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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22

A YOUNG man at Austin, New, tho
other day made serious mistake. He
boue lit handsome dress pattern for
his wife and pair of red flannel
drawers for himself. He delivered the
wrong bundle to the young lady. Re.
sult-A broken head and ruined fry
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22
The Labor Trouble.

LARGE NUMBER oi unemployed working.
men OF New York had . dombnstr.tion in
aompk'ns' -. Square, on Tuesd,y, January IS.
inc Commissioners Of the Park had given
tne'r permission for holdingthe meeting, but
subsequently withdrew it, and requested the
ponee to prevent the meeting being held
there. This action of the commissioners ~
'ncensed the laborers shat they refused to dis
Pe1se When ordered to do 40 Dy the police
Tho Sergeant Of Police advised them TO dis-
persc quietly, bnt WAS met with furious "a.
ssu't, and general and vigorous clubbing
began, out Of which the officers came victo-
rious, bearing with them numbers of prison.
err. The person who began the assault vas
asked Why he struck the Sergeant, and replied
that he was told by their leader to strike any
police who interfered with the demonstration
Besides" said the prisoner, i" I am ton days
without food, and am desperate" A large
force OF police was held in readiness to sup.
press any further demonstration, but there
was no need OF their services.
AhE ene1neers, train and track hands of the
new Jersey Southern railroad quit work on
January 13. Locomotives are in the shops
partly disconnected, and the track has beer
torn up in different places, preventing train,
running. The cause OF tho strike i'd the fail
ure Of the company 10 pay wages due.
The strike on the ]. NJ. and l. R. R. ha,
finally ended, the striking engineers in bod.
applying to the officers OF the road to be rein
stated. The Superintendent replied tba,
their positions had all been flllod by new men
and he proposes to retain these men on busi
ness principles.
The negroes on the Sbayous Of La Fouch'
snd Teache are on strike, the land owners
having resolved not to pay over fifteen dollar
month. They paid twenty dollars last year
Large numbers Of mounted men 90 from
place to :place, allowing none to work. Th'
Following message, received by Kellogg, show
that they are creating alarm
CHACAHoNLA, La, January IL, 1873.
DedT ~" :-SeDd us assistance immediate
y. Our section is in . state OF terror ant
y. uounted men enter our premises in spite
os our remonstrances, and threaten the lives
o. AL at work. Our peace and safety demand
immediate action at Your hands.
DISPATCHES from all districts in the Schuyl
XIII region represent that ut meetings O: tn,
miners all had decided to strike, rejecting tn
$2.25 basis, and demanding minimum basi
OF $3.50 on contrack work and $2.75 for da
work, and in some instances demandln
higher rates. About $4,000 miners arc no,
out Of the mines, and there is an almost ccm
plete suspension of coal shipments now in q
that region. The men arc very determined
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22

PRoaREss is made with the repairs of
the Windsor Castle wall between the
Guard Room and julius Cesar Tower,
ronting Thames street.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22

We fingered ont the seascn
Far into the cooler DAYS,
And the vOtsries OF fashion

We fingered ont the seascn
Far into the cooler days.
And the vOtaries OF fashion
All had flown their different vayx-
We had wandered down the sea beach,
With the moonlight DER us strayinx:
Listened to the night winds whisper.
Wondered what the waves were saving
And again we stood together
Near the oceans ebb and flowing,
While the bushes of the sunset
On the waves were redly glowing.
Dearest" said she, hesitating,
'Ah too long We both have tarried:
Tomorrow We must part forever:
For, my darling, I am--Married!"
Marricd!" exclaimed. upstarting;
Married !" murmured With . sigh;
"Then indeed is this parting,
for-my darling 80 sm / J"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22
The
The English T'urf-..The Winning
Owners.
From the Pail Mall Gazette,

