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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-16
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-01
A Louisiana Jury.

The iberia Enterprise reports and ex-
presses surprise at the verdict of the jury
in the case of Maturin Lenin, who was
tried for the murder of Frank Harrington
on the 18th of March. The facts, which
The Enterprise states were fully proven
before the jury, show that the accused
shot the deceased in the back in drink
ing saloon, while the latter was in the act
of being carried to Jail by a police Off
Ger. But as there was some reason to
believe that the gunshot wound pro-
duced erysipelas, the adroit counsel for
the defense seems to have convinced
the intelligent jury that Harrington
died q natural death, and they brought
in a verdict Of mot guilty. to the ap-
parent satisfaction of the usual crowd
around q country court. as they ap-
plauded the result vociferously. The
Judge, the district attorney, and the
editor Of The Enterprise were not 9 lit
tie surprised at the verdict, but there
was no help for it.-New Orleans Item.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-01
The Parsons Mistake.

A few Sundays ago minister preach
ed sermon on the evils of mendacity,
to a congregation in the backwoods
near Nipantuck. In the course of his
remarks he alluded to the tragic death
of Ananias. At the close of the sermon
an old deacon took the minister aside,
and informed the reverend gentlemen
that he had made a mistake in regard
to Ananias.
"How sop asked the astonished
divine.
"Why, by telling the congregation
that Ananias is dead,' said the deacon.
I'll don't understand" said the
minister in some confusion. "Plcase
explain
''Dang it!' said the deacon, ''nearly
every man in the congregation is an
office seeker, and when they learn that
Ananias is dead the whole burned
crowd will want to fill his place."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-01
THE NAME UNSUNG
"Sing ye," she said-the lyric muse
"Ofhuman hopes and fears,
OF human smiles and tears.',

S1k yo, sue S0lU-tne AyI1C muse
Ofhuman hopes and fears,
Ofhuman smiles and tears,
In all the tones that singers use $780,.
They sang through all the years.
ssYou sing brave songs of war" she said
You sing the hopes of youth;
You sing the might of truth;
You sing of stars, of roses red,
And maidens that love, in sooth.
'sYou sing me well of JOY" she said,
And better yet of pain
OF hearts that loved in vain,
OF lovers lost or cold or dead,
Of hopes like blasted grain"
She said, YEA, even of things divine,
Full loftily you sing;
And but one gracious thing
Have you forgot, Oh! singers mine,
To tune on pipe or string"
''Of love that taught to WOO and wed,
OF love that died for others,
Or knitted friends like brothers.
You sing full well; and yet" she said,
"WhO names the love Of mothers?''
They bent the knee and barred the head
Young poets ofto-day,
Old bards of ages grayl
1--WE cannot sing of her." they said;
"Spare that one name, we pray.
"Let art claim all the rest" they cried:
seThat name is natures own"
They spoke with graver tone;
'1Queen, thine be every name beside,
''But mother ours alone"
-Ltppincott's Magazine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-01

A manufacturer of pills in London
has forwarded to Gen. Wolseley 10000
hand-bills, extolling the virtues of his
medicine in the highest terms, and
Offering a reward of $3.50 to the soldier
who shall first paste one of them on the
palace door at Khartoum.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-01
Nervous Dlbilitated Men

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Of the use Of DR.: Dyes celebrated Voltaic
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Nervous Debility, loss of Vitality and Man
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many other diseases. Complete restoration
to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed.
No risk is incurred. Illustrated pamphlet,
with full information, terms, ETC., mailed
free by addressing Voltaic Belt Co., Mar
shall, Mich.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-01
The Crosse Fever"


