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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-08
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.

HENDERSON will have amonthly fair.
PIPE STONE is to have $50, 600 water
works.
WOLF hunts are the pastime about
St. Peter.
The Butler house, at Butler, Pope
County, burned recently.
FARMERS about Lake Benton will SOW
a large amount of flax this season.
A $4,000 FLoUR-M1LL will be built
at Elysian, LIE sueur County, this
spring.
THE Wright County fair will be held
at Howard Lake, September Is, 16,
and II.
The Brainerd council has increased
the price of liquor license from 500
to 5000. e....nt -
THE barber-shops at Lake Crystal
are ordered to be closed on Sunday
hereafter. :. -. % >
THE Mankato Odd Fellows have de-
cided to erect three story buildingthe
coming summer, ~. .F.! :. =,
The proprietors Of the Northfeld
News have purchased the material OF
the defunct Journal.
MARCH ~, says the Glencoe Enter
prise, was the date wheat seeding COM
menced in Glencoe in 1885.
PIECES of rock have been found with
in the city limits of Duluth which as
say $50 of silver to the ton.
A BANK has been organized at Mel
rose with Jacob Kraker as one of the
principal owners. Associated with
him are several Sauk Center capital
lists.
IT is said that the 81, 100000 dam
across the River at Brainerd, for some
time contemplated by the Mississippi
Boom Company will be built this sum-
mer.
A TRAMP entered the house of Mr.. P.
Thompson, of Winnebago City, in his
absence, and threatened Mrs. Thomp-
son with revolver, but she drove him
off with butcher-knife.
PIPE STONE has lamb with three
perfectly formed tongues and mouths.
Two OF the mouths have to be plugged
up while the animal takes his milk
through the center mouth.
ABOUT 29, 900 acres ofrailroad lands
were sold last year in Mobiles County,
d1lO 11luCI VI Cl1c ldA1u Will UO OCCupACu
this year. The railroad lands in the
Western townships are largely taken
up.
THE Little Falls Transcript says that
Senator Buckman has bought 400
acres adjoining his farm in the town of
Buckman, Morrison County, and that
he now has l, 100 acres in one tract
to crop the coming season.
Mr.. F. E. WATSON, of Wells, has
lately consummated sale of over
5000 acres of land belonging to NJ. J.
Meyers, situated adjacent to the above
village, to Milwaukee parties, who an
ticipate settling it with sturdy Ger
mans.
The outlet of Buffalo Lake, says the
GAINESVILLE Argus, is completely filled
with fsh-pickerel and suckers. So
many Of them appear that they are
showed up on the bank, and all the
work necessary to secure them is to
pick them up or shovel them out.
WHILE taking hay from a stack to
feed his stock last Sunday, says the
Hancock Olive Branch, Arthur Dud-
ley found a sheep still alive which was
buried by part of the hay which
blew from the stack three weeks be-
fore. The sheep eats well, but when
found was unable to stand alone.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-08
0RHANZO ALLEN,
TNHOg, PHILLIPS. NJ. D..

TI1HOs. PHILLIPS, N. D.,
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Has permanently located in Austin. Calls In
city country promptly attended to at oil hours.
Ofice and rooms in Schleuder's block. first door
north Of Mower County Bank. 3-Electric baths
given at the Office
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-08

I\R. G. s. BEAULIEU.
Office over 6leeper's Drug Store, Brownsdale,
Minnesota.
1S-preaching at Christian Chapel every Sun.
day morning and evening.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-08
6uSts ESS CARDS.
DIR. p. B, PECK

Has opened an ofice in Mrs. Wrigbts house, first
north Of the Davidson House, on east side OF
street, where he is prepared to Go all kinds OF
patronage.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-08

ENLLEN NJ. FAIRBANKS, NJ. d.
Utce and residence. corner West Main and
Mnrlo Streets, opposite Public School Building,
Austin Mimi. At home until 8 A. N. and from
- to ~ NJ.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-08

Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in the best
brands OF Groccrs and Bakers Flour. Also all
kinds Of Mil Feed for sale al his store Main
Street. Austin, Minn, and at the Mill, two miles
south Of the city.
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Language Lessons in Arithmetic. By FL
len L. Barton. Boston: CHM & Coz $125.
Those who are familiar with the difficulties
of teaching deaf mutes will mot fail to per-
ceive the need of text books which shall give
in simple language all the details which are
required to help these crippled minds over
obstacles which more fortunate scholars,
gifted with hearing and Speech can sur
mount so easily; and those familiar with our
Portland school for the deaf, will not be sur
prised to learn that the accomplished prin-
cipal has prepared for her pupils series of
books which her long experience has shown
to be adapted to the accomplishment of this
purpose. The most needed of these, the
arithmetic, Miss Barton has had published
by CHM & Co., of Boston, and it is now be-
fore the public, neat duodeeimo of 1876
pages. The adult mind, which like the strong
man goes bounding up high steps with ease,
does not always comprehend with what pain
and labor the infant comes toiling after, and
only one who day by day, and year by year,
had taken the little hand and guided the I'M
certain feet, would have known where to put
each stepping stone so deftly. The clear
ness and simplicity of the explanations in
this book will commend it not only to the
deaf schools for which it is designed, but al
so to parents whose children find the
more condensed text books difficult of com
prehension, and it is possible that our school
committee may find it desirable to introduce
it into the common schools. The primary
school teachers would certainly welcome it,
and as it goes completely through fractions,
decimals, banking, proportion, square and
cube root it might be proftably used in the
grammar schools
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

The bill on which the injunction just
issued prohibiting the Ordinary from declar-
ing the result of the Atlanta election is found
ed takes the grounds that the local option
law is unconstitutional, and that everything
touching that law since its adoption is I'M
constitutional. 1t recites the fact that
when the local option bill was passed by the
Legislature it was provided that it should be
published on certain days, but that it was
printed on dates subsequent to those or
dered; that it is unconstitutional because it
interferes with the Interstate commerce
laws in this. that it will prevent the sales
within the State of wines made outside the
State; that it discriminates in favor of home
made wines as against foreign wines be-
cause it prohibits the sale of imported goods
while it allows the sale of Georgia made
wines. The bill also alleges certain techni-
cal defects in the calling and the conduct of
the recent election.
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

Bayless W. Hanna Esq, who persuaded
himself and the President that Buenos Ayres
was better place for an accomplished
American minister than Persia, arrived at
his post one day and devoted the next to
letter to an Indianapolis friend which has
found its way into print. Twenty four hours
observation convinced Mr. Hanna that ''this
government is the most extravagant on
earth" Considering the length of time he
had to gather material for this criticism the
people in Buenos Ayres as well as in Wash
ington will admire his discretion in making
putting ON paper In the same letter he
also says: "Tell Gen. Manson and A. F.
Ramsey that if had them here / could make
them rich Such suggestion is Of course be-
coming in United States minister and will
probably serve to make many friends in his
new home The letter will undoubtedly
soon make an exceedingly interesting double
loaded column in the Buenos Aryes papers
and be the subject of much ridicule
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
THE REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE.

The New York Times does not want to
have Senator Logan elected president of the
because the law makes it necessary for the
Senate to elect its presiding officer before the
new senators are sworn in. This was the
position of the Democrats at the special ses-
sion of the Senate in 1881, and they succeeded
in keeping out Senators-elect Miller, Lap
ham and Aldrich until they had made Mr.
Bayard their president pro tempore. The
Republicans repudiated this doctrine, how
ever, and Mr.. Edmunds showed by citation
of precedents that it had been the uniform
practice of the Senate to swear in new Sena-
tors when they pEesented themselves at the
beginning of session, before electing a
president pro tenpore, when the Senate hap
pened to find itself without presiding Off
GER This is the Republican doctrine, and
we have no doubt that it will be enforced at
the coming session.
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
coNcERNINc IMPLICATIONS.

