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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27

The rake factory Of G. E. Seymour, at Find
lay, O., burned on the 21st inst. Loss, $40, GOO;
insured in the Western Mutual company.
The beautiful Poem house, ON Peacock island,
Potsdam, Germany, has been destroyed by fire,
together with the whole of it's valuable and rare
contents.
Michael Schalrs car shops, at York, Pa, were
partially burned on the 21st instant. Damages
$25,0O
Thomas Nixon's paper bag manufactory at
Dayton, O., was destroyed by fire on the Goth.
Blake Il Lacy's planning mill and lumber yard,
at Pittsburg, Pa, was destroyed by fire on the
18th inst. Loss $10O, 900; insured for one-haf.
At Kingston, N. Y, on the 18th inst, Polins
sash and blind factory and two dwellings, we're
consumed by fire. Loss $4,000.
On the 18th inst, fire broke out in an oil
warehouse at Countersport, Penn, and before it
could be checked every dwelling, store and place
OF business in the town, except Bakers hotel,
Mann's insurance hotel and the Journal print
ing Office were Ibid in ashes-about 40 buildings
Ia in al: Loss probably $20o,00O; insurance
=, A block in the business portion of salvisa,
mercer county, Ky, was destroyed by fire on
the 18th. Loss $4,000
The steamer Ruby, an excursion boat, while
lying of the north pier, at Chicago. burned on
the 18th inst, the captain and one seaman hay
ing narrow escape. Loss $4,000; insured.
Gardner Il Co.'s Centennial brewery, at
Philadelphia, Pa, was damaged by fire to the
extent of between $3.50, 900 and $780, 900 on the
18th inst. Insurance $130,0o0.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
Those Dreadful Sparrows,

Dreadful little sparrows! exclaims
Mary Clemmer. What mischief you
make! What work and disappointment
you entail! You are not feeble folk, but
the most persistent, the most prosperous
of mischievious little people. You have
picked all the grass seed out of my lawn.
You have soiled the wall of my house
from top to bottom. You have trick
ed it's face with straws, till it looks
like a gaunt Ophelia. You scold like
parrots and fight like tigers, doing all
this to my constant discomfort. You yet
dare, in the open window, to stare in my
face, with blinking defiance and beaks
full of straw. Thus arraign you as a
nightly multiplied nuisance with the
wish that every one Of you we're back in
England, where you belong. Not thus
out of the South comes the bluebird.
with it's high, sweet carol; not that lonely
messenger from heaven, the hermit
thrush.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
Financial Complications.
ISan Francisco Argonaut.l

Enter Bridget with her hands on her
hips. "Faith, mum, I shall have to
ask ye for more wages. Stocks is gone
so low that poor gurrl like me is ruint
entirely" ."Well, Bridget, you know
it is always pleasure to me to pay my
servants more money; but if the necessi-
ties of life are as cheap as you say,
I think ought rather to cut you down
a triAe. With Con. Imperial at 40 cents
and Lady Bryan at 16, you really ought
to be able to load up at very little ex-
pense." "Indade, mum, that's thrue of
ye, but consider the assessments ct
shall do nothing of the kind. Your po-
sitions here enables you to buy The
stocks, but it does not compel you to
pay the assessments. Be reasonable, re-
turn to the kitchen; and when stocks be-
come expensive again I will add IS a
month to your wages, and we will re-
sumo generally the style Of living to
which you have been accustomed Head
of the shouse tspttos :svoce)) - Smart
woman, fhatI only she idoesnt happen
Ito. know that am short or the whole
list, andsa boom in the market would be
rattlesnakes and blue ightningi'' :E-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27

In his examination in the case of Gen. War;
rem, who,ias charged with not bringing up his
troops at the proper time at the battle of Five
Forks, Gen. Sheridan said: 81 never wanted a
commanding officer to take personal risks ex
cept when his troops were in confusion which
might result in their defeat. There we're several
instances during the war when corps COM
manders failed to attempt torally broken troops
when I thought they should haye done So"
This is doubtless the truo military view of this
subject. At the battle of Waterloo the Duke of
Wellington, although commander-in-chief.
thought it absolutely necessary during period
in that battle to personally expose himself
under fire. The Hanoverian and Belgian troops
were thrown into confusion by the charge
of the French cavalry. The duke at
once went down and rallied all of the fugitiyes
that he could. He afterwards said that if they
had been British troops he would not have done
SO, but that the Hanoveran and Belgian troops
had mortal dread of the name of Napoleon.
Consequently, he considered his presence among
them absolutely necessary to restore order, and
perhaps save the entire line of battle. His
conduct on this occasion more than bears out
the views Of Gen. Sheridan in the Warren case.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS.
THEY Had Lively Time Of 1t, but the Grant Men
Came of Victorious. The Nominations,

