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The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-12-18

we nave received copy of the eau
TOPOGRAPHY of Abraham Lincoln" in fac
s'''Ie. 1t is the only life of the martyred
President ever written by himself, and is
= fac smile Of the original. It is accom-
panied by likeness, pronounced inferior
to none yet published. Altogether it is
very desirable. An agent to canvass
Stesrns county is wanted. Address Dr..
v Fell, Clearwater.
The Winona Herald is responsible for
this outrageous SANDER on the melod ious
voice Of Frank Hall:
The Chief Engineer in St. Cloud has
such sonorous voice that he gives the
alarm, when there is fire, in that city.
He saves the expense Of fire alarm bell.
Friend Wh,pple was Chief Engineer of
the Winona Fire Department, and knows
what it is to wake the midnight echoes.
The st. Paul papers report that an at
tempt has been made to crush out the
Duluth Tribune, because it's editor was too
frank and outspoken in bis opinions. We
are glad to learn that the attempt proved
abortive, and that after its suspension of
two weeks the Tribune will again be issued.
We know nothing about the merits of the
controversy, but We weuld suggest to Mr..
Mitchell's opponents that this thing of
crushing out an independent newspaper
has generally proved to DO q tedious and
expensive job, and one that very seldom
meets with success.
-Mr.N.Van Loon, who is buying venison
saddles, tells US that man named Samuel
Lee, Of Two Rivers, tried to come q sharp
game over him the other day. Lee came
in the evening with sled load of saddles,
which he insisted upon being paid for that
same evening. The unusual weight of the
saddles aroused Mr.. Van Looms suspicious
that all was not right, and he deferred
paying until morning. Opening some OF
the saddles, he found that the forequarters
had been chopped up and stuffed
inside of the skin of the deer before it va.
drawn back over the hindquarters, thus
adding largely to the weight of each sad
die. The whole lot was rejected by Mr..
Van Loon. We learn that another Two
Rivers man endeavored to sell Coates &
Freeman q lot Of saddles stuffed with ice,
bones, etc.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-12-18
Tuesday, March 31st, 1874.
They have already realized
Over A Million Dollars

and have great many Agents yet to hear from.
No doubt is entertained Of the sale of epery ticket
before the draotng but tuhether all are sold or nop
the Concert and Drawing aol positively and .nequtv-
ocally take place the day zed and If ami re-
main uas0d they suiI be cancelled, and the przzes ,cH
be reduced in proportion to the unsold tickets.
0n1v okotu h>v hoo
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-12-18
OI0O1u8 bVIC CI
Value Of personal property.....,
Total value real and personal property $2,s7s.e25

Total tax assessed s1o1, 500
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-12-18
.ANDREAs' NEW ATLAS" OF MINNE-
sofa.

Dated December 5th, 1873.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-12-18
St. German st., 81. Cloud.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS..

Reported for The JOURNAL by John Zapp
Esq.,, Register of Deeds.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-12-18

for q bargaii
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
A Humorous View OF the Impending
Strikes.

The Boston Commercial Bulletin is re-.
sponsible for tho following:
A labor strike is said to be impending,
The carpenters say they don't get enough
to pay their board.
Shocmakers, that it takes their awl to
keep them at work, and their sole depend.
ence is often in their last job.
Painters complain that they have be-
come literally hue.ers of wood.
Upholsterers complain that hangings
have gone out of fashion.
I Boiler makers aver that Congress has
kept tho country in hot water to such a
degree that they have no chance.
Blacksmiths complain that all the forgo-
ing is done in Wall street, and there is
no chance.
Tailors say they mean to give their
customers fits.
The hatters have kept ahead.
The gas.6tters will go in for light work.
Printers say they are tired, and can't
"Set up" any longeI-thafs what's tho
matter.
Bakers say they kuead more, and dor't
like to see SO many rich loafers.
Butchers complain Of being asked to
work at killing prices.
Candle makers urge that wicked work
ought to be we'll paid for.
Wheelwrights say that all the spokes.
men in Congress voted more pay before
retiring, and they expect to do as we'll a.
their felloes.
The paper-makers say their business is
such that it brings them to rags.
And, finally, the plumbers propose to
have their customers do the work, and
charge double price for experimenting it
themselves. Each superintendent will
have three tenders, one to fill his pine,
another to hold his hat, and q third to act
rs substitute when be goes out ito sec a
man."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
Opening Of Spring Trade amid the
Geysers.

