THE GRASSHOPPER RAIDS. Northern Pacific Railroad, may have O. MQR9B, Tffatnttm j^itoaitt^ been an exception. I shall speak of it ARRIVAL AND DZPARTURMOr MAILS THEHATBHALCOLON at greater length at another time.— Previous Experiences with the Insects— After they developed their wings, the Having Refitted and Furnished Where they come from—Their method Eastern (dally) Sp. ra. DB. O. O. M06RB. CAPT. J. "W. SMITH. HIS STORE, locusts generally began to fly each day, Southern 9:42 a.m. of laying iggs—JVo eggs laid to hurt Western—Lu Verne, Sioux Falls, Mondays, Terms $2.00 a Year, $1.00 forSix Months. between 10 o'clock in the afternoon.— OCATED IN SOUTHWESTERN next year's crop—Summary of damage Wednesdays and Fridays at 6 p.m. If they alighted in a wheat or oat field Minnesota and Northwestern Iowa. inflicted. Spirit Lake Monday 6p.m. SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1874. they were generally so thick that there Jackson, Tuesday and Friday Colony Drug Store! [Correspondence of the New York Tribune.] 6 p. ra. Lake Shetek, Saturday were from three to ten grasshoppers on 6 p.m. A W O I I I N O X, Minn., July 22. every stalk of grain. I the corn fields Every parent hose son is away at school, Bigelow, Minn., DBFABTS. Three times in the history of Minnesota Twelve Townships they actually covered the corn that was 9:42 a. m. should supply him with a newspaper. I well remember Eastern (dally) have portions of the State been deby 5 p. m. what :i marked difference there was three or four feet high, and in many Southern between those of my schoolmates who had, andvastated locusts, and each time Western—Lu Verne and Sioux Falls, cases bent it down to the ground with 7 a.m. those who had not, access to newspapers. Other OF T*J?^a.y« Thursday and Saturday their ravages have been confined to IS N O W E A E O O E A 7 a things being equal, the first were always decidedly their weight. Neither flax, potatoes, Spirit Lake, Tuesday the newly settled and sparsely populated 7a. m, superior to the last In debate, composition garden vegetables nor any other crop Complete Assortment of Jackson, Wednesday and Saturday Rich Prairie Land and general intelligence—Darnel Webster. eormties. In lboti an army of grass Lake Shetek, Friday 7 a.m. escaped. General Merchandise, All mails close 20 minutes before departure. hoppers wafted on the southwest wind Cor. lOth St. & 3d Ave., In Nobles County, Minnesota. Office hours trom 7 a. m. to 7 p. m.—Sundays, Republican Ticket. settled down upon the country around ROPING IN TIIE GRASSHOPPERS. from 12 in. to 1 p. m. St. Cloud, then on the frontier, devoured The people in the counties which I Cotnslsing In part of C. C, GOODNOW, P. M. For Congress. the crops, deposited their eggs, and have visited north and east of here made little effort to drive the grasshoppers S A E A N A N St. Paul & Sioux City died. The next year these eggs hatched A II N N E away, but the farmers of this Colony out, and the young grasshoppers, after GOODS, Of Steele County. gave them no rest from the time eating up almost every green thing, they discovered them upon cheir fields AND developed their wings and flew away GROCERIES, Worthington, Minnesota, The notorious Lord Gordon Gordon, until they took their flight, and the result never to return. Again about the close NOTIONS, etc. is the prospect of saving at least who has for years been probably the of the Avar the locusts came into the Sioux City & Saint Paul R.R. The Best Goods always on bund at four times as much grain as they otherwise southeastern counties of the State and most conspicuous sham, iuiposter and greatly injured the grain. Whether would have gathered. One of THE LOWEST LIVING PltlOES. embezzler, before the public, committed Soil and Climate Opposite Worthington Hotel. they attacked the crops the second year the most effectual means employed was Choice Tobaccos and Cigars. suicide on the third at Headingly. or not I have not been able to learn, to "rope" the fields—that is, to hitch He had just been arrested on a charge but since 1865 the farmers in that section each end of a rope to a horse and drag TIME CARD. Terms Strictly Cash on Going West. of Minnesota have never been it over the grain. This disturbed the of embezzling jewelry from a Glasgow Leave St. Paul at 8.00 a. The CREA O E A I I E S "hoppers'' and brushed many of them troubled with grasshoppers. Finally, Delivery. Worthington, at 5.00 p. house. With thanks for farors in the past, we desire off of the heads of the grain upon the and the A E N O E STATE in 1873, swarms of these pests, fullgrown, Arrive at Sioux City, at 9.30 p. to remind the good people of Worthington and Goinj East. ground, where they would remain until came once more from the almost Bigelow, June 25,1874.