Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-07-29
preuities.
Miscellaneous News Items.

preuities.
Miscellaneous News Items.
s-Genoral Sherman and daughter are in
Boston. =
Receipts of internal revenue on Satur-
dry were 81, $4,000! g..s 81
Seven hundred and twenty-six deaths
were reported in New York last week. >
Tho cholera has made it's appearance
in Hobokcn and Jersey City.
Gov. Seuter and Gen. Stokes smoke at
Memphis on Saturday. .s
"A large distillcry in New York has
been seized by the revenue officers
Tom Allen fights Charley Gallagher Oh
the 18th Of August, near 81. Louis.
Tho United States paid to foreign
countries for sugar last year go. 0Q0, 600.
There were four cases of sun stroke in
New York on Saturday, and two in Hobo
ken. - =.
VIM. Karn was held in $4,000 on
Saturday, in New York, to answer charges
OF fraud on customs. =
Tho Erie Railway on Saturday paid
over $1,000 to passengers for baggage
oVfAt at MAST hope.
.-George Watts, another money lender
OF Wall street, was bailcd on SATURDAY. on
charge of usury.
The Athletic club of New York beat
Tho Olympics, Of Washington, on Satur-
day. Score, 80 to IS.
"A fire in Windsor, c., on Saturday.
destroyed property to the amount of about
s25,OoO; mostly insured
"A man in Kansas City charms bees.
leads them whittier he viii and compels
them to do his bidding.
The Collector of the Second Alabama
District reports the seizure of forty cases
OF tobacco for non-payment of tax.
Tho Western Union Telegraph Club
beat the Stock Exchange Club at base
ball in New York Oh the 18th, by So to 81.
James F. Miller, in the employ of the
White Collar Packet Company, at Du-
buguc, was drowned from the wharf-boat.
Rev: Mr.. Owens, of'New York city, re-
ported dead from tho effects of a wound re-
ceived at Kockeway, L. l., is alive and un-
injured.
A dispatch from Des Moines, Iowa.
says that the rains the past week have done
Immense damage to crops; wheat aud oats
suffer most. ''''
Tho editor of the Racine journal sayg
the performance Of riding velocipeie
reminded him Of big baby trying to kick
his diaper of. -.
-Ihe first time writer in the Cincin-
natl Times saw Thomas Buchanan Read.
ne vas FASTING theater bills for strolline
company, of which he was one.
Hiram L. Fisher, from Watertovn- N
T., clerk IN the Internal Rev nue. office,
died Friday night in tho street. He had
been lndlsposed for several days. :-,....z, -.
Tho Paulis buildings in Scranton. Pa.
were burned Saturday morning. Total
loss, $1,000. Solomon Clark, who slept
over Nash 8 store was burned to death.
Lament Clerc, for moro than fifty
years prominently identified with the cause
OF deaf mute instruction, died at hisrresi-
dence in Hartford, ON the 18th, aged eighty
three.
There are 8, 500 newspapers published
in this country, of which five-sevenths are
issued i'll the Northern States New York
has the largest and Florida the smallest
number. :. 2.-,~..:-,s - I; zts,E
H. G. Moore, gentleman we'll known
in Chicago, fell dead in Brunswick l. Bros
billiard-hall, about II o'clock on Saturday.
While engaged In playing pool with party
of friends. = - * j
Edward Laudins & Son, were arrested
Saturday on the steamship Rhein, from
Bremen, on her arrival in New York, charp-
ed with absconding with large amount Of
money from Germany.
l. The New England Hotel in Cleveland
was partially destroyed by fire Saturday
n.
lHartforD $40, 200; Washington, IN. ~
$4,000.
the Union Course in New York, on
Saturday, the trOt of q milo and repeat, to
harness, between American Girl and Noun
tain Boy was won by the former in two
straight heats time. 2:234;, 2::2l2. ~
= The Union Pacific Railway gives to
the Baptist Home Mission Society lands
on the line of their road for the loca ton of
missions. A delegation of the ofic ers of
the society are now on the route 50 lecting
lots.n '"',@7' ',:s::s'S -
Cmliicot6e and Msnry, iowa; ffIuay aissr
noon. Houses, trees, fences, Gc., were
blown down in considerable numbers, in
yolving heavy damage. No lives are re-
ported lost. =.
"A heavy rain fell in Chicago ON Satur-
day morning. The Illinois River at MOI
ris is fifteen feet above its ua1al staoe.
The ground is So wet in that vicinitv that
farmers cannot get their haryeefina ma
chimes on the ground and are obliged to
cut what is worth cutting by hand.
| Capt. Geo. W.. Gift leaves Memphis
next week for California and China direct.
4 in the interest of the Arkansas In1inipration
Company, by whom he is provided with
funds and letters Of credit. If p0eefble no
VIII nrrange ior !aborers IN California, but
oes'gns WISHING y Gmn ma at once.
| The large quantity Of lager seized in
the saloon of Pfupf Brothers, in Boston,
July 9Th, was retumed to them ON 6etur-
day. The reason given for the restoration
decision could be reached n the courts.
a. "A few nights apo the pastor In ono of
the leading churches in Nashville. brutally
beat his daughter, q young lady almost no.
| man grown, with rawhide. until comnell-
! ed 10 desist bv couple Of gentlemen who
were attracted to the house 'by her loud
screams. -: : " . -
80 ~ =.
DISH essaPeu maiuolel iIom LINTON ~
~ na n.ue 81 n G; npesMace ~ c e. u
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