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Foreign Notes.

Queen Victoria, it is rumored, has
expressed strong wish to see Canada,
and the Prince of Wales is encouraging
her to visit both that country and the
United States. ,...... I'd. t,-..y.. .s
President Grevy holds his largest
receptions in plain black clothes, with
no decorations whatever. His daugh-
ter, pretty brunette, has not such SIM
pie tastes-her gowns are brilliant and
becoming.
BY recent order of Prince Bis
marck all public works in Germany are
to be executed exclusively by Germans,
and with German material, except in
the case of articles not produced in that
country. Foreign architects are ex-
cluded from all competition. as
Ellie Reclus, the distinguished
geographer, enters France after eight
years of exile. He never participated
directly in the Commune, but was mere
ly known to favor some of its ideas.
Since the bloody epoch of 1871, he has
been living in seclusion in London.
The Pope has been much vexed at
the significance attached to what he is
alleged to have said in conversations he
has had with certain journalists. He
does not wish war with Italy. Ali he
desires is better assurance than he has
at present for his personal liberty and
independence.
"A decree of divorce has been grant
ed to Col. Charles Grantley Norton. OF
the Imperial Ottoman Gendarmrie, from
his wife, Miss McVicker, of New York
the co respondent being his kinsman,
the fifth and present Lord Grantley, 8
grandson of the late Lady Stirling Max
well, better known as the Hon. Mrs
Norton, and second cousin of the Ear
of Duiferin. D..
A London paper says: "Mr. Poynt
ner, X. A, is painting all the society
beauties in one picture. Mrs. Langtry
is to be the leading figure. Mrs. Corn
wallis West and the Duchesses and la
dies who figured in Vanity Fair's Jenk
| insonian season number are sitting tt
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-03-29
School and Church.

The senior class at Harvard has
now 202 members. 1t has had alto
gether 271 members.
1T is announced that the attempt of
st. Marks Church (EpiscopaD, Detroit,
to go over to the Reformed body, which
they have voted to do, will be resisted
by the authorities of the diocese so far
as taking the Church property is con-
cerRed. .-i- aa. .l..a..
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
the compositions of the public school
pupils in that city are worse than in
those in any other large town in the
land, and uscribes the fault to the oral
teaching and the consequent ignorance
of written English.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-03-29
Haps and 1Iishaps.

A young man named Overhulzer, at
Dodson, o., shot himself accidentally,
probably fatally, while handling a re-
volver. -.i-t
Walter w. Sherwood, of Cincin-
natl, was killed by the kick of COW
which he was milking at his place in the
suburbs. His neck was broken.
"A 2-year-old child named Wenges
was burned to death at Nicholasville,
KY. Its clothes caught fire while the
family were absent.
Anna Burge, an Atlanta ga serv-
ant-girl, was fatally burned by her
clothes taking fire from red-hot stove
while cooking supper.
"A 3-year-old child of Stephen Orr,
of Anderson, Ind, during the absence
of its mother got too near the fireplace
and was burned to death by its clothing
taking fire.
The 8-year-old daughter of Mr.. E..
X. Rogers of Ashland, KY, after "jump-
ing the rope" 140 times at school, lost
the use of her limbs by paralysis and
died in a few hours.
of the Oldest residents of Clinton, Iro-
quois County, Ill, shot himself dead
with new gun which his father had
just given him.
A family named Stanley, near Terre
Haute, Ind, were poisoned by eating
an unknown plant which they had cook
ed with their food. The father died,
and the others, six in number, were
dangerously i'll. a
Mrs. Margaret Weimer of Ohio
Township, Mahoning County, O., aged
70, was burned to death while trying to
extinguish fire in some clothing that
had caught from a stove over which
they were hanging. att ot a 4
Mrs. Harlan, wife of farmer liv-
ing near Clark's Hill, Tippecsnoe Coun-
ty, Ind, was filling a lamp near hot
stove, when the oil ignited and the lamp
exploded, burning her terribly. She
lived but a few hours.
Joseph Striker, a young man en-
ployed at Mansfield & Massie's Eleva-
tor, at Chillicothe, o., got into a bin of
corn, when the grain was turned off to
and smothering him to death before the
corn could be emptied.
AT Homecoming, Md, a young lady
named Mary Keiting attempted to cross
the track in front of a train, when she
caught her foot in frog and fell in the
middle of the track, the train passing
over her and cutting of both legs. She
died Immediately. b. -i.
AT Wakarusa, Ind, three boys aged
about Is years each went into a doctors
office and drank from bottle which
they supposed contained whisky but
which proved TO be chloroform. All
were taken deathly sick. Two, named
Hess and Frankfodder, were given anti
dotes and it is thought they will survive.
The third, named Cline, crept into a
hay NOW and was not found until sew
eral hours after. 1t was thought he
could not recover.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-03-29
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In Memory of
MARY,
Daughter of John and Lydia Agnew,
And Wife of Bayard Taylor.
Born July 81, 1927.
Died December 81, 1850.

