Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-23

offered him by railroad companies.
The Winona s st. Peter Railroad
Company have surveyed and located
their road fifty miles west of Fort Pierre.
Under the new apportionment Fill
more county will have i've representa-
tives instead Of six, and one senator in
stead oftwo, as heretofore.
MIR. Parker. OF H highland, this county,
marketed eleven head ut fat cattle last
week, for which he received $519, or up.
wards of 81 per head. -Rushjord Star.
Albert Lea is going 10 lay by the
money received for liquor licen ses every
year and with it create sinking fund to
pay of her bonded indebtedness.
MIR. Eli Denton, living about miles
west of St. Charles, Winona county, is
S8 years of age, aud his wife o. They
have lived together in welded life 81
years. God bless tho dear old souls.
The indications are that the farmers
of this county will plant . much larger
amount of corn this year than has ever
been planted before. A. w. Horner, of
Pickerel Lake, talks of putting in one
hundred acres. All of this means more
hogs and stock Of all kinds.-Albert Leo
Standard.
"A. s. Brownell sold to E. F. Bacon,
of Rudd, last week, thirty head Of fat
steers for $1,626, at an average of almost
$51 each. These are some of Mr.. Brow
nell's own raising and feeding. He tells
US he expects TO have sixty head next fall
which will beat this average.-Charles
City (loua) Advocate.
The courthouse at Charles City, Iowa,
burned to the ground Feb. 4th. Contents
Of vaults and safes all right, but all books
and papers not thus protected were de.
stroyed. Loss Of building, estimated 1t
CSC, 600; insured for $4,000. Value Of
books and papers destroyed cannot be
estimated in dollars and cents.
Hon. Stephen Miller. Governor of
Minnesota soon after the war, was attack
ed with sudden illness at Worthington on
the nth inst. The Governor 10 =
genial, patriotic old fellow, and held
in high esteem by his many friends in
Minnesota. 1t is to be hoped he may
be spared yet these many years.
Some correspondent. evidently
granger member of the legislature, asks
why it is that anthracite coal is delivered
in Liverpool for $12.50 per ton, aud At
DEBORAH, Iowa, for $l2 80. it railroads
are such blessing. We suppose the
railroads have to make up on coal what
| they loose carrying members OF the log.
islature free. We don't know a. that 10
! the reason, hut it looks plauaible.-P<ck's
Sun.
The size OF books is not generally
understood. A folio is paper twelve
and half by nineteen inches; a quarto
(4to) is nine and a half by twelve aud =
half; octave q vo.) six and quarter by
nine and half; duodecimo (12 mo) four
and three quarters by eight and quarter ;
16 mo-, is four and three quarters by six
aud a quarter. Preserve this and when
you see book advertised you can tell the
size Of its leaves.-Ez.
We notice that several Of our e.
changes are growing for the reason that
''The only Lung Pad Co." don't pay for
its advertising. The Star refused 10 pub
lish the lads" unless first quarter was
paid in advance, and Of course the com.
pary being q swindle, refused to pay IN
advance.-Rushtord Star.
It is strange how gullible the average
country newspaper editor is. He knows
everything-except how to do business.
AN exchange, in telling its CORES.
pondents what to write, says: IF any Of
your town people are going away, let W
know, and how long they are going to
stay, why they 60, and whom they will
visit"
Now, we say, don't do this thing, be.
cause many times man don't want you
to know where he is going, nor why, and
1t is far better for the community in
which he lives to keep still about the
matter. !,
-Superintenden Egan worked eight
hundred men at an expense Of 81, 200 per
day, for . week or ten days in opening
the western division of the Southern
Minnesota road, and just when he CON-
pleted the job and had clear track from
La Crosse TO Flandrau, in . single night
the expensive job was undone, and the
road blockaded tighter than ever before.
1t is said that sitting on the telegraph
poles on the Jackson prairies aud dang
ling his little feet in the soft fleecy snow
beneath, the Superintendent has learned
every word and stanZa of that pathetic
little poem entitled beautiful Snow"
Surely such commended BILE resignation to
inevitable fate, and disposition to make
the best Of a bad job, is tho highest trib.
ute to be paid any man. Il is such ma
! terial that martyrs and saints are made
from.--Mankato Ree;e.e.
u. B. Cooper, Of Wasiojs, Dodge
county, gives through the Mantorville
E1press, his experience in mixing wheat
and oats in sowing - follows:
1sowed last spring five acres OF mixed
grain, by the side Of my wheat. the land
being % near the same % possible. I
sowed one and one.half bushels of wheat
per acre, the same ~ ! sowsd for my other
wheat, and one.half bushels of oats per
acre. My mixed grain averaged twenty
three bushels per acre, and, when separ-
ted and clean, there was ten bushels OF
wheat per acre, asd thirteen
| OuSueb VI OAtS per ScEos thoH0AtS Del0R
very heavy, weighing fairly sPonnds per
bushel. could not separate the grain
with common tanning mill. but / got
the 'Victory Fam" mill made in Wis
consin by Martin L. Sperry. 1t WAS =
success, Cleaning the oats perfectly clean,
and the wheat 80 that but two pounds per
bushel was deducted in the market-the
wheat being good No. 2. Iran the grain
through the fan but once.
Dfuggises Heard From.
I'VE know the value Of malt, hops, calisaya
and iron composing malt BitterS.":
'Our lady customers highly praise them"
"Phygicians prescribe them in this town.
'sThe largest bottle and best medicine"
'sBest blood purifier on our shelves.'
'sOuP best people take Malt BitterS.'"
"SuIo Cure for oh1lls and liver diseases"
AoHH1s Of the United States Ash commits.
sion have recently deposited 5000 young
salmon In Tributaries Of tho 2t0o1o05ppt.
=: ACF01s Baby. =
| Nothing 10 % conducive to mans renain-
ing bachelor - stopping for one night at the
house Of . married friend and being kept
awake for hve or six hours by the crying Of .