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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-02
BROWNSDALE.

BROWNSDALE. ....-. ~.
I'VE wish you happy New Year.
What's the matter with the hay press2
rs cents paid for eggs at Sleeper 4 Sons.
Poultry wanted at A. L. sleepers 4 Sons.
Miss L Stong made visit to Leroy,
Christmas. !. 80 G
"a. L. Sleeper 4 Son have new single
harness for sale. sIa 's.,-.
.-Ketchum of Owatonna, has been In town
the past week.
The Dramatic Club Of Dexter gave an en-
tertainmeut Monday evening.
1t Is said that DIR. Beaulieau preached 4
farewell sermon Sunday evening. 80
w. B. Sleeper of Spring Valley. stopped
over Sunday with the Hrownsdaleites,
$50 80 were the receipts Of the Dramatic
entertainment Saturday evening, Dec. I'D.
Prayer meeting Thursday evening, at the
Baptist church. Let every one be present.
The Masonic fraternity enjoyed an oyster
supper at the City Hotel Friday evening, the
Parties from Iowa are paying &l3 for this
years calves, and big prices for cows and
steers.
The Of Janasry there WIN "! h :. leap yea.
AourishinR burg.
i Geo Clark Of waltham, received New
Years present the S1st Of December, in the
shape OF girl baby.
Geo. Ziemer has rented the sanborn
p picsSrc a frsmins Ing estsblishment. p -1e
Tho 9th OF January Sunday morning and
evening Elder Belden will preach at the Bap,
tist church. Let every one be present.
/ '.BucHU-PA1BA, Quick, complete
cure, all annoying kidney, bladder and
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-02
LANSING.
Happy New Year.
-Sleighing very good.

News items rather scarce.
Cold weather for New Year.
Mr.. Lon Wilder Is visiting in town. Lon
is always welcome wherever he goes.
Mr.. Fuller is at home in his new black
smith shop and is having all the work he
can do.
Al Bert Vaughan has concluded to make
a blacksmith of himself. Mr.. Fuller is giving
him instructions.
Our village election comes off on Tusday.
Jan. LIST. Let US begin the year right by elect
ing good officers.
MINI: sofa has at last asserted her rights,
ard has given US good sleighing and fine
winter weather for the holidays.
Our old neiyhbor, Pat Lofin, has gone to
Hope he will do well if he locates there.
-Undertand that Miss Stocking, assisted
by our school, is soon to give an entertain
ment. Due notice will he given. Hope they
will make success of 1t.
Our wheat market has been quite lively
for past few days Best wheat brings about
80 cents. Barley very slow. No one seems to
want it, at what the farmers think fair
figure.
.-Messrs. Anderson s. Co. are now receiving
car loads Of corn daily and shipping feed by
and W isconsin. The Miwrights say they can
have the mill ready for Touring in about two
weeks.
Mrs. Fraucis heller, who has been insane
for q long time, died ut Rochester II few days
near her in her last hours Was buried by
strangers. We sincerity hope that it is her
gain to be at rest from trouble. .......as
Lansing has good school again, under
the able management of Prof. Sheppard, as
sisted by Miss Alice PadRet. The scholars
seem to be encouraged TO go ahead and secure
an education while they have Il chance. May
they succeed in getting up an interest that
will continue during the term.
"A look into Messrs. Foote & Kimbalrs
mandatory found 1t quite hive of indus
try. Several men ana steam engine busy Mt
work ON his little car-sealng and cutting tool.
They are at work on full time, with orders
ahead. The tool is taking well with all Rail-
road companies, the seal cutter being tndts.
pensible.
Sidney Fuller has returned from Mime.
ap"lis. Miss Helen Soule returned to her
school IN OtrantO, Iowa, last Friday.
The young people of this village are busy
preparing for an entertainment for Friday
evening. Jan. nth. A pleasant time IL antici.
pated. Full particulars next week..
The school report this week is AZ follows
Edith Mensing Rank 1st; Standing se 81 4
Michael Miller :. :. %, :: :. g 2-lt
The weekly average for the whole school Ii
68 40 F.F.
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-02
Ruin Wrought in the Forest.

