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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
Work Of the Flames.

The Ellanora Spring Hotel, a handsome
frame building at Haysville, Pa, valued at
$l3S'O0o was swept away by an incendiary fire
on the LIST inst.
+ Koch & Sons stationary house was damaged
$75,000 worth by fire on the I'd inst. Loss
$4,000.
A fire at Stockton, CAL, on the I'd inst, con-
sumed Sperry l. Co. 3 mills and several adjoin-
ing buildings. Loss $20O,O0O. Insurance
Arrison's planning mills and Wilets, Oliver &
Co.'s box factory at Kaighn's Point, N. j.,
were reduced to ashes on the 3lst ult. Loss
$4,000.
Nine houses were destroyed by fire at Forest
City, Ark, on the night of the 5oth ult. Loss
Riesck's safe factory, Pittsburg, Pa, was en-.
tirely destroyed on the 3lst ult., together with
five brick dwellings, in the rear. Loss $50, 900.
The bark Graham's Polly, laden with pctro.
York harbor on the 31st ult. Loss $25,000
The Canterbury paper mill at Norwich, Conn.,,
| burned on the 30th ult. Loss $4,000; insur.
ance $4,000
Jacob Korer's store, at Boranchtown suburb
| near Philadelphia, burned on the morning Of
the 29th ult. Loss $4,000.
l. Toronto was visited by serious fire on the
! night of the 28th ult.. which consumed thu
| Toronto Wagon-wheel Company's works ant
the Consolidated Purifying establishment. Loss
| 100000.
Walker Hall, the finest of the Amherst Col
lege buildings, was destroyed by fire on the 29tl
ult. The building and contents were valued a
$250,000 The Shepard mineral cabinet alon,
was worth $4,000. Insurance on all $72,O 900
Tarthing's distillery, Buffalo, N. Y, was Re
duced to ashes on the 29th ult. Loss $3.50, 900
The paper house of Richards / Co., at Gar
diner, Me-, burned on the 28th. Loss $50, 900
Insured for $4,000.
The town of iGrundy, near Lynchburg. Pa.
was almost entirely consumed by fire on tn
28th.
| The business portion of Hurdsboro, ILL.,, wa
swept away by fire on the 26th. Loss sag, 900
Couner & Lafin's dry goods house and Vile
T. Sons drug store at Spencer, Ind, wer,
visited by fire on the 28th. Damage $25, 900.
The Albion Springs Tooth Harrow Works a
Detroit, Mich, were partially destroyed by fir
on the 9th. Loss $25,OOO.
Fires at Boeszenfa and Paks, Hungary, de
stroyed 110 buildings at the former place, an,
240 at the latter. Several hundred families ar
left destitute
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
NlOflllafY.
A Clear EXDOSe.

Dick Little, the train robber, has made con-
fession giving all the transactions of the James
gang since bis connection with it, together with
the names of the participants in the Gad's Hill,
Coulterville, Glendale, Winston and Blue Cut
train robberies. It was on Little's testimony
that Clarence Hite was arrested in Kentucky
and taken to Gallatin, No., where he received
a twenty-five year sentence for participation in
the Winston train robbery, in which Conductor
Westfan was killed. ]. R. Timberlake, sheriff
of Clay County, NO., and II. H. Craig, Kansas
City policeman, received $4,000 for capturing
Little. ~ = ,.'.:
As sequel to the Little confession, it trans
spires that the following conditions were exact
dence: He was to receive immunity from the
government, be paid $1,000 on giving himself
up, and $5, 900 more in the event of the capture
of bis companions through his instrumenta]ity.
Should the other robbers be arrested. Commits
sioner Craig and Gov. Crittenden will receive
in the neighborhocd Of $200, 900, the aggregate
Of rewards offered, minus the $5, 900 paid Little
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
SmiCidlR nj.

Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, brother of Will
liam II. Vanderbilt, shot himself at Glenham
Hotel, New York city, on the I'd inst, and died
from the effects of the wound four hours after
ward. The cause of the act is said to have been
James Tremaine, wealthy broker Of Boston,
Mass, committed suicied, on the 31st ult.
ALLEN Fox, aged 81, wealthy citizen of
louisville, Ky., cut his throat on the 29th ult.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, Ida Smith, aged II,
bought cents worth of arsenic and committed
suicide with it because her mother had dreproved
hor
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
ears ago. The Russian Prince Irktcheff

years ago. The Russian Prince Irktcheff,
sent to that province as governor and
military occupant at the close of the war,
purchased the jewels OF one of these
Bulgarian ladies and sent part of them
to the fair American wife Of his cousin,
N. Bakmetef, now first secretary of the
Russian legation at Paris. Nine. Bak-
meteff divided the possessions with her
younger sister, and these royal jewels of
Bulgaria now shine at the fetes of the
two great republican courts Of the
world.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
LunRticS Ralrneal.

A temporary wooden building used by the
Territorial Insane Asylum at Yankton, D. T.,
while the new brick structure is in process of
erection, caught fire on the I'd inst. and was
consumed. There were fifty-four patients in
the structure and of these four lost their lives.
The property destroyed was valued at $10, 600.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05

THERE is a bachelor in Ipswich, Mass,
IS years of age. who has worn the same
hat for over 60 years. He has never
used anything bat peat for fires and he
burns tallow dips for light.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
A Monument Demolfshed.

The Andre monument erected by Cyrus w.
Field at Tappan, N. Y, on the spot where the
notorious English spy was hung in revolution
ary days, and upon which was engraved an in
scripton written by the late Dean Stanley, was
almost ruined on the night of the 3Oth ulf., by
some unknown persons who exploded charge
of dynamite under it. The base was completely
shattered, but the shaft still stands partially dis
mounted. Since the mutllation of the inscrip-
ton of the monument on Washington's birth
day, by Geo. Hendrix, who is now refugee
from legal pursuit guards have been stationed
in the neighborhood Of the cenotaph, and it is
q mystery how this last act of desecration was
accomplished.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05

The annual Oxford and Cambridge eight
cared match was rowed upon the Thames from
Putney to Mortlake on the LIST inst. The Ok
fords won by six boat lengths,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
m8SOn'S CaSes

Judge General Swain has decided
that the finding of the court-martial in the case
OF Sergeant Mason was invalid, and that there
fore the imprisonment of Mason was illegal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
Convicted Nihtllsts,

Official announcement is made of the COM
mutation by the czar of all death sentenced
passed on the nihilists recently convicted, to
hard labor IN the mines for an indefinite period,
except in the case of Marine Lieutenant
Suchanoff, whose sentence was confirmed. The
latter however, was granted military exec,l-
tim
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
Blown to Atoms.

The; Vulcan Powder Company's works op-
posite San Francisco, CAL, were annihilated by
explosion on the 9th. Eleven men were killed
outright and four we're badly injured: Six of
the killed were Cinnamon.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Puh1ic Delht,

New Cardinals
. :. On the 27th the pope created Archbishop
McCabe, Of Dublin, and six others, cardinals.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
ShiDwreCk


