Mower County transcript., 1893-11-01
Notes From Exchanges,


ed any of the $1,000 which Doran
charged that Bohen had stolen, he
|ingeniously replied that he had .'never
contributed a dollar for any such
purpose"
Dodge County Record: Arrange
ments are being made to hold dis
trict S. S. convention in the district
composed of the counties of Goodhue,
Wabasha, Winona, Houston, Mower,
Fillmore, Olmsted, Steele and Dodge.
It will probably be held in Rochester
next month.
Rochester Post: Postmaster Turner,
of High Forest, is succeeded by Mr..
Edward A. Armstrong. Mr.. Turner
has been very satisfactory as an
official, but Mr.. Armstrong has been
a Democrat from time whereof the
memory of man runneth not to the
contrary" and it is their turn now.
New York Press: The town of Old
Mystic, Connecticut, for many years a
thriving manufacturing hamlet, is
now deserted. There is no prospect
that it will ever be restored to pros
perity. The business depression has
forced the owners Of the woolen mill
to close. They give no hopes of re-
sumption. The residents Of the town
have left. The town is now occupied
by idlers who obtain sustenance by
robbery.
New York Press: The best money
is that which supplies, first, a broad,
immovable basis 'of the precious
metal at parity, and then builds upon
that basis whatever credit may be re-
quired for convenience and with the
assurance that the structure will
never broaden so that the basis will
be toppled over. The best money is
the money Of the Constitution. The
money Of Alexander Hamilton, the
money of the human race for 1900
years-namely, gold and silver used
under system of bimetallism.
Luverne Herald: The hotel adver-
tising fakir has been in town this
week, and as usual worked his little
scheme successfully. Twelve firms in
this city paid him 81 so each to have
their business printed on IS placards
to be posted in two hotels of this
place. The cards were printed at the
Herald office and the work cost $4.OO.
Thus the twelve business firms re-
ferred to paid $l8 for what they could
have secured for 81. In other words
they have paid the fakir who ''worked
them" $l4 for his services.
Benson Monitor: Occasionally we
come across a Minnesota paper which
insists that this state was poorly re-
presented at the worlds fair in the
matter of exhibits. The Monitor can
not concur in any such assertion. A
person had only to go through the
different main buildings to see the
fine display made by this state. 1t is
true that all the exhibits were not
piled up in the state building as was
done by some other states, but in the
different large buildings there were
corners devoted to Minnesota pro-
ducts of which no loyal Minnesotian
need feel ashamed.
Minneapolis Journal: Minnesota's S
prizes at the worlds fair are gratify-
ingly numerous and emphatically ad-
yertise her as a state of phenomenal
growth in farming, stock raising,
dairying and in other respects. She has
66 awards for flour, 21 for poultry, s for
horticulture and so premiums for
horses and 48 for cattle with more for
dairying and other features. 1t is
something peculiar to American
genius and activity that in 80 years "a
state can be made great producer of
essential commodities and of first
class horses and cattle, when in the
memory of many now living in Mime
sofa she imported nearly everything
the people used.
Faribault Republicans: A confid-
ence game has been perpetrated on
number of farmers in the vicinity of
Faribault by a man claiming to have
come from New York after mich COWS
to ship to his dairy farm. He won the
confidence of the business men by his
smooth ways, and of the farmers by
the liberal prices which he agreed to
pay for their stock. He ran up enor-
nous hotel and livery bills and bor-
rowed money to the amount of $4OO
or $500, which he was to repay on the
receipt of a draft from home. But
the affair turned out as such affairs
usually do, and the creditors of the
confidence man are sadder but wiser
men.
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