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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The reports of the presidents condition are
better and better with each succeeding day.
Gen, Francis A. Walker, superintendent of
the census, intends to leave government SER
vice in October to take the presidency of the
Massachusetts institute of TECHNOLOGY
It is understood in Washington that tho pres
ident will be off of his sick bed by the middle of
September, and that he will be able to re-
sumo executive business by the time congress
convenes.
The number of outrages committed in Ire
land during July was 259, including frings
at persons, IL assaults, 20 arsons, II cattle
malmings, 1855 intimidations and Is cases of
injury to property.
A special agent of the treasury stationed at
New York reports to the department that the
sugar refiners there and at Boston are import
ing large quantities of s'cane jnice'' under the
head of molasses, thereby depriviDg the gov
eminent of large amount of revenue.
It is said that an effort is being made to in
duce ex-Attorney General Devens to withdraw
az candidate for appointment on the United
States supreme bench in favor of Judge Gray,
he would be appointed chief justice of the
Massachusetts supreme court.
Agents Of the postoffice department who
were ordered to investigate the use of United
States mail bags in CANADA, visited the cities
of st. John, Halifax, Montreal, Quebec, Cana.
da, Toronto, Windsor aud Ottawa and conferred
with the postofice officials of the Dominion
They found that a large majority of the mai
pouches in use belong to the United States.
Mise Nellie Burrill, the young lady who hal
been mentioned in connection with the scanda
involving tho name of Capt. -Howgate, is no
now in the employment of the government, no
| has she been for some time. When she was i,
the treasury department she was an employ
of the treasurer's Office. She was kept Their,
| for quite while after it became generall
known around that her relations with Capt
Howgate were not as they should have been.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11

In order that the line of succession to
the presidency of the United States may
always be complete, it is suggested that
each congress be required to organize on
the day in which it begins to exist. This
is practical suggestion. 1t need not entail
any additional cost upon the country. The
47th congress, for instance, began its ex-
istence on the 18th of last March. Members
elect draw their salaries from that day. The
failure of the senate at the special session
to elect president pro tempore, was owing
to the equal division of that body POLITICAL
", and while this may not occur again for
many years, it shows the importance of
having speaker of the House in existence.
because the presidency Of the United
States may devolve upon that official. The
change suggested would put in new set
of House officials and employees at the be.
ginning Of the term of congress. instead of,
as now, permitting the old set to hold
over until the following December. 1t
would not increase the pay roll at all,
while it would keep in official existence
positions that are in the direct line of sue
cess:on to the presidency.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11
CURRENT NEWS.
~ II
RAILROADS.

The contract for tho bridging, piling, truss.
ing, and all other timber work on the Chippe-
wa Valley & Lake Superior railroad and Red
Cedar branch to Red Cedar Falls, has been let
to @. G. Smith Of La Crosse. 5F3 q
The work OF re-laying tho 81. Paul & Duluth
road with steel rails is.progressing rapidly:
The line between Wyoming and St Paulls all
steel, about half the distance between the Nor
thern Pacific. junction and Duluth is also re-
laid with steel.
Mr.. Wm H. Cruger, the prominent railroad
BUILDER and manager who has boon Identified
with the development Of the prosperity of Pc
oria, ILL.,, for twenty eight years, died in that
was we'll known in tho west az railroad man.
Sioux City from sixty to eighty cars daily. OF
the go an average of twenty 60 to Sioux City
dealers, lumber dealers mostly About TWEEN
ty- five are crossed to the Nebraska division,
and the balance are turned over to the Sioux
City Pacific.
The Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis l. Oma-
ha company have arranged to run passenger
trains over the track Of the Minneapolis aud
st. Louis, between Merriam junction and Min
neapolis. Through trains to and from st. Paul
will 60 by this route az soon as the track is fit
ted for fast trains.
Tho great trunk railway are considering
tie feasibility Of fastec trains. j. Gould has
saio, on Irequent occasions, IN private CONVEX
sations, that the time will come when the geo.
graphical positions of cities as railroad centers
will be ignored. The questions to 10 decided
will be the highest rates Of speed for trains
consistent with safety and at lowest cost
A patent Of incorporation to two new rail-
road companies nas been issued by the
Wisconsin secretary OF state and the
the Escanaba T. St. Paul company
will build line from Escanaba, Mich,
across Wisconsin to st. Paul. The capital stock
ia %3, OO, OG0O. The incorporators are Walter
Brown, Willis Hand, W. 8. Hinton and VIM
Houghton, all Of Phillips, Price county, and c.
E. Russell, Of Nelsville.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11
Civil Rights Considered in the Limekiln
: Club. .a

