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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-11-17
Finding the Bond.

A MAN with grip-sack in his hand
halted before Jefferson Avenue fruit
stand yesterday and priced choice
variety of peaches. When told that
they were twenty cents q dozen he
whistled to himself, walked softly
around, and finally asked:
care you Baptist?''
"Hardly.''
"Neither am /. 1 didn't know but
that if we both belonged to the same
denomination you'd throw off little.
Do you lean to the Methodist?'
Cant say that do.'
"That's my case. I never did take
much stock in the Methodists. Twen-
ty cents dozen is an awful price on
those peaches, considering how tight
money is. l expect you are Universal
list, eh?'
"No."
"Neither am I. Can't you say fif-
teen cents for dozen of these?'
"Hardly."
"Aren't you an Episcopalian?''
"No, sir.''
"Neither am /, but was afraid you
were. I've been sort O looking you
over, and I shouldn't wonder ii you
trained with the United Brethren.
Come, now, own up"
81 never attend that church," was
the steady reply.
Nor I, either. Say, what are you,
any how?'
''rm hard-baked old sinner"
"No! Whoop! That's my case to a
dot! I'm called the wickedest man in
Washtenaw County! knew there was
a bond of sympathy between us if we
could only find it out! Now, do you
say fifteen cents for a dozen?'
The fruit-dealer counted them out
without further objection.-Detroit Free
Press.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-11-17
A Curious Affection.

We hear curious fact about young
robin domesticated at New Meadows
by Mrs. Smith. Some of the family
found young robin in nest aban-
doned by the parents and the rest of the
brood. OF course it was fed when
found, and it ate ravenously, and then
it was duly cared for. The robin is
now well grown, flies all about the
house, on the heads and shoulders of
the family, and in fact is SO tame as t.
be almost constantly under foot; Z
manifests no disposition to escape.
But what is most singular, the old cat,
having had her kittens killed, evinces y
strong desire to adopt the robin, con-
stantly being around it, tapping it, etc.,
and the robin. while showing no at
tachment to the cat, does not appear to
be the least afraid of her. So cat and
robin lie down together in unity
BRUNSWICK (Me.) Telegraph.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-11-17
A Tribute to Adelaide Nelson.

WHATEVER may have been the vicis-
STUDIES, trials, mistakes, and sorrows of
her past, she was by nature a woman of
pure domestic Observation-Disclosures, gen.
tie, confiding and true; and she would
have made that home very happy, with
the husband she had chosen. It is no
secret to few of her friends Git need
not be secret to any body now that
she was soon to be avowed the wife of
Edward Compton, who acted with her
during her farewell American tour, and
who must now endure the awful afflic-
ton of seeing the sods laid upon her
grave. The story of her successes on
the London stage and all over Great
Britain, and of her four visits to Ameri-
ca, need not be rehearsed. There may
come time for that in another form.
But it will not be amiss to note, with
some slight emphasis, the fact of her
youth, as IL is seen when coupled with
such noble and brilliant achievement.
She was, to have done so much, very
young woman. She was in this sense
prodigy-and whatever we're her faults
or errors, it is remarkable that she bore
SO we'll the always perilous burdens of
early triumph and the incense of q
worlds admiration. She had the intui-
tions of genius and also its quick spirit
and wild temperament. She was largely
ruled by her imagination and her feel
ings and had neither the prudence of
selfishness nor the craft of experience.
Such a nature might easily 60 to ship
wreck or ruin. She outrode all the
storms of passionate, hayward youth
and anchored safe at last in the haven
OF duty. Her image, as it arises in
memory now, is not that of the actress
who stormed the citadel of all hearts in
the delirium of Juliet, or dazzled with
the witchery of Rosalind's glee or Vio-
las tender grace; but it is that of the
grave, sweet woman, who, playing
softly in the twilight. sang-in that rich,
tremulous, touching voice-an anthem
that paraphrases the words of Christ
"With all your sorrows am made par
taker, and l am acquainted with all your
griefs. ''-Walliuns Winter, IN New York
TLibn12e
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-11-17

