The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-10-15
"BCcR Bankrupt Since the First Shove
Of Dirt was Taken out"

of Dirt was Taken out"
A correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune who has been up in Minnie,
sofa for the past year investigating
the management and future prospects
Of The Northern Pacific Railroad.
tells some ngly thinga about the road
and its projectors. 1Io says:
"Thc Northern Pacific COMPANY
never had any financial standing ; i,
| has been bankrupt since The day the
first shovcltul of dirt was taken out.
Aud it the people had investigated
the prospects Of tho company they
would not to-day be holding hum
drens Of thousands Of dollars of its
worthless paper. For the last two
years the only receipts the Northern
Pacific Company has had were from
the sales Of land and its unscccured
watered bonds. There has not been
section of the twenty miles of that
read that has paid it's operating ex-
pcnses. And, while the head men of
tho Northern Pacific have been keep
ing up show Of appearances from
the money received from it's bonds
md its Hands, the OPERATORS
the laboring men havo gone
unpaid. [ have met men of
tho Northern Pacific Railroad so
poor and SO disheartened that they
were in manner beggars; yot they
were OIL the payroll ps creditors of
thu company for months Of wages.
"Other crimes against humanity
are justly laid at th> door Of the
Northern Pacific Company. That
company has employed smart, shrcwd
yet unscrupulous men TO visit the
scandinavian provinces and deceive
and inviegle those hardy sous Of the
North into cnigrating to its inhos-
a;tnble, barren lands. And it is
openly asserted in St. Paul that Min.
>tcr Gramcr, Grants brother.in-law
has been one of Of these paid agents
Hundreds of Scnndinavians are scat,
tered along the line Of the Northern
P'ciiic Railroad, living in mud |
novels and barely raising enough pro.
visions in the short seaSon to subsist
on during the long gloomy and terri
bic winter, with no market for what
little fnrp l"s !hny may stint Them
scives to acquire whose curses arc
loud and deep against the deception
practiced upon them"
A remarkable acenc was witnessed
at the Queen county (Ircland) As
sizes II few days ago. Chief Baron
pigot was about to sentence a mur.
derer to be hanged. The trial bad
occupied fortyGve days, and every
one wished to sec the las. and most
painful :ceao over. The prisoner
seemed also to desire 70 havo the
af.ir finished soon, for when the
Judge had put Oh tho black cap aud
had got as far as the name "Jamc
Monre," he was interrupted by the
prisoner who requested him to be
quick about it, for che was not
ii hit afraid.' unhccding the iuler.
ruption, his Lordship continued his
solemn speech, when the prisoner
again interrupted him, by shouting
in grutf voice and in an angry
h"Ho"f, 'Nomc, make haStc, am III
a hurry.' 1t was in vain that the
Judge attempted to explain to Moore
the awful importano of these words
which were spoken. lie did not care
all he wanted was to have tho matter
ended ; said he, I'll 60 down
below, aud YOU may talk to
yourself.' All through the speech
of the Judge the prisoner con-
tinued to interrupt, threatening
tha, II the sentence was not soon pro.
nouncea, "he'd pronounce it himself"
Al last, seeing that it was impossible
to make any sort of impression upon
the callous brute in tho dock, Baron
Pigot, in the usual form, sentenced
him to be hanged on the 8th Of Octo.
ber.