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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-24
BROWNSVILLE.

-fElQdy ulkul, ITOLe quite uaTu
81 buys sack of -four at Sleeper s. Sons.
w. B. Sleeper left here Saturday for D. T.
&C. O. Sleeper will occupy the Getty's resi-
dence.
-"Beautiful snow made us first call Sun
day morning.
B. Rice and family took the cars here for
Fairmont Saturday,
The ball Friday evening vas well attended
and financially success.
Will Johnson. who went to California for
his health, returned last week, and looks bet
ter for his trip.
Gents, get you suit of that heavy two
sided cotton flannel underwear. Only 81, at
Sleeper s. Sons.
Mel Bacon is under doctors care at
Rochester, and we believe he will soon be as
solid as he ever was.
Why is it that a gentleman cannot attend
take ''whiskey straight?'
Ed Shook has bought out the meat market
and business at Blooming Prairie, and went
up there Saturday to take possession.
"A sociable was held at the Baptist church
Friday evening, and one is held every two
weeks to raise funds for fuel and lights. in
stead of taking up collections. A good idea.
Our market has been quite lively the past
week. Wheat, No. 2 SOC, No. 3, zoe, No. 2 bar
ley 35@40c, oats zoe. timothy 81. clover $3.50,
buckwheat Coo, fax S1.05, potatoes 1O@l5c,
onions Csc, eggs 2Oc, butter fresh zoe, old l6c,
Illinois soft coal IS per ton. Iowa soft coal IS
per ton.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-24

journment. Members present, Ayers,
Anderson, Graves and Schroeder.
On motion, the following bills were al
lowed:
II. B. Corey, sheriff fees Us bills) - ss371 81
Thos Riley, constable fees. $50 20
Same, constable fees Miner case, S7155;
j. Adams work on court house. 90
Il: Slocum coal for county. 4s 40
Mitchell Il Conrad, blacks,nithins for
poor tarm.. 16 70
D. NJ. Thompson, coal for court roomm.. Is
Ira Jones, goods for poor farm. .......$ 81 81
B. L. Merrill, assisting pauper $3.50, all. IL s.
+. P. Mcbride, goods for poor farm. IL %
Vandegritt Clark. work ON poor farm II 90
0. W. Gibson, salary Co. Physician year
ending atln g October i, lSS3: .::a q 81
On motion Board adjourned until 5
a. M, Oct. 10th. Ga. M. Oct. 10th.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
Members all present except Gilligan.
The auditing board made the following
report
TO the Board of County Commissioners
of Mower County, Mimi: Gents: We the
Board of Auditors in and for Mower
County, would respectfully report that on
opening bids for the deposit of County
funds, we found bids as follows: The
1st Nat. Bank of Austin bid 2 per cent.
per annum on average monthly balances
for the preceding month, from Nov. 1st,
1888, and the Mower County Bank of Aus
tin bid the same. Therefore, we
designate the list National Bank and
Mower County Bank of Austin, deposit
tories for the county funds. One half to
be deposited in the list Nat. Bank and one
half to be deposited in Mower County
Bank. Both Banks to give good and
sufficient Bond in the sum of fifty thous
and dollars EACH Board of Auditors.
On motion the report of the Auditing
Board was accepted.
The following resolution was adopted:
Resolued, That whereas the City of Aus
tin has paid into the County Treasury the
sum of six thousand dollars, amount due
| towards construction of Court House, as
per agreement between City of Austin
and Mower County, the receipt of same
is hereby acknowledged, and the City of
Austin relieved from all demands, and
the County Auditor is hereby ordered to
present the City Recorder with copy of
this resolution.
On motion the following bills were al
lowed:
J. Solner, filling in Court House grounds$75 90
j. Schwan, goods for poor FARM. 10 40
j. Keenan,, hay for poor farm. ......... % w
DOrr s. Void, stationery .............-- 90
G. d. Barnard g. Co., blanks. ........... Is
Y. Il. Gamer on, constable fee. amman. IS
On motion Board adjourned sine die.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-24

Do not move blindly. 60 carefully in
purchasing medicine. Many advertised
remedies can work great injury-are
worse than none. Burdock Blood Bit
tiers are purely vegetable preparation {;
the smallest child can take them. They
kill disease and cure the patient IN q
safe and kindly way. For sale by Dorr q
Void.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-24
Proceedings of the Board Of County Commits
SiOners.
AUDITORS OFFICE, MOWER Co.. !
AuStin. MINI Oct Sth 1899 {

