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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
The Davenport C0nrentfOn.

The convention held at Davenport,
Iowa, to discuss more particularly
the Hennepin canal prospect. adopt
the following resolutions.
/. Congress should devise by law
and sustain by liberal, and efficient
appropriations a system of cheap
transportation by water.rOute from
the Mississippi river to the Atlantic
seabOard and Gulf of Mexico.
2. TO give Il greater efficiency to
the policy which congress and the
people of the Northwest have advO-
Gated for many years, there should
he constructed from the Mississippi
river on the most direct and feasible
route to the Illinois river at Henne-
pin, thence to the lake at Chicago,
Il canal adequate to the present and
future transportation needs of the
people, and it should be commenced
ut once. - -,.,'
3. We emphasize the united and
earnest demand of the people of the
entire Mississippi valley that con-
gress shall make prompt and adequate
appropriations for the Improvement
of the Mississippi river and its navi.
gable tributaries from the Falls of
st. Anthony to the Gulf of Mexico.
1. We view with peculiar salts.
faction the increasing success of the
barge-line system of transportation
on the Mississippi and it's tributaries,
and the relief it gives to producers
and shippers in cheapening freights.
5. We heartily favor the proposed
c.ssiOn of the Illinois 4 Michigan Ca
nal and the improvements on the
Illinois river by the state of Illinois,
and declare that the Erie canal should
he made free from tolls.
Two supplementary resolutions
were introduced by Mr.. Russell and
adopted, that the committee which
called this convention should he con-
tinued. and one member from each
state chosen by the delegates of those
states, be added to it, the committee
rs increased to elect its officers and
mature it's organization and that
this enlarged committee appoint two
gentlemen from each state to present
to congress an appeal for support in
the work of internal Improvement
as outlined in the above resolutions.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
FAR M Ian . S !
We said i'm

We said in former advertisement =" To person of
MEANS land cheaper today and in the long in Blue Earth
county per than at - $3 per hundred miles
timber BY the time the settler these vast praries has
made his bridges got churches and schools and bought
timber until he grow his own, his land will
him than $40 per acre." We repeat again emphasized by
the October blizzard the praies lying
miles the losses of stock reported
lost largely because there is timber with which to utilize the
hay and straw for shelter.
have a large of farming lands for sale in Blue
Earth adjoining counties and customer either with i'm
umroved Lands have been rising some since harvest
will likely keep going up At present prices they will pay bet
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, 1881-06-03
AGRICULTURAL MISCELLANY.
BEES IN MINNESOTA.

The attention to the apiary i'm the
State Is not what 1t should be. w,
do not know that there are as many
engaged in bee.culture now as there
was ut any earlier period. At one
time we remember that Mr.. Patrick
Fox, an intelligent farmer of Wash
ingtOn Lake, Sibley county, could
count his swarm or hives by the hun
dred. He cultivated fields of bOragt
as a pasture for them. The late VIM
Harrison. of this city, bestowed con
siderable attention to the industry
John j. Miller, one of the first set
tiers of this city, upon his removal to
his farm southwest of MinnetOnkl,
succeeded admirably with them.
When the Territory commenced to
attract emigration, from lS49 up to
1855, the big woods were full of wild
bees. Large quantities of honey was
secured from hollow boo trees. The
past winter in many of the Western
States has been severe on bees. In
Wisconsin Mr.. George Grimm, of
Jefferson, informs us that i'm his
county last fall there was 1900
swarms, and that from all accounts
there is less than 1000 this spring.
James HeddOn, of Dowagic, Mich.
says that twO-thirds of the colonies
owned by skillful culturers are now
dead. In the counties In Indiana,
where agriculture was quite extensive
ly pursued, not live bee left. j. =.
CrOrfOot, of Hartford, Wis, reports
that out of 423 colonies alive on the
first of last October only thirty-three
are alive. Oliver Foster, of Mount
Vernon, Iowa, writes that as near as
he can get to the facts about 80 per
cent. Of the bees in that vicinity are
dead. In Kentucky and Illinois the
fatality was equally AZ severe.
We have heard no complaints from
this State, of such Il character, and
we are inclined to think that perhaps
there has not been over the average
winter loss. At all events we hope
this may be the case. The steady
cold weather of our climate is I'M
much better for the bees
than changeable weather. One day
so cold, and the next so warm that
the bees can leave their cells, would
suggest that in such climates hives
require prOtectiOn.-,Ainneapolts Tri-
Iu,.a
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
DEATH the only ResOWrce.

