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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06

"HACKMETACK," lasting and fragrant
perfume. Price 25and so cents.
SHILOH'S CURE WILL Immediately re-
lieve Group. Whooping cough and Bronchitis.
FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complaint, you
have printed guarantee on every bottle of
ShilOh'S Vitalizer. 1t never fails to cure.
A NASAL INJECTOR free with each bottle
of Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy. Price so ceuts.
For sale bv DORR & void.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
FOR PAINTING WA
L TER ST RRTn(AE

Office City Recorder, Austin, June 4, 1885,
Sealed proposals are invited. to be handed
in to this Office on or before June 18, 1883, for
painting the iron works of Water street bridge
with one coat of Iron Clad paint in a thorough
and workmanllike manner. To be completed
for acceptance on or before the expiration of
two (s> weeks from acceptance of bid. BY
order of Common Council.
ROBERT GRIFFITH, City Recorder.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
Naval Battles ~ ~e r4e

By Edward Shipper, Medical Director U. 8. N. A
thrilling Pictorial History of the Worlds great Sea
Fights, with specimens of Naval Architecture of all
ages. record OF Wonderful Exploits more interest,"
ing than felton, Price only 50. It sells everywhere.
AnpNNV make $1,000 per month. Address ]. c.
hU6V ID McCurdy Co., hic lgo, Ill.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
ON THIRTY DAYS TRIAL.

The VOLrAIC BELT Co., Marshall Mich, will
send DR.. DYES CELEBRATED ELECrRO-VOL-
TAIC BELTS AND ELECTRIC APPLIANCES on
trial for thirty days to men young or Old) who
are afflicted with nervous debility, lost vitality
and kindred troubles. guaranteeing
speedy and complete restoration of
health and manly vigor. Address as above.
N. B.-No risk is incurred, as thirty days.
trial is allowed. jan3-ly
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
Senatorial Clippings.

WE offer the name of w. w. Ranney,
OF this village. flor State Senator] as be-
ing more acceptable to the agricultural
portion of the voting population, who,
more than all others are the ones interest
ed. Mr.. Ranney's ripe scholarship and
thorough knowledge of parliamentary
usages, qualify him in an eminent degree
to represent the farming population, with
whom he is in full accord and sympathy.
It is without his knowledge that we men,
ton his name; but if he desires he can
RELY upon our support, given freely and
acknowledgement Aeadop Record.
The TRANSCRIPT has raised W. T. Will
kins' standard fer senator HOLSTERS sue
cessor and he might have done worse, yet
we are net prepared to do likewise until
we know how many farms he owns in
the county and whether or not his bank
ing interest predominates and whether or
not he wants to be senator. In case the
Nationals should not unite with the Al
lance folks in naming q proper candidate,
then, of course, he would be the best
man and our first choice.-LeRoy Inde-
pendent.
The highest interests of the people of
Mower county, and of the State at large
would undoubtedly be best promoted by
the election of National to the seat in
the State Senate vacated by Sen. Hollister,
but. if it is foreordained that a republican
is to succeed him, we think no better
choice could be made than that of w. T.
Wilkins.-De1ter Cor. Leroy Independent
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
BISMARCK is to be the capital of Dakota.

JAY COOKE has finally cancelled his en-
tire indebtedness. dollar for dollar. and
comes to the front again with $4,000, 600
of clean savings from the wreck.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
The sun ONE 4 W HEaaEoa

Decided opinions expressed in language that can be
understood the prompest fullest and most accurate
intelligence Of whatever in the wide world is worth
attention. That is what everybody is sure to hnd IN
pages) by mail SIC month, OF $3.50 . year; Sunday
e pages), $1.2O per year; Weekly lspeges)' ~ per
year. p. ~ ~ .zs... ma.
I. W. ENGLAND. Publisher, New York City.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06

b Illustrated book Of cage birds mailed for.
cent stamp. Bird Food CO., 297 South
9th St., Philadel phla.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06

GTATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY
~ OF MOWER. So.
In Probate Court.
In the matter Of the estate of Oscar B. Dear
born. deceased:
On reading and filing the petition of Mari
cite Dearborn, of said state, representing,
among other things, that Oscar B. Dearborn,
late Of Lyle, in said county, on the 10th day OF
April, 1883, at Lyle, Mower county. died in
testate, and being a resident of this county at
the time of his death. leaving goods, chattels
and estate within this county, and that the
said petitioner is the widow of said deceased,
and praying that administration of said estate
be to Wilson Beach granted, it is ordered that
said petition be heard before the Judge of
this Court, on Monday, the 18th day OF June,
A. d. 1883, at 10 o'clock, a. M. at the Probate
Office in said county.
Ordered further, that notice thereof be
given to: the heirs of said deceased, and to oil
persons interested. by publishing a copy Of
this order three successive weeks, prior to
said day of hearing, in the MOWER Co:3NfY
TRANSCRIPT, weekly newspaper printed
and published at Austin in said county.
Dated at Austin, MIMI, the 2lst day of May,
A. D., 1883.
By the Court, ORMANZO ALLEN,
may23-4t Judge of Probate.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06

DECLINE OF MAN. Nervous weakness.
dyspepsia, impotence, Sexual debility,
cured by Wells HealthRenewer.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
+ n. WHEAT, M. D.

HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN g SDfs ss'1i' ~
Special attention given TO the. diseases OF
swo1neI, and children. Office and residence,
f'rsf house west of Lutheran church on Bridge
street, Austin, Mower county, MINI. 49, Il.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
CTATE OF MINNESOTA COZ

W. 81
District Court, Tenth judicial District.
Frances NJ. Brown, plaintiff,
James Campbell, Uriah B. Camp
bell, Mary Jane Field, David
Field, Newell Rodgers Camp
bell, heirs at law of John
Campbell, deceased; kufus
H. Spalding, as administrators
of the estate of William White Notice of
deceased, and Eliza White; Lis Pendens.
also all other persons or par
ties unknown, claiming any
right, title, estate, lien, or
interest in the real estate de-
scribed in the complaint on
file in this action, and their
unknown heirs, defendants.
been commenced in this Court. by the above
named plaintiff against the above named de-
PENDANTS, to determine the estate, title, lien,
right or interest, if any, Of the above named
following described premises, to confirm and
quiet the estate and title OF plaintiff
therein, and for judgment declaring void
defendants, or any of them. in and to said
premises. The premises affected by said ac-
ton are situated in the county of Mower and
state Of Minnesota, and described as follows:
quarter and the east half of the southeast
quarter OF section thirty-one (3l), in township
one hundred and four l04). range seventeen
az west, and the southeast quarter of the
northwest quarter, and the south half of the
southwest quarter, and the west half OF the
northeast quarter, and the southwest quarter
Of the southeast quarter, of section twelve
Q2), in township one hundred and four 900,
range sixteen (l6), and the northeast quarter
of the southeast quarter and the south half
of the northeast quarter of section one ID. in
township one hundred and four Q04), range
Dated April 18th. 1858.
LAFAYETTE FRENCH,
Attorney for Plaintiff, Austin, MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06

publicity; residents of any State
Desertion, Non-support. AdvsS so a ane
ton for stamps. w. II. LEE, Atty <oS b"sy' ~ =:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
PETER COOP Err,

of 1.-THE Glory and Shame of England" ''The Ma
poleon Dynasty" etc., Illustrated. Paper 10 cts,
cloth Is cts half Russia, IS cts Postage stamps TAX
en-. Not sold by dealers; prices too low. Also the
following, large type, unabridged:
Life OF Alexander H. Stephens. 10c 25c, and SIC.
Life of Washington Irving. by Stoddard. ....... &c.
Life of Sir Isaac Newton, by James Parton &c.
Rip vanWnkle, by Washington Irving. ........ &c.
Burning of Rome, by Cannon Farrar ......... &C..
American Humorsts- Ward. .... ...... &c.
Enoch Arden, by Alfred Tennyson. ............ &c.
Deserted Village; The Traveller, Goldsmith. &c.
COtter's Saturday Night, etc., Robert Burns &c.
schilar's Song Of the Bell and other Poems -. &c.
The Sea-Serpents of Science, Andrew Wilson. &c.
World Smashing, by W. Matteu Williams .. &c.
JOHN B. ALDEN, Publisher. Is Vesey St., Now York.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06

