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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-03-18
A New Observatory.

We learn from the P,putur Science
Revieec that Senor Gonzales. Director
Of the National Observatory Of Colum-
b;a, proposes to establish a physical
astronomical observatory at Rogota, the
capital of the republic. The site eho~
sen will have an altitude Of over ten
thousand feet above the level Of tho
*ta. Its Latitude will be - 33' north.
Owing to the transparency Of the at
mozphere, is believed that marked
facilities will be afforded for delicate
spectroscopic observation. In order to be
free 10 devote his whole time to this
new service, Senior Gonzaie proposes to
resign his present important position:
Although the new observatory will be,
in one sense private one, the toun dsf
has expressed desire. that it be re-
gardcd, in degree, dependent OF
the National Observatory and the Brit
ish Association.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-03-18
Temperance.

A young man fell, .manifestly and by
his own acknowledgement, through the
use of tobacco. He resisted all entreat-
les to give up his cigar, and his plea was,
"AIy pastor smokes, and why can't II"
It may seem strange, but it is neverthe-
less true, that alcohol, regularly applied
to a thrifty farmers stomach, will remove
the boards from his fence let cattle into
his crops: Kill his fruit trees; mortgage
his farm, and SOW his fields with wild
oats and thistles It will take the paint
off his building, break. the glass out of
his windows, and fill them with rags. It
will take the gloss from his clothes and
polish from his manners, subdue his rea
son,rouse his PASSIONS, bring sorrow and
disgrace upon his family, and tipple him
into a 6runkard's grave. It will do this
to the artisan and capitalist, the matron
and the maiden, as we'll rs the farmer
From its deadly enmity to the human
race alcohol is no respector of persons.
5f* OIL MdtlucW I1dlt, O1CSs VI I1C OlACoe
chief justices Of England, gave the fol
lowing testimony against strong drink:
The place.of judicature which 4 have
long held in this kingdom, has given
me an: opportunity to observe the origin
al cause Of most Of the enor,nitics that
have occurred in the space Of twenty
years, and BY due observation have
found that the murders and manslaugh.
ters, the burglaries and robberies, riots
and turmoils the adulteries, fornic cations,
rapes and other enormities that have hap
Ipened il tl1at time, were divided into five
parts, forr5of them are issues and prod
ucts Of excessive drinking, Of tavern q
ale house drinking
The temperance reform in its legal as
Ipect henceforth must needs be urged il
the sphere Of national as well as state leg
sislation. a prohibitory law IN .any stat
will he found difficult to execute Will
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-03-18
The National Educational Associa.
tion to Meet in Minnesota.

The National Educational Associa-
tion to Meet in Minnesota.
The vote on place Of meeting stands, at
last, March, 10th, Minneapolis, 80; Gin
cinnati, II; Pittsburg..8; Putin-Bay, q;
Washington, /. So Minnesota is the ia
yored State this year. Never before has
the Association met so far north,
and neyerf but once, so far west
By reference to the published proceed:
ings of he Board OF
Directors, it appears, that at
their meeting held in Detroit, Thursday
evening, August 5, 1874, after the adjourn:
ment Of the Association, communication
from the Governor Of Minnesota and the
Mayor Of St. Paul, inviting the Associa-
tion to hold its next annual meeting i'll
that city, was laid before that body
Without action thereon, the. Board, On
motion'adjourned, to meet the day tol.
lowing" At the adjourned meeting il
transpired that invitations had been re-
.ceived also from Nashville, Tenn, and
Richmond, Va. After discussion, in
which the claims OF the different points
were urged, an informal ballot was taken
and the general preference of members
! was: found to be in favcr Of Richmond -
On motion, however, it was
Resolved, That the. question Of the
place of the next annual meeting Of tho
Association Ge referred to committee
| consisting of the President, Secretary ant
Treasurer Of the Association, and Genera
| Eaton, United States Commissioner Of Ed
! ucation, with instructions to select Rich
mond, if satisfactory arrangements car
! be made.
The President Of the Association is th'
Hon. VIM. T. Harris, Superintendent o
Public Schools, St. Louis, the Secretary
Hon. W. r. Abbott, OF Virginia. Fo
some time past this committee has beer
in communication with the Board o
Councillors Of the Association upon th'
subject referred to it, and the final resul
is as indicated above. a..
kejoiced as we are, most heartily re
joiced, that the meeting, which will oe
cur In August next, is to be held in Mir
nesota; cordially as we would welcom
the leading educators of the United State
who are mem bers of il, to the clear skie
and bcacing air of the Upper Mississippi
we feel most intensely desirous that til
cause of education in the young Stat
which is to be thus honored and favored
and in all the great States of the Nortl
west may receive from the great gather
ing the forward impulse which its sessio
is so we'll designed to produce.-[Minnt
sofa Teacher. .~-s.s - !. =:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-03-18
No NJ B Err 50

