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

ssuu AcpU tuo ucle6dC0S III almost con.
tinued laughter. Among other things,
he said: II remember in Chicago the last
winter, l was there. We had preach
ing every afternoon. We went out
with invitations into saloons, billiard
halls, ETC., and we got a large-audience
there every afternoon, and we had
new minister every day. We wanted
to bring all denominations to keep har-
mony, and believe there was one SOL
itary conversion after preaching thirty
days. If we had only stuck to one min
lister, | believe we would have done
great work then and there.' When
asked what should be done if scandal
distracted church, he answered he
would instantly turn out the offending
persons.
Q.-Suppose there are excitements
i'll church that seem to draw the atten-
ton of the church away from higher
things.-politics for instance! A.-The
political question might interest the
world, and you could go right on with
out being interrupted; but the thing |
dread more than l do politics is these
miserable church fairs. Laughter
That is the thing that bothers me most.
More meetings have been baoken up
and interest dissipated by these
bazaars and church festivals than by
your political meetings.
Q.-WOuld you encourage women
preaching i'll the pulpit! Al should
say it is Il complicated point. and we
will leave it. l don't care about my
wife going around and preaching.
nd n1,
drowsiness in audiences. he said bad
ventilation. not preaching. was the
chief trouble.
Off you tell Il man to be short in
his prayers and he don't obey. what
then! Al would have Il bell.
Q.-Would you stop 4 mans prayer
by Il bell! Aft mans PRAYER don't
seem to go higher than his head, I
should not hesitate to ring him down.
Worse Than Minnesota Billiards..
Springfield Republican Marcel, r.
Further reports of the great storm
of Saturday show that the damage
done in New England was not exagger-
ated, and i'll several places it was the
most violent and destructive storm for
nearly half a century. The loss in
Massachusetts. Connecticut. and Rhode
Island cannot be less than a million
dollars. and undoubtedly Il dozen or
more persons were drowned. People
Of the manufacturing valleys Of Con-
hecticut and Rhode Island look upon
the blow that has fallen upon them as
Il terrible calamity, particularly as
many of them were deeply III debt be.
fore the storm, in consequence of the
hard times, and 4 large number must
now he out of work for 4 considerable
period.
The feature of chief local interest was
at Ludlow, Where the Broad.brook
canal gave way OH the farm of Zuri
Whitney. The canal there is formed
by building all embankment on a hill.
side. The water found it's way to the
road leading from Belchertown to Will
braham, which it followed about 1000
feet, and then ran off through the
meadows to the brook.
The freshet in Worchester county
turns out to have been much more Sc.
rious than at first reported. The dam
age ut Clinton by the going out of the
Messy pond dam is put at 1850, 900.
Seven large manufactures were des-
troyed. 1t had quite the Mill River
accomplishments too. Though ample
warning was given, it is now thought
that two people were drowned in the
houses that went down at Clinton.
Fullervillc, which was quite thriving
little settlement, is wiped out nearly as
completely as was Skinnerville in the
Mill river valley. The Ceder pond dam
also went out, taking two bridges, one
stone arch on the road to Brimfield;
but the mills below escaped with slight
damage. Fred Austin was drowned at
Webster while attempting to take the
fush-boards off the Slater pond dam.
MOulton's reservoir of so acres at
Rutland was carried off, and the river
at Ware did a little damage. Wor-
chester was excited, yesterday, over
the probable breaking of Paxton dam,
the first of Il series of dams and mill
ponds in the Cherry valley; but though
the water exalted itself, the disaster
didn't come.
The whole loss in the region of Nor
WITCH is set down at $35O,O0O. So far
as can be at present estimated, the loss
by the destruction of property in the
town itself is about $4,000, which is
under, rather than above the actual
damage. The loss of life was chiefly in
the vicinity Of Norwich. A number of
persons on the mill side of the stream
| at Baltic were cut off by the giving
way of the bridge. of a party of five
who attempted to cross in a boat, four
were drowned-Joseph LaPierre, Mar.
cha Perry, Mary Smith, and girl
named Mccartney. Andrew Plant was
barely saved by a number of men hold.
one another's hands and forming a
chain out into the stream. DR.. Chas.
Sweet, of Lebanon, the well-known
bone.setter, was drowned while at.
tempting to cross Hope river, and
Joseph Bennett went down with dam
at North Windham. At Taftville, 10.
seph Blackman, Is years old, was
caught in a great mass of timber.
while trying to save some property:
and was carried away, his wife, with
a great crowd of people, looking on. A
Mrs. Coleman, at Versailles, got so ex'
cited while being taken from house
partly under water that she dropped
her child only fortnight old, and il
was drowned. Ashton, R. L., reports q
boy, IL years old, drowned. .:a
The ravages of the storm were by Nc
means SO great along the Connecticut
Valley road as in other parts of the
state, but that section was not exempt
! EARLY Sunday morning the water rose
SO high at East Windsor hill as tt
overflow and break way the race-way
to the saw and grist mill of j. W
Stoughton & Son, undermining and let
ting down a part of the saw-mill. Me1
were at work all day, and teams put OF
at night, to stop the water and save tn,
other buildings.
| The Chicago Times wants to know i
1--WE fellows whose grandfather
fought in the Revolution are not goinl
to have our expenses paid to the Cen
tennial!