The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-12-09
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

Charles E. Perkins, county judge of Trempea-
eau county, Wis, has resigned, to take effect
the first Monday in January.
Comptroller Lawrence thinks the perjury laws
are not sufficiently binding to prevent false
af1idavits in the matter of lost and destroyed
bonds.
In the case Of First Lieut. Wallace, Of the
Twenty fifth infantry, sentenced to be dismissed
from the service, the president has miGgated
the sentence to forfeiture of rank and half pay
for a year.
The will of Frank Leslie has been admitted
to probate, at New York the surrogate holding
that when the will was made Leslie was OF
sound mind, and free from unlawful influence
or restraint
Rev. DR.. Frederick Lehman president of
the Capital University of Columbus O., for
twenty years, and president of the synodical
conference of the Lutheran Church Of the
United States, died on Monday last of a cancer
of the mouth.
Information received from California says
that Gen. Miller, president of the Alaska Com
mercial company, las pledged fifty nine men,
bers of the legislature to vote for him to sue
coed Senator Booth Sixty votes are neces-
sary to All election.
Bullion shipments from Leadvi]le smelters
for the month of November aggregate in value
ST ,O32, 200, which shows a decrease from the
shipments Of the last two months: but there has
been large increase of ore reserves at smelt-
ers' accumulation during the month
Mrs. Bergman, the young woman who left
her husband in Philadelphia, about two weeks
ago, and went to New York City to look for a
young Spaniard whom she had met on board
the steamer, has not yet recovered from her
trouble, and refuses to return to her husband
The Vermont House of Representatives passed
a joint resolution expressing satisfaction with
President Hayes efforts to enforce the provis-
ions of the civil service reform law, and urging
the Vermont members of congress to use their
influence for all needful provisions for the pro-
secuton Of civil service reform by the president
Last session subsidy amendment to the
postal appropriation bill was defeated, SO to
159. The friends of the subsidy now claim
that enough members have changed their prin
ciples to give the Roach BraZillion subsidy q
majority in the house. An effort will probably
be made to tack this on to the postal bill again.
Gen. John A. Mcdowell of whiskey notoriety
has brought suit in the circuit court at Chicago,
to recover 500, 600 from William Henry Smith,
collector Of customs, and William J. kuhns for
alleged conspiracy to injure McDowell's name
and reputation: The suit is founded on charge:
that Smith and kuhns encouraged and supported
with pecuniary assistance q suit brought some.
time ago by Miss Annie Coe against Gen. Nc
Doweu for seduction, which was abandoned in
consequence of the plaintiff confessing that the
charge was fabrication.
The case of the Ponca tribe of Indians vs. Red
Cloud and the Sioux nation of Indians has been
decided BY Judge Dundy, in the United States
circuit court at Omaha in favor of the plaintiff
This was an action in election brought
o determine the title of the Ponca tribe of In
dams to land ceded and relinquished to them by
the United States under the treaty Of 1865
Judge Dundy decides that the Ponca tribe has
a legal estate, and is entitled to the possession
of property described in their petition, and that
the Sioux nation unlawfully keeps the Poncas
ont of the pOseeSsiOn OF the same.