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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08

In his old accustomed seat at the
bank sandhurst Tipton was sitting
some months afterwards, when the
card of Count Bernier was handed him.
Show him up immediately" cried
tho banker, springing toward the door.
The next moment he had mechanic
ally grasped the hand of the Count,
and the two stood regarding each othor
in silence. At length Mr.. Upton spoke:
How is this I believe am look
ing upon Mr.. Lewis Z"
The Count smiled, and, sitting down
by the banker, explained all that was
mysterious in his first visit to Here
ford, and completely satisfied the
banker of the propriety of all his &C.
tions.
Before leaving the bank Count Ber-
nier had obtained MI. Tipton's consent
to propose to his daughter.
"Come down stairs" cried the bank.
er, as he arrived at the door, absolute
ly forgetting for tho moment his de-
corum, = come down here and see an
old acquaintance"
\ =
A few weeks later there was q grand
time at the Upton mansion every one
was jolly, and none more so than DR..
Stole, as he fused and fumed about
the rooms. Augusta was to marry a
nobleman, after all. Her mothers cup
of JOY almost ran over. Tom Delong
was there, but he did net call the Count
. fellow, and suspended his slang
phrases, except in. one solitary instance.
When his aunt asked him what he
thought of the ceremony, he replied,
8. Well, the parson gave them fai1
start, and, I think, on q square beat
Gussy will come ont ahead"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08
An Australian Swamp
aA-..Hx.,

In that strange country's hoart, whence comes
the breath
OF hot disease and postiiential death, -,
Lie leagues Of lowell swamp, that from the hills
Seem stretching meadows; but tho lood that
fills
Those valley basins has the hue Of ink.
And dismal doorways open on the brink,
Beneath the gnarlc0 arms Of trees that grow
All lcafless to the top. from roots below
The Iothe flood; and he who cutters there
Beneath their screen sees rising, ghastly bal 0,
Lake mammoth bones within charnel dark,
The white and ragged stems Of paper bark,
That drip down moisture with cease'ess
drip,
From lines that run like cordage OF ship;
For myriad crccpers struggle to tue light,
Aud twine and mat O'erhead in murderOus
fight
For lite and sunshine-likc another race
That wars On brethren for the highest place.
Between the water and the matted screen
The bald-head WI lures, two and two, are
seen
In dismal grandeur, with revolving face
o. foul srotesque, like spirits Of the place;
And now and then spear shaped wave goes
by,
Its apex glittering with an evil eyo -. =.
That sets above its enemy and prey,
Az from the water IN troacher0us way
The black snake winds ana strikes the OBJ
scene bird,
Whose shrek like waiiing on the hill is heard
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08
I.ucii0rS in 17S4.

We in 1873 are so used to lucifer
matches that we have no appreciation
of what boon they are. How grate-
full some of our ancestors were for this
blessing may be judged from the fol-
lowing which was lately brought to our
notice. Under date of October IA,
1884, writer addresses Sylvanus Ur-
ban thus:
II consider your monthly publica-
ton not only as magazine of knowl-
edge in the several branches of liter
ature, but also as the proper vehicle
to announce whatever discoveries are
made for public utility. The phospo-
retic matches have not been sufficiently
recommended, nor have I yet seen
any eulogium on their great convent
ence on many occasions, which need
not here enumerate. I owe this pen
tribute of acknowledgement for the re-.
cent advantage derived from their
use, and sincerely wish it may promote
the private interests of the maker
or distributors of this useful invention,
which, however long 1t may have been
known to philosophers, was never until
lately brought into familiar service.
By the assistance of one of these little
tubes, extricated myself and company
from an unlucky accident on the road.
The position and three horses out of
the set having been thrown down in the
darkest hour of the night, aud the
traces cut to release them, and without
the help of the matches which lig hted
the lantern candle, wecould not So soor
have repaired our damages nor proceed.
ed on our journey. They are now re-
duced in price, having purchased mine
of q German traveller ut coffee house
near tho Haymarket for the small
price of 18 pence (23 cents) dozen,
inclosed in q tin case.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08
Germanism in Poland.

