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in all its branches, would
~ like work IN hotel or private house, by
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NV WANTED-Gir for general housework at
w 5n Jackson street. 5s*
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TOR RENT-Ofices in Sherman block. Ap.
IL ply to Chas. Il. Sherman, in the build
ing. 61-67
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Fenales.

4 COMPETENT girl wants situation for
4, a l., honsework or second work. Apply at
50 West Fifth, corner Franklin. 5x
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NTANTED-To buy or rent Billiard or
wv Pool table,a No. 1875 Fort street. 61-6S
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WANTED.

WANTED-One first-class canvasser.
w Northwestern Employment Bureau, 1877
e. Third street. 62-3
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WANTED-Sltuatlon tor several t1rst-cIass
w women cooks. Apply at No. 50 Robert
street, Mrs. KearneY. $685.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
Whole Wheat Bread.

Physical degeneracy is an interesting
question to scientists, and theory to
account for the great diminution of stat
ure and want of bone and sinew observed
in the agricultural as we'll as the manu-
featuring districts of England is formu-
lated by the secretary of the Bread Re-
form League in letter to the London
Times. He ascribes it to the general
use of fine bread instead of the coarse
or whole wheat bread formerly eaten.
He makes hopeful statement for the
future, however, in noting the encour-
aging progress of the society which he
represents. He says: GAS q proof that
the class we especially wish to benefit
would be glad to adopt this bread when
they understand its advantages and can
obtain it we'll made at a moderate price,
l may mention that in the beginning Of
the year I gave two lectures too two
large cooperative associations, entirely
composed of workingmen. In one Of
them, before the lecture, they had an
average weekly. sale Of forty four-pound
loaves. Now they have an average
weekly sale Of 285. In the other soci-
ETY. they had a weekly sale of about 100
four-pound loaves, Now they have an
average weekly sale of400 or 5O0."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
Railway Wrecks.

A freight train of thirteen cars was wrecked
at the bridge near Brattleboro, Vt, on the 10th
inst. One brakeman was killed and another
fatally injured. The loss to the Valley road
will be vely heavy.
Near Cincinnati, O., on the 10th inst, two
freight trains collided, killing James Simon, a
fireman, and wrecking a locomotive.
car and engine, ran into COW near Anchorage,
KY, on the 9Th inst, when about fifty feet from
a bridge, and was thrown to the bed of the
creek, causing fearful wreck. Seven persons
were killed and large number injured.
Near Glendale, on the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad, q train was thrown from the track
on the 9th inst. The engineer and fireman
were killed and number of passengers SER
iously hurt.
One man was killed and fifteen wounded by
the wreck of construction train near Castro
vile, Texas, on the 9Th inst.
By the burning of bridge at Silver Creek,
three miles from St. Mary's, Penn, on the 8th
inst, train was precipitated into the creek,
killing Engineer William Kepperly and Fireman
Charles Pasks.
A collision on the Baltimore and Ohio road at
and an accommodation train, resulted in the Sc
rious injury of q large number Of passengers on
the accommodation train. Those on the ex-
press train escaped injury.
An express train from Marseilles came in COL
ision at Charenton, France, on the 9Th inst,
with an ordinary passenger train from Mon.
targio. About fifteen persons were instantly
killed and several seriously injured.
A passenger train on the Wabash road, on
the 5th inst, wvs ditched five miles west OF
Shenandoah, about 8 o'clock. Nineteen per.
sons were moro or less injured and one, Thos
G.. Leacock, was killed outright. Two or three
others will probably die.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
North Carolina Coin.