From the Detroit Free Press
At this stage of the proceedings Sweet
brier. Perkins stood up in the northwest
corner of the hall, fourished red silk
handkerchief, adjusted his lavender tie, and
announced that he arose to a question of
privilege. He had just returned from q
trip to Ohio, and during short stay at Gin
cinnad he had been refused permission, or
rather the right, to eat at The tables with
other guests. The waiter had seated him
at small side table, with no other COM
pany, and had even thrownsout hints that
he should have sought a cheap hotel.
Brother Perkins felt that the club had been
insulted through him, andshe wanted to
know what action to take.
cit will take no fudder 4ackshun dan to
reprimand youfur your importance, replied
the president. ''In de fust place you had
no money to speak of an had no bizness
in fust- class hotel. In de mex place you
forgot your origin. You had no mo- bizness
sittin' 'longside O white ladies an gem len
dan dey would have in iuggin' pals of
whitewash aroun' de street. know all
about de Civil Rights law,bu it doan'
count. De people who made it had no
sympathy fur us. Not q man who voted fur
it would sit beside us at de table or in de
'ooateI' 70 LAW OF plotecAsnun 'dppAes ~
COW as well as horse--to goose as well
q calf. Boat am equal in law-boaf have
de same rights in law, but do you see cows
mixin' in wild bosses an trottin'? Am q
goose veal bekase. he has de same rights rs
q calf? Do calves try to fly bekase de air
am as free to calves as to- geese? III
should see Q white man set down at table
wild twenty black men I should despise
him and de black man who foca1 his Dres-
ence upon white folks should be taIen by
de neck and bounced into de fust boss
pond. Brudder Perkins. you am q little
less you make ! change your fQoher xtll
contain mo- Hicks dep friends. y
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11
THE Gagged SIT Ting BULL.
The First Eccurate Likeness of the Great Chi.
Ever Published

The above Is the first published portrait of the
redoubtable Sitting Bull. and Notwithstanding its
simplicity may be relied upon an excellent pre-
sentiment Added interest attaches to it as the
drawn on the leaf of PIONEER PRESS reporters
to do with solving the lndirn problem as
any officer in the United States army.
The face, to any one who has ever seen Sioux
chief. is strikinPly characteristic. The high.
pointed. narrow forehead and the CORRESPONDENCE
attenuatcd chin; the prominent cheek bones and
more than all, the Mephistophelian mouth
with its sardonic, snesr1ng expression
conveying SO much Of unbefef and
distrust. all go to make the tout ensemble Of the
intelligent willy, scornful, suspicious savage whose
barbarsm has received only lacquer Of repression
through at+rition with civilized whites The old
man is poor-that can De seen at a glance Upon
sable coup feather which droops as If in sympathy
with its owners fallen fortunes. Instead
of the fur, trimmed braids and eaudy
bead and l. headdress - Of the
agency Indian is the simple handkerchief
may it be assumed it is grimed with lllth and aye
knotted carelessy behind The spectacles may
strike some observers as odd. but many Indians
winter. and the alkai dust of the plains in
summer-and Sitting Bull has reached the
age when his eyes are "purging thick amber and
plum-;ree gum, and need the covering the lenses
afford. As before stated, he is swarthy of COM
plexion-remarkably dark in fact-and age has
the continual troubles crowded into his
last few years have given viRor to decays eacine
fingers From coup feather to moccasin the
thorough savage has none the less made . mark
upon his time which many of greater note through
general christendom have not effected.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11
CURRENT EVENTS.

