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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

In an effort to enforce in St. Louis a law
against carrying concealed deadly weapons,
fines as high as $1o0 for pistol and $500 for
slungshot are being imposed. This movement
is made because, out of twenty-five homicides
now in the st. Louis jail, all but three became
criminals through the habit of going armed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
OPEN "lobbving" like that practiced in this

OPEN "lobbying" like that practiced in this
country is unknown in England. Lately per-
son appeared in the lobby of the house of COM
mons and accosted members and solicited their
vote on behalf of Mr.. Ritchie's motion with re-
spect to the French commercial treaty. This
conduct was much resented by severalmembers,
who threatened to bring it under the notice of
f1,o
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
LETTERS from Russia depict sad condition

LETTERS from Russia depict sad condition
of things as regards the Jews. It is no rare
occurrence, especially in the south, for rich
Jews to be falsely accused of some imaginary
crime and their property confscated. The VIC
Tins are glad to escape with their lives, and if
hey venture to return they are seized as vaga-
bonds, or as bearing an assumed name, and
banished to Siberia or removed to distant paris
of the empire.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

The anthracite coal combination of the
United States is one of the monstrous monop-
olies. The census bulletin No. 233 furnishes
the following statistics OF the business for the
census year 1879-'so. The tons represent 2, 900
pounds each: Number Of separate collieries,
273 production, ~, 43s, ,s29 tons; value at point
of transportation, $40, ,ss1, 1881; total number of
men and boys, miners and laborers, employed,
6s,239, of whom 47,41o are laborers. Total
wages paid, $21, $50, 100; average yearly income
per man, $s59.oS; average monthly wages per
man, $42.3s; per cent. of year in which men
are employed 70.69. The average yearly NUM-
ber Of tons raised per man-men and boys all
being counted as equal-has risen from $40 tons
in 1870 to 454 tons in 1880. A portion Of this is
due to more steady labor, q portion to the in
creased use Of steam power, and something to
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
Work Of the Flames.

lQo Caf-SnOpS or the CalrO SoQOfC Line hOaQ
at East st. Louis, and fifteen cars. valued at
$4,000, were destroyed by fire Saturday morn
ing.
Several counties of Michigan bordering on
Lake Huron were devastated by forest fires
which the inhabitants were unable to quench,
although they fought bravely to save their
homes from the fell destroyer. Welcome rains
finally came to their aid, and an immense area
of country is now but a mass of snoulder1ng
ruins. The people are disconsolate and almost
bereft of their senses at the loss they have sus
tanned. Dead bodies are being discovered by
scores and many persons are still missing, SO
that the exact loss of life cannot be known for
burned: Bad Axe, Verona, Forest Bay, Rich
mondville, Charleston, Anderson, Deckersville,
Norrisville and Sandusky. Port Hope, Minden
| and Utley were partly destroyed. Sixty-fve
burials are already reported from six towns,
and it is said that in the country between Bad
Axe and Port Hope, twenty-seven dead were
discovered. The total loss of life by the fires
has been issued and contributions for the srf
ferers are pouring i'll from every state. The
loss OF property is enormous, and local lnsur-
| ance companies are swamped.
Elice Swamp. near Stratford, Ont, cover
ing thousands of acres has been on fire for
crops and buildings. The loss is enormous.
By the destruction of the business portion
and part of the residence portion of the vii
lage cf Homecoming, Allegheny county, in
northwestern Maryland, about 500, 900 worth
of property was consumed.
The beef slaughtering establishment of
| McNeal & Libby, Chicago, was burned on the
| 9TH inst. Loss about $4,000.
The loss of Hempy e. Sons planning mill at
Cleveland, destroyed by fro on the 7ti inst,
will reach $21, 900.
The Mulanphy Planning Mill Company stuc.
ture at st. Louis, burned on the 7th inst. Loss
$4,000 insurance $4,000. Hempe & Sons
planning mill, Cleveland, went up in smoke or
the same day. Loss $4,000.
Fire at Homecoming, Nd, on the 9TH inst.
destroyed the business portion of the town, in
cluding fifteen buildings. Loss 100000 in
surance $57, 1000.
Wood fires are doing much damage il
Michigan, and many rrlmors of disaster art
afoat. It is reported that the town of Rich
mond, Sanilac county, has been wiped out, ant
eight persons burned. Porter Station, on th'
Saginaw Valley and st. Louis road, is also re
ported destroyed.
Arcola, ILL.,, suffered from 100000 fire Of
the 9Th inst; insurance $4,000.
! The Monticello Wine manufactory, Charlotte
vile, Va, burned on the 9Th inst. Loss abou
| E75- -((10
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
VARIOUS TOPICS.