State Of Minnesota, county of Mower, Dis
trict Court, Tenth Judicial District
Frances NJ. Brown, plaintiff,
against
James Campbell, Uriah B. Camp
bell, Mary Jane Field, David
Field, Newell Rodgers Camp
bell, heirs at law of John Camp
bell, deceased; Rufus H. Spald-
ing, as administrator of the
estate of William White, deceas- Summons.
ed, and Eliza White. Also, all
other persons Or parties un-
known, claiming any right, title,
estate, lien, or interest in the
real estate described in the COM
plant on file in this action,
and their unknown heirs, de-
fendants
The State Of Minnesota to the above named
defendants:
You, and each of you, are hereby summoned
and required to answer the complaint in the
above entitled action, which has been filed
with the Clerk Of said Court at his office in
said county, and to serve copy Of your an
swer to the complaint, on the subscriber, at
his Office in the city OF Austin, in the county
of Mower, and state aforesaid, within twenty
days after the service of this summons on
you, exclusive of the day of such service, and
il you fail to answer the said complaint within
the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action
will apply to the Count for the relief demand
ed therein.
Dated Austin, MIMI, April IS, 1883.
LAFAY ETTE FRENCH, Plaintiff 8 Atty.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-18
Joe BARRETT,S CONCESSION.

One seventeenth day of August, not
many years ago, party of four, con-
sisting of Joe Barrett and his wife, their
most intimate friend, Phil Somers, and
Miss Maude Mortimer, young lady
they hoped he might be induced to con-
slider the future happiness of his exist
OF nce, stood quite alone upon a narrow
strip of sand on the Long Island ceast,
not far from the great metropolis. Joe
Barrett and his wife had long ago been
given over by their relatives and friends,
and the genial circle of society they
adorned as an old-fashioned couple
that prolonged their honeymoon to a
most unprecedented and unheard-of
period. They had lately celebrated
their silver wedding. and for the amuse-
-ment of others and the romance for
themselves would have gone through
with the original ceremony again had it
not been for a serious obstacle. The
clergyman was still alive, and vigorous
for his years, and Phil Somers, Joe's
best man at his wedding, was yet his
best friend, but the pale, pretty little
,bridemaid had vanished long ago off the
face of the earth, and become one of
that shadOwy band to which ''we call,
land they answer not again.
1ucI6 was IL IuulOI JIldG II SI0 ldu
lived she would have become the wife of
Phil Somer7, thus making the happiness
of the four complete. 1t was currently
believed that because of this tender and
romantic episode of his life, Phil Somers
had remained n bachelor. In his
younger days this apparent halo of soft
regret and unappeasable longing lent a
melancholy grace to his already pleas
ing exterior, and many damsel en-
~deavored to console him; but although
he was gentle, and even chivalric, to all
womankind, he remained, to all matri-
omonial intents and purposes, uncOnSoled.
And here he was, bachelor still, fifty
years old, getting rather grlzzled about
the temples and crow-foOted about the
oeyes, bronzed by his partially for the
open air, thin but muscular, tall but
straight; while Joe Barrett and his wife
might both pass for fiat, fair, and
forty" though they were not so many
years Pills Juniors.
And here they were, plotting as lively
as ever for Pills connubial bliss. The
present victim of their tolls, although
no longer in her first youth, would have
seemed so in any other light but the
-critieal one of sun against sand; and
now that thick bands of gray clouds lay
heavily across the sky, tempering the
brilliancy of the suns rays, and the
young lady had pulled her veil about
the outlines of her face, Miss Mortimer
seemed at the heyday of her charms.
While waiting for dinner, which was
in process of preparation in long low
hostelry a dozen furlongs or so inland,
they had strolled down to the water S
edge, s4d, true to the plan in hand, Joe
Barrett had pulled his wife's chubby
hand Though mis- arm and trotted her
saway from Phil and the young lady.
Lets leave them alone together for a
while, - said Joe. ut seems 8 propitious
stime for love-making, and I hope some
thing Will come of to-dav's trip- Polly;
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-18
A PENNSYLVANIA Snake Story.

