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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
Run Down at Sen.

Sarah E. Frazer off Halifax, and the captains
wife and seaman were drowned.
The steamer Bavarian arrived at Boston on
the 22d inst, from Liverpool, and reports run
ming down, of Queenstown, an English
schooner. Her captain and two men were
drowned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
Another Colliery Calamity.

An explosion occurred in the Lycett colliery,
near Newcastle, Wales, on the 2lst, by which
over seventy miners lost their lives. The part
of the Lycett colliery where the explosion oc-
same in which six men were killed last autumn.
The coal belongs to the Banbury or Fiery Seam,
in which all Of the great Staffordshre explo-
sions have occurred
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
A R1O0dv Riot

III The levy of an Objectionable tax by street
s9Kilway companies at Rio de Janeiro occasloned
re riot, the mob destroying the cars and tracks.
Three persons were killed and thirty wounded.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
A Fearful Plunxe.

On the morning of the 24th the engine of
train on the New York elevated railroad, was
thrown from the track by a misplaced switch
feet. Fortunately the four passenger coaches
of the train remained on the track. Five en-
ployes of the road were injured-two seriously.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
Gagged and Robbed.

On the night of the 21st inst, four masked
men entered the lodgings Of a man named
Webber, sixty years old, at Danforth, hoquois
gagging him, secnred 81, 800 in cash from the
safe and decamped. Webber was released in
the morning after night of terrible suffering.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

ONE Of the hfe-saving stations on the Cali
fornia coast has been officially named the Mag
gle Geddes. This is recognition Of the bravery
of Maggie Geddes, Of San Antonio. She was
only nine years old. Seeing younger play
mate fall down high embankment into a mill
race she instantly jumped after her. The water
was deep and ran swiftly toward large wheel,
out Maggie was good swimmer and by des-
perate struggle got ashore with her playmate.
Such GOODNESS and courage were deemed worthy
of special honor.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

Terrible distress prevails in Adrianople. Fit
teen persons were found dead from hunger in
one day, and in some casssspieces of wood were
found in the mouths Of the dead.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

Three men belonging to Gloucester, Mass,
fishing schooner were drowned on the oath by
the capsizing of dory while attending travis.
Two fishermen named Miller and Morgan
were drowned in Passamaquoddy Bay, on the
21st, by falling out of their boat.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
Maine,s dilemma.

Up to the Oath inst. nothing had been accom-
plished towards disentangling Names political
affairs. The Republican Governor Davis occu-
pies the state house at Augusta, which is strong
ly guarded by militia. A good deal of fierce
talk is indulged in, but as yet no blood has been
shed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
An Unseasonable Visitor.

- The schooner Cherubim, from Miragoane,
December II, via Jacksonville, January Is, has
arrived at New York, having lost her captain
and mate, 0. B. and II. E. Lank, from yellow
fever. A-..,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

A MELANCHOLY picture is drawn by the cor
respondent of Vienna paper of the condition
of the Turkish army in Albania. Begging, he
says, is no longer regarded by the Turkish SOL
der as disgrace, and the streets of Junina are
full Of soldiers who stretch out their hands to
the passers-by for aims in broad day. At night
they attack the peasants and rob them of all
their valuables. The Turkish soldiers are, is-
deed, SO much in want of money, owing to their
not having received any pay for more than
three years, that they often sell their arms, and
the military commandant has found it necessary
to issue decree strictly forbidding this practice
under severe penalties when discovered.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
Fatal Railroad Accident.

A construction train on the Virginia and Mid
land road ran of the track and down ffty-foot
embankment, at Rockfsh station, eighteen miles
conductor Wilson, two brakemen and seriously
injuring II. D. Lucket and six laborers. Six
cars were completely wrecked.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

raj in body. Seeking his brother, he
made arrangements for disposition of his
property, and at P. M. on the same day
died. He was buried in exact compliance
with the preparations which he himself
had made.-Seneca Falls (N. W Dis
match.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

The next great worlds fair will be held in
New York city In 1883. The confidence and en-
thusiasm with which the representative men of
the metropolis took up the subject at the recent
meeting in New York leave no room for doubt
as to the success of the enterprise.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
COunterfeiters Arrested,