Doctor, l thought you would never
come. I can't stand it much longer,
said young man toa Cincinnati doc
tor. I've got such pain in my head.
First it was headache, then my head
got cold and the pain concentrated be-
tween my eyes. When I breathe
through my nose it feels as if my brains
were being pulled OUT
"Humph'' said the doctor, sheen to
the flower-show, have you?''
"Yes," said the young man in sur
prise, '1've been there two or three
times.''
"Well, you've got rose fever. Some
times it's called hay fever. Some
flower has poisoned you. Had a lot of
patients like you this week.
When the patient had been prescribed
for and had departed, the writer, who
had been somewhat surprised at the
diagnosis given, remarked:
''Were you jesting about that mans
complaint?''
mo, certainly not. 1 have had a
number of patients this week who have
had the same trouble. Some of them
have not had as severe an attack as
this man has, but complain of unusual
pain in the head which they can not ac-
count for. 1t is queer disease, and
yet it is perfectly explainable on a nat
ural and reasonable basis. Plants and
flowers possess in nearly every instance
some good or bad property. A child
at play in the garden may take a fancy
to eat the leaves or.the seeds of pump
kin and no harm results. The next
minute or two the little thing changes
it's food to jimson seeds and then there
is funeral. In some cases it is the
root only of the plant which is poison
Gus or beneficial, and it may have to be
treated in a complicated way before its
qualities can be extracted. In other
plants it is the leaves alone which con-
tain the properties, and then again in
many other instances they are contained
in the flower. It is not, perhaps, the
whole flower which is of use. 1t may
be the corolla, or the calyx, or the sta
mems, or the pistils, or the petals which
are charged with good or evil. And
then, too, as you have often heard, no
doubt, the same flower or some other
vegetable matter does not affect all
people alike. Hay and rag weed are
the best known causes of this species
of catarrh, and it's name, hay fever,
has been given to it on that account.
There is no determining what
flowers have and have not this influ-
ence. Some people are affected by
tuberoses, others by lilies of various
kinds. know hi g, strong man who
is thrown into perfect agony by the
slightest smell of fiaxseed when pre-
pared for a poultice. Another man OF
my acquaintance would be made violent
" i'll if ~buckwheat flour is cooked in a
building where he is. All these things
are perfectly explainable on scientific
grounds. which don't propose to enter
into now, but if you will inquire among
the people who have been to the flower.
show am sure you will find many who
have had sudden headaches and trouble
with catarrh after leaving the flowers u
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-01

evidence that there was neither the uni
versal decentralization on our side nor
the unbounded confidence on theirs
which has been claimed. There was,
in fact, no hour during the day when l
doubted the eventual defeat of the
enemy, although was disappointed
that reenfOrcements. so near at hand
did not arrive at an earlier hour.
The description of the battle of Shiloh
given by Col. William Preston Johnston
IS very graphic and we'll told. The
reader will imagine that he can see at
each blow struck a demoralized and
broken mob of Federal soldiers, each
blow sending the enemy, more democrat
lied than ever, toward the Tennessee
river, which was little more than two
miles away at the beginning of the on
set. If the reader does not stop to in
quire why, with such Confederate sue
cess, for more than twelve hours of
hard fighting, the national troops were
not all killed, captured, or driven into
the river, he will regard the pen picture
as perfect. But I witnessed the fight
from the national side from o'clock
in the morning until night closed the
contest, and l see but little in the de-
scription that I can recognize. The
Confederate troops fought well, and
deserve commentator enough for their
bravery and endurance on the 9th of
April without detracting from their
antagonists, or claiming anything more
| than their due.
This is how the General describes
his first meeting with President
Lincoln:
Ihad never met Mr.. Lincoln until
called to the capital to receive my COM
mission as Northumberland. knew
him, however, very well. and fayorably,
from the accounts given by officers
under me at the West, who had known
him all their lives. / had also read
the remarkable course of debates
between Lincoln and Douglas q few
years before, when they were rival
candidates for the United States
Senate I was then a resident Of Mis-
souri,, and by no means = 'Lincoln
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-01

Our smokestack was riddled with
bullets, but there were only three men
wounded on the boats, and but one of
these was soldier. When I first went
on deck I entered the captains room
adjoining the pilot house, and threw
myself on sofa. l did not keep that
position a moment, but rose to 60 out
on the deck to observe what was going
on. had scarcely left when a musket
ball entered the room, struck the head
of the sofa, passed through it and lodged
in the foot
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-01

