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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-09-09

in raising grain on raw sod has been tried
in the vicinity of Big Stone lake for the
past two years, with such marked success
that it is worthy of extensive trial We
are not informed who the first experiment.
er was, but at any rate, in the vicinity of
Big Stone City there are farmers so conf
dent of success that they have put in con
siderable quantities of small grain on the
raw sod the past season, and in every case,
so far as we could learn, with the most
tlattccing results The novelty of the ope-
ration is that the grain is first sown on the
prairie grass and then the breaking done.
A not very heavy sod is turned, and the
buried grain quickly finds its way through.
In a few weeks the sod is as rotten as needs
be. and can be kicked to pieces easily with
the foot. Now for an illustration. A Mr..
Daily near Big Stone City sowed ten acres
of oats in this way last year. He put on
two bushels and peck to the acre, and
broke his land. Last fall, from the ten
acres, he harvested 400 bushels of oats,
hich were worth csc. a bushel, aud which
paid for the breaking and left him some
$75 beside This year he sowed seventy
five acres in this way with equally good
success, the yield according to estimate, III
lie had not threshed when we were there
being not less than 1000 bushels on the
piece. Another gentleman near him sowec
buckwheat in the latter part of May in til,
same way, and has every promise of !,
magnificent crop. Another tried corn
dropping a few kernels in every fourth fur
row. Wheat has not been tried, but viii
be another year. 1t has been found tina
the sod rotted as readily as If broken il
June, as the growing crop shades it, ant
but little grass starts
This is q valuable discovery. and vii
be worth much to beginners, who thus Ear
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06
lNEW ULM REVIEW WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1850

GINS, to the end that it may secure
the oae principle upon which
the purity is most harmonious unit,
namely, gaining control Of the gov.
ernnlcut in all It's branches. have
been in some parts Of every state
lately in rebellion within the last
year. / was most hospitablyreceiv.
at every place | stopped. My recep-
tions were not by the union class
alone, but by all classes without dis
tinction. ! had free talk with
many who were against us in the
wal, and who have been against the
Republican party ever since. They
were in all instances reasonable men
judged by what they said. / be-
lieved them, and | believe now that
they sincerity want break upon this
solid South political condition They
see that it is to their pecuniary in
terest as well as to their happiness
that there should be harmony and
confidence between all sections.
lHey want CQ. DreaK away from Sla-
very which binds them to a party
name. They want pretext that
enough Of them can unite upon to
make 1t respectable. Once started
the solid South will go as Kuklux-
ism before, and as it IS so admirably
told by Judge Tourgee in his Fools
Errand." When the break comes,
those who start it will be surprised
to find how many Of their friends
have been in favor of it for long
time. and have only been waiting
to see some one take the lead. This
desirable solution can only be OBJ
tanned by the defeat and continued
defeat of the Democratic party as
now constituted.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

Have they forgotten the experience
of 1850, can they forget
the awaking caused by the
echo Of the first gun fred upon.
Sumpter?
In political circles here mnch is
felt in the Forthcoming reports Of
the special agents Of the census
bureau who visited South Carolina
to make an investigation of the al
legged census frauds in that state.
At the census bureau officials are
extremely reticent, and it is i'm
possibly to get any information
whatever, bearing upon this ques.
ton. A number of private letters
have been received from the differ
ent parts Of the State of South
Can DINA which give some idea Of
the manner in which figures have
been manipulated to produce such
astonishing results.
1t is stated in these letters that in
several of the more remote districts
the enumerators have added in some
instances as many as FIVE persons to
family by taking the patronymic
and stringing on it such given
names as struck their tancies, and
in other cases creating families and
households, who are dubbed with
some name having such local sig
nifications as would be calculated to
to Danish suspicion. To cover up
these latter frauds the statistical
portions of the census was doctor.
ed to show that these mythical
persons were farmers and had raised
crops of the products grown in those
portions of the state and which are
included in the census. In view of
all the facts it is generally believed
that the Investigations of the spe.
cial agents have developed sufficient
evidences Of crookedness in the
manipulation of the census in South
Carolina as will compel the super
intendent of the census to take some
decided action in the premises.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06
Confessed.