The Pail Mall Gazette remarks that
the Prawda, Polish paper published
in London, gives some curious infor-
nation with regard to the spread of
Germanism IN Lithuania and the King.
dom Of Poland. 1t appears from let
ters received from those countries that
German agents are as numerous and
as active in Russian Poland as they
are said to have been in Elsass-Lor
rain before the Franco. German war,
while the Russian authorities are 20
absorbed in their efforts to crush the
Polish element that they do not notice
this Intrusion Of q far more formidable
adyersary. 81 Nearly the whole of the
district of Czenstochov is now full Of
German colonists. The towns of Lodz,
ZgierZ and Jurek are entirely German;
Laliza IL half German, and the banks
of the Vistula as far rs Plock are stud
ded with German settlements, the COL
onists acting in all respects as if they
were in the Fatherland. One of these
Germanized towns, Wloclswek, was
brilliantly illuminated when the news
came of the battle of Sedan, though
the municipal authorities had express
" forbidden any demonstration on the
occasion. The country traversed by
the railway from Warsaw to St. Peters.
burg is also becoming rapidly German
lied. In the town of Bia1ystok the
prevailing language 10 German, and at
Kovno the Jewish shopkcepers have
changed, the Polish inscriptions on their
shops for German ones, finding that
the latter brought them more custom
ers. The total number of Germans
who have settled in Russian Poland
since the insurrection OF 1868 4 is esti-
mated at nearly 1900, 900. A great
number of Pruseian officers are en-
ployed in the factories of the country
as engineers, it being found that they
are satisfied with lower salsries and
are less Independent than civilians.
These officers of course, have ample
opportunities for studying the mlli'
tsry capabilities of the country, and it
is believed that the German staffis now
better informed as to the Geography OF
Russian Poland than the Russian.
There 10 already sufficient number oi
Prussian officers and soldiers Who have
thus become acquainted with the coun'
try to provide each brigade of the Ger
man army with staff of guides, who
would be of the greatect Use in the
event of . war between Germany and
Russia.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08
Electricity and Vegetation.

Mr.. II. Bridgman, of Norwich,
England, has lately investigated the
influence of electricity on the growth
of plants, and has used for this pu1-
pose q very weak galvanic battery, or
rather q single elementwith weak acids,
in order to obtain . very weak current.
He takes q three-inch square glass
plate, and after laying upon it two
strips of sheet tin close to, but not
touching each other, covers the plate
with felt soaked in rain water. On the
latter he spreads . thin layer of cress
seeds, that had previously been we'll
soaked in rain water. The two wires
of the battery are then brought into
contact with the strips of tin, and their
other ends stuck through the felt. The
electric current is Immediately estab-
lished, one-haif of tho felt having posi-
tive, the other negative electricity. On
another piece of moist felting, entirely
disconnected from the battery, is
placed also some cress seed, in order
to observe the difference in the growth
IN the two portions Of seed.
After the lapse OF four days, the
seed on the positive side Of tho first
piece Oh 1elC1uG gave S4Buo VI 8e3M1n@>
tioD, while their hu]1s were shriveling
up and becoming black On tho mega.
tive side of the felting the seeds were
at the same time swollen, and their
hulls, which retained their natural
color, were beginning to burst. In
six days. time the first shoots broke
forth. The seeds on the second plate
of felt, which were not under the in
fluence of electricity, first sprouted
many days later. The most peculiar
result of this trial was, however, that
while on the negative pole, where
there was every sign of stronger devel.
opment, the root sprout sank down
ward into the moist felting, on the
other hand, on the positive felt the
root sprouts rose upward from the
blackened and dried up seeds. The
upward movement of the root sprouts
has already, in 1867, been observed by
Blondeau; but he ascribes it to the in:
fluence of electricity in general, and
not especially to the positive electrici'
ty.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08
The Youpr Tourists Last Shot.

