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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-10-12
CUTicURA,
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PYHMIA
cuTicuRA.

OR BLOOD POISONING. WHICH REsTI,Ts
N ADSCESSES, ULCERS, SORES, CAR
BUNCLES. ROLLS AND ITCHING HU-
MORS, CURED.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-10-12
IS FAITHFUL aREENBAcKERs
In Convention at Brownsville.
Full Report Of their Proceedings by
a Special Reporter Of the
Transcript

The Greenbackers Of Mower county
Assem- bled in solemn conclavc 1t Browns.
dale last Saturday, and organized With
J. J. Hunt in the chair, and L. NJ. Gas.
kill secretary.
Gaskill proceeded in lengthy speech
to rouse the grca. terrified" Men had
grown very rich under our free iDstiiu.
tons, so that by combining together iu
corporations they were able to build and
run railroads, and maintain other instl,u-
tons requiring capital in large amounts.
|: was terrible. Aud others were poor.
Men would say lie Was communist.
There were two kinds of communists.
One believed that all property should be
distributed 80 that each should have an
equal share, the other that few rich men
should own it all. He was not the latter
kind Of communist. Selah Chamber.
lain was at the bottom Of the old bond
fraud. He has our Supreme Court
packed in his interest by our hypocrit,csl
8OVSluOI, w., WV uA HNUSCuHS.
Attorney General Mcknight was then
delivered Of speech too replete with
legal lore for your correspondent to get
hold of. or attempt to report.
F. A. Ticknor SAID the train was late
and many delegates would not be able
to get there, and he wanted all Of the
"tcrrlfed" present TO participate, aud
make it mass convention. They did 80,
and swelled the number Of theconvention
to 19-six of them members Of the Hunt
family In the Brownsville vicinity, and
the rest of other families.
On motion Of A. u. Brown, G. G. Clark
and Dan. Williams were appointed tellers.
Gask i'll nominated G.. w. Buck Of Dex-
ter for Treasurer. Mcknight wanted
to know ifBuck would canvass the county.
Gaskill didn't kno ", but he had "bar'l"
for expenses. The chairman wanted to
know if they would have IN informal
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-16
A Concert Night I'm Venice.

Sunday night, April II, 1880, q bark on
the Grand Canal for q stage, filled with the
celebrated Pittoro Compagnie of Venice for
performers, q fotilla Of gondolas-some hun
dreds filled with the strangers from all
parts of the world, colored lanterns strung
from stem to stern on the gondolas, colored
port fires to light up the scence and the audi
forum Of pale palace on either hand.
The curtain is the star-llt sky-alWays up.
The music, chants and songs Of Italy, by
Italy's generous voices, the accompaniment,
the violins and hozns, the movement, the
rhythm of the drifting waters. We float and
sing the length of the Grand Canal. Rock
cts light up the way, with Roman candles
and colored fires. These lights cast strong
shadows on the now pale facade Of the
grand old palaces On either hand. The wa
ter glisteps in yellow, red and white. We
float by one impulse together and the music
swells, and floats and sinks, and swells and
ends, only to begin again il some richer
strain.
And then we reach the Rialto bridge, and
under that broad, single arch the boats all
glide and stand still while the music swells,
and sinks and echoes, and the lights burn,
and it all seems unreal and dream-like. Such
was our theater tonight, unique, unreal, ur-
fOrgetable.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-16
Brutal

The latest reports Of the fall Of Lima the
Peruvian capital, are to the effect that the
defenders Of the place exhibited all the de-
pravity, brutality, ruffanism, and cruelty
which rightfully belong to and complete the
character of abject towards. Il is estimated
that the Peruvian army gained advantages
in the last battle that might have insured the
safety Of Lima and the expulsion Of the in
vaders from the country; but at the critical
moment their commander was Frustrated,
and his subordinates lost all control Of their
forces. A stampede into the city followed,
and scenes Of rapine were enacted by the
deserters which would have disgraced q VIC
torious enemy who had*carried the place by
storm. The foreign merchants and other
residents, the reports say, at length organized
for their own defense against the brigands,
and drove them from the city with consider
able slaughter. Such q finale TO the impotent
defense made by the Peruyians, as has been
said, is in keeping with the coWardice Of a
people who permitted their country to be
overrun by an insignificant foreign force,
and must-if the story is confirmed destroy
the last remnant of sympathy in the minds
Of civilized men for the conquered country.
While it may be unreasonable to expect dis
proof Of these reports, so disgraceful to
Peru, it is to be hoped accounts from disin~
terested sources may yet relieve this picture
of the catastrophe at Lima of some of its
more atrocious features. @
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-16
The south Pole.

