Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-02
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

Matte A. Bridge lectures at Decor"n
October 5th.
Blue Earth City is to have a railroad cele-
bration soon.
Those pretty little cars on the narrow
euaee ran into Caledonia on Thursday last.
-"Bring in your hides, so says an advertls-
or. No. we won't; we'll be skinned if we do.
Sixteen prisoners in the Steele county
Jail; "fourteen." says the Owatonna journal,
..are candidates for the States prison, and will
scarcely fail an election"
The Owatonna Journal has news from the
threshing machines which leads 1t 10 est''
mate the wheat yield of Steele county at
nearly II bushels to the acre.
Vic. Woodhall sends us her picture mighty
good looking old girl, too. We might have
been little vain, had she not sent them to the
rest of the Minnesota editors.
Judge Samuel Lord is at the house Of his
brother-in-law at Winona, dangerously III.
Judge Charles E. Vanderburgh, Of Mtnneapo-
lis, Is holding court for him at Mantorville.-
O,CatOnnG journal.
gible to the Office of County Superintendent,
Mr. and Mrs. Fish, who live with their son
near High Forest, are in all probability the
oldest couple in this county. Mr.. Fish Is 104.
and his wife is IS. Both appear to be in good
health.-Rocaester Post.
Thomas Purcell, of this county. has been
appointed by Judge Page member of the
Farmers, Board of Trade for this judicial dis
ing the standardization Eagle.
Tho Old co++lora ~ no<1ro oo,r+,, oo,oh.o
ted the 18th year of the settlement of the
county on Sept. 10Th. There are nineteen
present members OF the association who set
tied in Dodge in 1854.
Hold your wheat if you are able and don't
owe anything, but If you owe anything, sell
it and pay your debts. You can't afford to pay
interest on the probability of big rise, be-
cause you may not get it.-Erchanoe.
When Dave Gage kept the old fremont
House in Chicago he used to have a way of
telling where his guests came from by the way
they handled their napkins. Says David: 1.-THE
Boston man tucks his under his chin; but the
Oshkosh man puts his into his pocket. "-Er.
"A subscriber to southwestern newspaper
died recently, leaving four years subscription
unpaid. The editor appeared at the grave and
deposited in the coffin .palm"leaf fan, lin
He should orteY taken bit Of ice, too, to
cool his parched tongue.
-FRoG FARMING.-A Mr.. Soule, Of Elgin, Ill,
Is in his third year of frog farming and bis first
crop is now being marketed. He has an acre
and quarter devoted to the frog industry.
The kind grown is the "Goslin frog" much
larger than the common sort. Mr.. 8. will,
next season, furnish st. Louis, Chicago, and
Cincinnati with frogs, and is confident of sue
cess in the business.
-NEW STAT1ONs.-The new stations along
the line between Jackson and Flandreau are,
in this county. Airlie in Mobiles county, Full
da, near the Murray and Mobiles county line,
Iona, west Of Badger Lake in Murray county,
Edgerton, named for Gen. A. J. EdgertOn, and
at the junction of the Rock and Chanaramble,
and PiPestone City in Pipestone county
RAILROAD COLLIsION.-Early last Satur.
day morning, between RushfOrd and Houston,
two heavy freight trains colided while under
full speed. The disaster was foreseen in time
to give the men on each train barely time to
Jump for their lives, but not In time to check
the flying demons that were soon to demolish
each other. The only man who did not sue.
coed in jumping was hurled an actual distance
of two hundred feet without receiving any.
thing more than serious but not dangerous
and 8, the latter on her first trip, and were
damaged to the extent Of about $4,000. Four
teen cars were ditched, and damaged, with
freight, to the extent Of about fifteen thous-
and dollars. The accident occurred through
the criminal negligence Of the operator Ct
east bound train. This IL the first collision
that has ever occurred on the Southern Min.
nesota.-La'aesb0r0 Journal, eth.