The Kansas City Times says party
of buffalo hunters, from the Grange" In
the vicinity of Fort Dodge, furnieh the
following details Of very singular in
cident which trarspired last week near
the line of the Atchison, Topeka, and
Santa Fe Railway: "a young tourist,
who had been sent by his physician to
recruit his health and strength upon
the plains, but whose name could not
be ascertained by our reporter, started
out from Fort Dodge on Saturday last,
in company with several friends, to kill
buffalo. They went out several miles
from the fort and were soon in the
midst of mvriads of fat black bisons,
when the sport opened out quite lively.
The young invalid became quite in.
visorated by the sport and the cool
fresh breezes, which blew quite unlike
the gentle summer xephyrs over the
nut. brown plains. He rode up along
eide . fine fat COW, and, after . sharp
and short chase, halted, and by . dex-
ferrous and successful broadside shot
brought the animal to the earth. He
was seen to stand alongside bis bleed
ing game, and then he staggered and
fell, and died beside tho bleeding
monster. The excitement had been too
much for him, he died of heart disease.
His body was brought here on the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail.
way on Monday and forwarded East.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08
THE NEWS.
Loss Of the virglnlus.

THE United States steamer Ossipeo arrived
New York at II p. N. on the Goth, without
the steamer Virginius, which vessel she was
commissioned 10 bring to port. On nboardtne
her the startling intelligence was comm"n,-
Gated that the vi, glnius had founderea o"
Cape Fear. N. c., on tho suaorninss = the 1osh
inst Lieut.. Commander Haswell, OF the
Ossipee, made the following stasensas w.
cerning tho disaster: The Ossipee Icte- Ton
tugas with the Virglnlus In tow ON tho morn.
ing OF th.. 9th. They had fair weather until
tho afternoon Of Saturday, the following day,
wh,n gale sprung up. They continued to
have b. d weather, and the virginius signalled
that sho was lcskins badly. Capt. Walters,
therefore, determined to shape his courss for
Charleston, S. g., but as t6aysot into smooth.
er water the water was kept oak.. of her
Are-room. On tho morning Of Christ
mas day, the severe weather
having continued, the vireinius waa again
leaking as bad - ever, aud the vessels put
into Frying Pan Shoals, about ten miles south
OF Cape Fear: hight, 1herc smoother water
could be obtained. Here the vessels came to
anchor, Capt. Walters hoping that the Virgin
ius would ride ,out the gale. Before daylight
the next morning, Friday. Commander Wood
row signalled with lights that the Virglnius
was leaking rapidly, with fires out, the pumps
stopped, and that the crow wished to be taken
OF. Boats were lowered from the Ossipce at
daylight, and by Z 4. u. all on hoard the Vir.
ginius were transferred 10 tho former vessel.
As heavy sea was running the work OF re-
moving the crew WAS ono Of much danger aud
difficulty, and therefore no lives were risked
in endeavoring to save their personal effects
srany other property ON the Vireinius. Tho
hawser Of the Virginius was cut and 4 buoy
attached to mark her position in case she sank
out OF aight. The Ossipee remaiDed d aueher
during the day. and At = quarter to II. \. the
Virsinius. which had been gradually sinking,
went 70 tho bottom. She sank in eight tath.
oms Of water, = portion Of her masts remain
ing above the surface.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08

PERHAPS one of the oldest elections
ON record occurred at the last general
election for members Of the General
Assembly in Germany. A certain, dis
trict had only one legal voter, who
walked proudly up to the polls and
voted for himself, the only eligible
member in the district. But when his
name was announced as tho elected
member, he pompously arose, and said,
" Messrs. Commissioners, I do not ac-
cept the election!" and walked grave
ly of.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08
Caleb Cushiue's Instructions.

