Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
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The whereabouts of Gov. Hendricks
> vcxes the Indiana mind.
BlCHAT, a distinguished anatomi*t,
died at thirty-one
MOZART, the great German music; =,
died at thiTt ,-five.
BYRON had produced his most L:il-
liant works at thirty four.
If the staff be crooked, the shadow
, cannot be straight.
, SINCE 1S49 the Pope has received
, 40, 600, 900 francs in the way of Peters
. pence.
PROF. CHILD, of Harvard, the Cha'l-
cerian scholar, is in England, hunt: :,
, up old unpublished ballads.
GEO. WASHINGTON, at the age s,i
twenty four years, was cOmmander-iu-
chief of all the armed forces of Vir-
ginia.
GRACE, the famous English cricketer,
is going to Australia with a picl, :!
eleven.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has resigned tic
presidency cf the Carolina Life Insu:
ance Company.
: Troy proposes to give a reception tn
J Mr.. Francis, Minister to Greece, on his
| return next month.
BARSUM has new show with the as-
tonishlng title of P. T. BIS "Ma1yei-
}ous Drawing room Aggregation
SAMUEL BowLEs, of the Springfield
Republican, is trying his best to for
get Butler, at Old Orchard Beach,
Maine.
Gov. WALKER, of Virginia, has &C.
cepted an invitation to address the
State Agricultural Society at their fai:,
in October.
MISS NELSON has rewarded the zeal
of London theatrical agent with an
) emerald ring. 1t will probably keep
her memory green.
MISS WHITE CLOUD, daughter of the
! Indian chief, has confided her hor,:;
of earthly bliss to native of lrelvnd
named Pat Mcclure.
EMMA BLACK, of Mississippi, since
she towed drowning man ashore bv
means Of her abundant hair, acknowl.
edges herself tow-head.
BENJAMIN You've, an actor, we'll
known as delineator of negro char
acters, particularly in the role of Uuc.e
Tom, died suddenly in Philadelphia.
SENATOR LEWIS, of Virginia, salary
grabber, has Physiclan's certificate
that he had better visit California, and
stay there till after the election.
| Mrs. GENERAL PEGRAM, once re-
nowned as beauty and belle, is now
at the head of a fashionable young
ladies' boarding school in Baltimolc.
The Countess de Vogue, the wife of
the French Minister at Constantinople,
and her daughter, were recently saved
from drowning in the Black Sea, by
Mr.. Palmer, an English gentleman.
SERGEANT BATES. the banner fool,
writes to Mayor Medil, of Chicago, f,r
permission to go as his substitute in
the Graphic balloon. In momentary
inadvertence the Mayor refused.
| THURLow WEED is supposed to be in
failing health, for he writes to the
warden Of the Sing Sing prison, con-
corning young Walworth 81 haven't
the strength to write all the good I
know of him."
THR great antiquity of Bill Allen is
beyond question, as Homer speaks of
him under the alias OF Stentor After
Moves takes some of the wind out of
him, it is said he will be offered a SIT.
uation to act as fog horn on the Rhode
| Island coast.
BERLIN reports state that Captain
! Werner, who has made himself so
widely known by his seizure of the
Spanish iron clads, has been appointed
direct or Of naval constructions at Will
helmshafen, in place of Capt. Ppreze-
wisenski, of the Imperial German navy.
The wealthy Duke of Sutherland,
who is constructing at his own cost tic
Sutherland and Carthness railway in
England, is practical engineer, aud
often mounts the locomotive and drives
his own cars up and down the line.
NEBRASKA named town Vanderbilt
and then wrote to the commodore. He
replied that he didn't care d-n, and
the way they changed the name of that
town would have made his hair stand
OH end.
JESSIE FREMONT has posted up, all
over the shores Of her husbands Por-
cupine Island, off the coast of Maine,
notices in her own hand writing, fo1-
bidding all persons from landing. This
is done because a careless picnic party
a week or two since, set fire to valu-
able tract of woodland. Gen. Fremont
is himself very ill in bed.
CAPT. VIM. NORTON PERsE, of t|;e
Royal Artillery, was prevented from
entering stall in the Princess Thea
ire, London, because he had not on 4
white tie. He naturally made a VOW.
and was, of course, arrested. But
white ties are not hereafter to be re-
CURED for entrance to stalls in the
Princess Theater.
The mother of BOu-Mezrag. the
Arb Chief condemned to death for his
share in the last Arab insurrection
against the French, arrived IN Paris
some days back to solicit the life of
her son. Her efforts have been crown
ed with success, as the President of
the Republic, at the intercession OF
Madame MacMahou, has signed an
order for a communication of the mar $
punishment.
| An affecting incident occurred recent
" in Paris. Several French cooks,
temtped by high pay, left Paris for
New York Indeed, when the chef dc
cuisine of the Tuilerie> departed soc,
ty deemed it an irreparable loss. III"
was man of great and unclouGs
intellect, with acute views as to tie
clearness OF soup; fine judge o; gen
eral effect, and, Us composer, has
rarely had his equal.
JOHN Rusk1S is very fastidious in his
ideas about the shape in which his
books are published. The very sty',.
OF binding rich purple calf, with ei!7
edge-is dedicated by him. and '.,'
copy is to go forth to the world i'll al
cher shape; while the varieties =;
type and color of the ink have all been
subjects of the most weighty cons,d-
Grafton.
W. A. GOODYEAR, Il graduate of u<,
Sheffield Scientific School, recently
discovered that the famous Califor,
peak, which has been lately known
Mount Whitney. is not the same Pc X
to which the name of Mount Whitney
was originally given by Professor
Brewer, of New Haven, in 1864, the
real Mount Whitney peak being SIX
miles further north. The discove:.
also makes good the claim that Mount
Whitney is the highest peak in the
United States, fully $4,000 feet high,
the supposed Mount Whitney bei' s
only 10, 40 feet.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertis. r
says A Young lady of this city " >
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