Chicago, Sept. 28.- Inter-
Oceans Manitowoc wis., special:
Anna Stroker, who has been on
trial for the murder of her employer
Miss Mauchy Haywood, to-day was
visited by her mother, who, hold
ing up the Cotholic cross and abb
juring her to tell the truth, got
from her confession Of the MUIR
der, which confession she subse.
quently made in court. She said
Nancy scolded her and called her
crazy one Sunday, which so exas
perated her that she pushed her
down on the floor, and picking up
an ak, struck her ON the head and
neck, and finding her lifeless, drag
ed her out into the yard, where she
concealed the body. The girl is
only seventeen years old, and can
neither read nor write. She
has hitherto shown no signs of
guilt.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06
Minnesota News.

P. Rude1, of Lime township near
Mankato, had his right arm crushed
in the cog weels of a cane mill a
short time ago, and died on Monday
of last week from the injuries re.
ceivcd.
j. Lutte Christie, formerly one of
the proprletors of the Mankato Free
Press, will start paper in Blue
Earth City, the list number Of
which will be issued this week.
Prof. 0. S. Fowler, the we'll
known phrenologist. lectures in
St. Paul during the first three days
of this week.
A mule performed a singular dem
tai operation on an Irishman, EN-.
ployed on farm near Lake Como.
The mule kicked at the man, where
upon the latter struck the animal
with a bride; but his muleship did
not fancy this treatment, aud SO
responded by sending the heel of
one hind foot into the mouth of his
tormentor, knocking all of the
mans front teeth from both jaws
The young mans face remained al.
most entirey unhurt, his lips and
gums being slightly bruised and
his jaws were not broken. His
teeth, however, were scattered
about promiscuously and most OF
them were brought out with their
roots.
Last Wednesday evening, Jas.
Hooks, a farmer who lived in Rich
field about ten miles from Minnea
polls, broke his neck while being in.
toxicated. He stopped in front of E
saloon and called for drink, but
the proprietor seeing that he wa:
already intoxicated. refused the re-
quest, whereupon Hooks attempt
ed to get down from his wagon,
and in doing so fell on his head,
breaking his neck, and dying in
stantlv.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

The revised report of the auditor
Of State shows that the valuation
Of real estate in Minnesota is 1903.
600, 900, and the valuation of per.
.sonal property $54, 100000. The
levy for State purposes upon this
amount, at the rate of one and eight
tenths of a mill on the dollar, makes
$462,620. In addition to this levy
for state purposes, is the income de-
rived from the tax on the gross re.
ceipts of railway companies, amour
ting to $27O,0O0, and from insur-
ance companies, $50, 900, making a
grand total of $763,000. This valu-
alton is for the purpose of taxation,
and does not represent the real
wealth of the state by any means.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

Minneapolis had. two fires last
Sunday morning, the total losses of
which foot up to about $13, 900.
The first was the burning Of R. H.
Morrison's billiard hall, located on
University Avenue, East Side, in
which the building and the greater
portion Of the contents were consum-
ed, the loss being about s., 200. The
other fire destroyed the North Star
Iron Works, valued at $1,000 or
$12, 90. There was an insurance Of
about $1,000 on the building and
machine ry
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

On Tuesday of last week, a large
elephant attached to Robinson's cir.
Gus, which on that day day exhibit
ed at Charlotte, N. c., killed his
keeper by crushing him against a
car. The keeper did not utter a
groan after he was crushed, but lin
gered for few hours before dying.
The elephant then took a stroll
around the streets, soaring the in.
habitants wherever he went. He was
finally secured by some of the circus
men.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

