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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

The proposition of consolidating the
cities of Rock Island and Moline, which
are substantially one, is being agitated.
The only point of difference is the name.
The Rock Islanders and the Moliners
are alike unwilling to dep their pres
ent names. But the subject of union is
being seriously talked Of. The general
law provides plan for the consolida-
ton of two cities. An ordinance embody-
ing the terms of union must be passed
by two-thirds Of the aldermen of both
corporations and then submitted to the
people for ratification or rejection.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

ARTHUR ARNOLD, a liberal in the
house of commons offered the follow
ing resolution: "That in the opinion Of
the house compulsory slaughter at the
ports of landing of fat stock from the
United States restricts the supply and
increases the cost of food, and having
regard for freedom from disease ofthe
cattle-producing states in America, the
house deems it desirable that the gov
eminent should consider these restric-
tons, with a view to their modification
for their removal" The official cor
respondence with the United
States on the subject will be
distributed in the house before discus
sion of the resolution.\
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

UR1AH PHELPS, merchant in Tyron,
Davidson county, N. c., induced a
youth named O. w. Click, to sleep with
him in his store, in anticipation of a
raid by burglars. The next morning
Phelps was found dead in his bed. AS
all the windows and doors were locked,
and as Click is noted somnambulist,
it is believed that the young man got
up in his sleep and killed Phelps with
an ak. Click admits the possibility of
this, but declares that he has no recol-
lection Of anything, except that he
dreamed of fighting burglars.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

who by means of false acceptances caused
the suspension of the Grocers' Bank, was
arraigned for forgery in the third degree.
Through counsel he pleaded guilty, stating
that he had done all in his power to repair
the injury committed. and implored light
sentence. Judge Gildersleeve severely
reprimanded the prisoner, and sentenced
him to hard labor in the state prison for
tour years: me specific charge to which
Ha1gh PLEADED guilty was forgery of a
u, payable to and signed by himself, and
accepted by Barney & Ferris. of Sandusky.
Ohio
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19
CRIME.

In spite Of brutal treatment by them a,
Bloomington lady drove burglars out of
her house on the 10th inst.
The remains of beheaded man have
been found in the woods near Locust Val
ley, l.. I. Detectives from New York and
Brooklyn are at work on the case.
Dr. BENNETT, dentist, of Stevens Point
Wis, on the 18th inst, while under the in.
fuence of liquor, procured a shot gun,
went in the hotel, and instantly killed DR.,
Hagle, an opposition dentist.
A Chestnut horse, weighing one thou
sand pounds, was stolen from the barn OF
George Clayton, two miles south of Beloit,
Wis.,, on the 10th inst. A liberal reward
has been offered for its return.
A srABB1NG affray took place in the
town of Two Creeks, Manitowoc, county
Ernest Land and Mathew Krouse, by
which the latter received injuries from
which he cannot recover.
EDWARD A. KELLER, mail route agent
| on the Southern Minnesota Division of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul rail
| way, was arrested on the 9TH inst, ON his
train at Lanesboro, Mimi. charged with
! the robbery of mail car of package of
ANSAotSACA 1CIeCAHs
AN organization called the "army of
ouccupation," now forming in Texas for the
purpose of making descent on Mexico,
claim that they have five thousand enlist
ed men already. The governor of the
state will issue proclamation warning all
persons to avoid the scheme.
A NURSE in London hospital got mad
| at consumptive woman, dragged her to a
| bath-tub filled with cold water, and threw
her in. The unfortunate patient died soon
after, and the nurse has just been convicted
of manslaughter.
WHILE making deposit in the Domin-
ion bank, at Toronto, man named Pit
man, clerk Of the building and Loan As
ISOLATION, was robbed Of 81, 600, by two
Americans, who escaped. He laid the
bank book and notes on the counter, while
getting his checks marked. On turning
around q few seconds later both were
gone.
DEFRAMoND. the monster who, few
California, shooting her through win.
dow as she was about to retire for the
night, has at last been captured by Mon.
treal detective. Since Deframond's wife
informed the authorities of his identity
he has been in hiding, and it was only by
a strategy that he was taken.
The federal grand jury at New York
which has for some time been investigat.
ing the Sewanhaka disaster, has returned
indictments for manslaughter against four
government inspectors of life-boats and
boilers, and the captain and engineer and
the owners of the steamer. Among the
proprietors arrested are s. L. NJ. Barlow,
E. D. Morgan, James Udell, and S. H.
Townsend. The presentment charges all
these men with criminal negligence and
carelessness.
J. LLOYD HA1GH, the well-known wire.
rope manufacturer and contractor for the
wire of the East river bridge, New York
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

