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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07
A Case OF Female Generosity.

The Detroit Free Press records the
deeds of q generous lady,
" Yesterday morning lady from the
East, who crossed from the Great
Western depot to the Detroit 4 Mil
waukee Road to 60 West, dropped
her pocket-book in the depot At Wind
sor, and made ortcry enough to scare
every one within q. block. A ragged
little boy, with his hair sticking up
through an old hat, and his toes peep
ing out of his boots, came forward with
the pocket-book, which he had found.
It contained, as the lady informed the
railroad officials, $1,000 in bonds,
$1,000 in notes, and 600 in green
bracks, making It's cash value to her as
good as $500 She was, of course,
we'll pleased with the boys action, and
asked his name, age, the circumstances
of the family, and finally opened the
pocket.book to reward him. She
hunted all through it, found two tell
cent shinplasters, and. handing them
to the lad, told him to always remem-
ber that good action was sure to bring
q good reward. The boy jerked of his
old hat, thanked her, and ran off to buy
ten cords of wood and a borrel of -four
and other stuff to last his widowed
mother until spring. He's going to
look for pocket-books all the rest OF
the winter, and when he finds another
he's going to hand it right over-prob.
bly,.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07
DefIing . Judge.

A painter. Peter Murdock, was ar-
raigned before the good Squire Miller,
Yesterday, says the Memphis Avalanche
of the l1th ultimo, upon the charge of
wife-beating. The eame man was be-
fore the Squire few weeks since, when
the Magistrate, upon his promise of
future good behavior, dismissed the
charge. Yesterday, when this was
mentioned to him, he suggested that
the Squire should go to warmer eli
mate, from whence no man has ever
returned. Upon the Squire remon-
strating with him, he again repeated it,
this time using several profane adiec-
tives by WY of emphasis.
II will fine you ten dollars for con-
tempt of court, sir" said the good
Justice.
"Fine ard be d." retorted this pro-
fame Peter.
civil fine you ten dollars again,
sir, remarked the dignifed Squire.
"Will you3 don't care how much
you fine, " yelled Peter.
Another ten dollars for that, " says
the moral magistrate.
eco it, old gray-headed tub. You
will never get cent. howied the irate
paint singer. as he shook his fist within
a few inches Of the nasal organ of the
magistrate.
In this way it went on until Peter
had been fined forty-three times, when
the daring constable collared him and
marched him off to jail, with . $3.50
fine over him. Considerable money
will be required by Peter to iberate
himself from the unpleasant position
which he now occupies. Mrs. Murdock
will not in all probability, be annoyed
with her lord and master for many
moons.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07
A Good Hit.

An honest shoemaker, of Kent coun-
ty, England, has lately put forth an ad
vertisement which shows that the re-
covery of the Prince of Wales has
made q deep impression upon him.
The advertisement appears ccording
to an able journal, which, however,
suppresses names-bono fde in q coun-
try weekly of Kent county, and is as
follows:
"Notice.-In consequence Of,
the practical teetotal bootmaker of
-, being very i'll in consequence of
his hating caught a severe cold through
attending Divine service on that cold,
damp night, New Years Eve, in the
large room connected with Ebenezer
Chapel, -, he therefore begs that all
the Christian ministers who are per-
sonally acquainted with him will offer
up prayers to Almighty God for his
safe recovery to perfect health at the
many churches and Christian dissenting
chapels in many large towns that he
had frequented in his younger days,
as hundreds of the poor in - and
the surrounding villages are awaiting
for him to supply them with more
cheap strong boots and shoes from his
establishment, -, which has been
established for more than three years. :"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07
Questions Of Ownership.

The owners of lands around the shores
of Beaver Lake, in Indiana, went to
work, some time ago, and dug . ditch
which drained all the water from the
lake, and converted it's former bed into
excellent meadow land. Aquestion as
to the ownership of this land has now
arisen. The State claims it. on the
ground that she formerly owned the
land around the lake. under the grant
from the United States of swamp lands
for school purposes. The men who
dug the ditch maintain that, under.
the riparian laws, they have the right
to extend the boundaries of their lands
to the middle of the bed of the lake.
One of the claimants became q defaulter
to the State, and in settlingh his accounts
assigned to it his right to the recovered
land. A third class Of claims has arisen.
Certain persons, maintaining that the
disputed territory reclaimed from the
lake is public land ofthe United States,
have squatted ON it under the Preemp-
ton laws. After various conflicting
decisions of the Indiana Courts, those
have come to Congress for
legislation. A matter has been referred
to the Public Lands Committee, before
which ex-senator Hendricks, Sen. Mil
roy, and others, have made arguments
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07
NUMBER 48.
PIlOt0XraUhic Ghosts.

