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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-28

The Ohio State Journal has re
ceived letter from one of the "boys
of seventeen years ago" who, it just
ly says, lis a sample of many thous
ands who will vote for the first time
this fall" The boy writes from
Lithopolis. Ohio, saying:
The question has been asked, "Why
don't you vote the Democratic ticket
for change! l will give the reasons
why l do not, and will not vote the
Democratic ticket. My reasons are
l. Democrats starved my father
to death in rebel prison.
2. Democrats tried to sever this
Union.
3. Democrats sought to extend
slavery all over this country.
1. Southern Democrats constitute
the tree and Northern Democrats are
but the CRAFTS, and by the fruit shall
ye know the tree. i.
5. But, says one, 1--WE are no reb
els" Maybe we are not; but "birds
of u feather flock together" You all
vote one ticket, and you are in hearty
sympathy with the old rebels.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-28
Snow Shooting In Norway.


OF all the bodily exercises I know
Of. there is none in my opinion tina
can come up to snOw.shoeing, as it Il
done In Norway. Skating Is nothing
compared with this sport. What
can equal the splendid sensation o.
flying across the deep snow at the
rate of many miles an hour, without
hardly moving muscle? And then
going down hill, staff in hand, no ex.
ertion necessary, other than to keel
the balance, while gliding softly but
swiftly onward. Unlike the Cana
dian snOw.shoes, these Shi (pronoun'
ced shoe) of the Norwegians are
often fully twelve feet long, curving
upward at the prov, and are broader
than three or four inches. Through.
ont their whole length they are pro.
vided with groove for the purpose
Of keeping them from slipping when
going at an angle down hill. AL
though by no means slow when used
across level ground, it il yet down.
hill that they are most effective, for
their great length and their polished
undersurface, on the frozen snow
causes speed more like flying than
any motion ! know of. The inliabi-
tants of Telemarken, in the south of
Norway, are the most efficient ski
runners : and at the annual cOmpeti.
tiOns at Christiana, generally bear of
the prizes. At the competition there
in 1875, one Of these men leaped,
according to a local newspaper, a
distance of thirty Norwegian alen,
or fully 90 feet.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-28
Credit When IL is Due.

There has been complaint made
that the Republican press never give
the Democrats credit for anything.
The New York Commercial Adrsr-
iser generously gives them credit for
the following:
They predicted that the secession
would be peaceable.
They predicted that the States
would not respond to President Lin.
coins call for militia.
They predicted that the militia
would refuse to cross the Potomac
and invade Virginia.
They predicted that money could
not be raised to support the army.
And the people filled the treasury.
They predicted that the people
would not take the greenback.
They predicted that the greenback
dollars would be as worthless as rags.
They predicted that the grass would
grow in the streets of New York.
They predicted that England and
France would form an alliance with
the South to secure cotton.
They predicted that "pOverty
stricken people in the North would
compel the government to terminate
the war;"
They predicted that Grant could
not capture Richmond.
They predicted that the war for
the Union would be a failure.
They predicted that the confeder-
ates would never be overthrown.
They predicted that the people
would never consent to emancipation.
They predicted that the people
would never ratify the amendments
to the constitution.
They predicted that the free
negroes would become race of pau.
pers.
They predicted that the people
would never permit black men at the
ballot.box.
They predicted that the war would
terminate in vast standing army
and a military dictator.
They predicted that the child was
unborn who would live to see gold or
silver restored to the currency of the
country.
They predicted that the interest on
the vast public debt could never be
paid.
They predicted that specie pay.
ments would not be resumed on the
first of January, 1879.
They predicted that the resumption
of specie payments would bring uni.
versal disaster and ruin upon the
business and industries Of the coun.
try
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-28

rufllan dragged forth from the great
wheel. The other rufiian was brought
down from his prison. Both were
then bound aad sent to the Bonn,
under q strong escort, and in due
course came under the hands OF the
town eXecutlOneer.
1t was not long till Hannchen be.
came bride. The bridegroom was
the miller's son, who had loved:.her
long and we'll. They lived thence.
forward happily together for many
years. To the latest hour Of her life
this brave.hearted woman would
shudder as she told the tale Of her
danger and her deliverance.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-28
A writer in the Scientific American

