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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24


When man, coming down to breakfast
half awake and his uncertain feet in slip
shod slippers rest on spool on the first
step, he is generally wide awake by the
time he tries to break the last step, and has
a very vivid and not entirely incorrect idea
of the indistructiblc force guaranteed by
the Kcely Motor. But that isn't what he
talks about when he goes into the break
fast room and the folks ask him what
made such q noise in the hall.
The Good Templars District Conven-
ton for the counties of Mower, Fillmore
and Houston, will he held IN this village
OH Wednesday and Thursday, September
18th and 18th. The lodge at this place is
making preparations to insure all who
may attend q pleasant and profitable time.
They have splendid room, nicely fitted
up which will make the convention q
pleasant one Hokah Blade.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

He had sort of disguised look as he
leaned against the corner of the street and
contemplated the portraits Of Tilden and
Hendricks on a street banner. "Wcll,"
said he, alter a long pause, I'm an unre-
constructed rebel, and make no bones Of
saying I'm down on the government. l
fit agin it four years, and I'd like to have
the democrats come into power ag'in, jist
to make things lively; but by thunder, if
them's good pictures OF Tilden and Hen.
bricks, you may count me out. Them's
the wust ever see. hate the country
pretty had, but not bad enough to put two
such looking cusses as them Overt it. No,
SIR! SoOner'n live in q country that had
two such looking te!lers ut the head of it,
I'd 60 to Egypt and list under the Kay
6oov go. .r-..
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
Ion. VIM. Window lately

Hon. VIM. Window lately made a
speech in the United States Senate, which
has evoked very extensive comment and
general commentator. His facts and
figures show the hollowness of the
democratic pretenses Of economy, while
bis arguments sweep away their soph-
estries as hail storm clears cob.webs
from currant bushes. It is probable
that no political party ever before made
So great pretense of honesty and econo.
my with so little capital invested in the
bushes, as does the democratic party of
the present time, and Mr.. Window is ca.
pable Of exposing their shallowncss aud
duDlicity.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
That Race.

For long time the people of the State
have expected great race between two
colts of gentle blood, owned respectively
by Col. w. S. King and C. A. DeGraff,
but it now seems that they are to he dis.
appointed. Col. Kings colt has been so
seriously injured while in training rs to
render him wholly unfit for the contest,
and his owner has declared the race off,
and directed the payment of the forfeit
($l0O to Mr.. DeGraff. It is thought
that the injured colt was originally full
match for Mr.. DeGraff's, but that injudic.
ious handling has damaged him so Sc
riously that he may never wholly recover.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
Samuel J. Tilden has placed himselfc

Samuel J. Tilden has placed himself on
record as taking more time than any other
Presidential candidate in preparing a
letter of acceptance, 1t took President
Monroe five days to prepare his, and Van
Buren, about the same time. Henry Clay
accepted on the day after he was nomina-
ted. Polk took fourteen days; Cass, two
days; and Pierce and Scott less than a
week. Buchanan, Lincoln, first timc) and
Mcclellan took each ten days. Grant,
nine days the first time, and five the Sec
ond time. Seymour twenty-three days;
Greeley eighteen days for the Liberals,
and nine days for the Democrats; Hayes
was nominated June 1G: and replied July
two days. Tildcn was nomina
ted June %, and was forty.throe days
about it,-thus greatly exceeding the time
Of any preceding Presidential candidate
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
TO THINK ABOUT.


