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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-03-17
STERLING.

In your issue of March 3rd, Is al
extract from letter of Senator Win
dOm's, read at the recent meeting of
the New York Anti Monopoly League,
which every farmer should read, and
in fact every voter in the west, and
then stop minute and reflect to
what we are coming; soon we will
be as powerless as was the serfdom
that euthralled Russia only few
years ago, if centralized power and
capital is allowed much longer to
rule. 1t is fast accomplishing its
work, then woe be to the independent
freedom OF these United States for
which the revolutionary fathers bled
and died. 1t will soon be worse than
down.trOdden Ireland Awake far
mers ut the call of the Waterman Oh
the tower, Senator Window, ard
unite in one indissoluble bond for
your own protection. Awake before
your liberties are curtailed for it will
be much easier to protect them now
than to regain them after they are
lost. I'm union there is strength
Mr.. Editor, what has become of all
the wolf catchers! l have often seen
a wolf providing around i'll the day
time by itself, and once in a while
two, but last Saturday in the forenoon
no fewer than five assembled them
selves together on my place on the
bank of Lake Lura. 1t seems that
they can't forget their old haunts.
In the fall of 1875 and the summer Of
1877 they lived well there for while,
they had either lamb or mutton every
few nights for supper until they took
about fifty of my sheep. My dog had
got old and was unable to guard my
sheep. hence the result.
Last Fridays blow was just such
as have seen in the middle of April
in Minnesota in 1857. That spring l
walked across Lake Lura on the ice,
the 25th day OF April. So if this is
an old fashioned winter you may look
for more to come yet. Perhaps you
may see the snow banks lying on the
prairie the first of May us they were
that spring.
James Ellis, Jr., who left Sterling
last October and went to Newport,
R. l., is one of the happiest of men,
because he says it is one of the sweet
est little girls he ever saw, and she
weighed ten pounds. J. DOBIE.
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THeTlFain0bfp Facts.

New York Post
Affairs do go oddly in this world.
The other day there was Il railroad
disaster in New Jersey, whereby sew
eral persons were badly hurt, but
only one, us it turned out fatally. He
was Young man, of singularly indus.
trious habits, and of most unsellish
character. Upon his labors an aged
father and mother and two
two sisters wholly depended for their
support. 1t WAS the ambition of this
young man to give to his mother a
deed of the house they occupied. To
this end he had foregohe marriage,
and toiled early and late; he personal.
ly attended to the smallest houSekeep-
ing details. managing them all with
the most pains. taking economy. The
family itself had seen better days,
and he was the last prop left. His
manly and self sacrificing spirit had
gradually impressed itself upon the
community in which he lived. so that
he was respectfully and kindly re-
garded on every hand. He had been
in one place of service and trust for
eight years, and only life and time
seemed to be needed to enable him
finally to secure the end toward which
all his energies were bent. Well. out
of eight car loads of passengers he
was the only one killed. Sitting in
the seat with him at the time of the
crash was man who has saidS since
that he thought that he was ready to
die and that no one would have suf-
fered by his death. or. according. to
his own perhaps excessive modesty,
missed him. This man was not even
scratched, while his fellow-occupant
of the same seat, about whose life So
many interests were liked, was 80
hurt about the head that even his
remarkable natural strength gave no
hope from the first that he could sur
vive. Things do go strangely in this
world.
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Datrytn0 rs. Wheat Raising.

The DEBORAH Republican, has the
following item showing the difference
between dsirying and stock raising,
IA it is in Iowa:
The remarkable statement is made
that in a certain county in the dairy
ing section of this state there has not
been a sale Of real property by the
sheriff in four months. We will not
name the county. In size it is only
four-fifths of Winnesheik-h
but sixteen townships. Looking for
cause, we find in 1879 that comfy had
24,454 cattle and 32,j45 hogs. or l..
52S cattle and 1904 hogs to each
township. These are the assessment
figures for that year. and do not in.
clude the young calves and shoats.
AT the same time Winnesheik county
had l8,4l3 cattle and 1919 hogs, or
82l cattle and 90S swine to each town.
ship. Winnesheik was losing five
dollars per acre on its more than lO0,-
600 acres of wheat, while the county
we are quoting was raising more acres
of corn than wheat. We opine the
difference between the financial con-
dition of the two counties have been
controlled by the difference in the
systems of farming.
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77-777@'-"'
StOck ia Colorado.

