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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

AN English court has decided very
important master and servant case. The
landlord of an inn was sued by a maid
servant lately, in his employ for ;92 los
34d as wages due, She asked permits
sion to go for y days holiday, which was
first granted, but subsequently with
drawn. This, led to a quarrel, in the
course, of which she said she would
leave " there and them" and that the de-
PENDANT could deduct a months wages
from the amount of six months wages
due to her. The defendant, however,
declined to pay her any part of the wages
due. The judge held that so long as the
plaintiff remained in the defendants
service he had a right to control her, ac-
tions, and was al, liberty, TO, withdraw
the permission he had given her. It
might appear rather, hard, that the de-
tendant should get six months Of her
services for nothing; but it, was, q very
good thing to have some sort Of hold
upon servants. Apparently the modern
idea ofeservants was that they. could
enter into a contract of service and
break it at pleasure. The plaintiff was
non-suited.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
ton explained how it came into his pos

ton explained how it came into bis pos
session.
One evening a prominent Democratic
politician received cipher dispatch
from South Carolina at the telegraph
+ Office in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. b.
sat down at table, pulled out his key;
and made translation of the cipher.
A few minutes after midnight be has
tily gathered up few papers and went
out. His translation Of the cipher hap
picked it up, read it, and Immediately
started for Mr. Orton's house and rung
up the president Of the Western Union
Mr.. Orion took the paper and told the
operator to 20 home and never open h'~
lips to a single human being IN refer
ence to the incident. He said that my
eyes were the first to see the dlspatch
after it came into bis possession"
Mr.. Hewitt was asked what M Til
den can say.
"He can say good deal: He can
deny having had any knowledge Of such
transactions and believe he will. In
my dealings with Mr.. Tilden / never
saw anything TO warrant the suspicion
that he would do anything dishonest or
dishonorable. ! do not believe he was
cognizant of any attempt TO perpetrate a
fraud 1t was possible for these men tn
act without the knowledge Of Mr.. Til
den"
Mr.. Hewitt said of his present rela-
tions with Mr.. Tilden: "My association.
with Mr.. Tilden, as it existed in the la-'
campaign, has been broken of. and Will
never be revived. l visited him oncF
during the Watterson controversy, but
have not visited him since. He has not
treated me magpanimously. He has not
treated me justly. A word from him
would have refuted the charge MADE
against me of having suppressed dl~'
patches from him.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
THE FEVER.
Tho Same Old Sad Story Frox the Seat
IS of the Dread Disease:
= ~ =. ~ . =
MEMPHIS,

MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, October 18.--A. light frost
fell in the vicinity of Memphis last
night, but was not discernable in the
city. The weather, to-day is cool and
bracing. From o'clock last night
until noon to-day II orders for inter-
ments are reported by the under
takers. Among those who have
died since last evening, are
DR.. w. T. Keeting, volunteer
physician from New York; Ed. Weber,
a prominent saloon-keeper: Mrs. Rebecca
Keller, Robert Mccoy, Miss Mile G.
Finney, P. B. Wheatlcy, and Mary M.
Zanone.
Vice President J. H. Edmondson, in
charge of the Howard relief train on the
Mississippi and Tennessee railway, tele-
graphs from Grenada as follows: 81
find the situation at all points visited
more favorable than anticipated. Left
nurses at Horn Lake, Senatobia and
Grenada"
A telegram from Grand Junction just
received announced that within the past
II hours two deaths (Smith Patterson
and Mary Jucker,) and one new case,
Mrs. Smith Patterson.) The Howard
Association this morning sent carload
of provisions and supplies Of bedding to
the distressed inhabitants Of Decatur
and Florence, Ala. D. A. Clark, general
book-keeper of the First National bank,
was stricken with fever late lat night.
MEMPHIS, October ia storm of
wind and rain visited Memphis last night
at 10 o'clock and continued with fury
until 8 this morning. The weather is
now clear and cold, with thermometer
at 65. A special train, in charge of the
vice president of the Howard Associa-
ton left this morning on the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad to relieve the sick
and distressed between here and
Garner, Miss. From six o'clock last
night until noon to-day the undertakers
report orders for eleven interments; four
of these died within the city limits.
II. B. Howell, a prominent citizen was
Frustrated with the fever this morning.
NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, October 18.-Weather
clear, cool and windy. Deaths SO;
cases reported 80; total deaths $685.;
total cases 2,132.
New ORLEANS; October 17.-Weather
partly cloudy, and cool; a light rain fell
this morning. Deaths "a; cases reported
178; total deaths 1889; total cases 12,.
093.
BATON ROUGE.
! BATON ROUGE, Forty-six new cases;
four deaths.
BATON ROUGE, October 12.-Fifty
seven new cases, with one physician to
hear from, and two deaths, reported fo1
the last twenty-four hours. 1t is evident
that, unless cold weather comes, the
disease will pursue its march. As each
day rolls by the situation becomes more
terrible. The Towards are compelled to
furnish bedding for numerous poor who
are found lying three aid four together
on the same couch. The number Of
sick is so great and constantly increas-
ing that the most active efforts have tt
be made to furnish the necessary atten.
ton. Our physicians, aided by good
nursing. are accomplishing the very best
/ results towards diminishing the death
rate. ''''
! CAIRO.
CAIRO, ILL; October 18.-Doctor Ros
well Waldo, surgeon of. the marine hos
pital here died Of yellow fever this
morning. Three new cases reported il
the last twenty-four hours.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
The Veriflcation of & Dream.

