The Northern Pacific farmer., 1880-03-18

water. The river is higher than it has
been for many years.
P1AcARDs were posted in the streets of
San Francisco on the 9Th inst. warning
all employers of Chinese, under terrible
penalties, to desist from that practice:
Two companies of g. s. troops arrived
from Camp Halleck, Nevada, and went
into quarters. Gen. Mcdowell received
orders to concentrate all available troops
in his division at once in San Francisco,
as precautionary measure against the
threatened outbreak which alarmed the
people.
TIE democratic state central commit.
t. e of Wisconsin met at Madison, March
10, and issued call for state conven-
ton to meet at Madison, at noon, on
Wednesday, May 10, for the purpose Of
nominating ten presidential electors to
be supported at the next general election,
and selecting twenty delegates, four
from the state at large and two from each
congressional district. to the national
democratic convention to be held in the
city of Cincinnati, June 22nd, 1880; and
for the transaction of such other busi-
ness as may properly come before the
convention.
AN important decree of foreclosure
and sale was entered in the U. S. court
| at Milwaukee on the 9th inst, in the
case of Jesse Hoyt, of New York, trustee,
| VS.. the Milwaukee & Northern and Me-
nasha & Appleton railway companies.
The amount due 10 the bondholders is
So, ,662,742. The time for the sale of the
property BY the marshal has not been
fixed. The foreclosure includes the fran
chise, rolling stock etc., of the lines from
Milwaukee 10 Green Bay, and from Hill
bert Junction to Menasha, and from the
north end of the Milwaukee & Northern
road in Menasha to the north end of
Grand Chute island at Appleton. The
matter has been in litigation for num-
Der of years.
A MINNEAPOLIS telegram of the 9th
says: The Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul road has opened negotiations with
the Minneapolis and Northwestern Mar
row Gauge for the purchase Of its stock,
including a bonus Of $1,000 per mile
from the city of Minneapolis, and the
trade will probably be consummated.
The company proposes to extend the
Hastings and Dakota division from Car
yer to Minneapolis, distance of about
twenty-five miles, for the bonus of 81 900
per mile, and practically abandon the
line from Carver to Hastings: Two
corps of engineers have gone into the
field to locate the line. If the trade is
consummated it will practically strangle
the Narrow Gauge road, work on which
has commenced.
DISPATCHES from Panama on the 9Th
inst. announce that J. leonardo, of
France, had arrived there, being the
bearer of an important proposition from
Gen. Grant and Admiral Ammen, look
ing to obtaining of a concession from
the Nica1 aguan government for the pur-
pose of building a canal. An official
! organ of the government states upon au
thority that company of American cap.
| italists and French bankers, Including
! the Rothschilds, has been organized to
build the canal as soon as the proper
| concessions is obtained. This company,
states this authority, will be presided
over by Gen. Grant and Admiral Am
men. The Panama papers generally de-
| nounce DeLesseps.
THE rush of settlers into Nebraska and
the travel westward are perfectly i'm
mense, says an Omaha special of the
9TH. The Burlington train Friday came
in two sections, the first consisting of
eight coaches and two Pullmans, all fill
ed; second section, three coaches crowd
ed. The Rock Island express was two
hours late on account of tie heavy train
1t left Chicago Thursday with twenty
three cars, and arrived here with ten
coaches and two baggage cars full. The
Northwestern brought train nearly
equally heavy. 1t discharged hundred
passengers at the new North western
branch alone. An extra force of seven
men are kept busy at the land agents
Office transferring baggage. Onl y one
land hunter had a round trip ticket; the
rest came to stay. The Union Pacific
west bound train left an hour late with
sixteen crowded coaches and two loco &
motives.