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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18

EXPORTS OF CALIFORNIA exports of
California by sea for the;first nine months
Of this year, us compared with the corres-
ponding period Of 1868, shows gains of
S132, 900 in wheat, $4,000 in barley, S212,-
900 in wine, $22, 900 in brandy, $40, 600 in
wool, 100000 in hides, $4,000 in salmon,
and 500, 900 in furs; and losses of $500, 900
in quicksilver, $500, in flour, $4,000
in copper ore, and $4,000 in borax.
The amount of -four was nearly as
great this year as last. but the value
per barrel is considerably less. All the
chief quicksilver: mines Of California have
been unfortunate this year, the bodies of
ore found being small and poor in quality.
The expectation last year was forty three
thousand TASKS. This year it will not ex-
coed twenty-eight thousand. The low price
of copper has nearly stopped the exporta
ton Of California ores; and the borax
works have been idle now for two years, in
consequence of the great rise of Borax
Lake, which had no outlet during the VIM
ters of 1868. Tho solution of borax in
the lake was so thinned or diluted with
water that the cost Of extraction WIS in-
creased, and some of the works were
flooded.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18
ECCLESIASTICAL, TRIALS.
No lawyer. Admitted.


Tho trial OF tho Rev. G. G. Tate, at Trim
ity Church. has its curious and almost
funny phases, rs well as its most serious
clnractcr'stics: 1t WIS decided yesterday
that lawyers should not DO allowed to par
ticipatc in the arguments or discussions.
The Church Advocate thought they would
confuse things, and that lawyers wranglc
was not Just the thing for the occasion and
place. This was pretty hard on tho law
yers, but the heavy blow camo with the an
nounccmcnt that tho Court had decided
that they could not speak even on
legal questions. This was stun
ner. There WAS Judse Otis, ono Of
the hest ecclesiastical lawyers in the
United States, just ready to tear
things to tattcrs, and Mr.. Thomas Sparrow
Of this city, aching to show up tho case in
it's proper light and Judge Jones prepared
to drive the High Church business into lit
tlencss, and Gen. Mitchell, DESTROYS OF
clinching Il point or two but tho decision
spoiled everything. They fixed it, howcv-
err. The advocates could speak and the
lawyers could keep them straight. Rev.
DIR. ThrNll. in his argument for tho rcspon-
dent, had Judge Otis on one side and Mr..
Sparrow Oh the other. lie was full of
points himself, but the two lawyers, having
nothing to do but to think, kept up his
stock in sort of incxhaustiblo way II
the Reverend Doctor wandered ever SO lit
tie Otis was ready with u strong idea, OK
Sparrow with vigorous stroke ut the eue-
my.
In tho same way Judge Jones and Gen.
Mitchell watched and directed The Church
Advocate, and he not only spoke with his
own force but with their knowledge also.
While lie WAS speaking Waslburne, Otis.
Thrall. and Sparrow, counsel for Mr.. Tate,
We're catching ut points. DIR. Washburnc
was to reply and he Was receiving tho ben
eft ofthe observations of the others. A
bright idea would strike Sparrow, and he
would dodge across to have Washburno
stick q pin there. Otis would see weak
point and he would slip up to suggcts that.
Washburne hit heavy there. Thrall would
discover a break in the line where he could
''crush the thing"
And this jumping up and nervous wills
pering on the part Of lawyers was so sug-
gcstivc of concentrated mischief that the
listener really expected the Advocate tosay
mos: anything and everything.
The Court evidently got more lawyer than
it would have had, had all the legal gen.
tlemen been allowed to speak.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18
''Tlere must be Some Mistake About INV
Deafhy