To be buried by the side of his first
wife, it is understood, was the express
wish of Bayard Taylor to his executor.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-07-17
He Saw His Error.

The following incident is related of the
late Judge Barnard, who, though some
times irritable on the bench, regretted
more than any ono else his hasty words
and deeds at such times. A LAWYER,
since then elected to Congress-, when a
young man just arrived in the CITY, once
laid some papers before the Judge. He
glanced at them, and tossed them back
to the young lawyer.
"Your Honor, what is the matter with
these papers?" asked the lawyer.
"They are not properly drawn up,"
said the jud &c.
"What is wrong about them?'' the
young lawyer inquired.
IF you don't know, can't tell" the
judge responded. IF 1 had tyro in nv
office who couldn't draw up better papers
than those, I'd throw him out on the side
walk"
The words were heard by crowded
courtroom. Much mortified, the LAWYER
took his leave. A week afterward he was
sitting IN the same courtroom, and the
judge said, "Mr. -, will you step to
the bench for moment, if you please?"
The gentleman did SO, and the spectators
wandered what was coming. "Last Mon
day. the judge began, you laid some
papers before me, which enormously
pronounced incorrect, and acted like
scoundrel. I am ashamed of it. and as I
grossly insultcd you in a en- court, Iwant
to render you an apology in open court.
l beg your PARDON - -
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-07-17

wild Texan steers broke loose in Harlem, and
were virtually monarchs of all they surveyed.
In the upper part Of the city for three honrs
twelve animals, wild with fear and maddencd
by attacks Of the police, charged through the
streets in every direction, driving every thing
before them. The reserve force Of policemen
was called out, and they had a hot time of it
before nine of the enemy were finally cap
tured and imprisoned in Brewers yard and
the other three killed It is wonder there
were only two or three casualties.
A cAvE-IN.
A disastrous cavc-in took place July 10,
at Ishpcming, Mich. 1t is estimated that from
10000 to 200 600 tons of rock, embracing the
whole upper part of the hanging wall Of the
major part Of the mine, fell in, completely
demolishing skip roads and filling the mine
with debris. 1t being noon nobody was at
work in the mine. One hundred and fifty men
were usually employed in that part of the
mine where the fall occurred. 1t is believed
that one or two of the pits can never be rco-
pcned The accident will undoubtedly dimin-
ish production for the present year.
YELLOW FFPER.
A Memphis telegram OF July ~, says
The yellow fever sensation has collapsed, and
Memphis is assuming its customary aspects
of thrift and life. No further cases of the
dreaded disease are reported, and physicians
here declare positively that the excitement
grew wholly out of but one genuine case, that
OF Mrs. Cranon, and in which the victim died.
Investigation has established the fact that this
family inherited a quantity of clothing be
longing to relatives who died during the cpl
demic Of 1878, and these articles had been
packed without regard to disinfcction until
the recent hot weather, when they were cx-
posed to the air. On some of the bedding
dark spots were noticed, and found to be
stains of of Negroes vomit, contact with
which caused the death Of the person in
Memphis last Wensday, and the subsequent
panic The Memphis physicians are convinced
that sporadic cases will occur this season,
but they insist That no epidemic form will be
assumed.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-07-17
A PECULIAR CASE
Bride Of Seven Weekcs. Supposed to BE-
Happy, Puts a Bullet in Her Heart,