JUDGE Hilton has declined the Democrat
ic nomination for Congress in the Twentieth
New York District.
The public-debt statement issued on the
LIST makes the following exhibit: Total
debt Qncluding interest of SIS, 906, 1865, ST.
1858, AZ. Cash in Treasury, $l99, 945, $50.
Debt, less amount in Treasury, $1,9l5, 594,-
1872 Decrease during September, t3S, 974,-
SOL. Decrease since June 80, 1880, $685.
112.
THE daughter of General Zachary Taylor
recently received $4,000 at the Treasury
Department in Washington. This ia the bal
ance Of salary which her father would have
received had he lived to complete his Presi-
dental term Miss Taylor has been in poor
circumstances for some years, and the bill
authorizing the payment of the money to
her was passed during the last session of
Congress. -.
A NEW YORK telegram of the LIST says the
horse distemper was rapidly spreading in that
city. About one-third of the equines owned
by the street-car and omnibus companies
were already suffering, and it was believed
that nearly all of them would be down in q
few days. Travel was greatly impeded in
consequence. j. -:
DURING the month of September 26,149
European immigrants arrived at New York.
The number for September, 1879, was Il, 40.
The total coinage of the United States
Mint during September was Sc, 34Q, sol, Of
which s., 3Ol, OOO was silver dollars.
The following Congressional nominations
were made on the LIST: Seventh Massachu-
sets District, Congressman William A. Rus
sell, Republican: Fifth Massachusetts,, J. N.
Buifum, Greenback; Twenty-frst New York,
Francis R. Gilbert, Democrat.
The Government Of the Mexican Province
OF Chihuahua has offered reward Of q, 500
for the scalp of Victoria, the Apache Chief.
The Melbourne (Australia) Exposition was
formally opened on the LIST.
The British Government has issued proc
lamation offering reward Of 5000 for the
discovery Of the murderers of Lord Mount
morris.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON, Of the Gen.
eral Land Office, has issued his annual re-
port. There were surveyed during the year
ending the 30th Of June Is, 699. 253 acres of
public lands, and 652, Isl acres of lands claim
ed by private parties. This is alarge increase
over the quantity Of land surveyed during
any previous year. During the fiscal
year there were 85O,740 acres Of
public land purchased, 6,045,570 acres
entered under the Homestead law, 2,199,1 1874
obtained by settlers under the timber-culture
clause, aud s., 522 acres obtained on military
bounty land warrants. There were 8, 75z,8 S8
acres Of swamp lands patented to the States,
and J, 157,S75 acres certlRed as for railroad
purposes. The total amount Of land surveyed
since the creation Of the Office Is 752 $50, 195
acres. The amount Of public lands not yet
surveyed Is estimated & ! 06A 23l,727.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

New York Herald: General Gar
field at home has four horses, (two
gray and two black eight fine
black pigs, an orchard Of sour APP
pies, big piece Of Dutch drum.
head cabbages and an elegant field
of turnips. It may be interesting
to readers of campaign literature
to add that two colored women
o&ciate in the washhouse, and that
the General plays croquet with his
secretary and his telegraph operator
on the lawn.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06
Why The South is Solid For Hancock.

Consider eohat Lee and Jackson
sconld do we're they alive. THESE
ARE THE SAME PRINCIPLES
FOR WHICH THEY FOUGHT
FOR FOUR YEARS. Remember
the men soho poured forth their life
blood on Virginia s soil, and do not
abandon them no,V. Remember that
on your cote depends the success of
the Democratic partly (Wade
Hampton, at the meeting in the in.
terest of Democratic harmony in
Virginia, at Staunton, July 26.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

A Greenback. Labor mass congress
sional convention, comprising ele-
ven persons, was held in Farming.
ton on the 22d ult. Of the delegates
present seven were from Rice coun-
ty, three from Dakota and one from
Scott. G. G. Chamberlin, Of Dako-
ia county, was unanimously select.
ed as the candidate for congress.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06
West and South.


