The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-25

BLUE EARTH COUNTY.

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BLUE EARTH COUNTY.
From the Mankato Record. 18th.
QUARrRRMAsTRR GREEN, Of the Tenth
regiment, arrived here on Wednesday
last, with young elk, captured on the
plains.
Nh. THOMAS, on the Des Moines, lately
killed a buffalo which weighed twenty
two hundred pounds.
Mr.. SH1aLEY, this season, raised musk
mellon of the Mexican species, which
measured thirty-two inches in length.
MANY of our farmers are now thresh-
ing their wheat, which turns out much
better than anticipated. Very few have
less than fifteen to eighteen bushels to
the acre, while number report from
twenty to thirty. The average yield can.
not be much less than twenty bushels to
the acre.
A LOT on the corner of Front and
Plumb streets, was sold, few days ago,
for $3.50 cash. Mr.. Ohas. Shelter, the
purchaser, intends erecting thereon
brick dwelling house.
MONDAY and Tuesday last were very
warm days, the thermometer ranging
from 90 to 90 degrees.
sTEARNs COUNTY.
From the ST. Cloud Democrat 1.th.
REPORTS from the country state that po-
tatoes are growing at surprising rate,
and that very large yield is expected.
They have fallen in market one half, as it
was though at first that the supply would
| be small.
In travelling through the country one is
surprised at the number of sheep that are
scattered about. There are very few far
mers who have less than from dozen to
fifty, aud many focks number from one
to two and three hundred head. This
business has been found to be exceedingly
profitable, and much attention is being
paid to it.
Hon. H. @. WALL has raised some very
fine apples this season on trees in his gar
den in this city. W. II. Wood, ESQ.,, of
Sank Rapids, has also had yield from
several trees.
On Thursday Capt Frank Nibbler drew
seventy Prussian muskets with accoutre-
ments complete for the company of State
militia under his command, in the Cold
Spring district.
II. Z. MITCHELL has been appointed by
Governor Swift, a Brigadier General to
command the Fifth brigade Minnesota
| State Militia.
OLMsTED COUNTY.
The Rochester Post says the number
| Of names enrolled in Olmsted county I'M
der the CONSUMPTION act is 1905 first
class, 1885; second class, $50.
THE Republican Union nominees in the
Olmstsd District for Representatives, are
THOMAS H. ARMSTRONG and J. p MoUL-
TON.
ANOTHER of those painful accidents that
are yearly becoming more frequent, hap
pened to a boy named Thompson, while
standing near threshing machine which
was in operation near Plainview, last
Tuesday The boy was wound up on the
tumbling rod, his clothes torn completely
off, his thigh broken twice, and many
other injuries-perhaps fatal-lniicted.
| Too much caution cannot be observed
around threshing machine.
WILD PLUMs.-Never before in our
memory have we been treated so abund-
antly with this species of natures fruit as
within the past month. The market has
been glutted with them, and school boys
find it a pleasant and easy pastime to
walk out half mile after school and re-
turn with half bushel of large, ripe, mel
ting, luscious plums, before sunset. IT'S
said that wild plum trees are easily domes-
| ticated, and an exchange mentions that
| one gentleman planted an orchard near
St. Paul, carefully pruned and cultivated
it, and is repaid for his trouble by plums
as fine as any ever grown east, south, or
anywhere else. Some Of them are exact
ly the flavor of green gage plums. If cul-
waiting the common wild plum produces
such fruit, who is there that will not
plant a plum orchard in Lis garden.
CARVER COUNTY.
TIE Argus says: An evidence of the
progress of our county and towns may be
seen by the amount of brick manufactured
here the present season. Mr.. L. Howe
has burned one large kiln containing about
800, 600. Messrs Griswold & Gregg have
finished their last kiln which contains
nearly 100000, and have before burned
100000. At Carver more than 100000
have been burned, making a sum total of
nearly one million brick manufactured this
season in this county, worth at the selling
price $4,000. The greater portion of them
will be used in Chaska, several houses be-
ing already in process of erection.
SHELLEY AND NICOLLET.
THE Democrats of the legislative district
comprising the counties of Sibley and
| NicOllet have nOminatal M ,,rup,v DoNo-