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A. was noticed Inst wcole, thero y some ir.
6reKM!nr!ty 1t. tho lnpsunlent. but the towns III
M,s W. s esress t,S nru HTS M the t
the InrEcr cities, with Siit Fts!ctseU md Mil
wnukrt, rcrort 1nssrs, ntl,l yet I'M rrnso,t NJ.
lrHrs rs to tho lsxt nns,lr Tor tess fnvoraer ~.
which iilaistntn en.tinuntls ind hanl-uttt liz
crense ~ comparison with Inat yGar. It Is true
s tat " '%n. ~ n1 ,} }tis9 II @
surprised I" e relatively !arycr thai, ihcso
tho incrrnan renl,na nM're rt'atlv n,,l sntislne.
tnry Tut It snstst lm ospnetrd lhnt. on ntcts.tnt
q tue alststrbanR lI,l!,'rncs nf llltlttl Interest,
the reN,rts will t,nt l,u OF IA mitch sly.lGuncH
MS Mal,nl until thu Presidential question, h,.s hceli
snttlctl. Thu ars,llatInn which tttrlts IN sotne
no incoM!.lcrnbls part or tho aggregate ut tssl-
ness.
spftidi Dispatch n The Ehtedoo Tribune.
E}t,s1UH, Oct. .i.--Thu t'ltlcy tlnrkg. tO-tlhy
cxshn,,xcs worn $lo:.s:ati; 6ajancos. si,rf.&:L
0uycr'''ne't bonds were l''iet tnt Eencrn'ly
Tho stoeIe mnr!sc. shows Increased strength
e so "ao Hsy,S t'et ihe sn.'rs tha AsfS nE
~ sa's s,T GiHs% Hs%scI url'stS M t.; 2ey is wss
so s ny aisacc iS; d"o ai st M .'' u Ess'' Hi liz
sssres 5 s9sS %af; .s "f M Shc.s @ s,ac ~ nsS ysT ee @
IS nsketi: Ittlo Iack atlvnnctrl from ii t. sa,t;
rron, liz to i4.s; Wisconsin, Gcntrai frtni is il,
ln!s; tho preferred wns steady At Il; Pullman
afefd I'd ~! tr, 1s,s e. Il: ! !a Go'sny fFo @ "
tHss to lBsi; jlu.tun Il f.iwrll frsMn E:rt to III;
Ntw York 4 New Eng14,ni 4,ni from ~ tu q: aiar-
cis! |" i !;G Forf ee,s g @ 's'sH s eh5a i pfe "
fcrrss ios to ~; llo,tnn & sil!nc fr,nl ln!a tn
atu' is0stnn r A!ty tso s' % ut; Mss @
, 1880-10-28
LUMBER,

!
Tlte market fnt cneHoea nctlTc and steaal.
ThG r0oc!pta wnro batHnr, and b0nks w1re asr'sshs
Throughout tho dnr. I'ley went nway rapidly ana
fuw w9su car1i+.{ nser, pinco atuf was guuted "
fiM ~ tic ontsio. md inch s11d ut previous pf'es
Following are tho quUsatlonG
r,,on ,n F1h +. ins Sks
HICen iaolh1t: .s..s..'.ts.'.s..."''.".'" i.ttsGi
NEtG Riioit lnGH.... ...,s,....4...s.s.
stAnuAtu t{tliaHG1.
ssxtsh &1ukI44...s-s. ts.ts.s....s.st,s.t+ ".
ftttt.tstsss.sssss" t'
Tho ynrd market continues faiFiy nctaso a''d "ea!
Thu dlsposttlon 10 slnaa psiceA hntud ton QUIZ ak
has Htyen place tu Stronger feeling: Tho aaFaheo
m freight. ant rso IN prtcu at cs'rpoos, ho'i' ~
strengthen the yarA Jnarket. and thoFo tB uon'.N
for catauos 10 euuule&o assuFtnouts aforc INC sea
son closes, Following arD tho quatutlonss -m
F!rst md second coar, ineh. .,.-....-..& Hi XII
Eisst sH s'H sSc,n. ssar' a; @ trsG 4ll
.,.i Ei..s Hu T saehsA cs'@s 4NS'a A1'"''+.'' iAu
H1a 5.ss .i s'i.s .ss'n aisaf raSi M 5
fGssa s.s .aS eSas .osSnd S css; is:sod @
EEtsatt,sH =. e1 SLi1
l,sss;: 'ss VA ;ssp lsssl tssl
II sImTk fx1Hs,is iiEsi3 inSh' is' ,ustaItM
ssSsf 6,a;is msi3 nsh S!astninm III
pencinA. ntsI quaey.... ..........."''''' tIDt;iII
EonGl!,9 ~. il5hf:sil
tsm'ae!s ts 5Sans, NJ. L Il lid il issi.:.:: t ta3
ass,.l lsn : ssS sost. :.: 5
Tini,es y " Ata ihclnstvo u II uhler.. iVi
ttctsis, Hat, souga, slll aoud.+.~.".''" .n,4 Isl
thlna:s. :;a.idsi .,ii
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eAlnHtesscless''s' 's'.'ss.s.st'.s'...'.'..'s'"''''
, 1880-10-28
LIVE STOCK.

