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LOCAL MATTERS.
5 fRED WIJSO, -AUG. 1, 1877.
•18 offered -for sale.
—Local* en lifilh f«age.
—Extra tLardiOil nitNoesen & bunk's.
A. large of California 1 ecrs just
*ece:ved a-t Biroy'?.
—Graining Jind Fre*cot!o£ by
Youngdarhl.
—Fish Oil ,»nc*
A: Funk s.
Whale Oil at Xetsen
—.For lubricittH% macv ne and f'ard
oil, go to W. E. JJawkitKS
fruits .at
—Foreign and Domestic
•Bixby's on Main ste&et.
—Paper Hanging and iL-4 Uominiqg
fey YoungdahL
—Noesen Fimk-b is tht place tt
buy ycer Machine Oib.
—Yeupgdahl does earnuge jpainting
in beat •otyle.
—Mesers. F. IV. Hoy,!, John.Nelson
and Robt. Deafcin leR for Stevens
.eounrty on Tuesday.
For Sale.
My and tairo lots, corner Sast
ave. and7th street. F. A. POOLE.
—M. C. Eusseil, of the Lrke 'City
Leader and Bco. passed through towrn
.on Monday, OR their vmj to Buluth.
—Farmers d© not 'buy your .Oils, be
fore you see oisr Oils and .get our prices.
NO£*£N jfc F-UNK.
—The Wicr plswr, for wrhieh Howard
Libfey, of Featberstone pr&irie, is agent,
gav« general satisfaction at the plow
triai at P. Storkle's, on the 28th in«±.
—The Jled Wing Building Associa
tion will meet on Saturday night nest
at Music Hall, when it will offer consid
erable money on loans. Bee to it that
you pay your dues and save tines.
—The jury to whom was referred the
case known as the ''Hay Creek road
•case" decided on Monday to sustain the
action of the town supervisors in the
matter of the Jocat'on of the road.
—A man with a team could make
wages picking up wood which has fallen
from wagons along the stylets, and the
party who would do it would render the
public a service by so doing.
—Harvest hands are plenty and
wages may be qaoted at from two dol
lars to two and a half a day. Wheat
cutting has begun, but will hardly be
general before nest week.
—It was really an attractive sight to
see the Weir plow at work at the plow
Trial at Storkle's, on Saturday last.
It did ics wojk beautifully and is so
easily managed.
—Stray cow at the farm of T. E.
Perkins, Featherstone. Black and
white, about ten years old, gives milk.
The owner 5g requested to call, pay
charges and lake her away.
—Harvest hands are very plenty all
over the State. It is said that, in Olm
sted county, they have been breaking
up the machine binders, to which they
attribute the lower wages they are of
fered than on former seasons.
—SOMETHIVOIIA-VUSOME—TUE GAR-
DEN CITY SULKY PLOW AT C. BETCH
ER & Co's.—You missed a treat by not
seeing the Garden City Sulky Plow at
the trial Saturday last, at the farm of
Mr. Philip Storkle, Feathtrstone.
—If yoa want a good plow, for
work in all kinds of ground, get one
of the Wier plows, for sale by Howard
Libby, Featherstone prairie. At the
plow trial at Storkle's, on Saturday,
July 28th, itgavo very general satis
faction.
—At tne plow at Mr. V. Stork
le's, featherstone prairie* on Saturday^
July £8th, theJGtorden City.plow pleased
—SOMETHING HANDSOME—THE GAR
DEN CITY SULRY PLOW A* CV BUTCH
ER & Co's.—You missed a treat by not
seeing the Garden City Sulky Plow at
the trial Saturday last at the farm of
Mr. Phillip Storkle, Featherstone.
—We obmitted to mention last week
that Messrs Jones & Cook ha\e pur
chased ithe office of the Cannon Falls
Beacon of John A. Leonard, and are
now conducting that paper. They make
a very readable paper and one especial
ly valuable because of its local neA\s.
We wish them every success.
—.Know all men (and women too)
that I have the agency of the Slogers
Upright Piano, the best piano in the
world," for the State of Minn., and
that I will sell a few for introduction
cheap for cash. Every piano warranted
in any way desired. If you want a
piano send a postal card to the upright
man, S. II. HILLMAN,
Red Wing, Minn
—American medicated Blackberry
Brandy, for sale by Freiderick Hack,
is represented to be a never failing cure
far cholera morbus, diarrhoea, dysen
tery, flux and all kindred diseases, it
relieves pain, givee tone to the stomach,
restores the bowel* to a natural condi
tio© and invigorates the system, and it
is as the same time palatable and cheap.
