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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06

\ lady called upon her milliner the
other day to get the character of her
servant. The respectable appearance
of the latter was beyond questioning.
'sBut is she honest!' asked tho lady.
81 am no so certain about that" re-
piled the milliner. Il have sent her to
you with my bill dozen times and she
! has never yet given me the money.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06

The Chicago Times wants to know if
tive fellows whose grandfathers
fought in the Revolution are not going
to have our expenses paid to the Cen.
tennial
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06
News From the National CAPITAL.

News From the National Capital.
+ Gen. Custer gave testimony before
the investigating committee showing a most
shameful system of corruption among the
post traders of the Sioux country and various
politicians.
Ex-minister Schenck made lengthy
statement before the Emma Mine committee
on the Goth ult and was cross examined al
length, but the only result appreciate was
that he claims large losses where the com.
mittee seems to think him the gamer.
Gen. Sherman, after a long interview
with President Grant, announced that the
headquarters Of the army would be in Wash.
ington hereafter. 1t is asserted that Gen. s
never had any difficulty with the President
but could not get along with Secretary Bel.
KNAPP, who now being out of the way, there is
no obstacle to his return.
The Supreme Court Of the United
States has rendered two very important de.
cisions one declaring the "Force bill," te
prevent frauds in elections in the South. to be
unconstitutional because its provisions extend
outside the limits authorized by the 18th
amendment. The other is affirming the de.
cision Of the lower courts discharging the
Grant county Ku Klux, because Congress Ina.
not provided appropriate legislation for the
punishment of offenses charged in the indict.
ment
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06

A veterinary surgeon writes to the
Country Gentleman that his experience
with saw(lust is that it is the best bed.
ding to be had for horses or cattle. 1t
is superior to straw in many respects.
1t is Il much better absorbent than
straw, and much cleaner. For paw.
ing horse it is much better, as it dis.
places the bedding only where the foot
touches the floor of the stall, while
straw, being long, is displaced general.
ly by the act of paving.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06

The Cologne Gazette hears from Mad.
rid that marriage has been arranged
between Nine. tRattazi, nee Bonaparte-
Wyse, who has been living some time
at Madrid, and Gen. Pavia, the author
Of the coup d'etat Of the I'd of January,
1874,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06

After giving Sandy certain directions
about kirk matters, the minister sniff
fed once or twice, and remarked:
Saunders, fear you have been 'tast-
ing this morning. ''Deed, sir, re-
piled Sandy, with the coolest effrontery,
set off with droll glance of his brown
eyes-sdeed, sir, was jist gain to OBJ
serve I thocht there was smell O.
speerits amang us this mornin'!''
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06
FANCY MATS FOR FLOORS.

Take Il piece OF canvass, of size
desired, such as coffee sacks are made.
Cut Il quantity Of black and colored
cloth in circles of various sizes. max
ing sufficient, when one is laid upon
another. to cover the entire mat Sew
the large lower ones down on the can
vass, and the upper ones keep in place
by taking four stitches from the center
across each side, using coarse colored
cord or Irvine; finish by making tufts
Of rayeled carpet, yarn or zephyr on
the top of each cluster of circles. U.s.
ing various bright colors. TO make
these: pass 4 strand up through
the center, and winding quantity
around two or three fingers or Il piece
of card, lay the bunch across the top
of a circle, and passing the needle and
strand down through it again, (near
the spot where it was drawn up), pull
it firmly down until the tuft is drawn
together, when fasten by taking a
stitch or two on the under side, and
proceed to the next circle. When all
are done clip the tufts into round half
balls or buttons. These mats may be
made Of old cloth, and are not only very
handsome but durable.
Another good mat is made by taking
piece Of Brussels Or ingram carpet
for a center: then finishing with a
border Of cloth Of any and every des-
cription, plated together in broad
bands. and sewing this long pieced and
braided strip round and round the mat
until of desired size. Coffee sacks,
worked in with coarse yarn or strips
Of bright cloth. making figures, flow.
ers. ETC., are really handsome when
carefully done.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06
4 Case Of Brutality.

