Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-08-30
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i Dakota county has paid the last dol
lar Of its Indebtedness,
-Burdette Thayer. Of Spring Valley,
is favorably spoken of as candidate for
the legislature.
-Mrs. a. NJ Thyng lectured on Tenn
perance at Mortified, Aug, 9Th, and at
Faribault 26th
-Wabashs reports the grain crop in
Wabasha county as 'better than for four
years past, wheat included
One Of the greatest trials in q young
lady's life is when she tries to get half
gallon foot into quart shoe.-ET.
-Owatonna is to have a new central
school building costing 1914, 500. The
bonds have been voted by the people
Here is richness. 1t is stated that
there is 60 creaneries in Linn county,
1owa.-Austan Register.
Here IS asness for you.
--Vennor intends to add special at
traction to the Minneapolis fair. There
will be heavy rain the first week in
September.
The Sprague estate, known as Canon
Chef, was recently sold 10 Francis D.
Moulton for $62,s50, Its original cost
was 100000.
-Embollsm is the stoppage Of an artery
by particle of clot or foreign substance
in the blood. 1t is one of the causes of
sudden death.
Rev T. o. Douglass, for many years
pastor of the Usage Qowa) Congregational
church, leaves this week for his new
home in Grinnell
The managers of both the Minncap-
oils and Rochester fairs will prohibit the
sale Of intoxicating liquors ON their
grounds this season.
The St. Paul Globe will soon be en-
larged to eight pages, cut and pasted, and
will have wire of it's own to Chicago
It deserves it's prosperity.
The latest thing in surgery is the set
ting of dislocated neck by New Haven
doctor. The boy was put in plaster Of
Paris cast and is doing well.
"A Commandery of Knights Templar
was organized at Mason City, Iowa, last
week Wednesday. The Knights of Usage
assisted in the organization.
-Sambo's heaven: The Arkansaw
Travellers aged colored person says, My
idea of de better world is whar dey is a
election goin' oh all de time, case den de
white folks is alters perlight. "-Er.
"A. w. Pratt has resigned his position
as station agent at Faribault and proposes
to take rest. Twelve years of good and
true service entitle him TO period of
recuperation.
Washington swells now sport watch
charms made from pieces Of Guiteau's
coffin 1t would not be regretted if each
charm should swell into a coffin for the
crank who wears it,
Hastings has broom brigade of
young women, and a mop brigade of
young men. What dirty town Hastings
must be- or else what a soft-headed set
Of young men it must have.
Henry Bascom, the actor who lost
both legs by freezing, says in an an
nouncement of dramatic performance,
fsthis is the first appearance on any stage
of an actor with two wooden legs"
The Wells vinegar factory was entire
~ destroyed by fire last Sunday evening.
Loss s35, 900. No insurance. We are
sorry for Hon Clark Thompson, who is
too enterpriaing a man to be followed by
such misfortune,
The first load Of new wheat marketed
this season in Albert Lea was No. 1, and
brought ST per bushel, The Enterprise
says wheat in Freeborn county will yield
from IL to 18 bushels to the acre, and the
quality is superior to that of last year
"A Providence Methodist pastor has
asked his presiding elder if there would
be any harm in a clergyman taking les
sons in boxing, for exercise only.-E1.
That depends on whom he exercises.
There might be more harm in the other
fellow,
AT the Free Thinkers convention,
DR.. Brown, of Binghampten, said that
outside Of morality and science, religion
is reduced to the mere selfish wish, 20, I
want to get to heaven" We suspect the
DR.. will sometime wish that he had been
little more selfish.
-Ruskin says: Though England is
deafened with spinning wheels, her people
have no clothes; though she is black with
digging coal, they die Of cold, and though
she has sold her soul for gain, they die of
hunger.
And yet England has the very free trade
that the Democrats of this country are
laboring for.
On September 10 next Cedar Croft,
the home Of the late Bayard Taylor, at
Kenneth Square, Chester County, is to be
sold at auction at the Philadelphia Ex-
change by NJ. Thomas & Sons. The es-
tate is large, comprising nearly 200 acres,
including farm and the pleasant grounds
around the spacious house. which is of
brick.
"A registered foreign package was
sent from the Registered Letter Depart
ment of the Baltimore Post Office recent
ly, destined for London. England, on
which the postage and registry cost over
$25. The package was about foot long,
ten inches wide, and eight inches thick,
carefully sealed, and contained bonds and
other securities amounting to over 81 ,00O,-
900, mostly for one banking firm. The
package goes by way of New York.-Er.
The Salvation army will soon begin
its work in this country. Converts are
sought for no particular church. The
organization is thoroughly military in its
character, and is designed to reach, by
means of banners and outdoor meetings,
the classes that never go to church. It
has already reached 5000, GOO of souls in
England.