A remarkable story of the notification
of dreams comes from Brisbane, austria
liza. The son of q prominent resident was
clerk in bank in the town, and upon
returning to the Office one day he found
that ) large sum of gold had been stolen
fromthe safe. No suspicion: attached to
him. 7but his friends, were much dis,
tressedis BY the affair: I'D Some months
afterward his fsther dreamed that the
stolen money wis buried in the botanical
gardens In Brisbane, the exact spot be-
Ing indicated to him. Though much
impressed by the dream, he delayed COM
municating with the bank for several
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

As a Kansas City lawyer was going so
his office the other day he noticed a red
suspender lying on the top of some
freshly caved earth. He stopped to pick
the suspender up, but it stretched and
refused, to come. Digging down with
his hand, he soon found the dead body
of q boy. Much alarmed, he began to
dig with spade, and to his horror un-
earthed the bodies of to more, who had
been buried alive by the caving in Of
an embankment on which they had been
playing the night before.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
Foreign.

LONDON, October 1912 80 p. M.-Liver.
pool wheat market opens steadier. Float
ing cargoes about Sd per quarter dearer !;
there is a continental demand. On passage
steadier. Good c;rgoes mixed American
corn off coast at 22s Cd; good cargoes No. 9
spring wheat off. coast, 3Ss; good cargoes
red winter off coast, 4Os Gd@41s.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

ldays, but at last he set out with the in
Formation, and upon his arrival was told
fthat onepf the clerks had jrst confessed
fto the robbery, and that the stolen money
7 had been found in the exact spot indi-
] Gated in the dream.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

NJ. REMAIN, a French physician, is
convinced that yellow fever is the ex-
elusive result Of drinking waterthat has
become corrupted. He considers boiled
water the preventive and remedy.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
GENERAL TOPICS.

PlTHoLE is dead. The department
withdrew mail services from the office
October 9th. Pithole was at one time
the third postottice in the state. Phila-
delphia being first and Pittsburg second.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE, October 1890 P. NJ
Flour-Very dull but steady; choice spring
extra $4.25@4 Is; common $3.25@3.50.
Whea,-Active and strong; No. l held at
Sic; No. sold at 80I@80%c; November
at Sl1z@S2c; December at S3%@84c; No. 3
at 69@69Kc. Corn-Dull but firm at 34Hc.
Oats-Quiet at 1870. Rye-Tame at 43c.
Barley-Strong; 96Hc cash and 99c seller
November; No. 3 at 56c. Pork-Quiet at
$7.65 cash. Lard-luiet at SIC. Hogs
Steady at $3.OO@325.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

\ GENTLEMAN in the agricultural de-
p4rtment relates the failure of a great
national effort on the part of General
LIE Due to suppress the grasshoppers. It
seems that he accidentally heard that
rocks would eat them, so he decided to
start a national rookery.: He drew on
the contingent fund for eleven hundred
dol1ars and on England for one hundred
rocks. Before he got them through the
New York custom house all but eight
died from the ocean voyage and the Gus
tam house regulations. These reached
Washington alive and were put in the
rookery. A few days since, through
some mistake in giving them an airing
one chilly day, they all died but one.
He still lives, but the expectation Of
having grasshoppers deyoured next sea-
son are no longer entertained by the
commissioner. -
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Chicago.

