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Ips aud DOsrns ia OIL Csfu.

Philadelphia Times.
Speculation on the price of oil,
finds prominence to-day. Magnificent
changes We're erected in Oil City.
Titusville and bradford. Here sprcu.
lation is INDUCED in on the price of
oil, the oil certificates being the basis
One instance of how men become
rich in this speculation occurred in
Oil CITY. Two brothers by the name
of Goettle, in lS68-67, were boot.
blacks around the streets of the oil
towns. They made great deal Of
money for boys and saved it. When
they had Il few hundred saved. they
took 4 flyer on the market. They
were successful and doubled. success
still followed them, and to-day they
are among the wealthicst and most
successful Spectators in the region.
Some time ago, in one of the eX-
changes, the gallery was filled to
Overlooking. The market was leap
ing up ut the rate of ten cents an
hour. One of the heaviest buyers
wls On the wrong side. He SAW his
fortune disappearing like INST at the
rate of S25,000 IN hour. For six
hours this continued, and he was
forced to lay down." rs it is called;
to he announced a bankrupt, in other
words. His wife was Il witness of
the whole scene. An hour before
the worst came, she left the exchange,
walked into dry goods store, took
off her sealskin sacque, and sold il.
From that place she went to Il jew
eler's and disposed of her diamonds
and I'LL her silver. When her hus-
band returned home. tlisconsolate and
downcast, she met him ut the door
dressed in neat calico wrapper. He
had been u clerk before fortune
smiled upon him, and she Il modest
school teacher. She informed him
that she had discharged all the SER
wants and that they would live as
formally, she doing the work. She
handed him SIS 500 as the result of sell.
ing her jewelry, and told him to use
1t. JOY and hope beamGd in his eyes
and found place in his heart once
more. He went again to business.
In one month he had regained his
former position, he had redeemed
everything his wife had pledged. and
was living us formerly.
Three times in six years was this
man saved in this manner by his
wife. To-day he is one of the most
daring of our spectators.
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arguments of the lawyers and the
charge of the court.
Again, the juryman is impressed
into the service. Often he brings
with him the cares of the business
from which he was taken; and if
anxiety about the harvesting. the
notes that must be paid before the
banks close, or the conduct of the
boy who thinks "epsOm salts means
Oxalic acid y distracts his attention,
he will console himself 10y the rellec-
tion that his responsibility is shared
by eleven others.
On the other hand, the judge brings
to the work Il mind disciplined by
years of study, followed by years Ni
study and practice. His knowledg,
of law enables him To see what facts
are to be proved, and on which Oi
the parties rests the burden Oi
proving them, and so, rs each wianss.
delivers his testimony, to appr~eiat,
It's prObative value. Practice Ia.
taught him to read witnesses Fo
him not only, but the manner, TIN
tone, the gesture, the coantenance
have force and meaning. He i
not likely to be misled. He has OF
portnnity to take full notes, if Nee
be, and afterwards to revise and com
pare the statements of witnesses
The duties of his Office are his work
His attention is is,t distracted D.,
outside cares.
80 much for the relative capacit
of judge and jury to administe
Justice.
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PROBATE NOTICE.

CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
y Earth, ss.-In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate Of Samuel w
CASTILLO, deceased.
ON reading and filing the verified petition of
Samuel ii. Foster, of Blue Earth county, rep-
rcscnting among other things that SamIieI,M
CASTILLO, late of Blue Earth county, on stne
18th day of May, A. ID. 1881, at Mankato town
ship died interstate, and being IL resident OF
this county ut the time Of bis death, leaving
goods. ohatteis and estate within this county,
and praying that administration Of said estate
be to him, said Samuel ii. Foster, granted, II
Is ordered that said petition he heard before
the judge of this court, on Saturday, the 25th
day of June, A. ID. 1881, ut 10 o'clock In the
forenoon, at the Probate Office In said county.
Ordered further that notice thereof be given
to the heirs Of said deceased and to all persons
interested, by publishing a copy of this order
for three successive weeks prior to said day
of hearing I'm THE MANKATo FREE Press, u
weekly newspaper printed and published at
Mankato I'm said county.
Dated at Mankato, the 3lst day of May, A.
II. 1881,
by the Court, U. W. MEAD.
49wi Judge Of Probate.
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nu1scELLANEous GLEANINas.


