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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01
FAR M L AN Id S 4!

We said in former advertisement -" TO person of some
mcas land cheaper to-day, and in the long Blue EARTH
county per than 80 $3 per hundred miles
timber BY the the settler these prares has
made his roads and bridges churches and schools and bought
cwood and timber until he his his land will
than per acre We repeat it again emphasized by
the results of the October blizzard the stowept lying
hundred of miles the wesgrea losses of stock reported
lost largely because there is timber with which utilize the
hay and sti3wf for shelter.
We have large of farming lands for sale in Blue
Earth and adjoining counties and suit either with i'm
mmproved Lands have been rising harvest
land will likely keep going up Atpresent prices they will pay
investment than money interest. Parties who
thinking of buying will get better bargains than along towards
spring.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01
JEFF DAVIS'S BOOK
What Gen. Grant Says Of the At
tack On Gen. sherman and
Himself.

Interview In Pittsburg Times.
"What do You think of jeff Davis's
book 2"
81 have only seen extracts of it in
the papers, and am not cognizant
with all its contents. I was highly
amused" and the General laughed at
the thought of it. "by his descrip-
ton of how he was going to escape,
throw the man off the horse, and the
rest of it. The idea Of jeff Davis
doing anything of that kind is absurd.
A man seventy years of age, for
years an invalid, and q coward, for
jeff Davis was always a mortal cow.
ard, although he had great moral
courage. 1t was amusing"
"What do you think of the at.
tack he made on you?"
Z" did not see that. read his at
tack on Sherman, and Sherman's re.
ply about the burning of Columbia,
when Sherman said that if he had
burned it he would have known it,
and not have attempted a denial.
Besides, he might have said that il
he did burn Columbia he only fol.
lowed a precedent established by the
rebels. Columbia was the capital of
q rebel State, and u State which led
in the rebellion. 1t was fortified.
and could only be taken by assault.
On the other hand, as soon as the
rebels got above Masons and Dixon's
line they started to burn. When
they got North for few days, just
across the border to Chambersburg, q
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01
Mankato the Leading City of Southern MINI

We offer you Lots in the city proper suitable for business
locations Lots in all the Additions long time if parties will
improve.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01
MANKATo FREE Press.
Published FRIDAY MORNING.
--nY-
WoODARD s. CHAMBERLIN.
CITY nALL RULDlNG-FIRSr FLOOR.
TERMS Sl,5O per AnnHn in Advance.

CITY . T. FIG ERS
MlNoR-l. \. Wi~wc!l.
fI;E N~Ir HER-N. Lang.
Recommendation u. liotiapp.
CirN ArrpR>ES- \. WiSwcll.
CUrN SURVIVOR VI. u. HAYNES.
.lusri,rS-P. Il. johnson, q, Leonard.
COUNCIL. --a-..-
q. {, hui George W. M,rks,
- TiVk Bocgan, ". Y. Mills.
nvurN tlcllcShvim, -. ~. Pitcher.
"a. nimmciman, W. ". Paddock,
=. IMmru. y WCiS.
john Manawald. Jesse WEIGH.
Cnirr az PolICE-J. -. Robinson.
i'niIDE CuNSr NulE-W. j. Martin.
NEaIV-M Nr,gIMEN-N. II. Young, George
Rlnkt. Alex. Mcdonald.
Police Headquarters AT city Hall. Fire de-
paItmput room.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01
No Hospital Needed.

No palatial hospital needed for Hop
Bittcrs patients, nor large-salaricd tai
ented buffers to tell what Hop Bitters
will do or cure, as they tell their own
story by their certain and absolute
cures ut home.--NeW York Indepead-
ont.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01
TIM 3 Err L A N p s !

think the extension of railroads greatly increase
the call kinds and timber. However much coal and
HAY used fuel timber absolute necessity for null
lc PURPOSES The constantly increasing demand will rapidly
surplus We look for stronger and rapid
ilnI,rov cmcnt in timber than in farm lands.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01

Also large Northern Pacific lands selected with
great and of the rapidly settling sections If you
Real Estate or if you have any to segve us call
HALL & COZ FIN.
MANKATo November 25th 1880.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01

kaSson RepUbiicdn.: The fossil re-
mains of u pOnderous snake was dis
covered in u limestone slab which
was being worked by Adams & REM
ingtOn into bases for tOmbstones.
The section of the reptile that we
examined was several feet long and
81 inches in diameter. Although
petrilied, the form was perfect, and
the marks of the scales were very
distinct. Large reptiles must have
liourished in this region few hun
dretls or thousands of years ago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01
Investments in Real Estate
AROUND MANKATo,
Where carefully made at present prices will pay better
than money at interest !