Clark County, ILL.,, is loud in deunci-
ations of Il great crime committed
within it's borders, particulars of
which are given in 4 special to the
Chicago papers. A man named John
Cottrell. some time last fall married a
widow Melrose, who had two children,
both boys, aged and 10 respectively.
Ever since the marriage the stepfather
has behaved toward the children in
the most brutal manner; frequently
driving them away from home in the
dead OF night, when they usually took
refuge with some the neighbors, and
compelling them to go without shoes
on their feet, and really without cloth
ing upon their backs. 4 few nights
ago he got one of his freaks on and
drove them out. They were almost
without clothing, and started for their
umcle's, in Crawford county, When
ten miles below their home, in Clark
county. the younger of the two boys
gave out. His brother succeeded in
getting him upon a piece of ground
free from ice and snow, and, leaving
him. went on to the house of a gentle
man by the name of James Hand,
where he was taken in. His step
father had been in the habit of beat.
ing him and his brother whenever
they told anything of his mistreat-
ment, and it was some time before he
would consent to tell of his own and
his brothers sufferings. About this
time Mr.. Sackriter came up having
found the younger brother dead where
the elder had left him. An inquest was
held, and the jury returned a verdict
that the child came to his death
through the brutal treatment of his
stepfather. With difficulty the com
munity were restrained from lynchine
the SteDfather. who is un(ler arrest.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06
Another Kansas Horror.

Wichita (Kanl Eagle.
On Monday morning word was
brought into town of most heart
rending disaster which occurred about
II miles east of Wichita, on Sunday
night, wherein the home of VIM. Nc
Garry was destroyed by fire, and two
of his children burned up. We are able
to gather but few of the sickening de-
tails. The night was the widest of
any during the past winter, as our
home readers well know. The piercing
winds and binding drifts of snow swept
down from the north as in fierce anger,
shrieking across the broad prairies,
shaking onr houses to the very founda.
ton. 1t appears that Mr.. McGarry's
family consisted Of wife and six
children, and that at the usual bed
time four of the children went up stairs
to bed. taking with them some matches
to light lamp. Nothing further is
certainly known by the parents until
one son fell through the floor, and a
girl, q lame child, ran down the STAIR
way. The parents and the two children
down stairs and the two that escaped
from above could hardly get out of the
house before it was one sheet of flame.
1t seems that about the middle of the
night two children were awakened by
fire and smoke. The boy who fell
through, finding the house on fire, en-
deavored to pull a young child out Of
bed when he fell. 1t is further sup
posed that after lighting the lamp a
burning match must have fallen among
some clothes, which were set afire but
did not break into flame for three
hours afterward. We could not learn
the sex, name, or age of the children
burned. Hardly had the terror-stricken
family made the escape when the home
| that had but few short hours before
sheltered from the pitiless storm the
father and mother, and protected from
the midnight blasts all that to them
was most dear, was not only a black.
ened, smoldering heap. but with it's ex-
piring embers it held the crisped re-
mains of two little forms whose spirits
had winged their flight for that cline
where pitiless storms and death-dark
desOlation never come.
| Cellars.-The season has arrived
when disease engendered by foul air in
| CCudAo . NulCu 4dSS q DcCl CAOScu GQ1OuSu
the winter, with their stores of vege-
tables more or less decayed. As in
most houses the only cellar ventila-
ton during the cold weather is through
the floors of the rooms occupied by the
family above, it follows that as dec0m-
position progresses, noxious atmos-
phere must prevade the house, and a
crop of typhus fevers or like diseases,
indicative of blood poisoning must en-.
sue. 1t is not too early to begin to act
upon these suggestions in order to save
doctors bills. as prevention is better
than cure.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06
3}tpwerCo TratSfript
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Cards Of i've lines or less, i've dollars per
year. Editorial notices, intended as adver-
tisements, twelve and one.half cents per line.
Legal notices at the rates prescribed BY
law.
All trancicpt advertisements to DO paid for
in advance.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06
COOKING FOR HEALTH,