The Argus says it does not consider
the election of Gen. Garfield in 1880 vindi-
cation of the men who the Democracy allege
counted out Tilden in 1876. We supposed it
would not. We still insist, however, that
there is as good reason for claiming the cleo
ton of Gen. Garfield as yindication of the
alleged count-out of 1876, as there is for re-
garding the election of Plaisted as a yindica-
ton of the Garcelon council. Indeed, it
seems to us that there is much better reason.
The wrong of the Garcelon council had been
righted before the September election of
1880 by the Supreme court of the State, and
the legally elected senators and representa-
tives had obtained the seats which the Garce
lon council attempted by fraud to deprive them
of. 1t could be argued, and indeed was argued,
with great plausibility that this matter
was res adiudicata and therefore should
not enter into the September contest. But
no such claim could be made in the case of
Mr. Tilden. The wrong done him and his
party, assuming for the sake of the argument
that there was wrong, had not been righted,
and the Democratic press could and did
argue with good deal of force that it was
one of the principal issues of the campaign
The truth is, however, that other issues
than the fraud issue decided both campaigns
Gen. Plaisted owed his large vote to the fact
that the Democrats believed that his cleo
ton in September would tend strongly to the
election of Gen. Hancock two months later.
Had there been no national issues involved
in the gubernatorial campaign Gen. Plaisted
would have been defeated. A greatmany Dem
ocrats voted for him under protest because of
his Greenback proclivities. That much of
his strength was due to the fact that he stood
for Gen. Hancock is plainly shown by the re-
suit of the election two years later when
he was candidate again and defeat
ed by a majority of 5000. The Republi-
cans sought to make the count-out an issue
just as the Democrats sought to make
Tilden's rejection in 1876 an issue, but other
matters obscured both of them We do
not claim that the election of Garfield
indicated the rightfulness of the pro-
eeedings in 1876. But we do claim that there
is much stronger reason for assuming that
it did than there is for the assumption that
the election of Plaisted indicated the right
fulness of the proceedings of the Gareelon
Council.
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

Some time ago we published. what we
supposed to be fact, that Mr.. Cleveland in
Difference to the wishes of ex-President
Hayes, had decided to reappoint the Repub-
lican postmaster at Paramount, West Vir-
ginia. We take it all back. Later adyices
are to the effect that the President removed
the postmaster in question as soon as he be-
came acquainted with the nature of his poll
tics. The ''boys" and the New York Sun
will nlease calm themselves
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

The mayor of Louisville has had three
knock-down fights with his fists in the streets
of that city during the past year. If the
ability implied by such performances only
constituted qualifications in Northern cities
as well as in Southern how Boston could lay
over the country in the matter of mayors.
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

The Louisville Courier Journal which rep
resents the general ideas of the South, has a
scheme to fill the vacancy in the vice presi-
dency which possesses the merit of novelty
if nothing else The best way, it says, is to
reconvene the electoral college which elect
ed the deceased and have it choose his sue
oaccor
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

The Boston Herald suggests that the Sen
ate had better go outside and elect somebody
not amember Of that body president pro
tempore. 1t has no doubt of the constitu-
tionality of such proceeding and thinks in
many ways it would prove the best solution
of the impending contest This will do to
talk about for the want of something better,
but there is not the slightest prospect that
the Senate will give any such scheme mo-
ment's consideration.
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

John NJ. Clarke for mayor. Mr.. Clarke was
formerly sheriff of suffolk county, and his pc
litical enemies confess that he is in every re-
spect an unexceptionable candidate. The
Democratic candidate is the present Mayor
O'Brien of whom it is only justice to say
that be has disappointed the expectations of
many who voted for him and many who did
not by making very conscientious and hon
aot r,ouor
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 8.

We do not read anonymous letters and commun-
cations. The name and address of the writer are
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for pub
LEGATION but as guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
HUW II IIzAI INED'
Washington Corr. Bangor Commercial

A Maine man whose name will not give
for obvious reasons, said to me few days
ago, that when he called on the President he
derson collector of the port Of Portland, in
stead Of Judge Cleaves who was supposed to
have the hest backing. why, said the
President, 81 appointed Gen. Anderson be-
cause was more impressed by him than by
was Of the highest order Thought the Gen.
eral the best man of the lot and so | selected
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
CURRENT COMMENT.
WALL STREET AS A SOUVENIR.
p1,undaInhia Prass

WALL STREET AS A SOUVENIR.
philadelphia Press.
This report that Jay Gould is to leave Wall
Street may not be exactly correct. Perhaps
Mr.. Gould is to quit specializing and go into
retirement, but it would be just like him to
take Wall Street along with him as a souve-
mir of his former struggles and triumphs.
PROGRESS OF THE CAPE COD CANAL.
Boston Transcript.
The progress of the Cape Cod Ship Canal
is strikingly exhibited in the recent report of
the directors, which shows that for the year
ending Sept. 80, 1884, the sum of $10,98573
was expended, of which 10,33335 was paid
for salaries, legal and office expenses, while
the remainder, $652.37, was actually paid
son account of right Of wayw
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

