The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-09
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.


to have q Touring mill.
A farmer near Rochester has beef
offered $1,000 for IS acres Of potatoes
Ex.GOv. Horace Austin has fixet
upon Fergus Falls as his future home
|. An employee Of Isaac Ballard Of
Waseca county, has fallen heir e
100000 in England.
w. +. Dalrymple, the wheat king.
says the yield in Dakota will average
fully IL bushels per acre.
. Citizens around Jackson are having
young lambs and other small animals
carried of by a panther.
Judge Start will occupy the judicial
bench in Jackson county this week In
place of Judge Severance.
Mr.. DOrtt, of OwatOnna, expects
to get 200 bushels of standard apples
from his orchard this year.
The WOrthingtOn Adrance speaks
Of Il s.. months old calf in that vi.
entity which weighs $50 pounds.
Railroad hands working between
Estherville and Jackson get $l.75,
and men and teams $3.50 per day.
Todd county held the first county
convention this year. Its first choice
for Governor is Gilmore, and Hub.
bard, second.
II. Anderson, of Salem, Olmstead
county, has 81 900 tobacco plants on
seven acres Of land. The crop is
estimated at 10000 pounds.
The people of Lake City and vicini-
ty are To hold Il three days fair at the
driving park in that city, cOmmenc.
ing September 26th, and closing Oc-
tOber lst.
The Jackson Republic has know.
ledge OF a matrimonial affair which
may be duly announced in its columns
in u couple Of months. Wonder il it
is the editor himself!
There were 4S, $50 pounds of wool
marketed in FairmOnt during the
past season. The price per pound
would average about 90 cents, making
the total amount paid out $l3,934.5O.
Last Saturday. the State Treasurer
took up and paid. 100000 worth of
State LOnds which had been drawing
I per cent. interest. Thus $4,000
yearly interest is saved ~ the State.
Diphtheria is raging to an alarm
ing extent in the vicinity of Still.
water. Two children Of MI. SchOfield
died in one day recently, and their
father, aged so, on the day following,
with the same dread disease.
The we'll water in Minneapolis is
pronounced very impure owing to de.
fective sewage, and a great many
cases of typhoid fever and diseases
of a kindred nature are reported.
One hundred and seventy deaths &C.
Cured during the month of August,
fOrty.fOur of which were from ty-
ph0id fever.
Saltwater has accepted a PROPOSE
ton from Messrs. Seymour, Sabin &
Co., to purchase from them certain
lands lying in the limits of that city
for the consideration of 100000,
with the further understanding that
the company will erect a shops in
the city which will employ 300 men
and also build 100 tenement houses.
G. c. Chamberlin, ESQ.,, of the
MankatO FREE PRESS, went west on
the Wednesday morning train. Mr..
c. has been rusticating among the
grand natural scenery of the Dells of
Wis.,. for a couple of weeks. and like
all others who have been there, is
thoroughly delighted with its pic.
turesque grandeur. We are sorry to
learn that Bro. Chamberlin's eyes
prevent him from attending to Office
duties, but sincerely trust he may
soon be able to surmOunt his present
affection. -.LanesbOrO Journal.
Special Postal Inspector S. p.
Childs last Saturday had Charles Pc
dersOn. a labOring man of st. Paul
arrested and taken before United
States Commissioner CardoZO, charg-
ed with sending postal cards with
lewd, indecent and obscene commune
cations written upon them through
the mails. One of the cards was
copied and the copy was embodied in
the complaint. 1t Is totally unfit
for publication. and Mr.. Peterson
was required to give bonds for $500
to appear for trial.
The severe hail storm which visited
portions of Southern Minnesota last
week, done considerable damage, but
the loss was greater in Steele county
than elsewhere. Frank Holmes Of
Meriden, owner of the best farm
house in the county, reports damages
not less than $1,000. The windows
in the north and west parts of the
house were completely destroyed.
He took u barrel Of hail out of the
rooms. Everything is cut to the
ground. Eugene SOper. on the way
home to LemOnd, had his wagon with
q hayrack overturned on him, the
wind carrying his boy ten or twelve
yards.
The nineteenth term of school in
the Minnesota Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb begins Sept. IA.
New pupils are received and a new
class formed only at the commence.
ment Of the year in September. Deaf
mute children residing in Minnesota
who are of suitable age and capacity
are received, furnished tuition, care,
board, and are taught a trade all free
of charge.
The buildings now provided by the
State are ample, situated ina healthy
locality, well equipped, and the
teachers experienced and efficient.
All pupils who are able to profit there
by arc taught articulation and lip
reading.
There are not less than fifty un-
educated deaf mute children of suit
able age In the State who ought to
enter this fall. All should be prompt
in making application for admission
and in attendance.
Parents, guardians and any one
knowing the residence of such child.
rem are desired to inform
j. l.. MOVES, Supt.
At a conference Of the State boards
of health, held at Albert Lea last
week, Rev. r. B. Abbott presented q
paper on Domestic Hygiene. He
claimed that the highest duty is to
be we'll. To be sick will sometimes
be regarded as more than a misfor-
tune. In the home is the beginning
Of life, and there are the agencies
which mainly control it for all the
future. The condition of the world
in this regard is susceptible of great
improvement. The mortality of
young children, the feebleness Of
many who survive and the shortness
Of life, call for investigation. The
medical missionary stands among the
greatest benefactors of the race.
Progress ought to be made towards
that millennium in which children
will not die, adults will not be sick.