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Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
Personal Gossip.

The only daughter of the colored Rev.
Highland Garnett, Of New York, Mrs: Bar
bosa has gone to Liberia to found school
there for native girls.
Mr.. J. H. Haverly, is. about to erect in
Chicago the most thoroughly appointed
theatre in the West. Ground at cost of
1926, 900 has been purchased as site.
King Louis of Bavaria is building $1O,-
0OO, 900 palace on an island in Lake Her
rensheim, and is to add theater in which
the actors will live as well as play.
Senator Burnside is one of the great din
ner givers of Washington. He entertains
like prince. He has his camp servants
and cook retained since his army days. The
butter and vegetables he uses are raised on
the Senator's farm in Rhode Island
General and Mrs. Fremont are in New
York, the guests Of the Hon. John D. Town
send. A correspondent says the General is
looking older, but Mrs Jessie" Fremont,
as she was familiarly called during the cam
pagin of 1856, is as full of bright spirits as
in younger days, and is as accomplished
politician as ever. The General will re-
turn to Arizona in q few days.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30

known in the city, and has occupied a
prominent position both as a receiving and
speculative firm, handling very large
amount of consigned stock, and trading
heavily in futures for customers. Forsome
time they have been long" for their Gus
toners, and have also held a large amount
of cash grain in store. The late decline in
wheat is the immediate cause of the suspen-
sion.
The Vermont legislature, after the longest
session on record, has adjourned. The bill tax
ing express and telegraph companies two per
cent of gross receipts passed both branches.
postal clerk Mt Omaha, says he carried
some letters home, forgetting to put them in the
post office, and it singularly happened that they
were burglarized from his house the samo
night
Maj. Hankins, the newly-elected president of
the Keokuk Northern Line Packet company.
states that he has accepted the presidency of
the board and would act in conjunction with
the receiver. He thinks the boats will be put
in repair and the line operated rs usual The
cost of repairing and fitting up the boats will
aggregate $5O,OOO-the result of abuses and
carelessness during the administration OF
Davidson. The claims of the latter amounting
to 800, 600, will be fought to the bitter end.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
Large German Emigration.
Letter from Berlin

According to the returns just issued from
the Imperial Statistical office the number of
Germans who during the first nine months
of the current year have emigrated to coun-
tries beyond the sea through the ports of
Bremen, Hamburg, Stettin, and Antwerp
alone amounted 1883, is, ,329 of these
being males and 81, ,629 females. Most of
these fugitives-namely, 80, 9,753-went from
Bremen; and the greater part of them
namely, 76,629-went to the United States.
A slight comparison will here be instructive
While in 1872, i. e., after the war, the num-
Der of German emigrants was 96,243, the
figures in 1878 had sunk as low as 1888.
In 1879 the number had again risen to u.s.
$40, which has now been increased by "a, =
Ais, or more than two-thirds last years
rate, according to the statistics above men
toned.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30

The winter of 1779- -S0-one hundred
years ago-began as the present one did,
and was very severe. In the eastern states,
from November until the middle of Febru-
airy, there was not enough warmth in the
suns rays to melt the snow on the ground,
nor to affect in the least the fetters of ice
that bound the creeks, ponds and rivers.
One snow storm followed another until fl
nally the ground was so covered that it was
difficult to 60 from place to place, and the
ice upon the rivers at all convenient points
was used by men and teams and animals in
place of roads. Even as far south as
Nashville the Cumberland was frozen over
with ice thick enough for the safe passage
of emigrant trains. The Delaware, at Phil
adelphia, had ice three feet in thickness,
and Chesapeake bay and Long Island
were frozen over.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30

TREE planting on the prairies has re-
ceived powerful impetus from the scarcity
of fuel during the present season. Com
parative Indifference has been changed to
lively interest, and there is fair prospect
that provident settlers will begin to help
themselves, and those who will come after
them, by planting a sufficient lumber of
trees to furnish requisite fuel for house
hold purposes. Owners of the soil, Of
course, will choose such varieties as they
may deem best, but it may not be amiss, in
this connection, to name the kinds recOg-
nized by the land officers at Washington. as
timber trees: Cedar, pine, fir, larch, elm,
oak, black locust, honey locust, alder, beech,
plane tree Cotton tree, buttonwood, syca-
mOre) chestnut, spruce, ash, birch, service
tree, mountain ash, maple, box-elder, wal
nut, cottonwood, white willow, hickory,
whitewood tulip tree,) butternut and bass
wood, the planting of which fulflls the re-
quirements of the timber culture act as fan
as species are concerned. Many settlers
where circumstances are favorable, in ad-
dition to the soft and quick growing varie
ties, will find it to their advantage to plan
more or less of the harder woods.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
No Longer Grant the Silent.
Washington Letter.