We have been made acquainted with the
particulars of the return to the land of the
living of ono who was supposed to have
long since passed down into the clark val
ley" Among those reported to have been
killed by the explosion Of the steamer Mag
nolla, last spring, year ago, was one John
Harvey, carpenter, who had previously
boarded at the house of very estimable
lady, on Seventeenth street. Now, this
lady had daughter, which is not very
extraordinary circumstance and this daugE.
ter had accepted John Harvey as the one
with whom she was to travel through life
with, not q very strange circumstance
either, for John was very handsome fell
low.
The reception of the news of the terrible
manner of Johns exit from the earth by
being shot up great distance into the air
and coming down piece of ifeless flesh,
was an awful blow to the atfianced brides
nerves. and for time it Was doubtful
whether she would survive the great lacer-
alton Of her heart. Time, however,
assuages the deepest grief, and the s'out of
sight of out the mind" process had SO
healed the wounds Of poor Adde'S bosom
that three months since she agreed to be-
come the better half of another fellow, and
TIC 4uLeTcsIIuB eVeUI Wdb u4ou IOf tue
fourth of next month.
Judge of the surprise of the entire house
hold, u few mornings since. on seeing the
dead John come stalking into the house
Just the same as if his absence had been
ono of hours instead of years. Mother was
astonished and Addie was confounded- the
dead had come to life and no mistake. -
John. like true philosopher, when inform
ed of the situation that had taken place
during his absence, said, "of course he
could now have no claims, as his long alb
senceln the White Pine Gold Mines had,
undoubtedly, lost him all his rights, and
he would return alone to the West, even il
his heart were to break"
This was too much for poor Addie, the
old feeling was paramount, and she quietly
told John he could stay, and the other fel-
low could go out into the cold world and
take his chances, and, like faithful lover,
he obeyed, and on the fourth of next month
the wedding will take place as before ar
ranged, only John will be the groom in
stead of the other chap.
It was Johns misfortune to be passen-
ger on the Magnolia at the time of the acct.
dent, but also his fortune to escape unin.
jured; and falling in with an old friend, the
two went to White Pine together, where he
had remained until, az above narrated. he
had returned to claim his long neglected,
long affianced bride.-Gin. Times.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18
Summary Legal Proceedings.
The Central Californian saws:

Monterey county boasts of Justice, an
easy, good .natured genius, who has an Or
iginal way of doing things. The following
story is too good to be lost: Some time
since the Judge, whom we shall call c.,
met W, a member of the legal frater-
nifty, and the following dialogue ensued:
''W-," said the Justice, II wish to ask a
little advice. Some time ago Mexican
owed me debt, and ascertaining that he
was about to leave, determined to bring
suit against him. There being no other
Justice in the district, brought action be-
fore myself We had no constable, and
served the summons. The day of trial
came on, and as knew all the facts in the
case no witnesses were called. but rem.
dered judgment in my own iavcr for the debt
and costs. In the absence of the constable
levied upon what property the Mexican
had ordered to be sold. At the day OF the
sale no one except myself attended, and
bought the property. The proceeds were
insufficient to satisfy the Judgment and I
seized the person Of the Mexican and placed
him at work making adobes for the balance.
After the lapse of a day or two, p
wished to hire the Mexican; therefore he
gave me his note for the balance still due,
and I discharged the prisoner from Gus
tody. Now some of my neighbors think
that my proceedings were Irregular. wish
to know your opinion" Satisfied with the
grave assurance that no proceedings could
DO more Irregular" our judicial representa-
tive smilingly withdrew.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18
Religions Items.

