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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26

Norwich.
Harry Russ, has new shingled his
house on Maine Street. Harry is a
good Democrat.
Tommy Hazen is erecting new
sheep-sheds, preparatory to wintering
two hundred head Of sheep on ensilage.
Tommy was one Of the first to in
troduce the silo in this State, and
thinks it a success. Sam. Hutchinson
has just completed new silo.
The new steam mill is doing a
good business, and the proprietors are
erecting new dwelling-house near the
same.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26

II The following is sensible: Post
master General James has instructed
postmasters to correct misdirccted let
ters when possible, and forward them
to their proper destination, instead of
sending them to the dead letter office.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26
West Randolph.

West Randolph.
Mrs. Geo. Prince is very low
with consumption.
--Egbert Kathan of Lyman, and
Eugene Dodge of Athol, Mass, two
typos are in town.
Miss Ncttic Nichols talks Of open
ing drcss-making shop in Bethel.
Leonard Wheeler is 70 turn 'drum-
mcr," having secured u job of u Bos-
ton grocery house.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26
So. ROyaltOn.

80. KtOyUItOH'
AN unsuccessful attempt was
made, about one o'clock Tuesday
morning, to rob the First National
bank of Royaton. Parties entered the
bank and blew open the vault, but the
explosion aroused the people living
near and the robbers were frightened
and left. There is no clew as yet.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26
Groceries J!

Having purchased the stock
in trade of
l.. ROGERS e. CO.,
| shall on and after this date
offer same for sale
CHEAP FOR CASH.
After Nov. lst my custom
ers will find me in the base
ment of the
"TRACY BLOCK"
where, with Low RENT and
light expenses, bargains for
cash can be made by con-
sumers.
u ! shall keep no clerk, and will
be found at my new location only
evenings and stormy days.
1t being my intention to
sell my goods mainly by
travelling with Il team.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26

IV The big scare Of short crops Is
over, tho harvest figures coming IN
more ayorably,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26

soBoFUll, A medicine that destroys the
germs Of Rerofula and has tie power TO root
il out 10 appreciated by the afflicted The
remark able cures of men, women ana ei'li'
dren as described ny lestlmoQials, prove
Ileod's AsTsapaIiila q reliable niedleinee. con
tanning remedial agents which eradicate
Eerofula fran tho blOOd 100 doses ~
boldby all dealers, q, l. Hood 4 Co., Lowell, AAAA
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26
PIANOS TO RENT
Oct. %, 1881,

PIANOS TO RENT!
PIANOS for SALE!
A grand variety of Up&m and square
Pianos to let, at prices warning from 80 TO
$50 per quarter.
PIANOS FOR SALE.
of all makers. including the SieinWnys'
Fisehcrt. and many other well-known
names. Prices from $50 to $1,000.
SECOyD.MAND PIANOS
for sale at reasonable prices. Often as
good as new, and great bargains.
Ditson & Co. have in their extensive
Piano Ware-rooms the greatest quantity
and variety of pianos to be found In New
England; probably in the whole country;
Visitors to Boston are cordially invited
to call at the great Piano and Music 30 OK
Store, and are reminded that there, and
at the branch store 33 Court Street, they
will meet every known musical instru-
ment, with the single exception OF pipe
organs.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26
THE GREAT
BURLINGTON ROUTE.

II ClILlNUlON hOC l. Ls
eB-No other line runs Three Through Pas.
Bengcr Trains Daily between Chicago, Des
Moincs, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Lincoln, st.
Joseph, Atchison, Topeka and Kansas City.
Direct connections for all points In Kansas,
Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Ne:
yada, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Oregon and
California.
bic Route via Hannibal to Fort Scott, Denison,
Dallas, Houston, Austin. San Antonio, Caves
ton and oil points in Texas.
Tho uncQialed inducements offered by this
Line to Travellers and Tourists, are as follows:
Tho celebrated Pullman l6-wheeD Palace
Sleeping Cars. run only on this Line, e., Ii. q
Q. Palace Drawing-Room Cars, with Horton
Reclining Chairs. No extra charge for Seats
In Reclining Chairs. Tho famous c., II. Q.
Palace Dining Cars. Gorgeous Smoking Cars
fitted with Elegant Hgh-Backed Rattan Re.
volving Chairs for the exclusive uso OF first-
class passengers.
Steel Track and Superior Equipment, com.
mcnt, makes this, above oil others, the favorite
Route to the South, Southwest, and tho Far
West.
Try it, and you will find travelling luxury
instead of discomfort.
Through Tickets via this Celebrated Line
for sale ut all Offices in the United States and
Canada.
All Information about Rates Of Fare, Sleep
ing Car Accommodations, Time Tables, &C.,
will he cheerfully given by applying to
10. A. BEAN, Gen'l Eastern Agent,
303 Washington ST., Boston. Mass.
and 3l7 Broadway, New York.
JAMES r. WOOD Gen. Pass. Agt., Chicago.
IT,. POTTER, Gen. Manager, Chicago
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26
FARM FOR SALE.

