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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-03-06

Scarce darkened by the shadows OF these hours
The Manitou of Flowers,
Crowned with the painted-cup, that shakes
Its CLEAN of war-paint on the dusky cheek,
Goes by, but cannot speak;
Yet tear or dew-drop meath his eoronal breaks,
And in his dropping hand
The azure eyelids of the gentian die
That loves the yellow autumn land:
The mild-hower, golden-rod,
With phlox and orchis, nod
And every blossom frail and shy
No careless loterer sees,
But poet sun and breeze,
And the bright countenancc of our western
sky.
They know who loved them: they, il all
Forgot to dress his pail
Or strew his couch OF long repose,
Would from the prairies and the central SHOWS
The signing west-wind call,
Their petals, even as withered tears, to bear,
And, like a Niobe of air,
Upon his seaside grave to let them fall.
Next you We many streams,
That make music through his cold green
land
Whether We scour the granite slides
In broken spray-light or in sheeted CLEANS
Or in dark basins stand,
Your bards fond spirit in your own abdes.
Not yours the wall of woe,
WHOSE JOY Is III your VITA ana walton HOW
Chill, beautiful Undines
That fash white hands behind your thicket-
screens,
And charm the wild wood and the cloyen
fumes
To hide you in their glooms.
But he hath kissed you and his lips betray
Your coyest secrets; now, no more
Your pickering, winking tides shall stray
Through August's idle day.
Or showered with leaves from brown Novem-
ber's floor,
Untamed and rich in mystery
AS we were wont to be-
From where the dells OF Greylock feed
Your thin, young life, to where the Sangamon
Breaks with his winding green the Western
mead,
| Delay to hasten on
Ask not the clouds and hills
| To swell the veins of your obedient rills
| And brjm your banks with turbid overflow;
But calmly, soothly go,
| Soft as a sigh and lmpid as tear,
so that We seem to borrow
The voice and the yisage OF sorrow,
| For he gave you glory and made you dear
w.
Strong Winds and mighty Mountains, soyer-
eign Sea,
What shall your dirges be?
The slow, great pillows, far down the shore,
| Booms in its breaking: "Dare-and de-
The fetterless winds, as they gather and
roar,
Are evermore crying: "Where, oh where ?''
The mountain SUBMITS, with ages hoar
| Say: "Near and austere but fur and fairn'
Shall ye in your sorrow drOop,
! Who are strong and sad, and who cannot
stoop?
| Two may sing to him where he lies
| But the third is hidden behind the skies.
Ye cannot take what he stole,
| And made his own in his inmost soul,
The pulse of the endless wave
| Beauty and breath to his strophes gave;
| Held him poised at height serene;
| And the world that wooed him, he smiled
10 o'ercome IT;
Whose being the Mountains made so
strong
| Whose forehead arose like a sunlighted
summit
| Over eyes that were fountains of thought
and song!
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-03-06

Stanley Matthews is spoken OF Tor the
Berlin mission.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18
BostOn's New Steamship Line.
Edinburg Scotsman. Nov. Is.

The steamer Phmnician, 1,4S4 tons
net register, sailed from Glasgow last
night for Boston. This vessel is the
pioneer of steam service from Clyde
to this northern United States port, and
she is intended to sail from Boston
early next month direct for Glasgow.
Messrs. Allan, the owners of the Pho.
nician, intend to have a Sailing every
alternate third week, according to the
necessities of the service. 1t is expect"
ed that Boston, which has now very
complete railroad route to the Canadi-
an frontier, will prove the winter port,
as Montreal is the summer port, for the
Canadian interior. The Messrs. Allan,
who have weekly Clyde and Canadian
steam service to Montreal during the
summer, will thus divert portion of
their feet to the Boston route during
the winter. after the St. Lawrence is
closed. For sonne years past they have
had occasional steamers sailing to and
from Portland during the winter. but
the new route presents greater facilities
for q steady and regular trade.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18

