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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-05-18
MEETINGS..

A CALLED CONVOCATION OF EgZyllw
IN LAFAYETTE ROYAL ARCH JZAt=
CHAPTER, No. AZ. will be held at ~. Al szLINs&
bans Hall, corner Main and Tnird streets, -,
dates will please appear promptly. All hONai Areh
Masons I'm good standing are cordially invited.
'' CHARLES LUNDIN,
my 1915 Secretary.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-05-18

ULsTERS. CIRCULARS, AND BUSTERS.
500 LINEN UL>TERS, CIRCULARS, and DUST
Frs from $3.50 10 $3.50.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-05-18

PARAsOLS AND sun UMBRELLAS
Fresh assortment just OPT ned In great variety ano
unsurpassed in quality and design.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-05-18
GERMANLAUNORY SOAP.
FANCY GOODS. &c.

FANCY GOODS. &c.
STEVENS
HAS RECEIVED
$4,000 OF NEW GOODS DURING THE PAST
WEEK.
Among the bargains are
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-05-18
oISSOLUTIONS d PARTNERsHIPS

Having bought my brothers interest in The GRO
Gerry BUSINESS. | respectfully solicit con-
tinu9nce OF the patronage Of our friends and the
public. LlIILElON FllLbERALD.
m IC.1t
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01

At Conneaut, O., on the 9th, Arthur Young,
aged Is, was kill by the caving of a well which
he was bricking up.
Mrs. Alexander and three children we're
struck dead by lightning near Clayton, Ca, on
the 25th.
Three laborers were killed by the caving of
an embankment on the Pennsylvania railroad
near Jersey City, N. j., on the 25th. Two
others were seriously injured.
Some little girls discovered the body of j.
Thomas, proprietor of coal bank, at the bot
tom of coal shaft near Alliance, O., on the
25th. George Reed jumped down to the rescue,
and was asphyxiated by the gas in the shaft.
Both bodies were recovered.
A runaway accident near Akron, Ind, on the
25th, killed seven-year- son of DR.. Ans
berger, fatally injured Courtney Mckee and
badly hurt Mesdames Mckee and Ansberger.
James Newman was killed by blast at Wal
nut Hills, O., on the 25th.
tur, Ill.,, on the oath, a switchman named C. L.
lad named Julius Losier was literally beheaded
while lying with his neck on the rails.
VIM. H. Shirley, an engineer in distillery at
Louisville, KY, while oiling the machinery on
the Oath, fell on the fly wheel and was instantly
killed.
derrick which fell on passing street car
at st. Louis, NO., on the 24th, killed Geo. B.
Hunt.
A factory chimney which was being torn down
in New York city, on the 23d, fell, killing John
Crossman and James Reagan and seriously in
juring several others.
A boat containing four boys capsized in North
river, N. Y, on the 23d, Peter keenan, and
boy named Baker were drowned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
MESQUITE Prairie in Texas.

MOsG OF the country mere, says IeXas
correspondent, is what is called
mesquite prairie" It looks almost
exactly like neglected peach orchard,
the ground covered with grass, and the
trees, for want of pruning and care,
grown into great clusters by "sprout-
ing" from the stump. The resemblance
of the mesquite bush to the peach tree is
striking. It attains here about the same
size as the peach tree, and it does not
cover the whole of the ground or form
thickets, but grows in scattered clusters.
It's fruit the people call bean, and the
old Texan just mentioned says: SIT
will begin to bean as soon as the
weather's warm, and will 60 on beanin'
on till FROST" The bean is valuable food
for horses and cattle. The prickly pear
is prominent feature in the landscape.
It grows to an enormous size. Its
"leaves,' the branches or joints of the
plant, are said to be excellent food for
cattle. They are thrown into fire for
few moments to burn off the thorns, and
are then, I am told, eagerly eaten.
Several kinds of cactus are abundant
here. Everybody says that all this
vegetation, the mesquite, the prickly
pear and all the species of cactus which
grow here, are really Mexican plants,
and that when this country was first SET
tied none of these things grew here.
They are advancing further and further
northward and eastward each year. My
old Texas friend says "they're bound to
take the country. They are mighty
hard to kill, and don't you forget it.
They'll be in your country yit. !" Another
change which everybody assures me is
going on here is great increase III the
amount of annual rainfall. From the
appearance of the shrubs and trees, and
the fora generally, I judge that much
greater increase is still desirable.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
A Docs Novel Ride at a Wedding:
From the Elmira Free Press.]


