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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
POLITICAL.

The Ninth Wisconsin District Repub-
ican convention, at Oconto on the 9th,
nominated Hon. Isaac Stephenson for
Congress.
The Republicans of Dodge County
held q convention at Dodgeville OH the
9th, and chose delegates to the state,
senatorial and congressional conven-
tions. The Prohibitionists also met on
the same day and chose their delegates.
The Dane County Republicans, in
convention at Madison on the 9th, de-
clared in favor of the present state
officers, and instructed their delegates
to the congressional convention to vote
for r. NJ. La Toilette.
REPUBLICAN County conventions for
choosing delegates to congressional con-
ventions were held on the 9th in Rock
and Boscobel Counties. The Douglas
County Democrats and the Prohibition
lists of Walworth County also held con-
ventions.
AT the Republican convention at
Reedsburg on the 9th, D. B. Hubert
was nominated for the Fourteenth SEN
atorial District. ~ .e..Er..>
The Michigan Prohibitionist conven-
tion, at Lansing, on the 9th, nominated
David Preston for governor,
TAE Democrats and Greenbackers of
the Second Michigan District, on the
9th, re-nominated N. B. Eldredge for
Congress.
The Texas Greenback state conven-
tion, at Waco, on the Goth, chose full
Butler-West electoral ticket. The
party will support Jones, the Independ
ent candidate, for governor.
B. ]. HALL, of Burlington, was chosen
for Congress, by the Democrats of the
First Iowa District. 49,.
AT tho Democrat Greenback fusion
convention in the Seventh Iowa District,
on the 26th, Judge w. II. Henry,
Democrat, of Des Moines, was nomi-
mated for the long term, and William
Knder, Greenback, of Winterset, for
the short term.
The Democrats and Greenbackers OF
the Kalamazoo, Mich, District, renomi-
mated the present representative,
George L. Yaple.
The Republicans of the second Mich.
igau District, on the 23d nominated
Martin Holcomb for Congress.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
Atoms.
(From Cassell's Saturday Journa,.l

(From Cassell's Saturday Journa,.l
Gold-beaters, by hammering, can
reduce gold leaves so thin that 2S2:OOO
must be laid upon each other to pro.
duce the thickness of an inch, yet each
leaf is SO perfect and free from holes
that one of them laid on any surface, as
in gliding, gives the appearance Of solid
gold. They are SO thin that if formed
into book ], 800 would only occupy the
space of single leaf of common paper;
and an octave volume Of an inch thick
would have as many pages as the books
of q well.stooked library of 1,5OO vol
umes, with 400 pages in each. j Still
thinner than this is the coating of gold
upon the silver wire Of what is called
gold lace, and we are not sure that such
coating is not of only one atom thick.
Platinum and silver can be drawn into
w1re much timer than human hair. A
grain Of blue vitriol or carmine will
tinge q gallon Of water SO that in every
drop the color may be perceived. A
grain Of musk will scent room for
twenty years, and will at that period
have lost little Of its weight. The car
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03

ron crow smells it's food many miles of.
A burning taper, uncovered for q single
instant, during which it does not lose
e.thousandth of grain, would fill
with light sphere four miles in diane
ter, so as to be visible in every part Of
it. The thread of the silkworm is so
small that many of them are twisted to
gether to form our finest sewing thread;
but that of the spider is smaller still,
for two drachms of it by weight would
reach from London to Edinburg, or 400
miles. In the milt of Goldfish or in
water in which vegetables have been
infused the microscope discovers ami
malcules of which many thousands to-
gether do not equal in bulk a grain of
sand; and yet nature, with singular
prodigality, has supplied many of these
with organs as complete as those of the
whale or the elephant; and their bodies
consist of the same substance, or ulti-
mate atoms, as that of man himself. In
single pound of such matter there are
more, living creatures than of human
i,eirgs on the face of the globe.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
Bill Nye on PI']hIlrenlo,logy. PHI

