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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
Real Estate Wertli Having.
New York Letter.

New YORK Letter.
A recent sale of Fifth avenue property
indicates the immense value it has reached.
The plot corner: of twenty-sixth street was
purchased by the Astors for 1912 ,O00 It's
size is 80 by 1875 feet, and at this rate, land
in that vicinity is worth a million per acre.
The Astors have large extent of property
in this avenue, which old John Jacob bought
for $3.50 per acre. They required, however,
the above mentioned plot for special uses,
and hence paid a price which would have
bought an immense uptown farm, and the
fact that Robert Lenox paid only $4,000
for the thirty acre tract at Lenox Hill, illus
trates :oldtime quotations, Lenox considered
himself outwitted in the bargain, but his
son James lived to- see one lot, containing::a
sixteenth part of an acre, worth more than
the entire cost of the farm, including both
principal and interest. Such are some of
the real estate changes.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03

The father said: "Not when you lived
among the learned men and doctors at
Tabriz?'
J., .:And the. son said e If others saw him
there: not L..
And his father said: 1t isenough my hoy,
if your children s>are. not tempted by the
flesh, they will not be tempted BY the eye:
# the eye is pure the head will be strong.
If the heart :s true, your child will know
b Gof. Ny son prnY for your Children i
that they enter hot intostemp nation" ,
DIED And And his five sons are the chiefs known
ful,i gentle true and brave. Edarard Everett
Hale u, "Chillhooda Appeal"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
Extravaganza in Fuel.
he Cincinnati Commercial.

FF0m the C1nC1nnau COn1n6fCIaI.
But our extravaganza in fuel diminishes
with the years and the increasing cost of
fuel. We will travel good ways, and have
then to seek communities remote from rail-
roads, to find such wood fires as kept the
log cabins and thin frame houses Of the
pioneers warm. The great fire places, with
their wide fronts and immense chimneys,
their great andirons, back-logs, fore-logs,
and sections Of seasoned split wood four or
five feet long, piled high, are hardly known
save in remote settlements. But we make
almost an extravagant use Of coal as our
fathers did Of wood, and will probably con-
tinue to do so till the cost of it compels
study of economy in the methods Of heating
houses, and servants are instructed how to
with the least amount Of fuel.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
Henry Ward Beecher and His Step. mother
From the New York Times.

merry Varu DeeCleT anu HIS Slep'mOCner
From the New York Times.
Last evening several speakers had some
thing to say abe ut their mothers prayers,
and Mr. Beecher gave his opinion. my
mother died." he said, ''when was three
years old, and had to make her in my
imagination. My fathers second wife was
a beautiful and cultivated woman, but she
had no demonstrative affection. do not
remember that ever once ran to her when
I was in trouble, though ran away from
her good many times. I never buried my
head in her lap, I always expected criticism.
She was the mother Of my clothes and of
my food, but never the mother of my heart
I used to long for mother that had a
bosom. built that with my imagination.
Her praying never produced any more effect
upon me than flake of snow upon slate
roof. 1t did afterward, when was 8 or 10
years old. used to be afraid of hell and
the devil, for ministers nsed to scare
children. The child that really and deeply
loves its mother will not get away from her. :"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
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Should A Baby be Fat!
From the Scientific American.

