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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28
A Church S<slntiAi.

Another church scandal is coming to
light in Washington, with the promise
Of genuine sensation in the course of
fortnight. The facts of the case have
been mentioned in connection with
some monetary transactions of few
leading members of one of the largest
established Episcopal societies of that
city, and it appears that the matter is
undergoing investigation by commit
tee. consisting of the pastor and few
friends who realize the painful position
in which they are placed, and hope by
Indicating the guilty parties to turn
the blame from the church to them.
There are in Washington thirteen
Episcopal churches proper, among them
Christ Church, st. Johns. Trinity, and
Epiphany, and fourteen Methodist
Episcopal, including the Metropolitan
and the Foundry Churches. The church
III questlo" is prosperous and conspic-
uous, although there was time when
It's treasury was at a low ebb, and it is
said the lelinquencies of its members
were discovered through the confession
OF q dying brother. The charges ore
OF nature duplicating prominent mu.
nlclpal and government officials, and it
is said that the investigation will show
that within five years over two hun.
dred thousand dollars of government
moneys have been improperly di.
verted to the use OF the socI
ETY.. So far as the pastor and some
others are concerned, there has been nc
suspicion OF tho source of these reve-
nues until q recent date, and those who
have robbed the Government to con.
tribute both to their Own pockets ani
the church treasury have borne an en-.
viabls reputation for philanthrori,
generosity. It is believed that tn,
portion of the spoils given to tn,
church is small compared to that poc]1
eted by the guilty parties, who, d,
reason of their position IN the church
Dave been enabled to carry On thei
system OF frauds with impunity an.
with the innocent assistance Of thei
fellow.members.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28
Serious lsesnlt Of a Joke.

At q private party recently held in
Detroit, a boy thoughtlessly drew a
chair away from a corpulent gentleman
who was about to seat himself, there
by letting him down on the floor in a
very unpleasant manner. A merry
laugh greeted the unfortunate victim
when the 'ioke" was discovered, which,
however, was soon changed into muir
mer of regret, for it was soon found
that the gentleman was unable to rise.
He was assisted into an adjoining
room, where physician, who was one
of the guests, ascertained that the force
of the fall had created a rupture, the
effect OF which will be felt through
life
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28

WASHINGTON IRVING once, when pick
ing up an apple under tree in his Own
orchard, was accosted by an urchin OF
the neighborhood, vino, not recognizing
him as the proprietor, offered to show
him tree where he could get some
better apples than those. "But,' sac!
the boy, " we must take care the old
man doesn't see lis" "l went with
him." said Irving, land we stole q
dozen of my own apples"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28

The statistics of marine disasters
reported by the bureau veritas for the
month of June, 1873, gives the follow
ing, being list of disasters s,ffere
by all flags: Sailing vessels total =
lost, SO. OF these AZ were English, Il
French, z American, Italian, Nor
wegian. 2 Austrian, Russian, l Turk,
l Danish, l Swedish, Greek, and ] of
which the ting has not been reported.
In this number are included 18 s,iling
vessels reported missing. OF steamers
totally lost IL are reported-namely, I
English. 2 Russian, l German,
French, aud Spanish.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28
A Midsummer:Id
BY D. ". BR row \

Within the shade by willows made,
In sOftest summer weather.,
We sat beside the ripping tide
My love and together.
Through clouds Of white, with softened light,
The harvest moonbeams shinmered
And on the stream siivery beam
With diamond lustre glimmered.
The summer breeze, from fragrant trees,
Delicious odors brought us
While sounds from DER the farther shore
In blended sweetness sought US,
And 60 We, too, as in us grew
The sense OF peace 80 gentle
Attuned our song to Natures throng,
Buneath the evenings mantle.
We talked not much, but the soft touch
or Ylands, and eyes Of. meeting.
Told more by far than words declare,
AS heart to heart gave greeting.
Then, midnight come, we loitered home,--
T.. Like brother now and sister,, I'D:
" 10 cheat surprise and prying eyes
Till at the gate kissed her.
> ~. - u t ,.-S51Lner's.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28
DanburJ WitticiSnlx.

