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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
The Garfield EulOgy.

The memorial oration Of Hon. James G..
Blaine was delivered in the hall Of the House
of Representatives at Washington on the 26th
ult., before vast audience who listened to the
address with the greatest of interest while pre-
serving solemn silence. Mr.. Blaine read his
speech from large sheets of manuscript deeply
bordered in black, in medium tone of voice and
without any attempt at oratorlcal elaboration.
Seated in the galleries and on the floor Of the
house were a great number of distinguished
persons who had witnessed President Garfield's
Inauguration and who we're present on the oc-
casion of bis funeral. George Bancroft, who
pronounced the eulogy on President Lincoln,
sat in the first row by the side of w. w. Cor
c0ran, Washington's wealthy and liberal citi-
zen. Next sat Cyrus Field and next to him
President Arthur. On the Presidents right.
the cabinet was seated, all Of them up in the
sixties except Robert Lincoln, whose youthful
appearance was strong in its contrast. The ab-
sence of the ex-presidents and ce-presidents.
who had special invitations, was noticeable, and
especially that of Mr.. Hayes, the predecessor
and fellOw-citizen of Garfield. No member of
the late Presidents family was present. The
eulogy was concluded at 1:50 p. NJ, having
taken just an hour and half in it's delivery.
As MIR. Blaine uttered the last solemn words
the spectators broke into storm of applause,
which was not hushed for some minutes. The
benediction was then offered by Rev. DIR. Bull
lock. The Marine Band played the '' Garfield
March as the invited guests fled out of the
chamber in the same order in which they en-
tered.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
THE TRANSVAAL WARS,

After turbulent and bloody season
following the unwise British annexation
Of the Transvaal in 1877 it was expected
that the country SO bravely won by the
hardy Beers would enjoy period Of
peace. A convention had been conclud-
ed granting the Beers the right of self
government under certain limitations re-
specting, among other things, their deal
ings with other states; there was no
longer fear of trouble in lu-land, and
in the small province Of Basuto-land, in
the northeast of Cape Colony and lying
west Of Natal, by which it is cut off from
the sea, the British terms were accepted,
and, so sure did the maintenance OF
peace appear that the auxiliary forces
were disbanded there and fluctuations Of
tranquility were telegraphed to London.
But after five months Of apparent peace
the cable tells us that all is not well.
Fighting is already reported from the
borders; Chief Masupha, never satisfied
with the award, and who did all that he
could to upset the negotiations last fall,
is more rebellious than ever, and is said
to have bought all the other chiefs over
to his cause. This is the latest news,
but earlier Cape Town dispatches not
sent across the Atlantic at the time, not
only confirm this, but increase the
gravity of the situation. Some chiefs
who accepted the award did so unw1l-
Iing'y and under pressure, many appear
to have accepted it with large mental
reservations, and others, like Masupha,
if they really submitted, as it was said
they did, appear to have seized upon the
first safe opportunity to resist the
Awards provisions. 1t is not doubted
by the English that many natives really
desire peace, but the power of
the Masupha party is so strong
that grave uncertainty exists for
the future. The Cape Colony parlia-
ment was some time ago called to meet
early next month, in anticipation of this
trouble. Evidently, it cannot meet so
soon
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
INSECTS Or NO INSECTS.

In these days of prophecy when Ven
ner and the weather bureau are VIE
ing for the first place in the annals of
prognostication, an opinion of interest
to agriculturists will be found in an ar
ticle in the New York Herald relative to
insects. It says the appearance of a
peculiar grasshopper in Westchester
County seems to cause premature
alarm among the farmers in that vicinity.
Certainly, after the agricultural losses of
last. year, the uprising of powerful ar
my of insects next summer would be
most untimely and unwelcome, and this,
we suppose, the Westchester farmers
fear is portended by the appearance of
the black grasshopper in their fields be.
fore winter has fairly closed. It is too
early to predict whether the next sum-
mer's crops will be imperiled by the in
sect hosts, but the anomalous and extra
ordinary mild winter suggests the ques-
ton. During the memorable cold win
ters of 1879 and 1880 in Europe there
was abundant opportunity for testing the
effect of severe season on insects.
which was improved by French invest
igator, NJ. Won. In a report in La Ma
ture last year this gentleman stated that,
so far from the unusually rigorous win.
ter destroying the insets. "on the con.
trary the extreme rigor of the two last
winters proved advantageous to thei1
preservation. In fact, many were en-.
abled to escape insectivoreus birds
thanks to the snow or ice which covered
the soil. The Excessive cold caused
moreover, an almost unprecedented NOR
tality among the birds" Happily tn,
reverse conditions have obtained in tbi,
country during the current winter, and
on the sound principle suggested by thi,
writer, we may infer that the late milo
season taken by itself does not augur .
great grasshopper invasion, but rathe,
otherwise. DR.. Fitch and Professor Ri
ley have shown by records that &c aln,os
all great army worm years have been un
usually wet, with the preceding year un
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08