How depressing it is to see acres of
trees Gu: down in the midst of noble
forest. How saddening it is also to see
that thin spot in the midst of ysur other
wise abundant hair. Stop it at once by
the use of Parker's Hair Balsam. For ac-
tual efficiency this famous article stands
at the head of its class. Elegant for the
toilet, delicious in odor, and restores the
original color to gray or faded hair. Eco
nomical. as a slight, occasional applica-
ton keeps the hair and scalp in perfect
or1or
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-02

'RouaH ON CouaHs." knocks cough
or cold endwise For children or adults.
Troches, 15c. Liquid, SOC. At druggists.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-02

: .BucHU-PA1BA," - Quick, complete
cure, all annoying kidney, bladder and
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-02

little consequence. as the public have al
ready pronounced it the remedy for
coughs and colds par excellence.
Rev s. G. Lowry, of this city, left
on Tuesday, Dec. 25th, for Kingston,
Indiana, to attend the dedication of a
Presbyterian church. Rev. Lowry was
pastor of this church 1825-35, and by in
vitation of the church, goes to attend the
semi centennial of its organization, and
the dedication of the fourth edifice upon
the same spot.
! "A PLEASANT 'SURPRIsE"
the Goth, being the 18th anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs. s. II. Judd's wedding day,
their neighbors and friends presented
them with a nice hanging lamp, centre
table, l. walnut cane rocker, and numer.
Gus other articles. Mr.. and Mrs. Judd
wish to express their thanks and best
their good will towards them.
To OUR AGRICULTURAL READERS
The american Agriculturist is one of oul
most valued exchanges. It has just en-
tered upon the 43d year of its existence
reading matter and engravings. It is in
valuable to those engaged in farming pur
suits. We will send the american Agri
cuLturast and the TRANSCRIPT for ont
year, to any address, on receipt of two
dollars and 60 cents.
| Clayton ]. Smith, Eugene B. Sunny
there last Saturday for Austin. TIL,
train which they took brought them onl,
to Owatonna, and late Saturday Afternoon
they left Owatonna for Austin with
livery team. Darkness soon overtakin,
them, and not being acquainted with tn
read, they lost their way, and it was lat
Sunday before they reached Austin. hav
ing had rather an unpleasant night
journey.
james Truesdell, of this city, ha
made an assignment OF his property TO
; the benefit of his creditors to A. M, Flech
His property consists mainly of an 120
: acre farm near Dexter. and IS lots i
Ito Austin. His store and lot on Mai
street has been turned over to DAME
Heffner at So, 500, who had claims againe
: it OF about that amount. Mr.. Truesde
? thinks he has assets sufficient to pay al
his creditors 100 cents on the dollar.
Official announcement was made las
Wednesday that, beginning Jan. /, sleel
y ing cars will be run on the Southern Mir
q nesota division of the Milwaukee roa
) between Ramsey and Sioux Falls. III
train will reach the latter place durin
the night but the passengers will not b
: disturbed until morning Trains leay
}. Sioux Falls for the East during the nigh
1 but passengers may take the car any tin
after .. M. This arrangement will /
9 appreciated by the travelling public.
"RoUGH ON CORns. Ask for Well
n Rough on Corns. 16c. Quick, con
a plete. permanent cure. Corns. wart
\ bunionS.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-02

S-Sidney Fuller has returned from Minne-
ap"lts. Miss Helen Soule returned to her
school IN Otranto, Iowa, last Friday.
The young people of this village are busy
preparing for an entertainment for Friday
evening. Jan. nth. A pleasant time IL antici-
pated. Full particulars next week.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-28
Gen. Sharpe's First Case.

From the Pittsburgh Times.
II lost my first case to miserable
little pettifogging lawyer named Johnny
Wood, said Gen. Sharpe at Chicago
during the convention to a group of
Arthur men, who had lost interest in
the proceedings and were gathered in
his room for the comfort of being to-
gether. II was graduate of Harvard
Law School, and had a good deal of con-
ceit, besides perfectly good case.
When my senior warned me that I
would have to meet Johnny Wood I
laughed at him. The suit was before a
justice of the peace. He made out our
case, and Woods client, the plaintiff,
made out none worth speaking of at ALL
When Johnny Wood arose to speak he
rehearsed the evidence impartially, and
then, taking up book read the law
such law as I had never heard of, but
which fitted his case to a nicety. When
he got through I said, "Mr. Wood, will
you allow me to see that statute,
please?"
"Certainly, sir he replied, handing
the book closed.
"Ah, thank you; but what is it on ?"
"What page?" he cried indignant? ?.
Don't expect me to coach you, young
man. Find your own law, you. !
found mine
"Of course, I couldn't find it, but
Johnny had the laugh and the court
with him, and I lost my case, according
to law which that scoundrel Wood had
made up out of his head just as he had
spun it out"
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-28

