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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

National Bank Of Augusta, Maine, shot
himself fatally on the Sd INST, after first
jumping into cistern with weights an
chored to his feet. The bank officers as
serted that his accounts were all right.
JOHN MAxwELL's rubbing stone works
at Malden.on-t he-Hudson were totally
destroyed by fire on the LIST inst Loss
$4,000. a large number Of Workmen
were thrown out Of employment
CHAs. DECKER, appointment merchant
of Newark, N. j., committed suicide on
the 3rd inst. by blowing his head off
with q cannon, constructed from large
hollow piece of iron which he filled
with powder and slugs, placed under his
chin and fired off with match. ~
The schooners Daniel Harding and
Kate Newman collided off the coast of
New Jersey during the storm of Monday
night, says TOMS River dispatch of the
9Th inst, the latter boat sinking with all
but one of her crew. Seven dead bodies
had been washed ashore when this dis
patch was received. So
The furniture factory of George G.
Flint & Co., 154 and 1866 West Nineteenth
street. New York, burned February End.
Loss $4,000; partially insured. Work
men in. the employ of the company have
been on a strike the past two weeks and
made threats which it is believed some
of them carried out by firing the prem
ises. r - .r
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE Milwaukee county, Wis, poor
house burned up Feb. 3rd and several
inmates persisted. -. .-s.
DURING the terrible storm il the east
on the 3rd inst, Vim. Murphy, a brake
man on the Hudson River railway, was
blown from the lain and killed.
The saw mill and handle factory of
Peck & Sreeter, at Detroit, was destroy.
ed by an incendiary fire on the LIST inst.
Loss $4,000.
AT Easton, Mass, yesterday, says q
Boston dispatch of Feb. I'd, John D
Gardiner and wife were burned to death
with their house. q
B The First National Bank building at
Davenport was damaged by fire to the
extent Of $1,000 Feb. lst. 9.s
4 AN express train killed Henry Grant
and George Adds and severely wounded
William Rhodes, who were crossing the
track IN. q carriage at Chester, Pa, Feb'y.
1st. :. N. Sz
@ TEE car house of the Evansville, Ind,
street car company was destroy ed by fire
Feby. let, with all their cars. The. loss
is 90, 900; insurancese4, 900.
JOHN A. EBERTs' furniture factory was
destroyed by flre in Philadelp hia, Feb.
s2nd Loss, $50, 900; no insurance. The
Keystone -four; mill also 81 burned.
Loss, go, 600; insurance, q 600.
IsRARLs BooTHLHY cashier 81 the First
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

inst, for the purpose ofeelecting dele
gates to the national convention. A very
spirited contest occurred between the
Grantand Blaine men, but the former
comprised nearly two-thirds of the CON
vention. After a long time spent..in de
bate, the delegation chosen was Instruct
ed to vote for q. s. Grant, and as unit
on all questions. The vo:e on instruct
ing the delegates for Grant stood 1873 in
favor and 113 against. The following are
the delegates at large: Mathew s. Quoy,
James McManes, of Linn; Bartholomew
Christopher, L. Magee. Alternates, Gen.
D. S. Elliott, John ]. Hoy Brown, Hen
ry Buck, Samuel M. Jackson. Electors
at large, Edmund A Benson, Henry w.
Oliver. Hon. Henry Green was unani-
mously nominated Judge Of the supreme
court John A. Lemon and J. A. NJ.
Passmore were nominated for attorney;
general, and Lemon was declared the
choice of the convention by vote of 1853
to SO.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12
GENERAL. NOTES.

THE New York Herald opened the
Irish relief fund in New York city on the
4th inst with subscription of 500, 900.
The severest storm of the season oc-
CURED on Mount Washington, N. H.,
Jan. 31st. The wind blew at the rate Of
1872 miles an hour.
rs GEO. p. BOWEN, who has been clerk of
the United States district court at Spring.
field, ILL.,, for the past is years, died Feb.
I'd, aged q. II y KS g..
JOHN GoTTeCHALK, German butcher
at Springfield, I'll ;, shielded BY hanging,
on the Sd inst. He had been on q spree
several days. He leaves 8 wife and six
children 4: II ]:
TIE steamer Sarm attain, with the prin
cess on board, arrived az Halifax Feb
ed. The princes swas met BY her hus
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12
"a, 6e3, 512
33,117
Is, 651,152
Is, sec,
32,C65, 061
VaselinA.