a
CA1.riE-rho situation va but llella improved e
somewhat larger volume VI salus ws& socosae.t 80
shan On the day before. but II was = sluggish vi =
eStar all aud pztces wore weak MI asouta sas
, 1880-10-28

Gill; 1ur. Il Quincy. atMI l,acina Mnii....... n.tGt
tahnIA huutllcr1.... ltnA!ilnI...., NV
lhtkhwnHNH.. ..GEAUSt. Paul nDA
fniilMnrn titls1i.. 9Ht " IAul tntln- 1,t0J
lruu MNNNn1n !nn llplu lncttP.. 4.1t
kn,sta & TFxut..... ATM WnaEssl lMc!tc .,.miU
lt&AR hIta. kns WHstGrH fiiDn.. ...atyns
tltlu Er!9 ANestefn. ;tH Alum Terra i1Auta c,MI
flluRnn E4kFt aMa him 10 4 Alton .s... iAllt
Northwestern .bTH llllDilx Cphtrh, G.Di
Shahyt< ChAttA. i.Au lOHAtNn tFEINS 4,7Ih
NnW Icrnty rDntTnI. n hG Norris E.sux.... 3lll
NgW York tGntntl.. Sr' s91llb uhlU. ....,. 47Vt
UhlD M!fsBaipp... &ilu4
Alonsy fnarknt easy ut :.sds!g;,. closing ut .!4
O., rrttMn iuercnntilu .papNr, 4.sat5.;.
HterLt,K exchange, sixty tiays, weak at 46lai;
dEHtnt,ll. iSl.
Tho stoA,1sst!p wtcla1.d. from Europe ycstcr-
tny. lrt,tsht {a,;la,taM, 1T which sb3,TBl IL Il,
lnrKs, lilo remainder fra1ls*.
TI,r jtrupusais Il, sell lAinda 10 tho Government
tn-i!ay nyHr.Eattsl 40.ss4aaN of which tho Setra.
tu itio for s Of lbso, atlsi lo.7h to l05U for IN
Of 1881.
, 1880-10-28

..GoA1t-.wn. tn p,,ni ,icr,nnd fd nu,ln rulca ,,.
fnr rHrHn Af1u mt. FnlDwlng nro tho rvisi nt,o ~
, 1880-10-28

kiontlY. Win. Il fuV e1cnplsnns, {hnrrr,nnrStn ,nrtnaRa
nun. lind lotilno were Hu0lud enscr. F't,iIn.i"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22

one child to the couple. Mr.. Hepner's
seventeen children, the Oldest only seven
years OF age, were taken in charge three
months after Mrs. Hepner's death by d
young German lady, who became the
second Mrs: Hepner. The first Mrs.
Hepner died in February, 1848. In Feb
ruary, 1849, her successor presented Mr.:
Hepner with a boy. On Christmas day
OF the same year the nineteenth child
was added to the Hepner flock. Once a
year for five years afterward the family
was increased by twins, and for three
years after that one child was born to
Mr.. Hepner. The last three were born
in this country, Mr.. Hepner having emf
grated from Germany in 1854. In 1857
his wife died, having been married nine
years. OF the thirty-two children that
had been born to Hepner, twelve had
died. In 1858 he married a widow with
one child. The third wife bore him nine
children in ten years by single births:
Mr.. Hepner and his last wife are still
living. None Of the first set of seven
teen children survive. Two of the Sec
ond wife's fifteen are alive and three of
the third wife's nine. With the STEP
child that the last marriage added to the
list, forty-two children have called John
Hepner father.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22
The Pulse,

