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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

\ MEMPHIS paper says: " \ stranger
dropping into Memphis to-day can see
no evidence of the fearful scourge that
for three months has been destroying
our people. The streets are thronged as
Of yore with briyht-eyed business men,
intent on the main chance, and also with
more than the usual number Of idlers,
with nothing to do but to hold the lamp
rOStSn
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

Ii kWE1, a Chinaman who visited
this country during the centennial ex-
hibition under orders from his govern
ment, and who has been for nine years
an officer of the custom house at Ningpo,
China, has written a work in four vol
umes, giving the results of his observa-
tions here. 1t is, of course, in the
Chinese language, and has a preface
written by the Victory Of the province
in which Ningpois.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

Piled on everyahand. The failures will be
nearly FIVE thousand more than during last
year. NotIonly have wages been reduced
and many thousands. Of artisans thrown out
of employment, but many thousands of
those above artisans wages are either in &C.
stnal waHt or on the confines of 1t. Them.
creasing numbers driven to grant bills of
sale on their effects is one significant proof
Of what is going on in the lower middle
classes"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Floods I'm Great Britain.

A sudden thaw caused numerous floods in
England and Scotland. The country
around Darlington and Wre1ham was SUBJ
merged for miles, and at Nottingham the
flood was the greatest for fourteen years.
Much damage is reported at Berwick and
Aherdeen
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

BILLY BALLov, companion of Mark
Twain in Nevada, and one Of the latter's
characters in roughing it," is dead.
lie was gold adventurer in the early
days of the Pacific coast, but usually had
bad luck, and lattsry became a drunk
ard. He had a thorough education, and
was at his best, a clever writer for SAL
Francisco newspapers
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
THE MARKETS.
New York.

NEW YORK, January 800 P. Moot
ton-Dull at 7-16c for middling uplands.
receipts 900 bbls; sales
spring steady; winter Il shade tirmer; re-.
ceipts 10000 bus; No. red seller February
at $l.loL. Rye-Dull. Coma tritle
firmer; receipts 14o, 900 bus; sales 10000
bus; prices unchanged. Barley-Dull.
Oats-Duli; receipts 5000 bus; sales 5000
bus; mixed western unchanged; 3l@34c
for white. Professionally at $7.20. Beef
Quiet. Lard-Quiet ut $5.S7T. Butter,
Cheese, Whisky and Sugar-Unchangcd
Eggs-At 15@30c. Petroleum Crude un-
changed; refined at SIC. Coal-<luiet.
Leather-Firm: demand steady. Wool
Quiet aud Firm.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Steam .Ploughing in England.

Whatever may be the objections to
the use of the steam ploughs--and they
are fast being overcome-they impress
the unaceustomed visitor with great
force. had read of them and had seen
pictures of them, and knew of the
amount of work that they accomplished :;
but to see them standing here, more
than dozen of them in shed after shed,
showed how inadequate had been my
preconceived idea concerning them.
John Fowler & Co., of Leeds, show
several sets of apparatus with engines of
from six to twenty nominal horsepower,
with the gang-ploughs, grubbers, rollers,
cultivators, and harrows to be used with
them. It would be impossible to give a
correct notion of the system of steam
cultivation without quite full illustra-
tions. In Fowler's system two engines
are used-engines which are capable of
travelling on the road, moving about the
fields, and carrying their apparatus with
them. Under the boiler a horizontal
drum carries steel wire rope, by which
the plough is drawn. The plough, which
turns from four to eight burrows, ac-
cording to the power of its engine, is a
gang of p]oughs attached to an iron
frame, and SO balanced that as it pro-
ceeds in either direction the gang which
is to make the reverse cut is cooked up
in the air. The ploughman sits over the
centre Of the gang, and has in front of
him steering windlass, by which the
direction of. the plough is regulated.
The grubbers, cultivators, harrows, SUBJ
sellers, ETC., are all arranged in similar
way. "
When at work, one engine stands at
each side Of the field, each with its rope
attached to the plough, and this is drawn
backward and forward between them,
the engines moving forward along the
headland for each. new bite. In order
to protect the rope from friction, it is
here and there by little trucks
called "rope porters."
A pair of the large engines and a six
furrow plough will turn up from fifteen
to twenty acres per day, almost ire
spective of: depth, within any usual
limit, The system has been
in practical use for twenty years past,
and has been undergoing constant i'm
until it seems now to be very
nearly perfect. 1t is, Of course, only on
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