in the old army and / told him as q mat
ter Of course remembers him perfect
" butowing to the difference in years
-therebeing about sixteen years diff
ference in our ages-and our rank, I
thought it very likely 1 had not at
tracted his attention sufficiently to be
remembered after such long period.
Our conversation grew so pleasant that
/ almost forgot the object of our meet
ing. Gen. Lee at that time was accom-
panied by one of his staff: officers, q
Col. Marshall. had all of my staff
with me good portion of which were
in the room during the whole inter-
view.
His book begins with his account of
his ancestry, followed by his own birth
and boyhood, and so onward to the
grand review of the troops in Washing
ton at the close of the war, at which
point the story ends. As to his family,
he says it sis American and has been
for generations, in all its branches,
direct and collateral" Matthew Grant
the founder of it in America, landed in
OOACuCoLCl AdSS., III AOOV Aue HcutE-
al is of the eighth generation from
Matthew. In the generation fifth in de-
cent from Matthew, Noah, and Solo
mon Grant were soldiers, commissioned
under the British Grown, who fought
and died in the French and Indian war
in 1856. The Generals grandfather,
also named Noah, joined in the CONT
mental army in the Revolutionary war as
a member of a Connecticut company.
He served throughout the war, bein g
present at Bunker Hill, and did not get
his discharge until after the fall of York
town. ''He must have been on furlough
part of the time," the General writes,
''for he married in Connecticut during
the war, had two children, and was q
widower at the close.'
Here is one of the stories of his boy
hood:
There was Mr.. Ralston living with
in few miles of the village, who owned
a colt which very much wanted. My
father had offered 800 for it, but Raj
ston wanted $25. I was so anxious to
have the colt that after the owner left l
horo~o1 k1 lo onoxuo1 ~ %o1>o l,;,>o ~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-01
THEBEAUTIFUL RIVER.
BENJAMIN.. TAYLOR.

BENJAMIN.. TAYLOR. -
Like fondling in slumber the summer day
On the crimsoning threshold Of even,
And I thought that the glow through the
azure-arched way
Was glimpse Of the coming of heaven.
There together we sat by the beautiful
We had nothing to do but to love and to
dream,
In the days that had gone on before;
These are not the same days, though they
bear the same name,
But it may be that angels are calling them
For Sabbath and summer forever;
When the years shall forget the December
And the shroud shall be woven, no, never.
In twilight like that, Jennie June for a
Oh! what more Of the world could one wish
for besides,
AS we gazed on the river unrolled,
Till we heard as we fancied, it's musical
When it flowed through the gateway Of
gold!
no more,
On the banks of the beautiful river:
Let the boat be unmoored, and be muffed
the oar,
And we'll steal into heaven together.
IF the angel on duty our coming describes,
You have nothing to do but throw off the
disguise
That you wore while you wandered with
me;
Aud the sentry will say. 'sWelcome back
to the skies
We have long been awaiting for thee"
o, how sweetly she spoke, ere she uttered a
word,
With that blush, partly hers, partly even's !;
And the tone like the dream of song we
once heard,
AS she whispered, ''That way is not
heavens.
'For the river that runs by the realms Of
the blest
Has no song on its ripple, no star on its
breast;
Oh! that river is nothing like this;
For it glides on in shadow, beyond the
worlds west,
Till it breaks into beauty and bliss"
am lingering yet, but linger alone,
On the banks of the beautiful river;
IT'S the twin of that day, but the waves
where it shone
Bears the willow-tree's shadow forever.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-01

When Baby was sick, we gave her CAS-
TORIA.
When she was Child, she cried for CAS-
TORIA.
When she became Miss, she chung to Cas-
TORIA.
When she had Children, she gave them
CASTORIA.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-01-08
Three Unhappy Emperors.

From Life. Qondon)
An immense amount of rubbish is
both written and talked about the meet
ing of the three Emperors. According
to some folks, these three worthy gem
tlemen met to plan out schemes of in
ternational robbery; others declare that
they met only to isolate La belle
France"-whatever that they mean ;
whilst third section assure Us that the
old topic of the imperial tongues was
England, and her base schemes for an
nexing the whole of this world and the
next too. Poor Emperors lhow amused
they must be at all the inconsequent
chatter that goes on anent their pro-
ceedings! The fact is, they met solely
to form themselves into mutual pro-
lection society. They are so beset by
Anarchists, by Socialists, and by Nihi-
lists that they are at their imperial wits
ends, and don't know which way to turn.
So they said, Let us meet, and see If
we cannot devise scheme whereby
some small modicum of human happl-
ness may not be reserved for us. They
are indeed pitiable sight, these three
Emperors, lodging bombshells, scut-,
thing from corner to corner of their
vast dominions in the dead of night,
hiding under sheaves of sabres, driving
through streets made gay by Official
bunting. Who would be an Emperor,
indeed!
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-01-08
Crimes and Criminals.