All the foreign residents of Mandalay were
found alive and well when the British en-
tered that place. King Thebaw's regard for
his own neck restrained his bloed-thirsty
propensities.
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

Secretary Manning finds very little conso-
lation in the replies to his tariff circulars.
He sent them to the wrong people.
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

Oberon and Puck. Verses Grave and
Gay By Helen Gray Cone. (New York:
Cassell & Co.; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmony This volume of verse is in strik-
ing contrast to that of Mrs. Howe, being
stilted and pretentious to an extent that
makes us slow to acknowledge even the good
qualities which the author possesses. That
there is merit in the poems of Helen Gray
we are obliged to admit, and that some of the
humorous poems are bright and amusing we
readily grant. But high.sounding words are
not poetry, and in the case of this writer are
often used apparently to conceal lack of
ideas. Perhaps in "a Pickwickian sense
many of Mrs. Cones adjectives may be adj
missible, but she has studied poetical license
to the verge Of absurdity. In fact the ideas
are smothered in words land words so obso-
lete and unusual that one must read with
an encyclop@dia) that they should be very
valuable when unearthed to pay for the
trouble Of excavation. Occasionally, how
ever, this writer condescends to degree of
simplicity. She is then at her best; and we
wish she would always write about ''Dande-
lions," "Golden-Rod" Christmas, Easter
Tide and kindred subjects, and leave alone
"The Symplegades," the "Colchian Shoes"
and all sorts of 'Invocations" and "Acco-
ladies'"
Ashes for Flame and Other Poems, By
Caroline Dana Howe. cortland; Loring,
Short & Harmony 1t will be pleasure to
the people of Portland to recognize the poeti-
cal gifts of one of their number; and thus
Mrs. Howe's pretty book of beautiful verses
II doubtless receive a cordial welcome at
!. ir hands. And we may well be proud of
little volume, for we find in it true poeti-
talent, combined with a simplicity and
race of style which renders its contents
very attractive and interesting. Several of
these sweet and graceful poems have been
set to music, and the songs Leaf by Leaf the
Roses Fall, Earcarolle and the Easter Hymn
have been so often sung as to be familiar to
us all. Indeed. many of Mrs. Howe's poems
sing of themselves, and are so unsteady
worded that they remain in the mind like
strain of melody. They are also of real lit
erary value, and as such should receive am
pie recognition.
Beyond the Grave. By DR.. Hermann Gre
mer. Translated from the German by Sam
uel T. Lowrie, D. d. New York Harper &
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon.) This little volume will be Of great
interest and value to all who are in accord
with the ''straitest standards of ortho-
doxy;'' and more, the translator thinks the
contents will be found interesting and fresh
to all intelligent readers. 1t is written with
much earnestness and candor, and is intend
ed To reaSSure those whose viaws have hn-
come what the author considers unsettled
by speculation, and the tendency of modern
thought to free itself from the old restraints.
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

Senator Edmunds, DR.. Francis Wharton,
Solicitor of the State Department, and Judge
Thomas M. Cooley of Michigan contribute
three very interesting letters to the Decem-
Der Century on the question what shall be
done with our ex-Presidents?" All agree
that the scheme of making ex-Presidents
life members Of the Senate is not at all in
accordance with the theory of our govern
ment and would work unfairness in the rep
resentation of the States in Congress. Sen
tor Edmuds expresses himself on this poi
with admirable force
"There are many considerations against di :
ing the present autonomy Of the Senate, which |
have not time to go into. There is nothing that
know of in the nature of republican government
which makes it necessary that an ex- President
should have any other station title than that Of
an eminent private citizen who has done his
country important service in the most trying and
difficult Of all its public employments'
The question concerning pension for re-
firing Presidents is worthy of serious CON
sideration Senator Edmunds thinks. In
deed to such system there would be little
or ne popular opposition. The people would
at once recognize the business of such plan.
They could not reasonably oppose scheme
which affords suitable pecuniary provision
for the maintenance of a retiring President
'who has done his country important service
in the most trying and difficult of all its
public employments."
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

XNANTED-Situation by smart, competent
wv girl to assist in general homework cham
Der or table work, in hotel or restaurants good
references given. Apply at 22S15 MIDDLE ST,
over NJ G. Palmers store; a firstelass Office
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
.ANTED-An active m,

