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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04
VOLUME VII. .
At large.

~ 1O600s
TnB absence Of stages from Broadway, Now
York, owing to tho drivers strike, is said to
afford such relief to that thoroughfare. that
thore is general desirs that the strike Of
drivers may bo continued long enough to
secure substitute for the ancient an.l lumber
ing stage. -.
r. TnE Police Commissioners Of New York,
all street musicians under l6 years Of ago.
RRAR' ADMIRAL SnusRzok, senior officer on
the retired list, died in Washington on May ~,
aged IS.
A BILL haa passed the House to pay the
widow Of Capt. Hall, Of tho Polaris, 1855,
tho amount Of hi. pay up to tho s1st Of
December, 1873, when tho officers and crow Of
the Polaris were paid OF, aud to authorize tho
purchase Of his papers Of prior explorations at
an amount nokcxceedng $15, 600.
The bosch troe OH which six men were hung
by Vigilautos during their reign in Jackson
county, Ila apd which had been literally cut
to pieces by relic hunters, was set ON fro and
burned down recently. The treo had been;
visited duling the last few years by thousands
Ii agar psef efbilliards ofeoo points, in Now
York reoeltlys ubaeev beat Garnier, scoring
44e in n innings. sszs.zvtss =. e. :
GEN. ~. aalE1Ds, s-Unitsd States Senator
from nlins and Minnesota while visiting 4
The reside sof Col. JansN. Burns, near
st: Joseps No., sNrped on the porch and
partially flactured = limlsA D. :.
RocHEroRr arrived in1dhicsgo May 2S, and
Immediately continued ~ journey 70 New
York. x~ e. !.
JuDor swArsE, Of tho United States. court,
has rendered . decisian in the case Of the
Newport aid Cincinnati bridge, company
against the United STAT government :
:. 4 Bull has passed tho Senate to rsstrict the
shoice Of jurors in D. 8. courts to persons who
can read and write the English language.
EARTHQuAK1 shocks wore felt in San Fran
cisco, recently.
Wal LrER,J. OT1s, Of Chicago, has been &C.
lected bow oar for tho Harvard University Boat
Club. q
THE Rev. David Swing preached In tho
Fourth Presbyterian Church, At Chicago, the
Sunday after his acquittsl. Six hundred peo-
ple were unable to gain admission. After the
services collection was taken to pay OF the
debt Of the church, and the entire amount,
420, 400, Wao raised in f3ftoen minutes
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04
The East.

sss0 S0ON
THE General Assembly Of Rhode Island
meets Juno 9, to elect United States Soma
tor. Tho state Eow hasa prohihtory Law,
passed at the last session of the assembly.
The funeral of the late David B. Mellish, Of
the ninth New York congressional distzictto took
place at Auburn, NY, May 2s II Il :
MAY % being the anniversary Of the birth OF
Louis Agassiz, his grave was decorated with
flowers, i'll the name Of the teachers Of tho
United States.
The Boston and Albany Railroad COMPANY
Informs the commissioners of tho commercial
exchange and bcard of trade, in connection
with the contemplated withdrawal Of the
Cunard steamers, that it can not make auv
change in rates of western freights, but it will
reduce elevator charges to one and quarter
cents busheaa. for elevating, and ten days
storage.
J. E. THOMPSON, President Of the Pennsyl-
sania Central Railroad Company, &edMer n,
after prctracted illness, at Ibis sreaidenece in
Philadelphia.
The annual parade Of the Sunday school
children of Brooklyn took place recently.
There were $4,000 children in the line,
The Ellsworth monument was unveiled st
Alechanicsville, New York, May e. julius C.
Burrows, of Michigan, pronounced tho ora
tlon, and Lieut.. Brownell, who killed Jackson
the murderer of Ellsworth, made IN .addrssas
AT the New Jersey State Episcopal Conven.
ton, May p, Bishop Odenheimer made an 3D.
dress i'll which he alluded to the secession Of
kov. Or. Cummins from tho church, and said
in reference to it, that it was an ungodly, un.
christian and ungenerous action.
The New York State Temperance Conyen-
ton is called to meet at Auburn, June q,
One hundred students Of Bowdouin Corl.o.
have been sent home by the faculty. for con.
u''ed refusal to take part in military drill.
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Crimes and casualltles

