Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-12-02
OUR HARVEST FIELD.


st. Paul proposes to have an ice
palace this coming winter, $50 by 1875 feet
big.
Freight on wheat from Albert Lea to
Chicago IS cents per,00, to Minneapolis
Is cents.
"A. B. Hyde. the old Roadmaster on
the Southern Minnesota division. has &C.
cepted position on q New Orleans
r. H. at salary of $1,000.
Charges have been preferred to the
Governor against Mr.. Cameron. superin
tendent of schools for Houston county,
on account of alleged habitual drunken
ness.
While excavating for a dam near St..
Cloud lot of type was found in the
Mississippi river, and it recalled the ia ct
that Mrs. j. &. Swisshelm was mobbed at
St. Cloud, nearly twenty eight years ago.
for publishing an abolition l ewspaper
It hardly appears credible that such an
outrage should have been committed in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Journal
Hon. John L.. Gibbs, of Freeborn
County, speaker of the last House of
Representatives and candidate for gov.
own make to Montana last week. That's
tn. kind of governor to hAve.-Welts
Adc0cnte.
But he don't happen to be Governor.
Farmer Hubbard is in command of the
ship Of state.
Time tried and true is Dr. Bigelows
Positive Cure. which combines the good
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Some evil-disposed persons poured a
large quantity of melted lard on the
steps of the M. E. Church at Winnebago
City during the services week ago last
Sunday evening. A part OF the congre-
CATION slid down the steps before they
found out what was the matter. These
hoodlums were pouring on oil" you
see, brother Foss.
The December Atlantic contains very
interesting installments of Mrs. Oliphant's
serial. "A Country Gentleman" and
Henry James new story The Princess
Casamassina." DR.. Holmes conclu det
The New Portfolio" which has been so
very acceptable to the readers Of the
Atlantic with some "After-Glimpses. "
Horace E. Scudder completes an excel
lent series of papers with one on "Chlld-
hood in Modern Literature and Art. "
Prof Charles F. Smith, of Vanderbilt
University. contributes an important
alticle on Southern Colleges and
Schools" John Fiske concludes his
God as affected by modern knowledge.
Edmund Noble, author of 1.-The Russian
Revolt" writes Of Life in St. Peters-
burg" There are poems by William II.
Hayne. Edith NJ. Thomas, Charlotte
Fiske Bates, and others. The Atlantic
Nonthly for 1885 promises to be Of
special interest. It will have serial
stories by Charles Egbert Craddock,
! whom atlantic readers know 50 well by
Tho Prophet of the Great Smoky
Mountains" Henry James. whose story,
| The Princess Casamassima," will con-
tinue until August; and William II.
Bishop. No more appetizing announce
ment could he made than that James
Russell Lowell will write, both in prose
and poetry, for the Atlantic for the
coming year. John Fiske. who has made
special study of the period from the
close of the American Revolution to the
adoption of the constitution OF
the United States. will contrib
ute six or mere papers shedding
much aud we leone light ION that period
Of our history. Mr.. Hamerton, the emil
nent English writer. promises . series Of
papers0 comparing the English and
French in their characters. customs. and
opinions; and Mr.. Aldrich, who has writ
ten some of the best short stories in
American literature, will furnish some
more for next years atlantic. Hough-
ton. Miff1in s. Co.. Boston.