Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-01

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er, has sown 1000 acres of wheat this spring at
total expense of $4,211.70. This expense in
cludes plowing the land, seed wheat and labor
putting in the crop. If the same amount Of
money will harvest the crop, and the yield is
20 bushels to the acre, and he sells the same
at Is cents per bushel, he will realize clean
profit of ss,57e.e0.
| The Caledonia Courier-Democratica at that
does not care to father DR.. Riley, the famous
whiskey advocate of Houston county. The
editor says: thereafter when the DR.. is on
'lecturing' tour, If he will announce himself
as from Zululand or the Cannibal Islands, he
will greatly oblige his large and UN-appre-
! ciative constituency, who have no desire to
| claim him as their model statesman"
The oldest inhabitant does not remember
such dry time in the spring as we are having
at present. There is not sufficient moisture
In the ground now to sprOut any kind Of seed,
and the earth in the fields is drifted and blown
around as if it were light snow. Many wells
have given out and Others are failing, and
! there is general prayer for rain. For more
than two years there has been comparatively
little rain and no snow to speak Of. While
some Of the eastern states are complaining % OF OF
glad to take them of their hands. Monday
evening appearances indicated a rain, and
few drops fell in the night-that and nothing
-~~S>Os
Three New York City printers bought a
ticket together in the Louisiana State lot
terry. paying two dollars for it. They drew a
prize of fifteen thousand dollars-five thous-
one instance where the old adage, "a fool for
luck" doesn't hold water. Unless men are
fools for investing in lottery tickets, which is
about the shape of it-Lahe City Leader.
Now, we'll bet nothing like the above "luck"
will occur again in twenty years. So. we
would advise the poor printers not to fool
away their money in lottery tickets on the
strength of the good fortune of the N. Y.
typos.
Fillmore county is also favored with spe-
cial law regulating the salaries of county
officers. The County Auditor receives $3.50
per annum, and the Clerk of the Court S1,SOO
to be in full for the same including clerk
hire. The fees for recording, &C., of the Reg
lister of Deeds are cut down largely, but no
limit is fixed to sum total which he shall re-
ceive. The Sheriff is entitled to but s3 per
week for boarding prisoners, and a commits
sion Of one per cent for collections on ex-
ecutions on all amounts in excess of 5000.
The County Superintendent's salary to be
fixed by the Commissioners, but he shall not
visit schools unless required so to do by res
Olution of the County Commissioners. OF
course these changes only apply to the sue.
cessors of the present incumbents.
We notice that a number of our exchanges
are advertising for Badeau, Pierce & Co.,
Chicago. There is not the slightest probabili-
ty that any Of them will ever get cent of pay
bogus, we wrote-when the advertising pro-
position was received-to the publishers Of
one of the Chicago dailies, asking if they were
''good," and received the following laconic
reply; I'm the words Of the Danb1ry News
man, they would make good stran0ers.' Our
brethren of the press who are being victim
lied will be very apt to find these to be "WOrds
of Truth."-St. Cloud Journal-Press.
Didn't we tell you so, several weeks ago? 1t
is strange that 50 many publishers will accept
every order for advertising that comes along
without once enquiring into the responsibility
of the firm sending the same. The greater
portion of them deserve to be ''beat" for their
carelessness in this respect
"A Norwegian farmer, who lived in the
appeared short time after New Years, last
winter, and though his friends made inquiries
the whereabouts of the missing man or obtain
any clue that might lead to his discovery.
But last week, we are informed upon good
was made In the hog yard Of a neighbor of the
missing farmer, which partially unravels the
mystery of the mans disappearance.
The fragments Of a mans skeleton were
found, with pieces of flesh adhering to the
separate members and portions of the trunk,
hogs which were confined in the enclosure +
1t is the general opinion that the
farmer, whose mutilated remains these are
supposed to be-, was murdered for his money,
a considerable quantity of which he was
known to have possessed at the time of his
mysterious disappearance. This discovery
indicates the perpetration Of fearful and
revolving crime by some body, the circum-
stances Of which should be speedily unraveled,
if possible, by the proper authorities.-Cale-
d0niG Journal, April q.