Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
OUR HARVEST FIELD.
The Caledonia Courier is no more.

=, OUR HARVEST FIELD.
The Caledonia Courier is no more.
Heavy rains have destroyed the chincl
:. bugs in La Crosse county.
: Good butter or good beaf-stcak, only eigh
cents per pound at Chatf1eld.
Court in Fillmore county is in session thi
week. commencing on Tuesday.
What would the saltwater Gazette do TO
selections should Peck's Sun go out?
Prof. Phelps is again to be at the head O
f the Winona Normal School, probably.
, There is a great demand for Farmer fo
9 Judge-John Q. Farmer, of Spring Valley.
y Capt. Isaac Hamlin, Of Faribault, is 81, ,3s
better off by reason Of the arrears Of pension
law.
Mrs. Rooney, of Faribault county, diet
last week from the effects of eating pie-plan
5 greens.
, r.. A. Murray, the lawyer, late 4 resident
} of Rushford, has settled at Lake Hermon
Lake county, Dakota.
-"Dr. l.. B. Allen, of Portage City, Wis.,, -
who used to take in " Austin, is now ''doing
the river towns.
The c., NJ. & St. p. R. H. Co. will soon put
on fast train between St. Paul and Chicago
reducing the time to Is hours or less.
The heavy rains arc raising all the streams
and clearing the pincries of logs. A good
chance for lumber to drop in price soon.
The Methodists are trying to raise money
throughout the State to complete the new
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will do it.
The St. Paul & Pacific Railway Co. has
been reorganized under the name of St. Paul.
Minneapolis s. Manitoba Railway Co. A poor
swap of titles.
| The Owatonna RcrieW has been resurrect-
| ed. L. Bixby is ''editor," and S. C. Harris,
associate Editor" A column and a half
| salutatory is the result.
Caledonia has voted 100000 in bonds to the
Caledonia & Mississippi railway company to
aid in the construction Of the narrow guage
road from Caledonia to Sumner.
High priced intidelity: Bob Ingersoll de-
mands $3V0 night to ridicue the Bible,
which is more than some poor missionaries
get for an entire year.-Vlnona Herald.
Last week Mr.. James Kennedy, of Fill
more county, while sinking rock on his farm,
found nugget of gold, which Rochester
jewery said was worth Sits by weight.
1t is now asserted that the Chicago, Clin-
ton, Dubuque s. Minnesota Railway Co. will
not only build branch road to Caledonia, but
will continue it on to Preston this year.
The Pennington Press is sometimes guilty
Of purloining. Don't do it. Be sure and give
your brethren of the press credit for every
item you borrow, no matter how insignificant.
The board Of education at Winona at a
meeting Saturday night, reduced the salaries
in all grades except the high school II per
cent, shortened the course one year, and
threw out Greek.
Two men in Fillmore county last week got
into a fight about girl. one using a hatchet
and the other drawing knife as weapons. In
the tussle the man with the knife struck his
antagonist such blow as to sever his left !
hand completely at the wrist.
In a recent case Judge Mcdonald decided |
that the per diem of county commissioners ]
and other expenses incurred in viewing high |
ways must be audited and paid by the towns |
In which the roads are situated and not from |
the general county fund.-Erchangc.
Judge John Nj. Berry, one Of the pioneer
settlers of Faribault, Is about to change his |
place of residence to Minneapolis. ''Berrys
addition" to Austin was named after Judge
Berry, who, in territorial days, enjoyed the
honor of representing Mower county in the
Legislature, for one session.
The Jackson Republic says tho Southern |
Minnesota railroad bridge across the Des |
Moines river, two miles north of that place, |
will be the longest structure of the kind west |
MiQQicainni hl,,Rt
bluff, distance of 400 feet, or over quarter
of mile. 1t will be on an average 50 feet high,
though at the point Of crossing the river
channel it is 6S feet.
-Messrs. Brown, Perkins and Jones, three
Of Lake City's newspaper publishers have
rose-tinted editions, like the LeGder.-WinOnd |
Republican.
And now it is M. c. Russell, of the Leader, |
who has made an addition to his family, of a
wife. Last week he claimed to have the gout.
This scrape explains that. He was only love-
sick in his big toe.
Every county in this district has a candi- |
date for the Judgeship.-PrestonR Republican,
Name the candidate from Mower. We have
heard no name but Pages mentioned, and we
have the authority of the Republican, (edited |
by man who never told a lie,) as far back as
Feb. 9Th last, for stating, that Page has al |
ways, even from the beginning of his term,
declared that he would not be candidate for !
reelection"
"A correspondent of the Worthington |
Journal, writing from West Side, Mobiles coun- |
ty, has the following not very cheering infor- !
nation on the grasshopper question:
The hoppers have done considerable dam
age already to the wheat crop. They have
cleaned out Is acres for me, and great many
of my neighbors have lost 20 to 30 acres. The
crops destroyed are on lands which were not
plowed last fall. Wheat on fall blowing looks
we'll, but crops on spring plowing will not |
amount to anything.
The quotation of government loans on
the London market show that out of list
covering sixty-two different national loans,
there are only six nations whose bonds are at
par: England, France, Italy, United States,
Danubian Principalities, and Japan. England !
pays the lowest interest, three per cent. and |
Japan the highest, nine per cent. Seven !
South American governments quoted, are |
bankrupt. Paraguay the lowest is |
quoted at 4, Uruguay the highest at 23H-Er- |
change.
Here's little blast from Pat Child, Of the |