The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01

=. Hon. ]. d. Hawkins, was in the city
to-day, and made favorable report OF
everything IN Mcpherson.
The Pioneer Press says that Arthur
Baker, of Mankato, has secured clerk
ship in the Treasury Department at
Washington.
Excursion trains will run on all the
roads next Monday, to accommodate
those who want TO spend the Fourth at
a neighboring town.
Services AT the Baptist church
Sunday morning and evening ut the
usual hour, conducted by Rev. Mr..
Merriam of LuVerne.
Rev. Joseph Freeman, has concluded
to , main in this city a. permanent pas
tor of the Congregational church. He
will send for his family immediately.
: Robert Rel, II young man who has
been with MIR. &. ID. Taylor, n year past
IN his jewelry store, left yesterday morn
ing for a visit to his mother at Me-
Gregor.
Lafayette Marsh, Esq. leading at.
torncy of Saltwater, is in town. We
understand his friends throughout the
State are urging him for Attorney
General.
In the towns of Mcpherson and lie
Pay :lc crops are sand to look exceed
ingly well, while IN other portions of
the county, especially on low land, they
are poor.
Elder Martin was called Ia Redwood
Falls Thursday cyeaing Ia oiliciatc ut
the nup,iais celebrated 10y Judge J. ii.
Bowers and Miss Florence J, Chapman,
both of Redwood.
Major Rose was yesterday RECALLING
his friends with so"thing soda water
and other temperance beverages on the
event of tr.umphantly reaching the ven
cradle a.e u, iiity years.
The eminent statisticians upon our
wheat crop already admit that there
will hG Il deficiency of 100000 acres
from l.si year. They want to prepare
"A way to let themselves down easily.
The new directory Of Mr.. Shoemak-
er's Is well under way, but if any in
the city have been overlooked by his
canvassers. they will have time to make
the fact known by responding immedi-
ately.
Large quantities Of stone are being
shipped every week from this place
along the line of the Southern Mime
sofa road. Our quarrics are inexha ust-
ible, and only give the owners of them
plenty of transportation and they will
increase their facilities.
The Comet has been plainly discern
IDLE for several evenings lately in the
north western heavens. Its tail astron-
omers tell us is 100000 miles long,
Quite il whip lash to be flying around
this terrestrial sphere such hot weather.
Mrs. NJ. j. Severance, before settling
in Mankato again, will enjoy brief re-
spite and visit her parents, whom she
has not seen for seventeen years. The
Judge will follow later and visit his
folks, whom he has not seen for twenty
seven years. This is a long separation.
Mr.. j. S. Parks, of Pleasant Mound.
writes us that while w. II. Perrin of
that town was blowing lately, he turned
up large quantities Of grasshopper eggs
that were plowcd under very deep five
years ago, and they were yet in good
state of preservation and Matched out
readily when exposed TO the warm rays
of the sun.
Last Saturday, the grey horse at
tached to the American Express wagon,
started on tour of rapid investigation
down the east side of South Front
street. Starting in at Brett's corner he
swept the sidewalk clean, leaping over
barrels and hitching posts in n lively
manner, spilling two crooks of butter
all over the Mankato House sidewalk,
but without breaking a strap in his
wild career.
There was a terrible runaway last
Saturday on North Front street by Il
farmers team. 1t collided with John
Meagher's grey horse attached to his
buck board, knocked the spokes out of
the wheels Of Bruno Roemers buggy,
ran over three children, injuring one of
them slightly, and bringing up on the
sidewalk near Wagons meat market.
When the team started three women
were in the wagon, all of whom for
tunately escaped without injury.
After every scene Of danger, when all
excitement dies away, there comes to the
surface many ludricous incidents. An
eye witness Of the blowing over of the
passenger coaches by the cyclone at
Sioux City Tuesday night, says that
while many were injured and bruised in
the cars, fortunately no one was killed.
And that there was large fleshy man
wedged in between the seats, unable
to get out the door or the window,
so they sawed away panel between
two windows and hoistcd him out with
a pulley and tackle. Another witness
says that cattle and horses, were, for the
time being, flying through the air like
birds. Now where are Mankato's big
gest story-tellers
The Mortified Journal Of the 23rd
gives the following account of horses
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