are to be
planted and in a similar manner give the
necessary warmth to a number of hot
houses to be used for the propagation of
early fruits and vegetables.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25

A CoUGH, Cold or Sore Throat should
be stopped. Neglect frequently results
in an Incurable Lung Disease or Con
sumption. BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCH
Es are certain to give relief in Asthma,
Bronchitis, Coughs, Catarrh, Consump-
tive and Throat Diseases. For thirty
years the Troches have been recommend
ed by physicians, and always give per
feet satisfaction. They are not new or
untried but having been tested by wide
and constant use for nearly an entire
generation. they have attained well mer
tied rank among the few staple remedies
of the age. Public speakers and Singers
use them to clear and strengthen the
Voice. Sold at twenty-five cents box
everywhere. oct7 1y
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25
WHOLE NO. 1899.
GENERAL NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, Wis, Aug. 19.-Mrs. Her.
man Tahlheim, of this place, committed
suicide. She had attended the circus
during the day, where she quarreled with
her husband, and on returning home she
took quantity of strychnine and died
before medical assistance could be pro-
cured. She was about 40 years old, and
the wife of well-to-do farmer. Her
married life had not always been pleas
ant one.
RACINE, Aug. ia young German
girl who arrived in this city on the 11:l5
Northwestern train Thursday night swore
out a warrant to-day for the arrest of J.
P. Paulus, travelling man, who claims
to hail from Milwaukee. Her story is as
follows: Upon alighting from the train
she took an omnibus, at the instance of
the driver, who spoke German, she be-
ing unable to speak word of English.
Paulus also got into the bus and the two
were driven, with other passengers, to
hotel, probably the Commercial House,
where the man got out with his satchel,
and she started to follow him, but was
detained by the driver, who said he would
take her to German hotel. Paulus, af-
ter leaving his satchel in the hotel, re-
entered the bus, which was then driven
to dark and lonely part of the city, and
the horses tied to barn. Thinking she
had arrived at her destination, she got
out, followed by the man, who exposed
his person, and frightened her by his
violent language. She started to run,
when he caught hold of her and made a
most brutal assault. She struggled wild
ly and after desperate encounter she
broke loose, and grabbing her satchel
started to run, she knew not where. The
fellow started after her, and asked her
where she was going, and told her the
depot was at least two miles off, as was
also hotel. She saw light in win
dow short distance off and made for it.
The people could not understand her,
but allowed her to sit on chair in the
house all night. In the morning she
found friends among the Germans to
whom she related her story, and war
rant was issued. The bus driver says he
drove to the hotels and let the passengers
out, and that the woman in question and
strange man to him remained in the
bus and that he took them down to Chas.
Gribbohn's, where they both got out,
and after they had paid their fares, start
ed off toward the North Side, and that is
the last lie saw of them,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25
THE OLD HIGHLAND CHIEF
TAINS.

No men were prouder Of their rank and
descent. Not few of them were educat-
ed in France or England, and had once
been in the habit of mixing in society
from which they seemed to be hopelessly
banished. Impoverished and disappoint-
ed, thrown back upon their own dimin-
ished resources, the petty monarchs and
tyrants of all they surveyed, they lost
their slight culture, and their failings
grew into vices. With many of the out
ward signs OF native high breeding, the
Highland chief grew more and more mar.
row-minded, as he lived on, year after
year, in a contracting circle of ideas,
striving to interest himself in his shoot
ing, fishing and cattle breeding. He was
initiated in all respects by his tenants
and kinsmen according to their lights.
But the smaller man, while dutifully SUBJ
missive to his chief, showed his inborn
haughtiness still more objectionably; and,
as he had known nothing of the world
beyond his native wilds, was more abso-
lutely welded to his antiquated preiu-
dices. One and all were lavish in their
hospitality, though their opportunities of
practicing it Were less frequent than they
could have desired; for the visits of stran-
gers were few and far between, at time
when admiration of the beauties of ma
ture was still taste of the future. AS
for Highland festivities, when they did
come off, they took the form Of hard
drinking ng-necessarily such talk as there
was turned on topics that were strictly
local; so that, even when the guest
CHANGED to be man of ideas, he did little
to enlighten the darkness of his hosts.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25
A TURKISH MILITARY EPISODE.

