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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
PROGRESS IN MlLLING.

The Lopdon Miller says that, not
withstanding the revolution that has
been in progress in modes of milling dur
ing the last six or seven years in Eng
land, milestone millers have still vast
numerical superiority over those who
have adopted rollers, either in whole or
in part. "The number Of fingers and
toes allotted to the average man would,
we believe, more than represent the
number of mills in which rollers are
used, wholly or in part, in this part of
the world" OF the work which the
milestone has hitherto been set to do,
the Miller thinks that the earliest grind
ing was always well performed. Granu-
latiop, also, for which they have more
recently been employed, has, under
proper conditions of dress, truth and
balance, been efficiently accomplished.
Many of the advocates of millstones
claim, in addition, that these implements
have high qualification for the task
of gradual reduction. This claim has
to be substantiated in practice by the
milestone millers. The problem to be
solved now is how to secure all the nour
ishing parts of the wheat berry which
can be assimilated, with the entire ab-
sence, or at least the smallest possible
admixture, of dirt or unassimilative ma
terial. An amusing instance at once of
the power of prejudice and of unintelli-
gent interference by the state, is given
by the Miller. In France, in 1858, it
was, it seems, a criminal offence to
break wheat, not five or six times, but
even twice, because it was held that to
make -four by more than one reduction
of the wheat berry was prejudicial to
hoo1fb
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
Speaking Ships at Sea,

Immediately on hearing the cry "Sail,
o." the signal flags, of which there are
eighteen. are brought on deck, and the
ensign is run up the peak halyards; or, If
not visible to the, other vessel there,
they are displayed from some conspicu-
Gus point. When the other vessel comes
near enough to see our ensign through
the glass, she makes it known by pulling
down her ensign. We next raise the
four flags or pennants that denote the
name Of our vessel, and when distin-
guished by them they follow suit. The
other flags used denoting the letters were
B. i, D. C.from Bombay, B. E. NJ -
for Amsterdam, w. F. V.-seventy-si six
days out; these were answered by us,
and then we asked him to report us; he
replied, Y. j. ". with pleasure. Any
thing can be said BY the use Of these
flags,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
TRUE ECONOMY,

At the funeral of "Old Josh Eddy,
the colored m1ser, in Philadelphia, one
of the speakers commended his life as an
example Of frugality, and said its inlu-
ence should promote economy among all
the colored people. No more complete
Y mistaken idea could have been ex-
pressed, says the New York Mail and
Express. It is such mean, despicable
misers as Old Josh that set many people
against all saving. So solicitous are
they lest they appear miserly that they
are apt to 60 to the other extreme and
be extravagant. As rule, the children
of misers are either as miserly as their
parents or recklessly spendthrift. If
they do not inherit all the meanness of
their parents, they are likely to be SO
disgusted with them that they spend all
they get, and when they come into pos
session of the fortunes which misery has
boarded for them, their wealth vanishes
like snow under summers sun. Old
Josh Eddy was great fool, who lived
like pig, did no good with his money
while he lived, and squabble over the
$3.50, 900 began among his relatives as
soon as he was dead. His life lends
about IS much attraction to the practice
of economy as case OF smallpox does
to thoroughfare. True economy is
the avoidance of wastefulness and the
application Of ones possessions to the
worthiest uses. The truly economical
man reduces his work to science, and
SO wastes no energy and makes all that
he is and has go for the most they are
worth Of the best things. The miser is
as much a fool as tho anendthrift :Thnre
is great need of the encouragement of
economy in this country, but it is the
economy Of the French people, who
make q little go far ard permit nothing
to go to waste, and not the penu1ious-
ness of the detestable miser.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
The PASSING Fancy,

One of the most absurd of passing fan
cies in household decoration is passion
for horns-not the branching antlers Of
deer, but the horns of neat cattle, which
just now fill the shop-windows ad
nauseum. Somebody brought a big
horn home and had it mounted in brass.
It made striking ornament and various
other people, of course, had to have
horns like it. The dealers there upon
procured them by wholesale, and, being
unable to find any rational use for them
have invented all sorts of irrational uses,
such as fashioning them into chairs.
Anything uglier, more uncomfortable, or
altogether more revolving to good taste
than an arm. chair made OF horns it would
be hard to imagine, but no doubt they
sell, being "the latest thing out" It is
to be hoped that the revival of mediseval
symbolism has nothing to do with this
fashion for horns. :. -.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
A Triple TRAGEDY.

