UNDER THE SNOW.
BY WILLIAM C. RICHARDS
Beautiful violets, under the snow—
Why are ye sleeping so long and so low!
Fleecy and white has your coverlet been,
Folding you close from the north-winds keen;
Keeping you warn while they bluster aloud,
But cold to me heart as a ghostly shroud!
Under whose weird-woven fringes for naught,
Some happy sign of your waking I’ve sought.
Yet from its crystalline whiteness arise—
Not the dear gleams of your exquisite eyes.
Up through its passionless mask of Death,
Steals not a pulse of your odorous breath.
I watch and I wait while the days go by,
And I call you forth, though in vain I cry.
For only one voice will your slumber stir,
When spring-time calls you will waken to her!
Her magical smile will open your grave,
And the fierce winds lull that over it rave.
Her quick-gushing tears will the greensward stain
With the tints of your beautiful eyes again.
On her passionate breath your fragrance will rise,
Clouds of sweat incense to gladden the skies!
O loitering voice and breath of the Spring!
Why will ye not haste and the violets bring?
D.S. Mollenson, of Austin, has brought suit against Judge Sherman Page, of the same place, for false imprisonment, laying his damages at $1,000. He claims that the Judge had no authority to cause his arrest; as being ineligible to the office of Judge, under the provisions of the Constitution of the State, at the time of his election, he was unlawful discharging the duties of that office.
It is announced, by authority, that Col. W.S. King, of Minneapolis, who is now in Washing ton, will be a candidate for Congress the coming fall. Gen. Averill will be a candidate for re-nomination. T.C. McClure tails out the list.
At its election last week, Stillwater voted to issue bonds to the amount of $25,000 for the construction of a levee and wharves along the water front of the city.
Justus Spero must have a long life or he will cheat the law. He was convicted at Jersey City of receiving stolen goods, and on Friday was sentenced to seven years in State Prison, upon the first charge, and three years upon each of the fifteen other indictments—making a term of fifty-two years. Spero made a mistake in not murdering the officer who arrested him, when he would have been declared insane and suffered to go about his business,
The temperance crursade (sic) in Pittsburgh was stopped on Thursday by an order to the police to arrest all ladies found praying or parading on the sidewalk.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has passed a bill appropriating $1,000,000 to erect the Centennial building in Philadelphia. https://www.historic-details.com/places/pa/phila/fairmount-park-houses/memorial-hall-1876/
MINNESOTA NEWS.
—Hon. Lloyd Barber, of Rochester, has removed to Winona.
—A wind pouring mill recently erected on Greenwood Prairie, Olmsted county, is working successfully.
—J.H. Harding, of Faribault, sold Mr. Lavoson, of St. Paul, a span of grays, with carriage, for $1,000.
—The Duluth Blast Furnace is completed, and as soon as charcoal sufficient is on hand the furnace will be put in operation.
—Wm. Wright was sentenced at Winona on Monday to two years in the State Prison for stealing a pair of horses in August last.
—The residence of Dr. Tabor, of Lake City, with most of the household effects, was burned Saturday night last. An overturned kerosene lamp set the fire.
—The St. Paul Pioneer tells of a young girl names Annie Anderson, living in that city, who, in a religious frenzy, tried to cut her throat on Friday with a pair of scissors. The injuries she inflicted were not serious, but her mind is so deranges that she will sent to St. Peter.
LOCAL NEWS.
Suicide.—On Saturday of last week a man named Anton Fralich was found lying near the Catholic Church, in the town of Albany, dead. Strychnine found in a bottle by his side told how he had come to his death. An inquest was held by Coroner Overbook, any (sic) a post mortem examination showing the presence of poison in the stomach, the verdict in accordance with these facts was rendered.
—On Monday a little misunderstanding about a horse trade produced somewhat unpleasant results between George Herberger and J.G. Huber—the former laying violent hands on the latter, but without doing him any decided injury. Mr. Herberger was arrested and taken before Justice Barnes, but at the request of Hr. Huber was dismissed on paying the costs. Let us have peace!
—The Sauk Rapids Sentinel states that Benton county is “exceedingly rich in paupers.” It complains that, for some reason, that county is called on to pay more money, proportionately, for paupers than any other county in the State.
—In about six or eight weeks from this date, at the solicitation of old patrons, Dr. A.T. Upham, of St. Paul, will be in this city , and will attend to the wants of all who may need anything in the dental line.
—There is a man in this city, who refused to settle his printing bill, and if he don’t come to time by next Wednesday we shall give his name.
If a man can’t afford, after making a couple hundred dollars, to settle up his printing bill, he should not have any printing done. Look out for the full name of the individual, if he don’t settle by next Wednesday. —St. Cloud Times
The name of the individual is Samuel Harris Rhys.
Mr. Rhys has a contra account against the Times, for teaching musical merchandise &c., by a number of dollars, the amount of the printing bill.
S.H. RHYS.
—The saloon keepers of Brainerd have voluntarily agreed to keep closed up Sundays.
—There is a town in Blue Earth county, in this State, that is very popular with people who do their swearing in a mild sort of way. It is called “Good Thunder!”
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