Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-02-08


| About their Fathers feet
Shakespeare and ekylark keep
SONGS higher than their voices knew,
In silence. silence is the rest in sleep.
soul :hs s9y. and III tnst glimmers through
~ ~ >--Iodepeadeat.
General Items.
A 1ErrER-CARRrER found gold watch
in q lamp-post box in New York.
FEnALE fox hunters are the terror Of
Alabama agriculturists.
THE only negro in an insane asylum
in the country is in Virginia. -,
TIE st. Louis Times has about
500, 600 worth Of libel suits pehding
against it. p;
A PARTY Of twelve have left Quebec
overland for the coast of Labrador to
hunt seals.
WofEN are getting their rights in
Canada. Toronto is to have a new
prison " exclusively for ladies'"
The Roman Catholic liturgy is to re-
place the Gallican in the French Ro-
man churches.
A North CAROLINA man OF seventy
ton, aged eighteen. ~
VIRGINIA banks that issued shinp1as-
ters during the war are held liable to
redeem them.
! UNDER an old building in Kansas
was found a box containing large as
sortment of valuable jewelry.
The Earl of Kenmare, who recently
died in London, was one of the forlorn
hope at the siege Of Badaioz. ..,-.s4
NATURAL gas from the Bloomfield
well has been conveyed to the pipes in
Rochester, N. Y. = ,5<-
SoME worthless dogs, at Leavenwortl,,
have killed DR.. Hudson's fuu-blooded
Cashmere goat, valued at 81, 500.
| The harvest tool factory of the
Fletcher brothers in Lowell, Michigan,
was burned on Friday last.
RUTLAND. Vt. has English sparrows,
for whom boxes have been placed in
the shade-trees about the streets and
private grounds. ~; y.....- ,..:s,y
l. TIE engine Of Whitaker & Co. 3 fork
handle factory in Bronson, Michigan,
exploded on Friday, terribly scaiding
ID. H. Whitaker and A. j. Irgg, it is
thought fatally.
MISS ApDIE d. BA1I.oU, disciple Of
| Victoria Woodhul, has brought suit
against the Terre Haute Gazette for
SO, 900 damages. She ought to procure
a Wyoming jury. 80 ''::.-,' :1''@
| A SAx FRANCISCO dispatch Of Saturday
says: Heavy frosts in different parts
+ of the State the ice quarter of an
inch in thickness formed at Stockton,
| and Los Angeles, Thunday night,
somewhat injuring young orange trees
! in the latter locality" u.s.
%"MRs. p. w. PArrEN. who was burned
to deatha day or two ago in New York
city, was the daughter of the famous
musician Zoller, who organized many
singular societies in Germany, and re-
ceived for his compositions q medal
from the Duke of Sake -Meiningen.
In HorneIlsville, on Friday evening,
l during an auction of millinery goods,
the floor gave way and fell to the cellar.
Several persons were severely injured,
among whom were Mrs. Benjamin Ben
net, Mrs. Miles Hawley, Mrs. Hathaway,
Mrs. F. NJ. Cronkeyle, Mrs. Haffer, and
others. - .:<,i5' -. =
! 1H& Etl1u O4 %, AOO utaS O6SA oAOSOAAoC~A
for the erection Of O suitable memorial
at the Virginia Military Institution. In
honor of Lieutenant General ''Stone-
wall" Jackson, who for nearly fourteen
years held the chair Of natural and ex-
perimental philosophy and artillery
tactics in the institution.
; The graduating seniors of Harvard
university will struggle over 'The de-
struction Of Chicago" this year, that
being the subject announced for the
annual prize poem. They will all re-
member that Macau1ay composed his
Destruction Of Pompeii'' on . pre-
, cisely similar occasion, and viii do
their best. - 80
! ANOTHER Enoch a case has arisen
J in England George Bryom. left his
wife and child at Oldham, and went to
America to seek livelihood. Core
!; spondence, at first irregular, soon stop
} ped, altogether, and after. q. while the
wife married again: Byron at length
} returned, laden with presents for his
family. t.:z.5. 1<;.se p
under took to grapple with dispatch
from st. Louis, the other night. relat-
} 4 ing to the proceedings, of the B'nai
} Birth. He is evidently not much of a
Hebrew scholar, for, after. wrestling
" with the thing for a long time, he
headed it.: "The B. n. L. Brethren
in Full Blast" and rushed on
While hotels on the European plan
are becoming very popular in America,
it is singular to note that hotels on the
American plan are growing in favor
along the mainlines Of trayelover seas.
Even the 'sGrand Hotel, :" Prais, has in
part adopted the American system,
and you can now go there and obtain
lodging, meals, and service at a liked
price.
A CITIZEN of North Stonington, Conn.,,
buried his first wife, ana inscribed upon
: her tomb, .'An.. Angel on Ealth--A
Saint in Heaven, y which was all night
But, when he buried his second along
side his first, the marble dealer in:
, scrided on her tomb, '' Another Ange!
, on Earth Another Saint in Heaven;
and the neighbors want to know how
long this thing is going to last q
], WHILE q veader of green's in Boston
was endeavoring to dispose of his stock
in trade his poor old nag halted and re-
fused to bulge an inch. The driver
finally commenced belaboring the ami
NAL with stick, when an old lady
thrust her head out of a window and
exclaimed: "Have you no mercy Z"
; "No, ma'am," replied the pedlar;
"nothin' but greene"
Ar the auction sale of the effects of
the communist leader Vermorel, exc
cnted by the Versaillists when Parls
was taken, the following prices were
paid: Works of Telemaqne, with an
notations, g; the whole file Of the Pere
Duchesne, $25; a file of the Commune
4 O6iciel, $1.7O; two military hats and
four shirts, 65.; q sword, s.; an old
suit of clothes, 50; two clay pipes 81.
There seems to he little glory after
death awarded to the communists. A
/ single hair of the Emperor Napoleon l.
was once sold for over 800 at a fair in
London. .,..
4 A DAY or two, since, a man not over
and above familiar with the dark ways
OF telegraphing, went into one of the Of
fees in this city with a dispatch, which
he insisted upon having sent Off imme-
diately, The operator accommodated
him, and then hung the despatch on a
|. hook, The man hung around some
time, evidently unsatisfed.' Atlast his
; patience was exhausted, and he belched
ont: "Ain't you going to send that
despatch ~ The operator politely III