Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-10
OUR HARvEsT FIELD.

The Northheld Maa is no more. The sheriff
is the pall-bearer.
The artesan we'll in Owatonna has reached
depth Of $40 feet.
There is a movement in Faribault to en-
force the State Sunday law.
! -Farmington has no village Indebtedness
and cash in the treasury Of over $500.
There will be several blocks Of brick
buildings erected in Rochester this season.
Minneapolis is going to have more rail
| roads. but she will have quarter of million
more indebtedness also.
Hon. J. p. West is a Sunday-School man.
He was elected Secretary of the Presbyterian
S. S. at Wells the other day.
The Worthington Journal thinks Roscoe
Conkling the strongest man the Republicans
can nominate to beat Tilden in 1880.
The Waseca Herald was beaten in a libel
suit the other day. The plaintiff asked for
$4,000 damages. The jury gave him IS.
The Lake City Leader congratulates its
readers on having new bridge at Lake City
Mrs. Matte A. Bridge.
We've seen that Bridge. She's just splendid.
Tho Metropolitan Hotel, St. Paul, will be
open May LIST, by Mr.. G. A. Linsley, OF Utica,
N. Y. Several valuable improvements are
being added to the building.
The Odd Fellows of Owatonna will cele-
brate the anniversary of the Order on the
2sth inst, by street parade, and lecture from
Mrs. Matte A. Bridge in the evening.
The man who owns a quarter section Of
Minnesota land, under skillful cultivation,
free from mortgage, need not envy the richest
of merchants or bankers. His position is
more secure than theirs.-Rochester Record
and Union.
~ - The probability is that there
the grand jury lacked nerve.-Dispatch.
That is possibly true, but those ''who ought
to be" Page did not try to have indicted.
Seventy carloads of emigrants left Chi
cago last week for the Red River Valley.
Nearly all the railroads in Minnesota are now
taxed to their utmost capacity to carry the
There is room for few millions more.-EG.
-Woodlawn Cemetery, Winona, contains
the remains of Stephen Taylor, soldier in
the government service for seven years, and
in several hard fought battles in the revolu-
tionary war, who died several years ago, at
the age of 100 years.
Tho temperance people did not make a
very big show al. t..Faribault, at their charter
election. Majority in favor Of Hcense--349.
Whole number Of votes cast-S61. Last year,
on total poll of ITO votes "No-License' was
carried by majority Of q.
The Rochester Record and Union says the
opinion is shared by all that tramps will be
more numerous and demonstrative this sea-
son than ever before. No city should encour-
age them in their idleness. Make them earn
their board at the rock or wood-pile.
There were ll05 votes cast in Rochester
at the recent charter election. One hundred
and forty-seven women exercised their right
to the elective franchise by voting for School
Commissioner. License was carried by lit
falling OF Of lis from Hast years
majority for license.
On the morning of Friday (2sth ult) during
the storm, the barn of Albert Lyon, who lives
about six miles northwest Of town, between
and Washington, was set on fire by
the fire consuming the barn (which
was an old log structure) together with five
horses. several COWS, q couple of calves and q
quantity of corn and oats. The loss is esti-
mated at $1,000; insured for $l50.-SpIng