The Perceval murder in Nance county Neb
seems to be pretty conclusively fastened upon
Furnival
George W. Walker, prominent lawyer. who
was delegate to the democratic national con-
vention, committed suicide recently Mt
Heathsville. Va
Michael Cannon, ranoher in the Bitter Root
valley, Mont. drove his family "a wife and
eight cillGren) from the house IN which he
iTed and cammitted suicide.
Amelia yoss, sister of Herman E. voss, of
New York has been arrested on charge of ap-
propriatlng nearly 500, 600, cash and bonds,
belonging to her brother, and which she took
from box in the Trust companys Office.
@. E. Hawkins, an old man, and man nam
ed Rhinehart, while buying Christmas goods
at the store Of Ihbrnas Little, near Centralia,
Mo-, Christmas eve, got into o auerrel and
Hawkins stabbed Rhinehart, killing him IN
stantly.
An old lady named Barth OF Allegheny City,
Pa, was attacked by her son William who
beat her face and head into all tlnrecognizable
mass and fractured her skull with a poker
The young man has been insane for years, but
was never considered dangerous
An alteration between william Hogue, son
Of an ex -mer,tef OF the legislature, Jackson
Hcgas, and Enoch Logue, cowboy from Tex
as, at dance at London, in the northeast part
of Fayette county, ILL.,, resulted in Logue
shooting Hogue four times, killing him.
The Pinkertons are hunting high and io~ fot
the trusted cashier" Of the Chicago, Whining
ton & vernillicn Coal esshpany, Charles E
Stephens, who Suddenly disappeared from
Chraga. Since his surreptitous departure
the officers of the company have discovered
that Stephens is an embeAzler to the extent of
ueafly 81, 100, and they have taken out war
rants for his arrest
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-01-08
General News Items.

Mrs. Pulitzer af New York distributed 81. SEQ
worth of presents to no children.
There are 5000 operatives idle in the town
Of Amsterdam, N. Y, which has population
Of only $500.
Joseph Wangler and John c. Wangler, COM
posing the firm of Wangler and Co.. cigars,
New York, have assigned Preferences, $26,-
O0
Joseph A Ceons, cashier Sf Moses hotel in
St Louis, Mo-, disappeared from the hotel,
And IL Is alleged, carried away upward of ST.
e0O belonging TO hotel and guests.
It is asserted that the employees at the Cook
county Qll) Insane asylum have been called
upon to contribute for $3.50 diamond for the
warden and q watch and chain costing $3.50 for
he physician. The matter is to receive an OFF,
Cial airing.
The board of trustees of Columbian univer-
sity, at special meeting, upon unanimous
recommendation of the faculty of its medical
department, decided to admit wome1 to study
medicine in the institution, with all privileges
of instruction accorded male students.
With each sucsesdins day the worlds exposi-
lion takes Oh newer and more attractive feat
ires, giving fair idea Of what it will be .
fortnight hence wh6h, 1t - confidently assert
ID. every thing will be in state Of perfect
completion The stock stables are rapidly
alling. The stock exhibits promise to be the
greatest the world ever saw.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-01-08

Some years have passed since burn
ing corn for fuel was practiced to any
extent, but reports from Nebraska say
that farmers there have this winter
figured the matter out to their own sat
isfaction and are confident that it is
cheaper to burn corn than it is to sell it
and buy coal, Soft coal is worth in that
State about % cents bushel, and corn
does not find a ready sale in the rural
markets for more than - cents. Ex-
periments have shown that two bushels
of corn will produce more warmth than
one bushel of coal, and farmers are thus
burning the former and saving them.
selves the trouble of hauling it to market
and drawing the coal home again.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-01-08

Upon the LIST of January, Greenwich
observatory, which furnishes official
time to the British government, will
abandon the twelve hour system and be-
ginning at midnight of the 31st of De-
cember count the hours from ono to
twenty-four. This system will then 60
into use IN all the government Offices.
The railroads are also expected 10 adopt
the new system. This change in noting
time has been strongly advocated in the
United States and may be eventually
adopted in this country, It is a ques-
ton OF time only, for the present prac-
tice OF counting twelve hours of the
nty-four, or half day, and the same
over again for the other half smacks Of
absurdity. 1t will take q new genera
ton OF people, however, before the new
style Will Seem as natural as the old.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-01-08

A deal was made few days ago in
Philadelphia, between several compap.
les by which limit is to be placed OF
the output and mining OF coal for the
ensuing year. This means the proven.
ton of competition and the maintenance
of high prices to consumers, The same
day in Pittsburg big deal was made in
oil lands by which the production is to
be restricted as long as prices are low.
There ought to be stringent criminal
laws to prevent the monopolists from
making such combinations by which
competition is destroyed and high pri-
ces IS enforced OF consumers.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-01-08
Shot Through an Anger Hole.

