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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
NeighbOrlV Rivalry.

Just as quick as Mr.. Jones painted his
barbed wire fence blue, says the St.
Louis Post, farmer Smiths wife said she
wasn't going to be outdone, and the
fence around Smiths farm soon BIOS
somed out red, pinked with white. Mrs.
Jones wasn't going to have any of the
Smith family putting on airs over her,
and their blue fence was soon trimmed
with gold leaf stripes. Smith trumped
over by putting gilt ball on every
barb, and Jones when last heard from
was planting weather-vanes, gilt-horses,
peacocks and lightning-rod tips all over
his fence and swearing he'd beat the
Smith family if he had to put up Gu
pola and bay window at every post and
hang chrome every two feet along the
line
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
The Caves at Luray. Va.

It is probable that scientific expedi-
ton will be organized soon to examine
the great variety of rare minerals which
are reported to exist in the remarkable
series of caves recently discovered near
Luray, in Page county, Virginia, on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. It is also
reported that organic remains of great
antiquity have been discovered in these
caves. The account given of the extent,
size, variety and natural ornamentation
of these subterranean chambers is of the
most surprising character. Some of
them are said to be of an immense area
and altitude, while others are much
smaller, but all are beautiful. They are
connected by narrow tunnelsor galleries.
and the extreme limits of the excaya
tions appear to be thus far simply mat
tiers of conjecture. The stalactites which
hang from the roofs of these vaults are
said to be of extraordinary size and
beauty. Many of the rocks and stalac-
titles, moreover, are said to assume Gu
rious and eccentric shapes. There are
some which strikingly resemble the hui
man form; Others which are in the
shape of fountains or rude affairs, while,
in some cases, the ceilings are said to be
supported by natural columns of great
beauty, arranged in regular and Or
derby manner. In one instance deep
chasm is, SO it is said, spanned by a
natural bridge, and there are also sew
eral lakes and springs. Altogether these
chasms, if the stories concerning them
are true, are likely to take their place
among the wonders of the world, but
the exploration of them at present seems
to be attended by considerable amount
of physical labor and inconvenience and
some personal peril.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
A Change Of Location Compelled.


On East Water street, and at the very
centre of business in Milwaukee, is be-
ing erected business block of imposing
size and elegance, intended for sole occu-
pancy by Messrs. Matthews Bros. & Co.
he firm named, whose mammoth furni-
ture establishment at Nos. 413, 415 and
All Broadway has long been noticed and
admired by even casual visitors in Mil
waukee, have proof in experience that
their present ware rooms, large though
they are, are inadequate to the REQUIRE.
ments of their trade. They are forced
to change Of location that shall give
them added room and improved business
facilities. The firm will remove their
business during January and Beb-
ruary. Their wish and purpose is
to transfer as small q proportion
as may be of their present mon
ster stock of furniture. With view
Of accomplishing the end thus sought,
they will offer at actual cost of manu-
facture during the thirty or sixty
days that shall intervene before their re-
moval, every now in stock on the
five floors of their immense ware.
rooms Prices will be at ,bed.rock Also
lutely; the furniture in all depart
ments as Is known, Is cal" IN quality
OF manufacture, and there is thus afford.
ed to people throughout the northwest:
an opportunity for profitable purchases
such Is rarely presents.
. Visitors IN Milwaukee before the holt.
days are urged to inspect the stock which
Matthews Bros Il ca. axhih;t a
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
The Physiology Of the Liver.

The liver is the largest secreting organ
in the human body, and the bile which it
secrets is more liable to vitiation and mis-
direction from its proper channels than any
other of the animal fluids. Luckily for the
bilious, however, there is an unfailing
source of relief from liver complaint, name
ly, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, medicine
which for over a quarter OF century has
been achieving thorough cures of the above
mentioned ailments, fever and ague, dysrep.
STA, bowel complaints, rheumatic and kidney
affections, and disorders involving loss Of
nervous vigor. tits, moreover, a preventive
of malarial disease, and affords protection
to thousands of persons residing in districts
Of country where that dire scourge is preva-
desirable, and as means Of terrifying a
debiIitated system, it is thoroughly to be de.
pended upon.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28

