Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-09-09
Dreuities.
Miscellaneous Items.
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Miscellaneous Items.
Boston has two haunted houses.
-Cincinnnti papers speak of Chicago as
the "hand New York.
The manufacture of trowser buttons
has enabled wife to appear at Saratoga
with So, 600 diamond.
The Boston and New York ladies ut
Lake George are not on good terms, and
verbal fights are frequent.
In Cincinnati peaches IRE selling at
70 cents per bushel; tomatoes % cents,
| apples ~ cents; pears 80 cents, &C. How
will that do for low
New York city has made the liberal offer
OF SlO,OO for the Century plant. Over &c.
600 people went to see this plant while it
was on exhibition at Rochester.
Bishops of the Established Church in
England are, during the next two years, to
be allowed to retife upon CO, goo u year, or
one-third Of their present revenues
The cars on the White Mountain Rail-
road were delayed by snow on the 7th OF
August, and $50 people were compelled to
spend night on Mount Washington.
Daniel S. Curtis, lawyer Of Boston,
pCSA oCALCACCu W CWO ulOLtuS III JUL
for tweaking the uose of Joseph NJ. Chur-
chill, banker in the same eminent city.
Many ladies' at White Sulphur Springs,
Virginia, have been obliged to sleep on
mattresses placed on the floor, and five
or six in room, on account of the crowd.
An exchange has been shown an imita-
ton of calico made Of paper. It was very
fine and'at first would deceive any person.
! The specimen was sent in letter from
| England.
| There was fight at the International
the walters and the cooks Pistols and
knives wero used freely, and wounds were
exchanged.
"A letter from San Francisco says there
| are few old Californians to be found who
have not been rich and poor again, at least
half a dozen times and most of them are
poor now.
Cornelius Kailiher, an invalid in New
York, following the advice of an old wom-
an, stepped ten cent paper OF tobacco in
| pint OF ale, and drank the fluid. 1t kill
ed him within three hours.
Ono of the Georgia editors objects to
the proposed editorial convention in that
state. He says that the affair will only be
big drunk, and 1--WE can get drunk at home,
on whisky that We are usened to-"
james Bosom, pedestrian, is to at
tempt the feat of walking backward from
Portland to Boston, distance of ITO miles,
in eight days, on a wager of $1,000. He
proposed to start on the 26th of August.
"A Chicago paper says: The number
of deaths in this city for August will reach
about 800, as we learn from an official
source. There is much sickness, and an
unusual number of deaths are occurring.
When in 1914, the Rev. DR.. Tefft, in
an address at the Indiana University. pre-
dicted q railroad across the continent, his
hearers, including the potent, grave and
reverend seniors laughed him to scorn
Preliminary steps for founding COL
ored commercial or business college in
Washington have been taken, with pros
poets of final success. 1t is proposed even
tually to extend the movement all over the
country.
-The total receipts from theatres in
Chicago during July were as follows:
ers S., 1875; Dearborn Theatre So, $50. as.
All Of these places were open only part
of the month.
st. Augustine, Fla, which is filed with
invalids from the North during the winter
months, has become a great resort for South
erners in the summer. Cool sea breezes, an
even temperature, and fine bathing ore it's
attractions in the latter season.
| Twenty years ago Pennsylvania was
the largest heat.producing state in the
Union. Now it is about twelfth on the
list The people have turned their atten-
ton to the development of that which is
hidden in the earth oil, coal and iron.
-Aconvict in the Maryland Penitentiary,
who has three years to serve as a cattle
thief, has fallen heir to $4,000 by the
death of q relative in Ohio, and some very
dislnterested persons are endeavoring to
procure his pardon.
The question whether Barbara Friet-
chic was myth or a zeal woman is to be
finally set at rest by the presentation to
MIR. Whittier of a cane made from beam
of the house she lived in, by the citizens
of Fredericksburg.
IS. J: Caven railroad agent at Green
River, Wyoming was shot and killed, few
days ago, by E. Smith. He was arrested
|
tors for the affections ola married lady who
belonged to neither.
Mr.. L. Provost died at San Jose, CAL,
on the 10th. Mr.. Provost had been en-
gagged for the last thirteen or fourteen
years in the business of silk culture, and,
in fact, may be regarded as the founder OF
that important and promising branch of in
dustry in California
Tho Perry Monument Association pro.
poses grand meeting at Put-in-Bay, on
the 10th of September, the anniversary OF
the battle of Lake Erie, the primary object
of which is to raise additional funds for
the monument. One of the survivors Of
the battle will deliver an Grafton.
considerable excitement has been
caused among the people of Chicago by
the discovery that the walls of the new
east wing of the court house in course Of
erection, are in danger of tumbling down
from the careless and unworkmanlike man.
ner in which the work has been done.
| Not less than 107 clergymen have
clergymen's cards from the st. Paul and
Pacific Railroad Company, emitting them
to ride on the road at halt fare. They give
these cards to only those who live on the
line Of the road. It appears that the towns
on this road are well supplied with preach.
ers.
There is an old gentleman named Bar
rows living near Rockland Me-, who has cut
hay from one farm with his own hands for
sixty-six years, save one. He has lived in
three towns, two counties and two States,
and has never moved from the farm on
which he was born. There are now living
in the house with him four generations.
The Albany Journal says: 1--WE are
pleased to see that the attendance of Gen
erals at the Gettysburg reunion is small,
and for tho most part embraces names
least known. II all now living who took
part in the battle, were present, the alb
sentees would be still more conspicuous
the noble dead who fell in that or subse-
quent engagements.
ALI sheer gardens within the jurisdic-
ton Of the Chicago authorities were closed
on last Sunday, and will not henceforth
on the Sabbath be allowed to open. Notice
ia being given, also, that all billiard saloons
and ten-pin alleys must be closed on Sun
days. The law will be rigidly enforced re-
garding those places. Dancing is also pro-
| scribed on the Sabbath in public halls,
gardens, etc.
"A young man in Muscatine, Iowa, TO e
in his sleep on the night OF the eth, and by
some means climbed to the roof of Trinity
church, and proceeded to deliver al elo-
quent discourse. After speaking for some
time he retired in good order till he came
to the edge OF the root, when one step
brought him to the ground, and at the