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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28

vote the straight ticket. So Is dry
weather coming, but begin to think
it farther off than election, for have
heard old men say for the last month
that we would have dry weather the
next change in the moon or the next
quarter, hut she has changed and
quartered and no dry weather yet to
speak of. So we will continue to
walk around in the mud, husk our
corn, it Isl good crop, dig our potatoes,
for we need them. But mud is not so
bad after all, it is soft to stand on, is
excellent for fevered feet and corn's,
if you go barefoot. N.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
Private Boarding House.

Mrs. VI. A. Rowlands keeps a first-class
Boarding House in the DIR. Clark house on
3rd Street, with a few rooms well furnished
for permanent bOarders, with accommoda.
lions for day bOarders. Terms reasonable.
Mankato, Oct. 1, 1881.
Iowa MRS. NJ. A. ROWLANDS.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
Election, Nov. Sth.

GuITEAr's trial has been postponed
from November !. to November Ia.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
MANKATo FREE PRESS
FRIDAY. OCTOBER -. 1881.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
For Governor,
LOCUS +. HUBBARD.
For Lieutenant-G Governor,
CHARLES A. GILMAN.
For State Auditor,
W. W. BRADEN.
For Secretary of State.
FRED. Won BAUMBACH.
For state Treasurer.
CHARLES KITrEISON.
For Attorney-GeneraI,
w. J. HAHN.
For Clerk OF Supreme Court,
SAMUEL II. NICHOLS.
Fur Railroad Commissioner,
JAMES II. BAKER.
For supreme Judges,
WIN. MITCHELL.
ID. A. DICKINSON,
CHAS. n. NASDERBCRG.
For Judge, Sixth Judicial District,
NJ. J. SEVERANCE.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
For Sheriff
GEO. W. MONKS.
For Treasurer
wM. JONES.
Por Register
W. II. MATTHEW'S.
For Clerk of Court,
WILLIAM {. DURKEE,
For County Superintendent of Schools,
REv. EDWIN ROGERS.
Fur County Surveyor,
JOHN LILLY.
For CoroncV,
DIR. z. q. HARRINGTON.
RSf Commissioner, Second District,
ISAAC n. DEAN.
For Commissioner. Third District,
T. REESE.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
COWS WANTED.

Two or three good, new Mich Cows, OF
those which are coming I'm soon, by
sep2iy1 NELSON MARTIN,
West MankatO.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
MILLINERY

And wishes to call the attention of the ladies
especially to her Fine Stock of Laces and
Lace Goods. Also to the complete line of
Yarns she always keeps in stock.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
PROBATE NOTICE,

STATE OF MINNESOTA-C0untyo of Blue
- Enrth--ss-ln Probate Court, Special
Term.
In the matter of the estate of James NJ. Will
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
Big Drives in Gents furnishing Goods /!

Five hundred dozen Gents All Wool Seamless
Socks, accents per pair.
Three hundred dozen Gents All Wool Seam |
less Socks, 25 and 70 cents per pair.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28

Great Inducements for cash customers to call
and see my prices before buying elsewhere.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
HOSIERY
Cloaks, Dolmans, Shawls

70 attraction Of Store.
Three hundred Coaks Don
Ladies'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-10-13

Mclaughlin, the challenger, suddenly
rushed over and, Selling Siskind's heavy
stick, dealt Reinhardt terrible blow
with it over the head, saying: Take
that, you cur"
The moment he dropped his club,
Conroy, his assistant challenger
snatched it up and gave Reinhardt an.
other fearful blow on the side of the
head. The police looked on but made
no arrests, and only interfered when a
general row seemed imminent. In
spector ThoRne was unfortunately out
on the street quelling other disturb
ances at the time. Reinhardt is a
brother-in-law of Mr.. Montgomery, a
strong anti-Stalwart man in the dis
trict. He intends having his assailants
arrested.
AT 10 O'clock the inspectors ordered
the doors closed, and while the officers
were closing those in front the side door
again opened, and in rushed anothe r
crowd Of the Tenth avenue gang. An
other scrimmage, lasting five minutes,
ensued, and the newcomers all took
the head of the line. They all voted
solid for the machine, and almost every
man desiring to vote anti-Stalwart from
that time on was told his name was
stricken from the roll. Not more than
800 votes were polled, over 200 being
closed out, and the Siskind ticket was
declared elected.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-10-13
BLOOMINGTON'S VICTIM.
The History and Anteredemts or the
Thief and murderer who WAS
lynched on saturday Might,