COOh1No Fun
There is no more important branch
Of '.preventive medicine than cook.
ing. Bad cooking may cause a dwind-
ling of the race. ruinatiOn of the tenn.
per, and deterioration of the morals.
Good cooking, on the other hand, is
accompanied by national prosperity
and domestic bliss. So say the promot-
ers of the national training school of
cookery, who are undoubtedly right in
the main, and are deserving of all inl-
aginable success. Now cooking is both
an art and a science. For it's progress
as an art we are not generally concern
ed, although our profession would ull-
doubtedly suffer in pocket should fine
art cookery go out of fashion. ''Ele-
CANT" dishes are generally whited
sepulchers, and the fore-runners of
blue pills and other correctives. The
bulk of people live in big cities. and if
we were asked to name the most pre-
dominating characteristic of our urban
population, we should say ''dyspep-
sia.". Those who spend their days in
dark offices, chambers, or consulting
rooms, and keeping their noses ever
lastingly upon their respective grind
stones, seldom know that digestion
should wait on appetite. Hitherto
their dinners have not been so skill.
fully prepared as to demand the least
possible effort from jaded stomach:
but let us hope that the national dis.
grace Of indigestibility will no longer
dim the brightness of our hospitality,
and the number Of patent medicines
which are sold so largely in this coun.
try as aids to digestion will undergo a
rapid diminuation.-Ex.
10 cultivate the tuberOse, that most
beautiful of all plants. put the bulbs in
six-inch pots, three in each, and use a
mixture of equal parts turfy loan,
peat, and leaf-mold, and place it in the
pit. Give very little water at first, and
as they commence to grow freely in
crease it and keep near the glass
When they begin to push up theil
fower-spikes they will of necessity
require to be placed where they viii
have sufficient space for the proper de
velopment of the tall spikes. These
will come into bloom from August Il
October, when they will require a tenn
perature ranging from 60 degrees to 4
degrees, the latter being preferable
If wanted to bloom earlier, the pot
should be placed in a warm pit and OF
a. hotbed the temperature of which il
about Is. degrees, to start them il
growth more quickly.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-01
The Black Flag Of the Turks.

When the Turks get into particu-
larly distressed condition in times of war,
they unfold to the breeze, for the inspi-
ration of their ignorant and superstitious
soldiery, tie famous and original stand
ard of "the Prophet. This banner is
now carried in the battles against the
rebellious provinces in Turkey, indicat-
ing the heat and extremity of the strug
gle in that country. The "holy" flag,
which is believed to have been hung be-
fore the tent of Mahomet's pet wife, is
preerved with pious veneration, being
wrapped In forty-two coverings of satin
and locked in a costly chest placed i'll a
sort of chapel, in the inmost recesses of
the Sultan's seraglio, and has only been
unfurled in few critical periods in the
nations history. 1t means "death to
the Christians" 1t is flag of deep
black in color, and from this fact has
doubtless been derived the expression
of unfurling the black flag" which
means to fight the enemy with no quar-
ter, except that which is indicated in the
words "cut and quarter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-01
Knights of Pythias.

AT a meeting of the Supreme Lodge
of the World of the Knights of Pythi-
as, held at Philadelphia last week, the
annual report of the Supreme Keeper of
Records and Seals was read, showing
that the order has now 96,276 members;
initiated during the last year, IL, 276 !;
admitted by card, 966 /; reinstalled,
1880; withdrawn, 1,647 suspended,
IL, 800 deceased, 844. The receipts of
the Grand Lodges have been $72, 913. "a;
expenditures. $50, 1872 amount on
hand, SIS, S97.SS. The total receipts of
the subordinate lodges have been $685.
062.1 expenditures, $736.217.70 !;
amount paid for the relief of brothers,
S191, $685. 10 families, $9,279.61 for
burying the dead, $48, $3.50. As education
of orphans, $1,121.84; total relief.
1862, 52S4S. Pennsylvania has 430
lodges and membership of 39,3l8 !;
New York is second, with 40 lodges
and 6,065 members /; New jersey has
LOG lodges and 6,131 members I; Mary
land, 81 lodges and 6,78O members
Ohio next, with "a lodges and 5,7sS
members. f
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-01
About Silver.

