Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-09-04
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

year, says the Worthington Journal.
-Ex-Gov. Armstrong, of Albert Lea, buys
grain in his own town and at Armstrong.
-Owatonna has an Ira Jones, but Well bet
a crooked stick our Ira is the best looking.
The bonded indebtedness of Albert Lea
city and town is s., 900 for railroad purposes.
Nice 2-year old steers are selling in Jack
son county to Iowa drovers, at from $lS to $4
each.
Track on the Minneapolis s. St. Louis Rail-
way is now laid south from Albert Lea as far
as Twin Lake City.
The Norwegian Lutherans have decided
to establish College at St. Ansgar, Iowa.
Austin is better location.
The only editor We know of in the State
who has money enough to run stock farm is
o. G. Wall, of the Lanesboro Journal.
1T is a good thing for the Democrats that
there is no election this fall. They couldn't
run in Blue Jeans with such a wheat CROP
OWdtOnnG Journal.
-Cargill s. Van are buying grain at twenty
two stations in Minnesota, nine on the Green
Bay and Minnesota and three on the West
Observation-Disclosures Chronicle.
-Owatonna has teachers besides the prin-
cipal in the high school building, and two
teachers of ward schools. Total attendance
of scholars, 533.
"A Mr.. Taylor, Of Forestville, Fillmore
county, raised 500 bushels of Duchess of o.
denburg apples this year. How does this
strike the croakers?
Tho Prohibitionists of Steele county will
hold a convention on the 18th, to nominate
candidates for county officers. The Ovation
M Rcpiclu is the organ Of the party.
Houston county's new paper-Thc Argus
published ut Caledonia, by E. S. Kilbourne,
made it's appearance last week. 1t is indie.
pendent in politics and starts out we'll.
The State croquet tournament at Roches-
ter was SHINY attended-only four visitors
from abroad, and they haven't anything to
say. They were beaten by the Rochester
boys.
The New York butter market is fearfully
demoralized, large quantities are held in store,
and western shippers find little or no sale FOR
their packings. In consequence our dealers
-uankato Repic,U.
The Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul co:
has the largest mileage of any railroad in the
world, 1865. The recent acquisition OF the
Southern Minnesota, 2l8 miles, and the DaV.
enport& Northwestern, 100 miles, has placed
The supreme court of Pennsylvania has
decided, that a law enjoining the observance
stitutional; it being social and political reg
ulation, giving preference to no religious es'
Enlistment or mode of Worship -Erchdnge.
The population Of the United States July
1st 1879. as per analysis prepared by the
debt, less cash in treasury, July 1st, 1879. is
81 1896, 4l4, 905.03; the debt per capita being
$4O.4 -, and the interest per capita being sligo.
-EIch0ngc.
-Anderson's circus exhibited at Usage or
| Saturday, and Burr Robbins on the Wednes
day NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. The Ne,cs had l:
columns of ads. announcing the coming Of
the mammoth consolidated aggregation" anG
''great allied shows
When the Southern Minnesota reaches q
point eight miles west of the sioux City cross
| ing it will then run through passenger
! train from La Crosse. and freights from TINS
point. Flandreau will be easily reached thls
| fall as the grading is all completed, when the
total length Of road will be over 800 miles,
1Vinnebago City Sun.
Prof. C. w. Clinton, for several year,
Principal of the Owatonna public schools, ha
|
palship of the Shattuck school, Faribault. J
c. Bryant, of St. Paul, son of Chas. Bryant
Secretary of the High School Board, has beel
elected to fill the vacancy.
for $50 worth Of Russian grass winter wheat
| which he intends to have sOwn ON his farm II
bushel for this variety, besides freight
1t is claimed for this kind of wheat that it cal
! be sown either as spring or winter wheat, ant
| that it will not winter kill.-MantOrviue En-
press.
TO safely extinguish lamps, with chin
neys, an exchange says: '.Turn the flame VI
to full power, then blow sharp puff horl
zontally across the top of the funnel, whel
the light will not only be extinguished, bu
| there will be no after smoke, the formerly Jig
nited wick will be extinguished by its own cal
bonic gas"
| One Hector S. Wisner, and Mrs. Dor
| spring for Dakota, he lecturing on temper
ance. About the 4th of July the woman died
and it is now thought that Wisner poisone
her, as she was in apparent good health onl
an hour or so before her demise, and Wisne
| is believed to be a knave.
! The Caledonia Narrow-Gauge Railroad lin
is under contract to Preston. and it is though
the road will be completed this fall. The frs
installment of rolling stock for the Caledonia
road, called in official terms, the I" Caledonia
Mississippi and Western Railroad" arrive.
last week, consisting of five freight and flv'
fiat cars and now locomotive.
Miller, Of the Worthington Advance, il
going to see the show. He says he 'shall Dor
row child or two and take them to see tn
| wild beasts and then if they insist on staying
| for the circus we shall stay with them and seI
| them through, shutting our eyes, or say on,
eye, at the more sinful parts of the perform
ance. Circuses are naughty but they re nice.
-Tramps would be more numerous thar
ever were it not for the self-sacrificing womer
of the land who marry and support so many
men.-Spring Valley Vidette.
We sometimes think that woman who will
deliberately marry penniless loafer, SHOULD
be made to take care of him. She certainly
had good reason to know that he would never
support her. A lazy man is Gods worst gift
to woman, truly.
"A bold outrage was perpetrated in Foun
tain, a station on the Southern Minnesota
, Railway. yesterday, by seven desperadoes
who, at latest accounts had not been arrested
dAu arc uAAAO"As IL dPpCdIo CudV III UEOdC
daylight they stopped farmer in the street
and pointed revolver at him forced him tt
submit to a thorough searching. After tax
ing what the farmer had, SIS or $16, they per
mitted him to go on his way. The robbery il
said to have been witnessed by a number OF
citizens, but did not interfere through fear
The men remained in town for several hours
when they took a freight train for the west.-
TG(!rnsse Republican a,s1 Leader, AuQ. 28th.
Several copies Of the Austin Republican
HOtchkiss' greenback paper, comes to this
post office for men who never subscribed fol
1t. The victims who receive it think they are
getting 1t free, but we are afraid they will be
surprised at receiving bill from Hotchkiss
in which he charges two dollars a year for the
paper. We advise our greenback friends tC
look little Out.-HdylCQrd Correspondence IN
Albert Lea Standard.
All! yes; maybe Page is sending the paper
into Freedom county as a campaign docu
ment; but you may depend upon it, Hotel
will collect his regular subscription fee just
the same from every person who accepts the
paper.
&C. c. Wilson, of Rochester, will SOW about
100 acres to winter wheat this fall, and Mr.
Geisinger and MIR. Chadbourn, each, about u
acres. They have purchased two carloads OF
winter wheat for seed. One carload of the
Odessa variety was raised in the vicinity OF