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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
DefaulterA.

J. H, Rochrer, for many years cashier of
the savings bank at Louisville, KY, is de-
faulter to the extent of $4,000. The bank
is to be closed and the the affairs wound up,
but it is stated that depositors will not lose
anything. Z
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22

A correspondent reports the distress in
Ireland as increasing. Five hundred in.
habitants of skule bog district, county Linn.
erick, are on the brink of starvation, On
the 18th inst. they proceeded in body to
Groom and obtained four cart loads of
bread by urgent representation of their
extremity. The streets of Cork are patrolled
by mounted police and the magistrate of
that city passed resolutions urging greater
activity in suppressing demonstrations par.
taxing of the nature of bread riots, and ask.
ing for the appointment of additional police,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
A Duel.

A Pesth dispatch reports that duel has
been fought between Baron Maytheni and
Herr Verhovay, member of parliament and
editor of a Hungarian political paper, in
which the latter was mortally wounded by q
pistol ball,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22

THE duty on salt in Russia brings to
the state treasury fifteen and half mil
lion dollars annually. Now the Russian
press advocates the abolition of the salt
duty, as it falls chiefly on the poorest
classes, and serves rather to depress than
to increase the national welfare.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
Rr0Rne6.

Samuel Ellis and his son John, were
drowned in the St. lawrence, At Morristown,
N. Y, on the 18th. The boy had on skates
andsvas pushing his father before him on q
sled, when suddenly both disappeared in an
air hole.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22

CHICAGO, January Ill 80 p. M.-Wheat
and generally lowsr; closed dull
at $1.24 for cash; $1.24Z for seller Febru.
ary $1.25H for seller March. Corn-Dull
and easy ut 1910 for cash: 1910 bid for sell
Ter February; 44c for seller May. Oats
Steady at $40 for cash; 34Ac tor seller
February; 38Nc bid for seller May. Bye
aud Barley - Unchanged. Provisions
Quiet and firm. Pork-At $12. 95 for cash;
$13.12H for seller March. Lard-At $3.50
for cash; $7.62h for seller February;
$7.72H for seller March. Whisky-At $l.09.
and 6rm and S@ioc higher; % light % at s4'so@ aSses
40; mixed packing at 81 1904 60; ship.
ping at 81 60@475. Cattle-Receipts 1000
head quiet, tame and generally unchanged;
shipping at $3.60@6.0O; butchers slow at
$2.00@400; stockers and feeders at $4,000
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
Business 1fallurea,

Abner J. Bsrnaby, clothing merchant,
Providence, r. T., made an assignment on
the 18th. Liabilities about $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
A West Inslian Horror.

News has just arrived of terrible floods on
the Island of St. Kits on the 18th inst, by
which 200 lives have been lost, property to
The extent of $25, 900 destroyed, and the
whole island devastated. The temperature
had been unusually high for the time of the
year, the wind blowing from the south at
early morning, but toward noon it changed
to the northwest, and the temperature fell
suddenly. The streams on the mountain
side rapidly became torrents, filing the
gulch at the foot of Mount Misery; they
rose over their banks and poured down up.
on the arabic lands in a resistless stream.
The whole population of the island does not
exceed $4,000, and of these two hundred
perished, and many of the rest arc home
less. St. Kits has known no such calamity
since 1922, when terrific hurricane nearly
destroyed the whole island. But it is sin.
gular that on July 2, 1867, Basseterre WAS
destroyed by fire, all the business portion
of the town and most OF the churches and
dwellings being reduced to ashes.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
R1nsular Exns0al0n.

As ssome 'lor gshoremen were opening the
hatchways on the steamer Grace, at Hobo.
ken, N. j., on the 18th, an accumulation Of
gas from the coal below exploded, killing,
two aud burning several others. i
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
VARIOUS TOPICS.

DESPITE the meagre appropriation
made BY congress for the representation
OF the United States at the Paris exposi.
tlon, Gov. Mccormick contrived to re-
turn $4,000 70 the treasury.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
Fatal Explosion.

A boiler in a saw mill at Fremont, N.
b., exploded on the night of the 18th inst,
The mill was blown to atoms, one of the
-workmen, Clarence Perkins, instantly
killed and another, Joseph Quinby. fatally
! injured. -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
SINGULAR Coincidence.