The ex-president has really becomes de-
cidedly loquacious person. AS he rode up
the avenue yesterday afternoon from the
depot to Gen. Beale's residence, he talked
almost volubly with Generals Logan, Burn
side and Hawley, who were in the carriage
with him. The contrast with his old time
reticence was SO marked that it challenged
the attention of observers long familiar
with his appearance on such occasions. I
passed him walking down the avenue this
afternoon with Gen. Beale, and he was
again talking earnestly. Grants fame as a
soldier may be secure, but his reputation as
silent man is fast vanishing. He makes
only flying visit this week, but expects to
return in February and stay some time,
Perhaps by that time something may be
done in congress toward providing for his
future. He will never be captain general
hardly anybody in congress fall in with
that suggestion of Mr.. Hayes-but the bill
to put him on the retired list as general
may perhaps become law.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
The COnemara COlOnists in Minnesota.

The situation of the Conemaa colonists
in Big Stone county, has been a fruitful
topic of discussion. The report of Mr..
Hutchlns to the board of trade at Morris
the substance of which is well known-in-
duced Bishop Ireland to appoint Dillon
OBren and Leonard B. Hodges, COM
mlttee OF investigation. These gentlemen
seemed to have had cross purposes, or, at
least, saw things in different light, O'Bri-
en- reporting that very little, if any, suffer
ing existed and what there was arose from
gross lmprovidence and laziness of the col
onlsts; while Mr.. Hodges said that the sto-
ry OF Hutchins was fully confirmed by his
own observations, and great blame attached
to rather Ryan, the priest at Graceville,
who was appointed by the bishop to take
care OF the COnemaras. In the midst of
these conflicting elements, Bishop Ireland
publishes long letter, which affords an
explanation much needed. He frankly
says the COnemaras are not the kind of peo-
pie he bargained for: Both Father Nugent,
who betrayed their expenses to Boston, and
myself, who had the responsibility of tax
leg them from the sea shore, had supposed
that we would have as objects Of our be-
netiicience, industrious, sober, hard work.
ing people, who, though impoverished by
the famine in Ireland, were still of a mould
to make their way successfully in the world,
if only the opportunity were offered to them.
The parties in the west of Ireland whom
Father Nugent requested to select families
for the colony, sent us for the most part
paupers of long standing, totally demoral-
lied and unnamed by years of suffering,
and and ,1.c unaeeustomed ! to provide for their
The ultimate object of all my actions to-
wards them was to make them work and be-
come self supporting They have since
their arrival shown an unwillingness to
work. During the busy harvest season
many OF them loitered around the prairies,
and all this under the avowed pretext that
Bishop Ireland would support them, wheth-
er they worked Or not. Some of them have
even gone so far as to invite their children
home from St. Paul, where they have been
earning high wages, telling them that living
was free in Big Stone county 1t would
have been folly, under these circumstances,
to do more for them than did Each fam
lily was furnished with a warm shanty, a
COW, wood, potatoes and corn meal, "
and the bishop is satisfied that they have
not wanted these necessaries, and that the
appearance of misery in the shanties, and
the complaints of the inmates did not alarm
him, as he knew too well the habits of the
people. In addition to the opportunities
for labor, which they had neglected or re-
fused to perform he states that children of
the colonlsts, working III st. Paul and else
where, had sent to their parents from 81 500
to $4,000. The fact appears to be that the
twenty six Conemara families are born pau
pers, and that to change them into provi-
dent citizens is task full of discourage
ment, even to Bishop Ireland; but he pro-
poses to take as good care of them as cir
cumstances will admit, and that none shall
suffer, save from their own laziness,
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
The Business Statistics of Minneapolis.

