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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-08-16
Railway Wrecks.

a caboose containing ifty-seven laborers left
the track near Waseca, Minn., on the 11th,
owing to spreading of the rails, and was thrown
completely over and down an embankment. A
large number were injured, several seriously.
None were killed.
A passenger train ran into an extra engine
at Putnam, N. Y, on the 18th inst, Wrecking
both engines and throwing the baggage and
drawlng-rOOm cars down on embankment.
Engineer Leonard was killed.
terrible collision occurred on the 10th inst
on the Indiana, Bloomington d. Western Rail-
road, near Springfield, Ohio, between the down
express and wildcat freight, by which James
McNary, the freight conductor, was killed out
right and three other train men were injured.
Both engines were demolished.
A construction train on tho South Carolina
Railroad was ditched near Branchvil]e, and the
engineer and several train hands injured.
A train jumped the track near Pittsburg Sta
ton, Texas, on the 9Th, one Of the cars going
through bridge. Five persons were killed.
A freight train on the Kansas City Road ran
into drove Of cattle near Bigelow. Mo-, and
the engine and ten cars we're thrown into the
ditch.
A smash-up occurred near Wenustoro,
Texas, on the 7th inst. Conductor Fowler
Mail Agent Charles Harper, Express Agent
Mike Rosser and passenger named Fetro were
killed, several others we're wounded.
A working train left the track near Lyckens,
Pa, on the 7th. Two men were fatally injured.
An engine and eighteen loaded freight cars
were precipitated into the river at Greenup,
ILL.,, on the 7th, killing one man and seriously
injuring several others.
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Minor MiSllRpx.

Two boys named Henry Koch and David
Heckniger were drowned while bathing near
New York city on the 18th.
A Mr.. Wickman, Of Pullman, nl., was COM
18th. Next day when be repaired to his home
he found that bis two little daughters whom he
had left In charge of the house, had blown out
the gas and been suffocated.;
By collision Of two hand-cars on the Wa
bash, near Jerseyville, H., one man was killed
and several seriously injured.
+; Jake Myles, Edward Myles, John Hughson
and VIM. Wisdom were drowned in Brewster
Lake, Ontario, by the upsetting Of boat. !:
Alexander Teel, Of Erie, Penn, was poisoned
by taking medicine bought from street.
corner peddler, and died in one hour. Others
are suffering from partaking of the same
Mrs. Geo. Harding, of Forest City, Minn.,
left her two little children at home on the 10th
return she found the house in flames. The
children were both dead when found.
A premature blast at Cornwall, N. Y, killed
four negroes and wounded several others.
-Four negro children were burned to death by
the upsetting of lamp at Collnsville, Ala, on
| the eth. ,--
By the oapsizing Of . boat on Muskoka Lake,
Jestin, her daughter, and another young lady,
were drowned. a..>''
Thomas Bevington and James Phillips were
killed by the explosion of q boiler in Weaver'f
mill, Elderville, Pa, on the 9Th.
Lightning struck q load Of hay about which
five persons were at work, at Worcester, vt
| Ono man was killed and the others Frustrated
and the wagon was set on fire. @
Two young men of 1ronton, O., got on q
spree and lay down on the Chesapeake & Ohit
track at Ashland, where they were killed b.
. passing train. - :. s:.s =.
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Work OF the Flames.

Stein, Hrsch & Co. g jewelry and button fac
tory, at Hammond Station, 20 miles south OF
Chicago, burned on the night of the 18th. Loss
$4,000. The iewelry, etc was manufactured
The Randolph County courthouse at Hunts
vile, Mo-, was destroyed by fire on the 18th. A
portion of the records were saved in damaged
condition. The building cost $33, 900.
The county insane asylum at Lancaster, Pa,
fell prey to flames on the 18th. The inmates,
ia in all, were saved after great exertions.
Loss $4,000.
Smith, Woodberry & Co.'s mill at Brewer,
Mo-, was swept away by fire on the 18th inst.
Loss 40,00O.
In the fire which swept portion of the city
of Quebec on the 18th, the loss aggregated
about $4,000, with nearly $3.50, 900 insurance.
Spokane Falls, W. T., suffered to the extent
of $40, 600 by fire on the 18th inst.
Hayes saw mill at Muir, Mich, was swept
away by fire on the 18th. Loss $3.50
Lightning fred no less than twenty-f our
buildings in various parts of New England on
the night of the 9th, causing loss of $780,
900.
The planing-mill of Henry Henscion, in Cen
tral way, Cleveland, was totally destroyed by
fire on the 9Th, causing loss Of $50, 900.
The railway depot at Jacksonville, Fla, was
destroyed by fire on the Sth inst. Loss $28, ,OO0.
Lightning fired the Presbyterian Church at
Stamford, Conn, on the 7th inst, and it was
consumed with the residence adjoining. Loss
$33,000. Two men were caught by falling walls,
one being killed and the other seriously in
jured.
was almost totally wiped out by fire on the 7th.
About twenty acres were burned over sixty
dwellings were destroyed. Two lives were
lost. Pecuniary loss upwards of $780, 600. Be-
tween 800 and 400 men are out Of employment
besides many Of them are rendered homeless.
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British Patriotism.