From the Scientific American
While there is a measure Of truth in the
assertion that fat babies are not necessarily
healthy, the following much quoted extract
from physicians letter tt. q Boston paper is
likely to do mischief by it's extravagant con
demnation fiat. Speaking of fatty degen-
Grafton the physician says
Most infants do become thus. diseased
before they are three months old: ~~ This
stops the growth and leaves the poor de-
ceived parents nothing but increased in
weight to boast of; and when the poor little
victim to his own greed. and his parents;
folly gets to the end of his tether he melts
away like butter in hot oven, and then it
is see: how poor Yin fiesh) he has been all
the time. Few comprehend the broad
difference between flesh and fat. The first
is lean meat-muscle-the result of growth;
while fat don't care how hard and solid
it may be-is the product or accumulation
Of unexcretial excess, This is why no one
bets dollar on fat horse or fat man
they are soft; and cant stay. 1t is every
whit as true of fat baby. The only Won
der is that any infant lives days from birth.
Fed before birth but three times day, he
is after birth subjected to 10 or 90 meals in
the "a hours. Before birth he grows at the
rate of about 10 pounds per year, after
birth he is permitted to fat at the rate of SO
pounds per year until chronic dyspepsia or
some acute disease interferes. Feel of
kitten, calf, colt, or young robin-they are
and remain while growing but little more
than skin and bones and fur or feathers, be-
cause, unable to get enough to fatten them,
and they never die-rarely have any sort of
disease. Children are, never fairly out of
the woods until they reach the lean age and
have pipe stem legs and arms, with no rolls
of fatty tissue anywhere about them.
Gould they be kept so from birth and not
permitted to over indulge, So that their ap-
spetites would always be reliable for plain
food, they. would haye;no infantile disease
to enrich oNr pockets.
Why should the kitten, the colt, or the
young robin be taken as a model of infant
lie health, rather than the puppy, the bear
cub, the pig, or the young pigeon? 1t is
the nature of some animals to be lean and
healthy; of others to be fat and healthy; and
there is as marked difference in the nat
ural tendency Of young children. Infants
Of the same parentage and fed at the same
breast will differ in this respect-and both
be healthy. Fat laid on at the rate of $50
pounds year" is quite another matter, and
one not reliable, we take it, to be a common
cause Of anxiety. Injudicious feeding is
more apt to show itself in lack Of fat, and
lack of proper muscular tissu as we'll.
That sort of leanness is much too common
in young humanity. '".4:~ .c
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03
Singular Cause ola Marriage.

From the Savannah (Ga.) News.
A marriage took place at LaGrange last
Wednesday which is discribedas sensation
al, romantic and remarkable. Mr.. P. Proph-
lit, who is fifty years Of age and has been
so paralyzed fora number of years as to be
perfectly helpless, was united to Miss Annie
B. Swain, young, good looking, intelligent
and.accomplished lady. The cause of this
remarkable marriage is believed to be that
both parties are Spiritualists, and had re-
ceived, as they supposed, a communication
from the spirit world desiring their union.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03

distress of the young couple on the other
side. Necessity is not only the mother of
inventions, but is the mother of expedients.
The parson concluded to marry the couple
across the river and they joined hands and
took their stand near the waters edge, while
the preacher, on the opposite bank. in stem
atorion voice pronounced the marriage ser
vice and declared them man and wife.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03

The president of the Des Moines, Mar
shalltown and Milwaukee railroad has ad-
vertised for 185, 900 railroad ties, which
means work On the Milwaukee road to Des
Moines.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-19
HEAVY FORGERY.
Flight After Forging Notes for Over 915

Flight After Forging Notes for Over s.5,OGO.
Charles b. S. Fonda, of the firm of
Fonda & Clark, the leading millers of Lit
tie Falls, n. Y, left his home last Satur-
day night, and is now fugitive from ius-
tice. Within the past 4S hours it has
been discovered that Fonda has been
guilty of repeated forgeries, extending
through term of years. Both banks in Lit
tie Falls hold forged paper, and the banks
in CanajOharic, st. louisville and Fort
Plain hold paper that isrepudiatcd. Fonda
was one of the best known business men
in Hcrkimer county. 4 few years ago he
was nominated for county treasurer, over
co-aing an adverse majority of 500, and
running within 80 votes of an election,
Suspicion was first aroused on Wednesday
when Amos Keller, Il leading business man
of Little Fails, received notice that his
protested paper, amounting to $4,000, was
lying in the anajoharie bank. Upon in
vestigation the notes were pronounced
forscries, and it was ascertained that six
banks in the region held repudiated
paper. President Seth NJ Richmond.
of the Little Falls national bank, saws
that the institution held s., 900 of Fonda's S
paper. Judge Hardin, of the supreme
court. who is counsel for the Herkimcr
County national bank, says that that insti- !
tuition is protected by u heavy mortgage
,n Fonda's mill. The amount of the for !
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-19
Railroad Calamities.

