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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-20
LATEST FROM THE FLOODED DISTRICTS
The Murky Torrent Increasing Hourly
Raining Constantly

The Murky Torrent Increasing Hourly
Raining Constantly
CINCINNATI, February 12.-9A. NJ
The river is 68 feet l inch and is still
rising at the rate of an inch an hour.
The weather is toggy and mild.
Gallipolis reports that fall COM
menced at ] A. M, and that the water
had receded 4 inches up to 8 o'clock.
Portsmouth reports the water as still
rising steadily. Weather mild and foggy.
CummiDsville is one great lake, and
the backwater has su, rounded the beau
tiful Spring Grove Cemetery, which is
SIX miles from the Ohio River. In Gov
Eington the water-works have failed and
there has been no gas for three days.
All buildings below Third and some
points below Fourth, west of Madison,
are flooded. At seventy feet the waters
of the Licking will run through the rail-
road tunnel in South Covington and fol-
low the railway tracks through the
heart of Covipgton proper to the Ohio.
In Newport, which contains popula-
ton of 10000, there are 5000 people
entirely homeless and q great many
more living in the second stories of their
houses. Many of the inundated build.
ings are toppling on their foundations.
and people are being removed in boats
from the upper floors.
The last pump was stopped at the Gin
cinnati water works at noon yesterday.
If economically used these is water
enough in the reservoir to last five or
six days. One serious fire, however,
would exhaust the entire supply; and,
in case of a second fire, unless it should
be near the flooded districts, the city
would be helpless. The danger from
fire has been greatly increased from the
introduction of ctal oil lamps, which are
being used by thousands of persons who
do not know how to use them.
The following table shows the highest
stage of water at Cincinnati each year
since 1858, and also in 1882 and 1847:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-20
CASUALTIES.

AN accident on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
and Northern occurred near Cedar Rapids on
the 18th, lniuring eight persons.
DAVID LEONARD, of Burlington. Ia, a we'll
known prohibition advocate, was thrown from
his buggy and killed On the 18th.
GALVESTON, Tex, and vicinity experienced q
disastrous tornado on the 12th.
The river at Cincinnati was still rising ON the
18th, and the danger greatly increased by the
undermining OF buildings.
THE situation at Pittsburg. Wheeling, and
all towns In the flooded district was still unim.
proved on the 18th.
THE steamer W. P. Halliday, of the New Or
leans anchor line. burned at st. Louis on the
l1th. Private Watchman Matt Brown lost his
FIRE at Eau Claire on the 18th DESTROYED the
house of August Fleck. Loss $4,000.
CHARLES ERBsE dropped dead on the street
in Milwaukee on the 18th.
The Juneau, Wis.,, Jail burned on the 10th.
cremating Mike Mcdonald, of Fond duLac. and
Ed Carey, Of Portage.
FREDERICK P1EHL, section boss on the Chi
cago Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad was rnn
over and killed by the cars at Milwaukee on
the 18th.
CHARLES Tw1Ea. college student dropped
dead In Milwaukee on the 18th.
The rape case at Wausau, Wis, brought by
Mrs. Jackson Calkins against James BAN has
been settled without the aid Of the law.
On the 11th, E. W. Feltges, Chicago book
keeper, shot dead the wife Of Thomas Aiken.
with whom he was in love, but failed in the at
tempt to take his own life.
ALL the Missouri indictments against Frank
James we're vacated on the 11tb.
A CHICAGO man named VIM. Meager was put
under arrest on the 11th, for criminal assault
on his mother whom he afterward tried ia
murder.
BRIDGET EAaAN who was shot BY her lover.
Jerry Starnold, IN Milwaukee died on tile after.
noon of fhe 1lth.
AUGUST ScRADr suicided at Milwaukee on
the 11th, by hanging.
ERNEST BAUER, Milwaukeean with q sick
wife and five children, attempted to end his
own life with razor on the 11tb.
The steamship State Of Nebraska, from Glas-
gov, arrived at New York on the 10th, in q dis.
abled condition from contact with an iceberg.
FLOODS in the Ohio river sud it's tributaries
did great damage to property on the 9th inst.
The losses at Steubenville will aggregate
$150, 600. s..
TIE horrible discovery Was made at Dayton,
Ohio, on the sth inst, that Miss Hockwall, who
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-20
WORDS OF WISDOM.

