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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-22
Lament.

How meagre seems the life so briefly doled
! who noted In our earliest hour
dimple In your lovely cheek unfold
With the first smile OF all-that ] who told
The promise Of your beauty as some mower
Flaming across the dark days OF the year
Promises summer-that I who In your nrst
Dear MARBLE had OWNED the glorious burst
OF music In your throat that yet might be
The marvel OF some later minstrelsy-
How meagre seems the life so briefly doled
That I shall never see that beauty grow
To It's meridian, tull-orbed as the moon -
Which great and golden In the midst swims
And hangs wide-w'nTed In heaven when per
feet June
Transhgures nigbt-that I shall never hear
The voice in all the passion OF its tune;
Sweet, sweet, and rich. with the unfallcn tear,
The stress OF love. the wine Of life!
I shall be lying In my dust, all mute;
For song the owlet over me shall boot;
I shall be gone like the loose leaf from the
Hss. i&dis. leaf that futters in the blast: =,
last WI" o.
To the enriching earth. Nor late nor soon.
Dead In the dark. shall 10 be known TO me
That you, the Que consummatc flower and
fruit,
Still show all men how soodly Ia the root!
Thus murmured ! when the child's loveliness
With gracious prophecy OF lip and brow.
Filled all my yesrning heart with sweet distress
And longing For the impossible. And now,
Less even than the loose and idle leaf.
A mere blown petal from the blowing bough
The child IL gone. and l grew gray and old.
Ana still ! murmur 10 my angry grief,
How mcagrc IL the life so briefly doled!
Harriet Prescott Spofrord,in hsrpcr's Maya
zine for january.
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Receipts.
Il. in Co. Treasury on March l, 1885
1892 Sc

SUIU5 90
Reed from Il McGarry calves etc. sold 20 so
do j Diamond, cattle sold l55 ~
do Eliza Edwards, money re-
funded for aid furnished in 1875 10 DC
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Bal. In Co. Treasury Jan. l, 1856, $nSG 81
MINNESOTA RIVER BRIDGE FUND.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-22

A hundred years ago Scotch women
prepared tea for their guests by care
fully removing the liquor in which the
tea was boiled, as it was thought to be
unwholesome, and serving up the leaves
with butter or honey,
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Bal. in Co. Treasury Jan. LIST, 1886 5
ROAD AND BRIDGE FUND.

Receipts.
,raosrrry an March 4 lSS!
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balance overdrawn Jan. /, 1856
INSTRUCT COURT EXPENSES

Geo w Monks, sheriffs fees
w n Torrey. clerk of court fees
TW Hammond, short hand reporter
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Thousands Say So.

Mr.. T. w. Atkins, Girard, Kan,
writes: 81 never hesitate to recommend
your Electric Bitters to my customers,
they give entire satisfaction and are
pnr ta and best medicine known n and
will positively cure kidney and Liver
complaints. Purify the blood and regu-
late the bowels. No family can afford
to be without them. They will save
hundreds of dollars in doctors bills
every year. Sold at fifty cents a bottle
by J. R. Jones.
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Gen. Longstrect spends most of his
time in literary work at his home in
Gainesville, Ga. His recollcctions are
IS vivid as though the war had closed
but a month AGO.
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County Commissioners Report
BLUE r COUNTY

Receipts and Expenditures
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EX
JUSTICES FEES.

s Thorn $40 O5i VIM N Plynat 40 IS
A ii Mattcson i 40 -
Robert Johnson IS Total s93 "a
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From March Ist, 1885, to January
Ist, 1886.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05
rnENGrHEN HIS HANDS.

Aside from whatever dissatisfaction
the Presidents course may have caus-
ed in his party dissatisfied party
friends and bitter political enemies
unite in saying that he is actuated by
none but the purest motives in the
policy which he has pursued from the be-
ginning. He is simple and straightfor-
ward in his deliverances and makes no
public utterance with an uncertain
sound or an ambiguous meaning. He
practices none of the arts of the pro-
fessional politician; and we have thus
far failed to see any evidence of ade-
sire for another term which he would
seek to gain in any other way than by
a firm and undertaking adherence to
the pledges which he made when he
took up the seals of office. No matter
what the dissatisfaction among office
seekers, and even in view Of possible
damage to the party, no man can help
but admire slch a character, which is
alike proof against the threats of enc
mics and the Establishments Of friends,
and will not turn to the right or left
from the path which he thinks the
proper one. Call it what you will
obstinancy if you like-he has exercis-
ed even that quality only in the line of
better and purer government which he
pledged himself to give the people. 1t
is a good policy to strengthen the
the hands of such man, whose equal
in these qualities has not been in the
presidential chair for many long day.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05
mBACKBONE."

