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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08
ReliRious Troubles i'm Er.uc..

On the 30th ult.., the Jesuit establishments
throughout France were closed by the police
| and Paris. The members Of the order protest
ed in every case, and in many instances the
DOORS, not only of the houses, but of the cells.
were broken open by the police in order to oh.
tain possession. Several of the establishments
will commenced egal proceedings against the DO
ice authorities for violating domicile laws and
infringing on personal liberty. In other estab-
societies, and will appeal to the courts for pro-
lection. Only the Jesuits were proceeded
against by the authorities The other religious
orders vii! be given further opportunity to or
ganlze under the law. The government does
not teel confident enough to enforce the decrees
against them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08
THE MARKETS,
Reported by CHANDLER, BROWN Co.. Comnissio
Merchants, Milwaukee and Chicago.
New York.

NEW YORK, July q 800 p 'm.-Fiour-Fnm;
moderate export and jobbing trade demand;
round hoop Ohio at $4.40@5.00; choice do at
$5.10@6.25; super western at $3.O0@3. IS; COM
at $4.30@7.00; choice white wheat do at 50. so
@5.00. Wheat-Spring firm and quiet; winter
1@2c better; fairly active; sales 5000 bus
No. ] white seller August at $1.O81; 16, 900 bus
No: red seller, July at $1.14@1.l5;. 100000 do
seller August at $1.19. Corn--1@Lc better;
future at 4SZs@4975c. 0ats-Firm and quiet;
western at 33@34c. Beef-Steady; demand
moderate; new plain mess at $3.50; new extra
do at $1,000. Pork-Higher and firm; new mess
at $12.50. Lard-Higher and strong; steam
rendered at $7.221S. Butter-Rules quiet and
firm; fair inquiry; Ohio at 12@20c. Cheese
Very firm at $4,000 for poor to choice. Whis-
Quiet and about steady. Molasses-Firm; trade
moderate. Petroleum Firm and quiet. Rice
Steady; fair trade. Coffee-Firm; moderate
demand. Freights- Steady. Spirits of Tur-
pentine-Dull at 2715@28c. Ta1low-Steady at
61s@6 8 16c for western. Eggs-Steady at IL
CHICAGO, July 2-1:OO P. M.-Wheat- Strong
and higher; 89c for cash; $500 for seller
and higher at 3455sc for cash and seller July;
35Ac for seller August. Oats-Firns and high
erat 2456c for cash; 2s1c for seller August.
Rye-At 72c. barley-At 76c. Whisky-Al
$l.O9. Pork-Excited and higher at $12.55
for cash; $12.55T for seller August and Sep
tember. Lard Strong at $6.75 for cash; Sc. 80
for seller August. Hogs-Receipts 90, 900 head
quiet and easy; light at $4.15@4.25; mixed
packing at $4.1E@4.S5; shipping at $4. 3o@4.5
Cattle Receipts 5, 900 head; more disposition tc
buy; fairly active; 15c lower than on Wednes.
day; shipping at $4,000 80; butchers at $3.50
@3.2O; grass Texans at $2.60@3.10.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08
S01f.M1nr6pr.

Mrs. Sophia Farley, widow Of the late c. Ear
Ley, Esq, one"of the proprietors of the Joliet
H1.) SsgnGt, committed suicide on the night of
the 28th ult., by hanging herself. ,..
Mrs: Eva Philips, of Battle Creek, (NIich. J
killed herself by poison on the 29th ult., because
her husband deserted her. @%-S -
DR.. W. D: semple, Of Dayton, O., who tried
to drown himself recently and was rescued and
sent to the workhouse, succeeded in hanging
hmself In his cell on the 29th ult. He was dead
when found
CITY Treasurer Williams, of Rochester, N. Y,
committed suicide on the 28th ult. His accounts
were examined the day previous by committee
OF the common council, and declared correct.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08

The national fishery question -'Have
you got . bite, Mr.. Vice President? ??
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08
Foreign.

sL1vERpoo1, July 22:OO P. M.-Wheat-spot
unchanged; cargoes off coast, winter and No. 2
spring, declined Cd; California declined Sd; car
goes arrived, depressed; cargoes to arrive ne
elected Mark Lane heavy.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08
The Fasting Doctor.