A gang of nine counterfeiters were arrested at
Oswego, N. Y, on the 21st nst., while engaged
In manufacturing spurious coin. Metals, dies,
acids, etc., besides $500 in spurious American
and Canadian coin, were seized.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

IT is boldly predicted that, before many years,
the Chinese question will become as urgent in
Europe as it is now in America. The insolation
Of China is . thing Of the past, and, in CEN
tury, if not sooner, we are told the Chinese will
become the principal workmen element not only
in America but in Europe. The European race
is aristocratic; generally dislike manual labor, it
aspues to everything except the Obscure life o
the workingman. Moreover, the future gener-
alton will find itself face to face with the ques-
ton of how to procure hands for handwork. 1t
is here that the Chinese race will come admire
bly, in to fill up the gap. In fifty years steam
navigation will transport the Chinese at fabul-
ously low prices to all parts Of the world. We
shall see arise in the cities Of Europe Chinese
quarters which will cause discomfort among the
working classes, with whom they will have seri
ously to reckon. This Chinese emigration is nc
Utopia, and we shall see the Chinese workmen
in Europe sooner than we think.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
VARIOUS TOPICS.

TIE Georgia Supreme Court has decided that
= church has no right to give picnic, and that
therefore it cannot sue steamboat company
for breach of contract in failing to furnish the
afinn1afed aail
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

Mr.. EDISON has encountered new difficulty
in his electrical lamp experiments, and one that
seems almost insurmountable. 1t appears that
although the heat disseminated from the glow
IS but one-hfteenth that of gas jet, it is sufi-
cient to crack the glass by expansion Of the
platinum wires running through. Twenty-Five
per cent. of his lamps have broken. A crack,
however minute, renders them useless, as the
vacuum is Immediately destroyed. This is not
regarded as fatal to his scheme, but the in
creased expense occasioned thereby is an ele-
ment requiring consideration.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

The measure Of damages in cases Of injury
by railway accidents is made very liberal in
England. A surgeon named Phillips was re-
Gently injured in railroad accident so as to
become incapable of pursuing his profession.
In suit for damages the jury gave him YER
dict for $4,000, taking into account the fact
that he had been earning $s5,00o year when
hurt. On appeal the court laid down the rule
that railway company, in contracting to carry
passenger, contracts to carry his fortune as
we'll as his person. The verdict was therefore
affirmed as reasonable.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

A I'LL recently became a law increasing the
pensions of the totally disabled from $50 to s72
per month. There are but 713 pensioners of
this class in the United States. In order to be
considered totally helpless, man must be in
such condition as to require the attendance of
another person. Under the former law the full
amount could be drawn only by those who had
lost 10th arms or both feet, OF had lost botlh
eyes. This restricted the whole number to S75,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
DiRaRTee1

The jury in the celebrated Hayden case, at
New Haven, Conn.,, failed to agree, and were dis
charged aon the 10th. They stood eleven for
acquittal and one for conviction.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Heavy Failure.
Horrible.

William McDain, prominent Canadian con-
tractor, failed at Toronto on the 10th: His liza
bilities are placed at s92; 1000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
Work of the Flames.

-
Whitman 4 Sons confectionery at Philadel-
phia, burned on the 25th, involving loss of
10000. Two hours later Chas. A. Doer l.
Sons sash factory at West Philadelphia was
burned. Loss $4,000.
the 23d. Loss $4,000; no insurance.
Robert B. Smiths wholesale drug house, at
Alton, H., bpred on the 23d, together with the
Etening Telegraph Office and Beall & Danvers
job printing Office. Smiths loss is about $l1O,-
600; insured for $4,000.
On the 22d inst, at Charleston, s. c., the car
shed of the South Carolina road was destroyed,
together with twenty-seven baggage and freight
cars. Loss $50, 900; insurance $4,000.
At Evening Shade, Ark, on the 22d, the
Sharp county court house was fred by incendi-
aries and totally destroyed, together with all
the county records. Loss $4,000; no insur-
ance.
"A fire at GAINESVILLE, Minn, on the 22d, de-
stroyed several stores and caused a loss Of $780,
900; insured for $4,000. ~
was damaged 100000 by fire on the 21st.
The Claremont, IN. L. paper mill was con.
sumed by fire on the 21st, causing loss Of sso.-
coo; insured.
Herr & Cissevell's flour mill, situated on the
canal above Georgetown, Va, was destroyed on
the 21st. Loss on building and stock, $50, 900;
insured for $4,000.
A fire in Toxic, Japan, on the 26th of Decem-
Der, destroyed Il, 900 houses.
BoydS pork packing establishment, at Omaha,
Neb., was totally destroyed by fire on the even
ing Of the 18th, together with stock of pro-
visions valued at $213, 900. The buildings were
valued at $5O,000. Insurance on stock, $1O,-
600; buildings, S25,00O.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

