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New-York tribune., 1884-01-02
4 DAUGHTER DLSINHERITED.

CLAREMONT, n. H., Jan. l.-Edward Keyes,
who died In Unity ~ H. few days ago, left TO the school
districts OF that town Sl2 OOO IL being all his property
except S4j, which he gave to an only daughter.
New-York tribune., 1884-01-02
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.

SAN ANTONIO Tex. Jan.1.-Henry Hane,
a weto-do German. a drunken Jealous frenzy, last
night attempted to kill his wife with He
fearful gashes in her cheek and and then went into
his kitchen and blew his brains out.
New-York tribune., 1884-01-02
AZ ONO MERCHANT KILLS HIMSELF
fpY TELEGRAPH 10 TIE TRmUSE.I

MANSFIELD, Jan. 1.-GeOrge Little, of the firm
OF Cunningham Little. lumber and coal dealers at Bell
VILE this county committed suicide yesterday by shoot
ING himself through the right temple with revolver.
The ac IA attributed dependency over financial rou
New-York tribune., 1884-01-02
THE SUICIDE or CONWAY BROWN

PROVIDENCE, Jan. 1.-The autopsy of the
brain Of Conway Brown the Harvard student who shot
himself Yesterday reveals the fact that that organ was
30 diseased TO deprive Brown OF the power 10 cono
New-York tribune., 1884-01-02
SNOW IN MISSISSIPPI.

JACKSON, Miss, Jan. lit Is showing here
to-day The water recedng and the trains on time
New-York tribune., 1884-01-02
4 SOUTH CAROLINA HUNTING TRAGEDY.
IsY TELEGRAPH 10 The TRIBUNE

COLUMBIA, S. c., Jan. 1.-Pinckney and
William Green, brothers, Of Greenyle, age tweny-oue
New-York tribune., 1884-01-02

FAILURES N TIE BRITISH IRON TRADE.
LONDON, Jan. Ten minor failures In the
iron trade are reported IN Birmingham. Other small
failures u tAs trade announced in the provinces
New-York tribune., 1884-01-02
THE LEGISLATURE MEETS.
N THE CHAMBER or THE SENATE.
Try TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l

~, ryTRAoRDlNARY ADDRESS BY TIRE LIEUTENANT
GoyERNOR-MINOR OFFICERS.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20

animal doctors are often patronized be-
cause there is no ell-educated yeterin-
airy surgeon to employ, and because
regular physicians decline to treat dis-t
eases Of animals. The live stock inter
est in many of the states has now be-
come 60 large that it seems strange that
breeders and farmers do not offer en-
couragement to we'll educated veterinary
surgeons to settle where they can avail
themselves of their service in time of
need. Every agricultural association
in the country should take steps to en-
courage 9 skillful veterinary surgeon to
locate at as central a point as that where
the fair is ordinarily held Should a
contagious disease break out among any
class OF domesticated animals, we should
find great difficulty in arresting it or
even holding it in check. In some
countries the farmers in a particular
district pay annually . certain sum to a
veterinary surgeon who looks after the
condition of their focks and herds. A
guarantee of support may be necessary
to indicate competent surgeon to set
tie ina place. Il Chicago Times.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
THE NEW MAY DAY.
BY MRS. Z. '. WILSON.

81 =
All meW sighed May sitting disconsolate.
Ihey did In the olden time my coming cele-
With With jo e dances and with merry song,
Wnne happy children played the whole day
long;
And youths and maidens crowned themselves
Filling with laughter all the flying hours
But now the busy world goes hurrying by
ana on my beauty scarcely casts an eye"
While thus in sorrow grieved the lovely May
tootsteps advanced along the grassy way,
Ana looking up she saw with outstretched
hand
The goddess Liberty before her stand,
Who cried: 'Dear May, thou month of all the
Held by the children and their parents most
come favor at your hands to ask
wish your aid in my most holy task
Ofrendrlng honor to my soldiers brave,
Who gave their lives the country's life to save
And left as heritage forever fee
This glorious land stretched from sea to sea-
Grasping the outstretched hand with winning
Fair May replied, with rapture-beaming face:
~, Iake, then, sweet Liberty. my latest day,
mat all my flowers may be in bright array,
IN meadow, garden, field, and woodland wide,
Let children gather them, while elders tell
me d zee of those who for you fought and
Let children's hands deck every hero's grave,
And children's hearts pay homage to the brave;
mus Will lesson pure and true be taught,
AND sad, sweet pleasure be with wisdom fraught.
While l, oh Liberty! no more will grieve
FOR the rude honOrs did once receive.
Now poets singing of Memorial Day
Will link their verses with the praise of May,
And all my flowers will in their stanzas shine
Mid names OF heroes gemming every line.
And May will nevermore forgotten be
Where thou art loved and known, sweet Liberty"
And since that time May keeps her choicest
blooms,
And brings them forth to deck our soldiers
tombs
The sweet wild roses, od'rous pinks that grow
IN woodlands deep, where children love to go.
And airy colum bines, and lilies fair,
Whose dainty bells swing silently in air;
And snowballs hooking winter drifts of snow,
And lilac plumes, and almonds t1oWery blow
All these, and more she gives to deck each
mound,
Reminding us thatit is "holy ground;''
Wherever soldiers lie who died for thee,
And for their country's sake, oh! Liberty.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
Continued from last tucek.)
How Watch Cases are Mude.

