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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22
4 Dead Man Inhcrits His Own Life Insur
ance.

Mrs. Degenther. second wife of de.
cedent, claimed her share in 81. 900
realized from a life insurance policy
on the life of decedent made in favor
Of Christiana Haas, decedent's first
wife. who died before him. Her ground
was that, at the moment Haas died, he
became as one of his wife's heirs
under the Married Woman's act, en-.
titled to a third of her estate, a part
of which the insurance policy at that
same moment became. The Orphans
Court decided against the claimant and
awarded the entire sum to the chill.
dren of the FIRST wife, her legal heirs.
An appeal was taken from this de-
cree, the Supreme Court reversed the
judgment below and decided that q
man can inherit his own life insur
ance.
The opinion says: 1--WE are Of opin.
ion that, as soon ~ 1t is settled that
the insurance money is part OF the
personal property Of Christiana Haas,
It is to be considered distributable
among her legal heirs and next Of kin
at time Of her death. One of these
was John Haas, who was entitled to
one.third. It isnot stretching the con.
structi0n of the statute beyond what
is legitimate, to hold that her estate in.
cluded. for purpose Of distribution,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22

and when think Of you Anna We may
never see each other again but live
with a hope. My desire is that we
shall both pass the short but treacher.
GUS away willing and we'll Darling to
dream of you by night and sigh for
you by day What luxury for me it
would be to behold your illustrious
imige yes Anna your eyes burn Liquid
fire so flaming to my heart that is IRE.
sistable. Yes Anna as I travel along
the Western horizon I seldom 1ueet
any one except the old hunter who is
as grave as the Wind. My only COM
panion is three young men it ls needlss
to assert that we are on the make.
we have lonsome Time Of it we Rob-
bed fellow to-day but did not get
much. We have no Certain Country
to dwell We inhabit the Western
Country and will Continue until we
get Rich which l must imphatickly
think we will and when we do l am
Coming Back to dallas. Wait
for me Anna for I am solid
with you God is my witness do
love you l am held to no Locality
Bound to no personal object except
yourself Yes wait for me and I will
make you a generous husband.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22
4 Western Warrior Desperate.

The Galveston (Tex.) News says that
about three weeks ago the Gillespie
County Mounted Rifles captured one
Donaho and three other chaps, who
had robbed mail-stage between
Austin and Fredericksburg. On the
person of Donaho was found an incom.
plete letter, which stamps him as one
Of the romantic and sentimental sort of
robbers read Of in dime novels. The
young man will have to serve FIVE or
ten years in the Penitentiary before
he can lay his fortune at the feet of
gentle Anna Parsons and claim her
hand. His loving epistle reads thus:
Miss Anna ParsOns-Dear Darling /:
'Tis with pleasure that sit my self
on the Banks OF Llan0 River a Beau.
tiful stream Ripping its way through
the Western armament on each side
far as the eye Can behold is Mountains
and prairies which vast heards of
Buffalo roam the lean l;yote Can he
seen skulking around and Ill il lovely
to the eye of one sad Boy and Could
Anna But know the sad and shocking
feelings that exist in my l,osom When
[ think OF my Anna who 1S 90 far away.
Yes the Rose the day star Of my life
I am winding my way through tho bar.
rem Country to Mexico for my idea ID
to be Western warrior desperate,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22
co., MIMI, THURSDAY, MARCH p, 1877.

resolutions highly complimentasysto the late
Jndge Davis were passed.
Railroad fare from Chicago east has
been increased 81. Tickets from Chicago to
New York are go; to Boston @n: to Baltt'
more 9l7 so: to Philadelphia t,S.25
Charlie Ross has been found again.
This time he was with band Of Indians at
Bloomington, Wis. There ID great excite.
ment in hat region, - usual when the unfor-
tunate Charlie is found.
There was fire on Bond street, New
York, on the morning Of the 7th. involving .
loss OF between one and two million dollars
The Gorham silver plate company lose e3O0, :
700, Robbins & Appleton, watches. $2oo, QUO,
the Amenoan Watch Company, $4oo, ,ooo,
Hale 4 Cattell, jewelers., 100000.
The election in New Hampshire took
place ON the 18th. Prescott, Republican, will
have about $500 majority. The early returns
indicate the election Of . Democrat 20 Con-
ress from the first district and Republicans
from the second and third district. The last
Congressional delegation stood two Democrats
to one Republican.
The Lake Shore railroad is prolific
with accidents. A passenger and freight train
collided near Toledo Ohio, last wee K and now
= freight and stock express have endeavored
to pass each other on single track, resulting
in burning three cars ot cattle and bridge.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22
An Alaska Incident.