Again there is a frenzy for Antartic ex-
ploration, Of which there has been little since
1912. The rage for visiting inaccessible re-
gions, where there are no human beings and
no possible human interests, seems to us quite
a waste of energy. We know enough Of the
| southern pole to know that more knowledge
would not be worth the trouble Of attaining !;
| we know that the southern hemisphere winter
is longer than the northern winter; we know
that the north pole is approachable from all
directions much nearer than the South pole:
we know that the south pole is buried under
a vast ice-feld two or three miles thick and
2, 800 miles in diameter-sO huge and heavy
that it has shifted the earth's center of gravi-
| ty, caused the oceans to flow over the south
ern half of the planet, and exposed to view
| and habitation the land of the northern half;
WE know that in the procession OF the equi-
| noxes-12,5 500 years-this great ice.ield will
melt, evaporate and float through the sky to
CONCEAL at the north pole, and then the north
ern hemisphere will gradually sink under the
| sea till the salt water stands two hundred feet
above New York city, and the released south
ern hemisphere will slowly and silly tip out
Of the oceans, revealing continents and
islands where new nations will be born, and
great civilizations take root and blossom.
Knowing all this, we have ample warning.
| When the time of the cataclysm draws nigh
we can hedge by selling off our city real
estate, dispose Of our houses on q long lease
(money in advance), and 60 to Australia,
| bidding a tender farewell to the doomed
| North. 1t is sad to think that, if the prog
| nosticatioDs Of science are trustworthy, the
vigorous North is to be submerged, and that,
in a little while, merely some twelve thousand
years, Fulton Market will haye Joined the
majestic ruins Of the world, and sharks will
be disporting above Wall street and Goldfish
moving in select circles along Fifth avenue,
with only Trinity church steeple and the tall
tower peering above the liquid waste. It
must be a heartless wretch who desires TO
know any more about 3 paleocrystic latitude
that is responsible for bringing upon US so
much woe.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-16
Arkansaw or Arkansas.

A matter Of grave moment has just been
settled by the Arkansas Legislature. While
the Senate Of the United States has been fritz
tering away its own and the peoples time
over the trivialities of the Funding bill, while
the British Parliament has been friVolously
tri1ing with the %inanitles Of the Land League
and such bagatelles IS Boer and Ashantee
wars, the grave and reverend seignors Of Ar
kansas, bending their powerful intellects to a
worthier task, have been wrestling with the
mighty problem of how their State shall be
called. Finally, after . protracted struggle
and the expenditure of unlimited e%loquence,
they have decided by a vote Is to 5 that it
shall be called, and henceforth and forever
known of men, as ArkansaW. What the OBJ
jecting Eve wanted to call it, whether Arkan-
sas, or Arkansas, or ArkaDzez, is at present
unreYealed to us. Now that this burning
question is settled and forever put at rest, let
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-16
TIeuro.Pneuanon Ia I'm Cattle.

Mr.. Ryan, Of Kansas, has received from
the legislature of his State, a letter which he
will present to Congress, inclosing 9 series O
resolutions urging Congressional action On
the subject of pleuro-pneumonia in cattle.
Mr. Ryan says the agitation Of this question
at present, and that the greatest alarm pre-
walls among the cattle interests OF those sec
tons. The extent of these interests can be
very readily appreciated when it is stated
1928, 600, 900 each, in Illinois $26, OOO,OOO IN
Kansas $15,O 600, 900, in Nebraska $40, 00O, 0OO
and in Texas $40, 900, 900. The present agi-
tation in the west is due to a disease which
broke out among cattle in Iowa recently,
which local veterinary surgeons pronounced
pleuro-pneumonia. The ablest experts OF
the agricultural bureau were sent to Iowa to
investigate it a few days ago, and yesterday
telegraphed back that the disease was not
Dleuro- pneumonia, but no further particulars
have been received. Ia view of the vital i'm
portance Of early action by Congress and the
disastrous effects that would result from the
appearance Of pleuro-pneumonia among Wes-
te n herds, representatives from the States
named are actively at work to get the House
10 consider it an early day, 50 that it can be
passed before adjournment. With this OBJ
ject in view they expect to get the House to
consent to a night session for the considera-
ton Of the bill reported by the committee on
agriculture last week. An effort will be made
to pass the bill under q suspension Of the
rules of the house. The bill proposes to
create a bureau Of animal industry, TO pre-
vent expectation Of diseased cattle, and the
spread Of contagious disease among domestic
animals. It is similar to the one now before
the Senate, on which early action is being
also urged.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-16
THAT IS ALL.

