Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-02-12
NEWS AND NOTIONS.

NEWS AND NOTIONS.
Rochester IL talking sugar refinery.
-Ahog weighing $50 pounds was marketed
! at Faribault on Friday last.
500, oo0is to be expended by Uncle Sam
at Fort Smelling. in army buildings.
The Caledonia Journal says all the mills
In the Root River valley have shut down.
They regulate their watches by the whistle
| of the locomotive down at Preston. The mar
row-guage is daisy.
The farmers of Olmsted county are to
meet in Rochester Feb. 18th, to organize a
Farmers Institute
1T is stated that David Blakely, Of the
Tribune, will start new morning paper in
Minneapolis about the first of May.
One hundred and fifteen persons made a
profession of religion during the whittle and
McGranahan meetings at Mankato.
The Southern Minnesota offers very lib
eral rates of fare and freight to people who
are going west to settle on the line of their
road.
"A rich vein of lead ore has been discover
cd In the ravine north of Fountain, Fillmore
county. 1t Is claimed there is any amount Of
the ore within mile of Fountain.
The Northern Pacific will build 800 miles
OF wire fence in Minnesota and Dakota this
year, using the Kelly barbed wire and cedar
posts, fencing in but 100 feet of its right Of
way.--EI.
The boreing for coal in the town of Free
born. Freeborn county, is progressing lively
The gents having the matter in charge arc
going to the bottom and will find the coal II
there is any.
"A man never knows how many friends he
9aS until he begins to keep q demijohn.-
Waukon STANDARD.
But 1t won't do to keep ''demijohn" any
keep his friends, his health, and his property.
OF the State that under the State constitution
as amended woman are eligible to the Office
Of County Superintendent Of Schools or any
other Office pertaining solely to the manage
ment of common schOols.-EG.
Last Thursday Gan. 29th) nearly foot of
Iowa, 1t rained all day. Some difference in
the temperature Of the two places, surely.
-Osd0e (Lo,Ua) NeaVs.
Which temperature do you like the hest,
Mr.. Ne,us?
when will times get better?'' When men
drink less whisky, smoke fewer cigars and do
less s,ssu ife a1tg When women quit spending
Ing skirts; when 1t becomes more fashionable
to be industrious, intelligent and economical
tnan TO pc lazy, ignorant and wasteful-and
wn @a. dad gets another big crop of wheat"
Tho Flandrau Dakota) Enterprise says
that the rumor that has been circulated so
extensively to the effect that the people of
Flandreau refused to grant q few days extern
sion of time to the Southern Minnesota rail-
road company to build their road into that city
in time to secure the bonds, is all moonshine
and devoid Of truth.
The big blanket sheets in Chicago and
elsewhere, that have put down their prices to
one dollar on weekly papers, that they might
thereby monopoljze all the country patronage,
are now bowling, because, owing to the ad-
publish at loss or cut down their mammoth
proportions. Serves 'em right-E1.
The gross earnings of the Southern Min
nesota Railway, from La Crosse to Winnebago
City, for the year 1879, were sos, 3OO.7S. The
gross earnings Of the Southern Minnesota Ex-
tension, from Winnebago City to the western
terminus. for 1879, we're S4O,oA5.le. The gross
earnings OF the Minnesota Central, from
Wells to Mankato, for 1879, were S42,762.99.
These roads are all under one MANAGEMENT
E1.
The St. Paul & Sioux City railroad have
bought tract OF nine acres at Flandreau for
depot purposes. 1t is understood that the
Heron Lake branch Of that road will be ex-
tended from its terminus in Murray county
to Flandreau via Pipestone City, thus giving
both these towns two railroads. The Sioux
City road will strike for the Black Hills from
ffiandrean, While the Southern Minnesota will
from Flandreau or some other point. 1t is
also reported that the Northwestern will build
road In the spring from some point on its
GUY 1Snses.
For the purpose Of ascertain1ng the plans
OF the Southern Minnesota Railway Company
relative to extending the line of their road, a
Republican and Leader reporter interviewed
one OF the officials recently, and after some
conversation ascertained that it was propos-
ed to extend the road westward some dis
lance the coming season, but exactly how
far had not 40 yet been determined. The
grade south from Flandrau to Sioux Falls, q
distance OF forty miles, is completed and in
readiness for the ties and iron, and it is Ger
tain that this will be completed as soon as
practicable, ana trains run direct from Sioux
City, although up to this time it is but an idea.
These southern extensions are to be used
simply as feeders, while the main line will
run almost directly west, survey having
been completed some eighty miles of the dis
lance to be traversed, heading towards the
Black Hills, and the day is not far distant
when La Crosse will be in direct communica.
ton with that country, rich in mineral wealth
and promising to be one of tho finest farming
countries in the world.
The Southern Minnesota has recently oh
tanned, or will shortly do 50, possession Of q
| vast amount of land in addition to that which
they now have, which is to be offered to set
tiers at merely nominal flgures.-La Cross,
Republican & Leader.