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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13
Friendship.

Friendship cannot be confined to
great minds; people have their distinct
ideas of it; somebody to feel comfort
able with. to rely upon, to be able to
say what they like to you with securi-
ty of being understood; who will hear
them, perhaps help them, is what they
want. Thought is not a universal ar
ticle of exchange-good-will and
sense of mutual fitness may refresh
the soul at less cost, and help it toward
that love to the brethren which
Christianity requires. But friendship
Of this characte breaks down if there
is too much attempt to enforce it's ideal
claims and duties, People must be
content to leave a great deal unex-
planned and unaccounted for. to SUBJ
nit to seeming Sights, to be quiet un-
der good deal for which temper de-
mands apologies. Men cannot be COM
PEELED to friendship by cooked pis.
tol, says Sydney Smith. Nor must
people ever use their wit at a crisis.
Long suffering and condoning are of
the essence of all friendship. As Cow
per says, ''The warmest heart
perhaps only feels by fits, and is
often as insensible as the coldest."
Nobody must wonder or take offense
if he fall foul of one of these cold fits
when he expected enthusiastic sympa-
thy. But none Of these precautionary
rules are meant to apply to the grand
ideal friendship-to such we look up,
but do not presume to dictate; only of
them one is disposed to say, as we'll
fall out as sink into placid difference;
death is the only dissolution of the tie
we can admit. Swift writes some for
chile, strange, bitter things on the an
guish that friendship of this order
can innict: 81 am of opinion that
there is no greater folly then to con-
tract too great and intimate a friend
ship, which must always leave the sur
vivor miserable" Again: ssBelieve
me, that violent friendship is, much
more lasting. and as much engaging.
as violent love. There is not greater
folly than entering into too strict and
violent friendship" This, howev-
er, is spoken of his friendship with
Stella, written when he hears she is
dying, and dares not to return to Ire
land: Il would not for the universe
be present at such a trial as seeing her
depart This sounds like a miserable
selfshness, but yet betrays real hor-
ror of deep feeling. Swift's is char.
acter on which one must not pro-
nounce hastily.-Blackwood's Maya.
zine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13
A GREAT MIND OvERTHROWN.

1nOAn8pOlla SCntlnel, Apf1l <.
One of the saddest spectacles pre-
sented in indianapolis for years was
witnessed at the Union Depot yester-
day morning-Col. John P. Baird on
his way to the State asylum for the in
sane. He was brought up from Terre
Haute, on the morning train, in charge
of his brother, accompanied by the
Hon. B. W. Hans, one of his devoted
friends and admirers. His condition
is sad indeed. Once so strong and for
midable, now so bowed down and per-
fectly helpless. A noble tree, riven
and ! blasted by the lighrning, has in all
ages been regarded with superstitious
awe and reverence, but great mind
palsied by disease makes us shudder:
Those who have known Col. Baird,
will only think of him as he seemed in
the full vigor and splendid glow of his
great intellectual faculties. He was
one of the bravest, knightliest and
noblest of all the men who ever reach
ed the front rank of the Indiana bar.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13
News From the National Capital.


