Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-09

Tho good baaeA stssd comes riderless homo,
EBeoSsd Vim blood Drops - wen q foam.
Do yo0 oee thoe Dp0D6 WheSo the Dad leaves fan7
The good basck hoEse ptned to desfh-thats all.
AM o God! II + IN can speak.
Question me poe--I On old and weak.
Ana AZ IL horse ptnsd to dsstSI1 have seh you ali.
General Items.
VlCroR EMANuEL now makes his home
in regal style in the Quirinal palace in
the Eternal City.
A CHICAGO lady who is trying to
break of the habit of smoking, has cut
herself down to fifteen cigars = day.
Mn. Carl Rosa has just given an
earnest of his intention to return to
New York by becoming naturalized.
IT il rumored that the friends of Mrs.
Charles Dickens are about to publish
their version Of the cause of that lady's
separation from her late husband.
"Po11AHD calls Henry A. Wise 'an
ancient dandy-jack'" Il would: make
your hair stand on end to hear what
Henry A. Wise calls Pallard. II Louis
CALICO, tho well.knovn cotton cloth,
is named after Calicot, = city in India.
from whence IL first came. Calico was
not known in England at all until as
late - the year 1851.
IT 10 thought to be pretty we'll settled
that the first book printed on this con-
tinent Was issued by Combeyer, in
Mexico, in 1874. w
OK board the steamers of the North
German Loyds the stewards are musi-
clans, and organize themselves into =
band for I be ediAoaaion of the passep
gers. ~ Il Z
Tn Halifax steamers have been una
ble to carry freight % fast - it has &C
cumulated q Portland, and 1900 bar
rels Of -four arc now collected in that
city awaiting txans-shipment
A LATE Baltimore paper states that
only three hundred and fifty skilled
men now find employment in the ship.
yards Of that clty, where heretofore
fifteen hundred men found work. !! -.
HARwooD, Of London, England, has
sued the Grand Trunk Railway at
Portland for SIC, ,O00, for injuries re-
cei!ed by his wife in alighting from a
train. :, :.
ITH1cARAs IN Epsminondas street.
Small boys, hsping girls, and bashful
people move away from it because they
can't tell where they live. ,..r.,
An Indiana man has caused the ar
rest Of his grandmother, whe attacked
him in . most oowardly and outrageous
manner. -. r IN .,.T
CAUss and effect. They ere planting
cork trees with considerable success in
many parts of California The vine
was introduced several years ago. .. :.
TM alligator season has opened in
Florida, and the absorption of the pen
sive angler or conhding bather is mat
ter Of daily record .....,.,
| PAPER houses are now being made,
this being the best non conductor of
heat, cold and dampness. The paper,
which IL heavy and compact, 10 put on
the outside Of the frame, and in turn
covered With siding. ~ = 2's''t' -.',%'
HA1v1 D. Wnso1,ia q young man of
Detroit, has been informed that mining
property in Utah, owned by him for
i've year., has developed great richness,
and that its estimated value is s., ,00O:-
600.
The Maine lumber men are all ont
of the woods, and their operations have
been greater during the winter than in
any previous season. The cut is esti-
mated at zoo, ,O0Q 600 feet, most of the
timber prduct being spruce. go.
| Ar Sumter, n. c., they improvised a
gallows by the throwing of . rope over
10 pole and HANGING IN anvil ut one end
and negro at the other. They were
then obliged to help the anvil to keep its
end down, and to hold thenegro's hands
until he slowly ehoked to death. :.
A RA11x Of Michigan girls have Just
returned from tour in Europe which
was made under very pleasant circum-
stances. They were accompanied by
their teacher, with gentleman rs Z
business manager, and visited England.
Germany, Italy ana the Holy Land.
! A DENOMINATION which took place
on Waustead Flats, near London, o.
tenibly for the purpose of t'saving
Epping Forest" appear to have &C.
tually resulted in mere pleasure party,
after tho orthodox Easter Monday FASH
ion. -. ..-- -.
Tn steamer Kafraira is taking 49,
600 bushels of oysters of the Virginia
coast to plant in France. Chaznay, the
farmer Of the enterprise, has tested the
bivalves from Massachusetts, to Califor-
nia, and thinks that those Of the Low.
er Chesapeake are best suited to his
purpose.
"Rn uP, daughter, and go to thy
daughter, for thy daughters daughter
has daughter" This IL what Rich
ard Vernon: Je6easoa County, Ind,
act. IS, issapposed to say to her: l. e..
he was lately made great-great grand
father BY tho birth Of daughter to his
great grand daughter.
A CONSOLIDATED mortgage on al the
Erie property II in contemplation, to
Lay third rail on their road. The re-
quired legal notice has been given, and
ten weeks must elapse before action on
it viii be taken BY the directors. The
amount of the mortgage is estimated ut
~, ,OO, ,O@ IL .:
Al insect, commonly known ~ the
buffalo gnat, has appeared in great
quantities in the vicinity of Pearl
River, MisEissippi, md arc sowing de-
struction among horses and mules on
the plantations. Many hundred ami
mails have died from their attacks
within . few days. The greatest NOR
tality yet reported is from Madison
county. Many planters are without
plough animal Of any description, and
the larger farmers are badly crippled
because of their sudden losses after
preparation for large crop.
| EAHrnQuAX1s are on the steady in
crease. According to the best authori-
ties there were in the fourth century,
II ; in the fifth, Is; in the sixth, 81; in
the seventh, 10; in the eighth, IL; in
the ninth, IS; in tho tenth, II; in the
eleventh, 81 in the twelfth, IS; in the
thirteenth, IS; in tho fourteenth, So;
in the fifteenth, Il in the sixteenth,
ITO; in the seventeenth, $50; in the
eighteenth, $50; in the nineteenth, 925.
Tn "cheek " Of tho ordinary female
book agents il proverbial, but the
quality sesms TO have reached it's eli
max in woman who called the Lieu
tenant Governor Of Rhode Island from
bic place - presiding officer during a
debate in the Senate the other day, to
solicit his subscription for . work on
Personal Beauty. Upon her making
known her business, the interview ter
minated abruptly. He didn't subscribe.
A NAN by the name of Thompson was
hanged h9ely on the head waters of
Clear Greek, in Montague county, Tex
-. Various rumoIs are afl0at ~ to the