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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-02-27

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MONDAY, February 17.-Several Pc
titions were presented for the abolition of the
brass kettle Bills passed: Regulating the
fees Of the county commissioners Of Houston
county; authorizing the commissioners of
Houston county to issue $4,000 in bonds for
the erection of a school house; legalizing the
election in Meeker county fixing the county
seat at Litchfield. Bills introduced: To
amend the act relating the collection of taxes
IN St. Louis county; to extend the limits Of
New Richmond (pasSed Under suspended
rn!es); amending the charter of the village of
We1ls; authorizing the Worthington and Sioux
Falls railroad to operate branch line to the
Iowa state line; to preserve the purity of GER
tain lakes in Honnepin county by prohibiting
the emptying Of impurities into them: to ap-
propriate $500 to the Minnesota Dairymen' 8
association; to incorporate the village of Wal
nut Grove; to authorize the plowiDg and lev
cling public highways; to prevent the sale Of
adulterated honey; to establish ferry oppo-
site Grand Fork, D. T.. over Red River: to in
corporate the village Of Shieldsville; to pro-
vide fol terminating the contest for the pay
ment OF the socalled Minnesota railroad
Brownsville (passed under suspended rules)
to enable certain counties to issue bonds to aid
railroad from Sank Rapids to Mankato. ..
Adjourned.
TUESDAY, February 1S.-The usual
number of petitions were presented aud ap-
propriately referred. >. Bills indefinitely post
poned: Relating to county commissioners; re-
lating 10 elections; relating to divorce; relat-
ing to marriage; senate bill relating to noso-
taries public; relating to saloon games; rolat'
ing to adjournments OF examinations in courts;
relating to the sale of liquors. Bills passed
under suspended rules: To iesalize certain
bonds issued by school district in LIE Sueur
county; defining the boundaries ct the coun-
ties Of Marshall and Kittson: memorial to
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-02-27

MONDAY, February 17.-Hale, under
the call of states, offered resolution .di-
recting the committee on judiciary to re-.
port Il joint resolution proposing a consti.
tutional amendment to prohibit the pay.
ment OF war claims except to persons loyal
to the union. A motion to adjourn was
made on the Democratic side, and the roll
call consumed the remainder of the hour
and the resolution went over without &C.
ton ......A motion to suspend the rules was
made for the purpose of passing a bill ap.
propriating SEC, 852, 200 for the payment Of
arrears of pensions. On motion the bill
was amended by vote of Is ycasto 81 nays,
to include special pensioners aud pensions
granted on account of soldiers who'enlisted
in the war but who died from disabilities
incurred after the cessation of hostilities.
The bill appropriates+the amount stated out
of any money in the truasury not o herwise
appropriately. The rules were suspended
and the river and harbor appropriation bill
and deficiency bill were passed ...... Pending
the District of Columbia business, recess
was taken till evening when were: he1d
memorial services held on Representative
,Schleicherr....Adjoqrned. - I. :. :;
\ N,Espka, Tebruafy 1s.-After short
session in committee of the whole, and a
recess, the house went into committee of
the whole on, the legislative. judicial and
aexecutlHe appropriation bill. When the
committee arose sans Adjournment was eff.
fected.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-19
Starvation in Germany.

