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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-27

IT WILL be remembered that when
Cleveland was elected, many Texas
towns just fairly painted the heavens n
brilliant red, in the exhuberance of their
joy. Mr.. Cleveland has been in office
something over three weeks, and already
the Democratic party and writers are
downcast and moody over the situation.
The following sentence is from an Aus
tin special to the Fort Worth Gazette;
1.-The intelligence that Minister to
Mexico has been nominated whose name
is not Hubbard was received here with
profound regret. There is strong SEN
timent in favor Of his recognition by the
Democratic administration. A feeling
of resentment is also beginning to crop
out against the apparent neglect of
Texas by the President, and men say,
with touch of bitterness, that If she had
been less faithful to the Democratic party
perhaps her reward might have been
greater"
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-27

TIM Floresville Chronicle in an article
urging the people Of Wilson county TO
take action looking towards securing
the Arkansas railroad, says: "Reliance
on natural advantages and resources is
like relying upon the spontaneous pro-
ductions of the earth to support peo-
pie. Railroads create artificial advan-
tages and resources to such an extent
that they can Afford to ignore the
natural. Prosperity always comes with
railroad, in spite of what the slow
coaches Of the world say and with the
advent ofthe San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass railroad, the waste lands Of Wilson
county will be settled up by an enter
prising people who, finding easy access
10 markets for all surplus productions,
will grow in wealth as rapidly as have
done people in sister counties crossed
by railroads"
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-27

10000 acres, fine stock ranch, well i'm
proved mot fenced) in Uvalde county;
permanent water, near railroad. Of
fered at low figure and on easy terms.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-27

$1,000 acres, solid body, fine grazing
land. fenced, permanent water, on river,
good improvements, and stocked with
cattle and horses.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-27

CITY PROPERTY.
A broom hard-rock house, with all
modern conveniences, enunoiators and
burglar alarms on the doors, stable and
carriage room, located on one of the
fashionable avenues. Offered cheap and
ON pnsy terms,
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-27

5000 acres. solid body, fine grazing
land, cattle and horses, well watered,
timber and fenced.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-27

10000 acres. solid body, fine grazing
and some farming land, fenced and per-
manent water.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-27

10000 acres in Southwest Texas, solid
body, fine grazing land, all fenced, with
10000 head of cattle; can be bought very
cheap and on easy terms.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05

and are collections of q fine powder,
which are called spores, and it is by
these spores getting scattered that the
wheat rust is spread and propagated.
These spores are so small and light that
they may be carried by the wind to q
very great distance, possibly across the
continent. The wheat fun gus has the
peculiarly of depending upon two dis
tinct plants for its growth and perfec-
ton, the wheat and the barberry bush.
The winter spores, which are dark
brown in color, enlarge in spring and
divide into four or five separate spores
and then float away in the air. Some
fall upon the leaves of the barberry, and
there fasten themselves, and send out
filaments into the tissue of the leaf, and
in q few days yellow spot is formed
in the barberry leaf, and later are seen
little cups containing spores which in
their turn float away and find a home
on the leaves and stems of the ripening
wheat. A single crop may contain as
many as a half million of these little
spores, each capable of taking posses
sion of a wheat plant and spreading
through its tissue 10 the destruction OF
the grain. As check to the spread OF
wheat rust, all barberry bushes should
be exterminated, and if the wheat stub
BILE be burned in the autumn second
source of danger will be removed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05

be quite possible but however promis-
ing other varieties of cattle may be,
there is as yet no other plenty enough
to bring prices down to the views of
practical men, or wide spread enough
for general use. Jerseys are COM
mended therefore, because, just now,
the most available of any noted butter
breed. Meanwhile it would certainly
not be advisable for one who has
occasion to improve his herd in the
direction of butter-making, to let slip
a chance of getting for q reasonable
consideration, an American Holstein. a
Guernsey, or even Short-horn bull
with good antecedents. He would
make good progress with either. Still,
the chances for finding sire of good
butter-making blood lie with the
Jerseys, from the present abundance
of Jersey mates of accepted merit; but
no opportunity should he lost for
replacing poor COWS with good ones,
from whatever source it may come
Prof. L. B. Arnold, in New York Tri-
bune.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
An Ancient Asparagus Bed.

