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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-22
PROBATE NOTICE.

CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
- Earth-ss.-ln Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of william r. Glib
son, deceased.
Letters tcstamentary on the estate of said
deceased having been granted unto Lydia d.
Gibson, Noah Webster and William Z. Dur
kee, of said county,
1t IL ordered that all claims and demands OF
all persons against said estate bc presented IL
this court for examination and hearing at the
Probate Office, in MankatO, on the following
days, viz: On the 18th day of October, 1881,
and ON the 18th day of January, 1852, ut IL
o'clock Il. IN. on each of said days.
II il further ordered that six months from
the date hereof be allowed to creditors to
present their claims against said estate, mt the
expiration Of which time all claims not pre-
scented to said court or not proven to its sat
isfactiOn shall be forever barred, unless for
cause shown, further time be allowed.
Ordered further, that said executors as
aforesaid shall cause notice of the time and
place of the hearing and examination of said
claims and demands by publishing a notice
thereof for four weeks successfully In THE
MANKATO FREE PRESS, Il newspaper printed
and published ut MankatO In said county
Dated July 18th, 1881.
by the Court, G. w. MEAD,
3wa Judge Of Probate.
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A Little Misprint.

Stcubcnvillc Herald
He walked into the Office thi.
morning looking much like Il MAJ
pretty well satisfied with genera
results, and said /:
"Can see the editor :"
lie was shown that eminently use
full article to a newspaper at once.
Good morning, Sir" he CHEEKY
began.
"MOrnin," said the editor.
81 came in" he proceeded, ito tel
you of "a misprint in the paper
Eyes, what is it!
.'Well you see, i sent a notice
around yesterday that Mr.. Smith had
been married, and your cOmpOsitOr,
l see, has got it Mr.. Smith has just
been martyred,' but guess it don't
hardly make enough difference to
change it,"
The editor scratched his head a
minute and thought of hOuse.clean.
ing and other eccentricities, and
told the visitor, of course it didn't,
and he went away whistling, "Why
should the spirit of mortal be prOud?'
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-22

1t is stated that 100000 buffalo
hides have been sent out of the Vel
lOwstOne country alone this season
Last year the output Only reached
1000, the usual average. Many OF
the present yield of skins were doubt.
less taken from the carcasses of the
dead animals frozen in the last terri
BILE winter; but the slaughter Of the
herds has increased every year with
tho irruption of settlers into tho val
leys. They are shot down like sheep,
out OF pure wantOnness, in most in
stances left to rot untouched where
they fall. the dollar or two which the
hide would bring not being worth the
trouble or time of removing it, as an
exchange remarks. In the meantime
every dead buffalo is so much food
taken from the half-starved Indian.
The buffalo is rs much his source OF
life as the wheat-field is that of his
white brother. Yet suppose the Utes
this July should take to burning the
standing grain, what should we say ?
Ii there is any better specimen of the
pure cussedness of certain phase Of
the American mind than this buffalo
slaughter, we don't know it..
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]. O. Adams and CLAY.

There are many now living to re-
member the overthrow Of the adj
ministration when John Quincy
Adams was President and Henry Clay
Secretary Of State. DIR. Francis
Wharton speaks Of it in the Prince
ton Reriesc In these graphic sentences
ut is impossible to view the down
fall of Mr.. Adams's administration
without a sigh. 1t was the last OF
that line of close;y-allied administra
tiOns in which the Secretary of State
succeeded his own chief in the
Presidential chair. to DO followed by
his own Secretary of State. 1t re-
talncd unchanged, except so far as
death or some rare case Of personal
delinquency made change necessary,
the public servants transmitted to II
by prior administrations. 1t was
therefore the last administration that
refused to remove subaltern for pc.
litical dissent. The administration
is picturesque in its austerity; pic
turesque in it's relations to the past ;
picturesque in the ruin i'm which ii
was finally involved. For the first
time since the overthrow of Mr..
Adams's father, had come into power
new party imposing prescriptions
on the chiefs of the old. There is Il
pathetic contrast in the bearing of
tho two great men on whom the
storm concentrated. Each had re-
markable courage, but their courage
was not of the same type. Mr..
Adams would have attacked singly
any fortress in his way, and as he did
not need the enthusiasm of party to
spur him to the onset, so there was
no community of grief to Overwheim
him in the repulse. Mr.. Clay, on the
other hand, would expose himself
with equal recklessness and with far
more splendid effect, If cheered on
by troops whom his presence in.
spirited, and whose success his lead.
ership made probable; but when de-
feat came, when those whom he led
and loved were ruined by his side,
this massing of anguish was intoler.
able. Mr.. Adams did not vince As
State after State declared against
him. His diary is no darker in desc.
lation than in triumph. There had
been no elation; there followed NO
depression. He did not, indeed, at.
tend General Jackson's inauguration.
But he remained in Washington, as
he previously had done. until the
time came for him to 60 for the sum.
mer to Massachusetts,, and from Mas.
sachusetts he returned unchanged to
Washington to take his seat in the
House. No impress whatever had
been made on that adamantine breast
by political defeat the most con-
spicuOus and humiliating in our an.
nails. Mr.. Clay, on the other hand,
when for time even his own Ken
lucky had deserted him whom Vir.
ginia, his native State, scOwled at
him; when not single Western vote
was given to the administration oil
which he was part-sank under the
shock, and, as Mr.. Adams's diary
tells us, his life was for a time in
danger. With relief from office
however, his strength rallied. and he
entered with Zest on renewed sue.
cessful career. 1t seemed, however
when Mr.. Adams's administration
closed, that the political existence Of
both was extinguished in the common
ruin"
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PROBATE NOTICE.

CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
y Earth, ss.-ln Probate COurt-Special
Term, July LIST, 1881.
In the matter of tho estate of Eliza S. Blake
ley,deceased.
Letters of administration OH the estate OF
said deceased having been granted unto w.
p. MarstOn, of said county,
1t is ordered, that all claims and demands
of all persons against said estate be pre-
scented to this court for examination and
hearing, at the Probate Office in MankatO, In
said county, on the following days, viz: On
Monday the 81 day of October, and on Mon
day the 5th day of December, 1881, at
o'clock on each Of said days.
1t is further ordered, that six months from
the date hereof be allowed to creditors to
present their claims against said estate, at
the expiration of which time all claims not
presented to said court, or not proven to Its
satisfaction, shall be forever barred, unless
for cause shown further time be allowed.
Ordered further, that said administrator
as aforesaid, shall cause notice of the time
and place of the hearing and examination OF
said claims and demands, by publishing no
tice thereof for four weeks successfully, In
the MANKATO FREE PRESS, newspaper
printed and published at MankatO In said
county.
Dated July LIST, 1881.
by the Court, G. W. MEAD,
Iva Judge of Probate
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Simple Bookkeeping for Farmers.

For an ordinary farm, writes a cor
respondent of an exchange. l would
have but one book, and that one ruled
after the form of the merchants cash
book, and keep it very much in the
same manner, s.e., on the left hand
page l would enter all the debts, and
on the right-hand page balance
could be obtained ut any time de-
sired to know how the account was
running.
The first account ! would open
wOnld be the farm. On the left-hand
page would enter the present cash
valuation of my farm implements.
and all new ones bought and repairs
made. On the right-hand page !
would enter the amount received for
any implements sold or returned, etc,
Next / wOnld have a name or number
for each field on my farm and give it
the same space in my book. On the
left enter what consider fair price
for labor done, cost of all fertilizers
put on that field, and all seed put on
same. On the right-hand page the
cash value of all that field has pro.
duced. The balance at the end of
the year would show me the profit or
loss OH that field. And from the
amount of this loss or gain ! would
know what next to do with it. With
out this knowledge how could l in.
diligently cultivate this field in the
future! / might have an opinion as
to what profit had, but such opinion
would be far too unreliable to base
any future operations on.
In like manner l would treat every
field on my farm also, my sheep,
holding separate accounts with diff
erent breeds, if had such with my
dairy cattle, my stock cattle, my
working cattle, my horses and horse
teams, my hogs. my poultry, etc.
Each of this accounts will show its
gains OF losses, from which l can de-
eide the future management. At the
end of the year l would place on the
right hand or Or. side of the farm
account a fair valuation of my farm
and all farm implements, balance up
all my field and cattle accounts, which
would then show me wether ! was
worth less or more than at the com.
mencement of the year, and just
where the loss was sustained or profit
made, 1. c., which field or department
of my farm had been the most profit.
able to me, and with the least. The
farmer needs not to have scales to
ascertain actual weights. His est.
mates are good enough; only be sure
and estimate against yourself, and
then the result will happily disappOint
you, if at all.-American Farmer.
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MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE.