Photographers are acquainted with
three or four different ways in which
secondary images may appear in pho
tographs. In the first place, when =
sensitive glass plate has served it's turn
as negative-as many paper positivee
as may be needed having been taken
from 1.-THE film Of collodion or other
prepared surface is removed from it.
and it may be used for wholly new
photograph. But it is found that un-
less great care be used, some faint
traces of the former picture stiilremain,
and these may appear as o ghostly At
tendant upon the figure forming the
second picture. One photographer in
endeavoring to utilize an old plate
which had fulfilled it's duty as a mega
tive, could not wholly erase the image:
wash or rub as he might; there was al
ways faint ghost of the peraon accom-
panying any subsequent photograph
taken on the same plate.
DIR. Simpson relates that friend of
his received at Brussels box of glass
plates, quite new and highly polished,
each wrapped in piece Of newspaper:
lady sat for her photograph, taken
on one of these plates, and both the
photographer and the lady were aston
isbed to see that her likeness was cov-
cred with printed characters, easily to
,e read, the ghost of a political article,
IN fact In this case, antinic rays had
done their work before the glass was
exposed to the camera. By another
mode of manipulation, . photographer
may produce q ghost like effect at will:
. sitter is allowed to remain in the To-
Gus OF the camera one half of the time
necessary to produce complete photo.
graph he slips quickly aside, and the
furniture Immediately behind him is
then exposed to the action ofthe light ::
as a consequence faint or imperfsctly
developed photograph of the man ap-
pears, transparent or translucent, for
the furniture is visible apparently
through his body or head. With lit
tie tact, q really surprising effect may
be produced in this way. Az third
variety, one negative may be placed in
contact with another, and q particular
kind OF light allowed to pass through it
for a time there results double pic
ture on the lower negative.-London
Photographers Journal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07

CNfOu8l the glass az the Trim young
girl at work with her pies. In the
modest, restful face he read the story
of heart that had carried a great bur-
den patiently and nobly. What glo-
rious picture was she of warmth ana
light, framed in darkness To his heart,
at that moment, all the light and
warmth of the world centred in HUI
dah. All the world beside was loneli-
ness, and darkness, and drlzzle, and
slush. His fear Of his sister and of his
friends seemed base and cowardly.-
And the more he looked at this vision
of the night, this revelation of peace,
and love, and light, the more he was
determined to possess it. You will call
him precipitate. But when all a mans
nobility is ON one side, and all his
meanness on the other, why hesitate
Besides, John Harlow had done more
thinking in that half hour than most
men do in q month.
The vision vanished from the window,
and he went in and sat down. She had,
by this time, put in the last pie, and
was sitting with her head on her hand.
The candle flickered and went out, and
there was only the weird and ruddy
freight 1 cannot tell you what words
passed between John and the surprised
Huldah, who had thought him already
betrothed to Miss Dunton. could
not tell what was said in the light of
the fire; don't suppose that Huldah
could tell the story herself.
Hnldah asked that he should not
say anything about it till his sister was
gone. OF course John saw that she
asked it for his sake. But his own
cowardice was glad of the shelter.
Next day brother of Johns (whom
forgot to mention before) came home
from college. Mrs. Holiness husband
arrived unexpectedly. Aunt Judith.
| with her family, came over ut dinner
time, 80 that there was q large and
merry party. Two hearts, at least,
Joined in the deacon's thanksgiving be.
fore dinner, with much fervor.
At the table the dinner was very much
admired.
"Huldah," said Janet Dunton. Il
like your pies. wish I could hire you
to go to Boston. Our cook never does
WE'LL"
John saw the well-aimed shaft hidden
under thus compliment, and all his man.
hood rallied. As soon as he could be
sure of himself he said:
"rYou cannot have Huldah: she is al
ready engaged"
"How is that Z" said Aunt Judith.
"Oh, I've secured her SERVICE" said
John.
"What," said Mrs. Holmes, "engag.
ed your help before you engage a
wife2"
"Not at all," said John; "engaged
my help and wife in one. hope that
Huldah Manners will be Huldah Har.
low by Christmas.
The deacon laid down his knife and
dropped his lower jaw and started.
| "What! How! What did you say,
John9"
"I say, father, that this good girl,
Huldab, is to be my WIFE,"
"John," gasped the old man, getting
to his feet and reaching his hand across
the table, "you've got a plenty of sense
If you do wear moustache! God bless
you, my boy; there amt no better
woman here, nor in New York, or airy
where, than Huldah. God bless you
both. I was afraid that you'd take a
different road, though"
'Hurrah for Huldah and our John, ~
said George Harrow, the college boy,
and his brothers joined him. Even
the little Holmes children hurrahed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07