Mr.. Charles W. Johnson who was ap-
pointed special agent of the census bureau
to collect the statistics of the manufactures,
commerce, educational institutions and
general features of Minneapolis has for
warded his report to Washington. Fol-
lowing is a brief abstract: Total value
of the manufactures of Minneapolis for
the year ending June 1, 1880, was S29, ,473,
424, of which S29 1854 200 is placed to the
credit of flour manufacture, and 81, ,06S, 900
to the lumber mills; the population has in
creased, from 13' 0O6 inIl $40 to 4S 053 in 1880;
The total valuation of all property is $2S, ,013,
315-its total taxes $4S8, ,5O8; there are A.
OBJ children between the ages of five and
twenty-one, of which number 6, 142 are en-
rolled in the public schools; the wholesale
trade foots up to the enormous amount of
$39, ,526, 200, of which $2O, ,374, 200 is flour
manufactured and $2,098, 900 lumber.
During the sawing.season from April % to
Nov. 80, 1880, there was sawed l57 ,O72, I'll
feet of lnmber.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
FOREIGN FLASHES.

The India Office has received information
that the convalescence of the marquis of
Lipon, viceroy of India, has been fully es-
tablished.
Lord Shaftesbury has espoused Boycotts
cause with a fund of over E500. Derby, a
liberal donor, has subscribed for his benefit,
although his Jingo friends are making it
comfortable for him. The Irish police are
now coming in for their share of Boycotting
along with the bailitfs, Il magistrates force
at Middletown being the first to suffer.
A battalion of grenadier guards has been
ordered to get ready for special service in
Ireland The garrison for Ireland will
number 80, 900 men of all arms by the 1st
of January. After the arrival of the grena-
dier guards, the Irish garrisons will COM
prise ten batteries of artillery, seven regi-
ments of cavalry, three companies of en-
gineers, twenty eight battalions of infantry
and some companies of the army service
corps.
Prof Bell, of the Canadian geological
survey, who embarked in sailing vessel
from York factory, Hudson's Bay, last
spring, in order to observe the conditions
that would affect the utilization of the
proposed commercial rout to England, via
Hudson's straits, has arrived safely in Lon
don. Not an iceberg was seen during the
voyage, and he asserts that navigation OF
the straits is practicable for five and a halt
months in each year. AS result of this
information surveyors are shortly to be sent
out by the Hudson Bay Il Winnipeg Rail
way company.
Rev. Mackenzie Walcott, OF London, the EN-,
inent writer ON Church history, is dead.
The Earl of Carnarvon publishes an open let
Lancaster, protesting against his speech at Biz
mingham on the 10th of November, in which
he condemned the land laws of Ireland, and at
tributed the affairs in Ireland to rejection o.
the compensation for disturbance bill by the
house of lords The Earl of Carnarvon declared
that, holding sentiments 80 avowedly republican
and hostile to the crown and the house of lords
Bright ought not to be able, conscientiously, tt
remain a member of his cabinet for single
day.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
GENERAL News UMMARY.

Pittsburg rail makers have voted to in
crease the price for rails.
The Chicago land league voted to send
81 600 to Ireland, to be used for the de-
fense of the agitators.
The Cane Growers convention at st..
Louis, recommended the establishment Of
sugar mills in connection with State agri-
cultural colleges.
The suit Of the government against Julius
B. King, importer of kid gloves, in progress
in the United States district court at New
York for the past six weeks, ended in a
verdict in favor of King. The amount of
under valuation claimed by the government
was $4,000 to which $161, 900 interest
was added.
The diphtheria is alarming Chicago. The
sudden spread of the disease is thought to
be due to the change in the weather from
dry to damp. Small pox has also broken
out suddenly. Less than two weeks ago
there was only one patient at the pest house,
and now there are twenty.
The great commission house of Manson,
Bartholomew & Co., of st. Louis, has failed.
The firm is one Of the oldest and best
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
THE NEW ARISTOCRACY.
Webster Wagner, the Palace Car Man, How
His Great Wealth Was Accumulated.


