The Grange advance., 1874-01-07
STATE NEWS. y

STATE NEWS.
KEROSENE retails at twenty cents
per gallon in Faribault and Red Wing.
DOUGLAS county is without Judge
Of Probate at the present time.
THERE are twenty-five Oranges in
Rice county. f..
The LeSueur Sentinel notes general
prosperity among the farmers in that
section.
SOME one stole hundred bushels Of
wheat from the bin of David Steele, of
Ashland, last Monday.
The jury failed to agree in the case
Of the parties arrested at Dodge Center
for selling liquor to minors.
JOSEPH FORD, Of Mortified, one Of
the Oldest settlers, has become insane
and has been sent to St. Peter.
A PARTY of hunters from Rochester,
who spent about six weeks up north of
St. Cloud, have returned with sixty
deer.
The citizens Of St. Paul have contrib
uted about $4,000 for the distressed set
tiers upon the frontier.
ANoKA had six runaways one day
last week. and the editor Of the JInio,.
was one Of the unfortunate victims.
Hon. j. J. EGAN, of Duluth, went
East, and while there entered into a
marriage contract with Miss Hallowell,
a resident of Milwaukee.
The lawyers Of St. Paul intend to
give banquet while the Legislature is
in session. St. Paul understands how
to make the Solons feel we'll.
JOHN Altman, living near Wabasha,
while digging we'll last week, was
buried under fifty feet of earth. At
last accounts his body had not been
reached.
In view Of the hard times the people
Of Saltwater have petitioned the City
Council to postpone work on the City
Hall, until more convenient season.
VIM. WELLS, of Cresco, Blue Earth
county, has repeated the Butter6eld
escapade by running away from his wife
with his servant girl, leaving debts to
an amount between $4,000 and $4,000.
COMMITTEES have been appointed to
make arrangements for the first annual
meeting Of the alun,ni of Minnesota,
some time during the Winter, at St.
Paul.
In importing bloodcd stock from 9TH
er States, be sure and always procure
young animals. This is very import
ant item, and should not be overlooked.
ACCORDING to the statistical report
there are 4,870 sheep in Stearns coun-
ty; 1913 cows. There also are 6,718
apple trees growing.
The town of Shelby, in Faribault
county, has raised this year ten thous-
and bushels Of fax seed, which has been
thEeshed ready for market. Machinery
will soon be secured in that vicinity for
manipulating the straw into linen.
"A YOUNG man at Worthington, some
time since, invested 500 in a widely
advertised lottery, hoping to draw the
100000. He has received by mail a
brass ring and an engraving of the
Father of his Country, and feels bad
about it.
THERE was public concert in Chat
field, one evening recently-one of the
singers in which is thus alluded to by
the Democrat Of that place " Last,
though not least, was the song by Hon.
4. A. Jones, Of Rochester. "Our
Dick" as singest, is decided success,
and We can only allude to his effort, as
the Hoosier did to the eloquence Of his
station Minister, when he. said /" he
could be heard for ten miles round.''
A NORWEGIAN farmer came to town
on "Wednesday ]ast, and sold five hun
dred bushels Of wheat, receiving check.
for the same. He became partly intox.
icated and lost them, probably beyond
recovery. He intended to apply the
money to clearing off a mortgage upon
iTp farm, which viii thus, probably, be
lcrifced as the price Of few glasses
Of blue rum. Fart6aah Republican,.