though many bestow advice under pro-
test, az matter of conscience. yet if
every donation of this nature were ac-
companied with neuralgia twinge, an
attack of govt or malaria, and did not,
instead, leave the donor with a pleas
urable sense Of duty fulfilled, benefit
conferred and superiority acknowl-
edged, we should not so often be called
upon to accept that which we never in
tend to use. The young mother or
housekeeper is unfortunate in being
more bountifully provided with this
article, perhaps, than any other Of her
sex; nobody Is too ignorant or mex
perienced to add to the burden; she
who has never had house to keep, or,
having had one, has never kept it; she
who has never known the care of chill
dren, or, having known that RESPONSE
bility, has adroitly shirked it, is as
opulent in advice as if she had herself
received a legacy from her friends, and
was anxious to share it with all man
kind.-Harper's Bazar.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-11-17
South American Pampas.

The South American correspondent
of the London Times writes: "The
provinces of Buenos Ayres and Monte
video are as yet far from being over
crowded but an immigrant will not fare
worse by going further for elbow-room,
provided he be as careful to secure free
and easy communication as good gen
eral would be anxious to keep within
reach of his base of operations. There
are rivers in this region navigable by
steam for thousands of miles, and the
railways which seem to have been
prOvidentially invented to serve the pur-
poses of the American colonization, are
already reaching the borders of the
Grand Chaco, the Grand Pampa, Pat
agonia, and other great deserts, where
land is to be had for the mere asking,
and where the red Indian has ceased to
be the bugbear he was, and can not be
made to face a breech-l loading rifle. The
land is in the main an immense flat, no
doubt; very large tracts of alluvial soil,
without tree or pebble; part of it
mere swamps or salt wilderness. But
even these thousand miles of unbroken
level are not without peculiar beauty
of their own; their boundless horizon
and awful solitude; the freshness and
purity of the atmosphere, and the keen
enjoyment of unlimited freedom. Nor,
apart from the intercourse with his fell
low-men, is q man here crushed by the
sense of utter forlornness; for nothing
is more striking than the teeming life Of
the animal Hndom in the pampas-the
abundance of game, the storks
and herons, the owls and hawks,
the flights of wild. turkeys and
focks of ostriches, to say nothing
of the ubiqitous ptero-ptero and
chattering little cardinal; a multitude
and variety of fowls and brutes-name-
less to me as well as numberless-the
gayety of whose plumage and fur and
the strangeness and wildness of whose
screeches and howls settler will always
and everywhere have with him, and
which win only gradually make room
for the focks and herds, the barking
and believing, the Growing and cack-
ling of his domestic surroundings. Life
in the prairies is life in the saddle; for
the very beggar here is mounted; and,
away from rail or tramways, neither for
sex nor age is there any other practica-
BILE or at least endurab1e means of loco
motion than on horseback; and the
horses are fleet and sure-footed, brave
as lions, and gentle and docile as cows,
and their purchasing and keeping cost
little. and their stabhng and shooting
nothing.''
y f. = = -
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-11-17
Advice.

IT is little singular that in spite of
our well-known relish for proffering ad-
vice, we should be averse to receiving
it; however avaricious we may be. adj
vice is the one thing we are happy to
part with, in season and out of season,
perhaps because we are certain that
the supply is inexhaustible, and we are
sure of payment, sooner or later. In
giving it we feel a sense of superiority,
an imitation of personal Importance; in
accepting it we acknowledge the wis.,
dom of another, the bettcr-seasoned
jud gment, and our vanity revolts at
such q concession. In the meanwhile
the most of us, without soliciting ad-
vice, have it thrust upon US, and in
such allopathic doses that, were we to
use it all, we should have no leisure for
anything else. We are advised not
only how to control our servants, as if
they were in the habit of controlling
us. but how to keep our temper, as II
we were in the habit of losing it. lM..lge
giving advice is the most subtle ;harrlh
Of self-aattery, taking it is an example
of the most permanent humility; but
perhaps there is nothing more exasper-
ating, in a small way, than being adj
vised to follow the course which we
had already predetermined upon,
while the mentor, or tormentor, carries
the credit of the happy result to
her own account. The majority of us
swallow this tidbit, az we would some
nauseous drug, with . wry face, and q
longing for something to take the taste
out of our mouth, and those who lavish
it upon us receive little gratitude,
since it is reckoned doubtful genor-
osity to give that which is useless to
ourselves, which requires no sacrifice
of us, which we are, in fact. glad to
dispose Of as 80 much rubbish; and
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-11-17
Miss 7. Westphal.