The personal bravery of the Turkish
soldier is too well known to require re-
peated assertion; but l may mention q
remarkable exhibition Of It which fell un-
der my own notice. During Omer
Pasha's Bosnian campaign, in which I
accompanied him in order to report TO
Lord Stratford on his progress in sup
pressing great REBELLION, we marched
along the valley of the livcr Bosnia, which
was too deep for fording, III the hope of
being able to cross it at ferry some
miles further west. The enemy WAS in
force on the other side. A captain of
cavalry was sent on with fifty men TO take
possession of the ferry boat. When we
reached the place, the boat was there
and the captain was there, but instead of
fifty men there were not more than twen-
ty. The pasha asked where the rest
were. The captain pointed to the river,
aud replied with perfect quietness of
manner that he had found the ferryboat
on the other side, defended by hundreds
of armed Bosniacs, and that he had been
obliged to swim the stream, and bring
the boat back under a fire which had
killed thirty of his men. Afeoin. DerUis
Agha, was all that Omer Pasha said. I
lost patience with his cold, "Well done,
Dervis Agha," after such q gallant feat.
r al tIa{
force an officer would have Immediately
been promoted for it, and asked him how
he could expect his troops to distinguish
themselves without other acknowledge
ment than such faint praise. "Well,
well, you need not get excited about it, p"
answered the pasha, coolly lighting
cigar. "Dervish Agha, 1 promote you
to the command of your regiment, which
is vacant. You shall have your frman
as colonel by return of post from SIAM
boul. Fall in, and pass the word to all
the colonel's that we halt half an hour
here to give their men smoke" The
young officer saluted and fell in at the
head OF his reglmeut with an uncOnceru-
ed look which surprised me. Omer
Pasha, who could not live without smok-
ing, never INDUCED in cigar without al
lowing all those with him to light their
pipes. AS Turks, they adored him ac-
cordingly. At later period of the cam
paign trustworthy officer of rank was
required to take command of an expedi-
ton into Herzegovina. Omer Pasha
said to me that he had no one fit for it.
suggested that Dervish Bey might suit
him. The pasha adopted the idea, and
the expedition was perfectly successful.
The colonel was made general for it.
Long afterward [ met him as Dervish
PoObo o,l -->..IIII,tC,i Onol,
his quick promotion to my taking his
part at the ferry of the Bosna. In the
last war with Russia, he commanded the
army corps defending Batoun, and his
name has since become very we'll and
very favorably known to Europe i'll con-
nection with Dulcigno.-Ienple Bar.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25

MORE than 1000 cakes of toilet soap
were stolen from the Fifth Avenue Hotel
last year by lady guests, and 9, 1870 towels
went after the soap. Who's a theft
Free Press. What kind of thief did
you say? Persons who slave not wisely,
but towel, " are not ladies. If the Fifth
Avenue people were wider awake, we
should not hear of such soap-horrific
proceedings. None but guests of the
lowest caste-steal soap. The Windso-
ought to be the favorite for soap thieves.
Phil. Bultetin.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-25

CANNIBALIsM.-An native Fiji teacher
sltioned at NaDrau, On being supplied,
liely, with food by his converts, was
hrrifed to observe that a portion of it
VS. human flesh. He at once exclaimed
aRinst the food, and refused to eat it.
lose who brought it to him admitted
TIT it was human flesh, and said they
hi killed and cooked the government
oicer. II he persisted in refusing to eat
thy would kill and cook him also. In
tgor Of bis life he ate little, but took
tt first opportunity of escaping from his
terrible entertainers, and made his way
tdhe coast, where he reported the crime
an subsequent abomination that had
ben perpetrated. The report is given
olauthority, which leaves little doubt
ato its authenticity.