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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
A Cure for Scurvy.

NJ. Levcn, being in charge Of one OF
the hospitals Of Paris during the siege,
made study Of scurvy, and concludes
that it is not produced by want Of veg
etables, nor arc vegetables indispensable
for its cure, but that it is the result OF
bad hygicnic conditions in those who
contract it. Cold, dampncss, excessive
work, moral depression, and insufficient
Authorization, he thinks, are the princi-
pal causes of scurvy. He believes it to
be fatty degeneration Of the muscular
system, beginning in the heart, and in
these muscles which are most active,
when the degeneration appears in the
liver, Kidneys, and their organs. A
great many cures were obtained by tho
use Of raw meat without vegetables,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
Count Wrangel in Berlin.

A Berlin correspondent of the London
Telegraph remarks that the Emperor
William no longer rides on horseback,
but has to review his troops from his
carriage. He is now in his 18th year.
ct is true" adds this writer, "that
Count Wrangcl, who is nearly thirteen
years his senior, may still be seen from
time to time threading the paths of the
Thiergarten upon a steady-going hack,
to the saddle of which he is carefully
strapped and that the grandfather of
the Prussian army promenades the Lin
den with feeble jauntiness, chucking
servant girls under the chin, returning
eagerly all the salutations paid to him,
and distributing new silbcrgroschen to
the little boys and girls who follow him
in gleef,ll groups, and look upon Papa
chen Wrangel as n certain, though IT.
regular, source of revenue. This lively
and Supplemented old gentleman has
tragical past behind him, too, and was a
very terrible fellow in his day besides
which he has been wounded q dozen
times than once sevcrely-and
has achieved ~ many victories in the
boulder rs in the field; yet he bears
himself rs though the idea Of death new
er crossed his mind, and even dcfied the
laws Of nature SO utterly as to recover
entirely from a sharp stroke of paralysis
at lightweight years Of age. But the
cares and responsibilities that Cypress
crowned heads have been unknown to
him. Ho has ever been soldier pure
and nlladu]teratcd ; no politics, ]itera-
tire, Or other p,,zzling matter Of that
sort has he over allowed to bother his
brains. AS subordinate to carry out
to the letter his ortlers-as a chief to see
that his own commands were accurately
fulfilled-these have been the solo cares
aud prcoccupations Of his public life.
Private griefs Of the most stupendous
and crushing nature he has met with
tho stoical courage of hero, aud has
dealt with them invariably i'll q manner
dictated by the honor of q sOldicr-mOre
than once with the most tragical results,
but in such sort that ones admiration
for him, though Il slight shudt(er may
permeatc it, can never for a moment lie
qualified by the remembrance of any
word or action of his in the least out of
keeping with the maintenance in unsul.
lied brightness of his personal and pro
fcssional honor. A reginental cadet
when King William was born; u de.
core for valor in the field, of tho first
days of the present century Il Colonel
ut Waterloo, and General fifty years
ago, it is very possible that this extra
ordinary veteran, of whom the Berlincrs
say that he has forgotten the way how
to die, may outlive his sovereign, whom
he little less than worships-he has III
readv Outlivcd four Prussian kings u
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
Cruelty Of Isabella.

The Jews we're tho favorite victims of
the Inquisition. When history hall
cease to he rs unreal as fairy tale, and
when crime shall no longer find its de-
Tenders, it will be related that the
gentle and virtuous' Isabella inflicted
heavier woes upon the human race than
Mcss.lina or Mary Tudor. In 1892, in
the dawn of new civilization that was
to overthrow at last the dark places Of
cruelty, and crush popes and inquisitors
in general uprising Of the nation, Isa-
bella, the fc,,ntlrcss Of the Spanish In
QUESTION, urged the expulsion Of the
Jews from Spain. No pity had she for
the mothers who were to he torn
from their prosperousl homes to perish Of
hunger and thirst on tho African shores,
who were to leap into the blue Mciiter
rancan to escape the insults Of their
cnptors, to sec their babes die in their
arms, their children sold into fatal
slavery no compassion for the throng
of learned and famous men who were to
founder in crowded ships or languisll
with disease and starvation in a foreign
land. 1t is not told that tho bigoted
queen over felt any rc,norsc for her
cruel deeds, or was ever willing to soften
the woes she had inflicted ncedlessly on
the most valuable portion Of her subjects.
At the famous meeting when Alnsrbanel,
the most eminent of the Jews for schol-
arship and virtue, begged on his knees
for pity for his people from the attentive
sovcreigns, when he offered MI immense
ransom for their preservation, when
even Ferdinand llcsitatcd, it was tho
queen who urged the relentless enforce.
mcnt of the decree, and the stern Tor.
qucmatla flung on tho table crucitix.
=" Sell him if you will !" he cried, and
terrified the king into obedience to tho
voice of the Church. The decree wa:
published, and every Jew commanded t.
embrace Christianity or leave the realm
|-Har1ocrs' Magazine for J,oae.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
A Javaneso Poison.