There hangs a sabre ard there a rein.
With a rusty buckle and green culb chain,
A pair CT spurs on the old gray wall
And a moldy saddle-well, that is all!
Come out to the stable! It is not far,
The moss-groWn door is hanging ajar,
Look within! There's an empty stall -
Where once stood q cl.arger-well, that ia all!
The good, black horse came riderless home,
Flecked with blood drops as well as foam;
See yonder hiIlock where dead leaves fall,
The good black horse pinned to ~death-that's all!
All? Oh. God! Tt is all I can speak: m"m"
Question me not! I am OLD and weak!
His sabre and saddle hang on the wall
And his horse pinned to death! I have told you all.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-16
H RIV Err PRESS

Arkansaw legislators lend their gigantic
minds to the no less important task Of deter
mining how they and their !, low citizens are
to be called. Are they 70 be known as Ar
misrepresentation seem to be the most cor
rect from of analogy-or Arkansassians, OF
Arkansians, or ARA, sans, or-or in short.
what? A palpitating nation awaits their an
swer in breathless suspense.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-16

sorry comforters, for they reminded her that
all the fault was her own; that it was she,
and no one else, that had thrown the brandy
cherries to the geese. As it was with Job,
these ''oblique expostulations' of her friends
were harder for the widow to bear ethan the
downright blows of the DEVIL and SO, turn
ing from her neighbors she gathered all her
bald poultry about her round the fire, and set
down to make them flannel jackets.
Sharp County record., 1881-03-17
Agriculture Advancing.

In reviewing the field at the COM
mencement of another year, any careful
farmer can witness with pleasure the
rapid advancement OF agriculture. 1t
is only necessary to point to our greatly
improved domestic animals of all
classes,-the better quality of all of the
fruits of the earth-,and the better prices
obtained for them than our fathers did.
We can point also to the greatly i'm
proved processes and implements by
which these articles are produced, and
the great number of articles which were
unknown to our ancestors which con-
tribute so much to our pockets, and are
so greatly conducive to our health and
comfort. Not only these, but the agri-
culturist has been greatly elevated in
knowledge, and in his happy social and
domestic condition. Farmers live better
and dress better than they used to do.
They have more real comforts at their
homes, more rational amuSements, and
easier means of visiting old homes
and making business trips. They enjoy
the advantages of higher average stand
ards of education, and better means of
qualifying themselves for the highest
social positions and the duties of offices
in churches, schools, and the State,
They really enjoy more solid comforts,
and are more respected in all depart
ments of life.
But there is room for further advance
ment. The farm can be made more
productive, with less slavish labor. Pro-
duce can be condensed so that it will not
be swallowed up in transportation
charges. Mapy things which have
proved Improbable and rendered the
farm sterile must be abandoned. The
social privileges can be yet greatly i'm
proved. Bypromptness and punctuality
the credit of the farmer can be more
respected in financial and commercial
circles. A close system of historical and
scientific reading, with frequent inter-
views with the most advanced neigh
bors, with conversations upon subjects
calculated to elevate and strengthen the
mind and awaken the aspirations to
higher and nobler things, are clearly
within the privileges and possibilities of
all farmers.
Announcements have been made great
and beneficial in the past twenty years.
But before the close of this century agri-
culture, which is the noblest and best of
all employments, should assert, by in
creased intelligence and the honorable
discharge of all of the private duties and
public positions, its true position in
society, and prove its ability to discharge
the most responsible public trusts. And
at this commencement of the last twenty
years of the century we demand an adj
vance along the whole ine-in better
and wiser farming,-in greater develop
ment of the mind land more honora-
bic discharge of all financial and social
obligations.-IOwa State Register.
Sharp County record., 1881-03-17
A Partial Explanation Of Certain Mes.
meric Phenomena.

