Standard (Newspaper) - March 28, 1878, Albert Lea, Minnesota Per Year I RATES or inch 1 w 1.00 in 1 y 501 -I 0 00 10.00 o oo 7 115.00 o DO 10.00 20.00 li 18.00 00 11 oo jj oo oo 0 1 22 00 00 00 90.00 VOLUME 18 ALBERT LEA MINNESOTA THURSDAY MARCH 28 1878 NUMBER 1 SOUTHERN MINNESOTA RAILWAY Arrive Leave GOING LA CROSSE TliE Than II A Arrive Spring i Spring K n ALBERT LEA Arrive f U LEA D D P muss H D BROWN BANK 01 ALBERT LEA T III Leave Arrive HAST T ALBERT Spring Fountiiin nl 10 cast close i the Hi MINNESOTA A GENERAL HANKING with trains T for St for i tho f M ul ami nil in C VAN Malinger Ticket THE POOR MAN'S A for An Act to Incorporate City of Albert Lea County Minnesota lie it enacted by the Legislature cf the State of Minnesota CHAPTER VIII Street Grades and Sidewalks GO AND SKK HIM FUR I RAILWAY i Leave M INN ALBERT LEA so H D CO BACKERS 1st Austin 3d clono to for All at lii ami edlo trive Simp on Past of ALBERT THOMPSON TIL in anil will on line of oust run mmle ve ALBERT LEA 1 NORTH A TR VA LISES SELLS CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPEST Arrive MINNEAPOLIS THE IOWA CEDAR NORTHERN RAILWAY TO L POINTS SOUTH VIA J H Parker Court House Albeit Len Minn E 0 STACY GEO A SMITH Jeweler LADIES AND GENTS GOODS A GOOD AND ALL WORK They are nUo Agents LYONS Ml TALIC HEEL on notice lo GIVE A CALL Broadway two of the Webbe Albert Len Minn Cedar Burlington The only Lino Through t ruins be j Minnoapolis Burlington A M STAGY nt ami all done Taxes Titles bought solil I Engraver WATCHES CLOCKS ic One door north of LEA MINN O in AND CUSTOM-MADE Work douo to Broadway tnt north of Give linn u before IT CITY EXPRESS DRAY ONE in und SOFT JOAL Alto p tn la 7 rio 07 1 0 JO i 1 -10 07 3 -j 58 h 22 7 50 1 n ni in- i i le a m ir S 10 H 10 10 10 Columbus June 8 15 I j Nichols 7 111 1C Yost Liberty 7 20 1 20 o I 2 00 Vinton j 4 00 Waterloo i -1 20 Falls 1 0 00 Greene in nr Nora June Albert Lea p ni ar 8 JO 5 5 25 3 25 2 11 12 12 25 10 30 12 tn lo 11 11 15 4 20 307 2 50 St Paul Minneapolis S 15 3 45 p m lc DIVISION ACCOMMODATION a ni le J 0 1 UO p m nr Vinton Truer Grimily Center Holland p in nr 0 00 5 20 4 35 4 00 3 05 2 15 2 GO p m le I o ion Comer Clark nisii Newton fits H A IV LIOA A IO 2 MINN WATCHMAKERS JEWELER and Dealer in CLOCKS AND Albert Lea ieh re airing a specially JOHN AND over Wedge Spicer's Drug ALBERT LEA MINN a mt Men lists M M DODGE M D SEC 1 The common council may to bo established from time to time and as rapidly as tlis convenience of the inhabitants may require under the direction of the city surveyor the grade of all streets sidewalks and leys in said city and shall cause rate profiles thereof to be made and kept iu the office of the city surveyor SEC 2 Whenever the common cil shall it necessary to construct or repair any sidewalk in said city of Albert Lea they shall require the street commissioner lu notify all owners und occupants of nuy lot or parcels of land adjoining such sidewalk to construct or the same at his or their own proper expense und charge within a lime by the tion in the official of said city for not less than two of a notice 10 said owners or soiling forth what work is to be done and the character of the same by such owners or and the time within which they are required to do the SEC 3 If such work not done and the sidewalks not or repaired iu the manner and within the time pre- scribed the common council may order the same to be done by the hired com- missioner at the expense of the Inis and parcels of land adjoining said sidewalks and said expenses shall be assessed up on such lots arid parcels of and so chargeable by the street commissioner and returned by him to the common council and said assessment so made returned if approved by the com- uton council shall become a lieu upon said lots und parcels of land as in case of city county and taxes SEC 4 If said assessment be not paid to the street or tho city treasurer on or before the 20th day of August in any year the common council shall cause a statement of the same to be transmitted with city taxes levied that year to the auditor of the county of on or before the first day of September iti each said auditor shall insert the tamo with the in duplicate statement of taxes annually by him 10 the county treasurer fur col lection tnd payment thereof enforced with and in like manner as city tj and State taxes arc collected and payment thereof enforced ordinance or as aforesaid the of- fender shall bo forthwith committed to the city prison oi said city or if there be no city prison to I he common jail of Freeborn county and be there for a term not months in the discretion of the justice unless the said line or penalty be sooner paid and the time of the