The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-04-04

Minnesota1New items.
WABASHAW COUNTY.

There is talk of a rifle club at Plainview.
MIR. F. A. Wilson has retired from the
editorial control of the Plainview Ne,cs, and
is succeeded by MI. 3: y. Byron.
The Lake City Leader. has given up tho
! effort to keep record of the people in that
county going West to grow up with the coun-
try. There are too ma@y of them.
LIE sUEUR COUNTY.
A much larger breadth of land, says the
LIE Sueur Sentinel, is being put into crops
in this vicinity than in any previous year.
JACKSON COUNTY.
Tho county of jackson has been sued by
e. Sevatson for $4,000, to cover the value of
certain floating county orders.
The jackson Republic, one of the bright
est and best frontier county papers in tho
State, commenced Volume TX with its issue
of the 23d. MIR. G. C. Chamberlain presides
i'll the editorial chair, and has reason to bo
proud of the result OF his labors.
MARTIN COUN NTY.
The Fairmount Sentinel stakes its reputa-
| ton OIL the reliability of the statement that
| the Southern Minnesota railroad will be
built to jackson this season.
Mr.. Gerard, of Martin county. recently
lost three head of young cattle by black leg
The spread of the disease was prevented by
the timely application of preventives.
GOoDHuE COUNTY.
national bank is to be established at
Cannon Falls
The Diamond mills of Red Wing have
shipped 900 barrels of flour to Paris to be
used and exhibited at the exposition.
lot of scalawag boys, out of pure cusscd.
ness, set fire to and burned the barn and
granary of Mr.. S. B. Barteau of Zumbrota,
on his farm near Mazeppa, one day last
week. The dwelling was saved with diff
Guilty.
John McNiff of Hastings, says the Gnzettr,
claims to have come to thif State in the fall
of 1S41. as private in company II, first
regiment United States infantry, which enti-
ties him to front rank in the list of old
settlers.
John w, Chandler arrived with his broth
er the sheriff, from Washington, on Friday
His attack was rush of blood to the head,
from the effects of which he has nearly re-
covered, and he mingles with his old friends
here as naturally as of yore.-Rr,l Wing
Repu1lidn.
NC LEOD COUNTY.
Anson Hilger, former policeman in St.
Paul, is keeping tho Northwestern hotel in
Glencoe. He has the honor of erecting the
first street lamp in that place, an innovation
which the citizens hope good many others
will follow.
Mr.. Lewis A. Foster, of Mcleod county,
ought to be in good spirits. He sold his
farm few days since, the Glencoe Regixter
says, for $500, and Immediately purchased
another for 81, 800 for which he has since
been offered $1,000.
DAKOTA COUNTY
The Roman Catholic fair at Hastings last
week netted $512.
Pennington has witnessed miracle-a
tramp saving wood for his dinner.
Over three hundred car loads of wheat
have been sent from Hastings direct to Lv-
erpool.
The Hastings Gasette is authority for tho
statement that the Cannon Falls branch of
the Hastinge & Dakota railroad is virtually
abandoned.
Hon. Geo. W. Dlley, Dakota county, seri-
ously i'll since the adjournment of the Legis-
lature has commenced improving, and his
recovery is now thought to he only q,,cs-
| ton of time.
| Bro. Emery, of the Pennington Press. has
| lost dog-a "black-and-tan, slim, lol4, tail,
and Ind brown spots over his eycs-fawn
colored legs" and he wants him returned
personal property, you know.
| Tho lamb and lion have lain down together
i'll Hastings. The Gazctte says: '':The Demo-
cratic caucus on Thursday was largely at
tended by citizens of all parties, and the
ticket gives general satisfaction.''
| BROWN COUNTY.
! Mayor ltoos, of New Ulm, died i'll New
York city OH Wednesday, the 9th.
| a gentleman vino has lived for twenty
years on the frontier, says he has never seen
the time when there was half as many land
| hunters as are now ranging through the
western section of the State, all eager to
make investments.-Nc, Tim Hernld.
| FILLMORE COUNTY.
Rev. c. w. Merrill, of Spring Valley
tried his hand at church debt Lifting tho
other Sunday, and with such sue that he
secured $55 more than the amount required.
sTEARNs COUNTY.
Mr.. E. p. Barnum, of Sank Centre, hav-
ing been appointed deputy treasurer of
Stearns county, the st. Cloud Journal Press
raises these queries: 1st. Has the treaurer
any authority to appoint deputy? I'd.
Can Mr.. Barnum, while county commission
er, hold also the Office of deputy treasurer?
The editor of the St.. Cloud Jouyual-I Press,
after ride through portion of that coun-
ty, is moved to say: All the way we found
the farmers busy at work-some were plow-
ing, some were seeding, and good many
had a large part of their grain already sow1',
men and women both beng in the fields.
Several new farms have been opened, and
nearly every one has sown an increased
acreage over last season. The present indi-
cations point to an unprecedentedly large
crop of all kinds of small grain in this coun-
ty this year.
Trespass on Government Lands.
Fergus Falls Journal.