Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-11-01
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BROOKLYN, N. Y, has the only needl,
factory in the United States.
Much of the gossamer rubber cloth
ing III market is made by convict labor
A. SACRAMENTO grower has refused
1853. 900 for sixty tons of hops.
BARNUM's circus has closed it's season
and returned home, and it is said thai
the profits are over $500, 1000.
A COMPANY has been organized in Sy
racuse, with capital of SAC, 900, for thu
manufacture of alcohol from wovd.
PEOPLE about to bull house cost
ing 81, 100000 may care to learn thai
the material will bring $50, 900 when tn.
house is torn down.
The loss of weight in gold coin wa.
shown the other day at St. Louis, whe1
a lot to the face value of $500, 600 wal
weighed and found to be $500 short ir
weight value.
A CITIZEN near Vienna, Ga, owns 6
mule that Mr., Joe Heard rode out of thu
confederate service in 1865. The mule
cost Mr.. Heard one quart of peach
brandy. The animal is lively and active
and looks we'll.
A PISTOL manufacturer of Springfield,
Mass, has daily income of $4,000 from
his business and investments, and,
though he began life poor man, ex.
poets to leave each of his four children
millionaire.
JAMES HENSON, a drunken carpenter
at Chattanooga, Tenn, attempted, with
the assistance of friend, Jim Tracy, tc
saw his wife's head off with hand-saw,
The woman was dangerously wounded
before her screams brought assistance.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR's visit to Boston
recalls the visit of President Tyler nearly
forty years ago, when, by exposure at
the various open-air festivities, so many
took cold that it was called the epidemic
Of the "Tyler grip"
"Do you subscribe to all the articles
of the Athanasian creed 2" was asked an
old lady. "No, I don't! I can't afford
it. There's collection next week for
the Convention Fund, and I can't do any
more" was her reply.
LORD CHELMSFORD was walking down
st. James Street, when a stranger &C.
costed him. saying, .Mr. Birch, I
believe p eff you believe that, sir.
you'll believe anything" the ex-chan-
cellor replied as he passed on.-London
Society.
A MAN living at Simmons Gap, Va,
is living with his ninth wife. The
patriarch is eighty years old, has fifty
three children, and at a recent reunion
over 800 of his descendants were present.
It is claimed that he does not know all
of his children, and makes no effort to
keep up with his grandchildren.
BEANS raised this season near Roches-
ter, n. Y, are affected by what is
known in New England as the bean
disease. The crop was gathered, stored
away IN bags, and gave evidence after
ward of having cheated" On examina-
ton. however, this apparent condition
was traceable to original heat. and the
beans were found to be alive with
vermin.
A BUNDLE of ancient Virginia records
captured by soldier while "looting"
during the war, was among articles on
exhibition at the recent industrial expo
sition at Denver, Col. The papers were
court records OF the county Of War
wick, Va, for the year 1862, and therpa-
pers, though written two hundred and
twenty years ago, were as 1egible as
though they were written yesterday.
In a piece of woods near Charlton.
Saratoga County, N. Y, there has been
discovered hidden place where it is be-
lieved robbers have been secreted. A
large barn door had been erected and
covered with brush so as to make snug
refuge during Indictment weather. It Is
believed that the masked burglars who
took $500, 900 from Supervisor Gilchrist
occupied this den.
A LITTLE girl at Auburn, n. T., had
swallowed needle. and surgeon, being
called, first placed cork between the
child's jaws to keep the mouth open
while probing for the obstruction, but
the little one bit his fingers, and he was
obliged to take spool. Then the for
cops were used with success. The needle
lay directly across the throat. Its re-
moval gave instant relief, and the little
sufferers doing nicely.
The ben-punohes n<the Metropolitan
Railroad, in Boston, will: soonz be re.
PLACED by an alarm passenger REGISTER,
which has been in operation in some
other cities for little time past.
Dials, the hands on which are moved by
rods running through the car, show re-
spectively the number of passengers
carried for the day and for tie current:
trip. -- ~ : = = :.
"A. DISPATCH. from Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, says that "a steam canalbo7t push
ing another canalboat came ii collision
with the ironciad Nantucket off West
Point. The canalbeat sunk with 1,4OO
bushels of grain.'' Let the efkete mon
arches OF Europe shudder when they
read this and reflect that there are more
than eight ironclads in our navy.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
GENERAL TERRY is convinceilfrem his
success in working the northern Chey-
enne Indians on their farms until they
are self-supporting, that this is the cor
rect way of disposing of the Indian ques-
ton. On these farms the men are man
ly, the women chaste, and all are
anxious that the children shall be edu-
Gated like the whites. He insists that
COWS will do more than soldiers in civil
izing the red men. r a" ,"~
The shrewd farmer wanted to keep
people from fishing in his trout pond,
but he didn't care to go to the expense
of hiring man to watch it. So he gave
one man the sole rightgtoafsh there, and
the latterswassso jealous Of Ms privilege,
the desire to&be hog came out so strong
IN him that he'd run his legs of to chase
an intruder away, and was kept so busy
doing SO that he didn't catch enough fish
himself to amount to tinker's maledic-
ton.
FROM Dallas, Tex, comes sad story.
John Green, a handsome. dashing fel.
low, wooed and won Laura Cameron, q
beautiful young girl, and the Wedding
was booked for The first part of the
month. 4 day or two ago Green was. ar
rested in Collins County for horse, steal
ing, and turned out to be an old offender.
The terrible blow fdethropei sthe, reason
of his afianced, and she was taken to the
asylum by her father. The troubles Of
tho Tonob%or or, o<8;o%oI7 NJ Oo~a