The many great improvements intro
duced in the manufacture of the Jas. Boss
Gold Watch Case, have led to similar i'm
provements in the making of silver cases.
Under the old methods, each part of a
silver case was made of several pieces of
metal soldered together, requiring a great
amount of cutting and soldering, which
softened the metal and gave it the pliability
of lead rather than the elasticity of silver.
Under the improved methods, each part
of the Keystone Silver Watch Case is made
of one solid piece of metal hammered into
shape. eThe advantages are readily appar-
ent, for every one knows that hammering
hardens the metal while soldering softens it.
10 test the superiority of the Keystone
Silver Watch Case, take one of 3 OF. weight,
press it squarely in the center when closed,
and it will not give, while case of same
weight Of any other make will give enough
tobreak the crystal. The Keystone Silver
Watch Case is made only with silver cap
and gold joints.
aepha for handsome Illustrated Pamphlet showing how
ssas 6ss5 s.d ksysto.e Waseh Cssss ars made.
Ito be c0ntinued)
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
An Austin aarkv raised q laro

An Austin aarky raised a large crop
OF watermelons, but the crop is so large
this year he has had difficulty in getting
rid Of them, the market being over
stocked. He felt like the castaway on
desert island, for '.he saw no sale from
day to day" he attributed the dull
ness OF the season to the fact that the
superior quality OF the fruit was not
isumclentiy advertised, SO heprocured q
long tin horn with which he startled
horses several blocks distant. J.
Look here, said an exhausted 20
liceman, who had been almost run over
bya fugitive team, s.you can't blow
through the streets that way"
Who is blowing fru any street. Use
blowing fru dis heah musical imple-
mont Yer don't call dis heah passo on
2 boulevard, does yer2 Ts-ra-ta- -
Texas siftipgs. "
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
Robbed Z Widow.

DENIsoN, Tex, Aug. 9.-Some
months ago Benjamin Hampton, q route
agent on the Missouri Pacific Railway,
was killed while in the line Of his duty.
His widow brought suit against the.
railroad company for $25, 900 damages,
employing all attorney at Parsons, Kas.
Mrs. Hampton yesterday received word
that her attorney had compromised her
suit against the railroad company for
SID, 1000, collected the money, and fed
to unknown parts. The abscond1ng at
torney also carried with him $4,000
.llte-lnsurance money collected on
Hampton's life. The widow is left
destitute and heartbroken. She has q
amily OF four children.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
French Bathing.
FrOm Chambers Journal,1


Here is a lady habited in scarlet,
dainty shoes and stockings to match,
and bewitching cap (none of your
hideous oil skin) with falling lace
and telling little bows of rib
bons. Here another, clad in pale
blue, with becoming hat tied under
her chin and many bangles on her
wrists. The shoes alone are marvel.
How do all these intricate knots and
lacings, these glancing buckles, survive
the rough and sportive usage of the
waves? Who but our Gallo sisters
could imagine those delicate blendings
OF dark blue and silver, crimson and
brown, those strange stripes and esthet-
lc olives and drabs2 The costume of
the gentleman is necessarily less varied,
though here and there one notices an
eccentric harlequin, easily distinguish
able among the crowd, and again, what
Englshman would dream of taking his
morning dip with q ruff around his
neck, a silken girdle, and hat to save
his complexion from the sun?
Two amiable persons dressed in i'm
ltation of the British tar obligingly
spend the greater portion of the day in
the sea. Their business it is to con-
duct timid women from the beach and
assist them in their bath. The brave-
spirits allow themselves to be plunged
under the brine; the more fearful are
conducted to be sprinkled delicately
from tin basin. There is also row.
or, whose little boat furnished with
iife-preserving appliances, plies up and
down among the crowd, lest one more
venturesome than his neighbors should
pass beyond his depth-an almost i'm
possible event, as one might say, seeing
with what fondness even the boldest
swimmer clings to the shore.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
Caro- of Sick Animals.

