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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09
NEWS SUMMARY.
RAILROADS,

J. F. Davis, conductor of a. freight train OF
the L. N. A. 4 @. railroad, was knocked from
car south of New Albany. Ind, and killed
He was from Bowling Green, KY, and unmsr-
ried. s@f ~
Surveyors are running preliminary line fol
railroad. This road has pushed preliminary
surveys from Clarion, Wright county, Iowa, ia
intersect the st. Paul l. Sioux City at or near
Worthington.
Governor Smith of Wisconsin has certified
to the fact that the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneap-
oils 4 Omaha Railroad company has completed
another section of the North Wisconsin branch,
aud is entitled to another regular instalment OF
lands from the St. Croix grant
The Chicago Times says the scheme, secret
~ discussed by some Of the large stockhold-
ers, to consolidate the Northwestern and st.
Paulcompanies, and ultimately to amalgamae
colossal corporation with the Northern Pacific,
is still selieved by good many persons
1t is understood that a surveying party will
reach Duluth this week, to commence work in
the interest Of the Duluth / Winnipeg railroad.
Mr.. Billheimer, railroad builder Of expert
ence, who spent some weeks at Duluth in April,
is expected to accompany Thorn. There are in
dications of business in this move that will give
Duluth boom of big proportions.
Roadmaster Kelaker. of the Southern Mime
sofa division, while riding on the cupola Of the
caboose on a freight train between Lanesb no
and Isinours, was struck by the timbers of a
bridge and badly cut about the head. His nose
was also broken, and face bruised and swollen
so as to close his eyes. He is at Lanesboro and
his physician will not allow his removal.
Mr.. Willard, on the Goth of May, telegraphed
tho following to the editor of the Portland Ore
gonian: 'In view of the formal recognition re-
Gently consummated of the controlling interest
of myself and associates in the Northern Pacific
railroad, deem it proper to give to the public
of Washington Territory the formal assurance
that every obligation imposed upon the COM
pany by act of congress will be strictly recog-
nized, and especially that the Cascade branch
will be built without fail"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09
The Maiden and the GriZZely.
From the San Francisco Post.

From the San Francisco Post
There were party of four couples COM
ing over on the Saucelito boat last Sunday,
and the prettiest girl of the gushere looked
up at Mount Tamalpais and said: "Oh,
that horrid, horrid mountain! I had the
most frightful adventure up there last
summer you ever heard of! It's wonder
nv hair didn't turn white" What on
earth was it," chorused the rest. "Well,
you see, Twas up there with a private pic
mic party, and I wandered off by myself
about mile, picking flowers. After a
while sat down TO rest in lonely canyon,
and before long I heard queer rustling
sound in some bushes right behind me.
knew at once, somehow, that it was a griz-
zly." "Great Scott! and you alone" shud-
derea her escort. mot a soul within q
mile of me. was just paralyzed with ter
ror. Ididn't dare to stir, but IN a minute
I heard the beast coming toward me through
the thicket.." ooh, If I'd only been there, "
said pimply faced young man, Breathing
very hard. II knew it was no use to try
and run, and I had heard somewhere that
bears never touch dead people. So just
shut my eyes and held my breath. y era
cious!" pretty soon the great brute walk
ed up close and began shifting me all over.
Oh, it was just terrible!" SHOULD have
thought you would have tainted" ooh, I
didn't dare to-" said the heroine; "Just
then, I suppose, the party rushed up and
rescued your said the appalled, audience.
"No they didn't Pretty soon felt the
great beast. pulling at the flowers in my hat
so I just got up and shooed the horrid
thing away" "What the grizzly?" ooh,
it wasn't grizzly. 1t was a nasty old COW.
But just suppose it had been grizzly?.
But the audience refused to suppose, and
the party looked like Quaker funeral un-
til the boat struck the wharf.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09

The success of the government in ne
gotiating three and half per cent. bonds,
lus inspired over burdonod municipalities
to pay or refund their debts, which bear a
much larger rate of interest. It has been
lately proved again and again that cities and
counties having good credit can get all
necessary amounts money at four and
five per cent. interest. The main requisite
demanded by capitalists, is not high rate
of interest, but rigid adherence to obi.
cations, which constitutes good credit every
whore. Now is the time to make the best
bargains for money, where it is absolutely
required, as we'll to pay personal debts.
No one will venture to predict, with any de-
gree of certainty, that money will continue
for any specified period as cheap as now.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09