-^.Yesterday evening, as Mrs. W. II.
—Some time ago a man calling him
self Tyler hired a team of Mr
Ed. Johnson, of this city, to go to Zum"
brota. He did hot return as promised,
and Mr. Johnson concluding that hi
team wag stolen advertised it, offering
$50 reward for its recovery. Last
week a man from this city saw the team
jn the hotel stable at Pine Island, and,
on being told that it was left there by a
traveler, who took the stage thence for
Rochester, promising to return the next
day, he was confirmed in his opinion
that it was Mr. Johnson's team and ac
cordingly brought it home. The thief
has not yet been arrested. He borrow
ed an overooat of the Pine Island land,
lord when he wenfe thence to Roches
ter.
—On Monday afternoon a man named
Adolph Johnson, who for a number of
years has been employed by Messrs.
Brink & Williams as mason tender, fell
from a scaffolding at the La Grange
mill, on to a shed adjoining and from
that on to the ground. The fall was
about fourteen feet but the unfortunate
man struck his head again?t the stone
base of the wall of the mill and broke
his skull. He was immediately taken
up and received every possible attention,
but died from his injuries during the
night. He leaves a wife and five chil
dren by whom his loss will be sevciely
felt. As far as we can learn hid fall
was an accident for the occurrence of
which no one can be blamed.
How it is Done.
The first object in life with the
American people is to "get rich" the
second, how to regain good health. The
first can be obtained by energy, honcoty
and saving the second, (good health)
by using Green's August Flower.
Should you be a despondent sufferer
from anv of the **Wf« «»P Hv •*?,'
Liver Complaint, Indigestion, Arc, such'
as kick Headache) Talpitation of the
.Heart, Sour Stomach, Habitual Cos-'
k.
7
•wIS
reoommend and use it in their practice.
The formula from which it is prepared
is highly recommended by all medical
journals. The clergy and the press
have complimented it in the most glow
ing terms. Go to your druggist and
get a trial bottle free of cast or a regu
lar usse for $1.00. For sale by all
druggists:
—Table of election of School Dis
trijc Officers, (law passed March 7th»
187.'), and revised by school law ap
proved Feb. 2Sth, 1877.) Pamphlet
form, page 0, sec. 10, lST.'l law. Page
10, see. 2, 1877 law.
is".! 1^7: 1S71. 1ST) 1S7C. ]«77. 1S7S
Election
ot till..
trust*, o^
Director
Treasurer 11 li 1'
Hoik li I. I
«t!intls loi iu-ijUUtr Klcctioit, lur lull
terra ot uiue(l) \«u«
'term ot othte tor School 11unlets, 3 .j gars
The annual school meeting is to be
held the first Saturday in September,
instead of October. Let District
Clerks take note of this.
Blanks for the "Annual Report" of
District Clerk, for the school year end
ing Aug. 31, 1877, will be sent by mail
in a few days. Read irefully the
directions printed on the back of same
before making out your report.
J. W. HANCOCK,
Co. Sup't Schools.
—A few days ago a boat belonging
to Batchelor Bros, was stolen from
Featkerstone was crossing Third street
on WIest Avenue, in her buggy, a man I their boat house near the depot. A
named Mullet, who dritee a pop wagon day or two later they received the fol
carae iown Third street pell mell and lowing letter which explains itself:
ran the wagon tongue into the hind
wheel of iier buggy, overturning it and
throwing Jier out with'such force as to in"
jure her severely. Besides being badly
shocked acd bruised she received an
qgly cut 00 iher head and another on her
arm. Mr. Muller, we are told, drove
right on without stopping to look at th
consequences of his recklessness. I I
oug&t to be taught that even pop wa,gon.
ought not to be hurried through the
streets at a dangerous rate of speed.
ON' THE ROAD TO ST LOUIS,
July 23d, 1877.
MK. BATCUELOR:—You may think it
strange to receive this but I thought it,
my duty, although I have no respect
for you or any other man in the north
west. will find your boat half way
between Maiden Rock and Stockholm,
oa the Wisconsin side ot the lake.
The man I sold the boat to is a Swede
that lights the Government lanterns.
He is a bachelor. You can easily find
him. His name in Swede would be the
same as Deer in English. You will be
sure to find th« boat if you go after it
and if you wish to find me
just come down to Kentucky and I will
settle all accounts at the point of the
bayonet. I will be up to Red Wing
next summer on a pleasure trip with
my wife. I would neyer have told you
where the boat was if I had sold it to
a white man. I hope you will get this.