THE milling industry of this country
is said to rank next to that of iron. The
number OF mills is over IS 900, atfording
employ ulent to over 10000 men, whose
annual wages are over $50, 100000, aud
turning ont yearly about 10000, 600 bar
rels Of flour, Of which 100000 are ex-
ported 10 foreign countries.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

A MARVELLOUS change came over the
feelings of sneak, who quietly accepted
five quarters for dollar, and when at
safe distance from the store discovered
to his disgust that they were all twenty
cent pieces.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

The number Of immigrants who
landed at the port of New York for the
year ending with November 1873 was
Sl,255, an increase over the number for
the preceding year of -. The i'm
migrants were principally from Ger
many, England and Ireland, although
Italy sent very considerable number,
66l arriving in the month Of November
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

THE Children's Aid Society, Of New
York, has provided homes among the
farmers of southern Virginia for more
than POO boys between the ages of II
and IS wears.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
WILL AND LAW.
by RAYARD TAYLOR.

Will, and bis lawless mirth,
{ Cried: stMine be the sphere OF earth
MiLe befhe hills and seas,
Night calm aud morning breeze,
Shadowe ed and sun-lit hours,
Passions, delights, and powers,
Each in it's turn to choose
All to reject or use
Thus nyself to fulfill,
For am WHY"
Nature, with myriad mouth,
Answered from north and south
" Back to thy nest again,
Dream OF the idle brain
Eyes shall open, and see
Power attained through me:
Mine the increasing days,
Mine the delight that stays,
Service from each to draw
For am Law!"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
A Southern California Zephyr.

A tornado struck the city Of Santa Bar.
bara, Cal, on the I'd inst, and, occupying
a narrow path, tore through several blocks,
unroofng, blowing down houses and out
buildings and uprooting trees. VIM. Goss
was killed by a falling chimney. About
ninety feet of steamer wharf was carried
aWaV
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Rurnett to Death.

The wife of Benz. Neal persisted in the
flames which consumed their residence at
Walpole, Mass, on the 4,h inst.
James l.. Armour, pensioner, and wife
burned to death at Brockton, a western
suburb of Toronto, Ont, on the End inst,
while intoxicated.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

A CORRESPONDENT says that, instead
of Maine being lavish in her school ex-
penditures, she stands thirtieth from the
top in the pay of male teachers, and the
lowest of all in the pay of female teach
ers-$4.90 per month lower than any
STATE or territory, and 1896 per month
lower than the Choctaws pay their
teachers. Twenty-Five states and terri
tories pay more per scholar for education
than Maine, and but FIVE less.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Terrific Boiler ExDlosiOn.

On the afternoon of the LIST instant, q
battery of three boilers in the HUMAN e.
Fairbanks distillery at Terre Haute, Ind,
exploded with terrible force. A colored
fireman, William Day, aged rs, married,
and franklin Hughes, white, aged 10, q
slop tender, were killed. Herman Myers, a
fireman, and a teamster named Brooder,
were also badly injured. A horse was also
killed, and one Of the cattle sheds caught
fire and was destroyed. Total loss about
10000; insured. *
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Ten Thousand Dollars Stolen.

\ thief entered the government printing
office, and watching his opportunity took
from the safe of the disbursing clerk a
package Of currency containing $4,000 in
tended for paying of employees and for the
purchase of material, and made his escape
without observation.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

Some curious rulings were made by
Judge Bears of BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, the
other day, in the trial of the Sunday
law violaters. The first cigar dealer e.
capped because the information Detective
ly charged him with committing an of.
Tense on the Sabbath or Lords dav."
instead of on Sunday, and the second
was found guilty by the judge, who re-
marked, however, that, while in scan
dalous violations of the law he would
help enforce it, in the case before him he
should suspend judgment. DR.. Landers
was then tried for buying cigars on Sum
day, but the judge discharged him, say.
ing that it was the right and duty of
citizens to see that the laws were en-
forced, and that a person who violated
the Sunday law for the sole purpose of
getting evidence against breakers of the
law was not himself guilty in criminal
sense.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Drowned.