and financial reasons, but only as bits
of property to be sold out, then our
commercial world must tend to the
same sort of pitiful rottenness that is
observed In our political world in many
municipalities, notably in this city; and
any fact which tends in that direction
is public calamity; and railroad wars
or other events that lead to making the
shares of a corporation the baubles of
speculation do lead that way. Certainly
we do not say that the sale of Central,
whoever may be the real buyer, must be
evil; but it is clear that combination
which has required such guarantee as
the sale actually made means that its
purposes shall not be stayed or limited
alta critical moment by the scruples of
the man who inherited the Central as
a great trust"
There is one effect of this event upon
which we may count as tolerably GER
tain, and that is that it will force upon
the minds of thoughtful men through
out the country, some distinct consid
GRAFTON of the fact that interests of such
moment to the public welfare-interests
that concern the convenience and for
tune of every individaal-ought not at
any time or in any country to be at the
mercy or subject to the dictation and
the caprice of so small number of
men as now control the great mass of
railroad interests in the United, States.
In other countries the public domin-
ion makes itself felt in these concerns;
the general will, as declared through the
law marks fixed limit to the vagaries
of speculative trickery. Here the gen.
eral will of the nation does not touch
the subject, and the local will, as heard
In the state legislatures, mostly declares
itself like the directors above referred
to in order that it may be bought out.
Our people please themselves with the
fancy that they are free because they
have the right to NEEDLE a little in pol
itics now and then. In conventions, in
legislatures and in all similar places,
they chatter and twaddle and scream
like so many crows and jays over the
eternal principles of freedom as secur-
ed in the political fabric, and mean
while the great economi cal facts in life
the facts which are and always were
the really shaping and controlling forces
in the political destinies of a people
sweep rapidly and certainly forward on
lines that indicate the will and move.
ment of the despotic spirit. In that
movement a great collision with the
popular will is in preparation.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18
spicy Paragraphs.

She will never crown with her earnest love
The life of some honest, loving man,
For she kindled the fire in the kitchen stove
With the lightsome tilt of tue kerosene can,
Harrington HasUkeye.
The household that keeps a baby
| can afford to sell its alarm clock verv
cheap.
When you see a callow youth with a
wooden TOOTH pick in bis mouth it is not
circumstantial evidence that he's SELL
ing lumber by sample.-New York Ne,us
A member Of Congress chided his
daughter because she permitted her
lover to stay after 10 o'clock. "La, pa"
she said we are only holding little ex-
ira session."
If hunter will oniv hunt long
enough he will be sure to pull his gun
ever the fence by the muzzle, and the
day he does that he quits hunting.-Dc-
t1oit Free Press.
The editor Of a Red Bank IN. J.)
newspaper replies to an attack upon
him in another Red Bank newspaper
by saying that when an idiot, pen, ink
and paper get together the result should
not be published"
A gentleman met stranger on the
street grasped his hand cordially and
exclaimed, in tones of polite recogniza-
ton "Mr. Brown believer eff YOU be.
lieve that" calmly replied the stranger
whose name was Hamilton, you'll be-
lieve anything."
1t is strange how sudden the opening
of a parlor door will send two people to
the ends of the sofa, and set them to
counting the figures in the carpet.
There must be something powerful in
the draft of air to blow human beings
around that way.-Providence Journal.
A shirt of strong chain mail is now
worn by the Gar of Russia. We pre-
sumo Alexander's object is to cut down
the dimensions of his wash BILL, but it
looks rather small of a man in his line.
Let your laundry list alone, Alec, and
attend to the Nihilist. That's our ad-
vice.-Boston Transcript.
President Lincoln once listened pa
tiently while friend read long man.
uscript to him, and who then asked
"What do you think of it? how will it
take?' The President reflected a little
while, and then answered.: "Well for
people who like that kind of thing, I
think that isjust about the kind of thing
they'd like"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18
Fishing on Sunday.
1n6ianan0lis News

