New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-03-21
MINNESOTA MEMS.

The Window Reporter says thai
Mr.. Speger ofthat place has an orde,
for ten cars of tow, to be shipped t.
New York, before the first q.
March.
The Renville Co. Times says tina
S. K. Miller of Beaver Falls dug out
of a snow bank. several days ago
quite a number of pansies in fult
bloom and as bright as new pin
The next annual meeting Of tn,
State Dairymen's Association will be
held at Austin, MINI. The society
voted to unite with the State fair as
ISOLATION for an exhibit this fall.
President POWELL has resigned the
presidency Of the State University
and accepted the professorship Ct po,.
litical science in the same institution,
which he will assume with the begin.
ming Of the next term.
-Four children ola Norwegian FAM
.ly living near Dexter have died Of
what is called by the parents black
tongue. The mother and another
child are sick with the same disease.
Mr.. Perry, living on Round Prai
RE, died very suddenly last Friday
evening. After supper he lit his
pine and commenced smoking and iii
a short time complained of feeling
rather queer when he fell over
dead.
Bishop Whipple, on recent visi,
to the Indian department Of his mis-
sionary diocese, administered tn,
communi on to RAJ Chippewa In
dams Fifteen years ago there was
hardly communicate among them
There are now eight churches in the
Chippewa mission and one, now
building, will cost SO, O0O-.
The Mankato RevieW complains
that the st. Paul papers misrepresen'
Southern Minnesota in reporting the
condition Of the weather. The fact
is-jlstly says that paper there is
no more favored locality in soil, eli
mate or healthfnlness than Southern
Minnesota; it has been misrepresent-.
ed and lied about in the interests OF
other localities.
Faribault Republican The dogs
were evidently much more largely
represented than the sheep in the last
Legislature. Hence the dog law was
re .)ealed after one years trial. AS this
takes away from the owners Of sheep
any chance Of compensation in case.
their sheep are killed, ,tthea natu-
rally considerably disc1ataged. One
of them IN the western part Of the
county who has lost two thirds Of his
flock by dogs within a year, assures US
that it will be impossible to keep
sheep without a provision for legal
compensation for losses. We hea,
of sheep owners in various parts Of
the county who propose to- sell their
flocks and go out Of the business,
and ifthe present policy Of encourag
ing dogs and dlscoaragirg sheep is to
prevail, Minnesota will soon go out
Of the list of wo producing States.
O. L. Farmer, son Of Judge Far
mer Of Spring Valley, was recently
expelled from school by the superin-
tendent for refusing to prepare sec:
ond defamation, as he had already
prepared a selection from Robert In
gersoll, which was deemed objection
able by the teacher. The local board
of education sustained the teacher.
The matter was referred to the state
board, and finally to the attorney
general. The decision of the attor-
ney general in substance is as follows:
That the teacher has the right to de-
mand Of the pupil the preparation of
such articles for defamation as in the
teachers mind is deemed best and
proper; but in this instant no partic
ular selection was specified, and the
choice Of the pupil was not vulgar
or Objectionable under the law and
that the teacner's only recourse, un.
der the excisting circumstances, was
to simply forbid the recitation Of the
selection referred to
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