Mrs. p Jameson of Rock Island, was trampled
by herd Of frightened cattle, receiving fatal
injuries.
Near Albion, N. Y, seven boys, Fred Taylor,
Willie Taylor, Judson Bum, Edward Swain,
M. Garrett and Will Ford, we're drowned by q
boat capsizing.
At Tawas, Mich, the forest fires which orig
mated on the plank road and crossed over to
the East Tawas road, have done great damage
to the crops, burning standing grain, and hay
in stacks, baking potatoes in the ground, and
burning farm fences of several miles in OK
tent.
E. NJ. Lewis, president Of the Farmers and
Mechanics Bank of Philadelphia, was stricken
with paralysis Wednesday night, and is con-
sidered beyond recovery. Mr.: Lewis was the
assignee in bankruptcy Of the Jay Cooke estate,
and in 1881 was appointed one of the directors
of the Reading railroad
An elaborately carved italian marble COL
umn to Gov. E. d. Morgan at Cedar Hill ceme-
terry, Hartford, Conn, was ruined by fire. The
temporary house built around the shaft to pro-
tect the carvers at work was burned, and the
heat was sufficient to ruin the stone. The
loss will be upward of $l5, ,0O0 St Gaudens
Was the desi gner of the nlausoleum, and the
carving was being done after the stone was set
in place.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-28

A dispatch from st. Petersburg
states that the Russian government
has issued a circular to the principals
of the schools in Russia, holding them
responsible for any revolutionary tend
encies their scholars may have. and en-
joining them to maintain strict super
vision over their pupils in order to dis
sipate the slightest flavor of nihilistic
sentiments. "By nihilistic sentiments"
is meant anything that impairs public
acquiescence in the present form of des-
potic government that prevails in
Russia, or anything that favors gov
ernment "of the people, by the people
and for the people," such as we have
in the United States, or even o consti-
tutional monarchy. And yet there are
snobbish aristocrats in the United
States who never tire of extolling "the
mild and benefcent reign of the "czar
of all the Russias."
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-28

A good deal Of sarcasm has been
wasted on the United States Govern
ment for its foil y in spending $s,0OO,-
600, in the purchase of Alaska. The
country named has generally been
looked upon as a barren waste, useless
for any purpose, but when it becomes
known that there have recently been
made discoveries of very large deposits
of both bituminous and anthracite coal,
the tune will likely be changed. The
coal is described as of good quality,
and the quantity almost inexhaustible,
Judging from surface indications. This
fuel will find ready market along the
Pacific coast and its development can
not but help the progress Of that reigon.
Alaska will also furnish the very best
ship timber, and this will also help to
build up our far western border.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-28
Ship OF War Sunk by Coal soow.

-
The United States junketng steamer Talla-
poosa, with 40 men and officers, bound for
Newport to take on board Secretary Chandler,
at II O'Clock Thursday night, and during a
thick fog three miles east of Oak Bluffs,
Martha's Vineyard, was struck in the bow
by the schooner James Lowell of Bath,
Capt Reed, from Baltimore for Portland,
with cargo of coal She was crushed and
sank in five minutes, in ten fathoms of water
AS she went down her whistle was blown
as a signal of distress, and steamers in the
neighborhood took off officers and crew. Touch
ing the collision, Capt Read says: 1T was the
most careless piece of work ever saw: The
night was clear and the lights of the Lowell
were burning all right, and were perfectly Wis
ible long distance"
There is difficulty in obtaining the story of
the steamer; her executive officers, to whom
the reporters are referred, declining to mako
any statement
Later advices from Cottage City report four
persons drowned from the Tallapoosa, as fol-
lows: DR.. Clarence E. Black, surgeon; William
ODonnell, seaman, of Boston; William Jones,
landsman, of Washington; and George Foster,
the colored saloon boy: Lieut. Everett strongly
denies the statement that the Tallapoosa had
acquired an unfavorable reputation in mari
time circles, and says: II never heard her
called Old Calamity, and I have always con-
sidered her reputation very good. She never
had any serious accidents, the accident with
the schooner year or two ago being excusa-
ble." The Tallapoosa has been principally
devoted to the junketing excursions of WASH
ington officials, and is no great loss.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-28