The natives Of Java are said to possess
q fatal poison, which acts in purely
mechanical way, and yet, when admins
tered to any animal, is said to produce
certain .loatI. It consists of the small,
black tilaments obtained from the stalk
of the bamboo. These tilaments, or
needle shaped spines, are covered with
an ilnperceptible f,lrze, which acts as n
prolclling medium, SO that when the
needles arc swallowed they catch in the
victims throat, from which they work
their way to the respiratory organs, and
there produce irritation, followed by IL
violent inflammation, and eventually
death. The needles are 80 fine that
they may le mixed with any form of
solid food, and thus l2 administered to
the unconscious victim.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11

Tfi ----- ---~-.----
At Large.
Tuos. SCOTT has boon; elected President q
the Pennsylvania Contral Railroad. =; 90.
Ar the recent q ction sale Of .Sonatcr Sum
ners effects, i is said that everything brougl
/ four times Ms value.
Tus police commissioners OF Ncw York 1T
now Investigating the charge contained in a
F anonymous letter that nh officer Of tho Eight
Precinct was tho person who stolo $500
worth Of diamonds from jewclor i'll Brookly
| in 1896. Tho officer, tho letter states, was n
that time known a. Dan, tho Snatcl,er."
TuEmatcl between tho famous Red Stock
ing base ball club and tho Chicago club, Oh til
ID Inst: resulted in victory for tho fern,or.
Ban FRANCISCO papers say that WodRbpll All,
C1aillih failed to take that city by storm, al,
started East again III . few days.
TEE Rev. Morgan Dix, D. D., Rector o
tho Trinity Church, New York, and son OF Gov
Dix, was married ON tho Sd inst. to Miss Emil.
Soutter, daughter Of tho lato James Il. Soutter
Tns Millsrs' National Association elected
tho following officers for tho ensuing yea,
President, George T. Plant, Of st. Louis
Secretary Frank Tuttle, of Kalamazoo, Mich.
Treasurer. d. b. Morrill,, Of tho Same place
and a Vice President from each Of tho twolty
one states represented.
DURING May tho funded dobt Of tho city OF
New York, according to the Comptroller
report, increased about &l,5OO,OOo making al
increase of over eli 600, 600 in two years and
nine months.
TIE widow Of the lato James Fisk, Jr., il
asking tho Now York courts to determine hci
right a. stockholder in tho Union Pacific
Railroad Company to tho amount of 10000
shares.
The trial of tho N. +. Police Commissioners,
Oliver Chsrlick and Hugh Gardner, indicted
for violations of tho election law, hayo beol,
fixed for Monday, june Is. They have given
bail In 1000 each.
TEE instruments, material, ETC., furnished
by the government to tho scientific expedition,
to observe tho tra,isit of Venus, arc valued at
$50, 600.
RocHEFoRr has consented to enter the lee
ture field.
THE United States Brewers Association pro-
poses to form I'M contemporaries society, and
organize in opposition to tho temperance
movement.
The annual meeting Of the Western Associ-
ated Press, is called to meet At Put-in-Bay, tho
last Wednesday in September, by order Of OK
ecutivo committee.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
Foreign.

