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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
" "Cheek !" Never Paws,

The race is not always to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong, nor is it the
man with the largest mouth who gets
the most favors in this world. Yester-
day fornoon very quiet stranger en-
tered a real estate Office on Griswold
street and softly asked if he could use
blotting pad moment. One was handed
him and he sat down to table, looked
around, and said:
"Ah! thanks; but have you pen and
ink?"
They were furnished him. He tried
the pen on the pad, shook the ink around
and modestly continued:
"1f you could spare a sheet OF
paper?"
A sheet was handed him. He wrote
brief letter, folded it up, and whis-
pered:
II shall have to beg an envelope of
you"
An envelope was passed over, and
when he had directed it he looked all
over the table, under the table, up to the
ceiling and inquired:
"You couldn't lend me stamp, could
you?"
GA 3-center was handed out, and
when it had been licked on, the stranger
roce and started out, saying:
CAS- you have no Office boy, suppose
I shall have to take this letter to the
Office myself" "-Dctroit Free Press.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
A Schoolmarm's Retort.

That was a sharp retort made by a
lady teacher of one Of the Cohoes schools
to one of the school commissioners
short time ago. The commissioner had
been elected in the interest Of reform,
and his perpetual hobby was the red9c'
tion of teachers salaries. The lady,
demonstrating against further reduction,
said, to enforce her argument, that they
could not live on less, as they were idle
soi so long % during vacation in the summer
time. "You should do as my brother
in-law does," said the commissioner;
"He teaches school in the country, and
during vacation earns his living by Grad,
ling" "We would gladly cradle, too"
was the arch reply; "but it is necessary
first to get husbands" There was no
further talk of reduction on that occa-
oiOn
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Brave Father, Like Son.

When the Zulus rushed in on the
small British detachment of Col. Wood,
and while there was yet an open road in
one direction, Col. Weatherly, an Eng
lish cavalry officer, clapped his son-a
boy of thirteen, who was with him--on
horseback, kissed him, and told him to
fly for life. The lad jumped from the
saddle, striking the horse a lash which
sent it galloping of, and said! "Father,
I'll die with YOU" The father handed
his revolver to the child just as the
Zulus reached, over British bodies, the
spot where they stood. ,Weatherly slew
five Zulus before be fell, but the son was
killed at once.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, June 30.-1 80 p. M.-Flour-
Quiet; choice Minnesotas at $4.50@5.25; !;
fair to good Minnesotas at $4.25@475; fair
to good springs, $375@4 50; low springs at
81. .50@3. 90; patents, $6.o0@S.00: double ex.
tras, IN sacks, $3.S5@4 so; port extras, in
sacks, $35j@4.C). Wheat Opened at yes.
terdaJ's prices, became finn, but advance
was lost and market closed dull and ca " at
$1.O7 for seller June; 972s@97Hc for
seller July; 9l5sc asked for seller August.
Corl-Ea;ier at $3.50 for seller June ;
3SA@3SMc for seller July; 37Nc bid for
sella August; 37Ic bid for seller Septem.
Der. Oats-At 323sc for seller June; 32c
for seller July; 29Hc for seller August; !;
1910 for seller September. Rye-At $3.50
for cash 53c bid for seller July. Barley
Nom;nally at zoe for cash. Whiskv-At
$1.O5. Pork-At 50 S2X for seller June
$9S5 asked for seller July; 1896 bid for
seller August; $40 07%@1O.10 for seller Sep
tember. Lard-$6.1O bid for seller June
or July; $500 asked for seller August;
$6 27 for seller September. Hogs-Re.
CENTS $4,000 head; moderately active, weak
ana lower; light at $3.S0@3.85; heavy
packing at $3.60@3.80; heavy shipping at
$375@3 80. Cattle-Quiet; receipts 6,00C
head.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
TIE MARKETS.
Reputed by CHANDLER, BROWN & Co., COmmi
sion Merchants, Milwaukee and Chicago.
New York.


