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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
DAKOTA
Opportunities for Busiuess,

Opportunities for Business.
Pierre is an excellent city to engage
in any kind of merchantile pursuits
Wholesale or retail), because it's ratesof
freight are low; it is the center Of . fer
tile farming country and the supply
point for numerous cities and villages
located on the banks Of the Missouri.
This is good point to engage in man
ufacturing business Of any kind, and lib
eral aid will be given to any manufact-
uring industry. There Is good OPEN
ing for the manufacture Of any article
used in building, for -four mills, and for
beer manufacturing.
There are opportunities to invest in
real estate which Win produce handsome
returns, and money used In tho erection
Of buildings has and will pay Is per
cent. It You desire 70 avail yourself Of
the opportunities presented in#a new
county and rapid growing city, and
wish any reliable information IN refer.
ence to Pierre, it viii be gladly fur.
nished by addressing
w. S. WEI IS,
Pierre, D. T.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
GENERAL

The Agricultural Department at Washington
estimates the present wheat crop at 485, ,OO0, 900
bushels.
JOHN e: JENKINS, the Oldest resident of JET
ferson County, Wis, closed his eyes forever at his
home near Palmyra on the 5th inst. He was sc
years Of age, and was seven times . widower.
JEssM VoKEs, the actress, died on the 7th in
London.
TIE Union Pacific and Northern Pacific Rail-
roads have Joined in = reduction of five per
cent. in cattle rates.
I. OREsswELL d Co., dry good dealers, Phil
adelphia, failed on the 5th inst. Liabilities
$4,000.
The corner stone of the Bartholdi statue wae
laid At Bedloe's Island, New York, on the after.
noon Of the 5th.
ANOTHER large gas we'll has been struck in
Westmoreland County, Pa.
JOHN L. Co,fsrock, the Quaker poet, died at
Adrian, Mich, on the 9th, aged 70 years.
On the 9Th inst, q receiver was appointed fol-
the firm of Davis Il Co., fancy grocers, Milwau-
kee.
JUDGE HAYES, of the Seventh Iowa judicial
circuit, has decided that justices have no juris'
dlction totry cases under the Iowa liquor law,
other than to bind defendants over to the dis.
trict court. The question will be carried to the
supreme court. ...--.
CLIFFORD, SHERMAN & MNEs, dealers in dye
stuhs, New York, failed, on the 5th. Pref
erences ~, 600. l.
The Ninth Annual National Convention o1
Iron and Steel Workers, opened its session in
Pittsburg, on the 9Th.
HuNDREDs Of hogs in Fayette County, ILL.,,
have fallen victims to cholera. In many in.
stances farmers have lost their entire stock.
The Elba Iron Works, Pittsburg, have shut
down every department. but the bolt factory.
Orders slow and prices low.
!. eHEnlfAN, NOBLE & Co., New York, dealers
in mourning goods, assigned, on the I'D inst.
Preferences GIG, 900. y.
John OLSON BERauH, father of Gov. Rusk'e
wife, died at his lone near Viroqua, Wis, on
the morning Of the I'd, from heart disease,
aged 81 years.
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SENSATION At MONTREAL.
A Number of Importing Firms Detected
In Frauds on the Revenue.

a Number OF Importing Firms Detected
In Frauds on the Revenue.
MONTREAL, Aug. 2.-The customs
officers have made seizures of valuable
goods imported from the United States
and entered under value, with the in
tention of defrauding the revenue, from
some of the wealthiest and largest
wholesale firms in Montreal. The first
descent was on E. & A. Eaves, where q
seizure was effected to the amount of
$4,000, and the warehouse of Schwobb
Bros, diamond and watch importers.
VIM. Eaves and 81. A. Saunders, whole
sale jewellers, were next visited. Large
seizures were made, the value of which
is at present unknown. The affair
created sensation in the jewelry trade.
Other seizures w6fe expected. It is
rumored that several large seizures were
made out of Montreal, but nothing
definite can be learned. Only few
months since A. & e. Eaves had to nav
$4,000 and VIM. Eaves $1,000 for en-
tering goods for eighteen months pre-
viously under an exactly similar charge.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
FOREIGN.

