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The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-06-21

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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28
Professional Lauxhers.

The hilariaus Philadelphian known
as ''Laughing Bill" whose cachinna-
tory gifts have gained him . vide
celebrity, and rendered him . terror
to all theatrical managers who have
ever been afflicted with his patronage,
would evidently find his moat. promis.
ing field for attaining usefulness and
popularity in France. In Paris pro
fessional laughers of ability find ready
engagements at the music halls, where
they are scattered among the audiences
to lead the laugh at all comic passages,
and by the contagious influence OF
their simulated mirth evoke demonstra,
ticns Of merriment on the slightest pro.
vocation. In this profession, however,
as in others, strict attention to duty
is required in order to attain success,
as an incident which occurred recently
in q cafe chantant is the Champs
Elysees forcibly illustrates. One ol
the professional laughers employed q,
that establishment permitted himsel
to fall into doze, and, on suddenly
awaking, found, a. he thought, .tha
the performances had arrived at stag
where his services were imperative1l
required. whereupon he Immediately
worked himself into a most excruciat
ing fit of laughter. The next instant
he found himself upon his back, viii
about q hundred infuriated Frenchmel
dancing over his prostrate body. Tn,
unfortunate man had mistaken his cue
and had burst out in the midst of 4
touching couplet about Alsace and
Lorraine. -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28
A Farmer Journeys Seyenty.Five Miles
From Home While ASleoD.

William Lewis, a farmer near Indian
apolis, was missed at home, with valise
and clothing, one morning recently,
and not until the close of the third day
were his whereabouts known. At that
time he returned and reported that on
the night of his disappearance he had
gone to his bed as usual, and was soon
asleep. He dreamed that he arose,
packed his valise, walked to Indian
apolis and took the eeastern-bound cars.
His surprise ON awakening and finding
himself seventy-fve miles from home,
can better be imagined than described.
The Indianapolis Sentinel, which re
lates this singular case of somnambu-
lism, says: "How he purchased his
ticket without his state being discov.
cred by the agent, and how he slum.
bered serenely through all the din and
noise of the Union depot, are among
the troublesome things a fellow never
can find out.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28
Pomological Phononlena.

Apples are found which are sweet on
one side and acid on the other. Ap-
pies are also grown without seeds,
though not very frequently. Over and
over again these statements have been
questioned at horticultural meetings as
being impossible. But both facts were
demonstrated ut the American 1nsti-
tute last season. Nearly q peck of ap-
pies of the first description were sent
from Georgia to convince doubters Of
tho possibility of such an anomaly.
Next came q batch. from somewhere at
the North, without seeds or even cores
or seed cellA
Now for an explanation of the phe-
nomenon. One theory is that the de-
velopment of the seeds WAS suspended
at an early period of growth from IN
unknown cause, not unlike the arrest
Of growth of a child, which constitutes
a dwarf. In the the next it has been
supposed sap tubes, running side by
side from the roots OF the tree, poul
their secretiors on the two sides Of the
fruit, which present . sort Of siames<
connection, although they are really
two distinct apples-a sweet and . SOU,
one-in iuxtapoeition.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28
Baby-Farmiug in England.

On tho first day Of tho current month
the new act regulating baby.farming in
Great Britain went into effect. Tho
abuses under the old system are too we'll
known to need attention, but according to
tho terms of the new oct not moro than
ono infant under ono year old is to be
nursed for hire unless the name Of the
nurse and tho number Of her house il
registered by local authorities, who may
refuse to register or expungs tho name 81
baby-farmer who neslects to provide
proper care, food, and attention for the in.
fhnts in her charge. Offences under the
act will DO punished with imprisonmen,
not exec eding six months with or without
hard labor, or fine Of G5 with liabilit,
to have the name stricken from the regis
ter. This act does not apply to relative
or guardians or infants nor to public in
| stituti0ns.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28
NUMBER "a.
ASSASSINATION.
A Man Taken Unawarey and Nuraere
In flis Own House.
From t4A Noshv11io N,.-~N

