The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-14
Minnesota Gossip.
OLMSTED.

MAIAcSOIa GOSSIP.
The sum of $4,000 has been raised in
Rochester for Fourth of July celebration. of
which $500 were appropriated by the council.
Two prisoners were last week
brought into court, at Rochester. with hand.
cuffs on, and Judge Mitchell ordered them
removed, .remarking that this is a ssfree
country.
W. II. Gum, the proprietor of the
Color Guard grand military allegory, will
give an exhibition at Rochester, soon the
proceeds to 80 to paying for grand celebra-
ton of the Centennial Fourth.
Caledonia wants narrOw-gauge rail-
road, and is going to have it if talk will build
Adolph Reiher, an architect and
builder, in Brownsville, committed suicide
by shooting, last week. Trouble was the
cause.
lsreal M0sseau, of Plymouth, was
run over by wagon loaded with lumber, and
instantly killed: He leaves a wife and sew
eral children. Whisky did it.
This is the fourteenth sspeculiar.''
season since the editor of the Journal came
to Minnesota in 1861, and he now thinks he
would Ike to experienced sample season and
A farmer complains of the size of
wheat sacks being so large. He don't see
any reason why farmers will strain and rup-
ture themselves lifting $50 pound sacks of
wheat when the same work could be as quick
" done Ky having sacks which would not
hold over one hundred pounds. He writes
sensible letter to the Journal on the subject.
The publication of a new directory
of St. Paul and Minneapolis, by a gentleman
ofthe latter place, gives St. Paul 10 726 names
and Minneapolis 1O,998. This difference in
favor OF Minneapolis is accounted for by the
fact that the preponderance of males over
females in that city, while the lumber mills
are running, is quite large, and the further
TACT that minneapolis :patronized the direc-
tory much more than St. Paul.
According to the latest reports of
the recent drowning OF two young men near
Houston, the catastrophe was the result of
criminal foolishness iii such thing could be)
on the part OF the two saved, in trying to
trighten their comrades by rocking the boat.
TO all appeals Of the lamented boys that the
two brainless boobys should cease their tor
ments the latter onl y added to their exertions
to cause fear, and the result was that the boat
filed and sunk.
The contracts for the erection of the
bethlehem academy at Faribault have been
let The walls are to he faced with Minneap-
oils brick, and the building will make very
handsome appearance. The building is to be
completed by October 18th.
Hofgard, who savagely stabbed his
wife Oh the 8th ult. in Wheeling township.
Rice county, has been bound over to appear
before the next term OF the district court.
Mrs. Hofgard has sufficiently recovered from
her dangerous wounds to be able to give her
testimony at the preliminary examination of
her Observation-Disclosures husband.
BLUE EARTH.
The cultivated area of the county
is larger than ever before.
The Methodist camp meeting will be
held at Lake Crystal, commencing June 18th.
The Fourth of July Grafton at Man.
kato will be delivered by Hon. NJ. S. Wilkin-
son.
j.. W. Hurlbut. Of Lake Crystal, is
bankrupt with liabilities at $4,000 and as
sets at 81 500
The Mankato brick company last
week received an order from LIE Mars, Iowa,
for ESQ 600 brick, delivery to commence i'm
mediately.
The st. P. & S. C. railroad will car
ry passengers to and from all celebrations of
the Centennial Fourth at 60 per cent. of re e.
ular rates.
The editor Of the Review has taken
pains to look up the crop prospects and pro-
nounces the chances in favor of the largest
yield of wheat Minnesota has ever produced.
sTEARNs.
The peace officers of Maine Prairie
ought to have the custody of man named
Sabine, who armed himself with a rifle and
attempted to shoot neighbor named
Greeley Greeley threw up his arm and
raised the muzzle OF the gun above his head
just in time to save his lite. Sabine got
away.
St. Cloud inaugurated a monthly cat
tie market, on the 9th inst, on which occa-
sion addresses We're made by John Richter
and Capt West. Sales were quite lively, re-
sulting, in numbers, as follows: Horses, II;
cattle, 81; hogs, %; sheep 4.
MOWER.
burned down last week, entailinS a loss of
about $4,000.
4 wild animal got into a cattle pen
at Brownsville and caused stampede in
which four of the smaller cattle were trampled
on and killed outright.
FILLMORE.
Lie ulC1ultly dlllVdl VI {: ClICuS
demoralized the Sunday schools and knots
of corner loafers in Preston.
John Finckle, of Granger, was roll
ing piece of land when the seat upon which
he sat broke down, throwing him in front of
the heavy implement. His arm was
broken in three places.
The ole! settlers will get together at
Preston and rejoice on the 10Th.
The sidewalks of Snring Valley are