A new product made from petroleum
is jelly called "Vaseline," which is Of
the greatest utility in medicine, phar-
macy and for toilet use. Physicians all
over the world have discovered it's great
value in the treatment of wounds, burns,
skin diseases, rheumatism, catarrh and
every ailment where iiniment is need
ed, and in almost every hospital in
America and Europe this substance is
now in constant use, and is acknowledg.
ed not only to be the best treatment.
but also one of the most important re-
cent additions to medicine. It is put
u in bottles by the Chesebrough Man.
ufacturing Co., of New York, and as
family remedy, it is without doubt the
best in use. Its healing and pain allay-
ing qualities being superior to those Of
any known substance, while the speedy
relief it affords for piles and chilblains
is almost magical. As m emollient,
Vaseline is way ahead of anything else,
o. it renders the skin smooth, soft and
clear, and our lady friends will find it
n ;. only the best, but perhaps the sole
substance which will really preserve and
restore to the complexion the hues of
JSe<SAA1 AAA0AAn6 WIG VAVOA INV VVAVVS
q d the skin like satin. The complexion
powders In common use, are, as rule,
i furious to the skin and destructive of
. y complexion, while Vaseline is en-
t:'ely healthful and beneficial. There
Is also made q ""Pomade Vaseline,
which is said 10 to of great benefit to
the hair, keeping it soft and glossy, pre-
venting and curing dandruE, and keep
ing the scalp healthful and free from
disease, and from those Objectionable
creatures which sometimes find dwell.
ing there. Numberless instances are
cited of how by the use of this pomade
thin and failing hair has resumed Wig
orous growth. Both the pure Vaseline
and the pomade are put up in twenty
i've cent bottles and are to be found at
al firstolass druggists, and We advise
our readers to make trial of this won
derful substance, and We think they will
find its claims to merit not in the least
exaggerated.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

+ CARLoTrA PATTI, who has been 80 un-
fortunate in her tour of the West, slip.
ped quietely out at the Golden Gates, q
few days ago, and with her dog, husband
and fifteen thousand dollars, the money
icing her share of the earnings Of 9
rather proftless season, sailed for Aus
trails. The prima donna nnounced
just before her departure that her bene-
SIT would take place Sin fourteen days
to come, " 60 that the members Of her
company did not suspect the alp ahe
swyas shout "a give them. '2t :s III
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

COUNT MAssENA, q son of Napoleon's
Field Marshal Massena, died in the poor
house at Salt Lake City a few days ago.
In an obituary Of this man the Salt
Lake Tribune goes around the maxim,
"Of the dead speak nothing unless
good" and ascribes his low end to q
career of meanness and rapacity such
as marked his more notorious father
life. The wife of the deceased is now
q domestic in Salt Lake family.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, our new min
lister to England is sometimes called the
most English of American poets, and
there are people who say he is cold.
But he has written one or two poems
which, being quoted before audiences,
have drawn tears. Lowell is said to be
one of the boys, and although he is .
dapper chap, who parts his hair in the
middle he likes = cigar, drink and q
lively story after fashion. He doesn't
care cent for formalities.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12
CRIME.

WILLIAM SCHROEDER was indicted at
Cincinnati, Jan. 31st, for the murder Of
Harry Baldwin on the night of March
18th, 1870.
FREDERICK GRILLE, convicted of the
murder of his daughter at Newton, N.
j., was sentenced on the 3rd inst, to be
hanged April 3rd.
PETER NAeLE, of Reading, Pa, on
the 18th inst, in fit Of jealousy murdered
his landlady, Mrs. Shocksell, with a
Ratchet and then killed himself.
The trial of Mrs. Smith and Cove
Bennett, for the murder Of the husband
of Mrs. Smith, policeman of Jersey
City, has resulted in a verdict of not
guilty, says telegram of Feb. LIST.
The governor. of Massachusetts has
ordered that Chas. F. Freeman, the Po-
casset child murderer, shall be confined
in the state lunatic asylum, says dis
patch of Feb. End.
A DEADwooD telegram, of Feb. 18th,
says the detectives who captured Lo
Grimes, the notorious desperate and a
member of Doc. Middleton's gang, were
compelled to shoot him, he having at.
tempted an escape.
y A BAD state of affairs exists at Lucon,
,Ontario. Early on the morning Of the
,4th inst, party of masked men entered
the dwelling Of the somewhat notorious
Donnelly family and murdered the
father, mother, son and niece. One
person crept under a'bed and saved him
self. The gang then set fire to the house
and burned it together with the dead
bodies. A son residing about three miles
off was also visited, and upon appearing
at the door in answer to knock, was
shot dead. The neigh borhood was great
ly excited over the event.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

