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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
Tho Temperance cr,,a.d.-


iaf crusade against the rumseilers receutlv
'nauenrated In Ohio is spreading to the east.
ward An immense meeting wss held .t New
1ork, at which three thousand women an.
nounced themselves in readiness to march IN
sohd column against the traffic, and do all in
their power to shut up the saloons in the ma.
sropo''s. The liquor sellers are to be visited
In private and asked to sign the pledge. u
'ney consent and give up the traffic the heads
Q. tne city departments are to be asked to
give them employment
Inc p'ous people Of Dayton, O.. ara .t;n
"aging their war against s.loon.keepers. A
puohc meeting was held. and addresses m.da
ana reports given OF the SUCCESS Of the tenn.
pefsnce movement. In Piqua, . town of a an
inhabitants, the whisky war has inst h,cl.n
Ua'' ana Already ten ssloonists have signed
the pledge. About 400 women are vieorouslv
iaoor'ng with those who still hold ont .p.in,t
their prayers and hozannas.
IN Zenia nine saloons have been closed and
mass meetings are the order OF the dav. In
O'e'e'snd, active preparations are being m,de
or vigorous warfare against LIQUOR dealer.
In Oxford, the ladies' have been mect;n,, viz,
eooo success, and arc securing q great manv
converts.
In Louisville, KY. prayer meetings are held
daily, and the women are determined to
"restie with the rum-selIers until coot, fru;ta
are born Of the movement.
In Richmond, Ind, . woman's temner,nce
league has been established, and siege laid
against the liquor dealers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
VOLUME vi.

the ranch Of Carlos Machado. near Camp
Grant, killed his wife aud two children, and
Two msn, burned his buildings. and otherwise
destroyed bic property. Troops were sent in
puxouit Of the murdeIers.
Az ~ association, under very favorable
auspices. has been organized in Dubuque.
Iowa, with capital stock of ~, 900, It is
expected to give tho 6rst public exhibition OF
paintings aud other works Of art at an early
day.
TH1 trustees Of the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad on Saturday opened bids for the
great railroad bridgs. over the Kentucky river
rs feet above low water, tho highest on the
American continent, John A. RnbIing d
Sons bid for suspension bridge eight others
bid for iron truss bridges. The award is not
yet made. -
A noxrH or 90 ago the wife Of N. P. Egbert
died near Princeton, Ky.. under rather suspi.
cions circumstances. Shortly aiterw1d Eg.
bert left, in company with . young woman,
named Alice Carter, and little girl for whom
he was guardian. He was followed, and he
and Miss Carter were arrested near Bland.
vile. charged with poisoning Hrs. Egbert.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
A Loan Exhibition of I,aee.

The plan of a loan exhibition OF lace
in the English International Exhibition
for the present year is generally ap-
proved. The present proposal is to
secure an exhibition of lace manufac.
tured before 1916, and with this aim 4
meeting Of ladies interested in the mat.
ter has already been held in London.
There is, perhaps, no other product ol
art workmenship which retains 90 viv-
idly the evidence of labor expended on
il. Mr.. Ruskin has said that in this
lies it's value and interest; but tho labor
would be worthless if it yielded no
beautiful result. Some of tho designs
of old lace do not lack beauty of their
own. The solid decorative 1oveliness
of point d'Alenoon, the delicate intri-
eacies Of deeign in point de Brabant
and tho tender, frsil beauty of old
Mechllu, to choose but q few Of the
the more familiar examples, arc ft to
rank as things of strong artistic worth
in themselves. Tho collection cannot
fail to be most attractive feature of
the exhibition.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
An Ancient Nell.

In the tower of one of the buildings
destroyed by fire at Aliens print
works on the Sd inst, hung q bell
bearing date two years prior to the
discovery of this country by Christie
pher Columbus. It formerly called
the inmates of . Spanish convent to
prayer, and the performance of other
duties required by their order.
Tho intense heat occasioned BY the
recent fire and tho distance of the fall
broke the bell. On clearing away the
rubbish, the men having charge Of the
work have been able to find but q small
part of the metal. Questioners and
and others interested intimate that the
old bell may assume new forms that
will become sacred relics to those who
admire the church of that ancient and
modern religious order.-Bosto,,
Journal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
The Flower OF Love Lies Bleeding,
n. II. NTDDDARN