SOMETIMES a man will get the i'm.
preston that there isn't but one fly in
the world.
TIE Danbury boy of the period has
no girl now. The party he takes to
picnics and makes billions with con.
fectionery is his umbrella rack"
We hope our brass band will learn
some hornpipes, and jigs and waltzes,
SO we can have sacred concerts on Sun
day evenings like other places.
An evil-minded man who boards at
an Essex street restaurant thinks it is
cunning, when wanting the butter to
direct the passing of the chair oil" :"
MANY a man who lies down at Light
in calm respose little realizes that be
fore the sun Of another day glides the
borizon he will be sitting on the edge
of the bed chewing sweet-fag.
An Essex street man bought a crate
of damaged peaches for fifty cents on
Saturday, and it is said there is not .
man on that street with two perfectly
straight legs.
A LITTLE boy at Wooster street fell
from o stoop on Thursday and received
severe bruises. His father was sent
for and on arriving home found thirty
one women in the house. It took the
mother of the boy five days to get the
various bottles of camphor and harts-
horn to their rightful owners.
A BLOOD THIRSTY citizen of this place,
who thinks his life is IN danger, car.
ries pistol to protect himself. He
came in the Office this morning to get
q string to tie the stock and barrel TO-
gether, as tho other fastening is gone,
and took occasion to observe that be
would make the streets run with l:ood
if people didn't quit fooling around
him.
A NEWLY married man was directed
by his wife to order some yeast, Mon.
day night, and not having a very well
defined idea of yeast himself, he told
the baker to send up couple Of dol.
lars worth. At nine o'clock the next
morning three men might have been
seen tugging and sweating up the front
stairs of that mans house with a casl
of yeast.
MIR. SW1NPTON weighs about ninety
five pounds. Mrs. Swimpton weighs
1.-TWO hundred and ninety.tdree pounds,
and Mrs. Swimpton's sister, who is
visiting here, weighs just three hundred
and five pounds. Last evening Mr.
Swimpton and the ladies went out fol
a stroll, he having each hanging (?) on
his arm. A neighbor who was walking
in the rear of them, says that Mr..
Swimpton's feet did not touch the
sidewalk more than twice in going
three blocks.
A WEST STREET family had little
social gathering, Monday evening.
During the evening the head of the
house volunteered to crack some wal
nuts, but cracked his thumb instead,
and the walnut from which tie hammer
glanced, few against ten dollar vase,
and knocked in it's abdomen. Then
the head of the house threw the ham
mer through fire screen, kicked the
pan of walnuts across the floor and
into the legs of the minister, and went
into the kitchen to deliver an address.
The party broke up.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28
NUMBER 81.
SPURGEON'S DECLINE.
PhySical Feeblenesx OF the EuUlfs
Preacher-Tvvss or Three AnecI oies.

Physical Feeb1eness OF the English
Preacher-Twu or Three Anecdotes.
London Letter to the Cincinnati Commercial,
On Sunday last very large crowd
larger perhaps than usual-assembled
in Mr.. Spurgeon's tabernacle, think
ing, perhaps, that he might improve
the occasion to make some remarks
concerning the bearer of the red flag
of ritualism which has so long enraged
him. He preserved, however, a dig gni
fed silence. 1t is evident that Spur
geon has lost much of the physical Wig
or which he once had. He leans oftcner
and more heavily on bis desk, his man
ner ia more hesitating-his. voice
more low and conversational. In
creasing weakness has not, however,
touched any fibre of his intellectual
force and indeed to q severe taste his
lower tone, and more solemn manner
are an improvement On his former
style. He still holds the crowd as no
man in London has held it in recent
times, and as q natural consequence he
is overworked. On Sunday last he had
among his hearers the Negro Jubilee
Chorus from America, who sang some
of their hymns to him in his anteroom
after the sermon. A crowd of visitors,
came to shake hands with him
and he greeted them cordially, remark
ing that he regretted that he had so
little time to talk to them, but hoped
they would have plenty of time in
heaven. A rather odd incident: Just
before the services, two distinguished
Americans-one q former official and
intimate fr1end of the late Daniel
Webster-had been shown into a pew.
Presently the pew opener came, and
requested that they would take seat seat
just behind, as ga distinguished gen
tleman and lady had to be placed in
the pew they occupied" The two
Americans at once complied, and be-
held the gentleman and lady escorted
to the vacated seats-both bi. ck as tue
ace of spades.
Mr.: Sturgeon is credited with the
following, which, if not true, is ben.
tr0vatO. He is said to have been taken
to task by some Sabbatarian since he
has found it necessary to employ a
to take him to church.
But" he urged, 81 only sit still in
the carriage-I don't work. =:
All, yes, sir" said the other; "Dut
your coachman think of him!'
"Oh, he is . Jew, and keeps the
seventh day Sabbath"
But your horse Z"
oh, said Spurgeon, getting a lit
tie impatient. che is Jew, tool"
This reminds me of another little
story going the rounds concerning one
Of our Broad Church clergymen, who
being recently on an excursion in Scot
land, was vehemently- rebuked by his
for taking walk ON Sunday
afternoon. The clergyman said he
could not see the harm, and said:
You know that We read that our
Lord himself walked with his dis
ciples in the fields on the Sabbath
day"
"Ay," said the old lady, cay. ken
Il, an 1 neer thocht any the better o.
Him for it, neither! !"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28
The AerOnn,lt,
BY ELIZABETH SILL,

