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

Two h1ghWaymen attacked NOrWeRian
boy 1S or 10 years old, on the public road near
Rochester last week, and demanded his money
or his life. The boy handed over 70 cents, and
swore that was all the cash he had about him.
Inc roughs let him go. But, as the Judge Of
the 10th district would say, that boy told a
''deliberate' lie. He had ST in another pocket.
Now, under these circumstances, was it right
for that boy to lie?
According to the St. Paul Globe, U. S. Mar
shal McLaren is authority for the statement
that many gangs of fcounterfeiters are at work
In this State and Iowa manufacturing bogus
half dollars. The work is quite skillful, the
counterfeits having the true metallic ring,
and are well washed with silver; but after q
little use the electroplating wears OF and
they can be easily detected. Keep a sharp
lookout for them.
Mrs. James Hawkins, of Parker's Prairie,
Ottertail county, recently gave birth to trip
lets-two boys and girl. Weight, five, five
and a quarter, and five and a half pounds
respectively, and mother and all doing well.
The Dollar Weekly says another boy was born
in the neighborhood the same night, and the
father thinks it must belong to him, and by
some unaccountable means got away, as he
expected four.
Lime Springs correspondence of Dubuque
Herald, says: Scrap Iron BM,' known
throughout northern Iowa, otherwise William
Eibel, Of Monona, lectured here Thursday
evening on temperance. Fully 600 listeners
greeted Mr.. Eibel, and his effort is highly ap-
proved. Scrap Iron Bill is fast becoming
the peer of John ". Drew and Mrs. Ellen Fos-
ter. He is lighting up the camp fires of pro-
hibition all over this section Of Iowa."
An old farmer says: by soaking seed
corn for seven hours in strong decoction Of
chloride Of lime, corn can be forced ahead to
maturity two or three weeks sooner than it
will mature otherwise; besides it renders the
seed almost proof against gophers. The
lime warns up the germ of the seed, and sends
it up quickly, giving it two or three weeks the
start of corn planted in the ordinary way
thereby insuring against the frost at the close
of the season.
vertising for Badeau, Pierce & Co., Chicago,
will get their pay for the same, but we must
confess to a decided skepticism on the subject.
A responsible firm in Chicago wrote us that
B., P. & Co. were not known in the locality
named in their advertisement, and recon-
mended cation in dealing with them. That
was enough for US, and since We respectfully
requested an advance payment, have heard
nothing from them.
Mower county is not the only place where
people quarrel. Freeborn county is engaged
in that delightful pastime just now. If you
don't believe it, witness this, In last weeks
Ente'pTtse, in reference to one Of the leading
political lights Of that county:
0fall corrupt, scheming, jobbing,
hypocritical frauds that ever came under our
man he is IN atheistic, skeptical fraud. From
q bowling copperhead in Wisconsin, he
suddenly, after crossing the county line, bios
and like all ap0states, has ever since shown
his zeal by outd0ing the most radical in the
ferocity Of his radicalism.
Tho ". & St. P. r. r. Co. are to build a
branch this season from Tracy, to Aedary,
Brookings county, Dakota, situated on the
Sioux river, about IS miles south Of Lake
Kampeska, and the same distance west Of
Marshall. The Winona Republican says Me-
dary was named in compliment to Samuel
Medary, who was Governor Of the Territory Of
Minnesota at the time, before the division by
which Dakota was created into Territory,
and It is consequently one of the oldest towns
in that region, though it has until quite re.
Gently made but little progress either in pop
ulation or business.
The Ptoneer-fsess says that the bill intro
duced by Major Strait passed both houses,
and was signed by the President. The law
throws open to settlers under the homestead
laws, to the extent Of 160 acres, the even SEC
tions within tho limits Of railroad lands, or
lands given to any State in aid Of railroads;
and any one who has heretofore taken q home.
stead Of eighty acres ON an even section,
under existing laws, is allowed to take IN
additional eighty acres adjoining his original
entry; or, surrendering his original entry he
can take 100 acres, tho same as If the first
entry had not been made. In case Of new
entry the time spent on the original shall be
deducted but no patent will issue unless he
resides on the new entry one year.