THERE is talk of reviving a pedes-
TRAN feat which was in vogue fifty
years ago in England. 1t was walk
ing match backwards. One Richard
Sutton undertook to walk 120 miles
backwards in three successive days;
time, twelve hours each day. He finish
cd his task with fifty-eight minutes to
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

REESE OWENS, 4 prominent Pittsburg
pork-packer, has failed, with liabilities OF
100000.
BURGLARS blew open safe in Bronson,
Mich, and got away with 5000 on the 10th
inst.
THE post office at Erie, Michigan, was
up and $l,375 stolen.
A FIRE took place in the Manhattan Vim
egar company's works, Brooklyn, and when
the flames were extinguished the charred
remains of Waterman Henry Susa, were
found.
A BRocKroN, Mass. dispatch Of the End
says the freight-house Of the Old Colony
railroad with large quantity of freight
was destroyed by fire; loss heavy.
A BARK loaded with naphtha was burned
at Williamsburg, n. Y. Other vessels
were injured by the flames, all the losses
aggregating 100000.
A LAD named Pat O'Donnel, Ct Grand
Rapids, Mich, was dangerously shot in
the groin by the accidental discharge of a
pistol while scutfling with his sister.
The entire wheat crop of J. p. Cooper,
of Oshtemo, Michigan, the growth of
about 40 acres, was burned in the stack, to-
gcther with a small lot of oats. The cause
is supposed to have been an incendiary.
WHILE Charles Splittgarber, young
man from Pekin, ILL.,, was at work raising
| an iron cupola to the dome of the Jewish
synagogue, rope broke, and Splittgarber
was thrown to the ground, distance of
fifty feet.
Two or three boys at Pocasset, Mass,
undertook to teach their little brother. 6
years of age, to swim by taking him to the
! middle of a swift-running river and drop
ping him. He got out all right once or
twice, but was drowned the succeeding
time.
CHARLES NJ. CARRIER, carpenter and
joiner, while working in the new Salmon
block in Beloit, Wis, stepped backward
into an open stairway and fell sixteen feet
to the floor below, striking on his head.
| He was taken up unconscious, the blood
| flowing from his ears and nose, and car
| ried to his home, where he died in about
two hours.
AT Newburg, Preston county, Va, a ter
riblc accident happened. Mrs. Halbritter
and Miss Halbritter were walking on the
railroad, when the fast line came along
| and struck both Of them, killing Mrs. Hal
britter instantly, and inflicting injuries
upon Miss Halbritter from which she died
! in few hours.
A LAD about IA years old, named Eddie
Boston, Of Sandusky, Ohio, while riding a
horse to bring home COWS from pasture,
fell or was thrown to the ground and
dragged nearly half mile before becom-
ing disentangled from the halter-strap,
which had been twisted around his wrist.
When found, on the edge of town, life was
extinct, and his body was frightfully man.
gled and the clothing torn from it.
PETER DoRE, German baker, was
drowned in Rock river, on the 18th inst.
He was out in a boat alone, about two
miles from the city bridge, when steamer
passed. He changed his position to look
at the steamer, and weighing two hundred
and forty-fve pounds, his boat, which was
| a small one, capsized and threw him into
the water. He swan to within twenty
feet of shore, and where he might have
touched bottom had he tried, when he
| sunk to rise no more.
AsPEC1AL from Laramie city says: A
man named A. G.. Angelo was found dead
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

The work on the excavation in the
cofferdam at the shaft of the Hudson
river Tunnel cannot be pushed forward
very rapidly, owing to the flow of tide
water into the sides and bottom of the
Enclosure. 1t is not possible to tell
when the bodies of the twenty victims
of the accident will be reached.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19
spare.