The appointment of Hon. Caleb
Cushing to be the successor of Gen.
Sickles as Minister to Spain continues
to excite comment concerning the
character of the instructions he will
receive from the Department of State
after the confirmation of the nomina-
ton by the Senate. Although usage
Is opposed to an open declaration of the
line of diplomacy to be pursued, it is
stated with truth that one of the subjects
to which Mr.. Cushing will give his at.
tention will be policy of political
and administrative reforms in Cuba as
the best means calculated to restore
peace to that island and promote its
prosperity and among these reforms
is included the abolition of slavery in
the Antilles. These views have been
repeatedly enforced, both IN the Presi-
dents annual messages and the official
correspondence of Secretary Fish,
and have been often communicated
to the Spanish Cabinet. It will be re-
collected that several years ago our gov
ernment rendered it's good Offices to
Spain in hopes of Cuba paci6cation,
but they were respectfully declined on
the basis suggested. It is not improb-
able that similar tender will be again
made by the new Minister, as the Ad-
ministration will resort to every proper
expedient for the purpose of restoring
peace and protecting American inter.
ests in Cnba and adjacent waters and
there can be do doubt that an effort
will be made to conclude q new com.
mercial treaty with Spain of friend
ship, limits and navigation.
PRoFEssoR ROOD has been making
some experiments on the duration of q
flash of lightning, and on the length Of
time necessary for distinct vision. He
found that the duration of fash OF
lightning ranged from intervals OF
time shorter than one-thousandth of a
second up to others at least as great
as one-twentieth of second. BY
means of mirror revolving at the rate
of $50 revolutions a minute, he found
that the first act of the electrical dis
charge of Leyden jar was in certain
cases only forty billiouths of q second,
an interval of time just sufficient to
enable ray of light to travel forty
feet. Through a micrometer reduc.
ton he found that four billionths oi
= second was sufficient for human
vision.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08

The Pope has ISSUED an Encyclical,
in which, referring to the consecration
of Bishop Reinkens, he declares the act
of conservation performed by q
Jansenist hereto to be null and void,
and passes sentence of excommunica
tion against the Bishop, his electors,
aiders and abettors.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08

They live aessas stbSss fSPFs 1ouRs,
zYhe time teHeb - Dj-lYQae141r
They bloom agsip. Ue's .withered hovers.
Revived bJ nagicnem6EH~
They Iiyel Ny buried darlilgS rise.
From out their long nd-solemn sleep.
-Aa1 s.lkei u ligCe. .aasAsDsd skiassz
A gentle radiance ever keep,
.ezs @ ssenosy51 md memory!
And when my sands Of life are run,
And here no more my form they see,
Nav return, at least to one,
. On radiant wings Of memory, r~s =:
Back 10 my upforgotten home,
Back to one loved and loving heart;
II thus only hope to come,
Zen now I'm resdy to dei.aSt,"
O memory, kind memory!
From 1srsley's Magazine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08

THERE are q million of servants of
oil kinds in London better of, ex-
cept in exposure to temptation, than
any other laboring class in the country.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08

CHINA has one coal field $4,000
square miles in extent, the beds of
which lie perfectly horizontal, 80 feet
thick, tor . length Of 200 miles.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08

NEAL Dow is delivering temperance
ectures in Scotland,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08

Ir 10 said that new penal code, by
which the death penalty is abolished,
will shortly be introduced by tho ltal-
ian Government.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08
Foreign.

DISPATCH to the London News from Vienna
says It is expected that Baron Schwarz Zen
horn. Director OF the Universal Exposition,
will be appointed Ambassador to Washington.
Anr"- e. ~" Citv oP Mexico SAWS the
-~o
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08

cards called t'bTsg," took place in
Philadelphia between some of the high
bloods of the town. At least &5O, ,O06
was lost and won. The next morning
after the game one of the winners
found thousand dollar note missing.
He at once called the colored servant to
account, who laughinely said rs he re-
turned the note and got his reward
"You is very good master; but what if
one Of the gensn,en found it -
Oil TAKE 4 glass of yourdivinenec-
tar" said young man in . lager beer
saloon the other day. wat eest dota"
asked the waiter. .seI want to drain q
goblet of the extract of the somnifercus
hop" 1--WE don't gots heem, answered
the waiter. 'eNumbskull, bring me .
glass of lager!" The waiter went to
the barkeeEer and informed him that
q crazy man wanted . glass of beer,
but didn't know how to ask for it.
II kess he toni mooch English speak,"
said the barkeeper. Mott everybody
thought the barkeepsr.vas right.
TEE Rockland, Michigan, corre-
spondeDt of the Dstzoie Rnt3ells this
mining story: = Reesatl1 Q mass of
copper has been found at the old Ma
tional mine. The discovery was purely
accidental and happened in this man
ner: A notch was cut in the foot-vall
(Which 10 conglomerate) aors the pur-
pose Of supporting .seme timbess re-
quired by the men that were Engaged
in sloping upon the vein; this notch
exposed the mass, which seems to be
entirely in the conglomerate, of from
the vein. Its size, of course, il not
known, but supposed to b. several
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-08
BITTER THAN HE SEEMED.