THEY Had Lively Time Of It, but the Grant Men
Came of victorious...T Nominations.
The Illinois Republican convention at
Springfield adjourned on the 2lst inst,
after stormy session of over three days
an event unprecedented in the history
of state conventions. The Blaine and
Grant parties contested every inch and
resorted to every expedient to consume
time, but gradually the convention
reached the questions at issue and de-
cided them one after another, at
all times by large majorities in
favor of the Grant faction. The Cook
county quarrel was settled by admitting
Sc anti Grant delegates and Sc Grant
men. The test question is in the shape
of resolution that Gen. Grant is the
first choice of the state for the office of
president of the United States, was met
by one from the Blaine Washburne CO.
alition declaring the latter as the favorite
son, but after an animated discussion the
substitute was lost and the orig
inal resolution carried by 70 ma
jority-386 to 3O7. A committee ap-
pointed to select the 38 district delegates
then reported the list, whereupon a reso-
AuoAOA WU0 HuU h11u CdiII1cu UcCldIulG u.
S. Grant as the choice of the state of ILL.,
inois and instructing the delegation-42
in number-to vote as unit for him. A
protest WAS read from the delegates of
the Seventeenth congressional district
against the appointment or selection by
the convention of any delegates other
than those selected by them at the dis
trict convention held at Springfield May
18th, when the Sd, 4th, 9th, 18th, 10th,
5th, End and 9Th districts, by their dele
gates, united in the protest. A resolu-
tion declaring that the Republicans of
Illinois in convention assembled resolve
to support the nominees of the conven-
ton for state officers and the nominees
of the Chicago convention, was adopted
as the platform.
The following are the nominations for
state officers:
For Governor NJ. Cullom, of sangamon.
For Lieutenant Gouer'nor-John NJ. Hamil'
ton, of Mclean.
For socreta'y Of State-Henry s. Dement,, Of
Lee.
For Auaitor Of Public Accounts Charles P
Swigart.
For attorney General Charles Mccartney
of Wayne.
The several congressional districts
which joined in the protest denying the
right of the state convention to throw
out the anti-Grant delegates, will carry
their grievances before the national gath.
ering at Chicago.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
Storm i'm GcOrgia.

A heavy rain, lasting from 8 A. NJ. on the 21st
inst, to O'Clock A. NJ. on the 22d inst, fell
throughout Georgia, the rivers in many cases
rising at the rate of five feet per hour. The fall
stopped, as the bridges over the rivers and
creeks have in many Instances been swept away
by the flood. The engineer, fireman, and two
wood-cutters on freight train going from
Macon to Montgomery were killed, tho railroad
bridge over ono of the creeks having been swept
away. The crops have been greatly damaged,
be reDlanted
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
MsLllV TllalnkS!

The British minister at Washington, under
telegraphic orders, has conveyed to the govern
ment Of the United States the sincere and cor
dial thanks of Her Majesty's government for
the generous and friendly conduct in having
despatched the United States ship Constellation,
loaded with provisions, which were SO much
needed for the relief of distressed subjects in
Ireland, and which, besides being substantial
aid to them, had been accepted by all Her Ma
jesty's subjects as proof Of the friendly feelings
entertained towards them by the government
and citizens of the United States.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
A Sn0 nc Hon.

