The Northern Pacific farmer., 1880-03-18
GENERAL. NOTES.

REV. II. Il. DASHIELL, secretary OF the
NJ. E. missionary society, died at Me-
wark, New Jersey, on the 9th inst.
A HEAVY snow storm accompanied by
high gale of wind prevailed on the
northern Atlantic coast on the 9th inst.
THE Legislature of Virginia adjourned
sine die on the OH inst. without having
passed the appropriation bills.
TIE executive committee of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, declared
a quarterly dividend of IA per cent. on
the 10th inst.
ISAAC w. HAYNE, for twenty years at
torney- general of South Carolina, and
grandson of Isaac Hayne, who was
hanged by the British during their occu-
patton of Charleston in the revolutionary
war, died on the 10th inst. aged 10.
The Sacramento city election yester-
day, says dispatch Of the 10Th, result.
ed in the election of the republican can
didat s except tho chief of police, who
was elected by the democrats and work
ingmen.
A CHEYENNE dispatch of the 9th inst.
says an active volcano has been dis
covered near Browns Peak, on the Green
river, Wv oming. The crater of the vol
cano is said to be five feet in diameter and
emits sui ulphurous smoke.
TREASURER G1LF1LLAN said that on
the 7th inst. there was in the treasury
vaults $21,000,000 in fractional silver out
of $39, ,000,00 coined. There were 81,
100000 standard silver dollars and $780,
100000 in gold coin and bullion in the
treasury on that date.
The New York assay office contained
$45, 900, GOO worth of gold bullion on the
7th inst, waiting for transportation to
the mint at Philadelphia. The appro-
priation for that purpose had run short,
and the action of congress was being
awaited with some anxiety.
THE governor of Virginia, says a
Richmond dispatch of the 7th inst, has
vetoed the notorious Riddleberger bill
which provided tor scaling the state
debt nearly $13,0OO,0O0. The governor
takes strong ground against reputation.
The democratic state executive CON-
mittee of Arkansas, met at Little Rock,
on the 10th inst, and decided to call the
state convention at Little Rock June End,
to nominate state officers and appoint
delegates to the national convention.
PARNE11, the Irish agitator, sailed for
Europe March 18th to engage in the
election contest which the sudden dis
solution of parliament thrust upon the
members of that body. 1t is said Mr..
Parnell will return after the election oc
ours.
Col. REUBEN STEERE, aged 80 years,
height thirty four inches, one of a ILL.
putian troupe, was married at the Whit
comb house, at Rochester, N. Y, says a
dispatch of the 9Th, to Miss Rebecca
Meyer, aged ~, height thirty-three
inches, another member of the same
troupe, Reve. w. SAKE, of the Univer-
salist church, performing the ceremony.
The democratic state executive CON-
mittee Of Tennessee issued call, March
9Th, for convention to meet on the 9Th
of June to choose delegates to the Gin
cinnati convention; also for state con.
vention to meet Aug. 10th to nominate
candidates for governor. The committee
was polled on the presidential question
and stood nine for Bayard, two for Sey-
mour, and one for Tilden.
W. H. HAYES, who was appointed
judge of the fl deral court of Kentucky
early in September 1879 to succeed Judge
Bland Bollard, died suddenly of heart
disease in Louisville On Sunday after
noon the 7th inst. He was 50 years old.
During the war he served in Bristow's
regiment. It is a peculiar coincidence
that Judge Bollard. whom Judge Hayes
succeeded, also met sudden death from
heart disease last August
The water in the Niagara river has
been greatly swollen during the last few
days by the recent rains, says dispatch
of March 9th. The ice-bridge has bro.
ken up. About 100 feet of the mill-race
recently built under the railway suspen-
sion bridge has been carried away; also,
the platform situated at the Whirlpool
rapids, which extended out some fifteen
feet from the shore at q height of six feet
above water in the ordinary level Of the