A quaint old town was Here ord. It's
buildings were antiquated and it's in
habitants clung 50 tenaciously to the
traditions of their forefathers that no
more obstinate or exclusive set of land
owners could be found in the shire.
Scarcely more than two Thousand
souls comprised the population, but
what they lacked in numbers was bal
anced by the extreme respectability of
those who lived and carried themselves
az little lords among the tenantry.
Hereford had it's banking house. To
be sure, it was diminutive appendage
of the big concern in Liverpool, but
Mr.. Sandhurst Upton, NJ. p, resident
partner, presided over it's dignity and
lived in the old brick ma.sion at the
top Of the hill, screened from vulgar
gaze by the heavy yew trees that
formed q Gordon about his retreat.
Hereford also had it's established
church and it's good vicar, DR.. Stole,
who, though an austere man on the
church homilies, could, nevertheless,
at times be as decorously jolly as the
worst of his parishioners, and was a
rough rider when the hounds were in
full cry.
The family of Mr.. sandhurst Upton
consisted of his wife and two daugh-
ters. The former was q tall, stern
looking lady, with enough dignity to
have satisfied the most exclusive aris-
tocrat while the daughters, Augusta
aud Cecily, to the disgust of their
parents, most unaccountably had inn
bibed notions altogether too plebian
for their nat on and birth. It was Mrs.
Upton who had insisted on their being
educated abroad, and it had ever since
been to her q source of lamentation,
and her mere astute husband, who had
opposed the scheme, but nevertheless
yielded to his wife's wishes, never fail
ed to remind her that the consequence
was the result of her own folly.
Mrs. Upton knew this full we'll,
therefore she never sought to gainsay
it's truth, only she extenuated her mis-
take as best she could, reminding her
lord that she was educated at the same
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-09-15

as detestable. Yet here we have a mass of
correspondence, much of it irrelevant to any
pending issue, and all of it sacred from public
perusal, betrayed to light by man who ac-
cepted the custody of it in the name of friend
ship, and who Electrically promised to defend
it with his life." If anybody can find excuse
or palliation for the gnobe conduct of Moul-
ton, ne is past reasoning upon the general
subject.
Mr.. Beecher has found out at last what so
many true friends have told him so often. He
has been giving his confidence to one who was
false and treacherous from the beginning. If
he had possessed better knowledge of char
acter. or less faith in human nature, he would
have saved himself all these years of sorrow
and heart-sickness, by handing over his pre-
tended friend to the custody of policeman
ON the night when he struck an attitude and
drawing his pistol, exclaimed in mock heroics,
81 will defend your Men who deal in that
sort of fustian are not to be trusted.
Happily there is nothing in this new Cha
tribe, formidable as it is in length, to shake
the faith of Mr.. Beecher's friends in his own
emphatic declaration of his innocence Of the
especial sin with which he is charged. On
the contrary, it seems inconceivable that such
condolences as he reposed in his betrayel
could have existed ON the hypothesis of hi:
| guilt In all these revelations of his secret
| thoughts. there is not sentence or a line
which in any fair Interpretation can be CITED
in support of the theory of guilt. Is it to be
wondered at then, that the society of Plymouth
church and an overwhelming majority of thu
| people at large remain steadfast in the con
yiction that the great preacher has passet
through the fiery furnace of calumny ant
| detraction scathless? YARMOUTH