The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-01-08
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
Col. ARTHUR T LEE, of the U. S.
army, died at Rochester, N. Y, Dec.
Goth.
Two suits. one for $1,000 and the
other for $4,000, have just been brought
in Cincinnati against Archbishop Pur-
cell, says dispatch of Dec. 28th.
The Poles of Chicago who are for the
most part poor, have raised $500 for the
relief OF the starving inhabitants of 81.
lesla, says the Times Of Dec. 28th.
THE will of Alexander Stuart, the
sugar retiner, was filed in New York Dec
29th. He leaves all his property, valued
at about 100000 to his brother, Robert
L. Stuart.
ITwas reported in Chicago, Dec Both,
that Jo T. A. Feehan, bishop of Nash
vile, had been appointed bishop of Chi
cago, to succeed Bishop Foley, deceased.
ONE hundred and seventeen emigrants
from Goldsboro, N. G.. i, arrived at Peters
burg, Va, Dec. 30th, en- route for Indian
apolis.
IT was announced at Newport, r. l.,
Dec. 30th, that Van Zandt, governor of
Rhode Island, had formally accepted the
Russian mission.
Gov. WILLIAMS, of Indiana, Dec. Goth,
appointed Hon. John T. Scott, of Terre
Haute, to the vacancy on the supreme
bench of that state caused by the death
Of Chief Justice Perkins,.
The agents of the steamer Arragon,
which was reported lost at sea, Dec. goth,
pronounce the rumot cruel hoax. The
steamer is not due in Bristol until Jan.
uary 3rd or 18th.
Gov. VAN ZANDT was asked, Dec. Goth,
if it were true, as rumored, that he had
been appointed Minister to Russia, and
responded that it would be improper to
say, leaving the impression that he had
been appointed.
IT was telegraphed from Augusta, De-
cember Goth that the general impression
prevailed that Gov. Garcelon Guild not
submit the qaestions,, to the supreme
court that had been propounded by Hon.
Lot Morrill,.
In accordance with a decision arrived
at in a cabinet council Dec. 30th, Secre-
tary Schurz telegraphed G n. Hatch that
the friendly Southern Ute chiefs might
be brought to Washington.
CHARLES T. BRUSH, of Cleveland, in
ventOr of the famous Brush electric
light, says telegram of Dec. 30th, has
just sold his English patents for electric
lighting apparatus, to large incorpora-
ted company in London, for 100000.
In an interview with a Journalist, in
st. Louis, Dec. Goth, Rev. Moody. the
evangelist, denied the report that Dan
Rice, the Snowman, had been advertised
to speak at the Moody meetings as a
convert. Mr.. Moody said the published
report of Rice's conversion under his
(Moody's) preac hing was not true
Two men, Sam. Woodruff and Joe.
Seminole, the latter halfbreeG Indian,
who murdered R. B. Hayward, a farmer
Of Jefferson county, Colorado, on the
10th of last September, were taken from
the Jail at Golden, COL, early on the
morning of Dec. 2Sth and hung by a
mob of $50 masked men.
MRS. Helen Josephine Ward, living
at II Hamilton place, Boston, with her
daughter aged 10, was shot and killed on
the night of Dec. Goth. The daughter
claimed on the following morning that
she had probably shot her mother while
in somnambulistic state, but her stories
we're so conflicting that she was
taken into custody for trial.
GEN. GRANT and party left Washington
Dec. 30th for the south, in Tom SCOTS
private car, "President." The party
consisted of Gen. and Mrs. Grant, Gen.
and Mrs. Sheridan, Col. and Mrs. Grant,
Miss Kittie Felt, of Galena, and Byron
Andrews of the Chicago I,ate,-Ocean. The
first stopping place was Richmond.
A W1NEPEa telegram of Dec. 3Oth
says an Indian cannlbal named Swift
Runner was executed at Fort Saskatche-
wan on the Goth inst, being the first
legal execution. in the northwest terrific
ries. The culprit was convicted on his
own confession Of having killed and
eaten his mother, wife and seven child
rem during last winter.
A PITTsBURG dispatch of Dec. 30th
says the iron boom is at food.tide, and
the prices at the highest point. known in
years. The advance during the past
week has been rapid, and furnacemen
are putting all their work in blast. They
find orders piling up on them, and many
decline to receive them at any price.
Some are sold ahead to May and June,
finuing themselves bound, at prices $40
ton below the present rates. There
has been an advance of $3.50 ton dur
ing the week, or fifteen per cent. in fort
night.
The laboratory of Edison, at Menlo
Park, was brilliantly illuminated on the
night of Dec. 26th with the new electric
Ii ht, the occasion being a visit of a
number of the inventors personal friends.
Forty lamps in all were burning from
six O'Clock until after ten. The effect of
the exhibition was to convince those
present who before were skeptical that
Mr.. Edieon has in reality produced the
electric e light II for o.. household illu%!nation.
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