1 1 1
W«. SMITH.
P. S.—I write this
train
write this on board the
where if. he does not forget. W. S.
Messrs. Batchelor went after their
boat and found it according to diree
tions. The sale spoken of seems to
have been peculiar, inasmuch as no sale
was made. Smith stayed all night
with the Swede, telling him his name
was Johnson. In the morning, after
making a failure to trade the boat for a
watch he noticed hanging on the wall, he
stole the watch, leading the boat. The
Swede followed him to Stockholm, but
he escaped across to Lake City ancl
took the train for the east. Then,
wishing to ghe an exhibition of cheek
seldom equalled, he wrote the above
letter, which is nearly equal to one re
ceived some years ago, by Mr. Bennett,
at that time proprietor of the Tepaton
ka hotel in this city. In those days
there was a goodly quantity of game in
this vicinity, and late in the Fall a man
stopped at the hotel with a gun and a
lot of traps, and told Mr. Bennett*he
wished to board with him through the
winter was going to hunt and trap, &c.,
and would pay him his board in fur. As
spring approached the trapper was
missing frcm his place at the tabic one
day, and a short time altei'ward Mr. B.
received a lettet us follows:
a small office, not fitted up for euch
werk, succeeds in obtaining the printing,
it is obliged to send away to haye the
entire work done. A Ramsey county
paper has just paid a Chicago office
$400 for such work instead o( having
that sum paid for stock and type setting
at home. Just what rule should be ap
plied to such eates is not easy to de
termine but it seems as if -in office
might reasonably be content to bid on
work that it can do, letting alone work
which is entirely out of reach.—Repub
lican.
The above is the wiy that Jennison
has of easing his conscience about that
tax list business. The Republican is
the only office in this county where the
County Board would be likely to get the
conveniences that they want from time
to time and we hope they will bear that
in mind. Jennison goes on to explain
in the above what an amount of "type
has been lying idle in their office for
years. We think, for that, matter, that
some of the rest of their office stock has
been idle too, but we keep say nothing
about that, as Jennison don't take any
pains to tell the innocent and unsophisti
cated, that every time a paper sets up a
tax list it more than gets pay enough to
buy all of that terrible amount jf stock
of nonpareil that he is fortunate enough
to own.
He gives us a breeze, so earcistic
that none but a man who had held a
State office, and lived and.slept and had
his boots blacked in St. Paul for a sea
son, could have produced the like. Just
notice them and then "wipe off your
chin down."—Independent.
The Zumbrota Independent reprodu
ces our statement that we did not know
what Mitchell's bid was for the tax list,
until all the bids were opened, and ours
found to be the lowest. It formed a
well deserved and conclusive defense of
the County Auditor, the members of
thetCounty Board and all others against
an insinuation from a certain quarter.
The Independet says: "We should
have had the sense to have kept still
about this tax list business if some one
else hadn't opened up." That is en
couraging. When Mitchell shall have
acquired "the sense to have kept still,"
he will have reached the acme of intel
ligence possible for him.
A Successful Twine Binder.
We spent Tuesday afternoon in a
wheat field of Mr. A. W. Etter, about
twelve miles from this city and a mile
west of Etter station on the railroad,
whither we went with others to witness
the operation of a combined harvester
and binder manufactured by Mr. N. C.
Thompson, of Rockford, Illinois. This
is an entirely new machine throughout,
en,br
ST. LOUIS, May 1st.
Mil. BfcAStEiT:—You are probably
aware that I boarded at your house last
Winter, and was to pay my board in fur.
I have now got as fur as St. Louis, and
if that ain't.fur enough, I will go fur
ther. Kvcr your«,
pendent gets off the follo\yittg clever
slap ajt our boastfji^contcmporiiry flgrosa'
tlftj street. Jilo migh«r$itt% /addecTBfati
lcing
The conductor will mail it some-1 not used in other harvesters and binders,
several mechanical principles
and is, we believe, pre-eminently a suc
cess. It binds with twine, tying a hard,
gquare knot which cannot be drawn or
slipped Is very simple in its construc
tion, not likely to get out of order, and
does its work regularly and unfailingly.
It is not possible for us to describe it in
detail in a newspaper article, but we
endeavor to convey art idea of it and its
manner of working.
First, we ill speak of the harvester
as that deserves especial attention al
most a* much as the bnjder, in th 't it
possesses a number of ieW ami ma'i
tori&US features. It cuts a svv ath five
feet six inches broad, cutting clean and
gathering every thing. This machine
is hung in chains, which may be length
ened or shortened by winding up on
an iron windlass toshorten or unwind
ing to lengthen. By this process the
machine is raised or lowered to suit the
height and condition of the grain. This
opeiation is performed with two small
iron hand-spikes, one end of which is
inserted in orifices in the windlass alter
nately, and it can be done by one man.