No less than sixty-fve railroads, represent
ing nominal investment Of s242,0O0, 900, were
sold under foreclosure during 1879. OF this
amount one-third represents capital stock which
has been totally lost. It is curious fact that
during four years one-ffth of the railway mile
age and capital Of the United States has changed
hands by forced sale. During this year several
railroads will be or have been sold. Among
these is the Atlantic and Great Western, repre-
senting not less than $1o5, ,000,o ,o0o It is satis-
factory to know, however, that but few fore
closure suits have been commenced, while the
small number of roads for which receivers were
appointed last year, is proof that the era of
bankruptcy is passed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

Mr.. WENDELL PHILLIPS said, the other even
ing, in prelude to his lecture at Troy: "It
seems to me that the landed aristocracy of Great
Britain is doomed; it contends with the vast and
imitless production of the prairie, and finds it
impossible to maintain its supremacy against
that stern competition. I believe that it is writ
ten as if in letters of light that the landed aris-
tocracy will within the century come to an end.
Once again England's adversity is 1eland's
opportunity, and the same spirit of competition
is putting an end to the unjust unequal, and
rulnous system of land tenure in Ireland"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
ChiCRXOs

CHICAGO, January 24-1:3O P. M.-Wheat-
Unsettled and lower; closed heavy at $1.14A
for cash; $1:151 for seller February; S1.16 for
at $500 for cash; 362sc for seller February:
1920 for seller May. Oats-Heavy and lower
at 32c for cash; 31slc for seller February; s6Ac
for seller May. Rye and Barley.-Steady.
Whisky-At $1.08. Pork-Heavy at $12.35 for
cash; $12.42I bid for seller February; $12.6O
for seller March. Lard-At $685. for cash;
March. Hogs-Receipts $1,000 head; moder-
ately active; light at $4.40@4.5O; mixed packing
ataS4. .40@4.G5; shipping at $4.60@4.8O. Cattle
Receipts ], 500 head; strong at $5.O0@5. so for
choice; common to fair shipping weak at $4,000
40; butchers quiet at $2.O0@4.00; stockers at
S2.G(M3 no.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
THE MARKETS.
Reported by CHANDLER, BROWN h Co., Commission
Merchants, Milwaukee and Chicago.

New York.
New YoKK, January 2+3:3O P. M.-Cotton-
Quiet and unchanged. Flour-Dul and un-
changed; receipts IS, 900 bbls; sales 6,O0O bbls;
rye -four dull. Wheat-Dul, L@1c lower; re-
ceipts $4,000 bus; sales 1SO, ZOO bus; No. /
white seller February at Sill. Rye-Quiet at
9O1@91c: Corn-Weak; receipts $4,000 bus;
sales GO, 900 bus at 55@61c. Barley-Dull at 95
10000 bus at 47@4724c for mixed western; AZ
@50c for white. Pork-Dull at S12.621S Beef
Quiet and unchanged. Lard-Easier at
$7.95. Unchanged. Cheese-At 1917
@14Nc. Whisky - Unchanged. sugar-At
1oc. Eggs-Unchanged. Peroleum-Crude
unchanged; refined at 715@75sc. Tallow-Un-
changed. Coal-Very quiet. Leather-Dull
and weak. Wool-very firm, better demand.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