l met = little maid ono day,
All in the bright May weather;
She danced, and brushed tho dew away
As lightly as feather.
She had ballad In her hand
That she had just been reading,
but was too young to understand
That ditty OF distant land,
"The flower OF love lies bleeding"
She tripped across the meadow grass
To where brook was flowing.
Across the brook liko wind did pass
Wherever flowers we're growing
Like some bewildered child she flow,
Whom fairies wore misleading;
Whose butterfly" said, " are you?
And what sweet thing do you pursue ?"
)" Tho flower OF love lies bleeding |"
!" I've found the wild rose in the hedge.
live found the tiger-lly-
The blue aag by the waters edge
The dancing dalfodilly-
King. g.cups aud pansies-every flower
=, Except the one I'm needing;
Perhaps it grows in some dark bower,
And opens at late hour
"This flower Of love lies bleeding"
II wouldn't look for it," said,
For you can do without it: -
There's na such flower" She shook he head
But I have read about i'll"
talked to her OF bee and bird,
But she WAS al unheeding;
Her tender heart was strangely stirred,
She harped on that unhappy word
The flower Of love lies bleeding"
=" Ny child" sighed, aud dropped tear,
lwould no longer mind it
You'u find it some day, never fear,
For all oil US must find it'll
found it many year ago,
With one Of gentle breeding;
You and the little lad you know
see why You are weeping 80
Your flower OF love lies 6leeding!"
-Scri6ne,'s Magazine lor March.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
A hOustache the Cause Of q Breach Of
Promise.

Breach-of.prOmise suits are always
interesting, and will continue to furnish
material for amusement as long as
women confide and men betray. Love.
letters cannot but read absurdly in
print, the very publicity given them by
Roman characters being itself ineon-
gruous- A ease has been tried in Lon
don which is interesting as illustrating
the proverb which forbids discussion
in matters of taste. Both parties were
past the sentimental age, and their
couduct was, as usual in such cases,
trifle mere absurd than that of young
people under the same distressing cir
cumstances. The lady possessed fine
poetic temperament and q little
moustache. The lover professed to
adore the former, but the sequel
proved that it was the latter which
really claimed his homage. One fatal
day she applied razor TO her lips and
removed her unusual feminine orna-
ment, and with her hsir, as with Sam
son of old, her strength vanished also.
Her lover, discovering the imposition
that had practiced upon him by the re-
moval of his lady's principal charm,
rated her soundly, demanded an apol.
ogy for the outrage upon his sense ot
the beautiful, and finally struck her.
The engagement ended. and the lady
for the plaintiff of $500, which was 9
pretty fair compensation for the loss ol
lover and mustache.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05

Half way between Trenton and
Bordentown, in Delaware, 10 . tract of
land, several acres in extent, known -
Duck Island. Two years ago an aged
couple took possession of the island.
The husband, Abraham Chapman, was
seventy.two years of age, and the wife
two years younger. Last Saturday vas
the 1iftieth anniversary of their marri-
age, and after some pleasant chat over
the halt century of welded life the
husband bade his wife pleasant good
by and started to cross to the main.
land, his purpose being to visit store
near at hand. He was accompanied BY
his dog, which . few minutes later
came rushing back, covered with ice
and water. The wife hastened 10 the
edge of the river, where she-saw the
ice broken some distance from shore.
Two hours later, and just - it was
getting dark, the entire body of loo WAS
carried down the river. The body of
Mr.. Chapman was recovered yesterday,
very near the spot where he vas
drowned. The Coroner's jury returned
a verdict of accidental DEATH"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
The West.