Many erroneous impressions prevail
about the pulse as indicative of health
or disease, a common notion being that
its beatings are much more regular and
uniform than they really are. Frequen-
cy varies with age. In the newborn in
FAINT the beatings are from 100 to 40 to
the minute; in the second year from 100
to lis; from the seventh to the four
teenth year from soto 80; from the four
teenth to the twenty-frst year, from Is
to 49,; from the twenty-frst to the six
tieth year, from 70 to Is. After that
period the pulse is generally thought to
decline, but medical authorities differ
radically on this point, having expressed
the most contradictory opinions. Young
persons are often found whose pulses are
below 60, and there have been many in
stances Of pulses habitually reaching
100, OF not exceeding 40, without ap-
parent disease. Sex, especially in adults,
influences the pulse, which in women is
more rapid than in men of same age.
Muscular exertion, even position, ma
terially affects the pulse. Its average
frequency in healthy men Of 81 is, when
standing, 81; when sitting, II; when
lying, &c, per minute; in women of the
same age, in the same positions, 81, "a,
and 70. In sleep the pulse is in gener.
al considerably slower than during wake.
fulness. In certain diseases; such as
acute dropsy Of the brain, for example,
there may be $50, even 200, beats; in
other kinds Of disease, such as apoplexy
and some organic affections of the heart,
there may be no more than 20 to 30 to
the minute. Thus, one of the common.
est diagnostic signs is liable to deceive
the most experienced practitioners.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22
Smothered in Their Beds

A Geneva correspondent of the Lon
don Times writes as follows: A strange
occurrence happened few days ago at
st. Cierge, a village in the Jura. The
principal room of an auberge there known
as the Cert was lighted by hanging Pc
troleum lamp, above which had been
placed, for the protection of the ceiling.
metal plate. In course of time the
woodwork above the plate became desic-
Gated, and one evening last week it took
fire, and when the inn-keeper and his
family retired to rest was all aglow-a
fact, however, which they do not seem to
have noticed. From the ceiling the fire
was communicated to the room above.
and was first discovered by neighbour.
who early next morning, observing smoke
issuing from the aubergc door, gave an
alarm, when as none of the inmates could
be reused, the door was broken open.
The fire, having gone on smoldering
without bursting into flame, had done
little material damage, and was easily
extinguished; but all the people in the
house, the aubergiste, his wife and sister
were dead. After the manner of country
people, who have often horror of fresh
air, they had firmly closed their windows
before going to bed, and the smoke. hay
ing no exit, had asphyxiated every one
of them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22
Palm-leaf Fossils in Colorado.

Mr.. E. F. johnson, the expressman.
brought into the Gazette Office yester-
day some very interesting fossil remains
which he had just discovered. In speak
ing Of his discovery he said: "A wear
ago my son reported that lie had found
upon the bluffs northeast of town pet
rified fish-tail, but imbedded in two
large rock for him to carry. He has
often urged me to go with him and get
it. 1 finally went, and to my astonish-
ment found that he had discovered yery
fine impression of palm-leaf, and I
soon found three other perfectly printed
leaves of the same variety. The leaves
were Of enormous size, the ribs divere-
ing from the base just like palm fans,
but upon very much larger.scale. The
estimated size of one leaf, calculated from
reliable data furnished by the ratio of
divergence, is found to be feet long by
6 feet WIDE" Mr.. johnson also found
several sections of palm tree trunks, one
of which he brought to the Gazette Of
flee, together with the impressions of the
leaves
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22
If I go straight to the Bank of England