A special from Knoxville, Tenn, dated the
18th inst, says: "The most terrible renconter
known to the annals of homicide occurred at
10 O clock to-day in Gay Street, in this city.
General tJoseph A. Mabry. Sr:, Joseph A. Ma.,
bry, Jr., and Major Thomas O'Connor, all fell
in conflict, and two other parties were
wounded. The difficulty grew out OF an old
grudge. Yesterday, at the races, General Ma
bry approached Major O'Connor with threats,
at which O. Connor replied it was no place or
time for an affray, and that he was unarmed::
This morning; rtimor goes, General Mabry sent
O'Conuor word that he would kill him on sight.
At 10 o'clock General Mabry passed down Gay
ics' National Bank, of which O'Connor was the
president. O'Connor stepped from the bank to
the middle OF the pavement, fired two shots
across the street in rapid succession, both TAX
ing effect, General Mabry falling dead.
O'Connor turned and seized another gun as he
saw Joseph Mabty; jr., who was rapidly COM
ing down the street, who fred upon him with .
pistol, held in both hands, at q distance of
thirty yards. The ball passed through OCon-
nor's heart, but he nearly simultaneously fired
on Mabry, Jr., and both fell dead. Major
O'Connor was prominent railroad contractor
and accumulated great wealth during the war,
estimated at $1O,000,0O
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
ST LOUIS,
West India Superstitlons.
From Notes and Queries.1

It ip very unlucky to tell the name OF
q boat before it is launched. l recollect
once when worthy old creole, con-
nection of the French savant Geotfrol
st. Hilaire, and who, as 1 hope, still
owns q small island in the Grenadines,
was about to launch sloop, l asked
what name he proposed to give it. he
led me to where I could see strip OF
canvas covering the stern, and told me
it was not good to tell the name before
The ~oese1 was alvui. A calaDash turned
upside-down IN boat is sure forerun-
ner of ill-luck, either in weather or fish
ing. The oil obtained from a sharks
liver rubbed over the skin is protection
against the attack of shark. Fish
brought into a place where arrowroot or
other starch is being prepared prevents
proper separation of the starch sedl-
ment from the impurities suspended in
the water used. To turn your boots up
side down brings loss Of money, and to
open an umbrella in house prevents
your ever marrying. Never wash your
hands in water which another person has
used unless you first make the sign OF
the CROSS over it. When glass cracks
suddenly in a house it foretells death,
and horse stopping before house and
neighlng is also sign of death. Ii a
cock crows in house stranger may be
expected. In the South American colo
nies no good Catholic cuts a banana
across. The fruit when so cut shows q
mark which is thought to resemble q
crucifx. The number of years 1t will
take before pine plant bears fruit de-
pends on the number of chops given
with the hoe before placing the plant in
the ground. Black people, as rule,
before drinking pour small quantity OF
the liquid on the ground. When her
drink she lift she head to God and say,
sTank you;' when man drink he drink
and saws nuffin."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
Bismarck,s Discontinue.

The returns from the elections in Germany
indicate that 3,U98 electors against the internal
policy of Bismarck have been chosen, against
853 who will support him and the government
and 81 whose position is not defined. This will
give the opposition an::undisputed two-thirds
ma jority and the opportunity to Illustrate any
measure which the chancellor may introduce.
This is practically one of the seterest defeats
that Bismarck has ever suffered at the hands Of
the Prussian people. While Berlin, the capital,
always proved too democratic to give Bismarck
any popular endorsement in the shape Of an
electoral majority, the returns from the
provinces, the strongholds of Bismarck, show
such loss that he cannot control the orBanl-
zation of the next Prussian diet, ,land with this
has lost his grip on the factions of the reich
stag, heretofore friendly to him. Bismarck's
late moves in the direction of imposing indirect
taxes to furnish funds for the enormous ex-
penses caused by keeping an army of half
million of men constantly under arms, must
be considered the direct causes OF his crushing
defeat; especially the tobacco monopoly has
been obnoxious to tile people:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
Railway MtshaDs.

