Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-02-02
NEWS AND NOTIONS.
Spring Valley Is to have creame


Freedom county pays her county at
torney $1,000.
ALBERT Lea is to undergo the affliction
of another newspaper.
Senator Charles D. Gilfillan, of st.
Paul, settled in Minnesota In 1851.
"A. A. Anderson, of Blooming Prai-
RE, was admitted to the bar at Albert
Lea last week.
-Watertown, Dakota, was blockaded
by the snow, and without mails from
Christmas to Jan. 10th.
The Probate Judge of Fillmore coun-
ty receives salary of $140o, and an allow
ance of $500 for clerk hire.
From the Shoe and Leather Reporter
of Jan. 9th, we should say the Albert Lea
ties buy their boots and shoes in Boston.
Bishop Whipple's son, Charles Hen
~, has been appointed by President
Hayes as paymaster in the army, with
rank Of major.
BRO. Anterior, Of the Usage Press, is
to tell what he knows of the true inward
ness of 1.-THE He'll Box" at the meeting
of editors at Hampton.
Freedom county is to change back to
the old plan of two terms of court. She
has held three regular terms each year
for the past two years.
Another county heard from. The
Albert Lea Enterprise is ".daddy" to
new boy. It is a good idea for editors
to raise their own "devils."
Hon. NJ. j. Severance, the talented
Mankato lawyer, is doing some earnest,
enthusiastic and effectual temperance
talking about the state-on q new plat
form.
About eighty carloads OF wheat per
day is taken in at the rear of the Pills.
bury "A" mill, and the flour made from
it taken from the front doors and loaded
into cars for shipment.
The Albert Lea Standard advocates
the Issuing of $4,000 county bonds, the
proceeds to be used in building court
house. Freedom needs new county
buildings almost as badly as Mower.
| Rev. DR.. Thomas, the eloquent but
recalcitrant Chicago divine, in his lecture
in Minneapolis last week. prophecied
that women would vote and that Bob
Ingersoll would become munster of the
Gospel.
IS. s. and II. B. McKenny have some
"important IN formation for all Registers
and Receivers OF the U. S. Land Office
who served from 1852 to 1862. Heirs of
deceased officials interested. Address
tho McKennys, Chat6eld.
The Rushford Star is truly generous.
1t offers to give one years subscription
for th-ee.quarters of cord of dry oak
wood. In this country we would feel
happy if three years subscription would
buy that quantity of wood.
MIR. Moody was followed to his lodg.
ings, fortnight ago, by convert, who
wished to ask him whether it would be
right, now that he had become . Chris
tan to pay his whiskey bills. The evan
gelist told him to pay all his debts, no
matter how bad they might be, and then
to make new start-Er.
-Bjornson, the Norwegian poet, lect-
ured at Albert Lea last Monday. Bjorn.
stjerne Bjornson is one Of the four Nor
weglsn poets who enjoy a sort of official
recognition from the government, being
the recipient Of q regular "poet's salary"
of about six hundred dollars.
An Owatonna paper will print the
tax-list for Steele county tor 90 cents per
description, and actually lose money.
The Austin Register has printed the Now
er county list for the last two years at 5
cents, and none of the other papers cared
to bid less, as that price just about covers
the actual cost.
| The Faribsult Democrat says that not
wlthstanding the recent consolidation of
the telegraph companies, the line erected
by the American Union is to be put into
use, but will be under the management of
the Northwestern company and will prob.
ably facilitate business if it does not
cheaper rates.
The country is just swarming with
commercial travellers. What an immense
| If ~ &c
army of men. Yet their wages have to
tucked on to the cOnsumers.-St. Peter
Tribune.
And il the commercial houses would
all agree to withdraw their men, and
spend ten per cent. of that expense in
newspaper advertising, they would secure
just as much trade, make more money,
and the consumer would get his supplies
at least ten per cent. cheaper than now.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
company recently issued an order that
all passenger conductors will receive
$93.23 per month of twenty-six days;
freight train conductors $40 per month Of
twenty.six days; all train baggagemen
$50 per month oftwenty-six days; and all
train brakemen $45 per month of twenty
six days. The order says further, thai
all extra time made by train men shall
be made at these rates. No time must be
sent in tor Sunday unless the men are &C
tually in train service" The order does
not materially affect the prevailing rates
Parents who allow their children to grow
up with scrofulous humors bursting from
every pore are guilty OF a great wrong
Think Of them pointed out as branded with
q loathsOme disease, and you will readily
fprocure them the Cuticura Remedies.
Clear head and voice, easy breathing, sweet
breath, perfect smell, taste and hearing, nc
cough, no distress. These are condition.
brought about in Catarrh by the use of San
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