DIR. R. v. PIERCE, of Buffalo, N. Y, the
proprietor of DR.. Pierce's Family Medi.
cines, and also of the Invalids' and Tourists
Hotel, of that city, has recently been elected
to Congress by the very dattering majority
of nearly 5000. He has already served his
constituency as State Senator, and this re-
newed Endorsement signifies that his SER
vices have been highly satisfactory. His
extensive practice in the treatment of
Chronic Diseases will not, we are informed,
be neglected or suffer in the least when the
time arrives for him to take his seat in Con.
gress, it being intrusted to his brother and
other experienced medical gentlemen who
have long been associated with the Doctor
in the Medical Department of his celebrated
Worlds Dispensary and Invalids' Hotel.
Besides, as the Forty.sixth Congress does
not convene until December, 1879, DR..
Pierce's patients will not lose his personal
attention for some months yet.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
boiled egg. This is most delicious
sauce for fish and for cold meats.

BEEF SoUP.-Take five pounds of
round steak and small beef bone; put
it in cold water; when it comes to boil
skim it; then put in the salt and the
following vegetables: two carrots, one
turnip, branch Of parsley; five stalks of
celery, one tomato; boil slowly six hours;
just before serving out put in table
spoonful of burntsugar. The vegetables
are taken up carefully ana used to gar.
nish the meat platter.
NAsTURTIUM SEED.-Take the green
seed after the flower has dried off. Lay
in salt and water two days, in cold wafer
one day; pack in bottles and cover with
scalding vinegar, season with mace and
white pepper-corns, and sweetened
slightly with white sugar. Cork and
set away four weeks before you use
them. They are an excellent substitute
for capers.
MIXED PICKLE.-Take one pound GIN
ger root and one half pound garlic (both
previously sailed and dried); two gal
Ions vinegar; one half ounce tumeric;
and one quarter pound long pepp /.
Digest together two or three days near
the fire in stone jar; or gently simmer
them in a pipkin or enameled saucepan.
Then put in almost any vegetables ex-
cept red cabbage and walnuts, all pre-
viously sailed and dried.
Calls Liver LARDED.-Get nice
liver and wipe it thoroughly with clean,
dry towel, then lard it we'll, taking care
to keep it in shape. Put in the bottom
of the saucepan two calls feet chopped
fine; two slices of salt pork; six onions:
two small peices of garlic; one small
carrot cut fine; pepper and salt. Lay
the liver on top of this bed of vegetables
and cover the saucepan tight; cook slow
~ for three hours; the steam and the fat
will be sufficient to cook it without ad-
ding any water. When done take the
liver up carefully: put small glass of
brandy or Madeira wine into saucepan
and p ,ur the whole over the liver. Serve
at nnpo
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
A Vale of TRAGEDIES.

Only two or three miles from Men
tone, in valley traversed by the famous
Cornici road, there is spot which the
Dcbats describes in eloquent and pathetic
terms. It is " isolated, wild, far removed
from any animated centre. Only few
stunted pines grow up from the clefts in
the slaty rock. The aridity of the place
is complete. A horrible silence reigns
in it which is hardly interrupted by the
cries of ill-omened birds or by the cracks
of the muleteers' whips as they pass
along the road. Here nature is dead,
and the abrupt gorges around justify the
lugubrious purposes for which the spot
has been chosen" For this is the valley
called Mortola, and here it is that the
affairs of honor of the neighboring
French heroes are decided with the aid
of sword or pistol. "Can any reader"
asks the De6ats, "guess what dramatic
scene has lately been enacted in this
valley?" Evidently not; and then fol-
lows touching description of the terri
bic tragedy. Two young men, inhabi-
tants. of Nice, and once intimate friends,
but "sepa1ated by the ardent passion
which each each of them had for lady,"
had agreed to have a hostile meet
ing with pistols in the lugubri-
GUS valley already described. They
met, and had for some time
been discharging their firearms at one
another without any inconvenient re-
suit, when they were startled by the toll
ing of the neighboring chapel bell. They
interrupted their terrible work and be-
gan to mediate upon the wickedness of
angry passions. "Then appeared upon
the scene an unexpected witness. It
was the clergyman of the aforesaid
chapel whose counsels promptly recon-
ciled the two quondam friends, and who
as it appears, has reconciled many pairs
of duelists in the same way. As soon as
the report of firearms rings through the
valley of death the good man always sets
his bell tolling and hurries to the scene.
One is tempted to think that this hui
name practice. is pretty we'll known at
Nice and some other places, and that
the pugnacious young blades who repair
to the Mortola valley are not always so
nightly surprised to hear the sound of
the chapel bell and to see the "unex-
pected witness" appear on the scene.
There must, however, very often be an
anxious period of suspense while the
first few shots are being exchanged, lest
too clumsy champion should chance to
hold his pistol straight and shoot his ad-
versary incontinently before the "bene-
fit of clergy" is Observation-Disclosures
qZ0be
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
Testing the Cider.