New York Ketter to Cincinnati Gazette.
The recent Haynes Wagner nuptials calls
attention to another remarkable instance.
bilt, but in his case there was
no inheritance. Hence he is entitled
to a high degree of credit for genius
and energy. The Haynes Wagner nuptials
were the most splendid this city has seen
in a long time. Diamonds glittered, satins
rustled, and the trosseau exhausted the
highest combination of wealth and taste
How strange it seems in viewing such a
brilliant affair to recall the fact that Web
ster Wagner-the owner of 80 many palace
caEs-begun life as wagon maker in far
inland village. Time was when it were a
hit for him to find a sale of a sleigh or bug
gy At present, however, this man is worth
his millions.
The tale is simple one. The wagon
maker finding business dull obtains the po-
sition of station agent at the same village
(Palatine on the line of the Central Hudson
route) and the trade he once carried on
leads to suggestions concerning car i'm
provements. He sees how ventilation may
be increased by eleyating panel in the
ceiling. He takes patent for this idea and
sells it to the company for $4,000. This
was capital hit, and yet it was the merest
trifie compared with that which was to follow.
While pursuing the same effort for improve
ment, he invented the sleeping car, and then
all that was necessary was. to interest the
magnates of the road in the scheme. The
result is the formation of company whose
stock is distributed among those who con-
trolled the roads, and who thus held the
cream of the travel, leaving the rest for the
other shareholders. Wagner's stock now
pays about 55 per cent. per annum. A car
which costs $12,00 will yield an average
return of 81 900 month. The system has
increased until Wagner's cars run from Chi
cago to Boston. This accounts for the fact
that the former wagon maker and sta
ton agent now appears in connection with
this glittering and gaudy nuptial occasion.
He is now member of the new aristocracy.
Wagner is unchanged by this elevation.
He is plain unassuming business man,
and retains his residence in the same village
where he began as wagon maker. The
fact that success has not turned his head is
one of the best proofs of true manhood.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
Death of George Eliof.

Marian G. Evans, George Eliot, the dis
tiinguished novelist, died in London. Her
death was quiet and almost painless. She
was seized with sudden illness, which at
tackled her on Sunday previous. She had
shortly before the attack received several
friends, who had left herapparently in good
health and spirits. The attack, however, did
not give serious cause for alarm the even-
ing of her death. DR.. Andrew Clark then
discovered thatthe pericardium was serious
~ affected and pronounced her case almost
hopeless. She passed away quietly. On the
the 16 of last May deceased was married as
Miss Marian Evans to John Walter Cross of
Weybridge, Surry, merchant in London.
She was the author of Adam Bede, Mill on
the Floss, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda,
and many other popular works.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
Long Life of Pensioners.

From the Boston Journal.
Lord Byron, carried the idea a little too
far when he said that tht Sc living on annui-
ties Tor pensions) never died, but they are
certainly a very long lived generation, Of
which fact the Treasurer Of the United
States has abundant experience. The pen
sion law in favor of the survivors of the
war of independence was not passed until
thirty years after the conclusion of that
war, and although the advocates of that
measure asserted that it would not cost the
county over $4,000, it took several mil
lions from the treasury annually fora num-
Der of years, and the last payments were
made but few years since. The pensions
now paid to the survivors of the war of 1912
and to the widows Of those engaged in that
war amount to 3,30O, 900, although man
who fought in that contest must now be
well over eighty years Of age, and they could
not all have married wives much younger
than themselves. The Commissioner OF
Pensions asks fora round fifty millions Of
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
MONDAY DEC. 20.

