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

HENRI DRAYToN, we'll known opera singer,
died in New York ON Tuesday.
TRE 6rst bales Of new cotton from Florida
and Georgia have been received at Savannah
j., A TouR-YEAR-olD girl WAS found starved to
death in Now York tenement house on Sat-
urlay.
Two liquor dealers were sent to prison Tor
twenty days for keeping open shop on Sunday
tn.Bsooklyn.
Henry II. BEura, . prominent and sue
cessfnl husineas man of Rochester, died at
Avon on Saturday.
A HEAVY rain fall at Memphis, on Wedncs-
day: endetl the heated term, which has been
tho longest and most severe over known.
Twelve cars of oil are reported burned on
the Eric railway, west Of Elmira, N. Y. Loss
$4,000. 1t was consigned to parties in New
York.
AT Gcneva, N. Y, on Saturday, the ateam
s.w aud planning mill Of Congcr l. Mckay was
destroyed BY fire. Loss $ls. 100; insured for
The Walter Scott monument is not expcctefl
to arrive in time to be erected Aug. 18th, aud
the ceremonies will be postponed till Novem-
bcr 3Oth. Z; -, -: = .,se
AT Princeton, ILL.,. Peter Ostrom, = Swedish
carpenter, oloped with Belle Coddington, \
rich farmers daughter. Society there is sen
sationalizei.
PASSENGER train from Syracuse, going at
full speed, came in collision with coal train
at Auburn, ON Saturday, seriously injuring
hasgageman and brakeman.
MARTIN SEARCH, colored, jumped from car
Oh tho Nashville and Northwestern Railroad,
and was killed. He was on his way to Nash
willie and very i'll, partially dcranSed.
The daughter Of Count Beaulie, of Belgium,
has instituted suit against tho murderer Of
her father, Carl vogt, poY in prison In Now
York, tortrovcr attS a1o6ia1d hs1ms -.
H. K. WHrrrLIsE1, money receiving clerk
, u tho Adams Express Company, Iaaa1zested!
in Cincinnati, on "Wednesday, and 5000 in
money recovered from him. He 10 in dnress,
charged with embezzlement., x "a 4 8
WAL1En + JoNEs, 1t Somervile, Naile, and
Louville, Of Doverville, N. H.. were drowned
in the latter town ON Friday, by slipping from
tho rocks into the river while fishing. Both
have families. ..
The Pope will shortly issue an cncyclical
letter declaring the society Of Armenian Cath
olics separated from tho church OF ROME, and
placing them under tho ban of major excom
munication.
AxAS named John Hart, employed a. fore
road extension, four or five miles south Of
Escanaba, committed suicide on Friday, by
shooting himself near the region OF the heart.
The ball and army worm arc running the cot
ton crop in Alaoama. One plantation, which
three years ago made one hundred bales of
cotton, viii now make but 6fty. There is
great depression among the planters, who
consider themselves ruined.
GIRL named Dennis, fourteen years old, is
under arrest at Pittsburg, charged with rob-
bing various private residences. Two trunks
full of goods, two fine gold watches and other
property were seized. The property Is valued
at several thousand dollars.
SLOTTED 1Al1 and party paid farewell visit
to the Interior Department on "Wednesday.
Commissioner Walker made few remarks,
assuring them their Great Father was pleased
with the arrangements to which they had con-
scntcd, and they could rely upon the PERFORM
ance ofall that had been promised. -.
WITHIN tho past week eleven bodies of per-
sons, supposed to have been murdered, have
been found in various parts Of New York bay.
-Four or five cases Of mysterious disappear
ances have been reported, under circumstan-
ccs ju.tifying suspicion Of murder and abduc-
ton.
HERBERT G. BuRD1cK, clerk in the New
London. Conn.,, postofice, has been arrested,
charged with stealing and tampering with let
tors. Several letters containing money and
valuaGles were recovered. Michael Davis, not
apostof6ce employo, was arrested as an &C.
complice.
The steamer Mollo Mohler, commanded by
Captain Jewell, was run into by . raft near
the railroad bridge at Winona on Wednesday
morning. and sunk in fifteen feet of water.
She was owned by the Northwestern Union
Packet Company: Loss five thousand dollars;
no insurance, aud no lives lost.
The japanese government has decided
upon the PRONUNCIATION OF now form Of re-
lision, upon careful consultation with the
most noted exponents; each sect aud oil will
b" compelled to conform thereto. Tho new ro-
lision will be enlightened simple, ana adapted
to the common people, aud likely TO meet
with approval.
The Buffalo Presbytery on Saturday dis
posed Of the R. v. ". 8. 81. Thompson, who
was charged with adultery at Jamestown,
from tue Ministry, and indefinitely suspended
him from communion. Rev. thompson was
suspended some years ago for similar Of
fence, In Cincinnati, and on the recommends
tionO his Buffalo brethren, that he had re-
pcntcd Of bis sins, was reinstated.
THI japanese Embassy are sstisded With
the results Of their late mission to Washing
ton. They were not empowered to conclude
treaty with the United States, but to prepare
the tny for one of commefce, lftien5shiI and
navigation. Each Government now UNDER
stands the position OF the other, and is in
possession OF copy Of the draft Of tho treaty,
which is said to confer many advantages on
sns 2atsa I'll SsatYa Il. s Be
Cd Europe and returned to their own country.
A BROWNSVILLE dispatch states that the
evidence taken before the Frontier Corninis-
rioners inpicstes General Cortinas in assist
ing the cattle thieves in crossing . herd Of
stolen beeves over the Rio Grande, feeding hi.
troops OH meat, selling the hides for his own
benefit, aud establishes that eighty miles OF the
most fertile river front in Texas, opposite the
camp OF the Kickapoos Indians, is unsettled
on account OF the insecurity Of life and prop
crty from these raids, headed by Mexicans.
HORRIBLE outrage was perpetrated in the
lower part Of Cecil county, Nd, OIL Monday
night, Ly band Of masked assassins. II
seems that constable had arrested two ne
grocs on charge OF burning . house in Kent
county, and was bringing them and negro
witness to Elkton to be committed to Jail till
demanded by the Kent comfy authorities. A
partyd disguised, men waylaid the party and
took possession Of the prisoners. The officers
came on to Elkton and reported the affair.
Next morning search was made, and one Of
the negroes was found hanging on = tree.
The others had not been found at the latest
adyices. ~ 80 ~ !
Abroad.
The Vienna Industrial Exposition for all
nations, will commence May lat. 1873, and close
October 3lst Of that year. Our government
has as yet, made no appropriation to defra,
the expense Of commissioners.
The Gear will leave st. Petersburg towart