A writer in the Scientific American
estimates that $500, 900 baskets are
used in the south for harvesting q
crop of cotton. These are made Of
oak splits and generally last but one
year. They cost the planters about
s.. 100000. He asks If it Is not pos.
sible that a basket may be made OF
iron, either wire or ribbons, which
would last several seasons? The rib.
bons or splits might be made Of some
cheap quality Of steel SO as to be
elastic, and If they could be made to
weigh not more than fifteen to twenty
pounds each, and not to cost more
than So to $3.50, they might prove
great success.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-28

It would take an ordinary well
pump forty consecutive years, with
out an hours rest, to pump the guam
tity of beer sold in this country last
year. How thankful we ought to be
that this nation dosen't have Il
depend on one pump.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-28

In his speech at indianapolis Mr..
Conklin made Il very effective reply
to Joe Pulitzer's remarkable theory
that the democrats should be placed
in power because under republican
rule the country was accommodating
wealth and that u republic could not
survive material prosperity. The
following synopsis scarcely does jus.
tice to the Senator's matchless sar.
casm:
"As they said in the Pickwick pa.
pers, Here is richness for YOU when
you consider it rs democratic speech.
Think Of that. All the manufacto.
ries and industries of the country, all
the rolling mills, all the furniture
factories, all the wagon factories Of
indianapolis, all those crucibles of
industry out of which as by magic,
wealth is unfOlded in this country
every year, lifted beyond the dreams
Of avarice-'all,' says this speaker,
to all of them republican rule means
prosperity Sure enough.
Now comes the moral:
lie left name at which the world grew pale,
To point al moral and adorn tale,
And here it is: and ! might say /:
What a long tail our cat has got.
But, says this philosopher, this sen.
tinel on the watch tower of liberty,
sleeping with one eye open and one
foot out Of bed to watch the liberties
of our unguarded people, but says
he, 'the masses of the people must
to remember that history does not
show single republic that didn't
perish after its people became too
rich.' That is what is the matter all
over Indiana. No republic says
this philosopher, historian and guide
mo republic ever lived after it be-
came too rich. [Applause.l No re-
public ever persisted while it was
poor. History has no exception tc
this rule, that as long as republics
are poor they are pure This is tho
democratic evangel of this year, al
preached by one of the distinguished
prophets of the democratic church
Prosperity is the disease, poverty il
the cure, and the physician is tn
democratic party. [Applause.l Whel
Shakespeare's mighty murderer
Macbeth, stood at the turning poin
in his fortunes, he called a physician
and imploringly he said
Canst thou not minister to a mind disease
and pluck rooted sorrow from tho memory
1t Is ministration to a mind disease
. lit Is medicine for the wild delusioT
of those who have eaten of the insan
root of modern demOcracy-it Is cul
for that disorder and that delusio
8 that q medicine Is needed. Thin
what q statement and what q conf
-. sion Is contained in that CAREFUL
elaborated, studiously and coldly pr
pared address, written by one Of Il
most acute men and one of the mo
u metaphysical men to be found in Il
|. democratic party in Missouri. TIL
!. great State Is productive Of metaph
:. sicians. ! have known statesm'
" from Missouri that would spend Il
70 forenoon in splitting hair in tw
% and the afternoon in guessing whit
.e Is the biggist piece. They car
from Germany, too. Applause.l
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-28

Ben Buffers declaration that his
chief reason for joining the demo.
cratic party is the protection Of the
negro, is a forcible reminder Of the
advance which the party has made In
It's method of electioneering.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-28

John c. New says: "The Demo.
Gratis spent In Indiana over $3.50, 900
yet threw away q good deal of their
money, putting at least $4,000 into
PROFESSIONS and brass bands"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-28
The Bible.

Within this awful volume lies
The mystery Of mysteries
Hnppiest they Of human race
10 whom their God has given grace
TO read, TO fear, to hope, to pray,
To lift the latch-to force tho way:
But better had they no'er boon born
Who read to doubt, or read to scOrn.
Scott.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-28

