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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
A JaVaneso Poison.

The natives of Java are said to possess
fatal poison, which acts in purely
mechanical way, and yet, when adminis-
tered to any animal, is said to produce
certain doath. It consists of the small,
black filaments obtained from the stalk
of the bamboo. These filaments, or
needle shaped spines, are covered with
an imperoeptible furze, which acts as a
propelling medium, SO that when the
needles are swallowed they catch in the
victims throat, from which they work
their way to tho respiratory organs, and
there produce irritation, followed by a
violent inflammation, and eventually
death. The needles are SO fine that
they may be mixed with any form Of
solid food, and thus be administered to
the unconscious victim.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11

James Fink's, conee-house, Oh Royal strco.
and twelve houses Oh Liberty and pcrtlitlo Sts.
also four houses OH Royal st. Loss $55, 900
Jauieb Anderson was burnt to death. !
TIM grand jury At Memphis is Investigating
tho disgraceful affair in the National cemetery,
ncar that city, On Decoration Day.
.gs {. : = = =. - :. ~ s +tf.T,'~
At Large.
Il Taos. Soott tlss been, .alected. Presilspt OF
The Pennaylvsnia Ceptral Rsilroed1 d1.;, q, .sa
At The recent s1ction ssls OK senatQr Sum.
,ppers sehects, i 3 said that everything brought
idoaf timcs ts9,N6N,l.S ss'H ea~ s'"s - y"
sTnsponee esooma s' q N Ney York ar,
NOW investigating the charge sceontainnesd in Il,
aii6ay nous Sttcf that IN officer Of the Eighth
Preciset swss the person who stoas $1,000
Worth Of diamonds from 4 jewoler i'll Brooklyn
in 1896. Tho officer, tho letter states, xas At
t1At tho known as "Da,,, the snatclas''
FpR3match bctwecn tho famous R6as0tock!
iB 11ee ball club and tho Chicago club, on tho
s4m1s resulted in victory for the farmer. /
fAStP PsANolsco papers say that Wo1 ~ fll and
Ca9in failed to take that city by seldfh, and
slaNe1 East again In few days.
TA1s Rev. Morgan Dix, d. D., Rector of
the Trinity Church, Now York, and son Of Gov;
Dix, was married on the Sd inst. to Miss Emily
soattSe, daughter Of tho lato James r. soutter.
Tn, Millssn, National Association elected
thes 1ollowing officers for tho ensuing year {:
President, GsorDspP. Plant, Of st. Louis {;
Secretary, Franz Tuttlo, of Kalamazoo, Mich. {;
Treasurer, d. R Morrill,, Of tho same place,
aud vice. President from each of the twenty
ono states represented.
Dunno Nay tho funded debt Of tho city Of
Nav York, according to the Comptroller's
report, increased about q, sex, 900, making an
increase of over Oil, ,OOO, 900 in two years and
nine months. /.
The widow Of the late james Fisk, Jr., is
asking the New York courts to determine hor
right - = s&ockho6sr in tho Union Pacific
Railroad Company 70 the amount Of *, 900
shares. s<5z E&s4s
TIE trial Of tho Ny. Police Commissioners,
Oliver Charlick and Hugh Gardner, indicted
for violations Of tho election Law, have been
Axsd for Monday, Juno Is. They have given
bail ~, 600 each. s. - - e$
Tn instruments, naterial, etc, furaished
BY, ,the government to tho scientific expedition
To- observe the tra.taitof Venus, are valued at
e5o,0oo. s's...,s, 81 =
RocHE1oaT has consented to enter tho lee
tul aald. Il !
THx United ssates Brewers Association pro-
poses to form .aan.f* .f*empesanoe society, and
organize in opposition to the temperance
ssysgs$s =
Tux annuai of the Western .Associ-
ated Press, il called to meetat Put-n,-Bay, tho
last Wednesday in September, by order of ex-
ecutive committee. -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
The East.