An Alabama editor says: A few days
ago a rare SIS gold coin was handed us
by Mr.. L. Brezeale, of Calera, for in-
spection. Said coin was about the size
OF silver quarter-a shade thicker, the
color of cold gold,' and was inscribed
as follows: On one side, "Carolina
gold. August 1st, 1884, 14O c. 20carats.' -
On On the other side, &c. Bechtler. At
Ruhrfurt*. dollars % The history of
this coin, as We learned from Mr.. B., is
about this. A gentleman by the name
of Bechtler owned and worked gold
mine in North Carolina about the date
shown on said coin. At this time trans
portation faci lities we're not so good as
they have become since, and the means
of communication were much more linn
tied. On this account Bechtler found
some difficulty in getting his gold dust to
market and to the mints, and he formed
the idea of coming it himself. Not
wishing to infringe upon the govern
ment, or to be considered a counter
feiter, he ascertained the exact amount
of gold contained in the different yarie-
ties of gold coin coined by the govern
ment, made his own dies, and coined his
gold dust in his own name, stamping his
own name and the valve upon each, as is
shown above. This was known through
out North Carolina as Bechtler's gold,
and passed among the people Of that
state, and elsewhere where the facts
were known, as readily as the gold
coins that bore the stamp of the govern
ment mints. The SIS coin we saw, and
which Mr.. B. had in his possession, is a
beautiful one, and is we'll worthy a
place in the cabinet of numismatolo-
nist
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
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lEEOm tuo NEW 4Ofk evening Ma1.J
The history of caverns is of deep in
terest. Modern science has thrown so
much light upon the causes relative to
their formation, that the enticing
mystery of the past is largely over
come; but there always has been, and
doubtless for time will be, something
fascinating to the ordinary mind in the
dark, deep, uncertain depths "of caves.
If we could go back far enough into the
past we nigh trace the interest in cav
erns to the belief held by the ancients
that everything was haunted, and that
spirits abode within the mysterious
precincts. In Persia, the god of the
sun was worshipped in q cavern, while
in India such places were favorite re-
sorts for worship; the far-famed caves
Of Elephanta, followed out into mag
nifcent temples and presenting even to-
day features Of great architectural
beauty bearing abiding testimony to
this. For doubtless, in the first instance,
they were mere crevices in the rocks.
No doubt much of the feeling of awe and
superstition associated with caverns
arose in the first instance from the pres
ence within them of foul gases, little
understood, and frequently proving
fatal to animal life. The Grotto del
Caves at Naples is an example of this;
SO called because dog or any other ami
NAL if held within it near the ground
dies speedily, owing no doubt to the
carbonic acid gas evolved from the
ground. Lives have often been lost in
the exploration of cavek< In Derby
shire England, there is one called Ell
don's hole, which is supposed to be
bottomless. Cattle stumbling into it
were never more seen or heard, and a
man, induced by heavy bribes to de-
scend in search Of them, was let down
some 200 feet, and after it was thought
that he had remained long enough for
his purpose, was hauled up senseless
with fright, and within g. few days ex-
pired. No doubt the mysteries of
caves, like other obscure things, will
vanish before the increasing facilities
for exploration afforded by modern en-
terprise and invention. Before we are
much older, we shall be begging for
something mysterious, something to
surprise, frighten or mistify us, for the
strong light of our day is a terrible ene-
my to the imaginative or romantic.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
Our Wounded President.

On the 9Th inst. the President was removed
from Washington to Long Branch. The trip
was made without accident, and the patient
stood the journey we'll. He expressed much
satisfaction at the change, and it is thought
will experience marked benefit as soon as the
results of fatigue pass away. During the ride
his pulse dropped IL beats, but later on a reac-
ton set in and at midnight it ranged between
1928 and 100. The President now occupies
Elberon cottage.
President Garfield having requested reduc-
ton Of the number of his attendants, Drs.
Reyburn, Barnes and Woodward signed their
last bulletin on the 9Th inst. AMI retired. Mrs.
Edison also ceased her duties on that day, and
the patient expressed great relief at the in
creased quietude. The 9Th inst. was very
favorable day, the patients pulse dropping to
"a, and the fever entirely disappeared. The
doctors express great satisfaction with the
Presidents condition.
The Presidents bed has been so placed that
he can kill time by watching the surf. The
surgeons believe that the bullet is encysted,
and can ultimately be removed without dan
ger. On the 10th inst. Secretary Window was
Summoned for brief interview, and Postmas-
ter General James and Secretary Hunt went
into the sick-chamber, The Presidents stom-
ach retains healthy tone. On the 11th inst,
however, the Presidents condition was reported
as not so hopeful, It is now admitted that one
of his lungs is affected, and the doctors do not
seem to be able to foreteu what the result will
be. In some quarters the situation is again
considered hopeless.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
London in the Days of Elizabeth.

