The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-12-18


feet at sixty feet from the root. The chop
per took two hours and q half to fell the,
monster 5
The late railroad difficulty at st. Paul.
Minnesota, is at an end. The Milwaukee &
St. Paul, and st. Paul q Sioux City companies
have agreed to horInonizc. on the plan Flown
ing an undivided interest in the rightof way,
and further conflict will cease.
A special to the Aavertsser from BON
bay dated December 1lth, says an Afghan
official arrived in Gen. Browns camp from
Jellalabad and invited the British to advance
to Cabul and establish q new government in
consequence OF a general rising against the
amer.
John Green aud team, at St. Paul, Min
nesota, Dec. 18th, were run over by q gravel
train at the crossing of the st. Paul & Pa
cific railroad track, near the city mill. Both
of his legs were crushed, and If he lives which
is doubtful, one will have to be amputated.
He also received other injuries.
The October returns of the department
of agriculture did not materially change the
aspect of the wheat crop as fOreshadowed by
Der returns, including estimates OF the yield
per acre, confirm and somewhat enlarge
previous estimates. A compilation from all
the returns show the aggregate crop to be
about 425,00O,OOO bushels
A serious smash occurred on the Bal.
timore & Ohio railroad shortly before daylight
the 18th list. A west bound freight jumped
the track near Laughlin Station and was bad
ly wrecked. One of the brakemen named
Fuller, was buried under the debris and when
taken out found to be badly hurt. The road
was badly blocked at the wreck and passen.
gers compelled to transfer all day.
New discoveries of rich silver deposits
continue in the vicinity of Leadville. Itappears
that nearly two millions pounds of base bull
lion was transported from Leadville by one
route in November, and upwards twice that
quantity of high grade. The Colorado
Spring shipments alone in November, of base
silver bullion, were 1925, 900 pounds 1t is
evident that the product in silver of the Lead
vile mines will very largely exceed any es-
Inmates hitherto published.
A meeting of railroad officials was held
in St. Paul on the 14th inst. Some half dozen
roads were represented. The object of the
meeting was to consider the question of q
Union passenger depot in st. Paul. An
agreement was entered into to build such a
depot, and articles of agreement were pre-
sented to be submitted to the respective roads.
The building is to be at the foot of Sibley
street, and is to be 800 feet long, and 100 feet
wide, with 10 foot space for carriages and
omnibuses. The structure will cost some
half million of dollars.
On the 18th inst, great storm of rain
and wind prevailed in the eastern states,
sweeping through New York. New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. and very wide
sweep of country, causing foundations on
rivers, the sweeping away of railroad and
other bridges, interrupting railroad trains and
destroying immense amount of property. In
some places on banks of rivers people had to
abandon their homes, and in some places
dwelling houses were swept away. A great
loss of life is not reported
The sugar traders at u meeting in New
York city, pronounced e,nphatcally against
Secretary Sherman's proposed change in the
mode of collecting duties on that article as
in the highest degree unjust and impracti-
cable. Instead of decreasing the temptation
to defraud, they believe it will have just con-
trary effect, andi any changes at all are to be
made in the tariff they think it should be
soframed as to avoid discrimination against
qualities of raw sugar, whether of high or low
grade, and that will conform as near as prac-
ticable to ad valorem duty.
6 Dispatches Of the 18th inst, from cen
trail and western Missouri, Iowa and Kansas,
say the heaviest snow storm known for years
prevailed there the day previous, snow fall
ing to depth of from ten to thirty inches,
and in some localities Is very badly drifted,
Railroads were generally INSTRUCTED and
some Of them have been obliged to suspend
running trains altogether. At Lexington,
Mo-, and other places schools closed and bus
mess stopped. At Fulton and Rock Island,
the Mississippi river closed and people walked
across it on ice