VoycOAOo
The correspondent of the San Fran.
cisco Bulletin, writing from the great
geysers OF Sonoma county, says: can
important change has taken place in
tho geysers recently. Old residents
say there 10 a greater display of heat,
steam and Plutonian fury in them ut
present than has been known since 1850.
I have been here twice before and have
never seen such general fiery activity
visible a. at the present. Whether
this is tho result Of increased demand
for fire in this region where the antip-
odes of happiness and comfort is sup
posed to reign, I cannot say. A real
geyscr is now shot up from the Witch
es' Cauldron, to height Of about two
feet above the surface. It would rise
much higher but that the overhanging
banks of decompossd rocks against
which it shoots up prevent it. A por-
ton of this bank is to be removed, and
as this will be a work of some danger
owing to the steam emitted from the
terrific heat of the black water in the
caldron Gts temperature il 292 degrees
Fahrenheit, that is 80 degrees above
boiling point, tit is proposed for a
short time to turn the cold steam which
flows down the Geyser canyon into the
caldron, with the hope that its terrific
heat may be sufficiently mitigated to
permit of th0removal of the bank of
rocks mentioned. The large steam.
boat blowpipe (the diameter of which
Is about equal to that of an ordinary
Hour barely, now emits a mo1e dense
volume of steam than ever before,
while the devil stream whistle makes, q
noise signally shrill and piercing as
that which splits the ear when close to
a locomotive a. that whistle 10 being
sounded. Warm work is in short 20.
ing on all through the Geyser canyon
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
Remarkable Accident .

A most remarkable accident occurred
in Pleasant Hill township, Pike coun.
ty, ILL.,, few days since. John Bailey
was engaged in threshing wheat on the
farm of Henry Briscoe, with a ten horse
machine. The ground being soft a
large quantity of straw had been
thrown on the track to make solid
walking for the horses. A journal in
the machine became so hot MS to set
the straw on fire, and the flames spread
SO rapidly that in few minutes the
machine, a large quantity of threshed
grain. and several ricks of the golden
cereal were consumed. Five horses
were burned to death and several 9TH
ers made useless by being cooked to n
crisp. One man had most of his cloth
ing burned off, but was not fatally in
jured.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
Miraculous Escape.

At Marseilles, ILL.,, on Friday last,
when the westward-boand mail train
on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
citic Railway was running into Mar
settles at the rate of twenty miles an
hour, it struck wagon then crossing
the track and cut it completely in two.
The horses made good their escape.
but two men made still more mirscu.
lous escape than tho horses. When
the engine struck them the shock de.
posted Babcock so close to the track
that the wheels just missed him and
that was all. Flemming was thrown
upon the pilot, where he remained un-
til the train could be stopped. When
the two men were picked up every one
supposed that their ghastly faces in
dictated fatal condition, but upon an
examination by physician it was soon
discovered that they were more fright
ened than hurt. Not bone was frac-
tured and no very severe bruises re.
ceived.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
A New Theory.

A new theory Of earthquakes and VOL.
canoes, which has found favor With scien.
titic men generally, has been given by
Mailer. is based upon tho conceded
tact that the earth is gradually cooling {;
and as it cools, it contracts, Lut not uni
iormly. Tho interior contracts more
rapidly than tho crust, and Mailer be.
lieves that tho shrinkage of the crust can
expl ain all volcanic phenomena. As the
result OF the contraction Of the earth,
Irregularities of level were first produced
in the Ear remote ages; then corrugation
of mountain ranges and table lands; and
lastly local crushings down and dis
locations, a process still going On. Heat
being, as is now generally allowed, form
Of motion. the work expended in bearing
down the crust is transformed into heat
Tho surface of the earth may we'll ~
compared to the shrivelled skin Of an no.
pie. Earthquake and volcanic oruptions
are the result of the subsistence and
shrinkage of tho earth's surface. The old
theory that mountains were upheaved is
not correct. The valleys were sunk down.
This volcanic forco has passed its MAIL
mum, and is now growing less as the
earth parts with its internal heat.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
What the Oak Thinks.
BY CAROLINE n. HEwINs,