News From the National CaDital.
The President has nominated Chas.
Mcmillan, of New York, to be consul general
at Rome.
Official notice has been given to the
re-establishment of army headquarters at
Washington.
The Senate has rejected the nomina.
ton of Richard H. Dana to be minister to
England. The vote stood about II to 36.
Quartermaster general A1eigs is
charged with crooked proposition to the
proprietor Of a patent vernim exterminator.
A half million dollars in silver coin
has been received at the u S. Treasury to
carry out the silver resumption act, and more
is ordered
Before Clymer's committee, on the
9Th, Secretary Chandler gave the man Bell,
who claimed such intamacy with the Pres
ident and the Babcock case, character any,
thing but white.
The House committee on military af-
fairs has adopted General Banning's report
for the reduction OF. the army The report
was not signed by the Republican members
OF the committee.
The detective Bell was pretty thor
oughly shown up before the Clymer commit
tee on the 9Th and 9Th, as dead beat and
rascal but what induced so many respectable
men to countenance him is still debatable
question.
Secretary Bristow lately issued or.
ders forbidding any employee of the treasury
department excepting the treasurer, the
chief clerk or himself, to give information to
the press. The order created much unfavor-
able comment
Gen. Henderson, in his testimony
before the whisky trials committee, said that
attorney general Pierrepont told him that the
information the President had of the ev-
idenee in the Babcock case came from a men,
Der Of the St. Louis grand jury.
The committee on foreign affairs
having intimated that no further Testimony
was needed in the Emma Mine investigation,
Gen. Schenck demanded most full research.
and renewed his assertion that he was inno-
cent Of fraud, and that the mine is now i'm
mensely valuable. -.
In the river and harbor bill reported
in the House Of Congress on the Sd inst.
Minnesota comes in for s2oO, 900, as follows :
For the improvement Of the upper Mississippi,
$4,000; Minnesota river, $4,000; Duluth,
$4,000; St. Anthony Falls, sl25, 900; Missis-
sippi, above the falls, $2O, 900; Red River Of
the North, $4,000.
In his testimony before Clymer's
committee, on the I'd, Gen. Custer was asked
why he had not before given information con-
cerning the abuses 80 well known by him on
the frontier. He replied by reading an order
from Secretary Belknap, dated March, 1873,
which forbade communicating with Congress-
men regarding military affairs, and directed
all communications Of such character to be
sent through the general of the army and
secretary Of war for inspection and approval
Miscellaneous News Items.
The post trader at Fort Concho, Tex.
as, paid Sl3, 800 for his appointment
Tie heaviest rain-storm ever known
in Alabama occurrt I in that state the first Of
the month.
Paris has fixed on the Champs de
Mars a. the site for the proposed universal ex-
position in 1873.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13
A Memento Of a Georgia Cyclone.
From the Savannah News.

From the Savannah News.
a Talbot County gentlemen has a
large block of pine tree into which
plank was deeply driven by the force
of one of the hurricanes or cyclones of
last spring. The plank, which was
about an inch in thickness and six in
ches in width, was torn by the fury of
the storm from house. 1t was not
splintered or shivered by the coils.
sion, but entered the body of the tree
as clearly as if it had been a piece of
sharp-edged iron driven in by maui.
The force and velocity must have been
tremendous. On one side the block
had beeh cut to the depth of three in
ches, without reaching the end of the
plank that entered the tree. 1t prob
ably extended to the depth OF at least
four inches, and did not split the tree
in the least. 1t is understood that
this wonderful memento of the power
of the wind will be sent to the Signal
Service Bureau, where it will give be-
holders a faint idea of the force of a
Georgia cyclone.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13
MASKED MARAUDERS.

a crowd of some fifteen masked ma.
rauders robbed the store of two Po.
landers, named Hirsch, last Thursday
before dawn, at the town of Somer-
vile, fifty miles east of Memphis.
They killed watchdog, entered the
store, tied a rope about the necks of
the keepers, beat them nearly insensi-
BILE, carried their victims some dis
tance from the store, and were about
to hang them, but, by promising to
leave the place, and begging hard, their
lives were spared. Nothing is known
as to what melted the mob to take
such highhanded action, unless it is
because the Poles have been accused
of weighing customers cotton falsely,
and cheating those with whom they
traded. An indignation meeting was
held in the town on Thursday, and
leading citizens promise protection and
reparation to the sufferers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13

To Mend Chinaware. Take very
thick solution of gum arabic and stir
into it plaster of Paris until the mix.
ture is of proper consistency. Apply
it with brush to the fractured edges
of the chinaware and stick them to-
gether. In a few days it will be i'm.
possible to break the article in the
same place. The whiteness of the ce-
ment renders it doubly valuable.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13
CONNECTICUT FOR BRIsr0w.

Hartford letter tn n. I. Times.
The position of at least one of the
uncertain states at the opening of the
struggle at Cincinnati seems to be now
settled, for it is declared that Connec.
ticut will not only vote for Bristow
from the first, but will work heartily
and honestly for him as long as there
is any chance for his nomination.
Gen. Hawley freely and publicly an
nounces that his purpose in going to
Cincinnati is to do all in his power to
secure the nomination of Bristow, and
that his information leads him to be.
lieve that all, OF at least very nearly
all, the other delegates agree with him
in that matter. The delegation is not,
however, pledged or trammeled in any
way, and there may be a small minor.
ity who will vote for some one else;
but the Connecticut influence, what.
ever it will amount to, will be for
Bristow from the start, for the state
has entirely gone out of the favorite
son business.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13

A little boy, when picking the drum
stick of a chicken, swallowed one of
the tendons which are so numerous
in the legs of a fowl, and was very
nearly checked. The tendon was, how
ever, extracted with great difficulty
from the little fellows throat, when
he exclaimed, s'Oh, mamma, it wasn't
the chickabiddy's fault; it was because
cook forgot to take off it's garters!''
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13
A Revolutionary Relic.
From the Boston Herald.