HOLLAND and Greece, says a cable
gram of Feb. 3rd, have both officially
recognized the independence of Rou-
mania.
MONTENEGRO has ordered 100000
cartridges from an Austrian manufacture
er, says a Vienna telegram of the 18th
inst.
A RICH land owner near Barcelona,
Spain, wife, three daughters, son and
three women servants were found MUIR
dered in their beds Jan. 31st. A male
servant was arrested charged with the
murder. ~
A BERLIN correspondent, under date
of February LIST, reports that at the gov
eminent cannon foundry such large or.
ders have been received that q large num-
Der of fresh hands have been engaged,
and all are working extra time.
THE International conference on arctic
exploration, in session at Hamburg, has
decided not to send fresh expedition to
the North Pole at present, says cable
gram of Feb. 2nd. 1t advocates the
tons toward the Arctic region.
YELLow-FEvER has broken out at sew
eral places in Brazil, says cablegram of
February end. Up to the present time
the epidemic has appeared in mild form,
but fears are. entertained that it may
spread to Rio Janeiro.
IT is understood, says a London dis
patch of February End, that the govern
ment intend to give a grant for the pur-
pose of providing seed for small Irish
farmers. An eminent Irish statistician
estimates the loss sustained by the fail
ure Of last years potato crop in Ireland
at "a, 626, 900. r." =
The strength of the German army on
a peace footing. says Berlin cablegram
of Feb. 2nd, as shown by the military
budget of 1880 81, is 17,227 officers, and
401 $50 men. This does not include the
projected increase, which, the Cologne
Gazette says. is chiefly destined to rein
force the Alsace-Lorraine garrisons. A
new field artillery regiment is to be sta
toned at Metz, and heavy artillery is to
be divided among the fortresses Of Alsace-
Lorraine. $ ~
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

THEpopulation of Nebraska is now
about 100000. 1t produced of grain
last year about 10000 bushels, with an
increase of live stock over any former
year of over sixty per cent. Omaha, it's
principal city, erected last year, in
round numbers, 1000 new buildings,
and its business transactions reached
the large sum of 5000, 600.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

Mr.. EUGENE SCHUYLER is described
by Miss Brewster, in the philadelphia
Telegraph, as the most popular American
official who has ever been in Rome. He
mas been elected almost unanimously
to divers clubs, and is guest at endless
ambassadorial dinners and cardinals
breakfasts.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12
Tho Evidence Accum,,ulafAs.

) 81. J. Footner, Of TORONTO Ont, certiaes that
Warmers Safe Pills have cured him OF biliousness
and sleepleseness. g. a. .0adbois Of Brookyillc,
that the Safe Pins and Safe Bitter1
IN Texas, 3. ]. Campbell, Of Philadolphia, certi-
mes that the Safe Pills and SAFE Kidney and Liver
Cure have nearly cured him Of 8 bad chronic liver
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

A WRITER in Soribner says that there
is q fascination in the tones of John
Bright's voice, even in ordinary, con-
versation. A distinguished literary
man, who heard him repeat a stanza
from Whittier, says it made the lines
appear to him the finest thing he ever
heard.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

JOSH BILLINGS Henry w. Shaw is
sixty-three years old, and in early life
had varied fortunes, from those of a
school teacher to those of an auctioneer.
He has made from his writings some
thing like 100000.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

LORD NAPIER Of Magdala will shortly
attain the age of seventy. Report has
it that he is to be allowed to remain on
the activelist as Governor of Gibralter un-
til October, 1882, and that on returning
finally to England he will receive a
field marshal's baton.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

A BoTAN1sT says that there are $4,000
different kinds of weeds in the United
States. Bloggs says this a typographical
error. The year he had kitchen
garden he noticed $4,000 different
kinds
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