A recent telegram from Moultrie, Ga, says:
Aaron Lamp, a notorious desperado, was
shot and instantly killed a few days ago IN the
village of Triton. He came to Tifto1 on spree
and met Jacob Young another dangerous man
They disagreed about some trivial matter and
Lampp leveled his gun at Young, who lodged
behind store door and procured repeating
rife Lamp still kept his gun presented,
swearing he would kill Young, and that he
might Just as we'll come out man stand
ing near said: '1f you are going to shoot let
me get out of the way" Lamp turned his
head and Young fired at him, the ball striking
the stock of Lamps gun, and breaking 1t at
The fragments of lead and the splinters
filled Lamps breast, and, thinking
he was severely wounded, he walked Dy the
store in which Young was hidden and into an
adjoining room used as an Office by DR. White.
Doctor" said he II am badly hurt don't
want to be killed here to-day, but BY must
kill Jake Young before sunset Three men
have shot at me before, and never id one
of them lived six hours afterward"
He had hardly ceased speaking when he drop
ped on bed with a ball fired through his body,
going in at the left shoulder, and, ranging
downward lodging in his right hip. Young, it
is supposed, shot him through an inch and a
half auger hole in the partition between the
rooms An inquest was held, and the slayer
was exonerated.
Ibis Is the tnlrQ man 1oung has slaH "ithiH
q year, all under similar circumstances. Lamp
boosted of fourteen victims. The first was killed
when he was only Is years old, in Brooks
county, Ga, and the next two at Columbus,
Ga. Then Lamp joined the famous John
Lawrence gang of kuklux. During his appren-
ticeship under them he claimed six lives, for
feited to his bloodthirsty and revengeful dis
position He next turned up in Leesburg,
Fla where he became town marshal There
he shot man in his bed asleep. and escaped.
Going further south, he killed two brothers in
q hand to- hand fight Next he killed a man in
southwest Georgia, fled to Valdosta, Ga, where
he murdered and robbed man, but the proof
being insufficient he escaped the gallows and
camo to Triton, where the avenglng Nemesis
overlook him. He was six feet tall, we'll pro-
portioned, and when in good humor, of an
agreeable disposition.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-01-08
A Sad Tale Of the Sea.

The Dominion government steamer Lands
downe brings intelligence of the wreck of thu
brig A. s. h, bound for Boston The Eal,
drove the ship near Sable Island A heavy
snow storm prevailed, and the vessel was soof
driven on Ia sand. bar with great vi'lenee aiie
crew of seven. The thermometer indicated Is
deg below zero and the siiffsripge Of the, rteI
were terrible, They, wets frost Bitten, cut anc
bruised. AND death was welcome Three OF
The crew were washed over when the ship
struck, and were drowned. The steward cut
his throat with razor and then jumped into
two mon managed to get on 3 sand bank. The
captain was soon frozen to DEATH and one OF
the sailors shared the same fate in half hour
Only one man escaped to tell the tale.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-01-08


Theatrical business IL non-payine
this winter and actors attribute the fact
to the demoralizing influence of skating
Kinks which are Numerous in the south
as well as in the north. A theatrical
manager thus talks of skating Kinks /:
Talk about parents not waptirs
Their children to learn to dance, Wby
dancing isn't marker to roller skat;no
A skating rink offers all the pleasu 70.
OF dancing hall without any of ito ex
clusaveness. For Is cents INV oro
good or bad, can gain entry into tho
rink and mingle with the sons ond
daughters OF the best citizens A. suon
. place the most objectionable &C.
may be formed and already
HE effect of these institutions in mak;no
Itself felt in society. A skating. rink Is
one-night town will kill it for show
purposes in six months. - -''.a