Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-11-03


when OF Pernembuco bearing to the south
west 200 miles they picked up the first officers
and one of the crew of the bark County of
Richmond. They report that on October 14th
they encountered terrific hurricane from tire
northeast in which the vessel foundered. They
were on raft six days without food or water.
The captain and the rest of the crew were
drowned. The County of Richmond, Capt.
Mcdonald; sailed from New York October 4th,
for St. Thomas:
hthe recent great storm on the inland lakes,
seventeen vessels were lost and sixty-six dam
dollars. Ninty-three persons lost their lives:
over one hundred vessels of all sizes wore
wrecked In the late storm IN Europe.
The British bark Margaret, from Mobile for
Greenock, Scotland, was abandoned at sea, dis
masted ana capsized. Two lives were lost by
the disaster. The steamship McKar landed the
survivors at Southampton.
-, A schooner entering the harbor of South
foundered and all hands except the mate were
lost. The steamer Traveller capsized while
entering the same harbor, drowning twelve
persons.
At Plymouth, Eng, on the 2Sth the brig John
May, from Bull River, S. c., for Frederickstadt,
was driven on the breakwater. Captain
Mitchell WAS drowned.
The steamship Timsah, from Galveston to
Liverpool with :, 700 bales of cotton. took fire,
on On the 26th, while 200 miles south of Port
Eads, Gulf of Mexico. The matches were
battened down, a steam jet turned into
Gne hold and the vessel headed for Port Eads.
She arrived at New Orleans on the 9th. with
the tire still smouldering. She will discharge
her cargo.
The steamer Trader, a small craft plying be-
tween Memphis, Tenn, and Shawnee village.
burned on the 26th. Her captain narrowly en-
capped with his life.
The steamer Inchermarie arrived at Balti-
more, Md. , on the 26th with eighty passengers
and nineteen of the crew of the French schooner
Mathllde Granville, abandoned at sea. They
bad been in hopeless condition for several
days.
The Turkeys Death-Warrant.
Ihe following proclamation has been issued
BY President Hayes:
O. At no period in their history since the United
States became nation has this people had 80
abundant and SO universal reasons for Joy and
gratitude ut the favor of Almighty God, or been
subject to as profound an Obligation to give
thanks Tor his loving kindness, and humbly to
mpiore his continued care and protection.
Health, wealth and prosperity throughout all
our borders; peace, honor and friendship with
au the world; the firm and faithful adherence
by the great body of our population to the prin-
clples OF liberty and justice, which have made
our greatness as nation, and the wise institu-
nons and strong frame of government and So
clety which will perpetuate it-for all these let
the % thanks Of a happy and united people, as
to the giver of all good. I therefore
recommend that on Thursday, the 25th of No.
vember next, the people meet in their respective
places of worship to make the Acknowledgement
to Almighty God for His bounties and His pro-
lection, and to offer to him prayer for their
continuance.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set nv
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this lst dav
Of November, in the year of our Lord 1880. and
ef. OF the independence of the United States the
Ao2th; r. B. HAYES.
by the PRESIDENT: VIM. NJ. EvARTs,
Secretary of State.
MOrtuary.
David A. Wells, ex-member of the Pennsyl-
vania legislature, leading Democrat, died at
Milford, Ra., on the 3lst ult.
The death is announced of the actor Charles
Aarcourt, OF Drury Lane theatre, London.
Eng, Eng from the effects of fall through stage
Robert F. Johnstone, OF Detroit. VINO. FOR 3
quarter of century, has been editor of The
Machlgan Farmer, died at midnight on the oath,
of heart disease.
Hon: E. D. Mansfield died at his residence
near Morrow, O., on the 9th, at an advanced
"6o' III uds Decn WlQely known as a political
and general writer for the Cincinnati Gazette
and New York papers. His signature in the
Gazette was Z. D. NJ, and in New York tVct-
eran Observer"
Capt. j. J. warman, who has been steam
boating on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers the
Past past fifty years, died at Memphis, Tenn, on the
Bishop D: s. Daggett, of the Methodist
Church, died at Richmond, Va, on the 9th.
Hon. John S. BraZee g. leaGjnp member of
the Ohio bar, died at Lancaster, O., on the 9th,
aged 80 years.
The death is announced of two celebrated
French painters, Henry Frederick Chopin, aged
76, and Alexander Mivre Guillemin, aged 63.
VIM. Cawthrow, an old resident of Toronto.
Canada: died on the 26th. He was reputed to
be worth $6,00O,OO0
John Duff, builder of the Hannibal and St.
Joe and Union Pacific railroads, died at Jamaica
Plains, L. l., on the 2Gth, of pneumonia. He
leaves property estimated at $4,OOO,OoO.
John L. Villalonga, one of the oldest cotton
merchants at Savannah, Ga, died on the 25th.
Mihill Slaughter, secretary of the share and
loan department., London exchange, is dead.
Philip Hinkle, a well-known citizen of Cincin-
natl, O., died on the 26th, after brief illness.
He was active in religious and benevolent work.
especially i'll connection with the Union Bethel.