John Friend, proprietor of the Musical
and Dramatic Times, New York, has dissp,
peared. The sum of $4,000 has also disap.
peared. a
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

1hey are Ent1tlod . 1t.
The Dismal Swamp canal was sold at pub.
lie auction on the 15thinst. for $275, 900, and
was purchased by the bondholders. ;,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
THE AARKETa.
Reported by CHANDLx1, B1oWH L Co., Commits
sion Merchants, Milwaukee and Chicago.

NEW YORK, January 1880 P. NJ
Cotton-Quiet at 12Ae for middling up.
lands. Flour-Quiet; receipts 1900 bbls;
sales 1900 bbls at $5.4o95.so for common
to mixed western; hoop unchanged; rye
-four dull. Wheat-Spring 1@1kc better:
winter without decided change; receipts
81 900 bus; sales 16S,0 900 bus; No. 1 white
seller February at $l.47. Rye-Dull at 92h
@93c. Corn-Dull; receipts $4,000 bus;
sales $4,000 bus at 56@611<c for western
mixed. Barley-Quiet and unchanged. Oat
Quiet: receipts 5000 bus; sales26 600 bus
at 46@471zc for mixed western 46H@49Hc
for white. Pork-Firm at $12.75. Beef
Steady. Isrd-stronger at s. 90. Butter
Unchanged. Cheese 10@14Hc. Whis.
ky-At $l.15. sugar-ttnchsnged. Eggs
At 12@20c. Pstroleum-Crude 7@8c; re.
fined at Sc. Tallow-Uunchanged. Coal
Firm and very quiet. Leather-1n buyers
favor; trade only moderate at 27@30. Wool
Quite firm; little better demand at 43@
ERc
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE,, January 17-3:3 P. NJ
Flour-Dull and unchanged; standard
spring extras at $5.2O@5.4O; common at
$4.75@5 co.. Wheat-Steadier; No. cash
sold at $1.24H; No. 2 at $l.22H@1.23H;
No. 8 at $1.0SX@1.085s; No. 4 at $l.00}<@
1.O1; No. seller February at s1.22A@1.24; ;
seller March at 81 23H@1,251z. Corn-Dull !;
new at 35Hc; No. Eat 1910. Oats-No.
at 34Ac. Rye-Dul at 75c. Barley-Quiet
At 73c cash No. 2 seller March at 74c; No.
8 at 49c. Steady at 81, 90 cash. Lard
AT $3.50 cash. Hogs at $4.25@4 60.
Foreign.
LONDON January l7-12:30 P. M.-Liver.
pool wheat marke ct frmer for white grade,
but dull; ,atipg cargoes steady; on pas.
sage quiet.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22

INDIA continues to be the great sink
into which the worlds silver is being
constantly poured. Last year the Pacific
slope, including Mexico, mined $S8, ,O00,-
600 Of silver. Of this sum $4,000, 900
was shipped direct to China. But the
shipments of silver from England to
India last year were $50, 900, 900. Doubt
less, also, those from the continent of
Europe, including Austria, France, Italy
and Germany, were also large. So that,
Notwithstanding Germany's demonetiza-
lion, India still continues to take nearly
much silver as is mined in the United
;tates.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22

THERE is point in the geography of
;he United States that is not generally
known, and that is Driftwood Point.
Driftwood Point is part of little piece
of land owned by those United States
that is peculiarly situated. This piece
of land is the only portion of this coun.
try except Alaska that is north of the
forty-ninth parallel. 1t is impossible to
reach it by land without going through
British territory. 1t is part of Pembina
County, Minnesota, and it borders on
the northwest shore of the Lake of the
Woods. 1t is about twenty-five miles
north of the forty-ninth parallel, and is
by that distance the most northern point
the United States except Alaska. Its
northern point is 40 degrees, % minutes
and 81 seconds north latitude, and it is
in longitude IS degrees, ii minutes and
80 seconds west from Greenwich.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22

committed, authorizing the equipment of an
expedition to the Arctic sea-. After ses.
sion in committee of the whole on tho re.
port of the committee on rules the house
adjourned.
FRIDAY, January 16.-A bill was
passed donating condemned bronze cannon
to the Morton Monument association, In
diana.....At the expiration Of the morning
hour the house went into committee of the
whole on the private calendar, and when the
committee rose, adjourned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
Terrific Storm.