It is likely that the United States
possesses more domesticated animals
than any country in the world, and the
quality of them is better than those of
any country except Great Britain. Still
we have very few veterinary surgeons.
and the few we, do have enjoy q poor
patronage, We have more doctors to
prescribe for human ills than any
country in the world, and smaller
number of persons who are competent
to treat diseases of animals. We have
no end of quack animal doctors. who
know as little about the ANATOMY. phvs-
iology, and pathology of animals as q
grounding does of astronomy, naviga-
ton, and political economy. Many of
them are craaks, and all Of them have
sufficient presumption to insure their
success as politicians, tree peddlers. or
book agents. Some of them inherited
their skill for treating animals. and
others acquired it by the purchase Of
secrets from superannuated quacks.
Their surgical and medical treatment of
animals is barbarous in the extreme.
They hack and mangle animals With.
out compassion or mercy. Thew adj
minister drugs that are often injurious
and sometimes poisonous. They rive
doses to sick animals that wonld
be quite certain to kill them il thew.
were in health. They bore holes in the
horns Of cattle and inject the most irrii
tating Of substances. They cut of or
split the tails Of COWS, and cover the
wounds with nostrums that will produce
ulcers. They compel herbaoeous ani-.
mails TO swallow large pieces Of salt
pork or smoked bacon. Their tortures
snrpass those Of the Spanish inquisi-
ton. It is not only . disgrace to our
civilization, but 8 reproach "a the
humane feeling 81 the age that such
practices are allowed. These auaek
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
FARM, GARDEN AND HONE.
Behind the Are.

IstsEa BY A. W. BELLAW.
The farmer of To-day Is q man
Whose banner Is never furled,
He knows the battle of life Is won
AS the glittering steel is hurled;
He grasps the handles OF the pl0w,
And with it guides the world.
But sluggs was farmer Of different stripe,
Ana born for different cline,
He went by last years almanacs
And was always behind the time;
Why, his very watch got to going slow
By being SO constantly by i'm.
He was always tired before he'd begin,
And depended all OH the moon;
He'd work when he took a notion to,
But he'd stop without it, soon;
The ground Is too wet" or 'the ground is
He wove into tune.
He waited to see if it would rain.
The chances he never took,
He trusted less to alacrity
Than ever he did to luck;
He was very slow to climb a fence
And then on the top he stuck.
AS his crops came up, his fences went down.
And one, looking over his land,
Would think he had good supply
Of cattle and hogs on hand;
But that they didn't belong to him
Was easy to understand.
he was very benevolent TO weeds,
For the hoe was labor to swing,
He said IF they were paying crop
What an income would they bring p
And left his implements out in the fall
So they would be handy for spring.
The patches on his clothes increased
AS his patches of grain grew small,
His crop OF mortgages easily grew
No matter If frosts did fall,
But in q political argument @~
Why, mercy, he beat them all.
He never put off till tomorrow the things
Which he could do to-day,
He extended the time and said "next week
Is little further away
And even put off getting out of bed
With the wood to cutand his hay.
His crops ran short and his bills ran long,
While his neighbOrs fourished around,
And they said that he ran everything
Save his pillow, into the ground;
Strangers could seldom find him out,
For most in the house he was found.
He would have put it off if he could
With some old sort of excuse,
But he had to die, aud the neighbors say
That when Gabriel's horns let loose
And wakes him, he'll lie over again
For little longer snOoze.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
Health is Wealth !

DR. Z. G. VESTS NERVE AND BRAIN TREAT.
ness Ceen1ulsons sS s Nervous er sS'eNS earaea
Headache. Nervous Pr ostration caused by the use
Of alcohol or tobacco. Wakefulness. Mental De-
sanity and leading to misery, decay and death,
Premature Old Age. Barrenness, Loss of power
In either sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermat-
abuse or over-indulgence. Each box contains
one months treatment. $1.OO a box, or six boxes
forS5.O0. sent by mail prepaidon receipt of price
WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES
&c cure any case. With each order received byus
for six hoxes, accompanied with $500. we will
Eand the purchaser our written guarantee to re-
tard the money it the treatment does not edect
q cure. Guarantees 1ssued onlyby
JOHN G. WEST 81 CO.,
fs2 W. FiaEIsca At. CHICAGO, LIS,
sole Prop Is wv, y as.iisr Pulls
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20

IT is said that by the following SIM
pie method almost instant relief of ear
ache is afforded: Put five drops of
chloroform on little cotton or wool in
the bowl of clay pipe, then blow the
vapor through the stem into the aching
car
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
CHICAGO. ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R. R.