—[42. Old Uncle Billy Allen, the Democratic The Climate of the-Mountains and th« surrounding country that We are here, ready at Leave Sioux City at 5.30 a. the swarm got ready to fly and doing boundless prairies lying to Worthington, at 9.42 a. Governor of Ohio, who was taken all times to serve them with goods as low as they little damage. Others would return the south-west, and over-run a few of a Soil of the River Bottoms. Arrive at St. Paul, at 7.00 p. in cau be found iu Southern Minnesota. out of the political vault ia which he to their work of destruction, but would the most recently settled counties in be allowed to remain but a few minutes had lain for twenty years or more, and this State and Iowa. A portion of the crops was saved, but during their short before they were again disturbed. This 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 ACRES set up to be Governor of the State, recently lo-LUMBER stay the locusts deposited their eggs bv "roiling" was continued until the addressed a re-u -ion of veteran DRUG DEPARTMENT. A the millions on the newly-broken prairie, custs became disgusted and flew away. PRAIRIE & MEADOW LANDS, soldiers at Dayton, Ohio. lie spoke of and from these were hatched the I saw to-day two flelds of wheat with SHINGLES Government Lands. the trials and sufferings of the soldiers "hoppers," which the people of these only a ten-foot load between them.— Constantly on hand. south-wesste&n counties have been lighting Before the grasshoppers came one in the Mexican war and scarcely nihiled Situated in Southwestern Minnesota and Northwestern promised equally as well as the other. since the early Spring. OFFICE—At Store. YAR1—Comer Ninth St. We have a full stock of fresh and reliable Iowa, Several Townships of O E N E N to the late war for the preservation The pests alighted on both fields at the DKUGS—all standard Patent Medicines—Chemicals, and First Avenue. O SAL E of the riiinn. What a jolly time there THE GRASSHOPPERS' HOME ON THE A N in the County S I A same time, and one was "roped" while Bigelow Minn. Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass, at moderate prices «ith easy terms of payment. PitAM E. the the other was not. Th former will be when the Democratic party gets Putty, Druggists' Sundries, Notions, Perfnmery, A N This having been Minnesota's experience will yet yield from 10 to 15 bushels to ALSO TOWN LOTS, Toilet and Fancy Soaps. into power .gain. The war for the in towns at rair«ad stations. Land bonds of the with the grasshoppers, and I S. 0. MORSE. the acre the latter is not worth harvesting. Sioux City and St. Paul Itailroad to be taken at Union and the Union soldiers will be have no doubt that of almost every Some farmers found smoking par in exchange for land within their limits. Prescriptions Carefully Com- ignored, and the Mexican war will be prairie State of the West lias been similar, vei effectual. When the grasshoppers D1For partieulais address: "Laud Department GROCERIES St P. Si St C. and S. C. & St. P. It. It. Co., StPaul the thinking people of this devastated RAILROADS. glorilied as the pivot on which our military were flying, they placed damp prairie pounded. Minn. district take heart and believe grass on the windward side of their glory turns. These that they have seen the last of the fields and set fire to it. Th grasshoppers lands are on the Sioux City & St. Paul Itailroad which runs daily tialns to both "hoppers." The theory, which seems either did not alight, or if they run. cities. THE TMB UXE LET to me a very plausible one, is that the did, did not stay long. But'thi was STATIONERY DEPARTMENT. We give elsewhere in full the letter home of the locusts is on the bound- not always successful. A farmer in FREE OF CHARGE! the county east of here who tried it of Mr. Z. L. White, to the Ne York lets Plains, which begin several Ititu died mjles to the south-west of here.