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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-01-26
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-01-26
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1)oetioal,
FAREWELL OF THE SUMMER.

BY S. A. NJ.
Summer days, alas! have vanished,
Vanished like the long ago,
When the hill side and the valley
Seemed a sylvan land below;
When the rosy tints of autumn
In the sunlight tinged the hill,
And the maple leaves were redeemed.
That again are redeemed still.
So, to-day, the world is darkened,
Gray and cold the wood has grown
And the brooklet seems to murmur
Of the summer that is gone.
And the flowers, they are witfcred,
They are absent from the hill,
And the naples, how they redden,
That again are REDEEMED still.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-01-26

The National Republican Con
vention will be held at Cincinnati,
on the 10th of May.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10
A Man in a Bcar-Trap.

Bangor (Me. } Wing and Courier.
NeWal Alexander a Micmac Indian,
eyed about SO, who was on his way
from Quebec to Houlton and Wood
stock, and who passed through Winn
last week, was caught in a bear.trap
last Friday night, which was set by
Alexander McMain, of Mattawamkean
in the woods about 40 rods from the
sunken bridge, 2 l-2 miles from Mat
tawamkeak, on the old military road.
He had lain there until 4 o'clock Mon
day afternoon, when Edward Hamel
and John Savard found him, having
been attracted to him by his h0arse
and faint cries for help. He had
heard the carriages pass up and down
the road, and had cried for help, but the
sound of the wheels probably drowned
his voice. Some persons heard, but
were afraid. He had plenty to eat
with him, but could not eat as he was
nearly choked for want of water. He
had in his possession a dipper with
which he dug down feet into the
earth, and was dipping up the mud and
sucking the water from it. He had an
axe with him with which lie made 4
wedge, driving it behind his leg, there
by easing the pressure somewhat. He
was caught just above the ankle of the
right foot ; but fortunately no teeth
entered his leg. He is now at S. B.
Gates with his wound properly dress
ed by physician, and it is expected
he will recover.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10
Minnesota Matters.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
The editor Of the Saltwater Gazette
has taken his son into partnership and now
has little to do but Swatch the village cows
bathe in the river" He calls it an exciting
amusement. -. :. + :7y':4s5.
Navigation above Saltwater is pro.
nounced by the Gazette to be "very exceed
ing difficult, and somewhat hazardous"
There are o1S sewing machines in
the county. One assessor averages their value
at $3.50 each, while another, who has 4 bet
ter opinion Of the aid to woman's work,
thinks they are wort $3l.36 .......
A soap peddler has been around
Saltwater washing out grease spots and SELL
ing soap. The soap not only removes the
spots Of grease, but the cloth also. +: -
wAsECA.t r. ''s''::!
Three drunken brutes entered the
house OF widow at St. Mary, in her absence
and broke mp nearly all her furniture.
Albert Smith, of Waseca, was thrswn
off his reaper, last week, and the drive wheel
chest, injuring him severely.
Waseca Radical: On Sunday last, in
this village, Mr.. John Maloney's children,
while at play in his barn, found the body Of
dead man. On examination, bottle of
strychnine was found on his person, and ap-
pearances indicated that he had taken poison.
Coroner Mcmahon, of Janesville, was notified
by telegraph, and came here on Sunday even
ing. On Monday jury was summoned and
returned verdict in accordance with the
above facts. 1t tappears that he has been \
resident of Janesville and the western portion
Of the country for two years and over, and his
name was James Arp.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10
FIRED BY A TRAMP.

Tramps are hanging about the out
skirts Of Joliet, ILL.,, in considerable
numbers. The news, in reliable shape,
has just reached us Of the burning
of a large amount of property IL miles
out from there, in Kendall county, on
Friday last, by a tramp, which put all
the farmers on the lookout. He ap.
piled at the house of Eusias Worthing,
a prosperous farmer, for something to
eat. Only girl was at the house, the
men being at work in a distant field.
She gave him a meal, which he hastily
devoured, and rose up and asked sis
there any money in the house 7" She
answered there was not. The tramp
apparently flew into rage, and said
he would see about that, and walked
out to the barn, lit a match and threw
it into the hay, and before the men
got in from the field it was too late tc
save anything. The barn, Is tons Of
hay, five horses, and some 5000 bush
els of corn were consumed. The tramI
escaped through an adjoining corn
field. The. neighborhood is much ex
cited against the tramps.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10
Miscellaneous News items.