freight train was wrecked at Southport
Station, on the New York and New Haven
Railroad. Thomas Martin, brakeman, was
killed and two others badly injured.
Thirty three railroad workmen were badly
scalded and crushed, by the caboose in which
they we're riding being run into by an engine,
on the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad, in Massachu-
setts, on the 21st. -Four Of the injured di ed
survive.
A Louisville l. Nashville freight train ran
over some live stock at Shepherdsville, on the
21st. The whole train left the track and ran
through an adjacent corn field. The engine
overturned, killing Engineer Minott, of Louis
vile and fatally injuring Chas. Cameron,
brakeman.
A wild freight train broke through bridge
at Otego, N. Y, on the Goth, the locomotive and
reman tsea cass Wes kea ana e0 e
man seriously injured.
Two freight trains on the Hudson River Rail-
road collided at Rhinecliff, N. Y. An engine
and twelve cars we're thrown into the river and
several other cars damaged. Loss $4,000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
The Land League.

Dublin. on tho 18th, with nearly eight hundred
delegates in attendance. Parnen and Davitt
were greeted by wild cheers. Almost all the
extreme Irish members of parliament were
present. Parnen was called to the chair and
Brennan and Sexton chosen secretaries. A let
ter from Treasurer Egan, at Paris, conveying
his resignation, stated that funds of the land
league amounting to e44's29 had passed
E32, 1000. A vote of confidence was passed. Nu-
merous letters and kilograms from the United
States were read. The scheme for the estab.
lishment Of an Irish national league was
adopted. Davitt declared that until the land
stolen from the people was restored to the peo-
ple there could be no final settlement Of the
land question.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
An Old Wampum Belt.

Among the relics which the Hlstorlcal
Society Of Pennsylvania preserves IN its
museum, and which will be the ob]ectio1
much patriotic contemplation during the
approaching bi. centennialce celebration IS
wampum belt OF historical reno%n' IL
was One Of the considerations in the con-
tract which gave to Penn the lands which
now form the Keystone state. This rel,c
was in the possession Of the Penn family
nnt,l 1856. vhenA Granville John Penn,
ereat-great-grands Of the founder OF
Pennsylvania, presented it to the HIS
torical Society.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
ACofner i'm Rubber.

A combination has secure control of the
stock of crude rubber and have advanced the
price steadily from 43c to $1.25 per pound.
Retailers have marked up their stock in conse-
quence and several large rubber manufactures
in Connecticut have been forced to suspend
operations. The outlook for the trade is per-
picking, and, should the factories close for any
length of time goods will be very scarce.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
Work OF the Flames.

WORK Oh the kl0meSs
The Second Parish Baptist Church was de-
stroyed by fire at Calais, Me-, on the 22d. Loss
$4,000.
The enterprise flour mills, Memphis, Tenn,
together with warehouse containing 600 bales
of cotton, we're reduced to ashes on the 21st
inst. -
An electric wire came in contact with the
cornice of Satlsr Bros clothing house, st.
Paul, Minn., and fred the building. Loss
$50, 900, mainly by water.
Durango, Col, suffered q loss OF sixty build
ings by fire on the 20th. Loss estimated at
e25,o0o. lS'-1,
An incendiary fire destroyed nearly all of the
business portion Of Silver City, a., on the
20th. LOIS estimated at over $2O, ,000.
Thoeson & .Uhl's furniture warehouse, New
York City, burned on the Goth. Loss $2O, 600.
The Oakbank Cotton Mill, near Maccles6eld,
Eng, burned on the 2Oth. Loss ESQ, 600.
The lithographing establishment Of August
Cast 4 Co., in North Third Street, st. Louis,
were damaged by fire to the amount OF $25,O0o.
Frost's large flour mill st Minnesota City, six
miles from Winona, Minn., was destroyed by
fire on the 18th. Loss $40, ,000. !,
The new laundry at the Dayton, o., SOLDIERS
Home was swept away by fire on the 18th inst.
Loss $40, 600.
Several stores we're destroyed by fire at Pom
dac, Mich, on the 18th. Loss $15. 600.
Greenwood Pottery, Newark, n. J., was dam
aeed 70 the extent ol e000, 900 b. fro on tbs
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
'rhe SaffrOn ScOurue.