JOHN T. HARPER, the deiaultine n,;no,.
collector. has given bail for his trial in June
AMBROSE Coz is to have his fourth t,;.,
next June, for the murder OF Miss Abbie snno'
mers' OF Quincy, ILL.,, At Ashland, No., in 1870.
CHANCELLOR WALKER, Of the Second Chan.
Gerry Court, has made perpetual Injunction re-.
straining the Memphis and Paduc.h R.ilro,a
from collecting 100000 voted by Tipton
county.
Carr. JozS 9. MoCurz, member Of the firm,
Of aa'y d 1eCane, and founder Of tho Kee.
kak packet company, and for over forty year.
closely identified with river commerce. and
many Of the most prominent national enter.
pr'sss Of 1t. Louis, died OH Thursday after .
brief illness.
A NEW and strange disease has attacked
horses near Mingo and North Lewisburr. in
Logan county, Ohio. The horse, without anv
previous symptoms being manifest, suddenly
loses the use Of its limbs, and cannot stand
The limbs become stiff, and the horse break.
out in profase perspiration, which continue.
only for : short. time. No fatal cases have
been reported.
TxS Apsehes In AsIsoua recently sttaeke<
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05

N. GAzoN, who has previously shown
that tho putrefaction of eggs corre-
spends with the development aud mul
tiplication of vibrios within them, has
contributed the result of some further
investigation on this subject. He
thinks that these organisms might be
easily introduced into the egg during
it's passage down the oviduct. Recent
experiments confirm this opinion. n.
Guyon examined the oviduot of . re-
cent)y-killed fowl, and found there
both bacteria and spores of fungi.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05

DAN R1oE IL just now under an evil
star. He has been sold out" says
Wilkes Spirit, cat the Sheriff's sale,
horse, foot, and dragons" His farm,
and even his newspaper the Oosmopo-
Titan, edited by Charles Stow, did not
escape his creditors. Col. Rice had a
beautiful home in the centre of Girard,
in front of which is q public square
containing . handsome monument to
the soldiers of the township who fell
in the rebellion. It 10 of white marble,
and the cost. SIS, 600, was wholly borne
by Col. Rice. The grounds about his
place were extensive, with rare plants
and shrubs, while the house contained
many interesting and valuable work.
of art.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
Pork Packing Statistics,

The National Crop Reporter publishes esti.
mates from reports Of its correspondent in
the states OF Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Kansas,
Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin, Of
tho prospective supply Of hogs for summer
packing in thoeo states. Their estimatss
place tho number at SO per cent. less thsn the
number fattened last year for summer pack
ing. Wisconsin returns 80 per cont. as COM
pared with last year, and Minnesota n psr
cent, being respectively the highest and
lowest averages Of tho several states.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
Postal chanaoa.

HE Appropriation Committee viii propose
an amendment to the postal laws 80 az to
provide that after June soth, 1874, the con.
Veyanoe in mails Of samples OF merchandise.
paeksses OF clothing, seeds, cuttings, roots.
irons' samples Of metals, ores and mineralo.
siea' specimens, and bound books, shall
cease and al laws authorizing such convey.
snce shall be repealed. A portion Of the com.
m'ssee' II not majority, favor the abolition
OF the postal car and free delivery systems,
the latter on the ground that large sums arc
spent for the benefit Of residents in 4 few
large cities. while the people At large are
taxed to pay for It. 1t is estimated that such
changes would nearly cover the amount snec;.
tiod a. the deficit for the ensuin. wear.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
Tho Eaot.

AT meeting Of the New York Geographical
society," Ihursdsy, J. A. MacGahan, the only
CIVILIAN that entered Khiva with the Russian
e1peoislon OF conquest, made an address, AID
".s 1ol'owed BY Gen. Sherman, who recounted
'one incidents on bis trip to Caucasus. and
old Asia. ~ ~''''1'"s
w. f. euRTEvANr has been arrested .t
poston 'or the murder, at Halifax, Mass. Of
n's uncle and Miss Buckney. His oyerco.t
"mcn ne sad was lost, has been found in tne
dwelling OF the murdered family.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
Use Of Tobacco.