The House committee on currency
has reported bill for the repeal OF the special
resumption act.
In a trial against time the trotting
mare Lulu, on the Buffalo track, made the re-
markable record of e!l6X.
It is estimated that there is about
s2O 000, 600 in gold coin in circulation in Cali
fornia now, against half that amount at the
time of the panic.
1t is thought the Indians will be
very troublesome on the roads leading to the
isolated forts during the remainder OF the
season A wagon master in charga Of pro-
visions for fort Fetterman was killed last
week and the wagons burned.
Officials Of the exhibition, General
Hawley among others, are confident that the
attendance will run up to 1900 day after
the first Of September. Advices received
from all parts of the country show that the
majority OF the people who have not visited
the exhibition, but intend to do 50, are post
poning their visit to cooler weather.
The Chicago Post and Mail now ap.
pears as the Chicago Post, under the direc-
ton of McMullen Bros, who are known as
journalists Of experience and talent The
paper will remain Republican in politics, and
has been improved in many particulars.
George W. McMullen has editorial charge,
and David s. McNIullen is business manager.
The national guard ,encamped Unfair.
mount Park, was grand affair." There we're
at least 900 men under the canvass there.
Gov. Hartranft, commander-in-chief of the
national guard, established his headquarters
in the encampment. Adjutant General Lotta
also quartered himself in an adjoining tent
Major General Banks ordered the first d.
vision to participate in the grand review, and
1t is estimated that. nearly ten thousand men
were in line.
An official telegram from Camp
Brown, Wy, says the Indian scouts sent out
from there reports the hostile Indians NOV
ing southeast. They traced them from the
head Of Crazy Waman's fork to the head Of
Little Powder river. The number is un-
known, but believed to be large. This cor
roborates the reports received from other
sources. A large number of Indians are
doubtless making tor the agencies.
In the evidence brought out in a
New York divorce case it appears that Pierre
pont, our minister to England, not long since
wrote letter "to the spirit world'' to ascer-
tain more of his English ancestors than could
be learned from the British records. 1t was
the custom OF the medium to open the letters,
learn their contents, carefully re-seal the mis-
sives and then collect such information on
the subject as could be ascertained and write
esprit letter. to the enquirer.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10
Personal, lmpersOnal and Political.

Personal, 1mpersonal and Political
The abdication of Sultan Murad has
been signed.
EX-Gov. Orth has declined the nomi.
nation as Republican candidate for Governor
OF Illinois.
Hon. Moses Y. Tilden, brother OF
Governor Tilden, is dangerously sick at his
residence in New Lebanon.
The President has nominated Allen
NJ. Clapp to he public printer.
Speaker Kerr has been compelled to
take his bed, and the most unfavorable
symptoms of his disease have appeared.
Chief Justice Minell, of the supe.
rior court of New York, died on the I'd Of ma
larial fever, at Narragansett Pier, R. l.
The national executive council ap.
pointed by the indianapolis convention has
placed Gen. Samuel T. Carey, Of Ohio on the
Greenback ticket for Vice President. Gen.
Carey has accepted.
Thomas COnyngham, Il business m.l,
and member of one of the first families OF
Wilkesbarre, Pa, is torger to the sum OF
nearly 100000. His torgeries are upon in.
dividual firms and banks. He has fed.
S. D. Sturgis, in command of a re-
cruiting station, has desired Tor some time to
be sent to his regiment, the 7th cavarly, Of
which he is colonel, and recently made.tor1nal
application to the adjutant general of the
army to be relieved of his command and to
be sent to the field. He has been notified
that he could not be relieved till October 1st,
Mrs. Robb, of Corpus Christi, is
fairly entitled to the name of the Seattle
Queen of Texas" She owns $1,000 acres OF
land, inclosed by twenty three miles of fence,
on which $1,000 beaves per annum are fat
tened for market. Her husband, who died
some years since, refused an offer OF sl10,0o
for one brand of his stock, which has been
largely increased since. Mr.. Weller's advice
concerning widows is not likely to be re-
garded anywhere in that section Of Texas, at
least
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10
Ruffal0 Bill to Texas Jack.