Oregon and Washington territories suf-
tered severely from violent storm which
swept that region on the 9th instant. The
dsmsge to property in Portland, Oregon,
will not fail short of $4,000. Several per-
sons were injured by being caught under
the ruins of demolished buildings, and one
Harry P. Heinrich, was instantly killed.
From the interior Of the territory reports
indicate that the gale was unusually vic.
lent. It is not possible to estimate the
value of the property destroyed, but. it will
certainly be great, and the obstruction of
the roads will, in great many localities
for long time stagnate all bust
ness. Owing to fallen timber and
the damage to railroad bridges, railroad
trains will be delayed considerable. The
lines between Portland and Dallas are
buried under fallen timber 60 deep that new
lines will have to be constructed. Two
men, named Mason and Rundle, were frozen
to death on the night of the 10th near
Young station on the Northern Pacific. At
Tacenter, Washington territory, tree was
blown against school house, demolishing
it. Twenty children were in the buidlingat
the time; son and daughter of John w.
Bartlett ttwere instantly killed and another
daughter dangerously injured. Much dam.
age was inflicted at Salem. The state house
was partially unroofed, as was also the
Academy of the Sacred Heart.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22

Mrs. Margaret Tuny, 20 years of age,
died at her home in Cincinnati, O., on the
18th. She had subsisted month without
food, having been the victim of hallucina-
ton that she had NO stomach.
Charles Wochter, the German lawyer and
legal writer, is dead. ~.s
The Duke Antoine de Gramont, French
diplomast, il dead. .=-
Richard Sullivan, well.known writer
and journalist, and brother of the present
editor of the Dublin Nation. died in San
Francisco on the 18th inst.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22

The population our globe, estimated
at 300, 5000 is ruled by twenty en-
perors, twenty-five kings, forty.seven
princes, seventeen sultans, twelve khans,
six grand:dukes, six dukes, one vice.
king. one nisam, one raids, one imam,
one boy, and twenty.eight presidents,
besides large number of chiefs of wild
tribes.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22

MR. BEEcHER has been talking about
dishonesty in business transactions and
drawing lessons from the recent down:
fall Of New York merchants. He says
these men did not cultivate the ethics of
conscience and that without this the
spiritual experience does not hold any
man. He said theological students
needed to know something about politi-
cal economy. Mr.. Beecher was quite
severe in his remarks about extravaganza
and other causes leading to these trou-
blea.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
Suicidal.

Constable Augustus K. Hall, of Justice
summer6eld's court, Chicago, shot and
killed himself on the 18th inst. Financial
and legal troubles caused the rash act
Vincent B. Bell, former deputy collector
of Detroit, Mich, suicided BY shooting on
the night of the 10th.
Henry Burguns, . prominent Cincin.
NATHAN, suicided on tho morning of the 14th
inst. *
Joseph Halfauer, in jail at Andalusia,
Pa, charged. with the murder Of Jacob
Gerber, suicided on the night Of the 1lth
inst, by cutting his. throat from ear to ear.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
MONDAY, January 12.-Bills intro.
duced end referred: To reduce the tax ou

MONDAY, January 12.-Bills intro
duced end referred: To reduce the tax on
deposits subject to payment with persons
and associations engaged in the bank.
ing business; to facilitate the refund.
ing of the national debt, to stop paper in.
fatiou and provide for necessary increase
in the volume of currency by the free coin.
age of silver aud gold, and silver and gold
certificates; for q national jail and prison;
exempting from taxation pr0missory notes
issu ed for wages; relative to monuments to
Zachariah Taylor and Thomas Jeffer.
on; repeating the law for the is.
suing Of "request" envelopes; to equalize
homesteads and to graduate and reduce the
price of public lands to actual settlers re.
pealing the law imposing special tax on
of United States Circuit and District Courts
over crimes committed by Indians; to pro.
hibit and punish the sub.letting or transfer
of mail lettings; to increase the circulation
of national banks, and relieve them from
the payment of the tax on circulation; to
liquidate the national debt, and to strength.
en- the public credit; for the importation of
cork free of duty; for the transfer of the
Iudian bureau to the war department; to
restrict Chinese immigration; fixing the time
for counting the vote for president and vice
president: for the issuing of certi6.
Gates of the denomination of one and two
dollars and fifty and twenty-five cents.
A motion to suspend the rules and pass the
free from duty was lost-yeas 115, nays
115-not the necessary twothirds in the af.
frmative..... A memorial from . number of
western railroads asking reduction of the
duty upon steel rails from $28 to SO per
ton was referred to the committee on ways
and means......A petition was presented
from manufacturers and merchants of New
York asking for the enactment of law to
give effect to treaty obligations as to trade
marks......Adjourned. ~r .
TUESDAY, January 13.-Bicknell,
chairman of the committee on counting
votes for president and vice president, re-
ported back the bill to provide for and
regulate the counting of votes, for the
presentation of questions arising thereupon.
It was made the special order for the 10th
of Jauuary..... The senate bill touching the
Hot Springs reservation in Arkansas, was
reported back from committee and passed
......A petition from the general assembly
of the Presbyterian church ON the subject
of the liquor traffic was referred. .:....After q
session in committee of the whole on the
report of the committee on rules. bill au.
thorizing the refunding of the national debt,
reducing the annual interest thereon and
improving the public credit, was introduced
and Observation-Disclosures.
WEDNESDAY, January 1.-THE bill
for free importation of classical antiquities
was passed also the bill for the free impor.
tation of articles intended for exhibition q
the Millers' international exhibition to be
held at Cincinnati. in $780,. A bill appr0
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22