The Democratic party profess to believe
that they will elect Mr.. Ti!dcn, and give
rs reason the fact that they expect to
carry for him nearly all the States lately
in rebellion. If We EXCEPT louisiana
South Carolina and Florida,-States which
have large preponderance of colored ci,i.
zens, who were always loyal, it is probab-
~ safe to conclude that the rebellous
States will give majority for the demo-
cratic nominees. Why do these discon-
tented southerners ally themselves with
the democracy? Democratic soldiers as
we'll as Republicans, fought against the re-
bellion,-and fought with relentless cner-
gy,-hence the southern people canuot
have IN exceptional hatred of republican
soldiers but did the Democrats as a party
resist the mad efforts Of the South to dis
rupt and destroy the Union: No. being
:hpower at the time, their President (Bu-
chanan) said, 1.-THE government has no
power to coerce State" Their Secretary
Of War (Floyd) transferred the army to
southern soil, and put the forts in control
Of disunionists. Their Secretary of the
Navy, (TouceyD sent the war ships into
the remotest waters on the face of the
globe. Their Secretary of the Treasury,
(rhomas0 had emptied the vaults of the
Nations Money and left it supplicant at
the doors of citizens,-all this the demo-
cratic party did IN the interest ofrebellion,
and the people,-the former rebels of the
South are grateful to them for the service.
The Republican party undertook the work
Of restoring national authority. For this
purpose it raised armies, and money with
which to buy food and clothing and the
munitions of war, and under its direction
the rebellion was put down, and the au.
thorlty Of the general government re.es-
tablished and the emancipation of the
blacks, an accident of the contest, was
achieved,-for this the people lately in
arms against the Union hate the Republi.
can party. In other words, the party by
the efforts of which the South was forced
into obedience to the laws, is the same
party that is now seeking to elect Hayes
and Wheeler, while the party which sough,
the dismembermcnt of the Union,-dis.
couraged the war against rebellion, and
sympathised with traitors at their final
overthrow, is now working heartily in the
interest of Tildcn and Hendricks. In 1861
the two parties waged war Of bayonets,
the democracy fighting tor the South and
Slavery, the Republicans for the Union
and Liberty. In 1876, it is war of ballots,
the democrats fighting for place and for
plumber, and the republicans to sustain
the dignity of a free government and to
perpetuate it by seeing that it is properly
administered. Think of these things be.
fore voting.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

simultaneously withthe saying of Mr..
Beechcr that wealth is IN impeachment to
true happiness, comes tie announcement
that he has contracted With lecture bu-
rcau tor a course of fifty nights at $4,000.
What is life without npediments, any
Wav?
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

Farmers residing in the out towns OF
this county acknowledge the receipt OF
frequent calls from Sylvester Smith and
A. A. Harwood. Both of them are quite
actively prosecuting tours among the
dear people" just now,-Rcpublican.
There is not q farmer IN the county no
will say that he has received a call from
us since the last convention was held, but
four fifths of them if they know him, will
say that Hotchkiss is a malicious liar.
''The truth abideth not in him." In
fact 1t don't get in at a]l.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

HoTcHKIss likes to taunt people about
being in debt. He left Preston owing
nearly every man whom he could induce
to trust him. The names of his creditors
and the sums due each will be furnished
to the public if he desires. So we'll was
he known, that men hauling wood asked
him for their pay before they would un-
load. Perhaps his hatred of the Mower
County Bank is owing to their having
held for collection large quantities of his
dishonored paper.
ONE WHO KNOWS.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
COMMENT is UNNECESSARY"

