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WHOLE TICK EFs, q. HALF TICKETS, o..
q Tickets $50; IS Tickets, 800.
Remit Money or Bank Draft In Letter, senu
by Express. Don t send by Registered Letter OF
Post Once Order. Orders of S5 and upward bv
Express, can be sent at our exp pense. Address
orders 70 Il. NJ. ROARDMAH, CouFter-J0urns
Building, T,nntHvilP Nv a ~ +ta-IU-RS
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JOHN WANAMAKER,

Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets
and oitY-hal square. Philadelphia,
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Fourth counter, northwest from center.

We keep down the prices of
Laces by our constant impor-
tation of fresh goods through
our Paris buyer.
Whatever you want in Laces
you are now likely to find in
our much-extended Lace Sec
ton.
Gallery, Market st. front.
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NEW YORK DIVISION.
TRAINS LEAVE BROAD STREET STATION

FOR NEW YORK.
Express on eek-days. 305 3.2O, S.4S $50, 7.SO,
$40 $50 and II a. m Limited Express, l.90
and K. OF night. On Sundays, S.eS, o. so, - s.4S
s.3OR M, 4 (Limited Express. 5. BOZ &. 30, z. as
For shs BrSo4Pyn COX p M @ al ntSn through trains con-
meet at Jersey city with boats of "Brooklyn
Annex, " afording direct transfer to Fulton
street, avoiding double ferriaRe and journey
across New York city.
Express for Sea Girt, spring Lake, Ocean Beach,
Ocean Grove, AsOury Fark and Long Branch,
$50 and H. 70 a. m, and 800 p. M, on week
days.
NORRIS STREETS.
Express for New York, IS and $40 n. IN. on
weekdays.
FROM MARKET STREET WHARF.
Express for New York, via Camden and Trenton,
VS' m;' ana an ZAP 4S0 r MI ion on week eek days.
stations, o.1a. IN, and 5. 20 p. IN.
Tuckerton, b ~ a. m. and SD p. IN.
BELvIDERE DIVISION.
FROM BROAD STREET STATION.
Daily, except sunday-Express for Lambertville,
hamton and Oswego, ~ IA. M, 1901 and 90 p.
~. For scranton and Water Gap only, 400
For Lambertyille, 8p. m.
For FlemlnEt9n, 80 a. M, 12iol and 4.OOP. m.
9.25 and 9.5Oa. IN. 8. sd and As p. m.
FROM KENsINGToN STATION, FRONT
AND NORRIS STREETS.
Daily, except sunday-Express for Lambertvile,
| Easton, Delaware Water Gap, Scranton, Bing.
hamton and oswego 7.4oa. m, i2.Ol, 5.S6 pm.
For SCran on and Water q ap only, 4. IS d, m,
| For Lambertville, 2. Up. IN.
For Pennington, 7.4O a. m. ; Il. OF and g. IS D. m.
| Trains arrive daily, except Sunday-Frou
Easton, $40 and l0.SO a. m, and 4. .O8 D. m.
| Sleeping-ear tickets can be had At Broad ant
Chestnut streets, SSs Chestnut street, and Broat
Street station.
The Union Transfer Company will call for ant
check baggage from hotels and residences. Tim,
cards and iull Information can be obtained at tn,
stations and at the following
No. S35 Chestnut street.
r,cvpr ,vv,ops $. f. cor. Broad and Chestnut
AiSAhA VI riShs' No. ll6 Market street,
| No. Chelton ave. Germant'n n
| CHARLES f. PUGH, General Manager,
J. X. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
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JOHN WAxAn1AKEB,s:
Wednesday: fair and Slightly
warmer.
LINENS.

With the May days begin
preparations for the country
moving. The summer house
must be opened and the closets
overhauled to find out what is
wanted in Bedding Linen and
Housekeeping things.
Whatever the best factories
Of Europe can make in Linens
has been brought together in
the new. Linen Quarters to the
left of the main entrance from
Chestnut street. The art of
the Linen Weaver in the new
patterns opened this season
will surely command your ad-
miration.
We should like to show all
good housekeepers our
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Sheetlng Linen.
Plllow-cAse Linen.
Stair Linen.
Diaper Linen.
Ladies' Underwear Linen.
Gentlemen's Underwear Linen.
Butchers linen.
Towels.
Table Cloths.
y bic Linen.
Napkins.
DOylies.
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NEW METHOD OF vINDIoAT1oN.