The opposition to the confirmation of
Stanley Matthews as judge of the supreme
court was based to considerable extent
upon his supposed fealty to the interests of
railroads and ether monopolies; but he was
confirmed, and it SO happened, curiously
enough that the first case which Judge Mat
thews was called upon to decide in his cir
cult was one involving the interests of rail-
reads. In that decision, instead of sustain
ing the monopoly, as it was in this case, he
ruled against it, The Standard oil company
is one of the worst of monopolies. It con-
trolls several lines Of railway and has COM
PEELED the managers to charge two dollars
barrel for carrying the oil of other pro-
ducers, while its own is shipped at low
figure. Steamboats, on the Ohio and it's
tributaries offered to take the oil for fifty
cents barrel, but law Of the United
States forbids steamboats, carrying passen-
gers to carry oil when there are other prac-
tical routes. Justice Matthews decided
that the railroads by charging exorbitant
and discriminating rates made such methods
of transportation impracticable, and there
fore it was lawful to ship oil upon steam.
boats. This decision is quite important to
he small producers which the Standard
p9popo|y Is trying to crush out,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09
SHORT ON WHEAT.
Rather Bearish Estimate of the Next Crop.
Chicago Tribune Editorial.

Rather Bearish Estimate of the Next Crop.
Chicago Tribune Editorial.
1t is we'll known to many parties in the trade
that heavy capitalists have recently investigat-
ed the present situation in wheat, and tho pros
poets for the next crop. The Tribune has taken
some pains to ascertain the conclusions at
which they have arrived aud feels it to be du-
ty to present those cOnclusi0ns-Of course.
without vouching for. their accuracy They are,
briefly, as follows:
l. Tho Water wheat crop Of the whole Unit
ed States will not aggregate more than two
thirds the Weld of last year.
2. The acreage now sown to spring wheat is
20 per cent less than in 1880; the yield per
acre promising to be no greater this year than
last.
8. Only about seven and half million bush
els OF wheat remain in the hands of millers and
in elevators in the country; and not more than
one-third of that quantity will reach our lake
ports, unless prices should advance so much
as to induce millers to ship their reserves ill.,
stead of grinding the grain.
If these estimates be correct, the situation
resolves itself into this: We have enough wheat
on hand to supply our own needs up to next
harvest, and that harvest will supply all the
wheat wanted for bread and seed in the United
States during tho next crop year. But nothing
more! Not bushel for export! The 80, OOO,-
900 bushels Of deficiency from last years
yield is barely equal to the quantity exported
in wheat and flour. Anything exported after
this date will be unnecessarily parted with
literally sharing Of our own loaf with people
who want it as badly as ourselves, OF v vrse.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09

The question of remedying the decay of
American shipping interests is live topic,
but doctors disagree, and SO the patient con-
tinues to languish. Hon. Hugh McCulloch,
for mcrly secretary of the treasury, advises
steamship subsidies in his article in the
North American Rerie,c on "Our Future
Fiscal Policy" ITO do nothing" he says,
lis to yield to Europeans the glory and the
gain which have always been the concomit-
ants of maritime enterprise. Prof. Sumner
Of Yale in an article in the same review on
American building says that lit is ev-
ident that a country which needs protec-
tive tariff on iron and steel must give up all
hopes of building ships for ocean traffic, !"
and denounces subsidies, but argues for free
Ehipe
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09

The new version of the Bible is severely
criticised by a leading London journal.
The system upon which the revisers appear
to have acted is pronounced erroneous and
deplorable, especially in mending the En-
glish and improving the grammar of passa-
ges which have struck deep root in the
hearts and memory of the English people.
1t is alleged that moods and lenses have
been shifted about to the satisfaction of
some perdent's scheme of syntactical SYM
metry. Sentences treasured up in the pop
ular mind and enriched beyond dcscrip-
ton by pathetic associations of hundreds
of years have been tortured and cruci6ed
into precise grammatical accord with the
latest refnements of critical labor, and thus
been robbed of all their true value It is
evident that the now revision is to be a
prominent topic of discussion for long
time to come, and will not be readily
adopted by the present generation, at least
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09
BLOODsnEDlN IRELAND.
Things Rapidly Approaching a Focus-Detai'
CT the Clonmei Riot-Soldiers, Policemen
anI R,Ofn1,S Killed