"Oak.trce, arc Won sleeping?
Nalnut-butls have burst their sheath:
led keys strew the ground beneath
Naples, skyward creeriug,-
Oak-trce, what! still sleeping?
0ak-tree YOU arc wearing
Last years rags, while eln,s are green:
Why Is king worse clad than Queen?
Come, the spring winds daring,
Crown and mantle wearing"
" II my rags I'm wearing,
Wait q while, till Gins are bare,
Till the keen October air
Walnut. caves is tearing:
Rare gems I'll be wearing
" When the tlowcr-stalks tender
Bowed aud snapped and withercd lie,
Then my scarlet canopy
With its royal splcudor
Caves them covering tender.
" What if I seem sleeping?
is it not worth while to wait
For such glory, though It's late?
Though I'm silence keeping,
Waking +. lows sleeping
old and Ne,o for ipr1.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
OQneAtio Reclres.

Com BREAD-T0 all that do not al
ready use this rocipe we will give, as We
think it the way to make corn bread
Take two pints sweet milk, two-thirds cur
of molasses, two cups flour and -four Of
meal; add nearly ia tablespoonful of soda
Bake elowl y two hours, 10 tho crust will
be tender when taken ont.
Coop CooK1Es.-One cup sugar, one
teaspoon soda season with caraway.
TO TELL WHEN VINEGAR HAS SULPHUR
&c ACID IN IT, -Mince the pickles with q
glass or ivory knife, and then pour over
them little weak ammonia. If q blue
color is produced, it is certain they con.
tain sulphuric acid. The above is u SIM
pie and surtain test.
CLEANING SrovEs.-Stcve lustre, when
mixed with turpentine and applied in the
usual manner, is blacker, more glossy
and more durable than when mixed with
any other liquid. The turpentine prevents
rust, and when put on an old rusty stove
will make it look as we'll as new.
HOUSEHOLD SUcGEsrZoNs.-The white
of eggs with lime makes good cement
for broken china. Honey and caster oil
mixed are excellent for asthma. A tea
spoonful may be taken night and morning
with grsat benefit. Rancid lard may be-
purified by trying it over with little
water, adding few sliced raw potatoes.
The potatoes seem to remove the bad taste
from the lard.
LEMON PuFrs.-Ono pound of pulver.
lied loafsugar beat in the yolks Of four
eggs; add one teaspoonfu) extra for every
spoonful Of lavoring; beat tho eggs and
sugar as stiff rs possible: theh add the
whites beat to a stiff froth; beat we'll,
favor with lemon juice, and extract OF
tho peel or citric acid, and extract Of
lemon; drop on buttered papers in small
cakes and bake quickly without brown.
ing; leave the puffs on the paper until
entirely cold.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
Died Suddenly Of Heart Disease.

How common is the announcement.
Thousands are suddenly swept into eternity
by this fatal malady. This disease generally
has ito origin in impure blood filed with IT.
ritating, poisonous materials, which, circulat-
ing through the heart, irritate its delicate It's
sues. Though the irritation may at first be
slight, producing = little palpitation or irregu.
lar action. yet by and by the disease be-
comes firmly seated, and infamma ton, or
hypertrophy, or tbickening of helinin: mem
brane or Of the valves, IL produced: How wise
to give early attention TO case Of this kind
Unnatural throbbing or pain in the region Of
the heart should admoDish one that all is not
right, aud it You would preserve it from fur
thor disease, you must help it to beat rightly
by the use OF such = remedy as shall remove
the cause Of the troube. Use DR.. Perce's
Golden Medical Discovery before the disease
has become too seated, and it WILL by its great
blood purifying and wonderful, regulating
properties, effect perfect cure. 1t contains
medicinal properties which act specifically
upon the tissues Of the heart, bringing; about
healthy action. Sold BY all first-class Drug
gists. =" 634
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
The Vienna Exposition.

From the report of recent proceed
ings in the lower house of the Austrian
Reichsrath, we find that the coming
exhibition at Vienna is to cost tho large
sum of 90, 100000. The scheme was an
idea Of Baron Schwarz, Director. Gen.
eral Of tho exhibition, who has carried
on the work without calculating the
cost. A grant of 50, SOC, 600 has been
made by the house at the beginning of
the work, and it is now found that s.
$50, 900 more will be required. The
Director General is enthusiastic in be-
ieving that the exhibition will yet re-
suit in surplus; but the London
Times correspondent points out that
to.produce such q result would pre-sup.
pose at least twenty millions of visitors.
The supplementary credit of "a, $50, 600
is only to be granted by the financial
committee of the government on con-
dition that the management Of tie
sffair is to be taken out of the hands
of Baron. Schwartz.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
Collapse of tho Nerves.