DESPAIR is the greatest enemy that
can afaict mankind.
SELF. INTEREST is the surest lever to
move certain people.
NOTHING can be great without being
founded on goodness.
The greatest liberty is to utter and
defend what we believe.
WITHOUT contentment we can never
have enough of anything.
IT is better wisdom to fix things than
to take them as they came.
GREAT things are not accomplished by
idle dreams, but by years of patient
study.
THOSE who do nothing are in the
readiest way to do that which is worse
than nothing.
BE happy if you can, but do not
despise those who are otherwise, for
you do not know their troubles.
If you are going to do a good thing,
do it now; if you are going to do a mean
thing, wait until tomorrow.
EVERY person has two educations-
one which he receives from others, and
one more important which he gives him.
self.
GENIUS, like tho sun upon the dial,
is ever indicating to the human under
standing the application of shadow and
light.
THERE are many persons protesting
religion who are very bad; there are also
many good people who profess no re-
ligion.
The right use of our reason will gen.
orally tend to better orr condition and
remedy the evils by which We are sur
rounded.
EVERY character has a magnet by
which it draws to itself and uHfolds
therefrom that which is in sympathy
with itself.
'THERE is nothing" sententiously re-
marked lawyer the other day, 'sthat
will cling so long to man in this world
as experience"
IT many times falls out that we deem
ourselves much deceived by others be-
cause we first deceived curse Ives. He
who is false to present duty breaks a
thread in the loom, and will find the
flaw when he may have forgotten its
cause.
IT is good lesson-though it may be
hard one-for man who has dreamed
of literary fame and of making himself
rank among the worlds dignitaries by
such means, to step. aside out of the
narrow circle in which his claims are
recognized, and to find how utterly de-
void of significance, beyond that circle,
is all that he achieves and all he aims
at.
WHILE the head needs the heart to
give warmth and vitality to its ideas,
the heart equally needs the head to give
wisdom, calmness, order, and strength to
direct it's impulses and embody its de-
sires. Feeling without knowledge is
like ship without rudder or horse
without bride. Unintel]igent emotions
may drift US into all kinds of excesses,
and their unrestrained ebb and flow rem
der all steady growth impossible. The
stronger and the more intense they are
the more Urgently do they need the
guidance of clear thought, well-in-
formed mind and strong will. The
best tenevolence is that which relies
upon both these Influences, and so
blends them as to form the habit of
right doing. For, after all, it is the
constant repetition of right actions
which builds up noble character
[G. w. Childs.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-20
A Famous Linguist.

Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti was
without doubt the greatest master of
languages who ever lived. He was
born in Bologna in the year l774, and
his father, a carpenter, destined him for
the same calling. he worked at a bench
standing within hearing of the recita
tions of some school-boys in Greek
and Latin, and, without knowing
the Greek a]phebet or even looking into
a Greek or Latin book, he picked up by
ear considerable knowledge of both
languages, thus discovering to himself
and others his wonderful aptitude for
linguistic studies, and attractingt he no.
tlce OF priest, who arranged for his
education. In college he mastered Lat
in, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, French,
Swedish, German, Arabic, and Coptic,
and at the age of % was appointed pro-
fessor of Arabic in the university at
Bologna.
During the Napoleonic wars he was q
constant visitor at the hospitals, whittier
he went mainly for the purpose of learn
ing the various languages spoken by the
prisoners there, among whom he found
Russians, Bohemians, Wallachs, Ser
vians, Hungarians, Croats, and Poles,
and from them he learned to speak flu
emily all their languages.
Later in life he went to Rome, first as
the keeper of the library of the Vatican,
and afterwards as a cardinal. Here he
continued his linguistic studies, master
ing Sanscrit, Persian, Georgian, Welsh,
Irish, Lappish, Armenian, Chinese,
and number of other tongues, and
when he died, in 1849, he could speak
correctly and fuently one hundred and
fourteen different languages. The most
astonishing part of the matter, however,
was that he not only spoke the Ian
guages correctly, but knew perfectly
their peculiar idioms, and wss even ia
miliar with the local dialectic variations
in each. Lord Byron, astonished at his
perfect mastery of good English, tested
him with English slang, and found the
Italian priest more than match for
hinself even in that, whereupon he pro
nounced him ''a monster of languages,
Briareus of parts of speech, and q
walking polyglot. Another Of his ad-
mirers thought that if he had been at
Babel he might have acted as inter
prefer for the confused builders without
any kind Of difficulty.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-20
MORMONlSM IN IDAHO.
The Social PLAGUE Spreading Rapidly il
the Territory.

