Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-03
Minnesota Matters.
RAMSEY.

Ine state Auditor has prepared 4
new set OF blanks for the use of county audit.
ofs, 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
for county auditors alluded to embraces tour
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; Valuo
OF lands other than town and city lots, in
cluding structures and all other improve
ments; Average value of land per acre, in
cluding all improvements Value of town and
city lots, exclusive Of structures and other
improvements Value of structures and other
Improvements on 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.
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
1SE hs S 9sn G h h heftR Nth rdt a will also
BLUE EARTH.
The Mallkato Review says Blue Earth
county has received from the state auditor
warrant for s., 400, being little over one
half the sum appropriated by the legislature
to reimburse the county on account of ex-
penditures for grasshopper bounties for 1875.
HOUSTON.
A Mr.. Wilcox, of Riceford, while
taking his gun by the n,uzzlc from a wagon
accidentally discharged it, receiving a ter
rible wound in his arm, from the effects of
which he died.
Mr.. Peter Christian, while at work
on a 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 teet from the spot where
he went down, on the next day.
THIRD DISTRICT DEMOCRATS.
The Democratic convention for nom-
mating a candidate for member of Congress
from the Third district, met in St. Paul, on
the Goth. Gen. Sibley was chosen chairman
The names of Hon. w. w. McNair, of Minne-
apolis, and Hon. Isaac Staples, OF Saltwater,
were proposed, and a ballot taken resulting
in McNair receiving SO votes and Staples 20.
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 eth OF June
last, as 4 full and sound exposition Of Demo-
cratic principles and measures which are nec-
esSary for the restoration Of p. osperity to the
Whole country, and we declare that the res
| Olutions of that convent on which demand
the repeal of the resumption act OF 1875 meets
our especial approval.
That we denounce the Republican party as
the author of y series Of financial acts, all of
which were directly intended to enrich the
| cacitalists 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 coun-
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 its 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.