Things Rapidly Approaching Focus-Detai's
CT the Clonmei Riot-Soldiers, Policemen
and Rioters Killed.
A London cablegram thus tells the story of
the origin and progress of the agrarian rot at
Clonmcl, county Tpperary, Ireland AT a meet
ing the cry went up that Father Maker had
been arrested. The crowd became fearfully
excited and the authorities at once concentrat-
ed full force of military aud constabulary be-
fore the court house. Bottles, stones, and
brickbats poured in on the police and soldiers
The police charged on the people with fixed
bayonets, and at the same time the .avary
dashed in among the crowd A scene of fright
full confusion followed. The charge of tho
cavalry down Short street was so impe!uous
that several horses and riders dashed through
shop windows at tho end of the street. Tie
air was filled with stones and bricks, and
frightened shop-keopers who were endeavor-
ing to put up their shutters were hurled to tho
ground and ridden over Several hussars
were endorsed by the crowd and trampled on
by the horses of their comrades coming behind
them. The charges through the streets lasted
fully half an hour. A portion Of the crowd fled
while others faced the charging horscmen,
battling their helnlets with stones
At Donegal assistant of her majesty's gun
boat Boshawk was taken. The inhabitants at
tackled and destroyed tho Boshawk's small
boats, when the gunboat opened fire with what
result is not known.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09
.GREAT AMERICAN TRIUMPH.

The Colt Iroquoi. Belonging to Pierre L,rl>
lard of New York Wins the Great English
Derby.
The great absorbing event in sporting circles
at home and abroad, was the winning of tho
Derby race in England by an Am erican coll
belonging to gentleman Of New York, which
occurred Wednesday, End inst.
There were host OF starters over the course
liz miles in length, but the Derby was won by
Lorillard's 1roqnois, Peregrine second, and
Tom Moore third. The horses We Mt to the
starting pest ut 3:O4 p. n. Betting i'm medi-
atcly before the start was l to 2 against Iro-
quois. II to l against Dan Fuller. The jockey,
Archer, who rode 1roquois. rcceiveda tremen
duous ovation on returning to weigh: lroquois
won cleverly by half q length, with two lengths
between Plregrine and Tom Moore. The tire
of the race was ESQ. I.orillard backed Iro-
quois when yoarling for this race. The crowd
1t the course was immense. The prince and
princess of Wales, duke and duchess Of Con-
naught and largo party of friends were pres
ent.
The Americans were tubilent over the vic.
torious horse and his no less removed jockey.
Among those present were F. T. Walton, St.
james Hotel, New York; Capt V. II. Hayne,
Alexander Newburger, c. Slossen, L. Sossen,
John McCulloch, A. H. Hummol, Pearl leo
Dastley Rowland, Robbins Campbell, Frank
Uffner, Edwin Booth, Signor Peragini, Maurice
Barrymore and wife, ard George Drew.
1t was stated on the race course that the jock
". Archer, says he could eaeily have won
tile race by three lengths if it had been re-
auired.
FOLLOWING IS THE SUMMARY.
Derby stakes Of fifty soyereigns each for colts
8 Stone 10 pounds, for FLIES 5 stone 5 pounds,
then three years old, about l. miles:
Lori]lard's br c, Iroquois, B. 3. Archer. .....1
Duke Of Westminster's &c r, Peregrine, by Petso
Gomez, out Of Adelaide, by young Melbourne
Lord Roseberry' Is b c, Tom Moore by Don aster,
out of Euqine, by King Tom Lemaire. -. 8
The race was tor 1000 guineas, and Lorillard
who was iu New York when he heard of the re-
suit, telegraphed gift of 1000 pounds, to
Archer, who rode lroauois
The Derby winner, troquois, was bred by A.
WEIGH, at Erdenheim Stud, Chestnut Hill, Pa.
ard was foaled in 1870. He was purchased
by the Lorillard brothers on joint account
with ten or twelve other yearlings. Among
them were Blazes, Speedway and saulterer:
The brothers subsequently divided the pur-
chase, and 1roquois fell to Pierre Lorilard
Ho is rich brown colt, with a blazed face, and
near hind foot white above the postern, and il
about Is hands inches high.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09

A FINE stroke of American enterprise
was exhibited by the Appletons of New
York in the publication of the revision of
the New Testament. The committee of
revision in London, had arranged to fur
nish proof sheets Of their labors simultan-
eously to all publishers, which would have
given the English publishers eight or nine
days start. The Appletons, knowing of
the arrangements, shipped men and type
and stereotype materials on various steam
ers. Then necessary space on a fast return
steamer was engaged, and as soon as she
was out of sight of land, the boys went to
work. When the steamer arrived in New
York she was met by horde of represent
atives of other publishing houses eager for
their copy. The forms belonging to the
Appletons bad been stereotyped on board
and the type returned to it's boxes. The
plates went up to the publishing house
and within twenty four hours the perfected
books were being issued to the newsdealers
by the hundred thousand at time.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09
gymnastics as Il Cure Of Disease.