ST. JOHNS, N. f., dispatch, Of tho 7th inst,
announces the drowning Of three oarsmen
named Goss, Martin and Power. by the swamp
Ing Of their boat during . regatta. Ryan, the
coxswain, who was taken from the water alive,
died the next morning. The accident happened
on Quidivldi Lake.
The Queen of the Hovas. in Madagascar, has
brokeno OF negotiations with the French and or
dered her subjects to prepare for war.
ENGLAND has an epidemic Of her own to
take care of. The disease called English chol-
era is spreading.
AN analysis Of the drinking water at Mar
seilles and Aries shows that it is filed with mi
crobes, or cholera germ.
W. B. DuMBELL 4 Co., and G. n. Probst l.
Co., Liverpool sugar dealers, failed on the 7th.
Probst fed to America.
A IANaHRs dispatch, Of the 9Th inst, reports
the massacre by order OF the sultan of Morocco,
of a whole tribe in Angara Kaleila, because they
asked for French protection.
The government steamer Newdeld arrived 1T
Halifax on the 9Th with the survivors Of the
wrecked ocean steamer Amsterdam. All but
three of $50 passengers were saved.
A CREDIT Of $500, 900 was passed by the En-
glish House Of Commons for the relief of Cor
don on the 5th inst.
FRANCE has refused China's offer to pay
900, 900 indemnity and negotiations came to
an end on the 9Th. Admiral Courbet will do
everything in his power to precipitate war.
A GREAT reform meeting was held at Bingley,
England, on the night of the 4th inst, 1t
which the speakers strongly axacked the House
Of Lords for it's attitude in regard TO the
franchise bill. %
The steamer Richard Owens, form C.rdin for.
st. Johns, was sunk at eea by collision with the
steamer Belle Star on the Sd. -Four persons
drowned. The survivors were landed at Queens
| town. -
The steamer Dione, with An excursion party
on board, was sunk by collision with the steam
eraCamden in the Thames on the 4th inst. A
number of lives were lost.
The Egyptian Conference adjourned sine die,
on the I'd inst, without coming to an agree
ment.
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A Mexican Tragedy Of Long Ago.

High up in q canyon, about sixty
miles from Monterey, the traveller on
the ferro carrl sees the ruins Of an
ancient "casa" whose crumbling walls
are usually mistaken for one of the
numerous fortifcations left in Gen.
Taylor's wake. But this ghostly place
has q sadder history. It was the scene
ofa midnight tragedy, the actors of
which-if stories be true-still prowl
about the premises, though their bodies
have been dust for q hundred years.
The history, in brief, is this: A high
spirited Spaniard lived there, who in
herited ali the jealousy, suspicion, and
bad blood of his race. His beautiful
wife discarded another suitor to marry
him, and the Tilted lover determined on
revenge. He acted the part of Iago,
and caused Othello's ear to be filed
with cunning tales of his own invention.
Jealousy once reused in Southern blood
knows no bounds but death. The infu-
rated husband carefully devised his
plans, feigned business in Monterey,
but caused fleet horses to be stationed
every few miles along the road. Dur
ing the silent watches of the night he
returned, murdered his wife in her bed,
and by dint of hard riding accomplished
the 100 miles before daylight, Be
ing found in. Monterey in the morning,
nobody suspected him Of the crime till,
long afterward, discovering the plot
and his wifeis innocence, he plunged
his dagger into his enemy's heart and
then into his own. The orphaned chill
dren were taken to Saltillo and cared
for By the church, and the descendants
Of the actors In this so'er-true-tale" to-
day represent one of the most promi-
nent families IN Ooahuila. The deserted
CASE still stands as monument to the
poor Desdemona, and the venturesome
who have visited il assert that . wom-
IN ii white may be seen dutterine
about the mouldy halls in the moon.
light.
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P lE R B B E,
DA IL E&oTA

The city of Pierre is the county seat
of Hughes County, Oak, and is 10.
Gated on the east bank Of the Missouri
River, in the geographical center of tho
proposed new state of South Dakota,
and is opposite tho center of the great
Sioux Reservation. It is the present
terminus of the Dakota Central through
trunk line of the Chicago & Northwest
ern Railway; is distant 78l miles from
Chicago. and through daily trains with
out change OF cars run between the two
cities in 80 hours.
The city is mainly built upon the
large and broad terraces overlooking the
river, with it's wooded banks and islands,
and as the slope of each terrace or bench
is toward the river, the city is perfectly
drained and is free from tho dangers re-
sulting from floods or imperfect sewer
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Diseased Cattle,