NJ. Lefevre has won q larger amount
of money during the past season than
any other owner of race horses. He is
credited with f25, ,813, which is about
45, 900 more than has been secured by
Mr.. Merry, who stands second on TIE
list, chiefly by the aid of Doncaster and
Marie Stuart, through whose iDstru-
mentality he won the Derby, the Oaks,
aud the st. Leger. It may, however,
be questioned whether NJ. Lefevre's
winnings will cover one-fourth of the
cost of his enormous training establish
mcnt; and it is quite certain that Mr..
Merry, whose stud is much smaller, has
achieved far more substantial tri-
umph.
So, too, Mr.. Savile, with scarcely a
dozen horses in training, need not
complain of fortunes favors; for,
though Kaiser could only obtain a
place in the great events Of the year,
and Cremone broke down at critical
moment, raised his winning score to
e12, 795, which is half of what NJ.
Lefevre obtained with ten times as
many horses in his stables.
The owner known as Mr.. Fisher, I"
stands fourth on the list by the aid of
Newry, winner of the Middle Park
and Napoleon I'LL, while next to him,
close together, come Mr.. Stirling Craw-
ford and Lord Falmouth. The former
gentleman has Gang Forward chiefly
to thank for this relatively favorable
position, and if the son of Stockwell
had not gone amiss just when he did,
Mr.. Crawford might have Jared even
better.
Lord Falmouth, disappointed with
Paladin, was rewarded by Cecilla's
unexpected victory in the One Thou
sand Guineas, and Mr.. Bowes, who al
ways has some useful horse in training,
holds a good place with Field Marshal
and Chivalrous to carry his colors.
Lord Lonsdale would have done bad
ly but for King Lud, who earned three.
fourths of the f4, 462 placed to his
credit, while MIR. Brayley and Mr.. Jo-
seph Dawson own Mornington and
Prince Charley to account for their
position in the first dozen.
Baron Rothschild, who stood so far
above all his rivals in the Favonius
year, has not won tenth of the sum
"AACA AAS AOIoS0 0bIu0U UuT1DR tu8G
season; and it is worthy of notice that
MIR. Houldsworth, who is ready to give
any price for promising yearling, has
not been credited with sum sufficient
to pay for the hay and corn which his
horses will have consumed.
The Middleham stable, which once
carried all before it, can only lay claim
to f2,38O, which is q trifle more than
MIR. Chaplin, now tae owner of a few
Indifferent selling platers, has opposite
to his name.
Mr.. George Payne, Lord Howtl,
Lord Wilton, and Prince Batthyany
are still lower in the scale, as thei1
respective totals vary from e1, 800 to
FL, 900 but Capt. Mac],ell, trifiing az
is the sum to which he is nominally
entitled, has less reason to complain,
for few of the horses trained under hie
supervision actually belong to him.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22
Dark Davs far l,atro,aur,-

The OIL City Derrick publishes re-
view OF the oil production and trade for
1879, from which the following table of
the highest and lowest prices at Oil
City for the year is copied:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22

In the Bavar,an army 1,046 men, Of
whom 46 are married, are still missing
! from the late campaign in France.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22

BETTER be upright with poverty
than be wicked with plenty.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22

United States, Jean Francois Chatle0
Bartholdy. has had long diplomatic
career. He is a lawyer BY profession,
but has served % translator in the De-
partment of Foreign Affairs, Secretary
Of the Legation to Berlin, special
agent to Turin, Vienna and Mexico.
and also a. Secretary to the French
Embassy at st. Petersburg. He has
been Jealous Bonapartist, but isnow,
we presume. good enough Republican
forMacMahon's purposes.
I CAN testify to the extraordinary
natural gifts possessed BY = daughter
of Thalberg, the pianist, whom I
heard in . salon some days ago. Mile
Thalberg has q pure soprano of singu-
lar extent, and she sings with . facility
which have never heard in one of her
tender years. She is, I believe, only
sixteen ears old, and she looks still
younger. Tits doubtful policy to rush
forward so phenomenally precocious =
talant, but if she retains her powers,
even in her present state, she will GER
tainly be star in the musical firma-
ment.-Paris Correspondence Londo"
Telegraph.
COMPLAINT il made that the art OF
painting, or "making up," as it Is
technically named among the theatrl'
cal profession. Is gradually becoming
lost. 1t is to be remembered that with
actors painting the face is not an aftec'
tation Of vanity, but part of the busl-
ness of their profession, as much az
arrange ment of the scenery, tht lights,
the dresses. or the department of the
play ers. Unsight,y dabs of w',ite or
red or black, however, are as far re-
moved from an artistic "make mp" as
theatrical poster is from landscape
by Claude. All men cannot become
proficient with the pencil, nor all &C.
tors in the art uf pai ting their faces,
but all mea may educate themselves to
distinguish betwee n glazing inct Dgrui
ties and harmonious combinations.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22
Foreign.