It will cheer the noble redcoat, as he
sweats under the pyramids or pants in
the desert carrying the musket that is to
open theroute to India, or spill his blood
through q Bedouin made wound in the
sand, that his gracious sovereign, the
Empress sCf India, was pleased to ssus-
pend for . moment of interest in the
yachtsmen assembled at Cowes, and
direct that an out bound transport ship
with detachments of the household cav
airy en- route for Egypt should quit it's
ordinary route in order to pass under
her eyes as she stood with her guests on
the terrace at Osborne! She signaled
God-speed to the ship. There's inspira-
tion for whole ship-load of food fol
powder. And her hopeful son Albert
Edward, who is colonel of half dozen
regiments andnever set asquadron In the
field, added to the brightness of the coca.
sion by going out to the ship in the royal
yacht and bidding the household caval.
~ go where glory and the Bedouine
waited them. What sweet privelige il
is, to be sure, to be disembowiod by: an
Arab Of buried by q sand storm for the
honor Of this dear old woman and he,
very agreeable eldest son! s....,5
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ENGLISH MILLS AND EGYPTIAN COT
TON.

ENGLISH MILLS AND EGYPTIAN COT
TON.
According to Bradstreet's, England
has no less than twenty-five thousand
weavers, whose aggregate weekly earn
ings amount to $125, 200, engaged in
making cloth from Egyptian cotton. To
what extent England's war upon Egypt
will affect next years cotton supply is
now matter Of anxious thought with
her manufacturers. Last year the cot
ton product of Egypt amounted to one
and half million bales, but should the
country continue to be disturbed by war
no such a crop can be made this year,
British shot and shell will afford no in
ducement to the fellahs to stick to their
cotton fields, nor is it to be supposed
that Arabi Pasha will consent to their
remaining if their services ore needed in
the camp and field. While war invaria-
bly, tends to the decentralization of agri-
culture, and will do so in this case, some
cotton will be made in Egypt, perhaps a
half crop, but much will depend upon
the extent and severity Of the conflict
now being waged. Should our own cot
ton crop fall below five million bales,
and the Egyptian: crop prove failure, the
tendency will be to create demand
which will greatly strengthen the cost to
consumers. Under such circumstances
prices will advance, and the benefit will
inure to our own planters.
An exchange says that the total visi-
BILE supply of cotton for the whole world
is about million and three-quarte,s
bales against two millions last year at
this time, and deduces the belief that
this will create an increased demand and
an enhanced value. England will be
obliged to pay the cost of her war upon
Egypt in other ways than in the en-
HANGED price of cotton. Egyptian cotton
seed gives employment to nearly three
thousand of her home workere in ex-
tractiug the oil, and the oil-cake thus
obtained forms -one-half of her entire
supply. Bradstreet's says that the
other seeds which make inferior oil cake
will be enhanced in price by the scarcity,
which soap boilers will have to find
some substitute for the fifty thousand
tons Of Egyptian cotton seed, or stop
work. To other prospective losses must
be added that Of the English freight
ship owners, who almost monopolize the
Egyptian trade. In what way England
can find reoompense does not appear.
If after conquering the country she
could retain it, her losses, such as they
may prove to be, might be made good.
But notwithstanding that appearances
all tend to the belief that Egypt will
pass into the control of Great Britain.
her government repudiates the idea of a
conquest and other powers seem ready to
step in to thwart such aplan were it con-
templated. s,....... r.. -: ~.
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MOUNTAIN AND SEASIDE CLIMATE.