The Subscriber offers his farm for sale,
situated about one fourth Of . mile from o.
Chsmberlin's Store in Pomfret. l will sell
the farm, stock. aud farming tools together.
II anybody wish or tho farm sepsrstely..-
Said farm contains so. acres Of land. suitably
divided into tillags, moving. pasture, aud
wood lots, with good buildings thereon. and
never. failing water 10 house and barns Nice
fruit and sugar orchards on The place: On
chance for any party .wisbins to purchase
Possession given any tuna. ....,..
Pouirst, Aug. o.. 1851.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26

BEATTY,S Organs Is useful stops, sets
e.. reeds emily SIS. Pianos sioh
up. ~" Illus. Catalog. FREE. Address
BEATTY, Washington. Nj.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26

Russell Murdoch is fitting up the
room in the Jones block, intended for
the [post office, 70" his iewelry and.
fancy goods store.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26

At the windham Court, last week,
William Hazard, formerly of this
place, plead guilty to larceny at Bel
lows Falls, where he had been rcsid-
Ing, and was sentenced to four years
In the State Prison.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26

John s. Eaton will have big
sad" In this paper next week. Look
for Il. lie 10 receiving piles OF goods
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26
How Is your coldi Healthy

II isn't safe to say "post office" to
q Central Street man just now.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26
jerome Hopkins

rand Concert with selection. from his
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-26

When colored man has fever, Is
he q fever nagur patientY
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-01-13
GOOD THUNDER.

Since September LIST there has been
shipped from this station, five cars of
hogs and cattle, one car of flour, cars
of barley, thirty-six cars of wood and
lSS cars of wheat, making a total Of
233 cars.
Austin e. Flanagan commenced grind
ing feed Monday. They have power
corn shelter and saw mill in connection
with the feed mill. They are square,
tocd men and of course will do square
tocd business.
J. n. Flanagan has built an addition
to his warehouse 3Ox30 recently.
A serious accident happened Mr.. and
Mrs. Drury recently. They were asccn-
ding Good Thunder hill when the horses
became unmanageablc and tipped them
over the grade. Mrs. Drury struck on
her head and shoulders, sliding about
fifteen feet which dislocated her shoul
der and tore the skin from her arm in
several places. She is now at Mr. Bliss
under the doctors care. 1t is feared
he will never regain the use of her arm
again. Mrs. Drury weighs about 800
pounds. Mr.. and Mrs. johnson Were
along and the box fell on Mrs. Johnson,
her babe rolled down the bank about
20 feet but without injury.
Prot. Gcddes organized II Glee club
here last Saturday night, the club meets
at the Baptist church every Saturday
evening. Good singers are solicited to
join.
Our druggist must keep his eye
peeled as there is Il prescription of hot
"iqna Para' prescribed for him on the
corner. And it is the wrong time in the
season for ones hair to come out.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-01-13

much of the land on this side OF the
river is W 4 adapted to the production
of small ,HNin, ard for grazing pur-
poses it cannot be eXce!led. AS proof
of this, the cattle ranches distributed
along the river can testify. The
herds are large, and the cattle seem
to thrive and grow fat on the grasses
which grow in this prairie country.
The weather up to date has been very
mild. At present there are about
four inches of snow. Everybody ex-
poets Il ''big BOOM in the spring, and
from present Indications Pierre at no
distant day will be the metropolis OF
Dakota. With best wishes from MIR.
Mcclure and myself to all our Man
kato friends, especially our friend
Burt of the Mankato House, remain
Yours, &C., W. IL. q.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-01-13
OUR ST. PAUL LETTER, NO. g.
Our Law Makers got So Tried in Perfect
Ing an Organization that they Adj
journcd until Tuesday,
january, 11th.

