Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-08-18
SPIRIEsOF THE DAY.

sPIRITOF THE DAY.
French trade with South America
amounts to 5000. 900, 900 a year, while
while not $1O,0O0,0O0 worth of goods
are sold to the French colonies.
Mrs. Goodacre, living east of Way.
land, Mich, is sixty years of age and is
now cutting her third set of teeth.
| Her father, Stephen Harmon, also q
resident of that township, is the young
est of twonty-six children.
The Kansas state board of agricul.
ture estimates the production of the
state: Winter wheat, II. 500, 900 bush
els; spring wheat, $4,000 bushels;
oats, 80, 1874, 900 bushels; corn, 12O, OOO,.
600 bushels.
Mr.. Church, of Otoc county, Neb,,
while digging cellar under his house
Monday, unearthed eleven grinning
skeletons.
Col. Robert Allen, quartermaste1
general in the United States army dur
ing the war of the rebellion, died at
Geneva.
The mayor of Grand Rapids, Mich,
has forbidden the Salvation Army to
parade the streets of the city.
Nearly all the half-breed families
have left Batoche and have settled be-
tween Sethbridge and Mcleod.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kline of San Iran
cisco has been elected president of the
National Woman's Relief corps.
Commodore j. G.. Walker is acting
as secretary of the navy in the absence
of Secretary Whitney.
The British government has not vet
decided whether to call an autumn
session of parliament.
Ex-Gox. St. John of Kansas will
speak at several temperance camp
meetings in Vermont this month.
The real estate of Philadelphia has
increased in value only 1858, 439 in
nine years.
Caroline Jackson, an ex-slave, died
in Albany, N. Y. Monday, aged 10
years.
A vessel from South America, in
quarantine at Ship Island, near New
Orleans, has had six or eight deaths
from yellow fever on board.
E. w. Allen is building a house in
Marquette, the sides of which are COW
cred with California redwood shingles,
soaked in oil.
A mineral spring has been found
near Ionia, Mich, the water of which
makes person drunk in fifteen min
utes.
The Alabama election Monday, re-
suited in a Demo cratic majority of
$4,000. Thomas Seay was elected gov
ernor.C. C,Langdon, secretary of State,
+. II. Smith, treasurer, M. G. Burke
auditor, Thomas N. Mcclellan attorney
general, Solomon Palmer, superintend-
ent of education.
Charles Rogers, Pittsburgh me-
chanic, has secured a patent on an
invention which will revolutionize the
barbed fence wire business. His ma
chine produces sixty miles of metallic
strip a day.
All the French railways are now
controlled by Hebrews; all the fashion
able French dressmakers are Hebrews,
and all the grand old French wines be-
long to that race.
The leading hotel proprietors of De-
troit, Mich. have decided to refuse en-
tertainment to colored people when the
colored Knights Templar meet in that
city this week.
A snake with ten rattles and four
and a half feet long was killed at
Mount Washington Monday, and will
be sent to Williams college Massachua-
sets, as specimen.
1t is believed that Queen Victoria
will open Parliament III person.
An explosion of coal gas occurred in
the hold of the Norwegian bark Tetens.
at Cardiff. Six men were fatally in
injured.
The French journalist Dorides and
two Italian brothers named Vecchi,
who charged with treason in disclos-
ing secrets in connection with the mar
thine defenses of Italy, have been &C.
quilted. The public 8 srati6ed at the
verdict.
Mr.. E. X. Kortright, formerly Brit
ish Consul at Philadelphia, has been
kni hted.
The Welsh members of the House of
Commons propose to form national
party in Parliament on the same lines
as the Parnellite party.
There are good reasons for believing
that Mayor Grace intends to appoint
a Police Commissioner in place of
Gen. Fitz John Porter. 1t is said on
the best of authority that the Mayor
has decided that Fitz John Porter has
forfeited his position in the city govern
ment by being replaced on the army
rolls by an act of Congress.
Senator Jones, of Florida, has opened
2 law Office in Detroit, and has notified
the Governor of his State that he pro-
poses to serve out the balance of his
term without resigning. His term
will not expire until March, and it
would appear that the Florida Senator
has no intention of attending the
winter session.
Gen. Cox. of North Carolina, Chair
man of the Civil-Service Committee of
the House, has been defeated for re-
for the position he took
upon the Civil-Service question, that of
upholding the law. 1t is expected he
will receive government appointment.
A movement has taken form at Gin
cinnati to remove the body of ex-Presi-
dent William H. Harrison from the
old vault at North Bend, Ind, and
place it Spring grove Cemetery, Gin
c;nnati. The consent of Senator Har-
rison has been obtained and the re-
moval will take place in September,
when the body of ex-Gov. Chase is
brought to Spring Grove.
A Boston letter states that with the