3 V- MINNESOTA HEWS. mg will probably liBemte-Mm-Davenport, sides the Jerk of the hole?. I'heard time Ikepfcrfeotl quiet, holdinsjthe TRE OOIiORBD MAth who was being held for that erime-. something roll or tumbleV from reins firmly.and poking the beast'with one side to the other*- of my From the Oakland Echoes*. -ji%j the .whip. At the legislative- oonventonai Baraesille wss HbraseteaeCfrMeratiee forth* Wetameles* i wagon, and I could also feel the A. H. Wileox ofBecker-wachnominated Old Birch, who tatipht the village school, "The Methodist Conference and rfce-Diqtior Quw 5 "We wasn't an hour in going that aai-MleWess efSender the 1-ratt. senator and Nathan Butler ot Bavnesvifle jar occasioned by the movement. It Wedded a maid of homespun habit tio*. dozen milesnot a bit of it. I hadn't As-the Opossum is the negro's favor* S representative. He was as stubborn as a muie, was simply a man in my cart. I knew much fearperhaps I might tell the At the Minnesota Methodist conference And she as playful as^b raobit. it* bird, so is the watermelon his lav this on the instant. You may. have Mrs. Ariel Eldridge, one'of the-West settlers truth andf say that I had none, for I at Stillwater the following report of a committee vorite vegetable. It is to him the Meo noticed my cart as I came up of Washington! county, died in Stillwater, Poor Kate hod scarce become his wife had a goocVpistol.and more than that, was adopted- at her home on Main street, in the this evening. The. main j^art of it ca cf epicurean philosphy and be returns Before her husband sought to make her nay* passenger was safeyet I did feel Whereas,'The question of the- salbon as eighty-fifth year of her life. Her maiden opens behind, and there- is room The pink of country polished lifc, ttnifc each year with undimmed glad when & came to the old flour barrel i against the church and the home is the name was Sarah L. Judd. She was born in enough wimin for quite a party, providing And prim and formalaa aQuaker. rapture. Its glossy green holds his factoryrthat stands at the edge ol burning question of the day, and Whereas, Connecticut June 26, 1802, and came to they'd stow themselves close Jackson's village, and in ten minutes eye captive and its carmine intestines The saloon has brought this question definitely Stillwater in 1846, where she has- since resided. One day the tutor wenfrabroad. enough. Of course I felt puzzied. At into politirs by declaring war up more I hauled up in front of the tavern And simple Katy sadly missed him and black studs magnetize not only last I woodered if some poor fellow on any political party which will not submit and found a couple of men in the When he returned, behind'her lord the obese lips that are his glory, but At the Democratic convention at Baaver had not taken this method to obtain to its dictates, and therefore, Resolved, She slyly stole, and fondly kissed him. barn cleaning down some stage horses. Falls James Gseeley was- nominated for carry in their victor train, cuspid biscuspid, first, That wo believe the time has come a ride. But I soon gave this up for I representative. 'Well,. old feller,' says I, as I got when with 'the discipline of the Methodist molar, and incisor. The cry The husband's anger rose-, and red knew that any decent manwouldhave down and went round to the back ol Episcopal church we declare- as our platform, And white his face alternate grew. A people's aounty conventiongreenback of "watermelon! watermelon!" can asked me for a ride and taken it comfortably. total abstinence for the individual, ithe wagon, 'you've had a good ride, "Less freedom,ma'amL" Kate sighed and and anti-monopolywas held at My next idea was that arouse him from the deepest slumber. prohibition for the stat and uncompromising said: haven't ye?'' Faribault, and the following, nominations somebody had got in there to sleep. Sugar-can may tempt in its season, hostility to any and all forms of license. "Oh? dear, I didn't know twa you." were made. State senator, 6. W. Batehelder 'Who are you?' he cried, and his But this passed away as quickly as Second, That We demand of any the peanut draw on his hoard of representatives, William Tew, H. A. voice trembled a little, too, as he asked it came, for no man would have broken party seeking our ballots that it declare Swain, John Powers, J. S.. Mather. wealth at times, but his all-absorbing the question. AN UNWELCOMEPASSENGER itself in faver of prohibition and pledge