Ar Syracuse, n. Y, an santi:secret-society
convention was held on tho 4th inst. It was
resolved to form national political party, to
be called " Tho Americana"
FOUR hundred men have been DISCHARGED
from the iron mine Mt Port Dram, New Jersey,
and 500 will bo discharged from the Hibernia
mine. "a The wages of those retained are re-
duced 70 e1.25 per day, from s1.50. A falling
oil m the demand for ore is given as the res-
son for the action.
dUon J.JEwErT, Of the Pan Handle Rail-
road, is named as likely to be the successor of
Peter II. Watson in the Presidency OF the Erie
Road.
The Now Hampshire Senate aud House met
injoint session June 8, and elected by ballot,
James A. Weston, Governor for the ensuing
year. The vote stood, McCutchins ISL Wee
ton 1872.
The Grand Lodge Of Free and Accepted Ma
SONS Of tho state Of New York, has elected
Elwood r. Thorno, Grand Master.
aMEssRs PAscHALs, GRoussEFT. and JourtIf,
Communist, leaders, Who sescaped from tho
ponal colony ofs New Caledonia With Rocl,efort
and sEsinS arrived issNsw York on tho 81 inst.
TUE National Brewers Association MET in
Boston on the Sd inst.
In Now York, June 2, the President laid the
corner Stone Of tho American Museum II
Nttanl History ,st. Central Parf, In. tho pcs
cnco Of many Thousand people.
sANzw YoRx State Temperance Convention
called to meet at Auburn, June ed.
IN tho 2. s. Court at Boston, motion has
been denied requiring the Union Pacific Rail-
way Company, to appear and show cause why
itshouldnot DO adjudged bankrupt. ~,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
Care fer Scarvy.

NJ. Leven, being in charge Of one Of
the hospitals Of Paris during the siege,
made q study Of scurvy, and concludes
that it is not produced by want of veg
etables, nor arc vegetables indispensable
for its cure, but that it is the result Of
bad hygienic conditions in those who
contract it. Cold, dampness, excessive
work, moral depression, and insufficient
Authorization, he thinks, are the princi-
pal causes of sctlrvy. He believes it to
be a fatty degeneration of the muscular
system, beginning in the heart, and in
those muscles which are most active,
when the degeneration appears in the
liver, kidneys, and their organs. A
great many cures were obtained by the
use of raw meat without vegetables,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
Autidotc to Poisoning.

The experiments made by Prof. Binz,
of Bonn. with reference to the effects Of
alcohol on animals, are regarded as Of
much importance, inasmuch as he seems
to have discovered the reasons why alco-
holic stimulants are SO useful in snake
poisoning. He found that when decom-
posed blood was introduced into the
veins of the living animal all the symp-
toms of putrid fever were shown, the
temperature increasing until death en-
sued. Alcohol, it is stated, reduced the
heat and retarded the putrid process, in
creasing the action Of the heart-pre-
cisely the effect of alcoholic stimu]ants.
it is said, when administered in case Of
rattleanake poisoning.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
Count Wrangel in Berlin.