The captain and crew of the brigantine Will
liam, wrecked on Sable Island, reached Halifax
on the I'd inst. The vessel became locked in
the ice, and provisions giving out, the crew
were compelled to subsist for ~ days on oats
that had been in the crevices of the vessel for
years.
On the night of the LIST inst, a collision oc-
CURED off Cape Finisterre, Spain, between the
Spanish steamer Yerurac Bat and the Royal
Mail steamer Douro, from Brazil. Both steam
ers sunk. Thirty Of the crew of the Spanish
steamer, including tho captain and pilot were
drowned. The total number lost could not be
The coashng steamer Pelton founlered in the
British Channel on the 18th. Eighteen persons
were drowned.
A Steamboat Horror.
The steamer Golden Eagle, en- route from
New Orleans for Cincinnati, was burned at
Memphis early on the morning of the 31st ult.,
and between thirty and forty lives are reported
lost, mostly women and children. So RAPIDLY
did the flames spread that five minutes after
discovering the fire amidships, the after part of
the steamer was all ablaze and those who es-
capped had to flee in their night clothes. As
near as can be ascertained there were twenty
three ladies on board the ill-fated steamer, two
OF whom so far as known, were saved. Stowe's
circus was on board. The entire outfit con-
sisting of six cages of animals, the band and
other wagons, tents and horses were consumed.
The fire was occasioned by watchman acci-
dentaliy setting fire to lot1Of jute, which was
stored amidships. Pccuniary loss about $780,
600. Mrs. L. E. KountZ, the wife Of the
wealthy steamboat man, and her three children
are among the lost.
MOfluary.
L. H. BaI1inger, prominent politician of
Galveston, Texas, died from the effects of vac
cination
Gen. Hurlburt. late United States minister to
Peru, died at Lima, on the 28th ult., of heart
disease.
Mr.. Joseph Harris, an old citizen of Chicago,
who was prominent member of the board Of
county commissioners some years ago, died on
the night of the 29th ult., aged 56.
Henry B. Meyer, father of the late Gen.
Meyer, chief of the signal service, died at Chi
cago, on the 29th ult., ut an advanced age. He
invented sleeping Car in 1854, and at the time
of his death was engaged in perfecting safety
car.
Judge Patton, of the West Virginia court of
appeals, died at Wheeling, w. Va, on the 3Oth
ult., of heart disease.
Captain Thomas Fl. French, a retired officer
of the 7th cavalry, died suddenly at Leaven-
worth, and was buried at the fort.
Francis Ashton, ST., one OF the pioneer resi-
dents of Lima, O., died on the 26th. aged 81
wears.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
Oxford VS.. Ca,nbridre.

The March statement of the condition of thu
public debt shows a reduction for themonth o1
$16,462.946. 49,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05

A sH1RRED puff finishes. the neck
April dresses.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05

N1 rs. U. L. AMES,
(Or better known MRS. TOPLIFF,l is back to
Austin, to attend to all calls IS MIDWIFE day or
night. She is the right woman in the right place
front rooms over F. A. Ticknord store P. O..
Box 2Il - W
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05
1RoWNSpALE.

"E1SER sHORTT,
REAL ESTA TE d. COLLECTION GENTS,
Conveysncers and Notares Public, Brownsdale
MINI. Improved aud wild lands for sale in Mower
and DSdge counties. Titles examined and taxes
pslu 1or hon'resdenlA juno
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05

Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in the hsst
brands Of Grecers' and Bakers Flour. Also ali
Kinds OF Mill Feed for sale at his store on Main
south of the city
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-05

And Real Estate Agent. Collections made and
taxes paid: Office, north side Public Square, in
brick building, Austin, MINI.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-23
Stand UP |!

Says Mr.. Sturgeon: TOO many young
preachers assume slouching attitude,
lolling and sprawling as if they were
lounging on a parapet of a bridge. and
chatting with somebody down in a boat
on the river. We do not go into the
pulpit to SLOUGH bout and look free and
easy, but we go there on very solemn
business, and our posture should be such
as becomes our mission. A reverent and
earnest spirit will not be indicated by
sluggish lounge or careless SLOUGH. It
Is said that among the Greeks, even the
ploughmen and herdsmen take up grace
full attitudes without any idea that they
are doing SO. l think it is also true Of
the Italians; for, whenever have seen
Roman man or woman-no matter
whether they are sleeping upon the
Spagna steps or sitting upon the frag-
ment OF the Baths of Caracalla, or car
rying bundle on their head, or riding
mule-they always look like studies
for an artist; yet this is the last thing
which ever crosses their minds. These
picturesque peasants have never taken
lessons in calisthenics, nor do they trouble
their heads as to how they appear to the
foreigners; pure nature, delivered from
mannerism, primness, and afectation,
moulds their habits into gracefulness
We should be foolish to initiate Greeks
or Italians, except in their freedom from
all limitations, but it were we'll if we
could copy their unconstralned and
natural action. There is no reason why
Christian should be a clown, and there
are great many reasons why a minister
should not be boor AS Rowland Hill
said that he could not see why Satan
should have the best tunes, so neither
can see why he should have the most
graceful speakers"
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Abuse in Place of Argument

