The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-11-10
CURRENT EVENTS.

que is dead.
Lieutenant Commander A. H. Wright died
at Key West of Yellow fever.
The lower house of the Washington terrific
ria; legislature has adopted bill, IS to IL,
granting women the right of franchise.
The indications are that the bottom has
dropped out of the confederate speculation.
New York: and few are purchasing at their
risk as low 81. 50 per s 900.
Alexander Mitchell, John Plankington, Og-
den, Atkins & Co.. and other heavy capitalists
Of Milwaukee have formed . joint stock COM
pany, with capital of s. 100000, to estab
lsh an extensive wholesale dry goods house in
that city.
from Philaae: phia, having on board Hannibal
Hamin, United States Minister Of Spain, and
Hiss Blaine, daughter of Secretary Blaine, and
ex- United States Senator John Scott Of Pennsyl-
vania, wife and daughter.
The age of miracles is not past, according to
an Arkansas minister, who tells of Robert Nell
son, who was paralyzed while cursing about the
draught and John Freeman, who was struck
dead by lightning while blaspheming in regard
to the dry weather, the dirt being thrown from
his grave by subsequent burst of divine
wrath.
A New York telegram says: The cry of
potato famine in this country has occasioned
the importation OF the genul ne Irish potato to
this port. While the American potatoes are
sold at fl ON So. 50 to So barrel. the product
Of Ireland can be shipped to this country and
al agreeable profit be realized by the dealers
who sell them at from 1925 to So. SO a bar
rel.
leading democrat, in discussing the recent
failure of the national bank at Newark, says
that when congress meets in December, steps
wi be taken to overhaul Controller Knox and
his administration Of controller of currency,
with view of ascertaining the character and
qualifications for the positions they hold, and
owe their appointments either to political in
fuence, or to the personal favoritism of the
controller. purely partisan attack will no
doubt be made on Mr.. Knox.
A New York dispatch says that two years
hence an entirely new system of railroads from
ocean to ocean will be in operation, and already
the better part Of the great chain is completed.
The roads forming the routes will be the New
York West Shore & Buffalo. the New York,
Buffalo & Chicago, the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St Paul, the Northern Pacific and the Oregon
Railway aad Navigation companies lines The
system will be in direct opposition to the Van
derbilt lines and the Union Pacific ilroad.
Some of the stringers and other material for
the big iron bridge at Bismarck have arrived.
The piers on the east side OF the river will be
completed this winter and carly in the spring
two of the spans will be put up. The work in
general is getting along finely; the job of pick
ing up boulders for the rip-rapping has al
ready cost $25 200. Twenty thousand tons
have been dropped in the river andon the bank.
Twenty seven teams and forty men have been
hauling all summer. Twenty-thousand more
tons of these boulders will be required.
consultation of all the attorneys connected
with the celebrated Beed divorce case was held
&C Hampton, Iowa, which led to settlement of
the case 80 far as the charges of adultery are
concerned. 1t ls agreed that the plaintiff, Mr.:
Beed, pay Mrs Beed So, 900 in cash, pay her
torney fees and expenses, amounting to 800
or $500, and withdraw the charge OF adulte'y
in his application for divorce, changing. it to
that Of cruel and inhuman treatment II the
charge of inhuman treatment, against which
Mrs. Beed will make no defense, is sustained,
the decree of the divorce will be Immediately
granted. The case has excited much attention
in the state, Mr.. Beed being banker Of wealth
and yonng and beautiful and much his junior
in years.
Those Americans who went to Yorktown on
the Catskil cannot too highly praise Secretary
Blaine's tact in preventing any open rupture
between his French and German guests. He
and his assistants had to be constantly watch
ing lest some breach Of etiquet in regard to
questions of precedence thoula cause open
hostilites. The Couier des Etats Unis, in COM
mentng upon the disagreeable feeling aroused
among the French by the display of the Ger
Yorktown, indicated the state of feeling in
Paris with regard to Germany by stating that
the statue there representing the city Of Stras-
burg, has been kept draped in mourning since
tie Germans entered Paris, and is to remain
so Now that the Germans are travelling in the
west aud the French in the east, let us hope all
are happy