The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-24

lahng to salaries OF county officers in Otter Tail
county; regulating payment of salary Of attor-
ney Of Twelfth judicial district
Minnesota News by Telegraph and Mail. .
James W. Wright of Mankota, has received a
patent for new heating stove.
Col Freeman, of the fremont House at Has
tings, died on last Wednesday night.
Maj. Halstead's exploded steamer, Mary, is
being rebuilt at Lake Minnetonka.
The price Of wheat in the Minneapolis market
has not been changed since December21 1880.
The policy of the st. Paul Fire and Marine
Insurance company on the burned Palace hotel,
Buffalo, is for So, OOO
Chas. H. Blanchard, formerly of Winona,
Mimi, and postmaster for four years, died last
Tuesday of disease of the heart.
DR.. D. T. Powell of Lanesboro, has been ap-
pointed examining pension surgeon for Fillmore
county, in place of DR.. Twitchell, of Chatfeld.
Ed A. Henderson has resigned his position
on the city department Of the Minneapolis
Tribune, and withdrawn from the service of
that paper.
Rev. G. G.. Salter, who accepted some weeks
since the call to become pastor of the Congre
gational church, writes that he expects to be in
Duluth by the second Sunday in April
A man in Minneapolis has been arrested and
fined for selling villainous whiskey under the
name of Tolu Rock and Rye. Minneapolis mo-
rality revolted at such a Dissertation of a popu-
lar remedial agent
Mr.. NJ. J. Severance of Mankato has at last
decided to take up his residence in st. Paul. and,
in furtherance of this change, he has formed
law partnership with W. P. Warner Of ST. Paul,
and the firm name will be Warner T. Severance.
letter has been received in Minneapolis,
from a gentleman at Havana, who writes that
he saw HARDWOOD there, at the Office of the
American consul, recently, obtaining passports
under the name of s'Adanls," for trip to South
America.
Mrs. VIM. McFarlane Of Sank Centre, but
who was a former resident of Minneapolis, has
been granted back pension amounting to ST..
1913, and So month during the remainder of
her life. Her husband served in the United
States army for twenty -oxe years.
A board Of trade has been organized at Albert
Lea, and the following officers elected for one
year: President, H. D. Brown; vice president,
w. P. Sergeant; secretary, Q. W. Ballard;
treasurer, C.. NJ Hewitt. The organization
starts out with a membership of over sixty.
Gen. LeDuc has written letter to Mr. j. F.
Porter of Trout Brook sugar works, giving an
analyst of his sugar, barrel of which was
lately shipped to Washington, showing that the
crude sugar contains ninety-three per cent. of
pure refined sugar.
w. B. Boyden, travelling man for Burgess
& Manley at Minneapolis, who eloped some time
ago with $500 to $500 of the firms green
backs and variety woman named NeOskaleta-
an Indian maiden from Ireland-was arrested
in Chicago and brought back to Minneapolis.
The Minnesota Missionary, for February,
contains, among other interesting church mat
ters, a. letter. from Bishop Whipple. now at
Maitland, Florida The letter is to the clergy
and congregation, and full of that brotherly
Mr.. Thomas L. Slaid. of the firm of Buxton
& Slaid, of Owatonna, died Saturday evening of
spinal meningitis, after brief sickness. De-
ceased was quite young man, and very highly
respected by all who knew him. He was mar
ried only about four months ago to daughter
of Hon. H. N. Hastings.
Mrs. Emeline Converse of Bear Valley, Waba-
sha county, has just been granted a pension,
ON account of the death of her son, Charles s.
Converse, of company X, eighth Illinois infant
~, who was killed in the battle of Fort Don
aldson in 1862. The arrearage amounts to
800 -
glad to learn that he is in fair way Of recovery
from, his present sickness By, request, Dr..
Murphy visited Worthington for consultation
with Dr.. Barber the local physician. DR.. Muir
ply says the governor is not paralyzed, his real
trouble having been congestion OF the brain.
The patient is now doing well, with prospects
of speedy convalescence and returning health.
A Red Wing dispatch says: Another phase of
the case of Mclean. who was bound over for
running away with Rev. Mr.. Kinell's wife, has
come to light. The latter called upon the Sc
Queer of his wife in the county Jail and pre-
scented him hymn book and bible, and urged
him to put away things of this world, and,
weeping upon his brothers. neck, trusted they
would meet in that world where there is neither
marriages nor given in marriage. :st =
Mrs., H. D. Whipple of LIE Sueur, who has
been seriously afflicted with lame hip for
twelve years, on Friday last discovered some
thing protruding from her hip, which she took
hold OF and pulled out; and to her great aston
ishment found that she had drawn out one of
the largest size sewing machine needles. Mrs.
Y. has no knowledge how the needle came
there but supposes she must have swallowed
it. "A physician says this was the cause of her
lameness. y,....7l'.-
The Messrs.. Hendryx, proprietors Of the
Sank Center Herald and Record, have brought
suit in the district court against D. B. Mac
donald of Melrose, Stearns county, for So, 600
damages, which they claim to have suffered in
consequence of the latter having started new
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