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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
A WHEAT BUYERS VIEWS.
He Thinks the Brass Kettle Should Not be
4drertised.
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He Thinks the Brass Kettle Should Not be
4duertised.
To the Editor of the Globe.
I observe that in your paper of late much is
SAID about the 'brass kettle,'' and that the leg
islature has been petitioned to, and now what
is the brass kettle and what is its use? It is
supposed tie be and should be the Fairbanks
test, simply indicating 10 the buyer the differ
ence in the weight of wheat. If sealed bush
ell of wheat weighs sixty pounds to the bushel
1t is worth more than measured bushel that
weighs only IS or SIS pounds, ETC.. and in this
way affording just and accurate method in
which to determine what the price of wheat
should be, and if they are doing an honest
business there is no wrong in its use.
If the farmers adjacent to a buyer find that
he has been dealing dishonorably with them,
they should let him alone, and with the loss
of his basiness he would soon freeze out.
Dishonest dealing in buying wheat is found
and should be regarded no less leniently than
fraud in the purchase Or sale Of any other COM
modify, and there are already upon our sta
tutes laws for the punishment Of fraudulent
proceedings.
am farmer, having raised wheat for ten
years In the State of Minnesota. I am also a
wheat buyer, having purchased wheat for the
same length of time. I have no selfish in
terest in the matter, and simply wish
that the best interests of the people
may prevail. l have had no occasion to use
the tester for the last four years. for the reason
that the average weight of wheat delivered to
me was sufficient to grade No. ! or 2, rarely 8,
the difference in grades being readily detected
by anyone experienced in handling the COM
modify. The deceiving appearance of wheat
this year, however, renders the tester necessary,
with its use a difference of two or three
pounds will often be found to exist between
samples that otherwise seem the exact counter
part of each other.
Further. Suppose the petitioners succeed
in having law passed to do away with the
''brass kettle" Minnesota buyers will be
obliged to buy by guess, and sell in Milwaukee
and Chicago by test weight In year like the
present one, under the recent laws of Wiscon-
sin and Illinois, it would be almost impossible
for parties to buy wheat in Minnesota and ship
to Milwaukee and Chicago with any certainty
of what they were doing, consequently the
farmer would be more than at the mercy
of the buyer who, to protect his own interests,
would make the grade low enough to save him
self, and would, in this vicinity. undoubtedly
bring the average down to rejected instead of
No. and 4, making difference in price of
about 10 to 20 cents per bushel.
l mention this matter, having common in
terest with the farming community. believing
there is some better way to prevent fraud,
where it exists, than an attack upon the ''brass
KETTLE" SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
THE ARMY.
Prospects of the Burnside Bill


Gen. Banning thinks that the Burnside
commission army bill may pass the Senate
with the provisions stricken out which give
the general of the army question
able and alleged unconstitutional power, and
also the provisions relative to the manufac-
ture of small arms. Gen. Burnside has in
timated that he should endeavor to pass the
bill with these omissions. One obstacle
to the passage of any scheme for
the reorganization of the army at
present is that the Democrats appear dis
posed not to take any action in the mat
ter until they have control of both branches
of Congress, and some will oppose it until
they can secure the Presidency, which they
assume they will in 1880. It is very mani
fest that the debate upon the army bill will
be quite bitter, and in some respects per-
sonaI.
Burnside's friends have interpreted the re-
cent letter of Gen. Butler in opposition to
the army BILL in which it was charged that
the bill was in the interests of small arms
manufacturers, as being personal reflection
in small way upon Burnside. Now it hap
pens that Gen. Butter is a reputed owner
III one OF Tue improved patents OF the
Martini rifle, and that he is also a
large owner in cartridge factory which sup
plies the ordnance department. with a CON
siderable portion of its ammunition. If
these facts are demonstrated, and if their
truth is made apparent, there is no doubt
Gen. Buffers position may be liable to the
same imputations which Burnside's friends
think Butler has endeavored to cast upon the
Rhode Island Senator. At all events, docu-
ments are likely to be forthcoming from the
treasury and ordnance departments showing
who is interested in these different patents,
and what sums have been paid on account of
that interest.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
M1ss1ss1pp1.)
a State That Is Suffering from, Eptraordt-
nary Pr0stration.