President Hayes great-grandfather,
who was blacksmith in Branford,
Conn.,, once made an iron bracket,
which was recently presented to the
president by citizen of that town.
Mr.. Hayes acknowledged the gift in a
pleasant letter, inclosing photographs
Of himself and of his wife.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19
Be wise and HaDDy.

1t you will stop your extravagant and wrong
notions in doctoring yourself and families with
expensive doctors or humbug cure-alls, that do
harm always; and use only natures simple rene
dies for all your ailments-you will be wise. we'll
and happy, and save great expense. The creates
remedy for this, the great, wise and good will tel
you, is Hop Bitters-rely on it. See another
coumn.-Press
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

Professor John Fiske comes home
under engagement to return to Europe
next year and give in England, France
and Belgium his lectures on American
politics, which were lately so cordially
heard in London.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19
GENERAL NOTES,

NOBODY now doubts that the prisoners
recently arrested on suspicion are the
Benders.
TIE population of Massachusetts is
l,7S3,812, gain of over 100000 in ten
years.
FIFTEEN Italian societies attended the
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

Believers in metempsychosis have
had their faith refreshed by the recent
birth of child who, upon coming into
the world, made a searching scrutiny
of his surroundings, and sinking back
into his nurses arms, remarked:
THANK Heaven! at last 1 have got my
self born into a family that is comforta-
bly, fixed" -FIch0aqe
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

M. Victor Hugo's 18th birthday has
just been celebrated by a dinner at his
house, followed by an illumination Of
the garden and display Of fireworks.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

President Diaz, of Mexico, unveiled
a monument to the memory of Presi-
dent Jaurcz at Mexico on the 18th of
July.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

PEACE is predicted as the conse
4uence Of the negotiations now in pro
gress between Russia and China.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

AS late as 1868 wheat was import
ed into the United States from Portuga
and the Baltic.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

care you asleep, dearest?' Eyes,
mamma. and the doctor particularly
said that 1 needn't be walked to take
medicine. [Snores.]
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

SHORT crops in Russia are reported
The latest crop reports from Ireland
are not as fattering as they were sew
eral days ago.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

Mr.. STEWART, a railroad contractor
has identified the old man in jail at
Fremont, Neb., as the original Bender.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19
COMMENTS.

PRESIDENT HAYES owns a 2O0-acre
wheat field in Dakota.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

MERCHANTS and spectators predict
4 very lively season this fall.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

ELECTRIC lights are to be used on
Long Island Sound steamers.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

SCHUYLER CoLFAx will speak to the
Odd Fellows at Saratoga in September.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-18
CITY DOTS.

We are requested to call attention to the
card of j. M. Thurmond, mayor of this city
He will speak to the people tomorrow night
Charley Meisterhans has made arrange
ments for grand moonlight picnic tonight
at his pavilion. Go out and have q good
time.
1t is an error, the statement that the first
ward instructed for Governor Roberts. II
was simply silent on the subject, but it sent
an anti Roberts delegation to the convention
The Houston & Texas Central railway aud
Morgan line are again receiving freight for
New Orleans and points beyond, all fear OF
Gaiveston's quarantining on account of the
few sporadic cases of yellow fever having
subsidized
The HERALD returns thanks to Mr.. Harris,
ststioner and bookseller, next door to the
postotlice, for late papers, especially the New
York Weekly Puck and the great pictorials.
Mr.. Harris keeps on hand constantly all the
daily papers Of the country rs well AS the
pictorials, mobthlios, etc, and is prepared to
furnish reading matter for the million.
In another column OF the HERALD will
be found the annual advertisement Of the
State university. ut Oxford, Mississippi. Our
young friends who intend attending this in
stltuton should ut ouce apply by letter to
the chancellor for rooms. and arrange to 90
at the opening, September 30th. The insti.
tuition will likely be crowded full next ses-
sion, and those wishing first class rooms
should apply early. There were Az stu
dents there last year.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-18
PERSON AL.