A Berlin correspondent of the London
Telegraph remarks that the Emperor
William no longer rides on horseback,
but has to review his troops from his
carriage. He is now in his 18th year.
"It is true" adds this writer, "that
Count Wrangel, who is nearly thirteen
years his senior, may still be seen from
time to time threading the paths Of the
Thiergarten upon steady going hack,
to the saddle of which he is carefully
strapped and that the grandfather Of
the Prussian army promenades the Lin
den with feeble jauntiness, chucking
servant girls under the chin, returning
eagerly all the salutations paid to him,
and distributing new silbergroschen to
the little boys and girls who follow him
in gleeful groups, and look upon Papa
chen Wrangel as q certain, though ir-
regular, source Of revenue. This lively
and simple-hearted old gentleman has q
tragical past behind him, too, and WAS a
very terrible fellow in his day; besides
which he has boen wounded a dozen
times-more than once severely-and
has achieved rs many victories in the
boudior as in the field yet he bears
himself as though the idea Of death nov-
er crossed his mind, and even dcfied the
laws of nature SO utterly as to recover
entirely from sharp stroke of paralysis
at eighty-eight years of age. Bnt the
cares and responsibilities that oppress
crowned heads have been unknown to
him. He has ever been a soldier pure
and ,nalulteratcd no politics, ]itera-
ture, or other puzzling matter Of that
sort has he over allowed to bother his
brains. As subordinate to carry out
to the letter his orders-as chief to see
that his own commands were accurately
fulflled-these have been the sole cares
and preoccupations of his public life.
Private griefs of the most stupendous
and crushing nature he has met with
the stOical courage of hero, and has
dealt with them invariably in manner
dictated by tho honor of q soldier-more
than once with the most tragical results,
but in such sort that ones admiration
for him, though a slight shudder may
permeate it, can never for O moment be
qualified by the remembrance of any
word or action of his in the least out Of
keeping with the maintenance in nnsul-
lied brightness of his personal and pro-
fcssional honor. A regimental cadet
when King William WAS born; de-
core, for valor in tho field, of tho first
days of the present century; Colonel
at Waterloo, and General fifty-one years
ago, it is very possible that this extra
ordinary veteran, of whom the Berliners
say that he has forgotten the way how
to die, may outlive his sovereign, whom
he little less than worships-he has al-
ready outlived four Prussian kings p
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
A Bohemian OF Old,

Tho business of running after news is
not Of recent creation, it is rs ancient as
the invention of journalism; the old
Bohemian was a Frenchman called Re-
nandot.
was named Mathien Donzelot, otherwise
called the Pavement Sinker."' In the
morning, before leaving his room, the
wide-awske Donzelot consulted tho sky,
and barometer which adorned his man
sard; then he took his cane and writing
case, saying, Grain. Some will slip to-
day under carriage wheels and be crush
ed to DEATH" Or else, "Stormy wealth
or. We shall hive to record some cases
Of mental alienation or of hytlropholia. -
Or finally, "Gloomy, cloudy. Fine
on suicides" {"
There was riot one, day on Pantheon
place. DOnxelot sat down amid a hail
of stones. pen in hand, to note down the
events. One of his friends, happening
to be present, said, "What are you do
ing here, sir? Run-fy."
Donzelot, without looking at him,
drew his patch, and continued to write
down minute for minute the phazes and
evolutions of the riot.
"Are you going to run?" cried anew
his friend.
"Gotl forbid; but since you arc going
yourself, oblige me by handing this to
my journal you will tell them that
remain on the spot to send the continue
tion."
An hour after, tho disorder was at it:
height; tho authorities and insurgcnt
had come to blows. The national guart
fred, and our Bohemian was struck by
ball. A surgeon hastened to him.
"You are wounded" said he.
"Yes," replied Donzclot, "and sc
vercly, too, for cannot write"
"Writc?" abruptly said tho surgeon
"tllink of your wound"
"Don't be in hurry" replied Dor
zelot. "Each one to his business; mil,
is to relate events. You will replace me
Here, write at the bottom this post
script:
"Twenty minutes past 8 p. nj
consequence of the discharge of mus
kerry by the troops, three men wcr
wounded and one killed.?
"Who is the dead man?" asked til
surgeon. :: ..
"Myself," replied Donzelot, and b
expired,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
' Secretary ti "a 81 the Treasury.
w08hlnReon.