usually dry" Judging by this. rule we
can see no reason to apprehend at pres
ent any exceptional visitation of the crop
destroying pests this year. But the
question is one of great importance to
agriculturists and to the whole country,
and as eminent entomologists assert that,
with the aid of adequate meteorological
data, they can forecast the great grass
hopper years, they will do the country
good service to look into the matter and
make known the result of the investiga-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
How to Kill Crows.
Fasten
CFrom Forest and Stream. ]

FROM EOreet and stream
Secure large stuffed owl. Fasten
this to pole, and project the pole from
tree, making the owl appear to be
perched on limb. F'asten this secure
ly in plain sight, where any passing crow
can see it. Then retire to a concealed
spot within gunshot of the lure and wait
for the crows. They will come az soon
as they catch sight of the owl. Each
crow must be shot as it comes in range,
that the report of the gun may not
frighten others away that may be COM
ing. If frightened away, the crow will
directly constitute himself committee
of one to hang around the spot and tell
every other crow within FIVE hundred
miles that there is man with gun
there. We have found that the great
horned owl is the best crow decoy, al
though they will come to others, such as
the barred owl. 4.~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
The Freezing Cure.
fErnyn thn phvsician

By means of freezing parts may be
rendered wholly insensible to pain, so
that slight surgical operations may be
easily performed. When the freezing is
long continued the parts may lose their
vitality entirely, which will cause them
to slough away. By this means, excres-
cences, as warts, wens and polypi, fibrous
and sebaceous tumors, and even 1nalig-
nant tumors, as cancers, may be success
fully removed. Small cancers may
sometimes be cured by repeated and long
continued freezing. Their growth may
certainly be impeded by this means. A
convenient mode of application in cancer
Of the breast is to suspend from the neck
a rubber bag filed with powdered ice,
allowing it to lie against the cancerous
organ. Freezing may be accomplished
by applying spray Of ether, by means
of an atomizer, or by freezing mixture
composed of equal parts of pounded ice
and salt, or two parts of snow to one of
salt. Mix quickly, put into gauze bag
and apply to the part to be frozen. In
three to six minutes the skin will be-
come white and glistening, when the bag
should be removed. Freezing should
not be continued more than six minutes
at time, as the tissues may be harden
ed, though usually no harm results from
repeated freezing, if proper care is used
in thawing the frozen part. It should
be immersed in cool water or covered
with cloths kept cool by frequent wet
ting with cold water, until the natural
feeling is restored. Felons may often be
cured, especially when they first begin
by freezing two or three times. Lum.
bago and sciatica, as we'll as other forms
of neuraliga, are sometimes almost in
stantly removed by freezing Of the Skin
Immediately above the painful part
We have cured some of the most obsti
nate cases of sciatia by this means, afte
other remedies had failed. s
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
HALLWAY Wrecks.

By collision of trains near EarlviIle, N. Y,
on the 4th inst, Engineer Collins and Fnen,en
Sullivan and Blumenkrow were killed. The
accident was due to misinterpretation of Or
ders. J.. "
An engine and baggage car of passenger
train on the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain
Railroad ran into washout on the I'd inst,
killing James Chambers. the engineer, and
Henry Petrie, fireman. The express messenger
and baggageman were badly injured.
At Toll Gate, station on the Ohio and
Baltimore Railroad, half way between Parkers-
burg and Grafton, Va, on the I'd inst, an cx-
press train ran into q huge boulder which
trmbled onto the track from q hillside. The
locomotive was derailed and plunged into
store near by and through several barrels of
oil on: the platform. The engine boiler i'm
mediately exploded, igniting the oil and
general conflagration ensued, destroying the
store, the railway Office, and four cars. The
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
A Destroying Blast.