"A lady Of San Francisco has written
to Lieut.. Berry, asking TO DO taken on the Arc
tic expedition, with the proviso that II found
IN incumbrancs she may DO thrown overheard
10 tho whales
Burned: A wooden factory and chat,
fsctory at Appleton, Wis, loss 100000.
.no railroad lines not having main.
.ained the tariff on grain, Commissioners FIX
has authorized general reduction Of tho tarin
on tho basis Of 20 cents per 100 pounds from
Chicago to New York. A further reduction will
be made IL this rate is not maintained.
1t is officially stated that GAP houses
were destroyed in the Quebec fire, making
homeless l,2ll families, consisting Of 6,028 in
dividusls, two-thirds OF whom lost all, and
without insurance.
The Department Of Agriculture at
port Spring wheat-The acreage shows . largo
decline since last year. In the area reported
TO the department, only GO per cent Of that
sown in 1880. The condition Is, however, fully
equal TO that Of last year at the same time.
Winter wheat-Ths condition Is reported at
an average for the whole country Of only 76
The principal complaints are from Michigan,
Indiana and Illinois, where. added to most un.
favorable weather, there Is great damage by
chinoh-bugs and the Hessisn Fly. California
reports . very low condition, caused by cold
weather and drought.
During the month Of May Of this year
III, 4s2 immigrants arrived in this country, and
during the eleven months ending May 81, 6s4,-
fs4 arrived. OF the latter number l76,SOe
were Germans, 1lO,6ll came from Canada, 61,-
796 from Ireland, 1851 were English and
Welsh, 12,62s Scotch, 7,44s Chinese, and 1885,
$40 came from al other countries.
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STATE OF MINNESOTA; County of Blue
- Eurth-ss.-ln Probate CG,Irt-Spccial
r.rrn lima INth 1871

STATE OF MINNESOTA; County of Blu,
- Eurth-ss. In Probate Court -Spccia
Term, JuIc 18th, 1881.
In the matter of the estate of FrSdricl
Fritscbc, deceased.
Whereas, An instrument in writing, Dur
porting To be- the last will and testament al
Friedrich FritSpnc, dcceHsc,l, late of sui,
county, has been delivered Ia this court;
And, Whereas, August Piagcmann an,
Henry wager have filed herewith their pcti
tion, rcprcscntinga among other things that sal,
Friedrich Fritschc died in the county Of Fart
baIIlt on the 18th day Of March, 1851, tcstatc
and that said petitioners are the executor,
named In said last will and testament. I'M,
praying that tho said instrument may bc All
mittcd to probate, and that letters testament
AIRY he to them issued thereon;
Ii Is ordered, that the proofs of said instru
mcnt, and the said petition, bc heard bcfor,
this court ut the Probate Office in said coun
~, on the 18th day of July, A. ID. ISL, at I,
O'Clock In the forenoon, when all concerned
may appear and contest the probate of sale
instrument.
And il Is further ordered, that public notice
of the time and place Of sand hearing be givcI
To all persons Interested, by publication al
these orders for three weeks successfully pre-
viols to said dizzy of hearing, in the MANKATt
FREE Press, II newspaper printed and pub
lishcd at Mankato In said county.
q. W. MEAD,
5lwl Judge of Probate.
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PROBATE NOTICE,

StTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
y Earth.-ss,-In Probate Court-Specia
Term, June II, 1881.
In tho matter Of the estate Of Nelson W. Dick
crson deceased.
Letters of administration on the estate Oi
said deceased having been granted unto T.. T.
Wushburn of said county.
II il ordered that all claims and demands Oi
all persons against said estate bc presented I,
this court for examination and hearing at thu
Pnlatc Office, in Mankato, On the following
days, viz: On Monday the 18th day of Sep
tcnbcr, and on Monday the 18th day of DE
ccmbcr, 1881, ut 10 O'Clock In the forenoon Oh
each of said days.
1t il further ordered that six months from
the date hereof he allowed to creditors q
present their claims against said estate, 1T thu
expiration of which time all claims not pre-
schicd To said court or not proven t. its sat
isfaction shall he forever barred, unless foi
cause shown, further time he allowed.
Ordered further, that said administrator us
aforesaid shall cause notice of the time and
place of the hearing and examination of said
claims and demands by publishing u notice
thereof for four weeks successfully I'm THE
MANKATO FREE Press, II newspaper printed
and published ut Mankato Ia said county.
BY the Court, G, W. MEAD,
5lwt Judge Of Probate.
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IA Editors Debt.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
In the years agone, when De Witt ,
Clinton county, was the county seat
and u right smart village In the woods,
or on the way to be. the editor of its
weekly paper had some subscribers
who paid i'm wood, Others in produce,
others in fur, and others yet who
didn't pay at all. One of these latter
class WAS named Lemon, but tp
squeeze anything out of him was
next To impossible. lie had excuses
at his tongues end for not paying,
and the longer the debt stood the
more reasonable his excuses seemed
to his creditors. One day the editor
met him on the street, and, after Il
general greeting began on INN with !:
"Mr. Lemon, you have been owing
me for two years"
Yes, hut ! had bad luck in my
sugar BUSH"
But yGu might have brought
wood"
$50 / should, but i broke two new
axes and couldn't buy another"
81 offered to take it out in turnips
and corn
~ know: but the crows ate my
corn up and the lnjuns stole all my
turnips."
"Well, how are you getting along
now 7" asked the editor.
First-rate."
Have Jon good run of sugar''
Yea"
Corn doing well?"
"Splendid."
"Wheat all right!'
eyes. all right"
"Well, if corn, wheat, potatoes
and turnips turp ont good, and you
keep well, and you have no losses,
will you pay in the fall -
The farmer scratched his head and
took q full minute to think over it
before he replied
"That's an honest debt apd Orter
be paid, but ! won't positively agree
to square up this fall until ! know
what sort of q corn season we are TO
have!"
1t is needless to say that he never
squared.
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Erfr0 I0sOrstOSss.

4 certain officer received q report
of Il policy written, covering, among
others, this item One hundred
fifty dollars on her wigs, braids, puffs
rolls, ourls. and other hair for hel
personal use. etc." The presiding
genius of said office exhibited an
alarming ignorance of the subject in
writing the agent as follows: "This
is an uncommon item, and, as we find
no blanks for an appropriate survey,
you will please speedily answer the
following interrogations: What is
the color of her hair and, If red,
decline. Is assured married or singlef
If married, is her husband quick tenn.
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l'ccjudicr Kills.

Eleven years our daughter sullcrc,
ON II bed of misery under the care al
several of the best lind some of tll.
worsD physicians, who gave her dis
now she i restored Ia us IN good health
by rs simple II remedy rs Hop Bittcrs
that We had po"trd AT for two years
before usin" it. We earnestly hope and
pray that nn one lSr will let their SICK
suffer ~ we did, an account of prcju
dice against 80 good medicine rs HoI
Biil"rS." The Parents. I,ii0ram.
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MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE.

DEFAULT having been made In the condi-
" lions Of II certain mortgage executed by
Griffith Grifiths and Ellen Griifths, his wife,
mortpagors, to A. l.. Dorttberg, MORTGAGE,
,!atcd February 9th, A. u. 1876, and recorded
IN the Office of the Register of Deeds in
and for the county of Hue Earth In the
stat" of Minnesota. ON tho 9Th day of Fcbrii-
AIRY, u. ID. 1876, NJ five O'clock In the after
noon. III book No. BOZ mortgages, On pagc6ib;
by which mortgage there was conveyed and
granted the following described real estate
situate IN the county Of Blue Earth afOrc-
said, to-wit: Lots one and two u and =, in
block three 90 In Lewis & Shaubiits addition
e. Mankato, according 10 the recorded
plat thereof, to secure the payment of
the sum Gf Two Hundred dollars, with
interest at the rate Of IL per cent
per annum until paid, according to
the conditions Of II prOmissory note bearing
same date as said mortgage. made 10y said
Griffith GriiiithS to said a. l.. DOrnicry; and
there being due and unpaid upon said note
AMI mortgage at the date Of this notice the
sum of Two Hundred and thirty-piyht dollars,
and no action ar proceeding AT law or other
wise having been instituted to recover the
amount OF said mortgage debt or any part
thereof; Now. therefore, notice u hereby
given that 10y virtue and in pursuance of u
power of sale In said mortgage contained and
Herewith recorded, and of the statute In such
ease made and provided, the above described
premises will be sold at public auction, nt the
front door of the Office of the Register of
Deeds In and for said county of Blue Earth
and nj the city of Mankato, therein, on SatiIr-
day, the 9th day of July, A. ID. 1881, at III
o'clock In the forenoon, to satisfy the amount
of said mortgage debt then due and unpaid,
together with the costs and expenses of such
foreclosure proceedings, including twenty
five dollars attorneys fees ms stipulated In
said mortgage; and the said mortgage will bc
thereby forcclOscd.
Dated May 10th, 1881.
A. l.. DORNBERG, Mortgagcc.
iSw7 w. ID. TORREY. ATTORNEY for Mortgngcc.
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.


