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OSHKOSH NORTHWESTERN

January 5, 1871

 

From Fremont

Correspondence of the Daily Northwestern

 

            FREMONT, Dec. 29. – We clip the following from the Milwaukee Sentinel:

            A correspondent writing from Cascade, Minnesota, says:  “I saw a statement in the Sentinel, a week or two ago, from some person who raised an ear of corn which had over seven hundred kernels on. We can best that up here in Minnesota and not half try.  I have one ear in my possession which has 876 kernels on, and have plenty with over seven hundred.”  We acknowledge the corn.

            Now we can best that just as easy.  Mr. Elish Landon, living near Fremont, raised this year over fifty corn that would go ahead of either of those mentioned above.  One ear had 34 rows on, averaging 49 kernels each, making 1,033 in all.  Who can best that?  Trot out some more of your correspondents, Mr. Sentinel.

            Last week a young man, calling himself George Ingleson, said to reside in the north part of our county, broke into the dwelling of J.H. Lovejoy, of this town, while the family were absent, and stole money, clothing, &c., worth $18.50.  He was promptly arrested and tried before Justice Isbel, and in default of $300 bail, committed until the June term of our circuit court.

            The same day Officer Pickle nabbed a saloon keeper of our sober village, and spirited him into the presence of Mr. Isbel, and a charge of selling bad whiskey to one of our citizens, and then with fully and maliciously assaulting the aforesaid citizen with a dull and murderous hatchet, and striking, pounding, mauling and bruising him with a stick, on and across his dexter paw, thereby &c., contrary, &c.  The ferocious Teuton plead guilty, and was let off with a fine of $3 and costs.  The parties then compromised matters by “pakoh” beating the sore knuckles with one of Uncle Samuel’s $3 plasters.

            Last Friday morning a woman in this village, being temporarily disgusted with the many ills that flesh is heir to, took at one dose, an ounce and a half of laudanum, thinking that she might thereby be better able to quietly “shuffle off, &c.,” but one or two pints of warm salt and water, promptly administered by some neighbors, compelled her in disgorging the villainous compound, and keep on that mortal coil a spell longer.                                                                                          J.W.