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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-09
No Grounds for Suspicion.

NO trOunOS 1Or suspicion.
The reports IN the St. Paul papers and
also published by the Democrat in re-
gard to the death of F. Augustus CARL
and his wife. who met so sad death in
the burning of their building, is purely a
production of imagination, His son.in.
law and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. F. A.
CARL and Mrs. Morrill,, say there was
nothing in any letter he wrote which
would indicate that he contemplated any
such rash act as is intlmated in these re-
ports. We clip the following from the
Port Huron (Mlch.) Times:
s. B. CARL called at the Times Office
today to contradict an item in Tuesday g
telegraphlc dispatches, alleging that his
brother, F. Augustus CARL, had set fire
to his own house in Austin, MIMI, and
murdered his wife and killed himself
He states that his brother was q steady,
well-to-do farmer and the last one in the
world to commit such an act, which is
undoubtedly true. The mystery sur
rounding the death of the old couple is
not yet explained.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-09

The Champion Binders, Mowers and Reapers
have been on the market about forty years,
and are recognized as the standard for excel
lence in all that goes to make frst-class Har-
vesting Machines. The Warder. Bushnell &
Glessner Company, the sole manufacturere,
commenced the business in 1850 IN one small
wooden building. Now their plant consists
OF twenty brick buildings, each as large as an
ordinary factory, and covers forty acres.
First-cIass machines and wise and liberal
methods have placed this Company in the
front rank of American manufacturers. They
are recognized as wide-awake. shrewd adver-
Users also, and we are gratifed at their selec'
ton of our paper as an advertising medium
to reach the best farmers in this locality. We
welcome them to our columns.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-09
wAlTHAM.
+. L. Peck is on the sick list.

Mrs. G. L. Peck Is on the sick list.
G. W. Hunt went to Hayfield Friday.
Mrs. Parker visited Austin Thursday.
April showers bring FORTH, May flo ~ers.
W. Sims of Haydeld wash town Saturday.
Ralph Whitney went to Rochester last
week.
Not any seeding has been done in this vicin-
ity yet.
A number of our school teachers went to
Austin Monday, to attend the teachers lnsti-
tute.
Gust Peterson. our section foreman, lett for
Ekhart Ind, Tuesday, to visit relatives and
friends, returning Monday.
Mrs. Newcomb, of the W. c. T. u. gave a
lecture i'm the school house Thursday night
Many signed the pledge. but did not make g
success in form1ng::a Womans' Christian
Temperance Union.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-09
l1l3;{|3lZl3{

After ten years exclusive sale, can now Sc
obtained of ell Druggists and Dealers IN Medi-
cines. It CuRES-take notice-not simply helpe
but CURES LIVER COMPLAINT,
Biliousneas and Dyspepsia.
L. a strictly vegetable preparation and will
CURE MALARIA, and all MALAnIA1. troubles,
DR.. 8. H. Wise, of Boston, Ky; says:
equal to HERBNE as Liver Regulator
Dr.. w. a. Baker, of Madison, Fla, says
"A bottle of HERBINE is worth more than
$500 worth of Quinine in any family"
Acting on the Liver in different way from
any other medicine; it is positive cure for
Chronic Constipation and is cheaper than Pills.
Its peculiar composition is such, that We
guarantee to cure any case of Chills and Fever
or Bilious Fever with one bottle.
It costs but Is cents and each bottle con-
tains over 10 average doses, making the cost
less than two cents = dose: Would you ask
will cure any Liver, Bilious or Mala.
rial Complaint. Manufactured by
The Herb1ne Co.,
successors to VIM. Condell.) st. Louis, Mo.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-09

In purchasing medicines, don't try ex-
periments the first and only consldera-
ton should be genuineness. Ayers Sar-
saparilla has stood the test of forty years,
and to day it is in greater demand than
ever--a triumph proof of popular ap'
nrOYal
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-09
Boots and Shoes Made and RepaireQ.

have opened q Shop in Merrills store
Shoes to order in the best possible style:
Repairing of all kinds promptly attended
to and neatly done. ...
Give me call. JOSEPH Cora,
AUSTIN Dec. 2. 1880.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-09
To Nervous Debilltated Men.