DEFAULT having been made in the pay
~ ment OF tho sum of nine hundred ant
amount is hereby claimed and declared to bt
due at the date Of this notice for principal ant
intorestupOn a certain mortgage executed ant
deliveredby George Rector and ROsalic A
Rector. his wife, Of Blue Earth county, Stat.
OfMinnesOta, to Daniel Fleming of Blue Earth
county, State of Minnesota, bearing date the
18th day of December, A. ID. 1878, to secure
the payment Of the sum of six hundred and
nifty dollars, according to the conditions Of
December 18th, A. d. 1873, which said mort
gage was duly recorded in the Office of the
Register of Deeds in and for Blue Earth
of December. A: ID. 1879, at one O'clock p. nj
of said day In Book 20" of Mortgages, on
page 55!. And whereas, said mortgage was
sold and duly assigned by said Daniel Fleming
cember, A. ID: 1876 And said assignment
was duly recorded in the Office of the Regis
ter Of Deeds aforesaid, on the 18th day of Dc
cembcr, 1876. at IN O'Clock p; M. in Book No.
said ThaddeIs Murdoch NOW deceased) was
at the time of his death the lawful owner and
holder of the said mortgage and the notes
accompanying the same. And whereas, Sid
Ga es Sas e sf said
deceased. and his appointment as such execu-
tor has been duly filed for record In the Office
of the Register of Deeds In and for Blue
Edrt0 county ulOreSdlu, anu uuly recOTucu OIL
the ISth day Of Noyember. A. y; 1880, at .ttyy9,
Of Miscellaneous Records on page 25S; and
no suit or proceeding at law or otherwise
having been Instituted to recover the debt So
cured by said mortgage or any part thereof.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given that
by virtue OF power OF sale contained In
said mortgage and of the statutes I'm such
cases made and provided, the said mortgage
will be fOreclOsed and the tract or parcel of
land lying and being In the county of Blue
Earth and State Of Minnesota aforesaid, and
which said land Is described In said mortgage
as follows. tO-wit: The south half Of the
northwest fractional quarter of section num-
her eighteen QSl, In township number one
hundred and six (l06), north of range number
twenty-seven ca west, containing seventy
nine and oS-lOO acres Of land, according to
government survey thereof, together with
the Entertainments and appurtenanccs there
unto belonging will he sold ut public auction
to the highest bidder for cash, to satisfy and
pay the said debt and interest describcdin and
secured by said mortgage, and twenty-five
dollars attorneys fees, stipulated In said
mortgage, together with the costs and dis
bursements allowed by law, at the front door
Of the Court House, ut MankatO. in said Blue
Earth county, State of Minnesota, on Monday
the 18th day Of August, A. ID. 1881, ut the
hour of one O'Clock D. m. of said day
Dated June 2Sth, A. ID. 1881.
SIDNEY O. CHILD,
Executor of the estate Of Thaddeus MUIR
dock, deceased.
J. II. SPROUT, Attorney for Executor,
julyl-augl2 Blue Earth City, Mimi
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PROBATE NOTICE.
CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of b
- Earth-ss.-In Probate Court.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County OF Blue
- Earth-ss.-ln Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Michael Kunz,
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Joseph
kunz, administrator Of the estate of Michael
Kunz, deceased, representing among other
things that he has fully administered said es
tate and praying that time and place bt
fixed for examining and allowing his account
of his administration and for the assignment
of the residue OF said estate to heirs.
1t is ordered that said account be exam
ined and petition be heard by the Judge Ol
this court on Saturday, the Both day of July
A. ID. 1881, mt the Probate Office i'm said county
And it Is further ordered, that notice there.
of be given To all persons interested, by pub
fishing II copy of this order for two success
sive weeks prior to said day of hearing, i'm thu
MANKATO FREE PRESS, weekly newspaper
printed and published at Mankato, In SAID
county.
Dated at Mankato the nth day of July, A
ID. 1881.
BY the Court. q. w. MEAD,
3w3 Judge of Probate
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Many miserable people drag them
selves YEARLY about from day to day
not knowing what ails them but with
failing strength and spirits, feeling all
the time that they are steadily sinking
into their graves. If these sufferers
would only use Parker's Ginger Tonic,
they would find a cure commencing
from the first dose, and vitality, strength
and cheerfulness quickly and surely
coming back to them, with restoration
to perfect health. See advertising col.
ump.-zrjb1ne. july
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POLITICAL POINTS.