L. Quackenbush has squash raised
by BENZ. Cottingham. in Cordovs.
that weighs l76 pounds. It II mon.
ster for Minnesota even.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-23

g:e; while on the topmost branches of
of the tree hung four dollies beautifully
dressed by the nimble fingers Of cousin
Lou; there were skates for Berthe, JIM
my, Frank and George, besides presents
for every member of the family, until
1t really seemed as if the tree could not
hold another thing.
But at last, amid exclamations of de-
light from the children, the crownins
glory of the Christmas tee vas discov.
ered-graadma's crullers-which were
cut into all sorts of fancitul shapes. One
was very ugly looking school-ma' am,
with terrible big nose, which they ali
declared should be given to Cousin Lou,
thore were dogs, cats, and little boys and
girls, and when grandma brought to light
the ugiiest sheep that ever was seen, with
ears and tail so long that it looked al
most as much like a mule as q sheep. the
laugh that arose almost took the roof Oh,
anc Ella said the sheep must be given to
Bertha.
But grandma was not through vet, and
with comical twinkle in her bright,
black eyes, she took down a wire, on one
end of which was strung flock Of geese,
with their necks stretched out and their
wings widespread, while on the other
end of the wire was little girl, who
looked as though she was running for
dear lite; this was more than the BOYS
could stand, and so they just gave three
rousiDg cheers tor grandma and her
Christmas tree.-Young Folks Rural.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-23
Genuine ElOnuence.

Leitch Ritchie, in his "Travels in
Ireland, relates the following incident ::
"One man, whom saw sitting on the
ground, leaning his back against the
wall, attracted my attention by degree
of squalor in his appearance, which
had rarely before observed even in Ire
land. His clothes were ragged to indie
cency-a very common occurrence, how
ever, with the males-and his face was
pale and sickly. He did not address me,
and I passed by; but, having gone a
few PAGES, my heart smote me, and
turned back. If you are i'll want, said
I, with some degree of peevishness, why
do you not beg?'
Sure, it is begging I am,' was the
reply;
You did not utter word.'
"No! is it joking you are with me,
sir? Look there ! holding up the tat
tered remnant of what had once been q
coat; do you see how the skin is speak
ing through the holes of my trousers,
and the bones crying out through my
skin? Look at my sunken cheeks, and
the famine that's staring in my eyes {!
Man alive isn't it begging am with q
hundred tongues p"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-23

Aunt Eunice led her down the stairs
and to the door Of the old sitting room.
SEQ aad bid HIM welcome, DEAR she
said, unc'osing the door, aud pushing
her gently within.
One startled glance one little gaspin2
cry, and Rosie was in Ben arms.
"Can you forgive me, Rosie2" he said,
kissing her pouting lips. II was obliged
to deceive you, little one, or you never
would have cared for me. You do care
for Ae little, Rosie; but owe it all to
the hemp seed.'
"No, you don't, Ben.' she answered
with shy, fond glance; I'm sure l
should have liked you all the same if l
had never strewn hemp.'
"Then you'll take the ring now for a
Cristmas gift, Rosie?''
She held up her dimpled finger. As
he put it on, the bells Changed out again
in honor of the Christmas morn.
"Peace on earth and good will toward
men," said Aunt Eunice, softly, as she
threw open the suffers to let the sunshine
in.
''Ah! my children, let us be grateful
for this blessed Christmas
And Rosie, resting her bright head ON
Ben's arm, burst into flood OF happy
tears.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-23
Tit Mt rest ing to man people and ma
be profitable to know the comnaraf1ue

Tit Mt rest ny to man people and ma
be profitable to know the comparative
value Of different kinds of wood for fuel.
Shellbark hickory is regarded as the
highest standard Of our forest trees, and
calling that 100, other trees will compare
with it for real value as fuel for house
purposes as follows: Shellbark hickory,
100; pignut hickory, 92; white oak, 81
white ash, u; dogwood, -; scrub oak,
73; white hazel, 72; appletree, 20; red
oak, G7; white beach, G5; black birch,
62; yellow oak, GO; hard maple, 50;
white elm, 50; req cedar, Sc; wild cherry,
55; yellow pine, 81; chestnut, 50; yellow
poplar, Sd; butternut and white birch,
43; white pine, 30. It is worth bearing
IN mind that in wood of the same species
there is great difference, according to
the soil in which they grow. A tree that
grows on wet, low, rich ground will be
less solid and less durable for fuel, and
therefore of less value than tree of the
same kind that grows on dry and poor
soil. To the ordinary purchaser oak is
oak and pine is pine; but for house use
the tree grown on dry upland, and
standing apart from all Others, is. worth
a great deal more.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-23
FOREIGN.