In the letter received yesterday by
Mr.. Omohundro from Buffalo Bill the
latter says: "There is going to be the
damnedest Indian war ever known, and
no man can say when it is going to
end. The Indians have thus far whip
ped every command they have met.
They have one village that numbers
10000 fighting men. They boast that
in mountainous country they can
whip all the whites that may come
against them, and many white man
will turn up his toes before they are
conquered. Iexpect to hear of yolun-
teers being raised o. -.. .P.,s
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10
New Theories Of the Seas Depth.

A little company in all Edinburgh
inn were edited, few weeks ago, by
4 brief history of a sea voyage, whose
like has never been heard of since
Noah's maritime adventures in the
ark. Nor cat1 1t be said tnat the linn.
tied circumnavigation Of the land of
Canaan, to which that adventurer
seems to have been confined. equals
the prodigious voyage to which we re-
fer. The Challenger, a fine steamship
fitted out at the expense of the British
government, has but just returned
from her voyage of exploration, and
the meeting in Edinburgh was sort
of congratulatory symposium of the
scientists to give the adventurous
vOyagers welcome. Their cruise
took them through all the oceans Of
the earth, and even the unpicturesque
summary in scientific phrase cannot
divest the details of the absorbing in
terest of a romance of Jules Verne.
Those who have read the deeply inter-
esting ''Leagues Under the Sea- with
it's singular naturalisms, will realize
the full wonder of the oceanic explor-
ations of the Challenger. Instead of
going under water, as the romance
tells, the scientists sailed over the
water, and they were enabled in their
Journey to see millions of things more
wonderful than the submarine explor-
ers of the story even imagined, There
were none of the blood.curdling mon
sters of the deep with which Vernes
readers have become familiar in those
fascinating romances of the sea deeps,
but there were myriads of such mar
vels as it will require volumes to fill in
Ineligible shape. How comparative
ly commonplace the natural phenome-
ma of the land are cOntrasted with the
marvels of the sea, receives new Illus
tration with every opportunity for the
study of the latter. So little is known
of the sea as compared with the land
that it's most common phases are in
volved in mystery, which, though in
creasing the charm of its study, has
not materially simplified it's practice.
Prof. Huxley sums up the scientific
results brought about by the explora-
ton. 1t had for years been the de.
sire of British scientists that the ocean
bed should be subjected to competent
examination; that the deep sea from
continent to continent should be sound
ed, analysed mapped, and charted. Tc
do this, entirely new ;contrivances
were invented. Instead Of old-fash
ioned dredging machinery, which
could bring up but a comparative hand
full of the bottom, a highly ingeniou:
scraper was made use of, which seems
to have done its work with surprising
exactness. From the description O
Prof. Huxley this seems to have beer
; beam, weighted of course heavil,
enough to sink it to the bottom, guard
] ed by a few feet of netting to catcl
the material loosened by the plowin,
action of the beam itself. This bean
twenty or more feet in length, literal
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10

come back to make more profitable
thar t1lae6yU 1nce.
They have eclipsed Columbus m fancy.
@sfe 1ssSc@assEss6s psiS &Sss ;:s eries Ti''
than an ever troubled the simple brain of
the trustful, adventurous Gzn69se, but
'a' much that.they have te:ten sEill fall
upon unheeding ears! day it is not
knowledge of science but simply the
desire for that knowledge that fingers,
and until both COME, FIN a measure,
such work as this of tho. Ghailenger's
although brilliantly useful, will get
but small immediate recognition.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10
TIhDEN AND HENDRICKS,
The Lons.dclayed" Letters uf Acceptance
:: III. Published Mt Last.


