Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-09-28
INESOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER g, 1875.

Elk COUNTY,, MlNNES
take-husbend hit him in the nose, etc
Here the matter seems to drop 30 far as thu
public are concerned, and general air o
mystery surrounds the tale, all parties to thu
affair refusing to talk.
| Miscellaneous Nows Iterns.
A yellow fever patient in Savannah
was married in his bed on Thursday Of las
week.
The Chicago Exposition is in full
blast, and attracts great crowds. Thirty
thousand people were present one day during
the current week.
The United States steamship Frank
lin left Gibralter yesterday tor Vigo to I'm.
bark William III. Tweed and his companion
Hunt, for the United States.
There are 6OO cases of yellow feve,
at Brunswick. The people arc in most des
titute condition, without TODD, physicians o.
nurses. A dispatch states it is impossible t.
txaggerate their irighttul condition Of atieirs
fditing newspapers IN New Orleans
is lively bueiness. A few days ago one editor
killed hls asaailal.t, and now the editor OF thu
Bee has had a thump on the head with biz
cane. The city editor came to the rescue
with Zig pistol and terminated hostilities.
The school question is being vi$"'
ously agitated in New Jersey. One hundred
and fifty Catholic children have Lecm with
drawn from the public schools at Bayenne
aud six parocllial schools established. Tl'
same is being done in other parts OF thu
State.
4 family moving from Prairie d.,
Chen to Winona in a skiff encamped on a,
island near L. Crosse OF Friday night. Dur
ing the night the child di. d OF exhaustion
Upon inquiry it was found they were in very
destitute circumstances, without food OF
money.
There is no epidemic in Charleston
s. c. There have been tour SCATTERING yellow
fever cases traced to persons who commune
Gated with the quarantine, and refugee IRON
Savannah. The fever shows no signs o
spreading.
A mercantile firm at Spirit Lake
Iowa, has adopted new method Of doing
business. NJ books are are kept. When
customer desires credit he goes to the desl
and borrows money, for which he gives hi
note, payable with interest. He then buy:
his goods and pays tor them.
The superintendent of general re
cruiting has been directed to forward three
hundred recruits to the department Of thu
South as follows: l5O for the s cond ln'an.
try, at Atlanta 50 for the Third Infantry a
Holly Springs, Miss, and 100 for the Six
teenth Infantry, at Huntsville, Ala.
The Savannah benevolent associa
ton, formerly the metropolitan fire company
have # solved to ask aid from abroad for tll'
sick and destitute. All contri 'Mtions, wheth
er of money, provisions or clothing, ,dre s.
TO J. w. Estei', president OF the Metropolita,
Benevolent Association, will bc acknowl
edged.
Windsor Castle was struck by me
teoric stone, OH Thursday, September +, be
tween Henry the Eghth's q .teway and tn
Garter Tower, and a portion Of the stone par
spet vas knocked of. The stone is said t
have been OF the size OF small cannon ball
and to have exploded on striking the castl
with noise like that OF a shell and a shove
Of sparks.
A terrible accident occurred on th'
Pan Handle railroad, on the 22d, about L
miles from Columbus, Ohio. A passenge
train swinging around corner, at the rate Q
forty miles an hour, was thrown from tn
track and four cars went down a high en-
bankment, killing four and wounding owe
thirty. The accident is supposed to hav
been caused by rapid running areund cor
ner.
A four year.old boy, son of Alasol
Sage. Of marlborough, w., was lost in tn
woods last week, and had play spell will
two black bears. They came up to linn a
he sat on the grass in m op glade an,
smelt Of him. He patted them on thei
heads, thinking that they were dogs. an
they then walked away into the forest. Thei
footprints disclosed that they were the ''dogs
the boy told about encountering.
! A Boston letter gays that, the re
striction against the Old South churche bt
ing used for religious purp ses is only
years, az there was some doubt as to the le
gality OF perpetual stipulation Of this sor
Ot course, the money has only begun to /
raised yet. The property has been secure
in such manner as to be held for public pu'
. chase, but ''it would be premature to spea
Of the arrangement in advance OF such state
ments as the committee may see fit to mak'
The new Indian Commission of wlic
Bishop Whipple and DR.. Daniels OF Mime
tonka, are members seems likely to prov
an utter failure. The object Of the Commits
sion was to negotiate peace treaty, disar,
the hostile Indian, and secure the Black Hill
country. The Commission is at Red Clol
Agency, but at last accounts tho Indian. r.
fused t." meet in Council, and the prosp<,
vas that the Commission would have [
abandon the field.
The gang of horse thieves whic
have 50 long infested portions Of L. sueu
Waseca and Nicolett counties, has been pa,
tally broken up by the convictions At l
! Sueur Of two OF their number and sentence
to three years in the penitentiary for stealin
wheat. One OF the gang says when Fran
Conway was under arrest tor horse stealing
year ago his lawyer demanded lee OF S3
and Conways pals stole wheat and markete
tuntil the requisite sum was secured. II
farmers, consequently, haye the expense
D the defense Of the man who stole the horse
Schenk' s "Little Emma is about
!. form An alliance with British nobleman n
altogether unconnected with one of Bare
Grants speculations. The engagement is r
. ported Of Mrs. Hicks, wealthy widow
: New York, who has passed several seasons
: L md"n, to L'rd Henry Gordon Lenno
] brother Of the quadruple duke Of Richmon
Gordon, Lennox. and Aubignv. Lord Henr
e it will be remembered, was not long ae
' moved to resign his Office in the Disraeli 40
: ernment a. chief commissioner OF works, |
reason OF his indiscreet dealings with tran
way company.
The Two Systems.
8 Extract from the Speech Of Hon. Geo. F. 1Ioar.