Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-03-02
GENERAL MATTERS.

ment police in Quebec, has died from wound
caused by the accidental discharge Of a pistol
in his own hands.
None of the convicted crookeds at
st. Louis will te sentenced until all motions
for new trials have been disposed Of.
On the 18th the House Of the Missis.
sippi LEGISLATURE proceeded to the bar of the
Senate and made 4 formal impeachment of
Lieut.. Gov. Davis.
Willie Carrielle, aged ten, was found
dead near Plainview, ILL.,, with the dead body
of horse he had been riding lying upon his
corpse. 1t is supposed that both were killed
in fall.
Major Maginnis, Of Montana, has intro.
duced = bill in the House Of Congress, appro-
priating s3OO, 900 for the erection Of military
posts on the Yellowstone and Musclashell
rivers.
The Legislature and State officers Of
Wisconsin have been invited by the Mayor
and Common Council Of Atlanta (Ga.) to par
ticipate in an excursion throughout the south
during March.
On the night Of the 2Sd fire destroyed
the grauary of Russell Hackett, Of Augusta,
WIS.,, together with i've thousand bushels of
wheat and q, 900 worth Of agricultural imple-
ments. Supposed to be inoendiary.
A novel walking match is on the
boards Of Chicago amusements. Henry
Schimel is to walk 800 miles in IA hours, and
Miss Ellen Wickers is to attempt to walk 350
miles in the same time for purse of $500 q
side.
A Washington telegram of the 18th
says that the resignation of Gen.
Schenck. Minister to England, has not yet
been received, but that it is expected. No in
timations are officially made ~ to his sue
cessor.
In tho burning Of Sulphur Springs Or.
phan Home, near Buffalo, N. T., nearly fifty
persons narrowly escaped. The scene is de-
scribed Is intensely exciting, and the loss Al
irreparable by the charitable societies owning
the institution.
Dominica Davina, Antonio Catatano
and Bastian Lomlardo, three Italians, con-
victed last October Of waylaying ON the stree,
In the norther part Of st. Louis, and assassin.
ating Francisco Pattra in April, 1874, wer<
hung in that city ON the 18th.
A Cincinnati telegram Of the 24tt
denies the reports that the hotels there intent
charging increased rates during the holdinl
of the Republican National Convention, o.
that the rooms are being taken for speculative,
| purposes. Large numbers Of rooms have III
ready been secured BY State delegations, bu
the number is by no means exhausted.
AL reports connecting the name Of At
torney General Pierrepont with the mission I,
England are erroneous. Judge Pierrepon
says he would not, on any condition, leave thi
country during the centennial year, or Will,
so important acanvass ~ will engage universa
attention is pending. Equally incorrect have
been rumors that Secretary Fish will succeed
Schenck.
Mr.. A. P. Burbank, the elocutionis
and public reader. has had an unexpected
measure of success in the East. In New Yorl
city alone he read to ten paying audiences
One afternoon he read in Steinway Hall to ar
assemblage OF 1850 people, and in the even.
ing to An audience Of l,2U0 in Chickering Hall
He has postponed his return to Chicago from
March TO Arrill.
Cardoza, the black superintendent O
education in Mississippi, las had the rare dis
tinction Of an almost unanimous Impeachment
by the House Of Representatives. ton
raaicals having the hardihood to vote agains
the resolution. A man thus deserted BY III
party friends must have an unusual load o
infamy buckled ON his back, even for = Mis-
sissippi politician.
The Republican Senator's in Congress,
have decided to oppose the bill fe>:oring IT,
names Of pensioners of the war Of 1919, drv..
ped from the rolls for participating in the re
bellion, on the ground that the payment o
arrearsges provided for, which are estimatet
to amount to several million dollars, is unius
! in the present condition of the treasury, II:
action will secure the defeat OF the Till in {
| Senate.
Upon tho reception in Washington o
telegrams, the afternoon of the 24th, announc
ing tho acquittal Of Gen. Babcoek, Presiden
Grant. through his son. Col. Grant, immediate
ly rendered Mrs. Baboock his sincere oougrat
ulations, which were followed by similar cour
tesies from great numbers Of friends, iAoludin,
members Of the cabinet, judges Senators
membr n Of the House Of Representatives, an,
many private oitisens
A London telegram Of tho 25th says
According to the bseadstu6 circulars, th
wheat trade throughout the kingdom b uni
formly dull, although there IL little or no d.
pression in prices. either in British or foreign
The orgoss OF the coast azs sapidly disappeas
Ing, there being only thirty. one ships remain
Ing ont Of the recently very large Aeet Ther