State IHdt IS SMHeTSmg from EDtrGOrdt-
nary PsOstrntion.
A letter has been received in Washington
by gentleman in high official position
which gives very. gloomy view of the con-
dition and prospects of the people in the
river counties of Mississippi. From this
letter it appears that the blacks are idle.
people are poor, and the plantations running
to weeds, and that the great State of Missis-
sippi is in condition of degeneracy. Fol-
lowing are significant extracts from a letter:
1rhe hard times and poor crops along the
Mississippi river have reduced all classes to
a condition which no one can realize except
by coming here. Magnificent estates, which
formerly yielded fabulous returns, are now
A MERE WRECK,
and as is the landed property and land
owners of the county, so may 1t readily be
pictured what the laboring class must be
since the war. Each year the negro labor-
ers, with few exceptions, have been growing
poorer and poorer, until now there is an
actual impoverishment of the whole mass,
and they are powerless to cultivate the crops,
and must depend upon others for actual
AOOu III Uuo 1ubuICss OuU VI 1OO 1dDOI0rH
there will not be found five who have teams,
wagons and other Implements for successful
cultivation, I have been here nearly two
weeks right in their midst, with hundreds of
them in radius of six miles, and what I
write is from actual observations and thor
ough scrutiny, and ! sadly confess that the
great problem as to the black race is yet
ONE DIFFICULT OF SOLUTION,
which must test the true craftsmanship of
the country. The negroes are in rags, shoe
less and destitute, and, worse than all, not
DESTROYS of working. The thrifty and in
dustrions white race has not come forward to
replace other labor. The whites now here,
as general rule, are sons of the former
landowners, reared in luxury, and without
experience in work, For accustomed to labor.
The result of ten yeas has brought them to
nearly the same coriition of impoverish-
ment as the black race. Prices of cotton
have been steadily dropping each year, but
insatiate interest ana commissions have not
abated, and so merchants have accumulated
load of debJ to the point, probably, of the
value of half the LAND, and the mortgage is
foreclosed and the former owner is homeless
and destitute. In stretch of nearly eight
miles of splendid cotton land in front of my
window, this is the record of nearly every
plantation, formerly producing thousands of
dollars of revenue, and now owned by COM
mission merchants
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
, uron ol the election laws of the United States.
r 10 o1ate court assured that they we're

a1on OF the election laws of the United States
Ane otate court assured that thew were
| iequlred ey 1t at Selma for uses in similar
vases Ior violation of the State election laws
ine oncers made due return to the nro
cess served upon them to the effect that the
| oallot boxes and ballots were not in their
possession or under their personal control
| Out were In the custody of the United States
| circuit court. When process had thus been
returned to the State court the Judge of the
iatter instantly issued writs of attachment for
Tue bodies of Mayer and Turner and d.
| recsed their commitment for contempt. Dis
trlct Attorney Mayer at this iuncture tele
Sraphed Attorney General Devens for in
structlons. and was advised to prepare him
| seli Tor release under writ of habeas corpus
III Inc event of the execution of the threat to
arrest MIN. This he did, and being arrested
at huntsville last Saturday, whittier he ha d
gone IN attendance on his official duty, he
was released on writ issued by Judge Bruce,
ou1 Marshal turner, who was not thus fore
armed was arrested and committed to Jail.
Az latest accounts he was yet in custody, and
unoer the laws of the State regulating COM
mltments for contempt of State courts
would remain in confinement for
i've days, subject to immediate
recommitment as soon as released for an
other i've days as long as the contempt rests
against him. Meanwhile the ballot boxes
ana ballots remain in possession of the
united States court, and the case in which
tney are to be used has been adjourned till
April.
NEW YORK NOMINATIONS
The Republican of to morrow VIII. print
the following upon the subject of New York
nominations: 'It is now very generally
conceded that the New York custom house
nominations will be eventually confirmed,
NO action will be had in the premises, how
ever, until after reply has been received
from Collector Arthur by the Senate COM
merce committee to the charges alleged
against him in the executive message sent to
the Senate last Wednesday. These charges
were capable of ready and satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION IN the opinion of SEN
ator Conkling and his friends, and
If they are so explained the re-
lection of the pending nominations of
Merritt, Burke q Graham may ensue, but it
IS confidently believed in administrative
circles that they cannot be so easily answer
ed or disposed of. Among them is an ex-
pllclt charge that owing to General Arthurs'
remlssness the government lost $4,000
per annum, custom duties on kid gloves,
S5,OOO,OOO per annum on silks and on
sugars, although it is proper to add that a
portion of this loss on sugars is not directly
chargeable to the New York custom house.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
NUMBER 6.
THE CHEYENNES.
They Threaten to Lence tie Indian Terri
tory for the Northwest Hunting Grounds
IN the SDrin1.