A Fairfield, Iowa, dispatch to the
Bloomington PcWagrdph, says; Charles
Hewlett (akos Pierce but whose real
name is Smith), who was hanged at
your place, was for several years n
resident of this city. He has BEEN
ever since his residence here, a notori-
Gus character, and has remarkable
history. Yet he was a young man of
ability, and would have made useful
member of society had his talents been
directed in the right channel. His
step-father, p II, Hewlett, is cashier
in one Of our banks, and most este
mable and worthy citizen and unlver.
tally respected by all of our people
He has seven times helped his step
son, Charley Smith, out of trouble, and
tried to make a man of him, but all
was in vain. Charley was sent to the
reform school from this place a few
years ago, and, after his return, began
to work industriously at the print
| ing business; then commenced TO
read law with the firm of Leg
gett & Nc Kenny, but soon abandoned
that and went away from here. Mr..
Hewlett tried to keep the boy employ
ed in order to keep him 90, OF sAischief,
but notwithstanding his efforts 10 keep
the boy from r...n, he was always get
ting in t.ouble. giving his relations here
great deal ofmental anxiety rs to the
iinal outcome. Mrs. Hewlett, Char.
ley's mother, died here some eighteen
months ago, and II is thought the des-
perete character of her son had as
much to do with her death as anything
else.
Our community was shocked by the
sudden and unexpected ending of his
life, yet every one here who knew OF
his desperate character feels that JUS
tice has been melted out to him, though
| the laws of your Commonwealth have
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-10-13

been violated. While away from here
he would write his stepfather some of
his incest letters about his doing well,
and how he was making man out of
himself, thanking Mr.. Hewlett for the
kindly interest taken in him. Yet Mr..
Hewlett would scarcely have one of
those letters ofremarkable rhetoric and
faultless English read before he would
receive information that the boy had
got into trouble again. He seemed to
have a natural propensity for getting
into trouble and having difficulty with
all whom he came in contact. The law
firm here with which he read law found
their drawers almost full of indecent,
blasphemous and sacr6gious prose and
poetry which he had composed. He
composed poetry with wonderful ease,
and manifested n remarkable ability in
that direction. He could not get along
with any one, and consequently could
not find employment.
His stepfather feels as though he had
done his duty toward him, and notwith-
standing the sad ending of what might
have been bright ard useful life, Mr..
Hewlett certainly has clear conscience,
and for the reason that he done his
whole duty.
This city has certainly furnished
your state with three OF the most
noted criminal characters on record.
1t furnished Oquawka with the not ORR
Gus Bill Lee, Galesburg with Frank
Rance, and Bloomington with Oh arley
Hewlett
We are n peaceable and law-abiding
city, and can hardly account for the fact
that such notorious criminal characters
once resided among us.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-10-13
1t Made Her HOmesick.

Darling, wake up and stop snoring,
said a Detroit woman to her hus-
band.
"Eh? WhazZa matter now" he
asked, as he half raised up in bed.
won't you please stop snoring? If
you only knew how homesick it made
me I'm sure you would"
"Homesick How the deuce can
my innocent snore make you nome
sick?"
"Why, you know, darling, that the
house on the coast, from which you
took me joyous bride, was only hall
a mile from government foghorn, and
every time you snore it reminds me so
of home that I can't stand it. Please
lay on your side, and have some little
respect for my feelings :.
And then the brute spread himself
out on his back and in FIVE minutes had
her bathed in tears as visions of the
old home crept upon her.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-10-13

The greatest discovery in surgery
thus lar in the year 1881, is that OF DR..
William Melvin. He has successfully
transplanted bone-fragments OF
wedges of bone taken from patients for
curved tibia-into the arm of child
whose limb was useless by reason OF
extensive necrosis two-thirds of the
humeris had been destroyed and no
repair of bones had taken place. A
good new humsris was the renrit, less
than an inch shorter than its fellow.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-10-13

The state microscopic Of Pennsyl-
vania claims that the production of
ten-year-old cognac in fifteen minutes
from alcohol, bepzine, glycerine and a
few other harmless drugs, is triumph
OF science.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-10-13
A Wedding or.
LowvilIe (N. ~ Democrat.