itself into my cart for that purpose. passion is for the watermelon. He J. Percy Dewart, son of Rev. S. E. Dewart *I am. the man you tried to shoot,* to the -submission and adoption of a And that thought, gentlemen, opened of Cannon Falls, died suddenly at I told him. dreams of it all the year, and when constitutional amendment. Third, That my eyes. Whoever was in there, had Hamline university, where he was attending we will not past our ballots for any party A cold winter's night found a stage the harvest-time draws near he will 'Whe*e am I? Let me outT he broken it. school. which refuses thus to declare and pledge yelled. even work to win it. Can self-sacrifice load of us gathered about the warm itself. Fourth, That we heartily endorse The democratic convention for the "Mv next thought was of Mr. DickHardhead. "'Look here,' said I, 'we'vecome go further than that? fire of a tavern, barroom in a New the work done and the position on the Twenty-eighth senatorial district nominated to a safe stopping place, and mind ye, He had heard me- say question of total abstinence and prohibition In the matter of Sambo vs. watermelon England village. Shortly after we arrived for senator R. H. Graham, representatives, I've got a revolver ready for ye the that my load was all sold out, and of by the Woman's Christian Temperance the latter might as well plead George A. Chase, Joseph Ingeholt, a peddler drove- up and ordered moment ye show yourself. Now lay union, and that we unite with the course he supposed that I had some Hennepin East Philip Jacoby, Isanti, S. non vuit contendere at once, for Sambo temperance people of Minnesota in giving quiet.' money with me. And in this he was that his horse should be stabled for W. Morrill, Anoka county. is an eater from Eaterville county them welcome to our state in their annual rijrhtfor I had oyer two thousand "By this time the two 'ostlers had the night. After we had eaten supper Dakota People's county convention way back. He can put himself outside convention. Fifth. That the assassination dollars. I also thought that he meant come to see what was the matter, and nominated for senator, A. H. Truax, present of the Rev. George C. Haddock at of a forty-pound melon in hajf as we had repaired to the barroom, and to leave the cart when he supposed I I explained it all to them. After this iucumbent, representatives, Ignatius Sioux City, Iowa, reveals the true character many minutes and leave nothing but 4 as soon as the ice was broken the conversation Donnelly and A. S. Bradford. Ignatius had reached a safe'place, and then I got one of them to run and find the of the rum traffic and calls upon every a very thin green shell as a relic of the Donnelly made a speech, in which he declared true man and woman of the whole nation flowed freely. Several anecdotes either creep over and shoot me, or sherhfand tell him what I believed I'd battle. his intention to work for the entire to arise, and with equal courage and knock me downor perhaps slip out got for him. The first streaks of daylight had beeu related, and finally It is fun to watch him when the first Republican ticket from governor down to consecration, labor for the speedy, complete and ask for a ride, or something of were just coming up, and in half melons of the season arriveat river the peddler was asked to give us a and utter extermination of this diabolical coroner, and would stump the county to that sort. All this passed through an hour it would be broad daylight. In institution. that end. towns especially, where the fruit is story, as men of his profession were my mind by the time I had sot a rod less than that time the sheriff came brought by boat. He can scent the The proprietor of the Parker hotel at adoptedThat, Subsequently the followingwas generally full of adventure and anecdote. from the hole. and two other men with him. Sauk Center was arrested for breaking into coming vessel afar off, and is the first in the action just taken, we do not "Now, I never make it a point to told him the whole story in a He was a short, thick-set man A. J. Smith's warehouse. He was caught pledge either the conference or our people at the landing to greet the captain brag of myself, but yet I have seen a in the act, taken before the justice, pleaded few wordsexhibited the handbills I to any particular party. somewhere about 40 years of age, and with all the honors. How his eyes guilty, and was -bound over to court in