SENATE-The motion by which the Joint reso-
luton to adjourn over the holidays was disagreed
to, was reconsidered, and the resolution laid on
the table. No business of importance was done.
HoUsE-A bill was introduced declaring lands
in the Indian Territory to which the Indian title
has been extinguished and which are unoccu-
pied by Indians, public lands of the United
States, subject to settlement. A bill was intro
duced repeating the tax on bank checks and
bank deposits The consular appropriation bill
passed. A motion to suspend the rules and pass
the bill to abolish the tax on bank checks was
lost, there not being two-thirds in the affirma-
tive.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER %.
SENATE-Bills and resolutions were introduced
to authorize the issue of legal-tender notes of
the United States upon deposit of gold; to re-
move taxes from bank deposits and checks; for
the admission of New Mexico into the Union; to
amend the constitution by fixing the number of
justices of the supreme court The bill extend
ing the session of territorial legislature from
forty to sixty days passed, the house bill appro-
priating 3d. 900 to increase the height Of the
Farragut monument in Washington, and auth
orizing the secretary of the navy to use the ad-
vance to ornament the pedestal, was taken ND
and passed
HoUsE.-The entire day was spent in debate
on the refunding bill Weaver of Iowa and Sharks
of Illinois, called each other liars and SHE'D
their castOrs into the ring ready for a fight.
but the disgraceful exhibition ended in the com
batants being compelled to put on their coats
again.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. %, 1880.
SENATE:-The vice president appointed Sem
| ators Pendleton and Morrill, as members of the
board Of visitors to attend the next annual exam
ination of the cadets at heUnited Statesmilitary
academy and Senators Morgan and Allison of the
| board of visitors to attend similar examination
at the naval academy. Mr.. Booth from thecom.
mittee on public lands, reported favorablyon the
house bill for the relief Of settlers on restored
railroad lands, andit passed. Notwithstanding
MIR. Edmund's objection on account of the alb.
sence of quorum and the necessity for an ex-
ecutive session, the senate, on motion of Mr..
Morgan, took up the resolution offered by him
in June last, declaring that the president Of the
senate is not consttutionally authorized to count
the electoral votes, 80 as to determine what
votes shall be received and counted and whai
rejected. MIR. Morgan spoke at length in sup.
port of the resolution. Mr.. Window introduced
q bill providing for public building for post
office and other government offices at Minneap-
oils
HoUsE-Nearly the entire day was spent in
discussing the Weaver-Sparks collision in Tho
house on Tuesday, and both the offenders apol
ogized to the house. Both houses adjourned
until January s.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30

duced and had referred to the committee on
military affairs bill for the relief of the
First Minnesota mounted ranger volunteers.
1t directs the accounting officers of the
treasury to pay bounty to those enlisted
men who served during the rebellion, as
follows: To those who served one year or
more, 800; those who served six months,
but less than one year, $66; those who
served less than six months, $i33. In case
of the death of u soldier, who, if living,
would be entitled under this bill, the Wild
ow, children or mother shall then receive
the money.
The interior department has received two
samples Of flour from the DEVILS Lake Sioux,
in Dakota, who raised nearly 800 bushels of
grain and over $500 bushels of potatoes this
year. These Indians were the chief operators
in the Minnesota massacre in 1862.
The president recently ordered a new census
to be taken i'll eight counties of South Carolina
to determine whether it was advisable to take
the census of the entire state over agaiu. The
returns from four of those counties show an in
crease of $50 over the first census, and the Off
cials think this establishes the substantial ac-
curacy of the latter.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30

The latest report of the exchanges exhib
its II large falling Oft compared with the pre-
ceding report which is attibruted almost
entirely to lack of money for speculative
purposes. Speculation has swallowed up
all the funds left available by al enormous
legitimate business, and an unprecedented
boarding, and thus has placed itself at the
mercy of private lenders of money.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30

THE business statistics of Chicago for
1850 show an unparalleled prosperity of all
branches of business, the chief increase be-
ing in the grain trade. There has been an
aggregate of grain received of 161 100000
bushels. against 13S, 900, 600 in 1879, and
80. 600. O0u in 1870. For the year ending
November |. 1880. 5,375. 600 hogs We're
slaughtered against ) 5,0s9, 900 in 1879. The
aggregate weight of the years killing was
100, 900, 900 pounds, and the value S62,-
9OO, 900, an increase of S20,000,000 ovel
the value of the hog crop of 1879. Sever
million hogs, !, BOD, 900 cattle and 329, 600
sheep were received S6O,0 cattle ant
$50. 600 hogs shipped.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30

n. B. HARDWOOD, the bankrupt merchant
OF Minneapolis, quietly left that city last
Christmas eve, without the knowledge or
consent of even those who have charge of
his business affairs. 1t is supposed that he
has gone to New Orleans, where his wife
has been sojourning for some weeks His
leaving in this clandestine manner, seriously
weakens the faith of his friends, and goes
far towards convincing every one else that
the whole affair. so far as he is concerned.
is as black as his most indignant creditor
has painted it.
Morris tribune., 1880-12-30

Colonel John Forney says: Benjamin
Disraeh is one of the men whom defeat
does not depress. He lives in his books,
studies life from his closet, postpones age
by his love of youth and keeps his hand on
the social pulse by feeding his imagination
from his memory. A man of marvels in
his rise and progress, he never fails, because
he is ever fresh; and when he succeeds he
Is as placid as the regal beauty who receives
her hatterers as ifthey were slaves.