1Ew YORK, June S0.-3:o0 P. M.-Cotton
Quiet and steady; middling uplands al
127.16c. Flour-Quiet; prices without de-
cided change; receipts 1900 bbls: sales
5000 bbls; state and western at $350@3.S5
extra state at 81 00@4.1O; extra western at
$4O0@41O; round hoop Ohio at at$4.OO@6 90;
rye -four firm. Wheat-A shade tirmer and
quiet; receipts 5000 bus; sales $4,000 bus;
No. 2 northwestern seller June at $1.15
Rye-Dull and unchanged. Corn-A shade
frmer; trade light; receipts $4,000 bus
sales 10000 bus at 40@43c for western
mixed. Barley-Dull and nominal. Oats
Quiet; receipts 5000 bus; sales 24,OOC
bus at 36H@3Sc for mixed western; 37h
@41Tc for white. Pork-Quiet at 5000.
Deef-Steady. Lard-Dull at $685.. Butter
AT 7@l5Hc. Chcese-At 6@6Nc.
Whisky-At $l.o5%. Sugar-At 6@651c.
Eggs-At 1C@l5c. Petroleum-Crude at
5@6Nc; refined at 6Tc bid. Tallow-At
5@6c. Coal-Firm; very light demand.
Loather-Fair trade at 2O@2OHc. Wool
Steady and fairly active at 50@35c.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03

SUCH is the formidable antagoni1m OF
the sexes. that chance to give Roland
for an Oliver is never lost. "Don't you
think that a good likeness of meT' said
a pretty wife to the small fraction OF
herself called her husband. very
good" was the reply, "except that there
Is q little too much repose about the
mouth"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Mr.. spurgeon also Rings in a Joke.

Mr.. spurgeon also Rings in a Joke.
Mr.. Spurgeon recently told this
anccdote as he gave out an anthem:
A high churchman and Scotch Presby-
terian minister had been at the same
church. The former asked the latter if
he did not like the "introits." He re-
piled: 81 don't know what an introit
is" Said the churchman, but did you
not enjoy the anthem?" he replied:
"No, l did not enjoy it at all" II am
very sorry" !" said the churchman, "be'
cause it was used in the early church; ;
"Ah!' said tho Scotchman, "then that
explains the Scripture. l can under.
stand now, if David sung it at that time
why Saul threw his javelin at him.
This was followed by loud peal of
laughter, when Mr.. Spurgeon said:
"N0w, let US sing the anthem"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
An Old Sinner.

JAS F. Edmunds, aged 60, a we'll known
citizen and ex.alderman of Newton, Mass,
and flour aud commission merchant of
Boston, was arrested on the 2Sth for forgery
of paper in possession of Maverick bank
The forgeries aggregate $s0,C00. Since the
forgeries were discovered Edmunds has suf.
fered severe mental prostration. He is
now under charge of three police officers,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
SuiCiGnQ.

Frederick Bresmer, released recently
from the Columbus, o., lunatic asylum,
committed suicide on the 9th ult., by
drowning in the Scioto river.
At Buffalo, N. Y, on the Gath inst, Thom-
as Dunkel, charged with killing his wife,
suicided with razor given him to shave be.
fore trial,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Steamer Sunk.

The Donaldson line steamship Collina,
from Glasgow, on her voyage up the st.
Lawrence, struck rock at Cape Laroche,
on the 22d, knocking hole in her bottom,
causing her to sink in ten minutes. The
crew were rescued by the steamer Reindeer.
The Colna has a general cargo, the greater
portion being raw sugar.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Burned to Death.

The dwelling house of J. F. Reynolds,
near Jonesboro, Ga., was destroyed by fire
on the 23d, and In it burned his daughter
and sister'in.law, young girls of three and
sixteen years. The fire originated in their
room, which was locked on the inside, and
they became so blinded or bewildered, they
could not open the door, although Rey.
nolds who had been awakened bv the roar.
ing flames, called to them ana tried to
break the door in. He then went to save
his wife and barely succeeded in getting her
out. He is very badly burned, It is feared
fatally,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Killed by Lightning.

John w. Dent, law student, was killed
in Cohoes on the 2Sth, and two companions
injured by lightning.
Two children of Mr.. Wiswall were killed
by lightning on the 29th ult, in front Of
their home in Morisiana, N. J.
At Titusville, Pa, on the Goth, during q
heavy thunder storm, a man named William
Hogan was instantly killed by lightning.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Milwaukee.