- 81 ooA"A6A0 W tuo DhuK Oh Engla0Q
tomorrow morning, directly it is opened,
and change them into gold, I shall be
there long before their loss is known, or.
consequently, their numbers stopped.
The young fellow perhaps will not lie
missed for week; he comes long way
from here; I have seen enough to tell me
that. We do not know what his habits
were; we do not even know that any one
was aware he had the money about him.
No; the more I think of it the safer the
whole game looks. You have oily to
keep your own and my counsel and our
fortunes are retrieved for few months,
and we have nothing to fear. All, that's
the undertaken, no doubt. You get out
OF the way; leave it all to me-
Ihere was ring at the bell here,
which he went to answer.
All, that was a dreadful night, and
durln : the few days following was ne,tr-
" beside myself with terror. Of course
the house was closed, as became the oc-
caslon. The funeral-a very quiet one
took place in due course at Kensal
Green cemetery, my husband following
as chief mourner in the coach. accompa,
MED by the doctor.
mo remarks, no suspicion attended
SO commonplace circum stance, and
when the ground had closed over the un-
fortunate unknown man, and when a
week later merest tombstone recorded
the decease of the imaginary John
Smith, aged 49, all trace Of the dreadful
fraud, save that which he printed indel-
IDLY in my mind, WAS gone.'
Her husband utterly deserted her in
less than six months afterwards, and she
was !eft-well, what does that matter.
10 this day she knows nothing of who
or what the unlucky young fellow was,
where he came from, or whether he was
ever inquired after; but though when
she told me her story seven years had
passed since the evening she let him in
at the garden door, and he fell all but
dead at her feet, she very naturally felt
and no doubt still does feel-extreme-
~ uncomfortable when any chance refer
ence is made to missing man.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22
Execution In Morocco.
From Hays Western Barbary I

A Moor, OF the village of Sharf, had
shot with pistol, in the market at Tan
gier, fellow-villager, whom he suspect
ed Of being too intimate with his wife,
The brother Of the murdered man set
out Immediately for Maknas, where the
Sultan was then residing, and claimed
the life of the murderer. The Sultan
heard the case, acknowledged the Justice
OF the demand, and, summoning the
plaintiff into his presence, delivered the
following curious decision:
"We grant you our permission to take
the Lite OF the murderer Of your brother
with the same instrument of death with
which he was assassinated, and on the
same spot, and at the same hour OF the
day. But" added the Sultan, "why
seekest thou also to be manslayer !?
Accept the price of blood, which is law
ful unto true believers, and we will guar
antee you its payment from our Sheree-
tian hands, and 200 mitzakel shall be the
sum-"
To this the plaintiff replied:
Can that sum purchase mea trother?"
eco thy way" said the Sultan. "We
have heard and understood. A letter
will be G. wen you by our Vizier, in which
our mandate shall be written
Furnished with the sentence of death.
the man returned to Tangier and pre-
sented it to the Governor.
On the same day of the week, and at
the same hour, the murderer was brought
out of prison and seated on the very
spot where he had taken his fellow-vil-
layers life, while crowds of people at
tended to witness his death.
The pistol was now given to the
brother of the murdered man: when.
having loaded it, he went up to the Grim
maj walked slowly in circle round him.
and said:
lin the presence Of God and man, I
call upon you to answer me truly. Didst
thou slay my brother?"
10 this the criminal replied:
ct did,
One of the multitude, now steppine
forward, addressed the brother Of the
murdered man.
Accept the price of blood" said he.
and L promise you 100 ducats in addi-
ton, which those here assembled will
gladly give
Worthless words!" said the villager.
and again he walked round his victim.
Again he asked him the same question,
and again the same reply was given. A
second offer was now made of 200 ducats.
and again the villager, walking round the
criminal, repeated his question, adding,
Say what thou beGevest; am about to
take thy Gfe.''
"That God is God, and Mohammed is
the prophet of God!" responded the
criminal.
Hardly were these words out of his
mouth when the pistol was discharged.
It had been placed at the small of his
back, being the same spot where he had
shot the man for whom he was now
about to die; but the wretched criminal.
although mortally wounded, did not ex-
pire for some hours.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22
ROBERT BURNS.
By HENRY W. LONoFELLow