Il Bride Of Screen WeeIcs. Supposed to be
Happy, Puts a Bullet in Her Heart,
Evansville, Ind, Telegram, July H.
Society in Evansville was greatly shocked
this afternoon at $3.50 by the suicide of Mrs.
DR.. j. w. Irwin, lady moving in the high
est society here, and very warmly admired
by large circle of friends. DR.. and Mrs,
Irwin have been married only seven weeks,
the bride having been Miss Stella Mather, Of
Fostoria, Ohio, daughter of Rev. D. D.
Mather, of the Methodist church there. She
was only about twenty years old, beautiful,
accomplished, and surrounded by everything
to make her happy. Her husband is very
prominent young physician, who lavished
large sums of money in fitting up an elegant
residence for his bride. Since they moved
home they have lived in perfect harmony
and, apparently, very happily, and the trag-
edy came like thunder-shock to all.
At $3.50 p: NJ. servant girl heard pistol
shot in tho house, and ran into her mistress
room, alarmed, to find the cause. Mrs.
Irwin was standing in the middle of the
room, which was full of smoke. The girl
asked what was the matter, and her mistress
looked wildly at her and made an incoherent
answer. She raised her hacd in which was
the pistol, and the girl, thinking she meant
harm to her, ran out of the room. As she
fled she heard another shot, and turned
back. As she reached the room again her
beautiful mistress flung the pistol upon
the floor, put her hand over her
heart, and would have fallen had not the girl
caught her in her arms. Nobody else was in
the house. The girl asked her why she had
done it, but the only reply was an incoherent
murmur of the girls name, and, sinking
rapidly, she 1;ed in ten minutes, surrounded
by friends who were summoned. The pistol
was Smith & Wesson, No. 80, and belonged
to DIR. Irwin, who kept it at home for burg
lars, who have been operating here consid-
erably. Two of the barrels were DISCHARGED.
and it is evident she fred the first shot into
the ceiling to see if it would DISCHARGE. and
the second into her heart. A hole two inches
in diameter was knocked into the ceiling,
An inquest was Immediately held, and
facts ELECTED showing they had lived in most
blissful happiness. It is rumored, however.
that Mrs. Irwin had been prosecuted here by
some woman who wrote her letters claiming
that DR.. Irwin had deceived her, and that she
had prior claim upon him. This is not
credited, and is pronounced false by those
informed. DR.. Irwin has large number of
friends and is very popular. He was terri
bly, shocked by the tragedy, which occurred
while he was visiting patients, and his grief
was heartrending. The verdict was that the
deceased committed suicide while laborino
under temporary insanity, caused by de-
preston of spirits induced by the hot
wenther. She was taken from the lake re-
gion, and the weather here is exceedingly
warm. The affair has caused great gloom
generally here, as the young wife was great.
~ admired and bright ornament to society,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-07-17
Keeping Stock Healthy.

Animals in wild state like wild, men.
usually enjoy uninterrupted good health
until they die. This is undoubtedly for
the reason that their lives are simple and
their diet uniform. When severe sick
ness does overtake the one or the other,
mortality usually ensues, and if contagion
is rife they die off fin great numbers. The
more artificial the condition of life, the
more subject will the individuals be to
various forms of disease that constantly
grow out of his artificial condition.
Hence solitary animals are not subject to
epidemic or contagious diseases as are
gregarious animals; and in the human
family, when each household is isolated
from Others by considerable distances,
the disease attacking such households are
usually of milder types than in cities
Here we have the key, without doubt, to
the spread of disease among farm ami
mails, where they are congregated in large
herds or broken up into smaller ones on
every farm, but which, nevertheless, have
access more or less with each other,
Hence, again, the difficulty of eradicating
virulcnt disorders once they appear. For
this reason, and for the additional one
that in animals it is more difficult to de-
fine the disease, and for the reason that
they are dumb, except in the cases where
they are under the care Of a pSacticed vet
erinarian. .-.. - 30 I
! Thus when disease does make its ap-
pearance among farm stock. upon the
first symptoms observed, the individual
should be carefully isolated from the
Others, and be treated according to the
best judgement of the owner until the
services If a veterinary surgeon can be
secured. Fortunately the only severe
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-07-17

It is said that Canada Bill made 800.
600 during his career as card throwcr,
but when he died, in Council Bluffs, Iowa,
he left Just enough Of money to give him
q decent funeral. Like many of his pro-
fession, he found at the faro table his
greatest pleasure, and his winnings went
from him more easily than they came.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-07-17
E%. Record.