c. W. hyde, of Cincinnati, is in the city.
Mr.. Alex Friend is in the city guest at
| the Grand Windsor.
Professor w. II. Allen, of Waxahachie,
was in the city yesterday.
j. w. Delaney, agent of the Texas &; Pa.
cifc, is again with his friends.
DR.. En-. Tillman left last evening for n
business trip to New York.
Mr.. Skiles leaves the city for Mckinney
this morning, where he will preach to-cay.
Miss Lulu Lowe, charming Young lady
of Rockwell, is visiting the family Of Mr..
j. w. Allen.
j. 5. Andrews, of Fort Worth, promi.
nent cattle man, passed through yesterday
on a business trip to Chicago.
Acknowledgement Joseph d. Sayres is
at the Grand'Windsor. He spoke at Wealth.
erford Friday to an immense audience.
Charlie Galloway. known better bv his
host of young friends as "Uncle Charlip.n
was out on the streets yesterday aftera severe
spell of rheumatism.
II. w. Jones, our aft ,ble and efficient dis
trict clerk, leaves this morning for several
weeks recreation in the Indian territory.
The HERALD wishes him pleasant trip and
trusts that he will thoroughly recuperate.
Mr.. Levi Cooper, son of D. Cooper. the
largest livery and stock man in North Louis
lana, has been spending several days in our
city with friends. He leaves for the north
tomorrow morning to spend the summer,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-18

WE have this morning reports from all
the city ward primaries and from some of the
election precincts outside of the city. In the
city proper there are twonty-threo votes, to
which add Oak Lawn and the Fair Grounds,
and it makes thirty-one votes. OF these
thlrty-one, there are we are informed, only
SIX or seven who favor the nomination Of
Governor Roberts. Then there is Richard
son, with its six votes, that has instructed
for Lang, unless we be incorrectly informed.
This leaves forty three votos to hear fro n in
THIS county, and We have not the slightest
doubt but that half of these, if not major
ity Of them, are opposed to the reelection Of
Governor Roberts, The bulk of the thirty
live thousand people in this county are
in favor Of free schools, want
immigration, and are straighout for progress
and tho development of the state. They
want TO make of Texas wyatt she is capable
of, what she ought to be, what her fl.
ciltles, her resources, and her magnificent
advantages demand, and therefore they OPP
pose the reelection OF Governor Roberts,
feeling and knowing tha. his policy is p,rs.
lying the best interest of Texas, is
keeping people FROM her shores, IS forcing
her children to grow up in ignorance, is
making jailsagreator necessity than churches
and school houses, is forcing the people to
pay out their hsrd-earned dollars that Il
plethora of money may be accumulated in
the state treasurey to give color to the cry of
"pay vas yougo" The people of this coun-
try understand and appreciate this thing, and
therefore oppose Governor Roberts.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-18
MEDICAL.
ELslnlIS WIsL 1.-..E..I..l-. p.

FULLY IS PER CENT. of the human raca nv.
victims to partial or complete i'm potency
ihis startling assertion will be fully corrobo
rated by every intelligent physician. III,
principal causes producing this disease are in'
ulscretions or excuses. Some of the co,nTnn,
symptoms are loss of vigor, sperm a torrb oan
pain in the back, disposition to avoid sncIaty
languOri gloomy forebodings, mental Distress
nervous debility and leucorrho,a I'm femaiesS
facilitating dreams, &c. Let no false modesEt
prevent the parent from warning the child n
mis- great evil. Secret habits are the result ~
Ignorance. The medical profession has baey
almost criminally negligent or retlcent abont
these things, as the demand for Increased AZ
ccmmodations at the insane asylums alnpIy
There is well-kuown principle In animo
physiology that no vital action can take nlaca
except through the ageacy of the nervous sys.
TEN. II the nerve power In any organ IL weak-
ened, then that organ is''weak There is rem.
edy i'll inc reach of ALL one that has stood ths
test for over half century. DR., Ricordjs
Vital Restorative has been scrutlnized and ins
dorsed by the Academy of Medicine in Psris
as an intalable specific for the above, con tains
no prosperous, canthgrides or ether noison .
Is purely Vegetable, producing no Reaction
anu is permanent in effect; is a sugar-e1ataJ
phi ana can be had Of Levasser & Co IN lis
We kichelieu Paris, tFrance), or of Dr :
Brown Slgesmond, sole agent for the u a
singer building, st. Louis, Mo. /: box Of ia
pills, w, box OF 400, SlO, sent by mall upo1 ro'
Ceipt of price "i''-A iN-
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-18

