Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-11-07
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

OUR HARVEST FIELD.
The Chatficld branch railroad will be COM
pleted by Nov. 18th.
The Bismarck Tribune, since Col. Louns-
bury left it, is Democratic. But it Is very
good paper nevertheless.
The Spring Valley Vitlette just hints that
the s.l24 sheets Of the Dollar Weekly weigh but
~ pounds! "Important if true.'
AT St. Cloud the Journal says about one
third of the wheat that is brought in is No. l;
and three-fonrths of the remainder is No. l..
The "characters' and records of the
different candidates for office throughout the
state have had general overhauling in our
exchanges, during the past two weeks.
j. D. Blake, of Rochester, received case
Of goods on Wednesday last, imported direct
ly from Europe. Other importations for this
house are to follow in q few days.
seized by the sheriff. and will be sold on
chattel mortgage. Hard times try newspa-
per pubhshers.-Osa0e Press.
-Twenty-two noble hearted Irishmen, with
their teams and plOws, turned out a rev days
since and Plowed over forty acres TOT chnt' the
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teld Democrat.
The Catholics have convert in Rev. ]. K.
Karcher, of Rochester in this state, IN Epis-
copal minister, who was baptized into that
church, at St. Paul, by Bishop Ireland, on the
18th ult.
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster is at the head OF a
movement in Iowa for constitutional amend
ment that shall prohibit both the manufact-
ure and sale of malt or vinous beverages
within that state.
Wire binders are complained Of all over
! the state by the millers. Small bits OF wire
has yet been discovered to make them into
good -four or prevent them from spelling the
| stones.-Erchange.
The passenger train ran into Granite Falls
for the first time Tuesday night, Oct. I'D. The
citizens OF Granite gave the the employees ,i OF
Glencoe and Granite is finally closed.-Glen-
| COG Register.
The Waseca Radical is aged Is years, and
as its name implies, is radical-on the tenn
perance question decidedly 80. And Pat must
have considerable influence at home. His
county always casts a large vote for the tenn
! pesance ticket.
| Two highwaymen took the trouble to rush
out from the roadside, and into Ole Jacobson's 8
wagon, as he was returning from Fountain to
his home last week, pull him out of the wa
gon, knock him senseless, and pick his pock-
cts. But it was poor picking. He did not
! have cent with him!
The hired girl of well-regulated fam
lily in Lanesboro, last week. left the house for
| the post-ofice. and, at last accounts, had not
| yet returned. Her long absence is accounted
| for in the absence" of her mistress pocket
book and the sale by station agent of a rail-
! road ticket for Milwaukee to girl bearing
the description OF the ''absent" one.
"A merchant in neighboring town adver-
tises his resolve to sell goods for cash, las it
is utterly impossible to do otherwise" Lots
Of merchants in this neck O. the woods wish
| it was utterly impossible to do otherwise -
But they find it not only possible, but ex-
ceedingly easy, to sell goods for dicker, pro-
misses, and most anything but cash.
We have two Railroads-we paid thirty
time we have no good market. Wheat is BE-
ing hauled over both railroad tracks to Nor
| ristown mills, a distance of twelve miles,
there the l made into -four and hauled distance Of
road and there shipped east. Where does the
| blame lie? Some one please answer and ex-
plain.-Waseca Leader.
The chief Of police of Albert Lea has is
whose COWS are found running at large in the
city limits will be impounded." The official
made ''bull'' in delivering his COW manifesto
| -LdnesbOTO Journal.
Well, now, friend Wall, isn't it about right
| after all? The poor COWS are not to blame;
| and their owners are the right ones to be pun
ished, of course.
Two little children-son and daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Nichols, of Oronoco,
nn.,-ranging from two to four years old,
were drowned in the ZumbrO river, on Sunday,
Oct. 10th. They were playing on the banks Of
| the river, and just how they got into the wa
| ter is not known. Parents living near streams
of water, should guard well the little ones.
An old man by the name of Samuel Find
ley, aged SS years, was shot twice in the head
by his step-son, Edwin Wilder, on Wednesday,
Oct. 23d, at Owatonna. One of the balls struck
the right-ear, the other grazing the top of the
| head-therefore, the old mans life was spared.
But the erring son will probably have consid-
cradle trouble before he sees the end of this
little quarrel with his step-dad.
--"Hug Me to Death, Darling" is the title
Of q new sOng.-ELch0nQe.
Yes, If you please, we don't mind If we war
bic the bassO profundO of that little duet, on
condition that the audience is composed mere
| ~ OF the performers.-Jdckson Republic.
George having been 80 long a bachelor, and
of course, never having done any hugging.
we suppose, really, If given a chance, he
| would hug his victim to death.
The Rushford Star thinks a law should be
enacted at the next session of the Minnesota
legislature giving parties the right to sue in
adjoining counties, without compelling them
| to go over the line and find a Justice of the
peace: It says, "Rushford, in Fillmore coun-
ty, within half mile of Houston county and
within mile of Winona county, feels the in
iurtous effects Of this law, and parties here
times deprived of what rightfully belongs to
them.''
The Jackson Republic says: I'VE are as
sured that no more red barns are to be used
for passenger depots along the line Of the 8.
NJ. r. R., and that the one at this place will be
| similar to that at Albert Lea and which is
| said to be the handsomest structure Of the
kind on any line of road in the state. The dis