The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-19
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

FcntSon uurlng 1914, also 1,oOO car
loads Of wood.
On the LIST day Of January the rates
Of toll for the St. Cloud wagon bridge
were reduced so per cent.
The Grange and citizens of St.
Charles sent about 5000 to the grass.
hopper sufferers.
The ferry boat, Iowa City, is making
regular trips across the Mississippi at
Reeds Landing.
A TOTAL of 277,31l,0l0 bushels of
wheat were shipped from Dodge Centre
during the year.
The first number Of the Farmers
Monthly, by II. II. Young of Rochester,
will soon be out.
The amounts expended in Albert Lea
in 1874, aggregates $40, l2l, an amount
in excess Of any previous year by near
iy $4,000.
The Plainview and Minneiska tele-
graph company has declared dividend
of Is per cent, after being in operation
only six months.
The dwelling house Of S. Rainier, near
Lewiston, Winona county, was destroy
cd by fire Monday. Most Of the con-
tents were saved.
HEREAFTER German is to be taught
in the public schools Of Faribault, Prof.
&. Hageman having been engaged as
teacher.
The improvements the past year at
Mortified amounted to 100000. The
population Of the place is estimated at
$500.
THE citizens Of Wadcna, the county
seat of Wadena county, are literally
subscribing to the stock for paper at
that place.
DAVID HARRIS Of St. Charles will try
the experiment of raising fence Of
Usage Orange, he having proc. red a
quantity of seed from Illinois.
The Grange warehouse at Delavan in
the two and half months it has been
doing business, while giving farmers
ing in other warehouses, has made a
profit of $S234.50.
THE landlord Of the Cook House, Ro.
chester, is monied man. He had all
the editors of the place to New Years
dinner, and still manages to keep out
Of the bankruptcy court.
The city of Rochester has been sued
for $2,l4l.66, by Mr.. Warren w. Doty.
&c of <,f
the steam fire engine at $6250 per
month, and the balance for wood ad-
vanced the city.
The one thousand shares offered
for sale in the Taylor's Falls copper
mining company have been taken,
mostly by citizens Of Taylor's Falls.
The shaft is now down about forty-five
feet, and from the commencement the
indications Of copper have been grow
ing better and better.
NORRIS RUSSELL, of the phoenixed
Brainerd Tribune wants the Legisla-
ture to appropriate ten, fifteen or
twenty thousand dollars for the pur.
pose Of having Minnesota decently rep
resented at the Philadelphia centen-
NAL celebration, the Governor to be
the custodian and dispenser of the ap-
preparation.
Tue Chisogo County Post says
many Of the non resident and resident
tax payers of Pine county will make an
effort to procure the passage of bill
this winter to disorgan re Pine county.
The propositions is to divide the county,
annexlng all north of town 40 to Carlton
county, and all south Of that line to
Chisago county.
Crow WING county is busted, finan-
olally. and the best and speediest way
to got back to solid ground once more,
is what is troubling her citizens. The
most sensible proposition is to fund the
present debt, levy sufficient tax to
pay the annual interest and small
part OF the principal, practice economy
and keep out of debt in the future.
The last issue of the Albert Lee
STANDARD, the first number of volume
fifteen, is a valuable statistical docu
ment, containing as it does record of
the legal business of the county for the
year 1874, the building statistics, the
railroad business, etc., etc. In the
computations of these important and
interesting items, the Standard is in
advance of all other papers in the
State.
DURING the year 1864 total of ST.
259.2l acres of land were entered in
the Litchfield land Office as follows:
Under the homestead act, 32,250.2l
with cash, $ll, 387.l6, and under the
timber culture act, l5,627.S4 acres.
The entries under tho homestead act
during the last six months Of the wear