It was delightful Sunday afternoon,
Sabbath: school was out, and the super
intendent took stroll up the canal.
The grasshoppers were turning somer-
sets in the high grass, their last perform
ance for the season, and the emerald
vested katydids warbled from their
velvety coverts under the mullen
leaves. When he got to the aqueduct
over Fall Creek, where the water, escap-
ing through the time .riven timbers,
joins the flood below, most musical in
their meeting, he found a wicked &C.
quaintance, with line dangling in the
water. He was about to frame reproof
for the Sabbath-breaker when, goodness
gracious, what a bite! Another, and a
bass, 8 perfect beauty, vas founcing
over the green grass. "What sort of
bait are you using, Jim?" (The reproof
was postponed. Hoppers," was the
reply, as the line, rebaited, slid into the
stream. He fumbled nervously in his
vest pocket, and found he had hook and
line, but-Jim had another bite, and
another three-quarter-pound bass was
thrown upon the bank. "Where do
you get your bait?" he asked. "Oh,
these boys II ketch 'em for YOU" "You
don't say SOP The line came out of his
pocket, the hook was baited, and
three-quarter-pounder was gasping on
the shore. Another, and then another!
Never was such luck. The superintend-
ent was excited. "Hurry up with the
grasshoppers." "Please, Mr.. c., here's
a hopper" piped small boy. The SUI
perintendent looked down. The eyes Of
the angler and his helper met. 1t was
q crowning mercy he didn't tumble into
the water. The grasshopper purveyor
was the boss boy of his Sunday-school.
There are sermons in running brooks to
that Sunday-school superintendent, and
yet he can't be got within mile of
stream, and can't even look at an ice
wagon without shudder.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18

A very old lady on her death-bed in
a penitential mood said: IL have been
great sinner more than eighty years,
and didn't know it." An old darkey
woman who had lived with her long
time exclaimed: 'Lors! I knowed itsall
the time"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18

For customs.
From Internal rev. -.
From sales Of pub
lie lands..........
From tax on circu-
lation and deposit
of national banks.
From repayment Of
interest by Pacific
railway compan's
From customs fees,
fines, penalties,
etc.
From fees, consular
letters, patents,
and lands. .......
From proceeds of
sales of govern
ment property.
From profits on
coinage, etc .....
From revenues OF
the District of
Columbia. ..... ..
From miscellaneous
sources.
Total
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18

Total receipts, actual and estimated $288 900
Total expenditures, actual and esti-
Leaving a remainder of......$ $4,000 900
After applying the balance of the special deposit
of United States notes held in the treasury the
redemption of fractional currency, amounting to
SS,375, 9A, to the payment Of arrears of pensions,
as directed in section 3 of the act approved June
H. 1879, the increased revenue derived during the
months Of July, August, and September Of the
present year was fully absorbed by current expen-
scs and the payment Of $16,374,S49 go arrears of
pensions accruing under act approved Jan. q,
the department. has been able to purchase and ap:
ply to the sinking fund out Of the surplus reve-
rues for tho month Of October 81 ,O5OOOO per
ccntum bonds of 1881, and 500, 0s0 S per centam
bonds, act Of March 1884, the latter Of which is
sues of4 per cents under the refundlng acts, and,
unless expeG;ted aRPropr1ations available Tor ex-
the surplus revenues in addition to paying Of the
WIN
account during the year the sum Of ga 0o0,0 900.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18
For civil and miscel-
laneOus expenses,
including public
buildings, light

laneOus expenses,
including public
buildings, light
houses and col
lecting revenue.
For Indians go. 90.
For pensions, regu-
lar. ............
For arrears of pen
s1Ons .............
For military eetab-
lishments, includ-
ing Notifications,
river and harbor
improvements and
arsenals ...........
For naval establish
1nents, including
vessels and ma
ehinery, and i'm
prOvements al
navy-yards.
For expenditures on
account of the
District OF Column
For interest on the
public debt. ......
Total ordinary
expenditures.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18

