The Western advance. [volume], May 02, 1874, Image 2

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Terms (i.oo a Year, $1.00 for Six Montha.
SATUKDAY. MAY 2, 1S74.
The result of two or three weeks'
war at Little Rock, Arkansas, so far as
we can ascertain, is one killed, two or
three wounded, and several thousand
missing about tlietime the firing began.
Brooks still holds the State House.
The Mississippi River was o)en more
than a week ago and the firstlioat from
St. Louis arrived at St. Paul on the23d
of April. But until a day or two ago
the lakes were still closed at the Sault
St. Mary and the Straits of Mackiuack.
Gov. Stephen Miller has been ap
pointed Register of the new Land office
nt Bis nark. The Pioneer says "and a
very excellent and honest Land officer
he will make." And so will say every
honest man in the State.
Congressman McKee, it seems, went
forth in Washington recently to smash
Donn Piatt's nose, and by mistake fell
upon our friend John J. Piat or John
J., the Poet, and smashed his nose.
John J. is one of the gentlest-mannered
men that ever scuttled a political ship,
cut a political tin oat, or held an olliee
in Washington, and if McKee lets* the
Donn off with that, what's to become
of the public security
The St. Paul P'mver under, the new
management. lias the ring of a metro
politan newspaper. It don't agree with
us politically, but we have to read it
just as we have to eat straw berries
and cr am, no m.-.tter ln much they
disagree with us. St. Paul has the best
newspapers of any city of the same size
iu the United States.
IS Tli ESS Ali li O A D.
If there is one family in the National
Colony disposed to murmur at the
straitened circumstances iu which the
failure of the last year's crop left them,
let them read the accounts of distress
abroad, and be cured. The tornado in
Missouri on the 17th of April, which
unroofed houses and killed several per
sons, and the whirlwind and storm
which swept over Erie County, Penn
sylvania, on the 21st of last month,
blowing down houses, killing men and
flooding the country, are scarcely no
ticed by the public in the pntiewe of
the great calamity which lias 1M fallen
the lower Mississipp country by the ov
erflow oft mighty river. Over twen
ty parishes, containing anareaof o,(M)0,
000 acres, or nearly one-tenth as large an
the State of Minnesota, containing a
a population of 17S.000, are overflowed
and between 2-5,000 and 50,000 persons
are fffc destitute. The Northern cities
il!*» responding liberally. Boston, we
notice, has contributed $10,000. The
Government h. ordered the issue of
i!0,000 rat.ous for 2-3 days, costing $90,
000. The need is urge it, and w» have
no doubt that the full-handed North
will respond liberally to the cry for
aid from a people who for ten years past
liave been desolated hy war, pestilence,
floods and semi-anarchy.
REPOUT ON TRANSPORTATION.
Senator Wiudoiu, on the 24th nil., de
livered a speech in the Senate embody
ing the results of the labors of the Com
mittee on Transportation. The report,
statistics and all, when published, will
fill about 500 pages.
The Committee considered the ques
tion of a double-tiack railway between
the Mississippi river and New York,
and concluded that such a road would
pay a fair return on its cost, but it one
were constructed, fair dealing toward
other sections would require the build
ing of two or three additional lines.—
The Committee do ot lee :n-mend the
building of such loads. What they do
recommend is the improvement of the
great water-ways of the country, as the
most feasible way of settling the trans
portation problem. The gist of the re
port will be found in the following
After a inoht careful consideration of
the merits of various proposed improve
ments, taking into account the cost,
practicability, and probable advantages
of each, the committee have come to the
unanimous conclusion that the follow
ing are the most feasible and advanta
geous channels of commerce to be crea
ted oi improved by the national Govern
ment, in case Congress shall act upon
this subject, namely:
First. The Mississippi River.
Second. A continuous water line of
adequate capacity from the Mississippi
River to the city of New York, via the
northern lakes.
Til rd. A route adequate to the
wants of commerce, thiough cen
tral :ier of States, from the Mississippi
River, via the Ohio at Kanawha Riv
ers, to a point in West Virginia, and
thence by canal and slack-water, or by
a freight railway, to tide-water.
Fourth. A route from the Mississippi
river, via the Ohio and Ten.lessee riv
ers, to a point in Alabama or Tennes
see and thence by canal ami slack-water,
or by a freight railway, to he ocean.
An advertising house in New York
sends us a sheet of notices to be insert
ed in "news type" among the "reading
matter." One of these is to to be in
serted eacli we?k during the year, and
then we may di.aw on their house for
the sum of "five dolhtt*." Now, we
would charge one of our business men
from $70 to $75 for that amount of
special notices, yet we are expected to
advertise a patent medicine to that ex
tent for $". The composition alone
would cost us about $ I, and we would
have one dollar left for of er expenses
and die trouble of keeping the run of
the notices every week for one year. It
is high time for country newspapers to
give this kind of advertising the go-by,
an I to insist on paying rates from for
eign advertisers.
Mr. Henry Jenkins, senior editor of
the Estherville Vindicator, was mar
ried on the 23d ult. Would there be
anything improper in hoping that
"these few lines" may soon find some
other editors "enjoying the same bless
ing?"
MINNESOTA AND CALIFORNIA.
The "Minneapolis Tribune recently
published a letter from Mr. John Wiess,
dated North San Juan, California,
March 6th, in which the writer says of
California as compared with Minneso
ta
"Being one of the half dozen first vo
ters of iiemiepiii county, and having
lived tiiere for sixteen years, and hav
ing a little interest there yet, 1 will give
your readers some news about aifor
nia. This is a harder winter iu Califor
nia than last winter was iu Minnesota.