Is THE GREAT CONNECT1N6 LINK
Its main line runs from Chicago to Council
thrSas II Wes
Liberty. Iowa City, Marengo, Brooklyn. Grinnell.
tic, and Avooa; with branches from Bureau
! Jun to psors; Wilton yuaG tn 70 Apoca
Centreville, Princeton. Trenton, Gallatin, Came
ron, I.eavcnworth. Atchisen. and Kansas City;
Washington to Sigourney. Osksloosa, and Knox
indepe 20 Edon EDDY
vile. oskaloosa, Pella, Monroe, and Des M0inesi
Newton to Monroe; Des Moines to 1ndianola and
Sc ew; saH ZEE
Railroad. which owns, and operates through
line from Chicago into the State Of Kansas.
Through Express Passenger Trans, with Full.
es Car sa9n ~ Snsy
COUNCIL BLUFFS. LEAyENwoRTa and ATcHI-
SON., Through cars are also run betM cen MilWau:
hss and a ka 5sas, City, via the and
Tie Great Rock Island" 10 naagniAcently
equipped Its road bed is simply Dorfect. and It,
track is lni1 with steel rails.
of enjoying your meals while passing over the
beautiful praires of Illinois and lows, In one Of
our magnificent Dining Cars that accompany all
Through Express Trains. You get an entire
for seventy-fye cents.
Approaching the fact that a majority Of the
people prefer separate apartments for different
Of this line warranting it), We are pleased e an.
nounce that this Company runs Pullman EGlges
Sleeping Cars for sleeping purposes, and Palaes
PULLMAN PALACE CARS are =,
COUNCIL BLUFFS. KANSAS CITY,
all Ticket Agents In the Unltod otatoe
For Information not 0btA1AA6lo ~ u
a. klMBALL.
Genl superintondsaA
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20

JET w ZEN The EAST u The WEST
Dining Cars for eating purposes only. One other
SALOON where yon can enjey ysur Havana"
't ros span tn. s..spp,
and Missouri rivers At al points crossed By this
Kansas City, Leayenworth. and Atchisen, con.
nections being made In Union Depets:
TEE PRINCIPAL +: + CoNNECTIQNS Of
T T6I GREAT THROUGH LINE ARE AS
Az ca!cAae; with ill livsrstas lines for tho
=! "a e EFa G with the l. q &A.s' andP-.
At WAsHiNaToH 111sz7s. with F.. c. st.
AZ "A sAILn, with NJ Cent. r. &c.,.
A.; fh11fHah MAJ Nth snd & i fS1: kd..
Island Short Line" ana Rock IsPd & PEG. Rds.
: AZ a D = y with the Davenport o'''"on
a WEST LisEETY, With theB.. c,R,k N.R.R.
SRsE Na1s Nth 1it Gs s 1oEap
A. snIa Wiz fdHs.1 IT. ,sh Iisea : see
XtCOLVM1US JUNCTION, with &C. Il: n. RI
Al QTTuAwA. Iits Central Iowa 4. =. W.,
u I. k1 rsS en M 4 + Toi Pc War w.s st.
At CAaEKoN. with =: q. J; r. =.
RS sSS T e. 1 sf T:1st "a. SAINT. F'
At LEAvENWeRTK. with Kan. Fas, and Kan
oe xs!k = GET. With al l..s for Ii. West
And LEAVENWoRTM.
Great kock Island Rsute,'' are sold By
!: hsas tseiet .ae., address,
=. a SE; -: .Jo o. H., -,
. 81. q = d. =
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20

Or book-making, the fact that the
British Museum added $4,000 new vol
umes to its library last year shows that
there is no end.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
Disinfecting Fluid.

