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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-05

Early Printing In America.

The first work known to have been
printed in America, was sort of hand.
book for the Spanish priests, issued in
1910, having the following title !:
"ChristopEorOus Cabrera Burgenses
ad lectorum. facet baptismi ministr.
Eicolon Icastichon.''
The author was Christopher Ca
brera, of Burgos, Old CASTLE. The lat
ter portion of the book is translated as
follows:
"This Manual for adults vas printed
in the great city of Mexico, by the
command, and at the expense Of the
most reverend men, Bishops of New
Spain, at the house of Juan Comber-
ger, in the year of the nativity of our
Lord Jesus Christ one thousand five
;; hundred and forty. On the 18th day
of the month of December.''
But one copy of this work, and that
sadly mutilated, is. known to be in
,, existence ; it is in private library
at Madrid. Comberger, who has
thus achieved immortality as being
the first printer in America, died in
Mexico about A. D. l544. Before
leaving Spain, he had been the propri-
etor of . large printing Office at Sci.
villt. After his death his foreman.
Juan P;lblOs, who had followed his
master to Mexico, succeeded to the
proprietorsllip Of the first American
press.
! The first book known to have been
printed in South America was vocab-
ulary, issued at Lima, Peru, 1886.
The first printing Office in the Eng
lish colonies was established at Cam
bridge, Mass, in January, 1889.
Among it's early issues was the Bay
Psalm Book, ga most barbarous metri.
Cal version of the Psalms of David"
printed by Stephen Daye. Isaiah
Thomas History Of Printing notes, as
singularity in this book, that 'sat the
head of every left-hand page the word
PSALM is spelled as it should be !;
while at the head of every right-hand
page it has All final, thus 'Psalme.' :"
Copies of the book are rare, and it is
said that Il perfect one would now
bring five hundred dollars.
The crowning achievement Of the
Cambridge press was the production
of Elliott's Indian Bible, in 1868. This
is now book that no man can read,
the nation in whose tongue it is writ
ten having long since passed away,
leaving no trace of their language save
in this book and in the euphonious
names they have bestowed upon GER
tain localities in the Empire State.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-05
upwards Of s2O0,oo0 He was sent to prison
in default of e238. coo.

The superintendent of general re-
hundred recruits to the department of the
South as follows: $50 for the Second Infan-
try, at Atlanta; 50 for the Third Infantry at
Holly Springs, Miss. and 100 for the Six
teenth Infantry, at Huntsville, Ala.
The Savannah benevolent associa.
ton, formerly the metropolitan fire company,
have resolved to ask aid from abroad for the
sick and destitute. All contributions, whetl-
er of money, provisions or clothing, address
J. w. Estell, president OF the Metropolitan
Benevolent Association, will he acknowl-
edged.
The London times says that 81 500
armed Austrians entered Bosnia on the LIST
inst, attacked the Moslems and urged the
Christians to an insurrection. The Turks
were at last accounts marching against them.
The Times also says there are reasons for he
lieving that the Russians will soon openly
take the responsibility for the war which
they have so long been carrying on under y
cloak
The board of trade of Chicago are
taking active measures to raise relief fund
for the sufferingi n Savannah and other SOUTH
ern cities. Potter Palmer has sent message
to the relief committee at Savannah to draw on
him by telegraph tor hundred dollars and it
immediate wants are very great to telegraph
him. The citizens are raising funds to send to
that afflicted section, and substantial donations
will soon be forwarded.
The course OF Russia in giving coun-
tenarcc to the Servian revolution is still
subject OF severe criticism by European jour-
the Servian army by hundreds from Russia,
and that popular excitement is encouraged
that promises to continue the recruiting in
definitely. England and Italy are greatly ir-
ritated at Servia for rejecting the armistice.
A four year.old boy, son of Mason
Sage, Of Marlborough, VT, was lost in the
woods last week, and had play spell with
two black bears. They came up to him as
he sat on the grass in an open glade and
smelt of him. He patted them ON their
heads, thinking that they were dogs, and
they then walked away into the forest. Their
footprints disclosed that they We're the ''dogs"
the boy told about cncountering.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in
an address at the Caledonia county fair, in
St. Johnsbury, Vermont, on Tuesday, said,
concerning the financial distress: "By this
business convulsion our young men and wo-
men, many Of whom tlocked to the cities inn
bued with the idea that they are too grand
for manual labor, have been taught a useful
lesson. We are nearly through with these
hard times, which come once in about so Of
ten; and when the government tells the truth
and pays dollar for dollar, we shall be once
more i'll hourishing condition"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-05
A Fathers Lesson to His Son.