1t has always been said by old hunters
and wOodsmen that under certain con-
ditiOns d rattleSnake eXudes an odor
which is not only unbearably offensive
to the sense of smell, but that if a per-
son should be subjected to its presence
for any length of time in close room
the result would be fatal to him. This
has generally been looked upon as one
of the many superstitions that prevail
among the residents of the backwoods,
but case is reported from the Pocono
region, in this county, which, if true,
and it seems to be well substantiated,
would indicate that the belief is founded
on fact. The story is that two men
from New Jersey-B. T. Altemus and
Samuel S. Roy-while spending a few
days in that vicinity, looking over some
timber land with a view to purchasing
a tract, concluded for the novelty of the
| thing, to spend one night in the woods.
It was one of the recent very cold
nights. The intention of the men was
to sleep in the open air by campfire,
but the cold was so intense that they
were driven to entering an old cabin on
the headwaters of the Little Bushkill
Greek, which is used by hunters in the
fall and winter. They started q fire in
the fireplace, and, stretching themselves
in front of it, went to sleep. Some time
in the night Roy awoke. There was a
feeling of great oppression on his chest,
and he was breathing with difficulty.
There was a peculiarly sickening smell
in the cabin. Altemus was breathing
heavily, and his breath came at long in
tervals. Roy had difficulty in awaken
ing him, but finally aroused him, and
~ ,r-],-Y .Irl -, ",
| had ceased blazing, but the room was
very hot, bed of red-hot Goals remain
! ing on the hearth. When the men
arose to their feet they were seized with
| dizziness and sickness at the stomach.
They succeeded in getting to the door,
which they had much difficulty in open
ing, but finally staggered into the open
air and fell to the ground. After a
violent spell of vomiting and half an hour
! in the open air the strange sickness passed
off, but left them weak and nervous.
| They remained out doors until broad
daylight. Upon entering the cabin in
| the morning what was their horror to
see stretched on the hearth, not ten feet
from where they had been sleeping, five
| large rattlesnakes, which craWled away
at the approach of the men and disap-
peared in chinks in the chimney and
cracks and holes in the floor. The
peculiar odor was still apparent in the
cabin, but the pure air that had entered
at the open door had dissipated it to a
great degree. The men associated their
strange sickness in some way with the
snakes, and at first thought they must
have been bitten. They did not stay at
the cabin to rOut out and kill the
snakes, but lost no time in reaching the
| nearest settlement, where they were en-
lightened as to the theory of the woods
mems rattlesnake-skin. poison. These
snakes frequent deserted cabins in the
fall, and it is not an uncommon thing
to see them crawling from their hiding
places even in winter after q fire has
been built in the cabin long enough to
warm them -jStrouds6ur,g PA
Cor. N. Y. Times.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-18
Mailing Indecent Letters.

In two cases recently decided in the
West, the United States Courts have
held that mailing an indecent letter is
crime under the Postal laws. These
decisions are in direct conflict with one
rendered a year ago by the United
States District Court in Oregon, and
also with a previous ruling of the
United States Commissioner in Brook
Ign.
The statute which gave rise to these
conflicting opinions declares that
''every obscene, leWd or lascivious
book, pamphlet, picture, paper, writing,
print or other publication of an indecent
character" and ''every letter upon the
envelope of which indecent words are
written or printed" is non-mailable,
and that whoever deposits in the mail
any of these prohibited articles shall be
liable to a fine of from 800 to $4,000
or imprisonment from one to ten years.
In the Oregon case Judge Deadly de-
cided that a sealed letter with no Objec-
tionable matter on the outside of the
envelope was not within the statutory
prohibition. To bring letter within
the clause of the statute, he said, it
must be also qualification" The
fact that Congress had expressly pro-
V1QGQ Tor the case OF I6Gt6rS having H.
decent matter on the outside showed
that the statute was not intended to APP
ply to letters having obscene contents.
but nothing Objectionable exposed to
view. cit was never the intention of
the law to take cognizance of what
passes between individuals in private
communications under the sanctity and
security of a seal. -
In case recently before the United
States Circuit Court in Illinois, Judge
Drummond took the opposite view, and
held that it is criminal to mail an in
decent letter, though it be sealed and
there be nothing Objectionable on the
envelope. In such case, however, as
the Supreme Court of the United States
has held, the Postoffice authorities have
no right to open or examine the sus-
pected letter. Evidence of its criminal
character must be obtained from the re-
ceiver or in some other lawful way.
The opinion of Judge Drummond was
concurred in by Justice Harlan. of the
Supreme Court, and it has since been
| followed hv the United States Court in
/ Ohio. Its soundness is not beyond ques-
ton, but it must now be remembered as
a more authoritative exposition of the
law than that previously made.-N T.
| Sun.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-18
TIE KENTUCKY RACE.