The new Secretary Of the Treasury, Benj.
II. Dristow, took charge of tho department on
tho ith inst: 80 90
Apu11 g1ps. Who q. w..assrsnorsd f1osathe
Bosrd Of Public Works tos perjury, is prepar-
ing to bring suit against his associates on the
board, for prefcrring tho charges, against him,
The personal effects Of the late Charles
Sumner were sold at auction in Washington,
OIL the 80 INST. i. E i I - >'Ej}
SENATOR ScHuRz was confined to his room,
ON tho 81 inst., with au attack Of malarial
foyer. His physician insists that he shall do
no more work tho present sossion.r He has
prepared l.in,scKt to speak on tllo Transports
tiousqucstion, and intends to take part in tho
debate if possible. -.
TUE House Committee on Appropriations
l"vsagrcsd to5sFproreiate S10O, 0asfor ! con-
tinuation Of Haydsns survey and t3l, 600 for
those of Powell. I'D
eePnoxlsESr Col,eressmenF ~ that there i
no possibility Of the, civil rights bill passing
tho House ut this session:
The Senate unanimously confirmed the
nomination of Gen. Bristow as Secretary of
the Treasury. Mr.. Richardson was also con-
tirmed - Judge Of the Court of Claims.
CoNoaEss has granted = pension Of $50 Dor
month to Louisa A. Canby, the widow Of tho
late Gen. T.. Il. s. Candy.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
Crimes and Casualties.

~80UuOO UUu0 ~WO0~USSe0Os
Ar Belmont, New, recently, = crowd of arm
cd mon took two prisoners from the Jail and
hung them.
THOMAS Swan, president Of the Memphis
association, has been arrested for
obtaining money At decoration services, at the
National Cemetery, by force Of arms and
threats and violence, on Decoration Day.
A FIRE at Susquehanna Depot, Pa, on the
4th inst. destroyed twenty wooden buildings.
mostly stores. Tho total loss is estimated at
from e5O, 900 to e75, 900! -.-
An Erie freight train on the Sd inst. struck
. wagon It the crossing about five miles east
of Elmirs, N.Y., and four persons in the
wagon, from smithaeld, Pennsylvania, named
John Dushie, George Dildine, Justin Peat and
Jane Dildine, wcro killed.
A YOUNG man named Lawrence McNulty.
committed suicide in San Francisco, by cutting
his throat: = >. :
Two Cinnamon, confessed murderers Of one
OMers, were hung by mob 1t Happy Camp,
California, on the 4th inst.
JAMES PUaH, lsborer, was run over and
killed by an engine OH the Lake Shore read, Al
Toledo, o., recently. -;
In New York, Mrs. Dwyer, an insane woman,
murdered her. three children, aged z,
4, and Z years, and fatally injured her llus.
band. She told pitiful tale of the decd in he,
confession.
RoBERr Co1BuRN and his son Bobort Nelson
painters, were fatally injured by the falling OF
. scsRolding at Albany, N. Y.
ROBERT REID, notorious desperate, for
merly keeper of = low groggery, and latterl,
proprietor Of hotel at Helena, Ark, was sllo
and killed by his partner, Elisha W. Cannon
Cannon escaped.
Eva VAN ORnAN was killed, and her siste
Maggie badly injured by . runaway acciden
near Fairfield, Mich, recently.
The ship Portus from Italy for Now York
sprung = leak and sunk in latitude north &c
longitude west A6. Tho boat containing Capt
Devrie, John Wilson, carpenter, Henry Brown
sail-maker, and VIM. Thompson, PeterSavage
and Richard schenck, seamen, was picked VI
by the schooner Clara. Two boats are still
missing.
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The Jews a. Merchants and Money.
sI,Er i lINuderS. <FEi}aj>J