A SINGLE company on the famous
Comstock lode, in Nevada, will make
an effort during the month of April, to
raise $1,000, 600 in bullion. It will
only be necessary to take out and work
IA, 600 tons of ore worth $50 per ton
The average of the ore now il sight in
the mine is about 800 per ton. The
largest run of one month, which has
ever heretofore been made by any com.
pany on the lode, was one of $500, 900.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07
The Watch of Boon Island.

u NM. CELIA 1AAX1x1.
They crossed the lonely and h1nenting ses;
1ts moaning seemed but singing "Wilt thou dare, ."
He asked her, % brave tho loneliness with met"
"What loneliness," she sad, III thou art there7"
Afar and cold on the horizons rim
They sighed not - the shore behind grew dim,
rose Of Joy they bore across ths bfine.
They gained the barren rock, and made their homo
Among tho wild waves and the sca-birds wild;
Tho wintry winds blew nerce scross the foam,
But in each Others eyss they looked and smiled.
Aloft tho lighthouse sent it, warniDRs wide,
Fed by their faithful hands, and ships in sight
With Joy beheld II, and on land men cried,
'Look, clear and steady burns Boon Island light J?
And, wh,le they trimmed the lamp with busy hands,
'shne far and through the dark, sweet light, they
"Brtns al ssis,y hack the sailor. from all lands,
To waiting love-wlfo, mother, stster, bride!"
No tempest shook tho calm, though many . storm
No chill could aud them In their Eden warm,
And gently time lapsod onward, day by day.
Said no chill could ind them7 There u one
Whose sWful footballs everywhere arc known
With echoing sobs, who chills the summer sun,
And turns tho happy heart Of youth 10 stone;
Inexorabls Death, . silent guest
At every hearth, before whose footsteps dee
All Joys, who rules the earth and, without rest,
Roams Tho vaGe shuddeEinS spaces OF the ses:
Death found the turned his face and passed her by,
But laid finger on her lovers lips,
And there was silence. Then the storm ran high,
And tossed and troubled sore the distant ships.
Nay, Who ahall speak the terrors Of the night,
The speech1e0s soITow, the supreme despair
Still, Ike ghost abe trimmed the wanting light,
Dragging her slow weight up the winding stair.
With moro than Oh the saving lamp she fed,
While lashed 70 madness the Wild sea she heard;
6ho kept her awful vigil with tho dead,
And 0od1 sweet pity stil she ministered.
O sailors, hasling loud tho cheerful beam
Piercing 20 far the tumuh Of the dark,
radiant star o. hope, you could NOT dream
What misery there ct chezishing that spark!
Three times the night, TOO terrible 70 bear,
Descended, shrouded In tho storm. At last
The sun rose clear and stil on her despair,
And all bar striving to the winds she cast.
And bowed her head and let the Light die out,
For tho wide see 10y calm - her dead love.
When evening fell from the f.r land, in doubt.
Sailors and lsndsmen look. md WomenS eyes,
Fer pity ready, search In vain tho night
And wondering neighbor unto neighbor cries:
SNOW what, think you, can all Boon Island Light p
Out from the coast toward her high tower they sailed
They found her Watching silent, BY her dead;
4 shadowy woman. who nor Wept nor walled,
But answered what they spake, TIL IN VA said.
They bore the dead and living both away,
With anguish time seemed powerle0 to destroy.
She turned and backward gazed across the bay,
Lot IN ''' ''a ''' ny A'F :ois f.s.sss: & ssI Monthly,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07
A Car Door ESCAPE.