— told me that at first he thought the Trihune, written from this place. A School Books, Blank Books, Gift and Toy Towns and Villages. When fully developed and able to use "hoppers" were about to leave he went we stated when Mr. White was here, Books, Letter Paper, Foolscap, Legal Cap, Bill their wings, they are carried by the away for a fresh load of grass, and Orders for Groceries left at my store will receive raper, Plain and Fancy Note Paper, Ini ial Paper, his statements can be relied on. Some wind "whither it listeth." Occasionally when he came back he "found the rascals prompt attention, and the goods will be delivered Envelopes in great variety, Peucils, Pens, AT ANY PLACE DESIGNATED FKEE Three I I N I A E S growing A W E E N E W S A E of the minor statements need correcting when the wind prevails for a long roosting on the fence and warming Pen-Holders, Inks. OF CHARGE. We invite all our friends to come time from the west or south-west, a their feet by his fires." After that, the up in the Colony. now, as, for instance, that three and test our Stock of Groceiies and Provisions I S E E E S A A for themselves, and be convinced we are selling swarm of them is brought over to the hotter he made the fires and the denser townships in this county are entirely them at bottom prices. AT frontier settlements. Guided by instinct, the smoke the better they seemed to Worthington the Business, Railroad, GROCERY DEPARTMENT. We intend to sell only the best of everything devastated. Seward is probably the Worthington, Minnesota. they alight upon the fields wheie like it. in our line—and at the same time only a»fc moderate Social, ami Educational Centre of a only one in which the wheat crop can be prices. the tender crops offer a moie temptii The locusts have now nearly disappeared large extent of country. A full line of Family Groceries, Wooden Ware food than the tough prairie grass, and We quote the prices of a few staple goods: said to be totally destroyed. As to Mr. from this entire region, and new slock of Stone Ware. the extent of the damage they do depends Brown Sugar, ^pounds, W O O have gone without laying their eggs.— White's general statement concerning Yellow r. tf, io upon the size of the army and In one field of flax which I visited in Coffee A. (white) S 00 tlio grasshoppers, and his estimates as lie.st brands of Cigars—and full lineof smokers' the length of their stay. If they remain Watonwan County on Sunday, I saw Standard 7'^ 1 00 to the crop loss and the destitution, long enough to deposit their eggs, Material. them in great numbers and they were Molasses f* jrallon, 70 then the devastation the second year they are as just and reliable as could be breeding but had as yet deposited no Molasse* Kyrtiu $1 20 The ADVANCE IS the regularly issued county will probably be greater than that of eggs. Teas Coffees, and other goods at corresponding Lamps and Lamp Goods. made at the time. prices. NINE COUNTIES NOW TRAD- paper, and the only newspaper published In Nobles the first. It will be noticed that none Groceries and Provisions given in exchange KCEECT OF TUTS YE Vlt'S RAID. but frontier counties in Minnesota have county. To persons abroad who contemplate This year's grasshopper raid has ex-for Country l'roduce. GOV. DAVIS. A large variety of Lamps and Fixtures. Eight ING AT WORTHINGTON. ever yet suffered from grasshopper tended over about a dozen counties in C.C. LUCRE Y. coming to the National Colony, the AD the Wtf] kinds of Chimne s. The St. Paul Press sums up raids. The locusts attack theiiist fields the south-west comer of Minnesota, VANCB will pro\e of gicat alue, as it will chronicle amount thus far raised for the grasshopper they reach on the frontier, and haviug and a section somewhat smaller in We have but one price, and that as low as the from week to week every step in the progress satisfied their hunger there, have never Town Lots for Sale! sufferers, thiough the efforts of north-western Iowa. The devastation lowest, and, with our experience, we feel warranted FARMING. been known to injure ci\ps in the older of the Colony, and will give besides a great quail Gov. Davis, at $17,000, not one-lifththe of this legien was due principally to in sa ing that we can make it an object settled counties in the State. Ten tily of valuable information concerning the» locusts that were hatched here, except amount needed, and says "what is to for you to give us a liberal share of your patronage. jears may pass before another am that accomplished bv the immense In IIEKSEY and BIGELOW. on the Sioux City prairies of the West. be done we hardly know." The first will come itliin oUO miles of here, and swarm which, coming from the north, and st. Paul Railroad. Articles not in stock will be furnished on short A A I N O A I O N of several bj that time thesj dozen counties in tiling to be done, it seems us, ib for the arrived heie on Fiidav last, and left Desiiable Lots for sale in the above named \ill.igcson notice. the south-westein comer of Minnesota thousand now on the land-s and public journals and the people to heartilj again on Minday. Y\ hat the aggregate tavoiable terms. and the noith-western corner of MOORE & SMITH. amount of damage done is, it is difficult Heisey has a Hotel, Post Office. Lumber Yard second the efforts of Gov. Davis.