II you find that you have no case, -
the old lawyer is reported to have said
to the young, "abuse the plaintiffs attor-
ney, and Judge Martin Grover, of New
York, used to say that it was apparently
great relief to lawyer who had lost a
case to betake himself to the nearest tav-
ern and swear at the court. Abuse, in
any event, seems to have been regarded
by both of these authorities as a consola-
ton In defeat. 1t is but carrying the
theory step further to resort to abuse
IN argument. Timon who is a club ovnio
winch is perhaps the most useless spe-
clmep OF humanity-says that 'pon his
honor nothing entertains him more thar
70 see now little argument goes to the
discussion of any question, and how i'm
mediate ,e is the recourse to blackguardism
The other day" he said recently /" 7
was sitting in the smoking-room' and
Blunt and Sharp began to talk about
yachts. Sharp thinks that he knows oil
mat can be known of yachts, and Blunt
tnlnks that what he thinks is unqualified
truth Sharp made strong assertion
and Blunt smiled. 1t was that loftv
smile OF amused pity and superiority
w wnlch is, suppose, very exasperating
Sharp was evidently surprised, but he
continued, and at another observat;on
Blunt looked at him, and said. simplv
RidiculousI As it seemed to- me-" said
Iimon, the stronger and truer were the
remarks Of Sharp, the more Blunt's tone
changed from contempt to anger, until
ne came to torrent Of vituperation.
under I'm which Sharp retired from the room
with dignity"
CO y" l presume" said the oynic, chat
ppnarP was correct upon every point
r noS the more correct Sharp was, the
more angry Blunt became. 1t was very
entertaining, and it seems to me very
much the way Of more serious discn:.
son. Timon was certainly right and
tnose who heard his remarks and have
since then seen him chuckling over The
newspapers, are confident it is becanse
ne observes in them the same method Of
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-23
Recent Publications.

Men AND Books; or, Studies in Homiletics.
Lectures Introductory to the Theory OF
Preaching. By Austin Phelps, d. D., late
Bartlett Professor Of Sacred Rhetoric in An
dover theological Seminary. New York
Charles Scribners Sons. 1882.
Those who have read Lectures on the Theory
of Preaching will anticipate rich repast in
this second course from the pen of the same
author, and originally prepared as Introductory
to the former. They are written in the same
intensely nervous and epigrammatic style, with
the same fertility of thought, wealth of illustra-
ton, and felicity of expression. Each lecture
is worth to the young minister or student Of
theology, the price of the whole volume, but we
would especially commend the thoughts of Prof
Phelps on the study of men. 1t is here that SC
many of our pastors who are otherwise gifted
are grievously at fault. They have much knowl-
edge of books and very little knowledge of hui
man nature. Let them learn through such lee
lures as these of Prof. Phelps, how to study men
and let them carry this knowledge into practice
and so become wise to win souls
We are under obligations to the publishers
for many hours of enjoyment in the pages Of
this work
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-23
Aphorisms on Exercise.