How the Boston advertiser" Proposes
TO wipe Out the Humiliation Of MasSa-
ohnaetta.
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The Weekly Edition

of the Enquirer ought to be in the hands OF
every farmer, every mechanic and every
teller IN the land. AS an agricultural paper
full OF fresh, valuable and reliable infOrma
ton, it will be without a rival corps of
contributors has been retained whose
practical and theoretical knowledge in all
branches of good farming is unsurpassed.
We thank our readers for that liberal
support that has enabled us to print the best
newspaper In the West, and ask con-
tinuance of the same and your assistance in
making known the merits of the paper, and
Increasing It's field of usefulness.
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HENRY /. aAYhoND. ALoNzo DxwEl,r
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WESTERN RAILROAD.

- J. r. WOOD. General Passenger ARl
OHAS! u. PUGH. General Manager. if..
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-31
THE FLORIDA SHIP CANAL;

The proposed Florida ship canal, for
which charter is to be asked from the
legislature of that state, and for which
surveys have been made, is to begin at
point on the Atlantic coast at or be-
tween the bay and harbor of Fernandina
and the bay and harbor of St. Angus
tine, thence by the most practicable route
across the peninsula, terminating in the
Gulf of Mexico, at point between st.
Marks Bay and Tampa Bay. The canal
is to be 200 feet in width at the water
line and thirty feet in depth, and, &C.
cording to the terms OF the charter,
"shall be operated for public use, for
the passage through the same Of steam
ships, sailing vessels and other ocean
water craft; also of propellers, steam
boats, barges, canal boats, tow-boats
and other inland water craft used in con-
veying all kinds of commerce and carry
ing persons that may pass over, on, or
through the said canal" A right of
way is desired one mile in width from
the Atlantic to the gulf for the canal and
telegraph line, and right of way half
a mile in width for one or more branch
canals. The state is asked to give Elk
million acres of the internal improve
ment fund lands in aid of the object.
The eastern terminus of the canal will
probably be on the St. Johns River, a
few miles above Jacksonville. The in
corporators are mostly northern men,
and among them are General Butler and
Simon Cameron. The capital stock is
to be from forty to sixty millions.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-31
T1LE.DRA1NAGE FOR FARMS.

The annual convention held by the
tile-makers is of service to the entire
agricultural population of this state,
says the Chicago Tribune, because it
serves to impress upon the farmers the
great advantage of using tiles, and de-
velops the latest ideas based upon actual
experience in regard to the proper size
and laying Of the same. At the conven-
tion Of this year, held at Springfield on
Tuesday, the progress which has been
made in farm drainage was exhibited by
the universal testimony Of the manu-
facturers that they cannot make tiles
fast enough to supply the urgent de-
mand of the farmers. AS these same
men two or three years ago were fur
nishing tiles on trial and asking paw
only when the farmers became satisfied
of the benefit of using them, their
present reports furnish abundant evi-
dence that the farmers of Illinois are
now thoroughly convinced ofsthe advan-
tages OF tile-draining. ltmaybe stated
as the result of experience that COM
plete system of tile-drainage doubles the
capacity of farm-lands on the average.
In some cases, where the land is dry, the
increased yield is not 80 great, but wet
lands which were almost worthless have
been rendered as productive as the best
in the neiRhborhood. The surface4 of
Illinois generally presents the appear
auce Of dead level, but as . matter of
fact it is cut up by sloughs Of, low places
in, which tho soil is vet, cold, voggy,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-31
A Voting Qualification on the Western
Reserve,

tFrom the Pioneers of the Western Reserve.]
"When strapping boy, l fell head
over ears in love with q girl of the real
Plymouth Rock stamp. She lived twenty
miles away, and I went to see her regu-
lar every fourth Sunday night. I won
the lass, longed to marry her; but, as
the course of true love never did run
smooth, her mother objected. Iappealed
to her in the most pathetic language l
could command, but she could not be
melted, and I became sad, and went
about signing like furnace. My father
was sent minister extraordinary to the
court of the old woman to contract an
alliance offensive and defensive, but with
no better luck. managed, however, to
keep on courting the girl until loved
everything on her fathers farm. At last
love and reverence was rewarded, and the
wedding day was fixed.
The country at that time was sickly;
and 1 often detected myself feeling my
pulse as the day of days grew near,
fearing lest the ague- shakes should add
to the fever which was already consum-
ingme. But I got married without &C.
cident or further embarrassment. moved
to log cabin, went to housekeeping,
and soon discovered that my 'better half
was a pattern of neatness and good
house-wifery. Election soon came. I
went to the poles, was asked if was of
age, as my juvenile looks belied my age;
but was not allowed to vote. My wife
felt bad about it. When the next elec-
ton came around, on the very same
morning of that day she presented me
with little counterpart Of herself. The
news reached the poles ahead of me; and
when I presented my vote, though not
of age, it was received without objec-
tion"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-31