The letters of Cows. Tilden ant
hendncks formally accepting tn,
nomimtions of the Democratic nation
al contention are almost voluminous
exhamtively treating the main cues
tions % be brought into the pending
canvas. Gov. Tilden, after apologis
ingsfo' the delay in writing the lette,
which custom has made a rule, say:
the present depression in business an6
the Industries has it's cause in exces
sive governmental corruption, and is
aggravated by the most unscientifit
methGs of taxation. He would give
all tn lagerdemain of finance and
finahcring for the old maxim, ssLive
wifhiIfyour means. He would have
an t1aendment t9 the, ,cnnstitution
se1Na atins into distinct bills the apprO
priatiols for the various branches OF
government, excluding from each bill
all appropriations for other objects
and all independent legislation. III
this way alone, he thinks, can the
power OF each of the two houses and
the executive be preserved from the
moral duress which often compels con
sent to Objectionable appropriations
ratlnr than stop the wheels of govern
mem.
Tlp establishment of cordial frater
nifty md good will among the different
class,s of the South he regards as OF
the Utmost Importance, and charges
upon ignorant and dishonest admin
StratDns enormous issues of fraudu
lent bonds, the scanty avails of which
have been wasted and stolen, also op
pressive taxation which has destroyed
the marketable value of property
These evils rest upon the prosperity
of the whole nation.
Of civil service reform he says the
first step is the elevation of the stand
ard by which the appointing powe,
selects agents to execute official trusts
next is a conscientious fidelity in the
exercise of authority-to hold to &C
count and displace untrustWorthy OF
incapable subordinates, but ''no re-
form Of the civil service will be com
plete and permanent until the chief
magistrate is constitutionally disquali
tied for reelection
The larger portion of Tilden' S letter
is given to discussation of the fin
ancial problem, and is, probably, as
able treatise upon the question as
has been produced from his stand
point. He thinks the specific meas
ures and actual date of resumption be.
long to the domain of practical ad'
ministrative statesmen. lie charges
congress and the President with per-
sistently legislating out of existence
every possible surplus applicable tc
bringing about the return to specie
payments fixed by law to take place in
1870.
He concludes the subject rs follows
''The government Of the United States.
in my opinion, can advance to a re-
sumption of specie payments ON its
legal tender notes by gradual and
safe process tending to relieve the
present business distress. If charged
by the people with the administration
Of the executive office, I should deem
it q duty to so exercise the powers
with what has been or may be invest
ed by congress, us best and surest tt
conduct the country to that beneficent
result.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10

Gov. Hendricks fully agrees in "the
principles; approves the policies and
sympathises with the purposes enuncis
ated in the platform adopted 10y the st.
Louis convention. He charges the eX-
ecutivc department of the government
with dishonesty, venality and rapacity,
but says the President alone should
not be nade the scrape-goat for all, as
in some respects he has been the vic.
tim rather than tile author of the Vici.
Gus system; and that the congressional
and tmrty leaders have been stronger
than the President. The financial
system must be reformed. Gold and
silver ':are the real standards of values,
and our national currency will not be
a perfect medium of exchange until it
shall be convertible at the pleasure of
the 1toldet.'' He feiterates previous
statement that he disbelieves in the
possibility of a return to a specie basis
by contraction of the currency, nor
can wealth and prosperity, he asserts.
be created by inflation. lie deems a
revision of treaties with foreign pow.
ers, and the abolition Of the iniquit.
Gus Coolie system as necessary, an
concludes
sit will be seen, gentlemen, that
am in entire accord with the platform
of the convention by which have
been nominated as a candidate for the
Office of vice president of the United
States. Permit me In conclusion te ex
press my satisfaction at being aspociat
ed with a candidate for the presidency
who is the first among his equals as a
representative of the spirit or of the
achievements of reform. In his official
career as the executive of the great
state of New York, he has, in a com
paratively short period, reformed the
public service and reduced the public
burden so as to have earned at once
the great gratitude of his state and the
admiration Of the country. The peo
pie know him to be thoroughly in
earnest. He has shown himself to be
possessed with powers which fit him
III an eminent degree for the great
work of reformation which this coun
try now needs, and if he shall be
chosen by the people to the high office
of president of the United States, be-
lieve that the day of his Inauguration
will be the beginning of new era Of
peace, purity, and prosperity in all the
departments of our government -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10
TURKEYS DECLARATION.