CHICAGO, Aug. IAN outbreak of
Texas cattle fever has caused much ex-
element among cattle men in the
Southwest. Kansas City officials state
that consignment of cattle was re-
ceived there from the Indian Territory
which were affected with Spanish or
Texas fever, though it was not known
at the time. A portion of them were
shipped to Manhattan, Kas., the re-
mainder to Chicago. A Manhattan
dispatch says fifteen of the herd died
after they ani7ed from Kansas City.
About seventy in all died. Texas or
Spanish fever appeared in the vicinity
of Hiawatha, Kas. A number
of animals have died and sew
eral have been shot. Some weeks
ago train loaded with Texas cattle
passing north was partially wrecked
near Hiawatha and some stray animals
left behind. It is supposed they COM
municated the disease, which began to
spread rapidly. Reports from North
Platte state - that Texas fever
has broken out among the herds
at and near Brady Island in West
ern Nebraska that 100 head have died,
and that others are in a dying condi-
condition. Last May a bunch of Texas
cattle was herded at Ogalalla, 174 miles
east of Cheyenne. The place where
they were bedded afterward was fenced
in, and there small herd of native cat
tie contracted the disease. About 200
have died. A bunch of native bulls,
which have been grazed at Ogalalla, are
now affected at Rawins. Twenty-Five
have died and the remaining seventy
five are expected to. The diseased cat
tie that reached Chicago were killed and
the meat condemned.
BURLINGTON, N. j., July 3O.-The ap-
pearance of the cattle disease among
the herds in Mercer and Burlington
Counties has caused considerable alarm,
and it is feared that the disease is
spreading rapidly. Five deaths have
already occurred in the herds of John
V. Ely, near Hightstown, and two other
animals showing symptoms have been
ordered killed. A post-mortem exam
ination of large steer that had died
showed that the lungs were enlarged
beyond their natural size. The cells
were filed with solid matter and the
weight of each lung increased tenfold.
An examination Of the other infected
cattle showed one lung entirely closed
by the disease, while the other was en-
tirely healthy.
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.IEPRE.
The Population Of Pierre ID
2,600.

The Population Of Pierre is
2,6o0.
It has an excellent municipal govern
ernment. The Presbyterian College Of
Southern Dakota, now in operation, and
numerous ward schools, offer superior
educational advantages. There is one
first-olass hotel, the Wells House, and
ton second. class hotels open, two daily
and four weekly newspapers, four banks
and numerous wholesale and retail
houses in various branches of trade.
The surrounding Country
is thickly settled by farmers and COM
prises the finest farming land in Dakota.
Quarter sections, or farms of 160 acres
(every foo: of which can be cultivated,
can be bought for from $500 to 81, 200,
depending upon their distance from the
city. Government land can be taken up
within ten miles of the city. The coun.
try west of the river and included in the
great Sioux reservation (which it is ex-
pected will be thrown open to settle.
ment this spring. is the best wheat
growing land in Dakota.
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A Baby at the Masthead.

Not long ago an English lady took
passage on vessel bound from Kings
ton, Jamaica. to London. A large,
strong, and active monkey on board the
vessel took fancy to the lady's child,
a babe about two months old. The
monkey would follow the lady from
place to place, watching her. as she
rocked and fondled her little one. It
so happened on a beautiful afternoon
during the voyage that distant sail
attracted the attention of the pas
sengers. The polite captain offered the
lady the use of his glass. She placed
her child on the sofa and had just
raised the glass to her eye, when cry
was heard. Turning quickly she be-
held sailor in pursuit of the monkey,
which had grasped the infant firmly
with one arm and was nimbly climbing
the shrouds. The mother tainted as
the monkey reached the top of the
mainmast. The eootain was at his Wits
end. He feare he sent sailor in
pursuit the monkey would drop the
babe, and escape by leaping from mast
to mast. Meanwhile the monkey was
seen to be soothing and fondling the
child. After trying in many ways to
lure the animal down, the captain or
dered the men below and concealed
himself on deck. In q moment, to his
great joy, he saw the monkey carefully
descending. Reaching the deck it
looked carefully around, advanced to
the sofa, and placed the child upon it.
The captain restored the child to it's
mother, who was soon satisfied that her
darling had escaped without injury.
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NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.

