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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04
The Last Var Spear.
From The e, Paul pfen

The Sioux Indians; or rather al the
bands, have . certain number of med
lcine men among them who are suppos-
ed to be wonderfully skilled In Kidding
Indian Aesh of all the ills it il heir t..
Another set Of medicine men, CASUALLY
one to each band, accompanies war
parties in their sanguinary expeditions,
and asts ~ . sort Of prophet and guide
for the dusky warriors. He is always
accompanied by his war spear and med
icine bag, and these two are presumed
to be the sources of his inspiration.
They arc regarded ~ something sacred
being handed down from generation
to generation, and. they are surrender.
ed only when the band sur1enders it's
old customs and traditions and adopts
those of it's more civilized white neigh
bors.
The Sisseton band of Sioux at Lake
Traverse, having given up the chase
for . livelihood, and the war path for
recreation Or glory, has delivered up
its war spear to tho former agent, DR..
Daniels, and he has determined to
place it in the hands of the historical
Society, AZ the last of the kind among
the Sissetons at that agency. It is Of
great age, but it Is we'll preserved, and
will be regarded with interest by those
who have watched the progress of eff
forts to eivilize, or ameliorate the cou-
dition of the native Americans in Min
nesota.
This spear is decked with feathers
and claws, and the old men of the
band state that it was old when hand
ed down to them from their fathers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04
Gossip about Secretary Robson.

Society has recently been busy with
the story that Secretary Robson is to
marry the widow of Commodore Au-
nck, OF the navy. Robson is large,
thick blooded: heavy-walking, red
faced, gray-haired village lawyer, who
originated in upper New Jersey. Robe
son has sumptuous apartments near the
arlington Hotel, and is very particular
to have his own cooking done for him.
he buys Of the Cottage Market the
most ponderous capons. and it ia a
superstition among the butchers that if
nobody comes to dine with him he can
eat whole cnpon alone. A Chester
county capon is rs big as turkey,
and requires at least two bottles Of
claret and pint of champagne to assist
It to diglutition. Mrs. Aulick
dresses in black, and she
is a tidy and rather dash
ing widow, stout. red faced, with iron
gray hair, and with young boy who
can always be seen with his mother,
whether Robson be alongor not. Many
aiiege that jovial good humor, and de-
sire to befriend a spirited widow and
her son, are all that animate the Score
tary Of the Navy. Nobody ever saws
anything i'll about him, for he is frank,
cordial and boisterous with everybody.
When Robson got to Washington he
started in all simplicity to decorate his
table with the contents of large side
board, and showered general hospital
ity; but the prudery of Washington
society was at once manifested, and the
amiable Secretary had to put his bot
ties back into the cupboard, and con-
tent himself with giving drink only to
such persons as he knew might be ben
Gifted.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04
II. Edenard Raasier.

T. A telegram from Havana announces
that the distinguished baritone,
Edouard CASTER, died there yesterday
of vomito. He vas of French origin,
and was born in 1898, and graduated
from the Conservatory in Paris with
the first honorsin opera in 1874. He
made his debut the following year and
played suocessively engagements in
Palermo, Milan, Vienna and Venice.
He passed the years from 1849. to
1852 in Spain, and. appeared in Mad
rid, Seville and Barcelona. In 1919
he married Mile. Cubas, q
Spanish soprano educated lin italy,
who shared in his successor, singing IN
the "Barber of Seville" in thirty.
SIX successive representationsin Milan.
In 1854 NJ. Gassier was engaged st. the
Haliens, Paris, and sung without inter
rupton through the season. In 1855 he
appeared at DTury Lane. during the
tour of Mile. Piccolomini in the United
States N. and Mime. Gassier formed inn.
portant elements In the company sustain
ing that lady II. 0assisesss Don Clio
va,ans viii be remembered With pleasure
BY the ha6itves'p The Academy 81 Music
in it, early Ays. The last engage
mentsh filed 10y n. and Nine. Gsssies
in the United States were il We mis-
take not, at the Winter Garden, upward
of ten years. ago, when. Nine. Fabbri
and '6ignor Skgeli (now, dead) wsrs
theprincipa1 artists. 'sz~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04
A Singular Phenomenon.