Nine deaths from yellow fever occurred at
Pensacola, on the 10th, and fifty-thfee cases
were reported, among them being five children
OF Dr.. Whitney. The epidemic has made its
appearance on a ranch near Brownsville. Texas.
ssfne French brigantine Mary Anne, from San
Domingo VIII COHco fo- IIavIe, was piChUd
up in helpless condition by the Spanish
steamer Bellver aud towed into port. The cap
tain. two mates and six men died on the pas
sage Of yellow fever.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
The Garfield Expenses.

The board selected by. congress to audit
cla:ns for services rendered during President
Gar6eld's prolonged struggle for life is waiting
to hear from Drs. Hamilton and Boynton.
Nearly every other creditor has filed his bill.
An ice company asks for $l,516.92, and the
physician who examined the emaciated body at
Elberon imagines his services worth consider
ably over 1000. The heaviest items in the
list thus far a1e; DR.. D. w. Bliss, $25.000; DR..
D. H. Agnew, $14, TOO: DR.. Robert Reyburn,
$40, 800; DR.. Susan A. Edison. sic, 1000.
DIR. F. H. Hamilton, OF New York, filed his
claims for $25,000 with the auditing board on
the 18th.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
LIGHTNING RODS.

The English Home Office has issued
a set of rules for the proper arrangement
of lightning conductors, abstracted from
the report of the lightning rod confer
ence of 1882, that gives more informa-
tion to persons interested in the subject
than could be obtained from an army of
"ightning-rod men," The material Of
the rod, it is recommended, should be
copper, weighing not less than six
ounces to the running foot, the electri-
Cal conductivity of which is not less than
80 per cent. of that of pure copper,
either in the form of rod, tape, or rope
of stout wires. Iron may be used, but
it should not weigh less than two and a
quarter pounds per foot run. Every
joint, besides being well cleaned and
screwed, scarfed, or riveted, should be
thoroughly .eoldered. The point Of the
copper terminal Of the conductor should
not have sharper angle than 80 de-
grees. A foot below the extreme point
copper ring should be firmly attached,
in which should be fixed three or four
sharp copper points, each about six
inches long. It is desirable that these
points should be so placed that they
will not rust. No gen eral rule is given
for the number of conductors required,
except that the space protected by a
conductor is, as rule, cone, the ra-
dius Of whose base is equalto the height
of the conductor from the ground. The
rod should not be bent abruptly round
sharp corners. The conductor should
not be kept from the building by glass
or other insulators, but attached to it by
fastenings of the same metal as the con-
ductor itself is composed of. All metal
lie spouts, cutters, iron doors, and other
be electrically connected with the con-
masses of metal about the building should
ductor. Wherever possible the. slrs=.sr
extremity Of the conductor should be
buried in permanently damp soil.
Hence proximity to drains and rain. wa
ter pipes is desirable. 1t is good plan
to bifurcate the conductor close below
the surface of the ground. Iron conduc
tors, galvanized or not, should be paint
ed. 1t is optional with copper ones
When the conductor is finally fixed, il
should in all cases be examined and
tested by qualified person, and this
should be done in the case of new build
ings, after all work on them is finished.
Periodical examination and testin g;
should opportunities offer, are also very
desirable, especially when iron eartt
connections are EMPLOYED.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
Wlcked RhipnRa

The total amount of the official stealings of
Major E. P. Phipps, the firing" appointee as
superintendent of the almshouse at Philadel-
phia, for nine successive years, is now reported
at $65O,OOO. The Philadelphia authorities
have Gagged him in Canada; and expect to get
possession of him by extradition next -eek.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
SllfCi0es

Three psrsons-two women and one man
have committed suicide within the past ten
days by throwing themselves from the bridge
across Tad5 the chemung River, at Corning. n: Y;
conductor, took his own life at Philadelphia,
Pa, on the 18th.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
Terrible Explosions.