4 team crossing on The ice between Rich
mond, Va, aud Melbourne, broke through
and were carried under by the rapid eur
rent. The occupants, Messrs. Rowe and
Kemp, of Kingsbury, and Mrs. Sadler, Of
Melbourne were drowned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
milWaukae.

Flour-Very quiet and Unchanged; choice
spring at $4.25(045O; common to fair spring
extras at $3.25@4.OO. Wheat-Better; No..
cash at SIC; No. 2 at 8SL4c; No. at zoe !;
No. i at Gle; No. 2 seller February at $3.50
Sizc; seller March at S514@s5Ec. Corn
Dull at 2912c; new 25Ac. Oats-Tame at
1870. Barley-Quiet at SIC. Rye-Dull at
42c. Pork-Very quiet at $3.50. Lard
$3.50. Hogs-Strong at $2.65@2. so; dressed
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Fatal ExnlOSiON.

DR.. 5. 7. Brooks, on the morning OF the
sd inst, was found in his room in Green
vile, Ill.,, with one hand roasted and large
hole burned in the floor, indicating the ex-
plosion Of the lamp; but the tire had evi.
IDENTIFY gone out for want OF air.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
AfxhRniSt0n.

Adispatch from Calcutta says: News from
Cabul is to the effect that Yakeob Khan re-
uuired his officers and soldiers to swear on
the Koran to stand by him, but finally
withheld their pay as their general declines
to become security for their fidelity.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
c.H. DAVIDSON, Proprietor.
VARIOUS TOPICS.

THE last census taken in Austria re-
vealed the fact that there were 1873 men
and 226 women above the aye Of 100
wears in that country.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
a PlAxu3.

Applique has appeared among the Cos.
sacks Of Astraci,an. The sufferers are iso-
lated. Many doctors have been summoned
to their relief. OF l95 persons attacked
since the first instant l43 died.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

NAMES once prominent industry,
ship building, gives employment to
constantly decreasing number of persons,
not half the work havingbeen done in the
season just closing that Was done in the
previous year. Indeed, only eleven ships
were built in the state and of the ninety
six vessels constructed, the average ton
mage was only 425, or, taking out the
ships, less than 300. The prospect is that
less shipbuilding will be done in 1879
than in any single year in the last thirty.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

HERE is fierce war waging between
the red-tape and elastic bands in the
British government stationery Office.
The comptroller declared war against
the use of the elastic bands in the gov
eminent Offices, and this led to com.
plete revolt in the foreign office. Lord
Salisbury, heartily taking up the cause
of the officials, has written a dispatch to
the treasury on the subject, in which he
declares that, if he cannot be supplied
with elastic strips, he must take on an
other clerk to assist in tying up official
papers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Destructive Fires.

A fire at Quebec on the 5th inst. destroyed
saw mill and factory. A Waterman was
suffocated.
A large building with contents was de.
stroyed at Lancaster, Pa, on the night of
the 4th inst. Tire firemen were frozen,
one, it is thought, fatally.
The extensive establishment of the St.
Louis beef canning company at st. Louis,
Mo-, was destroyed on the 9Th inst. Loss
on stock estimated at 100000.
The Rankin house, Columbus, Ga, with
the skating rink and thirteen stores under
meath, burned On the 4th inst. Loss $780,
600. Another blaze close by at the same
time burned two stores and the Wheeler &
Wilson machine factory, and caused loss
of SIT 900. 49,.
The Academy OF the Holy Angels (Cathc-
lic) at Buffalo, N. Y, was consumed on the
4th inst. Loss 100000.
The public library and postoffice with
contents were destroyed by fire at Hing
ham, Mass, on the 18th inst.
The Honore block, at Chicago, occupied
in part by the postofice was partially de-
stroyed on the 4th inst. The only loss sus-
tanned by the postoffice department was
$4,000 stamped envelopes. Loss on build
ing estimated at from 100000 to $15O,O90.
Individual losses estimated at $4,000. Sew
eral men and lady were rescued with diff
Guilty from the upper stories Of the burning
structure.
The Second Baptist church at St. Louis,
No. <as totally destroyed ossthe 90 inst.
Loss 100000. The structure was one of
the finest and most imposing in the city.
A fire at Schoolcraft. Mich, on the night
of the End inst, destroyed five stores on
Main street. Total loss $4,000.
A fire at Elgin, ILL.,, on the I'd inst. swept
the entire south side of Chicago street,
causing loss of 100000.
The new Presbyterian church at Quincy,
Illinois, was burned on the I'd instant. Loss
1000.
Dempster hall, at Evanston, Illinois, the
theological home Of large number of
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