The other day one OF NV neiehlors
declared that Gas a general thing, hens
didn't pay for the trouble of raising them
until after they were year DID,
Did you ever keep any account with
your poultry2 inquired.
swell, no; but I know that hen don't
lay eggs enough the first year to paw tor
the cost of raising
As general thing figures don't lie, /
replied, unless they are made before hand:
but mine have the facts behind them.
Whcrcupon I rummaged around among
the papers in my desk until found ali
the odd pieces of paper on which 1 kept
the account with my partridge cochins
last year. You may think that have
very careless way of keeping accounts,
but am woman of MANY cares:' so
my poultry accounts, my garden accounts,
and the farm accounts, are scrubbed
down on the backs of old envelopes, on
bits of wrapping paper, anything that
comes handy, and laid away in my desk
until have time to copy them in books
kept for the purpose.
1 had a dozen pullets Matched about
the middle of March, 1878, commenced
laying in October, and from that time
to the first Of January sold from those
pullets 81 doz. of eggs at an average price
OF tritie over 10 cents dozen, which
figures up at $10.27. In October they
laid 155 eggs; in November 219; in Dec.
300. We made no account of the odd
eggs, selling only even dozens. The high
est price was in December when we OBJ
tanned 25 cents dozen.
Food for the three months cost $3.4O;
deduct this from the sum received for
eggs and we have $6.8S profit. During
the month of Oct. they were fed onlv
wheat screenings morning and night; Nov.
fed warm food, made of the scraps from
the table mixed with bran and shorts, in
the morning, wheat screenings and a little
corn at night; December fed three times
day; morning feed same as in Novem-
Der, at noon, wheat or buck-wheat screen
ings, corn at night, and green food three
times week.
Ut course cannot say Just how much
1t cost me to raise these pullets to the law
ing age, but should estimate the cost
at 30 cents head. The day that the
first egg was dropped l weighed the
twelve pullets and they averaged IA lbs.
each. Chickens at that time were worth
Z cents pound, live weight; so that if 1
had sold the lot then would have got
$5.25 for dozen chickens that it cost
$500 to raise. have been particular to
Keep an accurate account of the amount
and kind of food consumed, and the num-
Der OF times per day they were fed, be-
cause 1 wanted my experience to be of
some value to others
l have kept an account with the same ,
hens since the first of Jan. this year, and
will soon put it IN shape for publica
ton. 49, FANNY F1r1u
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-07-17

Said DIR. Cuyler to the girls at Packer
Institute: "Let woman do whatever sho
can do we'll. Let her follow every nath
Of usefulness wherein she can wall
gracefully and without stumbling. Can
she set type or-make a telegraph instru-
ment talk in electric speechs Then let her
DO that with happy heart and to the
music OF merry voice." Yes, and be
annually requested by the foreman or
manager. to make less noise.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-07-17

A great deal Of bright dressing is re-
ported among tho Quaker ladies at the
English May meetings.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-07-17
KILLED HIMSELF AND WIFE.

July Z, Joseph Atkins, fruit gardener,
a few miles from Grcensburg, Westmoreland,
Pa, shot and killed instantly his wife, and
after telling his nearest neighbor that he had
killed the old woman" placed the muzzel of
the gun under his chin and fired and killed
himself. The trouble is believed to have risen
from quarrel about little piece Of property
where they lived. Atkins had decided this
land to his wife some time ago and afterwards
wished to get it back again, but the old lady
always refused and the matter caused frequent
alterations. Atkins was n and his wife 70
years Of age.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-07-17

