New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-01

0AssAACy HlAlllE, WHO IL eluplOycu dS
foreman by 81. S. Back on his big
wheat farm near Fargo, writes home
that wheat is yielding from 80 to IS
bushels per acre there. Mr.. Back had
900 acres in wheat this year, and next
year he will SOW 1000 acres Of wheat.
The irrepressable Henry is a practicing
lawyer at Fargo, and we may hear
from him in the halls Of Congress at
no distant day, and hope we may, as
he is a likelier man than some that are
already there. Mr.. King has secured
quarter section of land adjoining
Backs and intends making that his
future home, His wife and family
are soon going to remove to that
place.
Mr.. B. Mclaughlin, of Home, is
visiting friends in Olmsted Co. He
writes it pays man to go back and
look over the old counties and see the
improvements they have made in ten
years. He says they have as fine farm
buildings and stock as he ever saw in
any farming country. Also, that they
raise red clover very extensively; one
man expected to have 200 bushels of
seed worth SIS per bushel there, and
Says they raise as good clover rs he
ever saw growing in Ireland.
Fritz Kehne. of Lorenzo, is around
with his pockets full of money distrib-
uting it amongst the farmers. He is
not buying votes, however, but fat
cattle and hogs, for the Chicago mar.
ket. He is paying 2115 cts. for live
hogs, which is some improvement on
last years prices. He has been down
in Sigel town to-day and has bought
up several. Ehe butchers of New Ulm
can make a DOte Of this.
Amasiak Slocum has sold his house
at Iberia to Mr.. Abraham, the car
penter, and has rented rooms in New
Ulm for his family where his child.
rem will have the advantage of good
schools. He tried to rent rooms at
Lorenzo but they are so unreasonably
high, it's only wealthy people who can
afford to live there.
+ The last act of cussedness, pure, un-
mixed and unmittigated that has come
to my knowledge in this vicinity, is
that Of some person mixing a quantity
OF coal.tar in a barrel Of syrup be.
longing to the widow Gent. The tiend-
ish and malignant individual that takes
delight in doing such diabOlical deeds
deserves halter and may get one
some time. AS the politician said
about his opponant, ''that nothing but
the grace Of God could elevate him
from his present state of moral tur.
pitude and total depravity.' Some of
these miserable wretches will be
very likely to get shot for their mis-.
deeds if they are caught at some OF
their disreputable acts, for there is a
good many eyes watching for them.
InSchool Dist. No. 80 we voted a
tax of 5000 to commence building 8
new school.house next summer, Will
the intention Of issuing bonds for the
balance. Martin Penning is director
Mic. Hillesheim treasurer and Nj. Di
neen clerk. Maurice Fitzgerald il
hired to teach four months winter
school at 1913 per month. a young
man by the name of Wakefield from
lie Sueur Co. is hired to teach til,
Iberia school at 1874 per month.
Female suffrage is in vogue in Null
ligan. The ladies attended schoo
meeting and carried everything thei
know way. They elected Miss Hannal
Collins clerk.
The Crumlett boys threshed $50 bus
of wheat to-day, commencing after
O'Clock, being the most wheat W.
now of any machine threshing il
one day this season. Their machine j
the Case Eclipse. The wheat was head
ed. The Cook brothers used a heade
this season, we believe the first tina
was ever used in this Co. They Gu
40 acres a day without any trouble
The day is not far distant when II,
man will stoop so low rs to bind bund
lie of grain by hand.