The town of Valley Mills, Texas, was almost
completely devastated by cyclone on the night
of the 2Sth ult Only one business house was
left standing. Brinkham's Hotel, two-story
frame structure, with ten inmates, was carried
some distance and dashed to pieces. All were
injured. There was no loss of life, though the
pecuniary loss was heavy.
hurricane at Pine Bluff, Ark, on the I'd
inst, destroyed several houses and killed an cid
lady named Waldron.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
Train Robbers Capt1lred.

lively skirmish between train robbers and
officers occurred at Ashtabula, o., on the night
of the I'd inst. The conductor of freight
train on the Lake Shore Road discovered two
men in car. He locked them in and tele-
graPhed ahead to Ashtabula for officers to be
Cd hand when the train should arrive. The
robbers, when the attempt to arrest them was
made, drew their revolvers and thirty shots
were exchanged. One robber escaped, but was
captured on another train as it passed through
Ashtabula, his efforts to find surgeon to dress
his wounds having disclosed his whereabouts.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
Minor MiSlAaDS.

AS the New Orleans fire department were
completing their annual parade, on the 4th
inst, they we're called into active duty by fire
alarm. Three firemen were killed and four
wounded by falling walls before tho fire was
subdued.
Three whisky -fuddled men attemptedto cross
the river at Fort Madison, Ia., on the 4th inst,
when their craft capsized, drowning two,
named Shaw and Mccarthy. The third,
a moulder, named Kuntz, was rescued.
Henry Carlson and Peter johnson were killed
outright and Thomas Williams and Collins
Magnus injured by fall of earth in the
Lothian Mine, Ishpeming, Mich, on the 4th
inst. Magnus injuries proved fatal.
On the Sd inst, at Stones Station, near Win.
CHESTER Ind, boiler explosion killed four men
and injured three. One of the wounded men
is considered fatally hurt.
Joseph Watson and Thomas Hoffman were
killed at the Eckert ore mine, at Reading, Pa,
on the 9th ult., by falling earth after an ex-
plosion.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
Government Aid.

The governor of Missouri telegraphed the
secretary of war to increase the rations ordered
for the flood sufferers. Secretary Lincoln re-
forward to the inundated portion of Missouri,
and that the Arkansas commissioners ask 49,
600 rations for forty days, which will exceed
the appropriation. Eight army officers will be
detailed to investigate the needs of the people,
and it is thought that 100000 will be required.
Congress is to be asked to furnish the poor
with seed corn.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
TraGiCal Tales.

dlcSs
At Corsicana, Texas, Thomas Bradley, killed
bing her four times. Bradley had been the
lady's suitor before her marriage.
Perry White died on the I'd inst, at Windfall,
Ind, from q knife wound inflicted the night
before by Geo. Doles. The men had had a
quarrel at church, and Doles had followed
lowed in which the knife was used. Doles has
not been arrested.
SWede hamed James johnson, foreman of
lumber yard at Grand Rapids, Mich, was fa-
tally shot, on the I'd inst, by Valentine Kohler,
because he refused to treat. The murdered
man leaves family.
Charles Fry, in Jail on a charge of arson, at
Georgetown, o., murderously assaulted J. 3.
Helbling, Jr., son of the sheriff, in the jail,
when the latter shot the prisoner dead.
Charles B. Gillem, aged II, shot his mother
dead at Bakers Corner, four miles from Alma
da, Mich, on the 2Sth ut. -hits. g.; aiIosis ut
invalid, quarreled With her son, who became sc
enraged that he killed her. When arrested he
said he had committed the deed, and now he
would have peace in the house.
G. /. Lansing, Of Eureka, COL, murdered his
wife, on the I'd inst.
Sheriff J. Hopkins. of Barry County, No.,
was assassinated at Verona, in that state, on
the Cd inst, by an unknown person. who fired
from behind barn.
DR.. Williford, of Memphis, Tenn, was
awakened by his wife on the night of the 2St]
ult., who stated she heard someone attempting
to open the back door. The doctor arose and
fired through the side window at a dark object,
Examination showed that he had mortally
wounded a young colored nurse, who slept II
the house, but had gone out in the yard. The
bullet passed entirely through the body of the
| unfortunate girl.
Indians in the San Francisco mountains mas
sacred the wife of Thomas Mathison, his two
daughters and two Mormon men. Mathison,
who is Mormon, escaped and reached Denver.
DR.. J. W. Muckols was shot and killed al
Springfield, Tenn, on the 28th u1t,, by O. B.
Hopkins, of Nashville, his brother-in-law,
Cause, domestic troubles.
Poke Wells and Bill Norris, the desperadoef
captured at Randolph, Wis, on the 18th ult.
attempted to escape from the officers while or
hoard train en- route for Fremont County
Ia, under charge of Sheriff Chandler. The
officers opened fire on the prisoners, Wells re.
ceiving six and Norris five balls.
Chicken thieves shot and killed William
Thomas, who surprised them at work on his
premises at Highland, Ind, on the 9th ult
Three men are under arrest.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
THE SHADOWED CROSS,

