Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-21

lS49, Of which Con. Max Weber is President,
celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary Of the
outbreak of the German Revolution, in New
York, recently.
A SHORT timc ago the Government brought
q suit against Jay Cooke l. Co. to recover the
amount Of eighteen 81, 600 bonds, redeemed Al
genuine, but which proved to bo counterfeits.
Tho case was tried in tho United States Circuit
Court, and verdict was given for the Govern-
ment for s23, 12O.3S, being the amount paid by
the Assistant Treasurer for the bonds, with ill.,
terest. Jay Cooke 4 Co. appealed, and the
judgment of the court below has been affirmed.
BosroN has raised SA5, 500 for the Louisiana
Bo&ok kzund- ~~r.s. 7y r-u:s
nTHE Paci46 Nail Steamship launched man,
moth vessel Of $500. tons burthen, recently.
Tho steamer is called the City of Tokeo.
AT the annual meeting Of tho Bible Society
Rev. William H. Allen, president, and other
officers and managers were reelected. The
reports received showed that tho receipts Of
the past year were e7S4, ,496, and the expend-
itures $611 ,726; estimated value Of gratuitous
work, ss4O, GA; the volumes printed aud pur-
chased last year numbered i, ,056, 779; and dur
ing the So years OF the existence Of the Society
80, ,7s6.
PHILIP CLAYTON, of Georgia, who was AS
sistant Secretary of the Treasury under How
ell Cobb, aud somewhat prominent in tho re-
bellion, has been appointed by Gen. Grant Con-
sui ct Gallao.
JOHN Y. ScAMxoN, Of the Chicago Inter-
Ocean, has been summoned to show cause why
he should not be thrown into bankruptcy.
OCEAN travel is cheap at present. Another
reduction has been msde by some of tho steam
ship companies, and Storage tickets can now
be purchased for $23 each, with the possibility
Of still further reductions for al classes of
steerage passengers.
letter defending his course in ordering the
shooting Of the Virginius prisoners. Hesays |:
1T is not permitted to military mon to VAC
illate when they have peremptory orders to
obey, and still moro when they are grave and
important, and refer to acts of war;"
IT is now proposed to use the material in
tended for the Warrington monument in the
erection of an arch to be called "Washington's
Arch" A resolution is now before Congress
for that purpose.
The bill to aid the construction of tho North
ern Pacific Railroad will restore about fifty
millions Of acres Of publ, land to govern
ment, to be disposed of to actual settlers, 1t
the price now limited by law for adjoining pub
lie lands. The bill is now pending in the Senate.
The movement Of tho ice at Quebec caused
$500, 900 damage to the shipping. The gov-
10 ko1 49, kl,> I,
The question Of the reorganization Of the
Government is the absorbing topic at Madrid
at present. Marahal se:raao says he will form
= better Cabinet than the existing one, but he
has deferred the consideration Of the subject
until his health, which is improving, is COM
pletely restored.
The Carlists under Don Alfonzo lost 500
feat.
TIE body Of Miss Jane Watson, who disap-
peared from Oquawka, Ia., three weeks ago,
was found in tho river At that place. Marks
Of blows were found upon her head, which in
dicated that she was murdered. A drayman
and river man have been arrested on sus-
picion Of being the murderers.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred at Toronto
Ont, recently, burning the safe manufactory
Of John Taylor l. Co., Curries' boiler works,
and the large wholesale grocery store of Smith
l. Keighley. The stock of Thorne Il Parsons,
Wholesale leather dealers, was saved in dam
aged condition.
Foreign.
The new Spanish Ministry ID as follows
Qabala, President Of the Council and Minister
of War; Sagasta, Minister of Interior; Ull,
Minister Of Foreign Affairs Camacho, Minis
ter Of Finance Alonzo Martinez, Minister of
Justice; Alonzo Colemenares. Minister of Pub
Lie Works; Romero Orez, Minister of Colonies {:
Rodriguez, Minister of Marine.
LATE reports announce much distress from
famine and disease spreading in tho districts of
South Tirlloot and Singboom, India.
The Augsburg Gazette says the arrest of the
Grand Duke Nicholas was not due to political
causes.
THE English Colonial Secretary has announc;
cd in Parliament that the government has de-
cided that it is impossible to abandon it's DOS
session ON tho Gold Coast. Earl Carnarvon
said the government proposed to unite Logos
slrd Gold Coast in one province, under Cover
nor who will reside forty miles inland.
The Car and Grand Duke Alexis arrived in
London, May 18th.
The French Assembly has reelected Buffet
President, and Ill tho Yice-Presidents of the
late session.
The Pope recently received number Of Car
dinals, Bishops, and other eminent diguitaries
of the Church. In reply to one Of the visitors
from America, he animadverted severely on the
Governments of Mexico and Guatemala for
permitting the bitter prosecutions Of the
Church in those countries
An unusually hot season has set in all over
Europe. In Paris and London the weather at
the end of April was hotter than it usually is
i'll July. There had been a case of cholera re-
ported, III Paris, but tho ratio of mortality was
not unusually high.
Crimes and Casualties.
AT Xenia, Ohio, recently, two children of
Michael Ford were poisoned by milk which
they drank. ! portion Of the milk was an
alyzed, and no poison discovered. A doad
spider being found in tho milk, it is supposed
to be the cause Of the poisoning.
A FIRE At Clyde, Ohio, May IA, destroyed
one grocery store, one sewing machine estab-
lishrnent and six saloons. Loss $50, 600; in
surance $4,000.
A PARTY of mail robbers in Missouri, wero
tracked by band of twenty mon to Boone
county, Kansas, and in fight with them Rev.
NJ. New was seriously wounded. The robbers
escaped. Mr.. New was . minister of the
Methodist church, and who had recently come
from Iowa.
A. W. H. GR1E, sx-deputy tax collector, of
New York, charged with misapplying funds,
has been admitted to bail in the sum of So, 600.
The death is announced of Admiral Frank
lin buchanan, late of the Confederate army,
and Tor many years distinguished officer il,
the U. 8. navy, aged IS.
Ar New Orleans, the Spanish Consul, Don
Carlos Pie, Gen. Badger, chief of the police,
and detectives Harris and Pearson, gave bonds
III s2oooo each, to appear for trial, upon the
charge Of robbing, preferred by Capt. Roderi.
quez, the grand jury having found true bills
against them.
A Little Girl Killed by Red Ants.
MI. F. G. Jones mentions the
singular death of little colored girl on
his farm, near Auburn, Alabama. The
girl went to some stills that had been
i e.