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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
Singular Coincidence.

A strange coincidence happened at
New Haven, the other day, which now
appears for the first time in print.
When the swing stage in York street,
holding three painters, broke, precip-
itating two of them to the ground, one
saving himself by jumping through an
open window, anotherswing stage, from
which three painters were working on a
house in East Chapel street, also fell,
one end becoming unloosed from the
tackling. One of the three men saved
himself, rs Whaples did, by jumping
through IN open window, and the other
two were thrown to the ground. One
had an arm broken, but the other es-
capped without severe injury. The two
cases were 80 parallel that many of the
gossips took them to be one and the
same thing, overlooking the slight diff
ference between the location of York
and Chapel streets.-P0lladiuna.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
will first-poor Will + and even
while she spoke her head fell again on
hia hrnaat

his breast.
All that night she chung to him with
a clasp which we could not loose with
out using force, which wo could not en-
durc to do. We sent for the doctor
he made his toilsome way through the
snow only to tell us what we knew too
we'll already.
Will was dead, and all night long his
wife lay motionless upon his breast !;
great fires burned, tables stood covered
for the master, who was never to feel
cold or hunger more. When the chill,
late winter morning broke, Mabel too
had entered into the great eternal sun
shine of God"
The next day Aunt Lora took mo to
the grave where wife and husband slept
together. The moss, Goods blessing
on the grave" had crept softly, grecnly
above them the scarlet letters at the
base of the white cross, which told the
story Of William Forsythe Long and
Mabel his wife, cleaned redly through
the holly wreath which hung there, a
message of love and remembrance from
the living to the dead.
No trace of the murderer was ever
discovered it was supposed to be one
of those all but motiveless crimes which
have desolated so many Irish homes
during tho last forty years. Mr.. Long
was IN Englishman he had begun his
reign well-was full of schemes to ben
eft his peasantry. His crime was hav-
ing taken the place of an Irish family
who had emigrated when long career
of extravaganza had made it impossible
for them to live at home any longer.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
The New Finance Bill.

The following is synopsis Of the now
france bill introduced in the House. It repre-
sents the essential features Of the compromise
proposed by eastern men:
"Section repeals al the acts limiting the
amount of bank circulation. Section 2 pro-
vldes for issuing circulation to al banks whl.h
may be duly organized under the existing laws,
who furnish the required securities. Section
provides that as fast as the circulation ia
issued to the banks, so per cent Of tho amount
shall be retired in greenbacks until the amount
Of greenbacks shall be reduced to $3.50, 900, 0oO,
Section authorizes the issue of $4OO OOO. .OOO
OF United States bonds, At s per cent, 70.
twenty years, or ~ per cent. for thirty years
to he used exclusively for retiring greenbacks,
snd provides that every holder Of greenbacks
may exchange the same for such bonds, and
all greenbacks thus exchanged to be Cancelled.
Section provides that after July 1, 1875, the
government shall pay all United States notes
IN coin, on presentation, and that one-half Of
all custom duties may be paid in United States
notes. Section forbids the payment Of inter-
est by national banks to other national banks
on depoaits except by banks acting as redeem.
ing agents for other banks, and then only to
the amount that the law authorizes them to
keep as their reserve in the hands Of such 70.
deeming agents.'
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
why Mott

''There is form of misery" says the
Saturday Review, with which most of
us have to make acquaintance at least
once in our lives. Mankind has agreed
to surround the marriage ceremony
with observances of q distressing, not to
say ridiculous, nature. 1t is generally
assumed, we need not ask with what
accuracy, that a marriage is in itself a
cause for congratulation to the persons
most Immediately interested; and,
therefore, it is inferred that they should
suffer cheerfully the small deduction
from their satisfaction which is involved
in making themselves a show to their
acquaintances and to the public gener.
allv." It thinks that, as the world
grows more civilized, the quantity of
Ceremonial is diminishing +; land it
may be hoped that in time two human
beings, performing the most solemn
act Of their lives, will be allowed to
get through the business quietly and
seriously, without being exposed to the
impertinent intrusions Of the outside
world"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
The South.