Tobacco belongs to the Glars Oh
narcotic and exciting substances, and
has no food value. Stimulation means
abstracted, not added, force. It in.
wolves the narcotic paralysis of q por.
ton of the functions, the activity oi
which is essential to healthy life. It
will be said that tobacco sooths and
cheers the weary toiler, and solaces the
overworked brain. Such may be its
momentary effects, but the sequel can.
not be ignored. Ali such ex.
pedients are fallacious. When . Ger
tain amount of brain-work or hand.
work has been performed, nature must
have space to recuperate, and all de-
vices for recaping from this Eecessity
will fail. II is bad policy to set the
house on fire to warm our hands by
the blaze. Let it, then, be clearly un-
derstood tthat the temporary excite
ment produced by tobacco is gained by
the destruction of vital force, and that
it contains absolutely nothing which
can be of use to the tissues Of the
body. Tobacco adds no potential
strength to the human frame. It may
spur weary brain or feeble arm to
undue exertion for q short time,
but it's work is destructive, not
constructive. It cannot add one
molecule to the plasm out OF
which our bodies are daily built up.
On the contrary, it exerts upon it q
most deleterious influence. It does not
supply, but diminishes, vital force.
It has been denied that tobacco leads
to organic disease, but the evidence is
very strong the other way, and it would
be very remarkable if continued func-
tional arrangement did not ultimately
lead to chronic arrangement of the
organs that it causes functional dis
Tturbance, no one dreams of denying ;
indeed, it has been remarked that no
habitual smoker can be said to have a
days perfect heslth.-Popstlar Science
Moathkv.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
Hanging Of Rafyevty.

Christopher Rafferty,, Of Chicago, was
hanged at Waukegau, ILL.,. on Feb. n, for tho
murder Of Officer OMeara, Of the Chicago
Police. in August. 1872. The friends OF Raj
ferty had made extraordinary efforts to have
Gov. Beveridge set aside the sentence OF
hanSings.to imprisonment for life, but that
functionary refused t. interfere in tho matter,
and the law Was permitted to take it, course.
Rafferty, had, through his counsel, succeeded
in obtaining change Of venue three different
times, but still the findings Of the court were
always the same. and Rafferty, was at last com.
PEELED to suffer the extreme penalty Of the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
A TRANSPARENT waterproof paner

A TRANSPARENT waterproof paper, re-
sembling parchment, has been pre-.
pared by DR.. Jacobsen, by floating silk
paper on an aqueous solution of shell
lac in borax. If brown paper be
treated in this way it can be employed
for sausage cases. The shellao solution
may be colored with aniline, and the
paper thus treated used in making arti
tacial flowers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
Tho Ten Hourla,w,

The hasssehusetts Senste has passed the
ton hour bill to engrossment BY vote Of Is
to H. It makes no provision for tho hour,
OF labor OF men, but provides that women and
children under 1s shall not be employed in
establishments for the manufacture Of textile
fabrics, threads, yarn or worsted more than
sixty hours week. or an average Of ten hours
day. Each violation ID punishable by fine
Op an
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
An lmporial Bali.

At tho Winter Palace, -the other
night, writes q st. Petersburg wedding
correspondent of the London Timer.
the ballroom was lit by five thousand
six hundred wax lights, and the whole
suite of saloons and supper.1ooms
by twenty-six thousand six hundred.
The exact number of persons who sat
down to supper was one thousand nine
hundred and fifty, and your readers
may Judge of the cost of the feast when
I say that one dish, of which there was
far more than enough for all, was OF
exceedingly fine asparagus. Now,
they tell me that asparagus in
st. Petersburg, at this time OF
sons, could not possibly have been
bought for less than four thousand rou-
bles, or between five and six hundred
pounds. This most delightful of balls
at the Nobles' Club did not end az
we'll as it might have done. The pet-
ting of coats and hats and carriaeea
was . most terrific aud endless scene Of
noise and confusion, aud we found il
as hard to get out as the guests at the
E]ysee seem to have found hard to rei
in. A whisper went round at one time
that gentleman had fallen down dead
in one OF galleries, but I trust it wa.
an exaggeratlon. I heard an officer re-
peat to it the woman on his arm. Sh<
looked young enough and beautiful
enough to be immortal, and she mus
have felt 80, too, for her remark was
i" How absurd"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05

IT is now the practice of some silk
manufacturers to weight their silks
with q solution of lead acetate, by
which poisonous properties are i'm
partedto the silk, as we'll % an increase
in weight.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
A New Chapel ut Yale.
From Tia n. Y. TPfhnna. Feb. II