Yesterday afternoon farmer, having
barrel of cider on tap in his wagon, was
doing fine retail business near the mar.
ket at five cent per glass, when man
with q very thin voice and very old
clothes softly advanced and said:
HAS the State Inspector of Pomo.
logical Juices inspected that cider yet?'
"I-I guess not" replied the farmer,
greatly embarrassed in a moment.
II thought not" continued the thin.
voiced man; "well, sir, you can draw me
a full glass;
The farmer drew one, scanning the
man with considerable anxiety, and when
the "Inspector" had received it he held
it up between his eye and the sun, and
said:
"The precipitation appears most too
rapid, while these floating PARTICLES de.
note unusual compression. Perhaps q
second glass will be clearer"
He swallowed the contents of the first
at exactly four gulps, and taking Sec
ond glass, he critically examined it and
said:
"Ah! The precipitation is clearing
away. This cider seems to have been
made from apples.
cit was, sir, and they we're nice ap-
pies, too," replied the farmer.
"Let's see how a third glass will look.
I am not quite satisfied on the point of
compression"
He drained the second and received
the third, and as he slipped it he in
quired:
"You used hand cider press, didn't
you?"
"Yes sir"
"Ab! 1 thought so. Worked with
lever, didn't it?"
eyes SIR"
"Did the mill stand in draught of
air while you were working?"
"I-I-don't know sir"
"Well, l think it did. Be little
more careful after this. The Inspector
of Pathological Juices grades this barrel
"A No. g. but if you take little more
pains you can increase the grade every
time in the future. All right, sir-go on
with your selling.
The man had been gone ten minutes
before any one mustered courage to re-
mark that he was fraud.
g / know he's all right, persisted the
farmer. "The minnit l see him draw
his coat tail around to wipe out the cor
ner of his mouth I knew he was a big
gun, and I was just shivering in my
boots for fear he'd ask me why I didn't
punch the seeds out of the apples before
grinding."-Detroit Free Press.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
Ned BUntliue'a Romance.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial unearths chapter in the
early life of E. Z. G. Judson {" Ned
Buntline") fully as stirring as any of his
liveliest romances. Scene-Nashville
Tenn. Judson, an impecunious young
author, unknown to fame, was picking
up Bohemian living. He looked up to
and loved the daughter of wealthy cit
izen. She loved him in return, but the
parent was memorable and she was forced
to wed an elderly and rich Mr.. Porters-
field. But she did not love her liege.
She did love Judson and bestowed full
favor on him. The intimacy of the poor
writer and Mrs. Portersfeld was told to
the latter's husband. He would not be-
lieve till finally he was forced to by as
surances offered by near friends. he
accused his wife Of the offense and she
confessed, reminding him at the same
time that she never loved him, and as.
surfing him that she would continue to
prefer Judson. Portersfeld armed him.
self with q revolver and went out to
seek and kill Judson. The latter was
warned by Mrs. P. and by others. Por-
ters6eld searched all day without finding
the object of his hate. In the evening
Judson ventured out, and at turn came
face to face with the avenger. It was
life or death for one or the other, and
Judson was quickest with his weapon.
He shot Porterefield dead at the first
fire, and returned to his hotel. This
was quickly besieged by a crowd bent on
avenging Portersfeld death. The mob
threatened to burn the hotel if Judson
could not. otherwife be reached. The
chronicle concludes thus: "a window
was heard to rise and fall, form ap-
peared for moment above the crowd.
The Pickering, dim light of the torches
fell upon the form for a moment, and
showed 1.-THE, graceful and shapely.
Then, before pistol could be fred or an
exclamation made, Ed. Ju9son Jumped
into the very midst of his terrible enc
mics, a weapon in his hand was seen to
smoke twice, and he was gone, followed
by the terrible roar let out from the
mouths of twenty five guns and pistols!
He escaped, but what became of the
woman whom he left in the hotel, no
one ever knew. It is said that to-day,
however, he wears tho scars of several
wounds which he received when he ran
the gauntlet of those twenty Five deadly
weapons in the hands of those twenty
five southern gentlemen who were bent
upon preserving the honor of their COM
paniOn POrtersfeld." ..s
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
A WOman'S Logic.