1t was urged against President
Cleveland during the campaign that be
had an abnormally large neck, and Its
dimensions were thoroughly discussed
by those in opposition to him. But
his recent tilt with the Republican
Senate and the message he has given
them to digest develops the fact that
he is also largely endowed with that
very essential quality in public man
-"backbone." He reads the Senators
a lecture and sets forth at length his
ideas as to the Presidents power and
prerogatives and closes the document,
which all critics agree in considering a
remarkable one, with these words in
which are set forth in the plainest way
his conception of what the duties of
his position are and to whom he is re-
sponsible:
ONLY RESPONSIBLE TO THE PEOPLE.
Every pledge which I have made by
which have placed limitation upon
my exercise of executive power has
been faithfully redeemed. Of course,
the pretense is not put forth that no
mistakes have been committed but
not a suspension has been made ex-
cept it appeared to my satisfaction that
the public welfare would be improved
thereby. Many applications for sus-
pensions have been denied and the ad-
herence to the rule laid down to gov
ern my action as to such suspensions
has caused much irritation and impa-
tience on the part of those who have
insisted upon more changes in the Of
fees.
The pledges have made were made
to the people, and to them am respon-
sible for the manner in which they
have been redeemed. I am not respon-
sible to the Senate, and I am unwilling
to submit my actions and official con-
duct to them for judgment.
There are no grounds for an allega-
tion that the fear of being found false
to my professions influences me in de-
clining to submit to the demands Of
the Senate. have not constantly re-
fused to suspend officials and thus in
CURED the displeasure of political
friends and yet wilfully broken faith
with the people for the sake of being
false to them.
Neither the discomfort of party
friends nor the allurements constantly
offered of combinations of appointees
conditioned upon the avowal that sus-
pensions have been made on party
grounds alone, nor the threat proposed
in the resolutions now before the Sem
ate that no combinations will be made
unless the demands of that body be
complied with, are sufficient to dis
courage or deter me from following in
the way which am convinced leads to
better government for the people.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05
Levy Court.

COMMITTEES APPOINTED, AND MIsCEL-
LANEoUs BUSINESS TRANsACTED.
In the Levy Court Monday appli-
cation was received from r. J., Dob
bins of Philadelphia, through an agent
for reduction in the assessment of
houses in Dobbinsville, near New Cas-
tie. 1t was referred to a committee,
composed of Messrs. Morrison, Haman
Shallcross, Cheairs and 4Rothwell. A
motion by Mr.. McCracken that certain
records be rebound was referred to the
Committee on Printing and Station
cry. Friday, March 26, was designa-
ted to hear and settle matters pertain
ing to roads and schools. Notice was
given that the reports of Sunday
schools that desire part of the annual
appropriation must be presented by
Monday March, Is. The following
committees were appointed.
On error lists of collectors and to
take bonds of collectors and constables
Hundred, Grubb and
Toy Wilmington. Hickman and Toy !;
Christiana, Toy and Grubb: Mill Creek
Haman and Mackey White Clay
Greek, Mackey and Hickman Penca-
der, McCracken and Haman New
Castle, Morrison and Cheairs Red
Lion, Cheairs and Shallcross ST.
Georges, Shallcross and McCracken,:
Appoquinimink, Taylor and Rothwell:
Blackbird, Rothwell and Taylor.
Auditing accounts of sheriff. clerk
and attorneys, etc.-Toy, Cheairs and
Jail commissioners
Mackey Morrison and Rothwell. Mag
istrates and Constables-Cheairs, Ha-
man and Grubb. Members Expendi-
tures-Rothwell, Toy and Haman.
Allowance to Members -Shallcross.
Morrison and Taylor. Inspectors and
Reconsideration, Shallcross and
Toy. Coroners, Physicians and Un-
dertaker-Mackey, McCracken and
Chears. Overpaid Tax-Grubb, Nor
rison and Hickman. Printing and
Stationery-Haman, Rothwell and
Mackey. Miscellaneous-McCr Cracken,
Hickman and Grubb. Sunday schools
Shallcross and McCrack-
en-. To approve bonds of collectors
and constables and take county treas
urer's bond-Grubb, Shallcross and
Morrison.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