From tho Nashville (Tenn.) Banner.
J.. B. Dickey was assassinated at
yohnsonvi!le at half-pais 10 O'Clock
Friday night. A number of friends had
remained in his store until 10 o'clock,
when all departed, leaving him alone.
He then closed the door and commenc-
ed to count the receipts of the day.
He had not been long at this task, when
the door was suddenly thrown opep.
and man appeared with a brace of pis-
tolls, one IN each band, and commenced
firing both at him. The man fred six
shots, killing his victim, and then ran
away. It is said that r. O. Parks, the
telegraph operator at that place, was
the man who perpetrated the deed, and
that he was seen by several persons
leaving the door Just after the 4r;no Of
the pistols, with the weapons in his
hands, and we learn that he escaped
to parts unknown. Dickey was
found dead benind the counter,
the blood still flowing from
three wounds, one In the heart, one in
the shoulder and one in the side. In
one hand he clutched small amount
OF money, while the greater portion of
it was scattered over the counter. One
OF the balls, missing him, had shattered
q mirror in one end Of the room. The
remaining two had lodged in the walls
Of the store, in line with the door
and Dickey. Tho whole town was
startled by the news of the assassina-
tion, and . large crowd visited Dick
ey's dwelling: Park is alleged to have
a grudge against Dickey, and to have
entertained the belief that Dickey had
been instrumental in having him in,lict-
ed before the Grand Jury of Hum
phreys County for immoral conduct.
Park, besides being telegraph opera
tor, was acting, temporarily, ,as agent of
the Southern Express Company in the
place of Miller, the agent, Who had
been sent to Louisville to superintend
the towing of the wharfboat for john
s0nville from that place.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28

THERE are $1,000 square miles Of
coal fields in which Pttsburg is inter.
ested, and $15, 5,000,O 900 Of Pittsbure
capital is invested therein. Probably
$25, 10000 moro is invested in tran.
sportation, and the total Of all Interests
dependent upon these coal fields cannot
fall short of the enormous sum Of 8, >
O00, ,O00, 600.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28
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Not On the earth = '~sss.S =
Hath beauty bloom, hath beauty power {:
This is alone its install hour
The chamber Of its birth;
Here the germ dwells,
And, prone to silence and to.igAt,
It bursts to love aud life aud light
As daisies in our dells.
But not ON earth
Hath beauty growth beyond the flower
The life that, in day or hour,
Goes to another birth:
And all We see
OF beauty is . glimmer bright
Is but the promise OF night
The glory that's TO be,
When, in the skies, ..n
The spirit doth unfold and find
Lifc's hopes grown perfect to tho mind,
For beauty then it sighs;
And beauty there
Compares with beauty here below,
As mornings golden skies aglow
With nurkiest CLOUDS compare.
The forms We love
And cherish for each faultless hne,
But shadows are OF those divine
That We shall know above;
So let Ms live
In love OF Nature. not of Art,
That each may then, with reverent heart,
Fit homage have to give.
-Decenaber Gal0xv
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28
.Iron.Plated Forti1ications.

The military authorities have decided
to accord prominent place in the ad'
ditional 'fortifcation of Metz to iron
plating. Experiments made at Buchan
with English plates to test their power
of resistance, have given entire salts.
faction. Iron flank batteries will be
constructed at Fort st. Privat, to com:
mand the valleys of the Moselle and
the Scille, and two iron turrets will be
added at Fort st. Quintin, to secure
communication in the rear. Tho heights
of Woippy are also affirmed to b<
marked out as the site of intended new
forti6catory works,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28

r. T11roN's ambition, he said at the
beginning of the campaign, would be
satisfied with the privilege of OCCASION
ally dropping in at the White House to
take tea with the President. The only
way in which this modist desire can be
satisfied now, is for Horace to get for
his Ohappaqua house new coat of
white paint, and elect himself President
of the society for the diffusion of beets.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28
The Wharf Rats or stosfon.

