The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-08-03


how heavily loaded wagons did not fall
through when passing over.
A FIELD trial of self binders will take
place at the farm of Mr.. Halverson On
the Calumet road next Friday. Seidl &
Bleser will compete with the Mccormick
man.
LAST Sunday was a gala day at the
German Lutheran church. A large num-
Der of persons from Two Rivers and
from the surrounding country were In
attendance.
GEORGE COOPER has been off on
fishing excursion. He reached home q
couple of days ago, but hasn't his fish
story prepared yet. 1t will be whopper
when it comes.
The democratic chairman of the Ohio
central committe is levying political
assessments on distillers and brewers.
He is moulding himself into the proper
tions of HubbelI.
THE Annual National Conference of
Charities aud Corrections will be held
at Madison from the 7th to the 11th
inclusive. The body will meet in the
assembly chamber.
ELSEWHERE in this issue will be found
a notice to contractors, Dist. No. l.
Maple Grove is about to erect a new
school house, and J. P. Nolan is the man
to whom to apply.
A CONTRACT has been made by the
underwriters and a wrecking company
for the release of the schooner J. o.
Thayer, which was driven ashore near
Sheboygan last fall.
A RIDE after William Clark's fast horse
is much like run on locomotive. Bill
took us in few days ago and showed
the horses PAGES. We havn't fully re-
covered our breath yet.
THERE is prospect of Improvement
in freights from Chicago. New wheat
is coming in and freights have sprung
up to Sc. to Buffalo. There is however
a very large fleet waiting for cargoes.
SCHUETTE & Bros. have new adver-
tisement in this issue. All we need do
is to call attention to change as any
thing this enterprising firm has to say
commands the ready attention of our
readers.
A REPORT comes from Schleswig that
resident of Kiel, lately left home and
failed to return. His absence caused
some alarm and some of the neighbors
went in search of him, and found him
hanged to tree.
'LooT" is the latest we'll authorized
word that has come into use. When
Walker steals string of fish that some
other person caught, and claims them as
bis haul, he is "looting." That's what
the word means.
VENNoR has things fixed for disa-
greeable August. ''It is to be month
of storms and unusual rainfall" with &C.
casional low temperature, even snow in
extreme western and northwestern Sec
tons may be expected.
PELICAN LAKE has ruined the morals
Of many. AS every person who went to
certain mount came back prophet, SO
every one who goes to this lake so aptly
named as to be suggestive of Louisiana,
comes back first class prevaricator.
BIBINGER & DAY sold $1,000 worth of
agricultural implements on Saturday last
at their ware house, and still they were
not satisfied and John went out to brave
the granger in his den and make him take
"some more"
OVER 200 children met thier death
throughout the Uuited States by means
of the toy pistol. 1t appears that the lit
tie pistol with the decorating waferis fully
as dangerous as that which discharges
the blank cartridge. Newspapers every
where are demanding legislation against
the sale of the toy pistol.
AT last man has been found who
makes a bid for the presidency not in
the usual form of pledging himself to
conduct the affairs of the Office in such
a manner &c, &c. But this fellow offers
to do the whole business and asks but
S26 per year from each State. What's
the matter with that offer?
The daily papers are talking about the
sailing qualities of the schooner W. o.
Goodman, and assert if trimmed for g
yacht there is no other on fresh water
that could match her. She is now in the
lumber trade. The Goodman was BULL
in this city this spring for Captain John
son of Chicago, by Rand & Burger.
THERE was some talk of running Rev.
Gordon of Milwaukee, for congress, il
the belief that he would draw heavily
from the Irish vote, his sympathies fol-
Ireland being quite pronounced. But
he is an Englishman and has not beer
a citizen of the U. S. long enough to be
eligible to seat in congress.
W. 81. SEAMAN of Sheboygan declines
to be a candidate, and it is said the She
boygan delegation will go for Eiwell
From present appearances it would APP
pear that each candidate will have al
many votes as his county is entitled to,
with Kewaunee to augment the strength
of some fortunate one, as she has nc
"favorite son" of her own.
The Manitowoc boys must have be
haved like barbarians in the tussle witt
the Brillion braves on the diamond field
They despoiled the Brillion boys OF waisl
buttons and did some other species oil