Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

A u watermelon At Cannon City.
They need a new Jail in Olmsted county.
Martin county gives premium Of - fol
wolf-scalps.
The Masons Of Owatonna give Is yellow
fever dollars.
Of / paw. Correct again.
The peach season is about over.-Hr.
So Is the cream season.
Two mon in Olmsted county got each All
arm hurt in threshing machine.
-Seabury Divinity School commenced Sat-
urday, Sept 2lst, with 27 students.
Tho Red River Independent, a new paper
weeks old, is no slouch Of paper.
There Is q moderate cranberry crop this
year, and the berries are very large and fair.
The lecture on ''antiquity of man." in the
lOwatonna Review Is getting as old as man him
self.
Corn ia cut, all over the county, and the
crop IL pronounced very good.-DOd0e County
Republican.
| Patrick Finnegan, in Olmsted county jail
for forging = note, has been pardoned by the
Governor.
Since last March forty greenback newspa-
pers in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin have
suspended.
| The St. Cloud JOu,Nal-Pres shows up as
brainy and solid an editorial page as any Of
our exchanges.
The store of Wilson Bros, In Kasson, was
nearly burned, a few weeks ago. Goods re-
moved. Loss 800.
Tho Harpers announce that they have In
press "A Beautiful Woman"
Don't we wish We were the Harpers!
1T Is said that wherever the pocket goph-
ers throw up mounds there good water can be
found at moderate depth.-Er.
The Worthington Journal says the Advance
is, on the subject of religion, like ship at
sea without crupper.'
The Worthingtonians club together and
buy their coal direct. 104 tons were ordered
recently. No middle men.
Two regular daily trains are now running
each way between Rochester and Pine Island,
on the Rochester Northern road.
The country editor now receives docu-
ments from public men signed, compliments
Co., What mean they?
H.
elks which he formerly drove through the
streets Of Fargo for $2,50O.-Red River Inde-
pendent.
| B. F. johnson, of Seward, has our thanks
for a pair of rOusing watermelOns. WOrth-
t,a0tOn Advance.
Reused you, did they? Jes' so.
Seven men in wagon. Horses run away.
Men fell out. Horses run the tongue of the
wagon into another horses inards fearful
foot and half. All in Albert Lea.
! How nice it would be If those big nails that
stick up in the sidewalks all over town could
be driven down. They are an 1ntolerabte nu1-
sance.-OaUatO1sna RevteW.
Just SO, here.
-Orville Grant is now in an insane asylum.
1900 exchanges.
! Mercy! Mercy! or we shall be there too.
Must we read that the balance of our luckless
lives.
"A free reading room is about to be opened
open to the public every night.-Osa0e Press.
Thank God!
Senator Meighen, of Fillmore county, has
been nominated for Congress by the Green
hackers of the first district, and will go through
| the motions of running against Mr: Dunneli'
-W1l1am Mel9nen, formerly State senator
from Fillmore county, is the so called green
back candidate for member OF congress In the
first district, which indicates that the new
party is rather short of timber all around
Hastings G0zctte.
Whenever you send q paper to young
This insures the Office the sale of another
friend cut out. Thus is the printer business
increased.-EE.
About all the Democratic party nowadays
legs and endorse the nominations Of the Green
hackers. The height Of it's ambition, as well
az the extent Of its ability, appears to be to
play second fiddle.-St. Cloud JousTdl-FTess.
Fred Lacker lacks ''liver-colored pup"
which he lost sc me time ago. liberal reward
will be given for sight of "liver-colored"
pup. The sporting man of the TRANSCRIPT
died in early youth, and the survivors don't
know what is meant.
We have advertised the coming circus as a
matter Of business. We presume it will be q
good one. Yet we would not be understood
aos
he needs it to support big family or pay his
debts, Is guilty not only OF FOLLY, but OF wrong
That is part Of our creed.-Oso0c Ne's.
Mr.. Gershom Richardson, of Eyota, journ-
eying near Albert Lea, went under the wagon
to spread out blanket for 4 dog to lie On.
The dog snapped at horses heels, the horse
kicked the man in the head fracturing the
skull. DR.. Wedge dressed the dangerous
wound.
The Pine Island Ne,cs says: Poetry is like
butter, no one appreciates it so highly as the
maker" And he don't propose to tinker, or
correct, or change it in the least. Then he
ought to refuse to print such truck. No ed
itor. in our opinion, has any right to allow a
correspondent to make fool of himself.
Manager W.C.VanHorne, who has brought
| the s. NJ. r. r. from poverty to prosperity, has
resigned his position and become manager of
| the Chicago and Alton line. He will still be
president of the 8. n. His business energy
and ability have made him what he is, and
| though we fear for the effect on the 8. NJ, yet
the move is his advantage.
Hon. VIM. Neighen, an obscure politician
Of Fillmore county, has been nominated by
sress. RE He used to be "a a Republican, but BE-
came disguised because his vanity was not
sumcientfy 1attered. Billy loves flsttery like
d9ck d9ss wate ne m wn1 can ee
no longer serv1ceable. ble.-O'pdtOn1,G Journal.
Yes, Billy is sore-head.
| "A deaf mute was selling pocket cement.
in this village, on Wednesday of last week.
Kdss0n Republican.
| To the dogs with ''pocket cement" pocket
knives with corkscrew, saw, brad awl, chisel,
gouge, file, &C., needle-threaders and all that
class Of truckl Who will have bottle Of c.
ment ready in his breeches pocket when the
pitcher is broken at the fountain2
Minnesota. % is On the In; q the North 9 Pscic
arranging for the opening Of . large farm
next season. Mr.. 1rgens 10 scandinavian of
more than ordinary ability, and Vim make .
valuable addition to the 1--we men Of this coun-
! try. Hon. Sherman Page will also settle in
! Dakota when the "cruel war 10 over" that is
crowding him - judGe.-Bfomarck Tribune.
They won't settle in the same county, We
guess. w., ". w., p -, ..--.
-Four men I'm cell In Olnasted county Jail,
tore up the iron lining Of the floor, sawed q
hole through the oak door, (who furnished the
saw7) and BY the light Of burning buttered
rag in . salt dish, proceeded to pick stone
and mortar out Of the foundation wall, BY
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