In welded love our lives had twined
One year-one careless, golden year
And then he died, my darling died;
And, for the joy that harbored there,
My heart was filed with dark despair.
I traced the haunts he loved the best
In dear, lost days-alas, SO brief!
And mem'ry's breathing, once SO sweet,
But famed the furnace Of my grief;
They brought no tears to my relief.
At early dawn sought his grave,
Mid quaint-carved stones, o'ergrown with moss,
And 10! upon the hallowed mound
In seeming emblem of my loss
here fell the shadow of cross.
And kneeling there in fearless woe,
Methought heard my darling say:
''Oh love ! thy grief shadow is,
Which, as dream, shall pass away,
Where shadows melt in cloudless day!"
Then found my anguish vent in tears,
Strange tears of heav'n-born peace, that shed
Around my soul holy calm:
And when rose, thus comforted,
The shadow from the grave had fled!
Good Words.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
The Latest G:o.as,vou,p1ea.e.

The great six day walking match ut New
York terminated ON the night of the 4th inst.
with Hazael the winner. Rowell, the celebrated
English walkist retired on the 1st in demor-
allied condition. Hazael made 600 miles and
one lap followed by Fitzgerald. 557 miles, Nore-
mac, 555 miles, Hart, $40 miles, Hughes, 535
miles, and Sullivan 525 miles.
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Blown to Atoms.

+. While unloading nitro-glycerine at maga-
zine near Bolivar, Pa, on the night of the 2sth
ult., John Grant and VIM. Orcutt we're blown
to atoms. The whole front of the magazine,
containing 100 pounds of nitro-glycerine, was
torn off, but, strange as it may appear, the
compound did not explode.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
Queen Victoria's EscaDe.

A decided sensation was created at Windsor,
England, on the I'd inst. when an attempt was
made to shoot Queen Victoria as she was enter
Ing her carriage at the railway station. The
would-be assassin. who proved to be a grocers
clerk, named Mclean, was Immediately seized,
and. with difficulty, taken to iail. owing to the
excited state of the populace. The queen es-
capped unharmed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
Suicidal.

Alice Wright, the soubrette of theatrical
troupe, having become demented by typhoid
fever, leaped from a fourth-story window of a
hotel, in Cleveland, on the 4th inst, and was
instantly killed.
Edison L. Fuller, incarcerated in the state
prison at Windsor, vt., for murder committed
at Reidsboro, committed suicide on the I'd
inst.
August Ash, United States marshal at Vir-
ginia City, New, suicided on the 28th ult.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
Drowned

: During gale at sea five men were swept
overheard from the bark Mary Lawton, bound
from Liverpool for Baltimore.
: African advices are to the effect that a ferry
boat while crossing the Lagoon Of Lagoo cap
sized. and out Of sixty passengers, forty seven
lost their lives.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
M MOrtUarV.

Jacob A. Grassland, for thirty years prom
inent wholesale merchant at Indianapolis, died
on the 4th inst.
Hessie Helfmann, the Nihilist, who received
| q respite from execution for the murder of the
czar, died in childbirth at st. Petersburg.
The widow of Daniel Webster died at New
Rochelle, N. Y, Oh the 9th.
Zelotus Truesdell, a prominent Michigan
educator, died at Ann Arbor, on the Goth, aged
So years.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
ShiDwreck,

/: The loss of four Gloucester, Mass, fishing
schooners makes 20 widows and 62 orphans.
A London dispatch announces the loss of 8
collier, off Yarmouth, with % lives.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
The Public Debt.

Inc Official statement of the public debt
made on the list inst, shows decrease during
February of SO, 783, ,511, and decrease since
June 80, 1881, of $97,869,442. Total debt,
81, ,983, ,582, 1913. Debt less cash in treasury,
81, 742, ,729,369.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08

I, Col. Brim, Of the British Royal Engineers, at
tempted to cross the channel in a balloon. with
. man named Simmons, but they fell into the
sea at Dover and perished.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08

IT is told of Rochester man who had
become disciple Of Oscar Wilde that he
whitewashes bis wood before he puts it
in the fire-New York Herald.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
All for Science.