ar- rest of any person or persons for any of- fense whatever until the of trial the person or persons so arrested may be imprisoned in the prison or in case there Le no city prison in the common jail of the SKC 5 Xo person shall be un petent justice witness or juror hy of bis an of said city in any proceeding or action in which city shall be a party in in- terest SEC G All ordinances and tions heretofore made by the sors of the town of Albert Lea not in- consistent with the of his act ahull he und remain in force until altered modified or repealed by the common council of said after this act shall have into effect 7 All fines ments except i and CHAPTER first SKC 1 The election for officers under this act shall be held on the second Monday in May one sand eight hundred and seventy eight SEC 2 In hold in the first ward city at tho office of William P Sergeant on way In tho second of eaid city at the Webber House corner of way street In the of city at the court houpe hall At said election P Sergeant William P T Scotland be judges or tho first ward A Hanson A and J W Smith shall be judges of election for the second ward C Pi Ransom Jolio IT Anderson and phall be judges of election fur the third ward The said respectively shall point at polling in case however iriy of said judges of fees that ma e levied or collected by any other f the city for the Million of any or of said in of any officer of said city nr any of the laws nf the St of shall be vented in nnd be the and exclusive property of city SKP 8 When any Miit or act i HI shall be commenced city LEA MINN given to collection timo notes and purchase Orders leu on at Hewitt's attended to at unco orders on at A li son's or MALLERY BROS Trains Nichols for nt 1 1 a m unit p in Trains Lea nt p m connects closely nt Burlington witli on 0 B Q for St Lou a ut p in Elegant bleeping car attached to train from Albert Leu C J IVES B F S Gen Ticket Ap Gen Ticket TEXAS O I T Y IS A- Y L 1C HARD COM WOOD at J P Smith's store THE PARKER GUN PARKER Aro you of going to Toxas want in tn Ilio for the in hiy Trip it luis imputation of modt lively ol tho papers in tho J your IU cunta for saniple with Port Worth Fine L fc Oo j price only price nuly Paper N 10 eta I Y IT ATT F HAhL Proprietor Lsa Minn CILBERTSON A Complete Assortment of Dry Goods BOOTS AND SHOES HATS AND CAl'S CROCKERY GLASS WAKE YANKEE NOTIONS AND in fact everything belonging o n FIRST-CLASS Country GIVE THEM A CALL Exposition fur q and iif boil ever As our i closely on inferior scu Erit is lo 0 A A Sowing is the easiest selling tmd best in tbe It hns n very shuttle tho is in very aud It is for other to soil in di- rect competition with Aleuts Apply to Whiti Co KEEPS A COMPLETE SET OF Abstract Books Will Taxes correct an alien 1 lo till ol Also to on security with tho Clerk of Court in Court House A I- bert Minn P Agent Cur Ilia old 1794 tbe Insurance Co of North OtC America is GA L ESTATE AGENCY WK for sale In nils und farms in every town in this county TERMS to suit LOW prices time and ti low rule oC interest IF you to buy n farm call on us IF you have a farm or io soil on us OUR facilities for buying selling and titles lire as wo ABSTRACTS PLATS of every piece of lanil in county Stacy Albert Lea Mian April 25 1876 ami up the Post A n DENTIST over Gardner's drug store Albert Lea Min: GRAND ALL i s Vi store 5 The common council shall width of sidewalks and umy widths in ent locations and determine the kind of material of which they shall be con- having regard 0 the and amount of travel in the vicinity of cuch CHAPTER IX service of process may be made hv the hy ti of such with the mayor or acting or aud H shall be the duty of the or to inform the council thereof and take such other as by the nr council have in tuch vided SKC 0 The city uiny and hold real estate lor public purposes for the of the in habitants and may Hull and convey the und the same bhall be- free from SEC 10 Xo law of the State the provisions of his act shall be considered as repealing nr the Fame unless said be lurth in such laws 11 city ul Albert Lax not be liable in any board or jail oi any whu may be by any be or be candi dates for office uf snid election the and in case nn the voters present the judges to fill i ho vacancy SKC The judges of election of each ward shall on the of the Monday of Maj at 7 the offence of selling liquor without A license undor the general laws and the presumptions arising from the having or finding of liquors on the premised of the accused under the general law shall exist and be in force in all prosecutions under this law or the ordinances city and the council are authorized to adopt by ordinance rules of evidence ES they shall fit in prosecutions