ST. PAUL, Jan. 9th.
Ed. FREE Press. The sanity city
the past few days. has been extreme
ly lively, especially among our law
makers. The topic of the organiza-
ton has been the greatest theme,
whereat Southern Minnesota mourns
the loss of her share of the public
patronage and her inability of suck
ing the public teat III the rate of 80
per diem for the space of sixty days.
Dunn, the Southern Minnesota candi-
date for speaker, has lost all conf
dence i'm human nature and insists
that it was Daniels OF Rochester and
two of the Blue Earth county delega
ton that are responsible for his
continuing in Il subordinate sphere
instead of welding the gavel over
the distinguished members of the
lower house. Then the scramble for
clerkshirs and other minor Offices was
indiscribably grand to those who had
no aching void to fill. and as the de-
feated ones went filing out of the
caucus. seeking consolation for their
wounded ambition over Il 5 cent
schooner of lager or Il wheeling stoga
& for 5 cents), the old adage was
fully verified that there wasn't
enough offices to go around. The
Speaker wanted time for rejecting
upon the appointment of the various
committees. and as no business could
be transacted until the appointments
were made. the members adjourned
from the 5th to the l0th--four days.
ut a cost of $4,000 to the State, many
of the members going home to save Il
weeks board. Those that remain are
trying to figure out the Senatorial
question, but make slow progress.
Dunnell was here last week in Ram
sey's interest. but he WAS very polite
" informed that this wasn't the
First district, consequently he took
the hint and departed It's quietly us he
came.
We expect that Speaker Fletcher
will have his committees appointed
So us to report them Tuesday morning.
and then there will be another scram-
bile for the clerkships of the various
committees.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-01-13
County correspondence.
EDGEWOOD.

The article in your last, from Good
Company No. 10, contains expressions
for which all farmers will thank you.
/ will ask No. 10 why it Is that far
mcr's lives are social deserts SO much so
that our farms are almost without value,
while all leave them as soon as they
reach a stage of development beyond
the grade of an OK. The article speaks
of games, we are taught they are wicked,
dances, the devils own pastimc. The
fact is, we of the rural districts, are not
one score above those of our ancestors
who whipped the cider barrel for work
ing on Sunday. The only good time
we do have is at the annual donation
party, and the other 3G4 days are devo
ted to the dwellings of an old theology
that was IN inspiration two hundred
years ago, and is very unpalatablc now
Then we are taxed until we can't Slut
our teeth together, and then have to
travel from forty to seventy miles for
the sweet privilege of paying them, and
the RerieW wants "A county assessor APP
pontcd so as to have the assessment
uniform throughout the county. All
right Mr.. Recie,c, ! will see you and go
YOU one better; let us have Il State
assessor so as TO make the assessments
uniform throughout the State, as oul
own town and county boards know
nothing. Let lis take our bus mess NJ
where they do know something, and LET
us go to st. Paul to pay our taxes, for ii
would be so much handler than to pay
them mt home. Then some farmer:
find fault about their taxes, putting OF
style etc The ReDieW thinks they mus
be Inundated. and live like the Turks
for the grain raiser there, gets the crus
and the tax collector the loaf, and tn,
producer is often times grateful if h'
can smell where the loaf was baked
Yes, say, take all public business
away from the rural district, make the
ungrateful farmer know that his share
in governmental affairs is TO obey it
mandates and pay Its taxes. Let II
follow the Regieo's democratic doctrine
of Capitalization little further. lie
us give one person all the assessment
in the United States; let us go liz
whole hog and refer all of our public
business to the center of the sola
system. NO. ~.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-01-13
Adjourned to January 9Th.
January 5. 1881.