If you will send us your address, we will mail
you our illustrated pamphlet explaining al
about DR.. Dyes Celebrated Electro " oltaic
Belt and Appliances, and their charming eheots
upon the nervous debilitated system and how
they will quickly restore you to vigor, and
manhood. IT You are thus afflicted, we Will
send you q Belt and Appliances on trial.
Pamphlet free.
VOLTAIO BELT Co. Marshall, Mich.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-09

Beware of experimental Binders and Now
ers. Let the manufacturer do the expert
meptinR at bis own expense. Performance
beats promise, and 1t Is best for u farmer to
buy q machine that has an established repu.
tafiOn in his vicinity. The manufacturers OF
of the times at their own expense. This is
the third harvest for their Chain Drive, Raise
and Lower Binder. Each harvest has
brought many improvements. Other manu-
facturers are Initiating. The imitation is
never as good as the original.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-09
ADAMS.

We will have three saloons the coming year
The Epost-office will remain where it is, for
the present.
The newiboard are duly installed and max
ing some fair promises.
We received three carloads of machines last
week and more to follow.
P. Reding g. Son received shipment OF six
teen sewing machines on Monday.
John Schafer is building new house in St.
Paul, where he will in future reside.
Mathew Smith of Austin spent Easter Sup-
day with his brother Nick, in our village.
We thave ibeen without hotel:for nearly a
year and now it is reported: we are to have
three.
Justice Sheedy of Austin was in town Sat
nrday closing out the last sof the stock of
Frank Lyons.
Ole Hanson lost bright and promising
boy of seven years by scarlet fever last Sun
day. The family have the sympathy of the
entire community.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
NOTHING TO DO WITH 1T.

The general disposition to ascribe all sorts
of subjects to the scope Of the Interstate
Commerce law is unconquerable, notwith-
standing the fact thas it reveals most re-
markable ignorance of the nature of that
enactment. The DISPATCH has referred
to this matter before; but the last two in
stances are SO striking as to call for special
notice.
In q recent trial of an original package
case in Dakota both the court and the at
torneys made frequent references to the
Interstate commerce law, as If it were that
enactment which prevented the States from
stopping the sale of liquor in original pack
ages, The fact is that it has no more to do
with that subject than the tariff laws. The
ruling Of the Supreme Court in the original
package cases does not contain single ref
erence to the Interstate Commerce law.
The Interstate Commerce clause of the
Constitution on which that decision is based
is an entirely separate and .huch more far
reaching provision.
prehend the scope OF the Interstate Com
merce law was furnished by the recent ac-
ton of the railroad iremen's convention,
s'askIng Congress to so amend the Inter
State Commerce law as to compel all Inter
State railroad companies to use only auto
matte brakes and couplers." The enactment
asked for is good one, but it is wholly dis
tinct from the purposes Of the Interstate
Commerce law and can be made the subject
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
raE WORST WITNESS.

The New York Press indulges in severe
and minatory language. concerning the
pernicious Democratic papers who keep on
asserting that the United States revenues
for the coming fiscal year are likely to show
a de iciency as compared with the expendi-
lures. It quotes the Boston Herald as
Democratic authority to sustain it in its
assertion that the whole agitation is q
"bugaboo."
If that is SO, should not the reproofs Of
our esteemed cotemporary be directed to
those administration organs which have
given intimations that such deficiency is
likely to arise. As place where its correc-
tive efforts may have some effect, we re 'er it
to the editorial columns of the New York
Press. It is only little over a week since
that journal presented its plan for keeping
revenues and expenditures square by omit
ting the s49, ,oO0. 900 appropriation for the
sinking fund. As the sinking fund is
established by law and as its maintenance
amounts to a contract obligation between
the Government and its creditors, the ad-
mission that it is necessary to disregard that
vital obligation, is one of the most striking
confessions Of deficiency that could be made.
The Press should take the Press in hand.
When it admitted the necessity of throwing
overheard the sinking fund appropriation,
it gave up the whole case 'as regards
future deficiency between revenues and ex-
pepditures.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
BANKRUPTCY LEGISLATION.