DR.. S. H. Tanner, who began on the 2sth ult.,
in Clarendon hall, New York city, an attemptt to
live forty days without food, took eighty ounces
of water in the first thirty-six hours. Since
then he has drank very little water, merely
rinsing his mouth, and he says he is going to do
without water the most Of the time. The
doctors say that thiswill compel him to abandon
his attempt the sooner. In the first forty-eight
hours he lost four and one-haf poundsin weight.
His pulse is eighty-two, and be says he is not
hungry. He does not sleep much, though he
lies down a good deal. He says that be will
run down for the first ten days, after which his
condition will improve, and his task will be easy
for the other thirty days. The few persons Of
some medical knowledge who believe that a
man may live forty days without food are in
cined to think that he will fail by reason of the
worry he experienced for several weeks while
making arrangements for the test. Though
there is no fee for admission to the hall, the at
tendance thus for does not indicate that starv-
ing matches will become popular.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08

they are holding an exhibition of ancient
armor in England at which helmets of every
date from the tenth century before Christ to
Chinese headpiece of 1860 are to be seen. In
commenting upon the collection an exchange
says: "The pieces Of ar1nor which knight
Of the olden time wore when fully equipped
were fifteen in number. He commenced his
steel toilet by enclosing his feet in 'sabatynes'
"A sort Of clog and proceeded by putting on
in the following order tgreaves,' or shin piecest
'cuisses,' or thigh pieces; q breeching of mail;
'fuilettes,' or hip pieces; 'cuirass,' or breast
plate; vambraces,' or arm plates; 'rere braces
on the upper arms; dagger, short sword, man
lie, helmet, long sword, and shield. The great
weight Of all these accoutrements tend to prove
that our ancestors were much morespower3ul
men than their descendants. The horses which
carried these warriors we're also clad in steel,
and must have been far ahead of the steeds of
the present day as weight carriers We doubt
whether the medieval warriors were such giants
as the writer's Of romances make out Ofcourse
plate armor would be heavy and uncomfortable
for this generation; but lit was by no means
light or graceful for the men Of old. Indeed it
was sometimes SO cumbrous that tho nnan-at
arms who fell down unwounded could not ret
up again; and frequently e1eminate mobiles par
AIDED in velvet coats studded with gilt nails in
imitation Of fsarmor. When defensive armor be-
come very heavy and elaborate, fighting went
greatly out Of fashion. It was in the days Of
chain mail and long swords that cavalry -four.
shed. +. n. r. - = = ,ys,.:sts: + ; !
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08
The railway up the sides Of Mount vesuyius.

The railway up the sides of Mount Vesuyius.
Just completed, runs along road steep as a
sixty metres in length; but as regards danger
it is reduced to minimum. It is not train in
which the passenger travels, but single
carriage, carrying ten persons only, and as the
ascending carriage starts, another, counter
balancing it, comes down from the summit,
the weight of each being five tons. The
carriages are so constructed that rising or de-
scsnding, the passenger sits on level plane,
and whatever emotion of hesitation may be felt
on starting, changes, before one has risen
twenty metres, into feeling ofperfect security.
Dismounting at little station at the summit,
you con scarcely be said to Chamber to the edge
of the crater, for the company have cut a con-
venient winding path, up which all except the
aged. heavy, or feeble can walk with ease.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08

IT IS shown by statistic cs relating to the years
1872 to 1873, that, while the total income of the
population in Prussia has not diminished, the
large and very large incomes have fallen off.
and medium incomes have increased. The fear
OF progressive accumulation of wealth in q
few hands seems to be groundless, and the real
ore of the nation, the middle clays, is extend
ng and gaining strength. The buying power
of money in the country, after having under
gone an almost unbroken tliminution from 1852
about 1874, seems in the subsequent interva
70 have become steady, and even to have partly
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08
The Gazette de France is the Oldest of Parisia1

