The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-01-13

voted to celebrate St. Patrick's day by attending
q lecture, the proceeds of which will be sent to
the lant. league in Ireland.
The dead lock in the Indiana Senate was bro
ken last Saturday by the Democrats joining the
Greenbackers and electing officers named by
the latter, f. W. Brouse, secretary:
At the meeting Of the Ohio assembly Gov.
Fosters message was read. The message calls
most earnestly upon the assembly to impose
restraints upon the alarming tendency towards
an increase i'll local indebtedness.
The senatorial election in Maine, suddenly
changed, by committee Of Fryes friends
waiting upon Hale and Internationally with
drawing Fryes name from the canvass, and
rendering their votes in caucus to Hale This
msures the unanimous nomination IN Repubi-
can caucus and election of Hale to the United
States senatorship.
The message of Gov. Cornell Of New York
sets forth the condition of the finances, the
canals, the banks, the charitable institutions
and the debt, and briefly discusses the subjects
of taxation, public education and prisons The
governor thinks further reduction in the rate
Of interest not inadvisable, and suggests that
the excise and lottery laws be thoroughly re-
vised.
Gov. Jarvis, of North Carolina in his mes
sage, speaking in warm tones Of the relation ex-
listing between the blacks and the whites, says
the colored people are becoming more industri-
Gus and thrifty He refers with satisfaction to
their Industrial fairs and to the favor and en-
couragement bestowed on their exhibitions by
the whites He regards it an imperative duty
that the whites should see that in all things full
and equal Justice shall be done the blacks and
they are not left to work out their own destiny
alone.
The certificate of election to Congress in Utah
has been given by Gov. Murray to the gentle
candidate Allen G. Campbell, though Apostle
Cannon received a very large majority of the
votes. Under other circumstances, says the
governor in his ruling, Cannon might become
it is charged by Campbell and not denied by
Cannon that the latter is living in violation of
the law Of 1862 making polygamy felony, and
cannot, therefore, be well disposed towards the
government of the United States. Not being a
! citizen, and being incapable from his profession
and manner of life of taking the oath of natur-
alization i'll good faith, and these facts having
votes cast for him as delegate are lost.
Gen. John F. Miller of California, who is to
succeed Senator Booth in the United States SEN
ate, is a native of Indiana He first went to Cal
ifornia about the year 1850. He afterward re-
turned to his native State and lived at South
Bend. When the war broke out he raised a
regiment and became it's colonel. He rose to
the rank of brigadier general, and was wounded,
losing an eye at the battle of Stone River. He
was in command at Nashville while johnson
was military governor. After the war he re-
turned to California When johnson became
president he appointed Gen. Miller collector of
the port of San Francisco. His prominence in
the founders of the Alaska Fur Seal company,
Of which he is the president This has made
him enormously rich. He was member of the
constitutional convention two years ago, but
has held no other elective Office. Senator Booth
made no effort to be reelected.