cast four anchors out Of the stern, and
wished for day, Our four anchors, hold
ing US fast from behind, are the examples
and teachings Of Washington, franklin,
jefferson and Lincoln. The first represents
virtue in politics; the second, good sense
in politics; the third, democracy in. poll
tics; the fourth, humanity in politics. Let
us reverence these great examples, hold
ing us firm to a noble past, and SO saving
us fora better future. Nit!, four such il
lustrious livesas these. to. reverence, to
study and to follow, we may feel that in
the most stormy hours, and the darkes,
nights, we may hold safe by these anch-
ors, and wish Tor day"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-03-18
Postal Palaces on Wheels.

Three cars, styled the palace Drawing
Room Postal Cars OF New England" have,
Just been completed at Alliston for the
Boston and Albany Railroad Company.
They are sixty feet in length, the longest
on the road, are constructed of the choic-
est materials, are finished in hard wood
in natural colors, and are provided with
all the modern Improvements ingenuity
could suggest. A large and novel lamp
manufactured by the company and hav-
ing four burners and four large reflectors,
is suspended from the roof Of each Car,
giving ample light. About twenty feet
in len 9Th Of each car is partitioned as a
store room for through mails Will the re-
naming space is divided. into sections
devoted to different purposes The sec
ton in the middle is intended for letter
sorting, another section is specially de-
signed as a newspaper department, and
still another section is used as recepta
Gle for bags, and is provided with racks,
hooks, and othe: conveniences for facili-
tating the making up ofthe mails. Each
car is provided with water tanks and set
bowls similar to those in palace passen-
ger cars In the letter department Of each
car are 470 boxes with wire netting bot
toms which prevent the accumulation OF
dust, while the newspaper department of
each has ~ boxes, and the whole are la
belled with the names Of the postal sta
tons, and the principal postal routes in
the country. When leaving Boston, these
cars each require four clerks or route
agents, but when returning to Boston, lion.
ly two clerks are requisite. These cars
make runs of four hundred miles day,
but the postal clerks only run half that
distance day. @
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-03-18

N1TROGLYCERINE AS A MOTOR.-M
Champion: chemist, states that the heat
developed by a given quantity of nitro
glycerine when exploded is capable of ex-
erting, when converted into motion, a
maximum energy fully five times
that produced by the explosion of the
same amount Of gunpowder, and three
thousand times more than that caused
through the combustion of an equal quan.
tity of coal. A single quart Of nitroglyc-
erine,.it is asserted, has the potential en-
ergy $500 horse power. working during
10 hours. 1t remains to invent a machine
in which the gigantic force can be lar-
messed and controlled.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-03-18

INSIDE the hat Of a chicken thief re.
Gently arrested in Detroit were found
pasted the following maxims: "Remem-
Der that truth is jewel; do not covet;
respect old age; be content with what
you have; live that men will take your
character as an example" In considers.
ton OF the excellent principles govern
ing. the mans life the Judge kindly al
lowed him to retain the printed slip con-
taining them during his years snjourn
lin the penitentiary:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-03-18
The -Four Gl ,at Characters Of Histo-

a political sermon in these days is
some hing ola novelty in Boston, at least,
in the pulpits Of our more eminent and
respected preachers James Freeman
Clarke preached one last Sunday, suggest
ed by the nearness of the birthday of
Washington. He took for his text, 'The
memory Of the just IS blessed" He said
in the beginning The four great men
this country has produced are, think,
Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, and
Abraham Lincoln. Of these, Jefferson
was the greatest genius, Franklin the
greatest intellect, Lincoln the most mark.
ed product Of A Anerican institutions, and
Washingto the greatest character. And And
he closed with, the following impressive
paragr aph
Insthe great storm Wlfich drove the
vessel containing the pos.le Paul on the
l.shoresof Malia, we are told the mariners
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-03-18
Works Of the Mopnd-Builders,