Chase, Merrill & Blanchard's imitation
leather factory at Salem, N. H., has burned.
Loss 5000; partially insured. Adjoining
buildings were damaged $500 worth. /
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
The Situation I'm Maine.

The dead lock situation in the Maine leg.
islssare was broken on the 10th, by the
oasting of Rev. DR.. Nathaniel Butler, Re.
publican, from his seat in the house, and
the seating of William Murray, Fusionist,
in his place, thus securing a quorum for
that branch of the legislature. The next
action was to send the names of Alonzo
Garcelon and j. L. Smith to the senate, and
that body elected Smith according to the
requirements of the constitution. A commit
tee was appointedto to wait upon the governor,
and forthwith Smith appeared accompanied
by the heads of departments, the outgo.
ing council and the adjutant.general. The
oath was administered by acting president
Ellis, of the senate. Proclamation was
made by the secretary of state, and Cover
nor Smith then delivered his message. The
other officers chosen are as follows: A. w.
Sawyer, secretary of state; Chas. White,
treasurer; W. H. Mcclellan, attorney gener.
al; NJ. n. Folsom, adjutant general.
Gov. Smith Immediately issued an order
deposing Gen. Chamberlain from his posi-.
ton as governor ad interim and ordering all
militia to cease to recognize him as com.
mander.in.chief. Chamberlin ignores the
order, and thus matters become more and
more complicated.
The several questions propouuded to the
Supreme Court have been answered at
length. The answers are in effect that the
Fusion legislature is illegal, and the Re.
publicans are favored on every point.
The Republican legislature will meet as
usual and proceed with legislative work.
On the 18th instant the Republican legis.
lature assembled and elected Daniel F.
Davis governor. Immediately on taking
the oath Gov. Davis issued an order to Gen.
Chamberlain to surrender his powers as
governor ad interim, accompanying the
order with copy of the Supreme Court
decision. Chamberlain acknowledged the
order and gracefully "stepped down and
out. The Fusionists show an inclination
to accept the situation and abide by the
Supreme Court decision.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22

LAWS for the suppression of mendicsn-
cy are strictly enforced in Switzerland.
Relief is refused to the idle and dissipat-
ed, and the property of spendthrifts may
be seized and administered for their
benefit, while they are placed under
official guardianship, should there seem
any likelihood of their coming to want.
On the other hand orphans are assisted
in every possible way. About 5 per cent.
of the members of the communes are
annually relieved at their cost. A re-
cent return proves that pauperism is not
more widely prevalent in Roman Cath
olic than in Protestant cantcns
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22

SIR WILLIAM GULL, the eminent
physician of Guys hospital, agrees with
DR.. Richardson and Sir Henry Thomp-
son in denouncing the too frequent use
of alcoholic medicines. He testifes that
he treats fever patients without alcoholic
stimulants; that the use of wines, ales
and brandy by overworked people is USE
less and dangerous; and that in regard
to Intellectual labor all such drinks are
positively hurtful. Even the moderate
use of alcoholic drinks he pronounces to
be injurious to the nerve tissues and DEL
eterous to health. He boldly told the
archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Pen.
rhyn that "there is a great deal of
injury done to the health by the habit
ual use of wines, even in so.called mod
crate quantities. He denies that alco-
holic beverages either improve the INTEL
lect, OF impart strength, or add nourish.
ment, or supply warmth to the body.
He makes proper distinction between
cheat and the feeling of heat" He ad.
vocates the immediate abandonment of
Intoxicating beverages on the same prin-
ciple that he would the prompt aban-
d0nment of poisons.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22

