The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-03-17
COUNCIL CHAMBER,

Council met and was called to order by the President.
The Recorder, pro tenn, read the minutes of the las,
meeting, which were approved.
The following report was then presented BY the Re.
cordsr, pro tenn -
I'm pursuance of the instructions received at the last
meeting of the board, the Recorder, pro trza, commuui.
Gated with Mr.. Leander Wells on the subject of the
Ferry Boat, and rept rts that Mr.. Wells has accepted
the offer which was made to him, Gas published in last
number Of the Emiyrant A." Lar~"h,) and will i'm
mediately take the necessary steps to have the Ferry in
operation BY the middle Of April
Resotved, That the Recorder, pro ten, is directed to
correspond with the Town Surveyor, and request that
the survey of the Levee and Clarke avenue be finished
at the earliest possible moment, as the delay in those
matters has materially delayed the commencement Of
aoy Improvements by the Council.
BY Mr.. Eaton, that the Recorder, pro tenn, is directed
to correspond with parties about the chain for the Ferry,
with the view Of obtaining il on the most favorable
terms for the town.
BY MI. Caled, that the Recorder, pro tenn. is instruct.
ed to notify the Appraisers and Fire Wardens of their
election, and to request these gentlemen to call on Mr..
Charles Z. Clarke on or before the Wednesday evening
next the 18th inst and qualify for their Offices.
Resolved, That Mr.. Charlie, e. Clarke, the Recorder,
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fuel and lights used BY the Town Council.
On motion Of Mr.. Calef, the following preamble and
resolutions we're adopted =
Whereas, Mr.: A. N. Cheney, the Town Marshall
elect, has offered as securities on his bond for the faith.
full discharge Of his duties Messrs. Anthony Reed.
Charles Yeager and Louis Loichot,
Resoved, That the Town Council hereby accepts the
same as satisfactory, and requests the Recorder to pre.
pare the necessary bond, and have the same executed b.
the said parties before the next meeting.
hesoivcd, That the Town Marshall is hereby instruct.
ed to make a contract or contracts for the removal of
all the trees and brushwood on the River Bluff west Of
Clarke avenue, in such q manner that the obtaining Of
the wood may be a remuneration for the removal Of the
brushwood.
On motion Of Mr.. Robertson,
Resolved, That the Recorder is hereby instructed to
place in the Emyra"s Hid journal a notice calling for
Estimates for the following work. viz. "a signs Of the
names of strcets, painted on a white ground with black
letters, on one inch board-eight inches by thirty inches
In size, banded on the edge-said estimates to be sent
into the Town Council in sealed envelopes on or before
Saturday next the 10Th inst.
Mr.. Robertson offered the following resolution -
Resolved, That the parties owning the old wooden
foundations, which have been l. ling on various parts Of
the town site for months past, be requested to remove
the same, as citizens are apt to stumble over them At
night.
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Resolvrd, That the Recorder is / hereby instructed to
insert in the Em;grans Hit journal Of next week, and
to post within three days from this date, in three of the
most public places Of the town, copies Of the following
notice -
Public notice is hereby given that on Saturday even
ing next, the 10Th inst, the Town Council of Nininper
will be prepared to receive Estimates for the construc-
ton of a Foot walk around block forty -four (44) iu Mn
niger City. The said Foot-walk must be built and com-
pleted in a good and workmanlke manner. The width
of the said walk to be FIVE feet four inches, IS feet 4
lnches,) commencing two feet from the line of the said
block, the flooring Of the same to consist Or one and r
half inch boards from ten to fourteen 90 to Ia inches
wide, to be supported by three ~stringers each four BY
five. The said flooring to be nailed down to the ssringers
in a substantial manner with four inch "a nails; six
nails to each board. The said ~stringers TO be supported
in a solid manner by stones. The said supports to be
not more than four feet apart the whole walk to follow
the average grade Of the street, and not the inequalities
in the same, and the walk to be ten inches above the
surface Of the said average grade. Parties estimating
can put in their bids for the said work stating the same
particularly. The Estimates must be presented sealed
up carefully, and addressed to the Town Council of Mn.
niger. The party making the lowest bid to receive the
contract, but no payments to be subsequently made un.
less the work is performed in accordance with the con.
tract. and to the satisfaction Of the Council. Signed,
1GNATIUs DoNNELLY, President.
Attest, G. o. ROBERTSON, Recorder, pro tenn.
On motion adjourned till Wednesday evening next
the 18th inst, at seven o'clock.
G. 0. Robertson, Recorder, pro tenn.
The Three Ages Of The W0rld.-The ANTI
8unnbug Age.
The world has had its golden age, its iron age, and
according to the Satirist its age of Bronze The
present age has been designated, par excl Hence, the Age
of Humbug. In our opinion, however, the era in which
We live has been very fatal to humbugs-especially
your time houored, venerable, conventional ~humbug-.
To one Of these-the art Of ~drugging people to death
under the pretence Of treating them according to the
rules Of medical science-Professor Holloway has given
the coup de grace. In the first place he has simpli6ed
the pharmacop~ia, BY substituting for its ten thousand
nostvunss two renedies, a Pill and an Ointment, which
actually accomplished all that the medical ~godfathers Of
said nostrums promise in their name, but never cause
them to perform. The scrofulous, the ~dyspeptic, the
bilious, the fever-ridden, the lame, the rheumatic, the
the abandoned Of hope and of the faculty,
have used them, have recovered, and rejoicingly testify
to their health restoring properties. The testimony is
from the sick Of all nations, from the learned and the
the rich and the poor, the throne and the cot
tage. If it is not to be received as truth, then no evi.
dencc direct or circumstautial is worth q dot, and no
OOSUt ~ w CIOWUSU WIN 0O0Or or CO00cu0eO LOT
crime, on the aA6davits of voluntary witnesses, however
or respectable.
But We cannot refuse our credenoe to statements
founded on the personal experience of those who make
them. We cannot say to the lame who walk, the sick
red to health and vigor, the multiiudes relieved
from agony and despair, you are in error, you know
not what you assert We cannot help admitting that
those who l,nguished and grew worse under an avalanche
Of drugs administered BY regular physicians and apoths.
carries, and who subsequently recovered under Professor
Holloway treatment, were injured by the one and cured
by the other. Before we can deny the truth of such an
inference, We must adopt the dogma Of Berkley, the
'netaphyslcian, and declare that matter has no exist.
and that all We suppose to be visible and tangible
IS a mere phautasm. Not being prepared to subeoribe
to that theory. we are bound to believe that the decision
ut the world on the efficacy Of Hol:oway's medicines il
founded upon impregnable facts. -[Glasgow Saturday
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