William Ryan, Gho was arrested al
Nashville for robbing the Government Pay
master at Mussel shoals, Oh the Tennessee
river, has been fully identified one Of the
part. who took $50, 900 in gold from train q,
Glendale. No., two years ago.
Twelve men were more or less injured
by the explosion Of boiler III an iron works al
PottsVille, Pa. Four d the number cannot
possibly recover.
Over S2,O00,000 worth Of property
~as destroyed in the vicinity Of Pittsburgh
by the recent food in the Allegheny river
The Chinese Government has estab-
hshed ,chool Of ielcgraphy at Hartford, Ct,
where Gorham Il. HuJbell will instruct forty
young Crastials ia the construction and obera-
ton Of rcs.
II. VI. Hewitt, OF Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
manager Of Adams Express Company for
twenty-five years. lie dead.
Brooklyn'B big bridge has so far cost
sl3,0Go,GJG. II will DC completed within this
gear. and viii DC one OF the wonders OF the age.
Robert Martin, an English machinist
~ SC"dlh, y. De, huOl MS WIG uchu anu lu-
iicted mortal wound Oh his child.
The heavy iron firm of L. p. Cutler &
Co., Of Boston, has suspended business, with
liabilities Of 100000
Two Of the Picrrepont warehouses in
Brooklyn were burned, causing damage TO the
amount OF 100000. One man was burned
alive and another fatally injured.
Silas NJ. Waite, ex-President of the
First National Bank Of BrattleborO, VI, plead
ed guilty 10 the charge Of making false returns,
and was sentenced TO six years imprisonment
in tho House Of Correction.
The Adams whitehead works, near
Baltimore, we're destroyed by fire, involving .
loss Of s75OOO.
A passenger train on the Schuylkill
and Lchigh railroad was thrown of the track
uear Reading, Pa, causing the instant death
OF fireman Charles Matthews and injury TO sew
eaal passengers and the engineer. Tho acc-
dent was caused by a log which was placed
across the track.
Alexander g. Walker, q liquor-dealer
Of New York, lost package OF railroad bonds
representing value Of 100000 walking along
Broadway.
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WARRINGTON NOTES.

Chin Ian Pin, the Chinese Minister at
Washington, is to he recalled. His successor,
Chang Tsan Yu, has been for some years
prominent rsyepue ofticor.
Miss NJ. N. Gillett, Wisconsin
woman, has been appointed notary public
for tho District Of Columbia, She has tho
honor Of being the first lady notary ever
appointed by q President of tho United
States
Depositors of the Freedmen's Bank
have s3. 40 each due them on unclaimed divi-
dends. As soon as the bank property is sold
the FINAL dividend will DO paid, making total
Of 90 per cent. paid each depositor.
Owing to the fact that the apprepria-
tons for CANCERS and storeksepers for tho
present fiscal year are very noa.iy exhausted,
Collectors Of Internal Revenue have been a.
rected to inform the gaugers and storekeepers
employed under them that they will 10 only
paid to the goth OF June.
Brady and Dorsey, it IL said, will BIO
the first batch Of starroute operators 20 he
prosecuted by the Government. No indict-
ments against other alleged criminals will bo
asked when tho prosecution is uncertain Of
procuring conviction
1t is reported that Auditor French Ii
satisfied with the condition Of the Central Pa
eifc railroad aud its capaLiIty OF daily settling
with TIE Government
Rear Admiral Rodgers, President OF
the Board Of Visitors Of tho Naval Academy at
Annapolis, has submitted the report Of tue
board to the Secretary OF the Navy. II fsyors
the inhibition OF tobacco by the cadets, tho
substitution Of tho latest kind Of ordnance for
the old fashioned weapons, and the raising OF
the stsadsrd OF admission.
W. N. Dudley, United States Marshal
Of Indiana, has been appointed ColHmls-
sioner Of Pensions, vice J. A. Bentley, re-
signed; Judge Noah G. Mcfarland, Of Topeka,
Kan, was appointed Commissioner Of tho
General Land Office vice Gen. Williamson, re-
signed.
q. Secretary Lincoln has issued an order
declaring that the whole number Of enlisted
men allowed for clerical duty shall be thirteen
sergeants, twenty-one cOrporals, l07 privatos
sad sixteen typographical assistants and the
General OF the Army will regulate their distribu-
ton.
Secretary Window has dismissed o. Il.
Pitney, the "crooked treasury Custodian, and
has abolished the Office.
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TriG! by J"ry.

