Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-31
Miscellaneous News items.

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The Big Bonanza miners are about
establishing branch Office in New York.
On Saturday, the Goth, the attend
ance at the Centennial was upwards of l0O,-
COO.
In the recent races at Poughkeepsie,
Goldsmith Maid won the free to all race in
2:l6 ii.
Fifty cents 4 day is the price paid
to laborers in the hay fields Of Connecticut
this year. -.
The Seryians on the 24th sent out
word that they are determined upon war to
the bitter end.
A contract has been signed for the
sale Of three hundred millions of our 4 l.2
per cent bouds.
In Nebraska the grasshoppers are
doing more actual damage than in any other
part Of the West.
The Porte has refused to cease hos.
tilities against the Servians until the surren-
der Of Alexinatz.
The laborers on the rice plantations
of South Carolina have struck ior tn increase
OF 80 per cent. in wages.
2 On account Of the increasing demand
the Sprague print works and the Connecti-
cut print works have been started.
In another swimming match at St.
Louis, Price beat Sutclif in a fifteen mile
race. Time, hours and 80 minutes.
: Gen. Mcclellan has written letter
favoring the election of Gov. Tilden, but ex-
pressing the highest respect for Gov. Hayes.
Twenty-eight employees of the pen.
ston Office were discharged on the 29th, re-
ceiving one months pay from September 10th.
The Centennial is prospecting finely.
Last week was the most profitable since the
opening of the exhibition, the receipts being
$l0s, 900.
The caterpillars have for the third
time appeared in the prairie belt Of Alabama,
and the almost total destruction of the cotton
crop is feared.
The St. Louis charter election result
ed in the defeat Of the new charter and the
proposed separation Of city and county gov
ernments.
The ship Golden State, which sails
from New York for Shanghai, will take out
$500 bales Of domestic drilling and sheeting,
the largest shipment Of American cotton
! goods since 1860.
The new Indian commission to
treat for the cession of the Black Hills, has
gone to the field Of it's mission. Gen H.. H.
Sibley Of st. Paul and Bishop Whipple, are
among the number.
The grange convention in San Fran.
cisco to break the grain ring passed resolu.
ton to sell no wheat in that market for lesf
than s1.65 per cental, and made arrangement.
tor shipping on their own account.
The counsel for Mr.. Beeeher has ap
piled for change Of venue in thes suit brought
by Moulton. The ground is that in Brooklyn
there is too great diversion Of opinion tol
the selection Of an impartial jury. :rs
The. conference appointed by the
Methodist church North and South has com'
to : full understanding upon the subject o
reunion. & The basis Of the union WILL: il. Il
promised, prove wholly satisfactory to tn
church At large.
The official Gazette publishes th,
convention concluded by the government
with Spanish capitalists for IN advance Q
from fteen millions to twenty-five million
| OF piastres for the expense Of the war In Cuba
One hundred and tifty masons an,
stone cutters sailed yesterday for Scotland
under contract with John Coghin, to wer]
on the parochial buildings in Greenocl
They are to receive pay by the hour for eiKh
hours day. One hundred and fifty NOR
are also to sail soon for Scotland.
| A girl residing in Jacksonville, III.
wanted to visit the Centennial, and realisin