A RESIDENT of Cuttingville, VT, saw
what he took to be burglar in his room
at night, and jumping out of bed throt-
tied with an iron grasp the big bass viol
which stood in the corner.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

sHAKsPEARE's curse against any who
shall remove lis bones is not likely to
take effect. The London Gazette pub.
fishes a notification that the Priv
Council will in January consider the
proposition to wholly discontinue burials
in the church and churchyard of Strait
tord-upon-Avon, excepting in now ex.
lsting vaults and walled graves, every
coffin buried in which shall be separately
Enclosed by stonework or brickwork
properly cemented, and except in now
existing family graves which can be
opened without the exposure of cofins.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

HE reason that Edison gives for
abandoning his proposed exp rimental
test Of MS electric light at Menlo park is
that it would require the use of twenty
or thirty Wallace machines. They
would cost me, says he, from $50, to
5000. They would be useless after
wards, for l know that I can make a
generator Of double their power. So
shall postpone the experiment until |
snd the machine that will give the
greatest amount of electricity per horse
power
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Hurst.

A dispatch from lsmid says thirty-eight
tuu gun burst during practice on the British
mar. of-war Thunderer. The vessels turret
was destroyed, seven men killed and 40
wounded.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Frozen to Death.

ON the Sd instant two brakemen OH freight
trains on the Central New Jersey and NORTH
Pennsylvania roads We're frozen to death.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
New Works. Failures.

During the past year 9l7 failures were re-
ported in New York city, with liabilities OF
6S,95>, lo3, and assets at $lS,6e5,33l. This
exceeds the record Of any former year, but
large number is mainly due to the repeal of
the bankrupt act,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
ChicagO.

CHICAGO, January Al 80 P. N.-Wheot
StAc No. 2 spring at S217sc for cash; 1914
(Ns3Ac for seller February; S43sc for seller
March. Confirm at 2934c bid for cash ;
3OAc for seller February. Oats-Firm and
unchanged. Rye-At 42@43Ac. Barley
Firmer 1T Soc. Pork-Easier at $7.42E for
cash; $7.52X for seller February; 81 624
for seller March. Lard at $5.45 for
cash; S. 5212 for seller February; IS 80 bid
for seller March. Whisky-At $l06. Hogs
Receipts $4,000 head; quiet and steady
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09

Juan Moncasi, who attempted to assassin
ate the king Of Spain on the 25th Of October
last, was executed on the 18th inst.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Failures I'm England and Scotland.

The business failures OF Great Britain and
Scotland during 1878 were l5,O5e, Of which
2,643 were in financial and wholesale manu-
featuring branches of trade. The increase
is 4,n37 fuilures last year over the proceed
ing wear,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
EoreiRn

LONDON, January 4.-12 80 P. M:-Liv'
erpool wheat market very quiet; floating
cargoes steady on passage inactive. Wealth
err in England frosty,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
A Substitute for Kerosene.