In last weeks number of the Register l
quoted from tue Lanesb0ro Journal, the
words Lying Old Hotch.' They were
not mine, neither did l seek any quarrel
on account of them. They made simply
an easy and familiar comparison, very
much as if one were to say, "as ugly as
Satan" or las obstinate as mule.' The
character for falsehood is rs notorious in
the one case, as uglincss or obstinacy, in
either Of the others. In reply to my re-
marks, Hotcl,kiss says,-"Comment is un-
necessary" A few years ago it came in
my way to investigate most of the charges
recently made against this felicitous Ut
terer of social hyperbolc. The results
were published and libel suit invited if
any statement made was untrue. Orc
charge for instance, had the following
grounds to sustain it, viz: The complaint
of young Norwegian girl; statement
from the Justice to whom she made com.
plant; a statement from the gentleman
to whose house the. girl fed for protection,
and last the opinion of at least nine-tenths
of the people of the village of Preston
Now if Hotchkiss proposes to prosecute
anybody for libel he should 60 back to the
files of the Chatficld Democrat, cut on
my old articles and 60 for me. The,
were true then, they are true now, and HI
knows that if he gets a judgment agains
me, that there is plenty of visible proper
ty to make it from. Before leaving Pres
ton his idiosyncrasy had toned down t
/ all enuuraDle point an0 We were prctt,
much all content to deal with him gently
but since he came here that old spiri
which called forth the public rebukc O
his brother in the church, Mr.. Billings
has manifested itself to the disgust of al
who used to know him. Mr.. Billings &c
quest was that lie "quitlying or quit pray
ing" The general impression is tina
it had right good effect, that it tonc'
down little his extraordinary manifesto
tons in both lines of effort, which wa
certainly & blessing to the wcaried pr
thence Of the community. Now am cor
fesscd]y heather and Il sinner, max ing n
pretence and deceiving no one. II woul
OF course be impossible for me to admins
ter rebukc with the force that one woul,
have preceding from man Of Mr.. BIZ
ling's character; but such as it is I Civ
it him. Let nc also further admonis
him that recital of my shortcoming
will not affect his,-I admit all of mine bt
forehand so he may have the more spac
to devote to his own.
| NJ. T. GRATTAN.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

Information has been received at Wash
ington that the Rev. E. P. Smith, late Com
missioner of Indian affairs, died some
time in June, on the Guinea coast of Afrl
ca. Mr.. Smith was, during some years
since 1871, Indian Agen tamong the Chip.
pewas in this State, and was the subject OF
the most bitter attacks ever made upon
any public officer, but he has been fully
exoncrated by committees appointed ia
his transactions. Is
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

Letter paper with the words II cannot
tell lie," stamped in one conner. is a re-
cent novelty. We predict tina, its use will
become general, so great is the tendency
American people to say one thing and do
another. =
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
Consumption Cured!

An old physician, retired from active prac-
tice, having had placed in his hands by On
East India Missionary the formula Of . sim
pie Vegetable Remedy, for the speedy and
permanent Cure of Consumption, Bronchitis,
Catarrh, Asthma, and all Throat and Lung
Affections, also Positive and Radical euro
for Nervous Debility and oil Nervous Com
plaints, after having thoroughly; tested its
wonderful curative powers in thousands Of
cases, feels it bis duty to make It known to
his suffering follows. Aotuated by this mo-
tive, and conscientious desire to relieve hu-
man suffering, he will ssad free Of charge to
ell who desire it. this receipt, with full direc.
ti0ns 1bt preparing and successfully using.
Sent BY return mail BY addressing with stamp,
naming this psper. !.
Dr.. ". C. STEVENS
SILLY Monroe Block, Syracuse, n, 7.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
First insertion June 20.
CTATE OF MINNESOTA NOW

SIAIE OF MIN ESOIA MON y
DER COUNTY.
District Court, 10th Judicial District.
+. S. llodgscn and Laura ' .Hodgson, Plain
tiffs, against Arnold Lee. Mary Jane Lee,
Joseph c. Gist and E. c. Gist, Defendants.
The State of Minnesota to the Defendants
above named.
You and each of you are hereby summoned
and required to answer the compInnt Of the
Plaintiff in this action, which has been filed
in the office of the Clerk Of this Court, in and
for said Mower County, Minnesota, at Austin
in said County, and to serve a copy Of your
answer to the said complaint, on the subscriber
at his Office in Austin, in the County Of Now
er and State aforesaid, within twenty days
| after the service Of this summons on you.
exclusive of the day Of such service, and ii
you fail TO answer the said complaint within
the time aforesaid. the Plaintifls will apply
to the Court for the relief demanded in said
complaint and costs of this action.
Dated ut Austin, June lo1h. AID. 1876.
D. b. JOHNSON, Jn.
Plaintiffs Attorney, Austin, Mower County
Minnesota.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
First publication August 3rd.)
NOTICE. TO CREDITORS.

