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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Burdette and the Boston Man

my ancestors" he said, "came over
in the Mayfower. But yours-?"
And he looked at me with rising in
Election.
I tried to .slay him with a look of
silent scorn, but she missed fire..
"Your ancestors, I take" said the
man, "did not come over Il the May
flower?"
And then turned upon him. "Sir,"
I remarked, this Mayfower, / take it,
was sailing ship?"
She was" he said, vainly endeavor-
ing to stiae his emotion, I" she was a
sailing ship 49,.
Then" said haughtily, most as
suredly my ancestors did not come over
in the Mayflower. It has never been
the misfortune Of my family to be com
PEELED to take passage on any ship Of
the merchants marine. Ny ancestors
came over in Cunard steamer, first
cabin, no Storage passengers carried,
only ten days from Liverpool, and they
went straight mp to Mrs. Astor's tavern,
and took front rooms on the parlor
floor 2 ss.5s
/ thought / had crushed that man..
but may / be blessed il he didn't look a.
though he pitied me. B..rlingto. Ha,ok.
eye.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
A Chinese Dainty.

Eatable birds nests are found for the
most part in the islands of Java, Borneo
sumatra and the Celebees. The bird
which produces the nest is called the
Salangane swallow. 1t flies with won
derful speed and precision, and on the
Javan coast, where the surge breaks
wildly against the precipitous cliffs and
governed rocks, these birds may be seen
in swarms darting hither and thither.
Their nests are fixed to the cliffs or just
inside the caverns. What sort of a
thing, then, is the eatable birds nest
that the wealthy Chinese are so fond OF?
It is that portion of the fabric which
serves as a sort of bracket on which the
real nest (made of grass, seaweed fbres,
small leaves, etc., is built. It is trans.
parent, somewhat like isinglass. 1t was
formerly supposed that this gelatine-
like substance was prepared by the
bird from seaweed and other marine
plants; this, however, is mistake. DR..
Bernstein has found that the glands
under the tongue of the bird are of
great size. On opening the bill they
are seen as two large swellings, one on
either side, and these chiefly supply the
material for making the brackets. The
bird secretes in them soft gum-like
substance, which can be drawn out of
the mouth in long threads, and in the
air it soon dries and is found to be the
same, even when viewed through the
microscope, as the bracket material.
Such is the demand for the dainty and
SO high is its market value that hun
dreds of men spend their lives in the
perilous work of collecting those 60
called nests from the frightful cliffs,
rrecipices and caverns; and the Chinese
spend about million and halt of dol
lars annually in the purchase of this
dainty, which, when rendered into soup
or jelly, they regard as the most delic-
ioas of food.-Salem, Oregon, West Shore.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19

him that they would never suffer him to be
more. Let me now remind you that the
government under whose protecting flag
we sit to-day sacrificed myriads
OF lives and expended Thousands of
millions of treasure that our couutrymen of
the south should remain citizens of the
United States, having equal personal rights
and equal political privileges with all other
citizens. And venture, now and here, to
warn the men of the south, in the exact
words Of Macaulay, that We will never suffer
them to be more!
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19

New York

INV YORK, December 1850 p. NJ
Cotton-Dull at SIC for middling uplands.
Flour-Un chsnged; receipts II 900 bbls
sales 1000 Wheat-Firm; receipts 228,.
GOO bus; sales none; No. 3 spring and seller
December at 94c bid; 99c asked. Rye
Dull; No. 2 western at 58@5S1<c; state at
$4,000. Quiet; receipts a, 600 bus ;
sales 10000 bus at 43@471{c for western
95c. o4ts-oniet: receipts 5000 bus; sales
10000 bus at 3O@3lc for mixed western !;
3l@36c for white. Fork-Firm at $3.50.
Lard-Firmer at $6.02H, I'm
changed. Cteese 5000. Whisky-
At $l.O6k. Egss-Unchsnged. Petroleum
-Crudetat 7s<c; refined ct SIC. Coal
Dali: 1sather--At 20@22>lc. Wool.
Steady ct 2s@43c.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Caught Just I'm Time.

