The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-04-14
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.

Warm ,weather-The Grain Market
Business--Woman rrage--Progress
OF the Northern Pacific RnilrOad-Jay
Cooke q Co.-Young Mems Assocfa-
tion.
The past few days have been unprecedent-
eddy warm for this season. The grass in our
parks is luxuriant, and the buds Of the trees
are fast expanding into leaves. The season ie
only drawback to the prospect is the lack Of
rain.
THE GRAIN MARKET
ranges for No. from 81 .27s< to 1.2s1<, 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 as men often do, on
similar occasions. 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 it's success.
Because people judge Of q cause by the char
acter of it's 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
1875 miles Of completed track, from Lake Su-
perior, and the grading is nearly finished 141
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-
ic road. the Northern Pacific Railroad has Alb
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 large force, and will be push
ed toward the center from both ends, and Is
being constructed at the lowest cost, compati-
bio with first class work, we may expect to
see it completed at an early day. The fiscal
agents of the road,
MEssRs. JAY COOKE d CO.,
who provide the means for it's construction,
have a national reputation second to no
house in this country. The stockholders have
furnished six million dollars to complete the
road through Minnesota and start it on the
Pacific coast. The first mortgage seven-thirty
gold bonds are now being sold, to complete
this national highway. The company have
fifty millions of acres of the best public lands
-23, 900 acres for each mile of road-so that
with the revenues Of the road, these bonds will
be the safest and most profitable bonds in the
market.
YOUNG MEMS ASSOCIATION.
We have had quite lively episode here re-
Gently, in an attempt by leading members of
the Young Mems Christian Association to COB
BILE up the Chicago Library Association, but
after wordy war, and free use of " means"
il was signally defeated.