The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-18
THE NEWS BUDGET.
A Summary OF Events During the
Past Week.
Latest Events.

The epizoot in Montreal has assumed a
very deadly form.
HORACE MAYNARD leads in the contest
for senator from Tennessee.
BERLIN is to hold an international rail-
way exhibition in 1882.
The Methodist board of missions has APP
propriated $l7 900 for work in China.
Two steamers from Europe brought in
1927 $50 in French gold on the 9Th inst.
JOHN SHERMAN definitely announces
himself a candidate for the Ohio senator
ship.
STREETER, the greenback candidate for
governor Of Illinois, received about %, 900
votes.
WHILE awaiting the decision Of the SUI
preme court. Mrs. Brown, the Indianapo-
lis murderess, is losing her reason.
A SYNDICATE in Paris will make an adj
vance of 94,0OO,OO0 to Greece on security
| of its monastic and state lands.
THE five railways which will use the
new Canal street depot in Chicago, send
out eighty-four passenger trains daily.
A BADLEY-DECoMPosED body, enveloped
in an Aipena life-preserver, hoated ashore
at Port Sheldon, Mich. last week.
SECRETARY SHERMAN will strongly urge
upon congress legislation of some sort to
| relieve the treasury vaults of the pressure
of accommodating silver dollars.
FROM 200 to 800 miners stopped work at
Akron, Ohio, on the 9Th inst, demanding
! an advance of ten cents per ton.
RUNNERS sent out from Fort Stanton
brought in twenty-four Mescalero Apach-
es, who desired to surrender. Seventeen
| of the party were squaws and children.
The democratic vote of Kentucky shows
Il decrease of 1854 since the Hayes and
Tilden contest.
A CROWD of two thousand people at
Creston, Iowa, witnessed wheelbarrow
feat by Hancock man, in payment of an
election bet.
The debt of Illinois will be extinguish-
ed by January l, if the outstanding $751;
600 in bonds be presented for payment.
At the commencement of 1857 the state
debt was over $14 100000,
The issue of stamps and postal cards for
October was the largest in the history of
the government, amounting to $4,3l2, 694.
The cost of the postal service to the gen.
eral treasury for the fiscal year was 49,
1854.
The latest aspirants to the Indiana sem
| atorship are President Burgess, of Butler
University, Gen. A. D. Streight. Con-
gresham Tom Browne, Hon. John Coburn,
and J. NJ. Shackleford.
New YORK reporters obtained from
Beecher glowing tribute to Ingersoll's
courage and brilliancy Pope Bob, on be.
! ing interviewed, expressed the opinion
! that the Plymouth pastor had liheralized
the English-speaking races of the earth.
The latest returns indicate the election
of Johnson, (colored), republican, in the
first Arkansas district, to congress by 1000
majority over Poindexter Dunn. domo-
| crat. johnson is barber, residing at
Augusta, Ark. His candidacy was an
nounced but one week prior to the election
A CITATION has been issued commanding
Mayor Kallock to show cause why he
should not be punished for contempt in at
lacking the grand jury in his prelude to
sermon last Sunday evening. His re-
port attacks a number of county officials
and institutions nd praises others. 1t is
noticeable that his unfavorable comments
are confined to officers elected by the
workingmen.
AN arrangement has been completed be-
tween Red Cloud and spotted Tail Indians
whereby the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul railroad company receives the right
Of way from the mouth of American Crow
Creek westward through the Sioux reser-
walton to the Cheyenne river. The right
of way is $50 miles long and two hundred
feet wide; $ll0 per mile is paid and four
dollars per acre. for station ground not ex-
ceeding one hundred and sixty acres per
station. Five dollars per acre is paid for
town site on the west side of the Ameri-