Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-06-15
ADVERTISING RATES.

adidavit Of publication is given.
Foreign Advertisements must be paid for quar-
terly in advance. ~
Yearly advertisers allowed to change their I'D.
vertieements every three montha
.,a Minnesota Gossip.
, The sum of 1000 has been raised in
Rochester for Fourth of July celebration. of
which S6oo were appropriated by the council.
Two prisoners were last week
brought into court, At Rochester, with hand-
cuf{s on, and Judge Mitchell ordered them
removed, remarking that this, is stfrce
country. .,- = ,.+.l $50
w. H. Gum, the proprietor of the
Color Guard, grand military allegory. will
give an exhibition at Rochester, soon, the
tion Of the Centennial FoSrths r i s'"no ee'e0r'-
HOUSTON.
Caledonia wants narrow-gauge rail-
road, and is going to have it if talk will build
Adolph Reiher, an architect and
p0uder, IN Brownsville, committed suicide
Dy shoohng, last week. Trouble was the
cause.
1sreal Mosseau, 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 like to experience sample season and
letthe ''unusual'' weather take rest.
A farmer complains of the size of
wheat sacks being so large. He don't see
any reason why farmers will strain and rup-
tqre themselves lifting $50 pound sacks Of
wheat when the same work could be as quick
~ done by having sacks which would not
hold over one hundred pounds. He writes
sensible letter tothe Journal on the subject.
The publication of a new directory
Of st. Paul and Minneapolis; by gentleman
ofthe latter place, gives st. Paul lO, ,726 names
and Minneapolis l0,998. 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
a als running, is quite large, and the further
tory much more than St. Paul.
According to the latest reports of
Houston, the catastrophe was the result of
criminal toolishness (if such thing could bel
on the part. of the two saved, in irving to
frighten their comrades by rocking the boat
TO all appeals of the lamented boys that the
two brainless boObys should cease their tor
to cause fear, and the result was that the boat
filled and sunk.
The contracts for the erection of tho
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 on the 9Th 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
testimony at the preliminary examination of
her murderously-inclined 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 10Th.
The Fourth of July Grafton at Man.
kato will bc delivered by Hon. NJ. s. Wilkin-
son.
J. W. Hurlbut, of Lake Crystal, is Il
se's seatoR' a' S''A liabilities at s00' and as
The Mankato brick company last
week received All order from LIE Mars, Iowa,
for 25o, 900 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 reg
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.
FILLMORE.
The old settlers will get together at
Preston and rejoice on the 10Th.
The untimely arrival of a circus
demoralized the Sunday schools and knots
of corner loafers in Preston.
The sidewalks of Spring Valley are
being leveled up, preparatory to the usual
number Of cases Of Fourth Of July jim jams
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.
.CHIsAGO.
The streets of Rush City are in a
filthy condition, and the village paper says 4
hog pen should be kept cleaner.
A centipede was found at the Dalles
of the St. Croix, recently It is about four
inches in length, and is ON exhibition at Tay.
lor's Falls. ..,.
TaylOr's Falls brass bandits are daily
growing more skillfull, and by the coming
Fourth will be sufficiently advanced in music
to render them tolerable tooters.
The parish priest of Rush City has
been slandered BY widow Murphy, and an
nounces in print that unless she retract and
| from the church and stamps her as low char
acter and destitute of all honor.
Benson, Swift county, is yearning
for fire company. g..
The country around Appleton, Swift
county, is settling up rapidly with solid, sub
stancial farmers from Wabashaw and Goodhue
counties, and on nearly every quarter section
breaking plows are at work turning up the
the virgin prairies.
| WASHINGTON.
The average receipts of the Saltwater
bridge for tolls amount to Sl6.0 Per day.
There is Scandinavian temperance
society ut Saltwater, which counts l64 mem.
bers, although only Organized very few
u4OutA0 08Os
The peace officers of Maine Prairie
ought to have the custody of man named
Sabine, who armed himself with rife and
attempted to shoot = neighbor named
Greeley. Greeley threw up his arm and
raised tho muzzle of the gun above his head
ust in time to save his life Sabine go
away. an
st. Cloud inaugurated a monthly cat
tie market, on the 9Th inst, on which occa
sion addresses were made by John Richter
and Capt. West. Sales were quite lively, re
sulting, in numbers, ~ follows: Horses, l2
cattle, 81; hogs, ~; sheep, 4.
A Cat Which Went to the Crimean War.
Colonel Stewart, Wortley, an English
officer, tells the following story of ;
cat whose acquaintance he made dur
ing the Crimean war
+ ffnup tho Eroro1. %roov,o 1,oI An1>o,