The amount due the sinking fund for the year
was S36, 463, leaving deficiency on this &C
count Of 3OO76, 503.7O. Compared with the pre-
vous fiscal year. the receipts for 1879 have increas-
ed S 6,H1, 1870, in the following items:
In customs revenue. $7,079 367 50
In internal revenue. Observation-Disclosures. 2,979,955 "a
In premium on loans. ............... 1896 943 Is
In repayment of interest by Pacific
railroad companies. ................ 1,340,246 81
In profits on coinage. ............... 1884, rs 81
In miscellaneous items. 1853, 40 ~
These was a decrease Of $647, 1853 a. as follows:
In sales Of public lands Standardization 81
In premiums on sales of coin. ........, 3O6.997 %
In scmannual tax on banks. ......- 1859 "a
III proceeds Of sales OF government
property. :...........::. ....:.. 6s,a4l o.
Making net increase on the receipts from all
sources Tor the year of SIG, .63, 3u5. 76.
The expenditures show an increase over the
previous year of S32, "a, 731 &c. as follows:
In the war department -........,$ S211.51a Is
In the interior department.. $685., 292 II
Indians. acknowledgements. 511,sss g.
ItuS1CnS 1921, 4O5 81
In the interest on the public debit. 2S27,u7 IS
In the civil and miscellaneous ...... IL 563 81
There was decrease Of *, $40, 53 in the navy
department., making net increase in the expen-
ditures OF so, 9S3, 55613.
FISCAL YEAR 1880.
For the present fiscal year the revenue, actual
and estimated, will be as follows:
Receipts.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18

Compared with the previous year, the imports
are greater by 726 and the exports by *15,
573,675. The annual average o. the excess Of such
June 80, 1873, is $1o40e 1922, but during the last
four years there has been On excess Of exports
over imports, as follows:
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18

The total gold value of exports Of domestic
merchandise from the United States has increas-
ed from $685. 697 in 1859 to $69s 9o in 1879,
an increase of 154 per cent. With one or two IN
important exceptions, the United States stands
alone among the commercial nations in having an
excess Of exports over imports Of merchandise
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18
THE NATIONAL BANKS,

The report of the comptroller Of the currency
gives complete statistics relative to the operations
of tho national banking system, from its organi-
cation until the present time; the number Of
banks in operation on Oct.2 Of the present year,
the date Of their last reports, was 9,042 and the
1885, individual deposits, s7io SIS; specie, in
Guiding United States coin and certificates, $42,-
72,73l.z6; legal tender notes, including United
The total circulation outstanding on Nov. l, was
$H7, 1S1,418. Among the sub ects discussed in the
report are the relations which have exist
ed between the national banks and
the government in the resumption Of
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18
New York Herald.

@AAA oAAt1o 10 w OC NOAeOAA pAt1tCN always
as one of the possible consequences in
these cases. No local advantage is worth
the cost that is to be secured through a
fact which affects detrimentally the
country at large and that proves ipju-
rious to such great machinery Of pros
perity as the railroad system. And every
railroad war is detrim ent to the coun-
try. The cheap freights and cheap fares
that are the temporary symptoms are
like the exaggerated activities, phys
ical or mental, of man in de]irium !;
they mean ultimate exhaustion, the
ruin of shareholders, the forcing Of roads
into the hands of wreckers, the demon.
alization and corruption of: Boards of
Directors and of the management gen.
orally, the perversion OF a great instru-
ment of modern civilization from it's
legitimate public uses to be mere
trap for securing dishonest gain. Two
or three days ago Mr.. S. L. M. Barlow
testified before the railroad investigators
of case in which certain individuals
in Board of Directors were paid $685.
600 each to resign their places, and that
was in order that men more facile-
perhaps men of a lower price might
be put there. If Boards of Directors in
railroad corporations and other parts of
the administrative machinery 70 down
these particular ''slippery ways OF
vice." if their places are sought and oc-
cupied not for legitimate commercial
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18

She will never crown with her earnest love
The life of some honest loving man,
For she k1ndled the fire in the kitchen stove
With the lightsome tilt of tue kerosene can.
-BurLinqtOn HGayEeue
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-18
SECRETARY SHERMAN's REPORT,