The AcrOnnut.
BY ELIZABETH SILL.
The airy bark, its master waiting,
Swings restless on an airy main,
And, wido its silkcn sails initiating,
Pulls Mt tho anchorng chain.
On viewless billows lightly swayins,
1t pants to cleavc the s0undless deep,
And, its high impulse Oheying,
Through heavens wide blue to swceD
Like eagle proud, whose mighty pinion
Fettcrs may bind but cannot tame.
Ccaseless it chafos against dominion.
Coaseless its upward aim.
And he on this strange vovaeo starting.
Lone waDderer OF the tracklcss height,
What but the spirits late st parting
Can match this daring flight?
He to no shores his course is bending,
No busy ports before him rise
lie floats upon sea amending,
Tho sailor Of the skies
sea whose ciiffs, now dark, now beaming,
Each veering zephyr builds or mars,
Bridged hy an arch OF seven.fold cleaning,
And isiandc1 with stars.
From his aerial watch beholling,
11o AhC u lC0Act u0 IL "ulEleu,
Silence and space alOno cnfOlding,
He secs this distant world.
He secs confused tho hills and valleys,
Dwindled and shrunk tho ample plains,
The ocean but a sapphire chalicc,
Tho rivers silver veins;
The winding course of linked sierras,
Like some !:u &C srrpent's uncoiied rings ;
And, swOCi in trcm the rocky terrace
The cataract's suulit wings.
TO him vast towers and cities splendid,
Column and dome majestic piled,
Are elltterns spots, uncertain blended
The playthings OF child.
He sees the storms beneath Linn gather.
Watches the wrinkled lightning fall,
And, canop;ed in cloudless ether,
Rides high above them all.
A speck amid the light eternsl,
AS up the crystal dome he flies,
Well nigh: it seem the path supornal
That leads to Paradise.
+ i =
Spirit, that now within me chained
Longst to soar ut liberty,
Soon shall thy powers be unrestrained,
And thou at length be FREQ
And when, no longer hero enshrouded,
But bathed in the empyrean clear.
Thou lookcst back from heights unclouded
On this, thy mortal sphere,
it, = scenes no longer shal! allure thee,
Its faded joys no more invite;
Far, far beneath the storm-cloud's fury
Above the perfect light.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28
How Queen Victoria Got 50 Rich.


Prince Albert's will has been kept a
secret to this day, and no one knows
what it contained. The rumor is that
the Prince left everything to the Queen,
and that he also laid injunctions upon
her not to convert any of the property
into money for the purpose Of giving
the money to the Prince of Wales.
That young gentleman, it may be re-
membered, was in disgrace with his
papa at the time of the latter's death
indeed, the death itself was the copse.
quence of u cold caught on sudden
journey to Oxford, whether Prince Al
bert had been summoned in haste to
get his son out of a disgraceful and
dangerous scrape in which he was in
volved.
No one at the present day knows
exactly what are "the private estates
of the Queen. The estate of Balmoral
and the Osborne estate ore known, and
their value can be estimated; but there
are, in addition, the kensington es.
tates, of which no one but the Queen
and her private agents know anything.
When the plan for the construction
of the South Kensington Museum was
; first devised there were miles of unoc.
cupied lands lying around the spot
chosen for the great collection of build
ings now known as the Exhibition, the
Museum, and Albert Hall and there
were other miles of streets only partly
built, and having for the most par,
cheap and poor houses upon them. A
little ring was formed-Prince Albert,
Mr.. Dixie afterwards Sir G. w. Dilke)
and two or three others CO. posed it
and by this ring the greater part o1
this property was quietly bought up
before the plan for the museum, &C.,
was made public. This was more than
twenty years ago.
The whole of that region is now
densely covered with fine houses, an1
what cost only few hundred thou
sands is now worth many millions.
Prince Albert's share of this is now the
property of the Queen, and these Ken.
sington estates are in themselves very
large fortune. Altogether in money
and landed property, to say nothing oi
the jewels, her Majesty is supposed tc
possess something like &c, ,O0O, ,OO(
sterling, while no one really knows
how much she has and the amount
may be el6, 900, 600, or even EGG, 600,
600, for aught any one can show to thu
! cOntrDry
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28

