The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-03

P9rHanient on (iladstOneS ETtsOlut1eN 6Ay4u6
precedence to Forster's blu fog the Protection
Of life and property in Ireland, and the Irish
Home rule members have decided to oppose the
coersion bills to the last extremity.
The house committee of ways and means, by
a vote of & to 4, indefinitely postponed Hurd's
resolutions on the tariff. The vote stood as
follows on the motion to postpone: ayes
Messrs. Conger, Frye, Dunnell, Mckinley,
Phelps, FELTON,. Nays-Messrs Tucke r, Car
| Isle, Mills, Morrison.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
The aggregate monthly expenditure by the
| census bureau is reported to be W i, l23. IL.
Both houses of the Wisconsin legislature met
| in joint session Wednesday, when Phlletus
SAWYER was declared elected United States SELL
ator. f..
The one vacancy on the retired List the
army will be filled by the retirement Of Surgeon
| General Barnes. and the promotion OF DR. Baxter,
chief medicinal purveyoI, to be sergeant gen
eral.
George H. Foster has been nominated United
States district attorney for the southern district
of New York in place of Woodford. This NOM
ination is regarded as direct cut at Conkling
and that bit of a row will grow out of it.
Twenty-three years ago Horace Everett plant
ed on his farm near Council Bluffs twenty
three acres of waste land with black walnut
| trees. They are now l6 to 20 inches IN diam
The entire issue OF the $4,000, 600 4l2
per cent forty years gold bonds, issued by TIE
Pennsylvania company, has been taken by a
syndicate composed of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., VIM.
L. Scott Of Erie, Pa; Drexel Co. of Phila-
delphia, and others. ."
Official returns show that 3,2O7 acres We're
planted in sugar cane in Minnesota in 1875, the
area planted increased to 3, O33 acres, with .
product Of 446, GAG gallons. or an average of
SO. ~ gallons per acre.
Congress at the last session, passed a resolu-
ton making the Louisville and Portland canal
free. The result was it became nobody's bust
ness to repair it. and now the secretary OF war
sends communication to congress asking for
$62, 900 to put and keep it in good condition.
The directors of the Chicago racing associa
ton have adopted a programme for the sum
mer meeting for the week ending July 70. The
premiums offered aggregate $685., 900. the lar
gest for number Of years. Extra purses of
$500 to 81, 900 will be offered for the best
time on record in the various classes.
Commissioner Williams of the general land
Office appeared before the house committee on
the public lands and urged the propriety and
necessity for survey of the public lands.
The committee directed it's chairman to request
the appropriation committee to include in the
sundry civil bill an appropriation for this prir
pose.
IN tennessee, on the tn1rCeeItl DauOt,
Howell E. Jackson, a State credit Democrat,
was elected to the senate The ballot stood:
Jackson 20; MAYNARD; 20; Rose |. Jackson
was declard elected. He was lifted out Of his
seat by friends, and escorted to the stand, and
said that he would do whateverlay in his power
to allay all sectional agitation and bring PROS:
perity to the country.
Longfellow's well-known legend of Pandora
has been adapted to the operate stage, and
placed upon the boards at the Boston ,theater.
The honored poet himself has personally super
intended it's production, and has extended his
congratulations to Miss Blanche Roosevelt for
the success and hit she has made as Pandora.
However, the piece does not promise to be
great success. 49,.
The war department has directed the aboli-
ton of the recruiting rendezvous in Washington.
This action is taken because the recruiting food
for the army is running low. The order will
take effect on February l., next, when First
Lieut.. Lamatitle, Eleventh infantry, who is in
charge, will turn over the public property in
his possession, and then proceed to St. Paul,
Mimi, and report to the commanding general,
department of Dakota.