Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-09-01
SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.

IL Is expected that Tom Hughes will
accompany DR.. Holmes on his return
to this country.
Mrs. M. French Sheldon, translator
of ''Salammbo," is with her family on
the Maine coast, Immediately opposite
Bar Harbor.
Miss Lindley, of Meadville, Pa, has
left $4,000 to Allegheny college at
Meadville for the benefit of needy
students.
George w. Norris, of Woburn, Mass,
recently appointed agent of the Nez
Perces Indians of Idaho Territory, left
Friday with his family to take charge
of the agency located at Lewiston.
They have converted Chinaman in
Washington Territory and made a
schoolmaster of him for the benefit of
his countrymen, who still persist in
wearing tails and smelling feverish.
The editor of the Serville (Fla.) Ga
zette may be fifty described as cos
mogono: man. He runs newspaper
saw-miE, post-office, = real estate
business and practises law.
Mrs. Croly denny June) was given
family of Mr.. M. II. de Young, pro-
prietor of the Chronicle, of that city.
The list of guests embraced all the
literary people at the time in town.
James w. Fitzgerald. the temporary
President of the great Irish-American
Convention at Chicago, was an origi-
nal Fenian, and marched into Canada
with hostile intent. He is now Judge
of the Police Court in Cincinnati.
Capt. Shaw, Chief of the London
Fire Brigade, who is on a second visit
to this country, pshaws, it is said, all
the improved facilities, for fighting
fire that he sees here and then goes
home and adopts them.
Thomas Hurley formerly well known
as leading spirit of the Mollie Ma
guire organization. died at Gunnison,
COL, on the 18th. His mother, living
at Shenandoah, Pa, was informed by
telegraph, and sent word to have her
sons remains decently inferred at
Gunnison.
Miss Jessie Wilson, q native of
Australia, was recently naturalized in
California so that she might take up
homestead in that State. The lady,
who is described as young and pretty.
is determined to cut away from the
home folks and strike out for herself.
Rev. Irwin H. Cornell sends report
from Yokohama, Japan. describing his
missionary work in April last. During
that month he preached thirty-nine
times to an aggregate of at least 5000
| fro
of them on foot; baptized sixty-three
persons and received forty-one into full
Fellowship.
President Grevy, before leaving
Paris for his country home at Mont
! sous audrey, in the Jura, invited M.
Pasteuro to come to the country and
spend his holidays with him. Nj. Pas
teur accepted the invitation and M.
Grevy gave grand dinner in honor of
the scientist. President Grevy will
be back to his official duties by the
Goth Of September.
Mr.. Beecher has been quite prosper
GUS in England. He is lccturing
almost every night and always to
crowded houses. His manager, Major
Pond, says he would make 100000 if
he would remain a year. However,
Mr.. Beecher will t be tempted, but
intends to return home in October, at
the end of his present engagement.
Prince Plon-Plon Napoleon has left
Gen eva and has taken up his perna-
nent residence in the Chateau of
Prangins on the banks of Lake Leman,
two miles distant from Nyon. Prin-
cesses Clotilda, L9titia and Matilda
will visit him shortly. The Prince will
not come to America, as reported. His
son, Prince Louis, will remain for some
weeks yet in Japan.
Mile. Dosne, sister-ln-law of the late
M. Theirs, has just presented the Mar
settles Society of Science, Art and
Literature with the two houses in the
street of that town which bear the
name of M. Theirs and which formerly
belonged to his family, on condition
that the Academy shall take up it's
quarters there and shall preserve in
tact the chamber in which the great
statesman and iterateur was born.
The present apart from its historical
associations, is worth $4,000.
The King of Portugal, who is now
enjoying holiday in Central Europe,
has not been outside the limits of his
little dominion for the last twenty
years. During his absence Queen
Maria Pia, accompanied Ky her
youngest son, Prince Dom Alfonso, is
spending the season at the waters of
Caldas de la Rainha.. Meantime the
Crown Prince is acting as regent, and
his new married bride is winning
praise on all sides in her temporary
role of Queen.
So rapid is the progress of events in
this country that it is hard to believe
the first anti-slavery man sent to the
United States Senate on that issue is
still living, but such is the fact.
Joseph Cilley is the man, and he re-
mains on his old family homestead at
Nottingham, N H. He is ninety-six
years old and talks of the old-time
political struggles with remarkable
energy and clearness.
Vincent B. Kelly. political reporter
of the Chicago Tribune, received from
the Clerk of the Probate Court of Kings
County, N. Y. a certified check for
$1l,5OO. the sum bequeathed 10 the
estimAbje young man by his uncle, the
late John Kelly. And straightwav
young Mr.. Kelly proceeded to invest
some of his unc'e's money in a local
Democratic newspaper.
A Lake Savanac special says that
| President Cleveland wanders placidly
| about in loose brown velveteen
jacket, with a waistcoat of the same
material, and rongh cloth trousers.
! His old blue flannel shirts, so constant
ly his companion while here last sea-
son, has been discarded and he now
wears smart checked flannel shirt
AMI blue necktie. A soft gray felt hat
completes his costume.
A Base Ball Dog.