The passage Of the national bankruptcy
bill by the House, the other dav, is an re-
assuring indication that in the intervals of
partisan legislation, Congress can attend to
some of the business required by national
interests. 1t is hardly to be hoped that q
measure sent to the Senate at this late day,
will be passed this session; but the bill will
be left in position where it can be passed
next winter.
Twelve years ago in fit of anger at the
fault of the old bankrupt law, Congress and
the country threw it away altogether. 1t
would hardly have been more trouble to
amend than to repeal it; but the number of
dishonest bankruptcies was so great that a
sudden and rather senseless impulse secured
its entire abolition. 1t did not take very
long for the business public to learn that in
repeating the law instead of amending it, a
grave mistake had been made; but our polit-
ical conditions are such that twelve years
have elapsed before a new bill is passed by
one branch of Congress; and it will proba-
bly, be thirteen years before the false step is
entirely retraced.
The Tarrey bill which was passed by the
House and is summarized in this issue
avoids the faults of the old bankruptcy
law. 1t has the Endorsement of commercial
bodies all over the country. If the Senate
would take time from political squabbling
to pass the bill at this session, it would do
the country decided service. The provis-
ions of the bill are fully set forth in another
column
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
FIGS AND THIsrLES.

No man ever had good thought In his life
that was not prompted by the Spirit of God.
IF your thoughts leave God It will not be
long until your hands will be raised against
Him.
VERY few people ever find out this side OF
the grave how much of the devil they have in
them.
EVERY community Is crowded with people
who want the best in everything. except re-
ligion.
when you have mortgage on the properly of o
widow.
A MAN who hasn't got religion enough to
hold him level in horse trade will bear watch
ing everywhere.
BABY sins look harmless. but they only need
time enough to grow up, and they will raise .
family of other SINS
LoAFER is good deal like a cork that has
been pushed into a bottle. 1t does M good
where it is, and isn't worth fishing out.
IL YOU are stingy and mean in money matters
get down under the cross of Christ and stay
there until the blood reaches your pocketbook.
WHEN Jesus entered Jerusalem He drove
out the money changers, but the great anxiety
among many preachers to-day is to get them in
again.
To be jealous Of good works don't mean to
hold down store box and whittle while your
wife Is at home hard at work trying TO make .
living.
The man with the fattest pocketbook doesn't
always smoke the best cigars nor wear the
finest clothes. It's the man who can least
afford the cost who wears the reddest nose,-
! RAMS HorR
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
HE WANTS BLOOD.

Mr.. Henry S. Chase, of st. Louis, must
be most excitable person. he is sending
circulars of the most blood-curdling char
acter all over the country. A packet Of
these pronunciamentos has reached THE
DISPATCH. According to Mr.. Chase civil
war is about to break out, and Mr.. Chase
proposes to help it along if he can. He calls
upon the people to build fires on the
hill tops-a most dangerous proceeding at
this dry season; to hold mass meetings, to
write letters to the Senate and finally TO
read the whole of the Federal election bill.
If Mr.. Chase's advice is not followed we are
told that there may be cry Of "To arms y
and our stteets may be wet with blood.
There may be danger to the liberties of
the people and there may be serious cause
for anxiety, but they spring from the
Mysteries of such hair-brained shouters as
Mr.. Chase. The people can deal with the
Force bill without resorting to bloodshed,
and the bill is good way yet from being
made Law. 1t is pity that the South
cannot keep its lunatics in the asylums.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
IN THE PARK.