cit is useless to take medicine. l shall
feel better tomorrow. Besides, need the
money MOI =; to get that I lovely new hat. Ny old
more at my bonnet than they will at my
face. I will wait till feel worse before I
spend any money fer medicine" The new
bonnet is purchased and fifty other feminine
accessories in the forn of ribbons, laces,
brooches, etc. Meanwhile the lsdy's face
becomes every day paler and thinner, and
her body weaker, until disease has gained
so firm a foothold in her system, that the
most thorough, and ofttimes long and
tedious course of treatment is necessary to
restore her to health. Ladies, attend to
your health before you even think of ap.
parcel. A fresh, blooming face in plain
bonnet is much hsndsomer and far more at
tractive to your gentleman friends, than a
pain-worn, diseased face in the most elabo.
rate and elegant hat your milliner could de.
wise. DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is
everywhere acknowledged to be the stand
ard remedy for female complaints and
weaknesses. 1t is sold by druggists.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
'TwaS Ever Thus.

It took three men, two boys and a
brindle dog an hour and half to drive
sandy pig a distance of two blocks
down to the ferry-boat yesterday after
noon. When the wearisome drive was
ended the dog was bit in three places,
the boy had sprained his ankle, broken
two windows by throwing stones at the
pig, one Of the men was tired to death,
and the other two were drunk, and the
pig was two miles back from the river,
going west.-Barlington Hd,okeye.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28

{ WYATT CHADwE11, an sged grandson
of Patrick Henry. turned up IS com.
mon drunkard before the Tombs police
court at New York recently, and, after
he had ratified of passages from Shakes
peare, Virgil and the Iiad, the Judge
lot him OF with ! reprimand,.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
Pimples, Freckles, etc.

The most wonderful discovery yet
known, Mrs. DR.. L. K. Shaw's Moth and
Freck]e Lotion. May be had of your drug.
gist. Price only $l.0O. For particulars,
address Mrs. DR.. L. K. Shaw, 140 East 2Sth
Street, New York. Mrs. Shaw's Liver Pill.
Rosf in tho world
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28

CAREFULLY avoid the use of rasping
cathartics. They weaken the bowels and
leave them worse off than before. Use in
stead, that sulutory, non-irritating aperient
and anti-bilious medicine, Dr. Morris VEG::
ETABLE LIVER PILLS, which will not only
achieve the desired object, relaxation of the
bowels, without causing pain or weakening
them, but promote digestion and assimila.
ton and depurate the blood. The pills are
sold BY all Druggists.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28

IMPORTANT NOTICE.-Faraers, Fan.
lilies and others purchase Remedy equal to Dr..
TOBIAS VENETIAN IMMINENT for tho cure Of
Cholera. Diarrhea, Dysentery Group. Collie and Sea-
Sickness taken internally-tis perfectly harmless
see oath accompanying each bottle) and externally
fer Chronic Rheumatism. Headache, Tocthache, Sore
Bites, 0!d Sores. Pains in Limbs, Back and Chest.
The VENETIAN LINIMENr was introduced in
lS47 and who has used it but continues to do
many stating, If it was Ten Dollars Bottle they
would not be without it. Thou!ands Of Certificates
can be at the Depot, speaking Of ito wonderful
curative properties. Sold by the Druggists at 40
cts Depot "A Murray St.. New York
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
Who Wrote It?