Mrs. Anton Grithen, an estimable German
lady Of Minneapolis, is dead.
Miss Anna Dickinson exploded bomb in
the temperance convention at Ocean Grove by
critieisising the efforts of the temperance peo-
pie to save fallen men and allowing fallen wo-
mon to take care of themselves.
On the 3rd inst, the Indian attack on Bethel,
Aug. 3, 1881, was commemorated. The
block fort, again occupied by settlers, was
again surprised and burned by savages. An
address, poem and parade followed.
Mrs. c. C. Steele, a sister of ex-senator Ros-
coe Conkling, recently completed the twelfth
year of service in the searchers' department
Of the female searchers for contraband goods
on the Cupard and other docks, and is located
in Jersey City.
The ceremony of laying the corner stone of
the monument to Gov. Coswell, the revolution
ary war governor of North Carolina, attracted
10000 persons to the village of Kingston.
Senator Vance and Gov. Jarvis made addresses.
monies. At the parade number of troops
were overcome with heat.
Ambrose Loneprax, of Natchetoches, Louis
lana, has arrived in San Francisco from Mexico
He was with a party of surveyors that were at
tackled by Apaches south of Ell Paso in the state
Of chihuahua, of whom thirteen were. killed.
Loneprax says the Indians were under the COM
mand Of Victoria, as he knew that chief very
we'll by sight Loneprax is on his way to Wash
ington to lay the subject Of the massacre be-
fore the government
The Lexington Record this week says the
prospect of the corn and tobacco crops are any,
thing but flattering in Kentucky. The drought
in Central Kentucky is very severe, and in Bour-
bon and Harrison counties it is said to be equal
to the terrible drought of 1864. the severest
ever known in this section. Corn i. twisted
and curled up with heat and drought. and it is
certain to be short There is very little old corn
Oh hand. In the northern part Of the state re-
ports from tobacco are very discouraging
DR.. Tanner, the great faster, registered
bis diploma with the prothonotary of Erie, Pa
He is drawing up propositions to the medical
faculty OF New York to fast three months. He
stated to q reporter that he can fast
ninety-five days, if fed on electricity, the air
in his room to be charged with strong Cdr
rent. This being positive he can obtain the
negative element from the disintegration of his
tissue. He is now fattening for afast, as plenty
Of adipose is necessary.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11
SOME facts showing the abatement of the

SOME facts showing the abatement of the
tramp evil and nuisance, within yea1 or
two, were laid before the conference of
public charities at Boston by Pro lessor
Sanborn. Against IN evil so great many
measures were taken. and some severe laws
were passed; but the return of prosperity
OF the country has practically abolished
the evil and made those laws obsolete. at
least in New England. There has been
falling away of more than 25 per cent. of
public paupers in Massachusetts and tramp
ing in that state is almost unknown. The
whole number of tramps lodged in the
county poor houses in a whole year does
not now exceed the number who were
formerly lodged there in a single fortnight.
Yet tits to be remembered that within
the three years spoken of, the populatio
of Massachusetts, has increased not less
than 1875, 0OO,-and that immigration has
never been SO large as within the past two
years. The same thing has been taking
place, so far as can be learned, throughout
the country, until we have in the United
states at this moment, the smallest number
Of public paupers ever seen among civilized
communities in an equal population of So.
100000.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11

THE London Economist says that the
news of the assassination of President Gar
field has produced in public men in Europe
"a certain feelingof dependency or de-
spair as if government were confronted
with an insoluble problem, the protection
from the insane and the wicked of the men
engaged in carrying on government. Ex-
tracts from the foreign press show that
what might be called the secondary ina
preston of Guiteau's act have been fmore
vivid abroad than here. The assassination
has been generally treated in this country
as an episode, something not likely to hap
pen again and which worked no changes in
the conditions of public life; except as the
suggestion has been made in some quarters
that the president ought to employ in his
daily life the precaution other rulers have
always used. But abroad, the assault on
the president has led men to feel that q re-
public, with burning questions settled and
strife existing only over the management
of the government or even the policy of a
party, may breed assassins as deadly, if not
as numerous, as the discomfort of des-
potism, and this implies that the dread of
personal danger, which has shaken the
strongest nerves, may come to sway the
policy Of presidents as it has the policy
Of kings.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11
FOREIGN FLASHES.