For downright bit OF misnn thropv
an epitaph in an Irish churchyard /.
noteworthy:
Here lie the remains OF John Hall,
Grocer The world IS not worth a ia.
Aud have good 'nisin for saying so.
Next we have brewer:
Poor John Scott lies buried hero
Tho once had both hale and stout.
Death strctrl,'l hin, on bis hitter hi,y.
In another worlG he hops about.
Then barber
An h""cst man who livod by shapinQ you:
Ills hatS were many. his graces few.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-28

The airy bark, its master waiting,
Swings restless on an airy main,
And; wido its silkcn sails initiating,
Pulls mt tho anchoring chain.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-01-20
Great Discoveries.


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enectualy cure liver complaint, jaundce dyspepsia
chronic or nervous debility, chronic diarrhea dis
sease OF the kidneys, and all diseases arising from
disordered liver, stomach or iutestineH: such as
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blood TO the head, acdity OF the stomach sore eru-
citations, sinking or huttering at the pit Of the
stomach, swimming OF the head, hurried or difcult
or aiming, huttering az the heart choking or suffo.
eating sensations when in g lying posture dimness
Of vision, dots or w bs before the sight dn pain IN
thethead deficiency OF perspiration, yeowness Of
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limbs, &c, sudden nushes Of heat burning in th,,
mesh, constant imaglnings OF evil and a great de-
preston OF spirits. ~
Price 81 per bottle. Beware OF cOuunterfeita Do
not let your druggist palm OF some other prepara-
lions Of Iron he may say is as good, out ash for
kunEels Bitter Wine OF Iron. Take no other.
KUNKEL'S BITTER WINE OF IRON.
now only ask a trial Of this valuable Tonic.
Price 81 per bottle K Il. kUNKEL, sole Pro-
Philadelphia -e'
other - $3.50 ~ ~
For sale in Wilmington by Z. McInall Jr, Second
and Market, K. BrinRhurst a Co., Sixth and Market
II. r. Bringhurst, Sl7 Market street Alfred Walton
10 Market street; j. j. Gallagher, b. a c. Shosma-
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and Market streets. Oct3O-iy-i5
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-01-20
HENRY WILSON THE HONEST.

M one whose good name became assailed dur
ing the course Of the last campaign is further
removed from all suspicion of corrupt influences
than Senator Wilson, and his recent statement
before the Credit Mobilier Committee ia a most
full, candid, and conclusive refutation Of tho
slander attached to him. AS the Baltimore
american remarks, IL there is one quality for
which our Vice President elect is distinguished
more than another, 1t is transparent candor. In
his private conversations, as well as his public
speeches, he speaks az a man who has nothing
10 conceal. He, therefore, gave the Committee
q view Of the transactions by which, for a short
time, the silver wedding gift made his wife.
WAS invested, for her use alone, in the stock Of
ie Credit Mobnier, and how 1t was speedily
dis-invested, the moment there appeared the
remotest sign that even this indirect connection
with it might become Questionable or perhaps
inappropriate. The whole statement OF the case
Is elsewhere given.
In the course Of his statement to the Commit
os, Mr.. Wilson said:
''-I had made II a rule never to buy any,
thing which could be Affected in any way by leg
isatlon; do not mean to say it is wrong for
other gentlemen TO own railway or bank secur-
ties, or anything Of that kind; everybody must
judge for himself in regard to that.
MY position was peculiar one, having learn
ed early in life that poor man cannot 90 what
q rich man can, and that a mAniwho is not a
lawyer cannot do what lawyer may, suppose
With propriety, do ; l came into the Senate from
q mechanics shop; had home which had cost
me about $4,000, and which had paid for; /
was doing some little business, which found
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-01-20

when went to Cengrans must give up / wound
up nay business and sold out what stock had
on hand was making shoes sold my shop,
paid all my debts, and had less than 81 900 oveI
/ knew that came here under temptation, and
made up my mind, IS said, never to be the
owner Of any property which would be Affected
by iegislAtion- because such ownership
would be wrong, but on account Of my peculiaE
position"
AThese are manly and honorable words. They
are natural to the speaker To those of us who
intimately know his integrity Of character, his
fidelity to principle, and the calm. modest SIM
plcity Of his life they needed not to be said. Nor
were they needed, perhaps, by the country which
has again and again highly honored him, but they
will go on record as formal disproof of the par
tisan cAlumny which even be was not preserved
from.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-01-20