-
FARM hands are getting So day.
HoUsE-BREAKERs are foraging at st.
Peter.
HARVESTING has commenced through
out the state. 49,. -.
MANKATo has cigar thief g. years old.
He is kleptomaniac.
AUSTIN merchants are moaning be-
cause business is dull.
The colored citizens of Winona jubi-
lated on Emancipation Day.
K. H1cKoK, of Woodstock, has in
vented steam chicken mandatory.
INDIANS are lowering around Crook
ston digging snake-root for living.
DIR. ROSES barn was burned at Fari-
bault by incendiaries few nights since.
Mrs. J. F. SPRAaUE, of Byron, fell
from wagon and was seriously injured.
MRS. Lucy A. BENNETT, one of the
pioneers of the state, died few days
since.
Tower, the infant town on the Du-
luth & Iron Range Road, claims 1000
souls.
SEVERAL elevators are to be built on
the Moorhead Northern Railroad this
year.
P1PEsroNE, among other metropoli-
tanisms, is to have system of water
works.
REDWOOD COUNTY has purchased 164
acres of land and buildings for a coun-
ty farm.
JAMES GRAY, of Fergus Falls, an old
citizen highly respected, is lying seri-
ously ill.
FRED. LUDKE, of Elva, has gone daft
and has been sent to the Rochester
mad house.
PROF. JEROME ALLEN of st. Cloud,
is going to New York to edit an educa-
tional journal.
THE steam -four mill at Albert Lea is
turning out 200 barrels of bread tim
Der per diem.
Rev. W. 81. AYERS, Presbyterian pas
tor of Albert Lea, has accepted a
pastorate in Chicago.
The Universalist Society of Albert
Lea have nearly cleared up the indebt-
edness of their church.
AN inmate of the st. Peter lunatic, of
the female persuasion, jumped from a
window and broke her leg.
A SWARM of bees at Alexandria have
made on an average eight pounds of
honey per day, for nine days.
CHARLEY NEwcoMB, an adventurous
kid of Faribault, fell from tree few
days since and broke his arm.
A YOUNG Englishman living on
farm near Winona, has returned to his
native soil, having fallen heir to $18,-
900.
Storla, the new incumbent of the
Crookston land Office, is sick and has
not concluded to accept the appoint
! ment.
JAMES RYAN of Crookston fought
battle with an elk the other day, in
which he was knocked out in the first
round.
LIZZIE JOHNSON, the Swede girl at
Duluth charged with infanticide, has
been acquitted. Public sympathy
cleared her.
MRS. GEO. H. PHILLIPS, of Litch-
field, was member of the Jones faml-
" who were massacred in 1852 in the
town of Acton.
A MANKATo miss has given signs of
metropohtanism by suddenly dropping
out of sight. Her father thinks she has
| been abducted.
/ Mrs. ED. P1LLBEAM, of Fergus Falls,
tried to drown herself in nine inches of
water the other day, but the water
wouldn't have it and she was taken out
a wetter but wiser woman.
The decision in favor of the plaintiff
in the suit of Eva L. Morse vs.. the
Minneapolis & st. Louis and Burling-
ton, Cedar Rapids & Northern Rail-
roads, for damage through the killing of
her husband, has been reversed by
Judge Farmer, of Albert Lea, and she
| will oot M sotiafaction
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
IT is always well to speak gently to
III oon1uofor han6a0mo oir1 in a

IT is always we'll to speak gently to
the conductor. A handsome girl in q
tailor-made suit twitched the coat of q
Sixth Avenue car conductor on New
York and remarked: @Say, sir, will you
let me off at--'s?" @All right, Miss, an
swered the young man as he rang up her
fare, eve 20 right by il" @Of course" !"
sarcastically, @and that's precisely what
I don't want to do" The passengers
laughed, but the conductor didn't. He
put that girl on the cross-walk three
blocks above her destination, and was q
half-mile away before she found it out.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13

THERE are $50 convicts within the
walls of the Tennessee penitentiary.
The prisoner who has been Il re the
longest is Eli Biddings, who haS been
serving since 1867. He is there for
life for murder.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
DAKOTA.

FRANKFORT has living gas well.
CLIFTON, in Sully County, is to sink
an artesian well.
Crow, a prominent Sioux chief, is
dying of consumption.
IT Is said that Gov. Pierce recognizes
Bismarck as the capital.
The G.. A. r. of Dakota meet at
Yankton in September.
A. G.. SANDERS, of Lisbon, lost $500
by fire few days ago.
LYNCHERs are looking for horse
thieves in Douglass County.
SARGENT COUNTY will be disturbed
by fierce county seat war.
The G.. A. r. boys were enthusias-
tically received at Devils Lake.
BISMARCK is loudly growing over q
mammoth brewery going up there.
GEORGE H. HAND, ex-secretary of the
territory, wants to go to Congress.
J.P. FOSTER, q Bismarck pioneer, fell
dead from heart disease few days since.
The grading of the Pierre & Black
Hills Railroad will be completed next
fall.
s.. T. CHURCH, Of Fargo, wants re-
ceiver appointed for the Fargo Repub-
ican.
TREASURER WARDwELL, of Pembina
County, is said to be all right in his ac-
counts.
INDIAN mounds near Mandan are full
of quaint proofs of copper colored in
genuity.
GRAFroN's National Bank building is
to- be one of the finest structures in the
territory.
The Winnebago Indians in Hughes
County are liable to be ousted by claim
squstters.
E. A. STILES, at Swan Lake, had
barn blown down and two horses killed,
a few days since.
WAaoNsPoRT, eighteen miles from
Bismarck, has no newspaper. There
are hotel and postofice there.
MORE rain has fallen in the terri
tory this year than was ever known to
have fallen in the same length of time
before. t~
BOX. SEWARD SMITH, newly appoint
ed Judge of the Fifth Judicial District,
was rendered q reception ct Huron the
other day. -.
LA MoURE's new hotel claims to be
able to La Moure travelling men away
comfortably than any other hostelry in
the Northwest. . -. - ::
LA INQUIRE wants Judge Frances to
hold aterm of court there, but the Judge
thinks Grand Rapids is the place, as that
is the county seat. >l~s
CHAs. OsTEAT, farmer living near
Grand Forks, was struck and killed by
lightning few days since. His wife
Witnessed the fatality from window.
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DE-. JOHN BAssEr CHApM, superin-
tendent Of the Willard (Ovid, n. -
Insane Asylum, has been elected super
intendent oethe sylvania Hospital
for the Insane. DR.. Chaplin is about
IS years Of age, and has attained high
rank as q specialist in mental diseases.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13