hclISlUUS 1tVuhSs
Illinois Methodists have petitioned the
Constitutional Committee to insert clanse
prohibiting grants to denominati, nal
schools.
In ono place in Bohemia, so many have
apostatized from the Romish faith as to
form large Protestant congregation.
1t is said that ten or twelve bishops will
recommend modification of the baptism
service to the next Episcopal General Con-
| vedtinn.
Il statistical observer on a late Sun
day morning in London, found but one
hundred and sixty-two worshippersin four
teen churches, whose pastors received al
toger .e7,074 salary.
The clergymen of Bucyrus, Ohio, six
in number, have published a strong protest
against dancing: at anyt time oranywhere
as An amusement"
There is story of Scotchv oman who
was engaged in bleaching linen. when d
stranger asked *her if she attended the
kirk On her answering that she did, he
inquired why she went. She replied that
tested her memory by inquiries insregard
nothing. 'How then can it do you any
good if you do not remember it?. ex-
claimed the stranger. 'When put water
on this linen" she answered, Il find that
it all dries away; but see that the linen
grows whittier and whittier. l forgot the SER
mon, but it makes me better"
The Rev. William Walton, D. D.. died
in Now York Oh Tuesday OF last week, aged
fifty-nine years, He was professor of He
brow in the General Theological Seminary
in New York city, and the eldest son Of the
late Admiral Walton, II. Is. NJ. N. DR..
Walton was, thirty years ago, resident Of
Syracuse for short time, rs assistant min
lister OF st. Pauls Church. He removed to
the city of New York, and few years al
terward became the editor of the Church
man, For several years past he has held
the professorship of Hebrew in the highest
school of theological learning in this
country.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18

"A most horrible crime has just been
discovered, and m attempt to poison a
whole family has been frustrated A box
was sent to the family containing oranges
packed in sugar Some slight punctures
in tho fruit excited suspicion, and an anal
asys revealed tho fact that tho whole was
i,mpregnated with strychnine. A table,
spoonful of the sugar contained sufficient
Of the poison to cause DEATH 1t is thought
that this monstrous attempt at crime can
be traced to its source.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18

a THOUSAND LIVES SAvED.-In.the city of
Bristol, England, the annual death-rate has
lately been reduced from twenty-eight to
twenty two and half per thousand of the
whole population;' in other words, there
are fewer deaths by thousand in year
than formerly. The change is ascribed to
the action of health officer, Mr.. Davies,
who, aided, by four inspectors, has visited
every tenement court three times week,
examined every house and closet, disinfect-
ed every nuisance, and superintended tho
clearing Of drains md the withdrawing OF
walls. Although a great part of the popu-
lation live in these crowded courts, Mr..
Davies has succeeded in extirpating typhus
and other malignant fevers, and has thor
oughly interested the laboring people them
selves in his measures.
Is there any other field for benevolent
enterprises equal to this Is there any 9TH
er form of labor open to man in which the
highest philanthropic ambition could hope
directly to save thousand lives year?
Yet If q title Of the effort and money an
nually wasted infthis city, in those charities
which create. and encourage. pauperism,
were intelligently applied to initiating Mr..
Davies, the saving would boas much great
er here as New York is larger than the city
Of Bristol .
Dublin has been comp1ifhenting TIT
ems and Dc Murska in it's peculiarly absurd
way. On Titiens's benefit, an aduldtory
address was lowered down to her by a
string from the gallery, and the audience
insisted On her reading it to them; this be-
ing trick, as alleged, Of the obscure peo-
pie who prepared it and who arc mention
ed in the document rs secretaries &c, nntl
thus get little cheap notoriety for them
selves. De Murska, ono night after the on
era, had to sing ''rhe Last 1loso Of Sum.
mer'' before tho c1citablo audience would
be quiet The season Of opera just closed
has been the most successful ever known in
Dublin. :'~ !:
A NEW WAY TO GEr AN Olp Horse OUT
OF a WELL. blind horse owned by An
drew Smith, OF Genoa Cayuga county, N.
Y, fell into an old dry, deep we'll, a few
days ago. After repeated but unsuccessful
efforts to get tho animal upon terra firma
again, it was decided to bury him alive by
filling up the well. Accordingly, two or
three men with shovels commenced throw
ing in dirt, and as it fell around tho horsc's
legs he trod it down with his feet. The
mon continued to shovel, and tho horse
continued to tread, working his way on the
top, till tho we'll was filled, when he came
forth from his living tomb, wiser, if moi
| a frightened horse. This now motive pow.
or 30 unexpectedly brought to light, de-
serves to be patented for the benefit Of IN
fortunate blind old horses.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18