One day Roberts father saw him
playing with some boys who were
rude and unmannerly. lie had OBJ
served for some time change for the
worse in his son, and ROW he knew the
cause. lie was very sorry, but said
nothing to Robert at the time. In the
evening he brought from the garden
six rosy.cheeked apples, put them on
Il plate and presented them to Robert.
He was much pleased at his father S
kindness, and thanked him. s'You
may lay them aside for q few days,
that they may become mellow" said
the father and Robert cheerfully
placed the plate with the apples in his
mothers store-roOm.
Just as he was putting them aside,
his father laid on the plate the seventh
apple, which was quite rotten, and de.
sired him to allow it to remain there.
"But, father,' said Robert, ''the
rotten apple will spoil all the others -
'Do you think so? Why should
not the fresh apples rather make the
rotten one fresh - said his father,
and with these words he shut the
door of the room.
Eight days afterward he asked his
son to open the door and take out the
apples. But what sight presented
itself Tho six apples which had
been so round and rOsy.cheeked, were
now quite rotten, and spread a bad
smell through the room.
"Father," cried he, ''did I not tell
you the rotten apples would spoil the
good ones! You will not listen to
me-
''My boy" said the father, shave
not told you often that the company
of bad children will make you bad
Yet you do not listen to me. See in
the state of the apples that which will
happen to you, if you keep company
with wicked boys"
Robert did. not forget the lesson
When any bad boys asked him to play
with them, he thought of the rotten
apples, and kept apart from them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-05
Russian Rule in Warsaw.

There has been no disposition, at
least not until the last few years, to
conceal the character of the claim by
right of which Russia rules in War
saw. The insolonce of conquest could
not look more grim than in the ugly
stunted Obelisk. supported on lions,
which was erected in l841 upon the
Saslli place in memory of the ''loyal''
Poles who fell victims to sstheir fidel-
ity to their sovereign" We have
lived in Paris and Rome in 4 state of
siege b,,o whom tho Germans vvoro at
St. Denis, and the army of Versailles
at Neuilly, when Garibaldi was in arms
at Montana, and the chassepot had
''fait mervcille'' upon the bodies of
men which were yet unburied, it was
more easy to enter or quit those cities
than it was to find acceptance as Wis.,
itor in Warsaw. The penalties are
dire for those who receive a stranger
without at once giving notice to the
police of his country and his quality.
No hotel exists without a passport
bureau, and travellers are not
''ushered," as reporters say, into their
apartments, but are rather ssinterned,'
to await. on Polish food, the pleasure
of the Russian police, as to their lib
crty within the city, and the time Of
their departure.
If their passports do not bear the
wise Of the Russian Legation in their
country, they will pass a good deal of
time in 4 shuttlecock existence be-
tween the police officer and their hotel,
in the execution of formalities, which,
of course, no well-informed conspira-
tor would be so foolish as to en-.
counter. In fact, the inhabitants,
temporary and resident, of Warsaw
live in fortress under special license
from the police and Governor General.
One notices in the streets that not only
for convenience, but ''by order"
every StOrekeeper must inscribe in
Russian whatever announcement he
chooses to set up in the native tongue.
If on the the right-hand side of his
shop-window he writes in the letters
which are common to most of the lang
uages of Europe, "Komez, Tailleur,
Chapeaux de Paris La Dermere Mode;
Style Elegonte," he must on the left
side or elsewhere communicate to all
whom it may concern the same in
formation in the semi.barbarOus char.
acters of the Russian language. One
is everywhere reminded that Warsaw
is Russian, not Polish, that Russian
soldiers form the garrison, that Rus
sian is the official language, that the
Russo.Greek Church imparts the Off
cial religion. There would be little
perhaps to recall the fact that there i:
| . c,,nnr1ccoI nationality vvoro nOt the
difference of creed ever present to re-
mind the stranger of the history Of
this part of Europe. Standing beside
the open door of the Roman Catholic
Cathedral of Warsaw. 1 noticed thai
all who were neither Jews nor Russian
soldiers uncovered as they passed
while not few Frustrated themselve
upon the damp and dirty pavement
making humblest obeisance to the dis
tant altar.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-05
Poisoning by Choral.