Russia and China have agreed to sub
NIT their differences to arbitration.
Parneli, Davitt and Dill IN, the Irish
agitators have received letters threatening
their lives.
The widow of the late Pascal Smith
will leave Liverpool, Eag., Jan s, for her home
in st. Paul, Mimi
Typhoid fever is alarming the people
Of Montreal, there being more than one hun
dred cases In the city.
A dispatch from Dublin, Ireland, of
Dec. II. says the officer commanding at Bira,
Kings county has been ordered to patrol his
district nightly with forty soldiers. The DO
lice patrol also has been doubled.
The London Times of Dec. 20, in an
editorial says: Law abiding citizens have to
submit to terrorism which not only deiles
butsupplants the law, and after looking long
an" earnestly for help from the government,
they have begun to resign all hope and NO
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-23
CRIME AND CRIMINAL RECORD.

~s~sWs. SNsO~ "S~OnOa
A young lady named Ellen Knapp.
hung herself D:c Il. at Bird Island, Mexico.
Early on the morning OF Dec. 1G,
Charles A. Burt killed Sarah Grover and him.
self in the presence Of his wife.
William G.. Bradley. postmaster at
Princeton, Caldwell county, KY, has been
arrested for robbing the postoftice. He con.
fesses
George Garrigon, Of Chicago, Dec. ~
shot himself with suicidal intent because q
young lady refused to marry him. He will
recover.
A prisoner in the Franklin county Jail,
at Columbus, Ohio, convicted OF arson, and
about to be sentenced, committed suicide in
his cell Dec. II. by cutting his throat.
Winslow Murray was convicted at St..
Cloud, Dec. Is, Of an assault on Antoine Frisco
May last, with an intent to rob and kill, and
| sentenced to five years in the penitentiary at
Saltwater.
Advices from the Indian Territory saw
| two full blooded 1ncians went to the house of
McEeigh, Dec. H. and after attempting his
| hospitality killed him, and inflicted mortal
wounds on his hired man.
The morning Of the nth, Thomas Dill
| ley, an old and wealthy farmer residing about
| l3 miles from Davenport, Iowa, was found
dead In his bed, his skull crushed in and his
face and body horribly disfgured. Beside him
was his wife unconscious and probably fatally
injured by blows about the head. Quite sum
! Of money in the house Yves not touched. The
animus for the crime is believed to be an old
grudge gro wing out of q lawsuit. Two young
men named Clement and Albert Gallon are
suspected.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-23
WEEKLY CASUALTY RECORD.

There was very heavy snow storm
in Petersburg, Va, Dec. 20.
Gabrill Chaplin, insane, was frozen to
death last week, at Sou!h6ed, Mich.
Last week there were $50 cases Of
diphtheria In Brooklin,N Y, of which 60 we're
fatal.
The printing Office of Bunkter & Skin.
ner, Of st. Louis, was destroyed by fire on the
night OF Dec. l6. Loss $4,000.
In West Fifty. fifth street in New York
city, Dec. ~, boiler in kidding wood
factory exploded. fatally ipjuring the proprie-
tor.
The barn of MIR. Ewoll, on Prices Hill,
in the western part OF Cincinnati, O, was
burned on the morning Of Dec. II, and Mrs.
Ewoll was burned to death.
In Chicago, Dec. 90, at the Harris
street crossing Of tho Pitlsburg & Fort Wayne
railroad, switch engine and freight train
co]lided, fatally injuring two employees, and
seriously wounding several others.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-23
TflEcRAPRIC BREVlTlES,
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL


Secretary Sherman is reportt Il to be on
the sick list.
The Senate has confirmed John 3
Neil Governor Of Idaho Territory.
A dinner is to be given ut the White
House in honor Of Gen. and Mrs. Grant.
Major G. f. Glen. Z. 8. A., has mar
r'ed Miss Emma 3. Foster, Of Cincinnati.
Justice Strong, Of the United States
Supreme Court has sent in his resignation
Dec. II.
Louisville is agitated by an attempt
to appoint negroes in her police and fire de-
partments.
The Senate has conferred General Ho
gan to be chief signal officer, and Miles to be
Brigadier General.
Brig. Gen. r. B. Marcy, Inspector
General, has been ordered to Fort WinRate by
the Secretary Of War.
Certificates Of the electoral votes have
been received in Washington by mail from
every State in the Union.
Gen. o. 0. Howard has gone to Cali.
fernia, to settle up his business preparstory to
taking command at West Point.
Miss Maggie Emery, of Eckton, n. Y,
has tequeathed $500 600 TO Vanderbilt Uni.
versity at Nashville, Tennessee.
1t IS announced from Washington that
Gen. u. 0. Howard is to relieve Gen. Sehofield
in the command Of West Point.
Secretary Schurz will leave Washing
ton early in April with his family to settle
oEa ~ .
home.
The President has appointed Judge n.
Z. Wood of Georgia. to be associate Justice OF
the U. 8. Supreme court in place OF Justice
Strong resigned.
The condition Of Justices Hunt and
Clifford OF the U. S, Supreme court, remains
about the same, both perm anently iucapaci-
tated for duty.
Gov. Foster OF Ohio, has withdrawn
his name from the senatorial contest This,
is supposed, leaves the track clear for Sec.
retary John Sherman.
President Hayes left Washington Dec.
20, for New York, to attend the New England
dinner He was accompanied by Secretary
E'Arts, Gen. Sherman, and others.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, wife of ex-
Gov. VIM. Sprague, of Rhode Island. has CON-
menced proceedings for divorce, alleging
adultery, failure to provide for her support,
ETC.
The Senate military committee has
agreed to report favorably on certain army
nominations, among them Gen. Hazen for
chief signal officer, and Gen. Miles for brig
adier-8eneral.
The President has appointed T. F.
singliser, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of Idaho
Territory; and + P. Champlin, of Michigan
receiver of public money at Deadwood>
Dakota Territory.
A general order, issued from heatlquar-
ters OF the army, Washington. D. c., of date
Dec. 1S, assigned Gen. O. O. Howard to the
command of West Point, vice Gen. John VI.
schofield, assigned to the military division Of
the Gulf, with headquarters at New Orleans :;
Gen. :. 8. Angur, to the department of Texas ;
Col. Henry j. Hunt to the temporary COM
mand Of the department of the South, and of
Brig Gen. N. A. Miles, to the departm ent of
Columbia.
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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS,

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
The public debt was reduced during
November $3O36 .O9a.Gl.
A portion of Broadway, N. y, wa.
lighted by electric lights on the night o
Dec. 20.
Jones 4 Mcdonald, of Chicago, tailei
Dec. 20. Liabilities about 5000, ,OOO-asset.
secured about &45OOO0.
The signal officer at Fargo has received
orders from Washington to remove his Office
from that place to Moorhesd, MINI.
Four hundred miles of railway, al
branches and feeders (about 20 iu number
have been built in Missouri the past year.
1t is reported a. army headquarters il
st. Paul, that Sitting Bull and his gang AZ
rived ut Milk river, Dec. 20, on the way Il
Fort Buford to surrender.
/. The total value Of exports of domestic
breadstuffs for the eleven month.
ending Nov. 30, 1850. was s:36, zee $50; sam.
period in l779! e230, ,7sl ,604
The earnings of the St. Paul, Mime
apolis e. Manitoba railroad for the week end
ing December ID, were t194ol57; cores
ponding week in 1879; $sG 67O.78; increase
$42,s7O7 rs.
At Baltimore, Nd, Dec. 1G, in the
court Of common pleas the jury gave vel
dict Of $4,000 in favor of A. B. Bottreen, oI
Baltimore, against A. G. Attrill, for breach o
contract.
The European, American & Canadian
cable company is preparing to apply to the
Dominion government for an act of incorpora
ton. 1t promises an independent and com.
deting cable line.
The coffee importing house of Bowie,
Dash Il Co., New York, failed Friday, in con.
sequence OF complications with the deceased
kimball, Of Boston. The liabilities and asee S
are estimated each at $14 600 600, with no other
firms dangerously involved.
The appraisement and inventory of the
estate Of Horace Thompson. late president Of
the First National Bank, of st. Paul, MINI.
foots up million and half OF dollars as fol.
lows: The aggregate valuation OF the real
estate owned by deceased in Ramsey county
is estimated at $l6S,(7G
The total valuation Of the personal property
is put up at 81 ,O67, 1896
The total OF real and personal property in
Ramsey county foots up the handsome sum
Of 81, ,2l5 695 &C.
In addition to the above, there is real estate
in seventeen counties in this State not heard
from, viz: Carver, Blue Earth, Cottonwood
Dakota, Jackson, Kandiyohi, lie Sueur, Mar.
tin, Murray, Mobiles, Otter Tail, Rice, Rock
Stearns, Watonwan and Wilkin counties
There is also property belonging to the estate
in Sioux county, Iowa, the whole sggregating
over $1,000 acres of land, worth abou,
$sOO,oO0. making the real estate aggregate to
nearly S45o,O0O, and the whole estate 81 800.
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