— the County A I I I N Iowa will no longer be upon the frontier. to say. In this county, taken together. and several shops and stores, and is suriotindcd Tlicie seems to be, in theolderpoitions March 21, 1S74. I should think that nearly onehalf b\ a beautiful country. of the State a disposition among some The locusts, when they ariived here the crops of all kinds should be Bigelow isnear the Iowa line, lias also several W011 THIXfl TO SEMINAR last year, were fulb matured and just I 'wspapers and with some persons to saved. In three townships in this stoiesanil shops and is destined to become a hiivinu ullage. ready to deposit their eggs. Thev remaiiied Foil 10: Tl£ ov n«nir SPIES, thiuw cold water on the effoits of the county everything is completely de E E A O but a few days, but duiing that I stiovid. Some of the adjoining counties Apply or address DEPARTMENTS. AT WORTIIIXUTO*. MiKLESCO. MTXX t'o\ernor and an altunp to ridicule time they destroyed, as nearly as I can have been injured moie than this, Wm. H. HUMISTON, OS THE ST. J'A I I. «t SIOUX CITY The National Colony is organized upon him out of lib noble taking. Mot learn, at least one-fouith of the crop in some less. It A ILW AY. the places invaded. On some farms WOKTIII\l..TO\, NOI1LE9 CO., a E E ANCE BASIS. N IN only has he done all that could be legitimate The ertire section devastated in Minnesota FARMER'S DEPARTMENT. they left nothing others were only littie ThN institution is ati.ounml In accordance tf] MI\NI:SOTV. would have produced about one (lone as the Executhe of TOXICATIN E E A E S sold in damaged. But what was moie impoitaht t.velfth of the wheat crop of the State with the dcclaiation of t'.it found is of the National Special prominence will be given to all questions the State, but !io has constantly drawn to the settlers than the wheat the County. had the grasshoppers let it alone, and a Colony, that V\v «\u° c-utnishmeiit of a affecting the interests of the farmers, and piopoitionate quantity of the other upon his own for the it-hef of iiiid the) devoured was the iV.ct HO! seminaiy of learning, on a h'.'fi.il isjs, at some to agricultural topic=. An account of everj rami that they left their eggs all over the crops. I think it is none too liberal an the suffered. Th« people of the grasshopper land they devastated. The manner of favoi.ible point, wis prut of ihen plan. in the county will be given. Conespondence estimate to say that one-half a crop district appreciate his effoits, laying their egg!-- has been described to I will be saved. The suffering in individual It has been Judged advisable to put the enterprise solicited from farmers. Wiite facts and observations and will remember them with gratitude. EDUCATION. me by Prof. Humiston of this place, I cases Avill, of comse, be far under denominational control it is, accordingly, upon farming matters, and the editor who has studied the habits of the "hoppers" greater than this estimate would indicate. introduced under the patronage of the will put them in shape for the press. Particular with considerable caie. The tail In this county, wheie half a For the Spring Trade. of the female locust consists of a haid, Methodist Episcopal Church, and as auxiliary to attention will be given to the subject .of Tree ATTEMPT TO AMAVSIXATE BISHOP crop will be gathered, there are one Good PUBLI SCHOOLS and a SEM bony, cone-shaped substance, capable WHIPPLE. hundred and fifty families who have Hamline University. It will be conducted In Culture, as one of ital importance to this part of I N A O E A N I N now in of being thrust into the giound fioni nothing and will have to be cared for An insane divinity student named the most cathode spirit: the object being to unite the West. one-half an inch to an inch in depth.— and furnished with seed for next season. operation at Worthington. Nims, made an attempt to assassinate liberal cultuie with the precepts and spiritof the Just above this on the body of the insect, Two hundred dollars would be a Bis *op Whipple, on Sunday last at and attached to it is the ejrsj-cell. Christian system. small sum to keep one of these families "We are now prepared to receive orders The grasshopper is able to push its con-' X.1^YD DEPARTMENT. J'aiibault. Dining the morning service a year, so that at least $30,000 will be for The Seminary building, now known as the leal-shaped tail down into the ground needed in this county, and I suppose at the Cathedral, and just alter the Reliable information will be given concerning Methodist Church Block, is spacious and attractive, Advantages. and to leave it there