TOLD AT THE OLD SETTLERS MEETING.
yHev you heard about that famous race o
forty vars ago,
Way down in Ole Kentucky? 'Twuz RATHER
don't you know?
From Piketon to Paducah, not a Teller see that
But what laid right down an laughed-ha, ha,
ha, ha, ha-a-w!-till he cried.
Twas give out round in LeXin'tOn the race
wuz free an far
~''Fur eny beast that he'd four legs an grew
An every chap that he'd nag fur twenty
towns wuz thar.
The day it jist wuz gorg'us, an the track it
The bosses they wuZ anxious fur the tussle-
don't you KNOW
When up thar come a-ridin', right atore the
race-cOurse full,
sOle Athaliar Jefferson, astraddle on bull!
He he'd tin horn in his hand an spurs upon
his boots;
An SIGH yen never heard ez come from
The fellers on the bosses funked, an claimed
it wuZnt squar'-
The 5edges, laughed to split Their sides, but
EUR eny beast that he'd four legs an grew
crop o. hair"
So the jedges they got ready, an they Civ the
An bull an HOSES started all together-don't
When sudden Athaliar Civ a foot upon his
An stuck his spurs into the bull. Ez sure ez
you were born,
The bun began TO heller an the HOSES flew the
He took the lead. a-totin' Athaliar on his back,
An round he come a-rush1n, with his tail up
The jedges said the pot wuz his-that he he'd
won it far;
Gle wuz critter on four legs that grew
crop o ha'r."
SIGH a laughin', SIGH hootin', SIGH a howlin'-
ha, ha, ha-a-awl-
The State O. ole Kentucky never knew, or
heard or saw,
The crowd it sided with the bull, an hollered
at the fun.
The owners O. the HOSES they begun to cuss
They said that Athaliar hedn't won upon the
Squar'-
-''That horn O. his'n hedn't legs nor eny crop o.
ha'r."
''Fyou've got a hundred dollars, you kin hev
III put the pot agsin it, for I'm willin'-don't
you KNOW
To gi1,y satisfaction, if youn give me eny
They up an raised the money in a jify then
an thar
To beat Ole Athalier an his beast with legs an
har.
Away sgin' they started with a whoop an big
haloo!
That bull O. Athaliar's, how he bellered-dont
There wasn't boss among 'em all that showed
Speck o. sense:
-Jehial Buford's thoro bred jist threw him thro'
the fence;
Some stood Their riders on Their heds, some
scampered from the track,
An half-a-dOzen turned Their tails an come
a-scOOtin' back;
While right ahead that critter tore, and jist ez
sure ez sin
He won, an Athaliar scooped another hun
dred in.
An when afore the jedges' stand the bull come
salin' by,
With tail a-stickin' out behind, thot that
crowd would die
The yell it gaVe-ha, ha, ha, ha-a-w!-it fairly
shook the ar.
The bosses left, an never since hez race been
free an far
EUR eny beast that he'd four legs an grew a
crop O. ha'r."
From 'AlOay out VEST" by Eugene ]. Hall.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-18
Counterfeit Postal Notes.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Oct. 9.
The discovery was made to-day that
counterfeit postal notes were in circulation
n tits city. Four or five of the spurious
notes were redeemed at the Post-ofics
before the fraud was discovered. In each.
instance the notes called for 1870, and.
purported to have been issued at Youngs-.
town, O.; E. r. Mills, Postmaster. The
Postmaster at that point is George +.
Williams. The paper upon which they ara
issued is genuine, and the supposition is
that il has been stolen from either the de-
partment or some Post-ofice, and after re-
moving the name of the original Office by,
acids, then the blank was filed by printing
thereon youngstown Ohio"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-18

rett's widow would have been burned at
the stake long ago. She was pretty
well on In years when Joe died. and I'll
leave it to anybody if she don't look ike
a blonde mummy now. Phil Somers
has that air of distinction and elegance
about him that he might marry almost
anybody; Joe Barrett-s widow is old and
ugly and sick and poor, but shouldn' t
be at all surprised if Phil Somers would
marry her yet. Mrs. Fra7lE Nc Cdrthy,
i1a Harper'S Weekeu.