It is possible that some portion of
the wealth of Chicago that melted into
thin air on the 9th of October was seen
again before it reached ultimate dis.
persion. A paper recently read before
the royal geological society of Dublin
stated that Capt. Edwards of the Nep-
time, in a passage from Quebec to
Liverpool, found his vessel enveloped
in the smoke and ashes, as he believes,
Of the burnt city. His report of the
facts certainly indicates plausible &C.
casion for his belief. On the 10Th of
October, at sea, in lat. 400 N, long.
$50 W., Mt about four P. NJ, wind blow
ing strong from W., he observed a dense
cloud Of fog arise on the western hori.
zon, which gradually came up with and
surrounded the vessel, and so contin-
ued until midnight. From first COM
ing up with the ship until clearing of.
there prevailed very strong smell of
burning wood, both the captain and
crew felt their eyes much irritated bv
the smoke, and the decks were strewn
with fine dust. At the time, the ship
was more than 1000 miles from CHI.
cago. The former owners of frame
houses in that city can therefore have
the consolation which Pat offered to
the ship carpenter when he dropped
his hammer overheard "Sure it's
not lost, whin We know where it is.''
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04
THE LOST HEIRESS
fruth Stranger than Fiction-Her
Face HccoEntxed I'm our RoEue's Gal-
sSry-Chtef Maloy and Captain Hale's
ReeS1lcctiohs
From; liz k4;t.r,r e,,s,A.,A

Face Hceokntxed In our Rogue's Gal-
ssry1Ch1ef Maloy and Captain Hale's
Nees1lectioh.
From tic kfpsny fntcterbocker.
Among the distinguished personages
who visited police headquarters on
Monday was Mr.. Sofdatkoff, q Russian,
who is one of Prince Alexis party
While viewing the objects of interest
about the rogue's gallery; the distine
u!shed foreigner was struck by the idcs
OF one of the females in the frame. If
MS recollection served him right, he
knew the woman and of course insti-
eated some Inquiries. Upon consult
ing the book containing the names of
the persons represented: ii, was found
that the face identified by the STRANGER
was sat down Is Madame Gratowski,
which was an alias. She was arrested
on the charge of shop lifting at the
stores OF several merchants, and after
tr'al was sent to Sing Sing prison for
three vests and six ua0nths, The stran.
ger said the woman was f,ative of his
country, that her name was Radetsky:
and was the daughter oil one 81 the f1rst
families of the Empire; and what mole.
oi.,-,S3 t. '~A9. having ny tne way
eloPed, her father died, leaving her n
immense fortune.
Chief Maloy and Capt. Hale both re-
coAected the woman well, and her gen
eial description given by the stranger
eorresponded with their impression ex-
actly. These officials also assert that
ene woman served out her time at Sing
sing, but has been arrested within a
year at New York, and is now at Sing
Sing serving out another term. The
stranger made a memorandum of ali
the chief and Capt. Hale said, and in
formed those officers that he would
make the fact known to the Prince who
was acquainted with the circumstances
connected with the case; and between
tnem an effort would be made to secure
the pardon of Madame Radetsky:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04
An Epitall,ll.

The subjoined epitaph over an nm
Gent woman's-righter, is from a to~i,
stone IN Brighton churchyard. wh,ch
many American tourists have vis;taJ
In memory Of Phoebe Hersel. wIo
vs. vas born at Stepney in the year 17i3
ohe served for many years as nr;vate
soidler IN the 9th regiment of foot. in
different parts of Europe, and in Tho
year l745 fought under the commanJ
OF the Duke of Cumberland, at the hat.
tie OF Fontenoy, when she received q
bayonet woundin her arm. Her lono
life which commenced in the time o}
queen Anne, extended to the reign If
George w., by whose munificcnce aI,e
received comfort, and support in her
latter years. She died at Brighton
where sdns she had long resided, Dec. Id
1871, aged 1903 years"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04
Horace Greedy on the Presidency.

ST.. LOUIS, December 26.-The latest
issue OF the Caucasian, published at
Lexington, No., contains the following
letter addressed to it's editor:
Nsw YORK, December, 1871-To p
De's1n, Lexington, No.: FL have
yours of the 14th inst. have no donbt
that the policy which you suggest is
the one that your party ought to adopt.
They should have had Mr.. Salmon p.
Chase in 1868. Then, us the result OF
that contest, the return of genuine
peace and thrift would have been pro-
NOTED. That policy gave you more last
year IN Missouri than could have heen
achieved by party triumph. You NAV
err as to the proper candidate. lam
not the man You need. Your party il
mostly for free trade, and 1 am a fero-
clolls protectionist. have no donht
that might be nominated and electei
by your help, hut it would place us MI
in false position. If who nm nd
versely interested can see this. nm
sur. your good sense will, ON reflection
realize that you must take some man
like Gratz Brown or Trumbull or Gen
Cox, late Secretary of the Interior. md
thus help to pacify and rounite our
country anew.
Yours, Horace GRrn1rv
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04
The Guests Of Night.