The matter of precedence between the Prin
cess of Wales and Duchess of Edinburgh has
| boon satisfactorily settled.
THE owners of tho Durham collerics have
elected large numbers of tho tenants WHO
wore of tie striking miners. Twenty-Five OF
these ejected families are camping out i'll the
fields.
The French Assembly has passed. the
electoral bill to it's second reading; by vote Of
800 ayes to S18 nays. Louis Blanc and NJ.
Gambetta opposed the bill.
Ar San vince,tc, Spain, an engagement took
place on the Sd inst, betwoon the Carlists and
Republicans. The former were victorious.
ADy1cEs from Spain state that Legncrtis, a
maritime town in the province of Biscay and
on the Bay of Biscay, has been bombarded by
schooner belonging to the Republican navy.
The cause of this act WAS the admission into
the port of foreign ship containing cargo OF
contraband of war.
A BATTLE is imminent Ut Estella, where the
Carlists arc now in great force. The Republi'
cans at San Sebastian, Spain, have been rein.
forced.
The Grand Trunk Railway will change it,
gauge east of Montreal in September.
TIE Gear Of Russia will meet the Emperor
of Germany At Ems, the middle of June.
An attempt was recently made to assassinate
the Prince Of SAKE Weimar. The Prince was
not hurt. He had previously received threat
ening letters, as had also the Duke of Cam
bridge and Mr.. Disraeli.
An attempt in tho British Parliament to re-
duce tho salary of the Minister At Washington
to E5, 900 per year, failed.
FURTHER appeals are n,ado i'll behalf Of the
elocutionist Bellew, whose illness continues.
A CONGRESS to consider the subject of inter-
national rights in time of war, will convene in
Brussels, tho 9th of July next.
IT il reported OH good authority, that Mar
shal Serr,no will soon order general election
in Spain, and if tho Monarcllists are in the ma
jority, he will propose the enforcement of
the Prince of Asturias, under his own regency.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
NUMBER 10.
An AnccdOtA Of Apasslz

Now that all who have ever known or
seen Agassiz are remembering him, it
may not bc unintcresting to recall lit
tie incident which happened, nearly
twenty years ago, in one Of the Massa.
chnsetts Normal Schools.
That honored old Commonwealth
never did q wiser or more generous
thing than when she engaged the two
mon, Agassiz and Guyot, to lecture in
her Normal Schools TO the young men
and women who were to bic, not only
her own future teachers, but also the
teachers in many other states. L was
then a pupil at the Oldest Of them-the
school in birmingham. Thither was
wont to come Guy0t, and, sojourning
among us for a week or ten days, talk
to lib Of earth and man, of genesis and
creation, SO simply, so kindly, that We
forgot the distance between us. And
thither came also Agassiz, with his
frank, noble, kindly face, to speak to us
OF the animal kingdom. It was during
ono of these stays that the incident to
which We refer occurred.
During the noon i..termlaaion ono of
the girls had picked up and brought
with her to her desk one of the little
gray snakes so common in Massachu-
sets country fields, and while group
OF girls we're standing by, she suddenly
produced it. There was at once q start
and an exclamation of disgust and
loathing, and the expected sensation
had been quite satisfactorily produced.
Agassiz, who was standing ON the plat
form talking with the principal and
waiting for the school to he called to
order, instantly came rapidly down the
aisle to the excited and disguised group,
and on seeing the cause of the commo-
ton at once took the little frightened
creature gently, almost tenderly, into
his strong hand, and as the snake twist
ed itself around his fingers and wrist,
he snid quietly, as if it was friend,
"Oh! 1t is the Coluber DeKau, SO
named from DR.. DeKay, who first char
actcrizedit. The words were nothing,
but the gesture and manner. were inde-
scribable, at once so protective and 80
reverential that they, as we'll as the
whole scene, have always stoodout clear
in my memory with the vividness of one
of Ohaucer's pictures. It was rs If the
voice, instead of the simple remark of
recognition which it actually uttered,
had said
He prayetl we'll WHO loveth we'll
Both man and bird and beast
He prayeth best who lOyeth best
All things, both great and small,
For the dear God who lovoth Us,
He made and loveth all"
cannot answer for the impression
OH the others, but I know that to one
at least, that gesture and action, go
of the man, struck the
keynote of her teaching for many years
afterwards, in many different places,
and to thousands Of pupils, and the
grateful remembrance of it is to me
now like floral offering which I lay
upon his distant, honored grave.
ANNA G. BRACKETr.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11

An English Methodist minister has
fallen victim to the Nile fever, and
has started to discover it's source.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
The Jews as Merchants aud Money.
Lenders.