Keeps on hand large and well
sorted stock of MILLINERY, FANCY
GOODS and zEpHR WOOL, opposite the
Union Hotel, between Second and
Third North streets.
NEW ULM, MINI.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-11-17

IT is said that Julian Hawthorne. the
novelist, has accepted United States
Consulate in japan.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-11-17

$ Strive to make . good impression
wherever you co. said Jones, as he
pulled his foot out of the mud.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-16
Minnesota News.


The Wells Adeocaie says that unless
its patrons bring in enough money Il
pay for its firewood and paper, it vii
shut up shop.
A young son of William Wells, living
three miles east of Wells, was frozen tC
death last week, while driving his COW,
to water. His body was subsequently
found with the faithful dog by his side
One of our sharpest business men sold
a piece of land to farmer not long
since, agreeing to take in payment 45O
bushels of wheat. The quality of the
wheat was not specified, and last week
the farmer delivered the wheat, part OF
which was No. 3 and the balance re-
jected. 1t is said he bought the wheat
of neighbor and sold his own, which
was No. 2.--Aibert Lea Standard.
There's a man at Hastings running
opposition to the Government in the
postage stamp line. He sells four 3
cent stamps for dime.
The WOrthington Adrance says that
Judge Dickinson has recently given Il
decision that the commission paid to
parties negotiating loans for Others, is
not usury.
Elsewhere we publish another batch
of five new mortgage foreclosure notices.
1t is bitter to the soul Of the mortgagor
but sweet to the taste of the printer
Worthington Adpance
And a mighty poor recommend to
the country.
The Connemara colony of this State
has suffered greatly this winter with the
cold, and the Board of Trade at Morris
sent messenger to investigate.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-16
RAPIDAS.

Accepting your invitation 10 all to
send in the news from all sections Of the
county, / will transmit my budget.
The early coming of winter closed all
farm work, and afforded Us an opportu,
nifty to cut up the fallen timber that was
blown down by the cyclone last June.
1t will require large force of men to
work up what is down in tins ncighbor-
hood alone.
There is a number of farmers west OF
the Blue Earth river that have not
threshed yet, and we hear that they are
offering ten cents bushcl to thrcshers,
but can't get them at those figures.
Wheat is coming in at this station
pretty lively at present, though cars
cannot be got to ship it. The marke,
here is always from two To three cents q
bushel higher than at Mankato or Good
Thunder.
l should think the farmers would
meet in the various district school houses
occasionally this winter and compare
notes and discuss the various topics.
A leap year party was gwen ~ the
residence of Mr.Chamberlain's the Other
evening, and Miss Chamberlain did hel
utmost TO make the evenings entertain
ment pleasant. 1t consisted of dancing
in which the gentlemen took back Sc I,
until they were asked by the ladies
The gentlemen expect 10 return the
compliment al no distant day.
Every one that has gun is getting il
ready to join in that wolf hunt Spoken
of in the FREE PRESS lately. l woulC
like to see sides chosen upon the occa
sion and see which bags the most gam,
for an oyster supper and dance, the lat
ter for the benefit of the ladies VIII,
can't hunt. would suggest that Gen
Baker and Col. Smith choose sides
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-16
County correspondence.
CAMBRIA.

