The Grange advance., 1874-08-05
STATE ITEMS.

The Plunkctt troupe is finishing up
successful week at Mankoto.
A STEAM Touring mill is to be put up
this season at Qwatonna.
HARVEST wages in Rice county range
from $3.50 to SO day, and hands are
plenty.
GIRLS at .Fairbault complain Of
frequent insults from graceless scamps
Of that city.
Ar Mantowille no harm was done by
the storm of Last Saturday. evening,
though some hail fell.
S. A. BUNTING, one of the. promin-
ent business men of Dassell,. died sud-
denly yesterday afternoon.
THREE horses were stolen Thurs
day night from D. Sheperd,, a farm
living near Dover, Olmsted county.
A POOR 1nan named Aal, living nine
miles northwest of Marshall, had his
horses stolen on the night off, the Goth.
SwANrE ANDERSON. Of Wastedo, Good
hue county, finished cutting ffty-fve
acres Of new and early variety Of
spring wheat on. the 24th inst.
The counterfeit fivcs on the Traders
National, Of Chicago, which Smith and
Macdonald Of St. Charles, Winona
county, were caught showing, are said
to have come to them by express from
Mason City, Iowa.
MAYOR BoYD of St. Cloud went
through a deaf and dumb beggar the
other day and found .$52 hid in the
fellows hat.
AT Mankato Saturday last, young
saloon keeper, having had a quarrel
with his love, pretended to try to COM
nit suicide, and so,won the girl back
again.
IT is supposed by the Journal to be
Capt. L. w. Collins Of St. Cloud, who
is prosecuting the men in charge of.
Buffalo, n. r., street car, who put him
out Of the car for splitting on its floor.
D. B. COLEMAN, in Clayton, Mower
county, found a horse thief in his stable
ene night of last week and had the sat-
isfaction of firing two or three pistol
shots at the rascal, though he got away
Nnhurt.
On a vacant lot in Mankato the other
day young man dug out the locust's
egg sacks from two square feet of
gronnd, and found they numbered over
a hundred, averaging thirty eggs to
each sack.
NEAR Monticello the other day a
title child of John Whites bit cater.
pillar in two and swallowed q part of it.
The child was instantly seized with
convulsions, as of poisoning, but was
saved FROM death by the prompt ad-
ninistration Of an emetic.
A LETTER in the Tribune of St. Peter
mentions that the farmers of Berna-
dotte township, Nicollet county, on &C.
count Of the grasshoppers having thick
ly planted their eggs there, propose not
to SOW their fields next season.
LIGHTNING struck the. granary of Geo.
Anett, of Lemond, Steel county, on
Saturday last, killing valuable horse
which was hitched in one end of the
building. Two children near by were
stunned; one Of them: remaining insensi-
BILE for three or four hours.
SOME few of the farmers of Rice
county have been :victimized by a
new hunabug, having been induced to
pay dollar each to fellow who pre-
tended to confer on them the title of
professor If the grasshoppers
should come that way those farmers
would be in worse danger than their
crops.
The temperance folks at Elk River
have given public netice to all engaged
in the sale of Intoxicating liquors in
that place, that they will, commencing
to-day, use all honorable and lawful
means to suppress their sales. That
means woman's crusade, perhaps.
\ YOUNG man, giving his name as
johnson, was arrested at Rochester;
yesterday, having borrowed horse:
from his employer living near ;Owaton-;
ia to 60 to town with. He did not re-
tRrn as agreed, but went on to Dodge
Centre Thursday night, where he ex-'
changed for another horse, which he
rode to Rochester yesterday. Roth
horses were restored to their owners,
and the man was taken to Dodge Cen
tire Cor trial.
A:roRxER liquor dealer Of Albert Lea
having been sued on account by his
suppliers' answers on oath regarding a
barrel ST port wine charged in the &C
count that lit was not port wine, but
on the contrary, a vile, poisonous, and
nauseating liquid, whose base was
poor quality Of common whisky, adul-
terated with poisonous drugs,and stain