-, AA1AAkO IA1lOWs
ride in . gloomy land,
travel ghostly Shore
Shadows on either hand,
Darkness behind and before:
Vella 81 tho summer night,
a.. D9ek1n0 the woods, Iknow:
4 whisper halnts the height.
d And the Amulet csoons below.
, 4 VAN from the roadside bank.
Ieus where the Wild rose Rodaf
Tho hollows aEe heavy and SiSHk
With the eteam Of the golden rofls.
Incense Of Night aud Death,
Odors OF Life and Day,
Meet and mix In . breath,
Drug me, aud lapse away
h Il the hand Of the Past.
Stretched forth from it, ouen tomb.
Or spell from thy glamoury cast,
y mellow and mystic Gloom
All, wherein have part,
AL that was Ices OF gain
S1p0 from the claspinN heart.
BREAKS from the glasping brain.
&c, what Is left7 an, baro
as newborn soul, I am nau9At;
My deeds are Us dust in air,
MY words are a. ghosts Of thought.
Detached from the life that seemed.
And the bcst have felt or known
Is lees than tho least dreamed.
But the Night, Ike 'Asrippsb alass,
Nov, y question + o3eara;
Osee NJ vacancy p.ns
- The shapes Of the crowded years; r.:
Meeneet and most august, -.
hated or loved, I sec a.
The dead that have long been dust. Z
The living, % dead 70 mel
F9aee In the worlds applause?
Nay, there u nothing therel
Strength from unyield1ng hws7
A gleaM, and the glass IL bsre.
The lines Of . life in song7a
Faint runes on the rocks Of time7 r.,
see but forlneees thronR
Of skedoWs that fall or climb
What else7 I then despoiled
OF the garments wovo and worc9
Have 90 refraincd and toiled.
To find there is naught I'm otore7
have l0ved-I love! Behold.
How the steady pictures FADe1 =
And the shadows are pierced With xold
From the stars Of immortal eyes.
Nearest Q. most remote,
But dearest, hath none delayed:
And the spirits Of kisses ,AOat
Ger the lips TINT never fade.
The Night each guest denies =,
On The hand of naughty bsaan.
But the loves that weressrise.
AMI the loves that are, remain:
8 Atlantic Aontkts16r ,lan,a,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04

pleasant and delightful things to do I
Just to think of i! It but He in i
great fury at myself to think of it. I
tried pretty hard to get away from my
self, and began inventing excuses and
ell that sort Of thing, but / rigidly
forced myself to look sqgarely at my
own conduct. And then reconciled
my conscience by declaring that, if
ever after that day 7 hated holiday
again, might my holidays end at once
and forever!
'.Did I 60 and see my protegees
againa What q question:! WHY
well, no matter. IF the widow is com.
Portable now, It is because she has found
9 way to earn without difficulty enough
for her few wants. That's no fault Of
mine: I would have done more for
her, but she wouldn't let me. Bat lust
,st me tell you about New Years that
New Years day that followed the
christmas I've been describing. It
was lucky for me there was another
holiday only q week of. Bless you!
1 had so much to do that I was COM
pletely bewildered, and the hours
weren't half long enough. did make
g lew social calls, but then + hurrieil
them oterJ and then hastenetl to mV
'httleI gar, whose face had already
caught touch of color; and she. look.
ing quite handsome in her new frock
and her ribbons, took me to other moor
folk, and-well, that's about the whole
story:
"Oh, as to the next Christmas.
Well didn't dine alone, as YOU NAV
guess. Il was up three stairs, that's
sesfoe, and there was none of that ele-
gance that marked the dinner of the
year before; but it was merry and
happy, and bright: it was a generous.
honest, hearty Christmas dinner, that
It was, although I do wish the widow
hadn't talked Sd much about the mvs-
tsrious wayfa turkey had been left at
the door the night before. And Molly
the little gi1l-and + had a
rousing appetite. We went to church
early; then we had been down to the
Five Points to carry the poor outcasts
there something for their Ohristrnaa
dinner; in tact, we had done wonders
OF work, and Molly was in high spirits,
and so the Christmas dinner was a
great success
"Dear me, sir, no! Just as You say.
Holidays are not in the least weari-
some any more. Plague on it! When
q man tells me how he hates holidays.
l find myself getting very wroth. /
pin him by the button-hole at once. and
tell himsmy experience The fact is.
II were at dinner, and anybody should
ask me for sentiment, ! should saw:
God bless all holidays!'"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04
England and An.rtsa n
II ALFRED THsN1Do1G.