The weather is the principal topic of
conversation at present, will some one
who has reliable thermometer inform
us, through your columns, how cold it
is
The school in district No. II is taught
by Mrs. Thos. Hughes graduate oi'
Carleton College.
School In district No. 10, is taught
by John r. Bowen, they have purchased
eight new maps, n dictionary, and one
of the finest globes in the county. Five
months Of school this term.
Evan Hughes has left for Mortified
to enter college.
Joseph and Edwin Gilley has manu-.
featured 1900 gallons Of syrup from
amber cane. They say it pays, and We
know it Is good because we eat it all
the time.
Mr.. John &. Jones has completed n
new residence, which is quite an i'm
provement to his already fine place.
Wolves are getting troublesome in
localities near the timber. Several have
been caught already. Young, Morris
Lewis and John Williams are after them
Good-hy wolves
There Is To be Christmas tree a
Salem Congregational church on Christ
mas Eve, tor the benefit of the Sunday
school children. Songs, essays and rccita
tons will be in order during the evening
A good concert troupe would do wei
by coming this way, rs entertainment
are scarce. Good school houses can b,
obtained almost any evening.
Mr. John Roberts, of Georgetown
Colorado, after spending few months
at his fathers, recruiting his health, cx
poets to return some time this week
accompanied by his brother Robert.
Mis- Clara Wagner has gone TO New
Ulm to learn the millinery business.
There are several young gents an,
ladies OF this vicinity attending thD
Normal School mt Mankato.
The usual number who attend Court
will he found at Mankato this week.
Spy.
CAS- to the record OF Thermometers a
this place, they were all l'roze up durin!
the first of the month except the sci
registering one ut the City Drug Store
and that has recorded rs low rs - he
lOw.) En-.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-16
Mortgage Foreclosure sale.

nEFAULT having been made In the condi-
- tons OF certain mortgage executed by
I. Sanford Davies and stellaM, Davies, mort
dated the 7th day Of January, A. b. 1870, and
recorded In the once of the Register of Deeds
In and for the county of Blue Earth, In the
state Of Minnesota, on the 18th day of April,
Book 5 OF Mortgages, on page s8i, by which
mortgage there was conveyed and granted the
following described real estate situate In the
county OF Blue Earth aforesaid, to-wit: Lot
Van Brunt's Addition to Mankato, according
70 tho recorded plat thereof, filed in the Office
OF said Register OF Deeds, TO secure the pay
ment Of the sum Of Six Hundred Dollars, with
annum until paid, according to the conditions
Of q promissory note bearing same date as
said mortgage, made by said I. Sanford Davies
and Stella d. Davies to said Rebecca 7, Bick-
nell; and there being due and unpaid upon
said note and mortgage AT tho date Of this
notice the sum Of Seven Hundred and Thirty.
six 60-l00 Dollars, and no action or proceeding
At law or otherwise having been instituted to
any part thereof; Now, therefore, notice 10
hereby given that BY virtue and In pursuance
Of 2 power Of sale In said mortgage contained
such case made and provided, tho ABOVE ABOVE d y,
scribed premises will be sold at public auction,
at the front door Of the Office Of tho Register
OF Deeds In and for said county Of Blue Earth
tho It'll day Of January, A. d. 1881, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, to satisfy the amount
Of said mortgage debt then duo and unpaid,
together with tho costs and expenses of such
proceedings, including Thirty
dollars attorneys fees as stipulated In said
mortgage; and the said mortgage will bo
thereby forecloscd.
Dated November cath, 1850.
REBECCA T. BICKNELL,
Mortgage.
TzonAs 4 wAsnuas, Att'ys for Mortsasse.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-16

1t is estimated that there is now in
in store waiting transportation in each
of the twenty towns along the line OF the
Hastings & Dakota r. r., including
Glencoe and Ortonville, an average OF
5O,O00 bushels of wheat to the station,
making an aggregate Of 100000
bushels. Allowing 400 bushels TO the
car load, it would require $500 cars, or
1876 trains of twenty cars each to remove
the grain already waiting transportation.
When we take into account the fact that
not one fourth of the crop has yet been
marketed, some idea can be formed of
the immense amount of business that
the narrow belt of country tributary to
the railroad affords. And il so immense
now what will It be ten years hence
when ten acres are made 10 produce
wheat to one now9 The agricultural
resources of this portion Of The State are
only beginning to be dsvslopsd,--GIsn.
coe Rsgistsr.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-16
MANKATo FREE PRESS.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER Is, 1880.
The Press yindicsted