On the afternoon of the 18th inst. man
and boy attempted to drive a wagon along
Little Falls turnpike, at Paterson, N. j.,
which was submerged by the freshet. They
missed the road and drove into the channel
of the river above Passaic Falls. The wagon
body with the man and boy foated of, the
swift current bearing them towards the
rapids and plunge of 10 feet beyond. Some
gentlemen who were on the bridge thatspans
the river just above the boiling rapids
hastily tore the reins from some horses
and made lines which the man and boy
caught as they passed under, and were
saved. The wagon body plunged over the
falls.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
I.yneheal.

An Omaha special of the 10th inst. says
The jury at Nebraska City found Henry
jackson, Henry Martin and VIM. s. Owens
guilty OF murder in the second degree for
killing Chas. Slocum and outraging his
wife. The evidence seemed to warrant a
verdict in the first degree, and Judge Gas
lin SO stated in his sentence of penitentiary
for life, which he passed on the murderers
yesterday. About O'Clock this morning a
crowd assembled at the Jail, broke in the
door, overpowering the jailor, seized Martin
and Jackson and taking them half mile
south of the court house, hung them to a
tree where their bodies were found this
morning.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Sentenced.

John O'Conor, ex-member of the Ohio
Legislature, who was convicted in the United
States court for forging certain papers to
procure an invalid pension, was sentenced
at Cincinnati, on the 10th inst, to one
years imprisonment in the county Jail, and
to pay the costs of prosecution.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Result Of Victory.

A Lahore correspondent says General
Roberts will probably winter on the heights
east of Peiwar pass. His victory detaches
50, 900 non.orthodox Mussulmans from the
ameer's authority. According to private
information Mussulmans are already send.
ing levies into the British camp. 1t is re-.
ported Khoord Cabul tribes are only kept
from deserving the ameer by the presence
of troops. Two Europeans were seen
| among the defenders of the Peiwar. One
Afghan general has presented himself at
| poiwor
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Killed And Torn to shresl..

A horrible accident occurred at the
American Iron Works at Pittsburg, Pa, on
the 18th inst. by which Patrick Shannon,
assistant millwright, was instantly killed
and his body torn to shreds. Shannon had
gone up on the platform to examine line
of shatting, when his clothing was canght
by pulley and his body drawn on to the
shaft, which was making 240 revolutions a
minute. Before the machinery could be
stopped his body was torn to pieces and
scattered over the mill, portions of the re.
mains being thrown 800 feet.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Border Matinee.

Near summerville, Texas, on the sth inst,
masked men surrounded the house of John
Stull. A bomb was thrown inside and when
the inmates rushed out volley was fred
into them, killing John stu}', Rufus Smith
and badly wounding Smiths wife and baby.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
NilvA,akan.

MILWAUKEE, December 1850 P. NJ
Flour-Very quiet; choice spring at $4.50@
ATS; common $s.25@S.76. Wheat-Aetive
and strong; No.. l at S7Ac; No. 2 at $50 /;
No. 8 at Zoe; No. 4 at Coo; rejected at sic /;
No. 2 seller February at S4Nc.
Corn-Dull at Sic. Oats-Steady at 2ONc.
Rye-Very quiet at 42Xc. Barley-strong-
or; No 2 cash at SAC; No. 3 at 500. Pork
Strong; $6.75 for old; $7.70for new. Lard
Firm; $3.50 for steam; kettle at 1910. Hogs
Quiet at$2.70@2.85.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Railroad Accident.

A misplaced fish plate on the Air Line
railway caused a train to jump the track,
eight miles west of Romeo, Michigan, on
the 9th instant. One man was killed and
several others seriously injured.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
The Army.

The bill introduced by Senator Plum to
provide the temporary increase of the army
in an emergency authorizes the president,
whenever in his judgment, the e1igencies
of the frontier service requires it, to cause
$4,000 enlisted men to be added to the army
to serve during such all emergency.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
The Potter Committee.