The very fact that last summer wheat far ont
on the Red river frontier. and finding mar.
ket via Lake Superior, brought 10 cents q
bushel more than that which ilepended mon
Chicago as an outlet, shows what Wa ara to
lose if the Lake Michioan system Of trans.
portation is to swallow up all our lines Of
TRANSPORTATION, shut ma ont from Lake an
perior and the Mississipni river and denrive
US of all competing lines. To sav nothino
of the future. if the cron of Dakota and Min,
nesota should be sc, 100000 bushels this
year, 10 cents difference in the price
amounts to $4,000, 900. If the same ner-
centaee is added to the FREIGHT On onr i'm.
ports, several million dollars more mnst be
added to all we buv. Five m,Ilions of dol.
lars to be taken from the nrica Of onr xuhsat
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-07-17

markets, but despite the firmness of the hold
ers it has been difficult to establish any adj
vance for home grown in London in face of
liberal arrivals and low prices of foreign yarie-
ties. Previous rates, however, have been well
supported, especially for choice parcels, and
the tendency is rather toward an advance than
decline. Large foreign arrivals have not
caused scarcity of grainary room, as large
proportion has gone direct to millers, who
bought freely to arrive, transactions on spot
having lately been confined to the retail wants
Of small millers. Maize has varied little, but
is rather against sellers. Arrivals ct ports of
call have been very small. Off coast wheat
was firm and slightly improving prices, par.
ticularly towards the close. Maize was steady
and unchanged. A good business was done
in forwarding wheat, particularly for red win
ter, July, August and September shipments
and prices improved six pensc per quarter.
Maize was not freely offered though late
cheap purchases could not be repeated. De-
mand still slack. Last weeks sales of English
wheat amounted to a4,90 quarters at as Id
per quarter, against 1922 quarters at 46s pcr
quarter for the same period last year. I'm
ports into the uuitcd kingdom for the week
ending June Is, amounted to 1,416,942 hum
dred weight of wheat and 214,288 eundred
weight of flour. At Mark Lane to-day mon.
day., the supply of English wheat was again
small and prices advancing from one to two
shill!ngs per quarter. The supply of foreign
wheat was fair, and it advanced shilling.
Flour advanced Cd per barrel, and oats Sd to
d per quarter. Maize and barley were steady
WILD TEXAN STEERS. -
At Harlem, N. Y. July 18th. herd of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26
The Pellagra.

The pellagra, an awful and loathsome
disease, the degree of prevalence of
statisticians attempt to measure by the
tale of the recorded suicides which the
agonies and the madness caused by it
produce, is increasingly prevalent in the
richest districts of the north of Italy,
especially Lombardy, Venetia and
Romagna. The best medical opinions
concur in considering the principal and
almost sole cause of this horrible scourge,
which seems to be much akin in its
nature to leprosy, to consist in the use
of an exclusive diet of maize, or Indian
corn. There are districts, however, in
the Trentino, about the north of the
Lago di Gardo, where the hill population
lives almost, if not quite, exclusively on
maize, but where pallagra is unknown.
And it would seem from inquiries direct
ed especially to an explanation of this
phenomenon, that the dreadful disease
in question is, in fact, produced by an
habitual diet of Indian corn in bad
condition. Very minute investigation,
extending over wide extents of country,
has revealed the fact that the maize
consumed by the poorest classes of the
rural population, is far more often than
not, partially rotted from having been
stored in mass before the grain has been
thoroughly dried.-Augustus Trollope IN
British Quarterly Repieao.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26
The Baby Plant.

A pleasing botanical novelty is de-
scribed by an Oregon paper under the
name of the "baby plant" 1t is said to
be Indigenous to Japan, and sometimes
reaches the height of four feet. The
flower is star shaped, having five petals
of handsome brown and yellow color.
The calyx encircles and protects tiny
little figure that bears an exact resem-
blance to nude baby, its little arms
and legs outstretched and the eyes dis
tinctly merked. lowering over their
diminutive form is a small canopy,
angel shaped, having extended arms and
wings, and peering closely into the face
of the infant. The family of plants
which "the baby" is member, produced
not only the specimen now on exhibi.
ton, but also give perfect limitations, if
such they can be designated, of diff rent
animals, insects, and birds. Mr.. Mark
Hopkins, of San Francisco, has one of
the latter varieties, for which $500 was
paid. The plant grows to be about three
feet in height, when fully matured, and
when in full bloom the one now in this
city will look like shipwrecked found
ling hospital.