a young man who entered Il street.
car in New York a short time since,
staggered and tainted. 1t was dis.
covered that he was bleeding from a
self.intlicted pistol.shOt wound in The
side. He was taken to "a hospital.
There he told his story.
He was young fellow Of ordinary
ability, but good education and gentle
breeding. lie had gone from his
hone III New England to New York
to make his fortune. and there, like
thousands Of other silly boys who
have sought that great city for the
same purpose, he had boon pushed
down by the trampling multitude.
In the place which no managed to
secure in commercial house, he was
given hard work, rough words, and
wages which would not keep him
from starvation.
He threw up his position. -
thought my education should COM
mand IA higher place." he said. Then
began the dreary, hopeless search for
work which has driven so many men
to despair in the last four years in
our great cities.
Ho did not find it. His money was
rapidly going. He was reduced to
sleeping in dOOrways and living on
dry bread. Finally he had not oven
the dry bread. He would not beg.
81 borrowed pistol and put an
end to it," he said. I" 1t was my last
resource. Inever did think much Of
life"
Now, the man who thinks little of
life is invariably he who makes little
use of it. Death is never the last
resource of any man who has common
sense and willingness to usa the
chances open to him.
Instead of trudging from door to
door to find work for his brain in the
great city where he Is not wanted, II
this lad had gone to the farms of New
Jersey, lust outside, he would have
found work for his hands, food for
body and sufficient wages for his
services.
He could have soon saved his pas
sage money to the West or South, and
there have begun work as farm
hand until no could take up a farm
for himself.
There Is the plain, rational course
in this country to comfort, cOmpe-
tency, wealth. Foreigners see it,
and make use of 1t. Over 4S, 900 emf.
grants landed in ono month in New
York, and made their way direct to
the great, rich, untitled lands wait.
ing for them in the West.
But our American boys crowd into
the cities, to starve and finally "put
an end to it," If not with pistol.
with rum,-declaring that death 10
the last resource. It is difficult to
have pity for these victims Of their
own folly.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
THE DISMAL SWAMP.
| A Spot or UssrelteUed DesffeecssS"-
A Visit to the Famous DIS
mai SsUaAtp.

Correspondence OF the Christian Leader
When we left home there was Dut
one thing in the entire South we
wished to see and that was the great
swamp. We felt about as we I'm.
agined the dismal swamp looked. We
had planned to 60 to suffolk. anu
thence by the canal to Lake Drum
mOnd. But there were no convey.
ances. We were out of season, ana
it was perilous to risk the trip by pr.
vate boat and mule team, as 1t would
compel shelterless night camp on
the borders Of the lake. We had,
therefore, to content ourselves with
journey of about twenty miles In
the swamp, but in section by no
means equal to its more desOlate
parts. We were satisfied. A very
moderate amount of desOlation HIS
the measure of our ambition. The
dream of our youth has ended; we
are cOnvalescent from our infatuation
for the dead heroine, who
"Ali night long by Il FREELY lamp,
Paddles her light canoe"
on the lake of the Dismal swamp.
We always were a good deal stirred
up that they should make for "a soul
so warm and true, grave so cold
and damp" but we find that they
had to do it, for the swamp is half
under water. 1t Is singular what
strange power this weird ballad OF
MOore's has over many minds. 1t is
strange that the weird should hold
the mind by stronger spell than the
simple beautiful possesses. The eve
Of the basilisk cOmpels fatal admira-
ton we prolOng, by every art, our
dreams of agony with endless tier
alton wo rehearse the tOrtures of our
inner spirits, and sit down to no ban.
quet with such CHASTITY yet enhancing
pleasures as when we "sup of hor-
rors." The section of the swamp
seen by us was unrelieved desolatlOn.
Lofty trees of cypress, with great
swollen trunks rising from spOngy
soil, with great arching limbs, drap-
cried with tangled vines; narrow
channels running into dense thickets,
walled with matted reeds. with dry
bushes of hay and juniper; with tat
ters of old mOsses pendant from the
trees, with great black pools of Shiny
water, with fallen trees rOtting with
decay, and the sombrensss of dull,
colOrless March sky brOOding over all
the limitless waste.
Excursions IRE frequent in the sum
mer season from Norfolk. Several
years ago the Governor of the State.
while on one of these extra cOnviyial
parties, being somewhat the worse
for extra libations, threw over the
stove Of the yacht and now, when
ever the careless pilot runs his boat
upon snag, it is said he enters In
the logbooks, Grounded on the Gov
errors stove" The water of Lake
Drummond is beautiful as wine, the
color being given to it by the roots Of
the cypress trees. 1t is Of singular
purity. When first taken from the
lake 1t undergoes fern entatiOn, but
then clarifies. and after twenty years
on shipboard has been
known to be sweet.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
AGRICULTURAL IMPORTS.

