The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-02


and therefore not entitled TO damages.
The courts have decided that chalk mark n
patentable, and have ordered the commissioner
Of patents TO issue O patent to the man who
wanted one for such q mark. The chalk il ap
piled TO piece Of pasteboard cut In n strip and
fastened together in circular form, with bevelcd
edges, 80 that il can be slipped over suga,
buckets, Jars Of sweetmeats, cake boxes and
the like 10 rcpel insects.
MosT OF the European powers and the United
States have accepted the invitation of the Span
lsh government 10 q conference in Madrid mex,
June, TO determine the rights Of protectorat,
exercised by foreign powers over the subjects Of
the sultan OF Morocco, which are very often in
deed far beyond the lights conferred by trea,
ties. Spanish opinion is very jealous Of foreign
predomlnanoe In Morocco, and views with esps.
cai disfaror the great influence enjoyed at Chr
court % Tangiers by the British minister.
RECENT number Of the Nashville American
contained picture OF the statue OF General
Jackson that tho city Of Nashville Is likely soon
10 possess. Tho statue is equestrian, and as
the general curbs his prancing horse with his
left hand, the right holds his three-cornered
hat in the respectful attitude OF saluting the
Nashvillians. Tho statue proper is 10 cost %,
600 and another thousand il necessary for the
PEDESTAL The city has subscribed half Of the
amount and the state at large is called on by the
american to come forward with the other half.
GOVERNOR ANDREWS, Of Connecticut. ia not
disposed to favor the proposition that he shall
A I'm thn Al
of Mary Stannard. In the first place il would
DC, he thinks, an acknowledgment that Hayden
Is innocent, and, in the second place, the offer
ing OF reward might act as bid for the
manufacture Of evidence against him. The
New Haven Palladium prints q report that two
men living in an adjoining county have said
that for $1,000 they would produce evidence
sufficient to convict the guilty man, and that the
guilty man is not Hayden.
The state fish commission has Just submitted
It's annual report TO the governor Of Ohio. II
Is proposed 20 establish hatchery in Sandusky
capable Of turning oui 80 OOO, 900 fish annually.
This will cost about $4,000. From '76 to 70,
inclusive, there has been deposited in Lake
Erie from the Toledo hatchery 20, O0O, 900 white
fish. Two hundred and thirty-iye California
salmon have been put into the Ohio river and
its tributaries since 1873 There are now in the
Toledo hatchery 5000, 900 white fish eggs, 3d.
900 spawn OF land-locked salmon and 10000
brook trout eggs.
The government is about 10 be authorized 10
take measures for retaining the arid and waste
lands OF the plains east OF the Rocky Noun
tains. bill has passed the senate appropriate
ing 100000 and providing for the sinking Of
two artesisn wells at such places as Carl Schurz
may designate, and whenever the site Of either
OF such wells shall be designated lac Is required
to declare a reservation Of four square miles
with the said site as nearly rs possible in the
centre thereof, and the land SO reserved shall
not be subject 20 sale or disposal under any law
Of the United States, until such reservation has
been released.
The commission appointed by the New York
legislature 10 investigate the condition Of the
county jails OF the state with q view 10 correct
Ing the abuses of the system has Just made its
report. il is proposed that there shall be in
every county board Of correction, consisting Of
the sheriff and two citizens appointed by the
county judge, whose duty il shall be to visit
and inspect the jails and other similar institu-
tons, enforcing necessary reforms and report
ing regularly TO the board Of supervisors. Then
il is proposed that a state board Of corrections
and pardons shall be established, consisting of
one member from each judicial district, and Of
the governor, comptroller and acknowledgement as
or oficiO members.
The Commercial Indicator published special
reports from Texas, III reference to the coming
DIVE Of cattle from that state to Kansas other
states and territories north, which placed il at
29i, 200, the number of cattle each droyer will
drive being given in detail. or this number
about 100000 have been already disposed Of,
leaving 100000 for the open market. The
drive will be principally Of young cattle. Not
more than 20 per cent. will be bseyes. There
have been good rains in southwestern Texas re-
Gently. The grass is growing very fast and the
prospect for an early drive is excellent. Cattle
along the coast are wintering well and are in
good condition, but in the more northern coun
ties they are thin in flesh.
An Englishman, who has been travelling in
that part Of Siberia which extends down into
the hollow Of the earth, says that no rode
through the country on horseback at an expense
of cent mile, and that he saw large dis
trict which produced splendid wheat which
could be bought at siIpence for forty pounds.
He also saw large quantities Of linseed, fax,
hemp, hides, tallow, wool, ETC., that could be
bought equally cheap. Iron mines were in
great abundance, and he picked up at haphazard
piece Of the ore SO rich and magnetic as 10
support a large needle. or this iron thousands
Of tons could be obtained that would make the
finest cast steel. There were also copper mines
In the valleys. The timber was splendid and in
great abundance.
THAT there is TO be no peace in Europe, the
North German Gazette maintains to the last
II continues replying 10 Its critics at home and
abroad and in effect upholds its first propositions
that, while Germany is cminently pcace-loving,
and averse to disturbing her neghbors, there
are among those neighbors some who are not Of
the same disposition. The CARTE insists upon
1t that "war is III sight," and that military
movements in Russia have a warlke meaning
hostile TO Germany. II the Panslayists we're TO
triumph, 1t asserts, the dissolution OF the Austro
Hungarian monarchy must follow, and the
policy OF Prince Bismarck, which has been
sanctioned by Germany, is to intervene 10 pre-
Vent that end. This warlike journal is known
to be generally inspired from the imperial chan
cellors Office
cLAIM brought forward IN congress- il n
curious instance of the interruption of n chain
of events which might have happened. The
claim il that Of Col. S. C.. Reid, as heir. for
damages, owing TO the destruction OF the BRIG
Gen. Armstrong, by the British, al Fayal. I'm the
war OF 1872. The Armstrong had seven guns
ana crew OF ninety men, while the British
squadron which attacked her consisted of three
men-of-war, carrying one hundred and tbirtv-
hVe guns and two thousand men. This souad-
ron was part Of fleet which intended 10 90 to
New Orleans 10 aid the British. and 10 :, IL
arrived the town would have been lost, but the
squadron raining IN with the Armstrong, an en-
gagenent took place, in which the British loo,
over three hundred men, and their feet was ia.
iayed. This claim WAS brought against po,tu-
gai and prosecuted for many years, but II wss
hhaly lard before Louis Napoleon as arbt,stor
VINO decided against the United States and tbs
ciaHhants now press their case upon congress-
ihE Cleveland Herald gives an Account n, q.
Pecunar exposition Of law developed in the adj
iniihSuauoh OF the estate OF the late Jeo,sra
Ease. single letter is at the bottom ~ ,ha
Htieauoh. MI. Case died without making :.
WILL ana leaving neither WIFE brothers or s;.
ters' heces or nephews 10 inherit. the bs;rsh;,,
goes backward. The Ohio statutes cav - a.,p
P"oo ancestors and in another "anccstor."
VIZ" uenlihS The line OF inheritance in sucb
s e ~ the singular form expresses the mean
80" 'ne Trainers OF the statue, the property