The Social PLAGUE Spreading Rapidly in
the Territory.
CHICAGO. February 13.-Hon. E. A.
Wall, president of the territorial council
of Idaho, is in the city. Mr.. Wall is on
the way home from Washington, where
he has been in consultation with Judge
Poland, of Vermont, Congressman Cas-,
sidy, of Nevada, and others, in regard to
the Mormon question, which is becom-
ing of vital consequence to the future of
Idaho. The result of the conference
was the introduction of bill by Judge
Poland providing that "before registra-
tion in Utah, Idaho, and other territories
the voter shall be required to take an
oath that he does not belong to the
church of the Latter Day Saints,
or any other secret organiza-
ton upholding polygamy, bigamy
or unlawful cohabitation." This, it is
thought, will destroy the political su-
premacy of the Mormon by excluding
all Mormons, whether polygamists or
monogamists, from voting. Mr.. Wall
says he was assured by these congress-
men that the bill would be pressed and
that they believed it would pass. Speak
ing further of the Mormonism in Idaho,
he said: est has spread into our terri
tory alarmingly within the last four
years. Out of total population of
10000, they number at least 5000.
They control three counties absolutely,
and hold the balance of power
in several others. They are able
to elect three members of the coun-
Gil and seven of the house, or
ten out of total of thirty-six. Generally
they have acted with the democrats and
claimed that party, but in reality they
have no politics. The spread of Nor.
monism is breaking down party lines in
Idaho, and soon there will only be two
sides, Mormon and Gentle. I am
democrat and we have always elected a
democratic delegate to congress until
1882, when q republican was returned.
Nothing else beat Aiosley but his
known leaning to the Mormons. To
show you how the thing is working, see
how I was elected president of the
council. There were six republicans,
three Mormons, claiming to be demo-
Gratis, one democrat friendly to
the Mormons, anu two straight
democrats, one whom I was. AL
though the republicans had six votes out
of twelve, yet they elected me to the
chair to shut the Mormons entirely out,
because they knew was irrevocably
against them. The reverse took place
in the house. There the republicans
had twelve out Of t1enty-four, and Mr..
Wilson was their caucus nominee for
speaker. There were five democrats and
seven Mormons. After balIotipg for
some time the Mormons and democrats
secured the organization by getting one
republican over and electing him speak
er. Next time we will have an exciting
campaign in Idaho, ard Mormonism
will be the only ISSUE"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-20

tie 'f SoS aSeSs s9 cradle SSt
and bendmg {oyer TIE tbdaby:s Wien Net
tie heard her mother enter lshe rose up.
Blood was runningt from theo1baby's
mouth. Nettie held in her hapdra darn
Ing. needle containing q piece, Of yarn,
which Mrs. Dunlap had left sticking in
cushion on the table. Mfs. Dunlap
took the screaming baby quickly from
the cradle. "Baby walked up and
tried, said Nettie, "and me jest doin'
to sew him's mouf up." She had run
the needle nearly through the baby's
under lip in two places.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-20
In Sunday. School.

(From the New York Journa.J
II CHOW, boys" said the teacher after
reading about Naaman, s'can you tell
me what a leper is2"
"Yis, mom," promptly spoke up .
snail lad. H.. j. !. -
ssWell, what isit2' s f.
ssSure an lisa bullfrog. mom.''
.sWhy, no It isn't. What do you
mean by replying in that way?"
'.Doesn't . bullfreg Jump, mom2"
cot course he does.
"Well, then, isn't he 8 lepper, sure?'',
81 Question referred to Committee on
Claims and class adjourned till spring,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-20
A Good Time to Paint Houses.
FRO IL the New England Farmer.l