tory for the Northwest Hunting Grounds
IN the Spring,
Washington Special.
An officer of the army who has had long
experience with the Indians of the northwest,
now temporarily in this city, says that IN his
jugdment there is serious danger of the
Cheyennes, now in Indian Territory, break
ing away in the spring and making their way
across Kansas and Nebraska to the northwest
hunting grounds. The Cheyennes, he says,
are the finest Indians physically now alive.
The men are brave, strong and desperate
fighters, and the women are chaste. The
Cheyenne warriors did the most of the fight
ing during the late Sioux war, and at the
massacre of Custer it was the Cheyenne
bucks that played the most havoc in this
disastrous campaign. The Cheyenne war
riors now in Indian Territory are desperate.
They say they cannot and will not
stay there. It is death anyhow, and they
might as well be killed fighting in the field as
die like dogs in their present imprisonment,
for that is all it is. There are about 1000
Cheyenne bucks who are determined to break
away. There are but two courses to pursue
with them They must either be disarmed,
and then all their ponies taken away and
sufficiently strong force placed about them,
Or else they must be taken back to the
Northwest and allowed to affiliate with the
Sioux. If the latter course is pursued it will
be less difficult and less expensive to main-
tain control of them than if they are re-
tanned in Indian Territory. The plan of
the officer above referred to is to gather all
the Sioux and Cheyennes in the Northwest
and draw Gordon of troops about them,
and let the responsibility for their manage
ment be turned over to the military.
THE INDIAN COMMISSION.
In this connection, it may be stated that
the Indian commission appointed by the
Senate and House at the last session is eqral-
ly divided on the question of transferring the
Indians to the war department. tits thought,
however, that a majority of the commission
ennes to the military.
THE FORT ROBINSON MASSACRE.
In regard to the Cheyennes confined at
Fort Robinson, DR.. McGillicuddy. who has
been appointed Indian agent at Red Cloud
agency, vice Irwin, who has resigned, says
that when the Indians were informed that
they would be taken to Leavenworth they
said that they would die first, and then the
officers in command tried to freeze and
starve them into submission. Wood was
first refused. This had no effect upon them.
The squaws and children were freezing, and
the officers offered to let them come to the
fires, but the Indians would not suffer them
to go. The squaws would not leave their
bucks, and said they preferred to die with
them. Then followed the fight and the sub
sequent bloody results.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
Minneapolis s. St. Paul Railroad.

The question as to the route to be adopted
by the Minneapolis & St. Paul railroad, be-
tween the two cities, it is understood will
largely depend upon the cost of right of
way. It is understood that the property
owners along the line of the last survey
made have nearly all signifed their willing
ness to donate the company the right of
way, should this line be adopted. In view
of this, friends of the route originally con-
templated by the company, upon which the
midnight work was commenced few weeks
since, are endeavoring to ascertain what the
property owners along that line will do
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
Weather To-Day.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-Indications for
upper lake region, slight rise in temperature
and partly cloudy weather, with areas of
snow and falling barometer. For upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys, part
~ cloudy or clear weather, with southerly
to westerly winds, falling barometer, sta
tlonery OF slowly rising temperature.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
The Business Troubles of Archbishop Pur
cell.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 19.-An effort will be
made to adjust the financial troubles of
Archbishop Purcell, which have been Great
ing considerable excitement among the
Roman Catholics of this city, by placing a
large portion of church property in the do
cese in the hands of five trustees, who will
issue bonds payable at will after three years
and within twenty, the bonds to bear 5 pei
cent. interest. It is expected these bonds
will be taken largely by those who have de.
posted money with the archbishop. 1t is
now ascertained his liabilities will reach
half a million dollars. In the meantime
strenuous efforts are being made to have the
Pope decline to receive his resignation.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
The Order of Rnai Rritb

