Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-26
OUR HARVEST FIELD.
The Wyko6 Dollar Weekly advertises Prof.
Powers freely and fully.

more county.-Spring Valley Fidtttc.
The Fillmore grccnbackers are sot agin
paying the bonds.
The Leroy Independent calls the slaugh-
tering Of the White Swans Office, in this town,
"somnambulic attack
"A contemporary suggests that the only
time when you can politely hug another man 8
wife Is when she is in bathing or is In a ball
room.
You are mistaken, friend Williams. Dave
Blakely never published u paper ut ltaska, in
Freeborn county, In an early day. 1t was at
Bancroft.
Tho Dollar Weekly don't want to send "doug
heads" to congress. Nor we-if VIC know
what Il ''doug head" is. Wepresume he means
dough-heads.
The editors Of the Review and Peoples Press
are having a competitive examination Tor
school teacher, VIC guess. 1t reads like the
minutes of q spelling school.
-Track-laying on the extension Of the s. NJ.
from Fairmont to Jackson will commence IN
4 few days. There will be but one station be-
tween the two stations for the present, which
will be at Fox Lake.-Erchan0e.
BRO. Stowe, of the Wykot Dollar Weekly,
is the most far-seeing man Of our acquain-
tance. Not couple have doubled in Fillmore,
but he has had a good word to speak for the
prospective offspring.
For some reason: best known to the com
mittee, the Page and Hotchkiss plank does
form.-Chatteld Democrat.
We can furnish reasons by the book full.
Enclose stamp.
Kennedy, of the Leroy Independent, has
gone on visit, and Jim Henderson, who runs
the paper, invites all aggrleved parties, COW
hiders and bull-whackers, to await his return
before settling grudges against the lnde-
pendent.
The Lord has promised us seed-time and
harvest. We don want to md fault, put
we'll IT. pretty moist for good harvest weather.
-MoWer County Transcript.
It is only because the rain is sent on the un-
just as we'll rs the just that Mower county
ever gets any at au.-EE.
-stenographer Morgan is going to have
that $3.50 out of Fillmore county if he has to
fight for it. The Auditor of Fillmore county
has been ordered to issue his warrant for the
amount, or to show cause why he refuses so
to do, at the Supreme Court, at IL o'clock,
noon, October 1st.
CURE FOR SCARLET FEvEE.-An eminent
physician Of Chicago says that he cures nine
ty-nine out of every hundred cases of scarlet
with gum arabic dissolved in it. In addition,
a cloth, wrung out in hot water, should be laid
on the stomach. and removed rapidly as it
becomes cool.-EE.
B. F. Langworthy and Geo. X. Moulton,
mail messengers on the Southern Minnesota,
Wells, and C. N. Bostwick, of Grand Meadow,
have been appointed in their places: The
alleged reasons for the changes is the failure
of the gentlemen removed to efficiently dis
charge their duties.-Albert Lea Standard.
If the Greenbackers are defeated in this
Congressional district, they can attribute it
to the fact that the Preston convention, not
satisfied with performing its legitimate work.
in as a financial plank. Mistake No. one.-
Wykof Weekly.
Stowe vs. the White Swan. A house divided
against itself, cannot stand.
Last week while J. N. Niles, the butcher,
was saving bones he nearly sawed his thumb
off. He got as far as the bone and stopped
O,Cdtonna Peoples Press.
1t must have been bony beef that kept him
at the saw 80 long that he became lost in con-
temptation. sOneness of aim'' is what
butcher needs.
There are some fears entertained in Fill
more county, that one Van Hook, a cattle
herder, who, by his honesty in the past, has
earned the confidence of his patrons, has
gone where the woodbine twineth. He left in
the spring for Dakota, with a large herd, and
now HE cometh not, she said, I am aweary.
He cometh not. Oh God that I were dead.''
1T may not be generally known that COM
mon cooking soda is a sure remedy for the
bite OF rattleSnake, If applied soon enough.
An incisiOn should be made to the depth of
the wound @ l!a made e BY the fangs Of the snake,
1t will Immediately bubble up and turn green,
caused by the action of the soda in neutraliz-
ing the acid of the poison. This remedy was
There's going to be another printing Office
mObbed, over in Austin, unless the '"TRANs-
CR1Pr man" abolishes his column of ''give-
Vidette.
Then let the ''country press'' write their
own editorials and local squibs, and not steal
them unblushingiy from the Ne,O York Herald
and old almanacs. By the way, look at the
White Swans local column.
"A resolution of the greenbackers of Fill
more concludes,-''thatt the people may select
the good men whose patriotism, benevolence
and solicitude for the general welfare are
sufficient motives to cause proper discharge
of the duties Of Office.'
Are you quite sure that you have a crop of
those ''good men" ready grown in Fillmore7
You might have to wait for them to sprout
from the seed.
ter Page-though, by the way, even Page is
deserving the poor swan-the Lanesboro Jour7'-
al saws: The sOreheads
who strike here and there like blind reptile
in dog-days, just to spite somebody, because
they couldn't run the party that had honored
| them, can't challenge very extensive admi-
| ration. If they have any principle in this
greenback movement, good deal of credit
is due them, for they show terrible lack of
| it in nearly every other political relationship.
Says the Wells Advocate: "Mr. J. Myers
showed us two ears Of corn last Monday that
he raised on sod" Yes, sod fed corn is good
but little slop will help it. 1.-THE absurd theory
that corn cannot be successfully raised in this
State, is well nigh worn out, as well as the
raising Of fr1it.'' We also think the idea OF
raising fruit is well nigh worn out. Its well
worn out nigh about here any way, and has
been since we were nigh to a grasshopper.
And then he tells of bushels of apples, big a.
saucers. Maybe it was his eyes were like sau
GERS.
| The Wells Advocate has become poetas
ter to the following extent, but ''lays it, II
some one else. He says he picked up the
lines on the street. Here's the first two
verses; they find an echo in every manly
heart:
| She has gone away to Pilot Grove,
! And taken with her all my love.
That form can never forget,
| It fingers round me even yet.
! Nor do wish to forget my love
As God is my witness now above,
No other ones like her to me,
Nor do think there IL ever be.
The greenbackers swallowed Old Hotel
and Page without pepper or salt, and II the!
| don't die with an overloaded stomach, thel
call us no doctor. Any party that will becoml
an apologist for the two men above named
and too, when there was no necessity for It
had better commence at once to rake up
little change with which to defray funeral OK
penses.-LdsseabOrO Journal
One needed only to be present at the con
ventton, to see that the White Swan was yer!
anxious to have the pleasure Of nominating