A. Foster, Of Indiana, minister to Russia; Lucius
Philip A. Morgan, Of Louisiana, minister to
Mexico:
The senate on the 18th confirmed the follow
ing nominations: E. J. Conger, of Illinois, asso-
ctate Justice Of the Supreme Court Of Montana;
Ge6rge ". Hazleton, of Wisconsin, district at
torney for the eastern district of Wisconsin; E.
G. Davis, Of Wyoming, surveyor general Of
Wyoming;J ]. J. Henry, Of Colorado, register of
the land office at Leadville; John A. Wright, of
Maryland, agent for the Indians at Fort Hall
agency, Idaho, and several postmasters, mclud-
ing Frank Hatton, of Burlington.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
A Brush With the Indians.

Colonel Hatch's command had an engage
ment with the Indians on the 18th inst, in the
San Mateo mountains, New Mexico. Lieutenant
French was killed and two scouts wounded,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
MilWaMkee.

MILWAUKEE, January 24-3.00 P. M.-Flour
No demand and prices zoe lower; standard
spring extras at $5.6O@5.95; common at $3.50
@4.S0. Wheat-Unsettled and lower; No. 2
cash at $1.1411; No. 8 at s1.01119; No. 2 seller
February at $115@1 16; seller March at $l;15A
for No. 2. Oats--Tame at $50. Rye-Du]i at
74c. Barley-Steady at CSC for cash; No. 3, 48c.
Pork-Dun and lower at $12.4219 cash. Lard
At $7.421a.
Foreign
LIVERPOOL, January 2E2:30 p. M.-Wheat-
No. 2 California declined one penny, with a
downward tendency; cargoes of California and
winter declined Cd; spring Is; cargoes of Cali
fornia to arrive declined Is, and spring Cd.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29
Suicidal.

F. Wyatt Cook, formerly probate judge, sui
cided at Caledonia, Minn., ON the 23d, by shoot
ing himself. Dependency over loss of money
through speculation, and defeat at the Last cleo
ton, was the motive.
James 7. Simmons, formerly a telegraph
operator, took q dose Of Paris green at St.
Louis on the 4th.
Fournier, a high official in the French war de-
partment, blew out his brains on the 25th, be-
cause he was summoned to produce his accounts.
Julius Metzler, q young German, suicided at
Chicago on the 22d, by taking arsenic. Motive
unknown.
Louis Bray, a Philadelphia drummer, suicided
at Murfleesboro, Tenn, on the 21st by taking
laudanum. Trouble with q woman was the
cause 5s9E:,~ - b., ..
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29


Daniel. Barrett, supreme president of the
Catholic Benefit association of the United States
and Canada, died suddenly inMedina, N. Y on
the 23d.
Henry Snow, prominent Cincinnati lawyer,
60 years of age, died on the 22d.
Rev. H. s. McMurdie, of London, Eng, pro-
fessor of moral philosophy in Mt. st. Ma1y's
college, at Emmettsburg, Nd, died at that in
stitutiOn on the 22d.
Commodore Horace G. Blake, u. s. n, died
in New York on the 21st, after brief illness.
State Senator Morton, of Massachusetts,
whose leg was amputated on the 18th, to extir-
pate cancer, died ut Boston on the 21st.
Ex-Governor Westcott, of Florida, who has
lived in Canada since the outbreak of the late
war, died on the 10th, in the Goth year of his
age.
Jules Favre, the eminent French statesman,
died on the night of the 18th, aged II.
J. Winthrop Taylor, medical director of the
United States navy, died suddenly of heart dis
ease in Boston on the 18th.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-29

Joseph urant and Seth DO Gatno were killed
by the explosion Of boiler in saw mill at
Transfer, Pa, on the Gath.
At the explosion of threshing machine boiler
at Clinton, Ont, on the 22d inst, two men were
killed and several injured.
on the Barrataria, Ls., exploded on the 2lst,
killing Arthur Porrier, chief engineer, Willis
Wright, (colored), and a colored man, name un-
known, and seriously wounding thirteen others.
The sugar house was damaged 900 worth.
The boilers of the Montgomery furnace, Port
Kennedy, Pa, exploded on the 21st;; The loss
put out of blast.
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Eulse Rensonluv.