The agricultural departments latest
estimate of the wheat crop to the first
of the present month is given as 1885,
100000 bushels. The average is esti-
mated at 81 ,000,0o0 to 3s 100000. At
13 bushels to the acre this would give a
crop of 494, ,0O0, 900. But in reality the
highest average of late years was IN
1879, which was 13. O8 bushels; while tho
lowest was 1910 bushels in 1881. Last
year the average was III bushels. If
the average this year be 124 bushels, it
would make the crop of 1884 475,O0O,-
900 or 4S5, 600, 900 bushels, which would
be fair crop. The trouble, however,
is that the crop is not so remunerative
to the farmer by nearly 800, 900 900 as
that of last year on account of low prices,
and it is this last fact that promises to un-
favorably affect the business and gener-
al industries of the country.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-28

1t is said that cne day in this month
wheat in Chicago reached the lowest
point known in the United States for
years, 70 cents per bushel. It was
down the same day to 81. Oh in Liverpool,
the lowest point ever known there in
the memory of man. If the lowe st
point is reached at Liverpool ever known
in the memory of man, corresponding
low prices are to be expected in othor
grain markets of the world. The Liv-
erpool market is overstocked, the pros
pect for good harvest throughout Eu-
rope was never better, and the increase
in the product of India has been enor-
nous. There seems be no present rem
edy for this disagreable fact by pro-
ducers, save withholding wheat from
the market, and that is attended with
risk. But the future can be made
brighter by diversifying the products of
the farm.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-28
religious duty consists in counting bA

religious duty consists ii countingb4
could be charmed with such monot
and silence. The man Of energy d
thought would think itcruel punishme
to be forced to undergo the ordeal,
intellectual stagnation amid pei
whose ignorance and Incidence fill Us
minds with egotism, obstinacy and j,
Importance. It is q common thing I'd
Egyptians who have been educated bA
order of the government in the best col
leges in Europe to come back to East
ern life and Immediately throw away
their books, abandon intercourse with
intelligent foreigners, shut themselves
IN harem among ignorant women, And
there end their existence. This is prob
ably what they mean when they say that
in their education of mind they do not
neglect the heart An Eastern man
will sit for hours inhaling the perfume
OF sweet flower and enjoying the music
of fountain [murmuring at the time a
chapter in the Koran, without stepping
to understand its meaning) and the
beautiful objects of nature which Allah
has spread before him. He enjoys. to-
day, but never thinks of preserving OBJ
jects which please him in sculpture or
painting, however dear to him, for the
sake of the pleasure they might give in
the future. This their writer's call life
rich in sensations" =.
Gen. Loring speaks of the extreme
cleanliness of the Egyptian women, part
of whose religion it is to bathe and per-
fume themselves every day.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-28
Mr.. John Thomson, bank president

Mr.. John Thomson, bank president
Of New York, gave the following excel
lent advice in paper read bofore the
late Bankers convention at Saratoga
"Bank officers should manage their bank
and live on their salaries. Depositors
and stockholders forfeit all sympathy if
they tolerate specializing official to
stay one hour in charge of their assets.
Turn the speculator out or get out your
self. Figurehead directors should also
go or be held individually liable" 1t is
much to be regretted that his words of
wisdom are not more likely to be gen.
orally needed by the persons whom
they concern. Recent exposures of ras-
cality growing out of speculations by
bank officers show that Mr.. Thompson's
advice did not come bit too soon, but
on the contrary, a good deal to late
But it is never to late to mend, and it
remains for stockholders and depositors
to inaugurate the mending process at
the earliest opportunity.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-28
New South Wales.
New South Wales has an area of 3O8,

New South Wales has an area of 3O9,
600 square miles, and in 1882 had 817,-
468 inhabitants and 1,315 miles of rail-
way, whose average cost was G12,161
per mile. Their gross earnings are in
1882 were Ell ,658, 1864; their net earn
ings 9764 ,229, which is equivalent to
e1, ATT 6 gross and e612. 16 shillings net
per mile, G235 more net than earnings
of railroads in the United States. The
net earnings were 5 1-6 per cent. on the
capital expended, an eminently satisfac-
tory result, az the interest paid by the
Government is less than that. Th
Government has authorized the expen-
diture of Ell ,O00, 900 more for railroad
construction, of which e3, 100000 was
negotiated last year. This is the only
Australian colony that has adopted the
English and American standard gauge
of four feet eight and one-haH inches.
A connection of the Victorian railroad
is almost completed, and one with
Queensland, the colony next north, is
in progress. -.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-28

