Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-05-04

ICo., and Drexcl, Morganlk e: we're the high
est bidders.
The managers of the Belknap i'm.
peachment made reply. to the defendants
! replication tosthe effect that Congress his
jurisdictionint the case,, and they demand
judgment according to law because the de-
tendant, Belknap has failed to answer or deny
the charges in the articles Of impeachment.
r. Miscellaneous News Items.
Several thousand soldiers have sail.
ed from Spain for Cuba.
Katie Pease, the well-known race
horse, has broken down. $50 Is
An unusual number Of failures are
reported in England for last month.
The steamer Ovessant, from Brest;
has foundered at sea. Twenty lives lost.
The Spanish Congress has commenc.
ed the discussion OF religious toleration
Victoria has approved the royal titles
bill, and is at last q tull-aedged Empress. -.
Twelve acres of pine lumber were
burned lately in Williamsport, tPa., two
thirds insured.
Reports from Mexico on: the 25th
were anything but encouraging to the revo-
lutionist genaral Diaz.
l A military guard is to be stationed
at some Of the more dangerous points on the
route to the Black Hills.
A decree has been promulgated re.
storing suffrage to the inhabitants of the
provinces Of Alsace and Laraine.
The Panama railroad company are
attaching the Pacific mail steamers as they
arrive in San Francisco, for.deht.
The leading journals of England sus-
tain the. British government in its position on
the Winslow extradition case.
John Church & Co.. of Cincinnati,
have been, selected as publishers Of Wag-
ner's ''grand Centennial march,"
In the early part of June train is
/ to be run from New York to San Francisco
in eight hours if no accident occurs.
The Atlantic, and Pacific telegraph
company have reduced their rates between
eastern and western cites 81 per cent.
Tom Allen and the English bruiser
Goss have gained stakes for prize fight, and
day will soon be fixed for the meeting.
A Chicago man drew 500, 900 prize
n the Louisiana State lottery. He will be
ucky it he succeeds in getting his money.
Indications of a foreign war, in
which Austria, Turkey, Russia, and possibly
other powers will join, are increasing daily.
The English House of Commons re.
jected, by vote of 239 against l52, the prop
osition to remove the electoral disabilities OF
women. s.
The House committee has agreed to
give the Northern Pacific railroad company
eight years additional time to construct and
complete the road.
The Turkish Porte has sent q cir.
cular vote to the representatives at various
European courts asking for military assistance
in suppressing the insurrection.
Prince Bismarck has absorbed the
idea of the Empire controlling the railroads,
and is making efforts to secure the consent to
such ownership from the various States.
The stories of forced loans from the
foreign merchants of New Laredo, Mexico,
are reported to be untrue by the commander
of the United States troops stationed there.
An engineer OH q freight train on
the Canada Southern railroad fell asleep at
his post, q few nights since, and run his train
through al open draw into the Welland canal
Gen. Rice, of Iowa, testified before
the Clymer committee that he has received a
total of about $l2, 900 from post traderships,
none of which, however, went to General
Belknap.
Gov. Rice, of Massachusetts, has
vetoed the bill to legalize the marriage Of
James Parton, On the ground that the act is
not within the constitutional power of the
legislature.
The irrepressible humbug, Barnum,
has just opened his humbug "Centennial"
show, and on the first exhibition humbugged
10000 inside the inclosure, and humbugged
an equal number outside by not having his
building large enough to accommodate them.
An immense gathering was held in
Paris recently to raise money for the erection
of a statue of liberty in New York harbor. It
was attended by the elect of Parasian society,
and was entertained by eight hundred sing
ers in cantata entitled ''Liberty enlightening
the world.''
Reports from Eads' .jetties belle the
discouraging reports lately given. The
steamer Grand Republic with an excursion
party went through into the gulf and return
ed on Wednesday, and found sixteen feet four
inches during average tide; an increase Of
ten inches in as many days.
This sad result of one shameful
newspapers attack should be general lesson
in these times: L. II. Chandler, pension
agent at Norfolk, Va.,, was some time ago
charged with being detaulter, and he COM
mitted suicide. It is now proven that he was
not only honest in his accounts with the gov
ernment, but that the government owed him
over $4,000. - -.
The Markets.
May 1st.-Wheat-New York 81 l.26
to sl.s5; Chicago, No. l, sl.14, No. 3, Sl.oa
Milwaukee, No. l, $l,l4, No. 2, sl.06; St
Paul, St. Paul extra 81. .os q sl.o5, No. 1,sl.oo
@ si.02. :
Gold in New York, sl.12x.-
AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF LINCOLN.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WAsH1Sarox,
November II, 1861.
To the Hon. Secretary Of War:
My DEAR SR-I personally wish
Jacob B. Frecr, of New Jersey, to be
appointed a colonel for a c0lored reg
iment, and this regardless of whether
he can tell the exact shade of Julius
Caesars hair. Yours truly,
A. LINCOLN,
This letter was given by Secretary
Cameron to his confidential clerk, and
he presented it to his friend, the, late
Mr.. Mygatt. - =. 24.sas s,e
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