You think me tramp. young felIer, I know,
And you reckon hain't no right to this seat;
You're a-wonderin' why don't get up and CO.
And leave the hull park to yerself for q treat.
Well. tramp's what am; dou't deny that;
And that's Jest the reason I'm ia kim u rest;
With coat that's too big, and a number min,
hat,
And shoes could swim in, I'm doin' my best,
know it's no Joke to tou ,h shoulders with me-.
Perticklerly when you've got clothes that ht;
And how you kin stand it. I'm blest II seel
In that streaked blazers yer quite q ''hit."
Good clothes is becomin,, of course, that's true;
But they sometimes make ye stuck on yerself
Don't let 'em get in their .'fine work. on you.
Some day, ye know, they're laid on the shelf
You'd hardly believe had ,em once, too;
A-seein' me sit here like Misery's twin;
1t seems Jest dream was ever like you,
With friends and home to be happy in.
And didn't lose 'em through gamblin' or gin,
They went in night, like tale that's told
The spoil OF friend trusted in,
Who tricked me OF wife. and house, and gold.
'The way of the world. perhaps you say;
But somehow / never took heart again,
lost my grip, and you see me to-day.
The sport and Jest Of my fellow-men.
Have you ever thought, when the shadows fall
O,er the busy street and the quiet park,
OF the feeling Of those with no home at all,
In the silent, cherries, pitiless dark?
Do Won wonder. then, on glad, bright day,
Mid trees that beckon and breezes that kiss,
Isbould want to pass few hours away
When the night is SO different from all thisr
That's why I'm here, meath the beautiful blue,
hahn nowhere else to so TO- you see.
~~Y~x w<zHa< ~
r. nretty near Heaven to fellows like me.
--Howard Seeiy in Teras SCrfncs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
sHoTGUNs SUPERSEDED

A correspondent writing from Alabama
assures us that the shotgun policy has been
superseded by the plan of buying infuen-
tial negroes who can control following of
men of their own color. The details
of this proceeding are very interesting.
They show that Q more humane
method of controlling votes than shooting
the voters has been adopted by the white
politicians. There is no secrecy about the
means by which the supremacy of the white
population is assured. It has strange
sound to our ears. We have not in the
North yet come to talking openly of buying
voters, or deluding the ignorant by trickery.
But the conditions of Southern life must be
considered; they are not considered enough
generally. 1t seems likely that the nation
will be forced to study the Southern problem
more attentively.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
REFORM THE DESKS.

The children are all at play, and the
pretty schoolma'am and the stern peda-
gogues are all enjoying freedom and fresh
air, but it is none the less a good time to
make Improvements in the schoolroom. As
will be seen elsewhere there is considerable
ground for believing that the equipment of
our public schools in the matter of desks is
far from what it should be. The reasonable
claim is made that the scholars are treated
in the schools as if they were made for the
desks rather than that the desks were made
for the scholars. The desks are not adapted
in many cases to the growing boys and girls
who use them. The big hoys get low desks,
the little boys high ones, and SO on. This is
bad for the children's health. Now is q
good time to examine the facts and prepare
a way for the needed reform. Make the
desks suit the scholars.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
BITTEN BY A SNAKE.
The Parents Awakened by the Cries Of
Their Infant Child.

