The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-23
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
DIR. TANNERS first lecture was delivered
in Booths theatre, New York, on the 18th
inst, to about one hundred people.
THE bearded woman is no more. Her
name was Rebecca Lyon, and she died at
Syracuse, n. Y.
TIE summer residence of Prof. Alex
ander Agassiz, at Newport. built about
five years ago, and never occupied, was
destroyed by fire, on the 18th.
MORE than sixty children in Camden,
n. j., having come down with smallpox,
the board Of education has determined to
close the public schools for one month.
A WEALTHY citizen of Detroit, whose
wife and children were on the steamer
Marine City when it burned in Lake HUI
ron, and escaped with their lives has
given $1,000 worth of gold and silver
watches to the officers and crew of that
vessel.
The Chicago and Bedford Quarry COM
pany Of Bedford. Ind, has just shipped
stone to New York that was 20 feet 6
inches long, II feet wide, and IA inches
thick. containing 1876 solid feet. 1t will be
used in the new residence of w. H. Van
derbilt, the railroad king. is erecting in
that city.
}. K. EMMETT, the actor, was found hope
lessly drunk in the street of N. Y. the 1lth
inst. When taken to court he was in ter
rible condition, and could scarcely talk to
the judge. He was remanded until he
could get over the effects of the liquor.
His son was in court, and helped his
father into the prison hospital.
FOURTEEN years ago James Mills dis
again seen bv any of his relatives or ac-
when J. NJ. Ninlley found him near
Ford's Ferry, in the same state. Nimley
has an interest in producing Mills alive
and we'll at Somerset, as a brother of his is
in jail there, under sentence of death for
killing the missing man.
A SPECIAL to the Houston Post from
Austin Texas, says: 1T is almost certain
that the grand army of occupation is
fully organized here, and are perfecting
their arrangements for making a move Of
| some kind. A signal corps has been or
ganized and is drilling. The members re-
fuse to tell anything. or even acknowledge
! that they are connected with the move
ment, but is certain that the organization
still lives, and that a movement of some
kind is on foot"
DR.. BUCHANAN, the bogus diploma-ped-
dler: who skipped from Philadelphia, and
who was in Detroit for some time, and
afterward went on lecturing tour in Can
ada with a fellow quack, was decoyed over
from COPYRIGHT, Ont, to St. Clair. Mich,
on the 18th inst, and arrested. John Nor
ris. the city editor of the Philadelphia
lid ~
| matter by Detroit reporters, secured the
arrest
AFTER passenger train on the North
eastern railroad. running from Glasgow
to London, had passed the village of Bury,
near the metropolis on the 18th inst, it
was discovered that 4 large can of dyna-
mite had been placed under the track,
with the intention of blowing up the train.
Fortunately the machinery by which the
explosive was to have been discharged did
not work. As the Grand Duke Constan-
tine and several Russian officials of high
rank were to have been on the train, it is
supposed that the attempt to destroy it
was made by nihilists. All of the old and
tried detectives of Scotland yard are at
work on the case.
On the 18th inst Maine elected state
officers, state legislature and congressman.
The democrats and greenbackers coalesced
against the republicans and the campaign
was vigorous one OH both sides. The
result is the election of the fusion state
ticket, a majority in the legislature re-
publican, and one democratic,
one republican and three fusion members
of congress making quite a
revolution as previous to the election the
republicans were in possession of the state
officers and three out of the five members
of congress. The other two members of
congress were greenbackers.
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 ,O6O
from ten barrels of water. The gold is of
the highest grade of fineness, 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"
Victoria and his band of hostiles are