An interesting account is furnished
by DR.. Young, of Florence, to one OF
the foreign medical journals, of a case
of poisoning by choral hydrate, and
the complete cure of the victim by
very simple means. A gentleman
took whole mixture, containing three
drachms of the salt, instead of the
sixth part, as ordered. He was in a
condition approaching lifelessness
when the doctor arrived, but by the
prompt application of hot-water bags
and bottles to the stomach and other
parts of the body, wrapping the legs
in warm flannel, and the administra
tion of extract Of meat with a little
brandy, after the heart began to show
evidence of regaining it's power, the
patient was at last completely re-
stored.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-05

Miscellaneous News Items.
Tweed's companion turns out to be
his own son.
Memphis had a heavy frost on the
night of the ed inst.
Sixteen thousand dollars have been
raised in New York for the Savannah suffer-
ers.
The Milburn wagon works at Toledo,
Ohio, were burned on the 3Otli, with a loss Of
s25O,O0O.
The Lehig gh and Wilkesbarre coal
company, on the first OF the month, resumed
work in all their mines at full time.
The Reading railroad stock fell Is
cents, last week, entailing heavy losses on
holders, many of whom are ruined.
The public debt statement for Sep
tember shows reduction of nearly three
millions, and since July LIST of over seven
millions.
A mass meeting of Greeks was held
in Athens last week, which was attended by
5000 persons, and warlike speeches were
made against Turkey.
The Northwestern Fair at Winona,
NlA4Aus, WssS d COuupACtC ouSCCoS. AAO II IUAs
show elicits the admiration Of all, and is the
best show ever made in Minnesota.
Pennsylvania's day at the Centen.
NAL was the greatest day Of the exhibition,
the cash receipts being upwards Of Sll8, 900.
There were many accidents occasioned by
the presence Of over 90, 900 people.
The Servian forces under Tcher.
,,ovaF oI tho T,,rl~ ou1 1o1 IN
driving them back several miles. The Ser.
vians thus ended the ar1nstice offered by the
Turks, and they declare that they will fight
! to the end.
Ex.Queen Isabella is stirring up a
great amount OF ill-teeling in Spain. The
disputes between the ox-Queen and the min.
istry relative to the formers financial claims
have brought contempt and ridicule upon al
| concerned.
Advicesfrom northern and northwest
ern Texas report a grasshopper invasion il
some counties. They were destroying veg
citation. Wheat sowing is delayed until it is
asecrtained whether the 'hoppers will remai1
long enough to deposit their eggs.
On the first of October mail service
was commenced on about seven hundred
routes which were let under regular adver
tisements on the 3lst Of July last, thus com
pleting the entire system of mail transports
ton in every State and territory Of tn
United States. 575tsT;z.
The telegraph lines on the Canad;
Southern railway and on the Chicago & Can
ada Southern railway have been withdraw
| from the Atlantic r. Pacific companv's Offices
and will hereafter connect with the Wester1
Union telegraph company's Offices and sya
tenn of lines
Jacob Huntzinger, late president o
the Miners Trust Bank, of Pottsville, Pa
has been rearrested on five distinct charge
covering alleged misdemeaners, by false pre-
lenses, and embezzlemept to the extent {
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-05
The solid South" J"

The Solid South"
Ii the Democrats secure the votes
of the ''Solid South,' they will only
need ~ more to elect Tilden. Ii this
result can be achieved by fair means
or fowl, the government of the coun-
try will pass into the hands of the
late rebels, and the fruits of
the war will he lost. The present
Democratic House has done what it
could to resurrect the Southern Con-
federacy, and the election of Tilden
would conclude the work. The ''Solid
South" alre?dy controls the House of
Representatives. Every one knows
the legislation is shaped by the stand
ing committees. There are thirty.one
of those committees that have an inn
portant share in preparing legislation.
The ''3olid South" is about third of
the Union, but this third had to have
two-thirds of the chairmanships of the
important committees, rs follows:
Elections-lIarris, of Virginia.
Pacific Railroad-Lamar, of Missis-
sippi:
Claims-Bright, of Tennessee.
Commerce-lIereford of West Vir-
ginia.
Post-oflice and Post-roads- Clark, of
Missouri.
District of Columbia -Buckner, of
Missouri.
Judiciary-knott, of Kentucky.
Public Expenditures-Milliken, Of
Kentucky.
Private Land Claims-Gunter, of
Arkansas.
Manufactures-Stone of Missouri.
Agriculture-Cald of Alabama.
Indian Affairs-Scales, of North
Carolina.
Naval Affairs-Whitthorne, of Ten
neSsee.
Foreign Affairs-Sw,n, of Maryland.
Revolutionary PensiOns-Hunton, of
Virginia.
Railways and Canals-Jones, of
Kentucky.
Mines and Mining-Bland, of Mis-
souri,.
Education and Labor-Walker, of
Virginia.
Revision of the Laws-Durham, Of
Kentucky.
Coinage, Weights and Measures
Stephens, of Georgia.
Patents-Vance, of North Carolina.
Mississippi Levecs- Ellis, of Louis
lana.
A vote for Tilden is a vote for plac.
ing all of the machinery of the gov
ernment in the hands Of Confederates,
just rs the House committees are al
ready controlled by them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-05
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Crimes, Criminals and Casualties