NCDIIO1l > OFF1CE, NION Elk CU,.
Austin, MIMI, Oct. Sth, 1883.
3 o'clock p. m.-Board Of County
Commissioners Of Mower county met in
special session at the Auditors office as
per call. Members present, Oscar Ayers,
II: c. Anderson, j. B. Graves and G. l..
Schroeder.
On motion, the bond of G. II. Allen,
County Surveyor, with P. Schleiger and
c. F. Greening as sureties, was approved.
On motion, the following bills were
allowed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-24
A Startling Discovery.

Physicians are often startled by remarks
able discoveries. The fact that DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption and all
throat and lung diseases is daily curing
patents that they have given up to die
is startling them to realize their sense OF
duty, and examine into the merits of this
wonderful discovery ; resulting. in hun
dreds of our best physicians using it in
their practice. Trial bottles free at any
drug store Regular size $1.OO.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-24

opening r rlQay ana SATURDAY OF tnlS week.
The Austinltes are as busy this fall as
a COW in fly. time. Carpenters are busy
painters busy-everybody busy-and
you cannot get a man to chop stick of
wood for either love or money. A good
sign.
DIR. HOLSTER has gone to Philadel-
phia, where he will spend most of the
winter. having been transferred there by
the Department of the Interior to do the
same work he has been doing in Iowa and
Minnesota.
Harmon Cook has taken in a young
partner in the sewing machine business.
He is an improved singer, latest style,
back action, reversible feed, with all the
extras thrown in. If you don't believe it,
ask Harmon.
NO girls to hire in Austin-and scores
of housekeepers sigh. and say, what shall
we do Surely, one end of the millennium
will be here when some way. can be de-
vised whereby we may be able to dispense
with kitchen help.
"A two-year daughter of County Com
missioner Hans G. Anderson, of Nevada
township, died week ago last Sunday of
diphtheria. He has another daughter
sick with the same disease, but is sup
posed to be better.
The American people are the jury
that have set upon the merits of the soda
and Saleratus offered for it's use. The
verdict is that DeLand's brands are the
purest, best and most thoroughly reliable
Of any in the market.
Will Blalock moved his family to
Minneapolis a week ago Saturday, where
he expected to make his headquarters ;
but two days after his removal, he was
ordered to Aberdeen, D: T., from which
place he is to boss train of cars.
We are glad to learn that Edwin
Brownsill is very much improved in
health. He says DR.. Robert Hunter, of
96 State street, Chicago, is the happy
cause of it all. He cheerfully recon-
mends the DR.. to all sufferers from asthma.
DECLINE OF MAN.-Nervous weakness,
dyspepsia, impotence, Sexual debility,
euJed by Wells HsalthRVnewey."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-24

Look Out!
Immense new stock of clothing, for
Fall and Winter wear. Cash money
needed Low prices tell. Save your
chink and 60 to r. Dunkelmann.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11

The Seguin Times issued patent outsid
last week TO show its readers what it was
and says;
"we home print fellows turn mp OH
noses Mt the patent boys, but II the sub
scribers were consulted We doubt II the pat
ents would not get the majority"
Three years ago the subscription list Of
this paper was doubled in length within 81,
months after the change from an entire
home print TO q patent outside. IL our nd
vertisng patronage was to fall of sufficient
ly 10 Justify (which we have no thought
Of ever being the case-we should net hest
tate to again adopt the patent.
The Lockhart Register thus adds its testi-
mony to that of the Seguin Times to the su-
perior merits of thS. cooperative plan of
newspaper publishing. but we notice also
joins that paper in intimating that the plan
is inconsistent with desirable amount Of
advertising space. What ever put that idea
into the heads Of our respected contempt
raries we confess is beyond our COM
prehension. To show that there is nothing
in it, we would invite comparison between
their papers and the FREE PRESS, from which
it will be apparent that we have considering
the smaller type we use) very nearly If not
quite as much advertising as the Times, and
a great deal more than the Register. We
control the advertising on the cooperative
as well as the home side of our paper. 1t
costs little more to do SO, but it allows
space both for reading matter and
advertising. In fact, SO far from the lack
Of facilities and space for advertising being
m objection to the cooperative plan, al
legged by our contemporaries, one of the
strongest points in its favor is the decided
advantage in these partic ulars-its decided
superiority to the home plan. The Times
IS a paper of 7 columns to the page, the
Register of 6, while the FREE PRESS, if
printed like them in folio form, would give
, columns of the same width and of consid-
,rable more length to the page, 1t must be
obvious then, to all, that using all pages as
We do for advertising, we are able to give
not only very much more reading matter,
,ut have also all the space for advertising
which may be required As to the cost it is
not greater than that of q 7 column home
paper, while the Times and Register are
light in saying the plan is vastly more sat
sfactory to readers, and we have found it
lutte as much so to advertisers.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11