The bride of a recent wedding cere-
mony overin Pennsylvania, had as pet,
little dog, who, as is usual in such
cases, was exceedingly ugly, but very in
telligent and very much attached to- his
mistress. When the wedding party
went to the church the dog was locked
up securely, as was thought. Alighting
from the carriages the procession formed
and marched up the main aisle Of the
church, which was crowded with friends
of the contracting parties The bride
wore>a magnificent white brocade satin,
and the train spread out over the floor as
she took her place before the altar with
her prospective husband. Just as the
minister was about to begin the service
yelp was heard and the little dog came
bounding up the aisle and running to his
mistress, looked up to her as if to ask the
meaning of this. Then, taking in the
solemnity of the occasion, he stretched
himself out on the train of the BRIDES
satin dress and remained there until the
marriage service was concluded. When
the parties quilted the church he re-
NAMED on the train and got free ride
down to the church door.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
SuiCidal.

Phillip stokely, discharged railway employe,
threw himself under train at Collinsville, ILL.,,
on the 28th, and was killed. Cause, whisky.
Crazed by temporary business embarrass-
nents, A. J. Fritz, prominent Democratic po-
ltician of San Franisco, CAL. ended his life
on the night of the 26th, by hanging.
Theo. P. Rogers, of Erie, Pa, a disappointed
lover, slot himself through the head, probably
fatally, on the Goth.
Helen Gray. aged ~, shot herself at Elmira,
N.Y., on the 25th in a fit of temporary insan-
ity.
Joseph Richards, prominent citizen of New
ark, n. j.. hung himself on the 25th. His mind
was disordered by business cares.
David A. Towner, of Boston, went to the
grave: of his mother, in Middletown, Conn.,,
and killed himself with revolver.
Miss Julia Saville, of Whitehall, Mich, took
fatal dose of morphine on the Oath inst. No
cause is known for the act.
Two female patients at the Central Ohio
lunatic asylum, named Lottie A. Poland and
Emma c. Seaman, drowned themselves in
lake Oh the grounds.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
Deadly Explosions.

The boiler of locomotive on the Nashville
and Chattanooga railroad exploded on the 28th.
Fireman Chas. Handeman was blown fifty yards
and instantly killed. The engineer had just
stepped behind the tender and escaped in con-
sequence. A piece of iron weighing nine pounds
was thrown half a mile, killing J. G. Field, car
inspector. Another piece Of iron weighing 200
pounds passed through the cars and knocked
down the corner of house.
A boiler in the foundry of F. L. Rick & Co.,
Memphis, Tenn, exploded on the Oath inst,
killing W. H. Holber, Ed. Hopkins and serious
ly injuring E. Cobbon, J. Adams and John
Hoyle. The cylinder of the engine was blown
over the county jail and through a wall 100
yards away.
A steam saw-mill near Oakland, Nd; was
blown to atoms by the explosion of boiler,
on the 21st. The fireman, Marshall Butler, was
blown six hundred feet, and driven head fore
most under some old logs. One boiler was car
ried one Thousand feet up the hillside.
The people of Bradford, Pa, were awakened
at midnight on the 21st, by q terrible nitro
glycerine explosion. It is learned that the scene
was -four miles distant, and that two men were
killed,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
Another Horror.

On the 23d inst, the sixty-second anniversary
of Queen Victoria's birthday, while the steamer
Victoria, with over six hundred passengers on
board, was traversing the Thames river, On
tario, and when hear what is known as the Cove
railroad bridge, about mile west of London,
Ont, the boat suddenly collapsed, because of
her heavy load, and became total wreck. The
unfortunate passengers were instantly plunged
into the stream, which at the place of the dis
aster varies from eight to eighteen feet in depth
More than half of the struggling mass was car
ried down underneath the debris of the steam
er's upper works. Several hundred families
were represented on the excursion, and the
scenes on tie banks OF the stream when the
bodies were recovered were heal trending in the
extreme. The total loss of life will aggregate
175. Up to 7 o'clock on the evening of the Oath,
about $50 corpses had been secured, and the
work work of recovery was being vigorously prose-
Loter.--Up 10 1890 o'clock on the 25th, 23s
bodies had been recovered, and it was thought
several more were under the wreck. The dis
aster was caused by rush of passengers to the
side of the steamer which partially Ca pBized her,
at which moment the supports of the upper
deck gave way, allowing the whole structure to
fall on those underneath.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
Dea6lV Flllid.

