Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-18
General Items.

General Items.
TEE hop market is depressed since
the close of the watering.place season.
TYPHOID fever is raging: fearfully in
London. 4. ~; 4.
AMONG the oranges there are no Ger
man lodges. :.... a.:
TIE opposition, press in Massachu-
sets now call: General Butler "the
claimant"
GEN. SHERIDAN received public re-
ception ut Montreal on his way to the
White Mountains
An ingenious Mexican mechanic has
invented a new, simple, and good work
ing sewing machine.
Some parties at Clyde, Kansas, lately
tarred and teathered a woman of bad
character.
IT is a fact that a tifeiess> wagon
wheel becomes fatigue6 sooner than
one that is we'll tired.
| ARE there any difference between
| cricket on the hearth and cricket on
the heath ? Thesa:h - a:z. .sii,zz----.
THEKE are many curious psfado1ea
IN the world. France didn't mourn,
even when she shed Theirs. rag
A MALE goat entered the oAlde of q
Mobile doctor the other day ..nd de-
voured costly work on anatomy.
"SucKER FLAT" CAL, was a little
shaken up, the other morning. by the
explosion of fonf hnndHsd and seventy
kegs of powder in one of the claims.
A PzSssx1vAx1A girl went blackber-
rying five weeks ago, and when heard
from, the other day, was keeping house
with her husband in Georgia
The tract coded by the Crows to the
United States amounts to between: six
and seven million, acres, 9. great por-
ton of it being exceedingly fine land.
A Texas editor says the chief amuse-
ment of citizens Of his town is to
poison dogs, and his chief regret that
they wish to pay subscriptions TO his
sheet in dead carcasses.
The wine makers and grape growers
of Pleasant Valley (Hammondsport, n.
" are in OBSTACLES over the 1hagnif-
cent prospect of the grape crop this
year. IT,
IT is said that General Meyer, cold
Probs, - began lie as poor, barefooted
boy. Since then he has succeeded in
covering his feet, but he has become
barefooted on the top Of his head.
The Hartford Conn., Water Com
missioners have just discovered =
trifiing leak in their mains Through
which 20, 900 gallons have been escap-
ing every day for . year past.
The widow of q Vermont peddler
claims $4,000 damages from the bar
keeper who sold liquor to the man who
murdered her late husband, but she
] won't submit her claims to q Geneva
arbitration.
MADAME ADEL1SA PATTI has been
presented with marble head and
Shoulders of herself. OF course she
was delighted. It is natural that she
should be charmed with the sight of .
bust which has charmed the world.
TIE Selma Times of the August 30th
says: GA private letter from Pensa-
cola, Florida, to one of our compositors,
states that the yellow fever is prevail
ing to an awful extent. The letter is
dated the 26th Instant and states
that there were sixty cases there that
day." ....
The Masonic Fraternity have under
way ut least g., O0O, GOO worth of new
halls, most OF which will be.c0mpleted
this year. The one in Philadelphia is
to be the most magnificent structure of
the kind in the country, and when fur
n1shed and entirely completed will be
worth at least 81, OOO, 600.
The Liberian Advocate, published
at Monrovia, Liberia, is curiosity in
journalism. It discusses only rational
matters, and its subscription Prioe is
a bushel of unhulled, red-ripe coffee.
IT is rumored that Paul de Cassag.
nae, the noted French bully and jour
nalist, is coming to this country on
account of his present unpopularity IN
Paris. He is said to have killed eight
cen men in duels. -,
AMONG national postofRces are the
following: I'll Ii, To To, Why Not,
Pipe Stem, Stony Man, Sal Soda,
Shickshinny, Snowshoes, Overalls,
Lookout. Last Chance, Backbone,
Marrow Bones, Sorrel Horse, Tally
Ho, and Tired Greek.
THE poet SAKE wrote this sentiment
the other day:
You have heard of 's the snake in the grass,
I ofthe terrible snake in the grass;
But now you must know,
Mans deadliest foe
Is sneke of different class,
s. Alas!
IT'S the veDomous snake the glass
A NEBRASKA MAN, on his dying bed
remembered that his wife was smoking
some hams, and he said Now
> Henrietta. don't go to stunning arount
l and forget them hams ~
A PHILADELPHIA PAPER intimate
.. that the Centennial expenses will ex
: coed the receipts by five or six mill
: ions, and iptimates that Congress il
u expected to make up the deficiency
Who would suppose that such
. smooth Quaker could have 30 stiff
. cheek Z
II A CURIOUS and beautiful effect va
j. lately produced with block of manu-
r featured ice bv experiments made l
d PHILADELPHIA. In, the centre of tn
q cake. completely inclosed by the tran.
v lucent material, was a boquet OF tres
II flowers. Every leaf and blossom va
Il perfectly visible, while the brillianc
r of the colors was enhanced by the II
y fraction through the ice.''
y On August 10th gentleman of TO
e tune, Mr.. Cooper, with his wife an
e her sister and page and boatmal
n were capsized in sailing skif on l'a1
~ Windernere. The boat was heavi
e ballasted and sank Immediately, carr
:! ing down all on board. She was caug
"a in squall, and the boatmen say Il
accident was partly due to the sails b
ing reefed too taut.
n IT is not often that We hear OF
$, mother-in-law killing her son-ln-l IL
"a with . hatchet or gun. Their style
OF murder is generally. more insldlou
Re hut DO less deadly. Mrs. John
is Dickersou, of Lamar county, Texa
Mt shot her son-in law, Robert: Little, +
er abusing his wife and following her
ne Mrs. Dickerson's house. He we
"a around corner and fell dead. NJ
It's Dickerson has been held IN $l:u
o1 bail.
y SUNSET Cox tells good story OF b
\ first meeting with Mark Twain. Ma
ht called on Mr.. Cox ut the capitol
m Washington. and sent in his card
,;s Samuel l.. Clemens. Mr.. Cox, bel
hs totally unacquainted with the nan
"a left his seat to see what the stranf
|ar wanted Of him. supposing, OF cou!