A correspondent of the Massachu-
sets Ploughman writes: ''In 1899 q
Mr.. William Shaw bought part of the
Beal farm on the old Plymouth road,
in the westerly part of Quincy, and
Immediately set about repairing and
identifying the place, by setting out
both ornamental and fruit trees, laying
out the garden, etc., and it is supposed
he sat out the asparagus bed, as in 1906
the place went into the hands of Mr.. A.
w. Baxter, who found good bed there
then. In the spring of 1911, the writer
went there to work as boy. 1t was a
good bed then, but few years after,
Mr.. Baxter, thinking that in a few
years the bed mi ght fail, set out a
new one to take the place of the old
one when that should give out. pass
that place now very frequently, and to
all appearance the old bed is as good as
ever. The place has now been IN pos
session of Capt. Cummings for many
years. Last spring I called to see the
bed for old acquaintance sake, and the
captain very kindly gave me a
very handsome bunch, which l
relished as we'll as any which l
ate from it seventy years be-
fore. If any one thinks that a bed that
is well taken care of in twenty-five or
thirty years will run out, I would re-
fer them to Capt. Cummings, who will
l doubt not show them his with pleas
ure. There can be no doubt that the
bed must be eighty years old at least. -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
DEATH OF GEN GRANT.
THE GREAT SOLDIER STATESMAN
AND HIS FINAL OBSEQUIES.
Sunday With the Dead.


Mr.. McGREGoR, Aug. 2.-This has
been memorial day at Grant cottage,
and the family have been paying fare
we'll to the dead. This afternoon the
widow asked that DR.. Newman be sent
for. When he came Mrs. Grant re-
minded him her dead would be hers
only little while longer, and asked
him to be with the family while they
gathered in the cottage parlor to say
their farewells. Thus it was that about
clock Mrs. Grant end her daughter
and each of her three sons and their
wives were in the room with the dead.
DR.. Newman and wife were also pres
ent. The family surrounded the cata-
falque. Mrs. Grant from table brought
her dead husbands Bible, which she
opened and passed to DIR. New
man. 1t was found the book was
opened at the 18th chapter of Job.
The chapter was read and then the
clergyman re-read the 10th and 10Th
verses and then prayer of gratitude
was offered up-gratitude for the beau
tiful character of the silent one. After
this the entire family, there alone with
the pastor, entered with him into relig-
ious conversation and then each and
all dwelt upon "reminiscences of the
generals last sickness. DR.. Newman,
after carefully scanning the general s
face, expressed satisfaction at its ap-
pearance and the opinion that the re-
mains were in a condition of perfect
preservation.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Tho Stranger on the Sill.

Tho Stranger on the Sill.
Between the broad fields of wheat and
Is the iowiy home where was born;
The peach-tree leans against the wall,
There is the shaded doorway still,
But strangers foot has crossed the sill.
There is the orchard-the very trees
"here my childhood knew long years of
And watch'd the shadowy moments run
TIL my life imbibed more shade than sun !;
The swing from the bough still sweeps the
air,
But the strangers children are swinging
there.
There bubbles the shady spring below,
WIN lts Dulrush brook where the hazels
Twas there found the calamus root,
And watched the minnows poise and shoot,
And heard the robin lave his wing
But the strangers bucket is at the spring.
Q ye who daily cross the sill,
Step lightly, for love it still;
And when you crowd the old barn caves,
Then think what countless harvest sheaves
Have passed within that scented door
To gladden. eyes that are no more.
Deal kindly with these orchard trees,
And when your children crowd your knees,
Their sweetest fruit they shall impart,
As 1t old memories stirred their heart:
To youthful sports still leave the swing,
And in sweet reverence hold the spring.
Thomas Buchanan Read
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
Father, Mother, and Three Sisters Dead.