| DEMonEsT's MONTHLY MAGAZINE oegihS the
year brilliantly; the January number Tor 1855
being unsurpassed by any that have preced-
ed it.. The articles are of unusual interest,"
especially "How we Live in New YORK. py
Jennie June; Holiday Gifts and Gus
toms in Paris" Visits, and Manners at the
Table," and Current Topics" which is fuli
of valuable information. Most OF the shorter
stories are remarkably well told and "Ihe
Admiral's Ward" keeps up its interest
Every department is carefully filled The
forty-fiye illustrations are excellent, among
which is splendid oil picture, The fisher
Boy and the Fisherman's Daughter NO
family will regret subscribing to this admir-
able magazine, as it supplies household
want, and Is both useful and entertaining.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11
From Ba StrOp. :

Ed. FREE PRESS Our courthouse burnt
down Monday morning, the fire beginning
under the cupalo or floor beneath it. To
me it appears it was incendiary. Our court
house was built in 1851. ALI record books
were saved, also most papers
We have not seen the sun since Dec, 81,
1882 The beginning of 1883 is not pleas
ant, and we can we'll dispense with the ter
rible storm prophesied in the beginning of
March. G. E.
Jan. Z, 1883.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11

WE learn that Hon. j. V. Hutchins has a
reply in the Luling Signal to Lieutenant
Governor Story's article which we lately
copied. We failed to get copy of the Sig
nal containing Mr.. HIS article. We have
heard that he intimates that he could not get
his article inserted in the FREE PRESS. He
is mistaken as to this; we stand ready to
publish it on the same terms as we did the
article of Gov. Story. We treat all alike in
matters of this description.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11

1t is no use evading the hog question any
longer. Texas must raise, feed, fatten, kill,
dress and cure the bacon used in the state
and keep the money and smoke-houses at
home. What burned fools us Texans are"
Live Stock Journal
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11

TIE Arlorio1a Register says that Of the last
three Presidents Of the United States il may
be truly said:
Hayes vas counted in
Garfield vAs bought in
And Arthur vas shot in
Not one Of them bad majority or plural
iiy Of the votes Of the people. Great is''the
party Of norAls-
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11

vIcK's Floral Guide for 1883 is received.
1t is work of art, beauty and utility, and
cannot fail to please all interested in iori-
culture. Every lady should have copy of
.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11

In recent sermon Henry Ward Beecher
said: "The two great dangers which this
government has to fear are the combined
money power at the top and the combined
LIQUOR power at the bottom"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11
Sunday School Institute.

Elder Kit Williams, Sunday School Mis-
sionary of the Baptist State Convention,
will be in San Marcos Jan. 10, 20, 81 and
will hold Sabbath School Institute during
those days. An interesting program has
been arranged and q large gathering of Sun
day school workers is expected. Services
will begin at IL o'clock Friday before Sd
Sunday. The public are invited to attend.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11

THE Legislature met on Tuesday. The
new Governor will be inaugurated one
week from that time.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11

TIE NEW CoURT HoUsE.-We passed
through this building on yesterday, and
found agreat change in its appearance since
our last inspection. The carpenter work is
nearly all done. and the plastering well I'M
der way. Mr.. Gag, of Austin, who has the
reputation of being the best workman in
his line in the State, and who did the fine
work on the United States post Office and
Federal Court rooms at Austin, has the con-
Tract for plastering. and is doing an excel
lent job. The house viii be completed in
about four weeks.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11
For Sale.