FROM The Boston Herald.
Twenty-Five years ago, when the
Boston Neck was first paved, the stump
Of a post was exposed to view by the
workmen employed. and an old resi-
dent, named Ware, whose memory
went back to Revolutionary times, and
who then resided at the corner of Ded-
ham and Washington streets, came out
of his house and informed Mr.. Thomas
r. Pierce, who had charge of the gran
ite work of the city at that time, that
the post of which the stump formed a
part WAS the identical one to which
Washington hitched his horse at the
time Boston was evacuated by the
British in l776, and that it was exactly
upon the line of barricadc that the
Provincials had erected for tho pur-
pose of keeping the British within the
limits Of the town. In order to mark
the spot Mr.. Pierce prepared granite
block, and with his own hands set it
directly over the stump, and had no.
tice of the fact made in the newspa-
pers of the day. Some years later,
when the track of the horse railroad
was laid, and the pavements were re.
set, Mr.. Pierce took good care to locate
his monument stone exactly in the
same spot. Last season the streets
were repaved with wooden blocks, and
while the work was in progress the
stump was again exposed to view, still
in good preservation, and from it sew
eral large fragments were obtained.
Being still in the employ of the city at
his old trade of cutting granite, Mr..
Pierce had chiseled upon the stone the
figures of l776 upon one side and 1876
upon the other, and reset it in the
same place the workmen joining in
appropriate commemorative services,
and he pronouncing over it the follow.
ing benedietion We thank thee, good
Lord, for saving the Nation one centu-
ry; we trust he will save it for an
other.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13
ERUPTION OF vEsUv1Us.

The long promised eruption of Vesu-
vius has at last occurred. On March
18th, at about midnight the lava began
to overflow, and a long snake-like riv-
ulet took the direction of Pompeii.
The eruption was hardly expected, for
the smoke and vapor emitted by the
crater for some months past in great
abundance had somewhat abated. On
the following day the sight presented
by Mount Vesuvius was really lovely;
a tremendous column of white vapor
lowered over the abyss, and the re-
flection of the burning furnace under
meath on the leathery cloud gave it a
splendid crimson tint dying out in the
most delicate pink. Large quantities
of cinders and lapillm have been thrown
up. There is reason to believe that
the eruption will be a long one.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13
RETRENCHING.

A Washington correspondent says,
SIT is a we'll known fact in Washing.
ton circles that President Grant is in
financial embarrassment on account of
unfortunate real estate transactions.
Recently he sold the great bulk of his
real estate in Washington. His last
act has been to order the sale of his
Long Branch and St. Louis property.
He does this, his friends say, because
he is resolved to clear off all his in.
debtedness, and this is the only way
possible for him to do so. It shows
that he is much more heavily involv-
ed than has been generally supposed"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13

Personal, 1mpersonal and Political.
Gen. B. F. Buffers wife died in
Boston on the 8th inst
New Orleans was the theatre of con-
siderable bloodshed at the recent political
meeting there.
Parliament has at last passed the
royal titles bill and Victoria is almost certain
Of being an Empress.
1t now turns out that the lawyer
VIM. Barrett dishonesty obtained all Of the
property of Miss Halpine, miles O'Reilly's
daughter and squandered it with his own.
Rev. Robert Davidson, of the Pres
byterian church, is dead. For twenty-five
years he has been q member of the board of
foreign missions, and for ten years director
of Princeton College.
"A Chicago wheat operator, having
made a bad move in a gambling oper-
alton, has absconded with the little money he
had in the bank, leaving his fellow gamblers
many thousands short
An investigation has been made in
the St. Louis post Office respecting political
assessments among clerks and other employ
ees. 1t was ascertained that it has been the
custom OF the clerks to make voluntary con-
tributions to campaign funds, which was en-
tirely optional to the contributor
The elections in Rhode Island result
ed in the choice Of the Republican candidate
for secretary Of state, but there was no choice
Of governor and lieutenent governor. Prov
idence, which last year gave majority OF
,428 against Lippett this year gives major
ity of about 500 for him, and his election by
the legislature is assured.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13

They have a mania in England for
American cast-off pedestrians and
poets.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-13
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.