A dispatch dated the 21st inst, states that an
immense field Of ice spreads from the west coast
of Newfoundland to Cape Canso, blockading
navigation considerably. Two large Norwegian
it Is thought many more will meet like fate as
the ice is very heavy. The crews of the lost
ships were rescued. The steamer Prinz Will
helm had both bows stove in OH the 10th and
had to throw overheard $50 tons of her cargo of
railroad iron. She reached Sydney, C. B., for
repairs.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
Sam Patcll'S Rival,

Thomas Boyd, of Kentucky, who recently
made q fearful leap into the Kentucky river,
jumped from the middle of Suspension bridge,
Cincinnati, into the Ohio liver, distance of 81
feet on the 23d inst. Little publicity was given
to the feat, and not more than thirty people on
tho bridge and small crowd on shore saw him.
He TUNED twice in the air and struck tho water
with his head and shoulders. He was picked up
by a skiff, unhurt, though bis shirt when it
struck the water was badly torn.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
Drowned.

William 7. Avery, representative from the
Memphis CTenn.) district in congress two terms
prior to the war, was drowned, by the capsizing
on the 22d inst, of q boat at the Ten-mile Bayou
in Arkansas, ten miles west of Memphis. De-
ceased had gone from Memphis with party Of
gentlemen on fishing excursion.
On the 21st instant, two boys named John
Murphy and John Trainor, went bathing in Mill
creek, near Cincinnati, O., when they were car
ried downstream by the current and drowned.
While Fletcher Lafferty and wife and John
Auchuer and wife were rowing on Lime lake,
N. Y. on the 10th instant, the boat ran against
snag and capsizcd. Mrs. Auchuer and Mr..
Lafferty were drowned.
:. Herman Crovey, 19 years of age, fell into the
instant, and was drowned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
Work of the Flames.

About I o'clock on the morning Of the 22d
inst, the steamer Algona, loaded with hay for
Ogdensbuog, was burned to the waters edge at
Pine Tree Point, three miles below Hoquois,
Ont. Cause, Q spark from the pipe. Crew all
The steamer Maine, of the Northern Transit
line, burned to the waters edge on the 22d inst,
1T her dock in Port Huron. She was cut loose
and drifted to the Canada shore. The loss is
estimated ct 100000 on the boat and freight.
The passengers and crew escaped. Capt. w. H.
Weaver jumped overheard and swan ashore.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
Frirhtful Railway Accident.

Anexcursion train on the South Pacific coast
railway, running between Santa Cruz, Ca. and Big
Trees, where picnic was being held by mill
tia organization, met with q terrible accident on
the 23d instant. Three open cars provided
with about 125 people, jumped the track at a
curve in the road. Thirteen are reported dead
and others must die from injuries received.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
RiOfOus Sfrikere-

At Barcelona, Spain, thousand cotton-spin-
ners wrecked and set fire to mill from which
some OF them had been discharged. The flames
and the ringleaders Of the mob were arrested,
" The Governor Of Nebraska is in consultation
with leaders Of the strike at Omaha, and de-
mands pledge that no more interference shall
take place with the laborers who may come from
abroad. The militia is still under arms await
ing orders, and the colored men brought from
KANSAS City have not yet been sent home, the
strikers falling SO far to furnish Transportation
back, as agreed. A. plan Of action has BEEN
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27

At Washington, D. c., on the 10Th inst, oc-
CURED the long-expected and much-talked-of
race between Edward Hanlan and Charles
Courtney, for the title of champion oarsman of
America. Hanlan asserted his Supremacy from
the start and gradually widened the distance
between himself and opponent, until at the two
mile flag he was fully an eighth of mile ahead
Of Courtney. At this point Courtney turned
his boat for home, exhibiting signs of distress,
and the race was virtually over. Hanlan con-
tinued over the course and in response to the
blowing O. whistles and cheers from thousands
of spectators, he quickened to forty stroke
and exhibited a splendid burst of speed to the
finish which he reached in 36 minutes and
~ $40 seconds from the time of starting. Riley,
who was to fill Courtney's place in case he
failed to show up, started down the outer edge
OF the course few seconds before the word
was given, and rowed nearly the entire course
in front of Hanlan, increasing his lead to about
al eighth of mile. After the lace Hanlan de-
Rs ssoa SSsn gent sma and
the same course on the 26th inst.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
DIR. LJUSGMAN. famous Swedish ichthyelo-

