Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-28
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

OUR Harvest FIELD.
Apples in Lacrosse ~ q barrel
Our exchanges all have the diphtheria.
The OwatOnna Artesian we'll Is down about
ls0 feet.
A wild cat killed in Oronoco township,
Olmsted county.
Tho Congregational church at Owatonna
i Is enjoying revival.
The new Episcopal church ut Owatonna
will be dedicated next Sunday.
They read Ingersolrs lectures at the Owa-
tonna lyceum. Isn't that awful?
Last Monday week, Bishop Whipple con-
tirmed eight persons at Owatonna.
A school house in Wheatland township,
Rice county, was incinerated by incendiaries
lately.
Deer cannot be killed in Houston county
at any season.-JOu',lal.
Here too. There amt any deer to kill.
Club dances at Owatonna. That's all the
devil wants to know of that place. He can
now leave it to it's own destruction.
Pine Island whiskey will poison you. A
druggist gave a cat dose, and in less than
jitry it turned up its toes and died.
Don't move to Owatonna. wild cat was
shot in the woods four miles south of that
place just last week, and there is one left.
The business men of Northwood attach
the teams of debtors who come to trade with
them. We should say that was 'business.''
Who will say that apples cannot be ''pro--
yNf1So
at our doors for $3.50 per barrel?-- -AfantOrvtlle
Express.
-Vidette Jones has just come across that
two-months old story Of the stampeded mar
riage of a darkey couple, and printed it last
week.
r. McGarry, of Grand Meadow, was re-
pairing well, and came out of it just min
ute before the thing caved in. The Nclcs calls
it close call.
The Rochester Post complains that bank
ing up houses and cellars is betraying lack
of confidence in the fine weather, which is
discouraging to immigration.
In Faribault lately, lot of rags, satura-
ted with oil, slowed in a basement, spontan-
eously ignlted and but for timely discovery
would have combusted the building. Don't
grease your rag bag.
The village has whole college of skilled
physicians and and ID three wen nR
any pretended Indian doctor" or other trav-
cling cha harlatan.-Alerandria Post.
The ''harvestfi eld'' of the Austin Trdns-
c,ipt bears large variety of small grain in
Guiding ''wild OATS" yet the grain is all sound,
asf as No. o' I.NpDodoe 20 ' Cosmtv ] Republican.
at any one time in the past six months.
advocate.
Why SOP Have one of our Austin Clubs
moved over there?
A woman in the town of Oakland, who has
been troubled with the dropsy, had two pals
full of watar, taken from her one day by Dr.
Blackmer. She is a lady about g. years old,
now doing well.-Albert Lea Enterprise.
Mr.. Thomas Finn, of Orion township, was
peacefully wrapped in the arms of Morpheus,
some expert and bold thieves kindly picked
eight acres of his corn that was standing in q
Instead of attributing all crime and evil
to the dire effect of the "demon rum" the
Grand Meadow Ne,vs thinks ignorance of 4
trade is fearful cause Of trouble. Not so
bad an idea after all. Think of it philanthro-
pists.
The $lh Rural begs and pleads for its
friends, the greenbackers, to come down with
the stamps. Its list of $500 is curse to it
and it has been compelled to drop to only two
pages of q six column Quarto Only half its
former home news. Twas ever thus with
greenbackers.
Oh any one would rather pay $50 for remov-
ing a ''gum-bile'' to one of these itinerant,
peripatetic, nomadic dead-beats, than so cents
to home doctor who knew it wasn't cancer.
It's astonishing to see how large q crop of
cancers springs up when one of the cancer-and
female-corn-difhculty NJ. DIS. comes around.
The he-Delilah of Grand Meadow, called
George" Senegambian we believe, gath
cred himself together to bust the head of a
''chunk," but his axe caught on the clothes
line, and came down with the force of q bat
tering-ram on his skull. No harm done. The
Meadow Grandees came near losing barber.
49,, The damage done the presses p Of this ONCE Ice
to do all kinds of job work.-AIsttn Republican.
That is right, and now If you keep your
mouth shut and little truth on your side,
you won't have to destroy your own Office to
gain sympathy from the mfsled people.-Wells
Advocate.
There are about thirty lakes in this county
that have names, and a number OF other
smaller bodies of water without names.
Counting these there are nearly fifty lakes in
Freeborn county.-Albe,t Lea Enterprise.
With such abundant facilities for drown.
ing, nothing but cowardice prevents q green
back editor from taking his miserable life.
Boys, the incest Christmas presents you
can make your girls are packages Of calling
cards printed by US with their names on. We
viii print them cheap, and keep num-
Pine Island Netus.
So will we. And If that fellow who was
squeezing that girl on Mill street last Sunday
night will apply wen furnish her cards fol
nothing.
The house of a Mr.. Murtagh in Albert Lea
burned lately. A fire brand jerked ''from
the burning into the bed, ignited things, and
the mother returning, attempted to quench
the burning mattrass with water, then to
pull it out of the window, but it caught on q
nail. The house was consumed. The records
Of the school board were also lost, as Mr..