M1LwAUKEE, June 30-3:00 P. M.-Flour
Not much dong; good to choice shipping
extrs, at $3.70@3.e5; fancy spring extras at
$4 O0@4.25. Wheat and unsettled;
No. hard at $1.C6; No. 2 at 99Hc@$1 OF ;
No. 5 at S1@S1Hc; No. 4 at 74Hc; rejected
seller August at e2@e2Xo. CornSActives
and frmer at $500. Rye-Tame at 53c.
Oats-Stronger at 32Hc. Barley-Held at
20; buyers offer Csc for No. 2 and 47c for
No. ). Pfovisions-Quiet. Pork-At SO. IS
$50. Lard-Quiet at $6.15@6.20.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Another Veto.

- =
On the 23d inst, President Hayes privat,
secrst1ry delivered to the house, a messag,
from the president returning the judicia
expuses appropriation bill without ap
proVel. The presidents objections to it.
approval are directed solely against thu
clauses Of the second section which providel
that no department. or officer of the govern
ment shs'!, during said fiscal year ending
June 81, 1880, make any contract or incu,
any liability under any of the provisions Of
title twenty-six of the revised statutes
authorizing the appointment or payment Of
general or special deputy marshals for ser
vices on election days until an appropriation
sufficient to meet such contract or pay such
liability shall have first been made by law.
Thu president takes the ground that it is his
swoan duty under the constitution to see
that every law upon the statute book be
faithfully executed until repealed or pro-
nounced Invalid by competent tribunal,
that the appointment of deputy marshals
TOR the congressional elections in California
and Westchester district of New York will
be required by title rs ofthe revised statutes
during the next fiscsl year, and that
although the ful6llment of this requirement
may be of very little practical impo, tance
as regards these elections, they nevertheless
illustrate principle, and he therefore
cannot attach his signature to a measure
which proposes to prohibit the execution of
that law by precluding the necessary ap.
pointments. The message also asserts that
thousands of cases arising under
the federal election laws have been brought
before the courts in various parts of the
country their constitutionality has never
yet been called in question, ind that aside
from his hitherto expressed conviction as
to their importance and value, he must
continue to enforce them until they are set
aside by proper judicial tribunal, or re-.
peal d by the means provided in the con.
stituion. The president fully comedies the
rightof congress to stipulate for what pur.
posesthe various items of money appropri-
ated " it shalt be used, and finds no argu-
ment for Withholding his signature from
the bill in its failure to make any appropri.
alton for compensation of deputy marshals
OF elections. It is also noticeable that he
makts no objection whatever to it's provis.
ions for repeal of the jurors test oath and
for amendments of the present law in re.
gardto the method of drawing juries.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Harvard W. Yale.

The university boat race at New London,
Conn, on the 9th, resulted in an essy vic.
tory for Harvard. Yale was passed in the
first half mile and never regained her posi-.
ton. The last half mile was fine exhibi.
ton of rowing on the part of Harvard, their
boat fairly jumping through the water, and
carrying them to the finish between h and
Il mile ahead. Official time, II :l5 for Har-
ward, aud % :5S for Yale.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Financially Embarrasse.l

a receiver has been appointed for the
stfalrs of Samuel w. Green, printer, New
York city. Liabilities over 100000.
Z. r. Ornway & Co., clothers, Nashville,
Tenn, failed on the Gath inst. Liabilities
$43, ,923; assets S47 256.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03

A SALEM boy, with a basket of turn
overs, begged admission to see Barnum's
show, and was passed in by q benevolent
man. Pretty soon he got interested in
the elephants and set his basket down
within REACH OF the animals trunks.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03

A heavy rain storm at Fort Griffin, Texas,
on the 10th inst, caused Collins creek to
overflow and flood the town. Seven people
were drowned in the city and vicinity. The
damage to property is immense.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
O'Leary 10 the Front Axa,n

The 75hour pedestrian match at Chicago,
between O'Leary and Grassland, was finish.
ed at IL o'clock on the night of the 2Sth.
O'Leary won, making $50 miles and laps
to Crossland's 225 miles and 3laps.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Small POx ScOuR1c,

About six weeks ago smallpox of very
malignant type broke out among the Mora.
Wan Indians on the river Thames, in Can.
ada. Since its appearance aboutffteen have
died, and more have it at present than at
any previous time.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
The Mammoth bitch.