In the days of Elizabeth all London
was comprised within the walls Of the
ing known as "The Liberties. Both
the maiden queen and her successors the
two Stuarts, viewed with jealous sus-
picion any enlargement of the privileged
area Of the capital, and passed law after
law forbidding new houses to be built
outside the walls. There came at last doa
time when between zoo, ,00o and 3OO'ooO
inhabitants were crowded into the narrow
space within these walls, born, living
and dying in the city precincts. Ard OF
this time the wealthy livery companies
originated by men who actually carried
on the trades and crafts from which they
took their names and whose functions
were the regulation Of their trades and
the making provision for decayed
tradesmen and artifcers and their fami-
lies, are almost the single relic that
survives.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
Michael Faraday's Lucky Tide


When Sir Humphrey Davy was at the
zenith of his popularity he received a
letter from an unknown correspondent,
who represented that he was poor, and
engaged in trade which he disliked, but
that he earnestly desired an opportunity
to study science, which he loved. Sir
Humphrey, struck with the earnest tone
of the letter, took it to one Of the found
ers of the London Institution for Science,
MI. Pepys, and asked him what could
be done for the young man. "Can we
find employment for him at the royal
institution ?" asked Sir Humphrey
Davy. "What could we give him to do?"
"Do!" replied Pepys, .put him to
wash bottles; if he is good for anything
he will do it directly, if he refuses he is
good for nothing" "No, no." objected
Sir Humphrey: 1--WE must do better for
him than that" Accordingly he sent to
his unknown correspondent, and en-
gagged him as assistant in his laboratory
at twenty-five shillings week. The
young man was Michael Faraday and
no doubt if the offer Of "bottle wash
ing" had been made, he would have &C.
cepted it as gratefully as he did the
more pleasant employment his letter had
procured for him.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
Tragical Tales.

A serious disturbance on the levee ut New
Orleans, on the 10th inst, originated in epi
thets bestowed upon the drivers of cotton-hOats.
police-sergeant was beaten with clubs and
fired on the crowd, killing negro named Haw-
kins. Bullets flew thick around the officers,
and the entire force was called to the scene by
the ire-alarm. Women shot at policemen from
the windows, and the newly-engaged laborers
were forced to quit work. The militia were
ordered out just as the rioting ceased. Sev-
eral of the cotton bales were set on fire.
A number of masked white men went to the
jail at Hot Springs on the 10th inst, with the
intention of lynching negro charged with
plan, gathered in cemetery and opened fire on
the lynchers. About two hundred shots were
fred, but nobody was killed.
In an affray in O. wheat-field at Goodlee, ILL.,,
on the 10th inst, Marshall Roberts killed John
Adams, Jr., with shotgun. and made his
escape.
Theodore Wilcox, plight watchman, was
mortally wounded by burglar at Monmouth,
ILL.,, on tbs night of the 8th inst.
Near Whittmill, Va, Robert Williams quar-
relied with his wife and she went tt. the authori-
ties for a warrant. In her absence, the two
daughters murdered their father and fed.
Williams head was nearly severed from his body
with an axe.
Pink Flagg, gambler, shot his wife dead
upon discovering her in brothel at st. Louis,
No., on the 9th inst.
In Bradford County, Fla, Dan. Watson raw
ished his wifes niece and cut the girls mother's 8
breast open. He was pursued by crowd and
shot dead by his brother-in-law.
At HenryviIle, Ind, on the 9th inst, Marshal
Davis killed man named Scholl. Davis claims
the act was committed in self defense.
Charles T. Mlliman quarrelled with Marcellus
Walker in stable at New York on the 9Th inst.
In the fight Walker was fatally stabbed. MILL
man is member of the firm of J. #. NIilliman
& Co., provision dealers.
While engaged in an alteration at Red Cliff,
COL, on the 9th inst, Chief Laws kicked
George Butterworth in the neck, breaking it.
Anthony Fisher and Henry Saler, workmen
in St. Louis brick yard, had an alteration on
the 9TH inst, when Saler struck Fisher on the
breast with brick infcting fatal injuries.
Advices from New Caledonia say the British
schooner Bengle, from New Britain and New
Ireland, reports the murder of Mr.. Kamsmith,
naturalist, and two assistants. W. Littleton
was also killed. The murderers were captured.
John KENNEL, proprietor Of the Farmers
House, Jamaica, L. l., killed his wife with a
hatchet on the 7th inst, set fire to the house,
and hung himself in the barn. The flames
were extineuished before the body of the wife
was burned.
The bodies Of four men were found twenty
three miles from Ell Paso, Texas, on the 9Th
inst. They were supposed to be cattle thieves
killed by ranchmen.
Mrs, Louis Bcckman was assassinated by
some unknown person while seated at the win
dow Of her residence at Louisville, Ky., on the
9Th inst.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
Terrific Explosions.

