The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-02
Minnesota Matters.
RAMSEY.

Minnesota Matters.
! RAMSEY.
The State Auditor has prepared a
new set of blanks for the use of county audit
ors, to be filled up from the returns of town.
ship assessors, in order to obviate a serious
difficulty the State board of equalization has
labored under in the lack of system hereto
fore used: The form for the real estate blank
tor county auditors alluded to embraces four
teen columns, which respectively cover the
following items: Number of acres of land ex-
elusive OF town and city lots; Number OF
acres improved; Number OF acres unim-
proved; Value of land, exclusive of struc-
lures and other improvements; Average
value OF land per acre, exclusive of all i'm
provements; Value of improvements ON
lands other than town and city lots, exclu-
sive of structures; Value of structures on
lands, other than town and city lots; Value
OF lands other than town and city lots, in
| Guiding structures and all other improve
| 1nents; Average value Of land per acre, in
| Guiding all improvements Value of town and
| city lots, exclusive Of structures and other
| improvements Value of structures and other
improvements OH town and city lots Value
Of town and city lots, including structures
and other improvements Total value OF real
property as equalized by the county board
Total value of real property. as returned by
the assessors.
FARIBAULT.
Miss Mary Mccormack, a young lady
! residing at Faribault has become insane and
been taken to St. Peter
Rev. James Dobbin, rector of Shat
tuck school, left for the sea shore last week
tor the benefit of his health He will also
visit his former home in New York
BLUE EARTH.
The MankatO Review says Blue Earth
county has received from the state auditor a
warrant for s., 400, being a little over one
half the sum appropriated by the legislature
toreimburse the county on account of ex-
penditures for grasshopper bounties for 1876.
HOUSTON.
A Mr.. Wilcox, of kiceford, while
taking his gun by the muzzle from wagon
accidentally discharged it, receiving ter
rible wound in his arm, from the effects of
which he died.
Mr.. Peter Christian, while at work
on pile driver, at bridge II, seven miles
west of Hokah, was drowned last week in an
| attempt to recover his hat, which was re-
moved from his head into the rive. His
body was found 20 feet from the spot where
he went down, on the next day.
THIRD DISTRICT DEMOCRATS.
The Democratic convention for nom
| mating candidate for member of Congress
from the Third district, met in St. Paul. on
| the 26th. Gen. Sibley was chosen chairman.
The names of Hon. w. w. McNair, of Mime
apolis, and Hon. Isaac Staples, OF Saltwater,
were proposed, and ballot taken resulting
in McNair receiving SO votes and Staples 90.
McNair was then declared the unanimous
nominee of the convention. The candidate
was conducted to the stand where he made a
pointed speech, thanking the convention for
the honor and promising to meet his friends
again during the canvass. The following is
the platform adopted:
"We heartily endorse the principles an
nounced by the Democratic National Conven-
| ton, held in st. Louis on the 9th OF June
last, as a full and sound exposition of Demo-
| CT attic principles and measures which are nec-
essary for the restoration of prosperity to the
whole country, and we declare that the res
olutions of that convention which demand
the repeal Of the resumption act of 1876 meets
our especial approval.
That we denounce the Republican party as
the author of a series OF financial acts. all of
which were directly intended to enrich the
capitalists OF the country at the expense Of
the people and the operation of which have
produced that result, and we hold that party
responsible for the bankruptcy and suffering
which now exists in every part of the couno
try.
We especially appeal to the people of this
Congressional District to unite in relieving it
from the odium which has been brought up
on it by the Republican party by their choice
of it's present Representative, and we urge
upon them the manifest impossibility of re-
formation in this direction by choosing his
successor from the ranks Of his supporters.