About twenty years ago Elijah Cheek,
who during the late war sought the Chief
MaglstracY of Arkansas at the hands of
President Lincoln, was engaged in con-
structing q plank road from Mound City,
five miles above Memphis, to Marion, the
capital of Critenden County, ten miles
west of Memphis. In making excavations
and embankments Mr.. Cheek discovered
strangely shaped bricks, Of which speci
mems were sent to the writer of this me-
moir. They mere made of grayish clay,
nine by twelve inches in width and length,
and four inches thick. Mr.. Cheek sup
posed from the number of ruins which he
found every few rods along the route of
this old military road that Spaniards,
when they held the country, built palaces
every where, and grew enormously rich
by cultivating the lowlands. He finally
accepted the conclusion, after hearing a
curious recitation of fmound-bui!ders' his
tory written by the late Cornelius Nath-
ews, of New York, that the old military
road was not the product Of modern but
of ancient skill and toll: He then saw
how the ridge it traverses is artificial,
how it is wider where the richest mound
builder built his domicile, and how it is
true that these people lifted up in the low
lands not only countless mounds but dug
countless canals and aguadas, but abso-
lutely created, by uplifting the earth that
constituted them, broad farms ofhundreds
and even thousands Of acres. We OF mod
ern times are boa:tful Of the triumphs of
engineering skill that bridges rivers, up
heaves leyees, and builds railways. These
| mound-builders achieved mighticr tasks,
and constructed road beds that stagger
credulity, and dug canals infinitely more
seryiceable than railways everywhere in
the lowlands. Floods ruinous to civili-
zation and wealth were rendered by them
wholly impossible Canals were not only
the cheapest agencies of commerce, but
the area of water service exposed to the
action of the suns rays was not materially
lessened, as would occur if levees could
effect their purpose and wall in the river
No such changes in climatic or hygro-
me!rical laws resulted as would render,
by producing wet and dry seasons, the
successful cultivation of cotton impos
sible. These mound builders were wiser
than we. They cultivated the lowlands
first regulating the distribution of water
and making the country healthful by this
useful system of drainage and then doubt
less there were at memphis, as at St. Louis
and Louisville, and other points designa
, ted by remains Of the mound builders
greatest works, magnificent cities.-Har
per's Magazine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-03-18
1E Is EIlIRN HOME

be. hard on her. father?
enaie Our eldest born,
Jsn1 the little girl baby
gave MS one Christmas morn.
She "a given us many q heart. ache;
oh twas = bitter day .:
Wha0aHe hunted all over for Jennie.
found she had rim away. s.s7
YonseurEed her that morning father;
And bitterly then you swore s=s
Thatsthe home that she. left behind her
Should never receive her more;
But lknow you couldn't have meant it,
Aud you won't rcmem Der it when,
Sick md broken and hungry, .s. sss
Our Jennie comes home again.
You Won't be hard on her. father
Itsu Vas years and years age,
4 And Lthink you hare fretted for Jennie
More than evon you know.
She is iooking SO pale and sickiey.
ss AndsIee how thin she issdressed:;
Look etthe poor little baby
lying on Jennie's breast.
s xarehan ded , father, s;as.. ~
AnlEhesc are our flesh and blood,
Anu uI6 COAu duu
= sStarving,-parhaps, for food.
You know we pray of q sunday,
And every day that we live,
To be our sins forgiven y,.s > 81. H..
Even as we forgive.
Seth was shiftless fellow, E
But he wasn't bad you know
{ And Jennie was young and reckless,
Il And ther she loved him so!
Our girl had good many chances
80. To marry likelier nan, =.
But after D thing is done you see,
-. We should do the best we can.
lie is only poor and shiftless, II. -
Or he wouldn't come back again,
Perhaps if he had a chnnce, father,
To take his place among men, .-
1--we could do something for hiui,
Give him lift you know.
Get Elm somehow to work again,
Perhaps he might make it go.
Well take them back to the homestead,
It has been such lonely place;
Just think how the dear old kitchen
-. Will welcome Jcnnie's face!
Jennie will help get supper, .
You know am getting old,
And you Shall sit in your arm-chair,
With Jennie's baby to hold.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-03-18

ABOUT Chapultepec Mexico, is a grove
OF giant Expresses, said to be from one
thousand five hundred to two thousand
years old, with trunks scarrediand torn BY
shot and shell dred in the many BATTLES.
that have taken place in the immediate
neighhorAood. On the top Of the rock is.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-03-18

and ssndssone Ii cont mo ~ -
tic library aud conser Tie shoio 8
rock beneatl i is honey y.conhed witl,
passages, Stables, cellars. dung geons, s.ote.
rooms and powder magazines, some of
whic', we're exc4yatcd by tho Montezn-
mas.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-03-18

first National Bank Of Austin
iSu.cessor to Harlan W. Page, Bauker.)
IIVER W.SHAW HARLAN W.PkGE,
President. Cashier.
G. F. TRENWITH. Asst. Cash'r.
DIRECTORS
OLIVER W. SHAW, g. E. SKINNER,
Z. A. ROLLINS, F.. o. WHEELER,
president National HARLAN ". PAGE.
Life ms Co., Phil'a.
Eastern Exchange and Drafts op Great Bri-
cain and all principal Continental Cities, 70
sale / sums to suit.
Collections will receive prompt attention.
Agents for Cunard Line Of Steamships ana
Tickets sold at lowest currency rates to
iua from all Railway Stations in Europe.
The daily gazette., 1875-09-29
a TURTLES Troubles.