An explosion of 100 barrels of Danforth's
fluid, stored in cellar ON Edmund street, st.
Joseph, No., occurred at o'clock on the night
of the 23d. The floor above the treacherous
magazine was used as a billiard room, which
was occupied by a number Of colored men at the
time OF the accident, all of whom lost their
lives, the entire building being instantly de-
molishcd. At last accounts four bodies were
recovered from tie DEBRIS all burned beyond
recognition. The number who lost their lives
cannot be asccrtained, the estimate ranging
from Is to IS. Water was poured on the oil
soaked and burning debris, but without effect,
and it is feared that the unfortunates whose
bodies lie buried in the wreck, will be burned
to ashes.
Later. Further particulars concerning the
accident show that it was not as bad as at first
reported. There were about thirty men in the
saloon at the time of the explosion, but most
of them escaped. Chas: Dunlap, a bartender,
and Billy Williams we're burned to death; and
twelve others more or less singed and cut by
flying debris. The explosion was caused by a
colored man entering the cellar with light.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
Disastrous Blazes.

By the burning of Hoyt's shoe factory, at
Epping, N. H., on the 28th, loss of $85, 900
was entailed and several hundred workmen
thrown out of employment.
E. j. Cufey's furniture manufactory, at Chi
cago, ILL.,, burned On the night of the 28th.
Loss on stock and building, and houses adjoin-
ing, $4,000.
A fire at Kenton, O., on the 9th, burned the
Indianapolis and Bloomington railway depot,
Franklin house, First Presbyterian Church,
German Lutheran Church, Dugan house, Sey-
mour & Co.'s grain warehouse and two dwellings,.
Loss $46,000.
The white lead works of the Colliery company,
at st. Louis, No., were badly damaged by fire
on the 28th. Loss $130, 900.
The new part of the Hamilton maDeable iron
works, and large part of the old, burned on
the 9th. Loss $125,00
A fire at Cincinnati, O., on the 9th, destroyed
Agger d Sanderson's bedstead factory.
The business portion of Harrison, Ark, was
almost entirely wiped out by fire on the 25th.
Loss $25,0O0. The mayor has offered $500 for
the detection Of the incendiary.
A fire at Florence, Ont, on the 23d, destroyed
property to the amount Of $25,000.
The greater part of Pinsk, in the government
of Minsk, Russia, WAS burned on the 24th inst.
The losses are enormous. Great distress pre-
walls among the inhabitants.
"A fire on what is known as the 'lats" at
Cleveland, O., damaged property to the amount
Of $4,000. Six firms suffered.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
CrOOlkedness I'm the Treasury Depart
lnents

Ugly developments of systematic skuldug-
gerry in the treasury department, which has
been going on for years. are being made at the
instance Of Secretary Window. Several parties
who have held high places under the govern
ment are badly smirched, and the investigations
now being made will no doubt lead to the re-
moval of several of the present corps of treasury
officials. It has trapspired that o. L. Pitney,
custodian of the treasury department has vio-
tract from the lowest bidder, and has for several
years procured the supplies from friends and
favorites at their own figures. Outrageously
exhorbtant prices have been paid and alto
gether the custodian's business has been run in
a slip~shod manner. The facts go to show that
a regular ring existed of subordinate officials
in the department who received benefit from
the loose and reckless management of affairs.
A cabinet maker named Frazier testified that he
made fifteen fac sin,ies Of the desk used by
Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declara-
ton of Independence, at acostof $3.50 each which
we're given out as presents to friends of treasury
officials. Ex-cabinet officers are mentioned in
the testimony as having had the benefit of the
government cabinet makers work at their pri-
vate residences. Altogether the Investigations
promise racy developments.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
A MurderOus Horse.

Washington Benson, wealthy farmer, aged
IS years, met With horrible death on the after
noon of the oath inst. He was on his way from
Porter, Mich, to Iowa, travelling for pleasure
with his family in covered vehicles. They went
in camp for dinner about five miles west of
South Bend, Ind. While the old gentleman
was leading q stallion to water be stopped to
pick up stick, when the horse reared and came
down on him with its forefeet, crushing him to
the earth. The man fell on his back and the
animal instantly grabbed his face with its teeth
and bit off his right cheek. At the same time
it got on his breast with it's knees, and rearing
up and down, crushed in his ribs and breast,
and continued to bite his face until finally beat
en- off with clubs by the other members of the
family. One of the sons hurried to the city and
secured doctor, but when hereached the scene
of the accident, the man died with request on
his lips to be taken home.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
Remarkable Mechanism.
From the New YORK Tflbune.l
matchmaker in NeWcastle !


A matchmaker in Newcastle, Penn,
says a Pittsburg paper, has completed a
set of three gold shirt studs, in one of
which is watch that keeps excellent
time, the dial being about three-eighths
of an inch in diameter. The thee studs
are connected by strip Of silver inside
the shirt bosom, aud the watch contain
ed in the middle one is wound up by
turning the stud above, ami the hands
are set by turning the one below. But
perhaps the most remarkable. thing
about the liiputian machine is that it
works with a pendulum, like a clock,
and the pendulum will act with ease and
accuracy in whatever positisn the time
piece is placed, even if it be turned up
side down.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
RevOnd Relief.

Absalom Brown, a widower living near States
vile, n: c., went away from home on the 29d
lnst, leaving his three children alone on the lot
The youngest of these children, boy aged
8 years, had long been eickly, and the two
older children, a boy and girl, conceived the
idea of putting him out of the way. They &C.
cordingly tied a rope around his neck and swung
him up to a joist of the house, where he was
found few minutes later by a colored woman
of the neighborhood who passed through the
lot on an errand. This woman cut the child
down and laid it on the bed, when it began to
gasp, and finally regained consciousness. She
then vent her way, and returning homeward
some time later, stopped again at Browns house,
where she ascertained that the brother and Sis
ter had taken the young child off the bed and
carried it out behind the garden and buried it..
She hastened to the scene of the burial dug
the child up and carried it into the house. The
child died next day from the shock.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01

FEARING that the Delaware farmers will not
raise enough beets, the Delaware Beet Sugar
company has leased about three hundred acres
CT land in different portions Of the state, for the
purpose of raising sufficient number of beets
to fnpp f11s,. the o dsssn9 ss;e s phy
scale. In order to economize labor, the COM
pany has imported number of German and
French beet cultivators, which are capable of
cultivating four rows of beets at one running.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
Burned to Death.

A fire broke out in a dwelling at Alexandria,
Va., on the 29th, in which two children were
locked while their elders we're absent. One
aged three years escaped, but an infant was
roasted to death.
The barn of Andrew Lewis, four miles north
Of West Jefferson, Madison county, o., burned
on the forenoon of the Goth. -Four. small chill
dren of tho owner who were playing in the
structure, perished in the flames. It is supposed
the fire was started by the children.
Mrs. Eger attempted to start q fire with ker-
osene, at Pittsburg, Pa., on the 26th; Mrs. E.
and one child were fatally burned, and the
cred from the ruins of the house.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
Irish Troubles.

An attempt to carry out eviction in the vicin-
iy o, St Cork county oathe 27th IT,
landagent. The soldiers and police who were
protecting the agent charged the people several
times. Many Of the latter were wounded, but
Ithe soldiers did not go scot free, several of
them being seriously Injured.
Afarmer named Dempsey, whe took land from
which tenant had been evicted, WAS fired at
from behind a hedge in County Galway and
mQftally wounded.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
Financial Matters.

At noon on the Oath, application had been
received at the treasury department for the re-
neval of $250,00O,O 600 worth of 81 at 81 per
cent, and as this was the full amount to be re-
newed or continued, all applications received
thereafter were refused. The only work re-
naming is to pay off out Of the surplus rev.
enues the bonds which are not continued at 8 u
per cent. The amount so continued is esti-
mated at $3.50, 100000. BY the list of August
about $15,000,000 of Is that we're not continued
must be paid, after which the coupon 5s which
are not continued will be redeemed. Then the
work of paying the registered IS which exceed
the limit Of 1926, 100000 put upon that class of
bonds. These latter amount to about $40, 900.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
Railroad Accidents.