A Cleveland inventor has brought
out an automaton side door car, to af-
ford means of escape to passengers in
case of accidents which throw the car
from the track and overturn it. The
arrangement is such that when the car
veers over and becomes supported only
by the wheels of one side, the opposite
side of the car opens promptly, thus
allowing the passengers chance to es.
cape.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07
The Construction Of Chinneys.

To prevent large part Of all tho fires
that destroy our buildings, the mortar
in chimneys should be charged With
four quarts Of fine salt to the bushel,
for laying the brick and plastering the
fiues. This makes . thorough, solid
and smooth fue that will stand for
years, and will not cleave of, a. it
dries slow. Perfectly smooth mortar
without salt dries quick the brick ab-
serbs the moisture at once, and it
cracks the mortar and it falls of. Soon
after hot coal fire is started in the
flue, the top soon gets loose, and the
chimney becomes worthless If a good
chimney is wanted, the skeptic can
prove this by using little salt in his
cellar on bricks.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07
A Silver Cavern-Perhaps.

The Louisville Courier-Journal mar
rates the following:
"A lady in Livingston county tells a
story of q cave which she visited in that
locality, when only little girl, in COM
pany with several friends and a guide,
more than fifty years ago. The party
went to hill l-side, and entered the cav
ern through small opening, which led
between lodges of rocks. It ran in Zig
gag course, over precipices and into
large halls. One of the latter contained
two human statues, covered with coat
ing of silver, which stood near the en-.
trance, and appeared to be the guardian
deities of the place. Just beyond them
was q tree, which also shone in the
of silver foliage. A small
pool of water was in the centre of the
main hall, and reflected from it's smooth
surface the CLEAN of the same precious
metal.
The walls and roof, carved in the
rough molds of nature, were studded
with beautiful stalactites, which every
where shone as if silvered over. No
noise entered the cavern, but an awful
stiffness, approaching sublimity, per-
vaded its entire depths. It seemed an
enchanted Govern Of the genii of the
mine, the palace of the King of the
Gnomes.
The party soon became weary of the
solmen but magnifcently picturesque
scene, and returned to the surface of
the ground. The author of this story
is yet living in Livingston county; but,
though she claims that she knows the
locality of the silver cave, she will not
reveal it. The existence of another
equally wonderful cave in the same
neighborhood attaches an interest to
the lady's statement which it would not
otherwise possess. Citizens of the
county believe that the whole country
from the Tennessee to the Cumberland
River is honeycombed with large sub
t4rranean passages. Rich minerals are
also found there in abundance.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07
Telegraph BrOkerage.

A curious bnsiness has sprung up in
London to reduce the price of tele-
graphing to distant points. The
charge to India, for instance, is ninety
shilings for twenty words, and the ad-
dress is included. A firm in London
agreed to take and forward messages at
ten shillings word, more or less. The
address will generally use from six to
ten words, and frequently messages
need consist of only two or three words
if cipher has been agreed upon. The
" message-packers," as they are called,
have their own cipher, and send all mes
sages to their own agents In CAL
cutta. In twenty word message
they may thus send, in some cases, as
many as ten separate messages, receiv-
ing from their customers ten pounds,
and making profit of five pounds ten
shilings.' Their, customers, on the
other hand, have paid altogether but
ten pounds for what under ordinary
circumstances would have cost them
forty-one pounds. The telegraph com.
pany pockets all the loss. At the re-
cent telegraph conference in Rome this
was discussed among other topics, bat
no way was found to suppress the prac.
tice. Another trick is to write the
message backward and run the letters
together. The following is an OK.
ample:
n;artwolsydbnesdnalaoctsebnotnetyub.
This means, Buy ten ton best coal
and send by slow train, which is ter
words, but as there are only thirty-five
letters, and five letters are allowed to 6
word, it counts for only seven. This
; plan is very we'll when only short word,
are used. but it would not often Occur
that great gain could be made in thi,
way. The sentence we have Just writ
ten contains twenty.seven words, O.
which there is one containing one let
ter; there are four containing two each
four with three each, eleven will
four each, and seven with five each
total precisely one hundred. If writ
ten backwards it would save exactl,
seven words. But the sentence pre-
ceding this contains fifty-one letters
and would count for eleven words a
five letters each, instead of the ten i
actually contains. For this grievance
too, the telegraphers found no remedy
Whether the profit of the companie
might not be as large if the necessit
for such ingenuity we're taken away b
q reduction of rates, is question wel
worth considering.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07
Hon, David Davis.