The Potter committee on the 10th inst.
decided that the sub com mittee should con.
tinue the Investigation in Louisiana in case
further grant of money is made by con.
gress. Chairman Potter will be one OF the
proposed subcommittee, and will select the
second Democratic member, the Republicans
naming the third. Springer and Hiscock
were authorized to open areport upon some
document obtained from Florida bearing
upon the questions OF the validity of the
commissions of several justices of the
peace, etc., who certified to the correctness
Of certain election returns.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
DAVIDSON 4 WHEELER, Publisher,
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Cotton.

The cotton crop of 1878, in round numbers
il 5,l97. 900 bales, allowing $50 pounds to
the bale.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Wade HAMPTON.

Gov. Hamp:on's leg was amputated below
the knee, on the 10th instant. The South
Carolina legislature elected him to the
United States Senate. The vote in the sen.
ate was unanimous, and in the house there
were but two exceptions.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Jail Delivery.

Nine prisoners, awaiting sentence for pen
itentiary offences, escaped from Jail at New.
ark, O., on the 9th inst, among them the
notorious burglar "Gypsey Jack" The
escape was effected by saving through the
iron bar with saws made from the steel
shanks of an old pair of shoes.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Through the Ice.

c. w. Lane, his wife and their two chill.
dren, living four miles below Sabula, Ia,
on the Mississi ri river, were drowned on
the 18th inst. While ont or the ice on
haud-sleigh, the ice broke SO suddenly that
none could save themselves or be rescued.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19

Postmaster-G General Key has officially in.
formed the house that unless an additional
appropriation is made he will discontinue
the use Of railway postal cars on and after
the first of January. This he finds neces-
sary in order to keep the total expenditures
within the amount of the appropriations.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Drowned While skatinx.

Peter Guernsey, aged fifteen, son OF a
prominent druggist, and Florence Wyskoff,
aged sixteen, daughter of a Presbyterian
clergyman at Lake City, MIMI, while skat-
ing together on the 18th inst, were drowned.
The bodies have been recovered.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Destrucltye NORTHUMBERLAND

On the 9th instant, an explosion similar
to the one which destroyed the Washburn
mills at Minneapolis last May, occurred in
the Pillsbury Anchor mill at the same
place. The mill, which had twelve run of
stone, was entirely destroyed. Loss about
$4,000; insurance $45.5OO.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
LARGE Robbery.

The Office of Turnbun 4 Co., Ward street,
St. John, N. B., has been robbed OF bonds,
stocks, certificates and other papers, to the
aggregate value OF over 100000. The day
of the robbery and the thieves are unknown.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
A HOAvy SneculAtor.

Jonathan Nield, managing partner in the
private bank of J. 4 J. Lehton 4 Sons,
Rochdale England, suspended in November,
lost IS, 100000 Of the banks money by spec
ulation on the stock exchange
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Sudden Death.

Col. Richard Dunbar, discoverer and pro.
prietor of the Bethesda mineral spring, at
Wsukeshs, Wis, died suddenly on the 18th
inst, OF paralysis Of the heart.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19

A ecHooI;NAsrER in New Jersey send
us poem, entitled Lovely Springs
and asks ma 6 Would SO be too much
for this7'' No; SO wouldn't be . cent
too much. Send along the money
Graphic.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
ShlnWReok.

The schooner Caledonia went ashore ON
Libby Island. coast of Maine, on the Sd
inst. The captain and crew of five men
were lost.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Precautionary.

The Russians have decided to leave so.
600 men in Bulgaria, and concentrate all
troops in excess of that number at Adria.
nople until the definite treaty is concluded.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Death Of Prtncess Alice.

The grand duchess of Hess Darmstadt,
the Princess Alice, of England, died at 80
on the 14sh instant, of diphtheria. The
grand duchess was the third child and sec.
ond daughter of Queen Victoria. She was
born April %, -1S43. Her father, the late
Prince Albert, died Saturday, December
Ii. 1861
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
FOREIGN.