ADJOURNMENT OF THE LEGIsI4ATURK FOR THE WEEK
TOWN GOSSIP.
Special Correspondence Of The Commercial
DOVER, Jan. IS.
Legislative business closed for the week yes
terday, at noon, to be commenced on Monday
at 8 p. NJ. One matter Of interest in the closing
session OF the Senate was the discussion on the
subject of the amended bill incorporating the
Rehoboth Beach Camp Meeting Association. An
amendment, to which exception was taken,
was in regard to the limits which
should exclude the sale of liquor,
other than by regularly established" hotels.
Mr.. Stockley objected az there was already a
law existing which prohibited such sale within
two miles Of any camp ground, and thought it
unnecessary to enact a similar law. At the
same time, Mr.. s. desired it to be distinctly mn
derstood that he was opposed to rum mills, "
in any way, and would cast his vote against
them ou all occasions.
In the way of evening entertainment for the
members, the usual resort is to while away their
idle hours in the Representative Chamber,
where social gossip of rather domestic nature
is INDUCED. Only on rare occasions, is anything
like state Affairs" talked Of the members. gem
orally, being Very guarded in their expressions
concerning any personal standpoint to be taken
in the future.
Thursday evening the Moral Show was an
nounced, which broke in on the monotony OF
Dover. The members of the House, excepting
two or three, were in attendance and in JUS
tice to the affair, we can say they were well en-
tertaned with vocal and instrumental music in-
terspersed with comic oddities, including the
o." "A-@-A--s
SENT TO TRENToN.-Hugh +. Sweeney, Of this
city, convicted at Brdgeton, N. j., of man
slaughter. was taken to the State Prison. at
Trenton, on Friday.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-01-20
urum our Late EDITION of saturday.l
The Flood. of Yesterday.
ITS EFFEcTs EIsEwHEEE-rHE sUsouEHANNA ms
NO.

ITS EFFEcTs EIsEwHKEE-THE sUsoUEHANNA ms
NO.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1S.
Both the North and West branches Of the sus'
quehAnnA have broken up, and the river has
risen to an alarming extent. The ice has gorged
10 several places.
At williAmsport, the susquehanna is gorged
with ice above, and the Erie railroad is over
flowed, stopping travel.
At Hayre de Grace the water is slightly high
or. The ice is all gone below the light house.
The Philadelphia and Erie Railroad is impas-
sable, and the track is covered five feet between
Williamsport and LockhAven. Serious trouble
Is apprehended rs the water is still rising.
The lower section Of Albany is flooded by the
freshet, aud the Hudson River Railroad bridge,
at Stockport, has been carried away.
The BrAndywine has fallen, at Ohadd's Ford,
and the danger is over.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-01-20
Spffial alnttfes.
leaths from pIseaaes ef the Lunpa

~oHENEto " WEEI Us UddVo 2 7 ETTb LUTIRH
There are more persons die annually from d.
sease or the lungs IN from any other cause Every
one should recolect that neglected cough or cold
often terminates in consumption. Hasson's Com.
pound syrup OF Tar ls the best and most reliable
article known Tor the cure OF coughs. colds hoarse-
ness, asthma, chronic catarrhs and sore throat For
the relief OF Whooping Cough, there is nothing
equal to IL
tina united States.
Price 80 cents per bottle.
p. S.-See that the signature OF RUSSELL A LAM.
DIS, ProprB is on each wrapper. janlT0t
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-01-20

kunkeFs Bitter Wine Of Iron,
Dr. Jaynes Expectorant for Coughs and Coda.
Ayers Cherry Pectoral
Dr. Schenck's Pu'monic Syrup,
DR.. Roses Cough syrup,
Dr. Schenck's Pills
Dr. Roses Pills,
Dr. Jayne's Pills.
Dr. Ayers Pills, and all the leading patent medi
cines in the market
Also.a full and well selected stock of freah Druoa
Medicines and Fancy Articles on hand.
country store Keepers and grocers supplied with
Paregoric, Ladanum, &C.
Essences OF all kinds, wholesale and retail at
FOSTER'S DRUG HTORk
Front and West streets,
Wilmington, Delaware