A LONDON society paper says "that
it is not impossible that Lord Che1ms-
ford may be sent to India in place of
Sir Frederick Haines; that Lord Chelms-
ford has already refused district COM
mand and is supposed to believe that he
has claims to the command in India"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

A BLIND girl has outranked all her
seeing competitors in the high school
of Portland Me.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

w. H. VANDERBILT is estimated to
have made $So,000,000 last year; Jay
Gould. SIS, 0OO, 600; Sidney Dillon, $40,
100000; Russell Sage, $10,0o0,0oo, and
Jim Keene. S8,OOO.OOO.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

The lord mayor of London gives
bond of$50, 600 for the safety of the Of
fetal diamonds, and of one 500, 900 for
the safety of the plate.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12
Mrs. PartInRton SAYS:

Don't take any of the quack rostrums, as they arc
regimental to the human cfstern; but put your
trustin Hop Bitters, which will cure general dlar"
idation, costive habits and all comic diseases.
They saved Isaac from severe extract Of tripod
fever. They are the ne plus ununs OF medicines.
Boston Globe.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

FIRST Assistant Postmaster General
Tyner, of Indiana, is straight, with
thrown back shoulders and with gray
hair.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

N Mr.. ALEXANDRA AGaAss1z pays from
his own pocket most Of the expenses Of
the Hazard Museum Of Comparative
Zoology
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12
NEWS NOTES
The Globe Democrat, of st. Louis, paid
twenty per cent. profit on it's stock last
year.

THERE are 1900 persons who are
proud because they are decended from
Peter Burhans, who came from Holland
in 1860. e..
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12
The Debt Statement.

THE following was the condition of
the treasury at the opening of business
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

l. VOAA "a 4SVs
SIX per cent. bonds. Is;
Five per cent. bonds....
Four and q half per cent.
DO00S..
Four per cent. bonds. -.
Refunding certificates.
Navy pension fund. SO.
Total coin bonds .. ..
Matured debt ...........
Legal tenders......... ..
Certificates of deposits.
Fractional currency.
Gold and silver certid-
cafes ............... :.
Total without interest.
Total debt. .............
Total interest.
Cash in treasury......
Debt less cash in treas
ufy..
Decrease during JAM.
Decrease since June 80,
1879 .................
Current liabilities
Interest due and unpaid.$
Debt on which interest
has ceased. ...........
Interest thereon. .......
Gold and silver cerlif1-
Gates. ....... .........
U. S. notes held for re-
dempti0n OF certid-
Gates of deposit. ......
Cash balance available
Feb. I, 1880.
Available assets
Cash IN treasury. .....
Bonds issued to Pacific
r.. r. Co., interest
payable IN lawful
money, principal out
standing .............
Interest accrued and not
yet paid. ..............
Interest paid by United
6t8Cc6.
Interest repaid bv trans
pOrtation of mails, etc.
Balance of interest paid
by United States. $500.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-12

s27o, s45, $50
5O6, 495, $50
$50, 0oo. 600
78, 776, $50
2, O69, 800
IA, 600, COO
S1,1s1, CSC, $50
IL, GA, 451
346. "a, $50
IL, 635. coo
IS. 668, 729
10, 4e4. olo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-03

There were nearly five hundred mysterious
disappearance" in the United States last year,
and in many cases no trace of the missing party
was ever found. In connection with these sta
tistics is the statement that large majority of
those who disappeared and left no clue behind
were married men, but whether this additional
fact is simply intended in the way OF informal
ton or Is meant to relieve the police, generally,
OF responsibility for not unraveliing the mystic
ries by insinuatinS that most Of the cases were
hen-pecked benedicts fleeing from broomsticks
and pokers, is left to conjecture
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-03

The Chief Magistrates of the United States
have, as rule, lived to an old age which, the
Cincinnati Enquirer thinks must furnish some
consolation to venerable politicians with
presidential aspirations" There have been nine
teen Presidents, including the present incum-
bent, and those who attained the position
through the death Of their predecessors. Gen
s;rant is the only eX-Pre=ident living. OF the
seventeen ex-Presidents who have "crossed
the river" John Adams reached the great age
of ninety years and eight months. James Mad
ison died at eighty-fve, Thomas Jefferson at
eighty three, John @. Adams at eighty, Martin
Van Buren, at seventy nine, Andrew jackson at
seventy-eight, James Buchanan at seventy
seven, and Willard Fillmore at seyenty-four
James K. Polk had the shortest life of all, being
only fifty-three at his death, Abraham Lincoln
was flfty-six. No other ex-President died
under the age Of sixty-four. The average age
of the seventeen who are dead was seventy two
and three quarter years. Counting in Grant
and Hayes at their present ages, (each being
ffty-eight,) the average age Of the Presidents
would only be reduced to seventy-one years.
These statistics may have tendency to induce
Ex-Governor Seymour to listen to the voice of
his party, which Is crying out to him from the
wilderness as 1t were.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-03
A Bunkunn Bill.