p.
An erroneous phrenologist once told
me that would shine as q revivalist,
and said that I ought to marry tall
blonde, with sanguinary tempera-
ment. Then he said: Ono dollar,
please" ard said: AL right, gentle
scientist with tawny name, will give
you the dollar and mary the tall blonde
with q bank. account and bilious tenn
permanent when You give me 9 chart
showing me how to dispose OF brown
eyed brunette with q thoughtful cast of
countenance, who married me in an
unguarded moment two years ago.
He looked at me in q reproachful
kind of way, struck at me with 9 chair
in an absent-minded manner and stole
away.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
FOREIGN.

A DISPATCH from Peru, of the 28th,
says the rebels under Caceeres entered
Lima, and although there was little or
no resistance $50 people were massacred
by the rebels and 800 prisoners taken.
A DISPATCH of the 9th says Gen.
Wo]seley is to assume supreme COM
mand OF the British army in Egypt.
Riots are reported from Italy by dis
patches of the 9th, caused by the hos
tility of the peasantry to the doctors in
cholera cases.
A FAMINE RACES in parts of India,
owing to drouth. -. =
ADvIcEs from Mexico of the 26th, re-
port that vessel has arrived at the
port of Salinas Cruz, on the Pacific
coast, with Asiatic cholera on board.
OVER six hundred Egyptian officers
and soldiers are in the hands of the
rebels, being treated as slaves.
CHOLERA is again on the increase in
the infected districts of France. The
returning fugitives are again fleeing.
Russia will establish sanitary Gordon
on her western frontier.
In accordance with instructions the
French bombarded Foo Chow, China.
on the 23d. The French Consul at
Shanghai has hauled down his flag, and
trouble has begun. A dispatch Of the
Oath says the Foo-Chow arsenal was
destroyed after three hours lombard
ment. Seven Chinese gunboats were
sunk.
A DISPATCH of the Oath says fire has
been raging for three days in Rawa, a
town of Austrian Galicia, rendering
5000 people homeless. The harvest.
just gathered, was also consumed, to-
gether with L IA dwellings, and 327 farms.
NEWS from Egypt of the 23d report
that a mysterious intestinal disease has
attacked the troops of the Prophet, and
the deaths number from thirty to forty
per day.
A sTowAwAY was landed at Waterford
Eng. cn the 22d, from vessel bound
from Liverpool for Baltimore. The
man was discovered to be i'll and the
disease wss pronounced to be cholera.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
P l,E R B {,
DAKOTA


The city of Pierre is the county seat
of Hughes County, Oak, and is To-
Gated on the east bank of the Missouri
River, in the geographical center of the
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 the dangers re-.
sulting from floods or imperfect sewer
age.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
Historical Hot Summers.
from the London Standard