A car on the Augusta & Knoxville
railroad, a new road in course of construc-
tion. between Augusta, Georgia, and
Greenwood, South Carolina, ran Off the
track yesterday, and John KilIian, road
master, was killed.
A passenger coach on the Shenandoah
Valley railroad was thrown from the track
near Elkton. Virginia, on Thursday even
ing. A passenger and a brakeman were
injured, the latter, perhaps fatally.
By the collision of an express train with
a section Of a freight train on the Chcsa-
peake & Ohio railway, 213 miles west of
Richmond, Va, yesterday morning, sew.
eral cars of both trains were wrecked, the
engineer of the freight train killed and the
fireman severely injured. The disaster
was caused by misunderstanding of train
OrderS.'
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-19
OBITUARY
Ihe Late Mrs. Sarah Hamilton ShOen

The Late Mrs. Sarah Hamilton Shoen
berger.
The Cincinnati daily Gazette in its no
tice Of the death of the late Mrs. Shoeu-
berger, Of that city, and formerly Of Lam
caster, concludes as follows
When asked the secret Of this woman's
magnetic influence 4 portrait is recalled of
her instinct with life, so like the creations
Of Gilbert Stuart that it seems to have been
touched by his genius. She was in the
prime OF married life, distinguished and
elegant in form, rather tall, brilliant COM
plexion, black hair and eyes, intense in
glance, even to tie last the mouth firm.
yet sweet and expressive; hose ilistinc-
tive of her exalted character, the general
expression ardent, but thoughtful. Such
she was in mind and heart. The promi-
nent traits in her domestic life were deci-
sion OF character, i sure Judgment, kind
illness. great patience. self abnegatiOn, rare
fortitudc under physical suffering, thought
fulncss for others. an unwillingness that
others should assume burdens. Iu this
inner life never from her was heard any
personal disparasement Of others. Con-
sclous Of her own rectitudc Of soul, self
poised, equable, her self-contrOl gave I'M
mense influence in her household, where
her decision, sought on all occasions, was
never questioned. 4 character such Is
this, welding Il controlling influence in a
large domestic circle by love, with tho
power OF law, is rare indeed Let there
be no further intrusion.
Occupying high social position without
arrogance, her serene spirit and genial
sweetness of disposition made friends
everywhere. The transparent simplicity
OF character, her gentle dcmcanor and ex-
quisitc kindlincSs of heart, shown in her
manners, gave evidence Of Il soul in daily
communion with God. Thus each day
was 50 complete in itself that the last was
only Il translation. Her love for and her
experimental knowledge Of the Saviour,
and the presence of the Holy Spirit, the
Comforter, iii her soul was an abiding
presence. And this assurance remains to
the bereaved family in their greatest sOr-
row. From this home and social life, fill
ed with earthly blessings, once pcrvadei
by her spiritual influences, Sarah Hamil
ton ShOcnberser has been translated to the
communion OF the saints in light.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-19
LAST NIGHTS FIRE.


Last night a frame barn and tobacco
shed belonging to Mrs. NJ. A. McGrann
and Miss Kate Dcugherty. and situated on
the property at the corner Of Prince street
and the Harrisburg pike, was destroyed
by fire. The building was occupied by
Adam Ault, and the fire was discovered
shortly after II o'clock. The structure
being entirely Of wood burned very rapid
ly. In the building were Il carriage, wagon,
sulky, buggy, sleigh and farming impe-
ments, all Of which were burned, together
with two acres OF tobacco and some hay and
straw. Two cows managed to break out
of the stable and thus escaped being
burned. The barn was insured for S4OO in
the -Etna company, of Hartford, and 500
in the North British and Mercantile COM
pany. MI. Ault had, $500 insurance on
his tobacco in the Williamsburgh City
company, and $500 on the contents of the
barn, exclusive Of live stock, in the
Phoenix. Of Hartford. All of the above
companies are represented by Bausman &
Burus. The fire was undoubtedly caused
by an incendiary.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-19
STATE ITEMS.

Thomas Moran, miner was killed yes
tertlay at West Shenandoah, by a fall of
coal.
In the Legislature yesterday while
other Democrats were Fastening to make
the vote for the Democratic senatorial
caucus nominee as ''solid'' as possible.
Mr.. Bierly of Lycoming flew the track !;
Mr.. Bierly also showed his ''indepen-
dance" by voting with the few roosters
vino voted in hehalf Of the motion to
to postpone the movement looking to the
abolition of the Office of recorder in Phila-
delphia. Mr.. Bierly is too good man to
to be found in such bad company.
Thomas kelsey took contract to de-
liver 200 hemlock logs cut in the West
woods to a steam mill in the Glenwood
district, Susquchanna county. While en-
gagged with his helper in rolling logs down
tho log slide from the mountain top he
caught his cant hook under heavy hem
lock, and it threw him headlOng down 227
feet into the abyss, the log following after
and striking Kelsey with a sudden crash.
1t buried his lifeless body deep in the mud
and mire. His helper worked faithfully
for two hours to extricate the remains
from a grave in the swampy ravine, with
none to assist him. Kelsey leaves a wife
and five children in pitiable destitution.
The Harrisburg Telegraph is disgusted :
eff Pennsylvania is to have senator
elected by this Legislature, the danger
now is that he vii be the production of
exhaustiOn-a poor, weik, wishy- washy
individual, without brains enough to know
how to act, and without courage enough
to act when by chance he finds out what
he ought to do. Such men are the crea.
lures of compromise, and their greatest
living monument is poor old Christiancy.
Legislators can ballot and ballot, but the
patience of the people is exhausted, and
the organization of the Republican party
is ruined, and SO thoroughly ruined that
an election of any man to the Senate will
not be able to repair it,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-19
PERSONAL.