DAYTON, O., Jan. 19.-Grand district
lodge No. 2, independent order of Bnai
Birth, met in annual session in this city be-
ginning to-day, in the hall of Escon lodge.
Thirty delegates were present from thirty
nine lodges of the order in this district,
which comprises Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
Missouri and Colorado. Business of the
day included the address of President Kra-
mer,of St. Louis land reports of the secretary,
treasurer, executive committee and trustees
of the endowment fund, and decisions we're
rendered in appeals from Abraham lodge
So, of Indianapolis, and Osterman lodge Sc,
of Cincinnati. The lodge adjourned this
evening till tomorrow morning. The trus-
tees of the Jewish Orphan asylum of the
order located in Cleveland, met with the
lodge, holding quarterly meeting.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
Will Rcsume-o1d Boreas

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 19.-It is announced here
on what is regarded as good authority that
the firm of Dodd, Brown & 20. will resume
business shortly, arrangements favorable to
such action having been made with their
creditors.
Old boreas came blowing down from the
northwest again last night and drove the
mercury close to zero. The cold will not
last long, as inquiry at the signal service
shows the temperature rising at all points
west and northwest of here.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
Ice Break in the Mononyahe,a.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 19.-The ice in the
Monongahela began running about noon. It
has been running steadily ever since that
time The Allegheny and Youghiogheny
rivers are still closed, and as it has turned
colder 1t is not probable they will come now.
No damage has been done here, but consid-
cradle is reported from up the Monongahela
So far as known one towboat, the Dauntless.
has been sunk and twenty-five empty coal
barges and three coal tipples have been car
ried away or destroyed. River thirteen feet
| and rising slowly. Weather turned colder,
and has been showing since 4 P. NJ.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
An Aged and Beloved Pastor Dead.

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Jan. 19.-The Rev.
James A. Carnahan, an old pioneer, and for
over forty years pastor of the Presbyterian
church, at Dayton, in this county, died this
morning at 1890 o'clock. He has boon an
earnest and faithful minister for fifty years,
and passed to his reward honored and be-
loved by all who knew him.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
WASHINGTON,
%'I He AND GOSSIP FROM THE " A.
1ION4L CIPITlL.

appropriation Bills Still REMAINING to ~.
Acted Upon-The Army Bill v,tb,o,a
>"'''''"s action Upon the Reorsaniza-
ZION scheme-HendriclSs and Thurman
He"erai Officials Arrested i'm A1aham,
Ne" York Nominations-hIiscell
Capital Notes.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20

A few days ago young man named Phillip
Hartel, while engaged in chopping down trees
in the town Of Helvetia, Waupaca county, had
his nose badly smashed by large limb, which
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
Physician and Author Dead

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19.-Dr. John B.
Biddle, dean of Jefferson college, we'll
known physician and medical author of some
repute, died to-day.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.

OFFICE OF OBSERVATION, SIGNAL CoRPs U. s. A.
INGERsoLL BLOCK, THIRD STREET,
ST PAuT, MTNN
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20

R. j. LEWIS,
Sergeant Signal Corps, U. s. A.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-09
Death of Mrs. lizzie Martin

This estirnable woman died at
her home in this county last Thurs
day morning, July 81, 1879, in the
74th year of her age. She attended
church at Antioch on Sunday and
Monday previous to her death, and
spoke of it to the writer as being a
great comfort to her. From her
childhood she had been a devoted
member of the Methodist Church,
and her piety was unquestioned.
She was a great favorite with the
young people, her piety being of a
cheerful kind, which kept her from
losing sympathy with the rising
generation. Her illness, a longest
i've chill, perhaps, was short, lasting
only few hours. Her physician,
DIR. Ussery, was promptly at her
bedside, but she was beyond all hui
man aid. Her neighbors showed
their affection for her by filling An
tioch church at the funeral service.
"Aunt Lizzie" had no enemies, and
deserved none. We must speak of
the affection, unwearied attention,
and sincere grief of her step-chil-
dren, Thos. Thompson and wife,
who have SO lohg tried to make her
declining years pleasant and happy.
We laid her by the side of her hus-
band, Elijah Martin, who for years
was living example of piety and
integrity in this community.
Aug. 2, 1879. J. w. CULLoM.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-09