a CORRESPONDENT describes MB. Os-
or Wilde = somewhat timid, rather
pretty little body.
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Ran WAY HOUSE.
HALL d HAx

Rooms up town. Guests carried to and from the
city free Of charge. Up town connected by tale.
phone at Clemmer h Poolerb. Austin, Mimi.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
BUSINESS CARDS.
r Obj CONKLIN,
BARRIERS AND HAIR DRESSERS,
at their new Tonsorial Parors. Shower and Ho
Baths. We have two frst-class bath-rooms. Mail
Street, Austin, Minn.
TNHOS. PHILLIPS, II. D.,
ROMOE0PATHIC PHYaICZAH 4 SURGEON.

Has permanently located In Austin. Calls In
CITY or country promptly attended 70 st all hours
Office and rooms In Schlender's block, FIRST door
north Of Mower County Bank. eB-Eleotrio baths
given at the office.
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DED CEDAR MILLS.

Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer In the best
brands of Grecers' and Baksrs' Flour. Also IN
kinds Of Mill Feed for sale a* his store on Main
stree, Austin, Minn., and It the kll, two miles
south Of tho city,
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THE CHOLERA.

Its Prevention and Cure-Some Valuable
Advice from q Physician Who Has Had
Experience with the Disease In Turkey.
The following letter was written by
DR.. Hamlin, for many years mission
ary at Constantinople, whose experience
in treating cholera extended through
three visitations of that disease in Tur-
key:
DEAR S1R: The cholera, which has Just left
us, after committing fearful ravages, is max
ing it's way into Europe, and will probably cross
the Atlantic before another steamer has passed.
Having been providentially compelled to have q
good degree Of practical experience with it and
TO see it in all its forms and stages during each
Of its invasions of Constantinople, wish to
make to my friends in Name some suggestions
which may relieve anxiety or be of practical
uee.
: On the approach of cholera every family
should be prepared to treat it, without waiting
for physician. 1t does its work 80 expe-
ditiously that while you are waiting for the
doctor it is done.
II you prepare for it it will not come. I
think there is no disease which may be avoided
with go much certainty as the cholera. But
providential circumstances, as the thoughtless
irdiscretion of some member Of q household,
never be refused; it will probably be made in
the night your physician has been called in
another direction, and you must treat the case
yourself or it will be fatal.
I have personally investigated at least 100
cases, and not less than three-quarters could
be traced to improper diet, or to intoxicating
drinks, or to both united. OF the remainder
suppressed perspiration would compass large
number. A strong, healthy, temperate labor
ing man had severe attack of cholera, and af-
ter the danger had passed I was curious to as
certain the cause. He had been cautious and
prudent in his diet. He used nothing intoxi-
eating. His residence was in good locality,
but after some hours Of hard labor and very
profuse perspiration he had lain down to take
his customary nap right against an open VIM
dow, through which very refreshing breeze
was blowing. Another cause is drinking large
ly Of cold water when hot and thirsty. Great
fatigue, great anxiety, fright, fear, all figure
among exciting causes. If one can avoid all
these he is as safe from the cholera as from be-
ing swept away by a comet.
Symptoms Of an attack. While cholera is
prevalent in place almost everyone experiences
more or less disturbance OF digestion. It is
doubtless in part imaginary. Everyone notices
the slightest variation Of feeling, and this gives
an importance to mere trif1es. There are often
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NEW YORK.
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