A nitro-glycerine explosion at the Schoonever
we'll, Sawyer City, Pa, the 7th inst, resulted
in the death of VIM. Briuton, Of Bradford,
Chas. Grouse, of Butler, Pa, James Thrasher,
of Sawyer City, and Chas. Rust, Of Bradford.
All the parties except Rust we're merely specta-
tors. A boy named Nevin Hasling had his leg
and arm broken.
nitro-glycerine explosion at Sawyer City,
Pa, on the 7th inst, caused the death of VIM.
Brinton, Chas. Grouse, Jas. Thrasher and Chas.
Rusk. All of the parties except Rusk were
spectators.
While eleven men we're at work in the pack
ing houee of the Lake Superior Powder Com
pany at Marquette, Mich, on the 9Th inst, an
explosion occurred demolishing the house and
blowing the men to atoms. No one escaped to
tell the cause of the fatality.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

SEVERAL improvements have recently been
made in thes Russian army. New regulations
have been made TO- perfect foot soldiers in skir
mishing drill and sharp ooting. Squares are
no longer To- be. formed for. resisting cavalry
attacks. The differences between the branches
of cavalry have bean abolished, and horse SOL
diers are also to be drilled in sharp-shooting.
New regulations have also been adopted for the
artillery, by which it is hoped to avoid the mis-
takes made in the Turko-Russian war, and the
term Of service has been fixed at five instead of
four years. It is not the least noticeable feat
ure of Russian military affairs, however, that
the budget has risen from 181 million rubles in
1879 to 189 millions in 1880, and to 206 million
in 1881
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
Daring KObberies.

robbers entered the little town Of Bates City,
on the Chicago and Alton road, near the point
whore the train robbers committed their depre-
dations several days ago. They overawed the
citizens by display of their weapons and car
ried off large amount of property.
The Chicago and Alton west-bound mail and
express train was stopped by masked men two
miles west of Glendale, NO., on the night of
the 7th inst. The express messenger was
roughly handled and bis safe robbed of large
amount of money. Five men entered the ears
and relieved the passengers of their money and
watches. The robbers then skedaddled. A
posse started in pursuit Immediately and sue
ceeded in arresting six Of the n.iscreants.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
Butchered by the Indians.

In . fight between 5000 Indians and $50 citi-
zens at MatagaIa, Isthmus of Panama, the
savages lost SO killed and wounded, and the
citizens suffered loss of 78 killed and num-
Der wounded. Previous to the battle an indis-
criminate slaughter Of whites was conducted by
the Indians, and many horrible outrsges were
committed.
A Tucson, Arizona, dispatch Of the 9Th inst,
says: "George Turner and Harry Moody were
killed by Indsans at Middleton's rancho. Middle
toms family t,tere driven from home and were
feshed fed sp ootion ton Wy Henry ~ Md Middleton nS was
shot through the body but will probably re
cover"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
Minor MiSlhaDs.

The small schooner Nellie capsized at Mus
kegon, Mich, on the 4th inst, during gale.
Two men and boy were drowned.
Prof. Rogers was probably fatally injured at
with collapsed balloon.
DR.. E. Lloyd Howard, quarantine physician
at Baltimore, was accidentally drowned on the
5th inst, while stepping from a tug to the pier.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
Washington Gossip.

tillery, when relieving the guard at the WASH
ington Jail, on tho 18th inst, shot at Guiteau
through the window of his cell and came near
killing him. The ball grazed his head and was
imbedded in the cell wall. Mason was promptly
arrested and incarcerated in the arsenal.
Thursday, September 8, was Guiteau's for
tieth birthday. The prisoner counts his time
BY making notches in candle.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

The marble quarries of Vermont have become
enormous excavations, several being three hum
dred and fifty feet deep, and the openings are
only slightly protected, if at all, while rude
stairways down the sides of the shafts afford
the only means Of descent; yet there is hardly
ever an accident, and it is several years since
q fatal fall has taken place.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
Sydney Lanier, the poet, died on the 8th inst.
at Lynn, Pc!k County, N. c., where he had