with the cell containing not less than $"00.0(i( will be needed in announcement that the Bishop would the securing of Government Land. Letters of the eggs. The warm sun in the entile section. The most of this and .admirably located. It fronts on the preach in the evening, a man moved the Spring causes the eggs to hatch and inquiry as to the homestead and tree-claim laws aid must come from outside the devastated Public Square, in Worthington, within a short rapidlj up the aisle, and when near the Seeders, region. This country has only the held is coveied with millions of will be promptly and correctly answered through distance of West Okabena Lake. young grasshoppers, not as large as a bishop drew a pistol. The Bishop been settled from one to live years, and E I E SOIL, the paper, and all thedecisions of the General It is intended to make the Scminaiy an honor kernel of wheat, just when the tender Harrows, the majority of the people have yet to bpraug forward, caught the man's arm, Land Office which can be obtained will be published. shoots of grain begin to show themselves raise their first paying crop. Nearly to the State—the equal of any similar institution O N E N I E N MARKETS whii led him round, and pinioned him above the ground. all the faims in this section are mortgaged, Cultivators, in the West. The board of instruction is already E A CLIMATE until lie was disaimed. The Bishop These, probably, do more harm than as well as the stock, farming large and embraces, fn an unusual degree, both had refused to ordain Minis a deacon those that are fully grown, for they remain implements, and in some cases the CHRISTIA N SOCIETY. Plows, etc. the expeuence and abilityessenti.il to success. right in the iield for weeks, eating crops. The local merchants have given on account of unsoundness of mind, COLONY DEPARTMENT. Superior Mail,Railroad, School, Church up the crop as fast as it grows, allowing all the credit they have been able to, As occasion demands it will be enlarged and and this is supposed to be the cause of The ADVANCE, as intimated above, will be a the weeds to start, and so totally, and must now have their pay from and other Privileges. nothing shall be wanting to the completeness of the attempt. The young man has been destroving every vestige of the grain, those who save anything from this map and history of the National Colon v. All the several departments. N O AGUE bent to the insane Asylum at St. Peter. 1 luiAe seen throughout this section' year's ruin. The State, either by an questions relating to the soil, climate, and other Persons desii ing any of these goods willfindour The contemplated course of study will cover a doyens of fields of wheat, corn, oats act of the Legislature, or by a well organized At the evening service the congregation N O CONSUMPTION, natural advantages and to the development of stock complete. and Max that have been so thoroughly system of contributions, ought pel iod of three years the design being to prepaie united in devout thanksgiving for N O LIQUOR A I Southwestern Minnesota, will be faithfully answered. wiped out by these little grasshoppeis to help these people, for they are generally students Tor a collegiate course, or to qualify the Bishop's deliverance. that it is dilticult to learn from cai\ ful a temperate, frugal, industrious *3*Also Stoves, Tin and Hardware, N O DESPERADOES, ithem to engage successfully in business pursuits. inspection of the field that anything class, who, if carried over this winter The Bishop's remarkable presence of Trepaiatory classes, however, will be N O INDIANS had been planted there. In other instances, and given any chance in the future, mind saved his life. Thousands of where the crop got a little ormed, especially for the first six months, during will, in a few jears, add more than tenfold At Panic Prices, persons throughout the country who 'start before the loc\ists"were hatched" to the futiue wealth of the State, which time, it may be presumed, man) willba (iov. Davis' appeal and Representative have learned to love and levere Bishop they were unable to destroy the whole unprepared for the regular course. N E W S AND LOCAL.. Dunnell's promise to obtain from the at the Colony Store. Whipple, will join nith his con^re^a-1 4 it out so that oats, General Government aid for these people, While the schwl in itself will be unequivocally tion .o a,vo„t ttanktfvto,tarU. onHl.h'a S S The ADVANCE will give a general summary of was, I think, ill-advised. But they Christian, it possesses, also, the external advantages HOUSTON & STOCKDALE. cape. the news of the world, but its aim will be to become must live