Cattle and sheep are dying by the thous
and. There are more poor, hard-up
men in California titan any other State
in the Union. It is snowing now, and
there is no prospect of Spring. Hay is
$30 per ton iu Sacramento, and is ship
ped from San Francisco. Taxes are
very high and it takes all that men in
good circumstances can get to pay them,
I and a great many of them have to bor
row tiie money. Persons that think
they can better their circumstances,
had better stay where they are. Men
who own large hydraulic mining claims
cannot pay their store bills.
"I liave tried in the valleys, on the
coast and in the mountains, and I think
to-day that Minnesota is a letter coun
try than California ever will be for a
man with moderate me ns.
I This agrees with the letter printed
from Mr. Cook, who is an early settler
iu Minnesota, saying that.Minnesota is
the State for poor men. And if so, it
is all the better for rich men and capi
talists. Tae poor man who wants to be
come independent iu a few year by farm
ing, and the capitalist who wants to
invest iu lauds that will rise steadily
or in manufactures which will pay a
large per cent., should both come to
Minnesota.
MOKE SNOW STORMS &OUTH.
The following despatches explain
themselves:
Four W A N E Ind., April 28—The
heaviest ow storm of the winter oc
curred in this vici tity last night. Snow
fell to the deptli of ten or twelve incites
on the level. So far as heard from
fruit is uninjured.
CINCINNATI, April 28.—Dispatches
from Delaware, Anna, and other parts
of central Ohio, report snow falling all
day. Tiie weather has been growing
cold, with brisk winds and clou ly sky.
A Wilkesbarre, Pa., dispatch says:
A twenty-four hours' NHO storm ceas
ed tnis evening. Snow on the moun
tains, south of here, is eighteen inches
deep and the road* are almost impassa
ble.
Wednesday, April 29th.— Nineteen
inches of snow fell at Water Gap. Pa,
to-day.
We should 'ike to hear from the Chica
I go papers as to this. While the people
throughout the greater pnrt of Miime
I sota were basking in the warm spring
sunshine, heavy snow storms were pre
1 vailing a* fui south as Central Ohio. We
had a slight snow here, biougi by a
southeast wind, but throughout most of
the Mate, tiie sun shone.
STATE NEWS.
Slmkopee has a population of 2,500
inhabitants.
M. C. Itnssell offers the Braiuerd
Trtbmu for sale.
A Lavement is on foot iu Duluth to
form an auli-treatiug society.
Toe Winona ltejiublican reports great
activity bunding perations in thai
city tins spring.
A new Episcopal church, is to be
built at I'nie Isiaod, tae present slim
mer, to cost $J,nun above tne iouuda
liou mat is ahead) laid.
Tne Rive-. s"'«.le cluese factory at
llociiester will commence operalf ns
about Hie loth of May inxt. Two
hundred cows will supply the milk at
the rate of nine cents lor ten pounds of
milk.
The Rochester Pt^t says that on
Friday ot last wtek, C. C. \V illsou, Ksq.,
sold 3,U00 bushel* of wuea. at $1.10 per
bushel. We might bay right here, tha.
Mr. Willson. beside being an able and
succesdul lawyer, is a tnrifty and en
terprising aimer.
Tne amount of wheat that will be
shipped Horn lied Wing ot last )ear's
crop is estimate I at 1,-500,000 bushels.
Of that amount some 500,000 bushels
have been shipped, Uuo.OOO busheU are
in store iu •tipacious warehouses, and
100,000 bushels are in the hands of the
Irnineis.
Information has been received at
Wells from New York to the effect
that the contracts for building the
Veils & Mankatoand Mankalo & Blue
Earth City railroads have beea let to
re ponsible parties, the work to be fin
ished by August :i0th, 1J74.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
C. W. a ms has purchased the inter
est of Frank A. Day in the Estherville
Vindicator.
The Estherville Vindicator says that
the house ot Giles W. Robbius, ah nit
two and a half miles north west of
town, was burned with its contents on
Saturday last. The building caug
from a prairie lire, Mr. Bobbins being
absent.
The Heron Lake correspondent of
the Jackson Ripndic says Well the
Farmers ire all done Set ding Here but
|t drones are padliug awa yet and by
the Looks Some of them will be untill
.July or august ami then tiiey will Sav
I the Grasshoppers eat up their crop.
LA HO EST ILOCKING MILL IN AMER
ICA.
I The Farmers Uni»n contains an ac
count of the great Wasburii Flouring
Mill at Minneapolis, fioni which we ex
tract.
Nowhere iu the United States or Can
adas is there anything to compare with
it in size, while iu the entire wo«ld
there are but ne-or two larger.
It was begun iu May last, and has
been pushed forward to completion iu
less than a year by an arniv of work
men at a ciMt of $£50,000. "The build
ing is 100x138 feet in siz ', built of blue
limestone in courses, and is six and
one-half stories in height, or ninety
feet from ground to roof.
It contains forty run of stone driven
by two five foot, polished bronze wheels
manufactured in Chiekopee, Mass., of
250 horse power each, which cost with
the excavation in which thev are set,
$£5,000. Some idea of the water power
in Minneapolis may be gained from the
fact that the water which drives them
has a head of forty feet.
The burrs and some of the Improve
ments come from France, The mill,
of course, makes the new process"
flour.
The Le Seuer Grange held a "bee" re
cently for the purpose of setting out
trees and shrubbery in the cemetery.