Father, Mother, and Three Sisters Dead.
Mr.. David Claypool, formerly Sergeant
alarms ofthe New Jersey Senate, and now
Notary Public at Cedarville Cumberland
Co., N. j., makes the following startling
statement: "My father, mother, and three
sisters all died with consumption, and my
lungs were so weak raised blood. Nobody
thought 1 could live. My work (ship-
smithing)was very straining on me with my
weak constitution, and was rapidly going
to the grave. While in this condition |
commenced using Mishler's Herb Bitters,
and it saved my life. Because it was so
difficult to get it in this little place, and l
had improved so much, stopped taking it
for a time, and the result is that l have
commenced going rapidly down hill again.
Somehow, Mishler's Herb Bitters gives
appetite and strengthens and builds me up
as nothing else does, and must have
dozen bottles at once. Use this comm,l-
nication as you please. and if any one wants
to be convinced of its truth, let them write
me aud will make affidavit to it, for l
owe my life to Mishlers Herb Bitters."
Thesecret Of the almost invariable reEef
and cure of consumption, dysentery, diar-
rhra, dyspepsia, indigestion, kidney and
liver complaints, when Mishler's Herb
Bitters is used, is that it contains simple,
harmless, and yet powerful ingredients,
that act on the blood, kidneys, and liver,
and through them strengthens and invigor-
ates the whole system. Purely vegetable
in its composition; prepared by regular
physician; standard medicinal prepare
ton; endorsed BY physicians and drug
sists. These are four strong points in favor
of Mish .er's Herb Bitters. Mishler's Herb
Bitters is sold by all druggists. Price $l.00
per large bottle. 6 bottles for $500.
Ask your druggist for MIsHLER's HERR BrrrFRs.
he does not keep it, DO not take anything else but
send . postal card to M1sHIER HRS BrrTIRs Co.
SIS Commerce Street, Philadelphia
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
Better Blood for Butter.

The advantage of having thorough
bred sire of high butter-producing
blood, whether of Jersey or some
other breed, to cross on common COWS,
must be apparent when it is remem-
bered that the sire may reasonably be
expected to exert as much influence
upon his offspring as the dam, A
heifer calf from COW making 200 lbs.
of butter a year, out of sire from a
family habitually making 400 lbs.
yearly may fairly be expected to
become COW that will make 800 lbs.
in year. This may not be true in
every instance, but it will generally
be closely approached. 1t is claimed by
breeders that in such crosses the sire
effects more especially the quality, and
the dam the quantity of the milk the
progeny will produce. If so, there
might be special advantage gained
by selecting a sire from family of
rich mixers to cross on a dam giving
large quantity, with reasonable hope
of developing a COW superior to her
ancestry on both sides.
The owner of diary herd that will
not produce yearly over 200 lbs. of
butter per COW ought not to rest
satisfied with its performance. He must
carry too many animals and support
too much live weight for the small
return. He ought at once to set about
improving it in some way, either by
selling of his poorest animals and
replacing them with better ones by
purchase or raising its capacity by
breeding butter-prcducing stock. The
after is believed to be the surest and
cheapest method, especially when sires
of superior merit can be bought at fair
rates. Young Jersey bulls, of butter
families, have become plenty enough
to lower the price from thous-
ands and hundreds to 800, and
even in some cases to $50 or less. At
such figures it would pay any one
having common stock of only average
capacity to invest in bull of that kind,
not waiting for several other breeds
which have decided advantage over
the Jerseys on account of superior
size, which are steadily coming to the
front, and may at no very distant period,
overshadow the little Jerseys.
A breed which would run more
uniform than the Jerseys is believed to
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
A Remarkable Glass Of Thieves.