The Gazette de France is the Oldest of Partisan
papers. 1t was founded by Theophraste Rem
audot, and its first number appeared on May 80,
1881: Published at the beginning but once a
week the Gazette was more devoted to ADVERTISE
ments than to current affairs and politics. Al
though coldly looked upon by princes and the
state, the four-page quarto publication was
eagerly patronized by the middle classes. The
Gazette was sold in the principal streets of the
capital and the vendors and the editors we're
lndlscriminately called gazetiers. After having
been weekly for more than century, and bi-
weekly since 1862, the Gazette de France has
been daily since May /, 1892.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08

RICHARD GRANT WHITE has been busying him.
self in the investigation of the given names
borne by the members of the Plymouth colony,
and has found that purely puritanic names of
the $ Praise-God Barebone stripe were un-
common. A hundred OF the men bore common
Englsh names, no less than twenty-five being
Johns, nineteen Williams, eleven Thomases and
ten Edwards Twenty-one had distinctively
bible names and only five had fancy Puritan
names, such as Resolved, Christian, Wrestling.
OF the women twenty-five had ordinary English
names, five distinctively bible names, and seven
fancy Puritan names, such as Humility, Desire,
Remember. Mr.. White adds that there was one
fashion in names common. among all the colo
nists, whether Puritans or Cavaliers. They
ing q child two or more Christian names is not
more than two hundred years old among the
middle classes and but little older than that
among the nobility.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08

The population of Brooklyn is now estimated
at $4,000. These figures do not show very
rapid growth. OF late years the mania for liv-
ing in Brooklyn, which affected people working
IN New York, has passed away; and to this cause
the failure in the smaller city to keep pace with
it's larger neighbor may no doubt be traced.
Every year New York shows more of a DISPOSE
ton to find homes on Manhattan island or
across the Harlem river and Spuyten Duyvel
creek.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08

1T is estimated that to properly care for the
sewers OF Paris it requires one man for each
kllometre, but this average has not been main
tanned from motives of economy. Still, there
are employed in this work 627 men, divided into
little companies, which are sent to various Sec
tlons of the city, according to the needs of the
sewer service. Almost all these men are natives
OF the Midi, and come from Gascogne.. Theirs
Is hard business, and though some few eqo,,-
tiers, as they are called, may become old. it is
rarely the case that one can safely do such work
longer than fifteen years. They then become
victims OF the 'plomb," word used to express
"asphyxia." -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08
A MurderOus Record.

Lewis Schmidt was murdered at Amitvyille
L. l.. on the night of the 1st inst. The bod
was thrown into we'll and the house burned.
During the night of the list inst, at Ceda
Mills, Texas Frank Northcote, who shot con
stable Crabtree recently, was taken from tn
guard who had him in charge by mob O
masked men, who carried their prisoner owe
with bullets.
A bailiff who had been serving ejectments
was shot and killed by ambushed assailants, il
the neighborhood of Balla, county Mayo. Ire
land, on the I'd inst.
Mary O'Connor. aged As, of Walter avenue
Jersey City, killed her three children during th,
night of the LIST inst. Mrs. O'Connor has beer
SICK TOR long time suffering from malaria, anc
has been unable to take care of her children,
and she thought by killing them they would &c
to heaven.
At the Nevada state prison, at Carson, on the
LIST inst, W. A. Chamberlain, a convict, was
Killed by John R. Darling, alias Rattlesnake
Dick, his partner in q robbery case four years
ago; He was killed with a pickaxe.
At Kennebunk, Me-, on the LIST inst, Mrs.
Sylvester Cr1ck took her only son, eight years
old, to the river, undressed him, and held him
under the water till he drowned, and then at
tempted to drown herself.
Hoodoo Brown and Charley Frank, gamblers.
fired at each other across atable at Buena Vista.
GoL, on the 29th inst. Brown is dead, and
Frank can not live.
At the Adams county poor farm, near Goals
b9rg, Ill, on the night of 2sth ult., one inmate
killed another. Both were insane,
Two soldiers ,szas.,G GNskB skobinson shot Tavlor
deat. s41ahl5 chs murderer was turned over to the
civil authorities, and the next day was forced,
under a'strong guard, to dig his victims grave.
Whisky and jealousy caused q shocking dou-
Bile tragedy at Elkhart, Ind, on the 9th ult.
George Elliott, young man of dissipated
habits, fired two balls into the head of his
sweetheart because, in the hope of curing his
evil tendencies, she had accepted other atten-
tons; and then the drunken fend killed himself.
The young lady at last accounts was not dead,
but was considered to be mortally wounded.
A Pittsburg dispatch gives the details of a
singular tragedy enacted at a small village near
Canton, O., where beautiful woman named
Jennie Landes attempted to murder young
man with whom she was desperately in love,
and though, as she said in note found upon
her person, at the last she "had not the heart
to kill him." she shot herself through the head
after firing one shot at her beloved, and died
instantly.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08