July Atlantic.
Trial by jury proves the existence
of free government it is the ex'
ercisc by the the people of one branch
of supreme power. When we say II
Pounds or upholds it, we put the effect
for the cause. But suppose its value
for the conservation of liberty in the
past were admitted, it does not fol-
low that il is needed now for the like
purpose. Officials are powerless he.
yond constitutional limits. Judges
by the tenure Of Office are heyohd the
influence of executive. power, and
generally of the ballOt-boX. The end
now to he sought is that the law, as
the expressed will of the people,
should he everywhere and always
supreme and uniform in IFS admins.
trati0n.
And so Ne come to this vital qucs-
ton: Is justice according to fixed
rules of law more likely to he ut.
tanned by our present system, or by
one in which both fact and law are
settled by the court without the in
teryentiOn of a jury!
In cases in which we may assume
that jurors would have no bias, it is
Obvious that they are greatly liable
to error from the want of proper quail.
ifcations for the work they are tn
do. 1t was found in the beginning
that the worlds work could not be
done without special preparation for
special duties. Our neighbor may
be great man, hut we do not call
upon him Ia set broken limb unless
he has had the training of u surgeon.
Much rs we may esteem our physi-
clan, we do not ask his advice when
a claim is set up to the estate we in
herited and supposed our own. We
never go To our shoemaker for y coat,
nor to our tailor for boots. In our
late war, we sometimes, when smart.
ing under defeat, talked wildly about
military genius and West Point ma.
chimes but i'm the end the value of
military education was splendidly
vindicated, while the civilians. who
early in the war, 10y political inhu.
ence or otherwise, obtained indepen.
dent commands in the army, for the
most part failed miserably. involving
the country in vast Joss and suffering.
The average juryman is unaooustOmed
to continuous thought. lie has
never learned by practise to weigh
and compare evidence, nor to Judge
of the truthiulness of witnesses. In
protracted trials it is impossible for
him to carry the testimony i'm his
memory or to aid his memory effect.
lively by notes. At the close of the
testimony the court instructs him i'm
the law applicable to the case, and
then it becomes his duty to make up
his verdict by applying as best he
may legal principles often imperfect
ly understood to testimony imper-
fectly remembered. We should not
set man to cultivate u farm or make
a shoe without practical acquaintance
with his work. We should expect
nothing from him but failure, if his
preparation had been only u lecture
or course of lectures. And yet we
set jurors to the performance of the
most responsible and difficult of all
duties, with such preparation and aid
only as they can receive from the
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NNIl3iYYdIZIad;z7JIy5
! FACTS WORTH KNoWINC..


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So perfect IL the composition Of PARxER's
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II you are slowly wasting away with Con-.
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Remember PARkEn's GnsoIl Touo q mott
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Good .ldrirP.

II you keep your stomach, liver and
Kidneys in perfect working order, you
will prevent and cure 10y Iur the greater
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this OF any section. There is no mcdi
cine known that will do this ms quickly
or surely as Parkcr's Ginger Tonic,
which will secure perfectly natural
action Of these important organs with
out interfering in the least with your
daily duties. See adv. 52wi