The Inter Ocean at Denver states
that the losses the present winter in
sheep will foot upa startlin total when
the tale comes to be told. a summer
of unusual drought is followed by a
winter that is almost unprecedented
for snow so that when the winter
comes there is nothing for the stock
to do but stand up to their kness in
snow and starve, unless the owners
have shelter and food provided.
The question to be considered is
whether the whole system of cattle
raising, as at present carried on in
this state, is not only barbarous, but
speculative to degree, and whether,
upon the same capital invested, great
er profits can not be made by feeding
alfalfa raised on irrigated ground.
Within ten miles from Denver
there is a sheep ranch where four
thousand sheep range over four thou
sand acres of prairie-and if food
were not purchased for them from
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the farmers of Clear Creek. they
would half of them die i'm the winter.
Yet in California there are alfalfa
farms where as many as twenty sheep
are fed to the acre Of clover cut.
There is big difference between
keeping four thousand sheep on two
hundred acres and keeping four thou
sand sheep on forty thousand acres.
The cost Of cutting and feeding two
hundred acres of alfalfa can not be
any greater than the cost Of herding
four thousand sheep over forty thou
sand acres. Those two factors being
equal, there would be a vast differ
ence in the mortality source to begin
with, while the quality of the sheep
could be improved in way that
makes prairie breeding impossible.
We are, perhaps, too utilitarian a
people in Colorado to consider the
humanity involved in keeping cattle
from suffering and starvation. But
the argument which nature has offer
ed this winter in favor Of humanity is
a very strong one.
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MAPLETON.

The snow blockade is opened again,
now we sincerely hope Capt. Keller
will make his daily appearance at this
place.
Mr.. Graham of old Napoleon, died
last Saturday, March 18th. He was
|ninety-one years old.
Mrs. Thos. Cary, of Danville, died
one day last week. She had been
sick number of years.
There is new landlady at the Ma
pleton House-small in size, but
gives her commands with great
energy.
We are to have a course of lectures
here. Prof. Soaring, of Mankato,
commenced them Tuesday night of
last week. The proceeds to be used
in repairing the NJ. E. parsonage.
DR.. and Mrs. Bishop entertained
their friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Price,
and some mutual friends, Wednes-
day night last. The time was profit
ably and pleasantly spent.
There was a sociable at Mr.. John
Johnson's last week to which our
young people turned out, as well as
"turned over All report good
time.
Mrs. E. NJ. Dyer has returned from
Winnebago City, where she has been
visiting friends and relatives.
Mr.. Troendle sends his daughters,
Misses Annie and Minnie, also his
son Henry to Prairie du Chen, Wis
cousin, to attend school. He will ac-
company them and be gone a few
days.
Teachers have been hired to teach
next term for the primary depart
ment. We have retained the same
teachers. Mr.. Peter Johnson is hired
to teach the higher department.
Schools around here are nearly all
taken,
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County Correspondence
GOOD THUNDER.

Prof. Geddes' department of our
school closed Friday, March 4th. He,
with the assistance of his scholars,
gave an entertainment in the evening
to full house, all the characters did
finely. At the close Mr.. O. Partner
Zone of the trnstees), proposed vote
OF thanks to the teacher, which was
carried unanimously. The Prof.
came here a stranger and went away
leaving many friends.
Miss Darr's department closed
Wednesday the 9th. This is Miss
Darr's first term OF school, she has
worked hard to further her scholars
in their studies. still she is inclined
to feel discouraged as most of teach.
ers do when first starting out. She
deserves the praise and encourage.
ment of all to sustain her in her
work.
Mr.. Partners have traded their
mill to Mr.. Wilson. of Mapleton, who
intends to put in new machinery soon
US the weather permits.
Mrs. McCurnan aged 80 years, was
struck by palsy on one side, last
Friday, she is not expected to sur.
vive long.
VIM. Bleedorus' son. years old,
died on the It'll, after an illness of
three days.
II. Crafts child, 3 years old. died
cd the 9th, from fits.
Nothing prevailed Of note, at our
town meeting, except that four can
didates were up for assessor, which
created quite panic among the
voters. The act Of restraining cattle
from running at large was voted upon,
and was the cause Of considerable
strife and electioneering by those
whoididn't have ambition to construct
fences and would rather send their
stock off to some foreign part of the
country to benefit other lands. If
these men would build better fences,
and keep their stock on their own
premises, it would improve the value
of their farms, besides improve the
looks of the country they live in.
Some Of our farmers have paid out
enough already for herding stock, to
build a fence around their farms.
Still they howl, herd.law. 1t seems
they would much rather see dilapi.
dated fences and cows staked out all
along the roads. BILLEY.
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CAMBRIA.