January s. 1881.
Board metal present.
Petition of Herman Wilde to set off
the NJ SW4 and SW SW4 sec. Is,
t. lO5, 80, from school district No. 1876
dist. 80, was laid over to March 8, 1881,
no notice having been posted.
Petition of VIM. More and seventeen
others, residents of dist. No. 3s,requcst-
ing that Alexander LatOurell be set off
from dist. No. 1876 to dist. No. 3S, was
received and ordered placed on file.
demonstrates of the school board of
dist. No. 1856 against setting Alexander
Latonrcll off from sad district into
dist. No. 80, was received and ordered
placed on file.
Petition of Alexander Latourell to
set off NW1l sees 1O5, r 25 from
school district No. 1876 to dist. No. 49,
was granted
Petition Of p. Clcary and others to
set off Els NW4 SW4 S "a, t 100,
20, from school dis. No. it G to dis. 1873
was notgranted for noncompliance
| with the statutes.
Petition Of john Ward and others t.
set oil the We 10, LOG, 25, from
school dist. No. 9j to dist. No. SO, wa.
rejected for noncompliance with the
statutes.
Ordered, That the price of liquor
license to sell liquor at retail in Blue
Earth county for the year 1881, be fixed
at SO, and that all licenses terminate
on the 3lst day of December, 1881.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-01-13
DANVII.I.E.

The extreme cold weather of the past
few weeks has affected us but compar
itively little to what it would have done
twelve or fifteen Years ago, We find our
groves so beautiful in summer prove
very beneficial in checking the driving
storms of winter. How is it men can
live year after year Us some do without
planting Il tree of any kind is more than l
can conceive
Your readers were very much pleased
with the Carrier Boys address, and by
the way if it is not secret, we would
like TO know the authors name.
While its fact that we have had too
much legislation, it is because it has
been of poor quality. Every one Of
our l47 law makers consider that in
justice to themselves and their consti-
tucnts they must introduce from one to
dozen bills this winter as has been
the custom heretofore. When you take
into consideration the molly throng that
composes our legislature from year to
year and the burning desire in their
breast to immortaliZc their already great
name, il is no wonder that great many
of the laws found to-day on our statute
books are worse than nonentity.
1t is truism the less men are governed
the better they are governed. Circum-
stances alter cases We need laws now
that we did not need ten or twenty years
ago. 1t is settled fact that farmers
must turn their attention to something
else besides raising grain. A diversity
OF products is the demand Of the day
that includes all small grains and in
addition more horses, cattle, hogs and
sheep. Nothing has proved more re-
munerative the past few years than
sheep. But a great many are deferred
from going into sheep raising on account
of the loss occasioncd by worthless ours
of dogs. Men who are not able to feed
or co,he their families properly, must
keep two or three dogs without any use
for them, except it be to kill their
neighbdHs sheep. l have heard of Il
number of cases this winter where sheep
have been injured by dogs. Now, what
we farmers want is an IRON CLAD dog
law tax, giving the assessors the power
to either list or shoot every dog in theil
respective towns. V.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-01-13
visiting friends in Danyillo.

District No. 80 is happy by having a
teacher, who is to board with Mrs Kautf
mann. George and Johnny say they
wish they had stayed at home this
winter.
The exhibition given by the Danville
Centre school was decided success, the
programme being varied and entertain.
ing. This school is entirely composed
OF German children, and their enter
tainmcnt would have done credit to a
school of American children.
The dwelling house built on the
Southwest corner lot of Methodist Cross
Roads and occupied by C. Klaus has
been moved on Il. Hcitz's land where il
is awaiting further orders. w.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-01-13
PLEASANT MOUND.

| have invited our teacher to send yo,
the standing of the scholars in our
district school, thinking it might pass
as IN item. Items are scarce in this
vicinity.
l wish to congratulate you on your
success in securing county correspon-
dencc. | think your last issue Dan. g.
has the best display OF county cores
pondence | have ever seen i'll any paper
in the county for fifteen years.
All Of your subscribers that l meet
promise to renew at IN early date and
| expect to secure some news ones soon.
Yours, p.
Following is list of the average
standing Of the pupils in district 30.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-01-13
MANKATo FREE Press.
THURSDAY. JANUARY 10, 1881.
A New Political Party.

