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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-06-16

the market, 80 TO VIII beattys 5, unueE
Mower County Bank. Confectionery.
peanuts, hot coffee, pies, SC, always on
hand.
The ladies of the w. G. T. U. will
please not forget the meeting at the Da-
wilson House parlsrs at 4 o'clock next
Saturday afternoon, All are invited-all
are welcome.
"A picnic soc,able will be held at the
residence of Rev. A. c. Reynolds on
Friday next. Teams will start from the
NJ. E. church at 3p. m. taking all who
wish to 20.
--Jusr SEE-New wall papers in great
variety, at Clemmer s. Pooler's. We
have some bargains to sffer in remnants
and old patterns. Come and see US be-
fore buying.
w. Barrowman, agent Of the Min
nesota s. Northwestern at Lyle, has
rented house in Austin. and has re-
moved his family here. He visits them
every day or two.
20. A. Schall will visit Austin on or
about June cath. All pianos that need
treatment, can be most thoroughly over
hauled by him. and the cure guaranteed.
Remember the time.
-FoUND.-A package of deeds, mort
cages and notes. near Water street bridge,
Saturday, April 10th. The owner car
have same by proving property and pay
ing all charges. E. JAIN.
Mrs. G. 3. Hildahl has still q large
assortment Of Millinery, which she il
selling out below cost All purchasers
of goods in this line will do well TO make
no purchase elsewhere before calling
j anon and looking oyer her stock.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
He Skipped q Sale.

'About four weeks ago. said a far
mer on the market the other day, 81
concluded to get rid of several old
stumps near the barn, and l came in
and purchased some giant cartridges.
Next day forenoon l went at the job,
and had just got a cartridge tamped
down in the first stump when l saw a
man drive up to the house. That was
nothing to bother over, however, and.
lighted the fuse and ran around the
barn to wait for the explosion. l had
only got in place when | heard voice
calling:
"'Ah, there, Sharpi I want to sell
you the best washing-machine ever
made
at was the chap who had driven up,
and my wife had sent him out to hunt
me up. He was within ten feet of the
stump when he called. l had a two
minute fuse on the cartridge when
heard his voice, and called back:
"'For heavens sake, get out O.
thatp
ooh, Tl1 get out-after I have sold
you machine. Sharp, where are youx
"Wel, sir, you can have my ears if
that internal idiot didn't walk up and
rest his elbow on the stump, and he was
there when she exploded. He took a
rise of six or eight feet, came down
spread eagle fashion, and then scram-
bled up and made for his wagon with
slivers sticking out all over him. When
he went by the house my wife asked
him if the machine saved ten per cent.
in soap, but he never answered nor
came to halt. He had just sailed
over the forewheel to his seat on the
wagon, give the horses cut with the
whip, and was mile away when l went
out to the road to inquire if his machine
was full-jeweled. "-Detr0it Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
Work the Negro Loves.

Bill Arp, in the Atlanta Constitution,
says of the negro:
The negro loves to pillow and split
rails. He is perfectly happy when fol-
lowing a mule on a hot summer day;
and happier still when the horn blows
for dinner and he can ride home side
ways. The mule is happy, too, and an
swers the horn with cheerful bray. 1t
is astonishing how much sense an old
farm mule has got I knew one that
when it was most dinner time kept one
ear back toward the house when he was
blowing the other way, and kept both
forward when he was coming back.
One day / blowed the horn about eleven
o'clock to see what Beck would do.
She was at the end of the row, and 1t
took the negro ten minutes to make
her turn round and go 10 blowing
again. But it is fun TO see the negroes
when summer rain comes up. They
will pillow on until the shower comes,
and then mount and lope home and get
wet all over, and by that time the rain
is over, and they have to go back again.
The negro takes more care of his head
than his feet. He don't want his head
to get wet or cold. He sleeps with his
head to the fire and covers It up good,
and lets his feet stick out any way. He
will warm his hands before he will his
toes. There is one thing that negro
can do better than white man. He
can beat us making fires on a cold, win
try morning. Sometimes when the
wood was wet and the kindling poor
have worked over fire good while
and almost despaired of making it burn,
but negro never fails. The fire seems
to recognize him, and 1 have thought
that may be it drew some oolored cal
ORIG from his body.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01