Grimes, Criminals and Casualties
\ hurricane in San Juan, lately,
caused immense damage, and killed many
people
a floor gave way last week in a three
story building, in Springfield, ILL.,, and killed
six men.
Three men fell from a scaffolding Of
Gore street Methodist church in Montreal, ON
! the lst, killing them all.
BY the bursting of i threshing ma.
chine boiler near Cincinnati, two persons
were killed and nine injured.
An attempt was made to burn the
county court house at Chattanooga, Tenn,
last week, but prompt action by citizens saved
it.
Neill S. Nelson was caught i'll belt
and instantly crushed and killed, in the shops
O + the Union Pacific railroad at Omaha, last
week.
DR.. Slade, al American spiritual me-
dium, was lately brought up in a London po-
lice court to answer to charge OF conspiracy
to defraud, and a charge of vagrancy.
Down in Texas, the other day com.
pany of military attacked band OF Mexican
cattle thieves, killing five and wounding
one. They also captured fifty horses.
The coroner's jury in the case of the
terrible accident on the PAM Handle railroad
has returned a verdict that the accident was
caused by broken axle, and that no blame
can be attached to the railroad company.
Samuel Harlem, of New York, has
been arrested on the charge Of attempting to
detraud insurance companies. His store was
burned and Harlem endeavored to secure
from the companies an amount largely in ex-
cess of his losses.
Frederick Workman, a German tan
ner, while attempting to adjust leather
band to fly wheel in a Louisville tannery,
was caught up by the band in some unknown
way, and wllirled around at the rate OF sixty
revolutions a minute. His head and all
parts Of the body were mashed to jelly and
cut in hundred small pieces.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-05
Personal, ImpersOnal and Political.

Moody and Sankey opened their
meetings in Chicago OH the 2lst inst, and
were greeted with an audience of about 900.
Earl Dufferin, Governor General of
Canada, has returned from his visit to The
Pacific coast
Mrs. ''Brick'' Pomeroy's debut will
be at the New York academy Of music, Octo-
ber the is, in tragic role.
Goldsmith Maid trotted against time
at Philadelphia, on the 2d, but a heavy track
prevented her making her former good rec
ord. Her last heat was 2:l7.
General Newton has made a thor.
ough examination at He'll Gate, and reports
that the breaking up of the rect is complete,
ensuring twenty feet OF draft in low water.
Herman Nunnenlache, a Milwaukee
distiller, returned from Europe last week,
plead guilty to charge OF crookedness and
was sentenced to three months Imprisonment
and a fine of g., 500.
a late dispatch from Rome reports
the serious and even alar ming illness of the
Pope and OF Cardinal Antionelli. Their ill.,
ness, it is said, caused the protoundest shot, k
among all classes in the city.
:, James Lick, the eccentric million.
aire, died in San Francisco on the I'd inst.
1t is thought that no effort will be made
his heirs to break up the trust deed which
has created so much comment.
The safe burglary case in which
General Babcock and Thos. II. Sommervil:e
were defendants, was concluded last week
and the jury returned verdict Of not guilty,
in each case. The verdict was greeted by
cheers and other demonstrations of approval
by those present.
John O'Conor Power, member of
parliament for Mayo, arrived in New York on
the lst inst, bringing the Irish congratulated
ry address on the centennial of American In
dependence. He i: accompanied by Charles
Stewart Parnell, for many years one of the
ablest advocates Of home rule in Ireland.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-05
4 Clergyman Gets Happy and Breaks Man!
Ribs.