and uhproductiVe, although the land is
naturally rich in fertilizing materials.
In the absence Of proper drainage such
lands yield little or nothing, but ex-
perience has proved that a
system of tiles makes them
more productive than any other on the
farm. 1t has been noted that farms
yielding originally twenty-five to thirty
bushels of corn to the acre have fur
nished as sixty to seventy bushels per
acre after being tiled, and that the yield
of wheat and oats was more than dou-
bled. This experience is causing farm
ers to invest their surplus money in
tiles instead of putting it in bankssor
buying more land, and the investment
has proved to be the most profitable q
farmer can make: The system is equal
ly serviceable to- wet lands and dry
lands; and, in addition to the increased
fertility it gives the soil, it has been
found to furnish springs at the outlet Of
the tiles for watering the stock in local
tiles where it was necessary before to GO
three or four miles in dry weather for
water for cattle. The points of informa-
tion for the farmer developed at the re-
cent convention were as follows: The
larger size in tiles should be adopted at
the outset, on the principle that boy
should not be sent to do a mans work.
They should be laid at good depth,
and should empty into an open ditch.
They should be inspected regularly and
repaired as often as necessary--a prac-
tice which will insure their lasting much
longer than otherwise. It has also been
discovered that the laying Of tiles along
both sides of a road is one of the cheap
est and most effective means of keeping
the same in good condition. Now that
the usefulness of tile drainage has been
demonstrated to the entire satisfaction of
the farmers, the manufacture of tiles
will be extended, and competition will
keep down the price; fortunately there is
no monopoly in the business. All that
the farmers will need to guard against is
an inferior article, which will be found to
be the dearest in the end.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-31
INTEMPERANCE IN EUROPE:

The Geneva correspondent Of the
London Times draws fearful picture
of the spread of intemperance in Switzer-
land. However temperate, frugal, and
industrious the Switzers may once have
been they are now fast degenerating into
a race of drunkards. The correspondent
declares that the growth of intemper.
ance has been 50 rapid and universal as
to excite the most serious apprehensions,
and it engages the attention of church
synods, the Society of Utility, "and of the
public press. The subject is also. being
considered by the federal government
with a view to securing restrictive legis.
lation by the national assembly. It ap.
pears that this sudden aud rapid in
crease Of intemperance among the Swiss
people only dates back to 1874. Prior
to that year the Cautious possessed power
to regulate the traffic in drink. Then
licenses we're high, and minute restric-
tive regulations we're placed upon the
traffic. No public house for the sale OF
liquor could be onened in the neighbor-
hood of any church, school, or public
institution of any kind. All such places
had to be closed the greater part of
every Sunday, and at a certain hour
each evening, and penalties were pro-
vided against furnishing drink to minors,
or permitting them to frequent places
where liquor was exposed for sale. By
an amendment to the federal constitu-
ton ali this was changed and the right
to sell alcoholic beverages was made as
free as their right to sell milk, or any
article of provision. As result, drink.
ing houses multiplied, and the CORE
spondent shows th't while the popula-
ton only increas' j SIX per cent. in a
given time, the tm,eins increased TWEEN
ty-two per cent. He says, taking the
whole country into account, there is one
tavern to every one hundred and thirty
inhabitants, and that, 'deducing the
women and children, and the sick, there
is one drinking place to every thirty
persons. In Geneva, and many other
towns grocers and confect1oners vend
wine and spirits, and in this manner the
means of spreading intemperance ore
multiplied. A bottle Of common brandy,
he says, costs about twents cents, and
Judging from the effects produced the
liquor must be of the vilest character.
The wages OF the working classes are
nearly all spent for drink, and in Geneva
the sum expended for intoxicating bev-
erages Is estimated at $50 per capita an
nually. More than one-half the crime
committed is traceable to excessive in
diligence in strong drink. As natural
consequence, says the correspondent,
failures, bankruptcies, and forced sales
Of property are alarmingly on the in
crease. Land is depreciating in value,
and in many cases of foreclosure
"mortgages can find neither buyers nor
tenants" There is no help for it tut
for the Swiss to return to their old sys-
tenn of checks and rigid licensing. Pro-
hibition cannot help them. for 1t would
doubtless prove as great failure as it
has in our own country. There is a
happy mean in this matter, and the mid
die course between extremes is always
the best. This will doubtless be the
view which the Swiss National Assem-
bly, will take of the matter.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-31
Liter y Work and Tobacco.