Certain eastern parties are calling
on American farmers to make com
bined effort to prevent the importa-
tions of foreign agricultural products
by turning their attention to the pro.
duction Of them. They show that
81 ,OOO, 900 year is spent for foreign
barley, and about as much for eggs,
that $115,1 29 is paid out for sausage
skins. $2O,7l8 for sour-krout, $22, 1881
for bologna sausage, 81, 900 for teazles,
beside large sums for mustard and
chicory. Now it affords no evidence
that a country is not prosperous that
it imports quite large number of
articles that might be produced at
home. Mexico and Montenegro i'm.
port very little, and still they are not
prosperous. Great Britain, on the
other hand, imports large amount
of almost everything, and Is after all
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
Looking for the " king" Of Mime
SOfN

The following New York telegram
reveals the meager knowledge many
foreign immigrants have Of this
country:
"Over II 900 emigrants arrived at
New York last week. Interviews
with a group of Swedes elected the
fact that they propose to settle in
Minnesota. preferring that section
because its weather is so cool In the
winter. A by-stander informed them
that the breezes Of Minnesota are
quite refreshing after the first Of De.
cember. One Of the Swedes' flaxen
headed boys wanted to know II the
king of Minnesota was good man,
and on being told that the king was
dead and the country was ruled by a
gentleman hired for the purpose,
called the Governor, the little boy
replied that he was sorry to hear Of
the kings death, and he hoped that
he had q fitting monument"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
EBB AND FLOW

Life thrObs with tides that cbb ana flow,
With things that come and things that 20,
The miSts that rise when morn III fair,
That rise and float, then melt I'm air,
Are not more transient In their stay,
Than are the hours that speed away,
For often lifo seems like Il dream
SO quickly flash with glance and CLEAN,
A Thousand things that come and go,
And cause the tiics To cbb and flow.
A sad sweet strain that's borne along
by breath of wind; II bit of song,
A few fond words when dear friends meet;
The music OF Il laugh that's sweet;
The sympathy that prompts sigh;
A winsome fnco that passes by;
Brief joys, that stay their little while,
A kindly glance, u loving smile.
These ever come, and over 90,
And like the tides they Obj and flow.
A lovely landscape, fair and bright,
Ono moment seen, thcn lost 20 sight,
The gorgeous clouds at set Of sun,
That crown the day when II IL done,
The frosty pictures on the pane,
That fade, and come, and fade again;
The curling smoke that fades away;
A snow wreath on II winters day;
All these like waves that cbb ami How,
With coasclcss throb still come iuid go.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
"Reminiscences Of John BrOsrsl