great deal of the world, and I am had ior himand then he made for glisten as he sees the green beauties gave evidence i great physical $500 bonds, and failing to put up the security pretty cool and clear headed under the cart. He told the chap inside who in the vessel's hold' His lips work The Minnesota Baptist State Convention. was taken to St. Cloud. strength. He gave his name as Lemuel difficulty. In a very few moments he was, and that if he made the least convulsively, his voice is husky with The Baptist State convention was held The belief that Rantenberg, the Winona, my resolution was formed. My horse resistance he'd be a dead man. But, Viney,and his home was in Dover, suppressed emotion. Now comes the at Duluth. The Treasurer's report showed defaulting savings bank clerk, is safe in was now knee-deep in the mud, and I mind you, the sheriff didn't tell him N. H. that the total of contributions for the year dicker. Canada, is correct. Sheriff Bogart tracked knew I could slip off without noise. the suspicions we had about him. was $7,694.92 The expenses for the year him to La Crosse, where he bought a ticket "Cap, wha' yo' gwineter gimme to "Well, gentlemen," he commenced, So I drew my revolverI never travel Then I slipped the iron wrench out, were $6,260.05. There is now on hand for Toronto via Port'Huron. help unload dem millyuns?" $5,822.70, with obligations amounting to knocking the ashes from his pipe and in that country without itit is a sixbarrelled and as I let the door open the fellow Joseph Church, an old resident of Goodhue "Ten cents an hour." $4,830, leaving a balance to the new year one and sure fire I drew this*, made a spring. I caught him by the county, was found dead near the old putting it in his pocket, "suppose I "Golly, on'y er dime to tote all dese of $992.40. and, having twined the reins around ankle and he came down on his face, Eatnes place, four miles below Red Wing. yere mihyuns?" tell you of about the last thing of any The nominating committee reported the He, with his son, had started for his home the whipstock, I carefully slid down and in a few momets more the officers No answer. following nomination for officers of the consequence that happened to me? in Florence, with some cattle, he driving into the mud, and as the cart went on had him. It was now daylight, and convention for the coming year and they "Well, I spec's I mout as well do the team and the boy driving the cattle. You see I am now right from the Far I went behind it and examined the the moment I saw the chap I recognized were unanimously elected: hit. I ain't gwinter be very busy dish When near the Eames place the boy discovered hasp. The dobrof the cart lets down, him. He was the very man I had President, Hon. G. A. Pillsbury West, and on my way home for winter that he was dead. mawnin' for a brilliant idea has vice presidents, E. N. Van Duzee, and is fastened by a hasp which slips suspected, and his fine black clothes quarters. It wis about two struck him, and down into the hold he The democrats of Dakota county have Rev. E. Wascott, E. D. Child, Rev. over a staple, and is then secured by were pretty well covered with lint and nominated D. F. Akin, senator James goes. He has carried out twenty-five J. S. Lund, Hon. M. H. Dunnell, Cyrus months ago, one pleasant evening, a padlock. The padlock was gone dirt. He was marched off to the lock King, Jacob Kummin, representatives. fine fellows, and carefully placed them Thomas, Rev. S. Hiscox, J. H. that I pulled up at the door of a small and the hasp was secured in its place up, and I told the sheriff I should remain Smith, John Ongeman corresponding secretary. At Duluth, R. S. Munger was nominated in the appointed corner. Watch him by a bit of pine stickso that a slight in town all day. inn in a small village in Hancock Rev. J. Sutherland recording secretary, by the republicans for Senator, and S. J. now. He is slowly coming up the push from within could break it. My Rev. James Hidden, treasurer, D. D. Knox for Representative. "After breakfast "the sheriff came county, Indiana. I said 'twas pleasantI plank with a magnificent melon in his Merrill, Esq., members of board of auditors, wheel wrench hung in a leather bucket down to. the tavern and told me 1 The board of regents of the state university arms. Isn't it a beauty. It must meant 'twas warm, but it was T. S. Tompkins, Andrew Jackson, on the side of the cart, and I quickly has appointed