The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-03-01
TIMELY TOPICS.

Paris is to have an elaborate beauty
show in April.
Bishop Vincent will visit the Callforn-
ia Chautauquas next summer.
The Hudson river ice crop is safe.
About 2,00O, 900 tons will be harvested.
Alabama is talking of a $50, 900 ex-C Con-
federate soldiers monument at Mont
gomerv.
Maine follows the example of Massa-
chusetts in the matter of free text books
for the public schools.
The Nationalist. organ of the so-called
nationalistic movement in Boston, Is a
Forthcoming magazine.
Tammany Hall has declared against
the measures of ballot reform now I'M
der consideration in the New York as
sembly. Comment unnecessary.
Mrs. Frank Leslie denies the rumor
that she was to sell the business of her
house for $3.50. 900, and says further she
shall never associate herself from it.
Colonel Elliot T. Shepard, of New
York, has just paid $780,. 900 for some
Broadway and Fulton street property,
whereon he will erect great building
for the Mail and Express.
George KEENAN,, the Siberian traveller,
is said to be the only known American
who ever completely mastered the Rus
sian language, except Caleb Cushing,
formerly minister TO st. Petersburg.
Mrs. Leonora M. Barry, chief of the
woman's branch, K. of L., is in New
Orleans on her first visit South. She
will probably 60 to Texas and then re-
turn by way of Southern industrial GEN.
tiers.
Jesse Calhoun, a descendant of John
C. Calhoun, and one of the wealthiest
residents of Pike county, Ark, commit
ted suicide on Monday after hearing
that his only son bad been arrested in
Texas for murder.
General Harrison has receiveda novel
present from E. A. Angler, of Peach
Tree Creek, Georgia. 1t is cannon
shell filed with bullets picked up on
Peach Tree Creek battlefield, where
General Harrison fought during the At
lanta campaign.
The first woman ever arrested on COM
plant of Snowman Barnum was pris-
oner in the Yorkville police Gcourt, Fri
day, charged with obtaining money
from the venerable Phineas on false
representations. The woman declined
to give her name. At the last moment
Mr.. Barnum decided not to press the
charge. and the woman was discharged.
She had secured money from him some
days ago on the street and Yesterday at
tempted to repeat the performance on
her previously successful plea of a sick
husband in HOSPITALITY. Y. Pres.
Sir John A. MacDonald's o.
establishing an independent kingdom |
in Canada, with one of the English royal
family az its head, will only hasten the
growth of the republican spirit in the
Dominion. The near neighborhood of
the United States has not been conducive
to the spread of monarchical notions.
There will be no new monarchy erected
on this continent, Notwithstanding Sir
Johns efforts to become duke, and his
Discrimination to lose his title through
annexation to this country.
Arrangements were perfected Satur-
day in assigning to the Minnesota dele
cation and clubs, their proper position
in the great inaugural parade. The Min
nesota Flambeau Club will follow close |
ly after the Pennsylvania military and
will be a short distance in advance of
the New York contingent. The old sol |
diers club, of Minneapolis, will be given
a position about midway of the process
sion. In this respect Minnesota has
shared exceedingly well, and will not be |
a tag end of the great parade, but will
loom up near the front.
Until the temperance movement
spreads throughout the land have little
hope for movements promising the Soc
ial elevation of the American people. |
The American people are remarkable
for their intelligence and common sense,
and when they know that liquor is 80 |
much responsible for sinners / wonder
that they tolerate it. But society en-
courages the so-called moderate drinker,
and only classes among the drunkards
the man who reels helpless into the gut |
ter. Yet that poor fellow is powerless |
to commit crime. 1t is the man who is |
half full, "the jelly good fellow" of the
bar-room, who is devil enough to make a |
he'll of his house and worry his wife and |
children.-Archbishop Ireland.
The English salt trust has taken new
form. Afraid of legal complications,
the monopolists composing it dissolved
their organization, bought up the works
that produce "a per cent. of all the salt
mace in Great Britain, and formed a |
new company on what is undoubtedly a |
legal basis. That the new organization |
is even more effective than the old is |
shown by the fact that it has advanced
prices the equivalent of fifty cents q
barrel. New York capitalists are trying |
to do the same thing in this country,
and have secured an option on most off
the New York works. But the Saginaw |
producers refuse to come into the ar
rangement, and the scheme is likely to |
fail.