Mr.. Thomas b. Musgrove, the New
York banker. says: Zone day in the
summer of 1859, l was sitting in the
dry goods house of which was the
junior partner, and my desk was in
the middle of the floor, as the junior
partners always is, when man came
in whom recognized in q minute as
John Brown. He had been friend
of my father, and had nursed me on
his knee when i was a child. He
took his seat on bale of Osnaburgs.
Osnaburgs were sort of bagging
used at the time to bale cotton. AS
Brown sat on the Osnablrgs, he said:
these are made of labor that ought
to be free He repeated, feeling
them in his fingers, made of labor
that ought to be Free He then said
he wanted to see the head of the
firm, who was also his friend. said
to him: Mr.. Brown, he Is very
busy just now. Can't i attend to
your business quite rs well! What
do You wanti' Il want to get some
rifles he said, for Kansas. l want.
cd some money well, Mr.. Brown
said l, suppose give you a check
for $50-wOn't that dog THAT will
do very well,' he said, and l need
not wait to see NJ
- wrote him the check, ana he
took it and put it away, and that is
the last time l ever saw him. As he
got up from the Osnaburgs he said,
shaking his head: Made of labor
that ought to be free A very little
while passed, it seemed to me two
months, perhaps, when l picked up
the paper and saw that John Brown
had made descent on Harper's
Ferry. l wrote to him, expressing
my surprise that he was there, and
asking if anything could be done for
him. He replied that he would like
to have suit of clothes to 60 to his
trial in. ! knew what he liked to
wear first-rate. He always wore, If
he could control it himself, suit of
snuff. colored cloth or cashmere. His
hair was of a brown color, very much
like the tint of the snuff.cOlOred
cloth, and so were his eyes. His lips
always looked to me as il they had
water on them. He spoke with good,
fair grammar, and was an interesting
talker. had the clothes made up
and sent to him to appear at the trial.
Not long after that paper at Rich
mond published the names OF North
ern firms whom nothing must DC
bought from, and ours among the
rest. Ny partners came to me anu
said had made dreadful mistake,
and must drop out of the firm. said
that would suit me very we'll indeed,
and I sold out and went to Italy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
The Use Of Money la Elections.

Cleveland Leader.
From reports pu blishcd from time
to time in this country and Europe II
is evident that no laws have yet been
framed strong enough to absolutely
prevent corrupt uso Of money in cleo.
tions. In France the political parties
make no effort to conceal the distri.
button of various sums in saloons and
restaurants where the rank and file
cOngregate and expect to receive sun
dry favors in return for their votes.
In England the expenditure of money
in elections simply challenges com
petition" Late advices state that at
Il recent election in Yarmouth, Eng.
land, seat in tho House of Commons
cost one of the candidates 1850, 900.
In the borough of Aylesbury, where
only about 1000 votes are pOlied,
more than 1876 900 were expended by
candidates last year. In the small
bOrOughs of CricklOde and ShOreham
there was Il total expenditure of
$40, 900. In the four small bOrOughs
of Abingdon, buckingham, HOrsham
and Woodstock, each of the Conserva-
tive candidates had to pay bills OK.
ceeding $1,000. In Manchester the
aggregate disbursements were $780,.
600; in the city of London 377 900
were expended {; in Birmingham,
800, 900; Bradford, S47 900; Preston,
$30,OOO In Oxford the Conservative
candidate paid bills amounting to
$25 900. These figures are shown by
tho official returns, and are light com
pared with some of the expenses. In
the West Riding of Yorkshire, the
Conservative candidates disbursed
$l33, 200, while their successful rivals
expended $4,000. Two hundred
and thirty thousand dollars was ex.
pended in the county of Durham. In
MontgOmeryshire one candidate ex-
pended S87 900 and was beaten. In
that county it cost over 100000 to
bring out the 1878 votes. In Mid.
lothian Mr.. Gladstone spent $l3, 900
against $40, 900 laid out by his com
petitOr.
In our own country election frauds
are of such common occurrence that
comment il unnecessary. The PrOvi.
dence, X. l., Star tells of the most
braZen piece Of corruption that has
ever been brought to notice, outside
of the Solid South. In East Green
witch, at the late local contest, the
election was bought and sold. Voters
were given little black buttons which
were cashed for three dollars each.
There was no attempt made to con-
ceal the bargains, and men received
their buttons with kind Of matter
Of-cOurse air. Well-to.do farmers re-
ceived buttons and had them cashed
in a regular business way. Eighty
seven voters dubbed together and de-
manded ten dollars head for their
votes. The price was not paid. and,
forming in line, the incOrruptible
men," who would not be bought.
for less than ten dollars marched mp
and voted for the Greenback candi-
date.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03