DIR. LJUNGMAN, famous Swedish ichthyelo-
gist, has been pursuing Investigations in regard
to the herring fisheries of that country, statis-
tics of which are contained in the state archives
from the beg irning of the fomt teenth century,
and thinks he has discovered that the yield is
determined by the occurrence of sun spots, the
herring coming and going with them. The
learned doctor thinks that the sun spots, occa-
sioning well-known magnetic changes in terres-
trial phenomena, cause5 a change in the cur
rents of the sea also, by which the food on
which the herring feeds, is carried now to this
place and now to that.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27

BRET HARrE said at the Royal Academy din
ner that he presumed he was selected to reply
to the toast of ''Literature" as a native of
country which reads more English books and
pays less for them than any other nation. 81
recognize" he added, "your appreciation of
what is said to be distinctive American literature
"a literature which laughs with the American
skies, and is by turns as surprising and as ex-
travagant as the American weather. Indeed. I
am not certain that these cyclones of American
humor that cross the Atlantic are not as proyi
Dental as the American storms that mitigate
the austere monotony of the English climate.
For it has been settled by your reviewers that
American literature is American humor, and
that this American humoris kind of laughable
lmpropriety, more or less scantily clothed in
words. It has been settled that you are sober
people, and that nobody in America takes life
seriously-not even a highwayman- that
our literature is reflex of our life. But
think that majority of this Academy are kind
enough to recognize some principles Of art un-
derlying this characteristics"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27

The New York Bulletin complies from it's files
q list of more than eighty fires, from April to
May Is, by each of which loss of S25, 900 or
upwards was inflicted. Putting the loss of the
burning of Milton, Pa, at 81, SOC, 900, and that
of the forest fires of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey at S1,000,000, the aggregate loss by fire
in fo1ty-fye days has been about $S,0OO,OO0.
It estimates the loss in that time by fires whose
damage was below $25,O0O in each case at
$2,5oo,000, and adding 81, 500, 600 for heaggre-
gate of unrecorded fires, has total loss of
$13,000,000 in a month and half, or more
than $2,0OO,00O week. Insurance to the
amount of s3,4oo,000 is recorded against the
$S,OOo,OOO loss, first accounted. This record,
though unofficial is probably near to the truth,
and is really startling. 1t should impress COM
munities With the worse than folly of setting
outdoor fires in extremely dry weather, and
with the need of providing ample fire extin-
gushing apparatus, and of the greatest care in
handling fire in houses and business Places
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27

PARIS has s65 miles Of paved streets. Stone
blocks are used on 264 miles; Macadam on 80
miles, and asphalt on 10 miles. The Macadam
has been abandoned on account of the expense
Of maintaining it in good order and the impos-
sibiity Of keeping it free from mud Or DUST
The cost in Paris for stone-block pavement has
been 1926 the square yard, against $3.50 for
the asphalt. In Washington tho new stonc-
block pavements have cost on an average only
$1.90, and the asphalt $1.47.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27

NonrH CAnor.1.A shortly after the war, man.
ufactured 100000 pine sugar boxes a year,
selling them to the Cuban planters at a lower
price than New England boxes could be made
for. But change in collecting the duties of
sugar soon ruined the business, the southern
boxes being so much heavier than the northern
that tho tare did not prevent the imp orters
paying duty on more sugar than he received.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27

The New York Bulletin makes compilation
of crop reports which shows-so far as can be
shown at this time-that the wheat production
of 1880 will fully equal that of 1879. Iowaand
Kansas will fall off, but their deficiency will be
fully made up by gains iu illinois, Ohio, Miune-
sofa and Pennsylvania. If present promise
shall be verified that will be the fourth success
sive great grain crop in the United states-a
continuance of prosperity almost if not quite
without precedent.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
Singular and Fatal.

in shocking manner in the woods near Sibley,
Jackson county, Mo-, on the 21st. He, in COM
pany with another lad named Stewart, was
chopping wood. Parsons, unknown to his
friend, laid down behind large log and went
to sleep. At quitting time, Stewart threw his
axe over behind the log, and the edge struck
Parsons in the thigh, sevelins the femoral ar
terry. Death ensued in four minutes.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27

THE San Francisco Ncacs Letter says: ''We
have no hesitancy in declaring that De Young
was murdered because the Kallochs could not
stand what De Young would have conclusively
proven. The duty WAS upon him to prove that
the articles which he published with view to
prevent Kalloch's election were true. An over
whelming array of testimony would have been
produced of which this community has but little
cOnceDtiOn"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
The SaVagcS.