VTANTED-An active man or woman IN ever,,
w county to sell our goods. Salary S75 peIr
month and expenses, or commission. Expenses IN
advance Outht free For full particulars address
aug31 C3m
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
AGENTS WANTED,

WANTED, HELP-Ladies and gentlemen
w in city or country to work for us at their
light, pleasant and easily done no canyassinr or
peddli"g good salary paid to smart workers who
devote full time 10 Il, steady employment fur
Boston. Mass, Box 5153. ~ q
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

NTANTED.-To get a good stylish driving
w horse to use for its board, best of care and
treatment Address K, Press Office. 2S-I
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

"ANTED-A man and wife for a milk farm
w and who understand farming AppIy nj
324 COMMERCIAL ST, head of Brown Wharf
Portland, Me. 14-3Sw3
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

ROOMS TO LET.

yUyO UEeT-Two furnished single rooms at 81 per
week each; board if wanted; none without
good habits need apply. Apply at No. 81 SPRiHG &
ST FL
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
HORSES FOR SALE.

VyHREE good carriage horses for sale. Would
IL like place for my coachman, temperate
and trustworthy man. j. HOPKINS SMITH.
MOO diff
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

mo EiET-Nice sunny chamber, unfinished
in a new house. Apply at 107 CLARK ST.
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

NOR sALE-The neverslip horse shoe, at E.
IL MORRILL'S, corner Preble and Cumberland
streets. AS the time draws near for sharp shoe
25-1
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

WANTED.-A capable girl to do general
w homework at No. 179 CUMBERLAND
STREET. PSI
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

VNOR SALE.-A good secondhand sleigh with
&c new runners, will sell cheap, also pung top,
which can be adjusted to sleigh bottom, making a
firstrate pupg for peddling purposes, can be seen
at the store No Portland st. ID. RAY FRO
HOOK, ISL
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
10 Let.

STORE No. AT Exchange street, now occupied
y by l.. C. Young; possession given October l..
Enquire of JOHN T. THOMAS, No. 151 Middle
street. augz9du
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
FOR SALE.


VVANTED-The people to know Mrs. Smith
wv has opened Vapor bath rooms at AZ South
st. These baths are cures for rheumatism, Drop
sy Eczema and all diseases of the blood and skin.
CONSULTATION FREE. 2-1
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

XNANTED-Business: an active reliable man
w with good business experience would like
to purchase an interest or the whole Of some well
established business in Portland; communications
confidential. Address, s., care OF Press ONCE,
Portland, Name 242
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

yHyO E,EF-Rooms in Boston, widow lady hay
ing taken a house in nice location solicits
the nafTonage of the people of Portland; rooms to
let by the day or week. Call or address MRS. NOR
TON. No. s Briggs Place, South End off Shawmut
Ave ROstOn Mass. "a
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
FOR SALE.

gSOR SALE-The subscriber being in feeble
Il heslth and unable to attend 10 business,
wishes to dispose of his stock in trade ANY party
business Will find this favorable opportunity to
secure an old stand and small stock, at very
reasonable price. ALFRED HASKELL, Nos
270 & go Fore St l-3
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

Barrels; we will pay eightee
w cents for clean barrels with two heads, un
til further notice. L. A. GOUDY & Co, Bakers
and COnfectiOners, Cor Pearl and MIX st. 26-1
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03

ETOR SALE-House, desirable in all respects (;
IL centrally located; contains rooms and bath
room; more can be furnished II desired; allmodern
on n s. GARDINER, No 40 Exchange st. III
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
TO LEE.

StTORES in the Thompson Block, Nos. III, 119,
= I21 and 123 Middle street, a few doors below
The post Office; fitted suitable for wholesale or re-
tail business with light, finished airy Easements.
Rent reasonable Inquire of II. E. THOMPSON,
No. 1874 Bracket St., Portland, Me. jan14df
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
Lost AND FOUND.

ITO LET-Finely furnished front room to one
Il or two ladies; private family; good ioealty
Apply at IL CUSHMAN ST. 24-l
The Portland daily press., 1885-12-03
To Let.

vEyO Lighthouse No ITO Neal st. For full par
Il ticulars inquire Of FRED N. DOW, rooms
and Z, No. IL Market So. 0ctlO-I