Crimes and Casualties.
THE mills Of the Southern Bagging Compa-
ny, at st. Louis;, wsre recently destroyed by
fro. Loss el40,000. -
JOHN KNIGHT, = wen known book agent, com
mitted suicide 1t Fort Wayne, Ind, recently.
Cause, domestic trouble. =
TIE murderer Vasquez was safely lodged in
Jail At Salinas city, Monterey. No attempt
wss msde to lynch him. Over five thousand
visited the prison to see him.
Mx1issA 6ATroRD, formerly organist. and
wife Of B. d. Stafford, leader Of the choir of
the Presbyterian Church st Grand Haven,
Mich, dropped dead Of heart disease, while
playing voluntary at the close Of the service.
A FIRE In the lumber yard Of Sears l. Holland,
At Toledo, o., destroyed e5, 900 worth of lum-
ber. Il was the work Of IN incendiary, who
has been arrested :
Two murders were committed in Philadel-
phia, Nay a. August Franks shot his wife,
and toamater named. Patrick Loxer was killed
by IN anknewn assaslin...s
4 H0N. ]. L. 6HUMAN, member of the Penn
sylvania legislature, was recently shot and
killed by = man named Wilmer. Tho latter
was abusing his wife, when Mr.. shuman in
terfered to protect the woman, with tho above
result r.
TIE Lima bagging mills ct Lima, O., were
totally destroyed by fire recently. Loss go.
600.
TIE Vulcan Iron Works, at Buffalo, New
York, wers destroyed by fire May Is. Loss
e5o,ooo.
A Youxa woman of ill-repute, named Alice
Tennant, shot herself through tho heart ro.
Gently in San Francisco. She was recently
separated from herahusband in that city.
W. D. HnDRErH, deputy United States mar
shal, was shot near Hillsboro, Coffee county,
Tennessee, recently, by man named Thomas
Jefferson Sanders, for whom Hildreth had a
oapias from tho federal court,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04
How . Virginia Preacher Put 1t.

AAV" - va D AU10 1COCuOX L W xVo
A correspondent of the Richmond
Inquirer tells the following story re-
specting Baptist preacher of strong
common sense, but very rough-hewn
theology, who was widely known and
much liked and respected in Southside
Virginia many years ago. The old par
son was preaching very earnestly about
the certainty and the terrible nature
and degree of the miseries of the
damned, and when he had succeeded
in working up himself and his awe
struck audience into high degree of
excitement, and the latter into terrified
admiration Of his narrowing detail Of
horrors, he capped the climax after this
fashion: my friends, you all know
Major Clarke's furnace you have seen
it often, how the white hot Goals Just
melt up iron thrown into it as if it was
snow: Well. if you took q sinner out
of hell and threw him into Major Clarke's
furnace, he'd have an agur in two
minutes"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04

THREE years ago three colored men
bought 200 acre farm in Tennessee
for S., 500, to be paid in three annual
instalments. Their only capital was
five mules, and yet at date they have
paid the whole sum, besides having
supported themselves and families.
They did all their work themselves,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04
THE CENTENNIAL.
Final Cenclasl0a aaL Decision Of tho Con
lnIssi0n and Finnnco C0mnjttee.


Inlssion and Finance C0nusIttee.
Tho following is tho final and con-
elusive decision of tho International
Centennial Commission and Finance
Committee. It was made known on
Saturday, May %, after the adjourn
ment of the commission. The COM
mission state the present condition of
affairs as follows:
Firse13ds aEe to be opened for contracts
for tho execution of IN art gallery and muse
nm on Tuesday next; and It is expected that
work will ho commenced in few days. The
building will cost 41 500, 900. of which sum
the ns: ste Of
by the city Of Philadelphia, e50O, 900. Tho
building will covor over one and half acres
Of ground.
Sec0ndLThe immediate erection of con-
servatory hall at . cost Of e20O, 600, aud for
; r s,t h. been nS
instructions than the requirement that the
money shall be expended for this building.
The plans cover ; space Of one and half acres
Thtrd@m.c,,ir,. ,,.s,a IL. ..,nn.ted 1t . cost
Of eSoo, 200, which has been provided for by
phis, free from restriction and entirely avail
able for the purpose. Work on this building
will commence some months hence, but in
ample time to have it completed for use by the
commission. Il will cover ten acres Of ground
at . cost not to exceed e80, 900 per aero.
Fourth-The erection Of the main exhibition
building will be commenced as soon - tho
plans a1e perfected. This can probably be &C.
complished by the last Of June. This build
ing is to cover . space of about twenty acres,
at cost not to exceed e1OO, 900 per acre, say
. total Of o., OO0, 600. To this work subscrip-
tions to stock are applicable, which, making
due allowance for losses, now amount to about
81 ,600, 900, having but $20O, 900 yet to be pro-
vided for this purpose.
Ffnh-An agricultural hall, to be provided
for, to cover about Ave acres Of ground and
cost about e260 900: grading, draining, water
and railroad connections, etc., SAY 81, ,OO0 900 {;
general administration, cay 450O, 900; for
errors in estimates and for contingencies, say
e675, 900, Total expenditures exclusive Of art
gallery and museum, o., ,625, 900, Of which tho
city Of Philadelphia has appropriated direct
and without reservation, except in designation
Of the particular buildings upon which the
amount shall be expended, 41, Co., 900. Actual
subscriptions, 31, ,6O0, 600. Total to be pro-
vided for, %, 825, 900, which amount tho board
Of finance have no doubt of being able to raise
from tho people and from the general govern
ment. The statements heretofore submitted
by tho board Of finance wero based ON build
ings of character which was indicated by tho
commission, but under the present circum-
stances your committee deem 1t wise that the
buildings should be Of simple character, and
on that basis this report is submitted.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04
Salt aS 4 FQQd.StuH.