HE LOSES A TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLAR TRoTTER AND Is sUKD By
JERSEY BERGHs,
"Misfortunes come not singly but In
battalions," is a phrase which may not
inaptly be applied to Mr.. c. Carman,
of Morgansville, Monmouth county,
N. j., as the sequal shows. Mr.. Carman
entered the races at Waverly Park, last
Wednesday, in the contest for the trot-
ting pairs-make up or otherwise, mile
heats, best three in FIVE; purse, $40:
first pair, $1,000; second pair 800; third
pair. $25-his splendid pair, Kirkwood
and Mac. They won the race, their
time for the three heats being 2.42f,
,42t and 2.38, Just after the race =
slight shower came on, and during 1t
Mac got wet and cold set in, the re-.
suit of which was that, despite the best
of care, the horse died on Friday. And
now. to add to his grifs, Mr.. Carman
has been summoned to appear before
the Court to answer charge Of cruelty
| to animals. rhe complaint is made by
the officers of the New Jersey Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails, who are moving under the law,
which says:
THAT any person or persons who
shall overdrive, overload or drive
n or otherwise abuse, shall forfeit and
pay such sum. not to exceed 800, as
the Court shall determine, to be sued
for and recovered in an action OF debt,
with cost of suit, by any person or per
sons, in the namo of 'lhe New Jersey
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals before any Court OF com
petent jurisdiction in the county
where The defendant resides, oil
where the offensc or offenses were com
mitted."
Mr.. Carman claimed his team to bt
the fastest in the country, and valued
them at $50, 900. Kirkwood has q rec
ord below twenty-five. ."-Nea0 Yor1
| Herald,
The daily gazette., 1875-09-29

@ N UMBRELLAs,i New and handsome
Otto order. Just received.
w. B. SHARP,
~ourth and Market streets
The daily gazette., 1875-09-29

Germany has twenty-one universi'
ties, the principal ones being Leipsic,
Berlin and Heidelburg. Leipsc has
always between 1900 and $500 stud :
onts, about 200 or 800 studying chem
istry. Berlin has between 1900 and
1000 students, about 200 studying
chemistry. Heidelburg has about
100 students of whom about 100
study chemistry. There are also nine
large polytechnic schools, the two
largest being at Munchen and Stutt-
gart many private laboratories the
largest in Germany being at Wiesba,
den, with about ninety scholars under
Professor Frisenius.
The daily gazette., 1875-09-29

Pants, white lead, red lea d white zinc, iron
a,at, iubrlcating oils, linsee d oil, sperm oil,
lard oil, meats foot oil, coal oil. Tiden y Mop
hew's varnishes, English varnishes, alcohol,
turpentine, paint mills. paints ready mixed,
artists materials, wax flower materials, de.
calcomania pictures all kinds of foreign and
domestic glass, stained, ornamental and on,
grayed; coach painters material, stencil col:
ors. ladders OF different lengths, ready glazed
sash, gold Leaf, bronzes, vermlllions, looking
glass plates.
NOS. AND 8 EAST THIRD STREET,
WILMINGTON, DEL
NIB. Particular attention paid to HOUSE
AND HHIP PAINTING. slGN WHITING,
nc. apl-
The daily gazette., 1875-09-29

Don Pedro, of Brazil, who Is coming TO
visit us, owns the finest diamonds in the
world.
Now hear Rochester boast that in the
Cincinnati floral show she ONES out Vick-
torious.
A Chicago man has gone crazy from
eating sausage, and the dogs howl with
delight.
Still no news from little Joe Sullivan.
Is kidnapping coming to be the American
fine art?
A sandstone quarry, near Wakeman,
Huron County, Ohio, was sold recently
for $25, 900.
The daily gazette., 1875-09-29

