The Northern Pacific farmer., 1880-08-26
GENERAL NOTES.

HICKS, of Philadelphia, won the bicycle
championship at Milwaukee.
The brothers Collinson, of London
want to bet s., 600 that Dr. Tanner can not
! fast.
THERE was insurance to the amount Of
| $lS4, ,626 on the property DESTROYED by the
Hunters Point confagration.
| TWENTY-FIVE young ladies entered the
| cloister at Baltimore, on the 10Th inst with
the usual imposing ceremonies.
IT is reported that Vanderbilt purchas-
ed the horse St. Julien for $50, 600, paying
$40 900 down.
| THE corner stone of new German
Catholic church was laid at Dubuque,
Iowa, ON the 18th inst, Bishop Hennessy
officiating.
| IT is expected that it will take four
tombed in the Hudson river tunnel more
than fortnight ago.
Ar the east, where the summer has been
unusually hot, the weather has suddenly
become extremely cold for the season, and
tiles. " v " ''~
SECRETARY Evarts has renewed the Of
fer of the United States to mediate be-
tween Chill and Peru, in connection with
England, in the hope Of preventing further
| bloodshed between those two countries.
MISS ADELAIDE NELSON, the accom-
Plished. actress who recently announced
her retirement from the st age, and sailed
| for Europe, died suddenly on the 18th
inst, at the Continental hotel, in Paris.
A PARTY named Charles Carver, resid-
ing in Woodstock, Va, began a fast of one
hundred days duration on the 10Th inst.
Should he succeed in his experiment he
will challenge DIR. Tanner to a competitive
| match.
The local steamboat inspectors at De-
troit have revoked the licenses of the cap
! tains of the steamer Garland and yacht
Mamie, recently in collision, on the
ground that, with the exercise of prudence
on their part, the late disaster might have
been prevented.
CHARLES H. TARDY, president of the
colored relief board has advices that 10000
negroes will emigrate from Mississippi
and Louisiana within the next two months,
en- route for Kansas and other northern
states.
CLEMENTsuAw, who swore that Charles
De Young fired the first shot when young
kalloch assassinated him, has been SEN
fenced to fourteen years in the penitenti-
d1y AOA IC!Ju "A HOl1Ou IOI HeW Crlal
was denied.
S1xrY-sEvEN Russian emigrants, the sole
survivors Of party of three hundred and
thirty, which left Russia in 1877 for
Brazil, have arrived at New York sick
and destitute. They found the South
American climate unsuited to them. and
after losing nearly all their funds decided
to leave the country where they had ex-
perienced so many hardships.
II. l.. GREEN, chairman of the ex-com-
mittee of the national liberal league,
states that the fourth annual convention of
the league will be held in Chicago, on the
18th, 18th and 10Th of September. Two
hundred auxiliary leagues are entitled to
representation, of five delegates each. The
most important work of the convention
will be the selection of a presidential tick
ct, or the endorsement of one of the pres
ent nominations.
A SINGULAR tragedy occurred at Agnew,
on the Fort Wayne railroad, on 10Th inst.
An unknown man, having stolen bunch
of grapes from an arbor, was set upon bv
the owner, a boy, and a dog. They chased
him into the river, and were soon rein
forced by a gang of railroad laborers. The
latter pelted the unfortunate fellow with
stones and clinkers until he came to the
shore and begged piteeusly for his life.
The only response was another volley of
missiles. He then plunged into the river.
and SOON went to the bottom.