oAAO %
Harpers' Magazine, have the Jews oon.
sented to change their habits Of life, and
in that we discover anew tho marks OF
their. pcrpetud suffering. From active
and successful h,,sbandmen and Ttillera
Of the soil they have been transformed
into merchants and money lenders.
They seem to have wholly lost that love
for nature and that agricultural skill
that made Palestine land OF plenty.
In Babylon and Persia, under com
paratively gentle rllc, they were rather
farmers than traders. Even late in the
Roman period, md probably until near
the sixth century, they were chiefly an
agricultural people. The Talmud
abounds in illusions to tho cultivation
Of fields and gardens, of oil, wine, and
varied rules of conduct relate chiefly to
the peoples %of rural districts rather. Than
of cities: When tho great schools" Of
Babylon and Pumbeditha were flourish
ing, and the vivid intellect of the Israel
ties was expanding into q literature Of
commentators and prof the raoe
was marked by an intense love for the
Oriental lands they cultivated. But
when tho universal persecution fell
upon them, when they were hunted
from Babylonia and Persia, and began
that remarkable series of .wanderings
from city to city, and from realm to
realm, that has lasted for more than q
thousand years, the manners Of the race
traders. Industry, thrift, learning,
and rare acuteness they never lost, but
they were never again to become tillers
Of the soil. They were forced to snatch
opportunities of gain from the midst of
their wanderings. They became the
most acute and @untiring of traders.
Their wares AMI their. profits were such
as could be easily handled and secured.
They supplied the barbarous princes of
Germany with the mostcoetly drugs and
spices of the East. They dealt in jewels
that they could easily conceal or swallow,
and in Oriental cloths thatwe of price,
less value. They were the most active
of the Middle Ages, and
the church vainly heaped it's maledic-
tions ON the; Jew who should dare to
purchase christian slaves. Their capital
in money propably grew from age to
age. They were the common money
lenders of the early period. The Jews
seem to have concentrated the wealth Of
the Middle Ages among themselves
they lent their money at m enormous
and npon ample security !; they
immense fortunes, which
they were 0blidged to hide from their
prosecutors in an aspect of extreme pow
erty. But their home was never again
10 be amid the soft landscapes of Baby
lonia and Persia and crowded together
in miserable Ghetto, living apart ac-
cursed and forsaken in the walled, fort-
led, and secure cities of Western Eu-
rope, they counted their secret gains,
md sometimes displayed in their OBJ
'cure dwellings suspicious and Orien-
al splendor.7 Their daughters were clad
n the rich; silks Of Persia, and ahone
With the gold and gems of the East. i
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80 p -
NUMBER 10.
An AneedOt0 Of Aeasalx


