The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-04-28

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TIMELY JOTTINGS.
A BRIGHT warm southern wind.
mingled with the aroma Of the Poto-
mac flats, will prorogue the Senate in
short order. The country will be re-
conciled.
Col. BOB INGERsoLL sells his own
lectures, and recently cleared $4,000
by one speech in Brooklyn. On the
strength of this a New Y ork manager
offered him $4,000 for 500 lectures
declined with thanks.
The foreign dispatches state that
in Vienna "there has been another
collision between the students and
the Government. - Probably the
students can now appreciate the
story of the bull that tried to stop the
railroad train.
The Texas penitentiary is full of
horse thieves. The horse and the
COW are sacred animals in Texas
mythology. TO steal one is the un-
pardonable sin, and there are cases
where even murder is not a mitigat-
ing circumstance.
For over two years the County Court
at Lafayette. Yamhill county, Ore,
has been engaged at intervals in DELHI
Grating as to the ownership of a certain
calf. A whole herd of full grown cat
tie with corral full of calves could
have been purchased by either party
in interest with the money expended
in this suit.
HENRY w. HASTINGS, of Boston,
who accompanied Gen. B. F. Butler on
his late cruise in the yacht America,
says that the highest honors were paid
to the America and her owner in every
port, and further, that no more gen.
erous gentleman or pleasant compan-
ion can be found to make a cruise
with than Gen. Butler.
In 1877, M. de Lavergne estimated
the value of the agricultural produce
of France at ST. 500, ZOO. 0OO-including
wine, cattle, and all other products of
the soil. In 1878. Mr.. Card, who is
to England what M. de Lavergne is
to France, estimated the total value
of the, agricultural products of the
United Kingdom at $7S3,0OO. The
area of France is double that of the
United Kingdom.
In THE same Courier journal which
announced the departure of the noble
Earl was an editorial paragraph say
ing: can ardent tory has offered
his blood for TRANSMISSION into Lord
Beaconsfeld's depleted frame. The
latter waved away the offer with Dig
nifty. Such devotion deserves men.
ton in Lord Beaconsfield's next nov
ell His Lordship will not easily
find publisher now.
BEN BUTLER will not say that he
is out of politics. 'When the occa-
sion offers, when the time comes for
action, the situation will be consid-
cred seriously, because believe hat
every man should interest himself in
politics when the times demand it. If
there was free, fair and full vote in
my state, could be elected governor
by $4,000 majority Then the old
ladies of Beacon street would go out
and beg the Bunker Hill monument
to fall upon them.
1T is to be feared that New jersey
will keep company with Delaware in
the smallness of the peach crop. J.
M. Baldwin, of Sidney, n. J., has
been examining the buds in that Vi
cinity, and reports. as follows: Late
Crawford, nine .tenths dead; Old Mix.
on, two.thirds dead; Stumps. two
thirds dead: Prince Rareripes, one
half dead; Morris Rareripes, one
third dead: Smocks, one-third dead.
Still, there is some encouragement in
these figures, for if the trees were
full Of buds a 1air crop of fruit may
be brought to maturity.
WE have rival in the matter of
immigration, in the Argentine Con-
federation. which is seeking to per-
suade the European emigrants to wend
their way to South America. The
emigration there is very large and
growing, having increased from 49,
600 in 1871 to 100000 last year, mainly
Swiss, English, Scotch and Irish. The
government is very liberal to emil
grants, giving them not only plenty
ofgood land. but paying part of their
passage money and aiding them on
their arrival.
In lecture at Cooper Institute, re-
Gently, on :Civil Service Reform"
Mr. GaCr0a William, rnrtic cold .