THE following card from the
Louisville railroad authorities, ex-
planatory of their difficulties in re-
g rd to running trains, is published
in the Memphis papers:
''It being impossible to run trains
without privilege of stopping at
local points on railroad to obtain
water for engine and use of passen-
gers, transact business, and paTticu-
larly to enable conductors to receive
orders in regard to movement of
trains, and as all towns on Louis
vile d Nashville road as far north
and including Milan are quaran-
tined against trains from Memphis,
it becomes imperative upon the
management of this road to cease
running trains at all. The officers,
however, induced the authorities at
Humboldt, and at two or three
other points, to agree to permit their
trains to run from Bartlett to Hum
boldt, and stop at different stations
between these two points, provided
no intercourse was had with Mem
phis. This arrangement would
have been very favorable to the
interests of the road, as no business
has been done south of Bartlett for
the past six days. The railroad,
not wishing to sever their connec-
tons, have, through the active and
continued efforts of the General Su-
perintendent, d. W. G. Rowland,
succeeded in getting the local towns
to run tri-weekly trains, and to
carry mail to and from Memphis.
In a telegram received to-day by
their agent here, from Mr.. Rowland,
he is assured that every effort is
being made by conference with the
POstOffice Department at Washing
ton, D. c., with a view of making
such arrangements as will be salts
factory to the people of Memphis,
and to the people at all points on
the line of the Louisville d Nash
vile rQad.n
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-09

Pres Byrne-Pea Augustine-late
clerical representative of old Colera
Medicine on the Thomas Tennessee
Hillman, has stepped down and out
from steamboating, and, in connec-
lion with Luck lawson, is engaged
in the show business down in Jack
sons Purchase.
Capt. Fo. T. Fowler, of the in
furiated Fisk, has cleaned out that
New man on the old Champion.
Capt. James B. Eads advocates
the substitution of railroad, in
stead of canal, by which the
largest ships may be carried across
the Isthmus of Darien. A cores
pendent of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, Student" says Capt. E. went
and stole his idea.
Dock Gracey is now at Saratoga
Springs-near Eddyville.
The commissioned officers of Com
pany E, in Cerro Gordo Williams
famous Fourth Kentucky Volun-
teers, were Geo. B. Cook, Edgar D.
Barbour, John Snyder and Ben. F.
Egan. Cook died in Princeton,
KY; Barbour was murdered in
California; Snyder fell out of tree
in the District of Columbia and
broke his neck; Eagan is a poor
farmer way out in Iowa, has a pint
of hay seed in his hair, and nary
cent in his pockets.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-09
Erin Items.

BECKY JANE.

EDITORS CHRONICLE-Th Cir
cult Court has been in session all
the week, Judge Stark presiding.
Although the weather is very hot,
good deal of business has been
done in clearing up the criminal
docket.
The Grand Jury are said to be
doing an unusually large amount of
work, and it may be expected that
many men, not expecting it, will
be before the court for trial at next
term,
The civil docket has been cop-
tinued, and the case of Louis
Mitchell VS.. A. WE'LL is set for the
first Thursday after the first Monday
in December neEt.
Erin is healthy and no symptoms
of yellow fever have appeared.
Tomorrow will be election day,
and it is thought to be doubtful
whether the 50-4 will prevail in this
county.
Messrs. Broaddus and Buquo have
done valiant service for the COM
promise, and deserve the thanks of
the friends Of State honor for the
part they have taken to sustain it.
But you will know before you get
this whether the people have seen
fit to heed their advice.
Crops in this county are excellent.
Corn will be abundant this fall. If
the 5O-4 be ratified by the people,
this county will be in a prosperous
condition. Xxx
ERIN, August 9, 1878.