Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-03-25
NEWS AND NOTIONS.

Mower county, Minnesota.
NEWS AND NOTIONS.
West Mitchell Uowa) voted license.
Gen. Franz Sigel at Faribault March 18th. |
Miss Anna Dickinson is giving dramatic
readings.
-Winona wouldn't object to street rail-
road or two.
q. Johnsrud, the postmaster at Albert
Lea, has resigned.
-Waseca county has an "Anti-Ho Thief
Detective Society,""
Usage, Cresco and Lime Springs voted
mo License" this spring.
jackson village manages to live and thrive
without being Incorporated.
st. Cloud petitions congress for $780, 600 to
improve the river at that place.
--Barnum's only aud greatest show on earth
will visit Lacrosse Saturday, July 3d.
Mrs. scott-siddons will ''entertain'' tho
people of La Crosse some time in April.
Rochester wants the State fair this year
and she stands good chance to get it.
Spring Valley is temperance town. Tho
people voted mo license this spring as usual.
Mile Rosa DErina gave a musical enter
tainment at DEBORAH last Saturday evening.
Rev. T. X. Allen, a Second-Adventist of
Winona, has applied for admission to orders
in the Episcopal church.
Hon. J. c. Easton has $500 head Of cattle
on his Chatfeld farm, and counts the cost of
wintering at 81 per head.
The cost of the Fort Smelling bridge, in
GLIDING tho roads leading thereto on either
side, will be about Sl25,000
The elegant new hotel at LaCrosse-the
Cameron-was formally opened for business
on Monday. Mr.. w. D. Fox is the landlord.
-''The celebrated Centennial illuminating
OIL has been proved to be an explosive oil by
the Oil Inspector of Olmsted county.
-An Indiana man has sued for a divorce
from his wife on the ground that she whistles
TSi st he !; ,bc; the Bible No husband
I'm Fairbury is a case of ''scleroderma''-
i tile boys flesh growing hard as wood, The
child does not suffer at all; and, in fact, the
disease does not produce pain.-EE.
1T is generally conceded, We believe, that
the winter wheat crop is a failure in tho coun-
same is true of this section.-Osage Ne,rs.
They employ teachers in Lime Springs on
tho basis Of the wages asked. In other words,
tho situations are let to the lowest bidder.
Novel.
Tho Albert Lea Enterprise has a dress of
new type. and a new Cottrell Babcock pow
or newspaper press. Holvorsen seems to be
nourishing.
Michigan University, at Ann Arbor, has
1927 students, the largest number of any
| American college. Columbia pays its pro-
fessors the largest salaries.
-Janesville Argus: ut required eighty.five
barrels Of lime to whitewash the big Wash
| burn mill at Minneapolis. Full as big q job as
| Hall has In whitewashing Donnelly.'
COL Reuben Allen steere and Rebecca Ann
Meyers. whose united height 10 only 5h feet,
were married in Rochester recently. They
| belong to tho Lilliputian Opera Co.
The winnebago City Times man says
Church & Co.'S Bi-Carb Soda Is pure article,
and as good as recommended. Church & Co.,
are Northumberland large advertisers.
! walker Blaine, the eldest son of Hon. Jas.
g. Blaine, a graduate of Yale and tho Column
bia Law School of New York, is now in St.
Paul in the law Office of Hon c. K. Davis.
| -''They" say that G.. Paul Smith, the modern
Proteus, changed herself into a boy in her
mind only, and that he 10 . girl beyond all
l-Rochestcr Record.
1T is claimed that a man never loses any
thing BY politeness, but this has proved to
be mistake. AS an old Philadelphian lifted
his hat to,a young lady the wind carried away
his ig.-Phtladelphto Chronicle.
-Downie Bros, Of Owatonna. have sold
for $1,000 cash. This horse was imported
from Canada last spring.-Ez.
Tho g. w. Chief Templar Of Minnesota
lives At Ls Roy, and his name is W. w. Regain.
The Faribault Democrat says Mr.. r. is . hne
speaker and never fails to interest an audi.
ence.
AT the recent municipal election in Lime
Springs, Iowa, the prohibitionists made clean
sweep, by vote of over 1 toll. Geo. c. Bur.
dick, editor of the Tribune, was elected City
Recorder.
| st. Charles had robbery the other even
ing "just for fun" The victim was thrown
down, gagged and bound, and the fools also
had s. worth of fun each at the police JUSTICE
Office next morning.
Tho Cincinnati Star says: "A man in the
West End kissed his wife the other day in q
At Of absence of mind, under the impression
she was the next-door neighbour.
Wen bet he don't do that thing again.
Mr.. Oliver Dalrymple, the great Minneso.
t. farmer, intends to cultivate 10000 acres OF
wheat this year. He will have twenty steam
threshers In operation with 135 reaping ma
chimes. Last year he employed GOO men, and
this year will increase the number to T00-E1
--Pemeroy's Lacrosse Democrat has ap.
pointed day Of tuneral-March 18th. Alex
Nevins then succeeds to the ownership, and
will start an evening paper. Poor Brick
has talents, but late years he has used them
to mighty poor account.
iouable young ladies in Washington, q few
nights ago, several Of the young gentlemen
wore vests cut low in tho neck, had lace rufiie.
around their threats, and carried fans and
for anything but pounding over the head with
| q club.-lndtondp0Hs Journal.
Three Faribault ladies invested $50 in ,
says the Democrat. ito tho overwhelming sur
prise of the ladies', a draft came to them fol
$500, eight months dividends ON their invest
mont, with an offer Of $500 for their shares ir
| the stock Of tho min0.''
There is probability that the bottom vii
be knocked out Of tho paper boom a. soon al
1 tho grass grows. It 10 claimed that paper made
from grass 10 softer and more Transparent
than that made from linen rass.-Pseston Re
publican.
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