DR.. Felix I. Oswald in Popular Science Monthly.
Physical vi9or is the basis of all moral
and bodily welfare, and chief condition
of permanent health. Like manly strength
and female purify, gymnastics and temper
ance should go hand in hand. An etfen1i-
nate man is sick: without the stinulis OF
physical exercise the complex organism Of
the human body is liable to disorders which
abstinence and chastity can only partly
counteract. BY increasing the action of
the circulatory system, atheletic SPORTS pro-
mote the elimination of etfete matter and
quicken all the vital processes till languor
busy ploughshare. "When I reflect on the
immunity of hard working people from the
effects of wrong and over feeding" says
DR.. Boerhaave, II can not help thinking
that most of our fashionable diseases might
be cured mechanically instead of chemical
ly by climbing bitterwood tree or cutting
it down if You like rather than swallowing
a decoction Of it's digesting leaves"
The medical philosopher, Asclepiades,
Pliny tells us, had found that health
could be preserved, and, If lost, restored
by physical exercise alone, and not only
discarded the use of internal remedies, but
made public declaration that he would for
felt all claim TO tho title Of a physician if
he should ever fail sick or die but by vlo-
lence cr extreme old age. Asclepiades
kept his word, for he lived upward of
century, and died from the effects of an
accident He used TO prescribe course
of gymnastics for every form of bodily all
ment, and the same physic might be sue
cessfully applied to certain moral disorders,
incontinence, for instance and the incipi-
cnt stages of the alchohol habit. 1t would
be a remedy ad principian,, curing the
symptoms by removing the cause, for some
Of the besctting vices Of youth can with
certainty be ascribed to an excess of that
potential energy which finds no outlet in
The functions Of our sedentary mode Of life.
In large cities parents owe their children
provision for a frequent opportunity of act
i've exercise, as they owe them antiseptic
diet in q malarious climate,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09
Treasury Ofnc;als ROnnccd.

Upon tho invitation of Secretary Window,
McGrew, sixth auditor of the treasury, and his
deputy, Lilly, rendered their designations
The action of Secretary Window was taken, it
is eaid, at the request Of the postmaster gener-
al and attorney general, both Of whom repre-,
sented the removals to be necessary to the full
and complete Investigate sn of the star routes
The sixth auditor has more exclusive powers
than the other auditors. He is virtually audi
tor and comp troller both, Of all the Possotfice
depa1 tment accounts and matters, and his &C
ton is final unless an appeal is taken to the
frst comptroller, then the latter only has appel,
late jurisdiction. The allegation which led
to the forced resignation of McGrew,
aud the removal Of Lilly, is that fines and fos-
FIXTURES made against star route contractors
have been RENTED when they ought to have been
enfol cel McGrew and Lilly deny any wrong
doing on their part of any kind. The star route
investigation is being pushed risorouly, and it
is given out that another stroke Of lightning
will soon follow, =
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09
CURRENT EVENTS.

