The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-29
GENERAL NOTES.
Ice 80 a ton in New York.

PRINCESS LOUISE will sail for ENGLAND
again on the 31st inst
JACKSON, Miss, has established land and
water guarantees against New Orleans,
P1TTsBURG dealers and manufacturers
report decided Improvement in the iron
trade.
IN New Hampshire, on the 22nd inst. a
shock Of earthquake was felt making build
ings tremble considerably.
GEN. CHAMBERS, of Texas, grcenback
candidate for vice president, will Withdraw
from the ticket owing to i'll health.
JOHN II. KN-EBEL, a Brooklyn attorney.
left that city the other day for New Next
co, owing clients over 100000.
THE Omaha city council has let the con-
tract for the construction of water-works
in that city to S. E. Locke, his bid being
$3.50, 600.
I'll. W. GU1TEAC, cashier of the Second
National Bank Of Freeport, ILL.,, died on
the 22nd inst, after long and painful
illness.
A MCLEAN county, Illinois, woman died
on the 10Th inst, from the effects of a
sting by an insect of some kind on her
lip.
GENERAL GRANT and party arrived at
Manitou, Co.., on the 2Gth inst, Thew
will spend the hot season there.
JUDGE STEPHEN r. LOGAN died at SPRING
field ILL.,, aged 81. He was once Abraham
Lincoln's law partner and had been active
in politics
HE first lot of new wheat h as been sol
at Des Moines, Iowa, at 20 cents 1t was
the Mediterranean variety, plump, and
No. l.
ARRANGEMENTS are nearly complete for
the resumption of work on the Washing
ton monument. suspended for TWENTY-FIVE
years.
JACOB With, vice president of the Gin
cinnati Southern railway company, has re-
signed on account of i'll health and Briggs
5. Cunningham has been appointed in his
place.
A DISPATCH from Dcadwood says it is re-
ported there that two companies of the eth
cavalry, under Capt Ilsley, recently en-
gagged large band Of Sioux, and sustained
heavy loss.
A YOUNG man calling himself John II.
Christiancy, and claiming to be a son of
Minister Christiancy, has been committed
to the lncbriates' home at Fort Hamilton.
New lork, on his own motion.
Two men named Amos Harrison and
Philo Peters, while bathing in the Arkan-
sas river, forty miles east Of Pueblo, found
an iron pot containing three thousand dol
lars in gold and silver. Aletter concealed
in buckskin purse found in the pot is
yellow with age and is dated April 18th,
1860, and says: II stole the money in
Chicago from farmer My partner died
in Kansas, March Is. am going to New
Mexico. If anybody finds this pot they
can keep the money! Signed A. L. L.
A PITTSBURGH dispatch says the develop
ment of the coke trade which is now one of
the leading interests in this section, has
been simply marvellous during the past ten
years. Only a few years since the manu-
facture of coke was confined to very few
firms. and some Of them had trouble in
disposing of their product Pittsburgh coke
is shipped to all parts of the country, and
even in the anthracite regions it is in de-
mand. Census statistics show total of
6,60l ovens, averaging one man for an
oven. Excluding miners who dig coal to
supply ovens will give an aggregate ofover
5000 employees. 1t is estimated that the
product Of each oven is $50 bushels per
week Of six days. This would give an ag-
gregate product of 351 ,53S bushels per day,
or more than 100000 bushels per year