Mower County transcript., 1869-12-09
MlunCSOt0 News.

Aiuucsota News.
The Annual First of December
Steamboat Excursion on the Mississip-
pi took place at St. Paul. The steam
boat Mankato was chartered for the
occasion, and carried the jolly company
up and down the river for couple of
hoars.-Fifteen thousand bushels is
the estimate Of the apple crop of Min
nesota this year. The surrlace wheat
Of the State for the present year is cs-
timatcd at 15,OOO,0 900 bushcls.--
Clothes-line stealers are about in St.
Paul.-The Winona Rrpublican IA
yors Mr.. c. N. Waterman, for speaker
of the House.-Now is a good time
to invest in partially improved farms.
Many who have laid out their all
strength, capital and credit on wheat,
and failed to make it profitable are dis
couraged and will sell for much less
than the actual worth of their FARMS
They are foolish and will repent here
after, but tha. does not alter the pres
ent oondition.-.--Navigatio on the
Mississippi is virtually closed.-The
new r. r bridge at Prairie du Chen
is nearly completed.-Additional mr.
ticles Of incorporation have been filed
with the Register Of Deeds at st. Paul
by the Directors of the Air and Hour
Line r. R.-The surviving members
Of the Second Minnesota Regiment are
to have a reunion on the 10Th Of Janu-
ary, the anniversary Of the battle Of
Mill Springs.--The Pioneer of the
4th gives little puff on the completion
of an edition Of 1900 volumes of the
Proceedings Of the Grand Lodge Of A.
+. NJ. The book numbers $50 pages.
We know it is we'll done, as we were
there aud had q hand in, and under the
superintendence of that prince Of Fore.
mans, Mn. PRICE why should it not ex-
cell anything Of the kind turned out in
State. PRICE is one of the best prin-
ters, and has faculty Of pleasing GUS
toners as well as employers.-T The
connecting link to connect the St. Paul
l. Sioux City Railroad with tho Union
Pacific, is line one hundred miles long,
between Sioux and Columbus. on the
Pacific road. Ten miles of this line, at
the west end, are about being put un-
der contract, to be completed by Febru'
ary, 1870, and ten miles more at the
Sioux City terminous. The initiatory
point Of the road will be opposite the
Floyd river, which empties into the
Missouri just south Of the Sioux City
and of the St. Paul and Sioux City,
will make 3 direct line of railroad frou,
Lake Superior, via St. Paul 10 the Pa
cific. Probably two years &ill see the
connection completed IN. B. Har.
woods peddling team was drowned in
Lake St. Croix, near Bayfield,, Nina.
on the 4th.--The formal opening oil
the first twenty miles Of the St Paul &
Chicago road, between St. Paul and
Hastings, will t ke place on Monday
tho 18th inst, with appropriate ceremo.
nies.-The St. Cloud Times gives the
following arrangements Of the Mime.
sofa Stage Company for the season
Stages for Sauk Centre and other point.
in tho valley will leave the St. Cloud
depot Immediately alter the arrival OF
the train at l:30 P. NJ, taking Dime,
at the Pacific House, near the depo:
and arrivia at Sauk Centre about II
o'clock the same Mi ght. Passengers 70,
Fort Ripley and intermediate points
will keep the train to Sauk Rapids and
depart the same afternoon for points
above.-The Albert Lea STANDARD
gives a statement Of goods received and
freight shipped from that port since th<
openin6 Of the railroad, on the 10th o
October, aud thinks s;rty:fve thousand
bushels Of wheat, t'centy-tvo thousand
pounds of butter, and sesea hundret
thousand feet Of lumber, besides othe,
merchandise, will do for the first re
'Iport. Tho Suak Rapids Sentine
says the citizens Of that place, youu;
and old, are having nice tines."
Parties are the fashion. Socibles, NIT
societies, surprise parties, musica
soirees, and those kind of gathering
where trippling ofthe "light fantastic,
&c., comes in, are in full voguc.-
III. Authos; Brooks, Of It. Anthony
has been missing for some time, and
is feared, from certain suspicious Gil
cumstances, that he has been murdered
1.-The Rochester Post contains fiv
columns Of mortgage foreclosure salc'
1t is evident that they are expcriencin
hard times in Olmstead county, as we
. elsewhere.-Seyeral deaths have o,
Cured in 0oedhuo county, through a.
cidents.
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