zone day in 1867" says Mr.. Ed.
johnson of the Boston Ideals, 81 was
standing in front of the old Logan
House at Altoona, Pa, admiring a
superb-looking man who was pacing up
and down the walk, meditating, pre-
sumably, as the rest of us were, on the
length of minutes when one is waiting
for delayed train. Presently a big,
broad shouldered moulder, who seemed
to recognize the superb gentleman,
shambled up near him and muttered
something which was evidently intended
to offend him. The superb gentleman,
however, paid no more attention to it
than to look rather sharply at the moulder
and pass on. Soon the moulder repeated
the performance with about the same
result, and the lockers on began to Won
der what it all meant. By and by the
moulder, evidently mistaking the
superb gentleman's indifference to him
for cowardice, stopped squarely before
him and said something which would
notlook well imprint about the internal
Yankee General
never saw a handsomer blow in my
life. 1t landed squarcly on the jaw of
the moulder, and seemed to raise him
neatly and gracefully into the air and
then stretch him tidily at full length on
the platform several feet away. The
superb gentleman looked at the back of
his hand with an expression of disgust,
as if condemning the hand for what it
had done, and then resumed his prone
made as if nothing had happened. The
last saw of the moulder his friends
were helping him away, but I frequently
saw Gen. Hancock after that, and came
to know that he was always the same
kind of man-slow to take offence, but
wonderfully effective in Furnishing one
who'd succeed in offending. Chicago
Mems
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
How 1t Feels to be Hanged.

Theodore Baker, New Mexico man
who was recently hanged by mob, but
was rescued before life was extinct,
gives this account of his experience to
newspaper correspondent:
ga little further on we came to a
telegraph pole. From the cross-bar
swung new rope. On one end was a
big slipnoose. They led me under the
my boots off, as l had promised my
folks would not die with my boots
on, but before l could do it the moose
was thrown over my mead and l was
jerked off my feet My senses left me
a moment, and then l walked up in
what seemed to be another world. As l
recollect now, the sensation was that
everything about me had been multi
piled a great many times. 1t seemed
that my five executioners had grown
in number until there were thou
sands of them. saw what seemed to
be multitude of animals of all shapes
and Sizes Then things changed and l
was in great pain. became conscious
that l was hanging by the neck, and
that the knot of the rope had slipped
around under my chin. My hands were
loosely tied, and jerked them loo e
and tried to catch the rope above me-.
Somebody caught me by the feet just
then and gave me jerk. 1t seemed
like bright flash of lightning passing
in front Of my eyes. 1t was followed
by terrible pain up and down and
across my back, and 1 could feel my
legs jerk and draw up. Then there was
a blank, and l knew nothing more I'M
til II O'clock next day.
"My first recollection was being in
the court room and saying: who cut
me down q There was terrific ring
ing in my ears, like the beating of gongs.
recognized no one. The pain in my
back continued. Moments of uncon-
seriousness followed during several days,
and have very little recollection of the
journey here. Even after had been
locked up in this prison for safe keep
ing, for long time saw double. DR..
Symington, the prison physician, looked
like two persons. was still troubled
with spells of total forgetfulness. Some
times it seemed 1 didn't know who
/ was"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
A Pleasing Historic Incident.