I'll one instance only, says writer IL
Harpers' Magazine, have the Jews con.
sented to change their habits of life, and
IN that we discover anew the marks OF
their perpetual suffering. From active
and successful husl,andmen and tillers
of the soil they havc been transformed
into merchants and money lenders.
They seem to have wholly lost that love
for mature and that agricultural skill
that made Palestine land of plenty.
In Babylon and Persia, under q com
parativcly gentle rule, they were rather
farmers than traders. Even late in the
Roman period, and probably until near
the sixth century, they were chiefly al,
agricultural people. The Talmud
abounds in illusions to tho cultivation
Of fields and gardens, of oil, vino, and
wheat, fruit and flowers. It's nice and
varied rules of conduct relate chiefly to
the people of rural districts rather than
of cities. When tho great schools of
Babylon and Pumbelitha were flourish
ing, and tho vivid intellect of the Israel
ties was expanding into literature Of
commentators and professors, the race
was marked 10y III intense love for the
Oriental lands they cultivated. But
when tho universal persecution fell
upon them, when they were hunted
from Babylonia and Persia, and began
that remarkable series of .wanderings
from city to city, and from realm to
realm, that has lasted for more than a
thousand years, the manners of tho race
changed. They became nation Of
traders. Industry, thrift, learning,
and rare acutencss they never lost, but
they were never again to become tillers
Of the soil. They were forced to snatch
opportunities of g:.iu from tho midst of
their wanderings. They became the
most acute and untiring Of traders.
Their wares an1 their profits were such
as could be easily handled and secured.
They supplied the barbaro,1s princes Of
Germany with tho mostcostly drugs and
spices OF tho East. They dealt in jewels
that they could easily conceal or swallow,
and in Oriental cloths that were of price
less value. They were the most active
slave traders of the Middle Ages, and
the church vainly heaped its maledic-
tions on the Jew who should dare to
purchase christian slaves. Their capital
in money propably grew from age to
age. They were the common money
lenders of the early period. The Jews
seem to have concentrated the wealth of
tho Middle Ages among themselves !;
they lent their money Mt an enormous
interest, and upon ample security they
accumulated immense fortunes, which
they were Obliged to hide from their
prosecutors in IN aspect of extreme pow
erty. But their home was never again
to be amid the soft landscapes of Baby
lonia and Persia and crowded together
i'll a miserable Ghetto, living apart &C
cursed and forsaken in the walled, fori-
fed, and secure cities of Western Eu-
rope, they counted their secret gains,
and sometimes displayed in their Oh
scurc dwellings, q suspicious and Orien-
tai splendor. Theird daughters were clad
in the rich silks Of Persia, and shone
with the gold and gems Of the East.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
WASHINGTON.

The new Secretary OF tho Treasury, Beni.
II. Bristow, took Charge of tho department OF,
the 18th i,:st.
ADoLPH CLUss, Who was removed from tho
E'ard Of Public Works for perjury, is prepar-
ing 10 bring suit against his associates on the
board. for rrc:crrins tho charges against him,
The personal effects Of tho late Charles
Sumner were sold at auction in Washington,
OH tho I'd inst
SEN>roR SrHrRz was confined to his room,
on tho 81 inst, with ali attack Of malarial
fever. Ills physician insists that he shall do
no more work tho present session. lie has
prepared himself to speak OH tho Transports
tiorqucstio,', aud Intends to take part in tho
debate if possible.
The House Committee on Appropriations
haze agreed to appropriate 310O, 900 for con-
ti'l,ation of Hay0en's survey and @3l, 600 for
those Of Powell.
PROMINENT Congressman say that there is
no possibility Of the civil rights bill passing
tho House i: this session.
TnE Senate unanimously confirmed tho
nomination Of Gen. Dristow ~ Secretary Of
tile Treasury. Mr.. Richardson was also con-
iirmed AS Judge vi the Court of Claims.
CoNGREss has granted a pension Of $50 per
month to Louisa A. Candy, tho widow of tho
late Gen. l.. Il. s. Candy.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
sss>:i9 IlE1.ls!3; Jews,
!: tho Publlo Debt.
1 The following is the May statement Of tho
:,,,,Il;, Hnlk.
Tho Wisconsin r. r. War.

