Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-06-02
NEWS IN NUBs.
The Ohio legislature adjourned May

NEWS IN NUBS. -
The Ohio legislature adjourned May
The total exports from New York for
last week were valued at Sc, 900.
The Brooklyn sugar-workers' strike
has ended in tho defeat of the working
men.
The senate has yet 400 nominations
to act upon. They have confirmed ITS
and rejected IS.
The temperance people of Northern
Michigan are making it lively for the
Sunday saloons.
Mr.. Stevens, who is riding round tho
world on his bicycle. is in Asiatic Rus
sia wheeling towards the Pacific.
The congressional labor committee
returned from St. Louis with 81 600 of
the money:appropriated for its expenses.
Colonel Christopher Hampton, broth
or of Senator Wade Hampton. is
thought to be dying at Columbia, S. c.
A German edition of "Rudder
Grange" under the title of s'Ruder
Helm" is about to appear in Stutt-
gart.
Ex-President Arthur rode in Central
Park on the 10th. Those who saw him
wero shocked at his changed appear
ance.
Miss Folsom is to be sketched in a
Bridal Edition. of Mrs. L. G.. Hol-
loway's book, 1.-The Ladies of the
White House,
The French are about to celebrate at
Montdidier, his native town, the GEN.
tenary of Parmentier, who introduced
the potato into France.
The Ohio State Sinking Fund Com
mission has effected a one-year loan of
$500 900 with Albert Meter of Cincin-
natl at 81 per cent interest.
According to the latest reports, Pres
ident Cleveland will meet Mss Folsom
in Baltimore. No one can vet say
definitely where or when the wedding
will occur.
The Hon. David Fischer died last
last Saturday at the age of 81 at his
home in Batavia, Ohio. He was in the
war of 1912, was pioneer in Ohio and
prominent in the politics in that state,
William Morris, an artist and design
or, of London, deplores that, in spite
of the efforts of people for forty years
to raise the taste in art, the world is
growing uglier and more common
place.
Boston hopes that Sir T. Grattan
Esmonde, member of Parliament and
great-grandson of Henry Grattan, can
be induced to attend the parliamentary
fund festival to bo held in that city on
June IL.
1t is charged that Civil Service Com
missioner Edgerton has been in Fort
Wayne, Ind, for several weeks work
ing to defeat the nomination of Judge
Lowry, the present Congressman from
that district.
Miss Louisa M. Alcott's "Little
Women" has been adapted in French
under the title of "Quatres Files du
DR.. Marsh," and another of her stories
as LA Petite Rose; ses six Tantes ct SOS
sept Cousins"
MAY 8, was the bi-centennial ami
versary of the printing of Sir Isaac
Newton's "Principia'-a fact noted in
some resolutions of the Albany Insti-
tute, which last week celebrated its
own bi-centennial.
Colonel George w. Hooker, of Ver-
mont. ex-Sergeant-at-Arms of tho
National House of Representatives.
says there will not be vote thrown
against the reelection of Mr.. Edmunds
to the United States Senate.
Eo<ho>. T,or Gru,oo ~
Mexico, has a Pompeian statue Of
Hercules that was favorite of the ill.,
fated Maximilian. He bought it for
$25 in a pawnshep and has since re-
fused an offer of $4,000 for 1t.
Phillip Brooks has definitely decided
not to bereave> Boston by accepting the
Assistant Bishopric of Pennsylvania.
Probably Pennsylvania can find in the
wide range of the Protestant Episcopal
church some eminent clergyman who is
willing to be promoted.
Justice Harlan is not only rigid
Presbyterian. but no is the best story
teller on the Supreme Bench. He has an
infinite fund of humor and large num-
Der of new anecdotes. Harlan has
perfect horror OF stories of the "chest-
NUT variety and never tells one.
Those who have heard him say ho has
the best collection of brand new stories
of any man in Washington.
Archbishop Gibbons of Baltimore
has received an official communication
from Cardinal Luigi Jacobini, Papal
Secretary of State, informing him of
his elevation to the Cardinalate by
Do~o m VII1 T. l.. 4 boo~ %bo :n<o..
ton Of the Pope to have conferred the
dignity in March last, but the consis-
tory was postponed and the official
! notification was withheld until May 6.
After q conference at Philadelphia
the textile manufacturers, 159 in
number, and representing capital of
$3.50, ,00O, 900. have formed 8 protective
association for the establishment of
uniform wages, the prevention of
| strikes, and the settlement of
differences between employers and
operators. Should q strike occur in
any one factory the mills of all will bs
summarily closed until the strike is
settled satisfactorily to the employer
in whose mill it occurs.
! They are contrasting two different
styles of oratory in Congress, as
illustrated by Congressman Eyerbart
and O'Neill. Mr.. 1verhart, in a re-
cent speech on the River and Harbor
bill, talked about the Gordian knot,
the CeboDian bog, Jupiter and Danae.
the fabulous shores of Calypso and
Atlantis, the imprimatur of the
Elzevirs. and the Palimpsests OF the
Vafican on6inn nm With a rnforonoo
to Ezekiel swallowing the roll. Mr..
O'Neill, on the other hand, got mp
and said simply that the bill looked
like steal, but that he was in favor
of it provided St. Louis got her share
of the pork. This is the sort OF
eloquence that St. Louis appreciates.
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