The death is announced in London o
Lord WILLIAM P1TT LENNON. a son oc the
fourth Duke of Richmond, in his Sod year
He was well known rs an author, cspeci
ally Of sporting sketches.
Rev. \. c. WEDEEIND, D. d., for some
years pastor Of St.John's Lutheran church,
Of this place, latterly of St. James
Lutheran church, OF New York, has re-
signed the latter pastorate, Rev. DR.. J. B.
Reimensny'icr, of Savannah, Ga, being
his successor.
The author Of "Bcautiful Snow" is
found. 1t is no less i parsonage than the
second president OF the United States. In
a letter to Josiah Quincy, of January 15,
1911, JOHN ADAMS says: 'We have now
the third flight of beautiful! snoW and fine
slcighing." 1t is pleasant to know that so
vcxed all important a literary question is
now 1T rest.
Garfield has selected his private sccre-
tary, but the name Of the person is not
announced. The story that J. II. RHODES
a. SNNciatilu ist"sC Oi NiSH lllcTdrS 6Dlilty
and and old college room mate of Gar
field, is to be his secretary IS uniounded.
SO also is the story that he offered the
position to Col. HAY, assistant secretary
of state. Col. Hay will be offered some
thing, probably, but it will be in the diplo-
matte line.
Senator DAVID DAVIS can safely be said
to be the most extensive landowner in
Central Illinois, and his total wealth, at a
fair estimate, can be placed at $4,000, 600.
His taxes amount to about S27, 900 yearly.
When he opened law Office in Blooming
ton he possessed only few hundred dol
lars. Feeling convinced that there was
a great future for the West. he. invested
Ill his money in land, the greater portion
IF which he still hold.
Once CARLYLE went to visit one of his
.arly pupils in the country. As bedtime |
lrew near the host said: ''Now Mr..
;arIylc, we are going to have family wor-
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-19
AT HARRISBURG.
No Nearer a Conclusion Than Before.

The meeting Of the Republican confer
ees last night lasted until after II clock,
but the committeeman labor brought no
fruits. Most of the time was consumed
in discussion. Mr.. Niles offered resolu-
ton that both Beaver and Bayne he with
drawn and that entirely new names be
considered. A vote on the resolution was
not reached and it was postponed with the
understanding that it shall he adopted on
Monday evening. In the discussion
which followed the Offering of the resolu
ton, il was developed that the spirit of
compromise was stronger in the Bayne
men than with their opponents. They
were ready to adopt the resolution and
act on it at once, but the Beaver men were
not SO willing. The Beaver men it is
known rather hoped to find the other side
liberal enough to compromise on Beaver
When all hope of Beavers selection was
removed they were not ready to take up
and endorse catch candidate without
first consulting the bosses. They there
fore favored the postponement. Senator
Davies, who has beeen suspected of hav
ing 4 soft place in his heart for Cameron,
made strong anti-CamerOn speech.
He remarked among other things that
this practice Of telling Legislators when
they come here, ''IIere is your man, elect
him. can be continued no longer. Mr..
Herr and Mr.. Wolfe had little tilt, and
said some plain things to each other. Mr..
Herr arraigneG Wolfe for his spleen
against Cameron and Mr.. Wolfe deti' ed
his position. as he has done some hundreds
of times before. Mr.. Niles proposed
that Beavers name be withdrawn with
the understanding that he receive the
nomination for governor. The proposal
was such a particularly pleasant one to
Senator Cooper, that the humble insect in
his hat stopped buzzing for an instant and
gaspcd for breath. The coolest thing of
the evening was the move made by Sena-
tor Cooper to get the rule rescinded re-
quirins Il three -fourths vote of the COM
mittee to select candidate. The
ctfrontcry Of this effort will bc apparent
when it is understood that the body
which Senator Cooper represents unani-
mously agreed to the rule. No
vote was taken on the mo-
tion. Messrs. Herr and Cooper CON-
planned of the structures of the Bayne cau-
Gus They intimatcd that there were men
who wanted to get out, who could not, and
that if these men had not been virtually
manacled. Beaver would have been elected
long ago. The Bayne men vigorously de-
Tended their caucus methods, and Mr.. Lee
remarked that the people had supported
the independents and were still supporting
them. Were they not this thing never
could have kept up SO long as it has.
Three ballots We're taken during the even
ing with tie following result.
First-Beaver, 10; Baync, II; Quay,
Second-Beaver, 8; Bayne. 8: Quay, /;
Herr, 2; Morrcll, 3; Shiras, 1.
Third-Ecaver, 10; Bayne, 6: Morrell,
); Greer, 3; Waddel!, 1.
The committee adjourned to meet OH
Monday evening at s o'clock, when both
candidates now before the joint conven-
ton will be dropped and an effort made to
compromise on new man.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-19