From the LOQOOQ SGaQQ8rO.J
People who are already complaining
of the heat while this summer is scarce
~ month old, says the XiXeme Sicle
should remember the extraordinary
weather of former years. In 627 the
heat was SO great in France and Ger
many that all springs dried up; water
became SO scarce that many people died
of thirst. In 879 work in the fields had
to be given up; agricultural laborers
persisting in their work were struck
down in a few minutes, so powerful was
the sun. In 993 the suns rays were so
fierce that vegetation burned up as un-
der the action of fire. In 1000 rivers
ran dry under the protracted heat, the
fish we're left dry in heaps and putrufed
in a few hours. The stencil that ensued
produced the plague. Men and ami.
mails venturing in the sun in the sum-
mer of 1922 fell down dying, the throat
parched to tinder and the blood rush
ing to the brain. In 1882 not only did
the rivers dry up, but the ground
cracked on every side and became baked
to the hardness of stone. The Rhine
in Alsace nearly dried up. Italy was
visited with terrific heat in 1889; vegt-
tation ana plants were burned up.
During the battle of Bella in 1860 there
were more victims, made by the sun
than by weapons; men fell down sun
struck in regular rows. The summer of
1877 was also severe; there was an alb.
solute dearth of forage. In 1903 and
1904 the Rhine, Loire, and Seine ran
dry. In 1915 the heat throughout
Europe became excessive. Scotland
suffered particularly in 1925; men and
beasts died in scores. The heat in sew
eral departments during the summer of
1705 was equal to that in a glass furnace.
Meat could be cooked by merely expos
ing it to the sun. Not soul dare
venture out between noon and P. NJ.
In 1718 many shops had to close; the
theaters never opened their doors for
several months. Not drop of water
fell for six months. In 1853 the ther-
mometer rose to 118 degrees. In 1779
the heat at Bologna was SO great that a
great number of people we're stifed.
There was not sufficient air for the
breath, and people had to take refuge
under ground. In July, 1893, the heat
became intolerable. Vegetables were
burned up, and fruit dried upon the
trees. The furniture and wood work in
dwelling houses cracked and split up;
meat went bad in an hour. The rivers
ran dry in several provinces dur.
ing 1911; expedients had to be devised
for the grinding of corn. In 1922 a
protracted heat was accompanied by
storms and earthquakes; during the
drought legions of mice overran Lor.
raine and Alsace, committing incalcula-
BILE damage. In 1882 the heat brought
about cholera in France; 10000 persons
fell victims to the visitation in Paris
alone. In 1916 the thermometer
marked 125 degrees in the sun. Final.
", the summers Of 1859. 1860, 1869
1870, 1874, etc, although excessively
hot, we're not attended by any disaster
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
CRIMINAL.

The body of John Fuchs, the miss
ing Milwaukee baker, was taken from
the Menomonee River on the 28th.
The body of John Floyd Mason, a
yoang farmland, was found near
Washington Court House, O, on the
28th. He had been murdered.
AT Cincinnati. on the 26th, Thomas
Bernandini, a saloon-keeper, shot and
fatally wounded fruit peddler named
Giovanni Deparli.
LOUIS BECKER, a prominent Milwau
kee saloonist, committed suicide on the
afternoon of the Goth by jumping into
the river from Racine Street bridge.
No cause is assigned for the act.
AT Gatesville, Tex, on the oath, q
boy named Graham was stabbed and
killed ly companion named Hewlett.
The father of-the murdered boy visited
his grave on ;hAe 26th, and found the
young murderer and his father there.
A fight ensued in which all three were
killed.
JOIN P. SLOAN, the Newberry, s. c.,
wife murderer, was surrounded by q
posse in a log hut on the 26th. Pre-
ferring death to capture, he barricaded
the place and then shot himself.
a D1ssoLUTE man named Alfred Cofff-
man, shot and killed his wife at
Autrain, in the upper peninsula of
Michigan, on the 25th.
Dora HUBERT, q servant at the In
ternational Hotel, La Crosse, was found
dead in bed on the morning of the 25th,
with bullet hole through her heart.
Supposed suicide.
Ar Lynchburg, Va, on the oath,
Eldridge Morris, q prominent young
farmer, becoming exasperated over in
suits to his mother uttered by colored
woman named Lou Green, hurled q
boot-jack at her, fracturing her skull
and causing her death.
WILLIAM NoRR1s, head teacher Of the
Markdale, Ont, school, killed the
assistant teacher, Miss Ford, on the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
DAI o.TA
Opportunities for Business.

VppOI tU04tAo0 xOS DUS100SSs
Pierre is an excellent city to engage
in any kind of merchantile pursuits
(wholesale or retail, because its rates Of
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 q good point to engage in man.
ufacturing business Of any kind, and lib
eral nd viii 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 viii produce handsome
returns, and money used In the erection
Of buildings has and will pay % per
cent. It you desire TO avail yourself Of
the opportunities presented n . new
country and . rapid growing city, and
wish any reliable information in refer
ence to Pierrs, it will be gladly fur.
nishsd by addressing
w. s. w ELLIS,
Pierre. .. +.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
GENERAL

The Adrian (Mich) Savings Bank
succumbed to q run on the 28th.
About $50, 600 is due depositors. The
assets are said to be sufficient to meet
all demands.
TEN Jersey cows were killed at Elms-
hurst, Ill, on the 28th, by DR.. Paaren,
state veterinarian. Their carcasses
showed moro OF less decided traces Of
pleuro-pneumonia.
THE jury in the case Of Wilbur +.
Storey, proprietor Of the Chicago
Times, has declared Storey . distracted
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
DAKOTA.
FLANDREAU has q tow mill.