! LONDON, December 14-12:30 p. M.-Liv.
erpool wheat market opens firm. Floating
cargoes firmly held on passage firmly held;
weather in England, hard frost.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19

cash; t7.77N bid for seller January; $7.97X
for seller February. Whisky at $1.05.
Hogs $4,000 head; quiet and
firm; Sc higher; light at $2.60@2.65; heavy
at 50 Coos o.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19

Fhc murdered bodies of Mrs. Harrison
and her three children were found on the
18th inst. in hay stack on her farm, Is
miles south of Kearney, Eeb., supposed to
have been killed on the Sth inst. s. q.
R'ohards-is suspected for being the murder.
OF. A reward of 5000 is offered for the
arrest of the murderer.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19

At Richmond, Va, on the 18th instant, a
fire destroyed the tobacco manufactory of
Thomas C. Williams l. Co. Loss estimated
Mt $76COO
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Switzerland,

Col. B. Hammer was elected president,
aud DR.. f. Welt vice president OF the
Swiss confederation for 1879.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Heavy Snow Storm.

Dispatches from central and western Mis-.
souri,, Iowa and Kansas, shy the heaviest
snow storm known for years prevailed on
the 18th inst. Snow fell to the depth OF from
ten to thirty inches, and in some localities
was very badly drifted. Railroads generally
were INSTRUCTED, some of them being
obliged to suspend running trains altogether.
At Lexington, No., aud other places, schools
were closed and business stopped. At Full
ton and Rock Island the Mississippi river
was closed and people walked across it on
the ice.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
Pensions.

The bill for the payment Of invalid and
other pensions for the next fiscal year, as
it. passed the house, appropriates $780,.
$1,000. being $3.50, 900 less than the amount
estimated, and $500 less than the appro.
priation for the present fiscal year. The
bill contains proviso that any unexpended
balances from former appropriations may
De expended for similar objects in The
present bill.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19

Officials and notables of Jelalabad have Ar.
rived at Dakka to tender their submission
and services to the British authorities
News from Cabul represents that eight reRi.
menfs OF Afghan infantry there have shown
disinclination to fight. The natives in the
eouth OF shutargardan pass seem friendly to
the British. The following dispatch from
General Roberts is dated on the 10Th: ~
hope to reach the top of shutargardan pass
to-day. shall then return to Ali Kehi.n
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
LyNch Law.

At Mount Carrie, Florida, short time
ago, four negroes attempted. to burn mill,
and beat the superintendent wife audco
PEELED her to give up $500. The negroes
were arrested, bat the Jail at Lake City
where they were confined burned down aud
they were lodged in the court house. A
band of masked men early on the 14th inst.
overpowered the guard, took the prisoners
in front of the Baptist church, shot two
dead, and MORALLY wounded the third. The
fourth escaped, but surrendered to the au.
thOrities
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19

offended with the talk about negro equality
are beginning to perceive that the pending
question of to-day relates more pressiDgly
to the equality of white men under this
government, and that however careless they
may be about the rights or the wrongs Of
cious about the rights of their own race, ani
the dignity of their own firesides and their
own kindred.
the north. / know a great deal about thu
views, wishes and purposes of the Republi
can party of the nation. Within that entire
REORGANIZATION there is not one man whose
opinion is entitled to be quoted that doel
not desire peace aud harmony and friend
ship and q patriotic and 1raternal union be
tween the north and the nth. This wish
is spontaneous, instructive, universal
throughout the northern states; and yet
among men of character and sense, there j!
surely no need of attempting to deceive
ourselves as to the precise truth. FRS
pure, then peaceable. Gush will not remove
a grievance, and no disguise of state rights
will close the eyes Of our people to the ne
tional wrong. Nor Should The soutl
make the fatal mistake of concluding
that injustice to the negro is not also injus
tice to the white man nor should it ever b
forgotten that for the wrongs of both .
remedy will assuredly be found. The war
with all its costly sacrifices, was fought il
vain unless equal rights for all classes be
established in all the states of the Union
and now, in words which are those o.
friendship, however differently they may bs
accepted, I tell the men of the south her,
on this floor and beyond this chamber, tha
even if they could strip the negro of 4Ail
constitutional rights, they can never perma
nently maintain the inequality of white mel
in this nation they can never make white
mans vote in the south doubly az powerful
in the administration of the government 4.
white mans vote in the north.
Ina memorable debate in the house oil
commons, Mr.. laeanlay reminded Daniel
OConnell, when he was moving for repeal
that the English wings had endured cal.
onny, abuse, popular fury, loss Of position
exclusion from parliament rather than Tho
great sgitator himself shou..d be less than I
British subject; ana NJ. Macaulay warned
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
FoRTY-F1FTH CONGRESS-