I Here is a hint to the Worthington la
dies.
COLONY DEPARTMENT.
Answers to Colony Correspondents.
J. P. II., of Green County, N. Y.,
writes and asks: 1. Is the govern
ment and railroad land all disposed of
in the town of Worthington 2. Is the
government land all taken up in the
Colony? 3. What is railroad laud
woith
ANSWER. The Government land is
all taken in the town, or township, of
Worthington. Claims can often be
bought at reasonable figures. There
is still considerable railroad land to be
had in this township at $8, $9 and $10
per acre on good terms. There are
several townships in the county in
which the government laud is still
nearly all vacant. These lands are
twelve and fifteen miles from Wcrth
iugton, but some of them are near pro
jected rail oads. A man can take a
quarter section of these lands under
the tree act and secure enough bounty
on the trees to pay for a farm of 160 acres
at $10an acre near Worthington. 3.—
Railroad land is worth from $7 to $10
an acre. Some lands can be had at So
and §6, but these are not very desirable
lauds.
T."M. II., Fremont,Ohio, asks: 1. Is
there any timber near there or is it all
prairie 2. Is the country level, rolling
or hilly 3. Is it well watered and how?
AXSWEU. There is no timber iu
Nobles county to be had for fuel or
building purposes. Graham Lakes are
partly surrounded by timber, and Air.
Smith's island is covered with a fine
growth, but Nobles county is consider
ed an exclusively prairie county. 2.
The prairie is rolling. Probably thive
fourths of Nobles county consists of
beautifully-ivlling prairie, well adap ed
to wneat raising. About the upper part
of Ocheeda and ot Okabena lakes, the
country is more flat, has a most luxuri
ant growth of grass, and is well adapt
ed to stock-raising and dairying. 3.
The county is well watered with lakes.
Tiiere are some titty marked on the map,
great and small. There are some
streams like Jack, Elk. Okabena and
Ocheeda creeks which furu sh water
during all the year, tlmigh they are not
running streams all the year. LaKcs or
pools can be made almost anywhere
which will hold water the year round
for watering stock. Wells are made
anywhere bv digging from ten to fifty
feet. We will say to our friend that he
will not find in this county such rivers
as the Sandusky at Fremont. But he
will find a county more rich, more easi
ly subdut d, and watered enough for all
practical purposes.
E. E. A.,'of Bath, Illinois, asks: 1.
Do you think the climate beneficial for
a pe.son suffering from nervous debili
ty 2. Is the reduction ade only to
one person, or dots it extend to both
man ami wile 1
AXSWEU. We have heard it claimed
that there are diseases of fie brain,
spine, etc., which are aggravated by
the climate. But we are inclined to
think this is only at first. This cli
mate is a woudeiful Pn\sician, and the
moment a sick person gets here the cli
mate takes him iu hand. Often he is
put through a course of what set ms to
be physic, and is thoroughly cleansed.
If there is a latent ague it is ror.sed up
and is commanded to come forth, and
generally manages to give the patient
a farewell shake as it departs. So of
other diseases, they are roused up and
driven oat, and of course make consid
erable demonstration while they are
going, so that people sometimes think
they are worse. But no fact is better
established, no fact is so difficult to
gainsay as the fact that this is a cura
tive and a most invigorating climate.
Nearly every other settler in the State
can testify to this. Lung, throat,
stomach and liver diseases especially,
are in most cases cured. And so ner
vous diseases are, for most nervous dis
eases are cured by building up the gen
eral health, and this the climate does.
Here in the National Colony, as we
have frequently said, we seem to have
the climate at its best. We have, be
yond doubt, a mountain atmosphere,
being elevated, but we are still south
of the region of extremely rigorous
winters and north of the ague line. 2.
The reduction extends to man, wifeand
minor children. Some colonists have
saved enough to pay for two or three
certificates of membership. One man
saved the price of two certificates on
the lumber he bought at reduced rates.
Sometimes men have failed to get the
reduced fare, and have had their money
refunded by the Colony company.
COA TN MINNESOTA.
Coal has been discovered in Freeborn.
Parties have been boring iu the village
and it is claimed have struck several
veins of coat. The standard says:
This vein would seem to vary in
thickness, as the second bore shows
eleven feet and three inches of solid
substance four feet and three inches of
which indicating coal, with further
thickness not yet determined sixty-one
feet below this, or eleven hundred and
eleven feet below the surface is the sec
ond strata, overlaid by its six feet of
slate as deterniiiid by the first bore,
and still rich-r iu its supply.
SOFT MA PLES.
A writer iu the Fanners Union says
I have in mind a grove of soft maple,
that when I saw it last the trees were
from twenty-live to thirty feet high and
from four to five inches in diameter at
the ground. They were planted iu rows
five feet apart each way. the ground be
ing prepared as for corn and the seed
taken from the tree and planted imme
diately, three or four in a hill. At one
vear old they were thinned to one tree
in a place, ami recieved the same culti
vation that corn would have received
for four years, when they so completely
shaded the ground that neither weeds
nor .jrass would grow under them. Now
supposing that it cost fifty dollars an
acre to raise these trees thev cost three
cents apiece. Now what would such
trees le »vorth iu Minnesota Certainly
more than three cents apiece.
A large amount of wheat changed
hands in Olmsted conntv, last week at
*1,10 per bushel.
FARMERS' DEPARTMENT.
DESTROYING GRASSHOPPERS.