BISHOP FEEHAN, of Nashville, has been re-
Gently officially notified by the Vatican author
tiles of his elevation to the Archbishopric of
Chicago.
THOMAS ALLEN has been nominated for
Congress by the Democrats Of the Second
Missouri District.
GENERAL w. 8. RosECRANs Is the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in the First
California District. ..,....
AN immense swarm of grasshoppers passed
over the country in the neighborhood of
Jacksboro, Tex, q few days ago, destroying
all the crops on the way, even eating up the
the north, and was so dense for q time as to
obscure the sun.
ON the 9th the United States Circuit Court
at Louisville granted an injunction restrain
ing the postal authori ties from enforcing the
Departments order prohib iting the delivery
of letters to local lottery company.
The Territorial Supreme Court Of Utah has
recently issued mandamus to the Register
of the County in which Salt Lake is situated,
directing him to show cause why he should
not strike from the poll-list the names Of all
women voters
J. o. WRIGHT, cashier of Mr.. Gauthreaux,
late Civil Sheriff of New Orleans, was arrest
ed on the 9th, charged with having en-
bezzled $4,000 in transfer claims due the
city, and valued at $4,000. He is also &C.
cused Of having connived at the embezzle.
ment Of s24,50o Of the city's money by the
Sheriff. ,rsr.s.
The Greenback Executive Committee Of
Louisiana has decided to put full Electoral
ticket in the field.
Ar Indianapolis on the 2Sth the corner
stone of the new State-Ho of Indiana was
laid, with appropriate ceremonies. Ex-Gov:
ernor Hendricks delivered the Grafton Of
the occasion. About 1000 persons were
present.
THE President and party arrived at Ashland
Ore, on the 18th. The citizens rendered
them reception in the public square, where
short speeches were delivered by President
Hayes and General Sherman.
THE Greenbackers of the Second lllinoil
District have nominated g. J. Dixon for Con
gress; the Republicans Of the First Michi.
gan, Henry w. Lord, and of the Third Y,r
ginia, II. L. Pelouse.
HINRY CHAMBERLAIN has declined ths
Greenback nomination for Congress- IN tn,
Fourth Michigan District. So
. \ :
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

At the Blue Earth county Demo.
cratic convention last week, the fol-
lowing ticket was nominated: Aud'r
J. Thompson; Co. Attorney, A. R..
Pau; Judge of Probate, J. E. Por-
ter; Representatives, Chas. O'Con-
nor, James Brown, Il. J. Perry, Ly.
sander Cook and James Wier.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06
.EPITOME OF The WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
From Washington.

DURING the last fiscal year 3066l tons Of
newspapers and periodicals passed through
the United States mails, being an increase OF
SECS tons over the previous year. The post
age collected last year was $l,226, 452, an In
crease of S122, 266 over that of the year be-
fore. -
THE statue of Admiral Farragut, by Winnie
Ream, was placed on the pedestal on Farra-
gut Square, in Washington, on the Goth ult.,
and yelled to wait the day of the public cere-
mony of unwilling.
DURING August the value of the exports
from this country exceeded the value of the
imports by SIC, 9l7, lS9, sgainst SIS, 59S, 1919
for the corresponding month Of last year.
The value OF the gold bullion imported dur
ing August of this year was $9,23S, 339 in ex-
cess of the value Of the bullion exported,
against an excess Of S, 935, Az in 1879.
DURING the year ended June3o, 1880, $780,
537 postal ney-orders for 800, 352, 81S were
issued, against $SS,254,641 the previous fiscal
year; fees and premiums received by post
masters during the fiscal year, $917, 091, or
$117,e27 more than the previous fiscal year;
commissions paid postmasters and expenses
for clerk-hire, etc.. $679, SIG, which, deducted
from the gross receipts derived from fees
and premiums, leaves $237, SIS as the gross
revenue Of the Bureau for the year. Other
expenses leave 81, SIS as the net revenue of
the Money Order Bureau.
ACCORDING to the report Of the Comptroller
of the Currency the additional circulation
issued during August and September
amounted to S7O2, $50; amount surrendered
and destroyed, $939, 569 leaving decrease
of circulation during the two months OF
$3.50, 939. The net increase of National Bank
notes during the year ending October was
50, 654, 713; increase of legaltender notes on
deposit for the purpose of retiring the Ma
tional- Bank circulation during August and
September, s566,o5 increase during the
year ending October 1, 1880, s7,179.962;
amount of legalte tender notes on deposit,
$40, 1858, 2s3; total amount of National-Bank
notes outstanding October /, 1880, $342, 579,-
$685. not including National gold bank-notes,
amounting to 81, 325, 900; amount of United
States currency outstanding, 1862 622, 914.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