Bishop Whipple, writing to the
Churchman, says that, soon after Alas.
ka came into possession of the United
States, Gin q certain Greek church
there was beautiful jeweled copy of
the Gospels lying on the altar An
officer Of the army, happening to enter
the church the day before the trans
fer, saw the beautiful copy of Gospels.
Knowing there was no law in our In
dian country, he called on the Bishop
and said: Your Grace, Alaska is to
be turned over to us tomorrow, and I
called to say think you had better re.
move that Gospel from your altar.
The Bishop replied: 1t has lain there
seventy years 1t was the gitt OF the
former Empress of Russia why should
I remove it!' My friend very meekly
said: 'Itis q beautiful jeweled copy,
and I was afraid it might be stolen.
The Bishop, with surprise said: \
hope you have no one with you that
would steal from God. Ishall leave it
on the altar 1t was left, and it was
st0len.''
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22
Extra Session Of Congress.

The open session of the Senate on
the 18th lasted but tew minutes, and was
wholly unimportant.
In the Senate session on the 18th it
ta;ned @ % from ~ the % western ter Union Contrary by
Morton's committee. Aresolution was adopt.
ed informing the President that the Senate
vas ready to adjourn unless he had further
communications to make.
In the Senate on the 18th and 10th
nothing was done but confirm appointments.
A resolution was adopted to adjourn sine die
on the l7.h.
The Senate had long discussion on
the nth rr|ative to sending special COM
mi,tee of three to Oregon during the recess to
investigate Senator Grover. It was finally
vo:ed by a9to to appoint the committee
and Senators Morton, Mcmillan, and Sauls-
bury were appointed. Fed Douglass was
confirmed a. Marshal for the District OF COL
umbia and the Senate adjourned sine die.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22

''Reflect, my BRETHREN" exhorted a
chaplain. .'that whosoever falls this
day in battle sups tonight in Para
disc" The fight began, the ranks
wavered, the chaplain took to his heels
when = soldier, stopping him: m:reproach.
fully referred him to the promised
supper in Paradise. 'sTrue my son,
true" said the chaplain, '.but never
eat supper"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22

not only what was then her own es.
tate, but what might become so on a
contingency thereafter happening.
The death Of her husband and the pay.
ment Of the policy on his life was such
q contingency, and hence his exec
utors are entitled to one.third of the
fund thus realized, and the decree
should be reformed accordingly
Philadelphia Times.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22
THE NEWS.

CriAes, Criminals, and Casualtles.
Joe Goss has been fined $3.50 for
violating the Law Of Kentucky by engaging In
prize fight. -
Ex.Detective James White, of Gin.
cinnati, was on Saturday sentenced to the
penitentiary for thirteen months for implica-
ton In the election frauds Of last October.
Pete Brannigan, whaSwas in the Bis
mark Jail and under sentence Of death on
April 18th, was allowed to walk out Of Jail in
day light by the keeper. The Jail keeper has
been arrested.
DR.. VIM: C. Pike shot and killed
Stephen 8. Jones, in Chicago, on the 18th.
Jones Was the editor OF spiritualist paper and
65 years OF age. Pike accused him Of having
seduced his wife.
Jim Walker, colored, II years old,
attempted to murder and rob Mrs.. Stocked,
near Union Ridge, Tenn. She was rescued by
another negro. Walker was arrestt d, placed
in Jail in Franklin, from which he was taken
out by about dozen masked men and hung
within mile OF that town.
James Kingan, a prominent member
OF the New York produce exchange was on
the wrong side OF land speculation, and was
short two tr three thousand dollars. He ab-
seconded, and his body has been found at
Weldon, a little railroad station in New Bruns-
wick. He ieit the train when it halted tor
water, and it is not certain whether he was
murdered or suicided.
A bold express robbery was COM
mitted in Pittsburg on the 18th. The rvbber
telegraphed to the express messenger on the
Allegheny railroad, signing the expr 50 SUPER
intendent's name, directing the messenger to
turn over his run to certain party, who was
the thief. The messenger obeyed, and when
the express was being transferred from tie
cars to the Pittsburgh Office the adroit thief
distracted 1000 tom the safe and fed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22
nampton's Proposition.