The United States government has caused
several Atlantic steamship captains to be ar
rested; they are charged with breach of the
law limiting the number of passengers to be
carried by any vessel. On account Of the i'm
mense emigration, the steerages of Atlantic
steamers have been generally crowded the
present season; hence the enforcement of the
law On the part of the government. On the
other hand, the agents Of the steamship lines
claim that they have infringed no law. More
than this, they assert that the United States
government has no right to interfere with the
passenger or other arrangements of inward
bound foreign vesselsas respects either freights
or passengers. In, the interest of humanity
this question if can be in no otherway, ought
to be settled by an international commission.
It will be remembered that in the years 1s49 and
1859 thousands of passengers died of epidemi
cholera, mainly the result of overcrowding.
The mortality in those years was frightful, and
serves as warning for the present and future
of this trade
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08
Steamboat Disasters.

The excursion steamer Long Branch, after
casting of from her dock at New York. on the
18th rlt., crowded with Sunday school party
on the way to Long Branch, was run into bv an
Oh Oh boat and crushed in below the water line.
Inc BOAT began to fill, causing great alarm on
board among the children and teachers and
making frantic the friends on shore who wit
messed the collision. The boat speedily return
ed to her dock, and all were landed safely. but
the steamer Immediately settled on the bottom.
$ 'Ihe steamer Humboldt arrived at LIVERPOOL
on the 29th ult., from New York. in damaged
condition, the effects of fire which occurred
on the 18th ult Considerable of her cargo was
jetfsoned. o. "'''
The excursion steamer Seawanahaka. having
on BOARD about $50 passengers, took fire on the
Island, East river, New York. The boat was
headed for.the island and grounded on a bar
about 200 feet from shore, where she burned to
the waters edge. The scene on board is said to
have been fearful. iShrieking women and chill
dren were huddled aft until their clothes caught
hre, and those on the forward part of the boat
were men who we're cut off from communica-
tons with Or going to rescue their female rela-
hons and friends by the flames which burned
the hercest about the centre of the boat. The
steamer Osseo rescued majority of the pas-
sengers and carried them to College Point. The
bodies Of about thirty of the victims have been
recovered, and it is thought the list of unfortll-
mates will be augmented by future develop
ments. The officers of the Seawanhaka be-
haved nobly in the trying moments.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08
FOref9n war Notes.

EOfelkn "UE NOseSs
A conflict at Haifa has occurred between the
German, colonists and the Bedouins. Many
were killed on both Sides. ~: .:--,.> = ~,:s,
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres announces
that peace proposals have been made to the
national government, and the negotiations are
expected to result favorably. At the same time
another telegram from Montevideo reports that
peace has been concluded at Buenos Ayres.
Serious disturbances have occurred IN Haha,
at the foot of Mount Carmel between Christians
and Mussulmans. :. The British gunboat Httern
has been dispatched hastily to the Syrian coast.
Trustworthy reports have been received that
some Russian troops were defeated by the
Chinese at Terck Pass and we're pursued and
again defeated at ,Ksselhurgan, losing much
ammunition and supplies. The Chinese have
reached Gnlcka. 7..~-..-.--- = sl.-....
7 One or more Russian ships oswar proceeded
to vladiysstock by way of the, ,Suez canal and
win, If necessary, participate In making Joint
demonstration; against Turkey. = ..a.st ,ssss, sl
i "a Cabul dispatch says the Ghizais are bar:
raising British communication. They attacked
o. convoy, killing six and wounding two Of the
escorts. Vs [%$fffE.E q r
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08
Canada wants to Join Us.