The QUESTION OF RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION
IN SCHOOLS. Catholic Telegraph of
the 18th contains the following: 'From
the apostolic theory that the state had au-
thority to tax for education separated from
all religious influence, journalistic sup
porters of schools veered to the advocacy
Of religious instruction. 1t was transit
ton that brought them into direct antag-
onism with the law, to sustain a school
system that tramples upon the rights of
Catholics That blindness has driven these
defenders of common schools to the second
defeat. The first chapter in this
school controversy is now closed. It ends
with the triumph of law. The second chap
ter will open with an agitation against the
law itself. in tho name of justice and tho
right that both Professionals and Catholics
have to positive religious instruction in sep
arate schools. If the school laws be modi-
fled to secure UNCONVENTIONAL educate IN
for all, Catholics will cheerfully pay their
portion of the school fund. If this wise
amendment cannot be made, taxation for
school purposes must cease. Now that the
Bible has been excluded from the schools,
if protested Protestants have been sincere
in all that they have said in its favor, they
must agree with Catholics in the second
issue OF this question. Consistency will
make them our friends in the future"
A Coon MED1c1sE.-The Telegraph,
published ut Kenosha, Wis, says: 1T is
not often that We say much in favor OF
Patent Medicines, because it ia hard dis
tiAguishing between. the humbug and the
really valuable medicine. But we 90 out
Of our general custom to say that HOot-
lands German Bitters is no humbug. We
have tried it, and we know it to be almost
infallible in cases of indigestion, disar-
rangement of tho Liver, &c. It has cured
us Of the most obstinate case of the Jaun-
dice, after every other remedy had failed.
And in no less than half a dozen instances
where we have recommended it to our
friends for tho same disease it has proved
alike cflicacious; and We have yet to hear
of tho case wherein it has failed. Hoof-
londs German Bitters il entirely FREQ from
all Alcoholic adlnixture."
"Hoofland's German Tonic in q combine
ton of the ingredients of tho Bitters, with
pure Santa Cruz Rum, grunge, anise, NC.
making preparation OF rArc medical value.
Tho Tonic in used for the same diseases,
NJ tho Bitters, in cases VIII re somo Alco-
holic stimulus is necessary
Tho cultivation of cotton in tho East
Indies, it is asserted, has become more
popular among tho natives, who have dis
covered that it IL more profitable to grow
Gotten at twenty conts pound, than to
raise the millet grain for consumption ut
home. Tho cotton exported from 1nd@ III
1860 amounted in value to $27, 500, 900; but
tho crops for 1869. it is estimated, will
bring $iOO, 749, 1875. Tho East India cotton
is short staple and decidedly inferior to that
grown in the United States; but greater
care in cultivation has been exercised, and
moro attention paid to packing the bales
without tho admixture of dirt
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18

Professor Boehm, one of tho first ply
sicians in Berlin, is said to DO on the point
of death. In performing q dissection in
presence of tho students, ho accidentally
pricked his finger with the scalpol, and
neglected to cautcrize the puncturc. Two
days otter his hand swcllcd to IN enorm-
ous size and all the resources OF art were
unnvniling.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18

"A letter from Russia to the Now York
Post says that few weeks ago n peasant.
shabbily clothed and illiterate, came into
tho treasury ut Poltavn. and asked if they
could change somo old paper money for
the new issue. He was asked how much he
had, and he said he did not know; that he
and his wife had counted all one day, and
tho day after, and did not finish. An Off
Ger was sent to assist, and the peasant took
up board from the floor and showed bum
dies of notes packed away in various
things, which, on being counted, amounted
to nhout 5000 rouhlcs. There were some
S, COO more in gold and silver. lie WAS ask
ed where he got SO much, and he said that
his grandfather had saved up, that his
father Ind saved up, and that he himself
had saved up. Suspicious were OF course
entertained that he had come by the mon.
ey dishonesty; but the whole family had
borne a good character, and, on inquiry.
there was no reason for OBTAINING him, and
his money was changed for him into new
notes. Such cases OF boarded uD money
are said to be quito common among the
peasants.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18
The Death OF the Richest Man in Eng
land.

