Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-02

DIX. A. l.. MILLER has sold three
eighths interest in the Toledo Blade
for $3O, 900.
SOME of the patriotic women in Rome
propose to give Gnribaltli the pleasure
OF viewing his own monument, by erect
ing one to him while he is above
ground.
AND here Is another: Blanche
Davenport, the daughter of the TRACED
i'm, IS under vocal instruction in Italy,
and gives promise of being another
great American prima donna"
THYcKERAY's daughter, known in lit
cratlre by her maiden name, is Mrs.
Leslie Stephens, wife of the editor of
the Cornhill Magazine.
A MEMORIAL edifice in honor of Theo-
dore Parker is to be erected in Boston.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars is to be
invested in that way.
WILLIAM MCCLELLAN is hale and
hearty Indiana patriarch, born in Penn
Colony in 1772.-He penetrated the
"dark and bloody ground of Ken
tucNy, fought the indians under st.
Clair and "Mad Anthony Wayne, "and
the British in the War of 1912.
VACATED and Parepa Rosa are said
to have created wild excitement
in the duet in the last scene in the
"Huguenots," recently in New York.
Recalls, bouquets, silver wreaths and
other extravagancies marked the Occa-
sion.
SAM H1LDEBRAND, the outlaw of Mis-
R,,11~x b. L.,
his death at the hands of Constable
Ragland, at Pinckneyville, ILL.,, on the
2lst Of last month,-the body having
been identified by his brother and 9th
ers.
DIR. J. G. HOLLAND {" Timothy Tit
comb y will hereafter reside in New
York city, having purchased a fine man.
sion in Park avenue, Murray hill,
Mr., STEWARDS fortune is estimated
at between fifty and sixty millions of
dollars. Comfortable amount when
there is q margin of ten millions to
guess by.
The second wife of the late s. F. B.
Morse, father of the telegraph, is deaf
mute graduate of the New York city
institute. Her property is worth $500,
600, bequeathed by him.
Mn. AND Mrs. JEM MACE have re
ce,ved bouncing young pugilist, whom
they have christened BENJAMIN Frank
lin, in the hope that he will strike like
lightning when he grows up.
SAMUEL FEssENDEN, who unites in the
Connecticut call for the Cincinnati Con-
vention, is the Hon. Samuel G. Fessen-
den, late NJ. G. from Maine.
1T was rumored at the Fifth avenue
Hotel on Saturday that Charles O'Con-
or will be the Tammany candidate for
Mayor at the approaching election.
Col. KING of Texas has snug little
farm of "a, 1872 acres, whereupon are
pastured $1,000 horned cattle, 10000
horses, 1900 sheep, and 5000 goats.
The last picture painted by the late
Prof. s. F. B. Morse, and which hung
in the drawing room of Locust Grove,
his beautiful domain on the Hudson,
is an admirable full-length portrait OF
his daughter.
The two lads, Jesse and Ulysses
Grant, sons of the President, are tt
visit Europe in June, and return at the
end Of the season with Miss Nellie
Grant.
Mr. LEVY, a blind Englishman, as
serts that he can not only tell when hi
is opposite solid body, but "can dis
eliminate whether it is tall or short
slender or bulky" If u fence he car
tell whether it is open like board o.
a rail fenc or closed; whether it is OF
stone or wood, or close hedge. An
other blind man could tell when thict
clouds obscured the horizon. Mr.
Levy calls this "facial perception, as
covering his face with thick veil en-
tirely obscures objects from this sensa
tional discernment.
| REFERRING to the report that Kossutl
was living in extreme poverty, the Des
Moines Register says : eve are in
formed by MIR. Ruttkay, of tins city a
nephew and constant correspondent Of
the Hungarian patriot, that the state.
ment is entirely without founda'
ton. While Kossuth is not rich, he
has an income sufficient for all his
wants and lives in comfortable STYLE
He is now 70 years of age"
Hon GEORGE BANCROFT, our Minister
to Berlin, is an experienced and ele
giant equestrian. Every pleasant after
noon he may be seen trottlng through
the "Liergarlen" mounted on thor
oughbred horse, and dressed some
thing after the style of the "Fine ole
English Gentleman" I. g., in tight-fit
ting trowsers, high-top boots and high
" polished silk hat. Mr.. Bancroft i.
about the only diplomat who enjoy.
any intimacy with the Emperor vii
liam.