The Mississippi jettes are pretty sure to fig
ure in congressional investigation next winter.
Steamboat captains whose vessels draw twenty
three feet say they touch bottom where a
depth Of thirty feet was supposed to exist.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

"WHx dinna ye git married, Jack ?"
inquired the beadle's wife Of the parish
simpleton, "They say I'm daft, was
the reply, "but I'm nae sac daft as that: !"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

FREDERICK DOUGLASS says that during the
two years he spent abroad, though he was much
in society and sometimes in the company Of
lords and ladies, he does not remember one
word, look or gesture that indicated the slight
est aversion to him on account of his color.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Suicidal,

The village of Reichenbach, in Bernese Ober-
land, Switzerland, has been almost annihiated
by fall of stone.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

Now THAT the attempts of England and
France to come to an understanding about
commercial treaty have not succeeded, Switzer-
land is about to try her hand at it. A confer
ence Of representatives of the various cantons
has been held, and the views expressed by it
have been adopted by the federal council. It
was unanimously decided that it would be bet
ter to have no treaty at oil with France than
accept any augmentation of the present tariff,
whether directly or indirectly by the substitu-
ton Of fixed ad ualorene duties. The Geneva
correspondent of the London Times says that
public opinion will compel the government to
resort to reprisals, and that the ''most influen-
tial organs of the Swiss press warmly applaud
the action of the English government in break
ing off negotiations for a new treaty rather than
accept conditions which they deem unfair" {"
The negotiations begin in Paris this month.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

the increased efficiency of the men. It is esti-
mated that the production Of anthracite from
the now known fields will, after 1880, reach
4,009, ,640, 900 tons before exhaustion, and that
the output of 1s79-'s0 may be maintained LAG
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
MnRkllAPv.

Charles Robson, the well-known writer and
publisher Of Philadelphia, died on the 9th inst.
Ex-Congressman Loren P. Waldo died at
Hartford, Conn.,, on the 9th inst.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

DURING the past year no fewer than thirty
thousand articles of various kinds, entrusted
to English postoffices escaped from the flimsy
covers which included them and consequently
did not reach their proper destinations. Mr..
Fawcett protests strongly against the habit of
transmitting animal and other perishable mat
ter such as fish, sausages, birds to be stuffed,
clotted cream, yeast, salads, jelies, live kittens
and dead rats, and repeats the warning that
such forbidden articles will not be forwarded.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

Hop growing is attaining important dlmen.
sions on the Pacific coast. California is es-
pecially adapted for this species of agricultural
enterprise, the dry summers guarding against
some of the most serious dangers to which hop
culture is exposed. Oregon and Washington
Territory, where there is usually large rain
fall are producing constantly large CT Dps. Last
year ZOO pounds per acre was grown in Men
docino comfy, California. The golden state
raises over half quantity produced on the Pa
ciic coast.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

LoNaFE11ow has in his time declined
three embassies. T.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

While suffering keenly from nervous affec-
ton, Richard 8. Jeffreys, prominent lawyer of
Atlanta, Ga, cut his throat at the sulphur
springs in Alabama.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

The German government has been conduct
ing vigorous crusade against the manufac-
turexs of spurious wines on the Rhine. No
fewer than $50 casks. each containing more
than thousand quarts of fabricated stuff.
were lately seized at Rudesheim. In conse-
quence of these praiseworthy measures of the
government, panic has arisen among the
knaves who follow this dishonest business. It
is supposed that large supply of adulterated
mixture has found its way to England and
America. The Rudesheimer is one of the best
Rhine wines-probably the best to be obtained
for moderate price and no one who had the
luck to taste the famous vintage of 1868 in its
prime will fail to rejoice that the spurious arti-
Gle has been detected, and that the gutter has
received its own.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