The question is, who wrote The Lit
tie Belle of Bloomingdale," the realistic
story of New York Revolutionary life now
running in the CHRISTIAN UNION, of New
York? We are told it is by one of the most
eminent of American writer's, and that we
have sixlmOnths to guess it in
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28

GEORGIA boasts of a citizen who has
never taken a drink of liquor nor had a
spell of sickness, never smoked a cigar
nor taken a chew of tobacco, never ate
any animal that could climb tree, nor
anything that could live in water or bur
row in the ground, nor anything that
was cooked by negro.
"a SLIGHT CoLD OR COUCH"
are aware of the Importance of checking .
cough or "sL1GHT COLD" which would
yield to mild remedy; if neglected, often
attacks the lungs. 3" Brosc.s's Bronchial
1roches" give sure and almost immediate
relief. -c .e.sJ-.. '.-.
MORE than $4,000 Cabinet or Parlor
Organs are now sold in the United States
yearly. The best are those made by Mason
& Hamlin, who have taken highest honors
at all worlds expositions for twelve years,
and are the only American makers who
have taken such ct any.
CH1w Jackson'S Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
The Weekly Wisconsin.

The Weekly Wisconsin.
We will send postpaid sample of the
WEEKLY W1sCoNs1H to any person send
ing us their address.
CRAMER, AIKENs & CRAMER,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
How to Avoid Quackery.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
How to Avoid Quackery.
Sufferers from nervous debility, loss
of vitality and kindred ailments, from what.
ever cause, can now obtain the Recipes for
certain cure by the famous PHYsIoLOG-
1CAL METHOD, by writing to the inventor,
DR.. T. Williams, 1876 East Water street, Mil.
waukee, Wis. He makes no charge for the
recipes until cure is effected. They can
be prepared by any druggist, and have cured
over 600 cases in his private practice.
For upwards OF thirty years Mrs..
W1NsLOw's SOOTHING Syrup has been
used for children with never-failing success.
1t corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves
wind collie, regulates the bowels, cures dys-
entery and darrhea, whether arising from
teething or other causes. An old and well.
tried remedy. rs cents bottle.
The Celebrated
"AATCHLEsS"
Wood Tag Plug
TOBACCO.
The PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY,
New York. Boston. and Chicago.
HAVE you ague in the face and is it
badly swollen? Have you severe pains in
the chest, back or side? Have you cramps
or pains IN the limbs, or rheumatism in any
form? if so get Johnson's AnOdync Liniment.
1t will give instant relief and finally cure
you.
If any person would zee the difference
between real worth and real worthlessness
let him buy small pack of Sheridan's
horse and cattle powders and feed it out to
his hens. The increase of eggs will sur
prise you.
Hon. G. r. PARSONS, mayor of Roch-
ester, was radically cured of Bright's Dis.
ease by Craig's Kidney Cure. Depot A.
University Pl.. N. Y.
To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to
sweeten the breath, use Browns Campher.
ated Saponaceous Dsntifrice. Twenty-Five
cents bottle.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.-Far1aers. Fan.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28

SKID Is DTOKeQ Dy KICKS ana other aCCl.
dents, and is sure cure for splints if
used in proper manner.
A VIRG1N1AN writes in praise of corn.
not only the best food for 1aboring men,
but for domestic animals of all kinds.
He states that the usual ration for q
negro laborer, for q week, is one and a
half pecks of corn, three pounds of
bacon and q little molasses. They
thrive on it, and are healthy and strong.
Southern horses and mules, as q rule
have only corn for grain, but they live
longer and do more work than northern
horses that feed on oats. In this part of
the country dogs are fed almost exclus.
lively on corn meal, and they not un.
frequently eat corn on the ear, while
wandering ours devour it on the stalk.
Even cats eat cornmeal stirred up with
water as is done in the case of chicken
feed.
A SOMEWHAT curious result of coup
ling two parents of different colors il
mentioned by q correspondent of the
London Agricultural Gqzctte. A SOW Of
the small black Suffolk breed, having
had two itters to pure boar of her own
race and color;;was put to a large white
hog of the form and strain exhibited in
the large breed classes. When in farrow
divers speculations as to the color he1
produce would be were ventured by he,
owner and his herdsman. A neighbo1
was strong on tho certainty of parti.
colored pigs. The actual result is q
litter of twelve, of which six are en-.
tirely black and six are entirely white;
not a spot mans the uniformity of either
hne. It is not often that the opposing
claims of fathers and mothers family to
determine the character of the children
are so equitably adjusted.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28

CHIw Jackson'S Best Sweet Navy Tobacco,