Hon. P. P. Haslerud, of Peterson,
Fillmore county, died at his home
about week ago. Mr.. Haslerud
was about 50 years of age at the
time of his death. He came to this
country from Norway in 1643, and
ten ears later settled in this State.
He was a member of the legislature
IN 1890.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

The campaign in Indiana and Ohio
is waxing hot and in some towns of
the former State people are almost
talked to death. The State and
Congressional election in these two
States will be held next Tuesday,
and the prospect of Republican sue
cess is very encouraging.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

Fairmont Sentinel: Prairie fires
will soon begin to run, and we will
then find out how many people
there are who need subscription
paper and the help of divine provi-
dence to regain what a little work
and common horse sense would have
saved from the flames.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

I'm MY OPINION THE BEST
INTERESTS OF THE WHOLE
COUNTRY, NORTH AND
SOUTH. DEMAND THE sue.
CESS OF THE TICKET HEAD
I'D BY GARFIELD AND AR
THUR. ~. s. GRANT.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

The Mark Lane Express says
that ON account of the dull and damp
and unfavorable weather, the bar.
vest has not yet been completed in
the north of England and Scotland
The threshings continue disappoint-
ing to the farmers. "A large guam
tity Of full-dry foreign wheat will
be required to mix with the inferior
English article in order to utilize
the latter.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

The Catholics of St. James are
collecting funds for the purpose of
erecting a church at that place, to
cost about $50, 900.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

Cornell University will teach
Journalism! I9s n 5N! practically by issuing a
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

The Italian Parliament has order.
q monument to Victor Emanuel at
a cost of $1,000 900.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-01

Mother" said Mary, II cannot
make Henry put his figures as ! teis
him"
'.Be patient, my dear, and do moi
speak so sharply"
But he will not let me tell him
how to put the figures, and he does
not know how to do it himself" said
Mary, very pettishly.
"Well, my dear, if Henry will not
learn lesson in figures, suppose
you try to teach him one in patience.
This is hard to teach, and harder to
learn than any lesson in figures; and
perhaps, when you have learned
this, the other will be easier to both
of you.
Mary hung her head, for she felt
that it was shame to any little
girl to be fretted by such little
thing, or, indeed, by anything, and
she began to think that perhaps she
deserved to be blamed as well as
Henry.
Shall we try to learn lesson Of
patience.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-01
1ifera1g.
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Annie Blossoms.

Apple Blossoms.
The apple trees with bloom are all aglow--
Soft drifts of periumed light
A miracle of mingled fire and snow
A laugh Of Springs delight
Their ranks Of creamy spiendor pillow deep
The valleys pure rcpose;
On mossy walls, in meadow hooks, the
heap
Surees of frosted rose
Around old homesteads. clustering thick,
they shed
Their sweets to murn'ring bees,
Aud DER hushed lanes and way-sldt
fountains spread
Their pictured canoples.
Green- breasted knolis and forest edge
Their beautiful array;
And lonesome graves are shetered, hers
and there,
With their memorial spray.
| The effioresence on unpumbered bonehs
Pants with delicious breath;
Der ne sseeuk I:teKhing eyes and hir
smooth brows,
And shapes too sweet for Death.
Clusters of dimpled faces float between
| The soft, caressing plnme"
And lovely creatures 'mOns The branches
| lean,
Lul!ed by faint, hower>born tunes.
| A rnde wind blows, and. N the blossom
! fall,
NV heart is borne away:
Fainter aud fainter tender voices call
OF my enamored May.
Fainter and fa,nter-oh, how strange
| seems
With 40 much sweetness hed!
7 90 like one who dreams within hi
dreams
That, living, he is dead!