SEVERAL noted savants in Vienna
are now delving in a perfect mine of
antiquarian wealth. The cable brings
us news that autograph letters of Mo
hammed are the latest gems found
among the Archduke Renier manu-
scripts. This wonderful collection of
80, 1000 fragments from the archives of
Ell Fayoum, which for nine centur-
les lay buried under the sands of
Egypt, is gradually disclosing its rich
treasures of history and its priceless
relics of the past. Prof. Karabacek
and his assistants are still busiIy en-
gagged in classifying the great mass of
materials i'll their hands. They have
divided the manuscripts into groups
comprising eleven different languages,
one of which is absolutely new to the
best scholars, and the efforts to deci-
pher it have thus far been fruitless.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

AN ILLUSTRATION of how costly it
is to tamper with the law is thus fur
nished by the Journal of Boston: Ed
win H. Arnold, of West Hartford,
Conn.,, raised his mill dam the other
day, and in consequence overfowed
some of his neighbors' land. For this
he agreed to pay $50. Then he petit
toned TO have the damages assessed by
the Commissioners of the Superior
Court. They found damages of $3.50 ;
but the law provided that the Court,
if it accepts the Commissioners report
must add so per cent. to their findings,
and accordingly, Mr. Arnold found his
$50 increased to S1425. Then he ap-
pealed to Sheriff's Court, whose de-
cision, under the flowage act, is final.
They found the damage to be 1852.
After paying his lawyers and Court
fees, Mr.. ArnoIl's $50 will have grown
to over $4,000.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

ARE WE THEN, so Soon FoRGoT-
TEN 2-The movement to establish a
fund for the widow of General Han
cock should not have required such a
stimulus as was furnished in the Sur
rogate's Court, to the effect that the
effect that the illustrious dead soldier
left less than a thousand dollars in per-
sonal estate and a small property in
Missouri. When the proposit ion was
first made from this city it was made
upon knowledge of the fact that Cen
eral Hancock had kept himself poor by
his continued especially
in behalf of unfortunate military COM
rades and destitute soldiers who had
been under his command. 1t was made
upon knowledge also that the money he
spent upon himself and for his family
hardly amounted to'more than the sal
ary of one of his clerks-all the rest
of his pay going out in bounty and
charity. Responses to the appeal have
been tardy, too tardy by far consider
ing the inestimable value of the SER
vices Of General Hancock, and the
high estimation in which he had been
held by his fellow countrymen. The
responses have been especially back
ward in Philadelphia and Pennsylvan-
ia, to whom he and his great fame
were very near. This ought not to be.
How different is this Philadelphia
manifestation from that which, in a
few weeks, and almost unknown to
the general public, raised more than a
hundred thousand dollars as endow-
ment for the widow Of General Meadel
Are most of that race of Philadel-
phians dead
Four-fifths, perhaps more, of the
Hancock fund, as it halts now at but
little over thirty thousand dollars,
have been raised in New York. Phil
adelphia alone should contribute more
than that. Popular contributions in
any amount may be sent to Drexel &
Co.-Phil'a. Ledger.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

REPORTS to BrGdstreetS from 217
towns in the cotton belt show that the
stock of unsold cotton on hand at the
time the reports were made, an aver
age of ten days ago, aggregated 150. 791
bales, as against liz, ,318 bales similar
ly stored at the same time last year.
From these returns the estimate is
made that the amount held upon PLAN
tations, taking the whole belt, will not
exceed s per cent of the crop. The re-
plies received as to the financial condi-
tion of the planters indicate that the
series of short crops, followed by the
present year of low prices, has left very
little money in the south. The good
grain crops generally made will. how
ever, from all appearances, make the
coming cotton crop the cheapest of any
ever made in the south. The effect of
the tendency to diversity crops, added
to these causes will, from all appear
ances, decrease the total acreage of
cotton planted this year.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05