Crimes, Criminals and Casualties.
Sanford Green, a well-knOwn cattle
dealer in Chicago, was run over by the cars
in the stock yards in that city and instantly
killed.
A young man named Shane killed the
suducer Of his sister, in st. Louis last week.
The murdered man was quite wealthy, by the
name Of Jilz, and bore a bad reputation. After
receiving two shots Jilz fired four shots at
Shane, killing him instantly.
A well-known stock broker of Phila-
delphia committed suicide by hanging last
week. A loaded pistol was found on his ia
bic which had been snapped two or three
times. His name was G. w. Hewes, and his
partner committed suicide while in bath
tub, yearag
A terrible boiler explosion recently
occurred at Binghampton. An inspector
was testing new made boiler, on 4 sidewalk
in front of the mandatory when it was ex-
ploded, instantly killing the inspector and
two boys who were playing marbles near,
also man who was walking past.
1t has been ascertained that Dona-
hue, the bankrupt proprietor of the Boston
Pilot, was precious knave and swindler.
Thousands Of dollars which had been entrust-
ed to his care by Irish benevolent socities
and individuals, was put into his business
and lost. Much suffering must result from it.
1t is understood the owners of the
steamer Baltimore, the British emigrant ship
which was lost in the South Pacific, have de-
cidedt to suitably acknowledge the humane
and generous conduct Of the captain of the
American whaler Young Phoenix, who res
cued and treated with great kindness the sur
viving passengers and crew.
A distressing accident from explod-
ing gas occurred in one of the main sewers
of St. Paul, last week. Two men who went
downto measure the sewer climbed up a
imam hole" to make entries in their field
books, when an explosion of gas occurred,
burning all the hair and beard from the men
and fearfully disfguring their faces. They
had to make their way over four hundred feet
in the dark, foul sewer to the place of en-
trance, when they were drawn up and taken
hovoo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-28
Political Facts and Fancies.

The n. Y. correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Ledger says of Gov. Hendricks visit to
New York: The journals are publishing vari-
Gus statements as TO the business which
brought him here at this important conjunc-
ture. but most OF them are wide of the mark
The fact is that Governor Tilden has been up
To the eyes in Constitutional law, consulta-
tons with Mr.: Charles O'Conor, etc, for some
llme past, and, In order to determine knotty
point touching the Vice Presidency, in a GER
tain contingency, the presence of Mr.. Hen
bricks was absolutely necessary. That is the
real meaning of the private interview with
the visit having been accomplished Mr.. Hen
bricks returns home. The allegation that he
only came here for recreation and rest "a
nasty journey of 800 miles,, of course, is
preposterous. 1.-The Congress ional contest
I'M ST. Louis between Frost, democrat, and
Metcalf. republican, on the allegation that
figures We're altered to the prejudice of the
iatter, was submitted yesterday to the court,
whose decision will be rendered tomorrow
All, good morning, good morning, sir.
Glad 10 see you. You have an article ON the
politlcal situation? That's right, sir, put it
IN the coal bucket. Good morning; be careful
as you go out, the stairway is very dark
! Ha;,xege. One good thing about this
men the biggest kind of an excuse to be out
nights. Every woman is naturally anxious
10 KNOW who is elected-Detroit Free Press.
-. The Presidential situation Is already the
monumental muddle of the century. Every
day increases its ramifcations.-M y
Tribune 49, A press dispatch from Port
land, Oregon, says the democrats have taken
no steps yet TO enjoin Gov. Grover from issu-
Ing certificate OF election TO Watts. The
republicans confidently assert that no such
action will be taken. -. The report was
current i'm well-informed circles i'm New York
yesterday that Mr.. Tilden had the night before
indicated that his case was hopeless.-Aibaav
Journal. No such report has been current IN,
well-informed circles, or in any circle except
those who first invented 1t and then circil-
lated the statement Y ErEress Mr.
A. s. Hewitt is well meaning young man,
but he should not insist upon carrying the
country at a right shoulder shift. Gin Ohm
mGeiat. 49, met big Barrett, once Con-
zressman from ST. Louis. "Sah, !" he said.
sthe keyuntry is in a dreadful state Confiicf
IS threatened Combustioni He'll, sab ~
!. Gdfh-' -. Yes, let's have another war.
The stock of old army overcoats is PLAYED
out, and how would a man look coming fs,fS
town on a load OF wood without one OF those
on ?-Ftifon Times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-28
fRIGHTFCL RAvAGES OF SMALL
POX.
$50 Deaths Day Out Of a PepuIa.
tiam NJ 1000

