Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-09-08
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
The raisin crop tributar = to River
side, CAL, will aggregate 10000 box
Is, valued at $500. 900, orS4OOO an acre.
Rev Alexander J. Drysdale. just APP
pointed bishop of Eastern Maryland,
died at Waukesha, Wis, of kidney
trouble.
1ndianola, Tex is fast becoming de-
populated, q great number OF its peo-
pie having decided to seek homes else
where.
The United States reduced her ma
tional debt hundred millions last
year; while Great Britain increased her
debt ten millions.
In the library of Lyons has been
tould quarto of 1882 containing
manuscript notes in Latin and Greek
in the handwriting of r .belais..
A pigeon owned in Brooklyn, N. Y,
made the flight from Montgomery, Ala
875 miles, in ten days, beating all pre-
vious records.
Brew. Maj. Gen. George H. Gordon
died suddenly of heart disease at Fran
ingham. Mass. Monday night, aged
sixty-one years.
Aox would Senator Logan, of ILL.,
nois, and Governor Alger, Of Michigan.
sound for u Nalioral ticket? queries
a Journal of the far East.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was so shock
ed by the death of her husband that
she has since been seriously i'll, and is
feared she may not recover.
The people of Madagascar are trying
to raise the money to pay off the French
indemnity claim and thus terminate
French occupation of Tamatave.
Tone Sutton. a French Q1a,lroon of
New Orleans, is said TO b. the weltil-
lest cOlored man in the Unite Il States.
His fortune is estimated at 81 0O0, 900.
James Garner, an English railway
porter, whose wages were but 10 shil-
lings per week, has just died, leaving
tips from passengers.
A new prose work by Miss Jean
Ingelow will be brought out by Messrs.
Roberts Bros. during the autumn. 1t
will be entitled ''John Jerome: His
Thoughts and Ways"
1t is said that Gen. McClellan's con.
tribution to the voluminous War litera-
ture of the last few years will be issued
Dec. l. 1t will have the title, INC
Clellan's Own Story
Florence Ni.hting lie, Mrs. Sicke1t,
the daughter Of Golden, Mrs. Crawford
of Paris, and Mile. Il # .lovich have
just been admitted to the Golden Club,
the first women ever enrolled in it's
membership.
Three hundred Mormon INN: grants
who landed at Castle Garden were COM
PEELED to pass rigid exam nation, and
over 100 will probably be returned to
Europe as paupers.
The resources of natural history
and geography have been drawn on to
supply Pennsylvania's candidates this
year. They have Beaver, Wolfe: a
Barker, Black, and an Africa in the
field.
Minnie Wilson, rosy-cheeked maid
of fifteen: drives the stage between
Minor and Hamline, in Dakota. The
route is extremely popular, as might
be expected.
Moonlight is the name of the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of Kan
sas. The soft radiance of his name
adds poetical tinge to the present
campaign in that romantic country.
President Diaz of Mexico, has issued
decree enjoining upon subordinate
officials greater care and prudence in
the arrest of citizens of other countries
on criminal or other pretexts.
A circular was issued by the Treas
ury Department yesterday that $1O,-
600, 900 Of the per cents would cease
to be.r interest Sept. Is, and that the
department was ready to redeem the
same.
!. The deaths in rapid suce ession of so
many old public leaders has turned at
tention towards the survivors,, among
whom is P,erce's Postmastcr-General,
James Campbell, who is still living in
Pennsylvania.
The editor-in-love of the Boston
Record declares that American women
are the most faithful, gentle, amiable.
warm hearted, high-spirited. generous.
capable, industrious, accomplishing,
indispensable and altogether lovely
women in the world.
In an encyclical letter to the Bishops
of Hungary the Pope deplores the
spread Of Eaturalism, rationalism, div
isi0n, and sects, and says the Church
alone can tffectually cope with Social
f,,n
liberty.
q Chicf John Smoke johnson died at
his residence on the reserve at Bant-
ford, Ont., Deceased was ninety-four
years Of age, being the oldest Indian Of
the Mohawk tribe. He fought in the
American war of 1912.
Jenny Lind's daughter is coming to
this country TO sing. She is not de-
scribed as gScat singer, but old reo-
pie who heard the enhancing voice of
her mother will listen to her with in
diligence, hoping to recall something
of the dear Old strains.
Some soldiers belonging to Prince
Albert's regiment have been arrested at
Birr, Ireland. fol refusing to assist in
evictions. There are further reports of
agrarian outrages and renewal of the
troubles in Belfast.
Mr.. Gladstone receives 1000 letters
in the course Of year. His reply
simply serves the purpose of an &C.
Acknowledgement. 1t is not in his hand
writing, anJthe name of the correspond
ent is written at the foot of the ctter
in very clerky hand.
History affords few examples of
more touching and confiding simplicity
than that of an old gentleman who died
in North Carolina last week, leaving
his entire property, $4,000, for the pur-
pose of founding religious daily pa
per.
Gen. John Newton, who succeeds
Squire in the New York Board of Pub
lie Works, is the same man who sue
cessfully blew up Hellgate. But that
was merely one of the outworks. He
is now called upon to tackle the enemy