WESLEY REDD1NG, colored man, has sued
the city of Atlanta for damages of $4,000, for
being turned out of the public parks by city
park superintendent, who excludes colored peo-
pie from public pleasure grounds. It is credit
able to the people of the southern states that
prejudice to color is fading away not very
fast perhaps, but it is less than it was few
years ago, and the citizens of Atlanta will be
doing quite right to condemn the arbitrary act
of their servant, the park superintendent, for
in this particular instancet the white man doesn't
seem to be as good as the negro, for he has not
hoho vo1 hinco1f
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

aThe unequaled inducements offered by this Line
to Travellers and Tourists, follows: The cee-
run only on this line, e., b. 4 Q. Palace Drawing.
Room Oars, wit Horizons Reclining Chairs. No
extra charge for seats in reclining chairs The ia
nous c., B. 4 Q. Palace Dining Cars. Gorgeous
tan Revolving Chsirs for the exclusive use of first
class passengers.
Steel track and superior equipment, combined
with their great through car arrangement, makes
this, above all otherr, the favorite route to the
East, South, Southwest and the far West.
Try it, and you will fpd travelling luxury in
stead of discomfort.
through tickets via this celebrated line for eale
at az offices in the Ual.ed States aud Canada
All 1dformation about rates of fare, sleeping car
accommodations, time tables, etc., will be chee full.
~ given By APP ying to JAS. r. WOOD,
General Passenger Agt, Chicago.
]. ]. POTTER, General Manager, Chicago.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

AN italian newspaper, in some comments on
emigration to America, does not admit that
surplus population exists at present in Italy.
On the contrary, more hands than the land
possesses would be needed to cultivate the i'm
doncd, such as Sardinia, the Agro Romano and
the Tuscan Maren,n,a. 1t appears from statis-
tics that during the past ten years 1900, 900
Italians have left their native land to find homes
elsewhere. and that the average per year has
assumed fixed quantity. which is about $780,
900. For the nine years, 1910, the statistics
were propertionately about the same as for the
decade which followed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
DIED CEDAR MILLS.

Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer In the best
brands Of Grecers' and BAKERS Flour. Also all
kinds of A1il! Feed for sale at his store on Main
stree Austin Minn., and at the Mill, two miles
south Of the city.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

solicit share of patronage and guarantee that
all work shall be done in rstclsss and satisfacto
ry manner.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
MILWAUKEE.
TOLEDO,
Mysterious Cases,

WHEAT--No. 2 Red.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

AZ f'9' o. L. AHhs'
Tor b tier known as MRS. TOPLIFFl is back to
Austin, 10 attend to all calls rs MID. WIFE, day or
mig 1t. Sac is the right woman in the right place.
Back rooms over So!uer's store, Basfords block.
P. .. Box al.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

UdN hEN I,
From his new Grocery House st Ramsey supplies
tn" surrounding com 44uni'y with everything need
ed III his line Of trade. Goois frst-cIass Prices
low. Give me call.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
BUSINESS CARDS.
(1RMANZO ALLEN,

A MCDONALD, NJ. D., @. NJ,
Graduate of McGn Medical college, Montreal,
his profession. Office at Rev. s. W. Ray's resi-
denre, south side Public Square, where all day and
night calls will be promptly responded to.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-03
Grist of the Grand Jury.

The grand jury row sitting returned true
bills of indictments yesterday against the
following prisoners who are confined in the
county Jail.
Slate of Texas VS.. John darlington,
charging him with embezzlement which
consisted in his selling q mule for J. G.
Lively to Pleas. Taylor and pocketing the
money, amounting to the sum OF $50, with
out the consent of the owner.
State vs. John darlington, charging him
with embezzlement which consisted in his
selling horse for J. j. Alexander to Pleas
Taylor for $50, which he failed to account
for.
State VS.. Joe. Frazier, charged with the
theft of mare from C. e. Slower.
State vs. Albert Smith, charged with the
theft of a $40 bill, United States currency,
from Harriet II. Giles.
State vs.. Rufus Crews, an escaped con-
vict, who was sent up for horse stealing
from Ellis county, who made his escape on
the Texas and Pacific road this last sum-
mer while working with the convict gang,
CARRYING with him the compliments of the
guard, in the shape of halfa dozen buck
Shot. He was sent for seven years and has six
more to serve. This time he is indicted for
stealing mare from Mrs G. E.. Slower. of
Denton equity, andwas captured in Dallas.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-03
A Perfect Gun of Conec.

