Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-09-21
AUSTIN COUNTY,

WIFI M8llCc VOW8TU NO00s III
Err COUNTY, MINNESl
The yellow fever is raging in SD
vannah. Over half the colored population is
depending on tho charity Of the whites.
Great destitution prevails. Money for the re-
lief of the sufferers is being sent from all
quarters.
The projected narrow guage railroad
to Portland, Oregon, via the Black Hills, and
national Park, has been completed to Ponca,
Nebraska, arrangements have been made to
complete l5o miles this year, and reach the
Black Hills in 1877.
Citizens of Charleston. S. c., had, up
to the 18th, contributed over g, ,O0O in aid Of
/ the Savannah sufferers. The city govern
ment also contributed 3, 600. The citizens
| of Augusta contributed 81, ,2v0 the 18th, and
the city government has voted $50 per day
during the prevalence ofthe epidemic.
A detachment of Gen. Crooks com.
mand under Col. Miles surprised and routed
village Of n large lodges Of hostile Indians
on the 9Th inst. Col. Miles captured shout
l4e ponies, an immense quantity Of dried
meat, berries, &c. Wounded, Lieut.. Won
Lutzwitz, private Medbury, foster, Dorm, and
Sergeant Glass. killed, privates Wensel and
| two others.
Three well-known New York ladies
are to be married in Europe this tall-M
Reed, sister to Mrs. Paran Stevens, to Hon
MoeoS II Crsr~o1 of
New York; Miss Willing to General de Cis-
sey, Of the French army; and Miss Duncan,
daughter Of William Butler Duncan, to Earl
Roseberry.
Henry Smith, from St. Louis, and
one companion and pack train lett Yuma
| tor Los Angeles and wandered four days on
the desert without water. Smith opened the
/ veins Of his arm and drank the blood which
clotted in his throat. Then he cut his wind
pipe to remove it and died few hours after.
His companion reached the station in the last
stage OF exhaustion.
The ancient town of Vigo, where
Tweed is detained, is ON the northwestern
coast OF Spain, facing the broad Atlantic. 1t
is SIS miles north OF Oporto, and it is place
of considerable trade. The town is built on
the slopes Of a hill overlooking charming
| bay, which has an inland sweep of twenty
miles, and is i've miles wide at its mouth.
The country in the vicinity is exceedingly
1ich, and fruits, corn, wine, and oil abound.
Two sensitive gentlemen in St. Louis
have petitioned the court to allow a
change from the name ct Pigg to that OF
Peake. They could find no ladies Of supe-
rior minds who could consent to become the
Mesdames Pigg, and the mere thought OF
having children known as the little Piggs
caused them unutterable anguish.
The famous Sears-will case at BOs
ton, in which stated income was to be al
lowed to the testator's son, but no provision
was made for the final disposition of the i'm
mense property, is at last settled, the Su-
preme Court having decided that the whole
property is to 60 to the son, Joshua Mont
gomery Sears, now student at Yale College.
The text of the porte's answer to
the powers shows that the porte, among 9TH
er conditions for peace, requires that Servia
shall send back all persons who emigrated to
that country from neighboring Turkish prov
inces. The status quo ante bellum win he
retained with regard to Montenegro Within
81 hours alter the powers shall give judgment
ON the peace conditions, the porte will order
the suspension OF hostilities.
On the 23d of August the King of
Sweden presented Christine Nilsson with the
Swedish civil order, "Pour le Merite." The
decoration consists of gold medal, with the
inscription, 'sIn sui memoriam," surmounted
by royal crown richly set with brillants On
the Goth Nilsson appeared, for the first time
alter her indisposition, in Faust, at the S:ors
Theatre, and her reception is described in
the Swedish papers as having been most en-.
thusiastic.
A large meeting of prominent citi
zens Of indianapolis Ind, received the re.
ports of the committees in charge Of tht
national soldiers reunion, to be held the 20tt
and 2lst. Arrangements have been made tol
the accommodation of all, and to further pro-
vide for an emergency, if hotel and private
facilities should prove insufficient tents to-
, the quartering OF 10000 more have been pro
.ided. Letters and kilograms indicate thai
not less than l0O, 900 men will be in attend
ance, including all the principal men in thu
country.
The Quebec Provincial Exhibition
continues to attract large crowds. The dis
play Of agricultural implements shows re
. markable progress over former years. Th'
show of cattle, though of superior quality, i:
not so large as formerely, owing to many
: breeders having sent their stock to Philadel
phia. The Ayershires exhibited are the fin
; est ever exhibited in the province. A larg
) number of influential stock breeders from th'
l Cfofno hoNo ;,,%or ,,:k $n<
in the exhibition, and, on the whole, it il
the best ever held in Lower Canada. Abou
Il, 900 people visited the grouds in one day
The will of Rufus Graves, of New
York, who died at Morristown, N. J. Aug
18th, has been admitted to probate. Beside
large bequests in his family, he leaves th
American Board of Foreign Missions, WON
: ans Missionary Society OF America, the sue
{ cessor of the Woman's Union Mission, Blu
reau and Oberlin Colleges $4,000 each tn
4 American Missionary Association 1850
q Home Missionary. Society connected with tn
Congregational church of the United State
el0, ,OO0, and one hundred thousand dollars
8 be applied to the education Of colored peopl
in the Southern States. There are numbe
D of bequests also to charitable institutions
Condition of the Markets
81 A correspondent of the Chicag
: Tribune, who had opportunities to study th
markets, says:
The wheat crop OF the United States an
: Europe is now nearly all garnered. Whs
:, are the facts in the casei Tie winter crop
= not over two-thirds average yield, with Il,
exception OF California, where it is said to
an average.
is Spring wheat is but trife, il any, ovt
Of fully e. ooo, ,oo5 bashel. % o. the entire ere
y OF America, calling the average yield SOC, 900
: GOO bushels for the past four years. II
4 nnQ1itv and condition ia exceiteut hovnn