When the proper height is attained the
wind.lagg is secured in its position by a
key* flhe reel is, also, different from
Any o! her we ever saw, and is suscepti
ble of being raised or lowered, or thrown
forward or backward. Indeed, it may
be readily made to assume any position
in which it can become desirable to car
ry it, and will work with unfailing reg
ularity in either.
For these reasons and because the
reaper will operate at any required in
clination, so that the points oF the sickle
guards may bo carried closo to the
ground, if necssary, to run under and
pick np fallen grain, wo belies that
this reaper may DO efficiently used is
any field of iTmin. i'« nvittpM w'u L
condition. seems tc us that what it
wjjl not cut qitn .only he eiifcw\itl
,r,
that of the elevator, under the gentle
pressure of four flexible strips of steel,
which are curved so as to direct it to
the binder. A 'lever, within reach of
the driver enables him to move the ele
vating bands backward or forward, so
as to deliver the grain to the binder in a
manner that y\ ill insure its being bound
ia the right place, whether the straw
long or short.
The inclination of the binding table
JUI of itself, insuic the slipping of
the grain down to th* binder, but in
this machine nothing is left, to chance.
Working througn slotb in this table are
two feed dogs, each having three prongs
about ten inches apart and working alter
nately. Rising to the top of the blots
they .ire thrown up and the prongs pro
jected through the grain, which is borne
down againbt them by the flexible steel
fet:ips already described. Passing down
to tiie bottoms ot the blots and carrying
the grain with them, these feed dogs
drop below the table, ascend to the
tops of the slots, and are again pro
jected up through the table to receive a
new supply of grain and carry it down
to the binder. Tne grain is crowded
down by the feed dogs ajrainst one
prong or spoke of a four pronged wheel,
and, when the quantity accumulated
there becomes tufficient for a bundle,
the pionged wheel springs outward, per
forming an eighth revolution. Iiibtant
ly tb° feed dogs stop iind a giain shield
is projected through A blot in the table,
separating the grain to be tied from
that still coming from the elevator, and
from this shield the cord-arm is thrown
forward to carry the cord to the tyer.
The tying we cannot describe intel
ligibly. Let it suffice to say that the
band is tied in a hard square knot and
the twine cut off. The pronged wheel
then makes another eighth revolation,
throwing up another prong to receive
the next bundle, the cord-arm and shield
return beneath the table, the feed dogs
resume work, and the process of mak
ing another sheaf has begun. The fin
ished bundle being at the same time
dropped gently to the giound. This is
the whole operation. It curious,
beautiful, deliberate. No hurrying, no
throwing or scattering of the giain, but
careful, clean, good work. The bun
dles are of uniform size and cannot be
otherwise, for the pronged wheel will
not spring till grain enough for a bun
dle is crowded against it, and this it
that regulates the operations of the
binder. It is not dependent on the mo
tion of the "bull-wheel." Even if the
strings breaks, unless the end is drawn
out of the end of the cord arm, only one
bundle is missed, for the cord-arm will
faithfully deliver the end of the string
to the tyer every time, if it has it.
The machine is ingenioua and beauti
ful. It was drawn by a span of light
horses, and cut five acres from half-after
one till five o'clock, one swath hem* a
mile long, and the hoises did not sweat,
although the day was hot, more than
teams drawing em.pty wagons. We
must not omit to mention, either, that
the grain general'y was very heavy and
the ground rough and unevea, several
gullies beiug crossed by the much ne
and two mounds (of the old mound
builders) cut over. Again, the bun
dles were not only uniform in size but
tightly bound- We compared a number
of them with band-bound bundles pick
ing both up at random, ssd in every in
stance the machine Lound weJe trie
tightest. We have a bundle in the of
fice which we caught up and shook, and
then we took up and shook in the same
Eiauasr ti Iwad, bound bundle. The
latter fell to pieces and \vc left it ip
the field. The other stands in oar. S^ow
window after being carried two miles
by hand and twelve ia Ibe carp. Mr
Wm. McGregor, the General Superin
tendant of Thompsons shops, and Mr.
F. M. Flanigan, contractor of the ma
chine were at Mr. fitter's, and we are
indebted to them for explanations.
Messrs. Nelson &, Peterson, of this city,
will have the agency for this county,
and those who desire lurther parti eu
ulars will find them ready to answer all
questions.