For the last few months desire to
break loose from the issues Of both
the political parties that have fought
each other SO strcnuously since 1850,
has gained such ground us to become
worthy of notice. 1t is claimed that
all of the questions that were condu-
Give in forming the Republican party
twenty years ago, have been brought
To a successful issue, and that now
the platforms of both parties are es-
TALLY the same. and that the future
demands new issues rejecting more
upon the prosperity of the nation
than either party cares to assume.
This desire is to establish Il party
based upon the opposition to the en-
croachmcnis of corporate monopolies
upon public rights. The initial step
was taken lately 10y party of promi-
nent New York gentlemen, who be.
lieve tha; the question of corporate
monopolies is the most imminent and
important one that can be submitted
To the people for political action. The
name of the new party will be the
National Autobiography League.
lis principles are anti.monoply. the
advocacy of the right of the many rs
against the privileges OF the few;
control Of corporations 10y the state.
and Justice for both labor and capital.
Active measures will be taken in the
spring 10 thoroughly organize i'll all
the States.
What the outcome of this new
measure will be is difficult to forsee.
but the whole object appears to dis
crimlnate against railroads, when
in fact there are other monopolies
more injurious 10 the public 1T large
than railways.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-01-13

working condition. The Blue Earth
City branch connecting with the st. L.
& $. G. II. II. ut Lake Crystal will be
pushed forward next spring, till it
reaches the State line. 1t will then
connect with railroad to be built from
Fort Dodge, which will give Mankato
the benefit Of the Iowa coal fields. The
preliminary survey of the Mankato q
st. Cloud railroad has boon made; we
hope TO see work begun early in the
spring. Its length will be 10 miles.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad purchased $50 feet right OF
way last year, on the river fiat. with II
width of $50 feet. This is for the pur-
pose of bringing their track into the
center of the city. A fine depot is to
he erected.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-01-13
LEITE. FROM PIERRE,
In which arc EchoS from our Old Friend,
W. II. Glecklcr.
EAST PIERRE, d. T., Dec. &c, 1880.

EAST PIERRE, ID. T., Dec. &C. 1880.
Editor Free Press:
While sitting around the stove to.
day, trying to keep warm, l was
reminded of the fact of promise ]
made to you to write Il letter about
Pierre and its surroundings, and how
we like our new location. / will try
and redeem that promise now.
p. +. Mcclure and myself arrived
here about November Is. after having
been in Chicago and purchased IA stock
of hardware and stoves for this mar
ket. Upon our arrival we found that
our building was not completed. and
so we had to make arrangements for
a stOre-roOm at once. Our goods soon
came, and as we were the pioneer
hardware and stove firm in Pierre,
our trade was good from the first. as
the people were hungry for that class
Of goods. There has been no neces-
sity for us to advertise or push our
business, for it has pushed us to our
utmost capacity. There have been
some pretty lively times since we
came here-the county was not or
ganized, and there being no law or
protection, the thieves, gamblers,
cowboys and desperadoes had it all
their own way. There have bee n
twelve men shot, and four we're in.
stantly killed This state of affairs
could not last long. The citizens be-
came alarmed and at last, for their
own safety, formed a vigilance com
mittee. One man named " Arkansas y
was killed 10y them, and when found
had nineteen bullet holes in his body.
Since then the county has been organ.
lied by Governor Ordway, and every
thing has been quiet and orderly.
To say that Pierre is booming
would be nothing but the truth. There
have been put up in the last ninety
days over two hundred buildings
many of them large and imposing
structures. Some are yet in process.
of construction. The Chicago North
western Railroad are building two
cOmmOdious warehouses, 40X3OO feet
for the accommodation of DcadwOot
freight. The Northwestern Stage
Company have also built large an'
comfortable buildings for the storage
lOf goods as they are transferred Il
land from the Hills. this point being
the most direct route to DeadwO0d
The Missouri river gives this route
great advantages for freighting. On
this route alone there are nearly on
thousand men and three Thousand
horses and mules employed who maxi
Pierre their headquarters. Ever,
thing now points To Pierre as TIN
future capital of the Territory
Grounds have been already selected
for the buildings, and gentlemen VIII
appear to be posted on the subjec
claim that the incoming Legislature
will pass such u bill this winter.
Pierre is central location, has
beautiful TOWNSHIP, good water, an