the following committees had caught the very bird, and that il weigh over fifty pounds. As he steps trustees Pillsbury academy, Rev. T. G. cloudy and likely to be very dark. I for the ensuing school year: Execu- took it out and slipped it into the I wonld remain until the next morning upon the war! his foot slips,and down Field, Rev. H. C. Mabie, D. D.,John Anderson, tiveMessrs. Pillsbury, Gilfillan, Kiehle staple, the iron handle iust sliding went in and called for supper, and had I should have the reward of two hundred Rev. W. A. Hinney, Frank Gale, W. goes the melon. It splits half in two. and Buckham. Co',rse of StudyMessrs. down. dollars which had been offered. W. Huntington, Frank Wilcox, S. G. Cook, my horse taken care of, and after I The wrath of the Captain is extreme, Davis, Clarke, Pillsbury and President F. C. Ball, Rev. J. C. Hoblitt. "Now I had him. My cart was almost I found my goods all safe, paid the as he shouts to luckless Sambo who is pS^HubS'a^N.ur^^ I had eaten I sat down in thebarroom. Rev. Dr. Woods read the report prepared new, with a stout frame of white express agent for bringing them from gazing in impossible contrition at the by Dr. Mabie, of the committee on systematic It began to rain about 8 o'clock, and oak, and made on purpose tor hard Indianapolis, and then went down to and MuseumMessrs, Kiehle, Clarke and fallen luxury: "You black, blank benevolence, recommending that a Northrop. usage, heavy loads, and service. I work to stow them away in my cart. for a while it poured down hard, and pot-liquor nigger, I've a good mind to tenth part of incomes be the least we did not believe that any ordinary I found the bullet-holes in the top of Winona has a sensation in the disappearance break your blank head, blank, blank should give to the cause of Christ, and it was very dark outdoors. of a bank clerk with some $1,200 in man could break out. Igot on to my my vehicle just as I expected. They after debate, it was adopted. Aresolution you. Now git. You kin take that "Now, I wanted to be in Jackson cash of the bank's funds. The culprit is cart as noiseless as I got off, and then were in a line, about five inches apart, was adopted pleading the necessity of securing, melon, and don't let me ketch you early the next morning, for I expected R. Rautenberg, a German of 24years,small at the earliest possible day, and urged my horse on, still keeping my and had I been where I usually sit, around here again." Negro and melon of stature, with smooth face and all the a load of goods there for me, which I in the most unequivocal and certain manner, pistol handy. I knew that at the two of them would have hit me about disappear behind a pile of shingles. facial characteristics of a Jew. A year ago a submission by the legislature of meant to dispose of on my way home. distance ot half a mile further I the small of the back and passed last December F. A. Rising took the sung 1 Now Sambo would not exchange with Minnesota to the citizens of the The moon rose about midnight, and I should come to a hard, good road, upward, for they were sent with a man into his employ, and assisted him in state the question of such amendment to the King on his throne. He cuts off knew if it did not rain that I could get various ways, appointing him clerk in the and I allowed my horse to pick his heavy charge of powder, and his pistol our constitution as shall make illegal, with great long slices and runs them along very comfortably through the Winona Savings bank, of which Mr. Rising own way through this mud. It was adequate penalties for violation attached, was a heavy one. through his lips as if he were playing mud after that. I asked the landlord is treasurer. Young Rantenberg posed as to make or sell in the state any intoxicating about ten minutes after this that I "Or the next morning the sheiifl upon the mouth-organ. He stops not a great temperance advocate, and was alwayi if he would not see that my horse was drinks as a beverage. The next convention heard a motion in the cart, followed called upon me and paid me two hundred for seeds life is too short for quite anxious to thrust himself forward will be held at Mankato. fed about midnight, as I wished to be by a grinding noise as though some dolla,rs in gold, for he had made in such moves as the organization of that. I little while suffices. It off about two. He expressed some heavy force were being applied to the the Y. M. C. A. himself sure