\ new phase i'll tho railroad war is dcvel-
cpcd. The creditors of tho Chicago and North
wcste@i R'4&41cdApdny l..ye oon,monco,,
ruirin tho Cfc'ht Court Of tic United statos,
AT Madison, to restrain and prevent tho state
officers and all other usieS from snforinS
tho Potter law Tho ias,ftfnJ ii tho slit 40
William Frederick Tick, Henry Il. Piorscn,
Moses Taylor the Iar,ners' Iloa,ian Trust
Co., and the Union Trust Co; aud the defend
a"ts aro tho Railroad Company and tho State
aiailseal Commissioners. The scaso is in tho
tdranef s hilI n elansory, and, ythe attorney
general has determined to resist tho granting
of the injunction on tho ground that tho Uni
t.,l'States court has no jurisdiction to prevent
the state authorities from enforcing laws prop
rriy passed. - @7
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11

James Fink's cofroo-housc OH Royal street
and twelve houses on I.ihcrty and rcrtlitlo Sts.
also four houses OH Royal st. LOSS :55, 900
James Anderson was burnt to death.
TIE grand jury at Memphis in Investigating
the disgraccful affair in tho Natl nal cemetery,
near that city, Ola Decoration DAY.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
Secretary Of the Treasury.

Tho long anticipated change in the head oi
the Treasury Department, has been made by
the President. who sent to tho Senate Oh the
lst inst tho namo Of Gen. lscnj. II. Ristow
to he Secretary OF tho Treasury. W. A. Ricl,
ar,lson was also nominated At the samo time to
ho Judge Of The Court Of Claims.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11

The Nevada journal Of. April % re-
lates this incident Miss Bradford has
q boy in her school who combines keen
perception with ready speech. The
other day, while endcayoring to explain
the difference in waterfalls the kind
that make ladies round shouldered,. but
the waterfalls of. ,nature-she gave the
class to understand that a large waterfall
was q cataract. "Now,'' said she,
"wlat is little waterfall? % "kitty-
ract, blurted out the tow headed young
ster, who sat chewing the corner Of his
primer ON the front seat,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11

"SUN comes. moon comes,
Time slips away; j =
Sun sets, moon sets,
Love, fix day."
"A year hence, q year hcnoe."
''We shall both he gray"
"a month hence, a month hence
Far, fur away
"A week hence, = week hence
Aud that's . long delay
"Wait little, wait little,
You shall fix the day"
"To-morrow, love, Tomorrow,
And that's an age away"
''Blaze upon hor windows, sun.
And honor all the day.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11

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New-York tribune., 1874-04-13
MISSOURI RAILROAD CONSOLIDATION.

ST. LOUIS, April ia special meeting of the
stockholders of the Iron Moontan Railroad the Arkan-
sas Branch and the Cairo, Arkansas and Texas Rail-
roads was held at the office OF the Iron Mountain Rail
road in this city to-day and 81 per cent Of the stock
holders voted in favor Of consolidation OF the roads
The consolidation Will take effect and the com
b,ued roads hereafter be known the ST. Louis and
Iro, Mountain RAILWAY. The directors of the Road
Thomas Allen, g. H. Lahin Samuel Copp. and G.. B. Al
Ian Of ST. LOUIS Aanson Trask, IL. c. Marquand. and
Geo c. Ward OF New-York The chief officers are Thos
Allen President; II. G. Marquand VcePresident aud
Financial Agent D. d. Barlow, Assistant President and
secretary L. h. Clarke, Treasurer THOMAS hckssock,
General Superintopden and A. W. Soper. Assstan
General Superintendent. meeting OF the shareholders
OF the Iron Mountain aud Cairo ana Fulton Railroads
siton 10 consolidate these roads IN a similar manner
which n effected will add 800 miles the track and
make the lines 6s7 miles long extending
from ST. Louis on the north and Cairo the MOI Ia
to Texarkaua, Texas,