The Grange advance., 1874-01-07

The improvements of Albert Lea the
past year reached $34, $40.
The Grange Council of Martin coun.
ty have their own warehouse and pro-
pose to forward their own wheat.
A THIRD elevator will be built in
Duluth the coming season.
GAINESVILLE has factory which
makes slaves for six barrels per minute.
EVANSVILLE guarantee 400 COWS to
any party who will start cheese facto-
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The Touring and saw mills of the
Lieneau Bros, at Watertown, Wright
county, were totally destroyed by fire
last Sunday morning. No insurance.
The Sauk Rapids Sentinel says that
DR.. J. j. De Lameter, of Fort Ripley,
has five measles, three scarlet fevers,
and the asthma. Poor fellow!
The Litch6eld Ledger complains that
their elevator has been full and unable
to receive wheat for more than a week
past, in consequence Of which business
has been rather on the decline.
THE epizootic has made it's reappear-
ance in Mower. Mr. Trowbridge. of
Lyle, has lost two horses, and neigh
Dor Of his one horse It is reported
that there are several other cases in the
same vicinity.
1T is now ascertained that the defal-
cation Of Treasurer Golding, of Mile
Lacs county, will reach about $4,000.
Golding is now in California, his wife
and four small children remaining at
his old home at Princeton.
In view Of the fact that the Grangers
OF Blue Earth county propose, the com
ing season, to build Touring mills and
also warehouses for the storage Of grain
the Board Of Trade of Mankato have
appointed a committee to secure the To-
cation Of the buildings at that city if
possible.
PoRK.--Gross Gates, G.. Wheelock,
Pat Murray and Henry Straw, Of Sara
toga, went to Winona last week with
seven loads Of pork, containing sixty
hogs. Their aggregate weig ght was
20, ,O69 pounds, for which they received
the handsome sum Of 81, ,139 67.-S'.
Charles Herald -"
The rapid advance in the material
interests Of Rock county are we'll illus
trated by the exhibition of few figures.
The valuation as returned to the Coun.
ty Auditor in 1871 when the first as.
sessment was made, was $45 ,218. In
! 1872 the valuation was returned at
$68, 1927. In 1873 the valuation shows
the respectable footing Of $173,328.
These are the amounts after deductine
800 personal property to each tax-pay.
er. The remarkable increase from 1872
to 1873 We expect to see more than
equaled in 1874. We want to see it
among the millions-Rock County Her.
aid.
A FEW days since We visited the
trout mandatory at the Conway brook
OF Messrs. Boston, Wood & Leadbeater
These gentlemen commenced last spring
by building pond, and catching few
trout for seed. They have now about
1000 old trout, and about 13O, 900 jus.
now in the process of Matching in their
Matching house. This enormous in.
crease in their stock will necessitate the
building Of other ponds and the enlarg.
ing Of the present ones, all of which
they will set about doing on the open.
ing Of spring. -. r. q .'>-:s
The process Of Matching is very in.
teresting one. As they come out of the
cell their organization is so thin that
with the aid Of glass the beating Of
the heart and indeed the entire circula-
tory apparatus can be distinctly seen.
ihe present cost Of feeding their stock
IS about one dollar per week, which is
invested in the scraps and ofal from the
slaughter houses; and the fish are 90
tame that they will come and take their
food out Of the hands Of those who are
accustomed to feed them, and allow
themselves to be handled and lifted out
OF the water. Their large fish are com.
plete pets, and most beautiful ones they
are Lake CITY Leader.