The manufacturing interests of Mankao in the full
tide of successful prosperity; mechanics at work; labor
employed than before enterprises being projected
ha occupied and the brightest prospects for
the rapid growth of the city.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01
MANIFEST DESTINY POINTS TO MANKATo

the great distributing of Southwestern Minnesota
multiplying, will soon be pushed to the mt
supply the rapidly developing of the country beyond
foh"ld will be worth fortune in the future II
homc if business LOCATION it and
lend Il hand to make
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01
zQi the Female BOnd at Each Exhibition in her astounding Act Of
Wire, 100 Feet in Mid-Air

81 the Oh world me uprising sensation the great
Selblnl and Wilton Troupe Of tymnaStic Bicyclers
10y AL THE n N BLOWN FROM CANNON Only Trained
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01


mann
ArUmlth
hh
&c BtbmSa SpratP orma Sep Tents.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01

of the stronger. One other question
nation has sooner or later to face is
whether Ireland, Us part of the
United Kingdom, is to be subjected
and made Obedient to the same laws
and usages rs ourselves, or is to be
10y exceptional legislation, in defer
ence to her origin and in her incom-
patible prOclivities due thereto, to be
left outside of the obligations and re-
sponsibility Of union while still
component part of it. i will leave
this idea for possible use and eXpan.
sion and vivid Imagination of the
home secretary as end to be chewed
OF sweet and bitter fancies by the
Irishman in his not frequent passages
to and from the sister isle.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-01

The farmers of New England long
ago abandoned their old plan of rails.
ing everything they wanted to eat
and wear. They now find it profit
able to buy Iowa corn to use in fat.
tening their stock and feeding their
poultry, and in purchasing Minnesota
wheat for supplying their own tables.
The farmers Of Old England find it
profitable to purchase both Of these
articles, as well as oil-cake. cotton
seed meal, and foreign fertilizers.
Improved means of communication
revolutionized farming in the eastern
states and the western countries of
Europe. It has enabled each state
and country to produce those crops
that are particularly adapted to the
soil, climate and class of labor of the
several localities. The gain in nat
ural advantage more than pays the
cost of transportation, and the profits
Of dealers, As matters now are, the
farmers make the most they can out
Of the advantages they enjoy.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22

Mr. Chas. B. Wayman, Erie, Pa, writes ::
My physicians had given me up to die.
They told me my lungs and liver were all
deoayed and gone. was very weak, pale,
and emaciated. BY chance l saw Browns
Iron Bitters advertised. Immediately
realized that without iron in the blood, life
could not exist. With trembling anxiety l
sent 8 servant, who procured for me bot
tie. must have taken it with great faith,
for almost Immediately felt its beneficial
effect. Soon all dyspeptic symptoms dis
appeared, my lungs grew strong, pains in
the region Of the heart vanished, my urine
became free of sediment, and in word
have regained perfect health. Now feel
able to thrash the doctor that attended me-
and really believe ought to do it."
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22
SUMMER AND AUTUMN.

Gorgeous leaves are whirling down,
Homeward comes the scented hay,
Ger the stubble, scar and brown,
Flaunt the autumn flowers gay;
Ah, alas
Summers pass
Like our joys they pass away.
Famed by many balmy breeze,
In the spring loved to lie
Meath the newly-budded trees,
Gazing upward to the sky.
Put, alas
Time will pass,
And the flowers Of Spring must die!
Oft my maiden sat with me, .....M
Listening to the thrush's tono,
Warbled forth from every tree
Ere the meadow hay was mown:
But, alas!
Summers pass
Now l wander all alone
Love, like summer time, il fair,
Deoked with buds and blossoms gay
But upon this autumn air
Floats voice, which seem to say:
"Loves, alas
Also pass,
As the summers pass away!"
George Arnold.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign.