Mr. B. N. Emerson has called our at
tention to an article on the grasshop
per, in an old copy of Tiie Cultivator,
which is quite interesteng, and which
gives the methods employed for their
destruction in countries where the
grasshopper is a frequent visitor.—
These methods will not apply here as
they do in those portions of Asia and
the old world, but they may still be
worth knowing. In China and along
the Mediterranean efforts are directed
to gathering aud destroying the eggs,
and to capturing and destroying the
young after they are hatched. Large
premiums are offered tor their destruc
tion, and where every field is cultivat
ed and there is a thick population a
very effective warfare can be waged by
each cultivator of the soil attending to
his own fields. The writer of the arti
cle gives the following method for con
structing a net to capture the insects:
"Make a bag of stout cotton cloth,
somewhat tapering, and about three
feet in length and eighteen inches in
diameter at its mouth. Sew the mouth
of the bag to a coarse, stiff wire, bent
into a circle of the same diameter, to
its mouth, to which a handle about
three feet long is firmly attached.—
Sweep fields of grain or grass with this
implement, by swinging it from side to
side in front of you, as you advance,
like a man engaged in mowing. A lit
tle practice will render one dextrous in
using this net and every person will be
astonished at the confused medley of
grasshoppers, Hies, beetles, and all sorts
of queer looking bugs, worms and creep
ing things, which in some places will
be gathered by it. They may lie killed
by emptying them into a sack and pour
ing hot water upon them. They may
be fed to the swine. Another method
is for four persons to drag a sheet or
cloth across the fields, two holding one
side close to the ground and the other
two holding the other side up at an an
gle of about 43 dexre-.s. When the
cloth is well filled with insects it is
folded over them aud they are pouied
into a sack.
These methods may be useful ingath
ering all kinds of insects which destroy
crops. Here, where there is so much
uncultivated laud, and the population
is sparse, it would avail little to gather
and destroy the grasshoppers which
attack the crops. Unless the whole
prairie could lie scoured, these methods
would be of little practical value. But
we have here a uiiuli more effective
method for destroying the young grass
hoppers, viz: by burning them. AVe
have liefore urged the importance of
not tiring the piaiiimuntil it is ascer
tained whether or not there is to be a
hatch of grasshoppers this year. We
might iu one day, by a simultaneous
burning and by concert of action, rid
the country of the young grasshoppers.
We do not, however, anticipate much
of a hatch. The grasshoppers came
early last year and most of their egirs
were doubtless hatched befcre cold
weather set in. Still there uiav be
enough young ones to cause so.i troub
le.
RAISING 1IOOI* POLES.
Set one row of cot ton woods, poplar or
any kind of quick growth and then set
two or three rows of hickory for hoop
poles and then one of quick growth and
so culthate an article that will be very
profitable to them aud by the time the.
quick growth is up 20 feet they will
have a crop of hoop pedes that will lie
worth more than the farm without tim
ber.
N E W ADVERTISEMENT.
United States Mail.
»IZSB'D7ZaBOTj&..
POST On ICE DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, March 31,1874.
PROPOSALS will be received at the Contract
Oilier this Hepurtu.cut uniil 3 o'clock in. of
May Soth, 1874, (to lie decided liv June loth.) fm
ca ryinjs I lie mails of Hie I nited States from
July 1st, 18 4, to June :«l, 187*., on Ihe following
routes in the State of Miflfticsotn, and the sched
ule of departures and aniv.ils herein specified,
vi/.:
Xo. 26118 From Weaver, by Smithfiehl and Lvon,
to Millvilli-, 27 miles and back, once a
week.
Leave Weaver Fridav at 7 a
Ariive at Milhilte li\'(j iu
Leave Milhillc Siituiday at 7 a in
Ariive at Weaver |i m.
26128 From Fores! ville, byCaiimonn, to Preston,
9 miles and hack, tluee limes a week.
Leave Forest\illc 1 ue.sdav. Thursday, and
Satin dav at i) a m.
Ani\e at Preston llj 12 in
Leave Preston Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday at in
Ariive at Forestville by 4 pin
26134 From Preston to Isenour's, 3 miles and
back, MX limes a week.
Leave Piestou Daily, except Sunday, at 8
a in:
Ariive at Isenour's by 9 a in
Leave I«eiiour's daily, except Sunday, at 10
a in
Ariive at Pi est on by 11 a
Close connelion to lie made with the mail
trains east and west.
Proposals for service twice daily invited.
26143 From Fast Claiemoiit to Wasioja, 6 miles
and back, one a week.
Leave hast Clauinoni Saturday at 10 a in
Ariive a Wasii.ja b\ 12 m:
Leave W asioja satinda\ at 2 in
Ariive at Last Claitiuont 1J 4 in
26144 From Dodjre City by Merton and Kllwood,
to owatonna, l'j inlics and back, once a
w^ek.
l^ave Dodjre City Fiidav at 12 in
Ariive at owatnuna by 3p in:
Leave Owatonna Fiidav at 3.:W
An ive at Dodue City by 6.30 in:
26148 From Moscow to It. |{. Station, 3 miles and
back, once a week.
Schedule to make connection with nial
rains.
26187 From Klvsian, bv MarvdmrR and Lake
Washington, to Saint. Peter, 22 miles and
twice a week.
Schedule to be satisfactory lo the Depart
ment.
26188 From Jordan, bv Helena, Saint Benedict,
Piaha, lleidciU'iK. SW«t Hubertus. and
Havenstreain. to Jordan, equal.to 20 miles
and back, once a week.