The resolutions introduced in Con-
gress go over ground that has been
very carefully covered by a report of the
House of Commons, and to which little
can he added. The report covers twelve
points, which are, in substance, as fol-
lows: swn fN
"First, the annual production of silver
has increased from SAC, 900, 900 in 1868
to $40, 900 in 1875; second, the
United States has increased its product
of silver; third, Germany has from S40,-
900, 900 to 800, 900, 900 of silver to dis
pose OF; fourth, Sweden and Norway
have demonetized silver; fifth, Austria
has in four years gotten rid of ST., ZOO, 900
in silver currency; sixth, Italy has sub
stituted the rag baby for silver money
to the extent of 1856, 900, 900 in ten years;
seventh, the English Government sells
$50, 100000 worth of bills on India,
which replaces that much bullion sent
twenty years ago; and, eighth, the gross
remittances of silver to India during
the past four years have been $50, 600, :
600 instead of $144, 100000 in the four
years previous. On the other hand {:
ninth, France has in four years bought
$l67, 600, 600 in silver; tenth, England,
Russia and Spain still buy silver; elev-
enth, Japan and China and other eastern
nations absorb great deal of it; and,
twelfth, India is still customer"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-01
"Old Pap,s0 Statue.

Officers of the army in WashinQto 4 who
served under Gen. Thomas are c6ae cined
at the action of the committee appo iuted
to select site for the heroic, equestrian
statue of cold Pap" which the Ar nv
OF the Cumberland subscribed $50. OJ0
to erect in some square in Washington.
The committee consisted of Senator
Morrill,of Vermont, Representative Hol-
man, and the Secretary o: War, and. as
Congress appropriated S25, OOO for q base
for the statue, these gentlemen concluded
to select Stanton Square, in the north
east corner of the city, an unfrequented
and unknown locality, as though thew
were ashamed to have the statue in
Washington. This brought out the fol-
lowing message to Senator Morrill,. from
one OF the principal officers of the Army
OF the Cumberland eff the committee
find no filter place than an obscure and
distant spot for the site of the monu
ment to one of the noblest soldiers of
the republic, the Society of the Army OF
Cumberland will feel itself Obliged to
select one which will illustrate its respect
FORTS dead comrade and hero"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-01
Stages OF National Life.

A writer in the British Quarterly Re-
viesO has said that nations may be said
roughly to pass through three stages Of
growth: r E3tl fgeaaa
Firstly. the youthful stage; thinly peo-
pied, exporting natural produce, and i'm
porting luxuries.
Secondly, the self-subsistent stage;
we'll peopled, consuming their own
produce, and manufacturing their own
goods. rs ir
Thirdly, the most dependent stage;
densely peopled, exporting manufac-
lures and Injuries, and importing natu-
raj produce.
Holland, Great Britain, Switzerland
and Belgium have already p assed into
the third and most dependent stage,
and with the increase of population
other nations must iufallibly do 80 as
well. A few years ago England was able
TO feed her own people from the produce
of her own fields; she now buys grain to
the annual value of more than f12 .0OO,-
600, besides relying on foreign raw ma
terial for employment, foreign markets
for the disposal of her manufactures,
foreign land for the disposal of one or
two hundred thousand of her surplus
population. oi.t
Such being the new and unforeseen
condition of national life, may they not
ultimately be found to be utterly iDcom-
patible with the old method of settling
national disputes by force Of arms, wal
inAicting such intolerable injury on
neutral State as to necessitate the adop-
ton of some other method of set
thing national disputes than one which
has ceased to secure even approximate
iustice rr -.r4
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-01
A NEVADA TRAGEDY.
Love, Marriage, and Murder-A Band of
Assassins XIII the Wrong Man.