FLANDREAU has tow mill.
The latest Fargo directory contains
1882 names.
GEO. GIBBS, shot by Ansley, at Bis
marck, is dead. ...
AN acre of ground in Ransom County
raised 375 bushels of peas.
The rumor is ahoat that the capital
of the territory is to removed again.
Sioux FALLS business men have guar
teed 81, 900 to the county fair, if needed.
A NORMAL INSTITUTE will be held in
Canton from August ~ to September 6.
BISMARCK people pay $3.50 0 q year
for water hauled from the river in bar
rels.
QUAIL have made their appearance in
Day Couuty-the first seen in that Sec
ton.
RAMSEY. COUNTY two years ago had
only five white residents. Now it shows
up 1880.
SAM BEAR, of Ransom County, tied
himself to the end of rope, and swung
over into eternity.
The Mandan Pioneer estimates that
100000 bushels of wheat will be mar
keted at that point within month.
!. DAKOTA has 2,544 miles of railroad.
She thus stands sixteenth in this re-
gard in the list of states and territories.
The great Dalrymple wheat farm will
produce 600 bushels of wheat this sea-
son. The harvesting Of this crop is now
in process.
TINS years appropriations for sur
syeys il Dakota is $40, 900, Of which 800
600 will be used this fall and SIC, 600
held back for future use.
DAKOTA has 100000 acres of school
land which cannot be sold fer less tl,a'
$40 per acre. Much of it will brn-.
more than that TO- day. It will hr svs
able when sta es are formed.
COMMISSIONERS have been appointed
for Towner County, but they have coz
cluded not to organize, as the necessary
cost of county buildings. etc.. would re-
too great burden for the few SETTLERS
in that county.
The other day, during violent wind
storm, schoolhouse IN one OF the
outer districts from Sioux Falls, was
blown half mile with it's precious bur-
den of twenty little ones and pretty
schoolma'am. The teacher told the lit
tie ones to pray for safe anchorage
One little girl hesitated to kneel, and
remarked: Perhaps We bad better
wait a little while. for there may be a
way out of this yet" None of the in
mates were injured.
BEING of an inquir1ng turn of mind
the editor of the Canton News investl-
gates the matter and refutes the claim
made by the South Dakota papers thai
North Dakota has received more than a
fair share of appropriations. The ap-
propriations for the past two : ears have
been: South Dakota, $774,425; North
Dakota, $14O,OOO. North Dakota pays
so per cent. Of the taxes and gets Is
per cent. of the appropriations. South
Dakota pays an equal sbaEe OF taxes and
gets IS per cent. Of aps,ro I;r,asi12ls,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03

THERE is great complaint among the
-harvesters around Reno, New, be-
cause Of the prevalence of honey-dew
hay. They find it necessary every fif-
teen or twenty minutes to stop the
reaper and scrape the gum eff from the
knife, and then the raking process is
still more troublesome. The hay sticks
together SO tightly that it cannot be
handled with horse rake. One farmer
SAYS when he first commenced cutting
his hay he made windrow about forty
rods long, which was allowed to remain
undisturbed for twenty-four hours, and
when they tried to cock it, in the ordin-
ary way for stacking, they hadto cut it
into sections with hay knife. It was,
in fact, veritable hay-rope, which
could have been dragged all over the
arm without bfeaking.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
.IE;F P ID,
The Population Of Pierre is
2,60O.