Hugh G. Anderson. ex-governor and OK con-
gresham, died at Portland, Me-, aged eighty
The circulation of the standard silver dollar
from the treasury vaults has partially stopped.
Theo. f. Arnold, wholesale dealer in liquors
at New York city suspended. Liabilities, $780,
OOO
The fund commission of Ohio has negotiated
state loan of So, SOC, 900 at 4 per cent inter-
est, payable semi-annually, at premium OF
334 per cent
A sugar refinery, twelve stories high, was
begun at the foot of Polk street Chicago. Five
hundred workmen are employed, and it will be
16O feet square,
The fourteenth annual reuniono of the old First
regiment Minnesota volunteers will be held at
the 22d and 23e days of June.
At a wonans suffrat convention at Port
land, Me-, one of the speakers stated that she
had letter from a prominent physician advis-
ing women not to become mothers until they
had the ballot
Lidy Rolf, a mare in training at Piqua, O.,
has been sold to N. W: Kittson, of st: Paul, for
mile in 1:O5. She is six years old; sire, Tom
Rolf; dam, Hambletonian mare
The fund commissioners of Ohio, negotiated
| q loan for the state with Kuhn, Loeb e. Co., of
New York city for 100000, at the rate of
four per cent interest, payable semi annually,
for which the firm pay premiu Of 334.
Roscoe Conkling sent from Albany the fcl-
towing dispatch to Gen. Malone at Richmond:
''Your effort for the true advancement of the
south, and to make the elections real and fair,
has my whole heart, and the earnest co.. opera
| tons of republicans everywhere"
John Benson, aged seventy three, hero of
three wars and a capital employee for fifteen
years, died at Madison, Wis, last week. He
participated in the Seminole war in Florida, the
Mexican war and the war of the rebellion. He
entered as private in company A. Seventeenth
IN IN
county, Ireland, in 1908, and came to America
in 1890 When he enlisted in the war of the
rebellion he was farmer in the town of Lowell,
Dodge county. He was very well known
throughout Wisconsin.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09
Old Settlers of Minnesota.

The annual meeting of the old settlers asso-
citation, constituted of those who were here
previous to the organization of the Territory in
1910, was held in st. Paul on the LIST inst.
About fifty were present. among whom were
Gen. Fl. H. Sibley, Hon. A. Ramsey, Judge
Aron Goodrich, Dr. J. D. Murphy, Col. A. b.
Nelson, Norman W. Kittson, George l. Becker,
Edmond Rice, Hon. B. A. Randall, etc. Gen
Sibley, chairman of the obituary committee
stated that since the last meeting, Ferdinand
Mont and J. G. Ramsey, St Paul, William
Burkloo, Saltwater, and Franklin Steele,
Minneapolis, and departed this life and after
wards the roll of all old settlers who had died
since 1858, was read.
The folio wing officers to serve for the year
ending June LIST, 1882, were elected.
President-S. T. Folsom, ST Paul.
First Vice President-R. Chute, Minneapolis
Second Vice President-J. Shearer, St. Paul
Secretary Aaron Goodrich, St Paul.
Corresponding Secretary-J. F. Williams, St
Paul.
A pleasant Interchange Of "reminiscences fol-
fswes and this over the society adjourned to
meet at the banquet, at the Merchants in the
evening xhsro many story of tho olden times
was tod
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09

NJ. Gambeta is engaged to marry, it is
reported, the daughter Of NJ. Durand, an
immensely wealthy South American planter
of French origin. The son of poor pro-
vincial couple, M. Durand started out as a
boy to seek his fortune in America. He
went into the coffee and cacao- trades, and
is to-day one of the richest men in the
Spanish tropics. Several years ago he re-
turned to France, where the eldest of his
three daughters married Count Plateau, a
Swedish nobleman, and the second the
Marquis de Escombreras, the owner of
gold and silver mines near Carthsgena. It
tho youngest of these three sisters who is
: aid 70 be the future Nine, Gambette.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-09
SAD SUICIDE.
A Disheartened Inebriate Blows His Head In.
to Fragments.

to Fragments.
Christian Kirmse, popular and very CON-
potent machinist of Minneapolis, lately dis
charged from a railroad shop for intemperance,
committed suicide few days ago. He was
smiable and cheerful, a favorite among Ills
associates, all of whom regarded the deliber-
ate suicide in his case beyond the range OF rea-
son. He has worked in Hudson, Brainerd and
the Manitoba shops in st. Paul and commenced
his duties At the Minneapolis & st. Louis
round house about four months ago.
About week ago the deceased began drinking
heavily and was discharged; since then he has
frequently told friends that his case was hope
less and he would end it all by killing himself,
but the threat was almost invariably maGa in 4
laughing manner and consequently considered
idle vaporing. But he borrowed gun, walked
out into : large open field, and after sitting
down and writing several touching messages to
his wife aud children, and the following to the
public:
Parties may think am going to kill
myself on account of not having work at pres
ent, but friends don't fret; can get it, but
can't hold it. What is the cause you probably
will know better that can explain. He placed
the muzzle of the gun against his chin, fred,
and fell back corpse with the blood squirting
in jets from the mangled neck. The entire
head had been literally torn into fragments by
the discharge, the nose and a portion of the
upper lip being found near little lake ut the
foot Of the hillside which the suicide had CHI
sen a. the scene Of his sickening deed.