The postponement Of wedding
while the friends of the high contract
ing parties are assembled is sad af-
fair, but such dire calamities some
times takes place, as was evinced last
Friday evening, upon one Of those oc-
casions in this village. The respective
friends of the to-be- welded pair were
invited to participate in and be Wit
nesses of the nuptials which were to
unite Miss II. +. Breed and Mr. S. T.
Alworth. They were assembled but a
short time before some misunderatand-
ing arose as to which of the welded
couple should control the ring" and
after free interchange Of sentiment,
the affair ended in spat, much 10 the
chagrin OF the gentleman who Was 20
ohiciate at the ceremony, and who had
never witnessed similar spirit mani
tested on such an occasion.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-10-13

Mr.. Bradlaugh says: Victoria is
the last OF the German intruders who
will be tolerated by the English people.
Albert Edward will not succeed his
mother" Mr.. Bradlaugh would per-
haps consent to serve short term as
president Of Great Britain and Ireland,
Just to give the new republic start.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-10-13

Here we have it again. Sugar crop
100000 tons short this year. The tally
crop is above the average, however.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-21
The Great Cotton Exposition.

ATLANTA, Georgia. September II, 1881.
Mr.. Editor As the time is near at hand for
the opening of the cotton exposition, which is toI
be held here during the next three months, Il
Thought some information regarding it might bel
of interest to such OF your readers at least as in
tend to visit the south at that time. The EXPOSE
ton, as first projected, was to be confined mainly
to the exhibit of the textile products and the ma
.chinery for the manufacture OF the same-cottonI
holding the first place the more important in
dustry; but its projectors, wisely, think, con-
cluded to open it to the industries of the world
and it has now so far outgrown the original de-
sign and scope OF the enterprise that 1t PROMISES
/ to be one OF the most interesting exhibits ever
held in this country. There will be many features
of especial interest to northern visitors,-as they
will see here nearly all the important products OF
the soil Of the southern states growing in theI
exposition grounds Cotton of all the different
kinds raised on the globe has been planted, and
at different periods, so that people can see it in
all stages OF its growth, from the tender young
plant to the matured product The main EXPOSE
ton building, containing one hundred thousand
square feet of floor space, is nearly completed
and ready for exhibitors, and there have been
erected other buildings containing about twoI
hundred thousand feet of floor space in addition,
and yet there are applications for one hundred
thousand feet more-and think that 1t will bel
provided in time. The buildings thus far erected
are OF substantial character, with some preten-
ions to architectural effect, and will be suitably
decorated The great problem with which Allan
tans are now wrestling is, how to feed and shell
ter the invaders from the north, east and west Il
but the citizens have taken the matter up with
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-21
No LOOphOle for Guiteau.

Prominent lawyers who have examined
THE question as to whether Guiteau could bel
convicted of murder should the president
die out of the District of Columbia, are of
1.-THE opinion that he could not be convicted
lin the District. Still, section seventy-eight|
lof the Criminal Procedure of New Jersey
i Revised Statutes of New Jersey, 1870 j
jwoud warrant his indictment and convic-
ton in the state of New Jersey should death
occur there. The statute referred to is as
follows "Where any persons shall be fell
loniously stricken or poisoned upon the sea,
Tor at any place out of the jurisdiction of this
state, and shall die OF the same stroke or
poisoning within the jurisdiction of this
sstate or where any person shall be feloni-
zously stricken or poisoned within the juris-
jdiction of this state and shall die from the
effects of such stroke or poisoning at sea orr
lat any place out of the jurisdiction of this
state; in either case, indictment thereof
found by jurors of the county wherein the
Jurisdiction of this state in which such
death, stroke, or poisoning shall happen resi-
pectively as aforesaid, whether it shall bel
found before any coroner, upon view of such
dead body, or before the justices of the
peace or other justices or commissioners,
who shall have authority to inquire of muir
sderers, shall be as good and effectual in the
law as well against the principal or princi-|
i pals in any such murder as against the|
accessory or accessories thereto, or if SUCH
sfelonious stroke and death thereby ensuing|
1 had happened in the same county where
5such indictment shall be found" So, i'll
Justice fails Guiteau in the District of
! columbia, he would get taste of "Jerseyl
justice which would be quite as effective
as any administered in the District. In this
connection it may not be improper to say|
that in the opinion of good lawyers, if the
/ president had died in this state he could
mot be legally indicted either in Vermont or|
lin the District of Columbia. From this fact
5the necessity seems to be apparent for our
Legislature to enact the New Jersey statute,
(which will doubtless be done at the next
session. If the laws, the bulwarks of just
Htice, are thus loose in their provisions and
under their strict construction Guiteau has
Ia chance to go scot free, Judge Lynch will
have appellate Jurisdiction in the case. In|
! his court there is no hair splitting.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-21