The text of the official declaration of
the Turkish Government explaining
why it entered into war against Servia
has been received. The document
charges that the Seryians fomented
the insurrection in Herzegovina. The
Porte was compelled to ask m expla-
nation of the, extraordinary prepara-
tions made by Servia. Prince Milan
subsequently invaded the Turkish prov
inces, and was joined in his hostile
movement by Montenegro. Turkey
then had no alternative. T'e5. > 4.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10

Over 100000 Englishmen were ar.
rested last year for being drunk.
Truly England is ''a tight little is.
land.'' -.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10

A scaly yarn. The Washington (Ga.)
Gazette remarks: ''For the past week
it has been so hot down on Little River
that the catfish have been observed to
crawl up out of the water, lie down
beneath the shade trees, and fan them
selves with their tails.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Crimes, Criminals and Casualties

CSSuCSS OT1mAuttAb huu cNSONJlAcS
Over forty fishermen perished in a
gale on the coasts of Great Britain, recently.
The Indian chief Rain-in.the-face,
with twenty lodges of warriors, has returned
to Standing Rock agency.
The ship Giltwood, from Liverpool
to Milbourne, was lost with all hands off Cape
Northumberland, south coast Of Australia.
Two of the notorious Younger broth
ers have been arrested in Missouri, and are
charged with participating in the late train
robbery.
A stage running from Deadwood to
Cheyenne was attacked by Indians and
robbed of its mail and entire baggage. One
assenger was wounded.
Supt. Walling, Of New York, holds
the opinion that Charley Ross is dead. He
places the case in the same rank with the
Tweed escape and the Nathan murder.
The clerks of the bank of Nova SEQ.
tia and tho Provincial ticasulc4's va;ee
locked their doors and went off to see a circus
procession. On returning they discovered
that thieves had entered in their absence and
robbed the bank OF 81, 500 and the treasur-
er's Office OF 81 900 and valuable papers,
The New York burglar who. when
discovered by the occupant of the house OF
Mr.. Houdlem, a large real estate dealer, at
tackled that gentleman with all axe, died
from the effect of a fall from q piazza to an
area in an attempt to escape. Houdlem,
although painfully is not dangerously woun-
cd
4 negro near Little Rock entered Il
house occupied by widow aud her daughter,
knocked the girl down and after dragging
her to cornfeld near by, breaking her jaw
and otherwise mutilating her, outraged her
and ran away. He was soon caught and
hanged to the nearest tree as he richly de-
served.
A tornado passed over Rahmore
township, Cass county, Missouri, Saturday
morning last, destroying several dwellings
and damaging other buildings seriously, in
juring crops and other farm products. Mrs.
George Webb was instantly killed, her
brother in-law fatally injured, and All infant
belonging to Jacob Ryner killed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10
How to Become Il Lawyer.

Detroit Free Press.
A day or two ago, when young
man entered Detroit lawyers Office
to study law, the practitioner sat down
beside him and said
''Now, see here, I have no time to
fool away, and if you don't pan out
we'll l won't keep you here thirty days.
Do you want to make good lawyer =
eyes, sir.''
"Well, now, listen. BE polite to old
people, because they have cash. Be
good to the boys, because they are
growing up to a cash basis. Work in
with reporters and get puffs. Go to
church for the sake of example. Don't
fool any time away on poetry and don't
even look at a girl until you can plead
a case. If you can follow these in
structions you will succeed. If you
cannot, go and learn to be 4 doctor
and kill your best friends"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-10

A venerable English divine, whoIhad
been dining out the night before, went
into a barber's shop one morning to
be shaved. He saw that the barber
had been getting more drink than was
good for him, for it made his hand
Shake very much, and, naturally in
dignant, he began to give him a little
moral advice by saying: 'tBad thing,
drink - eyes . said the, barber, sit
makes the skin unco' tender.