Love, Marriage, and Murder-A Band of
Assassins XIII the Wrong Man.
lAustin (Nev.) Cor. San Francisco PostI
The driver of the lone stage commu-
-nicates the following particulars Of a
dastardly assassination which was COM
mitted at Isabel's rancho, on Reese
river, about thirty-one miles from this
city, about 8 o'clock last night. In or
der that the particulars as given may be
fully understood, il will be necessary to
explain that the ranches of John Wixom
and Mr.. Isabel adjoin, and that a few
weeks ago the daughter of John Wixom
and the son of Isabel were married I'M
known to the parents of the young lady.
Miss Whom being scarcely IA years
of age, anu young Isabel not having
reached his 18th, the match was re-
garded by the young lady's parents and
friends as being very undesirable. and
annoyed them greatly. AS soon as the
wedding ceremony was over they sue
ceeded in inducing the misguided girl
to return to her home, where she has
since resided. Steps were being taken
to have the boy arrested for perjury in
falsely swearing that the girl was Of age,
but he left the country to avoid being
apprehended. The parents of the boy
Isabel, on the contrary, considered the
match in favorable light, and have re-
garded the action of the young lady's
parents in keeping her away from her
husband as an act Of oppression. DIR.
Wixom, physician of this city and
brother to John Wixom, sent his buggy
yesterday to the rancho of the latter. and
suspicion appears to have arisen that
DIR. Wixom had arrived at the rancho
for the purpose Of removing his niece,
Mrs. Isabel, nee Wixom, to this city.
Later in the evening John Stoner, an
employee of Mr.. Becker, a neighboring
farmer, arrived ut Wixom's for the pur-
pose of spending the evening, and
shortly after his arrival proposed taking
a ride in the doctors buggy, accompa-
MED by Barney Mccain and John Ryan.
He drove in the direction of Isabels
rancho, distant about quarter of mile.
Upon reaching the house six persons
arose from the bush and fred into the
buggy, killing John Stoner instantly.
A shotgun was pointed and discharged
at Barney Mccain, who knocked the
barrel aside and escaped with badly
burned face. The body of Stoner then
fell from the buggy, and the horses ran
away, the entire body of the assassins
pursuing and firing into the buggy, the
top and bottom of which is riddled with
buckshot and bullets. DIR. Wixom did
not accompany his buggy to the rancho
of his brother, and the intention of the
assassins was thus defeated. The assas
sination has created good deal of ex
element, and strong force is now il
pursuit of the murderers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-01
Five Thousand Billions Of GrasshOp
Dprs.


1t has been reserved for a Colorado
correspondent of the Boston Traveller
to tell the biggest grasshopper story of
the season: about 10 o'clock in the
morning our attention was called to a
rumbling, dismal sound, as of many
earthquakes, and immedia, ely the air
was darkened, the sun hidden from view
by myriads-thousands of bushels-of
these terrible insects, which in few
moments began to settle down upon the
gardens and fields in every direction.
For an hour or two all hands, men,
women and children, sailed forth, armed
with every conceivable weapon, to fight
the hoppers off our garden. But all in
vain. While we men were driving off
one thousand billions, four times as
many more would settle behind us, over
and all around us, until in utter despair
we were glad to beat an inglorious re-
treat to the house. They filled and GOV
cred everything. The vegetation, the
earth, fences, stables, houses and all,
were literally black or brown with them,
and in the bitches and hollows they lay
or crawled from two to four inches
deep" ur if. Hf. r
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-01
Vanderbilt,s Children.

Commodore Vanderbilt has ten living
children, two sons and eight daughters !;
some thirty odd grandchildren, and half
q dozen great grandchildren-one, a son
of William H., being man grown. The
probable shape of the will is being dis
cussed. 1t is understood that William
II. Vanderbilt, the older son, will be we'll
provided for, and endowed with large
part of the railroad interests which his
father has managed with such consum-
mate skill. This city is full of gossip
concerning the probable provision that
will be made for the other son, Cornelius
J. Vanderbilt. Those who believe the
Commodore to be a man of stern justice
think the second son will be endowed
with some important railroad interest,
while others accept the current rumor
that he will be classified with the daugh-
tiers, and, like them, receive only small
portion of the estate. Cornelius is man
of perhaps 40. For thirty years of
his life, beginning in infancy, he was
the victim of an affiiction from which
few ever recover, and which entirely in
capacitated him for any exertion what
ever. Some eight years ago he began to
throw it off, and his constitution has
now acquired nearly its normal tone.
He is tall, about six feet, and a slight
stoop of the shoulders betrays mark of
the disease which he has conquered.
He has thin, high head, clear blue
eyes, facile speech, an earnest manner,
and quick, expressive gestures. He
dresses with neat plainness, and looks
more like a Methodist minister without
a parish than a son of the great COM
mercial millionaire. He has very
good education (and how he attained it
with his disabilities is wondtr), and
much more literary taste and ability
than any other Vanderbilt. He is social,
amiable, affable and popular, and much
liked by wide circle of acquaintance,
who, like the buzzing city outside, won
der whether the stern old man will
brand him as social pariah, or give
him liberal setting-up" IN business.
-NeD York Correspondence Chicago
Tribune.