The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-10-08
Letter from Minneapolis.
THE RIVALRY BETWEEN MINNEAPOLIS AND
ST. PAUL. FEW ILLUSTRATIONS. ADVICE
10 YOUNG MEN.

HE XIV ALkl BEIN ZEN MlNNEAPOIlS AND
ST. PAUL. A FEW ILLUSTRATIONS. ADVICE
TO YOUNG MEN.
Correspondence of the journal.
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 81, 1850 Scarcely an
issue from the press of this city fails to remind
us that our population is 129, 200 and that of
our thriving suburb, St. Paul, HOO. OF
course there is much rivalry between these two
cities and so antagoniStc have they become
that many merchants will not keep for sale AN
article manufactured in the other. +. G., St.
Paul has shot factory (they make shot and do
not use a tower, hence we say shot factory, not
shot tower) and one gun store will not sell or
handle St. Paul shot simply because it is made
In St. Faul All the shot sold in that store is
made either in Chicago, st, Louis or Omaha
and its sales aggregate about eleven tons year.
That gun meE in Belfast and vicinity may
know how close competition is here quote the
following prices: Shot $50 per sack; Hazard
Rifle powder, $3.50 per keg; Winchester Re
peating rifles, $3.50 and SIS. A travelling
salesman from Minneapolis took IN order for
some shirts of a man in st. Paul. The goods
were satisfactory but finding they We're made
in Minneapolis the buyer emphatically refused
to take them, although they Were made to or
der and measure and warranted to hit. Both
cities are liable to remain here and grow for
many years and it is TO be hoped that such Bit
ter rivalry may cease. Already their limits
join and scores of pages might be written de-
scriptiye of the Touring mills, factories, public
buildings, the enterprise and thrift of each.
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town, atiording many opportunities for young
men to push themselves up; but to the young
man who can make a fair living in Maine, | say
Stay at home. Laborers are continually flock
ing here from all parts of the country and hun
dreds of unemployed men walk our streets day
aud night. And in Dakota, Montana, and
Washington Territory il is but little better. Of
course there are better opportunities to rise in
new country, but Minneapolis is not very
new now and with the Swedes, Norwegians,
Poles, Bohemans, &C., who are glad to work
for Sl0O day, the common Iaborer has a hard
row if a down easter or native born American.
Swedes predominant here and some of our best
business men are swedes. GEO. S. PERKINS.
BREAD CAST UPoS THE WATERS. The Rock
land Courer-Gazette tells the following story of a
former Searsmont boy:
Thrty-seven years ago poor boy struck ont
from the town of Scarsmont to make his fortune,
1t happened at the time that he owed TO neighbor
the sum of four dollars Now to many persons
four dollars is very ns. gniticant amount but in
this case ii was four dollars more than the young
man vino starting out to seek his fortune could
by any possibility of circumstances command; and
the neighbor had to hang it up indefinitely
Wen, years went on and on and on. as years will
| sometimes do, and the poor young man from Sears
mont prospered amazingly; and as he grew older
| he waXed richer, and became famous in more
| ways than Meantime the neighbor whom he
| owed had removed to Rockland, and the four dol
\ lar debt was forgotten.
Last week handsome white haired gentleman
in spectacles in city. 1t was the one time
poor young man, who after this lapse of years had
been a visit to his early Searsmont home. Here
| in our city he sought out the former neighbour and
| liquldated the debt that had many years stood
against his name-and behold the four dollars had
| grown to thirty. The neighbor aforesaid was
| Ibrook A. Collins.