In speech of the Hon. A. G.. Curtin
Ia tbs IIouss of Representative, that
gentleman said: I do not care to fight
our battles over again. For like reason
/ did not like the commissioners or the
contractors who wanted the war to go
on because they made money out of it:
and when | visited the army | always
hated to see, as did see stuck upon
trees notices announcing "Embalming
done at low prices" AS warriors who
can never be appeased, they remind me
of a noted character who lived in my
town years ago. He was an old fellow !;
/ think he had been a wagon master in
the Revolution; that was the tradition
of the town. He used to tell a story of
his war-like achievements in battle, and
he told it so often that he became to be-
ieve it, and when strangers would come
to the little village in which we lived
they would give. capt. Cruzy" chat
was his name) drink or two and get
him to tell his story. The story as he
told it, was about like this: CAT the
battle of Monmouth" he would say, cal
though in the light horse l fought that
day on foot. / slashed with my sabre
cuts one and two, and head went off
here and limb went off there, until
the blood actually ran into my shoes.
A pile of dead bodies surrounded me; /
was excited, and / was still slashing
away, when felt touch on my shout
der. looked up, and there was Wash
ington! shall never forget the solemnity
of his appearance or the gravity of his
speech. He gazed at me moment with
out speaking, and then he said: ''Young
man, restrain your impetuosity! In the
name of God, do not make slaughter
house of the field of battlel'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
TOccOa Falls In Winter.

The Toccoa News says: 'TYou have
seen Toccoa Falls in summer, but you
never saw the falls when a Dakota biz
card had possession of things. During
the recent cold spell a party of young
people went out to the falls. The stream
tumbles 1856 feet, perpendicularly, to a
basin go feet across and, say, 1876 feet
long. The basin had frozen hard and
fast, and the pile of ice had gradually
grown until it was in the shape of a
mound thirty feet high at the thickest
part. 1t was great solid lump of ice,
on to which the water came splashing
down. AS the water would fall on the
top of this lump of ice it would scatter
and run in various directions. About
the time the little streams would reach
the edge of the basin they would begin
to freeze, and you could see the new Ice
running back up, following the little
streams. The water would run down,
and as it would reach the bottom, the
ice would start and run back up, going
nearly as fast q man would walk ordi-
narily. This was constantly repeated,
and the mass of ice continued to grow
until the weather moderated. I was
out there with party of friends when
the thaw set in. At the top of the
precipice piece of ice had grown until
it was half as big as a box car We
could see it tremble under the influence
of the returning warmth. We watched
it patiently. At last it seemed to shake
itself convulsively and then dashed
down the precipice, crashing like thun-
der on the mass of ice below"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
Farmers as Gardeners.

The remark is often made that farmers
are poor gardeners. and it is too true in
most cases. Farmers families, as a rule,
are far more poorly supplied with vege
tables than city residents. Not more
than quarter of the farms in this region
show anything better in the way of gar
den produce than little sweet corn
and some bush beans and few tomato
plants, and possibly even these last are
wanting. The field crop is depended
upon to supply the potatoes that are
wanted, and perhaps some turnips will
be raised in the fall, some years, as
second crop. What miserable showing
is this for those who are situated so
that the choicest vegetables of the gar
den, the various kinds in their season,
might appear in abundance on their
tables, provided the necessary care and
labor should be given to produce them.
But this picture is not overdrawn ! it is,
unfortunately, too true, and it Is not
less true that if we inquire about the
family fruit supply for country tables we
shall find this quite as deficient, or even
more so. There is no necessity for this
condition of things, and it is opposed
both to the physical and financial inter
ests of these families. No part of the
farm can make greater returns for the
labor and other expenditures than the
vegetable and fruit garden. If we in
quire into the cause of their neglect, we
shall find, in many cases, that their i'm
portance is measurably comprehended,
and the want of them Is felt, but the
labor and attention they require are
somewhat different from that of the
farm crops, and also, the garden inter
feres to some extent with the farm work
when it is not properly planned and
managed, as for the most part it might
be, so as to cause little or no ineon-
venience in the performance of the
regular work. And for this purpose we
now ask our country and village readers
who are directly interested to give the
necessary thought for the preparation of
a good garden at this season of compare
tive rest. What shall the garden consist
of How and when shall it be prepa1 edo
Who shall have the direct supervision of
it? These and other questions can be
considered and decided upon, and when
the time of action comes there need be
no delay Vic6's Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
That Seed Corn.