In the Zeitschrift fuer Biologie, DIR.
Bunge publishes the results of his in
vestigations a. to the amount of salt
requisite for alimentation. He asks
whether animals can be content with
the amount of salt naturally occurring
IN their food, or whether they must not
get more. It is q matter of everyday
observation that herbivorous animals
have strong liking for salt, while the
carnivora show great repugnance to
salted food. Still, if We analvze the
od.stuffs of both groups, we find that
the food of tho herbivora contains in
itself as much chloride of sodium as
that of the carnivora but it further
contains larger proportion of potash.
Hence Bunge concludes that the not.
ash salts react on the chloride of sodium
in the blood, yielding compounds which
are eliminated. In such case the or
genism lacks sodium, and the animal
must take in salt directly. This the
herbivora do instinctively and this
man too must do, especially when
luguminous vegetables (which contain
a great deal Of potash) form large
proportion of his food.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04
Sumner and Webster.

In September, 1646, when he was
thirty-five years old, and thought to be
= visionary and extreme young man,
highly educated, indeed, and perhaps
fitted for some literary professorship,
but wholly without political experience
or sagacity, and the very last man by
character, talents, and training to be .
political leader of Massachusetts in the
grave public situation, he went one
September evening to Faneuil Hall with
all the famous Wing chiefs, and spoke
upon the duties Of his party at the time.
The tone and character of the speech
may be supposed from its conclusion,
which was that the Whig party should
demand the abolition of slavery. As he
was ending, Mr.. Sumner eferTed to Mr..
Webster, then Senator, whom the meet
ed to him to lead the party in that great
demand. The time had arrived. The
duty was not to be avoided. 1t was the
question Of the hour: "By your plea
for the Union" said Mr.. Sumner, "you
have justly won the name of Defender
of the Constitution. By the mastery
Oregon negotiation you have earned
another title, Defender of Peace. And
now," exclaimed the orator, with gener-
ous fervor-" add higher title,
never to be forgotten on earth or in
heaven Defender Of Humanity" It ID
easy to imagine tho incredulous con-
tempt with which the old Whig chiefs
heard this appeal from the ardent tyre.
"LHc advise Webster! He, this morbid
theorist, instruct the most consummate
of American statesmenl It is both
comical and disgraceful. Mr.. Sumner
sent q copy of his speech to Mr.. Web.
ster, and Mr.. Webster acknowledged it
in q cool and polite note. He said that
he respected the character and talents Of
the orator, and wished him well. Then,
in his most Olympian strain, Mr.. Web
stor added: "1n political affairs We
happen to entertain at the present mo-
mont difference of opinion respecting
the relative importance of some Of the
political questions of the time, and take
different view of the line of duty
most fit to be pursued in endeavors to
obtain all the good which can be OBJ
tained in connection with certain i'm
portant subjects" Which saw most
clearly, the consummate statesman or
the impractioable visionary?"-George
William Curtis.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04
The South.