The failure of the potato crop in Eu-
rope will nowhere cause greater hardship
than in some parts of Germany. Last
spring the German newspapers were full
of startling descriptions of people suffer-
ing for want of food in the forest region
of Spessart. While the government was
spending enormous sums upon fortifca.
lions and soldiery, official investigations
re yealed the fact that over three-fourths
of all the inhabitants of the Spessart dis
trict were in pitible restitution. A
leading journal of Germany said of this
impoverished population: "They are
barely able to maintain a wretched ex-
istence from one potato crop to the other,
and single failure of this crop reduces
them to the most abject want, even in
times when there Is. no such general in
dustrial depression a. al present exists. |"
A commission directed by the govern
ment to examine into the correctness of
the newspaper reports, found In the hab-
Itations of this impoverished population
"no bread, no potatoes, no salt. 1t was
q population on whose faces the shadow
of starvation lowered, and who brooded
In speechless distress, their courage gone,
and already too weak too work." In
one village 1t was reported that wild
hogs that had been buried were dug up
and eaten. Greater than even this and
more widely diffused must the suffering
be during the coming year, unless means
OF relief are promptly provided.
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The ladies of the Salt Lake Anti
Polygamy society have petitiOned congress
to remove Representative Canon from OF.
fee. They claim that he is u polygsmist.
A DISPATCH from Fsirplay, COL, re-
ports the discovery of uranium in the Sacrs-
mento mining district, q mineral found in
Bohemia, but never before in this country,
so far as known. The present discovery
was made by II. L. Rice. The ore runs ~
per cent. uranium, worth 81 900 ton.
BREvET MAJOR RosENKRANs, of the
Sixteenth United States infantry, died at
Fort Riley, on the 7th inst, and was buried
there with military honOrs two days after.
wards.
TIE will of the late Solomon A.
Smith, of Chicago, bequeathing one million
dollars, was probated on the 9Th inst; The
property goes 10 members Of his family.
CONGRESSMAN ALFRED NJ. LAY, of
Missouri, died at Washington on the Sth
inst, Of paralysis.
A DISPATCH from Los PinOs agency,
dated the 9th, says Ouray has promised to
deliver for trial at Washington Douglas and
the Indians engaged in the massacre at
White River agency. The Indians believe
the people Of Colorado are prejudiced
against them. Runners have started TO
bring in the Indians called for by the com
mission.
ARRANGEMENTS hsve been completed
and the papers signed eHecting the long
proposed union of the Atehison, Topeka and
Santa Fe, the St. Louis and San Francisco
and Chicago and Alton railroad companies
for the building of joint line from Albur
auerque on the Rio Grsnde river, New Mex
| leo, the present terminus of the Atehison
Topeka and Santa Fe line, TO the Pacific
coast, probably reaching both Santa Fe anc
| New Mexico.
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OXFORD, Mich, is highly excited over
grave rObberies committed there on the
night of the 18th. The robbers were track.
ed to Rochester station, where two men
having three dead bodies in their possession
were arrested. One of the bodies was iden.
tilted as that of Robert Ersley, buried on
the 7th instant; another as that of James
Dove, buried on the 10th, and the third as
that of Mrs. V. HumfOrd, who at the time
Of death was ninety years Of age.
JULIAN CLARK, q convict in Still.
ater, Mimi, penitentiary, was shot and
instantly killed by Deputy Marshal Hull,
on the 18th, for refusing to obey orders to
90 TO his cell. He made deadly assault on
fellow prisoner some days previous. He
was serving ten years sentence, and was
formerly in the Joliet, Ill penitentiary.
The wife and Oldest son of Levi II.
Stone, of Cornish Flat, N, H., have been
arrested in connection with his murder.
The custom house at Cincinnati was
robbed of about 81 600 on the 10th instant,
while clerk was watching the Grant pro.
cession.
FLEIsHMAN, SIcHEL & Co., hardware
dealers, San Francisco, Cal have made an
assignment; liabilities about $65, eco; assets
| SIS, 600. The embarrassment was caused by
the defalcation OF the bookkeeper, Ernest
Lewenberg, who disappeared. He had
been leading fast life, dealing in stocks, etc
THROUGH the offices of New York
lithographic frn, with whom he was nego
tiating for the manufacture of counterfeit
Canadian stamps, Jacques Narbonne has
been arrested by Canadian detectives
Narbonne wal: educated at Montreal Cath
Ollie college, and is the author OF several
works in French. He assumed the title Of
Count de Stroy.
AWAKENED by the barking of dogs
Josh Irving, colored expressmsn, living
on Third avenue, Chicago, proceeded to hi
barn about one o'clock on the morning o
the 9th inst, and was shot twice and in
stantly killed by murderer, who was hearC
running along the path back of the house.
THE officers of the ship Cashmere hav'
been arrested at Boston for murder. Til,
crew made astounding reports of cruelt,
practiced on the ship. Two deaths from
nLtreatment occurred during the ships las
voyage.
On the morning of the 7th inst, tn
farm house of William Richard and William
Needhsm, near London, Ont., was entere,
by masked burglars who stole $500 an
probably fatally dubbed the Eeedhams.
A LETTER from Havana announce
the arrest there Of Jose Medina, who ha
Just landed from New York steamer wit
q lot Of counterfeit $500 government bonds
bank notes and revenue stamps.
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ABROAD.

