Mower County transcript., 1869-09-16
Dreuities.
Miscellaneous Isnn,a

'"lo under broadway, N. Y.
The capital of the banks in the c;tv of
Boston is upwardsof SAG, 1000, ZOO.
The total rental values Of London .r.
estimated Tor taxation at sl0O, ,OOO. .OO1 mr.
annum. POI
Ten men assembled recently in a hota,
in California who count up among than
$73, ,OOO, coo. ''0"
The Postoflice Department nov ,e
ceives, transmits and delivers 720. nm mn
letters annually.
Mr.: Peabody, who is protestant. pre-
sented 81 100000 to the Pope for the bon
eft of the poor. g!
A piece of pure amber was recently
found on one of the barren knobs near tho
Bijou Basin, Colorado.
In Trowbridge, VT, is man by the
name OF Diamond, who is the father Of
thirty precious gems.
"A railroad is projected from Caldwell
TO Ilconderoga, to connect with the Pitts-
burg and Whitehall road.
The United States has q, 1s1 post off,
ces: The number of Postmasters. clerks
and mall contractors must he forty thou
sand. 'A
"A Mobile negro mother-in.lav whalel
her son-in-law with an iron bar because he
would not buy her a new dress and pair
of earrings.
The New Orleans Picayune be];evea
that the cotton crop would reach 2. O0O om
bales, but that thele are not enouoh lahor
ers to secure it.
Two clog-dancers in Leavenwortb ara
about to have match for five hundred
dollars, to settle who IL the Champion
dancer Of America,
In q graveyard at Shrewsbury. New
Jersey Is row of ton graves of a family of
brothers and sisters, ali of whom died At The
age of ten days. ' '' '"'
"A nugget of gold weighing LOG nonnaa
and valued at s25, Zoo, was taken % ont IHs of iSs
Monumental Quartz mine in Sierra conntv
CAL, few days since.
"A young man oftwenty-two who baa
recently been convicted of murder in Ten
nessee, contesses that he has eight times
committed the same crime. '''~'
Tho British ship Lady Ann cleared
last week from Sacramento for London
with wheat-being the first vessel from tiu tho,
port direct to London in two years
The Colt pistol works at Hartf,-d n.
nave made and shipped 5000 of the so, 600
guns ORDERED aby by the Russian Government.
"A son of President Pierce's Secratorv
Dob6ln died in Fayetteville, North Carolina,
Dy falling from a window q week or too
ago. He was promising lawyer.
"A Panama letter of August Is saws tha,
Frank Ward, o son-in-law Of VIM. b Aston
jumped overheard from the steamer Sacr.'
mento' hear San Jose, and was drowned.
Goal spectators in New York now have
consigned to them and living at tha;r
wharves from 300 to 500 coal boats. which
n9;Ses 1nsy delay in unloading in hopet higher
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"A great fire! is raging in tie Disma,
swamp, in Virginia. Many miles of fences
and cordwo0df have been destroyed and
numerous wild animals have been driven
out into the open country. =. -
~ =; Chicago girl broke her engagement
with q young man for the reason that he
sneezed IN bis sleep: If il wouldn't be i'm
pertinent, ,"mna y IT,. We ~ohh Ike 10 the how she
A young physician of Terrvv;,,e ~
sioped with blooming damsel of that
place the other day, notwithstanding tha
TACT that their marriage was TO have taken
place III the regular way in - few weeks
.aI7A - young daughter Of M. j. ". Hanks>
OF Lowell Mass, aged six years. On Sunday
last strayed into the. barn, set ire to the
hay and was, suffooeted The fire was
shortly, discovered, but the child was dead.
..-Charlotte ~Guillard was the first nota-
Die female printer. She was in business
for fifty years in Paris=--from 1906 to 1866
and was: celebrated for tho oprrectness
'of her books. 10 Women were employed and
rs 1881. -
-Ayoung German has bst hi evesipht
by an attempt to win q bet to swim a cey-
tain length of time on his back in the
Scheidt with his spectacles on. A hot sun
acted on the spectacles as on magnifying
glass. - ~@'s.s-ssasa ,-sasze,-rsrs~,
= sa-Contsacts will soon sbe awarded FIR
constructing another tunnel under the CHI
cago River. The Few tunnel viii be 1000
feet in 'beueth -20o efeets longer THAN ths
one already, built, and will cost about half
q million dollars. ,'''.''> -'''''
-sAdmiral' SemmeasJ aJm, asked to ba cho.e,
President Of the Alabama State University.
His offer WAS declined, and Profess CYRUS
Mort9rup OF. Yale was chosen tGthe place.
fessor Northrup negro. TIT"
. Mrs. soalfeld, Of Chicago, has pearl
which she inherited from her German ar-
cestors go large and valuable that leading
New York Jewellers inform her that it's
price is beyond the means Of any one in
the country, and she intends. to exhibit it.
-Excursionists (from Salt LakrD-"Give
me through tickets for fifteen grown per-
sons and thirty-nme children New Tick
ct Clerk (from Massachusetts} l"If it's a
school or an asylum we can make them
cheaper to you. Excursionist Indignant
ly)-''Sir! it's MY own private family, sir"
The Count of Cheste, Spain, was given
his rank and pay on condition that he
should 60 to the Canaries. He gave q par
ole to remain at Puerto Real till q vessel
was ready, but he broke the parole and fed
to France. -. ~ a.. Z.
The Office of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railroad, in Chicago. was
robbed Thursday evening of one thousand
three hundred and twenty-five coupon tick
cts. The value of tho tickets is about
$4,000. ,...~. -. - -
The wagon-bridge across the Des
Moines River at Des Moines, Iowa, fell on
the Sd with about one hundred and fifty
Mustangs upon it. About dozen of the
animals were ruined by having their legs
broken, &c.
The cattle in some parts of Surrev.
England, have been attacked with an cpl
demic Of contagious character. The dis.
ease is said to be of similar type to that
which preceded the outbreak Of the rinder-
pest in June, 1865, and it ia, spreading
rapidly through the country.
"A lady in Missouri has applied for iii.
vorce from two husbands. The first aban-
doned her and circulated a report that he
was drowned, on the faith of which she
married again. She clAimssta divorce
from number one on the ground of aban-
donment. The other husband she now
finds had already family when he married
her.
"A child in Minnesota recently swallow
ed a cup Of water in which quantity of
potato bugs had been thrown to drown.
The parents fed the babe for two hours on
Davis pain-killer and sweet milk, and be-
yond distress, which might naturally be
attributed to the heroic remedy. there were
no serious consequences. though the pota-
to bug is reputed poisonous in the West.
A boat race for 500 side, was rowed
in the harbor Of Yokohama, Japan, on the
10th of July, between the cutte:s of the
U. s. steamer Iroquis and her ] .itannic
majesty's frigate Ocean. The. la,s,r beat
the former in a five mile race, four minutes
and twenty seconds. This result again