PREs1DENT MACMAHoN performed the cere-
mony of delivering the hats 70 the newly.ap.
pointed French cardinals on January 10th.
In his speech on the occasion he thanked the
Pope for comforting these honors on citizens
OF France, and added "The Holy Father
knows our filial attachment and our admira.
ton at the manner in which lie supports hia
trials. His sympathics were with us in our
misfortune, and ours are with him.
ADv1cEs from MatamOras state that the
forces Of GeD. Zepeda, the deposed Governor
OF Coahuila have again been defeated by the
troops supporting the Legislature and elected
DR.. Silas Governor. The action took place
near Honclovs, the capital Of the State, and
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22
Washington.

THERE is . strong movement in Washington
in favor Of suspending the further reduction
OF the national debt beyond the one Der
centum required by law.
A NAVAL OFFICER, writing from Kew West.
Fla, concerning the Virginius, says it was
understood among naval officers that the Vir-
ginius would 60 to the bottom before reach.
ing New York. The reports Of the weather
bureau we're even consulted to ascertain tb
probabilities OF storm ON the passage nor Il,
ward.
SPECIAL AGENT LYMAN and the United statea
District Attorney announce their intention to
make searching Investigation into the al
legged whisky frauds perpetrated by the whis.
Ky ring Of San Franciaco, by which the Gov.
crnment has been seriously defrauded.
SPEcIlL AGENT LYMAN and the United States
District Attorney announce their intention to
make searching investigation into tho al
legged whiskey frauds perpetrated by the wbis-
key ring OF San Francisco, by which the Gov
ernment has been seriously defrauded.
THE government of Italy has notified our
government that the edict OF the Cardinal
Pacia, forbidding, under severe penalties, ex-
portations OF works ofart from Rome, is with
out permission OF the government.
TIE President has appointed Edward r.
Gray and Stephen p. Lee, Of Oregon, and
Geo. H. Hurlurt, Of Illinois, commissioners
to examine the Northern Pacific Railroad
from the nearest end to Tacomia, Washington
territory.
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box. A few people called, The Queen =
but ry.few ~ m2n. in: the gallery
called out, where's your wife. Geor.
gie ="
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND GEORGE ".
"When the Duke was at Brighton in
the winter he and the King had dis.
pute about the army. 1t began by the
Kings saying that the Russians or the
Prussians, forget which. were the best
infantry in the world. The Duke said,
Except Your Majesty's.' The King
then said the English cavalry were the
best, which the Duke denied. Then
that an inferior number of French regi-
ment would always beat a superio
number Of English, and, in short, that
they were not half so effective. The
King was very angry, the dispute
waxed warm, and ended by His Majes-
ty rising from the table and saying,
We'll, it is not for me to dispute on
such a subject with Your Grace.
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When these people have burned the
body OFFS deceased friend, instead Of
putting tho ashes into an urn, they ce-
ment it into little oval forms, paint on
each the portrait of their friend. and
some little epi:aph, along with sacred
texts and symbols. These little me-
MORALS are then distributed among the
family and friends of the deceased and
worn as lockets. The speciI1en shown
us by DR.. Leitner was deciMeAy pretty,
and the idea excited goodzdehl of ad-
miration among those present, many
observing that the wearing Of brooches,
etc., containing the miniatures of hair
OF deceased persons appeared to be
survival in Europe Of this Oriental: GUS
tom. But, as might be expected, some
OF the Psychologists rather frowned on
cremation. 1t was discussed by q
group Of them among the mummies in
the British Museum. "How,' cx-
CLAIMED one Of them-sshow should We
ever have known anything about Egypt
if it had practiced cremation? Instead
of all these sculptured sarcophagi and
inscribed wrappings we should only
have little ashes." One distinguished
savant, however, remarked that just as
little would have been transmitted to
us if they had practiced Christian
burial-then we should have inherited
some <'rotten rags and DUST
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The Burning of Lady Dilke's BODY.

