Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-26

#u,per County Tran&eript.
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DAVIDSON 4 WHEELER, Publishers.
VARIOUS TOPICS. |
Ell DORADO county, California, is not
dependent on mining. Five thousand
tons of fruit is this years crop, of which
one man contracts for twelve hundred
tons for canning and drying.
BALTIMORE never had so much foreign
shipping in port as now. 1t is attracted
by the petroleum and grain trade, and
large proportion of the arrivals are with
out cargo. OF the 1,14S vessels that
have arrived this year no less than ga
came in ballast.
The Temp, referring to the railways
which it is proposed to make between
Vienna and Constantinople, and between
Vienna and Salonica, says that the Wen
ma and Constantinople line will be 1910
miles in length, Of which 400 miles are
not yet laid.
The wheat feet gathered in San Fran
cisco to convey the surplus crop of this
seasons bigger than ever before. Forty.
four vessels cleared last month, carrying
an average of about 1900 tons each, and
there are new some sixty vessels in port
with carrying capacity of about $780,.
600 bushels.
SIBERIA has gold diggings, as we'll as
e1iles, and last year the diggings on the
rivers Amovi and Sci, where 5000 work
men are employed, yielded gold worth
over 100000 roubles. This yield was
surpassed by that of private proprietor
in another part of Siberia, whose output
was no less than 5000, 900 roubles.
The first steps have been taken in St.
Petersburg to form society for the
purpose of providing educational tours
for children. 1t is proposed to send out
companies of the children every year,
and also parties of young men and wo-
men when they have completed their
course in the secondary schools or are
GLOWING out their studies in the high
chools.
A BROTHER of the late California bo-
nanza king has turned up in a sick Ra-
leigh, N. c., carpenter, John O'Brien.
His rich brother supposed him dead, as
did wife and two daughters now in
afiuent circumstances at New York. A
lawyer has satisfied himself of the miss
ing mans identity, and he is now sup
piled with ample funds for all his neces-
sites.
EAST LIVERPOOL. O., is warmed and
lighted by its natural gas wells, one Of
which has been running for 20 years,
and sends as strong q stream as ever.
The gas gives fame that almost rivals
the electric light in brilliancy, and it
costs 80 little that the lamps in the city
streets are kept burning day and night.
1t it used in private houses and factories
alike, and cooks steak or heats fur.
mace with equal satisfaction.
IT is doubtful if commander of the
army in this country, after accepting a
"present" of 81 100000 from corrupt
contractor who was furnishing rotten
supplies, would simply be retired from
the service, and sent to a place "in
exile" That's the "punishment" in
ficted on the Grand Duke Nicholas, Of
Russia. So the United States is not the
most lenient government on earth, afte,
all.
IT is but a few years since the idea Of
bridging the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers was held to be both impracticablt
and undesirable, and as contemplating
an Infringement on the rights of navi
CATION. There have been built sine
1865 no less than eleven bridges acros
the father of waters between Winon.
and St. Louis. Ten are on piers ant
one is pontoon bridge. The longes
are at Winona and Quincy, $50 fee
each.
THERE are great number of ex-con
federates in London. They manage t
pick up living in all sorts of ways
One, an ex-general, is curb-stone stool
broker; another is life insurance agent
a third is brimful of hope and large ez
pectations, living on scanty incom
derived from "patent agency" Me-
of lesser grades appear in varied callings
One does thriving trade in the hard
ware line, another in the "hard up
line. Several are literary and dramati
agents.: "
A NEW ORLEANS correspondent o
the New York Times gives facts which
go far in his opinion to upset all the oil,
theories regarding yellow fever. Ac
cording to his observation, the cleaner
the streets and the more fashionable tn,
quarter, the greater apparently is tn
virulence !" Of the disease. On the othe
hand 1.-THE flthiest streets are eithe
wholly free from the faint or have onl,
widely scattered cases of mild type
Against such an epidemic the usual sani