Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-20
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AUSTIN, MINNESOTA:
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1879.
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

Freeborn County Standard.
They claim to have found coal at the depth
OF 70 feet at Marshall Lyon county.
when was child spake as child and
often got spanked for doing it.-Ercha"0s'
The Worthington .idrancs will take "any-
thing but impunity and citrons" on subscrlp-
tion
The Chattield Democrat says that Capt.
Ober has q tine gray eagle which was captured
near the village.
Fred Cochraue, we'll known in Austin, the
Albert Lea Standard says, is employed in the
Boston custom house.
One Of the farmers near Preston is still
holding portion Of his wheat crop which he
was once offered SITS for.
The Republican says there is about 10000
bushels of wheat yet in the hands OF about
fifteen farmers within five miles Of Preston
Mrs. Scott Siddons will entertain Roches-
teritcs on the evening Of March 26th. We
wish she could be secured for an evening in
Austin.
AT a shilling \ line Mel. T. Jones, OF the
Spring Valley IIdstte would be entitled to
S5.6S for pun he gave certain Austin hotel
last week.
Houston county has Il new salary law
County Auditor $500, limiting clerk hire to
5000: and County Treasurer $1,000, with no
clerk hire.
-Confound that word "Pianofore''; we see
it staring in tho face i'll every big town
exchange. 1t is the title OF a new opera piece
we believe
--Cargill i Van have shipped some 800 tons
OF pressed hay in bale from their big farm
near Sherburne, on the Southern Minnesota
extension.
Trains on the Wnona & st. Peter railroad
now run through to Watcrtown-the present
western terminus, three miles east Of Lake
kampeska.
The editor Of the Austin Republican uses
the word Hypocrisy so often that the Pres
ton Republican wants to see him spell it cor
rectly hereafter.
What can the matter be? We see Mead, Of
the Plaindealer, is rejoicing over the defeat OF
the Prohibition ticket in Cresco. What! W.
R., free whisky in Cresco now?
There are several thousand" grasshop-
per eggs in Mobiles county. The Worthington
Adranee says they are not afraid, unless they
emigrant in on from the outside
county. commences April sth. a new law
gives that county three general terms OF
court hereaftcr-in January, April and Sep
tember.
Rochester tried no-license two years ago,
last year she voted license, and on April lst
she is to vote on the license question again.
with" the Post thinks, 'the chances against
license"
Wood taken on subscriptions at this Office.
-CdledOntd Journal.
Yes. up this way, wood is taken on sub
scription,'' but we oursef make the subscrip-
tions-in cash.
How is this for mfortable family? A
State exchange says widower in Fillmore
county, possessed of thirteen children, re-
Gently laid seige to the heart of widow who
counted eleven offspring.
Trains have been withdrawn from the
Pembina branch of the Canada railway, run
ming from St. Vincent to Winnepeg. Reason
for this action not at present known. The
suspension will probably be but temporary.
David Blakely, editor of the Minneapolis
Tribune, who commenced his editorial career
in Bancroft, Freeborn county, over twenty
years ago, will deliver the address before the
Freeborn county Old Settlers Association in |
June next. |
"A Mitchell county farmer advises the use
of the drill in seeding our poor wheat this
year. He says the poorer the seed the better
it should be covered He thinks last years
wheat good enough for seed if put into the
ground well.
Usage, Iowa, has tried no-license for three
years, and so well pleased with the trial, that
it has recently decided to continue the tenn
perance rule for another year, there being no
opposition whatever to the election Of the
prohibition ticket.
The Pioneer-Press paid for postage last
year s., 932. .e2, being the fourteenth newspa-
per in the country in the amount of postage
paid. The New York Tribune stands first in
the list; the New York Herald second, and the
New York Sun third.
s. W. Wall is about to move his Hokah
newspaper establishment to Chatfield. Then
there will be three brother Walls in the news
paper business in Fillmore county. They all
understand their business, too. Name Of new
paper, Chatfeld Weekly Times.
The Legislature passed a bill to change
the name Of Sleepy-Eye to Lorena. The
Rochester Post wishes to know what effect
will this have on the title of the Wile-A,Cake?
The Winona Herald hopes it will have the
effect to ''wake up the editor to remit what
is due the Herald Office.
Why don't the Austin papers give us a
little inflammation on the subject of coal?
What's the sense in keeping all the good
things to yourself?-LdnesbOrO Journal.
We're waiting for somsthing-we hardly
know what. When we ascertain. we will
communicate. We expect to startle you in a
few days.
DIR. Riley, one Of the representatives from
Houston county, who fought the battle of the
whiskyites at St. Paul last winter with ques-
tionable zeal to say the least, has, by his
course, incurred the lasting displeasure of all
the temperance people of Houston county, as
well as of large class who are very moderate
on the temperance question.
"A drunken man in Rochester, while sitting
on an iron-railing around basement window.
lost his equilibrium and fell backward head
foremost into the pit below, distance of nine
or ten feet. This fall would have broken a
sober mans neck. But this poor fellow es-
capes with scalpwound. Another argument
in favor Of whisky drinking
An exchange says that Mrs. M. v. Bates,
the giantess with Coles circus which visited
Austin last summer, gave birth to q still-born
child short time ago, 1t being fully developed
in every feature on the day Of its birth, meas
ured 30 inches, length which many children
Of normal growth have not attained at two
or three years of age. It weighed twenty-five
p ounds: its chest measure was sixteen inches,
and its feet were six inches long.
Gen. John Lawler, of the Milwaukee & St.
Paul r ailway, has written q valuable letter Of
great interest to tho farmers residing along
the line of this road. and to all others for that
matter. He calls the attention to the dam
aged condition of the wheat crop OF last year,
and advises that every farmer test his wheat
9 eenore sowing in order that If the grain IS
obtained In season. He says that If good
crop is 10 h3pe,d s,a for good sound seed must be
gOWn. ne also says that the Milwaukee st.
for whatever seed grain may be imported
over their line.-Decorah Journal.