during the coming season, of location in a community not only highly MOIJK OF DESTROYING Till: IXSECTS IX and will yet develop from this wonderful a first class local newspaper, devoted espe- THE KGG. intelligent and moral, but uueurst by the liquor Tim ATTEMPT TO RUIX BEECHER. soil one of the richest agricultural (,i*lll't0 11APID IXCREASE IX THE VALUE OF borne news and home interests. Corres The people of this Colony knew last tralic. This nefaiious trade, the prolific source The Beecher-Tilton affair drags its sections on the continent. E E Fall that their land was full of these LAXD ASSURED. pondence from the different townships and from of poverty and crime, is, by In utterly excluded A total estimate for the damace inflicted slow length along. Beechei's statement locusts1 I O S O E eggs, and anticipated that unless the several counties tributary to Worthington that appears to be approximately from Xoblcs county. No .loughtful parent or lias not been made yet. A the thev could be destroyed the crops solicited. correct is, for value of crops destryed would be greatly injured again this guardian will underestimate the importance of scandal progresses, it becomes more in Minnesota, $3,000,000 in Iowa, Is the most wonderful scientific production of vear. Prof. Humiston and others conceived this most significant fact. the nineteenth century. It furnishes the power and more probable that Tilton and $2,000,000. About 4,000 persons in the idea of plowing deep and of a high pi iced iiistiiiment for a mere tiifle, Moulton have formed a conspiracy to Prof. Ilumiston takes charge, of a department both States will require h?lp to the to -and thus covering the eggs with a layer of exceeds in usefulness any microscope ever A invented. It reveals the hidden wonbors of earth so thick as to post|Kne, at least, tal extent of about $800,000. with Inch he has been long and honorably connected, riUli Ueecher. The more we see of Uod's minute creation—as Eels in Vinegar, Animals the time of hatching. Much of the land JOB-WORK in Water, Butterflies' Feathers, the Golden and biings with Win, as a gift to the institution, Tilton the more detestable he becomes. The total valuation of property at in which the prairie had just been broken, Marrow of a Hair, etc., etc. linlxo thorn 1'RICIUXA philosophical and chemical apparatus For years he has been cackling to lay SPIRALIS or Pork Worm, wherever Northfield is $787,458. this being only the second year it ej-iMtin iwrlr. IT IS .ll'ST THE THING FOR worth six hundred and fifty dollars. this egg, as has been said. lie takes that a crop has been raised here. Some CHILDREN AND YOLNG FOLKS, and grown The Winona Republican says that of thefaimeia '-back-set" the land in folks too. Price, $1.50. Sent bv mail, post paid, advantage of his wife's weakness when I'IUCES OF TUITION- —In order to extend as far Send stamp for cojy of the National Colony on receipt of price. A GltEA'f CHANCE FOll the Fall—that is turned the sod back owing to the low water the steamboats she is ill and unable to resist his importunities, AGEX'IS. Agents wanted everywhere. Men as possible, the benefits of the institution, to those JOURNAL, giving full particulars, to N E A A N PROMPTL again and covered it with a thin layer and Women, Boys and Girls: whole or spare have begun to transfer at the rapids. aud e\hut iife-sions from who desire it, and to meet the stringency of the of earth. I vis ted one of Prof. Ihimiston's time, day time or en vino COMH.ETE Ot TFIT MILLER, HUMISTON & CO., mailed, post paid, mi ipceipt of pure Addiess hoi and forces her to sign papers without State Normal School. times, tuition, foi the first six months, will be but wheat-fields to-day, a part of THE BEVE11LY COMPANY, 284 Wabash Ave., which had been treated in this unv~ Worthington, Xoble$ County, Minneft: knowing what they contain. Having $3.00 per quarter. This charge will be uniform Executed at the CHICAGO. while part had been sown among the for all studies except instrumental music, Fiench thus made, as lie supposes, case, locusts' eggs. The contrast was wonderful. E O O A MANKATO, MINN. B. T. BABBITT'S he publishes his wife to the vvoild as an and ornamental needlewoik. Advance Office, The part that h-ulbeen '-backset" FAMILY RECORD Pure Concentrated Potash, Address all communications in regard to the adulteress. will vield at least four times as ursrxs. Seminary to B. II. CKEVEH, Worthington, Nobles much wheat to the acre as the other.