Coffee Is the fine issue of eastern hospital
ity-the climax of the visit. One recognizes,
on entering, the sound of the coffee mortar
Tor In every properly regulated household
in the east the coffee is not ground, but
pounded intoan impalpable powder, having
been roasted hat morning, each day its
provision, and pounded the moment 1t Is
needed. And no one who has not drunk II
there and thus can presume TO judge of the
beverage. In England we roast it until it
is black, grind it as we would cattle food,
boiling it like malt for beer, and
when we drink the bitter and una
romatic fluid which remains we say
we have taken our coffee. Eastern
coffee drinkers know all the grades of ber-
ries and preparation as silk merchant
knows the quality of silk; the catiejee
knows that to roast it shade beyond the
point where it breaks crisply under the pes
Tie is to spoil it, and when the slow pulver-
izing is done, each measure goes into its
little copper ibrik, receives its dose of boil
ing water just one of the tiny cups full
rests an instant on the Goals to restore the
heat lost in the ibril, and is poured into the
eggsshen cup, and so it came to us, each
cup in gold enameled holder. The rule
i'm these lands seems to be that few things
Are worth doing, but these few are worth
doing well, and there is no waste of life or
material by over-haste.-[Pall Mall Gazette.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-03
"A NEW COTTON-PICKER.
A Kentuckian who will have out next Sea-
son the Very Thing.

son the Very Thing.
1t is mounted on two wheels, and strad-
dies one row. The machinery is driven by
the two wheels, with gearing, convolute
spring and belt, which drives the suction
fan. The motion of the fan is first gotten
up by driving short distance before. start
ing. TheS fan is furnished with two flexible
tubes, one\on each side, and also with two
pairs ofnippers working in Il metallic nozzle
at the rate 6f2O0strokes per minute. The nip,
pers pick tho cotton out Of the hollis and
deliver it to Nthe nozzle. 1t is then drawn
through the fan and thrown out on the OPP
posite side INFO sack. The machine is so
arranged while at work that it can be rais-
ed or lowered 10 any height desired with
out stopping That part is easily gotten
over. The trouble is in the track. took
a trip down to the cotton fields and found
that I would have to re-patent and improve
which 1 have done. l propose to, have. a
fine machine out by next season that. with
three men or boys will harvest and gin at
the same time as much as fifteen persons
can in the old way; the whole cost Of the
machine will not exceed $175 1t will re-
quire one-horse power-[Courier-Journa
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-03
New Texas s Pacific Time Card.

The following is the new time card of the
Texas & Pacific road as regards Dallas,
which goes into effect Sunday:
Going east-No 2 will arrive at the city
depot at $50 p. m. and at the Union depot at
6:40p. M; will leave Union depot at p. m.
Gdihg west-No. 3 will arrive at Union
depotNt 1:l5p:m andwill leave atl:a5p M
will arSve atcity depot at loo p. IN.
In orr " to accommodate the public, passen-
ger CD ches will be attached to fast
freight I trains, which is due,
no doubH % Captain Ervine, our efficient
and univA Tally popular superintendent OF
this divisi\ The freights will run as fol-
lows: ~
Freight \soing east-No. 10 will ar
rive at cityItepot at 9:25 a. m. and at the
Union dep4 ! 90 a. m, and will leave the
Union depovpst $40 a. m.
Going web mo. 10 will arrive at the I'm
ion depot IN a. IN. and the city depot
l2.25 q. m.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-03
Fall Races.