Health must be earned; it can seldom
be bought.
Exercise, or the use of every organ of
the body, is necessary to the HEALTHY and
tull performance of their tunctions.-
When any organ is in complete and pro-
longed dlsuse it tends inevitably to decay.
A person whose mind has been active
ly employed all the day in the counting
room, upon the bench, or in the study.
needs In order to restore the balance
bodily exertlon enjoined with complete
mental relaxation. In other words, his
exercise ought to be agreeable and enter
tanning,
Saving wood, vaulting in gymnasi-
UNI, the health lift, &" parlor rowing"
swinging dumb-bells, calisthenics, long
solitary walks, carriage riding, are better
than no exercise at all but fishing, hunt
IiIng' skating, ball-playing, rowing, wrest-
hing. or marching to the tune of soul
stirring music, laughing and rollicking,
are much better. o
Horseback riding out of doors COM
blnes more qualities of healthful exercise
than any other. 1t secures light, air,
exercise, and pleasure.
A horse-one hour day-taken reg
ularly, is both a preventive and cure
for nearly all human maladies. To some.
advice must be given to ride slowly; but
to others, we may say in the language of
the old polypharmaceutists - When
taken, to be well shaken"
Amateur yachting, with plenty of wind
and weather, even when TACK" mans
the ropes and stands by the rudder. is
always very pleasant recreation; and
may be made very healthful.
A biceps hardened by the use of dumb
bells or by any other method cannot be
accepted as evidence that every muscle
and organ in the body has had proper ex-
ercise, and that they are all now in good
working order.
" Robust and manly" exercises imply
some peril to limb or life, by which both
mind and body shall be kept constantly
on the alert
The best mode of travel is on foot or on
a saddle; the next best is an open car
riage or in an old-fashioned stage-coach.
A sea-voyage and almost any mode of
travelling by water is, in general, useful;
but 1t would be most serious practical
Joke if any one were to advise an invalid
to seek for health in railroad car.
Girls need health as much-nay, more
than boys. They can only obtain it as
boys do, by running and Jumping and
tumbling by loud and boisterous mirth-
fitness, and by all sorts of innocent va
grancy
At least once day girls at school
should have the halters taken off the
bars let down, and be turned loose like
young colts.--Dr. +. II. Han1iZtons
"Apho1l8naS D."
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sively-is to pray. When we thus pray
we do not battologize; and He that
knoweth the secrets of all hearts, and
the needs of all lives; may confidently
be expected to do exceeding abundantly.
above all that we ask or think, for us.
But all merely perfunctory supplica-
tions; all seeming of sacrifice where not
the heart is found" all over-anxiety
about the shadows in the absence of the
substance; all formahty which is not in
stlnct with feeling; all doing for the sake
OF the doing rather than of the deed all
good words and fair speeches having no
root In the heart; these are vain and
heathenish battologisms, which God takes
no comfort in, and so are barren stalks
from which man reaps no grain of con-.
tent or advantage.-Comgregationahst.
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The North AMERICAN REVIEW for September
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Political Assessments; Oaths in Legal Pro.
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OF Property Rights Earth Burial and Crema.
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York. -''"
The ATLANTIC MONTHLY for September. Con
tents:
Two on Tower; Darkness; American His
tory on the Stage Evil in Greek Mythology
Doctor Fay a Geologic Ramble on the Weald
Studies IN the South; Tears of Isis; The Nation
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Electric and Gas Illumination Longevity
Animal Self-Defense; Brazilian Diamonds and
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Love will Find out the Way-A Story; Some
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Suppose a man should not only enioy
universal empire for one whole age but
for period equal to the duration of the
world Itself, the proposition that is inn
Piled in the words Of Jesus Christ is an
pllcable to him. A soul so excellent in
Its nature, SO extensive in its duration. 80
precious through its redemption a soul
capable Of acquiring so much knowledge
OF conceiving so many desires of expe-
rienolng, so much remorse, of feeling SO
many pleasures and pains soul Chat
must subsist beyond all time, and per
peetuate itself to eternity soul redeem
ed by the blood Of the Son of God a soul
SO %, valuable, ought to be preferred above
al tnlngs. and nothing is too precious to
be given for its exchange. What is q
man Profted, if he should gain the whole
world, and lose his own soul? or what
shall man give in exchange for his
soul ?'-Saurin.