AS the weather moderates, we, like
other alternating animals, make our
appearance.
superintendent Rogers delivered u
lecture last Tuesday evening at dis
trict No. IL. on "The Qualifications
of Teachers. 1t is to be regretted
that SO few teachers were present, as
the discourse was well delivered and
contained truths as well as as poetry.
Thetown meeting passed Of quietly,
there being no change of officers, the
old ones being reelected.
CORTLAND is to have new store in
the spring, James Price is the man
who will run it,. Success to jim.
Mr.. Richard Williams returned
from Mankato last week, with his
bride. They are stopping at Mr.. j,
Williams at present.
How are you off for hay is the gen.
general inquiry among the farmers.
Happy is the man who has super
fluffy of it.
a petition is being circulated for
signers, asking the postmaster gener-
al to re.establish the postoflice at this
place. II is great inconven lence to
get our mail from CORTLAND over such
snow banks az we have.
Richard Roberts is the father Of
another little daughter. The town
clerk returns thanks for another quar-
ter. Who'll be the nexti
Outsiders are enjoying the war be
tween the Mankato editors, as long
rs it is carried on in words. SPY.
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breaking their lines, but not turning
them aside, nor ''hindering them
from carrying charge which swept
down the whole of these defenses, and
fell like a spent thunderbolt. On the
further side, shaking the enemy's en-
tire force TO such degree TINT had
it been properly supported, the Rus.
slams would have been annihilated
that day Then in turning to re-
trace their steps, they were met by a
double hurricane of shot, which,
coming from opposite quarters, SEEM
ed to meet in their persons, and half
the remaining force vanished on the
spot Their way was intercepted
by cloud Of Cossack lanccrs, partly
hidden by the smoke. "Strong, swift
and sudden was that terrible crash,
which, as with battering ram swung
open the center of the Cossack line
and flung it's folds in shivered frag-
ments on either hand. Thus did the
remnant Of the light brigade cut an
avenue through their foes and bring
their perilous ride To an end. 1t was
indeed the remnant of the British
corps which had looked so magnii-
cent few minutes before. All
bloody, lacerated, grim with sweat
and smoke of battle, they came strag-
Cling into camp.
in the face of such terrible odds"
said a reporter, land the almost Ger.
tainty of humiliation, how did you
feel when you went in,'
"Oh, we didn't care Il - snap; it
was all glory then
"You were single man with only
your horse to care fori'
eyes. and had one well worth it.
We were all well mounted. In com.
ing out my horse was killed by Il
piece of shell, and had my left
foot laid open with the same piece.
fell with my horse.
"Amid such terrible slaughter how
did you escaped
81 was fortunate enough to catch
another horse us he dashed by me.
He had lost his rider. caught the
bride, which was flying loose, and
checked him, and somehow got into
the saddle. Some others did the same.
There were good many horses that
came in without riders. i went home
on crutches, but afterwards served
in India. No. did not serve in the
war Of the rebellion. did not get
here early enough. | have been here
ten years.
The losses in that charge are given
officially as follows: Fourth light
dragons. ~ out of lis men; eighth
Hussars. SIS out of l04; eleventh Hus-
sars, SIS out 10: thirteenth light dra-
goons, 50 out Of 100; seventeenth
lancers, 10 ont Of AS. Total, 400 ont
of co. men.
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The Famous charge of the Sir
Hundred