In Hungary, the city of Arad, on the
Moros river, and several other towns have
been ruined by inundatiOns. Ten thou
sand people are rendered homeless.
NEARLY all the streams in Transyl-
vania have overfowp laying waste vast tracts
of country. Iu some cases the inhabitants
remained for days on the house tops AID in
trees.
THE captain and crew of the bark
Warren Hastings, which lost two men,
washed overheard in gale, landed on the
18th at Falmouth. The vessel was from
Lisbon for Philadelphia, and foundered in
q gale lasting from the 18th TO the 18th Of
November.
A STORM at Aspinwsll damaged the
Pacific Mail Steamship company's wharf
500, 900, and that of the Panama Railroad
company $4,000. Seven thousand three
hundred and twenty-nine tons Of coal were
lost by vessels sinking. Some idea Of the
violence of the sea may be gathered from
the fact that the ship A. G. Bonner lost her
rudder by striking bottom in six fathoms Of
water.
MOST distressing accounts have been
received of the suferings of the people in
upper Silesia, caused by famine. The crops
| we're almost a total failure and the latest
| advIces are to the effect that not less than
zoe, 900 people are suffering for food. many
Of whom must starve unless relief be fur
nished by the government.
A LONDON correspondent writes that
the Kashgar revolt in Chinese Tartary hai
ended by the final and complete defeat OF
Hakim Khan, of Tura, with q loss Of one
| thousand killed. Hakim Khan besiege6
| Tashkourgan with five thousand men, the
| Chinese garrison numbering only two thou
sand, but all of Hakim Khsn's KirghiE forcG
deserted him, leaving him with only sixteer
hundred Sarts. Hakim Khan retired witt
these into the country of the Kirghiz wh(
had deserted his command, which he ravag
ed, and then started for Russian territory
laden with booty. The Chinese from fash
kourgan overlook Hskim Khan on the Els
of September in Kizil-Art de6le, and slew
1,000of his men.
THE main chapel of the Wesleyan
Church, London, was much injured by fir,
on the 7th instant, and the historic build
ing, Wesley's morning chapel, was Quilted
Wesley's pulpit was saved. The beautiful
irescoed ceiling is irreparably injured, ant
great doubts are entertained whether tn
roof can be restored.
A FAST train on the Great Easter
railway ran of the track at Manningtree
Essex. The driver and stoker were killed
and several passengers injured.
A TELEGRAM from Cettinje announce
that 800 Montenegrins stationed at Velik
were attacked ON the 9th inst, by severs
thousand Albanians. The Montenegro gar
rison were being closely pressed when the
were reinforced by Eve bsttalions. Tn
Albanisns were finally defeated, but wit
great loss on both sides. Two battalions o
Montenegrins have been sent to Velika.
! A DISPATCH from Pesth reports tina
the Karos river has risen rapidly in conse
qusnce of severe snow storms, and has hmm
dated the city of Crosswardein, Hungary
Thousands of the inhabitants ale fugitive
in need Of shelter. Many houses have beer
destroyed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-19
Elegant Novelties in Silver.

Some of these rarities in silver resem-
bic old Limoges enamel. A small coal
scuttle for sugar of hammered silver,
darkened and colored by means of differ.
emit alloys, is decorated with applied
work in dull colors with butterfly and
branch. A cake-platter is hammered
and oxidized, having a decoration of a
Chinese soldier, q cluster of three yellow
gold leaves and crab, and q cock in cop
per-color repOusse pecking at grain. A
Persian silver jar has the appearance of
being corrOded and stained by age. A
large waterpitcher of sstin-fnished sill
yer is decorated with cranes pecking at
lily.buds, q full cluster af aquatic plants
and dragon fly, all inserted in different
alloy. There are three tints of russell,
brown and gray in the cranes. A set of
mall teaspoons have similar decoration
on the handles, each different from the
other. A pair of small bon-bon plates OF
yellow hammered gold differ in decors-
ton :; one has graceful vine of blackber.
ries in dark metal repouses; the other
represents water in waving lines of gold Of
greenish tint, clusters of water lilies, q
fish and ily-pods; these are in niellc
work; the pineapples and grapes in the
center are produced in green and amber
tints, shaded with black, like an Indis
ink etching. This rests on silver
napkin with fibers and pattern of the
initiation linen worked out so carefully
that the illusion is marvellous until il
shows that it is substantial enough Il
act as tray, the fringe being closely
matted. A four-sided flower vase o.
dark, hammered gold has on one side {
yellow gold dragon in high repousst
relief; on the three other sides ar
foliage, dragon-flies, bird in copper anC
! innn alloy = Mem York IIihnne
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Laying Back the Ears.