Leave Jordon sattuday at 6 a in
Ariive at .Ionian by 7 in
Proposals invited foi twice-a-wcek service.
26190 From Shakopcp, by Saint Mary's, Lvdi.i,
Cedar l-ake, Plum Cieck. New Maiket,
Sue] (ii. (I.). Lasheeii, aud Maple Glen, to
Shakopt-e, equal to 26 miies and back,
twice a week.
Schedule to be satisfactory to the Depart
ment.
26204 From Holden to Kenvon, 6 miles and back,
twice a week.
Leave Holden Wednesday and Saturday at
1 in
An ive at Kenyon bv 3 in:
IXMVC Kenyon Wednesday and Saturday
at S in
Arrive at Holden by 7
26215 From Kush Citv, bv Burnettcvillr, (Wis.),
and Anderson, toGiai tsburg, 20% miles
and back, once a week.
Leave Kush City Tuesday at 6 a
Arrive at Graiitsbuig bv 12 in:
I*ave RrantsluirK Tuesday at 1 m:
Ariive at Rush City by 8 m:
Prn|in»»l* HvirM for iv, 'ye a wp»fc «/rri»»:
26226 From Excelsior to Eden Prairie, 6 miles and
back, 6 times a week.
Leave Excelsior daily, except Sunday, at 10
a
Arrive at Eden Prairie at 12
Le .ve Eden Prairie daily, except Sunday,
at 1 pin
Arrive at Excelsior by 3 m:
26228 From Wayzata, by Lluz, to Leigkton, 13
miles and back, once a week.
Leave Wayzata Saturday at 1 in
Arrive at I .eighton bv 5 in
Leave I^ighton Saturday at 6 a
Ariive at Way/ata by 12
Proposals invited to embrace Parker's
Lake.
26229 From Maple Plain to Saint Bonifacius, 9
miles and back, once a week.
Leave Maple Plain Friday at 9 a
Arrive at Saint Boniracius by 12
Leave Saint Bonifacius Friday at 1
Ariive at Maple Plain by 4 in
26233 From Blooinincton, by Kichfleld and
Minneaiolis, I3
n,iies
and back, three
times a week.
Leave Bloomington Monday, Wednesday
and Friday at 8 a
Arrive at Minneapolis by 12 m:
Leave Minneapolis Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday at 1 111
Ariive at Bloomingtou by 5 pm.
26238 From Lake Town to Chaska, 6 miles and
back, once a week.
Leave Lake Town Saturday at 10 a
Arrive at Chaska by 12 in
Leave Chaska Saturday at 1
Ariive at Lake Town by 3 in.
26242 From Glencoe, by Sumter, Lake Addie.
Collins, Swansea, Palmyra, and Birch
Coiley, to Beaver Falls, 60 miles and
Back, once a week,
l^eave Glencoe Monday at 7 a
An ive at Beaver Falls next day at 4pm
Leave Beaver Falls Wednesday at 7 a 111
Ariive at Glencoe next day at 4 111.
26266 From Saint Cloud, by Brockwav, North
Praiiie, Two Livers. Pike Rapids, and
Green Prairie, to Fort Ripley, 62 miles
aud back, once a week.
Schedule to be satisfactory to the Depart
ment.
Proposals invited (or twice-a-week service.
26277 From Litchfield, bv Manannah and Koro
nis, to Payuesviiie, 26 miles and back,
three times a week.
Leave Litchfield Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday at 7 a 111
Arrhe at Payuesviiie bv 5 in
Leave Payuesviiie Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday at 7 a in
Arrive at Litchfield by 5 m.
26282 From Atwater, by Harrison and Green
j.ake, to New London, 18 miles and back,
twice a week.
Leave Atwater Tuesday and Friday at 6
a in
Arrrive at New London by 12111
Leave New London Tuesday and Friday at
1 in
Arrive at Atwater by 7 m.
26293 From Leaf Valley, by Miltona, to Alexan
dria. 20 miles and hack, once a week.
Leave Leaf Valley Saturday at 6 a 111
An ive at Alexandria h\ 12 in
Leave Alexandria Satuiday at 1
Arrive at Leaf Valley by 7 m.
26298 From Clitherall, Battle Lake, Blooming
Grove and Am dale, to Fergus Falls, ^35
miles aud back, mice a week.
Leave Clitherall Monday at 7 a in
Arrive at Fergu- Falls by 7 a in
]«ave Fergus Falls Tuesday at 7 a
Ariive at Clitherall by 7 m.
26302 From Kichwood to Detroit City, 11 miles
and back, once a week.
Leave Itidiwood Sat111d.1v at 8 a
Ariive at Detroit City by 12 in
Leave Dctioil ity siituiday at 1
Ai rive at Lichwood by .'. 111.
26336 From Du Lutli, by Beaver Bay, Grand Maii
rais Saxtou (11. o.), aud (J rand Port ape,
to Pigeon Rixer, 100 miles and back,
once a week.
Ix avc Du Lutli every Thursday at 7 a in
An ive at Beaver Bay next Saturday by
in
Leave Beaver Bay every Monday at 7 a
Arrive at Du Lutli next Wednesday by 5
in
Leave Beaver Bay every Monday at 7 a
Arrive at Pigeon Bay next Satuiday at 12
in:
Leave Pigeon Bay every Monday at 7 a
Arrive at Beaver Bay next Saturday by
12 111.
26344 From Lake Benton to Flandrcau, 25 miles
and back, once a week.
Leave Lake Benton Friday a' 8 a
Aui\e at l-'landicau by in
Lea\e Flandrcau Thui»day at Sam
Arrive at Lake Benton by li in.