The police ofSt. Petersburg have been
for some time puzzled by the conduct
of a remarkable class of thieves, who
committed robbery not only in the open
day, but, moreover, with ostentation,
They were Firms, and were all young
men. When arrested, they calmly
pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to
Imprisonment for terms varying from
one to three months. At the expira-
ton of the sentence, they promptly
disappeared. It turned out that they
had returned to their own country, and
had there resumed their several avoca-
tons without loss of social position.
The law of Finland forbids the enroll
ment in the army of any persons who
have undergone imprisonment for civil
offenses, so these enterprising Firms
had deliberately sought imprisonment
in order to avoid conscription.-Lon-
don Truth.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
Minnesota at the Burial.

Gov. Hubbard has designated the
following gentlemen to represent Min
nesota at the funeral of Gen. Grant:
Hon. w. D. Washburn, Hon. j. B.
Gillfllan, Col. c. w. johnson, Maj. r.
R. Henderson, Capt. J. N. Cross, Min
neapolis; Gen. j. b. Sanborn, Gen. R.
w. johnson, Hon. S. j. r. Mcmillan,
Hon. Edmund Rice, St. Paul; Hon. D..
M. Sabin, Saltwater; Hon. Knute Mel
son, Alexandria; Col. c. H. Graves,
Duluth; Hon. H. B. Strait, Shakopee;
Hon. j. b. Wakefield, Blue Earth City;
Hon. Milo White, Chatfield; d. Sin
clair, Winona; Hon. j. F. Meagher,
Mankato; l.. A. Hancock, Red Wing;
Hon. T. B. Clement, Fairibault; Hon.
l.. Il. Rogers LIE Sueur. The Governor
has also detailed Company D. Mime
sofa National Guard, Capt. Bean COM
handing, to attend the funeral and
participate in the military parade.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
The National Monument.

NEW YORK, July s0.-A circular,
signed by Chester A. Arthur, chair
man, William B. Grace and Hamilton
Fish, vice chairmen, and Richard T.
Greener, secretary of the Grant me-
mortal committee, was issued to-day.
1t says that action will soon be taken
for the organization of committees to
represent the entire country for the
erection of a suitable monument above
Gen. Grants grave. Pending this the
committee calls on all newspapers,
railways, telegraph and express
companies, postmasters, banks, bank
ers, churches and municipal author
tiles, commercial bodies and exchanges,
manufacturing and business establish
ments, to cooperate in the immediate
collection of contributions, to be for
warded to Drexel, Morgan & Co. fol-
this committee, or the mayor of New
York. All contributions will be &C.
knowledged. The Western Union Tel
egraph company to-day also sent in
struction to the managers of all its
offices throughout the country to receive
contributions from the public and for
ward them to the committee.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
Gov. Hauser's Proclamation.

TERRITORY OF MONTANA EXECUTIVE Or
T1CE, HELENA, Mont, July q, 1s85.-To the
people of Montana: The death Of Gen
Ulysses 8. Grant has taken from the people
OF the United States their most illustrious
citizen. His public career embraced the
most eventfu1 period of our history since
the struggle for independence His achieve
ments as q soldier were adorned by mag
which causes victor and vanquished to
mourn alike our irreparable loss, and the
discordant cries of sectional hate and par
ty passion, if, unhappily, such exist, are
hushed at his grave: It is proper that we
should evidence our appreciation of his
great services to the country and our re-
spect for his character.
Therefore l request the citizens of the
territory to observe the day fixed for the
funeral of Gen. Ulysses s. Grant by
abstaining from their usual labors and
amusements and by appropriate religious
services in their places of public worship.
s. T. HAUsER.
By the Governor,
J. s. TooKER, Secretary.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
Cure fOrCribbinR.

A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman, writes: 'IIet ME mention
a cure for cribbing in horses. At
least found cure for my first attempt
in horscfesh. The animal was
warranted in writing, free from all
tricks,' etc. The first ten days no
trick was observed. Subsequently
my purchase proved to be determined
cribber. The seller was apparently
astonished. Nothing of the kind ever
occurred while he owned the horse.
An inspection of the stable where the
horse had been kept showed no traces
of chewed woodwork. My brother-in-
law accustomed to horses all his life,
was sorely puzzled. He was convinced
there "was some game" and "game"
there was. Convinced that had been
''sold," I retaliated by finding out
that the seller had used paste made
of red pepper and brown soap, lightly
applied wherever and whenever he
discovered marks of teeth in the stall,
the paste being masked by dust
scattered on top. Thus it was, the
horse thinking my woodwork was like
his late stable, let the timbers alone
at first. I tried the remedy. The
horse has not attempted to crib for
four months, and stranger would
never imagine that hundred little
spots within reach of his head have
bits of the paste. The horse knows it,
however, and lets my stall alone.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
HawthOrne'S MOdostv.