Governor Hampton of South Caro-
lima has given a guarantee to the Presi.
dent that if the troops are Withdrawn
no violence will occur or be allowed,
but that he will proceed against Cham.
berlain by legal means only and under
q statute enacted by the republicans in
1868, to enable them to put out some
democratic incumbents. This statute
provides for the summary eviction of
any person iutruding himself into pub.
lie Office by warrant issued by q Cir.
cult Judge. The party evicted under
such warrant is authorized by the
statute to contest his claim or preten.
siOns in the courts, if he wishes, but
he must give way first and at once, on
the issue and presentation Of the war.
rant. to the officer elected.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22
How Lumbermen 1--we.

Three hundred men will cover and
cut a section of about three miles
square, taking off over 10000 logs,
which would measure about IL, ,000, 900
feet, each season. Work begins at
daylight and ends at dark; and when
the days lengthen or the moon favors
a longer twilight or earlier morn the
boys get the benefit in longer working
hours. On the river, when the drive
is started, work begins at three o clock
in the morning and ends at nine o'clock
in the evening, the men having five
meals: Breakfast at six, lunch at nine,
dinner at twelve, supper at five, and
tea at nine. The meals consist of pork
and beans, corn bread, molasses cake
and tea or coffee.
No stint is given to q mans appetite.
The fare, such as it is, is abundant,
monotonous, nutritious and cheap. A
cook is provided for every fifty men.
The beans are genel ally the large white
bush, parboiled in pots holding a
half bushel, then ten pounds of pork
is set in the middle of the beans in the
pot, a quarter of pint of molasses
poured in, and then the pot is set in a
hole surrounded with hot ashes ard
burning charcoal, the top covered
with a stone, over which heavy
wood FIRE is built, and here they stay
from five to eight hours, coming out a
most palatable dish. All tho baking
is done in rudely. stone ovens.
which are heated, before the dough is
mixed. with a good wood fire. The
loaves of biscuit or cake are set upon
the hot stones, and are cooked quickly
and thoroughly.
| A camp of three hundred men will
consume daily four barrels Of bears,
half 4 barrel of pork, one barrel OF
flour, half 4 barrel of meal, one.quar.
ter Of a barrel of sugar, and five gal.
Ions of molasses. The men are en-.
camped in tents, making their beds of
boughs, while their extra clothing, a
pair of duck oyeralls, woolen shirt and
two pairs of woolen socks, is kept in
an old grain sack and used as q pillow
at night.
Sunday in the woods is always day
for sharpening axes, mending sleds, re.
pairing boots and clothes, setting out
a new tent spot handler to the cutting
in the woods, and all the odd chores
which would grow out of the congre.
CATION of so large a body of men. All
well.regu)ated camps exclude liquor.
Being usually fifty to two hundred miles
from any settlement, and the men not
paid until the end of the season. there
is little inducement for any speculator
to peddle rum through the woods, or
for the men to stragyle off in search OF
it.
The consumption of axes and handles
is enormous, an Ak lasting month
and handle about three weeks. The
axes are sharpened daily, some camps
having regular sharpeners, while
others require each man to keep his
own ak in order. The old axes are
never collected for the junk dealer, the
distance to ship them being almost too
great to make it an economical meas.
sure. Woodsmen generally consider
spruce harder on axes than either
birch or pine. The gum which runs
out of a spruce tree is found hard
enough to chip the edge Of the az
when striking through it.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22
How to u Ike u uot-Bed.