In the contest for the short-term
Senatorship at Albany, on the 9th inst, Potter
received 80 votes, Lapham "a. Conklng 81 aud
Wheeler l. The vote FOR the long term gave
Miller 6s votes. Herman 50 and Wheeler IL.
The ballot ut Albany on the 18th inst.
for Senator for the short term gave Lapham
90 votes, with 20 necessary to u choice Potter
~. and Conkling -. For the long term Miller
had 81 votes, Herman ~, and Wheeler Is. A
committee OF five, appointed at a recent meet
ing of the stalwsrt Republican members, made
all appeal to tho joint caucus committee to
unite in call for caucus arguing that
the election OF the present candidates, Lapham
and Miller. would cause two vacancies i'll the
national House of Representatives at n critical
period. The Chairman OF the Senate caucus
committee replied to the effect that the Conk-
ling faction neglected the opportunity to par
tcipate in Just such gathering as they now
askcd for.
In the ballot for Senator for the short
term at Albany, On the 18th inst, Lapham had
IS votes, Potter 81. aud Conkling 80, with
Is necessary to q choice. For the long term
Miller received 20, Herman SO, and Wheel
or q.
The Wisconsin Greenback State Con
vention was held at Waterfowl on the 18th
inst. The following State ticket was nominated
by reclamation: Governor, +. p. Als, Milwau.
kee; Lieutenant Governor, David Giddings,
Fond du Lac; Secretary Of state, Wilson Hop
kins, Chippewa; Treasurer. Gerhart hammers,
Sheboygan; Superintendent Of Public Instruc-
ton, ]. A. Gaynor, Wood; Attorney General,
joel Foster, Pierce; Hallway Commissioner, T.
q. Brunson, Crawford; Insurance Commission
err L. Merrill, Dodge.
In the balloting at Albany, on the 18th
inst. I.apham led for the short term with 90
votes, Potter had 81 and Conkling 49, For the
long term Miller had II, with IS necessary FOL
a choice Herman had 81 and Wheeler %
Conkling told New York reporter that undei
, no circumstances would he withdraw.
The Ohio Democratic State Conven
ton, in session at Columbus. chose Gen. Thos.
L. Powell, as permanent Chairman. John W.
Governor Edgar NJ. johnson, Of Cincinnati,
for Lieutenant Governor l.. +. Bingham, OF
Franklin, for Supreme Judge; A. L. Winslow,
of Cleveland. for state Treasurer Frank G.
Doughty, Of Highland county, for Attorney
General, and John Grove, Of Defiance, fol
Superintendent Of Public Works. The Guber,
material nominee is man Of vast wealth.
Frank H. Hurd's tariff views are reflected in
the platform.
The joint ballot for United States
Senator at Albany, on the l4th, gave, for the
short term, Lapham 20, Potter "a and Conk-
ling SO. For the long term Miller had 70 and
Herman "a. The Assembly subsequently adopt
cd resolution to adjourn ON Saturday, July
l6, by vote of 80 to 81.
There was little or no change in the
political situation at Albany on the 18th, the
ballot proving almost q repetition of the one
recorded on the previous day. The Senate re-
fused TO concur in the House resolution for an
adjournment on Saturday. July l6.
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WARRINGTON NOTES.

Secretary Kirkwood has decided that
when an inmate withdrsws from soldiers
homo he can receive his pension directly.
The assassin Guiteau continues to
manifest the most imperturbable GOODNESS, and
now proposes to write "The Life of Charles
Guiteau, written by himself, with an exposition
Of his System Of Theology" for which no thinks
the publishers ought to pay him 20 per cent.
royalty.
Gen. Hazen reports the issue for the
year of $s4, ass, $40 in postage stamps, envel-
opes, wrappers and cards.
Secretary Window, says Washing
ton dispatch, is 30 much annoyed by Office
seekers that he can attend to little other bust
ness He believes that the introduction OF
civil-service rules il the only remedy for this
annoying condition.
The National Bureau of Agriculture
places tho average Of tho wheat crop at IS pei
cent. OF full yield. The area Of corn planted
has increased 2 per cent, but the crop prom
ises to be only 30 per cent Of that Of last year.
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINos

Guiteau, the assassin, was O member
of Henry Ward Beecher's church some twelve
years ago.
A daughter OF William Morgan, the
exposer Of Masonic secrets, lives in Marion
county, Ore, and is the wife Of Capt. William
Smith. She states that five men took her
father into the lake and drowned him, and that
one Of them recently died In Portland, Orc.
There were twenty-three deaths from
yellow fever and fifteen from smallpox in
Havana last week.
There has been unparalleled suffering
from the heat at many points in tho country.
Many cases of sunstroke are reported Largo
amounts Of grain have boon harvested by
moonlight, the harvosters dreading the suns
rays. The mercury at St Louis, Cincinnati,
Pittsburgh and other cities ranged from So to
los In the shade.
Mrs, Abraham Lincoln has greatly
improved In health--is able to ride out and re-
ceive callers. The news Of the attempted as
sassination of President Garfield almost pros
trsted her and induced renewal OF Illness
which lasted till next day.
At Tongue Point Asylum, near Mon.
treal, two insane women named Porter and
Roberts were confined In the Same cell During
Monday night Porter fancied the other woman
was dragon come TO attack tho inmates, and
pounded her ON the head with board, causing
her death.
The Vigilant and Mount Wollaston,
tho missing Pacific coast whalers, were found
by Indians near East cape. Three corpses were
discovered on the former, and some money and
q spy-Glass.
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New Hampshire has new law
taxing church property when it ex.
ceeds ssl9, 900 in value. The COngre-
gatiOnal church at Manchester re-
fused to pay, on tho ground that the
act was unconstitutional, but the
Supreme Court has decided that un.
der the Constitution of that State it
is competent for the Legislature to
treat church property like any other
in the matter Of taxation, and the
fact of long exemption does not
affect the question.
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

The wife of Col. Frank Bridgman, of
Gen Sheridau's stan, fell dead OF heart dis
care in New York.
John A. Appleton, Of the famous New
York publishing house, is dead.
Judge Clifford, of the United States
Supreme Court, underwent amputation Of the
foot for gangreno.
Ralph T.. Richards and Edward L.
Gross two young ruiiians, the one IA years OF
age and the other II, drowned companion
Willie Carr, boy Of 10 years. near Portland
Ne, because he refused to give them % cents
winch lie had
A fire at Bradford, Pa, destroyed
sl00,0 worth of business property.
Pittsburgh reports a great boom in
the iron trade. Mills are sold from three to
six months ahead.
Gen. Pemberton, who commanded the
rebel forces at vicksburg, died recently at Penn
Van, Pa. aged "a.
A brewers clerk and an Office boy III
New York drove down from Ninety second
street TO deposit $4,000 in currency and bag
'n-ir wagon was run into by peddler's cart
ing three men. the latter soon seized
Asgs Of bills and drove of down Lex
a,enue, letting the bag Of silver fall
.-.. l4t street.
AT the conclusion Of the second heat
of race at Pittsburgh, the well-known trotting
stallion Bonesetter, owned by II. v. Bemis, Of
Il. H.. 81
$4,000.
As a passenger train was moving at
fair speed through the streets OF Madison,
Wis. the engineer saw two little children spring
out Of the grass upon the track, few rods
ahead. The air-braLes were applied and the
locomotive reversed. hut the children went
under the tender II wss found that one had
lost two teeth and the other received only q
few scars.
Phiueas w. Hitchcock, ex-senator
from Nebraska. died i'll Omaha, the direct cause
being over-excrtion in the sun. lie was born
in New Lebanon n. Y. in 1891, and was a
classmate of President Garfield at Williams
College.
A hail-storm broke thousands of win
dows at wnona, MIMI, and cyclone swept
away the repair-shop Of the Northwestern road.
The Williams brothers, fugitives from
Justice in Illinois, killed Deputy Sheriff Cole
man, OF st. Croix comfy, Wis, and Charles
Coleman. formerly Sheriff Of Pepin county.
The slaughter occurred at Durant, twenty-five
miles south Of Menominee, while tho officers
were attempting 10 arrest the outlaws. Gov.
Smith offers $500 reward for their capture, and
has authorized the Use Of tho Ludington
Guards ia running them down.
The Illinois and Mississippi River
Improvement Commission are busily engaged
in prosecuting their effort for an appeal to
Congress at liz next session for the needed ap-
preparations for the Improvement Of the rivers
of the West, and also for the construction Of
the Hennepin canal. A meeting Of the COM
mission will DC held in Chicago some time in
August
The chinch-bng has seriously dam
aged the wheat crop of Northern Iowa. All
other kinds Of crops except wheat are good.
A recent dispatch from Leavenworth
SAWS the Prohibition law continues TO be dead
lettor in Leavenworth, Atchison, Topeka and
othsr large Kansas towns.