Ferdinand de Lesseps states that the first
sod OF the Panama canal will be turned
January 1st' 1850, and with 10000 navvies,
including some Cainese, and II, 900 Brazilian
negroes, the work would be completed in
eight years.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Ansufre cti0n Ended.
Inc lnsurrecti tic n in Algeria is ended and
1our tnon'and insurgents are in the hands
of the Fren' sh.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Fatal Runaway Accident

while driving at Philadelphia on the
10Th instant, Mrs. Mcfarland and her broth.
ee.r' John ). Graham, were thrown from
taelf car riaee, the horses running away.
mrs. M';Farland was killed and her brother
DANCE ge.rously wounded.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03

Albert. Weber, the New York piano man.
u'ac1u' .er, who died on the 22d inst, leaves
an es ate valued at from $500, 900 to $3.50, 900.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03

Mrs. Mccormick, alias Conway, was mur.
dered in low honse in Grifintown, Canada.
The body was found lying in pool of
blood. The head and hand, which had
been severed from the body, were found in
a pail.
Mrs. Agnes Dieckman, wife of William
Dieckman, farmer living near Bluff
Ridge, Mo-, wa1 found dead in bed oD the
9Th ult., having been mysteriously mur.
dered. No clue to the perpetrators.
In a family dispute at Atlanta, Ga, on the
9th ult., Jill Burton shot dead his brother
in.law, J. T. Kicks both were farmers,
Two harvestert were met by two tramps,
near Alton Junction, ILL.,, on the 9th ult.,
who attempted to rob then. Resistance
was made, when one of the halvesters was
shot dead, and both robbed.
At California City, CAL, on the 9th ult,
R. H. Moore, keeper of the Dupont Powder
Co.'s magazine, shot and instantly killed A.
Fulton, manager OF the WORKS, and then
blew his own brains out. The tragedy was
enacted in the presence of Fulton's wife
and children. Fulton had receatly kiven
Moore notice he would dispense with bis
further services.
Eldridge Ruey, farmer of Tioga county,
N. Y, was murdered and robbed on the
26th, by Daniel Searls (coloredD to whom he
refused a loan.
| A Lexington, Missouri, dispatch says
that r. s. Taylor and Robert Taylor,
brothers, and B. q. Wren, all farmers, be.
tween whom an old ieud existed, met at
Wellsville, Lafayette county, on the 25th,
and renewed the quarrel. The Tayiors
fred four balls into Wren's body, mortally
wounding him, and Wren killed R. s. Tay-
lor instantly, and fatally wounded Robert.
Edgar d. Thomas and wife, of Provi.
dence, L. l., have lived apart for some time.
On the night of the 25th instant he called
upon bis wife ut the house of her father and
during brief interview shot her fatally
and fled.
At a colored picnic, near Batavia, O., on
the 26th, Charles McGraw, colored, of Ba'
tavia, was shot and killed by Hiram Trat
ter, of New Richmond.
VIM. w. Hume, a variety-show treasurer
of Columbus, O., shot Minnie Bertrain alias
Josie Hamilton, his former mistress at Chi
cago, on the 26th, and then put three balls
into his own body, dying instantly. The
woman was but slightly wounded.
Some negroes quarreled about woman
at Savannah, Ga, on the 25th instant, and
before the melee was over three of the
blacks were shot dead.
i A party of unknown men attached the
house of Samuel Faulkner, twelve miles
distant from Frankfort, KY, on the night
Of the 2lst, severely twounding Faulkner q
he ran from the house. They then set fire
to the dwelling, consuming it with three
human beings, Harry Rsssel, aged II, and
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
The Khedlve of Eeypt Deposed.

1He Ahe0IVe Oh ERynt Dep08ed.
The sultan OF Turkey has signed frman
deposing the khedive of Egypt in favor of
his son, Prince Mohammed Tew fix, and the
khedive has signified his compliance with
the demand for abdication.
A dispatch from Cairo states Tewfik Pashs
was proclaimed viceroy of Egypt with q
salute of hundred guns. The Russian
consul general has been ordered to support
other consuls in the positions they have
taken. 1t is reported the khedive will re-
ceive pension of $4,000 per annum.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Chillre,ll Kille1l.