Mcclellan as commander Of the
&army of the Potomac; was defeated by Lee
Hat Fredericksburg, and was then transferred
Ito the west. lie defeated Lougstreet at Knox
kville, and later participated in the campaign
Habout Richmond which led to Lees surrender,
SContemporaneously with his success in North
*Carolina, General Butler was winning VIC
Ito les in another part Of the great arena of
the war, and the two commanders were
known at the time as the Busy
lB's." The command of the army of the
{Potomac was pressed upon him against his
2conviotions of his fitness for the position
9against the promptings Of his modesty and
3his conscience. When he resigned his COM
3maud after the battle of Fredericksburgh,
y he manfully assumed all responsibility for|
1.-The mistakes which led to the disastrous
Tissue of that murderous conflict, only beg-l
2ging for himself that he might still bel
iallowed to serve his country in some capa-|
4 lefty however humble. In his bearing under
This crushing misfortune he displayed hisI
most prominent and truly noble character
5stic, and took with him to his new field of
action in the west the love, respect and
sympathy Of the army and the country. His|
private virtues were not inferior TO his pub
lie, and he is described as being generous
]open-hearted, hospitable, frank, affectionate,|
lever ready to help, never willing to inhict
Injury or to utter harsh sentiments. HisI
zeal in all good things was great and knew
mo tagging. After the war General Burn
side was elected governor of Rhode Island,
Serving in that capacity from 1866 to 1871 /
4 I'm 1875, after a most obstinate contest, he |
was elected on the twenty-eighth ballot
United States senator TO succeed William
,Sprague. His term expired March Sd OF
1.-THE present year but was reelected for al
second term. Men of greater talents and
higher attachments were the associates OF
General Burnside in the camp and in the
forum, but few Americans have been sol
popular, so highly esteemed, either in the |
marrow circle of personal friends and neigh +
lbors, or the wide range of national citizen +
ship. He was a representative man, brave
and honest man, the type of pure frank
land guieless citizen. His funeral was heidi
on Friday in Providence. His remains layl
in state in the rotunda of the city hall for
many hours and thousands of people took al
final look at the familiar features of the
dead soldier and civilian.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-21

General Burnside.

Another of the distinguished generals of
the rebellion has gone over to the majority
Tuesday forenoon, the 18th instant, General
Ambrose L. Burnside died suddenly of heart
disease at his home in Bristol, Rhode Island.
General Burnside's record is one of the best
known in the history of the war of the re-
bellion. lie was not a great military COM
mander, but his transparent honesty, his
manliness, his bravery aud unselfish patriot
ism retained for him, even in defeat, the re-
spect and favor OF the people and the civil
and military authorities. General Burn,
side was a native of Indiana, where he was
born May 23, 1924, of Scotch parents. lie
was graduated at West Point in 1917. En-.
tering the third regiment of United States
artillery he marched with Patterson to the
city of Mexico, and afterwards served in the
cavalry against the border Indians. lie re.
signed his commission in 1854, and built in
Rhode Island an establishment for manufac
turing breach-leading rifle of his own in
vention. Failing to succeed in this he &C
cepted business situation in Chicago, anc
afterwards went to New York. At the out
break of the rebellion Burnside was mad,
colonel of the first regiment of Rhode lslanC
volunteers. For bravery at Bull Run h,
was promoted to be brigadier-general. Iii
Roanoke Island expedition in 1862 was
brilliant success, and in the following Marcl
he was made major-general. The captur
of Newbern, Beaufort and Fort Macol
added to his fame and when, in July, 1867
Mcclellan retreated from the James riyel
Burnside was sent to reinforce him. II
took part in the battle of Antietam the
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-21
Items of Interest.