(19r. Tennyson writes 70 the oditoe sf0D41 Is
The poem which send herewith = NDDee01o
1tttteu or spoken by liberal EngfiGhm11 g 91D
4 our recognition Of Ame1i, IN 1ndspsn1sltas1 s.
Thou, that sende0t ont the man 4:
To rule by land and So,
Strong mother Of IlQn-tne,
Be proud of those strong sons Of thine
Who wrenchd their rights from thss
What wonder, II In noble heat
Those men thine a4M0 Uiehst0od,
Retaught the Lesson thou h1dst tsulh,
And In thy spirit with thee fought
Who Sprang from EngliGh b200dl =
But Thou rejoice With liberal Joy,
LIT up thy rocky face,
And shatter, when the storms a1o black
In many streaming torrent baea, t7,i-
The seas that shock thy base!
Whatever harmonies Of law
The growing world assume, -, 10
Thy work ia thine-Thy single motto
From that deep chord w1teS HampdsD anoaf
VIII vibFate to the doom. =
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04
THE GALE AT DETROIT.
Nepublsc brewery blown Down anl
Ono Man ordinary Ac
c1dent MT the Bidille HOusc..A Liver
Stable Partially Dem oltshell.
From the Free Press.

From the Free Press.
During the prevalence of the fierce
gale Saturday evening one of the huge
chimneys OF the Biddle House was
blown down, and falling upon the roof
went crashing through with a noise
that was heard all over the block.
Tearing its way through the room of
one OF the serving girls named Mary
Fitzgerald. 1t reached the linen room
below, thence into the ordinary, and
SO on down to the engine room, wllef6
the progress of the mass was stopped
by the solid earth. The young woman
Fitzgerald was carried along with the
bricks, broken timbers, and other de-
bris, including stove, falling nearly
fifty feet. The bulk Of the ruins reach.
ed the baPement before her, there
fore her fall was somewhat broken,
nevertheless she was wedged in 80 tight
~ that it was some time before she
could be rescued. DR.. Book was sum-
moned, and upon examination of her
injuries found that no bones had been
fractured. She had ssvefe ecale
wound and cut of considerable mag.
nltude on one temple. Her face. BODY
and limbs were bruised, cut and torn in a
shocking manner, but it is believed that
her wounds will not prove fatal. The
engineer, Charles Gates, was setting
within foot Of where the mass struck
at the moment the crash came, and wis
the first to hear the girl scream, but for
the moment he was so blinded with
dust and bewildered with the extraordi.
nary visitation US not to be able to read.
lily comprehend what had occurred.
The building, in the track Of the
falling ruins, looked rs though It had
been torn by an explosion, and those
who have viewed the scene agree that
the escape of Miss Fitzgerald was
miraculous.
About half-past four o'clock terrific
gust OF wind caught the roof of thu
Republic Brewery; on Elm*6od ave-
nue.. and wrenched it off as though II
had been paper. The brick walls of
the upper story tumbled in at the same
moment, instantly killing man named
Ernst Miller and seriously iniurine one
Jacobs, a brewer. Miller's BODY was:
subsequently taken out of the ruins
and carried to his late residence at 149
Elmwood avenue. Coroner Gnau i'm
Panneled jury, and an inquest will be
held next Tuesday.
The livery stable owned by Daniel
Conner, on Jefferson avenue, between
Cass and First streets, also suffered se.
verely. The brick front was blown
down, filling the sidewalk with debris
and creating a neighborhood panic, but
happily no person was Injured by the
occurrence.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04
Cr0un.

This Is the season for croup-a dis.
ease that requires immediate relief. md
one that often proves fatal where miles
have to be travelled for q physician. "a
IN the country. The following very
simple recipe is recommended BY the
Philadelphia Star, and in localities
where physicians are not near at hand
1t would be we'll to bear it in mind
Take tue white Of an egg, stir it thor.
oughly into a small quantity of sweet.
ened water, and give it in repeated
doses' until cure is effected. If one
egg Is not sufficient, second, or even
g. third one should be used.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04
A Javanese Earfhnnake.