CHICAGO, October 1890 P. M.-Flour
Dull. Wheat-Unsettled at 1890; fresh at
80Nc; seller November at S0Ac; seller
ter, Soc bid receipts $4,000 bus: shipments
$1,000 bus. Corn-Easier; $500 bid; re-
ceipt' $4,000 bus; shipments 277,00O bus.
Oats-(uiet at lSIc; receipts $4,000 bus
shipments 80 600 bus. Rye-Quiet at 42]4
Barley-luiet; No. 2 nominal at $l.02E;
seller December at $l.O4. Pork-Very dull;
$7.55 asked; seller December, $500 bid.
Lard-Dull; $612% bid; seller December,
$6.15 bid. lIogs-Dull and 12]4c lower
mixed at So lO@3.25. Freights - Tame;
SIZE on corn to Buffalo.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

QUEER people-mothers who try to
marry their daughters.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

A MOST eccentric will is that left hy
the late Allen T. Wilson. of Marin
county, Cal. He leaves some $4,000 to
his son, but declares it forfeited if he
ever gives any money to Catholic in
stitution, person or cause. If he uses
any hind of alcoholic liquor after he
reaches the age of ten years, he shall for
felt his rights, or pass r:onth on diet
of bread and water for each time he
commits the ofense. If he smokes, also,
he shall forfeit his estate, or work stead
lily for year as a common farm laborer
and save one half Of his wages.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

FRANCE doesn't need any Rhine, be-
cause she has her Rhone.-Boston Post.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
THE MARKETS.
Now York,

Now York.
NEW YORK, October 1873 100 p. Moot
ton-Quiet at 10c for middling uplands.
Flour-Steady and rather quiet; receipts
$4,000 bbls; sales $4,000 bbls at $3.55@5. CO..
Wheat-Quiet; receipts 24l, 900 bus; sales
5000 bus No. winter red seller November
at .$1.O3. Rye-Quiet. Confirm and
unchanged; receipts $4,000 bus sales 10000
bus at 43H047c for western mixed. Barley
Quiet. Oats-Steady; receipts 2S, 900 bus
sales 10000 bus at 26@33c for mixed west
ern i; 27H@33c for white do. Pork-Dull
at $500. Lard-Dull at $500. Whisky
At 81. 90. Petroleum Crude at &c refined
at 9%c. Coal-Steady. Leather-Heavyat
2O@22%c. Wool-Quiet at 3O942c.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

A SCHEME has just been proposed by
NJ. Emile Pagan, a Belgian, for reach
ing the north pole in balloon. The
aerial machine, which is Of a special
form, will be used as a sailing vessel as
far as the eighty-fourth parallel. There
he will fill the balloon, of a capacity Of
$500 cubic metres, with pure hydrogen,
which he will make in the Arcticr 'gions
with $4,000 cubic metres Of sulpauric
acid and 5000 of iron filings He will
be supplied with boxes of preserved
meats, buiscuits, bottles of brandy, alco-
hol, &C., which he will throw overheard
as he advances toward the pole.
The car will serve him, according to cir
cumstances, as a sledge or boat.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

CALHOUN was a Virginia intidel. He
wrote book against Christianity and
re'idled it throughout the state. Where
ever a campmeeting was in progress
there he was to be found, selling his book
and making speeches. Recently he fell
among the encamped negro Methodists
of Crab Bottom. They set about con
verting him. They surrounded him,
drowned his voice with prayers and sing
ing, got him on his knees, and finally
brought him to repentance. He burned
his books, and has taken the agency for
Christian publication.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

SIR GARNET Wo1sELEY, is only forty
five. He has never handled large
army. At school, near Dublin, he was a
close student of engineering. He was
wounded wilhelm the Crimea, and fought
bravely in India lie visited the Con.
federate army, and formed the opinion
that Lee was the greatest military geniu:
since Napoleon, and that he was create,
than the German generals of this genera
ton. For his Ashantee expedition he
was knighted and given 100000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