SEVERE storm resembling cyclone, accom-
panied by hail, passed over st. Louis, Nav a.
doing great damage to buildings, fences, etc.
CHIEF STATE ENGINEER THOMPSON, of Louisi-
ana, says g. ,OO0,OO cubic yards Of levec are
required to be built to save the state from
overflow next year, that Louisiana cannot nav
1or tho construction Of more than one-thirtl.
ahdsuggests an appeal for national aid.
IN the Episcopal state convention at Ion;..
''''e' resolutions were adopted prohibiting the
"se OF talrs, lotteries and theatrical perform
"nces for raising money for the benefit of the
church.
REPORT has been made to the Mcmnb;.
ottoa Excha ngo, in relation to the COTTON
crop in "a counties in Tennessee Arkansas
mississippi, Alabama Florida, and Mirsour;
which aggregate as follows: Deficiency in
acreage OF cotton planted as compared witt,
1873, 1-10 per cent, as compared with 1872.
1-10; estimated as yet to be planted, 1 7-1o.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Assembly has
decided to locate publishing house At Nash
vile, Tennessee.
The Superintendent Of Bubble instruction
Of Tennessee has issued instructions to school
olrcctors throughout tho state, that, in view OF
the civil rights bill becoming law, no now
contracts be entered into with teachers until
1urtller instructions from his Office.
T"E General Council of the city of Memphis
has ordered the demolition Of tho Happy Hol-
low shanties and lluts These will be torn
down, and tho premises drained, under the
supervision of tho Board of Health. These
were the starting place Of the yellow fever las
year.
The spring meeting of tho Maryland Jockey
Club commenced May &C. ut the Pimlco course
Baltimore.
= TIE Bowler heirs and tho directors claiming
the Kentucky Central Railway have held = con
ference to settlethe suit for possession Of tn,
road. Tho heirs propose to drop the case q
their cost, assume all costs except $1,O81, 900
which amount is to be assumed by new com
pany Of the heirs and directors, with capita
Of $4,000, 900,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04
A " Great Tourist"

Denver papers note the return to that
city of Miss Matte Gaylord, Of Boston,
"the great tourist Of the Northwest
and the Pacific Coast" and say: Five
wears ago she and her sister made this
city the initial point of departure for
wonderful journey of 1900 miles,
which they accomplished with their
own carriage, visiting every camp, set
tlement, village, and city in the Terri
tories and on the Pacific coast. Miss
Gaylord is now en- route to Australia,
where she will spend the next two
years in a similar explorstive Journey
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04
Biddy's Philosophy.
ny X. II. sToDDARD.

What would do, il you was dead2
And when do you think Of tlying7
I'd stand by your bod, and hold your hoad,
And cry, or pretind to bo crying!
There's many = worser man nor you
II one know whore to find him
And mabbe many better, too,
Will, money to leave bchind him!
But you, if was dying to-day
q saw you now whom you kissed her),
I tell you, Pat, what you'd bo at
You'd marry your wiady's sister!
You'd mako an illigant corpse, indsilc,
Sleeping so sound and stiddy;
II you could 500 yourself ~ you laid,
You'd want to come back to Bitldy!
You would bo dressed in your Sunday bes,
Az tidy as could make you, ~
With a sprig Of something OH your breast
And tho boys would como to wake you!
But you, il I WAS dead in your stead,
do yod- think Inever missed her2)
. toll you, Pat, what you'd be At
You'd marry yor widdy's sister!
The undertaken would drive the hearse
That has the big black feather;
If thcro was no money loft in your purse,
). Your friends would club together!
They'd look at your cold remains before
They followed yon down to tho ferry;
Aud the coaches standing at the door
Would SO to the cemetery!
But you, il was once in the box
: Qiwonder her lips don't blister),
Itsll you, Pat, what you'd be At =
You'd marry your wildly s sister!
When you was under tho sod I'd sigh,
And-if could do without you,
D1abbe I've strapping laain my eye
Would come here and talk about you!
A little courtin' would be divertin',S>
A kind voice whispering, "Biddy."
And kiss on the sly-for wbst's the hurt il
A man consoling widdy2
But you, before I was dead at al 80
(Now don't deny that you kissed her),
1tell you, Pat, what you'd be At
You'd marry your widdy's sister!
* -Hdrper's Dra,oer.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04
AUSTRALIA.