SA0 Il AOpOA0tAVA - A04S0 -
2,600.
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
irst-class hotel, the Wells House, and
ten second-c 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 tbiskly settled by farmers and COM
prises the finest farming land in Dakota.
Quarter sections. or farms of l60 acres
(every foo: of which can be cultivated,)
can be bought for from 5000 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 sprine) is the best wheat
growing land in Dakota,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
Old Spots Welcome to His Rider.

lFrom the Christian Register.]
Old Spot, Gen. Kilpatrick's favorite
war-horse, bore his master gallantly on
long and perilous rides and in the thick
of many desperate fight, himself more
than once feeling the prick of steel and
the sting of lead. Subsequent to the
war Gen. Fitzpatrick was sent to South
America. He left the old horse at the
farm, with orders that he should be
kindly cared for. Returning, after an
absence of several years, the General
reached his home near night and was for
some time occupied in exchanging
greetings with his family and friends.
He did not, however, long neglect to In
quire after the old horse. Learning
that Spot was at pasture in a distant
field, the General sent for him, and
little later was told that his favorite was
securely tied to post at the entrance
of the grounds, some distance away.
The General fastened out on to the
piazza, from whence, peering through
the shadows, he described the form of
the old veteran, who stood demurely
gnawing at the post. Just the one word,
sSpot!" rang out over the lawn. Like
an echo came back the answering neigh.
With q snort and q bound the old
charger snapped the halter as if 1t had
been thread, cleared the fence at leap,
and, with arched neck and ears proudly
erect, spurned the intervening turf like
q race horse until he stood by the
piazza, where with joyful wbinny he
laid his head upon his masters breast
Added the General: *We hugged and
caressed each other like lovers, and I
am not ashamed to say that no welcome
received that day warmed my heart
more than that of old Spot"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03

SINCE the opening Of the Brooklyn
bridge, fourteen months ago, 1885, 600.
persons have crossed it,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
Mitigating a Nuisance.

The suffering men and women who
have felt that there was no relief from
the prosecutions of the piano fend
should take courage, for their deliver
ance is at hand. Signor Vallo, profes-
sor of Music, of No. 1905 Arch Street,
has discovered simple method by
which the volume of sound of any
piano may be reduced at will nearly
eight -tenths. He says it is impossible
to prevent one learning to play on the
piano from pounding on the instrument
and thus producing much more noise
than is necessary for successful practice.
It is equally difficult to restrain child
from constantly pressing on the hard
pedal. thereby introducing continued
aiscords to increase the unpleasant
aural effect. Not only does the sound
annoy others, but from it's loudness it
d at ns the ear of the learner, making
vt more difficult to acquire true musical
taste.
A reporter called on Signor Vallo
yesterday afternoon and was shown the
method by which he reduces the sound
of the piano. Tt consists in adjusting
simple wedge-]ike attachment between
the damper and the frame of the piano,
thus destroying to great extent the
vibratory power of the chords. The
effect was to soften the tone till the
volume was about equal to that of
guitar. One in an adjoining room could
scarcely hear the piano when played,
and the advantage of this when learner
is performing will be obvious. The
sweetness of the music was not lost, the
effect being simply to reduce the vol
ume. The attachment can instantly be
put on or off, and no injury to the piano
results from having restrained the
learners propensity for noise.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03

nR. G. 8. BEAULIEU.
uffice over sleeper's Drug stere, Brownsville,
Minnesota,
sB-Pesching at Christian Chapel cry Sunday
morning aud evening.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03
BUSINESS CARDS.

T OBJ & CONKLIN,
BARRIERS AND HAIR DRESSERS,
at their new Tonsorial Parlors. Shower and Hot
Baths. We have two frst-c]ass bathrooms. Main
Street, Austin, MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-03

4 41TORNEY At Law,

Austin, Mum. Practices in all tho courts Of the
state. Prompt attention given to Collecting. Of
fee over the Mower County Bank. jun20
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Bahuuuf6IIe.

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