A nice, well grown last springs calf. In
quire at FREE PRESS Office.
We fully warrant our Garden City
Clipper" Flows also our
Palmetto"
G.. w. DONALDSON &Co.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11
Notice-Pree School-

The Free school as pertaining to Prof.
Richardson's and Mrs. Duncan's schools.
viii open Feb !, and continue tin the mon
ey Is expended
r. FRosnE,
s. L PBSCEs,
Basil DAILI.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11

P.S. Ipresume the above is the kind
of letters an editor likes to receive. They
are short and to the point--and the FREE
PRESS is worth the investment.
Our correspondent is mighty right" We
do like that sort of letters-''the more the
merrier. ED.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-11
LAREDO, Texas, Dec. 10, 1882.

Mr.. I. H. JULIAN, San Marcos Enclosed
fnd p. o. order for. FREE PRESS for one
year. Yours respectfully,
w TT KrENrp
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-04-21
ClOthes.Pins for the Million.

"Clothes-pins, replied the grocer,
"three cents a dozen, or two dozen for
FIVE cents. No, we don't keep the kind
that have little brass springs in them
and snap together. If you want them
You NAV find them AZ some hardware
store. Groceries don't keep 'em.
Where do | get this kindP Why,
from a man down town"
The s'man down town. said: l''The
only kind of clothes-pin in general use
now is the plain, old-fashioned cleft
stick. There was a run, a few years
ago, on that fancy sort, with springs,
but, they have played out, and you
hardly ever see them now except in
dry-goods stores, where they are fire.
quently used to hold up goods for dis
play, or in photographers rooms to
hold drying proofs. Teddy o. Flaherty's
and VIM. Ii. VandoGbilt's shirts are
hung up to dry with the same sort of a
cheap split stick to keep them on the
line. Quantity consumed per annum?
Bless my soul! How do know? Mill
ions of millions of EN- / suppose. Why,
there are number of factories of them
up in Yankee land; big establishments
! that can make nothing else, and they
turn out-- Well, one up at Vance
boro, in Maine, makes them pretty
much all the year around, believe, at
the rate of about 800 minute New
\ England makes them for the world,
sends them out by the thousand boxes
at time--sixty dozen in a box-to
| every country on the globe where peo-
pie wear clothes and wash them. .
! "How are they made? Yes; | guess
/ [ can tell you that"
"The woods of which they are made
are of white birchgand beech, good for
/ this use but for not much else, believe.
! The logs are sawed off into lengths OF
sixteen and twenty-five inches The
latter are sawed up into little boards to
make the boxes for packing the pins,
The shorter lengths are sawed into strips
of suitable thickness for PINS by gang
saws that make block into strips
quicker than You could say Hohokus
Then a gang of three saws cuts off the
strips into five-inch lengths. Each pir
is now just a squared block about five
inches long and three-quarters of al
inch square. In this shape they are
fed out of troughs into automatic
lathes, each of which turns out eighty
rounded pins per minute. With equa
rapidly the knives of n slotting ma
chine, set to work like circular saw
bite ont the sloping Slot of each pin
When this is done, they are thoroughly
seasoned, in drying kilns. The mex
process is polishing. Forty bushels o
them are tossed together into revolv
ing drum, where they make each othe
smooth by their friction, and to finisl
them a little tallow is thrown in whel
they are almost done. That gives then
nice glossy surface. After all tina
they are packed in boxes five gross il
a boX--by girls, and are ready for tn
market. N. Y. Sun. ......I......
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-04-21
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Toronto Public School Board
has Just increased the salaries of the
teachers Throughout the list. .-.m-4f
The Chicago public schools were
this year slossdaf9r the first time, on
Good Friday a Chicago paper SAYS
that half OF the children do not know
what Good Friday is, aud perhaps some
of them could not learn by asking their
parents.
" The law library of the late Justice
Clifford, of the United States Supreme
Court, is.now offered for sale at Port
land, Me-, and an effort is being made
to have it purchased as a whole and kept
in that city as a public libarary. 1t is
said to be the largest law library in New
England except one in Boston
Investigation shows that in Utah
the Mormon Church has about 10000
members; in the Western States and
Territories about $4,000, and in the
Sandwich Islands about 1000. 1t has
about ninety churches in Great Britain,
and the denomination is one of the larg-
est in the southern part of Wales.
1t has been decided to close the
Presbyterian theological seminary at
cause of lack of funds, its endowment
not being sufficient to maintain even
four professorships, The seminary was
opened in 1858, and has instructed
about 260 students, over 100 pursuing
the full course. ..
There are $4,000 places of religious
worship in England and Wales, having
about 10000 900 sittings. The average
attendance on Sundays is about 0,000,-
600. The ministers number $4,000, Of
whom $4,000 belong to the Estab-
lished Church. On every Sunday there
are delivered $4,000 sermons, or 4,0O0,-
900 every year. There are 100000
children in the Sunday-schools, for
whom there are 100000 teachers.
"A medical commission was APP
pointed some time ago in Germany to
study and investigate certain questions
relating to the construction of school
buildings. In the matter of ventilation
the commission states that each pupil
in a school ought to have 2,120 cubic
feet of fresh air each hour, at the least.
1t is stated also that light from the rear
is admissible, but it is not recon-
mended, and windows facing the
pupils are prohibited.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-04-21
God i'm Nature