Ino SaVaXcSs
Capt. Madden telegraphs from the head of
San Francisco, under date of May 4, that Vic
torias Indians stole thirty horses at that point
the night previous, and to his knowledge eleven
men, two women and four children had been
killed. Captain Madden will continue his pur-
suit of the hostiles.
A party of twenty-five men who started out
on the 26th of last month to recover stolen
stock from John Dedmach, murdered in the
1nyankara mountains, and to avenge his death,
came upon party Of seventeen Indians on the
Little Powder river on the 18th inst, and killed
four of them, besides capturing seventy-six
horses: One of the party named Joseph Rhodes,
was killed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
Miners Killed

On the 18th inst, q portion of the Penny
packers plumbago mine, near Chester Springs,
Pa, caved in, killing Joseph Miles and James K.
mangled
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
AfghaniStall.

On the Goth instant, the British troops de-
feated -four thousand Shirwaris, with tr;Aing
loss. The natives lost one hundred killed. Ma
tive messengers report that large numbers of
the enemy are collected between Shekabad and
Ghuznee.
Twenty-eight shops in Cabul were destroyed
by a gunpowder explosion recently.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
Lightning Work.

Reports from different parts of Michigan
storm on the evening Of the 18th inst., was un- m
usually destructive. At Hartford two men
were killed; at Almira one man was killed, and
another seriously hunt. Both places are in Van
Buren, county. In several places in the western
part of the state, barns and dwellings, were
struck by lightning. At Flint the house of Mrs.
Martha Wilbur was entirely consumed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27

AT the head of Fall Greek, Nevada county
CAL, pines and frs over one hundred feet in
height arc so buried in snow that only few
feet of their tops are to be ceen. Where dark
forest lies in summer there is now only to be
seen white expanse of snow, with here and
there what appear to be clumps of bushes, but
are really the tops of the tallest pines.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
New Jersey,s Forest Fires.

Since the 18th inst. losses in the vicinity of
Bayside, N. j., by forest fires will exceed $780,
600. The largest individual loss was at Through
Neck on the 18th inst, when the finest farm
houses and outbuildings in the country, to-
gether with nearly 0.e hundred head of sheep
and cattle and number of valuable horses and
mules, were consumed, the occupants escaping
in their night clothes, barely saving themselves
from perishing in the flames.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27

On the 18th inst, as about twenty men stood
under the cupola in Taylor g. Bogg's foundry,
at Cleveland O., the bottom fell out and ten
tons of melted metal poured out, more or less
severely scalding ten men, one Of whom lies in a
critical condition. .,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
Burned to Death.

Two old people named Strader lost their
lives on the 22d instant, by the burning of their
house at Chcstcrville, Ont.
The residence Of Mrs. Balser Friedler burned
at Lock Haven, Pa, on the 22d instant. The
remains of Mrs. Friedler we're found in the ruins
and suspicious of foul play are entertained.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
Senator Gordon Resians.

Senator John B. Gordon, of Georgia, has re-
signed his seat in the United States senate giving
as his reason for SO doing a desire to retire and
attend to private business. Ex-Gov. Joseph E.
Brown was Immediately appointed to the posi-
ton by the Governor Of Georgia, and accepted
the trust
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27
Business Failure.

The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
company suspended payment on the 21st inst.
It is understood the company was obliged to
pay New York parties borrowed money to the
amount Of 100000. This swamped the con-
Germ.
Geo. D. Roseberry, spike and nail manufac-
turer, of Pottsville, Penn, has failed. LiabDi-
ties $4,000. The shrinkage in the price of iron
is assigned as the reason for tho failure.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27

arTangtd between the managers Of the smelling
works and the state authorities, and it is hoped
that the worst is over.
Some thirty thousand workmen created riot
in Chistiana, Norway, on the 23d inst. A
charge BY the soldiery resulted in the wounding
of several.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-27

The persons who wrecked train, on the An
dalusian railway, Spain, recently have been
court-martialed. Thirteen were sentenced to
death, and 13 to Imprisonment for twenty years