The London Pail Mall Gazette t
states the singular powers of a Paris
bird -charmer:

The London Pail Mall Gazette tt
states the singular powers of a Paris
bird -charmer:
Paris has found a new sensation
bird -charmer, who has been astonish
the boulevardiers with his powers.
bet was made between him and q
Loizey, a gentleman who was v
skeptical in such matters. The COZ
tions were that NJ. Loizey should furr
q dozen birds, which were to be, at
disposal of the charmer for fifteen n
utes. At the end of that time M. Pic
was to open the cage which contain
them and each bird was to -alight ~
certain arbutus, brought upon
ground by him and placed at q dista.
of 100 metres from the point where Il
were liberated. For each bird wb
did not obey the charm within guar
of an hour M. Picard was to pay
Loizey fifty francs, and for each l
which did NJ. Loizey was to pay
Picard the same sum. When the
for the test arrived so large and SO c.,
GUS a crowd had gathered on
Champs de Mars that it was impossd
to maintain the needful space Df
metres around the spot where the q
was placed. Forty metres was all
distance that could be secured. !
results, therefore, were not accepted
determining the bet, and another t
will be made. The birds, howevei
released under these conditions-f,
one by one, to the arbutus and percss
on it's branches, to the great aston
ment of the spectators. NJ. Plea
charm consists, it is believed. in !
pregnating these branches with a co!
less and mysterious liquid, the secrf
which is as yet his own. +
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-28

Nicholas Good, a well known resident of Oil
City, forty years of age, shot himself in the re-
colored man of Madison, Ind, who married
white girl has been sent to the penitentiary
for miscegenation.
Edward Conkling, aged seventy years, has
been arrested at Hannibal, Mo-, for ravishing
an eleven -year-old girl
Albert NJ. Ham, travelling salesman for
John Ullrich, wholesale grocer, committed
sicide at Decatur, Ill, by shooting himself
through the heart
Inquiry into the history of Green McCul-
Tough, who was hanged by vigilantes in Texas
on the night of the 10Th inst, reveals a record
of series of eight bloody murders in which
Mccullough has figured as ''getting the drop"
on his victims.
A Bonneville, NO., special says Frank James
has arrived here to stand trial on charge Of
completely in the Otterville train robbery on
the Missouri Pacific in 1876 The case will be
called shortly. tits said the defense will move
fora continuance
Threesuicides occurred in St Louis, Tuesday
morning. j. S. Jones, Kansas City dry goods
clerk, took morphine and died at the Everett
house. Edward Croker, aged seventy-three,
shot himself through the body and died instant
ly. Frank Bliss entered Tony Faust's saloon,
poured two ounces of morphine into glass of
water and drank it, dying in an hour:
Thomas Murphy, a mechanic employed at
the Smith Middling purifier, at Jackson, Mich,
lately in bad health, became excited recently at
thinking there were burglars in the house,
and attacked his wife with slender-polnted
pair of shears He stabbed her five times
One wound through the throat severed the arte-
ries, and the unfortunate woman bled to death
in ten minutes.
The body of man with bullet through the
abdomen was found at Little Falls, N. j., under
the bridge. A paper in his pocket shows his
name to be Samuel Lasner and states that he is
fleeing from murderers A pistol, one chamber
empty, was found in the top of neighboung
cations of scuff1e and the body was dragging
in the vicinity. Lasner is Jewish rabbi, and
judging from the contents of his pocket, be-
longing to Chicago. :,
At Brattleboro Vt, Miss Ella Ames, very
lovely young woman, employed in Bunting's
large shoe factory, as forewoman, attempted
to commit suicide by taking poison but was
saved by the stomach pump. She admitted
that William Bunting, hor employer, had led
her astray shortly after she entered his facto-
ry, and that by threats he had forced her to
submit to his desires ever since When he
threats against her which she says drove her to
attempt suicide The case creates great excite
ment, as Bunting is man of family and one
of the leading manufacturers of New England,
Miss Anes has hitherto bore good reputa-
ton.