Crushed to Death.
i. Forty miners were engulphed by the caying
In OF a mine at Templitz, Austria.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08

RIBBED velvet and corduroy jackets
are the fancy of the passing moment.
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engineer of the train John Gately and Fireman
John Brewer were killed.
inlok kMo., &l,o d.

engineer of the train John Gately and Fireman
John Brewer were killed.
freight tram on the Vermont Central Rail-
road went down into a broken culvert at Swan
ton on the I'd inst, killing fireman named
Alfred Dual and slightly injuring two others.
A fireman was killed and four freight cars
and locomotive badly damaged by q collision
at Orphan Station, Iowa. on the C. B. & @. road.
An Alton freight-car, loaded with brick, in
which ten tranps had secreted themselves, was
ditched near Joliet, ILL.,, ON the 9th ult Two
men were killed and the others terribly
wounded.
During a heavy fog on the 28th ult., two
Central and the other to the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and St. Paul Company, collided near Mil
waukee, doing $4,000 worth of damage. A
brakeman named Mcbride lost his life.
The Fire Record.
church and chapel valued at $50, 900. were
reduced to ruins at Great Darlington, Mass,
on the 5th inst, by fire.
Cunningham Il Co. 8 spoke factory at Fosteria,
O.. burned on the 9Th inst. Loss $25,OOO.
A fire at Elyria, o., on the 4th inst, Destroy
ed several factories, a lumber yard and three
railway cars. Loss $4,000
Hartley Bros tannery at Pittsburg, Pa,
together with large amount Of tan bark was
consumed by fire on the Sd inst. Loss $780,
600.
While the court was in session at Guthrie
Center, Ia, on the Sd inst, the court house
took fire and was destroyed. All the records
were saved. Loss 500, 600: insurance $15, 900,
Jorden's grocery store at Waco, Texas, van
lshed III smoke on the 1st inst, causing loss
of $4,000.
At South Ashbury, Mass, on the 1st inst,
Whtney's och chair factory was destroyed by fire.
A number of stores. the American exnress
office, the Western Union telegraph Office, Odd
Fellows Hall and the Waterville Bank burned
at Watervil]e, Me-, on the LIST inst, entailing O
loss Of $15O,OO0.
Five business stores, a newspaper office and
several small shops in Athens, Texas, burned
on the night of the 9th ult. Loss $4,000
Ruysters q Sons tannery and several ad-
joining building were swept away by fire, at
Greenbush, N. Y, on the list inst. Loss $50, 900
The dry goods establishment of E. Malley, at
New Haven, Conn.,, burned on the 28th uIt.
Loss 100000.
A warehouse containing between two ard
three thousand bales Of cotton was swept away
by fire at Atlanta, Ga,, on the 2Sth ult. Loss
$4,000.
A fire at Jackson, Tenn, on the night of the
9th ult., destroyed Robinson's furniture store,
Gorham u Co.'s crOckery house and the Odd
Fellows Hall. Loss 100000.
The Miami Soap and Oil Company's works at
Cincinnati, O., were consumed by fire on the
$4,000.
A building on the corner of Seventeenth
Street and Washington Avenue, st. Louis, No.,
was destroyed by fire on the 9th ult. Loss On
$85,0OO.
The market-house and town hall, the princi.
pal.building in East st. Louis, burned on the
26th ult., causing loss of $4,000,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08

The coronation of the czar will cost
5000, 900 roubles. The main expense
! will be for extra policemen,
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r, A1LwAY HOUSE.
WINDSOR HOUSE,

RS. D. L. AMES,
tOr bitter known as MRS. ToPL1FF,> is back to
Ausun, TO attend to all calls rs MIDWIFE. dav or
Front rooms over F. A. Ticknor's store P. O.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-08
SOCIETIES.

I. OF:
,aSyHkzs<< The regular meetings of Austin
:N Lodge, No. 20, are held in their haii
@E every Tuesday evening. Odd Fellows
NHNSs from other juri.dictlons, whose busi.
ness may lead them to Austin, are cordially invited
to visit us. w. H. BUIJONF ~ =,
A. DErTHLDAoH, Secretary.