In Il hospital in New York city,
slowly wasting away with "a terrible
disease. is one John Brown. who
claims to have been in the charge of
the famous '.six hundred at Bala.
klava. This claim is disputed by
two men in New York, who claim
to be the only survivors of that disas.
trous conflict now in this country.
One of these men, Mr.. Quincy, who
is connected with IA paper in New
York. gives the following graphic
account of the charge made doubly
famous by rennyson: ITO the left
front of the light brigade there was
hostile artillery; to their right front
there was hostile artillery, and they
had to sweep along the rifle range Of
three of the redoubts still in the
hands of the enemy. Straight before
those 900 riders, the whole of the
Russian cavalry, now reunited in six
massive divisions. 5000 strong. Be.
fore the light brigade, sQuarely in
front of them, frOwned thirty heavy
guns along a regular line of six enor.
nous battalions of infantry, over
whose heads in the rear Numbered the
great position batteries from the
hills-a whole army, in short. of 3d.
600 men, impregnably posted, and
holding perfectly in hand everything
which the 900 could attempt to take
or asSail. Before the little band
could make one stroke of the sabre,
or one thrust of the lance, they had
to clear mile and half of ground.
The troopers broke away upon their
appalling errand. Their comrades and
allies on the heights watching the
movements--first with wonder and
even incredulity, then with absolute
CONSERVATION and boundless horror.
Cries of establishment and dismay
arose throughout the whole camp.
The two commanders.in chief were
lost in awe. None could cooperate
with those horsemen or protect them
now; they were past help. He then
describes how the storms of musket-
ny and cannon, from redoubts and
batteries. broke upon the charging
horsemen, thinning their ranks and
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gross evil in its best form, erected
and built upon the ruins of the para.


disc.
The people of the nineteenth CEN
tury have come to period through
science and education that they do
not need any such foul and unhealthy
system to liberty, ike this represen.
tative system, of manage their affairs;
therefore it becomes the duty of every
intelligent citizen to help abolish the
same and establish better one-One
which is i'm harmony with reason and
the laws Of nature-one through
which jnstice csn he done TO all, and
injury to none. All must lay hands
on the great wheel Of progress and
become reformers, and try to do
something good for their country and
their fellOwmen.
UsTy, the giant sin Of the age, land
the love Of money, the root of all evil,
must be destroyed in every breast,
and the love of liberty, truth. right
and justice planted in every heart.
This and still more will be done us
soon as the people will govern them
selves and make their own laws; then
they will have the power to cut down
the wages OF their office holders; they
will then have power to let the offices
to the lowest bidder, because it is
their duty and for their interest to
see that the Offices throughout the
country should not only be filed by
worthy and honorable men. but as
cheaply as possible.
Every state in the Union should
abolish their state Legislature and Is
sue II paper in which all proposals be
published three or four weeks before
the voting takes place. Every bill
must he signed 10y Il certain number
of citizens; then sent to the secretary
of state, who causes the same to he
published in said paper. Said paper
is to he sent free of charge to every
free holder. The newspapers through
out the state would have chance
then to discuss the bill and throw
light on the same. In this way we
would get good and sound laws; the
will of the people carried out; the
doors of the spectators and railroad
kings closed, and the keys of the
treasnrers in the pockets of the PEG.
pie. Land grants and bonuses to rail
road companies would seldom be Civ
en-. The state would take possession
of the roads and the people pocket the
profit; they then would pay their
debts; get their full value for their
products; become independent and
able to educate themselves and their
children.
Secret organizations are not neces-
sary, the battle must be fought openly
and free. Every editor Of a paper
should keep the columns of his paper
open for free discussion, because the
press is the tongue of the world; all
light must come through free press
and free speech. hope the FREE
PRESS will never put its light under
a half-bushel, but hold it to its read.
ers and the whole world. Editors
have an honorable and solemn occu.
patton, for they are the true preach
ers of the Rights and Duties of men,
yes, they are in the spiritual world
what the sun is in the material world,
viz: illuminators--to illuminate man.
kind until the light of reason and the
rights of men have become universal.
They should try to be rather right,
than to be President and say with
Patrick Henry, "Give me liberty or
give me DEATH G.. G.
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BIRD ISLAND, RENvILLE COUNTY.