The press of this State are individu-
ally interested in the recent decision of
the libel suit of Isaac Marks VS.. Baker
Il Christie, that was decided by IN I'M
preiudiced jury yesterday morning at
the court room in this city. The facts
of the case are substantially these; Last
spring, Bal-er Il Christie, then proprie
tors of the FREE Press, published an
anonymous communication criticising
somewhat n published financial report
of public officer. Mr.. Marks, rs city
treasurer, thought these reflections were
made to injure his former integrity, and
demanded the name of the writer, which
Baker & Christie refused to give, but
the LATER published an explanation, which
failed To satisfy Mr.. Marks, who subse-
quently brought suit tor libel against the
paper. Through some cause the case was
postponed until this term of court, when
All exhaustive examination occurred
npon the part OF the defense, with
Judge Waite, as attorney and NJ. j,
Severance and A. X. Pfau, defending
the case. The case was given to the
Jury Tuesday evening and sealed yer.
diet of unqualified acquittal was re-
turned by them early Wednesday morn
ing. The substance of the defense
was, that if newspaper was deprived
of criticising the accounts and action'
of public officer, then it was abridg
ing the rights of free press. This
case has been watched with considsra
BILE interest bya great many, and if tn,
decision had been in favor of the plain
till, il would have established prece
dent that would have created no littl,
turmoil.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-16

The next speaker of the Minnesota
house of representatives will, in all
probability, be Loren Fletcher of Min
neapolis-if he lives and is in his usual
good health in January next. This ap-
pears TO be the opinion OF the signal
service politicians who have been watch
ing the direction Of the prevailing winds,
Fletcher has more roots in him than a
pine stump, and they don't all run
above ground either. He has had ex-
pericnce enough in Legislation to make
an cxccllunt presiding officer.-PiOneer
Press.
Don't count the chickens before they
arc Matched, for sometimes the old hen
sets on goose eggs.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-16
AMBOY.

The weather has come of warm again
and Amboy is full OF business once
more. The merchants are vicing one
with another to meet the wants of their
customers. IT is seldom you see II bet
ter display of holiday goods than is kept
by the merchants Of Amboy.
The leap year dance came of last
Friday eve. There was twelve couples,
and they seemed to ENJOY themselves
notwithstanding the small crowd; but
we hope the girls will try again. and
may success crown their efforts. !.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-16
1881.
Harper's Magazine.
ILLUsTRATED.

"Studying the subject effectively and from
the educational point Of yiew-seeking to
provide that which, taken altogether, viii be
of the most service 10 the largest number-I
long ago concluded that, IL could have but
one work for public library, would select q
complete set of Hdrper's Aonthiy."-CHARLEs
FRANCIs ADAMS, Jr.
Its CONTENTS are contributed by the most
eminent authors and artists Of Europe and
America, while the long experience Of its
publishers has made them thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with the desires Of the public, which they
will spare no effort to gratify.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-16

ITO BANKS AND BANKERS.-Senled pro-
l. posals will be received by the Board Of
Audit OF Blue Earth County, Minnesota, up
TO noon, January 9th, 1881 at the Office OF the
interest on monthly balances Of funds that
may be deposited by the Treasurer OF said
county for the year ending December 81 1881,
in accordance with Chapter 30, General Laws
Proposals must conform to said act In every
JACOB BORN,
Chairman Board of Audit.
Manksto, Dec. 18th, 1880.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-16
NOTICE..

sec. l, Chap, IS, General L,ws oflsIs. provides
that the &, unity Treasurer shall not visit The
ulucrrpt towns hips Of he comfy tor the collec.
ton Of lnvea, except as directed by the County
Innlmisst iners. As have not beon 40 direct ed
bv the County Sommi ssionerr, the only place
nrcrs office In the City OF Mankafo, at all times
n blsine-s hours.
rersonnl taxes are duo the first day Of Oecem.
her, and inquent the hr-t day or March. II
not paid lheu,a penalty ~ per cent. m It be
added and the law provides for collection by
distress and safe. ID. c. EVANS,
20. Treasurer Of Blue Earth County
Nankato. Mimi, Dec. l, 1880.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-16
EAGLE LAKE.

Locals of interest are rather scarce.
Rev. W. II. Burgess, pastor of the
Christian church at this place, left for Il
three months visit Ia Indiana, TUESDAY
morning, and prior to his departure his
numerous friends gave him donation
which amounted to over $l4 90.
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HARPER's PERIODICALS.

HARPER's MAGAZINE, One Year. -. ~ 90
HARPER'S WEEKLY. One Year.. I 90
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The THREE above publications, one yearl0 90
Any TWO above named, One Year.. Z 90
aARPERs YOUNG PEOPLE, one year ] ~
Postags Free to all subscribsrs IN the United
Stpt,g or Canada.