[Conway's London Letter to Cincinnati Com
mercial.l
The sensational account of the ere.
nation Of the body Of Lady Dixie,
which, see, has gone the rounds in
America, as here, requires but little ex-
animation to show it's apocryphal char
acter. The furnace used at Dresden,
and the intense heat around it, adaaits
ofno such minute inspection of the pro-
cess Of combustion as is indicated in
the paragraph that processes to describe
it. The twelve responsible persons who
were present at the event engaged SOL
ennly not to disclose the details, and
there is no reason to believe that they
have broken their word. The para
graph has evidently been written by an
opponent-so at least the London Lam
Get believes-to try and produce in the
public mind a revulsion against the pro-
cess. No dead person could h~vc
been required for experiment; a dead
animal would serve as well, and experi-
ments have been so made at Dresden
and elsewhere, which have shown that
cremation is decent, swift, and free
from any unpleasant effects on the
senses. Lady Dixie was one of a con-
siderable number Of persons who, since
the agitation of this subject, have made
provision for having their bodies burned
after death. The fear of premature
burial has been shown to be much more
widespread than the fear of not being
placedtogether properly at the sound
of the Archangel's trumpet; and that
popular apprehension, along with Ger
tain unpleasant associations with I'm.
derground decomposition, may yet give
the cremationists the victory over su-
perstitions about bodily Resurrection.
4 / was somewhat astonisAed, by the way,
to find how large an amount of feeling
favorable to cremation prevailed among
the learned men of the recent Oriental
Congress. On a certain morning
Dr.. Leitner was exhibiting to the
Congress his magnificent Greco.
Buddhist collection in the
Royal Albert Hall, and among other
things be exhibited small portrait
amulet, made Of the ashes of the dead
land worn round the neck BY Thibetans
: Z
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establishment. You will remember
that Dickens says he saw one run
across his face as he lay asleep.
"He sp oke to me in low, rather
plaintive tone of voice, and gave me
the impression that he was laboring un-
der certain amount of fear or appre-
hension. Part of his conversation,
which otherwise was perfectly rational,
conveyed the same impression. He in
timated that his relations were against
him, and 1 understood him to give this
as reason why his house was barri.
caded. So far as I could make out
through his prison-like bars, he was
lab oring under a partial insanity-a
monomania of suspicion or persecu-
tion. He would not attach his name
to any deed or paper bearing her Males
ty's stamp, the reason assigned being
that she was not the rightful heir to
the throne. Nothing could induce him
to use either postage or receipt stamp,
lest he should seem to admit the
Queens supremacy. With curious in
consistency, he had no scrsple against
making use of the coin bearing her
image. From the same objection he
would not cash his dividend warrants,
which remained in his house, forming
an accumulation Of very dirty papers.
He had the characteristic fear Of poi:
son; his diet was bread and cheese, red
herrings, milk and gin. For some years
he had given up milk, suspectins that
poison had been put into it. The great
novelist, and others more accustomed
to Insanity than he, did not consider
that Mr.. Lucas was person whom the
law could properly take under it's guar
diaaship as a person of unsound mind.
We cannot help thinking that it would
have been far kinder and more reason
able 10 recognize his obvious imbecili-
ties, delusions and miserable alterations
Of opinion and conduct as constituting
him q lunatic, requiring proper care
and decent attendance. Mr.. Mopes is
a picturesque monster enough Mr..
Lucas, from whom he was drawn, was,
we think, neglected lunatic. If the
lunacy laws were always as loosely in
terpreted we should have, large crop
Of such hermits, and neither society
nor the individuals concerned would be
the better for the license to hoard
their pence, neglect their property,
wallow in filth, and fout the laws Of
decency and sense.
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ing severely dropped.> But that was
one thing which the refined: Sumner
actually did and he was forced to
it by the feelings which swelled his
heart when. having returned to his
office, No. 4 Court street, in full dress,
from some festive occasion, he saw the
mob dragging Garrison through the
streets with a rope around his neck.
Hilliard, to whom he spoke, can tell
what he said at the moment. History
has told US what he did. From the
pinnacle Of social fame he plunged into
the sea of the ostracised below, and
became to the blue bloods Of Beacon
street as 70 better than one of the
wicked; and it was that speech in Fan.
euil Hall, entitled sour Immediate
Anti-slavery duties," on Nov. 6, 1850,
in which he threw himself into the
anti-slavery cause with his whole heart
and soul, which centered on him the
eyes of the State, and in which he
made himself the coming man. 1t was
in this speech, which Judge Jay pro-
nounced "the greatest effort of the
kind in the English language," that he
struck the key note to the impressible
conflict about to follow, in these words:
'There is legend of the church, still
living on the admired canvass of a
Venetian artist, that St. Mark descend
ing from the skies with headlong fury
into the public square, broke the mana
cles of slave in the presence of the
very judge who had decreed his fate.
This is known as the Miracle of the
Slave and grandly has art illumined
the scene! Should Massachusetts,,
hereafter, in an evil hour, be desecrated
by any such decree, may the good
Evangelist once more descend with val
liant arm to break the manacle of the
slave.''
The point in the speech was the des-
cription Of the picture, and the lesson
he drew from 1t. The next day some
one sent him an engraving of the scene
he had depicted. When in Europe, in
1857, he purchased the study from
which the great picture was made.
Both are now in Boston, and photo.
graphs Of them are being largely dis.
tributed throughout the land and this
seems to be the origin of the statement
that Tintorrentto made Charles Sumner
Senator.-A. B. Johnson IN Scribnsr's
for Nouember.
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The Way American History Wa,
Once Written.