once saw Hawthorne under circum-
stances which had touch of the ludi-
crous. It was at commencement din
ner given under tent on the ''cam-
pus" of Bowdoin college, of which in
stitution, it will be remembered. he
was graduate in 1925, Longfellow be-
ing his classmate. Hawthorne had Sc
cured the high place which he ever af-
ter held in the republic of letters, and
it was deemed great thing that his
presence had been secured to grace
the festive occasion. When the time
came for the speeches., everybody re-
joiced at the prospect of hearing Haw-
thorne. Bowdoin was justly proud of
her gifted son, and to see him, and es-
pecially to listen to him, was an event
not soon to be forgotten. In fitting
terms the president, Leonard Woods,
Jr., If my memory serves me right, an.
nounced the speaker, our distinguished
son and most welcome guest, and, as
he proceeded in his Mandatory terms,
naturally all eyes were turned away for
the moment from the guest to the
speaking host.
Finishing his remarks, the president
called for a speech from Nathaniel
Hawthorne. Everybody looked to the
spot where just now "the distinguished
son and welcome guest had been sit
ting. But he was not there. While
the president had been lavishly pour
ing out his praises and extolling the
wonderful gifts of this eminent progeny
of alma matter he had quietly lifted the
corner of the tent, crept out, and "gone
to parts unknown" My recollection
is that there was good laugh over
the matter, and everybody said it was
just like Hawthorne, who dreaded max
ing an after-dinner speech more even
than he did the critics. His constitu-
tional shyness never forsook him, long
as he ived.-Providence Journal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
A Popular Mexican Resort.

Santa Anita, the first village on the
Viga beyond the city of Mexico, writes
a correspondent to the San Francisco
Chronicle, is the universal rallying
point on Sundays for both natives and
sight-seers from the capital. There is
always a fiesta at Santa Anita, and
there the Indians are eternally dancing,
singing, and pulque-drinking. On ar
irving at this village the first business
of everybody is to secure a wreath of
peoples and corn-fowers, which the
women wear upon their tangled hair
and the men upon their sombreros-
though perhaps the human form divine
thus beautifully crowned may be but
partially covered with scant and dirty
rags. Lovely wreaths sell for madeo
6 cents) apiece, and the woman, young
or old, who is not wreathed before the
day is over is either in deep disgrace
or hopelessly out of fashion. This ma
tive love of flowers is direct heritage
from the swarthy founder of these float
ing gardens. History tell us that the
most valuable gift which Montezuma
presented to the Spanish ambassador
of his court was accompanied by a
boquet; and strange anomaly it must
have seemed, this love of the beautiful
combined with their blood-curdling re-
ligion. Baron Won Humboldt remark.
ed upon it centuries afterward. TO.
day those who sit in the market places
must embower themselves in green
branches garlanded with flowers, while
even prosaic pulque barrels are wreath
ed with roses, and mugs and pitchers
similarly bedecked. The poorest vii.
lage church has its floor strewn with
blossoms, and fresh boquets are ar.
ranged upon all the affairs before ser.
vice begins. The babe at its christen.
ing, the child at its confirmation, the
bride at her wedding, the corpse in its
coffin, are all alike adorned.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
Rust on Wheat.

Wheat rust is fungus found on the
leaves and stems of the wheat plants,
or on the stubble after harvest time. In
the late autumn it has dark brown
color resembling the dark spots of mil
dew ON cloth exposed for some time to
damp, warm atmosphere. At harvest
time the spots have an orange color,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05
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