The documents are from 900 to 5000
years old. The oldest known episto-
larry monument of Islam, dated eight
teen years after the death of the Pro-
phet, was found last year in this col
lection. If the cable report is true, It
will now be antidated by the Moham-
med autograph letters. The scholars
who are bringing these historic frag.
ments within reach of the modern
world have hardly more than passed
the threshold of their labors, but they
have done enough to place the El Fa-
youm archives among the greatest OF
recent discoveries.-Sun.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

ABOUT the only thing left for the
New Jersey Supreme Court to do is to
declare itself unconstitutional. The
poor Jersey law makers work a whole
session to get a law into shape and the
court upsets it in fifteen minutes
The court might remedy the matter in
a measure, however, by making the
laws themselves and then they would
be right, to their notion, at least.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

OUR exports Of breadstuffs for jan
uary amounted to but SO, ,407 ,315, COM
pared with SIT, ,872, 413 year ago, and
for seven months past they aggregated
S62, ,406, ,O47, loss of S35, ,166,S73 from
the year before. The heaviest losses
are in wheat, which for the seven
months fell off from GO, 100000 to a.
600, 900 bushels, while the export of
-four, compared with last year, was
thirty per cent less. Exports of In
dian corn increased, but not enough to
offset the losses in wheat.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

AFTER all this twaddle about the
''spoils system" and "civil service re-
form" we see the dignified Republican
Senate engaged in disgraceful squab-
BILE over few offices. 1t is an awful
thing for Democrat to want an office,
and a worse thing for him to get one,
but it is the height of propriety for a
Republican to hold on like grim death
to the Office he already has and the
fruits of which he has enjoyed for
vnars
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05
widow Grimes Set Rieht.

We feel, says an Illinois sx-
change. shat an apology Is due to
Widow Grimes. IN our issue of last
week we stated that she had eloped
with an eighteen-year-old man. The
truth is that she was thrown from an
eight-year-old mare which she was
riding in lope and which Slipped and
fell. Mistakes will happen in the best
regulated newspaper offices, and we are
confident that when We state that the
item was sent over a telephone wire no
other apology will he needed. ''-Chica-
go Tribune.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05
carebr the Children

Children feel the debility Of the changing
seasons, even more than adults, and they be-
come cross, peevish, and uncomfortable.
The blood should be cleansed and the system
invigorated by the use of Hoods sarsaparilla.
"Last Spring my two children were vacci-
mated. Soon after, they broke all out with rum
ming sores, so dreadful I thought should lose
them. Hoods Sarsaparilla cured them COM
pletely; and they have been healthy ever
since. I do feel that Hoods Sarsaparilla
saved my children to me-" MRS. @. L.
THOMPSON, West Warren, Mass.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05
versal sentiment

The rubber bag connected with his
costume collapsed the other night
while an actor was playing the part of
Falstaff in Chicago, and he dwindled
in size alarmingly before the eyes of
the assembled spectators. As no bel
lows could be found, all hands had to
help blow him up again.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

M. G. LoFLAND, of the firm of Lof-
land 6 Davis, Milford, in letter to
the Wilmington Ne,os denies the alle-
cations of the Smyrna Record concern
ing the postmaster at Milford, so far as
his firm is concerned in the charges.
If the editor brings forward much
more such ''proof - people will begin to
have serious doubts about his veracity.
His reputation is in the balance, he
should be very careful.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

New YoRK, Feb. 26.-The business
failures occurring throughout the coun-
try during the past seven days, as re-
ported to r. G.. Dun s. Co. number for
the United States 215 and for Canada
"a, or total of 248 failures, as COM
pared with total Of 286 last week and
275 the week previous to the last.
The south and west still continue to
furnish more than one-half of the
weekly business casualties of the
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05
BEEcHER's theology last Sunda!

BEEcHER's theology last Sunday
tan opportunity in the next world
for rectifcation, Or annihilation. You
have life and death before you-two
choices. The recovery of those that
die in their sins is not going to be an
easy thing, even if they do recover ;
and if they do not they are no longer
known. They rise to shame and
everlasting contempt, and fall forever
into the blackness and darkness of
eternal death.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

THE Senate has confirmed the ap-
pointment of Ex-senator Groome to be
Collector of Customs at the port of Bal
timore and it is said there will be no
trouble about the confirmation of Mr..
Rasin as Naval Officer.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