THE cause of the delay in finding the
ated train at the bottom of the Tay was
he excessive muddiness, of the water.
The divers could not see an inch before
hem. The water is twenty feet deep
where the train sank. Fox, the diver,
walked along the bottom until he came
plump up against some object of iron.
he at first thought it was part of the
bridge, but when he felt over it with his
hands ne found it was the engine. The
drst thing broug hit up was the. lamp of q
railroad carriage.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
XLVI CONGRESS.
Senate,

MONDAY, January 12.-Bills intro
duced and referred: To authorize the secre.
tary of the interior to allot lands in sever
atty to Indians; to authorize the appoint.
ment of commissioners to ascertain the
States on account of the Indian depreda.
tions and to adjust the claims arising there.
from ......T The senate bill for the increase of
pensions officially disabled soldiers and
sailors was reported back favorably by the
committee on pensions and placed on the
calendar. 1.-THE military academy bill was,
after discussion, passed as reported from
committee, and after short executive ses.
sion the senate adjourned.
TUESDAY, January 13.-Petitions
were presented for commission of in
quiry into the alcoholic liquor traffic; for
reduction of the duty on zinc; for the
withdrawal Of the legal tender quality of
greenbacks..... Morrill, offered resolution,
which was laid on the table, that the com
mittee on finance be instructed to inquire
as to the practicability of refunding any
part of the national debt at less rate than
4per cent. interest, and also as to whether
or not some effective provision can be made
whereby bona fde subscriptions for sums
in moderate amounts may be available, and
report by bill or otherwise. The commit
tee on public lands reported favorably ON
the bill for the relief of settlers on the
Kansas trust and diminished reserve fund
lands in Kansas, and it was placed
on the calendar.....The committee on
nit free of duty articles intended for the
millers', international exhibition in June and
it was passed ......Bills introduced and re-.
ferred: To preserve the secresy of tele.
grams; to establish an additional land dis.
trict in Kansas; regulating the autheuti.
eating and use of proxies in meeting of ma.
tional bank associations. After an execu.
tive session the senate adjourned.
WEDNESDAY January 14.-Petitions
were presented for constitutional amend.
ment giving women citizens theright to vote;
Withdrawing the legal tender quality of the
treasury notes; for a commission Of in.
ouiry into the alcoholic liquor traffic..
disabled soldiers and sailors was taken up
and passed. It increases the pension Of
such persons from $50 to $72 per month
......After short executive session the sen.
ate adjourned. e. 49, s<1~-,-~
THURSDAY, January 15.-Several peti-
tious of women were presented asking a
constitutional amendment giving women
the right to vote...... The joint resolution for
the withdrawal OF the compulsory legal
tender power of U. S treasury notes was
reported back adversely by the committee
on finance. A minority report was pre-.
sented.. Morgan presented the credentials
of Luke Pryor, appointed senator from
Alabama. Pryor took the modified oath.
Morrill, called up ior consideration his
resolution instsucting the finance com.
mittee to inquire into the practicability OF
refunding the public debt at a less rate of
interest than four per cent. and made q
speech thereon..:.The bill to establish
new land district in Dakota was passed......
Adjourned till Monday.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
DRUGS, &C.

DRUGS, &C.
C;1rnnrR s PoolHR,
DEALERS.IN ALL KINDSOF
Drugs, Medicines
STATIONERY, WALL PAPER,
Paints, Oils, Glass and Notions.
Prescriptions carefully prepared
PATRONAGE SOLICITED. ;
Cor Main &c Mill Streets
AUSTIN, MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
TOHN KENT,

From his new Grocery Store at RAMSEY, sup
plies the surrounding community with every.
thing needed in his line of trade. Goods first
class. Prices low. Give me call.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-22
BUSINESS CARDS.

T SCHWAN, -,
e. MANUFACTURER and DEALEh ~
BOOTS and SHOES. Main street, lAns.rn' i4s1'r
Minnesota, 4UA|