Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-08-01
GleaniugS.

-~~, Gleanings.
Tim Canadians execute the vengeance
of the law impartially on murderers,
regardless Of sex.
SAN FRANCISCO has sent forty cargoes
OF wheat to England since July, valued
at ~, 951, 900.
ON the lat of July 800 new money or.
der postofices will be established, max
ing 5000 in the country.
The towns of Inyo county, Intlepend-
ence and Lone Pine, CAL, are to be re-
built in much better style than before
the earthquake. The new houses are
of wood.
The Houghton Gazette says that
town site has been laid off at the north
west end of Lake Michigammi, in sec
ton 80, town AZ, range 80! The local.
ity is attractive, and with the growing
Importance of the railroad and iron in
terest in that section, place of consid-
cradle size must spring up within a
year or two.
THE celebrated gas we'll at Newton.
Pa, in the oil region, is not popular
institution there. The gas continues to
rush forth with noise like that of
tornado, and the people in the vicinity
are greatly alarmed, believing the we'll
to have q direct connection with the in
fernal regions. A school, three-quarters
of q mile away, has been suspended,
and the cattle run about the fields,
wild with fright.
A BosToN photographer has sent to
the Sandwich Islands AZ, 600 illuminat.
cd marriage certificates,
SIR MICHAEL COSTA has received from
the hand of the Prince of Wales q mas.
sive gold ring, bearing an engraved
seal of the Royal Albert Hall, with the
inscription inside, "Presented by her
Majesty's commissioners to Sir Michael
Costa, in return for the valuable ser
vices he voluntarily gave upon the oc
casion of the opening of the hall, and
OF the opening of the International Ex-
hibition in 1871"
Mrs. CATHERINE MARSH, of Balti-
more, who murdered her four children,
and was adjudged insane, is now con-
fined in an insane asylum, and though
only %, her hair has turned completely
white.
Two balloons in which ascensions
were to have been made at Boston, on
the Fourth, were wrecked by the storm
which prevailed there.
TIE body of boy of sixteen, with
skate on one of the feet, was found
in the river two miles below Newburgh,
Tuesday night.
IMPORTANT gold discoveries have been
made in the vicinity of Parley's Park,
Utah. The shipments Of ore from Salt
Lake City last month were 100, 900; of
bullion, CSC, 900.
MIRRORS laid over with gold are re-
ported to reflect sixteen times as pow
erful as ordinary quicksilver ones.
The number of beer stamps issued
from the Internal Revenue Bun eau dur
ing the fiscal year just closed was 27,-
500, 600 an increase Of 5000, OO0 over
the issue of the year previous.
A LUMP of p2re gold, weighing half
pound, was recently found by q ne.
gro woman on the plantation of Mr..
Hugh G. Nisbet, in Union county, N.
y. the woman was hoeing cotton and
knocked the lump over with her hoe.
COUNTING in Lorraine and Alsace as
taxpayers, Germany will receive 81, 49,
600, 900 from France. Her own ex-
penses were in the aggregate only $780,
500, 600, leaving a balance on the trans
action of 81, 162, SOC, 900, or about 500
per cent. interest on the capital invest.
ed. This is the most gigantic CONNER
cial operation in the history of war.
AUSTRIA is fast developing into q re-
public.
Dr.. SToUsBERa, formerly "the Prus-
sian railroad king" and at one time
worth many millions, has fed from his
creditors 10 hiding place in England.
FoR every six months that Alabama
convicts work we'll and faithfully upon
Alabama railroads their term of i'm
prisonment is reduced one month.
MAYENcE, where the Emperor Con-
stantine is said to have seen his vision
of the Cross, Is the strongest fortress
in the German Confederation.
PROF. AoAss1z was recently rendered
a public reception by the intendente of
Santiago, Chill, winch, owing to the
state Of his health he was Obliged to
decline. The professor found two of
his college mates of forty years ago in
the university at that city, one of whom,
DR.. Doneyki, gave to Prot. Agassiz du-
pljcates Of his entire collection of fos-
sis, by far the most complete and val
liable collection in South America,
which he has been thirty-five years in
collecting, 30 that Prof. Agassiz's mu-
scum will have the most complete COL
lection of South American fossils ever
! made.
The assessment of the city of San
Francisco has just been completed, and
the total valuations of real and per-
sonal property foot up 1921, ss5, 242.
DURING one of the warmest days of
the Boston jubilee, 1O8 women tainted
in the coliseum.
! CATALINA island, in the bay of San
Pedro, has been sold for 81, $50, 600!
| MISS EDITH RICHARDSON fell into q
mining shaft one hundred and sevent,
teet deep, near Brownsville, California,
and was killed by the fall.
-Four sisters in Iowa are said to have
inherited French estate which gives
Thorn !, SOC, 900 francs apiece.
DAVID SIXTH, the son of Joseph
Smith, the Norman prophet, is lectur.
in New York against polygamy.
GENERAL RosEoRANs is devoting hia
time, energy and unsurpassed ability
TO railroad building in Mexico.
A PROMINENT stone contractor Of
Medina, N. T., succeeded in contract
ing, debts to the amount of ga, 600, aud
then eloped on the 21st inst, with the
daughter of q leading physician of
New York City, who was visiting at
Medina. The man left a wife aud
three children, and stole 81, 600 of his
wife's money, which she had received
from her father on Friday: and her