The Philadelphia Press has an arti-
Gle in which "The apparation Of Will
liam Walter Phelps astride the White
Horse Victory" gallops around pro-
miscuously as the successful republi-
can candidate for governor of New
Jersey. We venture the prediction
that William Walter will not get
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

THE Peninsula Farmer for February
advises New Castle county farmers to
go into the poultry business, arguing
that our nearness to city markets and
the natural features of the country
make the suggestion an eminently
practical one.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

In POLITICS, as in everything else,
the liar in the long run does more
harm than good and gets nothing for
himself but the deserved contempt
of honest men.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05
Editor Ne,u York World,

In the hands of an editor "entirely
great, - the scissors are as mighty as
the pen. Good exchange readersn are
scarcer than good writers, and, al
though they come high, we must have
them in every well-regulated newspa-
per office. The most successful Jour-
nails of the day in this country are
those which make the best use of the
scissors, giving due credit for borrow
ed matter, whether copied bodily or
adapted and however classified.
Browsing on the exchanges is whole
some pastime and a nourishing and
a stimulating practice for any man in
the editorial rooms, from editor-in-
chief to Office boy. Very truly yours,
II. P. HANDY.
Editor Daily Ners, Philadelphia.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05
G. A. DANA.

| have the most exalted respect for
the editorial shears. There is no de-
partment of newspaper so interesting
to me as the selected miscellany-pro-
vided the scissors work has been done
by man of genius. 1t is not difficult
to fine men who can write, but men
who can handle scissors with judge
ment and taste are scarce. I have
worked in every department of jour-
nalism, from type setting to defending
libel suits, and 1 never feel that I am
in such fair way to confer favor on
the human family as when 1 am sit
ting in front of big pile of exchanges
with a pair of sharp scissors in my
hand and paste cup at my elbow.
Very truly yours,
JOHN A. CoCKERILL.
Editor Ne,D York World.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

Friday Afternoon. March 5. 1856.

OUR grand business is not to see
what lies dimly at a distance, but to
do what lies clearly at hand.-Carlyle.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05
Purify the Blood

Hoods Sarsapari1la is characterized by
three peculiarities 1st, the combination OF
remedial agents; I'd, the proportion; Sd, the
process of securing the active medicinal
qualities. The result is medicine Of unusual
strength, effecting cures hitherto unknown.
Send for book containing additional evidence.
"Hood's Sarsaparilla tones up my system,
purifes my blood, sharpens my appetite, and
Seems TO make me over" j. r. THoMPsoN,
Register of Deeds, Lowell, Mass.
"Hood's Sarsaparilla beats all others, and
is worth its weight in gold" I. DARLINGTON,
100 Bank Street, New York City.
Hoods 3 SarsaparilIa
Sold by all druggists. 81 /; six for IS. Made
only by G. I. HOOD g. CO., Lowell, Mass. /,
100 Doses One Dollar.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05

Mr.. FoLaER McKINsEY, for some
months. past associate editor of the
kiged the place to accept
ne Daily Ne,cs Of Fred
EeKinsey has made
J his return to this,
by his genial and
News.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05
SCOTS EMULSION OF PURE
God. Liver Oil, with Hypophosphites

COD Liver OIL, with Hypophosphftes.
In Scrgulous and ConsanptiUe Gases.
DR.. G. G. Lockwood, New York says:
81 have frequently prescribed Scott's
Emulsion and regard it as valuable
preparation in scrofulous and consu p
tive cases, palatable and efficacious.
Middletown transcript., 1886-03-05
A Journalists Guide.
PROFESSIONAL OPINIONS OF VARIOUS
EXPERTS.

PROFESSIONAL OPINIONS OF VARIOUS
EXPERTS.
In editing newspaper a pen is a
necessary article SO is pencil, mas
much as it may at times be more con-
venient than a pen to write with. A
pair Of scissors is also necessary. But
what is most necessary is brains.
Next to brains in value I estimate
what we call the newspaper instinct,
the sense of what news the public re-
quire and what discussion will be
most effective. Next after this come
special talents and general knowledge;
and the more knowledge, general and
special, newspaper man has, the
more useful he will be.
But with all these gifts and graces
he won't accomplish much unless he
also possesses sense Of humor and an
uncompromising love of truth and of
the United States Constitution.
A pair Of scissors, however, is not as
good as pair of moderate-sized shears
and neither the scissors nor shears can
make journalist.
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