— There is one result of this wretched 1. FAI.LTriJAT commences August 20,1x74. Co, Minnesota. The joun« giasshoppers that hatched 2 I'npIN lim^t bt at least liftofMi jears of age Of Double the-Strength of any other Is and Eleqant Oil Chromo, rhotoexaph Album scandal that cannot be too severely condemned. on the Held appeared later and in much :. Applicants for admission to Hie" Normal ltpartim-nt S A O N I I N S S A N E BOARDING.—Students can, duiing the coming and Pamih Ilecord Combined, and is designed will lie examined in Spelling. Re.ulinir, smaller numbers. In fact, had the matin The newspapers arc publishing CARDS, for the insertion and presei\ation of the inclines winter, bo accommodated in piivate families on ^rtina. Geography, Grammar and Aiithmetic! I have recentIv peifeeted aejfcw method of ed locusts let it alone, it would have 1 of the familvas wellas the names. It is sonicthing ever}thing relating to Beechcr and 4. I uition free to those who pledge to teach packing Potash, or Lve. and am now packing reasonable terms. Immediate efforts will also lie new. beautiful, useful and attractive, and BLANKS yielded more than an ftonl.N in Balls, the coating of which will saionffy, two years In the Common Schools of the state made to provide for any students who may prefer should ornament every home in the land. Ail Tilton, whether relevant or irrelevant, average crop of and does not injure the Soap. It Is packed FRMW" a who see it pronounce it superb, and are la\ ish VVR'l HT 1X1LLAKS to board themselves. As soon as the success in boxes containing 24 and 48». Balls, and in no CIRCULARS, in its praise. The faces of dear ones appear in a fthe or imc Thus othei wav. Diioctions 111 English and Geiinan, of the institution assured, a (maiding bouse r. Special facilities for those who wish to learn 1 tasteful setthiR of i?»ld and beautiful colors, and irresponsiblue S petg for making hard and sott soap with this Potash, from nameless and it is at onco and forever a household treasure. from hatching, and delavs those that will be added to our piesent accommodations. accoinpaning each package. POSTERS, For fuitlier information apply to the Princi4o—\v* Price, $1.00. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of sons are scattered broadcast throughout do hatch so long that the crop has a B. T. BABBITT, BOARD OF INSTtHTCTOm. piiee. A GOOD THING FOR AGENTS, Men chance to get a good start. Mankato, Minn. BILL-HEADS, the country, which, if published in and Women, Boys and Girls whole or spare 32] &l to 84 Washington St., N. Y. B. II. CREVEK, A. M., Principal. tune, da\ tune or evening. Agents wanted ev The matured giasshoppers alsogreatly 3NT. S A I E book foim and sold on the street, would Mental and Moral Science. er where, COMPLETE OCTEIT mailed, post-daid, Spirit Lake Stage-Line. damaged the crops in this vicinity. LETTER-HEADS on receipt of pi ice. Address the BEVEKLV COMPANT, Subject the printer and vendor to arrest K. F. HUMISTON, A. M., Ih people are not agreed whether 284 Wabash A\e., CHICAGO. At his Natural Science. and punishment foi dealing in obscene DOTYg&oLAMBERT,fiom these are the same locusts that were having secured the car- CUAS. T. Dcssixe, B. A., FOR SALE. produced here or strangers who invaded literature. Mo vis the time for ryin the iniils Spirit Lake to Worthington, Abuilding, suitable for a store and dwelling, Gree Latin and Mathematics. Lumber Yard in Worthington, will run as follows: the country. I think they were the CHJLS. II. BAKKOWS, °n Tenth Street, two doors north of Worthington any one who delights in the obscene Leave Spirit Lake at 7 o'clock on Monday TERMS—$2 a year $1 for six former. They did not always come Hotel. Also about 80 acres of land near the village Book-keeping and Penmanship. morning, and arrive at Worthington at 6 o'clock to come forward with an obscene story, all of which will be sold at a bargain. from the same direction, and were not months 50 cents for three mouths, in p. m. MART II. CREVRR, Hw3] P. FAKE. has constantly on hand Returning, leave Worthington on Tuesday and he can have it carried into every at work on every field at the same time. Instrumental Music—Piano and Organ advance. morning at 7 o'clock, andarrive at Spirit Lake at The invasion of last week which seems Christian home where a daily newspaper 6 o'clock, p. m. CLARA J. CRAFT, Address OXEX FOR SALE. to have come from the north, being Any business entrusted to our care will be A Large and Varied Assortment of Pine French. is read. A large yoke of Oxen, eight years old, for sale. promptly and faithfully attended to. Passengers first heard of along the line of the Lumber. J.CRAFT, M. I)., A No. one pair of cattle. Apply to can icd at reasonable rates. [44 lv. Worthington, Minnesota. A oeal Cnltnre St 10] 11. MOCK, Elk Township.