The story of Gavroch and his COM
panion street gn,,ai,as, as told by Vic
tor Hugo, found a parallel in the police
record Of the South End yesterday.
This time, however, it was the fremont
street bridge, and not the great plaster
elephant which gave the little Arabs
shelter and security. For a long time
the residents Of Indiana place and
neighborhood have been myst1fed by a
most unaccountable disappearance of
milk cans, brown bread and the various
accessories to breakfast which are early
distributed by milkmen and bakers.
These articles Of food, so necessary to
. proper appointment: of the morning
meal, have been spirited away from
under the very noses of their Milesian
guardians. Other depredations have
been committed in the vicinity and
some OF them transcribed in import
ance the bread and milk larcenies.
It was only Saturday or two
since that a lady who had been
on q shopping excursion and was re-
turning, be it believed, with $50 in. her
portmonaie, lost the wallet and money
in very unexpected manner. A boy
snatched it her from her hand, and at
ter stealing away the pocket book, like
true Arab, stole silently away him
self. Whence he came and whittier he
vanished were alike enveloped in: as
much mystery as was his own personal.
ity. But yesterday morning the misty
affair was thus cleared up. Yesterday
morning lady happened to see some
boys scrambling like great rats in and
out from under the fremont bridge
over the Boston and Albany track. Of.
ficer Bennett, of station 4, playing the
terrier to their rat-holes, gave chase,
and managed to catch one of the youths
just as he was disappearing into
the businesses of his strange
abode. Looking farther into the
matter, he unearthed three more of the
denizens of that cavern, and came Upon
the secret of their habitation. Some.
how the architecture of the bridge had
allowed the construction of such o re-
treat as is common in and among the
wharves of New York. Here this sin.
gular family had established their
household gods, aud here beneath the
rumble of all the fremont street travel
they lodged and boarded. They slept
OH comfortable beds of straw, like the
memorable Margony, and that their
board knew the fat of tho land was evi.
dent from the discovery of several gen.
erous loaves of Boston brown bread,
still warm from the bakers oven. -Four
or five cans, ranged in prospective
spoke of the milk y ways those boyi
had of living. In this queer treasury
was found q miscellaneous collection O.
household implements, bespeakine
Judgment as we'll as skin in the acqui
sition Of their household equipment
Boston AtlUertiser.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28
November,

[Ono OF tho most beautiful and touching
poems ever written on tho month Of Novcm.
bcr, 10 tho following gem by Jamos Il. Clark,
the poet-sihger.-N. Y. Refo'mer.l
The rcd sun gathers up his beams,
To bid the witllcred earth farewell,
And voices from tho swelling streams
Aro ringing with the evening boil;
Tho cold lake sobs with restless grief,
Who're lato thu water lilies grow,
While Autumn fowl, and Autumn Leaf,
Are sailing down tho rivers blue.
Forsakcn arc tho woodland shrinos,
Tho birds to warmer lands havo fed,
And winds are wailing through the pines
A dirge for Summer's glorious dead;
E'en man forsakes his daily strife,
And muses. on the bright things flown,
Az il In Natures changing,lite
He saw the picture Of hls own.
often think, at this sad hour,
As evening wceps her earliest tear,
And sunset guilds tho naked bower,
And waves are breaking cold aud clear,
or that slaas whose mculor:y dwells
:. Like starlight DER iEc's cloudy weather,
When side By side We rovcd the dolls
OF dear. New England's coast together.
Twas on old Plymouth's rock famed shore, -
Ono calm November night, with thee
I watched the long light trembling DOR
The billows Of the eastern sea;
The weary day had sunk to rest
Beyond the lines of lca1loss wool.
And guardian clouds from south to west,
Arrayed IN hucs Of crimson stood.
We climbed the hill of noble graves,
Whore tho stern patria:cbs OF the land
Seemed listening to the samo grand waves
That freed them from tn opprcssor's hand
We talked Of spirits pure and kind,
With gentle forms and loving eyes,
OF happy homes we left behind,
+ In valcs beneath tho western skies.
A few brief days-ard when tho earth
Grew white around the Travellers feet.
And bright fires blazod on every hearth,
We parted never moro to meet
Until 60 where thou art gone,
From this dark world OF death and blight,
Aud walk with thee above the sun
That sank upon thy grave tonight.
I hear tho muffled tramp of years
Come stealing up the slope of Time;
They bear train Of smiles and tears,
- OF burning hopes and dreams sublime:
But future years may never fling
A treasure from their passing hours,
Like those that como on slceplcss wing
From mcmory's golden plain of flowers.
The morning brceze OF long ago
Sweeps o'cr my brain with soft control,
Tanning the embcrs to glow,
Amidst tho ashes round my soul;
And by the dim and Pickering light,
I see thy bcauteous form appear,
Like ono returned from wandorings bright,
TO bless my lonely nom ents here.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28
ROcbeiort,s Narriage.