Petitions favortng the passage of the % Weaver
bill' are being circulated among the ex-unlon
soldiers and sailors Of this country, and clubs of
this class OF citizens are being formed with the
view Of influencing the action of Congress upon
this measure. The protested object Of the bill
Is to pay to the men who served tie union cause
or their heirs, the difference between The green
gagged in the service of their country. Its real OBJ
ject is to bolster up the decayed greenback in
nation party by appealing to the support of the
soldier element. Mr.. Weaver proposes an issue
of $500. 900, 600 new legal tender Treasury notes.
10 meet the expenditure called for by his bill.
This, 1t is estimated, would not be half enough
but this fact would not constitute an objection
TO the measure, in the minds OF the in
fiationiStS. They hope to retain some
hold upon the popular favor, Or rather vote. by
promising to give money for nothing; to put
money into circulation by the wholesale, and
let every body grab for it. The orignatOrs of
this Weaver scheme do not expect it to succeed
in Congress; they expect it to meet the defeat
1t deserves, and they intend to make use of the
vote that kills the bill to help keep alive their
dying party. By saying to the union soldier
element that it was the greenbackers who tried
to enrich them by Congressional enactment,
they hope to get some proportion OF that ele-
ment to vote for their party in future. That
is about all there Is in the Weaver bill. 1t is
nothing more than device to catch votes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-03

The Indianapolis Journal has published inter-
views with 1,15l republicans residing in differ
ent parts OF Indiana, on the subject OF their
choice OF presidential candidate OF that
number 342 were for Blaine, $40 for Sherman,
800 for Grant, IS for Hayes, % for Washburne,
IA for Garfield, and few scattering" There
Is nothing discouraging in this showing to any
OF the three leading candidates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-03

Mr.. Cowles, OF the Cleveland Leader, the
other day was rash enough to assail the vera
city of General Boynton, of the Cincinnati CO.
zette. Mr.. Boynton applies the scalpel to Mr..
Cowles in reply with severity tempered by neat
ness and CELEBRITY. 1t is not very safe opera
ton to Stir BOynton un
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-03

That sterling weekly paper, the Prince Gso,g-
ian. published at Upper Marlborough, has en-
tered upon its nineteenth volume.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-03

There are 12l new advertisements In The STAR
to-day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-03
THE st. Louis Times, though a democratic
paper, fayors the colored exodus from the South

THE st. Louis Times, though a democratic
paper, favors the cOlored exodus from the South
It says:
There are enough white people in the North
10 take half the negro pOpulatiOn-two or three
millions-w1thout much danger. The negro
would soon find his true level as an amabIe.
complaisant mental, or a clumsy, but cheap,
field hand, as soon as he ceased to be regarded
as kfndling wood for political bonfires as pet.
aphenOmenon or martyr. Let them go North
Hurrah for the exodus Only we protest that
Missouri has her share now, and does not need
any more till the pro rata is equalized say In
Kansas Iowa and Minnesota"
This is one OF the arguments that Senator
Window and others have advanced in support
OF the exodus. They say that to distribute the
negro population over the country so that they
will not be in the majority In any locality will
remove all object for interfering with their civil
rights, and take the negro question out of poll
tics. After all, the exodus is a question that
must settle itself. If a colored man chooses to
leave one state and locate in another, there is
no legal way to prevent 1t, and in making such
move he is apt to be prompted by the same
motives that would act upon white man. The
colored people who are doing well in the South,
will be likely TO remain there, and those who
think they can better their condition by a re-
moval will be willing to try it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-03

AFRUIT CAKES for the Hohdays, All made Of
tfean Print Butter and other good material u ct
oeol1-im FUSSELLBs l42T New York ave.