Hypnotism, or the condition of artifi-
cial and cataleptic sleep produced by
the so-called mesmerists and magnetists
upon their patients, recently formed
the theme of very interesting lecture
by Dr. r. Heidenhain, Director of the
Physiological Institute of Breslau, who
showed that the phenomena induced by
the manipulations of the magnetists are
subject to certain well.dehned rules,
and that the condition of insensibility
and Inconsistencies known as the hyp-
motto sleep may be produced by other
means than the contact of the hands OF
these "gifted" persons. The fixed view
of some inanimate object may provoke
such condition, or certain feeble and
monotonous sounds may have the same
effect, as do light and continuous excita-
tions on the surface of the skin. The
spell is broken by any sudden shock, as
the touch of cold hand, a sudden
noise, or a light brought before the
eyes. The organs first affected by the
stupefaction are the first to return to
consciousness. Regarding the peculiar
phenomena induced in certain subjects,
DIR. Heidenhain says the hypnotic per-
son may be made to regulate his step
by that of the experimenter, to raise his
arm, to yawn, laugh, cry, ETC., with al
most servile exactness. A light rubbing
on some of the muscles will throw first
one limb, then another, and finally the
whole body into state of rigidity, in
which the subject may be laid with his
head in one chair and his feet in an
other, and carried about the room with
out his body bending. 1.-The subject
may be made to repeat words spoken
before him by pressing on the nape OF
the neck. Pressure between the fourth
and seventh vertebr9 on the neck
makes him groan; when applied at the
side of the last vertebre it induces him
to draw his leg back, and if made al
Tentatively on each side of this vertebr@
will cause him to walk backward. Re-
ilex local movements are provoked by
the excitation of determinate points of
the trunk; raising Of the arms over the
head, by irritation of the skin of the
dorsal region of the pectoral vertebr9;
turning of the arm backward, by excita-
ton of the skin over the middle verte-
brp.n As to the reason for this singular
state, and whether it may be produced
in all nersnns osalfz 2 fi5t - TIC TUpUrG
of the Professors lecture is silent.
Sharp County record., 1881-03-17
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

Water filtered through charcoal be-
comes perfectly pure.
Never milk while the COW is eating.
When q COW has once acquired the habit
OF feeding at milking time, she will
often refuse to let down her milk unless
food is before her.
Cabbage Salad. Shred the cabbage
fine. Heat together two tablespoonfuls
of vinegar, one of butter and teaspoon
full each Of salt and sugar, Pour it over
the cabbage hot, sprinkle pepper on
top and serve.
Vegetable Soup.-Ealf shank of
beef, one-half teacupful of rice, one-half
dozen potatoes, pared and sliced in
three or four pieces, two onions sliced
(put in before the potatCes) two turnips
sliced, one carrot sliced, one tomato, a
little summer savory, pepper and salt,
thicken with flour.
TO preserve eggs immerSe them in
some mucillaginous substance that will
fill up or coat over the shell so that the
air cannot enter. This is done by Dip
ping them in melted suet, olive oil, a
solution of gum arabic, etc. Probably
coating of coSmoline or vaseline
would answer the purpose.
The hardy variety of grape vines
may be pruned on mild winter days.
Large branches, which may have be-
come torn from the trellis should be
tied up, even if pruning is deferred.
When new trellises have to be erected
it is best to procure posts and wire now
and have everythingrcady before spring
work opens.
"A lady who has raised a large num-
Der of hens says that after vainly trying
the recommended remedies for lice she
has hit upon the plan of giving them
once or twice a week large loaf made
of Graham flour, in which a handful of
sulphur has been mixed. The hens like
it and are freed from lice and kept
healthy through the season.
Paste for chapped hands, and which
will preserve them smooth by constant
use, is made as follows: Mix quarter
pound unsalted hogs lard, which has
been washed in common water, and
then in rosewater, with the yelks of two
new-laid eggs, and large spoonful Of
honey. Add as much fine oat meal or
almond paste as will work into paste.
To Cure Tongues. them into
pot of boiling water, to shrink for five
minutes. Take them out to cool, and
take quarter of an ounce of saltpeter,
quarter of an ounce of brown sugar,
and two handfuls of salt, and rub them
well. Then take as much salt and lay
them in, as will make pickle to cover
them. Turn them frequently, and pack
them close, for two weeks; then put
them in the smoke-house until dry.
This is for six or eight tongues.
Sharp County record., 1881-03-17
The National CitIzen-soldIer,

An eight-page forty-column, weekly journal,
published at Washington, d. c., is brimlul of
good things for the citizen as well as for the
soldier 1t opposes monopoly, favors equal
and exact justice to all classes, and is the
special champion and defender Of the rights
Of the soldier, his widow and orphans. lthas
a thrilling story of the war every week. Ev-
cry soldier should have this paper to keep
him posted. Terms, $l.00 per year; sample
copy free. Address, CITIzEN-SOLDIER Pub
fishing Co., Box 5SS Washington, d. C.
Sharp County record., 1881-03-17
DESTINATIONS Church Giving.