Senate.
MONDAY, December 9.-The following
resolutions were agreed to: Directing the
committee on patents to consider the expe.
diency of some other mode of compensate
ing inventors in place of the present system;
requesting the president to furnish the SEN
ate with all information he may have re-
ceived through U. s. officers relative TO the
recent elections in South Carolina and
Indian affairs to inquire whether it would
not be wise and expedient to revise the ex.
listing laws regarding the intercourse
with Indian tribes in the Indian terri
tory...A bill was introduced grant.
ing pension to the widow OF
Rear Admiral Paulding AT the expira-
ton of the morning hour the senate took
up the bill to amend the revised statutes re.
lating to presidential elections and to pro-
for president and vice president and the de-
cision OF questions arising therefroH, and
Edmunds addressed the senate in favor of
the bill......An executive session was then
held, and when the doors were reopened
the senate adjourned.
TUESDAY, December 10.-Wal]ace in
subsidiary coin for trade dollars. Referred
ALLISON, from the select committee to
inquire into the charges against Stanley
ing the house to transmit to the senate a
copy of the testimony OF James E. Anderson
relating to Matthews, taken before the house
committee. Agreed to. AT the expiration
OF the morning hour consideration was re-
sumed Of the bill relating to presidential
elections and Mr.. Morgan made speech in
favor of the measure. Jones of Florida
spoke in opposition to the bill, and Edmundt
replied in its favor: After executive SEES
sion the senate adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, December 11.-Beck in
troduced bill for the repeal of the section
of the revised statutes which prohibits thu
appointment to the army of any porson wht
served under the Confederate government
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19

December returns, including estimates Of
yield per acre, confirm and somewhat1e EN-
large the previous estimates. A computa'
ton from all returns shows an aggregate
crop Of about 425. ooo, 900 bushels.
Roasted Alive.
A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., dated the
18th, says: Two mennam ed Ketohum and
Mitchell, accused Of stealing stock, who re.
Gently killed a herder named Stevens while
he was trying to arrest them, were taken
from the sheriff OF Custer county and his
posse by mob Of armed men, who burned
them both to death. The mob was composed
Of twenty-five men, nearly all herders, and
masked.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19

dent don't give it chance. Oh, no, the
human race was never, in all history, so
we'll protected against decay as at pres
ent. Be thankful that you live in an
age when the grave has been 50 shorn of
its power that it can't hold man SO
long as a sieve wauld hold spoonful of
quicksilver.
The Rev. J. Cook has made his debut
in New York, but does not appear to
have inspired the reporters with much
awe: One says: The Rev. J. Cook is
man with an agricultural face, a heavy
trunk, bullying stomach, shrunken legs,
and splay feet. He arranges nis features
in startling ways, and. often assumes q
peculiar expression of countenance as
he proceeds with his remarks. He ap-
pears to have seen at least IS years, and
to feel the weight of over two hundred
pounds It Cannot be said that his
clothes fit his frame with neatness and
accuracy.
REAMUR relates the following anec-
dote, of which he was q witness: A
queen bee and some of her attendants
were apparently drowned in a brook:
He took them out of the water, and
found that neither the queen nor her at
tendants were quite dead. Reamur ex-
posed them to q gentle heat, by which
they were revived. The pleoian bees
recovered first. The moment they saw
signs of animation in the queen they.
approached her and bestowed on he oil
ths care in their power, licking and rub.
bing her; and when the queen had ac-
CURED sufficient force to move, they
khummed aloud, u if in triumph.
Daily Republican., 1878-11-07
rhs REPU 8LIGAN has she baswess
s.rcalatfeu Of any paper In Dele'
ware. Advevsisers take . ssse sf
this.

We RECKON THERE won't BE- 40 much
interest taken in Democratic Presidsnt
making for 1880 as there was before
Tuesdays elections.