The feeling in favor of a commercial union
between Canada and the United States is grow
ing greatly in popularity, and is being discussed
by the Canada press and people as a live issue
Of the day, A league has been formed and an
apostle named Perrault sent out to advocate the
scheme. Two meetings have been held. The
first in Montreal, was attended by II, 900 people
At the second, held at St. Ours, rural neigh
borhood in the province Of: Quebec, 900 peq-
m Speaker. < vote was taken at the close Of both
meetings as to the preference of the people for
reciprocity treaty or commercial union. The
latter was, carried by large majority, and the
London Advertiser, next to the most influential
paper in the reform party, has declared for a
commercial union. This is the organ of the
Hon. David Mills, ex-minister of the interior,
and has been said to speak the mind Of the
leader of the opposition. A pamphlet in heroic
verse; satrizing British connection and boldly
advocating annexation, from the pen Of bril-
liant lawyer of the capital, appeared . few days
ago. These are few marks of the growing
agitation. rF =, .' ,.. 49, -i'''"'+
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08
VARIOUS TOPICS.

The Cleveland Herald has discovered that
General Hancock is the richest general in the
United States army. It says that in addition to
tho property coming to him from his family he
has accumulated largely from the savings of his
pay during his forty years of military life.
These savings have been judiciously placed in
profitable investments, go that he is now quite
r1ch man. Among his other property he has
large plantation in the south.
CAPTAIN GEORGE M. COOLEY, Of Troy, deserves
what he has recently received, the silver medal
OF the Life-Saving Benevolent Association. He
IL II years old and has saved from drowning
forty-six persons. Among them, when he was
a much younger man, was the young woman
who Is now his wife. His latest exploit was
saving seven students Of the Troy Polytechnic,
whose boat had capsized. For this the stu
dents dubbed together and made him hand
some present. a = x II =. u i. u d - a.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-08

BLACKSMITH SHOP
~ W. W. PATTERSON has bought out
the shop, tools and stock of J. Reinsm3th. and
does all kinds of work in his line on shortest
notice at low prices for Cash. Shop corner
Bridge and st. Paul streets, Austin Minn,
Connecticut western news., 1880-09-01
But all day busily he wrought

Butsall day busily he wrought From dawn to eve, and no one bought Save when some Jew with look askant, Or keen-eyed Greek from the Levant, Would pause awhile-depreciate- Then buy months work by the weight, Bearing it swiftly over seas
 To garnish rich men treasuries.
Connecticut western news., 1880-09-01

streets and drew them up before build ing occupied by the Bank of the Metrop- oils, now the National Metropolitan Bank. This institution had loaned the Government $3OO,OOO, and the plate from which its notes were printed bore the words "a depository of the Govern ment." Some of these notes had fallen into the possession of the British, and Gen. Ross believed it to be @ Govern ment bank. He was prepared to fire it, when citizen informed him that it was a private institution. and had no con- nection with the Government beyond making the loan above referred to. Besides, said this honest citizen, as the story goes, " if you burn this prop erty you will destroy the sole support of poor Irish widow, 8 country woman of ycars. .... .-
 "She must be poor Irish widow to own such 8 valuable property in Wash ington, said Gen. Ross savagely, but he did not destroy the building.
 The British remained in camp here about forty-eight hours, and then left the city by the same route they had en- tered it. No demonstrations were made against them, but they appeared to fear the return of the American troops in larger numbers and animated with more courage than they had shown before.
Connecticut western news., 1880-09-01

CURIOUS STATIsTIcs.-A melancholy statistical fiend of Western paper has been compiling mortuary statistics of some of the big battles of the war. Eighty soldiers, all shot above the hips, and all of one regiment, fell dead at one vopey in the battle of Gettysburg. At Fair Oaks twenty men went down one upon the other in space of 8 few feet and never moved limb among them after falling. One shell at Gold Harbor exploding in the ranks of an Ohio regiment killed sixteen soldiers. At Savage Station, during Mcclellan s charge, solid shot fired from Federal piece at an infantry column marching by fours killed twenty-one men. At Fredericksburg 5000 Union soldiers were killed in less than ten minutes. Near Vicksburg gunboat threw single shell at rebel battery and killed eighteen men, wounding fifteen others.