Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-09-02
Drcuitics.
miscellaneous Items,

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| miscellaneous Items.
The eclipse was invisible in New Or
leans owing to cloudy sky. ", =.
:, The aggregate value of property in
tennessee is s2O8, O73, 3Gff G5.
Civilians receive no attention what
ever IRON the ladies at West Point.
| Reports from all parts of Oregon indi-
cate much larger yield of wheat than was
anticipated.
! 1t has cost, thus far, s29, SIT to pumn
and clean the Chicago river, and yet it re-
mains as filthy as ever.
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad are
making arrangements to run through cars
from New York to Omaha.
1t is soid that the Gar Alexanders IA
vorito drink is absinthe, of which he takes
more than is good for him.
- The police of Chicago are on the watch
Tor Il gam, of connterfeiters who advertise
to sell exact United States bonds
The American Flint Glass Works in
brooklyn, N. Y, were damaged by fire on
'hc2ist to the amount of $4,000.
A young colorcd ,nan, OF Nashville.
!
days since, t.4;.t, negro girl had 80 charmed
him tla. he could not speak.
! The Iowa State Fair offers hundred
dollar premium to the county of Iowa fur
nishing the largest and best variety of
grain and vegetables.
| Commodore Vanderbilt was r,asried on
| the 21st inst, ut London, CANADA, to Miss
Frank Crawford, daughter Of Robert L.
Crawford, Of Mobile, Ala. ----.~--....
| The reported finding at Newark or a
portion OF the money stolen from The Amer
.oan Merchants Union Express Co. near
Albany, on the 18th inst, is Incorrect
Ezra Martin, proprietor of the Pacific
Hotel at Council Bluffs, Iowa, was arrested
at that place last Saturday night, on
| charge Of counterfeiting United States cur
rency.
1t is said that General Butler takes the
ground that fair adjustment of the rela-
! tons between capital and labor, would re-
quIre the laboring man to work but six
| hours day.
An exchange thinks sit is idle, in this
age OF the world, in which few schoolmen
and casuists are left, to spend any time in
speculatinG upon what would now lie il
ones aunt had been his grand mother
| The colored walters of the Internation-
al Hotel, Niagara Fails, recently mutinied
because white cook was employed. An
assault was made upon the cook, which re-
suited in the discontinue of the colored
braves.
The transmission Of rnauthentic news
by cable and telegraph is one Of the great
est sources OF the prosperity of these en-
terprises, because bogus dispatch is gen.
orally followed by a communication rectify-
ing the misstatements.
Fourteen cases of sunstroke occurred
in New York on the 2lst, of which ii .e
were fatal. There were four deaths in Gin
cinnati from the same cause. In Washing
ton OH the 21st the Mercury stood at 1O5,
and at Philadelphia at 102in the shade
General Thomas says that the military
force Stationed in Alaska produces little
or 40 result, except chronic rheumatism,
which spoils in single year two-thirds Of
the troops unfortunate enough to be sta
toned in that land Of fogs and chills'
There is not q single case of yellow
fever in New Orleans, and the papers ire
congratulating themselves that the season
will pass without the usual occurrence Of
that dreadful disease.
"A Chicago divine says: Politics have
become so corrupt that a man who becomes
q politician cannot always serve God. Be-
ware how you give up God for, political
) preferment-you are pitching your tent
toward Sodom.
"A great derth Of gentlemen is cDm
planned of at the watering places .thisEsea-
son, md matchmaking mnmmas are fear
full that they will have to return to town
with their fair daughters still in the market
A correspondent says: Without the
waters, Saratoga would. be o, bore and a
n swindle, and a very dusty bore at that.
The season is short and the hotel bills are
long. It requires good deal of nerve to
call for your bill, If your party numbers
more than one.
The capital stock of the newly consol-
idated Michigan Southern and Lake Shore
Railroad from Chicago to Buffalo, is over
, $50, 900, 900. The total length of the roads
with their branches, is 1924 miles; number
, of employees 1000; and monthly payroll,
$500, 600.
"A three year old boy of Pittsield
Clergyman. Watching his mother making
biscuit one Sunday for tea, asked her if it
was not wicked to work on Sunday. OF
course she said it was, and the logical little
, chap continued, "Oon catch it when 90
gets to heaven
"A New Zealand chief lately issued the
: following proclamation: Mems put forth
.or the Information Of all men: l. All killing
of men on account Of land must cease. 2.
d All killing of men by men must cease. 3.
. The left hand must attend to things OF the
left hand, and the right hand to those of
1 the right hand. BY order of TAwH1Ao.'
? Articles of agreement have been signed
, by Jim Coyne and Patsy Reardon fo1 a
3 fight, at 142 pounds, for five hundred dol
k lars q side, to take place on the 24th OF
f November, in Kentucky, within fifty miles
g of Cincinnati. If either party weighs more
q than the stipulated weight he is to forfeit
. the money put up.
d Gov. Harrison Reed of Florida, was
married at Syracuse, N. y, on the 10th
s instant, to Miss Chloe Merrick, who was
G for several years teacher of freedmen in
i Florida, and is a lady of ability and cul-
7 ture. The Governor and wife will make q
brief tour in tho North, and then proceed
J. to their home in Florida.
q Statistics recently published show that
. Michigan ranks third in the Union IN the
q number of sheep kept by her farmers. The
D return is for 1869, and shows for the seven
e leading wool producing States as follows:
a Ohio, G,750, l2G sheep: New York, 1885,
1924 sheep; Michigan, 3,91s, 1911 sheep:
I. Pennsylvania, 3, 422, O02 sheep; Indiana, 2,
SS2;l76 sheep. Wisconsin, Missouri, aud
q Vermont follow in the order named, and
f the entire number of sheep, in the country
r is about 80, 600, 600. Michigan has nearly
+ as many as the twelve southern States to-
gether.
= "A writer in Sacramento paper asserts
l that their river is running mine of wealth
3 that its sand and deposits, at and about
: the city, arc worth So per ton. ''This
1 wealth, says the enthusiastic gold-fnder,
= sis supposed to be the tribute to us (who
: have lost SO much by fire and food) in the
} form Of float gold. BY tho COLONIZATION
J process, or perhaps by some other, it would
} pay company to dredge the Sacramento
3 river hence to its mouth, and make it a
f navigable stream for sea-going vessels, with
4 profit"
In Chicago there are about twent; IN
4 ions, with q membership of nearly $500,
< distributed as follows:
+ Members. Members.
: Bricklaycrs. -. .1,150 Printers. 400
: Printers. ... " 45O Plumbers. ...... 100
: Iron Moulders $50 Cigar-makers 275