A good hot.bed may be made upon
the surface of the ground, piling up
The manure from two feet six inches
to three feet high, and at least six
inches wider all around than the frame.
This extra width tends to preserve tho
heat within the frame; and il. it he q
foot wider than the frame it would be
better than six inches. The sitH ation
should be where the soil is dry; and
the bed should front to the south, or
as nearly south as the location will
permit. The sashes should either be
procured before the bed Is made, or
their exact size should be known when
the frame is made; and the frame may
be made to hook closely together,
so as to be removed, and easily stored
away when not in use. Fresh horse
dung is the best manure to produce
heat. It should be thrown into q heap
and wet slightly about a week before
it is placed on the bed, and turned
over once or twice before using it to
increase the heat. When put on the
bed, tread it down firmly. and cover it
about six inches deep with light, rich
soil, and ascertain the degree of heat
when you desire to SOW your seeds, by
plunging a thermometer into the soil;
and if too warm, wait a day or two
for the bed to cool.
Seed will stand a heat of 90 degrees
very we'll. Sometimes seeds are sown
in pots and pans, which are plunged
into the manure without any covering
of soil; but in such case, it should be
covered three or four inches deep with
sand or ashes to retain the heat. Wood.
en- boxes six inches deep,made of very
thin boards, about two feet long, and
one foot wide, would be better than
pans and pots for some kinds of plants.
The bottoms might lie of zinc, or GAL
vanized sheet-iron, perforated with
small holes to allow water to pass
through them, if the watering should
be too copious. Such boxes could be
packed in without any waste OF room;
and they could be easily removed to
fork up the bed anew to increase the
keat,or to allow q new bed to be made
when the heat of the old one is tco
much exhausted.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22
Nisesllaaeous Nows Itous.

The bank Of Lansinburg, N. Y, has
closed with e876, 900 liabilities.
It looks a. enough there was going
70 be peace in Rurope instead Of war.
Indiana is about to erect q new State
lara,
Lebanon Tenn. had $50. 900 fire, and
and PAfkenslurg Iowa. I'll 900 hame on the
10th.
A saw mill boiler explosion at
Worthington, Ind, on the 18th killing twelve
persons and wounded seven others.
A meeting Of the bar Of the Supreme
Court was held In Warrington last week and
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22

A new style of napkins and doy.ies
como in with white watered surface.
In the centre is woven, in red threads,
a lobster, a crab, fish or coral. On
lowered surfaces arc woven red cher
ries and other fruit.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22
S}{olrer Gp Transcript
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Cards Of five lines or less, five dollars pr
year. Editorial notices, intended as adver-
tisements, twelve and One-half cents per line
Legal notices at the rates prescribed by
law.
All transient advertisements to be paid for
In advance.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-03

We note the report that Geo. NJ. Pinney is
coming back to San Francisco to tell all he
knows. Tweed, it would seem, from his
quarters in Ludlow street jail has taught the
levanting paymaster's clerk a lesson in revela-
ton. Is it not impossible that the too con-
fding Rutherford has given him a hint of the
advantages of turning States evidence against
ones intimate fellow buldosers. We wonder
who it is that will be shown up in the shape
of his guilty associates! What Chamberlains
will he depose? What "Village Hamptons"
will he usher to the seat of power? This pro-
posed return to the scene of his many strange
adventures and manifold croOkednesses is one
of the phenomena of this all-permeating era
of good feeling. 1t would seem from the
tenor of the dispatch that Mr.. Pinney is
returning under an assurance of an exemption
from all law prosecution by the United States
authorities Meantime what will Paymaster
Spaulding, who has been very thoroughly
ruined, do about it! May he look for exone-
ration from blame! AS to this new move
ment in his career by the self-exiled George
NJ. we might be suspected of an effort to per-
petrate pun if we were to say that he seemed
ready to turn an honest Pinney.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-03
IN THE STOCKS.