OTolSus
Russia now intends to allow Jews to
acquire land.
A fatal epidemic of fever is raging in
Punjaub, India.
American cars are being used on
British railways.
Spain. contemplates laying cable to
the Canary Isles.
King George of Greece is making
tour through Turkey.
The Portuguese court is in mourning
for President Garfield.
The italian earthquakes have de,
stroyed over 1000 houses.
A treatise on the history Of the postal
card have been published in Berlin.
Bernhardt, on being Kissed at Amiens.
remarked, "I am not accustomed to
play to geese"
At the royal palace in Berlin 10000
wax candles are simultaneously lighted
by single match.
By the laws of the Spanish Court NO
one but Spanish physician can attend
the Queen of Spain.
The present Car has rescinded the
ukase of Peter the Great requiring Rus
sian seamen to shave clean.
Eight students at the military college
at Moscow and two at st. Petersburg
have been arrested for Nihilisln.
The Corporation of London intends
requesting the Prime Minister to bit for
a marble bust to be placed in the Guild
hall.
The marriage is announced of daugh-
ter Of President Grevy with NJ. Wilson,
Under Secretary of Finance, on the
23rd inst.
Emperor Williams latest cause for
complaint is that his enthusiastic female
admirers throw bouquets at him too
recklessly.
The question of transferring the Rus
sian capital from st. Petersburg to Mos
COW is being agitated in the Russian
newspapers.
The Crown Prince and Princess Of
Denmark have come into an immense
fortune by the death of Prince Frederick
of the Netherlands.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22
Be Wise and Happy.

If you will stop all your e1travagant and
wrong notions in doctoring yourself and fam
ily with expensive or hupbug cure-alls that
do harm always, and use only natupe's sim
pie remedies for all your ailments-you will
be wise, well and happy, and save great ex-
pense. The greatest remedy for this, the
great, wise and good will tell you, is Hop
Bitters-rely on it. See another column
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22

The Importance of inventors employing
proper attorneys to attend to cases before
the Patent Office, is shown by the contest
now going on in relation to tho telephone
and other valuable inventions. Those who
wish their cases carefully attended to
should correspond with PREsBREY & GREEN,
Washington, D. G. Send stamp for circular.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22
Domestic.

Domestic.
Gen. Grants presents fill 150 packing
cases.
| New Hampshire has had an earth
quake.
| duiteaus' counsel will plead insanity
and malpractice.
An Iowa dog has cost it's owner $3.50
| in damages for bites.
Dan Rice began his career as q jockey
boy for Henry Clay.
Kalakua will mako q general tour of
America before returning home.
The printers of the Philadelphia Typo,
graphical Union are striking.
A telephone has been manufactured
which transmits audible speech 800
miles.
One firm alone in New York has sold
over $40, 900 worth of President Garfield's
pictures.
The entire business portion of Pulaski,
N. Y, was destroyed by fire October 6;
loss, 100000.
A girl at Clermont county, Ohio,
eloped with married man, accompanied
by her mother.
A servant girl at st. Lonis, Mo-,
poisoned an entire family by cooking
arsenic in tho oatmeal.
A scarcity of beans Is reported at Bos-
ton, owing to tho immense demand for
canning purposes.
At least 500 persons are securing Stone
river, in Rutherford county, Tenn, for
muscles yielding pearls.
A mastodon tooth, weighing six and q
half pounds, has been found in the
kentucky river, near Marion.
Two Mormons were rotten-egged at
Green Hill, Ohio, for ut tering words de-
fama:ory Of President Garfield.
Annie Muller committed suicide, ip
Detroit, because her sweetheart gave bis
trousers to another girl to nend.
Some wealthy Berkshire manufac-
turers are proposing to buy Mrs. Gar
field home in Williamstown, Mass.
Two New York boys aged 8 and 10
years had a quarrel recently which re-
suited in one stabbing the other to death.
The recent fire in Kohomo, Ctsl, caused
by coal oil lamp explosion, loft only
twenty houses standing. Loss $500, 900.
An Indianapolis man broke a matr,
monial engagement with plain woman
in order to marry her pretty servant
girl.
Some theatre managers who closed on
the days Of Gartield's death and burial
deducted two days pay from the salaries
Of the actors.
A fat woman at Frankfort, Pa, weigh,
ing $50 pounds, married the living
skeleton and has fattepeI him out ot
that line OF business.
4 Negro going home from a Georgia
camp meeting in state of ecstasy at
tempted to fly to heaven from the top Of
tall tree. The fall killed him,
An ex-soIdier at Round Lake, N. T.,
recently received from the Dead-lettcr
Office picture which he sent to his
mother FROM the army eighteen years
ago.
Small etiigies Of Guiteau consisting o.
a miniature scaiold be.iEi Of pine wood,
to which q. pasteboard figure of Guiteam
is suspended by cord arr being sold in
New York.
The weight of q casE Of water pulled
out the teeth of the g Man with tue Iron
Jaw" while he was performing at the
1ndiana. State fair, ana fell Oh his breast.
crushing hin, to death
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22
DONALDSONVILLE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
SEWING MACHINES.