THE river at Yazoo City is declining slowly.
Reports from all points above show the Yazoo
and Tallahatchee falling. Greenwood, OH the
Tallahatchee is entirely submerged, the water
there being higher than it was in 1867.
The people Of the seventh Kentucky COLI
gressional district have become greatly excited
over the congressional race, and there are ru-
mors that: pledge had been extracted from
MIR. Beck, Just before his last race, that he
would not run again. The popular feeling is
to return llr. Beck, regardless OF any pledges
he may have made not to run.
The General Assembly Of Virginia adjourned
sine die April so.
Two Louisiana colored Senators have sued
tho Louisiana Jockey Club, for refusing to sell
them quartez-stretch badges during the recent
race, ON account Of their color.
SHEPPARD l. DEwoLr, Of New Orleans, have
made sproposition to the st. Louis merchants
that il sufficient freight is guaranteed by them
to justify the venture, they will put Oh line Of
steamships between New Orleans and Rio Ja-
metro, touching 1t al important intermediate
points.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
Rather Social.

Gov. Powell, of Kentucky, WAS never
an orator, b1t his conversational, story
telling, and social qualities were re-
markable. His great forte layin estab-
fishing personal intimacy with every
one he met, and in this way he was
powerful in electioneering. He chewed
immense quantities of tobacco but
never carried tho weed himself, and
was always begging it of every one he
met. His residence was in Henderson,
and in coming up the Ohio past that
place gentleman overheard . charac-
teristic anecdote of him. A citizen of
Henderson, coming on board, fell in
conversation with . passenger, who
made inquiries about Powell. "He
lives in your place, I believe, don't
he ?" "Yes, one Of our oldest citi-
zens." "Ve:y sociable man amt he?"
" Remarkably So" "Well, I thought
so; I think he is tho most sociable man
I ever met in my ife-wonderfully
sociable. was introduced to him over
at Grayson Springs last summer, and
he hadn't been with me ten minutes
when he begged all the tobacco had,
got his feet in my lap, and spit al over
me-remarkably sociable."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
BrahnaS.

A correspondent of the Baptist Union
says:
In the autumn after moving into the
country, I bought ten light Brahma
hens and ono cock. also bought for
settlers two large common hens. They
began to lay early, and we kept an
accurate account of eggs from the
Brahmas till they had laid one hundred
dozen. We raised one hundred and
sixty-seven chickens-very fine and
large. Some of these I sold for S. a
trio. We killed and dressed for home
use large number. Indeed to raise to
sell was no part of our plan. It was
merely a domestic arrangement. I
never saw chickens grow SO finely from
the time they were llatched. Their feed
was corn meal mixed with n small por-
tion of wheat bran, and sprinkled with
cayenne pepper in moderate quantity.
they had also access to trough filed
with milk, and sometimes they had
scraps from the soap-boilers. l have
raised chickens of various breeds. and
I have come to the conclusion that.
take them all in all, the Brahmas are
superior to any other race of hens,
They are good especially to cross with
our common hens, giving weight of car
cass and strength of constitution good
for layers and unsurpassed for the
table.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
A Iarin0 Curiosity

The San Diego World says: A little
girl while playing on tho beach found
in small pool of water the most curl
ous marine butterfly it has ever been
our good fortune to behold. We say
butterfly because its hues are 90 gor-
gcous, although in appearance it more
resembles a grub. Il il about IN inch
and a half long, and is composed Of =
gelatinous substance. Dr.. Barnes, who
examined it with US, thinks that it il .
vertebrate, but We confess that We
could see no evidence of articulation.
Two very long antennse projected from
the head, and two smaller prongs erect
themselves like plumes further back on
the head when the thing is in motion.
It has two strong orange colored prongs,
which some of the spectators were dis
posed to call it's eyes, dependent from
the head. Its back was covered with
what looks like . bright orange fringe.
Small as this creature is, these spiculse
count by the thousands and they seem
to answer as fins, - the nondescript ev-
identity propels and guides itself by
them. The body and belly of this ma
rine curiosity is bright purple. It can
contract ard expand itself at pleasure,
and is as garish as the brightest butter.
fly of the field.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
WnRhl0n1hon.


