Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-11

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Country dealers in the smaller towns
contiguous to Austin, should send in their
orders for CIGARS to LEVI W. DECKER
Austin, MINI. His goods are choice.
and made from the very best of tobacco
Mail orders receive prompt attention.
Lost, on Feb oath, in Austin, or be-
tween Austin and Ramsey mill. east side
of river, one lap robe, black one side,
wide red stripes, and black and white
mixed stripes the other side Finder
please leave at the TRANSCRIPT office,
and receive reward.
Cook g. Davidson are the agents for
Bankers patent chimney top and yenti
lator, warranted a perfect cure for
smokey chimneys. Any one having
chimney which is troubled for good draft
when the wind is in a certain direction,
will appreciate this top.
Round trip tickets to New Orleans,
! La, and return, commenced sale Dec. l,
1884. Rate for the round trip from Aus
tin will be $40, for tickets good for
| forty five (45) days; and $40 80 for tickets
good until June 1st. 1885.
c. II. COLEMAN, Agent.
SEED CoRN.-W. l. Brown has the
celebrated pride Of the North" at two
dollars per bushel. Please order early, as
the supply is limited 1t is said to have
yielded one hundred bushels Der acre.
samples at Cook & Davidsons and Pat
terson's hardware stores.
Work on the two railroad bridges for
the Minnesota & Northwestern railroad
at this point is progressing rapidly.
Stone laying on the abutments on the
south bridge commenced Saturday. On
the north bridge they have almost COM
pIeted the large crib which is to be sunk.
Geo S. Burnham, formerly cashier in
J. C. Brainerd & Co.'S bank, of this
village. has accepted a position as book
keeper IN the Ames foundry and machine
shop at Austin. and entered upon his work
las, Monday. His family will remain here
for the present. George, we wish you
uccess.-Blooming Pr~5rse Tribune.
| George Ward, the sub-contractor for
grading the Minnesota & Northwestern
between Austin and the State line, has re-
Gently filed a mechanics lien with the
Secretary of State against o. D. Brown,
the chief contractor, for the amount Of
$1,777.81. We do pot know what the
trouble u.s. more than that Mr.. Ward claims
this amour, due him. and that he cannot
| get his pay.
"A macaroni loving doctor fears that
the importation of that article into Eng
land will have to be prohibited for q time,
on account Of danger from cholera infec-
ton. He writes to medical journal that
when be visited Naples last summer and
saw his favorite food dying in the sun all
the way to Pompeii, he felt as though he
could never touch it again.
Our Austin correspondent of the
Pioneer Press has the following Judge
G. NJ. Cameron of THIS city, a lifelong
Democrat, is an old schoolmate Of Post
master General Villas and has been in cor
respondence with him since the Chicago
convention Candidates for Austin post
office please take notice." 1t would be a
joke on somebody if Judge Cameron
should carry of the post office.
! Ed G. Bascomb, of Rochester, SON.
in-law of Dr. Wheat of this city, has won
quite reputation as breeder Of pure
Brown Leghorn fowls. At the State
Poultry fair at Rochester for 1884, he
captured first and special prize on breed
ing pen, and second on cockerel, and sec
ond on hen; in 1885 he took first prize on
breeding pen, first and second on pullets,
first on cockercl, and second on hen.
Mr.. Justin Doolittle of Canada, who
is visiting S. Purdy, claims to have been
healed of total blindness in answer to
prayer. At the Baptist church Sunday
evening, after the evening sermon, he
gave short recital Of his experience.
He claimed that Christ now, as when up
on earth, is physician for the body, and
gave several instances of healing which
had occurred under his own observation.
On complaint of John Watson charg-
ing F. A. Elder and G. A. Elder, with
the embezzlement Of 81, $50, the property
Of John Lowry, F. A. Elder was arrested
March L. and was taken before Justice
Titus An adjournment was had till
March 7th, In bail Of 81, 500. G.. A. Ell
der would have been arrested if he could
have been found.-.Noorhsad Ne,cs.
We hope there is no cause for this
charge, and that the Elders will come
forth from the examination with no
financial dishonor.
The March term of court will prob
ably be adjourned until some time in
May. If any business is transacted l,
will be the criminal business. The trial
of the civil cases will be adjourned on
account of the illness of Lafayette French
who is the attorney on one side or the
other Of large majority Of the cases.
The petit jurors will probably be notified
within day or two not to put in an ap-
pearance until the adjourned term.
Frank A. Richardson writes from
New Orleans to Mathew Gregson IS fol-
lows
Il am happy to inform you that your
buckwheat 1our is nicely displayed in tae
Flour Exhibit, and the Commissioner
saws it is as nice -four as he ever saw
Minnesota is covering herself with glory.
Good for Gregson, and good for the
Commissioaer-but we have q better ties
imo NAL. It comes from our wife, who
says Gregson's buckwheat -four is the bes
she ever used.
The railroad bridge Of the Minnesota
s. Northwestern railroad, across the Mis-
!, sissippi river from West St. Paul, is being
rapidly built The substructure is entire
" completed. except = small amount of
work to be done on the supporting piers
| Of fha drau Two shans are at work on