A freight train jumped the track near Chal-
mers. O., on the 9th, wrecking fourteen cars
and killing John Cooke, a brakeman. Two boys,
stealing ride, had their legs broken.
"A construction train was run into by freight
near Leadville, COL, on the 9th. Twenty men
were in the caboose of the construction train
one of whom was killed and ten others injured.
The engineer of the freight was to blame and
has skipped the country.
passenger train collided with an engine be-
tween Ghent and Pulver's station, N. Y, on the
2Sth, wrecking the engine, and instantly killing
Robert Best, the engineer, and Charles II. De-
Weise, fireman of the passenger train.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
THE SILENT No. 8.
THE EASY RUNNING No. 8.
THE No. 8 for FAMILY SEWING,

Or all modern improvements and
inventions in Sewing Machines, the
New Wheeler & Wilson, "The Silent
Number 81 is the greatest success.
Whereverit has come in competition
before competent judges with other
machines, it has universally come of
triumphant.
GIVE declare 1t the best in the
world. ."-]aulges Ansericoaa Institute,
". Y.
AWARDED the only grand prize for
Sewing Machines, at the Paris Expo.
sition, 1878, over 80 competitors,
AGENTS WANTED.
WHEELER & WILSON MFG CO.,
l55 State Street, CHICAGO
W. I. BROWN, Agent, Austin, MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
Marine Disasters.

The steamship Trop;c, with fruit from Ja-
malca, was damaged to the extent of $4,000 bn
tire, at Philadelphia, Pa, on the 26th. Two of
the crew were burned to death.
Apilot schooner, containing the master, three
apprentices and a cook, capsized in the river
drowned.
The steamer E. H. Durfee, bound down the
Missouri river with a valuable cargo of produce,
struck an obstruction near the mouth OF the
Gasconade river, on the 23d and sunk. The
boat was valued at $4,000
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
Minor MfshaDs,

At Grafton. w. Va, on the 28th ult., E.
Zimmerman was drowned while bathing.
During the progress of the fire at st. Louis,
on the 28th ult., which damaged the Collier
white lead works, two fatalities occurred.
Michael Ansberger was run over and killed by
fire engine horses, and Louis Cohen, q Westtiche
Post reporter died from exhaustion and ex-
citemeDt while running to the scene.
While Eli Martin, Napoleon Martin and James
Bouchard we're breaking a jam of logs on Fish
river, n. B., on the 9th, they were carried over
q falls and drowned, %..,-r g ! 49,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01

The British census Of 1871 showed that the
rural population Of England was not ;increas-
ing, and fears were then expressed that the
next census might show an equal falling off.
This fear, we learn, has been more than real
lied in the west of England, where the present
returns are said to show that decrease in the
rural population is going on rapidly. The
country languishes while the towns increase,
and the evil win grow until feudal anachron-
isms are,swept awiy.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01
For the .Ieamneffe.

Commander Cooper, of the United States
ship Alliance, has received instructions from
Secretary Hunt to get ready his ship with all
possible dispatch to proceed northward in the
direction of Greenland, and as far as Spitzber-
gen if necessary, and if possible to set there
missing Jeanette. The Alliance is now at Nor
folk Va,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01

SENATOR MORRILL,, Of vermont, has plan
conceived by him several years ago for remedy
ing the inconvenience and unhealthiness of the
presidential quarters at the national capital.
It is the; construction of duplicate White
House, to be placed some distance south of the
present one and to be connected with it by a
broad and spae;eus corridor, the new building
to be devoted entirely to the private use of the
president and his family, the old one, remodeled
in part, to be given up wholly to executive and
public use.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-06-01

Charles Kaylo, of Indiana, has been appointed
consul general at Berliu, Russia. -
Norman Williams, of Chicago, was appointed
by President Garfield, as honorary commits
sioner of the New York electoral congress to
the international exhibition of electricity,
which convenes in Paris on the 1st of August.
volney A. Smith, of Ark, has been appointed
counsel at st. Thomas.
Tie president has made the following ap-
poirtments of consllIs: Jesse st. Moore, of H.
limos, at Callao; John NJ. Barley, of New York,
at Hamburg; Selah Merrill, of Massachusetts,
at Jerusalem, Geo. W. Roosevelt, of Pennsyl-
vana, at Bordeaux.