IoU hnU UVbT NJ y CENT per NOund
ioo at fo cents per loo pounds,
Al, Ice Dy lhe ton % st low rates. Contracts 70,
We pride ourselves on having obtai,es n.
most carefal, polite and Accommodating AZ, ,rI
vers in the city for all our routes. VII
GIVE US . call before going elsewhere
WALTON L BRO,
No. Q West Third street n,
feo26 Fifteenth and King strests
The daily gazette., 1875-09-29

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THE Okt NATURALIZATION
l. IN DELAWARE
CHADWlCK'S DELAWARE MUSEUM
l07 and 209 WEST FOURTH STREET,
Oppos City Spring, Wilmington, Del
Has re-opened to the public with a large
collection otnew curiosities, highly interesting
and wonderful freaks OF nature. Also, large
addition of noted liie-size Figures. Correct
likenesses, the best ever seen on exhibition
has been added by Prof. Repett, among which
are Antoine Probst, the cruel murderer OF the
Deering Family; Daniel Dancer, the noted
English Miser; Tim Bobbin, the noted Ian.
caster poet; Negro Benny, the runaway slave; |;
VIM. Burke, the murderer of 40 persons; Ma
thias Shupinchi, murderer OF the peddler boy !;
Arthur Spring, the murderer Of two sisters !;
also. he son of Arthur Spring; Jacob Lab
man, the murdered peddler boy; Gibbs, the
notorious pirate; Lieut.. Montrovllle, the be.
trayer, by his side stands poor Charlotte Tenn
Pile; Crazy Nora, of philadelphia; Witch Of
Endor in the forest. Also. $1,000 Birds, Ami
mails, Reptiles, &C., from all parts OF the
known world, can be seen at the Museum.
Other wonders arriving daily. There is more
to be seen for the pice OF admission than at
any other exhibition in the country. Open
day and evening from O'Clock, A. III. until
l0.90P. III. Admission only Is is; Children
tcents, to see the whole collection.
w. H.CHADWlCK, Proprietor.
decl6wly
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-09-26

We are glad 10 have COED su-
thority for stating that the recent
embarrassing complications existing
between the Amazon and Glasgow
mines in this county, have been
permanently and amicsbly adjust
cd. and the future prosperity and
speedy Developments Of the prop
erty fully assured. The only
change in the officers II the cleo
ton Of DR.. Corhett - President.
vice J. A. Pritchard. DR.. Corbett
IL . heavy owner in both mines, .
gentleman Of sterling business
qualifications, large capital and
influence, and is we'll calculated TO
give strength to the company and
good management to the mines.
The Joint shaft Is now sunk TO .
depth Of IS feet below the first
station, . total depth Of 292 feet
from the croppings. The bottom
Of the shaft shows frequent string
ers of quartz Of fine description,
aud with good assays. Superin-
tendent Caldwell will open out an
other station about the first Of next
month, and meantime Is pushing
rapidly downward with develop
ment. The winxe shows ore of .
fine grade. filed with sulphurets,
and resembling to q great oegree
the ores of our leading bonanza
mines. II looks IS il the next
level would give the mines plenty
OF ore. This will be at q distance
from the surfac~ of 800 feet. A
drift run into the Glasgow ground
from the first level shows heavy
ore, with . vein from wall TO wall
of So feet. The future propects Of
both mines are indeed hattering,
and We confidently look for impor-
tant developments within the next
ninety days.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-09-26

A SMALL HoUsE WELL FLLKD.-
Mr.. N. J. Unger, the fruiterer and
notion man Of Silver City, has just
received extensive additions to his
stock of late, consisting Of station
cry, sportsmenS goods, books, jew
elry, looking glasses, pictures, and q
full stock of tobacco, cigars, and
smokers goods. He has also on sale
twenty-five sewing machines Of the
most approved make. Mr.. Ungcr is
here to do business, and will sell bet
ter goods and ut lower prices than
any other house in the county. He
cordially invites an inspection Of
goods and prices knowing that
neither can fail to please buyers A
full assortment of fresh fruit always
on hand.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-09-26

A NEW GRAVEL CLAIN.-Our io-
cose friend, Jim Showers, with DR..
Sehnabel Of Silver City are now
engaged in working = gravel claim
near the Dayton mine. They haven't
found much pay grit yet, but the in
dication in the sluices are Is favor
able as could be expected with the
short time Of development. Jim is
an old hydraulic miner, and Is taking
some pains to have things properly
arranged. After the old tunnel Is
cleared out, we expect to hear good
report. Doctor Is also an expert,
and thinks they have got II sure,
We hope 90, and why mott As the
Dutchman says, "Gelt - vars yOu
find him.