Now that all who have ever known Of
seen Agassiz are remembering him, it
may not be uninteresting to recall lit
tie incident which happened, nearly
twenty years ago, in one of tho kasss.
chnsetts Normal Schools. /
That honored old ~Connmonveath
never. did 4 wiser or moro generous
thing than when she engaged the. two
men, Agassiz and Guy0t, to lecture In
her Normal Schools % the young men
and women who, were TO be, not only
her own futufe teachers, bnt;, also the
teachers in many other states. l. was
then pupil At the oldest Of then-the
school in Framingham. Thither was
wont to come Guy0t, and, soiourninR
among us for a week or ten .dsys. talk
to us of earth and man, of genesis and
erection faesa* tis SO ;staRHS: :;iR 80 Indy that
thither came also Agassiz. with his
frank, noble, kindly face, to speak to ns
of the animal Kingdom. 1t was during
one of these stays that the incident to
which we. refer oecQrred. .... -.
ths SEs Ia saf peee asea aed Se &
with'hef to her de6k tone of the little
gray snakes 80 common in Maaeechu-
setts country fields, and while : group
OF girls were standing by, she suddenly
produced it. There 1as at once . start
and an exclamation Of DISGUST and
1oathing, and the expected sensation
bad been quite satisfactorily produced.
Agasaiz, who was standing on the plat-
form talking with the principal and
waiting for the school to 10 called TO
order, instantly came ramdly down the
aisle to the excited and disguised proup.
and on seeing the cause Of the com1no.
ton at once took the: little frightened
creature gently, almost tenderly, into
his strong hand, and as the snake twist
ed itself around his fingers and wrist.
he said quietly, II if it WAS a. friend.
'''Ohl II is the Coluber DeKaM. 10
named from DR.. DeKay, who first char
actcri1edit. The words were nothing.
but the gesture md nannerswaue 5inde-
scribable, at once 20 protective and %
reverential that they, as well as The
whole soene, have always Stood out clear
in my memory with the viyidaeas Of one.
of Ohaucer's. pictures. It was as # the
voice, instead Of the simple remark Of
recognition which it actually uttered,
had said :.
49,. - 81
He prsyeth well who loveth we'll d:
BothmAn and bird and beast:
He prayoth best Who loveth best
All things, both great and small, j
For thsdear God who loveth 10, 7S
He made and loveth ALL"
I cannot answer for the impression
on the others, but I know that to one
at least that gesture and action, 90
characteristic of the man, struck the
key mote Of her teaching for many years
afterwards, in many different places,
and to thousands Of pupils, and the
grateful remembrance Of it is to me
now ike floral Offering which I lay
upon his distant, honored grave.
ANNA G. BRACKEu.
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Those gentle handB1 -Ahx401Ahtsn
what vtaia5h 11nf1 ls:Hs9I;
whils I recall tho msgic spef ~
Ny happy boyhood 1n.- - reu1 :. f.
Those fair, soft hands, III veined with blue,
And kissed b IL hrk bsea&A I drew,
Have toilsd for No my Wl,ole life fhrough,
And earth ho3ds sneneS goodandt tae:"7s
Dear hands! whsn Yosth's best d.ys Are told
And love had been betrayed for gold,
And friendships grasp grew weak and cold,
They gave the ohaneelees clasp Of old KS
-:.--7I "a : tgp0sssaSs = gtEzs SsssTzssz sf$
Those loving hands! To this late day Sal
They hold some hsunting griefs q bay, -
Aud scatter blessings round my WAY
Let mo pursue what path may:
. ~ ;,sYez .tsttCe ~ sasasf2-1 a2&sEts@
Those aacrsd hanlsl E7haV1ssfded1asg
To fold thse.selves ispssyeE diripsr i;ses l.
They blessed me at tho sacred slllins, ..se
And pointed whero the bright stars slime,
Those magic lnnds!.: Whas steas4-sou1ad drip
And hssty words ny toague II, t,slipsl,.ssa
Oae gently chidiag fnses-tip xsssssas zsajs.
W.s laid upon m ny pou1ing lp. lp.zs1 ,aasz
Al, had those haaassss ssss ~ assssza
To ssal salthsi;panadsysa,etys,0aa~ ess~g
Somaag ~rechs 4sss1aau au66ottssvsiesss.s
Alengtha. ssstsa yeeEgsM1gszs s4s -
Still, blotted though hsf i, rscord I. ssands s
OF my career II many lai,lds, s@s'z
aAe S...s
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Cruelty OF Isabelli.

The Jews were tho .favorite victims of
the Inquisition. When history hall
cease to be as unreal as a fairy tale, and
when crime shall no longer find it's de-
tenders, it will be related that "the
gentle and virtuous" Isabella inflicted
heavier woes upon the human race than
Messalina or Mary Tudor. In 1892, in
the dawn Of new civilization that was
to overthrow at last tho dark places Of
cruelty, and crush popes and inquisiitofs
in general uprising Of the nation, Isa-
bella, the fountlress of the Spanish In
QUESTION, urged the expulsion Of the
Jews from Spain. No pity had she for
the mothers who were to be torn
from their prosperous homes to perish of
hunger and thirst on tho African shores,
who were to leap into the blue Mediter-
ranean TO escape the insults Of their
captors, to see their babes die in their
arms, their children sold into a fatal
slavery no compassion for the thrOng
Of learned and famous men who were to
founder in crowded ships or langtlish
with disease and starvation in a foreign
land. 1t is not told that the bigoted
queen ever felt any rcmorse for her
cruel deeds, or was ever willing to soften
the woes she had inflicted needlessly on
the most valuable portion Of her subjects.
At the famous meeting when Abarbanel,
the most eminent Of tho Jews for schol-
arship and virtue, begged on his knees
for pity for his people from the attentive
sovereigns, when he offered an immense
| ransom for their preservation, when
oven Ferdinand hcsitated, it was the
queen who urged the relentless enforce
ment of the decree, and the stern Tor.
quemada flung on the table crucifix.
" Sell him if you will |" he cried, and
terrified the king into obedience to the
voice of the Church. The decree WA,
published, and every Jew commanded t.
embrace Christianity or leave the realm
|-Has7,ers' Magazine for June.