2634.) From Lake Benton to Medary, 27 miles and
back, once a week.
Lea\e Lake Benton Monday at 8 a 111
Arii\e at Medaiv bv in
I^eave Medary I uesday at S a 111
An ive at. Lake Benton by 4 in.
26346 From Calledonia to Brownsville, 14 miles
and back, tluee limes a week.
Leave Caledonia Tuesdaj Thursday, and
Sal 111 dav at 2 iv
Arrive at Browtis\ ille by fi 111
I^cave lirownsN ille 'I uesday, 1 holiday, and
Salurda at 7 a
Arrive at Caledonia by 11 a m.
26347 From Chat field to Foui.taiu, 9 n»i!es and
back, sjx times a week.
L* ave Chailicld dailj, except Sunday, at 7
a in
An i\e at Fountain by 10 a in
Leave Fountain daily, except Sunday, at 1
in
Ariive at Cliatlield by 4 111.
Close connection to be made witii eastern
and western mail-trains.
2*5348 From White Earth, to Audubon, 22 miles
and back, three times a week.
Leave While Faith luesd.iy, Thursday and
satuiday at 9 a m:
Arrive at Audubon by 3
Leave Audubon Manday, Wednesday, and
Friday at 9 a in
Ariive at White Earth by 3 m.
26349 From Blue Earth City, bv Emerald and
Brush Creek, to Banks, 2o miles and back,
twice a week.
Leave'Blue Earth City Monday and Fri
day at 7 a 111:
Arrive at Banks by 2 m:
lA'ave Banks Tuesday and Saturday at 7
a 111
Arrive at Blue Earth City by 2 111.
2C350 From Swansea, by Lake side and Cosmos,
to Lake Lillian,' 26 miles and back, once
a week.
Lea\e Swansea Tuesday at 7 a 111
Ariive at Lake Lillian by 6p 111
Leave Lake Lillian Wednesday at 7 a in
Ariive at Swansea by 6 in.
26331 From Alexandria, by Moe, to Ilcinion, 75
miles aud back, once a week.
Leave Alexandria Monday at 7 a in
An ive at I lei man next day by pin
Lea\e Ilcrinnii Wednesday at 7 a in
Ar. ive at Alexandria next day by 6 m.
26352 From Winnebago City, by Elo, Pleasant
Mound, Hope, Antrim, and South
Branch, to Saint James, 30 miles aud
back, once a week.
Leave Winnchairo City Fi iday at 7 a
Arrive at Saint James by 7 m:
I,eave Saint James Satuiday at 7a in
An ive at W innebago City by 7 in.
26353 From Wabasha to Alma, ten miles and
hack, six times a week, by steamboat,
during season of navigation.
Schedule to be satisfactory to the Depart
ment.
-6354 From Wadena to Parker's Praiiie, 30 miles
ami back, twice a week.
Leave Wadena Tuesday and Friday at 7
a in:
An ive at Parker's Prairie by 111:
Leave Paiker's Praiiie Wednesday and
Saturday at 7 a in:
Ariive at Wadena by 6 111
26355 From Lake Johanna, by Gilchrist and An
derson, to Glcnwood, 22 miles and back,
once a week.
Leave Lake Johanna Wedne«day at 8 a
Ariive at Glenwnod bv 5 111
Leave Glen wood 1 hursday at 8 a
Arrive at Lake Johanna by 5 in.
26356 From Eden Lake to Cold Spring City, 12
miles and back, once a week.
Leave Eden Lake Friday ai 8 a 111
Ariive at Cold SpiintrCity by 12 in
J-eavcCold Spring City Friday at 1 pm
An ive at Eden Lake by 5 111.
26357 From Rice Lake to Cl.iremont, 5% miles
and back, three lime-- a week.
Schedule .satisfactory to the Department.
26358 From Saint Peter to Norseland, 10 miles
and hack, once a week.
Leave Saint Peter Saturday at 9 a in
Arrive at .Norseland by 12'm
Leave Norseland Saturday at 1
Arrive at Saint Peter by 4 in.
26359 From Wells, by Mansfield, State Line, and
llartlaud, to Nort.iwood. 35 miles and
back, once a week.
Leave Wells Friday at 6 a
Arrive at Northwood by 7
Leave Northwood Saturday at 6 a
Arrive at Wells by 7 m.
26360 From Worthington toShetck 35 miles and
back, once a week.
Leave Worthi gtou Friday at 7 a
An ive at Sliefek by 7 in
Leave Shetek Saturday at 7 a
Arrive at Worthington by 7 111.
From Fail mount, bv Amber, Tcnhassen
26361
26362
Lake Belt, and Dunne!!, to Estherville,
32 miles and back, twice a week
Leave Fail-mount Tuesd and Thursday
at 1 a in
An ive at Estherville bv 7pm
Leave Estherville Wednesday and Friday
at 7 a
Arrive at Fairmount by 7 in.
From Blooming Prairie, to Geneva, 13,
miles and bac*, once a week.
Leave Blooming Praii ie Saturday at 8 a in
Ariive at Geneva by 12 in
Leave. Geneva Saturday at 1
Arrive at Blooming liairie by 5 in.
26363 From Blooming Prarie to Dodge Centre, 21
miles and back, 1 nee a week.
Leave Blooming Praiiie Thursday at 6 a m:
Arrive at Uodgc Centre bv 12 in:
Leave lodee Centre Thursday at 1 m:
Arrive at Ft™wing Pmb fe *M: 7 m.
