The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-04-21
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The engagement of!Rutherford B: :sHayes, Jr.,
and Miss Alice Smith, daughter Of VIM Henry
Smith of Chicago, is announced. at@F 81 s.
Mr.. Edward T. Clarke, Washington cores
pondent%of the Springfield Republican and
Philadelphia Times, has been called to the lead
ing editorial chair of the Milwaukee Sentinel
One Of the largest cattle transactions ever
made has just been closed by Messrs Hughes
of st. Louis and Simpson of Weatherford, Tex,
purchasing the famous Millettranch for $780,
The trial of Cadet Buck of Texas, on the
charge OF shooting John ). Thompson, Jr, of
Ohio, while at school at Highland Falls, prepar-
ing for Vest Point academy, resulted in a
verdict of acquittal.
John 7. Raymond, the comedian, was mar
red at Philadelphia, in the Continental hotel, to
Miss Courtney Barnes, a daughter of Rose
Eytinge, the well-known actress. Rev. Robert
Co}lyer, the famous Unitarian, performed the
ceremony.
A Mr.. Fitz, of Boston, has projected negro
colonization scheme, by which large lot of
land in New Jersey is to be purchased, where
all Industrial pursuits will be taught colored
men, with view to their becoming qualified to
till responsible positions in factories.
The New York grand LODGE Knights of Hon.
or, unanimously adopted protest of German
IN din Getting that no more German lodges be in
stituted, and sent its action to the supreme
lodge, which meets at Minneapolis in May.
The talk among the more prominent Ohio DEM
0cratlc politicians is to nominate Hon. Hugh J.
Jewett for governor OF Ohio. It is held that Gov
nominee, and that Mr.. Jewett will be the most
commanding candidate that can be pitted against
him.
At great sale of blooded stock at Waukegan,
ILL.,, in the bidding for the Duchess of Oxford,
Twenty first, a leap made from s. 800 to
s., 600 at one bound, and this magnificent ami
NAL was finally knocked down to c. A. DeGraff
jointly, at 81 200.
The Iowa papers contain details tending to
show that Mrs Carrie Ellington, wife of Hon
q. W. A. ELLINGTON Of Fort Dodge was abducted
from home by a man named Welch, by means
OF false wits commanding her appearance at
court. There are suspicious that former lover
is at the bottom of the business, lad also that
the wife was willing prisoner.
The New York board of trade and transport
tation adopted resolutions calling on the legis-
lature to pass without delay concurrent resOlu-
tlons relieving the commerce Of the canals of
the existing onerous burdens of tolls, and pre-
pairing way for the enlargement and improve
ment of tile canals to enable them to compete
successfully with all rival routes and methods
OF transportation.
A socialist leader OF Chicago has written an
impertinent letter to President Garfield, in
which he says the president is as much OF a
despot as the czar Of Russia; that in all repub-
and this is particularly true Of the United
States This socialist concludes his letter with
the opinion that President Garfield ought to be
served with a big dose Of dynamite and nitro
glycerine. The president read the letter. and
was amused at it's impertinence.
The secret why the rates to the East were so
suddenly reduced April 1, contrary to general
expectations and month before the opening of
navigation, has been well guarded. It is now
learned that the New York trunk lines had been
cutting rates, and Commissioner Fink had to do
something to smother an impending rate war.
But this has broken out afresh, led by the Bal
timore & Ohio, that offered by it's agent on
Saturday, in Chicago, to take grain sc less than
the regular rates adopted April l, claiming the
New York Central had been cutting Oh the new