There are certain half-open secrets IN this
world which, by growing old and having much
of the wear and tear of repetition upon them
become such intrinsic facts as to be difficult of
suppression even in the behalf of the cause of
delicacy and the private relations of business
Of course the air is full of theories. man
in the stocks may have vivid imagination as
well as the most poetical of men who are not
so circumstanced. De Foe stood in the pill
lory, and the good but somewhat daft and
skinny Knight of La Mancha sat in the stocks
alongside of his faithful squire, Don Sancho
Panza and yet who shall deny them the gift
of imagination? The theories which are made
to do service in explaining the present condi
ton of the stock market are as various as the
moods which affect the panic stricken victims
of the sudden rout, themselves. The deep
est and direst of these is that ''The Irish
Crowd" are behind this all-crushing Bear
movement They are the betes noir, the po-
lar bears of the widespread fabric of disaster.
The idea seems but preposterous creation of
a disordered imagination; but we present it
of the phenomena of the times. The
whispered half-secret (theory) is that Flood
& O'Brien and Mackey & Fair seek to pro-
mote the cessation of mining operations on
all but their own mines in order to place
themselves in possession of the entire ledge
st their own prices. Included in their gen
eral scheme is the depreciation of the V. &,
r. R. R. property and all other conveniences
subordinate to and dependant upon the pros
ecution of the work of development upon the
line of the Comstock. In other words, the
imaginative small speculator thinks that the
so-called Irish Crowd are promoting the
shrinkage of their own property to the tune
of millions upon millions in order to bring on
a possible temporary advantage to themselves.
The notion seems mere wild phrenzy but
it is none-the-less interesting. Suppose it
were true? What would be the natural
course Of the Bank of California and " & T.
r. R. Companys management Would they
stand idly by and see their property rendered
valueless and many of their securities Obliter-
sted! We think not We think they would
do some of the cheap purchasing of mining
shares themselves Also they would not be
likely to sacrifice their valuable property with
out struggle which might result in wide
spread benefits to thespeople.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-03
DROWNING OF "DAVE RED"

BY the Reveille of April 80 we are informed
as follows:
David j. Richards, better known as Dave
Red" was drowned in the Hot Springs, on
the Battle Mountain road, 81 miles from
Austin, yesterday. In company with another
man he had gone into the springs to battle,
and when his companion got out of the water
he noticed that Red was sinking He plunged
in and endeavored to reach the drowning
man, but was unsuccessful and finding that
he could not recover the body, he went to
the Home Station, mile and half distant,
for assistance Captain McSweeny, Well
Fargo q Co. s shotgun messenger, who was
at the station, went to the Springs, and with
the assistance of some other men who had
arrived on the spot succeeded IN recovering
the body at about seven o clock last night, it
having lain III the water some five hours.
The body was recovered by means of grapnel
improvised out of a hay-fork and fastened to
rope. The deceased was employed as a
stage driver on the Austin and Battle Noun
tain stage road, driving between Austin and
the Home Station. He was a veteran in the
profession and is well-known all over this
State, having been driver on the Pioneer
Stage Company's line, between Placerville
and Virginia, and, if we mistake not, having
DeelI III LIlo SluplOy VI O4u NoIl1Ol liiei
Stage Company He has driven stage on
neatly every line in this State, and was
known from one end of it to the other He
was a typical Western stage driver, genial
and kind hearted, and the enemy of no man
but himself He derived the nickname
" Red" from the circumstance of his hair
being of deep red color, and he was known
to but few by any other name than 9 Red
or 50 Dave Red" He was an American by
birth, but we have not been able to learn
anything of his history prior to his coming to
California, which was at an early day. His
age was probably in the neighborhood of
forty three years. The body when taken
from the water was almost parboiled, the
skin peeling off in large fakes. 1t will be
brought into town on Wednesday morning
and the funeral will take place at 2 o'clock
P NJ, on that day, from Fireman's Hall A
coffin will be sent out on the stage this even
ing.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-03

1t would seem that an amateur dentist in
San Francisco has been treating the alveolar
process of a certain cracksman as if the Jaw
of burglar had no rights that tooth-car-
penter is bound to respect. Upon the law
case arising out of the Interpretation of
dentrifcial involments the Post says:
Thomas Note, who was sent to the County
Jail to answer for burglary, has petitioned the
Board of Supervisors for S. ,0O0-damages in
fiicted upon his wisdom tooth by City Ply
stefan Blach. He AYERS that while in Jail he
suffered all the fortunes of the inferno from a
partially decayed molar which DR., Blach
operated on with rusty instruments. The
effect was merely to aggravate the pain with
out removing the tooth, and he AYERS that the
doctor abandoned the task with the observa-
ton that he wasn't much of dentist any
how, and if he was he couldn't get out the
tooth without the assistance of Central
Pacific locomotive.