Information has just been received
OF q volcanic outbreak at Ternate.
java. On the It'll of August a violent
earthquake was felt. and the Ternate
mountain, after renting rumblinR
sounds, varied by loud reports, in the
afternoon cast out streams OF lava. At
daybreak on the eth the outburst be-
came worse and the population began
to fly to the islands of Tidore and Hal
maheira. All the Tidorse of Ternate
fled back to their island, accompanied
by thousands Of other runaways. The
Chinese were the first to seek their
safety in fight. The casting out of
fire and stones held out for about II
days, after which it became less. The
damage caused to houses and planta-
lions has been enormous, but has not
as yet been accurately asceitained.. ::
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04
IRIS, HORACE GREF1rv.
Discovery on the New Gold Fields

49, O'' S"o No" UOlu fleldS.
The discovery of gold in consider.
able quantities has been made in the
lransval Republic. The reports hive
attracted many adventures to Tint
quarter. Diamond seekers were aban.
donlng the diamond districts for the
newly discovered gold country. Cane
town continued thronged with arriving
and returning fortune hunters. Bust
strides. e"'
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04

"There is no doubt that the men 81
the older generation look bigger ana
more formidable to the bows whose
eyes are turned up at their Venerable
countenances than the race which s,1c,
ceeds them, to the same bows grown
older. Everything is twice as large.
measured on three-year-old's three.
foot scale but age magnifies and ao-
gravates persons out of due proportion.
Old people are kind of monsters to
little folks; mild manifestations of the
terrible, it may be, but still, with their
white locks and rigid and grooved fen
lures, with those horrid little ewes ex.
haust of their details, like 50 manv
microscopes, not exactly what human
beings ought tobe."
= s. !.
We Americans are all cuoko.,a va
make our homes in the nests of other
birds: 1 have read somewhere that the
ineal descendants of the man who cat s,1e
ed on the body of William Rufas. with
waiter PyrePs arrow sticking in It.
nave driven dart mot absolutely the
same one, suppose,) in the New For.
est from that day to this. Idon't quite
understand Mr.. Ruskin's saving iii he
SAID lt) that he couldn't get along in q
country where there were NO castles.
but 1 do think We lose q great deal in
living where there are 90 few permanent
homes: You will see how much I part
ed with which was not reckoned in the
price pad tot the old homestead, -.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04

SKELETONS IL feet long are found be-:
meath the ruins. of:Psam5rs. ~; And:
there were giaate ln mo- ;
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04

SoHQoLgoYs hear with pleasure of the
deeilq h1}iqg business.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04

WuY ia filtration like plate powder :
beoaase it hrishtegs up spoons,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04

.AAoAAoyS onN euoA ASKED question or
two, and then I don't quite know how
1t came about-isn't it very warm
here !" exclaimed Bachelor Bluf. rising
and walking about, and wiping the per.
SEPARATION from his brow.
"Well, you see," he resumed, ner-
vousiy, "it was very absurd, but I did
not believe the girls story-the old
story, you know, of privation and snf.
1erlng, and all that-and Just thoueht
Ia go home with the brat and see -
what she said was all true. And then
remembered that all the shons wera
closed, and not q purchase could I've
made; and L went back to the regta,,
rant, and persuaded the proprietor to
put up for me hamper of provisions
which. the half-wild little youno,te,
helped me to carry through the snow.
dancing with delight all the way. And
! isn't this enough?"
! mot bit, Mr.. Bluff. We must
have the whole story"
~ declare" said Bachelor Bluff.
there's no whole story to tell. A
widow with children in great need.
that was what found and thew had
| feast that night, and little Change
to buy them q loaf and a garment or
two the next day; and they were all 40
bright, and 80 merry, and SO thankful.
and so good, that, when / got home
that nigh, Il was nightly amazed that.
instead of going to bed sour on holi.
days, 1 was in etate of great content
ment in regard to holidays. /: In fact /
was really merry. I whistled. sang.
DO believe l cut a caper. The poor
wretches I had left had been 80 merry
over their unlocked for Christmas ban.
quet that their spirits infected mine.
And then 1 got thinking again. OF
course, holidays had been miserable to
me, 1 said. What right had a well-to.
do: lonely, old bachelor lowering visit.
fully in the vicinity of many happv
circles, when all about there was 40
many people as lonely as he, and vet
oppressed with want. Good Qracions y
exclaimed, ito think of man com
planning of loneliness with thousands
OF >wretches yearning for his help. and
;comtott, .eath endless opportunities for
p! g a I a htsatede :of