m A. KINGSTON, dealer in all kinds Of
Il New and Second Hand Sewing Ma
chimes, 155 Railroad Avenue. Needles, OIL
Attachments and everything belonging to
the sewing machine. Machines cold, ex-
changed or rented on easy monthly pay
ments. Machines given on trial. Repairing
a speciality.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22

Victims to Constipation and its untold
miseries can keep in good condition, by
moderate use Of Ayers Pills, the surest,
safest and most reliable Cathartic
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22

A London nautical journal has found
that sixty-three per cent. of the storms
starting in this country across the
Atlantic reach Great Britain, from
which it appears that the proposed in
ternational interchange of weather sig
nails would be q great benefit to the
English people. Storms seldom cross
to tits country from Great Britain, so
that the chief advantage OF the
Interchange to the American weather
service would be found in the additions
made to the worlds knowledge OF
meteorological science.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22

feathers, beetles, bugs, humn.ing birds,
bobolinks and snakes -jjingle,jangles
hung down on the sides, thingumbobs
and what-do-you- -call-ums, crowned the
top and made the back blaze Of glory.
The ample folds of a bright blonde wig
concealed effectually whatever little in
tellect she possessed, aud sunflower
about the size of peck measure COM
pleted a costume which made me with
humility acknowledge the truth of the
psalmist's assertion that tive are fear
fully and wonderfully made"
The present Fall fashions are very
much like the latest style of walking
match-a sort of as-you-please. For
the benefit of my lady friends in the
country who desire to be up to the latest
city caper, would say, be sure and don't
get anything to wear like anybody else
in your neighborhood be odd and you
can't go astray the more ridiculous you
can make yourself the more you will be
in style; and you know, my dears, that
there is every thing in style! Don't
take anybody's advice; dress to suit
yourself, and you are sure to be right.
Fathers and mothers are always fools
on the subject of dress, and no sensible
girl could for moment allow herself to
be sacrificed by such old-fogy notions.
So, go it, my dear! pin on the founces,
the furbelows and the bows. Your own
good taste will suggest the readiest
means of attracting the attention of the
young fellows as you come out of
meeting or go into Sunday school! No
extra charge for this advice, and,
satisfied now that you know moro about
it than do, dismiss tho subject.
What is the matter with our merchants7
There have been more failures in the
last three weeks than in tho previous
three months. Many of the frnls are
old in business, and one in particular
has been established forty years. Have
they been helping Jay Gould and Van
derbilt in Wall street have they been
trying little game of draw-poker or
euchre, or any of those innocent devices
the business of which is constructed on
the principal the more you put down tho
less you take up7 have one gentleman
in my minds eye who regarded himself
as q leader among his kind; he succeeded
by the death of the owners to one of the
most successful businesses in the United
States. Wealth rolled in upon him till
he lost HIS head, and he gambled away
nearly million of dollars. He not only
went down himself, but he dragged his
nearest relatives down to ruin with him.
And he is but one of the examples that
occur here every day, where people have
been suddenly translated. from poverty
to riches and finally reached paupor's
or felon's grave. 1t certainly is a most
startling revelation; a few weeks ago
we were heralding our prosperity to tho
world; even now the city is crowded
with merchants ordering goods. Yet
scarcely day passes that does not
chronicle the downfall of some OLD and
respected house. At present the cloud
may be no bigger than mans hand,
but the sky is sufficiently portentions to
warn all little boats to get as near as
possible to the shore.
Truly yours, BROADBR1M.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22
SODA WATER aIANUFACToRY.