Hon. David Davis, who has been
nominated for President by the Nation
al Labor Reform party, was born in
Cecil county, Maryland, on March 9th,
1915. He graduated at Kenyon College,
Gambler, Ohio, in 1882, and having
studied law at the schools of Harvard
and Pale, removed to Illinois in 1885,
and commenced the practice of his pro-
fession at Bloomington. He was elect
ed to the Illinois Legislature in 1914,
and in 1847 was Il member of the State
Constitutional Convention. In 184S he
vas elected Judge of the Eighth Judi
cial District of Illinois, and was twice
reelected to that position. In 1869
President Lincoln appointed Mr.. Davis
an Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. Joel Par
ker, the Labor Reform candidate fo,
Vice President, is the present Governor
Of New Jersey, having also occnpie
that position from 1868 to 1866.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07
The Last Exploit OF the Rev. Peter Cart
wright.

About year since, Father Cartwright
visited st. Louis to preach the dedica-
tory sermon for a new church either in
the city or vicinity. After filing his
appointment, carpet-sack in hand, he
wended his way back to the river, and
expecting to take the train for
Springfield or Jacksonville. At East
st. Louis he ascertained that he had
the time and was too late.
The jaunt with his carpet bag had
quite enfeebled him, and he did not
desire to retrace his steps to the city.
Hence he addressed all the parties
in the depot (by speaking loud
enough to elicit an answer from any
one presently, with the inquiry: lis
there a Methodist preacher in this
town: ?" Some one replied, "No." '.Is
there Methodist family in town." No
one knew. "Is there decent house
in the town, where man could put up
for the night2" To this last inquiry
he was kindly admonished that he had
better return to the city. At this a
spnghtly- looking young man generous
" proffered to assist him with his car.
pet sack in returning, and the old gen
tleman signified his assent. Once more
he and his new found friend were COM
fortably seated ON the ferry boat.
When the Captain came round for the
fare Uncle Peter deposited q dime in
his hand, remarking at the time that he
would pay for the young man
with his carpet sack, and point
ing to him, "1s this the
fellow who has your carpet-sack p
asked the Captain. eyes" said Cart
wright "Well, promptly responded
the boatman, she's pickpocket, and
has no business with It'll" ''Come
here with that carpet-sack," thundered
out the veteran, they tell me you're O
thief!" OF course the young man t'de-
posted" " and skedaddled." The
Captain then offered to take charge OF
the wallet, but was repulsed with the
words: "No, you're a thief too, and
I'll man my own vessel!" However,
as the old man stepped from the boat,
and the Captain thinking he would still
be beset by the pickpocket, again
offered to assist him by carving the
sack to the hotel, as they were both
going to the Planters.
"No," said he, "I'll take care of my
PAuaucts Ou' YOU 1uay SHOW mo the way
to the hotel, if you will" On arriving
there the Captain prevailed upon hin
to pass his carpet sack into the hands
of the clerk, who politely requested
that he should "register." As the
veteran was much enfeebled and fa-
tigued at the moment, he asked the
Captain to write his name" Petel
Cartwright" "Peter Cartwright y
exclaimed the Captain in astonishment
" Are you the old presiding elder, Pc
ter Cartwright, of illinois, Why. sir
l hope You will forgive me if 1 hav,
in any way offended you in my con
duct !" MY name is Peter Cart
wright, and not Saint Peter! cal
forgive no mans sins, but you had bet
ter 60 to God and get them forgiven, O
you will 60 to the devil, sure. y
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07

AN Iowa hunter baggcd thirty-live
rabbits in four hours recently.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07

A scHooLBoY at Woodstock, Vt, in
his 10th year, stands 6 feet S inches in
his stockings.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-07
Profitable Work.

President Smith, of Dartmouth, used
to set type in the printing Office of Sim
con Ide, at Windsor, and says of it:
ut always seemed to me that it was a
profitable service. learned to spell,
an attainment which even men of great
notoriety do not always make. learn
ed many things about the newspapers
and books, and the matters they treat
of, which served as good preparation
for the further studies 1 at length under
took. I am far from being satisfied
with my labors in my present position {;
but, imperfect as they seem to me, J
cannot but help thinking that nm a
little better president for having been a
printer"