The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-03-24

uutll evening", anu, dS uo "lS Aoo '1oA gu
ing into Boston, he turned it over to No. l,
of our tale with the results above described.
Things in General.
The appropriation by congress of $780,
900 for the Bennington (Vt.) monument
makes nearly $780, 900 obtained by the asso-
citation thus far. Before building, the de-
sign must be approved by the governors of
Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hamp-
shire, the president Of the United States,
the unanimous vote of the directors, and
then by the entire association.
The Pennsylvania railroad report shows
that the net earnings on the mann line be-
tween Philadelphia and Pittsburg were
$40, O5l ,4S5 l6, an increase over 1879 of
about two and half millions.
The Common Council of Baltimore has
passed an ordinance, which has been ap-
proved by the mayor, providing for the re-
lief from taxation Of all mechanical tools
and implements, whether worked by hand,
or steam, or other motive power, and of any
machinery, manufacturing apparatus, or
engines owned and actually employed by
any individual, firm, or corporation ensag-
ed. or likely to be engaged, In the business
of manufacture in the city.
A greater gathering Of the followers Of
John Wesley than has ever been held will
take place in the City Road Chapel, Lon.
don, England, the first week in next Sep
TENDER. At that gathering will be repre-
sentatives of every branch of Methodism,
and from every part of the world.
The fir tree growths of Puget Sound are
astonishing. They average 200 feet In
height, and some specimens have been cut
that measured 800 feet in length and II
feet in diameter at the base, with straight
and we'll proportioned log length OF 80 feet
to the first limb. The cedar trees are in
like proportion.
Mr.. Sears, the young millionaire of Bos-
ton. has purchased building lot at Bar
IIarbor, (Me.) for $3O000 He will erect
splendid edifce the present season. 1t is
to be 60x1OO feet. Mr.. Musgrave, of Bos-
ton, has paid $4,000 for lot, and Mr..
Grow of Philadelphia, paid the same sum for
another lot A large amount OF building
is going on at this famous watering place,
and men of very large wealth are investing
literally.
Swnhurne says in the last Fortnightly
/ Review Of Tennyson's Rizloah: If after a
thousand wears all trace of all Tennyson's
poems had vanished from all human record
save only these Sc verses Of 'Rizpah, proof
puSltlNe dIlA dlHk1e 6tlN OsoAAO"A1AS
would be left in the survival OF these that
IN him, if ever upon earth, great poet had
been born among men If this be not great
work, no great work was ever or will ever
he done in verse by any human hand.
The Boston Journal presents potent and
sound reasons against nlultiplyingth the num-
Der of holidays by including New-years
and election day. The people are not pining
for these things. In fact, the Legislature
astonishes us every year by Investigating
and discussing great issues of -" reform to
which the public are entire strangers. No
body suspected, for instance, the melancho-
~ condition to which the lack of holidays
had reduced our bank clerks. Nobody
suspected that the people were hungry for
legislation to enable military drill and
calisthenics to be put into the common
schools.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
road Company are burning clay for ballast
ing their road. A small fire Of bituninous
Iowa coal is starting on the surface of the
ground, and when burning freely, the fire
is covered with layer of lumpy clay, then
alternately coal and clay, the coal decreasing
in quantity until at the top it is as one to
fifteen. The mass is formed like cone.
Three united cones, each eighteen feet high
duu III d11 dUOuG 1VVV
of material, have been started near Red Oak.
They will burn for months. Six hundred
miles of road are to be ballasted with this
crude pottery broken up. It resembles
coal cinder. but is harder.
John W. Dwinnelle, who died recently in
San Francisco, perhaps the most distin-
guished lawyer in the city, a frank, engag-
ing man with hosts of friends, a legal au-
thor of remarkable ability upon the peculiar
problems of California law, made the re-
quest shortly before his death that none of
the courts should adjourn on his account
and directed his funeral to be held at an
hour when lawyers could attend without
neglecting their business. "There is no
good reason, he said with great good sense,
"why the business of courts of record
should be interrupted for day because a
lawyer, even the most distinguished, hap
pens to die"