Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-10-14

to being. calleda trapscendentalist; says
that the very religion Of Boston. may be al !
most described as q '1stressful and over
stimulated exercise of Acknowledgement"
The rising generation, of Pigyille, 4 |
suburb of Hartford, have lately been dis
covered fastening cats together with fish,
hooks, and allowing them to fight till one
or'the other was literally torn to pieces.
1.-The Charleston Courier's. cotton state1t
ment for the year places the; total product
at z S6S, 1863 bales. Its estimate Of the rice
crop in South, Carolina, Georgia, North
Carolina and Louisiana, is 81, 915 tisrces. ;: 4
AT Sheridan, Kansas, the vigilance
committee was about to hang half breed.
when he requested thesprivilege of hanging
himself, which, WIS granted. He phksth6a
rope around his neck, got into .. tree and
JUMPED, breaking his neck. '"'7'fIA
"A fnnhily which was residing in Lynn,
Mass, at last accounts, has, durina the.
past Dixteen years, lived in sixteen differ
ent towns zandp Cities and has occupied
twenty-eight different houses. Daring this.
moving period the wife has become the
mother of eleven children. E..-I III .ouiHsk
"a contribution was recently taken I'M
one of the churches in Chicago, ana on the
dsys following q man who counts his prop
ecty by hundreds, of. Thousands. called on
ono Of tie elders and said: ~ made q mis-
take yesterday and put ihtor the boz teti
cents, when meant TO put in five, eents.'"s
Largest gssatsst 3d. Il
Union. There were in bond in that state
July 31st, 7,429, 541 gallons of spirits.
Pennsylvania stands next 70 Kentucky;
with g. u.s. ais pnllona in fnnd "
| Alexander Hagner was buried thirty
one hours by the caving Of we'll in ia
maica, Long Island, n+the 18th inst, and
! ding out alive. After his head had been ,uu-
covered; 1t took bix hours to sextricate the
body, 50 tightly was the earth. packed
around him.,
Within q mile of Palmyra, Harrison
county, Indiana, is lake three-quarters of
q mile long and from one-quarter TO one
half mile wide, in some portions of which
the; bottom has ipever been sounded 1t
has no inlet or outlet, and is filled with ex.
| cellent fish, VI S'i='--t'R': 1"l'''A -
Chicago is furnishing her jail with q
library, SO that prisoners may pass. their
time in reading Is that the way to pun
ish criminals, by converting Jail into q
pheasant reading room !? ,Thos, thirstina
for knowledge without the means to graf
lily it. will find Chicago jail good place to
60 to. - 10
I. The liabllitiesi of Clark Holt Of Rock.
Vile, Conn, q large manufactuzer, and
PRESIDENT and Treasurer of the Tollard
County Insurance Company, will reach q
quarter OF million. Mr.. Hollis whereat
bouts is unknown. The. soundness of the
insurance company is not affected. ~ ''''!''
Late advices received from .Buenoe
Ayres say: 1T seems that President Lopez
in the evacuation of Assurra moved every.
thing; including his guns. During the pur.
suit 80, QUO Allies attacked 5000 Paraguay.
ans. The latter fought desperately, The
engagement lasted six hours. si5 The Para.
guayans lost $500 mon: and al their, arch
ives and specie. '"' ~ . -
On Saturday last sperm whale wal
driven by the surf and grounded ION the
beach near the mouth, of the Kennebee
River, in Maine. where, after some difficult
ty, he was captured by . party Of Asher.
men: The captors are now engaged in
cutting up the animal, and it is supposed
he will yield some thirty to fifty barrels Of
oil. He was about fifty feet ihs1eagth.
a7-Mrs. Rebecca Lessig, who's al
Pottsvile, Pa, last week, had taken nc
food for forty days. She was born in 177S,
near Pottstown, Montgomery county, bui
has resided in Scuylkill for the last twenty.
five years. She was left q widow In 1901,
with six children--thus making her period
of widewhood sixty-two years, almost a
natural life,time. ;te& / ~st2l sHia:'i si:}a.s
=. The lists Of patents, granted in Francs
contains some curious articles, among them
the following "A hat With decorated rim;
an umbrella bat; Q womapR hyeiehis end
impermeable skirt, called "la Prevoyante;'
stockings with garters attached; a m schiSSin ie
ical mustard-pot; application of, the Instinct
of animals to the guidance of steam car.
riages on ordinary roads.h :aI1 IA .ili'ij5}
"A little girl, twelve years old, named
Geergiana McCready,i living in Philadel-
phia, was bitten BY . dog last July. and last
week Tuesday She was attacked BY preamIon-
itions lof hydrophobiA i The best known
physicians Of Philadelphia were called "a
her aid, and With their sanction and that
ofallt to whom tina life of,thechild WAS dear;
her sniissings we're stayed 1 ~ the s n'eroifal
"A farmer in: Hume township, Iliuois.
recently lost q fine herd OF cattle. They
broke into corn-6eld, and gorRed them
selves to such an extent that eighteen died
from the indulgence. The local paper,
while regretting the farmers loss, congrat.
ulates him. on having tho largest amount
Of corned beef on hand Of any man ip, the
country. 10 @@ s'>'tt@ :s''''' -
Each Of the eighteen states into which
China is divided has q separate dialect;
those Of one state cannot understand those
Of another. Each state IL b-divided into
ten provinces, and great dissimilarity
often exists between the language spoken
in one province aud that used in another
the accent and pronunciation being diff.
ferent.
Mrs. Martha Wilson. Of Providence,
Bureau county, ILL.,, has = Chester white
SOW. not yet two years old, which is the
mother of twenty-eight pigs. Ifthe eleven
pigs now on hand were sold at the rate of
the previous ones, the amount realized
would be over $500. The sire of these
pigs is q pure Poland, and promises to
weigh, when fully fattened, considerable
over 500 lbs.
| "A Norwich man has whitfield with
pen. knife most curious and perplexing
bottle puzzle. He has taken an eight ounce
vial and set up iu it's interior perfect keg
about two inches long, with four hoops on
it and both heads in, and he has stopped
the bottle with wooden plug which fits
perfectly tight and is keyed inside. the key
pinned and the pin toggled. The work
manship is excellect and the way it was
done mystery.
"A man by the name of Zeke Eads. in
Greene County, New York. is strangely
deformed. He is without ears, and never
had any. He gathers sounds through the
medium Of his mouth, and can hear any
thing said to him in an ordinary converse
ton. Equally as strange, his hair is black,
with white spots nearly a. large 40 the
palm of a mans hand interspersed through
it. He ls about As years of age, and the
happy possessor of thirteen living children.
His occupation is tina, of chairMaker.
Near Cannonsville, Delaware county,
Pa, Mrs. Augustus Flowers, the wife of
farmer, had prepared dinner, and sent two
children. aged respectively three and five
years, to call their father. Soon after, the
mother was Mortified beyond expression to
see her husband enter the house bearing
the two little ones in his arms, one life.
less mass of ragged flesh and blood, while
the other was senseless from terrible blow
on the head. from the effects of which he
died next day. The children, in going for
their father, had to pass through pasture
containing vicious horse, which attacked
them with all fury and madness biting,
kicking andstamping the poor unfortuoates
to death. The father, hearing cries Of dis
tresa fastened to the tragieal scene, but
too late to save either Of the fated ones.