A Paris correspondent of the London
Globe, describing the marriage or
Thursday, Nov. z, of N. Rochefort
writes: Rochefort has been brouoh1
to the Naisoe 'dArrek of Versailles,
on Monday night, and thence his mar:
mage procession started yesterday
morning. It consisted of one large
hired carriage, conveying the bride
groom and three police agents, dressed
in plain clothes. It left the prison al
a very early hour, and had for an escort
= very strong guard of guardicres az
Ia f'Gi1, who also surrounded in force
the Aais0,a tle Sante, attached to the
convent of Augustines. Here, on the
second story, was No. 8, a little room
Opening, as all such do in nplaces of con-
finement, from great public corridor,
and in this was lady, the bride. As the
poor paralyzed woman could not, o1
course, be moved to the MARE, or "a
church, for either civil or religious
ceremony, n. Rameau, the saaire. had
como to her bedside. The MARRIAGE
instrument was read by him, while n.
Rochefort stcod by the bride, holdina
her hand. It was then signed by both.
although the effort drew from her a cr1
of pain, and was Witnessed by Francois
Victor Hugo, Ernest Blum, Jean De
Strein, and the eloquent barrister, Al.
bert Jolly. This was sufficient to give
legal validity tothe marriage, and statue
to the children, but Mile. Renaud, % the
Pappe1 states half apologeticallv, had
begged for religious ceremony also,
and Rochefort could not refuse the re.
quest, which will probably be her last
The blessing of tie church was there
fore bestowed on the pair by the Abbe
Follet, chaplain of prisons. After this
N. and Mime. Rochefort were released
from surveillance for short half hour.
and left absolutely alone. At the ex:
piratiou Of this time they parted, and
at IL o'clock of their, bridal mornina
their welded life ended forever. The
bridegroom, with the same precaution,
was conducted back to his Temporary
prison, his conductors, by. the rapid
pace at which they took the carriage,
appearing to grudge the favor shown,
and last night he was carried in = pris.
oners' van to his place of permanant
confinement in The Ialn do Re
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28
lpaDOrtant Discovery.