In the July number of the Nineteenth
Century, Professor Frankland presents
some important results of his investiqa.
tions on climate in town and country.
which are of great value, especially in
the hot season. One of the most strik-
ing facts brought to light by his in
quiries is the difference of sensation
caused BY sun warmth on the one hand
and air warmth on the other, which he
compares to that of an open fireplace
and . close stove. This difference is
most noticeable in comparing ones cen
sations on q cloudless summer day at or
near sea level and on mountain height.
Thus, at Bellago, he says, with sun
warmth of only 72o, the heat was most
oppressive, while on the summit. Of
the Diavolezza Pass there was . delicious
sensation Of coolness, although the sun
warmth was no less than 1O7oo;; at the
former the air warmth was So, while ON
the pass it was only 8o. It is common,
u contrasting the merits of different
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-08-16
An Egyptian Queens Canopy,
lFrom the London Natural

The ancient pail, found in the recent
discovery of royal mummiesi in Egypt, was
composed of numerous pieces Of leather
tanned by the bark of the sont or acacia.
and sewn together by red cord, and is
supposed to have covered the mortuary
cabin of the sacred boat or horse, to
which it formed kind of baldacchino.
It is exceedingly brittle, and the colors
are still well preserved, the center nine
feet long by six feet wide, and divided
INTO two equal sections, one of which is
covered by pink and yellow rosettes on a
blue ground, the other displaying six fly
ing vultures flying with extended wings
and holding feather sceptres in their
claws; they are separated from one an
other by horizontal lines of hieroglyphics
the name and title of Masaharuta, high
priest of Amen Ra, the deity of Thebes,
and a row of pink rosetes on yellow
ground. On either side is flap divided
from the central section by four bands
of colors-blue, red, yellow and green
and further divided by border of SPEAR
head pattern. Below this comes q row
of panels containing row of emblematic-
al devices, predominant amongst which
is the scarabaeus, flying with extended
wings, thrusting forward the solar disk
emblems of the sun-god-but having
with this emblem the representation of q
gazelle, supposed to be the favorite of
the queen, twice repeated q singular re-
presentation of two united ducks and or
naments like the Greek antefxal and the
cartouche of Royal name of Pinotem III.
seven times repeated. Below this is a
border of pink and blue chequers at the
bottom, with border kilt of pink or
perhaps originally scarlet. This magni-
ficient work of leather measures % feet
6 inches in length and 10 feet six inches
wide, and containing POI square feet of
leather. It is the most remarkable OBJ
ject next to the historical mummies of
the whole collection, and exhibits the
greatest technical skill in preparation
and artistic excellence in execution and
design. Its age is somewhat about the
time of Solomon. Specimens of this
leather canopy, which have been brought
to England, show that the colors with
which it was painted or dyed still retain
their original luster. From some un-
known circumstances they have, like
the flowers, never paled by the effects
of time.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-08-16
GREAT BRITAIN's ARMY.

According to the British army esti.
mates for the year ending March ls,
1882, the regular army of the United
Kingdom, inclusive of the forces in In
dia, embraced 133, ,21O men of all ranks.
In this number were 1921 commissioned
officers and 17,772 non-commissioned
officers, drummers and trumpeters. The
India forces numbered g., 2,548 men of all
ranks. The distribution of the land
forces were as follows: Thirty-eight per
cent. in England and Wales; two per
cent. in Scotland; sixteen per cent. in
Ireland and forty-fve per cent. abroad.
The estimate provided, in addition, for
1884, militia, 4,511 yeoman cavalry
and 245, ,648 volunteers. A fourth class
of the reserves, known as the "pension-
ers and army reserve force," numbered
$1,000. The total force provided for in
the estimate, exclusive Of the India con-
tingent, was 579, ,481. The estimates for
the current year provide for force of
563, ,S18, of which only 176, 900 are regu-
lara
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-08-16
HOW WATCHES ARE MADE.

It will be spparent to any one who will examine
SOLID GOLD WATCH, that aside from the neces-
sary thickness for engraving and polishing, largo
proportion Of tho PancIous METAL used Is
needed only to stifHen and hold the engraved
portions in place. and supply the necessary seidity
and strength. The surplus gold il actually need
less 80 far ~ UT1L1Tx and beauty are concerned.
In JAMES BOSS, PATENT GOLD WATCH CASES
this WASTE Of precious metal is overcome, and the
ZANE soL1DIrY and sTiExaEH produced at from
onethird to one-hslf tho usual cost Of solid cases.
This process Il Of tho most simple nature, as fol-
lows: plate Of nickel composition metal, especial
y adapted to the purpose has two plates Of SOLID
GOLD soldered one on each side. The three are
then passed between polished steel rollers and the
result is strip of heavy plated composition, from
which the osses, backs centres bezes, etc, cut
and shaped BY suitable dies and formers. The
gold In these IL sucien.ly thick to ADMIT Of
Ill kinds Of chasing, engraving and ename)ing; the
engraved cases have been carried until worn per
fectly smooth BY time and use Without removing
the gold. rs .5.=sS ;ss s.5sssSE 80
THIs Is TIE ONLY CASE MADE WITH Two
.PLAr1s or SOLID GOLD AND WARRANTED
DY 6p1OAL OHRTuOATE. M IS il
Tor sals b. q Jsvs,aS. Ask for Illustrated Oat-
slegue, aad y - wassast. .
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A Steam boat Horror.