NEW YORK, Nov. PA Toronto dispatch
says: Of1cial advtces received al Ottawa
confirm unofficial reports 10 the effect that
The most terrible outbreak OF small box ever
known In the history of the northwest Is de-
Solating Giribic. an lcelandic and MennOte
settlement of about .000 souls. ON the east
side OF Lake Winnipeg. The deaths average
leO daily. No medical men are on the spot,
but tire Manitoba government II endcavoring
10 send doctors. The soourge il also raging
with terrible fury on the west side OF Tire
lake. The Fort Alexander Indians have been
decimated, and hundreds have died In settle
ments ON the Gu Appelle river. The Indians
are fleeing south, toward the boundary line.
The fur trade il stopped throughout the north
west by order OF the authorities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-28
STORY About GOV. HAYES WITH
DRAWAL
It IL Positively Coufradfctesl.

INV YORK. Nov. "a Columbus, Ohio.
special 10 the Hsolds says: The story tele-
graphed from here last night 10 various
papers that Senator sherman had telegraphesf
10 Gov. Hayes advising him 10 withdraw
nom the Presidential contest ON account OF
irregularities in Louisiana, and that Hayes
acting on this advise had sent his relative.
Gen. John Mitchell. to Washington. 20 CON-
suit with the national committee relative 10
his withdrawal is n fabrication made out OF
whole cloth. i state on authority that no
such telegram has been received from Sher-
man. that Mitchell has not been sent % WASH
ington, but that he r. now i'm New York on
personal business. and i'm a word that HAYES
like various other people, is patiently walt
ing for the bottom facts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-28
Fight with The Indians

CHICAGO, Nov. Is Gen. Crook. under date
OF Camp on Crazy Womans Fork, Nov. y,
reports that Col. Mackenzie, from the cav
airy. att lcked Cheyenne camp, consisting OF
one hundred lodges. on the west fork of Pow
der river. ON the 18th instant. capturing the
village and the greater portion of the Indian
herd. The loss ON both sides h thought To be
considerable, but has not been definitely
ascertained. Lieut.. McKenny, 4th cavalry.
was killed. When the courier LEFT the weather
was VERY sever.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-28
Thomas Carlyle on the Eastern CUES

Thomas Carlyle writes TO a friend on the
eastern question. endorsing 10 the fullest eN-
tent the recommendations in Mr.. Gla,lstone's
pamphlet for the expulsion OF the Turkish
governing classes from Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-28

PERILs OF ROPE WALKING.-A Lad named
Lewis HarShfield, Of Easton. Pa. after wit
Messing rope-walker's feats, undertook to
get up am exhibition on his own hook Hefiesi
one end OF the rope 20 the door knob, and the
other TO the knob OF the kitchen Cupboard
Then he got on the rope, and the cupboard
toppled over; and a few minutes later Inc
young gymnaSt might have been seen crawl
ing nom beneath the ruins OF SIS worth OF
crockery and glassware. He WASN'T burf
much until after his mother got through
using the balance pole.-IN r. E5-DrexS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-28
FLORIDA.
n Mighty agOse Vote.
MINNESOTA.
The O0scfaI Couut.

ST. PAUL. MINI, Nov 2S-The boan,i of
Canvnssers yesterday canvaSsed the reiurns
for electors: The vote was a. 81 for HAYES
and $3.50 for Tilden.
The supr me court today rendered n de-
ciSion sustaining the conStitutionality of the
inebriate asylum law, by which tax of SO
per annum i levied upon each saloon keeper
and trafficcr in liquor. for the maintenance
of an asylum for lncbriates, now i'm course OF
erection at Rochester.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-11-28

GEN. f. E. SPINNER will spend the winter
In that sunny, beautiful CLINE where the or
ange blossom vies with the Cherokee rose,
where the alligator snaps on the youthful
negro's toes, where the Atchafalaya spark
lipely fows-by the way, Florida.