under this law or under the provisions of any law of this State CHAPTER XIV Acceptance of Charter SEC 1 An election shall be held at the court house hall in Albert the first Monday of April 1878 at which the electors as qualified hy this chapter residing within the city as fixed by this act may vote upon the question of accepting this act of and the organization of the government SEC 2 Messrs W C B II Skaug and A K Johnson chall be the judges of said election The judges shall appoint two clerks of said election and when so organized board shall qualify according to the laws governing Slate and elections Provided however Should any of judges be absent at the time of the polls of election the or judges present shall fill by appointment and in case none jf the above named judges are present o'clock p meet at tho court house hall in the third canvass the votes at said election in each nnd on the lotion thereof declare the to all officers voted for at said and persons elected shall qu within three I after and bold their until the I annual in one alderman each ward who shall bo thf lung term who shall hi U until tbe dec- ol SKC 4 Xo in tho of notice of the of any nor shall any nr omission at said election or in and the invalidate said SEC The shall their vi it hin fivo daji their at court v hen shall qualify and organize a council and a clerk be appointed council to uc until a elected j She J At the first election i of of Water Well Trimmed FOR Flour Feed AT CURTIS i EARIE W W CUETIS GEORGE Jr Lute Chief Clerk Attorney and ut Luw SOLICITORS OF CLAIMS Attorneys in Land Cases PROMPT ATTENTION all clashes before the Office TOO St JOHN TN FLOUR FEED BRAN OATS CORN At Market Price Street near corner of way Albert Lua Minn CASH PAID FOR CORN AND OATS A Homoeopathic nud located WIS aud 20 years under its pres- enlarged with com- plete appointments fur null for invalids To those Buffering or in- are The show the best results with Diseases those arising from excitement ov Nervous and Diseases of Women a specialty For circulars N A M to ciau or R Proprietor Refer mission to Hon Wm E Smith Governor et and C II Eaton Div supt Am Ex Co La C ANDERSON WILL SELL FURNITURE Until the loth of is the time to CHEAPER EVER BEFORE a Cor Washington Chirk Sts Albert Lea Q fl MIXED CARDS with name lOcts postpaid U J Go Nassau cuu bo U Aak your for it MRS MILLINERY LATEST STYLES Fall MES C S WARREN Has purchased her FALL STOCK which has just been received Those who Uie STYLISH and BEAUTIFUL should CALL AND EXAMINE I HER STOCK Thoroughly rittea sell the following property cheap for or will trade for a go DWELLING HOUSE and three lots on si root in lie village of Albert Lea WM ELLIMAN Albert Lea Minn Apply to the editor of tor at discount in thu 4 J rent College Keokuk Iowa on the Operators and ly Don't to Prof SLC 1 The common council shall have authority to contract vrith any person persons or corporations fur the of such streets or puns of and public places as they deem proper for the convenience and safety ol SKC 2 The common council permit the laying of gus pipes in any anil nil the streets and alleys highways and public grounds of the city but in all cuses common council the laying of tha same so that said gas pipes may not at any time interfere with lie construction of common sewers or the lateral branches thereof or with the proper and convenient location of water mains and pipes and may at nny time require the location of any pas pipe to be changed if the shall bs found to interfere with rhe proper aud nient location of common sewers or waler pipes and Mining SBC 8 The common council may permit any party or corporation to lay water mains and pipes in any and all streets and alloys highways and public grounds of the city land shall regulate position of the bamo so they obstruct or interfere witli the common sewers or with the proper drainage of the city CHAPTER X magistrate the city to the jail Freeborn under the Sute SEC 12 The street shall collect the or tax which may be levied by the council and street have the power possessed by as by the laws of the State and shall report to tho common council required SEC 13 All part ol the Con- township number one dred nnd two of riot included within the limits uf city of Albert Lea constitute and be organized us a town by tho n oi the town of and may in the manner provided by statute in such case organize by the choice of town of- on the second Tuesday of March one thousand eight hundred and town supervisors and those sh ill e Che n in each shall hold A I1 May long until second Mondav h and u until tlie Monday A IX hundied und Onj be voted ior or the aud one lor the term CHAPTER 11 PI t city to c: and 1 council