The expressive gesture which many
animals make with their ears are mat
tiers of familiar observation. Nothing
Is more significant than drawing back
and pressure Of the ears to the head,
which indicates savage frame of mind.
Mr.. Darwin, In his recent work on the
means of expression in men and animals,
gives an ingenious explanation of this
movement. he observes that 1t is only
found In the species which fight with
their teeth. All the carnivoEa do this,
and all, 90 fsr az he has observed, draw
back their ears when feeling savage.
This may be continually seen with dogs
hghting IN earnest, or perhaps fighting
in play. Oats, tigers, leopsrds and
lynxes show the same peculiarly. It is
very Noticeable In horses, and the vic.
ious expression it gives to them is nm
mistakable. But cattle, sheep or goats,
though they fight, never use their teeth
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A BoILkR exploded on the British war
ship Pelican, on the sth inst, killing three
persons and injuring several.
MICHAEL WRAYLoN, of Emerald Isle,
his daughter Cassi, his son Lowell, and .
man named Jacob Sears, Of Woods Hsrbor,
N. B.. left Shay HArb0r In a small shallop
for Pabnieo, TO attend church. The vessel
tonndeEed entering Argyle Sound. All
were drowned.
The United States hotel, at Sharon
Springs, N. Y was burned on the Sth inst.
Loss S60. 0O0i insurance $4,000.
AT Athens, Ill, on the Sth inst, Sam
Hill q Co.'s HOur mill Was destroysd by FIRE.
Loss $35,O09.
EARLY on the morning of the 7th
instant, q 6re swept along the west side OF
River street. Troy, n. Y, destroying laun-
dry, q shirt and collar mandatory and q
boiler and machine shop. A malt house
MAS damaged. The fire jumped across to
the east side Of River street and burned 10
the ground six tenement houses and the
German Lutheran Church. The losses az
greeats $S5e,CC0. The insurance on the
property destroyed amounts to about $780,
900. Eighteen hundred employees, fifteen
hundred of whom are girls, are thrown out
Of employment.
THE ship Eugene LeOnie Is q total
wreck at Dunkirk, Scotland. The captain
and mate were drowned.
The Denver passenger and express
train on the Chicago and Alton road, jump
ed the track at Glasgow. No, while gOins
at . rapid rate, making frightiul wreck
None Of the passenger were injured. Fire
man Harry LemmRrIha was terribly scalded
and Express Messenger Harry Brown seri
ously burned and soalded.
BENTON JONES, of Dyers Station
Tenn, was run over by passenger train OF
the Mobile and Ohio railroad, on the 6tl
inst, aud instantly killed.
SEVERAL hundred persons wer'
drowned by storm wave which swept owe
Moutishkai island, Bay Of Bengal.
ONE person WAS killed and nine in
jured by Q railway collision near Paris
France, on the 9TH inst
AN express train ran into land slid,
near Oil City, Pa, on the night Of the 6tl
inst, wrecking an engine and eight cars
Arthur Simpson, fireman, lost his life.
ENGINEER WILLIAM GILCHRIsT wa
killed by a collision on the Chicago ant
Alton road on the 9Th inst.
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CASUALTIES.

THE town of Red Rock, Pa, was de-
stroyed by FIRE on the 18th. An oil well took
FIRE from a lamp in the hands of a passer.
by, and the burning oil ran down the hill
10 a 25, 900 barrel tank, which also took FIRE.
Rivers Of burning oil flowed down the val.
ley and through the main street Of Red
Rock, burning all the business and private
houses in the town. Three hundred famil-
les were rendered homeless. The loss will
reach 500, 0O0i insurance light.
An embankment csyed in upon ten or
twelve men on the 18th inst. at Platts.
mouth, Neb. Three men were taken out
dead and seven badly njured. /: is feared
others msy be buried under the ruins.
FALL of slate from the roof of the
Forest colliery at POttsyille, Pa, On the 18th
inst killed Frederick Hay, John Reckler
and boy named James.
MRS. NEAULr and two children were
drowned in North Nation river, Canada, on
the 18th inst.
FIVE Cinnamon, while in the stupor
consequent upon opium smoking, were
burned TO death at LoVelocks, New, re-
Gently.
WASH. WIEAEs, colored, drove a span
OF valuable mules into the river for water
at Cairo, ILL, on the 18th. Driver and team
were drowned.
AN explosion of gas in a sewer in San
Francisco on the 18th wrecked several
housss and injured several persons.
AT Tapgier, n. g., on the 10th inst
q dynamite explosion killed George Fergu.
son, his son James and nephew Joseph Fer.
guson.
By the breaking of an ice pond dam
near Nashville, Tenn, on the 10th inst,
| the cottage Of the McCroy family was food.
ed and two children drowned.
i VERY severe Wind storm passed
over the town OF Reny, Randolph county,
No., on the evening OF the 10th instant. The
residence of Byrd Ryle was torn to pieces,
every member of the family being more OF
lees injured, Mr.. Ryle fatally. The house oil
Joe Patrick was blown down and Mrs
Wright, o yisiEoG, fatally injured. ThG
| Dwelling of Noah BurkhsYd was torn n
pieces spd Mrs. Burkhead seriously ~
jured.
A TOLL-GATE house near Rochester
New York, was destroyed by fire on To-.
10th. The keeper and infant child persisted
On the eth inst. construction train
on tho Whitewater Valley railroad ran int
Q wagon at Q GsesEroad near Harrison, O.
killing Peter Singer, Matt Singer, Maggi'
Singer and Peter Nye. Ella Hurry wa
badly injured.
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Fire Eccentricities In DeadwOOd.