Mr.. EDMUND YATES is taking George
Augustus Sala to task for treating a lee
ture tour in the United States as dan
gerous, and in doing so shows vivid
recollection of his own reception in this
country: II lectured," he says, CLIO
times, and travelled $4,000 miles, during
a seven months run in the United
States, and had never an hours illness
from the date of my leaving in the
Calabria. Mr.. Dickens, whom G. A. S.
quotes as his example, was considerably
older than Mr.. Forbes, and nothing like
SO tough; he went to his work unwilling.
ly, and fretted the whole time he was
away. MIR. Forbes will be warmly vel.
coined by the most hospitable people
in the world, and he will have a good
time'"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

TaE most widely-known churchman
in France, Bishop Dupanlcup, died sud
denly in Paris on the 18th inst. He was
born in 1902, and held various ecclesi-
astical appointments about the court
under the restored Bourbons, bis first
being that of confessor to the young
duke of Bordeaux-now the head Of the
family-to which he was appointed in
1927. He became bishop of Orleans in
1919, and had been largely engaged in
controversies with the opponents Of the
church. He was at one time member
of the academy, but resigned in conse-
quence Of the election of Littre, a
positivist philosopher, to chair in that
institution. Since the formation of the
present constitution of France, the bish-
op has been member of the senate.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
TRANSLATION.
From the New York Tribune, October 3.

TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 1.-HENRY HAVE
MEYER, Is West venteenth street, New
York: May Woolley give hundred thousand
dollars less half for Tilden additional Board
member? Lieutenant. WOOLLEY.
There is not much room to doubt what
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

WHAT HEWITT SAYS.
The Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, who was
chairman of the Democratic national
committee during the Tilden campaign,
says he never knew anything about the
cipher dispatches from Florida which
the New York Tribune has just pub
lished. eff the New York Tribune has
the genuine dispatches" he continued,
cit will be the political ruin of the per-
son who intended to perpetrate a fraud
by them"
"Had you ever heard of their exist
ence?" he was asked.
zone day in Washington, during the
progress Of the count, prominent Re
publican came to ME and said they were
in possession of Democratic cipher dis
patches of damaging character, and
that if the Democratic party undertook
to invalidate the election of Mr.. Hayes
these dispatches would be published. 1t
is my opinion that another prominent
Republican, who I suspect furnished
these dispatches to the Tribune, procured
them through the man who mentioned
the subject to me. A hint of such dis
patches came to me from another source
about the end of December. When
William Orion, the president of the
Western Union Telegraph company, wa!
charged with contempt for refusing t.
produce the dispatches relating to thu
canvass of the vote in the southern states
he came to my house and dined with
me. The object of his visit was to per
suade me that it would be wise for the
Democrats not to compel him to deliver
up the dispatches, and he assured imt
that they would lead to revelations o,
acts unknown to myself and othe'
Democrats which would be very dam
aging to the Democratic party ~ .,ah ' %;e
patches. well, I will read you thi'
DISPATCH he said, producing the ciphe'
and the translation. The dispatches h
read to me had reference to negotiation
for the Democratic purchase of an cleo
toral vote in South Carolina. Mr.. Or
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

~ ~ AVN SVlSBCo Slou1 0LgUlAC AOl tnC uVI
ern district of Mississippi. :
The secretary of the treasuary has up.
pointed a special committee to visit the
bond paper manufacturing establishments,
with the view to obtain the fibre paper for
bonds and notes at cleaner than present
rates.
GEN. HOWARD telegraphs from. Fort Van.
couver, that Unatilla Indian was murder.
ed on the 29th ult. by white men, and that
the Umatillas have within three weeks lost
800 horses taken by whites. He asks: Can
not the United States district attorney be
instructed by the attorney-general to attend
to this and other cold-blooded murders OF
Indians by white men?' A few examples OF
justice would do more Tor peace than q
whole summer campaign" The foregoing
was endorsed by Gen. Sherman, as follows
The Umat1la In dams should be protect.
ed in their lives and property as far as pos.
sible by the civil agents, as also by the
military, but after crime is committed, the
civil courts should try the case and adjudge
the measure of punishment" The dispatch
thus endorsed was sent by Secretary Nc
O1d4y W VIC AuulIu DuIcduy Auu aCt1nS
Commissioner Leeds has referred it to Sec
rotary Schurz, with the recommendation
that measures be promptly taken to bring
the guilty parties to punishment.
The October returns to the department
of agriculture indicates the average of the
cotton crop, the same as September. Com
pared vitAaeteber, 1917, the growing srog
showt pah s@Jf(HsmelHh II pefcSnf I'D
October condition equals that of the splen.
did crop of 1870 and exceeds any interven.
ing year. Insect injuries are uuimportant.
With the increased acreage planted the
crop now promises to produce more than
five million bales.
IT is now officially known that awards to
American exhibitors at the French exposi.
ton number $50: namely; Ten grand
prizes, 80 diplomas of honor, 1874 gold
medals, 200 silver medals, 22O bronze
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