ship thinking that perhaps he would
like to withdraw before the service began !:
but he quietly answered swell, bring me
the book and I'll read it for YOU" Taking
the Bible in his lap he began with the first
chapter of the Book of Job. For time
it was delightful to listen to him read
chapter after chapter, interfering quaint
remarks as he went along but presently
it became evident that he had no notion Of
stopping, having forgotten himself i'll his
task. His niece recalled him to a sense of
propriety by whispering, The servants
must be weary, uncle He made no
verbal response, but closed the Bible with
snap, and betook himself to the next
room and the enjoyment of his pipe.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-19

JAY GOULD seems to he richer than
Cresus, if the stock board appreciation
of his purchasing capacity is correct
Here Isl little railroad, called the Read.
ing, which 4 great many people have
been fretting over and whole army OF
lawyers, judges and capitalists have been
trying to set Oh its legs and devise means
to pay its trifling debt of Il hundred mil
lions or so. All at once it is said that Mr..
Gould has bought the road and its stock
price springs up. Evidently all that is
necessary in some peoples opinion to
turn a bankrupt railroad or telegraph
Company into a productive operation is
to have Jay Gould buy it., and he has
money enough to buy them all it seems.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-19
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
A Man Has Roth Legs Cut Ofr.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT,


Yesterday afternoon at Columbia, Ber-
nard Farley, young mechanic aged about
25 years, resident Of Newark, New jersey,
met with a terrible accident. 1t appears
that he and companion were making
their way west in search Of employment.
At Columbis, in boarding moving freight
train, Farley was thrown off and falling
over pile of dirt got under the wheels,
had both legs terribly crushed and
mangled about the ankles. His wounds
were temporarily dressed in Columbia and
late in the afternoon he was sent to this
city, and conveyed to the Lancaster coun-
ty hospital. 1t was found necessary to
amputate both legs between the knee and
ankle. The operation was successfully
performed by Drs. Thos. Z. Cox and Il.
NJ. Bolenius. Farley l.; Il single man, and
has a brother in Newark in one of the roll
ing mills. Farley's companion, whose
name we did not learn, returned to New
ark this morning to give information Of
the accident to the brother.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-19
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
before Judge Patterson.

In the case of William :. Amwcg, adj
ministratOr peadente ite Of the estate of
Catharinc Stewart, VS.. Susan Stehman,
Catherine Vaunaurc and Lizzie Stehman,
the plaintiffs closed their rcbuttal ycster
day afternoon. The defense then called
witness to sur-rebut that portion intro
duced by the plaintiff for the purpose of
proving that an ill-feeling had been
evinced by Mr.. Stehman towari Mr.. Am
veg; also that which went I, show that
Mrs. Stewart was abandoned by her other
children, except Mrs. Amweg, and that
the latter had labored hard to attend to
her.
The counsel began Speaking this morning
and the case was given to the jury, who
retired shortly after one O'clock
This afternoon the jury agreed and they
rendered verdict in favor of the plaintiff,
thus sustaining the will.
License Transferred.
The restaurant license of Lawrance &
Co. was transferred to Samuel A. Croft.