The following are the principal features of tho
annual report Of Secretary Sherman, submitted
10 congress, through the president, on the 1st
inst:
, 1879-03-07


WASHINGTON, D. G., March f.-Fllcrc fs much
rcason to expect that the political speeches Of
Lamar, Thurman, Whytc, aid others In lctcnso
of Jctl Days In tho Senate the other morning
will be 80 modified when they coms to be prlut-
cd iu the Iecord that They will not bc tccoe-
nized. md the speeches OF Dtatnc, Cinnd[er,
Conkling, md others will seem to have been
delivered ut nothing, and Without nrovocatiou.
The Official reporter In note at tic foot Of tho
Senate proceedings in tho Rteord this morning,
says: 1.-THE proceedings Of tlr ecnato ase pub
lisllcd up to the motion to reconsider tic vote
BY which the bill making appropriations for thu
arrears OF pcnsEona was passed, tho debate on
which. and on the amendment excepting Jcffer-
son nayis from tic provisions Ut the It'll, is
withheld for tho reason ttat number Of Sem
ators fnllcd to scna tho manuscript OF their re-
marks to thia nfllce" From this fact It Is bc-
litycd that tho Reporters 1htcs Ut so,ne OF ll.c
speeches euloctatir OF Jcsf Davis will DO altered.
The Senators should mt furces TINT other notes
besides those ot the official reporter were taken
Ut these speccllrs, and thut any considerable
changes will ba detected
, 1879-03-07
-OBITI.T TARY.



FElsa HEs. MAlsllH huSDI0.
Sntrfa' n't'of,s e" 1"s 7'toaae.
".."@uhI., ,, "s'' rs. Mnie'' o,-Ihe very He''
Marin hun''e' s'ear-dcnsfa' Of Milwaukee,
d'eo ~ t''t' lep uou"c' on oaekso1 asfeet, ~
auafle'-past ~ o.s'oek 1''e 1orcnoon' INC H.
teh!5emee u MS uef'iSe came very n1'cSpeetc''-
proved physically tiuyc his recent ,satton.
1'h;a mornft., wnlJc sittfn- II, hi. fho,r II. wnx
..".,... III. .,,,. ,..'1... ~ ,s.,', "- "a
@'aa'A.o WIN eul''1 'a"',ea o'eat'''nS' n'"'
requested ttIat Dr. Lentnstroff be scnt Tor.
Thc Doe:ur ratnc erUmaslr, H,lt, npun quick cx-
animation. tuId his na,tcrt that he wns In n
roo,lv ,oug.ro,z rort1tt,,n. cansp4 n,,tefv fro,n
'ca'4s ~" ,"I A'' A'"4''
oScf"ofk' anu tha1 M attaeA,"nleh WIS cohces-
tion OF tie heart, had been co''Ing Oh for three
or four uays. Tile Vtrar-Geucral pleasantly tx
cuerd ljnartf Oh the charec OF oycrwork, say-
~; Nv "lus' u'sena " ."e u,'ss .s "'''en M"ns
10 '1tf'', a''' trh was treatca w t5'c ohsfe!an'
With view to relieving hfs apparent pain from
heavy breathing
f,r' 1cntl,strom nrcscrfbet1. nnf1 inf Fathcr
st..t.s.. ~. ~" .1 In..'s'
ol the invalid failcd to improve, MD shortly
aftcr 10 oclpck II became evident the loved
veteran wns diving. liz was ret,orull to hts bed.
nr. 1cuth,,ro,r vo. crot,, hurr,cdI. ,.oflo,1
49,, ..sH ,..sS,.,,.' . w ~-.', ~,
III" sa"'o ""e''so''. out upon MS asf'Sal a1!
Father Kuulig was tcod. Tile appronch nj
,lc,th wos nu{et md Inn r,ro,,nI ,1u,ro,,.
nn,,..~ n.s,a,, n,r.r ,.tto,. ~, na..a..,,n.
"u."e' ''asseu u""' "f'3out MY l'e'ecp]'olo
III thls connection It is proper to reproduce q
persona, sketch oi the lie u{ tl1c in srd t,t.
vine, pltllourh # was rlyr, In 'rur Tr,u1,su
viii rnusIdrrahlc fulin.ss m t1,. t,trnsinr ~
, 1879-03-07