BIRD ISLAND, RENyILLE COUNTY.
Our town is now surrounded with
snow, the same being in many places
eight feet deep, but as "a general
thing it is from three to four feet
deep.
We have not seen the pay car for
three months.
We have no wood here and but lit
tie coal, and if the train don't reach
here soon shall he out of fuel en-.
tirely.
The elevators along the line of the
Hastings & Dakota railroad are filed
with wheat, which will make bust
ness lively when the blockade is
raised. Cars are now running as far
as Glencoe.
Bird Island is "a village of about
four hundred inhabitants, and being
the end of a division, it is considered
one of the principle places, with 2
fair show of becoming the county
seat. Its future looks prosperous;
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Why suffer day after day, month
after month, with lame back, sciatica
iumbago. gravel, diabetes, female
weakness, etc., when you can be
cured by wearing Prof. Guilmette's
Kidney Pad.
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There Is large round house here and
there is to be built in the spring a
machine shop and railroad eating
house. There are four large hotels
in this place besides Il number Of
boarding houses.
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MANKATo FREEPREss.

Local N0TCES viii bc inserted at the fol-
owing TateS-FNr lines or less, 20 cents; 10
cents Tor each additional line.
Jon PRINTING, both Plain and Ornamental,
executed with nCHtnc>S ana promptncss, and
at prices that VIII compare taVoraby with
any other job Printing House in the country.
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CITY OFFICERS
AAYoR-Edwln Bradley.
IEEASUEER-ISuac Marks.
Recommendation &. Shauhut.
CRY SURVEYOR-Ni. h. HAYNES.
JUSTICES-P. h. johnson, q. Leonard.
COUNCIL.
J. F: Meaghcr, Pros't Henry Hcllesheim,
Frederick BucFan. q. q. Pitcher,
G. G. Burt. n wcis.
Henry Guth, G.. l. LidgcrwOOd,
{. ICmm. John Nahowah,
W. w. Paddock. Jesse Wclch.
CHIEF OF POLICE-O. J. Robinson.
POLICE COSSTABLE-(;Co Constants.
NIGnT-WArCHMEN-w X. Young, George
Blake, Alex. Mcdonald.
Police Headquarters at City Hall, Fire De-
partm"nt room.
Il NIGHTS or HONOR, No 1858
IN The abayc Lodge viii meet the first and
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The Nebraska legislature has made
treating a misdemeanor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-08-26
SHERUFFS SALE.

KNOX ss;-Taken warrant OF Distress ana
will be sold by public auction by lots as they are
ncd or orc,lpied so much is necessary 10 SATISFY
sad nrecept and expenses of SALE on the nineteenth
day Of November A. ID. 1881, at two O'Clock IN the
f,ernoon at the house the first described lot inc
following described real estate, situateu liz "o"'
Thomasfon in said County, viz:
One certain lot of land bounded as follows; 10 WI,
p.g;nning at a post where the line fence oet"eeu
said lot and land owned by Ezekiai Han toucnrs .e
sss,rv aide of the road leading from south Ihom
ss,on y;Ilag 10 ST. George; thence South ~ dee T.
an said line fence, seventy-two RODS ana tnir'een
i;,ts 10 the shore of the Weskeag RIVER, .ne. NY
Souih as deg. West eigh! rods ana iouI 1n Is 1d
line fence between SAID lot aud land owned oy psu
Ovens: thence North AL deg. West on sMu a.Ie
800 s;xfv Ave rods and nineteen link. 10 saiu roa9
49,. North easterly on said road sixty nVe Icus
IN tr.ntv links to the place of beginning contan
: ~. fonrtsen acres more or less, win the nass
and nr,vileees thereto belonging Also one e NJ
art.tn lot bounded as follows: beginning w. .he
south easteriv corner of the old Coomos neiu ~
West side of the road aforesaid thence
W IA Coombs line 400 rods more or less 70 s.aAe
NV , .tones Mt land formerly of Daniel MiiIsms
thence Southerly by said Williams iot tMe.y hancs
wore or Iess TO land of the BRADBURY neirs, Ia
EsstarIy by said Bradbury land about fovIous IF
rosd: thence Northerly by said road 70 tne pa a
h.cinnine; excepting from the ABOVE .ne .crss
Combs. Jr. lot so called comprising ,nre C.svaS
more less. formerly owned by William ~. LIAM.
s.1lts Of ssfd south TIomaston ana usea u The
:. me town farm or poor farm Of said town -, nc nc
If aid Warrsn, o. distress is BIOL 90 deot VI
s",,sres: 1Sios Incidental charges ana Ine's e.
.hsr-Sn from Dxcer-ber 81, 1879. and thirty cn's "
s.id varrant and former warrant OF osss ssIr
~" s. r. SHEPHERD, Deputy sner ia,
Julyai. 1881.