Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-15

advocate says the strongest wind prevailed al
| Wells that he has ever experienced.
Mortgage sale notices do not occupy SO
large Il space in the columns Of our inland OK
changes US they did during the winter.
Gen. Sigcl's lecture, announced for Vino
na on the Sd, was not dclivcred-"for want Of
a sufficient audience" says the Herald.
The Owatonna city council are going to
make the druggists pay 500 license for the
privilege Of selling Intoxicating liquors.
The Lansing dowa) Mirror says Cincinnati
bugeies were recently sold ut Strawberry
Point for Ss5 to s30-probably open buggies.
Tho Rochester Record says the Georgia
minstrcls have given them the only satisfac-
tory entertainment during the season OF 7S-9
Mr.. p. Ganscr, one of the brewers of Owa-
tonna, was last week fined $25 and Ss.4O cents
costs, for retailing beer at his brewery with
out license.
There is talk OF removing the county seat
from Prairie du Chien, Wis, to the town OF
Haney, which is nearer the geographical CEN
tre of Crawford county.
The Council of the city of Mantorvillc is
opposed to the custom of ''staking OUT COWS
on the side of streets, to Craze, andif it Is not
discontinued soon, the council will "'enfOrce
its cessation
Would that every man, in the prime OF
his manhood, could truly say, as did Gen. John
a. Dix on mis- death-bed:-''I believe in God.
I have entire faith in my Redeemcr. I am
at enmity with no man.
A fatal accident is thus recorded by an cx-
change:
Edward Frank, Freeburg, Ill.,, grocery clerk,
lighted candle, drew kerosene Oil, Saturday
night. Funeral, Monday.
Miller. of the Worthington Adronce, has
had an invite to dance. He responds thusly:
"Lent is over and our Episcopal leg is free and
'Barkis is willin'.' If we can get our Congre-
gational leg to consent, Wen CO."
-Hokah affords as fine sport for fishermen
rs any village in the northwest. Almost every
fish obtainable, from speckled trout to twelve
pound muscalOnge and forty pound catfish,
arc hauled ashore by the fish hhunters.-Herad.
1T looks very much as though the C. D. &
NJ. II. II. Co. were going to give Caledonia
railroad There is already u narro w-gauge
road-bed between the river and Caledonia,
which can be easily used for wide gauge
track.
Col. Thompson has made several valuable
accessions Of real estate to his already ltr 20
domain. He has purchased J. c. Easton's fine
farms bordering on Walnut Lake, and his
farming lands in the town OF Kiester.-Wells
AdrOcdte.
Gen. Sigel had full house ut Rochester
on Monday of last week-and all present were
very much pleased with his lecture. On the
afternoon of Monday the German Library AS
sociation got up an elegant dinner in honor Of
their distinguished guest.
A man up at Wells last week was kicked
insensible by horse, then a team drew an
1901 b roller completely over his body. His
''remains" we're picked up, and after little
repairing, were as good as ever. The AdUO-
cate calls it case of miraculous vitality
has received a bequest Of ten thousand dol
lars, from the late DR.. Chas. L: Ives, of Hart
ford, Conn.,, the income Of which IS to be de-
voted wholly to the aid Of needy and worthy
Young men who desire an educatiOn.- EI-
change.
menced plowing up wheat for corn. Dry
weather and numerous young and healthy
hoppers are the cause. Parties from near the
big farm over in Rock co%nty o1 inform or ~ us that
Worthington Journal.
have been doing extensive advertising for
some time past, write us under date OF April
"a, 1879: "Unforeseen circumstances have
broken up our firm"
Exactly. We knew it all the time. And
didn't we tell you SO?
The Southern Minnesota railroad will
make point at or near mile Lakes, and an
survey has been made running one and half
miles north of the line between Mobiles and
Murray counties. and the road will be located
near this WOrthin0tOn Journal.
The assignee Of Ammon, Scott & Co., Of
Decorah, Iowa, has filed statement of the
assets of the firm at $7S,152, which is only
Sl22, 900 less than the sum first stated. Liabil
tiles not yet made up. If the creditors get
so cents on the dollar Of their claims they will
do exceedingly we'll.
-Thirty-two Cincinnati buggies were sold
at St. Peter last week, at prices ranging from
$42 to $53 for top buggies, and 435 to $40 for
open ones. The Tribune asks: Who says
"hard tines? We answer: In about 6
months from now, those chaps that purchas-
ed those buggies.
Till, haven't you experimental about long
enough with that press2 1t is too bad to spoil
the looks OF your paper every week with such
an excuse for printing press in this age Of
improvement. Send it home to Miller with
your regrets, and request the Pine Island
Ne,cs Publishing Co. to furnish you WASH
ington.
Work on the artesian well at Owatonna has
been discontinued, after reaching depth Of
387 feet. The contractor has put in seven
months of hard work on the enterprise, but
having met with obstacles, which, with the
machinery employed, it became impossible to
he was obliged to throw up the
contract.
The city election in Albert Lea last week
Monday, resulted in the election OF H. D.
Brown Mayor, by seven majority over W.P.
Sergeant. Gov. Armstrong was elected one
of the aldermen. The majority for license
was IS. Total vote polled in the city. 43.
The Enterprise calls it an anti-Lovely and anti
Shechan victory.
AT Cedar Falls, Wis, the town board De, De,
and then grant but one license. When this
was done Mr.: Pitcher. staunch Temperance
om3 the Pc snd
are highly indignant at this way Of doing
things, as they cannot see why it isn't just as
bad, for them, as no-license would be. It does
look very much that way, sure enough.-Er-
change.
The Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix, son of the late
Genera! Dix, publishes Letter to say that the
spot" dispatch is not in the possession Of Mr..
Bennett, Of Terre Haute, AZ stated few days
ago, but in his own possession. General Dix
got the original at the telegraph oflce in
Washington, and gave it to his son, the Rev:
Morgan Dix. This gentleman had 1t framed
and hung in his house, where It has remained
ever eIpce.-Exchan0e.