By HENRY ". LoNeFELLow.
I see amid the fields of Ayr
A ploughman, who, in foul or fair,
Sings at his task,
So clear We know not If It is
The laverock's song We hear or his,
Nor care to ask.
For him the plouRhing of those fields
A more ethereal harvest yields
Than sheaves Of grain:
Songs flash with purple bloom the rye;
The plover's call, the curlew's cry,
Sing in his BRAIN
Touched by his hand, the wayside weed
Becomes flower; the lowliest reed
Beside the stream
IL clothed with beauty; gorse and grass
And heather, where his footsteps pass,
The brighter seem.
He sings for love, whose flames illumes
The darkness Of lone cottage rooms;
He feels the force,
The treacherOus under.tOw and stress,
OF hayward passions, and no less
The keen remorse.
At moments, wrestling with his fate,
His voice is harsh, but not with hate,
The brush-wood hung
ABOVE the tavern door let's fall
Its bitter leaf, Its drop Of gall,
Upon his tongue.
But still the burden of his song
Its love Of right, disdain Of wrong;
Its master-chords
Are Manhood, Freedom, Brotherhood;
Its discords but an interlude
Between the words.
And then to die so young, and leave
Unfinished what he might achieve!
Yet better sure
ls this than wandering up and down,
An old man, in country town,
Infirm and poor.
For now he haunts his natlve land
As an immortal youth: his hand
Guides every plough;
BE sits beside each ingle-nook;
His voice is in each rushing brook,
Each rustling bough.
His presence haunts this room tonight,
A form Of mingled mist and light,
From that far coast.
Welcome beneath this roof of mine!
Welcome this vacant chair is thine,
Dear guest and ghost!
-Harper's M0gazin
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22
Father Of Forty- One Children

John Hepner, Of Reading, Penn. was
born in Germany in 1915. In 1910 he
married. His wife lived eight years and
bore him seventeen children. She pre-
sented him with twins in the first year of
their marriage. The. next year an
other pair Of twins was born. ! Every
year for four years thereafter Mrs, Hep
ner gave birth to triplets. The seventh
year was sjgnalized by the birth Of only
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22

Two friends were dining at restau-
rant overlooking the Seine, whose pro-
pr1etor would skin a customer as remorse-
iessly as he would skin an eel. "This
is an admirable view," said one. ct
love to sit here and look. at the boats. %
''Sh! Speak low. The boss will put
the boats in the bill. '-Puris Paper.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22

ANY man Of public spirit is supposed
to be perfectly willing to lie about the
population of any town he has lived three
weeks in.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22

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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22

time, loosen his necktie-so, and now,
mind, when return with the doctor, if
| there have been any signs of conscious
ness, or if the poor fellow speaks at all,
keep it to yourself; don't say q word,
you can tell me when the doctor is gone.
The man is not dead, but he will die,
think, and if he does die without speak
ing-well, we shall lose nothing for our
hospitality; it's worth risking. Mind,
now, what I tell you,' he added with a
fierce look at me; If you don't I'll be
the death of you.
"Then he went out through the front
door and gate, ostentatiously in bury,
and heard him running down the silent
road. l turned to my patient, and found
him still breathing, but quite uncon-
scious.
"Terri6ed and bewildered I hardly
know how long it was before I heard
hurrying footsteps again on the road;
and presently, having let himself in by
the latch key, my husband appeared with
stranger, the doctor, a seedy, needy
looking man.
'1Rapidly examining the patient, he
said, with his finger Oh the pulse:
About twenty minutes since he was
seized, eh? HIM, your younger brother,
you say?'
eyes, answered my husband prompt
~, with a significant look at me as 1
started at his reply.
"The doctor had his ear on the mans
chest, while my husband continued with
assumed emotion:
My youngest, my favor1te brother.
Dear sir, pray tell me-ah! I fear by
your face; but say, is there no hope?'
The doctor shook his head.
"'Oh, will The die .
"The doctor bowed his head and my
husband buried his face in his hands for
moment.
"Iwas aghast, perplexed beyond mea-
sure; and was about to speak when an
other fierce look checked me.
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