Men engaged in cleaning up the lot
formerly occupied by Sam Soyster's ark,
Wednesday, unearthed q trunk which
was In the building at the time of the
fire. The trunk upon being touched fell
to pieces, exposing the contents, a guam
tity of ladies' wearing apparel, the prop
erty of Mrs. Soyster. The clothes were
burned to cinder, and when exposed to
the air crumbled to ashes, but strange to
say, a roll of greenbacks which was in
the pocket of one of the dresses, contain
ing $50, was found intact, the bills be-
ing scarcely sipged. This rivals the dis
coVery made on the morning after the
FIRE, when Judge McLaughlin's safe was
opened which exposed a lot of gold dust
that had been melted into lumpby the
intense heat, whilea sum OF paper money
in the same drawer, wrapped In q sock,
escaped untouched. Decd'cOOd, Dakota
Pioneer, EoU %.
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The Wild Camas.

B. B. ReddiDg, of San Francisco, an
acute observer and earnest investigator
in various departments of natural sci.
ence, recently contributed to one of the
agricultural papers an article on the
camas, an edible tuber growing wild in
Idaho, Washington Territory and other
sections of the coast. He recommends
its cultivation, believing 1t would prove
q valuable addition to our List of vegeta-
BILE food.
John Sunderland, one of our best
known and most prosperous merchants,
was years ago mining in Idaho. He
says that the Indians there make great
use of the camas, cooking it in various
ways. He has often eaten 1t, and found
it very palatable and nutritious. The
bulk of the csmas when cooked is like
potato, and has similar taste and con.
sistency. The root Is white and nearly
spherical. Sometimes 1t grows long, and
Mr.. Sunderland has, seen some camas
roots that were at least two inches In
diameter. Under cultivation, the size
of the plant would BE- greatly increased.
The camas IL frequently roasted In the
ashes, ss potatoes are. This is oneof the
best ways of cooking 1t. The Camss
prairie In Idaho takes its name from the
camas roots that are there found in great
abundance. 1t would be a good thing
for some of our farmers to get some of
these tubers and see what cultivation
would do for them.--Reno Nev) Gazette.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Ex-CoNeRksshAN AMOS TUROK died
at Exeter, N. H., on the 18th inst.
The New York canvassers declare
all the Republican candidates elected except
state engineer and surveyor. Horatio Sey.
mour, Jr., Democratic candidate for that
office, Is declared elected.
TIE number of immigrants at the
port of New York, in November was 1850,
an increase OF S,S55 over November, 1873.
Arrivals since January LIST are $4,000, an
increase Of 1875 over the same period In
1878.
De. ENoCH GABLE WINES died At
Cambridge, Mass, on the nth, where he was
engaged supervising the ? rinting Of his last
work, "The State Prisons and Child-saying
Institutions Throughout the World"
HAYDEN, ON trial for the murder OF
Mary Stannard, was found not guilty at
Worcester, Mass, on the 10th inst.
The ship CsliOpe arrived at New
York on the 10th inst, with the missing
boat and the captain and four seamen OF
the foundered bark Edith, picked up at sea.
T. b. SIMMONS 4 Co., pork packers OF
East Greenbnsh. N. Y, have made an as
signment Liabilities reported heavy.
JOHN s. CUTTINGS, banker, died at
Baltimore on the 9TH. He leaves property
valued at several millions.
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GbIFaSa.

CHICAGO, December 13-1 80 +. NJ
Wheat Unsettled and generally lower +;
closing 6rm ct $l.SOk for cash; $1.32 for
seller January; 81 33H for seller February.
Corn-Opened weak ans closed firm at Ale
for csah; 4lc for seller January; 479<c for
seller May. oa:s-Wsak at Soc for cash
and seller January; $3.50 for seller Fsbru.
ary; 40c for seller May. Rye-At 7o@
unsettled at $500 for cash; $I3 20 for seller
January; $l342X for seller February.
Lard-HeaVy and lower at 81 40 for cash |;
$3.50 for seller January; $7.62ss for seller
February. Whisky-Strong at SLIP. Hogs
Receipts 5000 head; quiet, firm and
shade higher; light at 81 5O94e5; heavy
packing at $4.5O@4 10 shipping at 81 roo
A. So. Cattle-Reeeipts 1000 head; steady.