Richard Grosvenor, Marquis of West
minister, died in London on Sunday. Early
in the last century, ono SIR Richard Gros-
venor married Miss Molly Davies. the
daughter Of gentleman of much landed
property in the county Of Middlesex, and,
in few years, in consequence of the tide
of fashion setting westward, found that
this same small landed estate was, proba-
bly,, for its size, destined TO be almost the
most valuable in England. 1t now forms
Grosvenor Square and the adjacent streets.
Eighty years ago, about the time when
George III. was making improve
ments at Buckingham House, now a
palace, which had been purchased as Queen
Chaf'otte's dover house, the swamgy land
between Hyde Park corner and the Thames,
was offered for e15,OOO. He declined it,
and it was subsequently purchased BY the
Grosvenors. Many years after it came in
to their possession, a very enterprising
builder, Mr.. Cubitt, persuaded the great
banking house of Smith, Payne & Smith to
advance money to him for drainage and
building purposes, and thus arose '.Belgra-
via" which, when the leases fall in, will
probably yield the present MARQUIS Of
Westminster G4OO, OOOa year.
Even this princely income, it is said, will
be largely exceeded by that of the real es-
tate owned by William B. Aston, of New
York, when the long leases on which much
of his property was rent d years ago, fall
IN, Indeed, there are at least three men in
this city. Messrs. Aston, Vanderbilt and
Stewart, whose fortunes are scarcely ex-
ceeded in amount to the greatest in the Old
World.
Lord Westminster was a curious combi-
nation of generosity and meanness, and q
hundred stories are current illustrative of
both these characteristics. He leaves sew
eral chi ldren. The eldest, known as Lord
Grosvenor, now Marquis, is remarkably
popular man in this county Chesire. The
second, Lord Richard Grosvenor.
Travelled extensively year or
two ago in. this county,. and ii
was of him the Western farmer in
CURED when Lord Richard told him he
lived on an allowance from his father, but
suppose the old fellow should burst up'my
boy?" This was view of the matter
which had not occurred to the young man.
1t is computed that the new Marquis will
have an income Of not less than G5OO, 600
year. This somewhat exceeds that OF our
own Crmsus, Mr.. Stewart.
Westminster's house, Eaton hall, near
Chester, ia the the great show place OF that
part of England, and architecture being
the one expensive hobby OF the late noble-
man, untold sums were spent upon the de-
coration of this mansion. One apartment
is said to have G3O, 900 expended upon it.
Lord Westminster took no very active
part in politics. His health had long been
in q precarious state.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18

PREPARING GRAIN FOR ,PAN1F1cAr1oN.-
French patentee proposes to manufacture
bread without any intermediate grinding
process. claiming that thereby all the nu-
tliment contained in the grain is retain cd,
and that while the best processes at pres.
ent employed give one hundred and twelve
pounds Of bread to one hundred of grain,
he can increase the product fully thirty
three per cent, The wheat is first soaked
in water, whereby all impurities and de-
fective grain can be removed. The charge
is then thrown into revolving cylinders
having rasp'like projections on the inte-
rior, whereby the outside pellicle, which is
the coloring principle Of the grain, is re-
moved. Two hundred parts Of : fermented
liquor, made by mixing ten per cent. of fer
mented dough with water at sixty-eight
degrees to every one hundred parts Of the
grain, is added and allowed to work for
eight hours, when the mass is reduced to
paste by passing between rollers, is sailed
and kneaded and proceeded with as usual.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18

Tho dwelling OF Nathan Dowry, in
Harwich, Mass, was destroyed by fire on
the evening of the 81, and his only child
drcn, two little girls, aged six and four
years, persisted, Tho parents were visiting
y neighbor.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-18
Public Parks.

The following measurements of the great
pleasures grounds OF the United States and
Europe will be read with interest at this
time -