The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-09

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cases Of yellow fever in Havana.
Twenty-siX proved fatal last week.
Paper barrels are preferred to any
kind of packages for holding flour.
They are light, imperviOus to moisture,
and SO tight rs to retain all the con
tents.
In Central Indiana and Illinois,
cattle are suffering greatly for want
of water. Near Warren, Ohio, sheep
are dying by hundreds from tho
drought.
General Grant has declined to ac-
cept the reception rendered him by
the citizens of Asbury Park. N. D..
%, on account of the critical condit'
ion Of President Garfield.
The Cabinet officers + said to he
greatly exercised over the question
as to the legality Of the Vice-Presi.
dents assuming the Presidentship
during President Gariield's inability.
Canes cut from the battletields of
Chicamauga and Mission Ridge will
} be offered for sale ut 81 each,
to raise funds for the erection of al
$4,000 Methodist church in Chat.
tanOOga.
A raft of pine logs, 900 feet long
and 81 feet wide, has reached
Boston from Toronto, having been
lowed through. the Erie canal and
Hudson river to New York, and
thence by sea.
The banks Of the Illinois river, all
the way from Pekin ~ Peoria, are
strewn with dead fish, and gangs of
men are employed in burying them.
The cause is believed to be the refuse
from the glucose works and distiller.
les Of Peoria.
The exports of cattle from this
country to England for beef will not
he sd large this yeer rs for the last
three years. The grass crop in Eng.
land is much better than usual, and
more beef will he made ut home to
the detriment of American beef.
Owing to the prOtracted drought
throughout Germany, farmers are so
short of hay that they are selling
their plOw horses and killing their
cattle. This is more particularly the
case in Schleswig.H Olstein and
Oldenburg.
If the authorities ut Washington
would take One.half the precautiOn
, in the future to protect the lives of
our Presidents, that they have taken
to protect the worthless body of the
|, assassin, Guiteau, there would be
, more safety in the public places about
[ the Capital.
The Fat Mems association OF
eastern Connecticut, numbering
seventy, held their annual gathering
! at Watch Hill, Il. l., Il few days since,
' and consumed twenty bushels OF
clans. fourteen barrels of green corn
e fifty blue fish, and twelve bushels OF
! potatoes, topping off with five dozer
watermelOns.
l The marble quarries Of Vermont
have become enormous excavations
several being $50 feet deep. and thu
/ openings are only slightly protected
if ut all, while rude stairways dOwr
. the side of the shafts afford the only
$ means of descent; yet there is hardl.
@ ever an accident, and it is severa
years since q fatal fall has taken place
The salmon season closed OF
& the Columbia river, August /, ant
X the number of cans packed was about
525 ,OOO, most Of which has already
u found u market, either by shipment
to San Francisco Or direct to England
The shipments to Europe direct from
the river have been larger than ever
A New York woman at the Uni
; ted States hotel at Saratoga, is cred
, tied with having brought three hun
6 dred dresses with her, and six maid:
y to take care of them. She wear.
: three different dresses every day
> and never while at the place wa.
seen to wear the came one twice
:. Her diamonds are numerous ant
gorgeous, and she keeps a woman
!. constantly employed embrOiderins
her stockings, rs we'll rs dresses ant
g parasols.
n Congressman Cox, who is travelling
$ in Norway, writes of the NOrwe
e gians I'VE see no beggary, no poor
u houses, Or jails: we hear of no crime:
or violence. No locks are needed
upon doors. Drunkenness is rare
They love music and flowers, an,
are devoted to their faith and theil
families. They are never idle. Ever
the girls are knitting while attending
sheep and cows"
Andrew Miner, of Salem, Conn.
raises many potatoes, and the Obliginl
@ skunks dig them. In one large field
Mr.. Miner says, every hill has beer
opened, The skunks do not eat thu
potatoes. They look for worms
:. mice, and mOles which they find il
q the hills, and throw out the potatoes
when they come across them. The
owner goes over the lot each morning
and picks up the tubers tossed out on
! the preceding night.
Mr.. Warning, who has been inspect.
ing the drainage and plumbing of the
5 White House passed hastily through
the Presidents on Friday and
caught "a glimpse of him. Although
shocked by his gauntness and ENACT.
alton, he was gratified to notice that
he was not CHASTITY or pallied, and
that the skin had a natural color. lie
is the only stranger that has e e the
President, No One of his family,
except Mrs. Garfield and no member
[ of the Cabinet, has been in his sick
room since he was shot.
Cincinnati is about to inaugurate a
a new and important rule in the
common schools, viz: AbOlishing
grammar and its senseless rules, and
substituting therefor elementary
lessons in best English. Cincinnati
educators deserve IN acknowledge.
ment of thanks. Many of the best
teachers in the land have for years
practiced this. You car lust as
by showing him theories, or teach
him to swim before going into the
5 water, as you "a teach him to use
elegant English by a set of rules and
, exceptions learned parrOt.like. Years
, of the life of every boy and girl are
thrown away in pushing them into
abstruse science, when they should
, be- learning TO spell and storing the
| mind with valuable and practical
facts of geography, history, etc.
A grammar should not be placed in
, the hands of Il child until he is we'll
advanced, and the mind in q fair
sense matured.
Attempt to Bunko General Grant.
A stOcky man with square shoulders
and clOse-clipped, sandy beard, hur.