Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-06-27
General Items.

! AnE "ccA1y 6ulpneuC Oh ore 1fO4n
Colorado is estimated ut $4,000 Dur
ing the month of May, the Snow-tlrift
yield was As, $40 pounds. The Pelican
shipped $40, 600 to Wales, and has 800
tons of second-class ore at Stewards
mill and at the dump of the mine.
THOMAS SBK, sensitive New York
youth, Is years of age, recently blew
out his brains with musket. He was
a cripple, and the taunts of his com.
panio1s SO preyed upon his mind as to
render life uncomfortable to him. He
was persistent reader, and intelligent
and gifted to remarkable degree for
one Of his years.
A POWERFULLY built, repulsive look
ing man inhabits the woods near Frank
lin, Conn.,, dressed in nothing 'but m
old quilt wrapped about him. He is a
positive terror to the women and child.
rem, and the men are afraid to leave
their families alone for fear of visit
from him.
SYDNEY SMITH HA1D1MAN Dickens
fifth son of the late eminent novelist.
and Lieutenant in the English army.
which he entered as sub-lieutenant in
1867, died on board the Peninsular and
Oriental steamship Malta, on the I'd of
May, while on his way home from Bonn
bay.
| FULLY resolved to have cold-water
Governor, the prohibitionists of Mich
lgan have nominated Henry Fish for
/ that Office.
The impression is gaining ground
! that Alaska is not to prove SO bad q
bargain as was supposed. In addition
| to its fnrs and fisheries, it seems prob.
able that its mineral resources NAV be
valuable. Gold and silver quartz has
been discovered, and amber has
also been found. Experienced geolo-
glsts express their belief that the coun-
try is rich in aurlferous deposits.
Tim Mobile Register publishes the
following personal: A young lady who
has been greatly annoyed by a lot of.
young simpletons who stop under Ter
window at night to sing eff ever I
cease to love-" wishes to say, if thev
will cease their foolishness, come in
and talk "business, " they will confer
q favor. -:
Iris thought that the wheat crop of
Northern and Central Texas will reach
one million bushels. three times the
amount ever before raised in one sea-
son.
EARTHQUAKES occurred in Iceland 81
fundamentally with the recent eruption
of Mt. Vesuvius.
TWELVE Dubuque damsels have been
arrested for stealing candy from an old
apple woman.
A Los ANGELES horse pulled the
plug out of the bunghole of water
barrel.and slaked his thirst.
CArERPuLARs have suddenly acquired
an appetite for Georgia rice, and the
planters are in dismay.
The Sultan of Turkey has raised his
architect to q position rarely reached
| by Christian functionaries.
THOMAS A. SCOTT gives $50, 600 to tho
college at Chambersburg, Pa.
JUDGE ASHER B. BATES, having be-
come totally blind, has been relieved
of duty as Register in Bankruptcy at
San Francisco. He is q native of
Michigan, and was for many years A.
torney General of the Sandwich Is
lands.
The Commissioner of Patents has ex
tended the patent of Abial G. Heron.
of New York, for sewing machines
also the patent of William johnson. Of
New jersey, for adjustable rangers for
shaftlng, and Of Eli w. Blake, of New
Haven, for stone-crushing machines
The Commissioner refused the applica-
ton for extension of the patents of
John MarstOn, of New York, for door
locks, and of John o. Baker, of Phila-
delphia, for machines for cutting gla.
ziers' panes.
FLORIDA is sometimes called the Italv
OF America, but We are not sure that
the phrase is o compliment to Victor
Emanuel's country. A Jacksonville
paper says: " Duvall county, with a
population of less than ten thousand
persons, has, during the last forty two
months. had fifty-two homicides and
suicidal deaths and forty-two acci.
dental deaths. Only one murderer
hung"
The jamestown Journal saws That
NARROW, the murderer, now awaiting
the conclusion of the brewery tragedy
wants to make bets, even, that he viii
not be hung. He says it's too near
election times to hang people, and be.
sides that lie is Greeley man, and if
"Horace would bail jeff. Davis.
wouldn't he bail me- 2" He hasn't lost
any OF his former braggadocio, and an
nounces that the man is not vet born
that will see him hnnp"