In response to circular recently sent
out by Mr.. Arthur Reade, who has been
collecting information as to the habits of
literary men in regard to stimulants, the
Abbe Moieno gives IN interesting record
Of his experiences. The letter appear
ing in his paper, Les Mondes, states that
he has published 1870 volumes, small and
great; that he scarcely ever leaves his
work table, and never takes walking ex-'
ercise, yet he never has trace of head
ache or brain weariness.
Snuff taking he some times practiced,
but he vigorously condemns it. He has
learned twelve different languages by q
method Of his own, and with regard to
his requirements in philology and chron-
ology he says: 81 was one of the most
extraordinary personalities of one time,
and Francois Arago sometimes laughing
" threatened to have me burnt Us a sor-
cerer." On one occasion, when in Mum
ich for q few weeks, and spending the
evenings with Bavarian servants, who
each smoked four or five cigars and drank
two or three pots Of beer dally-Stein-
he'll, themostillustrious, boasted of smok-
ing 5000 cigars yeaI-the Able came
to smoke three or four cigars day. He
had also a new taking to snuff, SO that
when preparing his calculus of varia-
tions, q very difficult mathematical work,
he would empty his snuff-box, which
held twenty-five grammes., in day. But
one day he was surprised to find himself
painfully unable to. recall the meaning
of foreign words, or Ito remember dates
with which he had been familiar.
Thereupon he formed heroic resolu-
tion, and since August l, 1868 when he
smoked three cigars and took twenty five
centimes' worth of snuff, he has, up to
the 25th Of June, 1882, touched neither.
This was, for him, q complete resurrec-
tion, not only of memory, but ofgener,al
health Of we'll being; he has had indefinite
capacity Of work, unconscious digestion.
perfect assimilation of food. For the
rest. he mentions that he takes small
cup of black coffee in the morning, and
when all but two or thrse spoonfuls has
been drunk he adds small spoonful Of
brandy or other alcoholic liquor. This
is his ration of .stimulants. He goes to
bed about and rises about 5, full of
vigor. The Able is over, 80. <y-.- A.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-31
Minor MishaDS.

Two boys, Christian and Loby, were fatally
and three seriously injured by coastiDg &C.
cident at Shanokin, Pa, on the 28th.
A skiff capsized at Shreveport, La, drown
ing Alex. Morton and wife and Tom Edwards
all colored.
An explosion Of metal occurred at the Riedon
Iron Works, San Francisco, CAL, on the oath,
by which John Lydon was killed and Thomas
Brady fatally injured.
While steam fire engine WAS taking suction
from cistern at Vlncennes, Ind, on the night
of the 23d, the reservoir exploded, letting the
were injured, but none fatally. The engine
was badly wrecked.
Telia Gretze, domestic at Chicago, ILL.,, was
killed on the morning of the 23d by the expio-
sion Of the water-back in kitchen range.
The supply pipe was frozen. hence the acci-
dent.
A party of careless workn,en attempted to
dry some Hercules powder cartridges in a
blacksmith shop at Pine Hill, KY, on the 22d.
Albert Reeves, Louis Fortner and David
Brown we're killed. OF the shop only four
posts remain.
Patrick Farley and Thomas Purcell were
killed by an explosion in Some Flemming's
The body of the former was literally cut in
twain by cap and the two parts dropped into
a tank Of boiling oil. Purcell's body was not
recovered. Damage $4,000.
Two fatal boiler explosions occurred OH the
22d inst.-one at Portland, O., and the other
at Ellton, Md. At the former place the boiler
in a planning mill collapsed, killing Sherman
Lewis, aged Is, and wounding Ellsworth
Lewis seriously. At Elkton the immense
buildings of the Ledger Paper Mill Co., we're
partly wrecked. Three men lost their lives and
seven others received injuries. Damage $15,-
600.
Seth Page. justice of the peace at Ophir, at
tempted to cross the range ut Silverton, Co..,
without showshoes. He WAS found by mail
carrier frozen to death. -.
Gabe Foster, Chicago sporting man, who
went to Little Rock, Ark, during the state fair,
and lost heavily on horses went into the woods
near that place on the morning of the 21st, and
was found frozen to death in the afternoon.
The largest gasometer at Glasgow, exploded
Saturday night, injuring eight persons. 1t is
alleged that Fenians blew it up.
Louis Trempe, of Sault Ste. Marie, attempted
to cross the Straits of Mackinaw on the MORN
ing of the 18th, with team carrying the
mails, and no trace of driver, car or horses
has been seen since.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-31
Trouble i'm. France.

