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

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OUR HARVEST FIELD.
Camilla Urso is to be in Rochester soon.
| w. P. Kerr, of Cedar City, has gone to
work.
Ripe strawberries in Faribault from Miss
| issippi.
Rochester is troubled with large number
of tramps.
! House burglars have been at work in
Rochester.
Weather very dry, especially in the north
ern part of the State.
The Owatonna artesian well is down to
$50 feet, and no water.
1t is fixed fact. Faribault is to have a
sugar refinery Immediately.
The editor of the Wells Advocate ''embra-
ces' all his new subscribers.
| Work on the Blue Earth City Branch Rail-
road has begun all along the line.
The editor of the Rochester Record thinks
very little of Philip Phillips as songster.
Sam Wallis Cha1feld Times is born. So is
the Hokah Herald, by L. C. McKenney.
The N. w. Telegraph Co. will soon erect
new poles for their lines in this State.
80 in the shade on Tuesday and Wednes-
day of last week, 50 several Of our exchanges
aver.
An oatmeal mill is to be built in Lanes.
boro, costing eighteen or twenty thousand
dollars.
The Gazette says the sprinkling of the
streets of Hastings is left entirely to Prov
idence.
Brick Pomeroy will commence the publi-
cation of his new greenback paper in La
Crosse soon.
The ''Old Minnesota First"-the brave
survivors-wiu hold q reunion at Waseca,
commencing June 18th.
We know one of the items in the
local columns of last weeks Waseca Leader
was not original-with that paper.
The Waseca Leader thinks potatoes at Is
cents per bushel in the fall is better than
wheat at 70 cents. How is it, farmers?
Will Todd, of the Hastings Gazette, please
be careful in future to credit his clippings
from Austin exchanges to the proper papers.
Mr. Hi Adams sold to Mr.. Neil Graham, on
Wednesday, his we'll known trotting horse
Jim Raven for the sum OF $650.-OWdt0nn0
Journal, april 25th.
-Rey. E. Livermore, of St. Peter, has been
40 years in the priesthood of the Episcopal
church, and nineteen years Rector of the
ch urch in St. Peter.
This section of the State is now suffering
for the want of rain, unless it comes soon the
consequences will be serious. A good,
drenching rain has not fallen in this vicinity
| for six months.-WinOnd Herald.
-Zion's Hill is near Lanesboro. The enter
prising citizens Of L. arc talking Of build
ing road or driveway over the bluff, so al
| the sinners can climb the sacred hill.
Mrs. Minnie Fitch, daughter of Gen. Sher-
man, who was the recipient of the costly neck
lace of diamonds from the Khedive of Egypt
| a few years ago, is to spend the summer at
| White Bear Lake.
The Spring Valley V;dette says that wykoff
has the champion trombone player of the
State of Minnesota, in the parsonage Of an
Italian named Carlo Tonolli, who has recently
located there from Wisconsin.
". Simpson, of Winona, who cow-hided his
| first wife publicly, on the streets, few years
ago, is married again. 1t would be perfectly
natural for an outsider to think that his Sec
ond wife needed a cow-hiding.
| The Spring Valley Vjdette says 5000
breach of promise suit is about to be COM
menced by party living in a certain town
in Fillmore county. Why won't the naughty
men keep their engagements in such solemn
matters?
1t is acknowledged in the old world as we'll
as in this, that John Sherman is the greatest
financier of the age.-Lanesboro Journal
Well, o. G., John is our man for President.
Why don't you rally, and help us get him
| nominated?
Seven young wolves were captured in the
town of Byron, Waseca county, last week, as
! we learn from the Leader. They were all in
one nest-the old one being out for food. The
| capturer took the cubs to the county auditor,
| who presented him with the regular bounty,
$3 per head. A fat take.
-Ammon, Scott & Co., of Decorah, Iowa,
| who have been advertising their cheap wagons
very extensively through the newspapers Of
recently made an assignment for the ben
eft of their creditors which include from 100
TO l50 publishers. Liabilities, ga, 600; assets,
$20O, ,0O.-Spring Valley Ndette.
The Carpenter correspondent of the Usage
News says the coal prospecting is progressing
finely. The drill goes down to the depth Of
SO feet, in which depth they have passed
through the rider vein, a considerable slate
and fire clay, and now are in very hardcap-
rock. We will inform you all in regard to the
coal next week.
Peter Velie, the pioneer merchant of
Lime Springs, Iowa, on Tuesday of last week,
committed suicide by shooting himself, the
ball from 81 calibre entering his head just
back of his right temple, going squarely
through his brain, killing him instantly. He
was 81 years of age. The Tribune says his
financial embarrassments were at the bottom
of 1t all.
Says the Wykoh 3 Weehlv: Mr.. George
Farmer. of Spring Valley, so we are told, has
let the contract for building sugar-cane
mill, of sufficient capacity to work up two
acres per day Of the Early Amber Sugar Cane.
which will be quite extensively raised in the
vicinity this season. We are told that appa-
ratus will be put in for clarifying and making
sugar.
"A printer inmate Of the st. Peter Insane
Asylum, wrote column article in last weeks
Tribune, on 'Newspaper Heroism and Inde-
pendent Journalism" It was very good, too;
better sense than nine-tenths of newspaper
correspondents outside the asylum, write. He
signed the article "A. Gaylord Spaulding,
helpless printer martyr, and victim Of bogus
insanity fraud.'