The researches OF the Signal Office
have just been augmented by q beauti-
full and highly important meteorologic.
al discovery on the coast of England.
From time immemorial the phenome-
non of the great November atmospheric
wave has been speculation of scien-
fists and seamen, but John Herschel
and others have supposed it was pecu-
lar and confined to England aud West
ern Europe, which it reaches from the
South Atlantic, and over which it rolls
in long continued undulations from
October to January, constituting an
important element in the phenomenal
character of European winters. On the
18th of November similar atmospher.
ic wave began to break over the shores
of Oregon and British Columbia, as
shewn by the weather kilograms. BY
the evening of the 18th it had spread
over nearly all Of the Pacific states and
the territories of Utah and Nevada, and
at midnight was pouring through the
passes of the Rocky Mountains. On
Thursday, the 18th, it descended upon
Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and the
Indian Territory. On Friday A. N ,
it extended in unbroken magnitude and
magnifcence from Oregon to Washing
ton Territory, eastward through the
great trough or depression of the Rocky
Mountain back bone in Idaho and
Washington, and stretched thence to
the lower Missouri and lower Missis-
sippi valleys, and over the western
shore of the Mexican Gulf. This dis
covery will enable meteorologists to
anticipate by many days theapproach Of
winter as it advances from the Pacific
coast eastward in the great current OF
westerly winds. It seems to clear up
the old mystery of American winter
storms, showing that they originate in
the Rocky Mountains, upon whose cold
and loftiest SUBMITS in Nevada, Utah,
Colorado and Southern Wyoming the
vapor-laden air of this wave, coming
from over the warm Pacific, is now
seen to be condensed in the over,
whelming SHOWS of the forty first paral.
lei. AS this vast aerial wave is proba.
bly,, like the English wave, continued
in successive undulation, for two OF
three months, it may assist in explain
ing the comparatively high tempera'
ture and light precipitation in winter
along Puget Sound and eastward.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-28


have come! Your intended has faint
ed, and we were on the point of driv-
ing home again."
Half bewildered and half amused,
resolved to let the adventure take it's
course. And, indeed, I had little time
for reflection. My friends tugged me
into the interior of the church, which
was poorly lighted by two or three
lamps. A female was sitting upon q
bench in tho shadow, while another
stood beside her aud cbafed her tenn
pies.
'tAt last!" cried the latter. "God
be praised that you have comel Nv
poor mistress liked to have died"
An aged priest emerged from behind
the alter, and asked: "Can We be-
gin9"
Begin, reverend ftheri" cried,
unadvisedly.
''They assisted the half unconscious
girl to rise; she appeared to be very
pretty: In fit of objectionable, and
now quite incomprehensible, levity, I
readily stepped with her to the altar.
Her maid and the three gentlemen
present were so much busted with her
rs scarcely to throw q look at me. Be.
sides, the light in this part of the
church was dim, and my head was
muf1ed in the hood Of my cloak.
In few minutes the nuptia1 cere-
mony was over, and the priest, accord
ing to custom, desired the newly-mar-
ried pair to embrace.
My young wife turned her pale
charming little face toward me, and
was about to rest her head upon my
shoulder with a sweet smile, when sud-
denly she stared at me as If turned into
stone. tottered, and with q cry Of =" It
is not he /" fell to the floor.
All the furies of hell lashed me out
OF church. Before any one could think
Of staying me I had jumped into my
sleigh, seized the reins, and was soon
beyond the reach of pursuit.
The lieutenant was silent. Marie al
80 gazed in silence to the ground.
"And have you never discovered
what became Of the poor girl2" she
finally asked.
"Never. Iknow neither the name
Of the village where I was married, nor
do recollect the station where stop
ped. At the time, my culpably frivo.
lous pranks seemed to me a matter of
so little moment, that as soon as there
was no longer any pursuit to fear,
went to sleep in the sleigh, and did not
awake till We arrived ut another station.
The servant whom had with me was
killed in battle; all my efforts to find
out the position who drove us proved
unavailing, and so every clue seems
indeed lost by which I might again
find the scene of that folly, for which
I have now suffered heavily"
Marie turned her pale face toward
Linn and took both his hands. The
lieutenant gazed Thunder. struck into
her eyes; q dim forboding awoke in
his BREAST veil suddenly dropped
from his eyes.
"Mariel God of heaven, how can I
have been so blind! Marie, was it in.
deed you2"
81 am your wife was the only an.
swer of the girl who sank fainting in,
to his arms.-FfOns the Russian OF
alexander Pstshkisa.