shall HIT lion thereto bv iiy uf I lie n licence and vinous within to thuir of and to the of said other of tho present town of I to nnd search any buildin I s i II T I I J C I Albert winch may be elected on wherein i the second of March shall continue lo hold their offices until tlie elective city officers named in this Miscellaneous Provisions SEC 1 No vote of the common council shall be reconsidered or re- subsequent meeting unless at such subsequent meeting there be present large a Dumber of aldermen us were present when the vote was taken SEO 2 No penalty or judgment re- covered in favor os the city shall be re- mitted or discharged except by the vote of two-thirds of the aldermen elect SEC 3 In all prosecutions for any violations of this act the first process all be by warrant on complaint being made Provided That no warrant shall e necessary in any case of the arrest of any person or persons while in ict of violating any law of the State of Minnesota or ordinance or ol Ire Albert Lea but the person ir persons so arrested may be mted against tried convicted and or discharged in the same nan nor as if the arrest had been made by warrant All warrants pro cess or writs issued by the justices for the violation of an ordinance nnd laws of said shall be directed to the chief of police or any police officer of said city SEC 4 In all cases of the imposition of any fine or penalty or of tha ing of any judgment by the city tices of said city pursuant to any ute of the State of Minnesota or suant to any ordinance or of the city of Albert Lea us punishment for nny offense or for the violation of any net are elected and qualified then the ol such officers residing within the limits oi city shall become and be vacant and such vacancy or cies shall bo filled by or special town election fur tho town ol Albert Lea as organized by this section The first town meeting for the said of Albert Lea be held at the court house hall in said city and after nt such place as may be by tho voters at said first town meeting SEC All moneys in the of the treasurer of the town of Albert Len or county treasurer uf said county to said town shall be and divided between said new town of Albert Lea and said city ol Albert Lea on the basis of the ratio ol the assessed valuation of the in snid town and city respectively eacl to have its pro rata share thereof anc all taxes remaining or quent on the second Monday of May 1878 on property within the limits oi said city belong to and on tion thereof be paid to the thereof and all taxes remaining or delinquent within said new town ol Albert Lea shall to and on col- lection thereof bo paid to the treasurer of said town of Albert Lea Provided however That if there is any indebtedness of the present town ol Albert Lea other than its bonded in- at the close of its official year the township supervisors of said new town and the city council of said oily shall fifteen days after the second Monday in May time and place to be agreed upon meet together and divide and apportion said indebtedness on the the assessed valuation city respectively pay its just proportion nnd each lect the items it will assume and done a duplicate tabulated statement thereof shall be made and one filed in tho office of the town clerk of tho town arid the other with the city clerk of the city SEO 15 All chattel by parties residing in haid city or on property therein shall be filed with said city clerk in the same ner and with like effect as if filed with the town clerk of said own and the filing thereof with city shall dispense witli the necessity for filing with tho town clerk of said town and shall constitute constructive notice thereof to all persona in the same ner and to the same filed in tho town under tho laws of Stale i or for any vinous malt or fermented liquors Provided That a license for the of not he kss than vine hundred per year more five bundled lars a license be for a than one ir aud shall and end on the second Monday of in each yar nnd nn less the council are So nut by u to licenses in city which be dono as em nny spirituous or malt liquors city is ted and any issued except vote hhiili lie void PEC No vote shall bo had upon the question of license or no license in said city after the election after duo lo be given by the clerk of at ten and when notice has been tors at nny fur said vote upon question those in favor of shall have or printed rin ballots for and those have written or printed on ballots and when shall bo binding and in in saic city until reversed ut future an- election fur city in the man ncr Provided That the question c f license or no license shul bo voted upon at the first election ii said city without regard to notice and the