From the Somerset (MdD Democrat:
At camp.meeting held 10y the Evan
gelical Association in Janner township
a serious accident happened, whereby
it is feared that Mr.. Heiple will
lose his life. One Of the ministers in
charge became-what is termed in re.
ligious phrasology-''happy.' and,
while giving vent to his exuberant
feelings in shouts and other demon
strations, he suddenly sprang from
the stand over the pulpit to the ground
beneath, and landed upon the person
of Mr.. Heiple, crushing in all the
ribs on the side of his body, and Sc.
riously injuring him internally.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-05

In the forty years that the Mer-
chants Gargling Oil has been before
the public, thousands of patent medl.
cines have been ushered into the
market and retired, while this old
remedy has held on it's way, increas-
ing in popularity with each succeed.
ing year. Merchants Gargling Oil SIS
known familiarly the whole length and
breadth of the land, the name of the
Secretary, Mr.. John Hodge, OF Lock
port, has a fame as wide as the medi-
cine he dispenses. We have no data
as to the number of bottles sent out
from the manufactory last year, but
the qantity must have been enormous.
The company distribute two millions
of almanacs and domestic recipe books
annually, and when it is remembered
that these are given away, some idea
of the extent of the advertising enter.
prise may be formed. A medicine that
will stand the test of forty years, as
the Merchants Gargling Oil has done,
needs no special endorsement at tnls
late day.-Buffalo Courier,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-05

A lady who always walks has gener.
ally a finer carriage than one who al
ways rides.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-05
Identification by Hobbs Kerry.
GSFlcE OF SHERIFF, COOPER COUNTY,

"f Rocs1,,rr,' oe Hn1h1ff, H. ooVIEH Sd C0uNr4s
James King, Esq, Chief Of Police, St. Paul,
DEAR SIR Yours of the 18th inst.
received with photographs enclosed.
lnmaking my examination of the jail
ana without any previous notice, 7
showed the photographs to Hobbs Ker.
~ and asked him If he recognized eth
er Of them. He seemed to be IL little
excited, and left him for few mo-
ments, when he called me back and
said he was satisfied they were Clel.
Miller and Bill Chadwell. Miller is the
large one shot in the point of the
shoulder, and Chadwcll shot in the
breast. l saw him this morning
again, and he still thinks he cannot be
mistaken. If he had Il description
could tell without. lie had heard of
the attempted robbery and of the me1,
ne:ag killed, but neverl fore believed
the Otterville gang was connected with
it, until he saw the photographs. If
the James and Youngers were connect.
ed with it, they have changed their
mode of business; from what I learn
it was a bungling job and no skill
shown. We have plenty of rumors
here in regard 70 the James boys hay-
ing been seen last week and the week
before, but place no confidence in such
reports. Hope your authorities will
succeed and capture the whole gang
and give them their just deserts. We
have had trouble enough with them in
our State. If learn of anything that
will be of interest, will let you know.
Yours truly,
T. A R0:ERs Sheriff
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Savage Attack Upon Il Doctor in the Lunatic
Asylum ut Somervillc, Massachusetts, by
Patient

Shortly before noon on Monday, as
DR.. Charles E. Woodbury., first assist
ant physician ut the Mclean insane
asylum at Someryille, (Mass.,) toseth-
er with several of the patients, were
engaged in a game of croquet on the
green on the northwest corner of the
main building of the institution, one
of them, who was standing close by
the doctor, was addressed by him in q
casual remark in regard to the game.
He Immediately turned his head aside
to proceed with the game. This pa.
tient, it appears, is suffering from that
peculiar form of delusion called ';false
hearing,' and doubtless imagined that
the remark addressed to him was in
some way insulting or injurious, and
in 4 moment raisedithe croquet mallet
he had in his hand and struck the doc
tor Il severe blow Oh the top of his
head, stunning him, and causing him
to fall 70 the ground, where he inlict-
ed several other blows on the head
and body before Il couple of employees
Of the institution could secure him.
The alarm was Immediately given, and
DR.. Woodbury., who was insensible, was
carried to his room in the asylum, and
it was found that only the outer table
of the skull was fractured, and several
small pieces of bone were removed
when the patient regained conscious.
ness. The inner partition of the skull
isapparently uninjured, and unless in
tlamation sets in, there is a very strong
hope Of his speedy recovery. The
case was not reported till to-day.