There is nothing moro disheartening than nor.
vous DEBILITY. In extreme cases of this class the
sufferers do not care whether they live or die.
feeling Of hopelessness comes over them. and in
some instances where the threatening symptoms
arc not met by prompt and proper treatment, luna
cy or idiocy cnsue. Yet nervous debility is not u
dangerous complaint If wisely dealt WITH A medi.
Gated stimulant is the remedy needed, and in Hos.
letters Stomach Bitters this specific for the COM
plant Is presented In it's purcst and most potent
form. Nervous disease is usually complicated with
other ailments. 1t frequently involves biltousress,
irregularities Of tho bowels indiges
ton, and great mental depression. In tho spring of
the year, owing to the effect of chilling fogs search
ing winds and other unhealthy atmospheric pho
nomena, upon the external nerves, persons who arc
subject to nervous affections, oftcn suffer acute
distress, both Of body and mind from this cause.
It ts, therefore, advisable for all who are liable to
these troubles, and to the other bodily ills above
which 30 frequently accompany them.
to commence the regular use Of Hostetter's Bitters
carly in tho season. Tho severe nervous and bill
ious attacks, with which they might otherwise be
visited, can by this means no certainly avoided. Ar
. nervine, gentle apericnt and anti-bious metii
cine, the Bittors have no equal
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
A Murderer and His Victim Die at the
Same Hour.

From the Andersen (1nd.) Herald.
On Thursday evening, the 9Th of
March, a school exhibition was being
given in the house in Grant county
known Us "Knotty Corner" There
were several young men from Liberty
township, I'LL more or less under the
influence of liquor. Three of the
young men, named Scott, Griffey and
Bannister, got into a quarrel with a
man named Brads, and in the melee
which followed Griffey shot Brads in
the side. inflicting serious wound.
Griffey was arrested and placed under
bonds for his appearance at court. In
a few days he took sick with the core
bro-spinal meningitis, and on Sunday
last he died, and at the same hour, on
the same day, his victim, Brads, died
also. of the wounds he received at the
exhibition. This is a singular tragedy.
Scott and Bannister are yet under
bonds rs accomplices.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
Exchange Of Nickels.

Instructions for the exchange and
redemption, after April LIST, 1873, in
sums of not less than twenty dollars
or it's multiple, of all old copper-bronze
and copper nickel coins heretofore
authorized by law have been issued by
the Treasury Department. They pro.
vide for the exchange, at par, at the
mint in Philadelphia, OF ali such coins
authorized by the sixteenth section of
the coinage act of 1873, and for their
redemption in lawful money in similar
sums ut the mint, and by all assistant
treasures and designated dspositories
OF the United States. The expense of
the transportation of old coin and the
currency paid therefor is to be borne
by the party sending it, and that on
new coin by the United States.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
The Military Cemetery near New Or.
leans.

About five miles from the New Or
leans Custom House Is the great ceme-
terry containing the graves of II, 275
Union soldiers, killed in battle on the
Mississippi River, or who died in the
New Orleans hospitals. Here, in long
and solemn rows, regiments of the
dead repose side by side, while Just
below the lower fence of the cemetry
are the identical breastworks thrown
up by the Americans in 1916, and be-
hind which the battle of New Orleans
was fought by the heroes under Jack
son, and in front of which Gen. Pack
enham and the British army we're de-
feated and driven back. About an
eighth Of a mile above the works, where
the headquarters of Gen. Jackson were
located, q monument has been com.
with about eighty feet of it
completed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
OXsTeII slS w. Hnrsna

in this go-ahead age it is u dismal sight
TO see on a"le bodied man toiling along
the road at the slow pace of pair of oxen,
and We have probably had Us much to
Say as any one in favor of the taeter horse
or mule team.
We are bound to confess, however, that
me picture has another side which is
worthy OF careful consideration. Ox.team
are slow, it is true, hut they are effective
cheap and convenient. Horses are a
necessity for regular road work and for
many 'perations on the farm, but it is
al'n"st indispensable to have for orca-
o'"rs considerably moro team. force than is
needed regularly. Ii the extra work Of
"'""'ny, harvesting and hauling manure
IS b. 10 done Ivy horses, we muy make up
our miAu, 10 have them more than half
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
A Man Torn to Pieces Round q Revolv.
Ing Shaft.