Russell Sturgis, of this city, has fur.
nished the plans for a new central
chapel for Yale College, and it's elec-
tion has just been begun. The new
buildings are intended to form, whom
completed, large quadrangle, about
$50 feet on each side, inoiosing the
college. green or campus, which will
ultimately become an unbroken lawn.
The two dormitories and the new
chapel will form one angle of this pro.
posed quadrangle, the chapel being at
the corner of College and Elm Sts., and
connecting with Farnam College on the
former and Durfee College on the latter.
The editice will be built of jersey
stone from the Newark quarries, with
the carved and other ornamental work
OF WorthingtOn stone from Ohio, and
the sill-courses and other exposed
parts of dark blue stone from Maiden,
N. 7: Masslveness and simplicity will
constitute the prevailing features of
the structure. There will be no spire,
and the projections of the transepte
and porches are to be only slight. In
deed, it will be treated as forming q
part OF the great quadrangle. 1t is in
tended. however, that there shall be
great richness in the details. An elab-
crate arcade, which will also act as q
stay or buttress TO- the walls, will sur
round the whole building; and this
and the porches will embrace a great
deal Of elaborate sculpture. The build
ing will he capable Of seating about
!, 200 persons. It will be 125 feet in
length, but with it's arched porch.
forming an entrance to the QUADRANGLE.
will represent . total length OF $50
feet. The height to the point of the
roof will be 80 feet. The ceiling will
be OF wood: 1t 10 believed that
many of the windows will be
presented by. persons wishing to
erect memorials either to students Of
the college who lost their lives during
the war, or of distinguished persons
connected with the University. In this
way it is expected that very ornamental
and costly stained glass windows will
be contributed, aud their general de.
sign being placed under the direction
of the architect, they con be made to
harmonic with one another, and with
the decorations of the interior. The
principal part of the the ground floor
10 " W OcCup1eo ON sundays by the
students Of the undergraduate Depart
ment. The entrances to this will be
entirely from the College green. There
is to be gallery over the vestibule at
the west end, and smaller gallery in
each transept. These galleries, which
will afford accommodations for about
$50 peraons, are to be approached BY
separate entrances on College and Elm
streets. Over the archway, which will
give entrance to the gfeen, there is to
be . room for the religious meetings
OF the students. The entire cost of the
chapel is estimated at &120. 900.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
THE NEWS.
54s5tsssI -.----- --T..,!57IT
P0ta) R0llroad Accident,

AFE4a.yb aseidsat occurred ON the Great
westeFn xelsesa- on February 2sth. The
0aznia accommodation train LEFT London at
e:2e ?. H., and eonsisted Of empty tank cars
baggage and second-class cars and coach
When seven nnilea west OF London the coach
toek fire In he salodn a. the forward end, it 10
supposed, by falling lamp, for It wa' not
discovered until tho interior Of tho saloon vas
completely filled with flames. which spresd
through Tho coach almost instantly me
passengers wore compelled to jump nom inc
rear platform and through the windows ine
train Was stopped asarteeay g pos'ole. oas
before they could bsTs1tt aed 6ght persons
were fatally su5ooated and burned. suehoe
The injured A. were unabla 70 proceed 70 their
homes have been lasde ~ sseonfsstable % pos.
sible at the hotels at Komaks aud London.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05
True L0ve.

xIUe D0vos
would that svssy angry shaft
From Troubles bitter Gheal.
Would wing its flight to ptseoe my heart.
TO giyo @ thinQ IoNek
a"5~at x.
Iwould that every IN and Voc,
And evegy esSti8g care,
WouA Iosoo thef1 WY within ny beeast,
That I for thee might bear.
I'd genial dse0 ~ 10y chin
Tie biting frost and cod
The sterny te0pess, love. e thou
II nv Trail bark vers toseed aboat,
OF angry waves tbe 6po9t
Calm q On Giasay lake I'd feel
II thou vert safe in port.
And Il thy choice Ger me should pass,
TO bless anotherS hfs, Saa
HE trueal friend I'd ever be,
Because thou vert his wife.
-Chansbers' Journal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05

BosroN paid Impressario Strakosch
for less than two weeks of opera
eleven performances -$46,O21. OF
this sum Niue. Nilsson's shate was
! $1l, 5000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-05

Tiohborne clalasAsst osntonoed.
Thetrial of the TiS6botns claimant has Of
last been closed. Tho prisones WAS on trial lor
perjury, and has been >l9phd guilty aud con.
tened to fourteen yea1ssh hanal essyitade.
The trial occupied the attention Of the Court
for 1so days, and Was brought to close on
February Is. the jury not occupying more
than twenty minutes in tn. a.yesdict.