In few weeks from this date the
farmers will be in the hurry of corn
planting. If their seed corn is in q good
safe place, and has its vitality..full pre-
served to this date, it will be safe to
rely on in the month of May. But it
seems to us that farmer could whistle
at his daily work, and sleep sounder
nights if he certainly knew his seed
corn was all right This can be easily
ascertained in q very short time. And
if by any accident it is not right how
much more leisurely could he, during
this comparatively leisure time, procure
such seed as he knows is good.
Unless farmer knows his seed Is
good, he has no foundation laid to dis
cover what is the matter with his land
when his crops fail to vegetate. Nearly
half of the failures of seed corn, should
be charged to cold, wet soil. Undrained
land will frequently destroy the best
seed, and prevent soil, otherwise pro-
ductive, from producing a crop. Two
neighbors, who have equal starts in the
world, but one prospers because his seed
always vegetables and hehas large crops.
He has attended to underdrainage The
other has his seed to fail, though pro-
baby out of the same bin with his neigh
bor And all the season his corn is lit
tie and yellow, choked with smart
weeds, and at the close of the season
with from ten to twenty bushels per
acre, while his neighbor has from sixty
to eighty. There is no use in being care
full to take care of seed, if it is to be
planted IN the middle of May in wet,
cold soil, where every slight rain the
water stands in the burrows Tile is
now cheap and one years increased crop
win go far to pay the expense of drain
age. And then there will not annually
be half of the bowling about po0I sooS
corn.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
Obeying Orders.

An English farmer was one day at
work in the fields when he saw party
of huntsmen riding about his farm. He
had one field which he was especially
anxious they should not ride over, as
the horses hoofs would greatly injure
the crop. So he sent one of his boys,
and told him to shut the gate, and keep
watch there, and on no account to let
any one go through it.
The boy went, and had scarcely taken
his post there before the huntsmen
came up, and ordered him to open the
gate. He declined to do so, telling
them what his orders were, and that he
meant to obey them. They threatened
him, but he did not mind their threats.
They offered him money, but he refused
to receive it. At last one of them came
up-to him, and said in commanding
tones:
"My boy, you do not know me, but
am the Duke of Wellington. I am not
accustomed to be disobeyed; and now.
I command you to open the gate, that /
and my friends may pass through. +"
The boy lifted his cap, and stood I'M
covered before the man whom all Eng
land delighted to honor, and then an
swered. firmly:
81 am sure that the Duke of Yelling
ton would not wish me to disobey or
ders. must keep this gate shut no
one can pass through but by my masters
express permission"
The brave old warrior was greatly
pleased with this Then he took off his
own hat and said. ct honor the man or
the boy who can neither be bribed nor
frightened into disobeying orders. With
an army of such soldiers I could con-
quer, not the French only, but the
world" Then, handing the boy a
sovereign, he put spurs to his horse and
gallopod away.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
Dead Cities of Ceylon.

The extent and beauty of the archi.
tectural remains of the great ruined
cities in the interior of Ceylon are
known to but few. There are many of
them, and they are full of archelogic
adhapura, to instance only one of them,
is in its way as wonderful as Pompeii
or those great forest-grown cities of
Central America. 1t is situated in a
most lovely spot among the green val
legs and wooded hills of the interior of
the island, and whichever way the eye
is cast there are ruins, wonderfully beau
tiful ruins of shrines, ddg0bdS, pavilions,
a0ihares and gropes of tall monolithic
pillars carved from base to capital with
wondrous wealth of Oriental imag
cry. For miles the forest is strewn
with these majestic monuments of
long since persisted glory. So vast are
some of these great brickwork build
ings, that it is reckoned that the ma
terial of one ddgoba, of the several at
Anuradhapura, would be sufficient to
build wall more than ninety miles
long, twelve feet high, and two feet
thick. The enormous artificial tanks,
too, of this city might also be included
among the wonders of the world, so
vast are the great binds dams that
confine the waters, and so marvellous
their construction. They lie now en-
bosomed in the thick forest growth, and
their shining waters are solitary but for
the flocks of waterfowl upon them, and
the crocodiles which float lazily on the
surface, basking in the full glaze of the
vertical sun. The once busy banks are
now deserted except by the bands of
chattering monkeys which haunt it by
day, and by herds of Misunderstanding
elephants, which at night time leave
the inner depths of the forest and come
there to battle and drink Cornh6ll
Mdgdsine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
WHEN the recent snow storm in Maine