AS we said in yesterday mornings issue,
the Jockey Club has re-organized and will
have fall meeting, to commence on the 9th
of December. The purses are good ones
and aggregate 81 900, or an average for the
four days of $475 per day. The club is or
ganized under auspices which assure its
success. The HERALD trusts to see all the
horses IN the state at this meeting, and it
that every purse offered will be paid on the
spot, will be hung to the string for the win
ner to bear off. Ex-Governor Throckmor-
ron, who was in this city yesterday,
being asked what he thought of the outlook
for the coming races, replied: From my
acquaintance with the parties concerned in
the Dallas Jockey Club ! am well satisfied
the purses proposed by them for the fall
meeting, 1881, will be promptly paid"
There is no.question on this point. The
track is being put into most excellent con
dition, and they propose to have this one
the most brilliant meeting ever had in
Dallas.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-03

eta loen and y 1'~n'0l pr 7'''
M Aoek men. N lles iwb fuhdred md
lhifig miles weaf N Dallas, m The feshs 4
paeIhe 0nd Tho lfNde with tlioso dealing
In sloota and will ihc mlifoqd employees
constitute The principal bmslneas NJ The
town, there belng NJ tlhl date but few
farmers IN this section. COlpfndo The
hrliest town west on The Tt5N Y Poglc
rond that has mail facilities, f0ny miles
to the west ~ Colorado ~ Iilg Springs, n
small bat grOv1bg town, This u ~ htr AZ
the regular passenger trains run NJ this
time. From Big Springs ! rode over The
long stretch Of distance Of one hundred aud
nlty miles west 10 Toynh, iravcrslng the
stakcd plains and sand hills, n country I'M
occupied even by stock rnlsors, the scarcity
of water being the objection. The grazing
Is good and artosian wells are obtained by
boring deep enough. ! observed numerous
herds of antelope along the road, and also
other game. A good class dissection houses
have been built, being from twelve TO fifteen
miles apart and are the hotels for the rail.
road hands and travellers. After ten hours
ride from Big Springs arrived at. Toyah,
u town composed OF about ONE hundred
and fifty h"it5. IL has been thd town on
wheels r. .dy to move west at days no.
tice, In II not long since moved from the
Pecos It's present location. Here
the tow, wll be made permanent. The
Tcxas 4 Pacific company have botd an ar,
tesan well, and are building = depot and
round houses. A pipe is also heinG laid to
Il sprine seven miles distant, ToyalA is l56
miles " st of Dallas and about 1901 miles
from III Paso. The track is laid to fifty miles
west of the town, and is progressing
ut the rate of one and one-half miles per
day. Tie distance between the terminus
of the Texas & Pacific and that OF Ehe
Southern Pacihcis now but about forty-hve
miles. The country for over 200 miles west
OF Colorado is gradual ascending grade
and has no timber. While | was at Toyah
two cars loaded with iron became unN
coupled from the others about forty milesV
west of Toyah and the gradual descending
grade produced such an accelerated speed
about one mile minute. AS the result, of
course, collision and smashing into smith
Greens Of three or four cars. Except for the
collision they would have continued hun
dred miles or more in the down grade be-
fore stopping.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-03
AThe R,sces.

A new and permanent organization of the
Dallas Jockey Club has been effected and
there will be tall races at the fair
grounds track, commencing December
9Th. Nineteen hundred dollars are
offered in purses for the contests during the
four days, and every effort will be made to
have it the most interesting meeting ever
held in Dallas. The track is beingPut in
srst-class order and will soon be a num-
er one. There are now sixty acres
the fair grounds track in
aeat to furnish grazing for stock The
ACT is Texas is the place where oil the great
STABLES of the country ought to winter. and
after this winter there is no doubt but nu-
merons stables will come here to Dali
las. The Jockey club is now all
right and its future an assured one
and for the good of Dallas.
Mr. William Campbell is now the business
head OF the club its manager, director, etc,
and in his energetic, Intelligent hands
Dallas may feel certain that
we will have good races for the December
meeting and in the spring Of next year the
meeting will be the grandcst Texas has
seVer known.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-03
Stolen Ealise,

Last night valise was stolen from the
Texas & Pacific depot where the owner had
set it down, waiting for the west-bound
train 1t was shortly afterward missed,
and notification being given, Mr.. Henry
Waller, deputy sheriff, ETC., went on the
track for it. He soon struck the trail and
got after the thief, who ran of course. Mr.
but, in the darkness of the night, the THE
escaped The valse contained only clothing