le An eminent British clergyman was
severely opposed to what he called
d sensational methods of gathering col
elections. He denounced the practice of
icpassing collection boxes or baskets
1Gthrough the congregation, and said it
opwas unscriptural. He believed that
bagiving ought to be done on principle,
stwithout special impulse, and without
to the feelings. He determined
o. to put his views into practical opera
ltion in his own way. So he told his
u people that for one year they might put
their donations for missionary work in
fsto two. large, strong boxes, which he
placed for the purpose in the church
u lvestibules. These boxes, which were
y made of stout oak, were securely locked
and would not be opened until the close
J ,of the year, when he hoped they would
E be iull of money. He wanted people
oquietly and unostentatiously to deposit
optheir gifts in the openings in the tops of
/! these boxes, in. the sight of the Lord
Sand not "to be seen of men, The
!! boxes were recently opened. On care
stully counting the contents of both, the
total sum was found to be somewhat
uiess than two shillings, all in copper
coin. The eminent clergyman still be-
glleyes that his thee gy 81 boIoyUience IS
Fthe correct one. But he believes
nythat he is in advance of his ace,
Istor he is persuaded that the people will
fHaot put his view into practical opera
IS tion.
Sharp County record., 1881-03-17
IT does not improve potato to have specks
on It's eyes.

a NEIGHBOR with coffee cup in her hand,
cahed IN on Uncle Nose. remarking: I'm
Gle Nose, | wants to Dorry cup OBJ parched
coffee from you for breakfas' till to-morrer."
" 20 right to We box on de shef and hep yer
SET" The neighbor did as requested, but
discovered the box to be AS empty as the
head of legislator" "Unclc Nose, dar's
no parchel coffee in dis heah box" docs
yer know way dar amt no coff.e in dat ar
boX!' mo; doesmr know muffin about
it" "Dar amt no coffee in dat ar box, !"
said the old man, soIemnly, "bekase dat ar
am de returned coffte box. Ef yer had brung
back all de coffee yer borrowed last year hit
would be pun tulln-GdlUeston NeWS.
Sharp County record., 1881-03-17
[Muscatine Journal.1

Two days moderate application Of the
means in question, enabled Mr. Otto Eich-
horn, 14l3 N Ninth street, St. Louis, Mo-, to
thus write US: had been sufferer for the
past six weeks with severe pains in the shoul-
der and spine so that was unable to do any
work. Advised by friend used St. Jacobs
Oil. With the second application relief was
had and cure effected In two days.
Sharp County record., 1881-03-17

FRIEND s. has son who is not precisely a
studious and working boy. The list of grades
which he brings home daily tells of a deplora-
bic apathy on his part Fifteen days ago he
came nom No 81 Then you are 9th in
your diysion!" SAYS his father. Yes"
"And bow many are you in allH' "Twenty-
seven" That is, YOU are the last" A
week later the list made him No. 30 "Now,n
said the ia her. "this is too much. How can
you be the Goth when there are ouly 27?n
ITS very easy" SAID the boy, "two new
ones have .n-Fjgaro.
Sharp County record., 1881-03-17

"A cold bath as a tonic can be
safely used call the year round" (by
those who can bear it at ally, if one will
remember that the temperature of the
water should be uniformly about sixty
degrees Fahrenheit, and not take it as
it comes, cool in summer, and way
down toward freezing in winter.--Dr
Foote'S Health Monthly for February.
Sharp County record., 1881-03-17
"I Don't Want That stuG,,

Is what lady OF Boston said to her hus-
band when he brought home some medicine
to cure her of sick headache and neuralgia
which had made her miserable for fourteen
years. At the first attack thereafter, it was
administered to her with such good results
that she continued its use until cured, and
was so enthusiastic in its praise that she
induced Twenty-Five of the best families in
her circle to adopt it as their regular family
medicine. That "stuff" is Hop Bitters.-
Standard,
Sharp County record., 1881-03-17

A WOMAN will work month to fabricate
delicate protection for a chair, and then,
when 1t is in place, an edict is promptly is
sued lorbilding any man sitting in that chair,
through fear of spoiing the tidy It's the
best char protector that possibly could be de-
sireG.-ROckLand Courier