France is on the eve of a crisis. Floquet,
member of the chamber Of deputies, has in
trod%ced bill for the expulsion from France
The princes of the Orleans family occupy high
military positions in the French army, and
while the ministry is willing to have Prince
jerome Bonaparte expelled, they object to the
same treatment of the Orleans princes. After
several conferences betw cen committee of the
chamber of deputies and the ministry, acompro-
mise has been effected. by which the princes are
to be excluded from the army or any civil official
function, but are allowed to remain in France
The ministers of marine, and of war, objected
to this and the former resigned, while the lat
ter will stay long enough only in the cabinet
to enable President Grevy to selecta successor.
Duclerc the premier, also objects to the
compromise. The London times says: The
resignation of the French cabinet exhibits
catastrophe which threatens the political ar
rangements of the country and renders the
substitution of more powerful ministry
matter of exceeding difficulty.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-31
LOSSES BY FIRE.

"a $50, 100000 Ash-heap," is the
striking heading of the Commercial Bull
letin's summary of the fires of 1882.
Even more striking are the figures for
the whole world as presented by COR
respondent in the columnsIof the London
Times for year not specified, but pre-
sumably 1880. According to him, the
losses by fire in this country surpass
those anywhere else. He puts them at
$ll0,000,000, some $5,000,000 more
than in Russia, which cones next.
The English losses are estimated
forty-tive millions, the Germans at thir-
ty, the French at fifteen. The estimate
for the United States, at least, is grossly
excessive. ; It is twenty millions above
The figures Of tine careful Bulletin,
which : include the Canadian losses,
while Canada is down in the tables of
the correspondent for twenty millions
more. The total for the United States
according to the review OF the year re-
Gently published in the New York Times
was $7O,000,000. In Europe the loss
per inhabitant was greatest in England,
but in proportion to wealth it was great
est in Russia. In the first particular
the United States far surpassed Eng
land. More confidence may be felt in
the figures of premiums, which are less
open to errors of estimates. Forty
eight millions, it appears, were paid in
premiums in one year in the United
States. England ranks next by the pay
ment of $s4,5Oo,000, and Germany
comes third with total of $32, 500, 900.
The total premium payments for the
world for this one year were $3.50, 900,
900, or, taking the world over, nearly
equal to the wages of million men fo1
an equal length of time.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-31

A YOUNG man living a few miles from
Salisbury, Nd, went to see lady he
had been paying attention to for some
time without having had courage to
make known his devotion in : words.
After sitting few minutes he trembling
" said: I'D like to see you few min
utes." She r,plied: "Dave, I've got no
words for you, anyhow. The poor fel-
low wss 80 Scruahed that he fell on the
floor in a convulsion and was taken home
in that condition. Fit after fit followed
and at the last account received he was
etall iip critical condition. -..
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-31
A Fearful Plunge.

An accident fearful to contemplate happened
on the Gorges Creek and Cumberland Railroad,
running from Cumberland, Md, to Lanacon-
ing on the night of the 23d. Three coal trains
consisting Of as many locomotives, ifty.two
hoppers and seventeen gondolas, all loaded,
started down the incline from Cumberland.
One engine was placed in front, another in the
middle and the third brought up the rear, that
being the safest disposition to be made Of the
locomotive. power while descending steep
grades. About 10 miles from Cumberland the
speed Of the combined trains accelerated at a
fearful rate. The train kept the track until it
reached trestle having a reverse curve, when
the forward engine plunged over the side and
dragged the sixty-nine cars and the two loco
motives with it. The wrecked cars rolled and
tumbled down declivity at least eighty feet
at least eighty feet high The loss Of life was
immediately and it was expected that many
more would be picked up from the mountain
side. Not much hope was expressed of finding
any Of the unfortunates alive as the night was
so cold that those exposed must surely have
frozen to death.