that he had got the villain. is all gone. The lapping of surprise at this, and asked me why I door. This continued some moments, Alter an early dinner I set out, Minnesota Royal Arch Masons. the waves against the docks is like did not stay to breakfast. I told him Estelle, daughter of Judge and Mrs. L. W. and then a heavy thump, as though and here I am. I've sold my load all Eolian music to his ears. A vagrant The twenty-fifth annual session of the Collins of St. Cloud, died of diphtheria. She 1 that I had sold the last load about the sole of a boot were applied lo the out, and am now ready to lay up for dog snuffs at him curiously he merely grand chapter Royal Arch Masons of Minnesota was seven years of age. out, and that a new lot of goods was door. I said nothing, but the idea the winter. I found a letter in the office was held at St. Paul. remarks, "G'way f'om der," but does Dr. M. F. Moon of Austin, died Oct. 12 waiting for me at Jackson, and I Btruck me that the villain might try The chapters throughout the statefortyfour at Portsmouth for me, from the from the results of the accident which befell 1 not move. His eyes gradually close, wanted to be there for them before in all and numbering a little over to judge about where I sat and shoot sheriff of Hancock county, and he informed him Sept. 29. and soon a well-authenticated snoring the express again left in the morning. four thousand memberswere reported in up through the top of the cart at me, me that Mr. Hardhead is now John Erickson, living near Moorhead, I tells that he is in the land of dreams. There was a number of people about a healthy and flourishing condition. so I sat down on the footboard. in prison for life." lost his house, barn and 1,500 bushels of The melon of his heart is not the The grand secretary's report showed that while I told this, but I took little notice wheat by a prairie fire. "Of course I knew now that my unexpected So ended thepeddler's story. In the six new chapters had been granted. The boughten melon, however, nor yet the of them, one man only arresting At Dresbach, Winona county, August passenger was a villain, for grand secretary's report showed that there morning I had the curiosity to look at one that is given to him. It is the my attention. I had in my possession Gerstmann, a young unmarried German, were 597 Royal Arch Masons in Minneapolis he must have been awake ever since I his cart, and I found the four bulletholes melon that has not yet been plucked a small package of placards which went hunting in the marshes on the Wis* and 218 in St. Paul. The grand started, and nothing else in the world just as he had told us, though from the vine. So he proceeds togath I was to deliver to the sheriff at Jackson, consin side, expecting to meet a friend treasurer's report showed that the expenditures but absolute 1 villainy would have they were now plugged up with phial er his share of it in. He selects about and they were notice for the there. When three days pasged without his 1 during the year had been about caused him to remain quiet so long, corks. Viney came out while I was returning, a search was instituted, and 10 to 11 p. m. as the time, and generally detection of a notorious robber $1,600 cash in treasury, a little over and then start up in this particular looking, and showed the prints of the two days later the searching party found $5,000. The following officers were elected goes alone. He cautioubly skirts named Dick Hardhead. These place. The thumping and pushing the missing man's dog and followed where villian's feet upon the cart. They and installed: the field first, to see if any one is in. gave a description of his the animal led. Soon a rubber boot torn *bills grew louder and louder, and pretty Nathan Kingeley, grand high priest John were plain and must have been given the skirmishing line. Finding no pickets person, and the man before me answered with shot was found and a little further H. Brown, deputy grand high priest W. soon I heard a human voice. with great force. out in the shape of specimens of very well to it. In fact, it was the dead body of Gerstmann with a bad F. Dickenson, grand king, Solon Armstrong, 'Let me out of this!' he cried, and the canine race he lightly clambers perfect. He was a tall, well-formed wound in the foot and a fatal shot wound grand scribe A. T. C. Pierson, grand he yelled pretty loud. over the fence and is in the Garden of in the forehead. It seems