First publication August 3rd.) -
NOTICE. TO CREDITORS. 4.
CTATE OF MIN NESOTA COUN-
ATTY OF MOWERS. f.s.s1 IT,.
In probate Court. r3 "
In the matter Of the estate Vt Christian
Olson Turf, decea sed. @.s
TO whom it may concern: Notice is hereby
given to ell persons having claims against
the estate of Christian Olson Turf late Of
Mower County, deceased, to present tho Same
for examination and hearing, to the Judge of
the Probate Court for Mower County. at his
office In the City Of Austin, in said County,
within six months, on tho following days, viz:
September 4th, 1876, and February. 3rd, 1876.
This notice to bs' published four consecutive
weeks in the Mower County Transcript,
Dated August End A. D. 1876.
BY the Court,
SAMUEL HAKFRR,
is Judge 81 Probate.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

1t may be interesting to bachelors to
know that it IS the femae mosquito that
sings around their head. at night before
stealing sundry sharp kisses. Ladies may
like to. know that tlt male mosquito
initiates lover who stells kiss without
giving warning.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

"Ma, did you say that pa watnever en-.
gagged to Miss Sallie Smikins: p Indig.
nant mother in reply, "de, my dear, he
never even looked at ler." Innocent bu,
persistent child, "Ma,if pa had married
Miss Sallie Smitkins, would haxc been
red headed"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

The Cleveland Leader remarks that the
description an old Virginia darkcy gave
Of his coon trip is applicable tothe finance
plank of the Democratic platform: "1t's
got a spring at boff ends, and can kotch
de coon a.goin' or a-conlin'.".
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

The notion tina, the freezing of water
purifies it has been exploded, and now
when you find pulpy chunk of dead
swine, or pair of ovralls in your ice
water you are to infer flat the mixture is
not pure. Science is ding a big work
for ignorant mankind.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
A Proper Inquiry.

A drunken man on the street the other
day, meeting II. N. Paden, said: "Hello!
Whar's that history you rit for hundred
dollars?" That's what many people
would like to know. When is that his
tory to be published.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

Hon. Newton Booth, the "independent''
U. s. Senator from California, has warm
ly espoused the cause Of Hayes and Whec.
Ter. and will shortly speak on that side in
Indiana.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

"Hark! Ihear an angel sing" sang a
q young man IN an outside township
exhibition. No, 'taint," shouted an old
farmer in one Of the back seats, "its only
my old mule that's hitched outside" The
young man broke down and quit.-Terrc
Haute Express. u g
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
A. A. HARDWOOD, Editor & Proprietor
COUNTY CONVENTION.

A delegate Convention of tho Republicans
of Mower County is hereby called to meet in
the Village of Grand Meadow, ut o'clock P.
n. on Friday, the 18th day Of September next
to nominate candidates for the following OIL
oes, viz: Two for member of tho House Of
Representatives of che State Legislature; one
for County Auditor; ono for Register Of
Deeds; one for She,i if; one for Judge Of
Probate, and one for County Attorney. Such
othsr business a. may properly come before
II will be transacted by the Convention.
Immediately upon tho adjournment the
delegates representing the Second Commiss
ione1 District of the County will organise and
nominate . candidate for the Office Of County
Commissioner for that District.
Each of the several voting precincts of the
County will be entitled to one delegate for its
organization and one additional delegate for
every twenty Republican votes or ma or frao-
ton thereof cast for State Auditor at the last
general election.
Upon this basis the delegates are appor-
toned as follows, to-wit:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

The observing Burlington Hawkeye has
been to church often enough to note that
"a woman seats herself in a pew in seven
motions, man in one.''
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

