The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

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A farmer near Dover raised this
season 300 bushels Of onions.
The Rochester creamery is making
46O pounds Of choice butter week.
, A new paper will be started in
Rochester called the Olmstead County
, Democrat.
Cloth peddling swindlers are doing
the southern part of this State. Look
out for them.
p. j. Mcintyre. treasurer of Mower
county, died in Austin, on Monday,
October 3D..
The safe of o. II. Davis, at Mad
della was blown open by burglars on
Thursday morning.
The publishers of the new st. Paul
directory claim that the city now has
a population of $1,000.
Wild peppermint, says the Ameri.
can Uairyman, will keep rats away il
scattered around in cOrn.cribs.
John DeudOn. a farmer living be.
tween Shelbyville and WinnebagO
City, accidently shot himself last
week, subsequently dying.
The Dakota farm OF Brown & Rand
yielded 10000 bushels of wheat this
season, and the entire lot was bought
in on tho 3Oth ult. by the Minneap.
oils Millers Association for 81 "a per
bushel.
A wood dealer of Mankato is re-
ported to have sold wood this season
to tho amount of 1925 ,OO0.-Waseca
Herald.
by saying UoOl instead of pOOd the
Herald would be correct.
The Legislature of Minnesota is to
convene at st. Paul On Tuesday, the
18th October, inst, pursuant to the
call of Governor Pillsbury. We are
now on the eve of a new entertain.
ment, touching those "0ld bonds"
During storm the other night in
Caledonia, lightning struck the straw
stack OF Mr.. Stewart, under which he
had stored his reaper, mower, hay.
rake and other agricultural imple-
ments, and all were burned.
The Herman Herald of Sept. 30,
says that Prairie fires are beginning
to run In that vicinity. No one in
Blue Earth county passes sleepless
nights through fear Of that kind of
cremation. We fear an October flood,
our rivers now beng at full banks.
The wealthy and populous county
of Blue Earth does not offer as high
premiums at its County Fairs as LIE
Sueur has been paying. The highest
premium paid there for butter was IS
cents, while in this county $500 was
paddle Sueur Sentinel.
Over 1000 head of cattle have been
herded in the town of FreebOrn dur
ing the present season, not including
the stock owned in the township, and
yet we are Informed that still there
will he thousands of tons of grass
which will 60 to waste.-Albert Lea
Standard.
The FairmOnt, Martin county Sen.
tinel says potatoes bid fair to he a
good crop after all. That may be
true of Martin county, but would
hardly answer for this section of
Blue Earth county, where they are
reported as rOtting in the ground and
in the cellars as well.
The Spring Valley Times is authority
for the statement that the editor of
the Spring Valley Vidette was terribly
whipped in his own sanctum OIL
Tuesday, the 9th, by Col. G. G.
Edwards. The cause of his receiv.
ing chastisement was an article
written by the said editor rejecting
upon Col. Edwards for past political
conduct.
People out at Long Prairie are
being agitated on account of reported
lights having recently been seen in
the night time in their grave yard.
We command to the affrighted people
of that realm thorough reading of
Walter SCOTS book, entitled DE
mOnOlOgy and Witchcraft." It's a
sure cure for the most obstinate
cases of mental and optical illusions.
While Minnesota does not belong
to the corn belt, yet she has, accord
ing to her average, better crop of
corn this season than those States
which make this grain spec
ialty. While all other Northwestern
States have suffered from drouth,
this State has, on the contrary, had
too much rain, but, as We before said,
has raised a good crop of corn.
The following. which we clip from
the Lincoln county Journal. surpasses
Mankato in the expression of graft.
tude for lost money honestly returned
to its owner:
A saloon keeper i'm New Ulm,
whose lost pOcket.bOok containing
nearly $500 was returned to him by
the finder, impulsively exclaimed
"YOu PEGS Won honest pOy; will
shake NIT you for de drinks They
''shook," and the honest boy lost and
paid.
The Minnesota Farmer pertinently
remarked on bee culture and it's
product, honey, that the great abund.
ance of flowers in Minnesota, and the
dry air In this latitude, make this
good State for bee keepers, and the
great army of bee workers have
done unusually well in this State this
year. One hundred pounds of honey
will bring in this market at least
SIS; equal to two acres of wheat
raised anywhere in the southern half
of the State in any ordinary wheat
season. The wonder is that more Of
our people do not engage in bee
culture and the production of honey.
A sneak thief in FairmOnt recently
entered kitchen, in the momentary
absence of the family, and stole q
large piece of mutton from a boiling
kettle, and made successful retreat.
This reminds US of little incident
illustrating the daring which intense
hunger will drive both the higher and
lower order of animals. We had Just
returned from sharp tramp after a
fox, and Turk, the hound was an
hungered. Entering the house where
a nicely broiled and we'll buttered
mackerel had just been lifted on to
the platter and left for the moment
to absorb the tactical richness; when
the hound served the fish by the tail
and put outside amid the unavailing
screams Of the cook, and the outlaws
of the spectators. Hunger may be
relied upon every time for acts of
positive daring.
The Standard can boast Of at least
one constant reader" When the
first number Of this paper was issued
in 1857, Mr.. Daniel Hurd of Man.
chester became q subscriber, paying
in advance, and from that day to the
present time, through all its changes