The following story of the En-.
peror William is related by. the Der.
lin correspondent of the Boston Post
/" Lust year, while hunting in Silesia
with the Duke Of Mecklenburg and
the King of Saxony, the aged Kaiser
proposed returning to their castle on
foot, but soon becoming weary Of the
walk, he hailed passing wagon and
requested the driver to take them
home. The peasant complied, but
could not long restrain his curiosity,
and soon remarked: i suppose it is
all right, and you look all right, but
will you please tell me who you are {!
r am the Grand Duke of Mecklen
burg 'Oho.0.on exclaimed the
rustic; and who are your lam the
King of Saxony.' 'OhO! ahem !!
calculated the driver and you, mis-.
tor, who are you!' i am the EN-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03

perOr.' There, that will do, my
friends grinned the peasant, and |
dare say you would like to know who
/ am. ! am the Shah of Persia, and
when 1t comes to joking / can take
my part rs well as the next man
The three sOvereigns were cOnvulsed
with laughter, but the peasant drew
u long face when he found that he had
been the only JOKER"
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An ex.soldier's wife in Newbury-
port, Mass, believing herself to he a
widow married, and thus relinquished
her pension. She lately learned that
her soldier husband is alive, and the
court has declared her second mar.
riage void, and that she is entitled to
90 on the pension list again and to re.
ceive So 900 arrears.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03

Prof. Guilmette's name is a house
hold word in France, and so it should
be, for he is the inventor of the French
Kidney Pad, which has performed such
wonderful cures in diseases of the KID
neys.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
TIM 3 Err L Al D S !

We think the extension of railroads greatly
the kinds and timber. However much coal
hay may be used for fuel timber is absolute necessity for mu
tude purposes The constantly increasing demand will rapidly
absorb surplus We look for stronger and rapid
Improvement in timber than in farm lands.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
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
every hae occupied and the brightest prospects for
the rapid growth of the city.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
MANKAro FREE Press.
81 so per AnnuIn in Advance

Local NoTICEs will bc inserted at the fol-
lowing raics-fiNc limos or less, 81 cents; 10
cents for each additional line.
jon pRISTIsG, both Plain and Ornamental,
executed with ncatncSs AMI promptncss, and
AT prices that will compare favoruhly with
any other Job Printing House in the country.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
MANIFEST DESTINY POINTS TO MANKATo

las great distributing of Southwestern Mnnesota-
busy industries multiplying, will be pushed the
supply the rapidly developing wants of the country beyond
fooo will be worth fortune in the future.
lend a hand to make
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-03
Mankato the Leading City Of Southern

We offer You Lots in the city proper suitable for business
locations all the Additions long time if parties will
improve.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-04
RUSSIA.


some rigorous N08Suf0S AUOpteOs
LONDON. April "A dispatch from st.
Petersburg to the Times says " The first
measure established by the new elective
council of twenty five, has been to invest
the city with chair Of COssacks patriots,
with posts of officers and police on all the
roads, so that no ingress or egress of per-
sons is allowed until subjected to a strict
investigation by the commanders of the
posts. Not even special passports are yet
permitted. A second measure is now
beng elaborated by which every traveller
arriving at railway station will, after
examination by the police, be handed over
to cabman, who must deliver him at the
designation declared to the police, or
promptly report any change in the desig
nation. A third measure was proposed
and vigorously applauded at q general
meeting of tho 229 deputies composing the
temporary council, but as yet the council
of 25 has refused to sanction the measure,
which was that certain members of the
council should take turns in watching the
streets through which the emperor might
pass, thus iucurriEg grave responsibility
should anything untOward occur. 1t would
be untre to say that the councils measures
are unanimously approved in St.. Peters,
burg"