Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-24
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

Gen. Sigel in Rochester May 9Th.
You cannot locate tree-claims by power
Of attorney.
The 81 Weekly is sporting extra plumaee
again.
GAINESVILLE, Waseca county, claims a pop
ulation of 100.
Prof. Joseph Cook Is to lecture in La.
Crosse May sth.
Liquor licenses arc high this year. Fari-
bault has fixed the amount at $3.50.
They are talking up a steamboat ut Lanes.
boro, to run on the mill-pond.
! The Winona Herald calls him "Old Hatch.'
We wouldn't stand that, Major.
Seven hundred U. S. troops arrived at
Bismarck last week, by rail, from Atlanta, Ga.
| Judge Lord, since the death of hts wife,
has settled down in his old home at Mantor-
viiie.
Sioux Falls, Springfield, Fargo, Yankton, Bis
| marck and Deadwood.
Bishop Whipplc, WHO has been spending
| the winter at the South, returned to his home
in Faribault last week.
Some II imbecile children will be removed
from the insane hospital to the Faribault in
stitution for the deaf and dumb,
-Sherburne. the new town west of Fair
mont, on the s. N. r. r., held its first 'city"
election April 10th, and cast II votes!
There are lots of sod-corn editors mad at
Russell, of the Lake City Leader. He proposes
only eleven of them for Governor.
-Greenbackism is not dead in Rochester.
At least one Prof." Wiley lectured on the
subject there to a small crowd recently.
Farmers should let their shot guns sleep
with one eye open. Horse thieves are Oper-
ating in Southern MinnesOta.-PTestOn Rel)lb-
lican.
The city council of Owatonna have fixed
the liquor license fee at $3.50 500 better than
Austin-with stringent provisions, and $1,000
bond.
The Dakota insane patients-seventeen
in number-were removed from the Minneso-
ia hospital last week to the new hospital at
Yankton.
Tho American Middlings Purifier Co. have
appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court from the
recent decision of the U. s. Circuit Court at
St. Louis.
The friends Of John @. Farmer are talking
of him for the Judgeship.- Republican.
Talk right on, friends. John Q. will suit
Mower County to at.
"A ''Turkish bath" exploded in Lake City |
and DIR. Giel was badly scalded. |
This is on the authority of Gov. Russell, of |
the Lake City Leader.
"A bad year for newspapers. The Norris |
town Messenger is dead. The establishment is |
being carried to Dakota, where it will be res |
and new name given.
Senator Powers has, what he styles an |
"Open Letter" in last weeks Dollar Weekly. |
1t doesn't seem very open. 1t makes two |
columns, and not single paragraph!
Lacrosse also has the telephone mania. |
Well, telephones are good thing to have in !
he house. But they smell to strongly OF
money for country editors. Cargili and Van
ire among those who have made contracts in
Lacrosse.
The journal and Review. of Owat0nna,
,ave consolidated. Mr.. A. H. Lewis, formerly
If the Rcuiew, will superintend the jobbing
department. of the Journal, and assist on the
ocal department.. Drebert Lewis will get !
,p good paper.
DIR. Everts, of Rushford, occasionally de-
ivers temperance lecture, and condemns
he use of alcoholic liquors as a beverage,
'hile d.. Riley. of Houston. advocates whis-
,y-drinking freely, and dees not fail to prac-
ice as he breaches.
The st. Cloud Journal asks a question that
las puzzled great many people. 1t is this:
why Minnesota hOur costs the consumer
more per barrel in Minnesota than it does in |
Plain as day. Our millers charge US more
or flour than they do those fellows at the hub.
The Enterprise places the expense Of the
April session of the District Court for Free
'orn county at $1,500-and charges it all up to
ohm A. Lovely. who secured the passage Of
be bill through the Legislature for the addi-
ional term Of court each year.
-Faribault wants another railroad-thcl
'annon Valley-from Red Wing, via Faribault,
o Mankato, a distance of eighty-ave miles.
lay 18th, the city will vote on q proposition
o issue $4,000 Of it's bonds to aid in the con-
truction of the road. You bet, they will be
oted.
John A. Lovely, the Albert Lea lawyer
rho added to his already well established rep
ltation by his able defense of Judge Page in
he impeachment trial, is" &C., &c.-LaCrosse
Well, well. You've got ahead of us this
ime. This is news to everybody in this
country.
Nearly all Of our exchanges in this Sec
ion, report the discovery of small deposits
# coal in their respective localities. In
learly every case it has been found while
igging wells. From the fact that such oc-
urrences are frequent here, the bold lines
announcing the unquestionable existence Of
Oal beds, are somewhat amusing to us.-I
V0rtingtOn Journal
One of the new immigration letter envel-
pes was returned the other day to the pub
|shers. the st. Paul Book and Stationery Co..
Nth the following inscription upon It: ANY
nan that will use these envelopes as l0nR as |
hose old railroad bonds remain unpaid, will
n my opinion eat liver or do worse! When 40
ich State pays its obligations, then it will
le time to talk about our tall trees and beau
iful fOuyS."-ErchdnQe.
The buggy men are swarming Minnesota
With Cincinnati buggies, and it is no trick at
III to be the owner of bran spanking-new
op buggy. From $50 to SIS will buy the best
f them. The agent Of Emerson, Fisher 4 Co.,
-and, by the way, this company make the
'est grade B. Cincinnati buggy we have seen
at st. Cloud last week and sold 20 at
'rices ranging from &e8 to $69.
Look and see how interest counts. Some
ne has figured out what one dollar would
Ome to at the end Of 100 years. loaned at a |