clear that the man, rather slight in frame, and had treasurer Reuben Wells, grand secretary "I lifted my head up so as to make A Queer Creature, foot wound was accidental, but that owing Eden. He can tell the ripe from the the appearence of a gentleman, save C. L. West, grand chaplain Hugh Kirkwood, him think that I was sitting in my to suffering from the wound, exposure, grand captain of the host A. Brandenburg, unripe with an almost certainty of that his face bore those hard, cruel Chicago News. hunger and despair of assistance, the unfortunate usual place, and then asked him what grand principal sojourner J. M. touch. If he does make a mistake he marks which an observing man cannot "Goodness me!" man terminated his own existence. Martin, grand Royal Arch captain I. P. he was doing in there. cares nothing for it. There is nothing mistake for anything but the index Durfee, grand master third veil, T. C. "Don't be Alarmed, dear." 'Let me out and I'll tell ye,' he replied. small about Sambo, and to obtain of a villainous disposition. Shapleigh, grand master second veil Dieudonne Joachim of the town of Wells, "No, ma, I'm not but what is it?" one perfect one he will break twenty Kirkwood, grand master first veil. while singing at the funeral service of Ferdinand "When I went'up to my chamber I 'Tell me what you're in there for,' others without a pang. Sambo rarely "Wiser people than you, my ownest Ducheae, at the French Catholic asked the landlord who that man was, I said. eats the melon in the field church Faribault, dropped dead from own, have asked that question, and Timber Trespassers in Minnesota. i describing the suspicious individual. 'I got in here to sleep on your where he obtains it. He generally heart disease. greater scientists than your ma have He said he did not know him. He The Secretary of the interior has transmitted rags,' he answered. retires and devours it along ths Wells is boasting of a beet raised near to the attorney general papers had come there that afternoon and had to give it up." 'How'd ye get in?' I asked. roadside, "to hab de law on his that place that is two feet in length and of the United States district attorney of I intended to leave some time the next 'Let me get out, or I'll shoot ye weighs seventeen pounds. side," as he sagely remarks. He rarely "Is it a man?" Minnesota in relation to the suit pending why?He day. The host asked me why I wished through the head,' he yelled. takes a melon home. 'Cause John Nepstad of Lanesboro, dealer in "So they say." against the Gull River Lumber Company to know and I simply told him "Just at that moment my horse's farm machinery, has made an assignment. ain't "gwine ter' cou'age de chillen "What does he do foraliving, ma?" of Minnesota for the cutting of that the man's countenance looked feet struck the hard road and I knew in the stealen'." He is very 794.000 feet of lumber from the public John Pocinick of St. Cloud town, committed "His wife is on the stage." that the rest of the road to Jackson lands of Minnesota. The district suicide by hanging himself. familiar and I wished to know if I had thoughtful in his paternal and family "But hasn't he any business?" attorney says that the company offers to Would be good going, The distance ever been acquainted with him. I resolved relations. As he very truly remarks: Judge Young decides that the Minneapolis "Oh, yes, lovey he is his wife's compromise by paying $2 per 1,000 feet Bar association must pay taxes on its was twelve miles. I slipped back upon not to let the landlord into "Ef de ole 'oman want one, she knows husband." The secretary, in his letter to the attorney library. the footboad and took the whip. the secret, but to hurry on to Jackson whar ter git hit." "DOBS he make it pay?" general, says. Dr. J. B. McGaughey of Winona, has declined I had the same horse then I've got and there give information to the "Yes, deary, judging from the champagne Somewhere in the white fiand by the In view of all the facts in the case, as the Democratic nomination for nowa tall, stout, powerful bay mare sheriff, and perhaps he might reach some concession to the company's claim that he buys and the beautiful solemn sea there grows a melon called state senator. The county committee filled and you may believe there's some the inn before the villain left for I had that it did not intend to approprate the fur collar he wears on his overcoat, the pinemelon. It is harder than the the