A Doath-lscd Interview BY telegraph.
The Australian overland telegraph
extends for ], 900 miles across the great
wastes of Australia, from Adelaide on
tho south to Port Darwin on the north.
Tho stations are few and far apart, and
the line is consequently greatly exposed
to attacks from tho natives, who pull
the wire down, and cut away great guam
titles of it for tho purpose of arlning
the points Of their spears. They also
mash tho porcelain insulators, and use
the sharp edged pieces to scrspo. their
spear blades into shape. Each station
is . fort in itself, At which six men re-
side.
Barrow creek is 1900 miles from
Adelaide and 700 miles from Port Dar-
win, while it is in the midst of dis
trict thickly peopled with blacks. On
the evening of Sunday, Fob. %, all the
finen of this station were lying out of
doors smoking, when they were suddenly
attacked from the eastern corner Of the
building by q large body of natives,
who speared Mr.. sStapleton, the master.
As the Englishmen had loft their; arms
inside, they made rush for the en-
trance, but they were driven back by =
shower Of spears, which wounded two
Of them. Finding their retreat cut of,
they rAn around the building in the
hope thatthe natives would follow them,
and 80 be drawn away from the door.
Happily for them the natives gave
chase ; and thus, when the poor fellows
came round again to the front of the
house, they found the door unguarded.
One, however, was fatally wounded as
he ran. They at once seized their rifles
and soon drove the natives of. They
then telegraphed to Adelaide news Of
what had happened, and Dr.: Gosse, one
of the Adelaide surgeons, did all that a
surgeon can do by prescription and ad-
vice for patients who are 1900 miles
away. Poor Mr.. Stapleton was beyond
cure, but he and his wife, who was liv-
ing at Adelaide, were able to exchange
q few parting words. DR.. Gosse had
to insist that the wounded men should
be kept awake all night, for fear that
their flesh might have been poisoned by
the spears. Three days later Mr.. Flint,
the wounded operator, sent the follow
ing message: "At P. N. natives at
tempted to surround station. Three
shots fred, killing one native. Fires
all round station. Expect another at-
tack. Strict guard kept. Please hurry
relief" Happily relief was near at
hand, for five teamsters and their super
intendent were within q few hours of
Barrow's~ creek. Moreover, Mr.. Tuck
er, the station master at another creek,
who had been travelling southward
along the line, attached his pocket in
strument to the wire at Dixon's creek,
and spoke to Mr.. Todd, the superin-
tendent at Adelaide. Mr.. Tucker and
the five men who were with him were
ordered to proceed with all dispatch to
Barrow's creek, where they relieved the
little garrison.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04

The Springfield Register, the leading
Democratic paper in Illinois. says there
is not word Of truth in the declaration
that the Democracy of that state will
join new party, or third party, or
anything Of that kind. It proposes to
eschew all tricks, games, and ma
nmuvres," as the Register calls the
Greeley movement.
PRACTICAL cremationists: The Mexi-
Can WITCH burners.
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The New Consultation Of Switzerland,

Tho new COnSt1C0tlO0 OF SWlt1erlon0s
The new constitution adopted by the
Swiss, by q vote of 321, $40 to III, 800,
will introduce several important
changes. Among these it gives, for the
first time, the Federal Government the
control of the army and Of military
stores and Notifications; makes every
man liable to military service; makes
education secular and compulsory +;
provides for the passage of uniform
bankruptcy law subjects the ecclesias.
tical to tho civil power; make civil
marriage obligatory; prohibits the
creation of any new bishoprics without
the permission of the state, and the
foundation of new converts or the re-
vival of old ones; and maintains the
exclusion of any other religious order
the conduct of which may seem to the
government dangerous to the state OF
likely to disturb the peace between
creeds.
A MARINE residence has been con-
structed for the King of the Belgians
and is to be placed on the beach al
Ostend. The construction il of wood,
and cost G1O, 600. It consists of thirty.
eight rooms, and has five staircases.
The whole is surmounted by tower
which rises from the centre to height
of sixty feet.
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I17nR1fo UHlUDllsHED.1
The trout In yondsr winplfng harm k#
That glidss, sflvsr dart,
And saSe beneath The shady thoRn
DeAss the anglers at;
Ny LIE Wa once that careless stream,
That wanton trout wAs I;
But love vi unreleuting beam
Has soocchsd my fortunes dry.
Tho little aowret's peaceful lot
In yoodsr cliff that grows,
Which, savo tho linnots flight, wot,
No ruder visit knows,
Was nins, tin love had DER me passed.
And blighted . my bloom,
And now beneath the withering blast
Ny youth and Joy consume.
Tho wakensd lavrock wazbling springs
And climbs the early sky,
Winnovins blithe his dewy wings
In mornings rosy eye; ......x.-..,,, =.
A little reckt I sorrows power,
Until tho how'ry snare
O. witching love, in luckless hour,
Nsde mo the thrau o. cart.