—W have thn office a &L.lk
of corn laised bv ,\lr. K. Urowr,
from seed sent him from the Eisr.
It is Called the "Giant Yellow Dent,"'
grows from 12 to 15 feet high and
is v\!fy prolific. Mi. Bro-a-i last
jeac c'otained a full peck ot shelled
co from 20 stalks, and says that
it lipened as early as the ordinary
white dent corn. This year he is
growing 1,,'j acies, and we will keep
our leaders posted as to les'^fs:
tM'om present appearances, it seem*
that-lthimtrodu.ction .will b'e linaiua
thiolfb-.
fiunieis ur.th'is'locality.
.. c\
1 4 it..
lssue'/ttifs- nuniber.Nit
^-n
he strike can do no go
says a contemporary. All a mist
It can and will do good. It
force the great question of the
upon public attention and comp
solution of the labor problem.
—The Centennial Picnic Ground
Waconta are cpen to the public, ae
ing last year.i free of charge. Plea?
boats, amongst which is a *afi
capable of conveying fifteen perso
n.ay be hired at the lake shore. Thei
is good shade, stand for speak*r°, place
for ewinge, f-tj No liquor allowed
the ground?.
—The large and splendid mill at Ca
non Falls, belonging to the estate of
late Capt. Edward Murphy, if offc
for sale at a bargain. It has six
of burrs* anu ib fitted with* all the rec
improvements. Mr. B. B. Herbert
the agency for selling the mill as
as the other property of the eftat*4.
—Help for the ^eak, ner\ou^,
deb.htstted. Chronic and painful
eases cured without medicine. Elect
Belts and oth-r appliances 'all abo
them and how to distinguish thf gee
ine from the bpurioue. Book, with ft
particular^ mailed free. Address
vermacher Galvanic Co., 292 Yi
Street, Cincinnati, O. 29\ 1
Three Horse Eqaa -zers.
I ha\e now for sale at mv Jleaper
the celebrated Marvin Evener. It
warranted to woik well on any Reapei
or Harv€bter to equalize the draft
three horses and will, also, t^ke ofi th»
bide draft from the machine.
(KJ-,
Cor
,n
E. W. BROOKS
Red Wing, July IP
Dissolution Notice.
Notice i» heieby given that the ct.
partnership heretofore existing betwe
tie undersigned, under the firm nai
of Philleo A, Sprague, :s this day di
solved by mutual (.onseat. The bu
ness wiil hereafter be continued by W
liam M. Philleo, who will settle all
account of the late firm.
WILLIAM M. I I I E O
S E
Red V».-g, Mirn. Jane 18th, 1^77
Notice of Dissolution cf
partnership.
Notice JS herebv given t'jnt :'i„
partnership heretofore en sting letwe^'
the undersigned at lieu Wing^Mmneso
ta, under the firm name of I\2inhart A
Morrison is this day disso'vei bv rautu
al consent All d"b"ts owing by the firr
will be paid by Charles Reinhart, anu
all deljfcs le 'he firm nj^t be paid
him alone.
Dated at Red Wjng. Minnesota, If'.,
day of J"ly, A. T. 1?77.
A. E. McA*.«u\.
2\v REIMIABT
Red Wsng Markets
For several weeks pa-t t! tre ha
been 20 market in Red Wirg, and we
have, therefore, mitted quotation*
which could only be nominil. Below
we give the ruling prices this inarninp
Whwit, 1
lt
tl (V''e lie- ib
1'ork, (!nss"i, ]er
}H rbtl
«i 1 to
Puncr, )Kr lb
SnrR Cnicki.' t«i
Beef, lrc«xod
Stage Lines.
Stages Icaie this city i« iW w
For Camon Fall*, da at tvjr ^,
m. from National Hotel.
For Zt'tiiirota, daily, at fro O'C'CTK II
from National hotel.
For Hader. Kenyon a- F-mba ut T-c
a Thursday and
5a*
,r lajs at 7 cU
a. in. from B-ulo hcuse
For Buy Citj, Lsda.'.e a F""»wvt
Wis, Wedncfdaj sand Satjrda} .' IL
from National hotel.
For Trenton, JMrunor.d Flaf, re vi
.ind River a Wis., Taeniajs ard S.i'ii
days, at 2 o'clock v. in f'oin Bat. rnue-
Steamer* f-r St. I.o
VVV»e )t 7
iOUis ard ir.ti nei''«te
\ro« u'A Or,gan jii.'.'tfj I ui» .u 0
(. ty, .ii reasonable* i.v«-. 1\ W.
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