The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-30
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
A COURTHOUSE and Jail, to cost 3l5O,OOO
will be erected by La Sale county at Otta-
wa, ILL.,, next summer.
Mrs. HAZARD, of Monticello, ILL.,, gave
birth to five babies on the 23nd inst. Two
are living.
A v1RULENT form of rinderpest has
brokon out in Volhynia-the principal
cattle-raising district of Russia.
The contract for the extension of the
Denver & Rio Grande railway to the Gun
nison country has been let, and the line
Will be completed in seven months.
MOORE, JENKINS & Co., wholesale gro
GERS of New York, have failed, uuexpect-
edly, with liabilities that are supposed to
reach $250,000. The amount Of assets is
not stated.
A DUEL between a Ute and a Navajo
occurred recently near Santa Fe. Their
quarrel was about squaw, and they
fought with knives. The Ute was killed.
AN unusual demand for silver dollars is
gladdening the hearts of treasury officials.
Two hundred thousand oftke sinners have
gone south this week.
JESSE ID. GRANT, third son of the gen.
eral, and Miss Lizzie Chapman, daughter
of a wealthy merchant, were married at
San Francisco, on the 2lst inst The
young couple started for the east.
A ST.. LOUIS committee will go to Wash
ington to beseech Gen. Walker to order
another enumeration of the inhabitants of
that city. Hon. James O. Broadh cad
leads the forlorn hope.
REV. E. P. ADAMS, the Dunkirk, n. y,
preacher who rejected the doctrine of
everlasting torment, has been deposed
from the Presbyterian ministry as her.
etic
GEN. GRANT and ex-senator Lyman
Trumbull were members of the same pro-
cession at the Rockford, ILL.,, fair, on the
18th inst. The latter made speech of
non-partisan character.
The telephone men OF Springfield, ILL.,,
undertook to put up their poles on Fifth
street, on Sunday, in order to escape an in
junction, but the city marshal arrested
them for violating the law in regard to the
observance of the Sabbath
A MOB of several hundred men and boys
attacked the old skating-ring at Milwau-
kee, on the 18th inst, and tore it down,
carrying away the timber. The ground
on which the structure stood is wanted for
the new exposition building, but the lessee
refused to come to terms. The police
made no attempt to check the mob.
DISPATCHES from South America state
that there is prospect of peace between
Chill and Peru. England, France and
Italy are said to have convinced the first
named nation that its conquests have gone
far enough, and United States Minister
Christiancy is now at africa, where he will
meet certain high Gillian officials to dis
cuss proposals for peace.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by the Sec
rotary of the treasury, instructing the as
sistant United States treasurer at New
York to pay out at his counter, until fur
ther notice, standard silver dollars, or sill
yer certificates, in sums of $40, or any
multiple thereof, for like amounts of gold
coin, or gold bullion, deposited with him.
direct descendant of Miles Standish, is
dead. Mr.. Foster was U. S. senator at the
time of the assassination of Lincoln, and
on Mr.. Johnson's elevation to the presi-
dency became vice-president of the United
States, which position he held until his
term expired, when, failing of reelection
| to the senate, Mr. Wade, of Ohio, was
made president of that body.
A VICTORIA dispatch says: A genuine
sea serpent, six feet in length, with an
orthodox mans head shaped like pam
Their, and tail whitfield down to sharp
point, was brought in by the Indians, who
caught it on the water straits of Deparo.
Its appearance created intense interest
among savants, and old fishermen cannot
place the monster The serpent has been
photographed and the body will be pre-
served in spirits and sent to Ottowa for
! classification.
A DISPATCH from Calistoga, California,
says: "Great excitement has been aroused
| in this vicinity for the past two weeks over
report that the Hot Springs held large
quantities of geld in solution. A man
who recently bought the Hot Springs
hotel property has been at work for the
past few weeks extracting gold from the
water, by process known only by himself,
Clearings up to yesterday afternoon showed
that he has succeeded in extracting 81 ,06O
from ten barrels of water The gold is of
the highest grade of fneness, and as the
springs volume of water is exceedingly
large, it would be useless to attempt to es-
innate the value if they continue to yield
as rich returns as the experiments have
proved thus far"