The Anchor Line packet Gold Dust, bound
from Memphis, Tenn, for vicksburg, Miss,
with full cargo of freight and large list Of
passengers, exploded her boilers when near
Hickman, Ky., on the 7th inst. The entire up-
per works OF the boat were demolished. the de-
bris causing the decks to fall in, burying the
passengers aud crew, and the work of rescuing
the unfortunates was thus rendered extremely
difficult. Tc add to the horror of the gituatio1
the wreck took fire and burned to the waters
edge. Seventeen persons were killed, so far as
known, and forty-se wounded. The exact
number of cannot be ascertained, as the
books were LOST. In all probability many bodies
were lost in the river or were burned in the
wreck.
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terfered to protect his sister from being abused

terfered to protect his sister from being abused
by the father, who was drunk.
Douglass Heathcott was dubbed to death in
a row at a village near Cairo. ILL.,, on the 18th.
In: Clay County, Neb., a farmer named Har-
ris killed his son and then committed suicide.
James W. Pease, Of Lowell, Mass, attempted
to kill his wife on the 18th. He fred twice aud
then killed himself.
A family feud between the Greens and
Steeles in Denton County, Texas, eliminated
in shooting affray on the 10th. One Of the
Steele boys visited Green's house and opened q
fight which ended with mortal wounds for both.
After this another of the Steele boys went over
and was met by brother of Green. The
scrimmage which followed resulted fatally to
Greene. More trouble is expected as there is
one Green left to revenge the murder of his
brothers.
Albert Lower was killed by burglars while de-
the 9th.
A mob took a negro libertine from jail at
Newman, Ga, on the 10th and lynched him.
A terrible domestic tragedy occurred at Chi
cago, ILL.,, on the 10th. Paul Tollner, q ma
chinist, who quarreled with his wife, shot her
dead and then committed suicide The couple
had been married two years and one child.
"A riot occurred at negro camp-meeting near
Eastman, Ga, on the 9th inst. Three white
men and two negroes were killed. Subsequently
negro cut his wife's throat and otherwise fa-
tally slashed her.
/ At Chicago, H., on the 9Th inst, Swede
named Peterson, shot and killed his sweetheart,
Miss Crackenberger, shot and mortally wounded
young woman named Frances Moss, and then
turned the weapon upon himself, fired and fell
dead
Geo. w. Tanner, prominent colored poll
tician, fatally stabbed the editor of Cairo
(M.) paper during an excursion to attend the
emancipation celebration at Metropolis, III.
Tanner was Jailed.
A mutinous sailor at New London, Conn.,, on
the 7th inst, while being ironed by the mate OF
the vessel, plunged his knife four times into the
mans body, inf1icting fatal wounds.
At picnic at Devils Hole, W. Va, on the
9Th, John Bradley was shot by man named
Deene, and fatally wounded.
At q colored camp meeting at Eastman, Ga,
deputy marshal shot and killed fleeing
prisoner. An infuriated mob followed the
deputy to the house of white man named
Harvard, who was beaten to death by the
negroes under the impression that he was the
deputy.
A gang of desperadoes at Blufton, Texas,
| robbed several stores of that town and de-
stroyed q large amount Of property. They
were followed and overtaken by posse of
citizens in Harrer County and five of the rob-
bers captured and one fatally wounded.
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AUSTIN, MOWER WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1e 1882