IN sno mouse OF Representatives, recently
Speaker Blaine called 1lr. Rainey, from South
Carolina, to the chair in committee of the
whole. This is the first time in the history Of
the government that . colored man has occu-
pied the Speakers chair in the House Of Rpe-
resentatives.
The River and Harbor appropriation bill, q
completed by the House committee authorize
about forty surveys to be made, fifteen Of them
of the South. The entire amount OF tho An.
preparations is 81, 500, ,OoO or Sl,ooO, 600 less
than the amount Of tho bill reported to the
House last year.
ATTORNEYS representing both parties in the
Arkansas dispute for tho Governorship are in
Washington, and will submit written areu.
ments in support Of their respective claims.
The decision of the President will be male
after thorough consideration of the .ro,,.
ments thus presented.
1HE income tax law, 1t is thought will receive
the attention OF tue present Congress. o,e
party is OF opinion that incomes of %. 600 and
over should be taxed, while others think that .
arger revenue could be derived from tax q,
those of ST, 600 and over.
FINAL adjournment is now scarcely to be
guessed at, as the new phase of tho fiuancia
question has rendered it question Of uncer.
ainty. ~
LOBBY representing the steel consumers
OF the country is at present in Washington,
seeking hearing before the ways and means
committee in their interest, with q view to .
reduction Of the tariff on steel.
IHE principal papers Of Washington arc
outspoken in their demand for a change Of
government in the District of Columbia.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
The East.

MEETING was held recently in Cooper In
stitute to give all impetus to the movement
for the settlement by arbitration of old AZ,
putes between nations.
IHE New York Senate has passed a bill pro-
Sidlng Tor compulsory education of children
bERdHs society has stopped the running Of
horse cars on the Grecnville Road. from Jer,av
city, on account of muddy weather.
IHE New York Legislature has agreed to
appropriate $3.50, 600 to continue the 'en,.roa.
ment OF the Erie Canal and $500. coo for tho
Champlain Canal.
CARL ScHURz delivered his enlopv m sum-
hcr' IN Boston, according to previou. announce
mcht. 1t IL said the scene j., Music Hall was
ono that will not soon be forgotten by those
Who were fortunate enough to be present. The
oration, as was anticipated, is brilliant tribute
to the memory Of the great Senator, and wor-
thy of the distinguished orator who pronounced
it.
JOHN +. ATKINSON, recently accused bv
special agent Jayne with committing . felo-
NOUS assault upon him, has begun suit against
Jayne to recover bis moieties as an informer
IN the cases of Story and Weld, Boston mer-
chants.
TAE Orange lodges Of the New York district
Will celebrate tho Twelfth Of july this wear bv
an excursion to neishboring grove on Mon
day, the 18th. Sunday, the 18th tho menu
bors will meet, and without regalia or other
insignia, march to the church.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
It Ae Bridal.
,YuAs.rrr rsrscorr sposronp


Wide stoed the dooss, that morning,
OF tho sombre and ancient church,
And gsyb the yellow sunshine
Btreamed in ON it's seldom search
Stresmed over the rustling satins,
Over jewel and waving plume.
Over smiling and confident galants,
Over women all beauty and bloom.
And paused to look 1t the pageant
In the midst of the simmer and stir,
And to hear the priest murmur: Foesaking
All others, cleave only to her.
Fair twinkled the taper-set altar,
And sweet blew the organs breath.
While the lover bent and repeated:
TO love and to cherish till death.
The light from the great rose-window
Came splendidly sitting down;
On her face there fell glory,
And over her hair = crown; s,g~
And knew by the awful passion
With which he stood white and wan
That he cast his heart before her
For her feet to tread upon.
But the bride WAS softly smiling,
Lovesome and bright and fair
He was but the ring on her finger,
He was but the rose in her hair!
And would there had been glamour
Over my eyes, and blur,
At that eager vow Of fossaking
An others, and clesving to her;
For out Of the pillared shadow
I saw beside me start
A wild-eyed girl with her baby
Clasped over her breaking heart.
And down from the porch 60 flying
The wreck Of rapture unble sed-
With only the river before her,
With only the river for reet!
-Harpe,'s Magazine for Nay.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07