There is no better time to paint build
ings than during the pleasant days in
winter. Paint spread in cold weather
makes better covering for the wood
than if laid on when the wood is hot,
and excessively dry, so that the oil is
Immediately absorbed, leaving the lead
or other material used as chalky SUBJ
stance on the surface, ready in few
months to rub off or be washed by rains.
It will require little more paint at a
single coat in cold than in warm
weather, as the oil will be thickened a
little by the cold, but then it will stay
where it is put, and q second coat will
be less needed. One advantage in paint
ing now is the absence of flies and other
small insects which in warm weather
often make freshly-laid paint look any,
thing but attractive. If there is snow
on the ground to cover the earth and
prevent dust and leaves from being
blown into the paint, all the better. In
the very coolest weather it may be we'll
to keep the materials in q warm room,
as the paint will spread more easily than
if cold enough to freeze water. It is a
good plan, too, as far as may be, to
keep on the sunny side of buildings,
painting the east sides in the morning
and the west in the afternoon. The
north sides may be painted in the mid
die of pleasant days, and the south side
when it would be too cold to work any
where else.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-20
An Awful Scene.

al o"AuA h1VCAACs
An eyewitness to the great disaster
on the Bradford, Bordell and Kenzua
Railroad says: ssIt was the grandest
nd yet the most awful scene that hu-
man eyes ever witnessed. For dis
tance of nearly half mile the roadbed
was covered with oil and paints. It was
over the rails and the moment the gas
came in contact with the fire. box it ex-
ploded and fred the oil. In less than
one minute the engines and cars we're
enveloped in flames, great black pillars
of smoke ascended heavenward; the
driving wheels of the engine went dash
ing along at the rate of forty miles an
hour, scattering the oil over everything
with a rush and roar which might have
been heard for a mile. The flames
leaped fully $50 feet ahead of the loco
motive, which was thus compelled to run
through veritable sea of fire. It was
a terrible race, and the only parallel I
can remember is the oil train which
burned up near Brockton, n. Y, a few
years ago. How the engineer, train
hands and the men, women and children
escaped is something that only Provl-
dence can explain. It wassa sight to
make the strongest heart shndder. /
never want to see it's like again.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-20

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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-20

A DETROIT River fisherman says that
the pike Of the Straits is very destruc-
tive fish. One that was recently speared
had swallowed another pike, and that
pike had swallowed perch.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09
Miles and Miles Of Fire.

RALEIGH, N. c., April 4-For three
days and nights the most destructive
fires ever known in that section have
been Devastating six or seven
Southern counties. Vast forests of
long-leaf pine, which formed the chief
source of the timber supply, have
been attacked. The bigh winds
famed the flames into fury and
hundreds of thousands Of trees were
burned and some of the largest
turpentine orchards in the State were
ruined. Many farm-houses were
destroyed. The people have been
OF towns narrowly escaped d~estruc-
ton. At Manly, on the Raleigh land
Augusta Railway, a number OF
houses were burned. Large stores
OF lumber and railroad stills on tue
line of the road were also destroyed,
aud a dozen turpentine distilleries
were ruined. The County in great
stretches is but a blackened wilder
ness. The extent of the disaster is
not yet known, as the fire has swept
here and there some fifty miles in
one direction and thirty in another.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09
RIPE FOR REFORM.

Ex-Gov. English, of Connecticut,
has surprised the protectionists by
coming out openly in favor of tariff
reform. It has been claimed that
Connecticut was overwhelmingly in
favor OF protection, but there is strong
and growing evidence that this is an
error. Gov. English is n OF the
most prominent Democrats in his
State, and he has been frequently
mentioned as a probable Presidential
candidate. In a recent interview he
said: The tariff is no earthly use to
this State, or any of the New England
States. My position, aud that of
every manufacturer with whom I have
talked, Republican or Democrat, is
that the need OF the country is the
adoption Of a policy which I would
formulate, like this: A moderate tariff
which shall bring to the country a
sufficient revenue to meet the current
expenses of the government, and leave
a small surplus to be applied to the
slow extinguishment of the national
debt" Gov. English has long been
known as one of the shrewdest politi-
clans and closest observers in New
England, and says that the Demo-
cratic party can win on the platform
Of revenue reform, and is ripe for it.
Every day the evidence is increasing
that tie people in all parts of the
Union, Pennsylvania, perhaps, ex-
copied, are enthusiastic for revenue
reform, and to none can they look ex-
cept the Democratic party to repre-
sent that principle in the National
contest. The question now is, will
the party be true to its convictions?
We believe it will.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09
HARD ON SHERMAN.