"Strikcs" are becoming frequent again
The great falling off in all departments of
business has seemed to render necessary
a reduction in the price paid to operatives.
This is regarded by the working men as
an attempt to compel them to labor at a
sacrifice, and hence they resist it, and
trouble exists in many localities. In In
diana the strikers bands have become so
formidable, and their interference with
the transaction Of business so great, that
the Governor has been compelled to issue
a proclamation for their dispersion. Men
should be reasonable. The history of all
business enterprises in this country shows
that proprietors pay fair wages, and when
prosperous in their schemes, that they are
often very liberal, and that reduction is
seldom made unless it is absolutely essen
tial to keep expenses within the limit of
their ability to pay. Workmcn should re.
member that their labor has not an unal.
terable value any more than produce has,
that the price must depend upon the de-
mand for 1t. and that the relation which
exists between the employer and employ
ed is mutual and reciprocal. In this view
of the case it will be easy TO harmonic all
differences and to cooperate for the CON-
mon good of the two classes. OF this all
parties may be certain. There can never
be any satisfactory solution of the OueS-
ton except through the employment of
concilia!ory measures. The difficulty can,
not be obviatcd by resort to force CT in
timidation. Society in this country is
stronger than mob, and whoever under
takes to sustain himself by any other than
lawful means is sure to be overcome. In
these times all classes should exercise that
spirit of forbearance without which any
business relations are unsatlsfact tory, and
any hope of prosperity utterly futile.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

A New York burglar has come out for
Tilden. He came out Of the Penitentiary
on 3 pardon FROM the great "reformer."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

The Philadelphia Ledger is authority
for the statement that New York clegants
now bury their pet dogs in their own fam
lily lots in the cemeteries of that city.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

The annual meeting of the estate TEN.
ptrance Union:' VII L3~nc at OwatCn
ma on the fifth of September.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

Day is breaking, pretty women will get
their rights. A wo1an's inebriate asylum
has been established at BinghamMon.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

Long continued observation proves that
in school rooms lighted by windows on
both sides the children suffer more or less
from injured vision, ard so important has
the subject been considered in Germany,
that law was passed recently for
bidding the Use of houses for school pur
poses, constructed in that manncr
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24
THE FORTY.FOURTH CONGRESS.

Nine months of apology for secession,
treason, and rebellion; nine months of
trucking subscrviency to the representa-
tives of the section which lately sought to
destroy the government with the sword
nine months Of defense of the bloody hor-
rors and brutalities of Andersonyille, Lib
by, and Belle Isle; nine months Of effort
to make familiar to the public mind the
proposition to pay rebel claims, by their
presentation in the form of "bills;" nine
months of slanderous accusations against
the republican party; nine months of in
efficiency, incompetency, and imbecility;
niue months of luminosity, bitterness, and
hate; niue months of failure. This is the
record of the Confederate Democratic
House of Representatives. Its instincts
were all bad, its methods jesuitical, its acts
prompted not by love Of country, but by
consuming hate of a party whose chief
pride is that it saved the country; and
saved it, too, from the Vaccinations and
the bloody purposes Of the very men who
now propose to reform the administration
of its government! Strange reform, in
deed, that commences by the official de-
capitation of MANNED Union soldiers to
give place to traitors who fought against
them, foot to foot, with the deadly purpose
of destroying the National Constitution,
and trampling the national flag in the
dust! Strange reform that pa1l'ates in tbe
halls of Congress the inhumanities Of the
prison pens Of the late Confederacy!
Strange reform that inaugurates itself by
offering to plumber the Treasury of the
nation for the benefit of those who dcfiei.
and sought, by all the arts of diplomacy
and war, to subvert the government and
destroy the nation! But these were the
methods of the House of Representatives,
which reached adjournment ON Tuesday
last, after nine months Of profitless inves.
tigation, of supreme hate, and Of match
less incompetency. The House did not
| LEG islate at all-In;er- Ocean.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

All persons Of whatsoever previous politi-
cal views or party affiliations, who acce pt and
will practically carry out at the polls the prin-
ciples and policy Of the Republican party as
set forth in its published platform are hereby
cordially invited to participate both in the
primary meetings and in the Cow ention.
Austin, August 23d, 1876.
By order Of the Committee.
WM. A. CRANE.
Chairman.