CODA WATER MANUFACTORY, H.
y 1Iether, proprietor. No. ii Mississippi
street. Soda, Mineral Seltzer and all kinds
Of aerated waters manufactured, and sold
at lowest prices.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22


NJ. CASTOR Tisandier's little balloon at
the Paris Electrical Exhibition has at
tracted much attention. The balloon is
of an elongated egg-shape, with conical
ends, measures eleven, and one-haf feet
in length and four and one-quartcr feet
iu diameter, aud has a lifting power of
little moro than four pounds. It is
driven to and fro across the Palias de
PIndustre by Trouv6 electric motor
weighing loss than half a pound, which
is operated by current from Plant6
battery of little less than three pounds
in weight. M. Tislandier has made some
interesting calculations from the result
of experiments with this tiny 9rostat.
He finds that an electric motor developing
six horse power could be made with a
weight of 660 pounds, with 1850 pounds
of battery. 1t would be easy to raise
this by an elongated balloon Of 1E, 600
cubic feet capacity filled with hydrogen.
Such balloon would be 131 feet long
and d feet in diameter in the middle,
and would have an asccnsional force of
700 pounds. Deducting weight of
balloon, motor and battery, 220O pounds
would he left for passengers and ballast.
In calm weather such all air-ship should
have speed of twelve to fifteen miles
an hour, and in currents its directions
could be directed to some extent. The
battery power, however, would last but
short time, SO that balloon con-
structed Oh this plan would evidently be
valuable ouly for purposes of expert
ment; whi;e this estimate makes it quite
apparent that the motor described
would, in the somewhat improbable
event of the practical application OF
power to balloons, be found much less
economical than steam.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22
MILLINERY.

NTRS. NJ. BLUM. Milliner, Mississippi
Nl street, between Lessard and st. Pat
rick. Latest styles of Bonnets, Hats, French
Flowers, etc; also, all kinds of Ladies In
derEcar
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22

~ KLINE, corner Crescent Place and
VI Houmas street, dealer in Dry Goods,
Notions, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Pro
visions, Corn, Oats and Bran.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22

ID CAMEL. Agent for Louisiana Life In
IL surance Company, Mississippi street,
over Fernandcz's barber shop. Policies go
cured BY deposit Of reserve fund In tho
State treasury.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22

TOSEPH GONDRAN, dealer in Clothing,
- Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Groceries,
Wines, Liquors, Boots, Shoes, Hardware,
Paints, Oils, Saddlery, Crockery, Furniture
and all kinds of House Furnishing Goods,
Blue Store, Mississippi street.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22

M ISRAEL s. CO., dealers in Dry Goods,
1Ne Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Saddlery,
Buggies, ETC., cerner Mississippi street and
Railroad Avenue
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22

M TOBIAS, dealer in Groceries, Dry
1X1s Goods, Clothing, Notions, Boots and
Shoes, Hats, Furniture, Hardware, Crock
cry, Trunks, ETC., corner Mississippi and st.
Patrick streets and No. 81 Railroad Avenue
Everything at lowest figures
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22

NK LEVY, dealer in Dry Goods, Cloth
Nls ing, Boots, Shoes. Hats, Groceries.
Furniture, Hardware and Plantation Sup
plies, at Lenanns old stand, Mississippi
street. G. FEITEL, Agent.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22
Dry GOODS, GROCERIES, Etc.

II. Groceries Plantation Supplies, Wines,
Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, and General
Merchandise, corner r. r. Avenue and
Taylor Streets, one block from Railroad
UanOt.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22

DERNARD LEMANN, dealer in Western
I'D Produce. fancy and staple Groceries,
Liquors. Hardware, Iron, Paints, Oils, Carts,
Plows, Saddlery, Stoves and Tinware, Fur
niture, Crockery, Wall Paper and House
Crescent Place.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22
TINShIITH.

E OUIs j. RACKE, Tnsmith, Mississippi
Ii street, at Lemann's old stand. Orders
attended to with dispatch and satisfaction
insured.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-22
BLACKSMITH.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

u RYBISKI, Apothecary and Druggist,
d. Mississippi street, between st. Patrick
and St. Vincent streets, adjoining Gondran' g
store,