Sydney Lanier, the poet, died on the 8th inst.
at Lynn, Polk County, N. c., where he had
gone to recruit his health.
Archbishop Henni, of Milwaukee, died on the
9TH inst. after lingering illness, aged rs years.
Bishop Henni was made bishop of Milwaukee
March 8, 1874. On the 25th of February, 1875,
he was named archbishop of Milwaukee, his in
vestiture in the pallium taking place on the Sd
of the following June.
Rev. Henry Cowles, D. D., of OEerlin, O.,
died at GAINESVILLE, Wis, on the 9th inst. He
was the author cf commentary on the Bible
published by Appleton & Co., and has written
various works, and much for tho religious per-
iodicals.
The death is announced of Arch-Duchess
Marie Clementine, of Austria, aunt of Emperor
Francis Joseph and widow of Leopold, Prince of
salerno. Age eighty-four. Her death occurred
at Chantilly.
James Hodge, pioneer of Muncie, Ind, died
at San Diego, CAL, aged 80 years.
j. 0. Lefton, all actor generally known
throughout the country, died at Detroit, Mich,
on the 9Th inst, from injuries received while
spar1ing with fellow actor at Lexington, Ky.
Delmonico, the famous restaurateur, whose
head, died on the Sd inst, at Sharon Springs.
N. Y, of gout. He left property valued at
100000, despite his loss Of million in oil
speculation. He was in the habit of smoking
thirty very strong cigars daily, and doubtless
this fact had much to do with his death.
Rev. P. G. Williams, who has been connected
with the Michigan University at Ann Arbor fol-
forty years, died on the 4th inst.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

The standing armies of Europe number over
2,100,0 900 men, besides the still more numerous
reserves who may be called out at any moment.
More than one in every 110 of the population is
a soldier in active service. Reckoning one able
bodies man to every five inhabitants, each
twenty-five men sustain one soldier. Our army
is only $4,000 strong, and each 1000 inhabi-
tants, or each 400 men sustain soldier.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

ACCORDING to the census returns the annual
salt product of the United States is nearly 3O,-
1000 bushels, of which 28,000,000 bushels
are obtained from subterranean brines, while
the other 100000 bushels are obtained from
evaporation of sea Or salt water and natural de-
posits. The industry employs about 5000 per-
sons, Aid the value of each years product is
$5,O00,000, or less than 18 cents bushel.
Michigan is a great salt producing state, its
product being over 100000 bushels. New
York comes next, with nearly 100000 bushels;
while West Virginia and Ohio take third and
fourth places, with 2,6so,o0o and 1850, 900
bushels, respectively. Pennsylvania produces
only about $4,000 bushels California, few
thousand bushels more; Virginia, about 425, 900
bushels; and Utah, which has the Great Salt
Lake, about 100000 bushels. The salt pro-
duct has increased during the last decade about
80 per cent, but the total value of the product
is less by few hundred dollars. The price
per bushol is but little more than one-haf what
it was in 1870.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
RuFr1e6 to neAffn.

Recent forest fires in Algeria destroyed the
lives of sixty-one persons and wounded many
others. Nearly seven hundred dwellings were
destroyed, and cattle and farm products to the
amount Of 100000 francs DESTROYED.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
A Dark Day.

England as q phenomenally dark day. At
Providence, R. J., gas WAS lighted at noon, but
owing to dsarrangement at the gas works the
lights went out and Offices an1 factories we're
compelled to close or depend on candles. Other
places reported similar dark state of affairs.
The weather was very sultry.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14

GENERAL J. B. GORDON, of Georgia, has be-
come wealthy since he left the United States
senate. His good fortune came through the
sale of coal lands in Alabama, for which he and
his two brothers and Governor Colquitt re-
ceived 100000, together with $1,000,000 in
stock: of the Richmond and Danville Extension
Hono,,onu
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
The EleecV Snow,

On the 9TH inst, snow fell to the depth of
five inches on the level in the Black Hills.
Custer City reported three inches on the same
day, and on Bald Mountain the crystals lay two
feet deep.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
Living Wealth.

During the month of August $3.50 immi-
grants arrived in this country, and during the
grants arrived. During the eight months end
ing August 81, 1880, 228, ,00O arrived.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-14
The GallOwS.

Five murderers- Brown, Padgett and Nc
Gowan (white), and Abel and Amos Manley
(Creek Indians), were hanged at Fort Smith,
Ark, on the 9th inst. The execution was pri-
vafa