vacancy with W. A. Finkelenburg, a go in her. At any rate, she struck a government timber, and to avoid delay no doubts with regard to his indenI when overcoats are in season, mamma way of the transgressor and unfit for young German. and litigation in the settlement gait then that even astonished me. tity. thinks he must make it pay." any purpose that I know of. A friend At Elbow Lake, the railroad and threshing of the case, this department will She had had a good mess of oats, the i "I had an alarm watch, and having of mine who keeps a place where th "What does he have to do to be his crews came into town and began to consider favorably a proposition by the night air was cool, and she felt like set it to give the alarm at one o'clock, drink. A row broke out between Hill's worm that never dieth is given a local wife's husband, ma?" company to settle the trespass upon the eoing. In fifteen minutes we cleared I went to sleep. I was aroused at the men and a threshing crew, in which the latter habitation and a name had onegiven payment of $5 per $1,000 feet for the timber, "He has to make friends, with the the wood and away we went were badly demoralized. The sheriff proper time and immediately got up amounting bo 794, 000 feet. If this unto him and he placed it at journalists." and officials were powerless. The saloon at great pace. The chap inside sum is not paid, then the law had better And dreesed myself. When I reached his front door. It was about a month "Oh, I know! You mean the newspaper was held by about forty of Hill's men, kept yelling to be let out, and take its course. If this case of trespass the yard I found the clouds all passed before the most adventurous melon men/' when ten of Washburn's men came in. A were the only one in which this company threatening to shoot if I didn't let away, and the moon was shining could possibly hope to get ripe. Of "No, pet, I mean the journalists row began and lasted all day. were implicated, and the amount of timber him out. Finally he stopped, and in I brieatly. The ho3tler was easily course, it attracted an immensecrowd, the young men who are just out ol were not so large, more favorable At Eau Claire, Peter Robbeault, convicted a few moments came the reports of a aroused, and by two o'clock I was on with Africans largely in the college, and are learning to be dramatic terms might be considered but the fact for assault with intent to murder officer pistolonetwothreefour-one after the road. The mud was deep, and majority. They gazed at it with re shows a great and continued disregard for Elliot, three weeks ago, was sentenced, to critics. The newspaper men the other, and I heard the balls my horse could not travel very fast the property rights of the government. two years in the state prison, one day of spectfuJ awe, mingled with wistful are different. When he goes near a whiz over my head. If I had been on each year to be in solitary confinement. yet it struck me that the beast made adoration. They patted it on the newspaper man his wife gets what is my seat, one of those balls, if not two The report of the assassination of ex- more work than there was any need back and patted it with, trembling called a 'roasting,' and she stands The Ramsey county democrats have of them, must have gone through me. President Gonzales of Mexico was false. of, for the cart was nearly 'empty, my nominated the following legislative ticket: hands. They talked to it anddarot him in the corner, with his face*to the Wha you doin I popped up my head again and gave Twenty-sixth senatorial districtSenator, whole stock consisting of about half a Longfellow wrote in 1860, he had "only each, other. wall." a yell and then a deepgroan, and then Albert Scheffer, (rep) endorsed. Represen- imaginary associations with Minnehaha, dozen tin pans and a lot of loose rage. melam don' you know tain't yo' sun "He seems to be carrying an awful tativesFirst ward, Robert New ell Fifth I said, '0, saye me! I a dead man!' never having seen it except in day dreams." "However, on we went* and in the up yit?" "Lawd bless my soul! don' lot of things." ward. E. C. Starkey County, E. A. Hendrickson. Then I made' a shuffling noise as An important change will take place is. course of half an hour I Was clear of I wish Iha&'im?" At nightfall, when "Oh, yes shawls, satchels, boxes of Twenty-seventh senatorial dis- though I were a falling off, and finally the officers of the Winona & St. Peter Nov. the village and at a short distance my friend went to take it in* it was trictR. A. Smith. Representatives'Second press notices, and a poodle-."' 