Mr.. Nichols, OF Georgia. offered in
the House, last week, a resolution
calling for an investigation OF the
lawlessness that has recently been
m~anifesting itself in the loyal State
of Ohio, and that John Sherman's
Danville or Copiah County Commit
tee be given the job. This rebuke to
Sherman was richly deserved. He
has made violent partisan efforts to
fix a stigma upon the people of the
whole South because of two disturb
nee which were mere street rows
as compared with the bloody riot at
cincinnati. For political effect he
buld excite sectional prejudices and
sssail the character of an entire peo-
aple. He cares nothing for the bus
iness interests which bind the sec
lions of our country in close bonds OF
mutual interest, or for the patriotism
which teaches is to uphold the char
acter of the country and foster frater-
nal feelings among all the States.
His partisan venom would add new
stains to the bloody shirt, provided
that by doing so he could maintain
his party 10 its %corruptly used power.
Sherman's own State leads in
violence, lawlessness and bloodshed.
HI processes to find the condition Of
the South deplorable. What does he
think of the condition of Ohio? Be-
ycnd question, if anything like the
scenes at Cincinnati had been enacted
in any part Of the South, John Sber-
man would have found in them, not
only the crazy acts of men maddened
by appeals to their passions, bat q
proof of the lawlessuess and ruf6an-
ism of the whole Southern people,
and a commentary on their Demo
crat affiliations. Mr.. Nichols has
but proposed for poor "honest John"
to take a dose of his own physic. He
doubtless found it n~auseating.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1884-04-09
An Easter Offering to St. Stephens
Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Two Handsome Chairs and e Tete-a-
Tete-Fruits Of the Nickel Box.

The members Of the Ladies Aid
Society unite with Mrs. S Z. Caush-
man i'll returning thanks to the con-
tributors of the Nickel Box for their
liberal contributions. Tie following
ing is o list of the contributors and
the amounts contributed:
Bolton Caughman 81, Tyler Caugh-
man 10c., Scott Hendrix l0c., John
Meetze Csc, Newton Kyzer 35c., c.
S. Bradford S1.10, D. E. Ballentine
&C., Judge W. B. Green l0c., Leroy
Hendrix 1Oc., Jacob J. Boozer 10c.,
G. Nj. Efrd 15c, Wade Caughman SC,
Miss Lula Drafts l0c S. P. Vineyard
Csc, Col. Graham 1Oc MI. Troy l0c.,
Jos. Little Sc, D. H. Witherspoon
20c., Stranger &C., Thos. Warirg SC,
W. W. Roof 15c, Jas. Z Hendrix
81 20, H. j. W. Caughman 15c., DR..
Leaphart 20c, S. 0. hammer 15c.,
L. ". Hammer &C., Strang ger Sc, DR..
Smith l5c., S. Corley 81 90, Mr.. Par
sons 15c., Willie Stuart SC, T. c.
Caughlnan 81, Col. VIM. J. AssrnanH
s21 so, Capt. Virgins Zoe, Mrs. Wig
gins Sc, S. L. Cuugh,nsn 81, l.. X.
Suelgrove 20c., S. +. Hendrix &C., T.
P. Meetze l5c., A. S. Nuuamaker &C.,
". V. Gardner &C., G.. Is. Harmau
10c., j. A. Muller $3.50, NJ. D. Har-
man S1.10, Allen See &C., Eml. Cor
ley &C., Frank Corley 1Oc., Thomas
Caugbman Sc, h. Rawl 10c, Bayles
Vineyard &C., Sanders Corley &C., S.
D. Bailey Sc. E. Bailey &C., James
Rawl &c.,, Mrs. S. E. Caugbman 81,
Mrs. Ella Caughman 81, Mrs. Alice
Caughman 81. Mrs. S. E. Caughman's
grandchildren $l.3O, Major H. A.
Meetze $1.35, MIR. Rice Csc, George
Drafts 10c., Jno. G. Zenker &c., Eli
Corley l0c., Paul Messenger &C., I. V.
Messenger Sc, P. Henry Corley l5c,
J. B. Kyzer Sc, Nellie Wilson Sc,
J. S. Derrick l0c., DR.. Eargle SC,
Geo. A. Hammer &C., G. NJ. Hartman
$1.05, Mrs. NJ. Y. Harth SC J. S.
Hendrix &C., T. S. Hartman &c., W.
NJ. Drafts 10c., Mr.. McElveen Sc.
Total, $44.55.