result shall bo same as had been thereof The clerk when requested in ity fifty voters of snid cit shull notice that the question ol license or no will bo at the next cli for said and a or a refusal on the of said clerk to do so bhall constitute misdemeanor in office and be punished as provided by SKO -I The sale of fermented and malt liquors is in said city without a fur purpose by the cil after authorized thereto as hereinbefore forth which license when so granted shall bo signed by the mayor and by the iho clerk nnd the sale to a minor son or to an intemperate person or to an habitual drunkard or in a person intoxicated is prohibited whether a party has Put and aon violating any tho provisions this section be by a fine of not loss i nor than one for the offence avid one Cm each subsequent J may be until such fine is paid SEO 5 All rules of evidence by hu tn hen the voters present shall lie uf said election SKC The polls at said election hall be opened at ten o'clock A M nd be kept open until five o'clock P I of said day SEC -1 All voters of the i Albert Lea and who have resided within the limits of the city as fixed by this act at leaM twenty days ately preceding said election shall be entitled to vote at said election aud aif questions in relation to tbe right to vote at said election shall be determined by the under the laws relating to State and county elections except JIB to residence as herein provided and ex- as to of voters SEC 5 The voters voting at said election to accept this act of tion the city shall have written or printed of partly written and partly printed the words Organize city and the ballots at said election by voting against accepting organizing shall have printed of written or partly printed or partly written the words Urbanize govern J closing the polls of said election the judges shall proceed to the votes and declare the result If a majority of the bailors so caeS contain the word then the first election for city officers shall be held provided in this act and the is j government organized If a of said ballots contain the word then said first election not be held and the city ment nvt be 7 If upon he vote as provided in section six of this ter the result shall show a majority against the organization of the city then the judges shall file of said election with the clerk of Albert Lea j If ihp result shows majority for I the of said then the shall prepare duplicate j copies of the of slid election and shall file one copy the town clerk and Khali deposit copy with one of their members whose duly shall be as soon as he common council organized as provided in this act to filo said copy with the clerk of council CHAPTER XV 1 This act shall be deemed a public act and need not be pleaded nor proven in any court in this State 2 This act shall take effect from and after its passage Chinese Money The Chinese probably illustrate in- the most extreme manner the length to which loose views can be carried The of their currency that mingling of the grotesque with the which of their actions have when viewed through eyes Coined money was known ilium as early as tbe eleventh century before Christ but their inability to comprehend the principles upon which a currency should be based has led them into all sorts of which have attended with dor famine and bloodshed Coins came at last to be made so thin that of them piled together were only three inches high then gold and silver were abandoned and copper tin shells stones skins and paper were given a- fixed value and used until by abuse all the advantages to be derived tbe use of money wore lost and there wjs nothing left for tbe people 10 do but to go back to barter and this they did more than once They can not be now to have a coinage years ago thoy made round coins with a square hole in the middle and they have made no ad ranee beyond that Cilice Tho well-known rank is a cast brass coin of that description and though it is valued at about one and a half of our money and has to be in lots of to be computed with any ease it is the sole measure of value and legal tender of the country Spanish Mexican and our new dollars are employed in China they pass because they are necessary for larger op raI ions and because faith in their value hai become hut thoy arc current simply as stamped with their weight and fineness indicated An old lady remarked lhat if the people whom the Lord fed had been im as ministers there would not havo been so many baskets to What's tho the teacher iu arithmetic between one yard and two A said rummy Beales Then Tommy sat on tho fourteen times every idea is already patent but the man who that will kill two cats one- hrow will find a clear Sold ami from it his O
