Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-04
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.

The Enterprise estimates the popula-
ton of st. Ansgar at between SIS and
625.
-McKenney, of the Democrat, will un-
doubtedly be the next Postmaster of
Preston.
The Mercury says several brick
blocks are to be built in Spring Valley
this season.
Hon. Dick" Jones, of Rochester,
takes in the inauguration ceremonies at
Washington.
"A New York man has made an Al
bert Lea firm an offer for 100, 600 bushels
of potatoes to be delivered next fall.
The National Republican says the tai
ented and refined actress. Miss Phosa Nc
Alllster, was trlumphantly acquitted IN
Preston, Feb. 10th, of any attempt to
brow-beat members of her company.
The Illinois Central railroad company
is making large shipments of steel rails
west, which are to replace the iron rails
now in use on portions of the road be-
tween Iowa Falls and Sioux City. This
does not look like throwing up the lease
which expires next year.-Osage Press.
The first copy of the Mitchell County
Press was taken from the press Wednes-
day evening, February Is, 1855. at West
Mitchell, and sold at auction to the high
est bidder 1t was struck off to Charles
H. Brainard for twenty dollars. What
changes since then.
St Ansgar has been incorporated nine
years, and during that time there has not
been levied a municipal tax. Itsrevenues
have been derived almost entirely from
licenses. The first of the year she had over
$50 in the treasury, and not q dollar of
Indebtedness.
About two years more of suffering,
and the beautiful towns in the Cedar val
ley, between Mona and Waterloo, will be
relieved of their zone boss" railway facil-
tiles. A change will come then, and what
ever Co. leases the line will undoubtedly
IL
Illinois Central, if it gets re lease on ia
verable terms, will, we have no doubt,
make good road of the branch. So the
St.Ansgarites, Osaeeites, and Waverlyites
are advised to brace up ana take on fresh
courage.
Houston county is favorable to Legis-
Ut 10 vs,1,1 IN
the Constitutional Convention, was lit
tie pudgy fellow, with big voice. He
was known as 1.-The Rosrer." Then there
was Potter, who fairly earned the title of
the ubiquitous Flea" and Taylor in the
Senate was universal crank, and became
the butt of the Senate and the press. He
won the title of 1.-The Ranter." Then there
was Riley, who was bold and notorious
whiskey crank; and now a member who
goes to sleep in his seat, with his feet
stretched out in the aisle and snores, and
the boys have dubbed him ''the Snorer,"
from Brownsville. The material for this
item we take from the Caledonia argus.
Hon. A. NJ. johnson of Manchester,
two Or three weeks since, delivered to
McMillen & Homer of this city, eight
steers, coming three years old, which
averaged 1870 pounds each. These
steers attracted much attention when
driven through our streets, and most peo
pie who saw them thought they were first
class beef cattle ready for the slaughter
house. Well they were fine steers, but
it will probably surprise most OF those
who saw them to learn that when they
Chicago they were sold to q
in Illinois who paid $4.85
per cwt for them and shipped them to
his farm to be still further fattened. We
this simply to show that the ideas
Of Minnesota farmers aud of those men
Who have made stock raising q business
Of = lfe-t time as to the fattening of stock |
for the market are widely apart, and to |
suggest that if an Illineis stock man can |
pay a. IS per cwt. for such steers as those |
70 fatten, it ought to pay to still further |
Fatten them here.-AkbcTe Lea STANDARD. !