Man Torn to Pieces Round q Revolv.
Ing Shaft.
From the Eau Claire Free Press, April 1.
Late yesterday evening man named
Alex. Macilwain met with fearful and
probably fatal accident at Barron's
mill. It seems that there is connected
with the shinele mill shaft and pull.
Icy, used in drawing in logs, which
projects outside the mill. The pulley
had been taken of, and the belt some
times attached to it was hanging over
head on nail, tho shaft revolving as
usual, when the unfortunate man
amused himself by laying his
hands upon and feeling of it
as it turned. He had on a pair of
buckskin mittens, and one of these hap.
Pening to catch in the key seat, he was
instantly whirled off his feet, and car
ried around with the shaft, striking
the belt above, which fell upon him
and wound round and round with the
revolution of the machinery, binding
him close to the revolving shaft. One
of his arms was crushed at the wrist,
torn off entirely above the elbow, and
thrown some ten feet from him. -Four
OF his ribs were broken, and his ankle
bones badly shattered.
Some little idea of the terrific VIC
1ence of the shock may be formed from
the fact that his boots were thrown
twenty feet away.
It was some little time before the
motion could be stopped, owing to its
accumulated quantity, and thus he was
carried around several times. The
belt had to be cut through in twolor
three places. before he could be extri-
Gated from his. terrible position. Dur
ing this time his other hand was also
crushed, and his injured leg broken
higher up. i.
Drs. Day and Peck found the I'M
happy man alive and rational, and suf-
fering but little on account of the
stunning effects of the accident. AS it
was evident that on the return of cir
culation the hemorrhage would be
enormous, and as the lacerated muscles
of the arm refused to close over tho
exposed bone, the lost limb was finally
amputated at the shoulder, which is a
very formidable operation. The other
broken bones were set as we'll as could
be under such fearful circumstances.
The broken ribs have certainly caused
some injury to the lungs, characterised
by efusion of arterlal blood and inac
tivity of one lobe, but the extent of
the injury cannot yet be decided.
We are informed that in the very I'M.
likely event of Macilwain's surviving
the next thirty-six hours, there may be
a feeble prospect of his recovery.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10

VETER1NARY SURGEONS all over the
country are recommending Shcridan:s Cuuai,v
Condition POWDERS for the following troubles
10 horses Loss Of appetite, roughness Of tho
ter, coughs and colds, swelling Of the glands.
WORMS, horse all, thick wind, and heaves.
A FRIEND Of ours who il chief clerk in the
Governmental Dispensary, says that no medi-
cine chest is now complete without Johnson
Anodyne Ltnnnens. We always supposed it was
prescribed ty law if it is not, it ought to be.
Tor certainly there is nothing in the whole.
soldier and the sailor as ,Johnson's 1nod,,ne
Ltntnaent-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
King Of the Blood.

CANCER: Cdse.-Your medicine con-
tinues to give entire satisfaction. One case
Of cancer on the lip, of six years standing,
was entirely removed by the use Of three bot
ties, and the person, II. H. Crane, ESQ, ex.
Sheriff OF this calhoun county, has request
I'd us to communicate the same to you, il
thereby others suffering from the same loath-
remedy with 4 similar result, not only BY
being cured Of the diseaae, bnt BY gaining
that peace OF mind necessary to happiness.
Williams l. O'Donoughue, Albion, Mich.
Write for circulars to D. Ransom, Son Il
Co., Buffalo, N, Y,-Com.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
Early Onions.


The Small Fruit Recorder describes the
mode adopted for hot.bed propagation Of
onions. When three inches high in the
bed, the ground having been previously
we'll prepared by manuring with rotted
compost, q wheel is made of two.inch
plank, with handles TO push like wheel
barrow, and haltinch pegs inserted in the
outside Of the wheel every two inches.
Thi: run along the ground, makes holes
at regular distances, and into these holes
boys set the onions accurately, without
trouble, and with rapidity. When the
plants are taken from the hot. bed, saturate
the soil we'll with water before lifting. In
this way they have been set out in hot
sunshine successfully, although . cloudy
day is best. A bed six feet square will
supply an acre, and the crop will be uni
form and good.