Two chl'dren, az ed II and 19 years, sons
OF Alfred stanter burg, of Clarksburg, Ont,
took shelter u'lder a tree from passing
storm, When'. limb fell and both were killed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
COFbin Rejected.

= The senate, in executive session on the
2Sth, rejected the nomination of D. S. Cor.
bin, chief justice Of the supreme court of
[Jtah
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Yellow Fever.

The schooner Cummings arrived at New
York from Para, on the Goth. The captain
and two seamen died from yellow fever on
the passage.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
The Death Roll

Alfred I. Sanford, son of Prof. Sanford of
Chicago university, and Olive C. Holmes,
daughter OF Judge Holmes of Syracuse, N.
T., were drowned on the 21st in Onondaga
lake.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Under an Engine.

aged ST., employees of ii the Great Western
ra1tTa =, were run over and instantly killed
by yard engine at London, Ont, on the
29th,.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Railway Fatalities

The engine and three front cars of an
east-bound mai; train broke through Reed
Creek bridge, three miles west of White.
vile, Va, and feel distance of eighty feet.
Express Messenger Langhorn was killed.
Conductor Fairfax and two mail agents were
injured. Several of the passengers were
hurt.
A Quebec dispatch of the 26th inst. says: :
The passenger train for Acton, on the South.
eastern railway, came in collision with a
construction train. John DAILY, engineer,
and Morse No,reas, of the latter train, were
killed, and Fred Cutler, Jr., and two others
named Taylor and Petrealt, seriously injured.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03

two OF Faulkner's children, aged II and 8.
No cause is given for the brutal affair.
An alteration on the night of the 22d,
between John English, well-known plant.
er, and Policeman Rose, at Columbia, s. c.,
resulted in injuries to the former from
which he died. Joe English, brother Of
the deceased, met Rose next day, when sew.
era shots were exchanged without effect.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Foreign.

LONDON, June 30.-l2:3O r. M.-Ltver.
pool wheat market opens firm floating car
goes steady; on passage quiet. Coca car
goes mixed American corn, off coat, 2(s Cd.
Weather in England shows signs of improv.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03

AA.o OAAAOA ACssas AG"CU 0Oc10uys
The American Tract society held its an.
hual meeting at New York city on the 9TH
| inst. The available resources during 1878
were $4,000; expenditures during the same
time, $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03

When his benefactor came along, how.
ever, and, noticing his empty basket,
congratulated him on selling outs soon,
he was dumbfounded and calculated,
"Whewl That India-rubber son of q
gun has stolen them piesl''
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Terrible Explosions.

An explosion of boiler at Willis ex-
tensive planning mill, Philadelphia, on the
9th inst, caused great CONSERVATION. The
engine house and portion of the mill were
blown in all directions, the flying bricks
and iron wreck;ng several dwellings. The
boiler, by the force of the explosion, was
driven into the second story of dwelling
occupied by family named Long. Claude
Long, eight years old, and his sisters Eva
and Stella were killed. Their mother and
Mrs. Ann McAvoy were supposed to be
buried in tbs ruins.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03

"WHY is the sun masculine" "Cos
Ions allus ISL "And the moon femi-
nine?' "'Cos it is 60 changin'.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
Mrs. Hull's Murderer Captured.

The recent mysterious murder of Mrs.
Hull in New York, has kept the police cir
cles Of the great metropolis on the Qui vive
to secure tho guilty party. But the fatss
ordained that theirs should not be the salts.
faction. It fell to the lot of q newspaper
reporter named W. r. Bslch to apprehend
the fiend in the streets Of Boston, on the
strength of photograph, copies of which
had been freely circulated. The murderer,
who is colored man named Chastine Cox,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03
R0bbeFiee.

c. Robert Linke, jeweler, Providence,
r l., was robbed, on the night of the 9th,
of $4,000 worth of property.
Charles Markus, who is credited with
being one Of the shrewdest thieves, forgers
and confidence men in the country, was
arrested at Muscatine, Iowa, on the 23d,
charged with numerous burglaries aud for.
geries in Chicago and elsewhere, The post.
Office department is said to have been
searching for him for the past eight months.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-03

confessed the deed upon being arrested,
ssating that his motive was plunder
only. On his person was found Mrs. Hull's
watch, and at the pawnshops other portions
of the jewelry was recovered.