Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-01-05

fishes what pNrports to be the official vote
for president, which gives Garfield 9.751
votes over Hancock, and the combined OPP
position 34O, 1928 over Garfield.
A SINGULAR report comes from Washing
ton, that the social influence of the army
neutralzes all attempts to reduce expenses
and inaugurate reforms, and that this inf1u-
ence controls about twelve votes in the senate
alone.
GEORGIA railroads have charged passen-
gers five cents per mile, and of course are
( uly outraged by peremptory order Of the
railroad cOmmissiOners-whO are clothed
with ample power-to reduce the rates to
three cents per mile.
The supreme court of the United States
has rendered the important decision that an
individual shareholder Of an insolvent ma
tional bank cannot be compelled to pay more
than his full proportional share Of the
banks liabilities in order to make good the
deficiency caused by the inability of stock
holders to pay their proportionate share.
The biennial session reform is nearly &C.
complished. Thirty one of the thirty eight
states have provided for biennial sessions,
and there is a probability that nearly all will
follow the example in the course of few
years. In twenty states the sessions of the
legislatures are limited, in most of them to
sixty DAYS or less.
N. 3. HARDWOOD, the bankrupt merchant
of Minneapolis, quietly left that city last
Christmas eve, without the knowledge or
consent Of even those who have charge Of
his business affairs. It is supposed that he
has gone to New Orleans, where his wife
has been sojourning for some weeks. His
leaving in this clandestine manner, seriously
weakens the faith of his friends, and goes
far towards convincing every one else that
the whole affair, so far as he is concerned,
is as black as his most indignant creditor
has painted it.
In suit in Boston, in the case Of one
Robert Howard, arrested for perjury in TAX
ing out naturalization papers, Gen. Butler
pointed out that the record proved nothing
rs it was illegal; that the oath was attested
by the deputy clerk and was not signed in
the presence Of the judge. He then pro-
ceeded to argue that the whole system of
naturalization, in vogue in the district for
years, was illegal. contending that in no
case Of the kind has deputy clerk the right
to administer an oath; and therefore, thou
sands of persons have, in law, not been
natunlized at all.
The business statistics of Chicago for
1880 show an unparalleled prosperity Of all
branches of business, the chief increase be-
ing in the grain trade. There has been an
aggregate of grain received of 16l, OO0, 900
bushels, against 1873, 100000 in 1879, and
6O,OO0,O 900 in 1870. For the year ending
November /, 1880, 5,375,00O hogs were
slaughtered against &, 0s9, 900 in 1879. The
aggregate weight Of the years killing was
LOO, 600, 900 pounds; and the value $685.
100000, an increase of $2O,OOO,OOO over
the value Of the hog crop of 1879. Seven
million hogs, 1854, 900 cattle and 329, 200
sheep were received, 100000 cattle and
100000 hogs shipped.
The winter of 1779-80-one hundre d
years ago-began as the present one did,
and was very severe. In the eastern states,
from November until the middle of Febru-
airy, there was not enough warmth in the
suns rays to melt the snow on the ground,
nor to affect in the least the letters Of ice
that bound the creeks, ponds and rivers.
One snow storm followed another until f.
nally the ground was SO covered that it was
difficult to go from place to place. and the
ice upon the rivers at all convenient points
was used by men and teams and animals in
place of roads. Even as far south .as
Nashville the Cumberland was frozen over
with ice thick enough for the safe. passage
of emigrant trains. The Delaware, at Phil
adelphia, had ice three feet in thickness,
and Chesapeake bay and Long Island sound
were frozen over.
The bill of Senator Burnside of Rhode
Island, for the promotion of education,
which has passed the senate and is now be-
fore the house, proposes to distribute the
revenue paid into the United States treas
ury from the sale of public lands, letters
patent and consular fees, amounting annu-
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