1. S. Sanborn, assistant general superintendent settled down again on the foot-board. ahead lay a large track of forest, gone. What a tableau it must have and sixth wards, E. H. Wood Third "But what does the lady want tne of the Northwestern at Winona I now urged up the old mare by giving ward, O. O.Cullen Fourth ward, L. A. Norxnandin, mostly of great pifies. The road lead been when, the captor put knife to his for the past three years, is promoted to husband for when she has^thftThey poodle?" her an occasional poke with the butt C. D. O'Brien. are directly through the woods, and, as prize! the position of assistant general BUserin* soe?1 "Why, don't you of Che whip, and she went along faster Congressman Nelson of the fifth district tendent at Chicago, succeeding W. S. Mellen, near as I could remember,the distance i company for each othaa.'* than ever. is improving nicely. He recovered consciousness, resigned. P. Hollenbeck, as assistant was not far from twelve miles. The "And doesn't hes hands,yyou do. an work, any and is now able to walk about. geueral freight agent of Winona, Senator Mahons worded his invitations real work with hi know**' "The man called to me twice more moon was in the east, and as thi? 1 He was fishing out of a boat, caught a who has been with the Northwestern three for his numerous dinner parties pretty soon after this, and as he got road ran nearly west, I should have "To be sure. You, should see him 7ft years, succeeds Mr. Sanborn and is in turn large pickerel, stood up, lost his balance no reply he made some tremendous efforts light enough. I had entered the wood last winter in a way that wa3 almost succeeded by E. J. Foster, division freight and fell oveiboard. Although a good at the theatre, how hard he applauds to break the door open, and as and had gone, perhaps, half a mile, agent d& Chicago. irresistable to old diners-out. Added swimmer, his clothes bothered him so he when his wife comes, on the stage. It this failed him he made several attempts when my wagon wheels settled, with a could not regain the boat. His involuntary to the informal note was a "P. S. is dreadfully tiresome." In the United States District Court at struggles kept him above water, and upon the top. But I had no bump and a jerk, into a deep hole. I No unifoims," meaning that his guests St. Paul, Rice and Ryan, who robbed the "But ma, what nice, pretty clothes his cries for help brought Christian Haneon, fears of his doing anything there, for uttered an exclamation of astonishment St. James Postoffioe, were convicted ot he wears!" could forsake the claw-hammer coat who liveB half a mile from the lake, the top of my cart is framed in with but that was not all. I heard the offense. The prosecution proved that "That's, his, business, my angel to his rescue. After being in the lake nearly it it added anything to their comfort. Rice and Ryan were arrested in the very dove-tails and each sleeper bolted to another exclamation from another an hour he was badly chilled, but no child." Towards the last oi thw session he act of committing the robbery. The evidence the posts with an iron bolt. I had it sourceT seriouB results are apprehended. 'But who pays for all thofee pretty in this respect was so clear and dined regularly at Chamberlain's,with made so that I could carry heavy "What could it be? Hooked around straightforward as to make doubt almost clothes*" The grand jury at Brainerd found an indictment the fastidious Senators Butler and loads there.* By and by, after all else quickly but could see nothing, and impossible. "That*s her business Doesn't my against Myron Davenport for had failed, the scamp, commenced to Don Cameron, in hisshirt sleeves. The Soctt county democrats nominated fc* 7 1 knew tliat the sound I had heard birdie think it must be nice to ha?e a murder in the second degree for killing the holler 'whoa* to the horse, and kept other gentlemen kept their coats ont Senator, Mat Nachbar of Helena repress** was very close tp me. As the bind elder Polley. The case ol the son, also wife on the stage?" it up until he became hoarse. All ehisy but the scene was quite uncommon, tative, R. J. Farisj ot Creatt River. wheels came up I felt something tae- killed, is still under advisement. This find- "It mustoh" it must!" ^VL W&mwm \*Mm$^^^j^'iMmk: