Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-19
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

Mortgage sale advertisements in our ex-
changes are every week increasing in number.
Only one copy of the N. Y. Ledger comes
! to the Glencoe postOfice. This speaks well
| for Glencoe.
Gen. c. C. Andrews is lecturing through
| out the State on Life and manners in Sweden
and Norway
Hard, dry oak wood sells on the streets of
Hokah, for 81 per cord. At Lanesboro, dry
| maple brings $3.
The Democrat wants the city papers to
understand that Chatfeld is no longer rural
district. Yes, Nc, we understand.
The Usage Ne,rs says VIM. Woods, of that
place, slaughtered a pig fourteen months
old, recently, which dressed $40 pounds.
1T is really affecting to see so many inno-
cent paragraphs in our exchanges nowadays.
Something like this: I'VE have no drive-wells
in''-Lanesboro for instance.
The cases of the State of Minnesota against
w. c. Lincoln, present County Auditor, (for
embezzlement), did not come to trial, the de-
fendant pleading guilty: He has not yet been
sentenced.-Albert Lea Enterprise.
Fifty thousand gophers have been slaugh-
tered in Winona county, and paid for by the
County Treasurer at the rate of 8 and 10 cents
each. The gopher fund is exhausted, but not
the gopher.
Mr., Mead has evidently got himself into
An unpleasant dx.-$lh Rural.
You needn't worry about w. Il. Mead. He
generally strikes straight from the shoulder,
and knows what he's talking about.
This county has not saloon of any kind
within its borders, is not represented In the
sides dispensing with grand jury, only lasted
about half day.-Pope County Press.
Saloons always make business for the courts,
and a county without them is truly fortunate. i.
VIM. Fetterly, Of Waseca, smooth
faced boy of some lS or 10 years of age, stole
a team, wagon and other things from near
Usage, Iowa, recently. He was arrested at
Waseca last week. Since his arrest other
sion. He will probably spend the next few
years of his life in the penitentiary.
Our fat railroad has gone back to first
for the convenience of commercial travellers,
Judging by the time allowed at the stations.
The fast passenger train is absolutely remov-
press to Waterloo and make a run on the pas
senger traffic. The company will yet have to
post placards along its valley line, inscribed:
''Hoop-a-la! This is Railroad! d!"-Mitcheu
County Ne,Us.
ed into two odivisions-Wells being the dividing
point. Conductors Perkins and Egbert run
the express trains on the eastern division, and
the conductor who has for two years run the
Wells-going to jackson in the evening and
returning in the morning. Jack Keeler takes
the Mankato branch. For the present, mix
ed train runs between Wells and Jackson
Ldncsboro Journal,
ALBERT Lea curses itself for ever voting so
large a bonus to the Minneapolis road The
thousands Of bushels Of grain that has hither-
to been tributary to that pointl goes now
Exchange.
We're sorry for Albert Lea; but they would
do it. In nine cases out of every ten, the
saddling on to itself of a big tax, by an aver
age country town, for railroad purposes, is q
poor bargain, to say the least.
The law allows county Commissioners to
receive pay for only 20 days service during
any one year. The grand jury of stearns
county have made an investigation, and find
that the commissioners of that county have
drawn much more pay than they were entitled
to by law. They found no wilful intent to
break the law, and therefore found no indict-
ments, but recommended mending of their
ways in this respect.
Our graudfather's ticker
Was too big for his vest,
So he wore 1t In his duSter tail pocket;
And one day going TO town
In that farm wagon OF Our'n,
The jOuncin' Of the vehicle bruck It.
All of sudden his big hand
Under his duster tail he ran,
His eyes and his mouth he opened wide;
But 1t had stopped short
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And the old man cried.
-Yon1ers Gazette.
As six of the planets will be in perihelion
in the year 1880, scientists predict that the
earth will be afflicted with drouth, pestilence
and famine for five or six years to come.
They claim that the proximity of the planets
to the sun will so disturb the atmosphere of
the earth as to engender wide spread disease
and consequent death. According to their
theory the disturbance of the earth's atmos-
phere has already begun, as the yellow fever
epidemic and the general prevalence Of chills
and fever indicate. Only the strong and those
who rigidly obey the laws of health they claim
will survive.-EEchan0e.
Our readers can take az much stock in the
above as they choose. We believe in it a. We
do in anything else that we nor no other hui
man being knows anything about-and that's
all.