......z.- n,
o",N'A ''''D'' u ''''''' Is 'n'''"''"s
., ',A'1 =, ""s largo p"'A"ke vi
'''' "''
IHk largest boat on the lakes Is being built at
Cleveland ONO 1t Is TO he entirely oil iron and
" nave capacity Vi ''-V 'ons'
lHE annual mai oil the word contains 2,5oo'-
WoooV letters, ana its teiegraphic dispatches az
gregate lil'ooo'ooo In year
SERGEANT MASON, who attempted to shoot
Guiteau, has written long address to the Ameri-
can people, giving the reasons why he thought
Gniteau should be shot
THERE are three hundred educated female ply
sicans in active practice in twenty-six states Of
our Union-the majority in Massachusetts,, New
York and Pennsylvania.
A CONTRACT has been made in China for 900
coolies to work on the railroads of Texas and
New Mexico They are on the way here and
will be paid 81 10 per day.
Tux Ohio river saws the Cincinnati Go,e,,e ia
one inch bigher than ever before known Nav,-
cation ia entirely susnended As IL ia th,re ia onv
|twenty-six inches in the channel
T,,v d,La nj ArgvII sat A pav fashion at his
la,os, ,oddinc Tho cuasts want ayay af,or tho
,os,i,i,os and ha and Ma u;fa sta,oa In ,ba honsa
&litera,lv 10 snepa the bonevmoop AT home
o. No''N n",o'' "0''e'H "au "No Owns
hadly hoa,en and driven ont of the country hy
,omnanv Of men who said thew wanted no north
erners there
lHk Russian Journals publish terrible details OF
|dphthera now epidemic in Russia. 1t is reported
. in ca,tain conmnnes and n.risbes that ali chill.
lran ,ndar s,,oan ,,aars hava d,aS In pol,ovs
ieA u"1e' =. 80 80 80, 80 -
there nave peen io,ooo cases, 10 'Vo iatsi'
T,tr Georgia house has nassed A hill eiphtv-
-. -, - - 80
n,ne W s'N' SA'ns ue'"o's " ''i e'.n ps'oi'
drk-knile, bowie-knife, sword cane and toy pis-
toll sold Governor Colquitt has signed the bill
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-21
The CRY from Michigan.

Governor Jerome of Michigan has issued
IA proclamation to the people Of the United
States, appealing for aid for the Michigan
sufferers by forest fires. He says, "The|
destruction of property will be great in the|
four counties affected, and in some whole|
townships complete, and two hundred lives|
have been lost by burning and suffocation,|
while many have become helpless through
Injuries and exposure. Some are Blind
The number of men, women and children
|left without shelter is estimated at fifteenI
Thousand. The benevolence of the citizens|
Iof the state has responded promptly to the|
first necessities of these afflicted people, butt
lample time has elapsed, and sufficient details|
have been received, to make it evident that
Ia wider appeal is needed. The destitution|
prevailing in the suffering counties is appal-
ling. Entire neighborhoods are involved
and cannot help each other. The sufferers|
have no provisions except such as are|
brought from distance, and no utensils to|
lcook with. The necessaries Of life, BOTH
large and small, have been destroyed. They
3need shelter, clothing, shoes, cook stoves,
Kitchen utensils, beds and bedding, wagons,
harness, ploughs, hoes, tools OF all kinds,
seed for future crops and whatever helps to|
make men self-supporting. Timely help
! will enable them to go through the coming
winter, and become again and independent
rnnniiv fhaxf al
less, needy, sick aud suffering. Many of
these are in debt. ] appeal, under circum
stances like these, to the people of other
states, and ask them to cooperate in their
abundance with the citizens of Michigan in
relieving this restitution. Nothing will be
wanting here in duty TO the afflicted suffer-
ers, but the demands are too great for the
people of this state to meet alone. An or
ganization for the relief of the sufferers by
these fires exists at Detroit, the commercial
metropolis of the state, and systematic plans
4 of relief have been established. The com
! mittee having them in charge is composed
of well-known, competent and responsible
tcitizens. Money and supplies sent to its
chairman, the Hon. William G. Thompson,
mayor of Detroit, will be faithfully distrib-
uted." Relief movements have been organ
lied all over the country, but the largest
contribution yet made will be but drop in
the bucket compared with the extent of the
calamity to be ameliorated. Seldom has a
more imperative demand to relieve heart
rending suffering been made upon the charity
and generosity of the American people.