rnq,,at-Cuna.llss, Paclt1e-Tlte Indian Qucn.
tim in FmrltnMHnt- -anlns nf Tim Dliiiaal-
tiaR Attending tho Management Ut thu
6nyngrH-Thu Princess I.,uls" Flu,tscsl witt,
Her Now liOme-fscl1G's"s ttH'tta.
ap+cia. nispascA TO The Tribune.
MONTREAL, March U.-Jtnu s. Pu4lct, CASH
Ter qf lie nanqun D'Iiochclaga, l!us been ar-
rested, chargau with c.nbcxzlin. $5o, ,00o Ut the
banks funtls, 'rl.e tlufa1vatou las nut taken
pcop!u by surprise, 1t bc!tg well known TINT hs
was specializing fur heyonl Ills mcans. Forth.
.latclY for the uauk bis speclila:to,ls have been
pretty well conauui to real property, sumo Of
tho transactions being tn city real estate, but ILLS
1nost extensive operation was thu purchase vi
a phosphate niue trom IL. ". uollr!ng. NJ
operator III ulnlng PROPERTY iu tllts city. Thc
Directors of tbs bank hod guarantee
bun.l III $1,000 n.lt soue e5,0O1 Vi
t,auk stock, which. with tte n,ue Hill,
other property seized or to be srtxed
by the bank tu satisfaction Of its claIla, will IT.
dueo lIu loss considerably. 1'llc un,uunt Ut tbs
deficiency will probably exceed ssu,0A).
a nun naned l.. ttailcn, wklv coupling cars
* the aepot Iu Three Rivers, fill on tic track,
md the train passng over him severed ttlu liead
FROM the body.
Kpscfat nI*eqtcA 10 77s 7riaans.
OTTAWA, hfarll G.-Atilrsw Jt,t,cz s. Co., Of
ErY York. haylng fuiled to nut up theif de-.
puslt, the coutracs for Section u VI tllu Canada
l'4clac Hallway, hutwrun Thunder naY atlA
Winnipet, has been awarded to firant, I'tblalo
&; Fraser, Of Halifax, anil tin tirn laye bcun
given until SATURDAY, NJ I n'e!ock to make tirsr
teposft. rlls col,tract awardvutn Messrs, Purcell,
uiuty, Nyals, uII Marks las bccn signed, and
a|l necessary papcrs drawn up. OF4rrs were
telegruplea to Gen. Williams this morning BY
Mr. tltnty that tue supplies waiting hero are ial
mcdatcly tu 10 takeA tU thu location. About
.Vu uleu urs III .lIc yicinlty ol I'huudes Day ut
, 1879-03-07

PHILADELPHIA, March U--Elhu Spencer
Miller, ono Of the abless lawyers I'll the city Or
S,nte, left his house as tlsuul tIs morning, ur-
Cucd case ln The Suprcmr Coutt, uni returned
to his Office early In the AFTERNOON. About 4
o'clock hu complained Of feeling 1T, a,ll, iiftcc
minutes Inter, was dead fron, 1lclrs.dIscasr
Mr. Miller WIS unc NJ six Children Ut tho I,yv.
Or. Miller. uI the Princeton Theological Scnl[-
mary. 1Ie was born III 1878, educated
at Edge I'LL Seminary AMI Princeton
College, settled first In Baltimore. Nd.
wllcsc hu pract!ced , law until ISL,
when he carna to Philadelphia, nl.l married n
lal icn Children, uil llylug. IIu commanded
volunteer battery from this State during t,e
War, md had been a nlrutber Ut tl.e Councils,
liz hal frequently npptarel IN thu Supreme
Court, nnll Joined WilsIatn II. Eyarts III an
ur'!ntna against the constitutionalty Of the in
conle tax.