St. Paul & Sioux City
AND
Sioux City & Saint Paul R. R.
TIME CARD.
Going West.
Leave St. Paul at 8.00 a. m.
Wortlihigton, at 5.00 p. in.
Arrive at sioux City, at 9.3o p. 111.
Going East.
Leave sioux City at 5.30 a. m.
W 01 thington, at 9.42 a. in.
Arrive at St. Paul, at 7.0o p. 111.
1 5 0 0 0 0 0 ACRES
PRAIRIE & MEADOW LANDS,
Situated iu Southwestern Minnesota and North
western Iowa,
FOR SALE
at moderate prices witii easy terms of payment.
ALSO TOWN LOTS,
ill towns at rah- ad stations. Land bonds of the
Sioux Lily and st. Paul Railroad to le taken at
par in excuange for land witnin their limits.
For particulars address: 'l^uiu Department
St. P. cc s. C. aud s. C. & St. P. K. It. Co., St. Paul
Minn.
MORTGAGEe
SALE.—Whereas default has
been mad iu the conditions of a certain in
Uentuieoi Mortgage bearing dale the 27tn day
of Januaiy, A. D. U73, and executed and deliv
ered by Micuaei E. Donohue and nis wile, Mary
Jane Donouuc, both of Windoin, Minnesota,
Mortgagors, to C. SeaOury lor the
creditors of the said Michael E. Donohue,
Moiigagce, whereby the said mortgagors did
bargain, grant, sell and convey unto the said
mortgagee he following described real estate
situate and being in the county of Nobles and
Stale ot-Minnesota, and known aud designated
as lollows, lo wit the south east «juarier l-».e.^4)
of section twenty-two (J2), in township one
bundled and two (lu2), in range thiity-niue (39)
containing one bundled and sixty (160) acres of
land, 11101e or less, accoidiug to government sur
vey vvitn tli hereditaments and appurtenances
thcieun belonging, to secuie the payment of
tliesuin of eight bundled dollars,accoi-diig tothe
conditions ot a certain promissory note lor the
.v nioteighi bundleddoiuusext-cuied by the said
Michael E. Douohuc to the said C. scabui or or
der lor the use ot ihe creditors of tiie said Mi
chael E. Donohue, aud beating date Ja. uary
-7tn, lbT.'i, and due one year after date and
which s.dd mortgage was afterwards, on me
17iiiday ot Febiuaiy, A. 1). 1873, duly recorded
in the oiucu of the Kcgi-ler of Deeds for said No
bles County, in Book "A of mortgages, on pag
es sixty two (02) ami sixty-three (tio), and there
is ciaiined lo be due at the date ot this notice,
aud is due on the said note and mortgage for
principal and interest, the sum of eight hundred
and nine and ti.u'ty-tUcehuudrcdlhsdoilars.aud
no action or proceeding at law has been iiistilu
ted to lecover the slid mortgage debt or any pait
thereof. Now ineieiore, notice i» hereby given
that under and by vinue oi the power of sate 111
said inoi tgage contained, and in pursuance 01
Ihe statute iu such case made aud provided, said
moitg.tge will be to ecioscd by the sa.e ol said
mortgaged premises, at public auction to the
highest Lidder lor cash, at lite 1 out door ol the
County Auditor's olliee. in the village of Worth
ington, Nobles County, .vliiiiiesuta, on the 2tith
day of May, A. 1). Is74, at ten oclock in the foie
110011, to pay oli aud satisfy the amount then due
on said note for principal and iuteiest. and all
costs and xin-nse of such sale, together itn the
sum of twenty dollars Attorney's lees stipulated
to be paid iu said mortgage iu case ot a loreclo
sure thereof.
Dated Api il 1st, 1874.
C. SEABCKY, Mortgagee.
KOGEKS&KOGEUS,
Attorneys for Mortgagee,
30] &t. Paul, Minn.
WOlt T1I1NU TON SEMINAR
FOU YOUTH OF BOTH SHXES,
AT WORTIIISUTOS, NOliLES CO. MINN.
ON TIIE 8T. I'ACL SIOUX CITY
RAILWAY.
TO COMMENCE ON WEDNESDAY, NO
VEMBER 19th, 1873.
This institution is announced in accordance
with the declaration of tlie founders of the Na
tional Colony, that the early establishment of a
.seminary of learning, 011 a liberal basis at some
favorable point, was pait of their plan.
It has been judged advisable to put the enter
prise under denominational control: it is, accord
ingly, introduced under the patronage of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and as auxiliary to
Hamline University, it will be conducted iu
the most catho ie spii it: the object being to unite
liberal culture with the precepts and spirit or the
Christian system.
The Seminary building, now known as the
Methodist Church Block, is spacious and attract
ive, and admirably located. It fronts on the
Public Square, in Worthington, within a short
distance of West Okabena Lake.
It is intended to make the Seminary an honor
to the State—the equal of any similar institution
iu the est. The board of instruction is already
large and embraces, iu an unusual degree, both
the experience and ability essential to success.
As occasion demands it will be enlarged and
nothing shall be wanting to the completeness of
the several departments.
The contemplated course of study will cover a
period of three years the design being to pre
pare students for a collegiate course, or to quali
fy them to engage successfully in business pur
suits. Preparatory classes, howev.-r, will be
ormed, especially for the first six months, during
which time, it may be piesumed, tnauy will be
unprepared for the regular course.