AS soon as the ceremony of inaugu-
rating King Kalakua was concluded, we
are told that "the audience gave three
cheers for their Sovereign, which the
crowd in the street took up and repeat
ed, while the guns at Punchbowl Bat
terry doomed forth the first royal salute
to King Kalakua and his royal stand
ard.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
Eighth & at Little Rock,

Reports from Little Rock give tho following
particulars of battle between the opposing
forces April 80: Gen. King White, who has
charge Of the Baxter forces at Pine Blun, hear
ing that party Of Brooksites were assembled
at New Gascony, in Jefferson county, commit
ting depredations, moved column Of 200 men
down to that point for the purpose Of dispers-
ing them. On arriving at New Gascony, White
sent forward flag Of truce to order the men
to disperse, but they were fred upon by the
party, and a regular battle ensued, in which
nine Of the Brooks party were killed and twenty
wounded. Tho remainder we're taken prison.
ers, disarmed and sent home. Gen. White re-
ports seven men Of his own command wounded
and three horses killed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
THlEEll ! ! ! ] j. .Nl|[lEE''WS. ! L
- - .,.
The National Finances.
The following il the public debt statement
for tho month of April:
GU.SO2,2W
The N. T. 81. p. r. 3. W. tho State.
Tho MlwaIke 60 and st, Psul Railroad Comna-

ny proposes to take issue with the
state Of Wisconsin OH the Railroad
law passed at the recent session Of
tho legislature, which designates the rates At
which freight and passengers shall be trsns
ported over tho railroads Of tho state. Tho
company has issued new tariffs, which went
into effect April 9th, two days before those Of
tho state were operative, thus entirely ignoring
those provided by law. A case will probably
be made agpinst the company for violating the
law, and it will he carried to the Supreme Court.
If decided against them they will cease doing
business, and bill will be introduced to de-
clare the eharter Of tho company forfeited,
the duties Of common carriers not having been
performed, and for conspiring to defy the law
Of the state. 1t is said that tho company will
issue pronunciamento declaring their inability
to run At the new rates. A deputasion will be
sent to Madison, either to have q special ses-
sion Of tho legislature called, or a pledge given
to modify the law.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
The West.

IMMENSE numbers Of pigeons are bcipg
caught in nets in Oceano county Mict;,.,
and shipped the tho East.
NINETEEN inches of snow fell in the mo,n.
taills of Pennsylvania April %.
The contest for the City Treasurer's Office
continues in Omaha.
kUnsTED, Superintendent OF Police of Gin
cinnati, removed by the old Board of Police
Commissioners, has been reinstated by the
new board.
The German Republican newspaper of Gin
cinnati. the Daily and Weekly Courier. has
made all assignment for tho benefit Of its cred.
itors.
E. S1cKLEs, general superintendent Of the
Union Pacific, has resigned, and s. H. Clarke.
late assistant superintendent, is appointed in
his place. Sickles retains his position A.
chief engineer.
The United Order has been organized Al
Salt Lake, the features o. which arc that all
property and products are to be in com ron,
under the control Of elected officers. 1t il
probable that membership in the order will be
the test of loyalty to tho Mormon church.
A PARTY of Sioux recently made raid OF
the mule herd at Fort Abraham Lincoln, D.
r., and succeeded in stampeding and driving
of hundred head. Gen. Custer, with Vi,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
Not q Candidate.
From tho Rvanovillo Yo,,rr.,
The Affection Of A AnlmnlS for Man.