Charles Lonely, of Nicholasville, KY, at
tempted to light fire with coal oil lamp
when the lamp exploded, fatally burning
himself and one child, seriously injuring
another and completely destroying the
dwelling.
At village called Cardsville, in Mercer
county, Kentucky, on the night of the 2Sth:
ult., Mrs. Dickerson, in attempting to light
a fire which she had kindled, seized key
containing some blasting powder and threw
a handful on the fire. The fash reached
the key and a tremendous explosion follow.
ed enveloping her in a sheet of flame. She
was SO badly burned that she. died.
Three of her children who were
in the room At the time of the explosion
were also very badly burned. Two Of them
are not expected to live. gsstse. !
,ta d ~
The Hard Times.
The London Times, il its financial summary
of 1873, says: "Industries have been disor.
ganized, credit shaken and failures multi
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
NEWS in BRIEF.
Murder and Suicide.
TOncRsl Executed.

Gardner Tingley, OF East Attleboro, Mass.
killed himself and wife or the 4th inst.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
m.,ue,s democratic Governor.

~Alonzo Garcelon, Democratic, was elected
governor, by the Maine legislation on the
81 inst, receiving twenty-one votes to ten
for Joseph l.. Smith. Every Republican
senator voted for Garcelon. The vote in The
house stood as follows: Alonzo Garcelon
So; Joseph l.. Smith 50; Seldom Conner "a;
Fredk kobie 81: one absent on each side.
At the convention of both branches Of the
legislation for the election of the states
officers, the nominees Of the Democratic
Greenback caucus were elected as follows:
Secretary OF state, Edward II. Cove; state
treasurer, Chas. a. White; attorney general,
VIM. \. Mcclellan; adjutant general, Sam-
ue] D. Leavitt.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
Frozen 10 Death.
es Macarthur, an old man, was frozel

dead in snow bank at New York, on the
18th inst.
At Brooklyn, N. u, on the night Of the
81, an infant child Of Mrs. kenney WAS
frozen to death beside its mother in bed.
Jacob Van Heusen, aged ~, went to dig
a grave in Greenbush cemetery, Albany,
n. y, on the afternoon OF the Sd inst, and
was found next morning frozen to death.
Four tramps were frozen to death at
Glasgow Junction, Ky, on the night of the
Sd inst.
Marie Schultz, an abandoned old lady, was
found in her squallid abode ut Milwaukee,
Wis, on the stu inst, frozen stitl.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-02-15
An Arizona Flower.

With the first warm spring rains many
of the grayelly plains and rolling hills Of
Arizona will be covered with masses and
sheets Of lovely orange yellow flowers,
commonly called wild peoples. This
plant, however, is not poppy. 1t was
first discovered by botanical traveller,
Menzies, near Monterey, California, about
eighty years ago He sent seeds to Eng
land, and the flowers attracted much at
tention when grown at the Kew Gardens :;
but the seed did not ripen, and so this
flower was for a time lost to the civilized
world. Some years after, seeds were sent
to England again, by party of travellers.
one of whom was DR.. Eschscholtz, in
whose honor it was named, and he pub
lished plate OF the flower, with descrip-
ton. 1t did not come into general cul-
ture however until 1926, when Douglas,
another very successful botanical discov-
erer, sent seeds to Europe. Since then
The ESchScboltzia, so common in Arizona
and Southern California, has become a
favorite garden flower; deserving its pop
ularlty by its rich and vivid colors.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-02-15

a JOURNEY round the world has lately
been made By a humble postcard, which
completed the trip in ninety days and
twenty hours. Six postcards and six let
tiers were senr off by the Paper and Print
ing Trades Journal as test of the care
bestowed by postal authorities on post
cards UerSuS letters. The faces of the
dozen travellers were ruled into six com
partments for the various addresses and
stamps, and on the back were printed
instructions to the recipients as to their
being forwarded, while spaces were left
for.the date of receipt Posted in London
on Oct. 1st, they reached Alexandria on
the 9th, and Sing pore on Nov. 4th, and
being sent off the same day came to gri,
between Singapore and Yokohama, only
one postcard and five letters appearing
at Yokohama on Nov. 24. Starting again
next day on their travels, the cards and
letters arrived at San Franz cisco on Dec
18th, at New York on the 21st, and got
home to London in safety by the first post
on Dec. 3lst. The blame of the loss does
not rest with the British postal system,
but with the authorities between Singa-
pore and Yokohama.