While the school in itself will be unequivocally
Christian, it possesses, also, the external advan
tages of location in a community not only highly
intelligent and moral, but uiicurst by the liquor
trailc. This nefarious trade, the proline source
of poverty and crime. by law, utterly exclud
ed from Nobles county. No thoughtful parent or
guardian will underestimate the importance of
this most significant l.ict.
Prof. Humistou takes charge of a department
with which he has been long and honorably con
nected, and brings with Inm, as a gift lo the in
stitution, philosophical and chemical apparatus
worth six hundred and fifty dollars.
FitiCKS OF TUITION.—In order to extend as far
as possible, the benefits of the institution, to those
who desire it, and to meet the stringency of the
times, tuition, for the first six months, will be but
•5.00 per quarter. This charge will be uniform
for all studios except instrumental music, French
and ornamental needlewoik.
The First Quarter will begin, as already an
nounced, Nov. 19tji, 1873, and end Feb. 5th, 1874.
The Second Quarter will begin on the 6th of Feb.
1874, and end 011 the April 16h, ls74. Exercises
will be suspended during the Holidays.
Address all communications in regard to th
Seminary to B. II. CKEVEK, Worthinuton, Nobles
Co., Minnesota.
BOAimiNu.—Students can, during the coming
winler, be accommodated iu private families on
reasonable terms. Immediate efforts will also be
made to provide for any students who may pre
fer to lioard themselves. As soon as the success
of Die institution is assured, a boarding house
will be added to our present accommodations.
BOAUI) OF INSTRUCTORS.
B. II. CKEVEK, A. M., Principal.
Mental and Moral Science.
R. F. HUMISTON, A. M.,
Natural Science.
CHAS. T. DUNNING, B. A.,
Greek, Latin and Mathematics.
CHAS. H. BAICOWS,
Book-keeping aud Penmanship.
MARY H. CKEVEK,
Instrumental Music—Piano and Organ
CLARA J. CRAFT,
French. ''.
J. CRAFT, M. D.,
Vr«a! CnUmr.
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
ABBtVSS.
Eastern (dally) 5 p.m.
Southern 9:42 a.m.
Western—Lu Verne, Sioux Falls, Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays at 6 p. n.
Spirit Lake Tuesday 6 p.m.
Jackson, Tuesday and Friday 6 p.m.
Lake Shetek, Saturday 6 p. in.
DEPARTS.
Eastern (daily) 9:42 a.m.
Southern 5 p. m.
Western—Lu Veme and Sioux Falls,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 7 a. a
Spirit Lake, Monday 7 a
Jacks-.ii, Wednesday, and Saturday 7 a. ni.
Lake Shetek, Friday 7 a.m.
All mails close 20 minutes before departure.
Office hours from 7 a. m. to 7 p. in.—Sunday*,
from 12 m. to 1 p. in.
C. C. GOODNOW, P. M.
WORTHINGTON MARKETS.
WHEAT »90c
VIAtVK bbl.
COKN bushel
OATS
HAY W ton
BEANS. WHITE, bush.
BUTThK
EGGS 1R doz.
GKOCEMES-COFFEE 31 @40c TEA 751
SoGAIt, (Coffee A 12 14c: Ex. 12 km
Brown 10 lie SYRUP 65 1,00 KICK 12U
SALT W bbl. 3,50
PROVISIONS—PORK (mess) bbl, 20,60
HAMS 16c SHOULDERS 10© 11
BACON 13c LARD 13® 17c D. APL'S 16 017.
PEACHES 14 20c
i^V EL—W( OD cord
COAL f» ton
LIMBER—Common m.
FINISHING
s. SHUCK,
AWy at Law.
H. D. BOOKSTAVm.
Notary Publit.
WESTERN HOME
Real Estate, Loan & In-
surance Agency.
SHUCK & BOOKSTAVEtt
Have established an agency for buying and tell
ing real estate and offer unsurpassed facilities in
selling laud or providing purchasers, with the
most desirable bargains, in both wild and im
proved lands, Homesteads, Pre-emptions and
Tree Claims located in Nob'es and adjoining
counties. In 0.1.section with mis branch of our
business, ,ii\f ^cured the semous of B. W.
Woolstencroft, County Surveyor, one of the
oldest settles aud most experienced men in the
country as locating agent.
Special attention given to Land Office business,
to contested aud appeal cases arising uuder th*
Pre-emption and Homestead Laws,
Insurance effected in first-class companies.
Loans negotiated,
Conveyances promptly and neatly done.
Office first Door east of Post Office.
WORTHINGTON".
32tl
MINNESOTA-
TEED & BAKER,
General Dealers In
Ready-Made and Custom
CLOTHING,
Have received their
Stock of "WINTER Goods
HEWVY OVERCOATS,
Wool Yarns, Home-Made Socks,
Ladies' and Gents'
FUR GOODS,
From Alaska Mink to the Finest or the Cheapest
Kinds and Grades,
Buck Gloves and, Mittens,
A Full Line of
Gents' Underwear, dco.
Clothing made to order, by a flrst-elass workman
HO!
For the Spring Trade.
We are now prepared to receive orders
for
Seeders,
Harrows,
Cultivators,
Plows, etc.
Persons desiring any of these goods will And our
stock complete.
JKf Also Stoves, Tin and Hardware,
At Panic Prices,
at theColony Store.
HUMISTON & STOCKDALK.
O. I E O W
Proprietor of
MEAT MARKET,
Opposite Worth ington House Stable*
WORTHINGTON. MINN.
FIRST-CLASS, TERMAMENT,