Suppose machine should fall to perform
its work, and the owner, instead OF irving to
ascertain the cause of failure and remedy it,
should conclude to run right along, and ar
que that as the machine had heretofore come
around alright it would soon be SO again. If q
general and permanent breakdown ensued
could anybody be blamed but himself! Now,
precisely this way do people act and argue
when the 'human machine" is out of order.
When the liver is torpid +" and bowels con-
stipated every one knows that DIR. Pierce's
Pleasant Purgative Pellets afford prompt and
permanent relief. Yet some guess the ma
chine" will come around all right, and do
nothing. Could any system of fa!se reason
ing re more perniciouss Suppose the blood
be out OF order and there be pimpIes, ulcers,
or running sores with scro!ulous tumors,
swellngs ard general debility. and those
Tins affected should refuse to use DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, guessing that the
blood would purify itself, could anybody be
blamed but themselves, If general and per-
msnent breakdown of health ensued! No
remedy yet known equals the Discovery in
curing all scrofulous, throat, bronchial and
lung diseases. Sold by druggists.
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The Bishop and the Infldel.

A good story is told of the witty
Bishop Wilmer. of Alabama, who was,
it seems. as ready with rctort in his
youth as now. He had but little while
been in charge of his first parish in
Goochland County, Virginia, when he
was one of 4 company at dinner. which
included all the gentlemen of the neigh
borlood. Among them was man noted
for his infidelity as to Christianity, and
for the roughness of his manner and
speech to those by whom it was pro-
fesSed.
The young parson soon discovered
that the old iniidel was talking a, him,
and prudently made no reply. AT last
the enemy became more aggressive,
and addressing him directly. said, ..Mr.
Wilmer, you don't seem to like to talk
about religion"
"Yes, SIR" he replied, 81 do like to
talk about it with people who are earn
est and respectful i'll their treatment
of it,
"Well.' rejoiaed the assailant, "if
you will answer me one question will
let you off,
"Sir," said Mr.. Wilmer. "I do not
know that / care to be let off from any,
thing; but ask me the question, and if
it is a proper question. and / know the
answer, l will give it to you"
''Weli, sir. Pvc asked all the preach
ers have ever seen, and none of them
could tell me, and now ask you. what
became of the body of Moses when the
Devil and the Archangei had q contest
over it?''
1t was trying question for n Young
.theologian, and a trying occasion. for
the assembled company all silently
awaited his reply. He quickly rose up
from his chair, walked across the room,
stood directly in front of his antagonist,
and said, firmly and respectfully, "Sir,
that question does not concern YOU in
the least"
"Why not. sir?"
Because it is perfectly certain that
no Archangel will have any contest with |
the Devil over your body
The intidel confessed himself whipped |
and, joining in tie loud laugh ut his ex-
pense, said that he would bet five hun
dred dollars on his parson every sermon
against any other preacher in the
coantry.-Ha,per's Drawer.
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a Square Meal.

We are sure our readers will thank us for
calling their attention to the very handsome
advertisement Of the Excelsior Manufacture
ing Co. of ST. Louis, Mo-, as it would be use
less for us to say any thing in favor of their
GRAND CHARTER OAK COoKISG STOVE.
The very name suggests the thought Of well
cooked meal, followed by easy digestion.
vigorous health and desire to have. and to
do, plenty of REAL WORK, to say nothing of
happy and cOntented household. Ask your
Stove Dealer TO show YOU the latest patterns.
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fort Wayne, dndy stnats Zeitunr.1

Mr.. Il. sIGEL, from Monroeville, Ind, called
the other day at our Office, and informed us
that he had read in our pafer, Of the Ham
burg Drops, and had tested the real worth of
the remedy. The case of Mrs. Sigel was de:
c!ared hopeless one by some of the best
physicians. Having tried almost everything,
she concluded also to use hamburg Drops
With the use of the first bottle came relief,
and about five bottles Of the remedy cured
Mrs SipeI