places as summer resorts, to overlook
the difference between the solar intensity
and the air temperature, and to compare
the readings of thermometers which,
from improper exposure of the instru-
ments, mix up these very different val
hes. In the case cited BY Professor
Frankland, the influence of elevation
above sea level (on account of which the
higher We get, though the solar heat in
oreases rapidly, the air warmth contin-
ually decreases) makes the chief differ
ence. But, as he has shown, other causes
operate in producing agreeable climate.
"The nearer the color of the ground ap-
proaches to white, he finds, "the great
er will be the sun warmth and the cooler
the air; while the darker the color, the
warmer will be the air and the less will
the heat of solar radiation be felt" The
reflection from land or water also power
fully affects the felt solar intensity.
though at the seashore the floating wa
terry and saline particles so ill the air
las a beam of sunlight or the electric
light reveals) that they absorb the SUMS
heat and thus cool the air. But perhaps
the most remarkable fact adduced by
this Investigators that the highest read
ings of solar heat at sea level have been
made at a station CRomsdal, Norway
near the Arctic circle and at other high
latitudes, where the suns radiation was
from s. to 120 hotter than at noon under
a nearly vertical sun on the equator.
This remarkable difference, confirmed by
other observations, must be ascribed to
the vast sheet of aqueous vapor over
hanging the tropical belts, which even
when invisible absorbs the SUMS heat
rays, but increases the warmth of the
air.
1t seems clear from these and other
well established chronological data that
in the crisis of the intensely cheated
term" the relief which SO many crave
will be best had at the mountain rather
than at the seaside resorts, provided the
altitude is sufficient, and the higher the
latitude of the former the better. But
it also follows that as the suns dark heat
rays after warming the earth cannot re-
pass the vapor profusely overhanging
the seashore the latter resort is longer
tenable by the invalid. People who go
to the mountains for health should 20
early and wind up their "summering"
at the seashore, where the thermal
changes at the close of the warm season
are not SO extreme and enervating as
the high levels.
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E4Yplfan Aairffa.

Arab Pasha's army is entrenching at Sandy
Ridge, where the principal resistance was made
on the 9Th. Reinforcements have advancedfrom
the Ridge to Kafr-el-Dwar. The guns of the
ron-clad Temeraire, lying, opposite Ramleh.
cover the ground between The British lines and
the outposts OF the enemy. The Temeraire be-
gan firing in consequence of the outposts max
ing forward movement. After few shots
from the Temeralre, the enemy abandoned
their positions. Arab Pasha has established q
six-gun battery near Esbet Kurshid, facing
Fort Meks and facing Ramleh toward Aboukin,
earthworks are rising fast. Zeky Pasha,
governor, works tremendously with the
British. -0
Gladstone will pay no heed to the protests
OF De Lesseps regarding the landing Of tro ops
at suez, as they are simply the utterances of q
private individual The London Times en-
phatieally opposes the proposition Of allowing
is in favor Of indemnifying sufferers by the
disorders Of Alexandria to q fair extent. The
Turkish prime minister has informed Lord
Duferin that the proclamation declaring
Arab Pasha rebel will be issued. Arab has
ordered the garrison along the Suez Canal to
refrain from conflicts with the British.
The Sultan Of Turkey has at last yielded to
Pash and his followers 'srebeis." The turkish
government win at once send 5000 troops to
Egypt to cooperate with the British forces. In
the meantime England continues to forward
troops to Alexandra, evidently concentrating q
formidable army.
Ismail Pasha, ex-khedive of Egypt, who was
deposed in 1879 by conference Of the powers
snd then returned with his harem and his snug
sum Of ESQ, 100000 to Naples, is in Paris,
where it is said he is concocting deep laid
scheme looking to his reinstatement.
Affairs in Egypt Of late have been without
noteworthy event. Arab, contrary to expecta
ton, shows no signs Of making an attack, but
10 devoting his time to mobi1izing his force,
and strengthening the position he has taken
There is no reliable information as to the mum
Der Of men he has under him, but he is report
ed to have his headquarters near Ra1nleh
where he has forces variously estimated q
from 10000 to 10000. The British are fas
pouring troops into the; country, and it is be
lieved there are now, either in Egypt or on th
way IN army Of 5000 men, . far more com
plete and efficient force than was dispatched T.
Crimea or than wellington commanded a
Waterloo. s....
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Suicidal.

John McMahon, the Oldest conductor on the
vandalia Road, killed himself with pistol in
st. Louis on the 7th.
Dr. Geo. Z. Young, Of Elgin, ILL.,, suicided at
Galveston, Texas, on the 4th inst.
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Unfaitbful Servants

Z A Montreal notary named J. 8. Hunter is q
detaulter for the sum Of 100000.
Geo. B. Hamilton, bookkeeper for the
with $4,000 Of the corporatieenis% % money. p'''