CAIRO, LII; October 18.-Doctor Ros-
well Waldo, surgeon Of the marine hos
pital here,= died Of yellow fever this
morning. Three new cases reported in
!; the last twenty-four hours.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

medal and 1866 honorabls mentions. The
aggregate is lager than tAe Whole numbsrs
ofHmerican exhibitors atthe laris expoai.
ton in 1867, at the Vissna exposition Of
1873, and is larger proportion Of awards to
exhibitors than to any. other natioa zepre
sented at this exhibition.
THE Supreme Court of the United STAGES
met ut Washington on the 18th inst, and in
accordance with usage adjourned to pay
respects to the president, the latter received
the Judges in the blue room, where they
pleasantly spent a short time in general
conversation. Before adjournment for the
day Fred r. Mason, of Chicago and H. S.
Chaufcrd, of Cincinnati, were admitted to
practice.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
TRANSLATION.

Dec. 4.-H. HAvEMEYER, New York: :
Power received too late. twenty-five ten
appear to have joined with board against
contract from Saturday. Will be prompt
and advise you further if necessary. Jane
Charles William. WOOLLEI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

ITALIA, Dec. 5, '76.-CoL. PELToS, No.
Is Gramercy Park, New York: Proposition
failed. Finished Yesterday afternoon re-
sponsbi]ity [as] those. Last ght Woo]ley
found me and said he had nothing, which l
knew already. Tell Tilden to saddle Black
stone [resort to legal proceedings.
A1.1oII
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-20
AN OLD MAN ON HIS MUSCLE,

William II. Ramscear, superintendent OF the OLD
Gentleen's Unseotsrian Home III No. 52l East l20tb
street. appeared yesterday afternoon In the Harlem
Police Court 10 prosecute Charles Pickering.
mate OF tho institution Pickering, who is over sixty
years OH. Cd me this country from England with
Invalid gon named Bell, under the patronage
OF nobleman, Sir Peter Coutts. The pair took up
tno,r residence in the Old Gontle mons House. Mr..
Rumscear alleges that Pickering, who acted as nurso
10 his companion, has on several OCCASIONS IN de
himself very obnoxious both to himself and the othel
inmates. Yesterday morning Mr.. Ramscear entered
The room occupied by Pickering aud MS friend
and insisted on the window being raised
for the purpose Of ventilation, Mr. Pickering
TOOK of his coat and when Mr. Ramscear
demonstrated struck the supcrn tendent q violent
blow between tho eyes. Mr.. Ramsccar called for
sistance and when others reached the room they
tion TO light Ramsrcar made another movement
toward the window, whereupou Pickering struck him
Two heavy blows in tho mouth causing hood
TO 1ow. Pickering was then arrested and
taken Dcloro Judge Wandel He pleaded IN nis de-
ence that tho opening OF the window would have
DAM his dear trends lie, who was sitting 10 the
room. He also admitted having exercised little
muscle. but Jailed TO remember whether or no his
fists had encou ntered any othor SUBSTANCE He
pointed proudly at his clothing, with the remark,
iPresented by sir Peter Couts. +"
swell, Mr. Pickering replied Judge Wandell 90
higher power than Sir Peter Coutts has gwen
the Judge said, "Mr. Murray, take Mr.. Ramscear's
afldaviln Judge Wandeii thcn ordered Pickering to
be lock cd up until he should decide what punishment
NM n a be cted.