The four great coffee countries of the world
are Brazil, Java, Sumatra, and Ceyron. The
data and figures for 1879 show that Brazil
itself has produced an extraordinary quantity
of beans. Hitherto, 100000 tons has been
| considered as good yearly figure for Brazil;
last year the export alone amounted to 27S.-
COO tons But the consumption of coffee in
the country itself now amounts to 10000
tons, raising the total yearly products of
Brazil to 1888, 800 tons. Fortunately for the
planters in otherpa of the world, coffee has
grown into necessity in the United States,
and, thanks so this its price has risen. AL
though the soil of Brazil, especially for coffee
calture, is very extensive yet the difficulty of
obtaining labor daily becomes greater, and
this renders it doubtful whether the above
figure can be much exceeded. The crop in
Java and Sumatra was estimated at $4,000
tons for export; the consumption of the inhab-
itants, although the population is double that
of Brazil, is not half of that of tho latter
country. The production of Ceylon al.
though greater than that Of 1878, shows q
falling off when compared with former wears:
there was in all 4l,200 tons exported fr m
the island, the native consumption being very
small. Coffee is, besides, grown in Central
America, in several of the Souta American
republics, in the British and other colonies of
the West Indies, in Hayti, Cuba, Porto Rico,
Arabia, Mauritius, Reunion. and along the
northeast coast of Africa, in Liberia and the
African west coast, in Manila, Celebes, and
several ofthe islands of the Pacific, and last
ly, in British India. But the total production
OF all these regions does not reach half of the
export of the four chief countries named
above
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-18
Says The Agency: "Ihe failures for The

Gays the Agency: Tho failures for the
first half of 1850, according to the above
showing, appears to be only 2,497 in number
with liabilities amounting to barely So mil
lions of dollars. These figures are much
smaller than it has ever been our gooa for
tune to chronicle for any similar period. The
hrstsix months of 1879 showed a remarkable
dtmunition-the liabilities for that period be.
Ing only IS millions as against 1870 millions
ia the same period in 1ST6--or a lessened
loss by bad debts Of fully one.half. But it
b IS been left for the first six months of 1880
to show reduction Of as great ratio even
on the reduced figures of the previous year;
Tor tho liabilities of the last half year are
only 80 millions of dollars as compared with
30 millions in 1879, and 1870 million in 1873.
Thus for the FIRST half of 1850, as compared
with the first half of 1878, the loss by. fail
ures appears to be lessened by nearly 100
millions OF dollars These figures clearly
indicate the marked improvement in busi-
ness and show that our mercantile interests
have not been in amore prosperous consi.
t!on in twenty years. And the present ex-
traordinarily fine situation of the crops in all
quarters of the Union furnish ample data for
the prediction that the coming fall and next
year will be q vast improvement upon even
the present healthy volume of trade. Says
The Agency; "The foregoing figures, which
indicate decline in failures SO marked, even
as compared with the favorable showing Of |
the year previous, are fresh illustration oil
Che healthy condition of business which is
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-18

almost universally supposed to prevail IT.,
during such years as 1878, when the losses
by bad debts equalled $5,0O0,O00 per week,
the failure figures illustrated very dsas'
trous condition of aflaira, surely no better
sign of the general prosperity that now pre-
walls is needed than the tables which we
herewith present for the first half of 1880 in
which the losses from this source are shown
to be rather less than one and quarter mil,
lions per week. SO that not only are the
figures in themselves evidence Of prosperity,
but the absence of loss which they imply is
a part of the existing favorable condition OF
business" There is in all this food
for reflection for those people who
would revolutionze the present existing
financial system of the country, and plunge
it into wild riot Of greenbacksms, ending
they know not where. The orators in the
late G!eenback rally in this city did not
deny the country was prosperous, that bust
ness was never more active, and that all who
wanted employment could readily get it. In
this state of things had we better not lot well
enough alone? Do good men want revolu-
tions at such a time Can they honestly ask
it: Twelve months ago there was some OK.
cuse, and a real cause of grievance for the
scarcity of money and business, but there is
none now The sober, solid truth is we never
had as good currency and never had as much
paper, gold and silver in circulation as now
A paper dollar is as good as gold dollar
but would it be if we issued an unlimited
amount of il?