Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-04-19
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.

Warm weather-The Grain Market
Business--woman sufrage--Progress
of the Northern Pacific Rai1rOad-Jay
Cooke & Co.-Young Mems Associa-
ton.
The past few days have been unprecedent-
edlv warm for this season. The grass in our
parks is uxuriant. and the buds of the trees
are fast expanding into leaves. The season is
at least two weeks earlier than usual, and the
only drawback to the prospect is the lack of
rain.
THE GRAIN MARKET
is dull for most kinds except wheat, which
ranges for No. from S1.279 to .2S15. though
the prices generally are maintained.
BUSINESS
is quite active, and the leading houses in the
prominent branches of trade have been very
active the past week. The sales this spring
have largely exceeded those of last year, for
this season.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
The Executive Committee of the Woman's
State Suffrage Association had stormy time
at their meeting one day this week, and be-
hayed about as badly men often do, on
similar occasions. L had supposed the divis
ions among the friends of this cause had been
healed But the tendency to divide and scat
ter seems irrepressible. Which shows that
there is a great deal of human nature in wo-
men. Though their conduct does not deter
mine the merits of their cause, yet 1t has much
to do in promoting or preventing Its success.
Because people judge of cause by the char
acter of its advocates.
The people of the Northwest are deeply
interested IN the
PROGRESS OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
which is being pushed forward with remark
able energy. Trains are already running over
125 miles of completed track, from Lake SUI
perior, and the grading is nearly finished AL
| miles farther through Central Minnesota to
| the eastern border of Dakota The MISSISSIPPI
pi river is bridged at Brainerd, and track-lay-
ing is proceeding rapidly westward, and by
September next trains will run to the Red riv-
er, and the grading nearly reach the Great
/ Bend of the Missouri, in Central Dakota. In
Guiding it's purchase of the st. Paul and Paci-
! fc road, the Northern Pacific Railroad has 419
miles of road now in operation, and before
/ the close of the present season the length OF
| finished track will be at least $50 miles. And
as work has also been commenced on the Pa
! cifc coast with a large force, and will be push
/ ed toward the center from both ends, and If
/ being constructed at the lowest cost, compatl-
BILE with first class work, we may expect tc
see it completed at an early day. The fsca
agents of the road,
NEssRs. JAY COOKE & CO.,
who provide the means for it's construction
have national reputation second to nc
/ uOuSe III lDlS COuHtl y Iuo poochholeioIS Lave
/ furnished six million dollars to complete the
road through Minnesota and start it on the
Pacific coast. The first mortgage seven-thirt,
gold bonds are now being sold, to complet,
this national highway. The company hav
fifty millions of acres of the best public land
-23, 900 acres for each mile of road-so tina
with the revenues of the road, these bonds viii
be the safest and most profitable bonds in tn
market.
YOUNG MEMS ASSOCIATION.
We have had quite lively episode here re
Gently, in an attempt by leading members O
the Young Mems Christian Association to COB
BILE up the Chicago Library Association, bu
after wordy war; and free use of " means
it was sgnally defeated. B