WHEN the recent snow storm in Maine
| was at its worst, one of the Selectman
of Limington was told that a neighbor
needed medical attention at once. He
sent a messenger on foot, the roads being
impossible for teams, to the nearest doc
| tor, three miles distant, telling him to
stop at all the farm houses on the way
and ask the inhabitants to turn out and
break roads for the doctor. And they
did. The messenger started about 3
o'clock in the morning, and the doctor
was able to drive to the patient before
noon.
AN auxiliary to the rudder for steer
ing seagoing vessels has been proposed.
1t consists simply of two discharge pipes,
placed one at each side of the vessels
stern as far below the water line as pos
sible, and connected with steam pump
capable of forcing powerful stream of
water through the pipes, which, i'm
pinging upon the water in contact with
the vessel, forces it to the side opposite
that from which the stream issues.
A CARRIAGE containing two young
ladies well known in Atlanta, Ga, was
driven into the cemetery. Mr.. Bonnell,
the sexton, was asked for, and when he
approached the ladies asked of him per-
mission to bury canary bird. The re-
quest was a rather singular one but was
granted. The bird has long been the
pet of one of the ladies and was resting
in small paper box which had been
prettily lined with satin.
PARTRIDeEs have suffered severely
from the recent sleet storms in Prince
Edwards Island, if we may believe local
paper. 1t is the habit of these birds on
cold nights to dive beneath the snow to
ke-p themselves warm. While thus
sheltered the sleet storm formed q crust
above them and they persisted, it is be-
Heved in great numbers. Dogs and other
animals scent the birds and dig out their
dead bodies.
Two bales of cotton raised by slave
labor in 1862 were sold the other day at
Rock Hill, s. G. The owner had been
offered 338 cents in gold a pound, but
for some unknown reason would not sell,
and when he died he still had it stored.
1t was in excellent condition, although
twenty-four years old, and was sold for
ST cents a pound, the lowest price
vouched by cotton since those bales were
grown.
Two little Cleveland lads, whose
father is in the workhouse and whose
mother is dead, keep house alone, the
elder doing all the homework as well as
the average housekeeper can do it. He
says that before his mother died she
taught him housework, saying that after
she was dead she wanted hum to take
care of his father and little brother.
A PAPER of Perry, Georgia, tells this
singular story One day last week DIR.
c. &. David, citizen of Perry, broke
an eight-penny nail between his teeth,
thus illustrating the great strength of
his jaws and the frmness of his teeth.
Mr.. David is Frenchman, about IS
years old, and he says he never had
fnothaahe 0r parache
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-01
Getting into Washington Society.

A Washington letter-writer says: The
madam, whom l will call Madam "Cod-
fish, has a husband who has made
fortune in trade, and who has come to
Washington with his millions and now
rents the house of great statesman for
something over $4,000 year. She
dresses extravagantly, and gives some
of the most gorgeous entertainments
She pretends to be very careful in the
selection of her guests, and is as snob-
bish little body as you will find this
side of the Alleghanies. When Madam
Goldfish" first came to Washington and
took possession of this grand mansion
she determined to get into society. Her
first act was to go to the house of each
of the foreign ministers and make call
upon them. The week following this.
before they had time to return her call,
provided they had wished to do so, she
issued cards for a reception, and sent
one to each of them. The foreign min
listers did not know what to make of it,
and they held a meeting to decide
whether they should countenance such
ostentatious vulgarity. The result was
that some of them went and others
stayed at home Those who did go,
however, gave the madam slight stand
ing in society and she has so built upon
this found alton that her name is now in
the society columns Of every newspaper,