A rumor is In circulation that the Prince of
Wales has been advised not to give dinners on
board his yacht at Osborn, WI ich has been the
usual custom during his stay at the Isle of
Wight, because of asupposed Fenian design on
his life.
The secret meeting of the Irish nationalsts
at Chicago, it IL now claimed, is for the pur-
pose Of getting the skrmish fund out of the
hands of those who are using it to the injury
of the Irish cause. O'Donovan Rosa, who
seems to have his hand on the cash box will
he asked to resign. 49,. :
A dispatch from Belgrade says the recent
arrest Of nhilist in that city has led to the dis
covery of other plots, and documents have
been found that socialists and nihl]ists nave
designs on the lives of. both the emperor of
Germany and car. The Belgrade prisoner
belongs to very distinguished family, and is
married to the Princess Golitzin. -
The London Times says that the accounts of
recently pxblished contrasts strongly with the
prevailing reports about depression Of trade.
In the year ending June, 1881, there has been
an increase OF about e8, 600, 900 in the aggre-
gate deposits of the principal discount compa-
MES, with corresponding increase in loans
and discounts, and an increase Of 81, SOC, 900
in private securities in the bank Of England. i
An immense crowd Of people assembled and
stood in tho outside space 1t the yard and
cheered Bradlangh whom he entered the yard
on hi1 way to Westminster H1ll some time be-
fore tho assembling m the house commitsea
On Bsadlaush's attempt To enter TIE bqule be
= : "a
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11
A THEATRICAL MERMAID.
The Devotion OF Her Favorite Dog.

The Devotion OF Her Favorite Dog.
Long Branch Letter.
Among the immense number of bathers,
there are few good swimmers and out Of
these few, the most expert have seen yet
is Mrs. Oliver Doud Byron, the wife of the
actor. Mrs. Byron is as much at home in
the sea as mermaid. She glides through
it's geer depths, dives to the bottom and
brings up shells, swims on her back, using
only her aims, treads water and in fact
goes through series of salt water gymnas-
tics.
The other day little tired after her e1-
ercise, she threw herself on her back and
aoated along for few minutes, something
which she seldom does. Suddenly lolg
howl filled the air, and an enormous New
foundland dog belonging to the actress
plunged into the water and swan toward
her. Mrs. Byron, unconscious of the ap-
preach of her anxious friend, for the dog
Lion was her pet, lay with closed eyes
dreamily waited on the waves, when sud-
denly Lion struck her with his huge paws,
and she disappeared under the water. The
dog houndered about until she rose with q
face as white as marble from the fright,
when he seized her dress between his teeth,
and in spite other struggles and remon-
strances, made for the shore tueging her
along.
1t was q most comical and touching scene.
for the great brute was 80 strong that it was
that in vain his mistress tired to
free herself, and as he had seized her dress
by one shoulder, she was perfectly help
less. When the faithful creature dragged her
to the beach. he jumped up and down sniff
6ng her hands and: feet. and evidert y was
quite convinced he had saved his best
friend from drowning.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11

recent publication shows that, while
the sale of beer in the United States in
1877 was only 9,S52,G30 barrels, the total
sales for the year ending May LIST, 1881,
amounted to Il, 125, 466 barrels-an increase
of 4,373,4 36 barrels in five years, or an
average, and annual increase of about 100,
100000 barrels, and an increase over 1880
Of 1924, 566 barrels. An eastern paper
says that when We consider that the regu-
ular American tipple in times past was
whisky, these figures ought to encourage
every temperance advocate. Perhaps they
would be encouraging to certain extent,
but for the fact the annual manufacture
and sale of whiskey more than kept pace
with the increased consumption of beer.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11

THE public debt was reduced during
July, $1O,07S, 023; the total debt is now
50, 1858, 1888 ,96l. If the ratio of reduction
continues as at present, it will only be an
even two thousand millions at the end of
the year. A majority of the public welcome
every reduction of the debt. thouch many
would prefer reduction of taxation. 1t is
only the comparatively few who realize the
fact that every dollar expended by the gov
eminent to meet its vast expenses, and
every dollar of debt reduction, comes out
of the pockets of the people, in some way
or other.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11