For disinfectant to sprinkle daily
about the house while there is any con-
tagious disease among the fowls, there
is nothing better or cheaper than mix
ture made by dissolving three pounds
Of copperas in five gallons of water, and
then add half pint of crude carbolic
acid-using enough of the fluid to
dampen all the premises likely to be
affected.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
sauosaosAreo y.oss IIM avs O ..ascae..
CT! 1 ! R!RAl
MEpl1 l16scAi
IN S u

o. BSf1s bssss "a et a5SS 6ss1
cHAs. Z. iaDAR1E Nd, p.es't phy,ioian In Charge
NELSON GRESHAM. Treas. ! Busisess Xaaaeaf.
This Institute has ample facilities and an ex
perienced Faculty. Willie it succeeds to q large
business, which has been established for wears it
VIII aim to extend its dical and surgical prnc.
ucc, giving skillful and scientific Treatment 10
CHRONIC DISEASES e Gu ,as n asa iSpRn as
sages, Heart, Liver, Stomach and Bowels, Rhenm-
atism: Dyspepsia, Consump tion and Asthma
BLOOD IMPURITIES, 5Shs ,mBars or .s s,,sed
ton. Scrofula, Fever Sores. Ulcers, etc.
DEEnRMl1lfc Of the Limbs, Spinal Curva-
OF the Joints, Piles, Fistula, Rupture, etc.
WEhkAECc and wasting diseases in old and
~ 1RtsIoO young men, also all diseases OF
the gcnito-urinary organs.
EEMAis irregularities and weaknesses. caus-
! EMhlI ing pain in the back or side, etc.
PERSONAL Interviews with patients are always
preferred. Those unable to visit the Institute will
AID them IN making full staten cnt OF their cases
nc successfully treated by correspondence. and
medicines sent by mail or express. 70 enable rs
10 send proper list Of questions applicants should
give a hrirf statement OF their trouble.
4 The Treasurer of the corporation is # Eelson>
t;hes;,nn H Co.. Advertising Agents. and refers to
the ~ tSh at this or other PAPER in thu
= Unitc' S-'t.S r C"nadas Regarding res.,ps bty
Consultation a: Office by mail free and invited.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
"Short Line" In connec.
Mum ton with the corporate
&DU8Ouu name Of . great road, con-
n m 1- veys an idea Of Just what IL
required by the travelling
pubIc-a Short Line, Quick
AnvAU Time and the best Of ~
O~U commodatons-ollo Of which
ara furnished nv tina oraat Railway in America.
CHICAGO,
milwaukee
AND ST. Paul! ALL:

Il owns and operates over 1900 miles Of road in
Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesots, Iowa and
Dakota; and as its main lines, branches and conneo-
lions reach al the great business centres of tho
Northwest and Far West, It naturally answers the
description Of Short Line, and Best Route between
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul and
minneapolis
Chicago, Mi!yyaukee. Portage, In
Crosse and WlnOnas
Chicago, Milvvaukee. Ort0nville,
Aberdeen and Ellendale.
Chicago, Milwaukee, Eau Claire and
Chicago, Miiwaukee, wau.au and
Chicago, Milwaukee,, Beaver Dam,
FOND du Lac and Oshkosh.
Chicago. Milwaukee. Waukesha and
lScOnOmOyVOc.
Chicago. Milwaukee,, Madison and
prairie du Chem
Chicago. Milwaukee. Owatonna,
mRnkalO and E0IiDaults =
Chicago. Reloit, Janesville ana Min.
Chicago, EI9in, Rockford ana Du.
Chicago, Clinton, Rock Island, Cedar
RAPIDS aud C6m8>
CHICAGO. Des Motnes, Council Bluffs
Fails and Yankton.
Chicago, milwaukee,, Albert Lea and
Southern Minnesota Points.
Chicago, Milwaukee,, Mason City,
Mitchell and chamberlain.
Rock lsland. Dnbuqne, %. Paul and
D'axsnpoIe, Galnar, 81. Paul and
Milwaukeo, Racine, Beleis, Freepo1s
and Rock Island
dim River Valley Lna.)
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
Precautions Against Drouth.

AFOCAuClOHS Against DTOuC0s
While we cannot influence the rain
fall we can, at least mitigate the effects
of drouth to certain extent by a prop
er preparation and cultivation OF the
soil. It is a well-known fact that when
the soil is kept in loose, fine, friable
condition, it not only absorbs moisture
from the atmosphere, especially at
night, but allows the downward course
of the water during showers, instead of
a loss by flowing off, as is the case
when the surface is hard. A loose,
deep soil also permits an upward ten
dency of water by capillary attraction,
the loose soil thus storing moisture by
it's greater power of absorption when
rains are abundant. We therefore find
in times Of severe drouth that the fire.
quent use of the cultivator, even when
the soil apparently does not require
working, is very beneficial, the green
ish tinge OF the growing corn giving
evidence that the constant stirring of
the soil enables the crop to derive q
certain proportion of moisture that it
would not otherwise obtain fPhiladel-
phia Record.