Day before yesterday a drunken in
dividual on the outskirts of the town
was staggering along and suddenly fell
into a ditch by the way. He was un-
able to extricate himself, when kind
hearted pedestrian helped the fallen
man to his feet. After the thing had
been accomplished the drunken man
said:
"All right-hic-I1l vote for your
The strangerlooked OF him doubftully,
and wished to know what for.
"Wha' Office ye runnin' for ?"
II? None at all, was the answer.
"Not candidate?"
mo, why?"
"Why-hic---why? Cause I don't
know as any man'd- d-hic-help mother
asyou did 'thout bein' a candidate"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
VOLUME VII.

companies Of cavalry, Is in hot pursuit, and
when last seen from tho fort, WAS within two
miles Of the Indians and the mule herd.
LAKE PEPlx il now opcn to navigation.
Tho lako has bcen closed this season five
months and two days, tho longest time Oh
record with one exception.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-07
Sunday Facetio.

A KINGSTON little boy fell asleep in
church on Sunday evening, and created
quite sensation by rolling off the seat
and calling out, ''Knuckle down tight. "
IT is related of Pouissin that being
shown picture by person of rank.
he remarked, "You only want O little
poverty, sir, to make you a good
painter"
The Rock Island legislature has
made q law which fines any grocer $40
who sells frowsy butter, and are now
debating a bill to exclude hairs and
hair pins.
A MAN named Button died recently
in Southern Berkshire, Mass, and
when the sexton started out with pick
and shovel, somebody asked him what
he was going to do. "Going 10 make
a Buttonhole," was the not very grave
reply.
'~NoTH1Na," said an impatient hus-
band, ''reminds me so much of Balaam
and his ass as two women stopping in
church and obstructing the way to in
dulge in their everlasting talk" ''But
you forget, my DEAR" returned the
wife meekly, "that It was the angel
who stopped the way, and Balaam and
his ass who complained of it,
If cremation becomes an established
rule and is adopted, some of the pet
phrases of the people will have to be
abolished. For instance those who
have said "dead and buried" will
hardly wish to say Of friend, "He's
been dead and burned these ten years. :"
The statement might be misconstrued.
An alleged lunatic was consigned to
an asylum by his wife and friends. A
gentleman said to lady who doubted
the victims insanity: "What do you
think, madam, of his lying on his back
in the barn yard and permitting hens
to feed off his body P" ''Why nothing
more," responded the lady, ethan, like
many ather married men, he was hem
pecked,"
"Wm11AM, said one Quaker to an
other, "thee knows I never call any
body names, but, William, if the gov
ernor of the state should come to me
and say, Joshua, want thee to find
me the biggest liar in the State Of New
York, would come to thee and say,
William, the governor wants to see
thee particularly"
YOUNG America, although usually
wide awake, in due time becomes
sleepy, as did little Dickey, one eve-
ming. His grandmother put him to
bed, and as was her custom, read to
him chapter in the bible, remarking,
"Now, Dickey, I have read you q whole
chapter, and you must go to Sleep"
Ono, grandma, I amt sleepy now /;
read another"
The old lady complied, and said,
"Now you must go to sleep; have
read you two chapters"
mo, not yet-read one more; read
the rubber, grandma"
What else could the good woman do ?
DURING a social-evil revival in the
city of Glasgow, Scotland, it was the
custom of clergymen to go about the
streets. at night and invite any poor un-
fortunate who might be wandering
amid the lonely echoes to a midnight
tea party, where prayer was mingled
with hospitality. On one occasion q
respectable and portly old divine found
a young woman standing at the corner
of o street in rather an undecided atti-
tude. "Young woman" said he, "will
You come with me to the house Of
prayer? I would save you from a lite
of misery here and damnation here
after" 20, if you please, sir, replied
the unprotected female, II amt q
social evil I'm only waiting for bus. u