While Mrs. Topham was cleaning urniture
With benzine at her residence ID Frankfort; a
Philadelphia suburb, a three-gallon can Of the
liquid exploded, blowing out the front and side
walls of the building-a three-story structure
and partly demolishing the front OF an adjoin-
ing house. Mrs. Heff was seriously burned.
Great excitement was caused on Twentieth
explosion of defective gas mains. Houses
were shaken by the conclusion and the escap-
ing GAS filed the sewers. 1t became ignited in
some manner and volumes of fame rushed out
of the various sewer openings. Singularly, no
one was hurt:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25

Judge Harmon s. Conger of the Twelfth
Wisconsin Circuit, died at Janesville on the
22d inst.
E. Peshine Smith, prominent eastern jour-
nalist and recently chief law officer Of the
Japanese government, died at Rochester, N.
r., on the night of the 21st.
* Joseph Medbery, one of the originators of
the Western Union Telegraph Company, passed
away at Rochester, N. Y, on the 21st.
Henry Robinson SearIe, prominent New
York architect, is dead.
II. c. Maynard, manager of the Western
Union Telegraph Office at Chicago, died at
Geneva Lake Wis, on the Goth
Rev. Robert Paine, senior bishop Of the NJ.
E. Church South, has Joined the silent ma
jority.
John Hibbard, American consul at Goderich,
Ontario, formerly mayor of Port Huron, died
OH the 10Th.
The Hon. John D. Defrees, late public printer
at Washington, and for many years leading
Journalist of Indiana, died at Berkley Springs,
Va, on the 18th. He has long been suffering
from lll-health
Lucas Beecher, for more than fifty years q
prominent member of the Ohio bar, died at
Sandusky on the 18th, aged 85.
Frank Queen, publisher of the New York
Clipper, died at Philadelphia, Pa, on the 18th,
Of paralysis.
Charles Chabot, the well-known expert in
caligraphy; is dead:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
OregOn'S Senator,

Joseph N. Dolph was elected United States
senator by the Oregon legislature on the 20th,
after an exciting contest. Mitchell's friends
held out until the, twenty sixth ballot, when
they went over to Dolph one by one until on
the forty first ballot the latter received 81
votes and was declared elected.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
Hn0 EhAlARA.

Hog cholera of new and virulent type has
broken out near Iowa City. where Jacob Seller
has lost over four hundred head. The afflicted
animals seem almost rotten from cancerous
sores.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
Wholesale HanEin9.

Five negroes-Ridgely Powell, Simon 0.
Quinn, Joe King, Bob Donelson AID Ella
Moore-who were found guilty Of engaging in
the terrible riots at Eastman, Ga, in August
last, were hanged on the 2Oth inst.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
SbiDwfeCk,

The steamship City of Antwerp collided with
the ship Constantia, fourteen miles off Eddy
stone, England. Both vessels went to the bot
tom. All of the Constantia's crew and several
belonging to the City Of Antwerp were landed
at Cardiff.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25

Miss Hattie Wright had the nerve to kill a
tramp who was looking about her home. She
was tried for manslaughter and sentenced to
prison for six months,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
A Notable Failure.

One of the most extensive manufacturing
establishments of New England-R. '. Storrs
4 Co., woolen manufacturers, at Dedham,
Mass.-has failed under circumstances that
and others. Liabilities, $430, 900; assets $685.
0f)O
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Another Comet.


A new comet in the northern heavens Haf
observed by Samuel Funk, Of Decatur, ILL.,, on
the morning of the 10Th.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
Another N0n0nQlY.

agreed upon plan of consolidation by form
ing stock company with capital stock of
$4,000, 600. An advance in the price of the
manufactured product will undoubtedly fol-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
A Traxical Record.

A drunken man named Frank Miller assault
ed Albert Hardie at Chicago, on the night OF
the 22d. Miller used knife with fatal eject,
severing Hardie's iugular vein.
They have summary way OF dispos'ng OF
thieves out ia Arizona, where the lawless cow
bows are more troublesome than even the
savage Indians. On the l4th inst, gang OF
four horse-thieves, having in their possession =
drove Of stolen horses and mules, were over.
taken by company Of pursuing citizens and
killed at sight, and the stolen property was re-
William Gibson, city marshal Of Horizon,
Wis, was fatally shot BY an unknown tramp on
the 10th inst.
At Marietta, Mich, on the evening OF the
10Th, Miss Ida Graves was shot dead BY some
unknown person while she was sitting at WIN,
dow. Suspicion points to one Sullivan, hired
man on tue premises, whose proposition OF
marriage Miss Graves had rejected the AFTER
noon previous to the mur der.
Custom house officers and smugglers had
Arht recently in the Mexican Mountains; Four
amupglers we're killed and Z like number taken
Ool. John 4. Cockerell the st. touis editor
Who recently shot Ooa. aaybsok, tho lawyer