0nce Written.
(Boston Advertisers Review Of Baucreft's
Tenth Volume.)
Mr.. Bancroft is familiarly charged
with writing the history of the Revolu-
tion in the interest of Washington and
Franklin, and making them out to b
perfect, while he Sights or misuses al
the inferior actors, This charge has no
foundation in truth. He is really very
fair, and knows better than his critics
do how to make allowance for failure,
which could not but exist in such times.
The charge has been nursed by the
amazement, which naturally grew into
indignation, first of individuals and
then of that indefinite being, 'sthe gen.
eral public,'' when they all learned that
the seven years Of the American Revo-
luton was not an exceptionable period,
in which all who went and came were
saints, Solons and Caesars. By an in
genious system of writing history,
under which the American youth Of
the first half of this century were
brought up, all defeats were omitted,
all except Arnold's passed over,
all follies forgotten, all cheats forgiven,
and one clear sky of virtue unclouded
was the background Of the whole mar
rative from tie moment Of Paul
Revere's ride till that closing scene
when amid the, tears, of thousands
Washington sheathed his sword at An
napolis. The curious lad who read
sometimes asked meekly, when he found
how bravely Wayne took Stony Point,
how it came into English hands at all
But neither book nor teacher gave any
answer to such impertinent questions.
s'Onward still the Yankee lion bore,
And still the scattered Briton fled BEFORE"
Nothing, therefore, could we'll be
more amazing to race Of grandchild-
rem and great.grandchildren, as they
read the four volumes of Mr.. Bancroft's S
Revolution, than to find that this man
blundered, that that one stole, that an
Other was in the pay of France, and yet
another was such confessed fool that
nobody trusted him with any authority.
TO learn that that assembly of sages,
which men called the Congress Of Con-
federation. dwindled down into all as
sembly Of incompetent twaddIers be.
fore the war was done, has been, per-
maps, surprise almost startling. But
really we do not see that the fault, in
this view, of the drama or Of the per-
formers, is to be charged on the man
why pulls the curtain aside. If these
people were fools he could not make
them leave sensible records behind
them. 70 take him to task is really
to ask him to falsify history. His real
offense seems to be, not so much that
he discloses the imperfections Of the men
who stumbled and fell, as that he proves
them.
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DROwNED.

The London World offers every month
prize OF 10 guineas' worth of books for
the best poem on given subject. We
give its prize poem for October:]
The flashing lighthouse beacon pales be-
The ruddy harvest-moon's intenser ray,
That bathes, and changes into sparkling
ore,
Its stones of granite gray.
Round the tall brigs the greedy ripple
laps,
AS with the ebbing tide they softly
swing,
A shore -belated sea-bird slowly flaps
Hisstrong- -plumed, ,dusky wing
The pier.lights, imaged on the waters,
melt
To silver pillA~s. such as visions show
OF palaces " he led Caliphs dwell
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.5ut short TO SAN: q ~an, mystery;
Deaths mocking gloss upon liie's lowell
ness;
A secret OF the sea.
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