The Parents Awakened by the Cries Of
Their Infant Child.
From the Morgantown New Dominion.1
] ohm Carroll lives on Trace creek with his
wife and infant child, two miles from Hamlin.
Sunday night the little family retired to bed as
usual, the bed sitting in corner Of
the room next the wall, the latter
being built of logs and the cracks
closed with boards. At 2 o'clock
in the morning the parents were awak-
ened by the cries of the child which complained
of its hand. Lighting lamp the parents dis
covered small incision on the child's hand
bleeding, and surmising at once that q snake
had inflicted the wound, applied the mouth of
bottle filled with turpentIne to the wound
and were soon rewarded by seeing greentsh
substance issue from the wound.
Mrs. Carroll instituted hurried search
about the bed and discovered what she at first
on the wall. Putting her hand on the crevice
she quickly withdrew it, when the horrid
copper colored head of q snake reared up
hideous sight in the pale light. Selling
an axe the terrified mother struck
the reptile a blow. severing the head
from the body. Meanwhile the child's
arm began to swell and turned black. The
agonized father ran for a horse and taking the
child in his arms, galloped to Hamlin through
tbs darkness and reused up DR.. Thacker. The
doctor Immediately administered such power
full antidotes for poison as the child could re-
ceive and soon had the satisfaction of seeing
the death-dealing poison injected from the
fang of the snake being counteracted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Mr.. GLADSTONE makes it rule never to
travel on Sunday.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has offered to give $50,
900 to build free library at Ayr.
r. B. HAYES. Grover Cleveland and James
G. Blaine are the only living Presidential candi-
dates nominated prior to 1888.
1T is stated that Patti will visit this country
in 1892 on the same conditions as on her last
four visits-namely, that it will be farewell
tour
J. WARREN KEIFER emerged the other day
and was found to still cling to the preceding ].
to his name and the subsequent spiketails to
his coat.
IF Mr.. Depew is a candidate for President Of
the United States it may be stated that his
campaign is moving along very satisfactorily in
England.
COLONEL MORROW has withdrawn from the
| Gubernatorial contest In California, and 81. b.
Markham probably will be the Republican
candidate.
IT appears that the powerful name of Russell
Harrison is attached to the JUDGE staff for ad.
vertising purposes only. And yet Russell is an
able journalist.
THE reigning belle Of Madrid is the Countess
of Villa Gonzalo. She is woman of tail and
graceful figure, with large, lustrous black eyes
and beautiful complexion. She is married
and has one child.
THE Duke Of Fife has dozen suits Of
clothes in constant use, and a gossipy chronicler
says that he keeps his various pairs of trousers
on shelves labeled Monday" Tuesday" and
SO on to the end of the week.
JOHN SARGENT, the American portrait
painter, who lives most OF the time in London,
has picked up as high as $4,000 In four months
at his profession. He is the only American
artist who can command S.. 900 for portrait.
MRS. ELIZABETH STUART PHELPs-WARD
is described as shy woman OF delicate
features. Her eyes have look of sadness in
them. The strength of her face appears in her
forehead. She is quiet but engaging talker.
ABRAHAM BoNNAFIELD, Clerk of the
County Court of Tucker county, West Virginia,
who died few days ago, was born without legs
over so years ago. Yet he was an excellent
cavalry soldier in the rebel army all through
the late war.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
THE SOUTH PENN DISCOVERY.

The facts which have been ascertained by
q special investigation on behalf of THE
DISPATCH into the present status of the
South Penn enterprise, are of the utmost
importance, and in some aspects have an al
most sensational significance. As will be
seen from the correspondence published in
this issue, it iE beyond doubt that work has
been resumed for the construction of the
line. All the movements of the engineers
in the new SURVEYS that have been made
have been surrounded with secresy. Every
effort has been made to keep information
from reaching the outside public. The lips
OF the railroad magnates who are connected
with the South Penn enterprise are sealed.
But the evidence is conclusive that new
surveys have been made, and that arrange
ments are in progress for an early resump-
ton of the actual work of construction.
This would be very good news to Pitts
burg if it were not that the indications of
the resumption of work are accompanied
by equally clear indications that the
work is being done under the direction and
control OF the Pennsylvania Railroad. The
engineers are nominally in the employment
of the Cumberland Valley road, one of the
minor ramifcations of the great corporation;
but they are clearly the employees of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. 1t is thus made q
prind .fdcie conclusion at least, that the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad has taken possession
of the property, and has resumed its effort
of five years to control it, even to the degree
of building it under the cloak Of one of its
proprietary corporations.
On this theory there are several very in
teresting aspects. In the first place, the
construction of the line as secondary track
of the Pennsylvania Railroad will rob it of
the great public benefits promised by the
original project. 1t was as q competing
line in Pennsylvania vast freighting bugi-
ness that the former enterprise was well
coined by the people; and it was to main
tain that beneficial character that the con-
stItutional provisions were appealed to and
upheld by the courts. If the construction
of the road is not to serve that purpose,
but is ouly to extend and perpetuate the
monopoly of the Pennsylvania Railroad in
the States traffic, the public benefit is
turued into injury, and the power of the
corporation to ignore at once the public
welfare and the requirements OF the Consti-
tuition, is manifested to a remarkable degree.
Another peculiar phase presents itself
here The railroad magnates at the time OF
the South Penn hearings asserted with the
weight of expert testimony that the South
Penn road would NOT be competing line
because its grades were bad; because
1t ran through q mountainous and