1T has been ascertained that the whole
national debt of the United States exclud-
ing the legal tender greenbacks is In the
hands of not far from 250, 1000 to 300, 1000
nominal owners. It has been thought that
the number of holders was much larger.
New England men comprise over thirty per
CT Mt. and New England women nearly forty
one per cent. of the whole number of per-
sons holding registered bonds III the United
States. The Eastern and Middle States are
as might be expected, far in the lead in
the proportion of bondholders to popula-
tiDn
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11

was removed from the lobby and escorted by
the police into the yard shereshe- stood con-
versing to q friend. "a hes0ommens La.
bo,ichere raised the question 81 privilege that
the reason OF tho housSin regard 81 Bradlaugh
only excluded him from the house, whereas he
has been removed from the lobby and he
moved that the officials were therein exceeding
thelr<authority, but the house decided other
wise. ~ 50 "Sss z:rftttsssSss
The meeting Of the Conservation peers Ut
Lord Salisbury's residence has now been made
known. Their Lordships came tosthe conclu-
zion that it would be useless to op ose the pas
sage of the land bill All they could hope to do
would be to effect some slight emendation with
it. These consist chiefly in striking out Of the
operation Of the bill few estates which are
Guiding lease holders from the operation Of the
bill. the latter is rather serious emendation
and their lordships scarcely hope to carry it
through. The practical result of this noble
caucus is to make it probable that after . few
nights of talk the bill will go through the"up7
per house almost intact and become law by
the 18th Of August
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11

as devoid of verdure as hoop-skirt.
Unless the prairie chickens-whose food
consists chiefly of insects and their Larvae
are protected from determination by rigor-
GUS game laws the grasshopper and army
worm pests may increase, and ut no dis
tant day breed famine in this now flush
and fat country,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11

Justice Clifford was indefahgible in his
search after truth, and it q case was cited
before him which he had not the means Of
verifying his custom was to purchase the
book containing it, even if he was obliged
TO send to Europe for it. Accordingly he
left at bic homo in Portland law library
Of very wide scope and great value. S.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11
RECORD OF CRInIE.

W. F. Grant has made confession Of muir
deriug poor old man named Arthur Ingham,
near Lawrenceburg, 1ud.
A telegram from Deadwood reports the death
of Spotted Tail, chief of the Sioux, at tho hands
of chief of the Indian police at the Rosebud
agency.
The rooms of Capt. John Baf1inger and
family, of St. Louis, were robbed of jewelry
valued at $4,000 Other guests of the hotel
were also robbed.
The most atrocious murder that has occurred
in the Dist: let Of Columbia for fifteen years,
who has been the recipient of every favor that
could be bestowed upon him by his employers
During TIE absence from home of Mrs. Fisher,
a widow, living in Queenstown, outside the
city, her two children-a boy and girl -were
cut to such an extent about tho head that they
probably died almost instantly.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11

The revised version of the New Testi-
ment is very slow in gaining ground in En-
gland, though the sale has been enormous
and still continues. The people arc slowly
moving people and it will take years and
the amp, oval of high ecclesiastical author
ity to make them fully assured that it is to
be preferred to the King James version.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11
Working for the Bandits.

dispatch from st. Joseph, Mo-, says that
L. 2. Younger, an uncle of the Younger
brothers, now confined in the Minnesota peni-
Tertiary, is in that city. He is en- route to Clay
county and other portions of the state He is
in search of friends of the boys, and wants to
get affidavits of their good character from the
old citizens of Missouri who know the boys and
their families, with view of submitting them
to Gov. Pillsbury of that state. A correspondent
had quite an interview with the old gentleman,
who seems to feel that he will be able to effect
their release. He says the boys, Cole, James
and Bob, look bad, and that they cannot live
long, He adds that the boys declare if they get
out they will leave the country and shun their
old assOciates
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11

The idea that citizens of the United
machines to destroy English life and prop
erty, shocks a good many people. but it
should ne recollected that English manu-
facturers have always been in the habit of
doing the same thing. and under established
customs there is nothing very criminal in
the idea of supplying internal machines to
any one willing to pay for them.