In recent scientific lecture Profess
sor c. A, Young the astronomer, of
Princeton College, used the following
language: "Do not understand me at
all as saying that there is no mystery
about the planets motions. There is
Just the one single mystery-gravita-
tion-and it is very profound one.
How it is that an atom of matter can
attract another atom, no matter how
great the disturbance, no. matter what
Intervening substance there may be;
how it will act upon it, or at least be-
have as if it acted upon it, do not
know, 1 can not tell. Whether they
are pushed together by means gof an
intervening ether, or what Is the ac-
ton, can not understand. 1t stands
with me along with the fact that when
| will that my arm shall rise, it rises.
1t is inscrutable, All the explana-
tons that have been given of it seem
to me merely to darken counsel with
words and no understanding. They
do not remove the difficulty at all.
If l were to say what l really believe, il
would be that the motions of the spheres
of the material universe stand in some
such relation to Him in, whom all
things exist, the ever-present and ON.
nipotent God, as the motions of my
body do to my Wilt do not know how
and never expect to know OH
! nhiht ----.----s- e-A--A-A
Minnesota will have 2,450, 600 acre:
! seeded to wheat this spring.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-04-21
Is the White House Hnnntedl


Eyes, this building is haunted" said
an attache of the Presidential mansion
to the Critic this morning, ''and it is
said that supernatural sights are not
unfrequently Witnessed in these large
old-fashioned rooms and airy halls. Sew
eral weeks ago the President changed
the location of his bed-chamber by re-
moving from the Feast to the north room,
and it was vaguely whispered then that
his slumbers had been disturbed by the
nocturnal and wierd visitor, the same
that one of our chambermaids said she
had seen walking stately and erect
through the upstairs Railways on sew
eral occasions. PSI" '+.H "H. sis lu
n"Yes, the ghostly visitor is a man,
continued the attache, because ! re-
member well of hearing the chamber
maid say that he had long, flowing
white hair and beard, and very much
resembled the statesmen of long ago,
whose pictures we see printed on the
pages of history. AT any rate, sir,
know that the President rest is often
disturbed at night, because | have heard
him time and time again moving about
long after midnight, and sometimes
have listened to his steady and contin
ued pacing across the floor when every
one else in the house was slumbering,
and wondered what was disturbing him. ="
=" His great possibility or dyspepsia
might have been the agent,'' suggested
the Critic, 4.i.nl,, .ts ,,--,.. g.
"Oh, no." quickly rejoined the at
tache, "neither of them, I'm sure. 1t
was the White House ghost, and III bet
on it., This ghost is the same one that
made Gen. Grants nights here so
scarce, and suggested his frequent trips
| through the country, as | have heard
the attendants who were here with him
! frequently say, and i win tell you can
didly that / think the ghosts frequent
appearance of late have put the notion
into President Arthur's head of going
| off on his proposed trip" Concluding,
| the Presidential individual left to am
swer a call from upstairs. r.ir j..
The Critic subsequently got the fol-
lowing description from one who claims
to have seen the white spirit of the
White House. "He is an aged and
bent-back man, with long, phosphores-
cent, white beard and hair, CHASTITY and
Wavy, bright and glaring eyes, and long,
scrawny fingers. His walk is noiseles.
but stately, and his presence is always
indicated by "a peculiar electric sensation
! which pervades the Surrounding air
4 The electricity is what breaks the Presi
dent up, and makes. him Perampplate.'
L7WaSaiag,oR Cffsci isdt ymya IS